Film on Tafawa Balewa’s book screens at Berlin Festival

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A film adaptation of the book “Shehu Umaru” written by Sir Tafawa Balewa, Nigeria’s Prime Minister in the First Rebublic, has been listed for screening at the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival in Germany. Dr Chidia Maduekwe, Managing Director of the Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC) stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja. Shehu Umaru is a story of African slavery written in 1966 by Balewa, but was published in 1971, and thereafter adapted for a film in 1976 by Adamu Halilu,…

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The Obamas unveil official portraits

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The Obamas unveiled their official portraits at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery on Monday, with Barack joking about his ears and gray hair and praising his wife Michelle’s “hotness”. The Obamas selected artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald for the paintings, which take their place in the National Portrait Gallery’s collection of presidential portraits. Wiley and Sherald were the first black artists ever commissioned to paint a president or first lady for the Smithsonian. For Obama’s portrait by Wiley, the former president is depicted sitting in a brown chair with…

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Snake didn’t swallow N36m in our office – JAMB

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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has debunked claims that snake swallowed N36 million in its office in Benue State, saying it was a case of criminality and fraud carried out by one of its staff. Stories have gone viral on the internet claiming that snake swallowed N36 million at JAMB office in Makurdi, Benue State. A statement issued by JAMB on Monday by its spokesperson, Franklin Benjamin, said it was a pure case of criminality and fraud by one of its staff and that there was no snake…

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Chelsea, PSG battle for Luis Enrique

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Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain are in the hunt for former Barcelona manager, Luis Enrique, according to Spanish football expert, Guillem Balague. The Blues want Enrique to replace Antonio Conte at Stamford Bridge, while PSG are not entirely convinced by Unai Emery, despite a decent campaign. “I haven’t heard of an offer from Arsenal; of course he would be a candidate if they got rid of Arsene Wenger, but I don’t think they have reached that stage yet. It’s an interesting situation for Luis Enrique in terms of who will go…

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Conjoined twins separated in Bauchi

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A set of conjoined twins has been separated at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi State. They were operated upon by a team of seven surgeons, doctors and other medical personnel, led by Dr. Kigbu. A team member, who pleaded for anonymity, said: “Ordinarily, it could cost the parents over N2 million or more to carry out the operation in a private facility. The two-hour operation was conducted by seven surgeons, doctors and other medical personnel.” The male died but the female is responding well to treatment, he…

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Charly Boy group protests underage voters’ registration in Kano

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The OurMumuDonDo group led by popular musician, Charles Oputa a.k.a. Charly Boy, and other civil rights groups have protested against the registration of underage voters in northern Nigeria, particularly in Kano State. The groups, therefore, called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to ensure that children are not allowed to vote in 2019. he call came amid pictures trending on the social media showing children between the ages of eight and 15 voting during the recently concluded local government election in Kano State. The coalition also called on INEC to ensure that…

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Police shoot man during sword attack on church

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Indonesian police have shot a sword-wielding man who attacked church congregation during Sunday Mass, injuring four people including a priest. Around 100 people were attending the mass at the church in Sleman town, Yogyakarta province when a man barged in wielding a one-metre-long sword and began attacking people seemingly indiscriminately. “Four people have been injured in the incident — quite seriously — but we still cannot determine the perpetrator’s motive,” Yogyakarta police spokesman Yulianto told AFP. A congregation member Andhi Cahyo said a few minutes after the mass started, a…

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Saudi women may soon drop long robes

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Saudi women need not wear the abaya – the loose-fitting, full-length robes symbolic of religious faith – a top muslim cleric said, another indication of the Kingdom’s efforts towards modernisation. On his television program, Sheikh Abdullah al-Mutlaq, a member of the Council of Senior Scholars, said Muslim women should dress modestly, but this did not necessitate wearing the abaya. “More than 90 percent of pious Muslim women in the Muslim world do not wear abayas,” Sheikh Mutlaq said on Friday. “So we should not force people to wear abayas.” While…

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Ayobami Adebayo’s novel long-listed for Wellcome Book Prize

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Ayobami Adebayo, author of the novel Stay with Me, has been long-listed for the £30,000 Wellcome Book Prize, the organisers announced. Stay with Me is the Nigerian author’s debut novel, which the New York Times described as a “stunning debut novel”. The 30-year-old Adebayo is the only African author to have made the 12-title long-list for the British literary award. The 2018 Wellcome Book Prize long-list celebrates the many ways in which literature can illuminate the breadth and depth of mankind’s relationship with health, medicine and illness. The selected 12…

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What to eat to beat diabetes

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STUDIES have shown that dietary changes can enable those who have had Type 2 diabetes for decades to get off all their insulin injections in as little as two weeks. An estimated 4.5 million people are living with diabetes in the UK today. Some 700 are newly diagnosed each day — it’s a modern plague and a horribly common cause of early death. But in many cases, diabetes can be eased, and even reversed, through changes in diet. In fact, by switching to a healthy diet, you can start improving…

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