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As the star of the new movie Brooklyn, Saoirse Ronan is tasked with portraying an Irish immigrant in 1950s New York City as a singular woman in a unique situation. But transatlantic love triangles aside, the experiences of the fictional Eilis Lacey would have been as common as Irish pubs are in today’s Midtown Manhattan. In the novel on which the movie is based, a best-seller by Colm Tóibín, Eilis moves from small-town Ireland, where she struggles to find work, to Brooklyn.

Want an easy way to vastly expand your vocabulary in English? Prefixes are one way to do it. For example, if you know the word ‘cook’, simply adding a prefix can give you undercook or overcook. Understanding what a prefix means can also allow you to work out possibly unfamiliar words such as submarine. Prefixes are useful in lots of different situations, from the office to the visa office.

Popularly called the G8, these actors were Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, Richard Mofe Damijo, Genevieve Nnaji, Emeka Ike, Ramsey Nouah, Nkem Owoh, Stella Damasus and Jim Iyke. It all started in the early 2000s when most Nollywood actors started preferring market distributors to independent producers. "They felt shooting with the marketers guaranteed them steady jobs compared to independents like us, who they felt added no value to their career,"

In 2019 Morgan Enselme, a contestant who participated in the French Big Brother adaptation Secret Story France 5 in 2011, did what many other reality stars deemed unthinkable: she spoke out against the superpower production company that runs the popular show. Over a 30-minute YouTube video, Enselme gave a look into the otherwise mysterious workings of reality TV. Enselme alleged that throughout the casting, filming, and post-production of the show—which required her to be sequestered from the world for 13 weeks—she experienced psychological manipulation, including restricted access to her prescribed antihistamines which led to severe symptoms, and, later, PTSD.

Hercule Poirot is back on the case this weekend, with Kenneth Branagh‘s “A Haunting in Venice” hoping to best a very quiet box office in its opening. The horror-tinged whodunnit scored $5.

President Muhammadu Buhari is currently in a closed-door meeting with Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, from the northern region. Naija News learnt that the meeting is being held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Reports confirmed that while other concerned governors are already on sit, Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello is nowhere to be found as of reporting time. Naija News understands that the ruling party commenced processes for its presidential primaries on Monday ahead the 2023 general elections.

Consumers will be spending more time watching video in their cars, opening up more opportunities for content owners and video entertainment services. More than half of respondents in a new connected-car entertainment survey from DTS, an Xperi company, are interested in having screens in both the front and rear cabins of their next car, with interest in both built-in screens and video entertainment services especially notable among buyers of luxury and ultra-luxury vehicles.

They could also be used to get discounts when redeemed at certain brands while some could be used to renew subscriptions, etc. Gift cards are becoming so popular and it is not showing any signs of stopping any time soon. According to MarketWatch, the international market for gift cards is likely to grow from $318 billion in 2017 to $506 billion in 2025. Gift card usage in Nigeria has also increased.

Ihekweazu mentioned the three new laboratories as: Biorepository and Clinical Virology Laboratory UCH, Ibadan, Oyo; Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, Infectious Disease Unit, General Hospital, Ituk Mkpang, Akwa-Ibom and Jigawa State Molecular Laboratory, Dutse. He said that NCDC was currently using the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) method to test for the COVID-19 virus, in the absence of validated alternative methods. “At the moment, the COVID-19 tests that we report daily are coming from the PCR, they detect the genetic information of the virus and the RNA.