An upcoming biopic of A Raisin in the Sun author Lorraine Hansberry is in the pre-production stage and is slated to begin shooting in early fall.
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Shinzo Abe and Haruhiko Kuroda had a good thing going. Shame Ben Bernanke had to go and ruin it.
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Jimmy Fallon played a mash-up of NBC News anchor Brian Williams rapping Snoop Dogg during last night’s episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
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A judge said Thursday he was inclined to unseal portions of a choreographer’s court filings alleging he was abused by Michael Jackson.
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The share slide of more than 6 percent comes after it recently introduced two stripped-down versions of the S4, fanning worries that profit margins for its mobile business will suffer. It also follows a report that arch-rival Apple will begin a trade-in program for iPhones.
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Nigeria’s largest social network, 2go, which previously had solely been feature phone-based, has launched its Android app on the Google Play Store. The Africa-focused chat-based mobile social network has over 30 million registered users with more than 9 million active users in Nigeria. In Nigeria, feature phones still dominate with around 88% market
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Recent media reports indicate that the United States Government has excluded Nigeria from the list of countries, to be visited by President Barak Obama on his second tour of the African continent. Sources in US had revealed that before the announcement, the Nigerian ambassador to US, Prof Ade Adefuye was invited to the State Department by senior US officials where he was officially informed on the US concerns about security and corruption in Nigeria. Indeed the officials led by the acting Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Donald Yamamoto, reportedly presented the Nigerian ambassador with satellites photographs of the alleged Baga massacre, alleging that it made Nigeria’s inclusion in President Obama’s itinerary extremely difficult.
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Behind every act of nicety or activism from any Nigerian politician these days, watch out for a veiled intent to secure your soul for the 2015 General Elections. Suddenly, we are inundated with schemes and designs on how individual politicians and political parties will get their own piece of the mighty Nigerian cake come 2015. The volume of acrimony following this blatant scramble is totally unbelievable; it is actually ungodly, if you permit me!
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The Nigeria Governors’ Forum chairmanship election has come and gone. The election has been won and lost, but the reverberations remain in the Nigerian polity. The election is an eye-opener to some of the things that happen in Nigeria’s high places, the corridors of power and political holy of holies. Thirty-five Nigerian governors (one was absent) voted to elect first among equals. One or some among them must have suspected or anticipated a foul play hence cleverly arranged to have the proceedings recorded on tape (unknown to others) for the whole world to see, and for posterity.
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Premier League clubs' revenue reached a record £2.36bn in 2011-12, according to football finance experts at Deloitte. It estimates revenue grew to £2.5bn in 2012-13, and will grow by a further £600m, or 25%, in 2013-14, when the league's new broadcast deal kicks in.
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