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Nigeria crashes in FIFA ranking again

The latest FIFA ranking released on April 25, 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland, showed that the Super Eagles dropped again in the ranking.

                The Super Eagles, which ranked 57th in the previous ranking released in March, dropped to the 60th position in world football.

                 Co-incidentally, Egypt, which was Nigeria’s opponents in the last international friendly match played in Dubai, went five places above Nigeria. Egypt is now ranked 55th in the world and eight in Africa.

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Mortein celebrates World Malaria day

Ahead of HIV/AIDS, stroke, coronary heart disease and diabetes, malaria is the number one cause of death in Nigeria. Children under five and pregnant women are the most susceptible to death from Malaria, accounting for 85 percent of all malaria deaths while across the world, 35 countries account for 98 percent of all the malaria deaths. 30 are in Africa in which Nigeria is takes the first position. Of the 54 countries in Africa, 50 are malaria prone countries, only 2 are completely free. In Nige...

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Film Industry Gets Nollywood Centre

The Nigerian film industry, popularly called Nollywood, is set to be taken to greater heights with the inauguration of Nollywood Centre in Lagos in July 2011. The inauguration of the School of Media and Communication Centre for Nollywood Studies by the Director General of the National Film and Video Censors Board, Emeka Mba was the high point of the three-day conference on Nollywood, organized by the School of Media and Communication of the Pan-African University.

The centre, conceived as a focal...

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Hipped Queen Elizabeth to get an IPAD

Britain's Queen Elizabeth is reportedly expanding her gadget collection, telling her staff to order an Apple iPad for her. Reports on May 9th has it that the queen learned how to use the device from her grandsons, Prince Williams and Harry and "was particularly taken with how easy it was to use."

The queen already has a cellphone and iPods -- including one given to her by U.S. President Barack Obama in 2009 and a silver model she bought in 2005 that holds 1,500 songs. "For a woman of her age [85]...

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Yeni Kuti gets N407,000 donation for Honouring Father

In 'appreciation' for her “support and motherly role” during their stay in Nigeria, Producers of the Broadway musical, Fela, gave Yeni Kuti, daughter of the late afrobeat maestro, a donation of N407,000. The donation was made after the last presentation of the internationally acclaimed musical, on the 26th of April 2011. Overcomed by the emotions of the moment, YK Power, as she is fondly called,  was unable to go through with her acceptance speech as she broke down in tears. She was however led ...

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Prince Williams weds Catherine Middleton

In a dazzling display  of British royal pomp and simple elegance, Prince Williams and Catherine Middleton, in front of 1,900 guests celebrated their long awaited wedding at Westminster Abbey on 29 April, 2011.

Dressed in a striking red tunic of the Irish Guard Colonel, his highest honorary appointment, and propped up by his brother, Prince Harry as best-man, Prince Williams escorted Catherine who arrived in Queen Elizabeth's custom Rolls Royce limousine (the Phantom VI)dressed in long French Cha...

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War-ready Nollywood embraces Cinemas

       With pirates breathing down its neck, Nollywood as an industry, revels at the fact that it recently overtook Hollywood as the world's second leading producer of movies behind India's Bollywood. According to a survey conducted by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, UIS, in 2006, Nollywood, with a fraction of the budget available to Hollywood, produced 872 movies compared with Hollywood's 485 major feature films. The industry is also, according to Paul Obazele, President of Association of ...

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Screen Queen, Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79

Two-time Academy Award winner, renown for her beauty and acting talent, Elizabeth Taylor, passed away on Wednesday, 23rd, March 2011 in Los Angeles from after being hospitalized for congestive heart failure Elizabeth was born in the British capital in 1932, and she lived a most dramatic life. Her celebrated screen career spanned several blockbuster cinematic performances, including the role of Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof which made her a certifiable American icon. Movies also brought her weal...

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No Ring for Prince William

Ahead of the Prince William, Prince of Wales and Kate Middleton's wedding in England on the 29th of April, Prince Williams, it has been revealed, will not wear a ring after he weds Kate. Reasons given are that the prince is not fond of jewelleries and he has never worn any. Kate supports him even though she will wear a ring made from a nugget of Welsh gold that belongs to the royal family.

The use of Welsh gold in royal wedding bands is a long-standing tradition, and the Queen reportedly has a "t...

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BOBTV 2011 : NLRC institutes N10m fund for Nollywood

The 8th edition of the Best Of the Best TV, BOBTV, the annual film and TV programmes expo and market convened by Amaka and Charles Igwe, recently took place at the Ladi Kwali Conference Centre of the Abuja Sheraton Hotel. With the theme: New Media. The three-day event played host to industry practitioners and students from various parts of the country and beyond.

In her lecture, Nigeria in a Fast-Changing World: The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Mrs. Stella Mbubaegbu; Principal and Chief Execut...

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