Though the 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck last Saturday has now claimed more than 7,000 lives, modern, workaday Kathmandu — the Kathmandu of ring roads and malls — has come through. Fabled Kathmandu, however — that mystical waypoint on the Himalayan hippie trail with its promise of enlightenment and cheap, potent hash — has been devastated. Anyone who has been to the Nepali capital will know the red brick color of the old city.

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A wail begins as a moan. The sensual anguish of Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint can be traced back to a fictive lament written when he was 26. The film version of Goodbye, Columbus is wise enough to preserve his undeniable assets: the sexual candor, the sour salt of Jewish skepticism, the ear that has overheard everything and forgiven nothing. The movie goes astray occasionally, not because it is too faithful to Roth’s text, but because it imitates other films, notably The Graduate.

Naija News looks at the top happenings making headlines on the front pages of Nigeria’s national newspapers today Friday, March, 4th 2022. State governors on Thursday lambasted the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited for not remitting any funds at last month’s Federation Accounts Allocation Committee meeting. The PUNCH reports that the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, also wondered how the oil firm was bold enough to declare profit when it had not been meeting its obligations.

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has claimed that the attack on the North is being orchestrated by forces within and outside the country. He stated this while reacting to the abduction of 61 people in Buda village, Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Tuesday. Fani Kayode condemned the act, describing it as cowardly, condemnable and despicable. He wondered who had decided to inflict Kaduna State and its people with troubles through the kidnap of their indigenes.