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It may seem incongruous to make a musical by combining exhilarating Afrobeat music and lively, often sensual dancing with grim stories of a military government's oppression of its citizens.

Last week, unidentified criminals, masquerading as militants, abducted an Israeli businessman from his Port Harcourt home.

Public primary and secondary schools whose academic calendars were disrupted by the teachers strike, had extension of time to complete their work, conduct promotion examinations, and pupils/students are now ...

The face-off between government and Virgin Nigeria is getting messier with Abuja saying the airline is out to blackmail the country by creating an impression that it is being forced out of Nigeria towards ...

Workers in the Food and Beverage sector of the nation's economy are threatening to embark a nationwide strike from Tuesday, September 9, 2008, over alleged unwillingness of their employers to conclude agreement ...

AN expectant nation is awaiting the return, today, of President Umaru Yar'Adua from his two-week trip to Saudi Arabia.

Senator Ahmad Lawan from Yobe State yesterday asked the Federal Government to stop plans for the construction of what is proposed to be the nation's second biggest dam in Bauchi State saying the dam could ...

NIGERIA's Second National Operator, Globacom Limited which recently announced a 19 million subscriber base making it the industry leader in the largest African telecom market, is set to push the frontiers of ...

Management of Nigeria Customs Service is seeking government extension of the grace period given for the importation of rice to cushion the food crisis which led to some rice producing countries' refusal to ...

I SPs across the continent are being squeezed by the entry of the mobile companies into the Internet sector.

WEEKS ago, I promised to search for the bankers tariff. The search was longer than I thought; it took me to Abuja.

Authorities have detained a U.S. documentaryfilmmaker in Nigeria's troubled oil producing region for filming the military without authorisation, an official said Tuesday.

ADVERTISEMENTS the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE placed in various newspapers, and signed by its President, in his official, not personal capacity, in defence of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE have worsened ...

L EADERS of the Peoples Democratic Party in the South West, including former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday met in Ibadan, Oyo State capital to review the activities of the party and how to foster unity ...

Yar'Adua - Reports of My 'Death' Exaggerated This Day 1 September 2008 By Simon Kolawole Like the classic humourist, Mark Twain, who had the distinction of reading his obituary while still alive, President ...

THE Federal Government said, yesterday, that President Umaru Yar'Adua was in good health "to steer the affairs of the state," following media reports about his state of health.

The Nigerian military says kidnappers have released an Israeli hostage unharmed.

Military spokesman Lt. Col. Sagir Musa says gunmen released the man early Monday at his residence in the southern city of Port Harcourt.

Musa said the Israeli businessman seized from his home on Aug. 26 was in good health. He had no more details.

More than 200 foreigners have been kidnapped in two years of heightened violence across Nigeria's restive south. The victims are normally released unharmed after a ransom is paid, although several have been killed during botched seizures or rescue attempts.

Bauchi State in northern Nigeria has banned co-education at all junior and senior schools.

South Korea News.Net Sunday 31st August, 2008 Iran has offered to share its nuclear technology with Nigeria to help boost electricity generation in energy-starved Nigeria.

The performers pounded on animal-skin drums, the singer howled praise for Barack Obama, and the audience of fist-bumping supporters of the U.S. presidential candidate joined in the chorus: 'We can do it! Yes we can!'

The shindig, held by a group calling itself 'Africans for Obama 08,' drew hundreds of people from the Nigerian business elite. Each paid more than $2,000 to munch on grilled snails, sip from flutes of Veuve Cliquot and Moet & Chandon and join in a lively, if poorly executed, series of the 'fist bumps' popularized by Obama and his wife, Michelle.