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The Nigerian movie industry, Nollywood, has again lost one of its famous stars, Geraldine Ekeocha. Geraldine, who acted in about 80 Nollywood movies, died on the early hours of Sunday 4th of September 2011 at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH, Ituku Ozalla near Enugu. She died of cancer in the liver. Mrs Sarah Duru, a daughter of the ...

Saminu Ibrahim, a National life newspaper correspondent for Zamfara State, has escaped lynching at the premise of Skye Bank Gusau, following alleged missing of Manhood of a staff of the bank Mr, Idowu Olatunji. Mr. Idowu Olatunji, a staff of the bank, accused Ibrahim (journalist) of allegedly causing the missing of his private part when he (journalist) went to withdraw ...

There was demonstration on Wednesday at the Odo-Ona Relief Center for victims of the Ibadan flood. The protest was over alleged injustice in the sharing of the relief materials donated to them by firms and politicians and Non Government Organizations (NGOs). It all started when more relief materials arrived. The Red Cross rose up to the challenge after the government ...

Unidentified gunmen on Wednesday attacked a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DR Congo, and freed over 960 inmates out of 1,500 prisoners that the prison has. According to Xinhua, two people were also killed and two injured in the attack. The attack was carried out in the morning on a prison in Katanga province, located in the south ...