Oh-la-la! Like Venus Williams, more athletes go NAKED for ESPN Magazine’s Body Issue (PHOTOS)

by S’ola Filani It’s a skin-win situation for ESPN The Magazine readers this month. For the sixth time in as many years, world-class athletes will grace the pages of ESPN Magazine in the buff for the publications sixth annual ESPN the Magazine’s Body Issue. Past installments of the magazine’s annual Body Issue have included... Read More

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July 7, 2014

8 types of friends you need to let go off

by Mumbai Mirror Remember, when you allow someone to make you feel like rubbish about yourself, you lend more power to their burgeoning ego. Ask yourself, what does this do to yours? It leaves you insecure. The contender He worked hard to get better grades than you in school, tried to win... Read More

July 7, 2014

Tope Olofin: How to use email marketing to get more eyes on your blog post (Y! Superblogger)

by Tope Olofin Just think for a second, how do you feel when you get a personal email from a friend? Even if it is a nasty mail. You will almost always read it. Biko, e get all the fashionable banners or outrageously designed fonts? Did I ever complain about the rain? Let me correct that. I... Read More

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July 7, 2014

Sad news: Popular Ghanaian artiste drowns while trying to rescue his girlfriend (See Photo)

by S’ola Filani Popular Ghanaian Hiplife musician, Castro (a.k.a Theophilus Tagoe) reportedly drowned yesterday in the Aqua safari beach while trying to rescue his girlfriend yesterday. Reports say Castro, his girlfriend and a close friend (who is also a footballer for the Black Stars), Asamoah Gyan, had gone to Ada on a weekend rendezvous. The trio... Read More

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July 7, 2014

Demola Rewaju: #OsunDecides – …And the X-factor is Fatai Akinbade (Y! Politico)

by Demola Rewaju An ironical twist occured last week when Governor Aregbesola visited the NASFAT grounds for a programme and donated food items to the Islamic group; the venue was built for the body by Akinbade. I was never so good in Mathematics despite my father being a Maths teacher in St. Finbarrs at some... Read More

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July 7, 2014

Opinion: Femi Fani-Kayode – Beating the drums of ethnic divorce

by Rahaman Abiola Toheed In furtherance, I see him as a disillusioned man, a proverbial siren that calls attention to arrival of epidemic but doesn’t wait to wrestle the plague. I also regard his irrelevant questions of hypocrisy as vainglorious display of cynicism and political bigotry. Some weeks ago, I was fortunate to read... Read More

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July 7, 2014

‘Africa Insurance’ fails: Man shot dead after charm testing goes wrong in Edo

by S’ola Filani Tragedy struck in Benin during the weekend when a suspect, Osamame Isekhuere, 25, was shot dead by his friend while testing the efficacy of charms popularly known as ‘Africa Insurance.’ The shooting caused chaos and violent protest among youths at the Oba Market where the shooting occurred, forcing many traders to hurriedly... Read More

July 7, 2014

Opinion: The agonies of Bola Tinubu’s defenders

by Remi Oyeyemi The sycophantic image makers of ABBAT LLC are still trying their best to camouflage all these antics as “progressivism” and fool the people of the Southwest that ABAT LLC is still the best alternative in the circumstances. What made the task tougher for them lately included the carousal of the destroyers of... Read More

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July 7, 2014

How 63 abducted women escaped from Boko Haram camp

by S’ola Filani Sixty-three of the seventy women that were abducted from Kummabza Village in the Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State two weeks ago have reportedly escaped from their kidnappers. Security sources who revealed this Sunday, further disclosed that the women have been reunited with their families. The women were said to... Read More

July 7, 2014

Elnathan John: Of silence and other great answers for fools

by Elnathan John I just saw this tweeted by Pastor E. A Adeboye: “If the one blocking your marriage is an insider and they refuse to let you go, they’ll be buried this year.” In my mind, there is hardly any difference between this kind of violent, unkind, and not to add superstitious speech and... Read More

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July 7, 2014

Bayo Oluwasanmi: National Conference or National conflict? We have errors to correct

by Bayo Oluwasanmi The Abuja Conference is mostly dominated by septuagenarians and octogenarians who are arguably disposed to resist change. It is not clear what radical changes they could initiate to rebuild this shattered nation. Anticipating problems, George Washington opens the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 with a command not just a suggestion: “We... Read More

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July 7, 2014

Femi Fani-Kayode: A tale from the distant past

by Femi Fani-Kayode One day we shall return to our island and enjoy one last night of unrestrained pleasure and passion where our bodies, souls and spirits will be as one again. I sit in my study silently: head-bowed, pensive and all alone on a pitch black, cold and wet December night sometime in the... Read More

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July 7, 2014

Listen & learn: 10 tricks to appear smart during meetings

by Sarah Cooper Whenever someone gets up from the table and walks around, don’t you immediately respect them? I know I do. It takes a lot of guts but once you do it, you immediately appear smart. Fold your arms. Walk around. Go to the corner and lean against the wall. Take a... Read More

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