Even when everything seems to crumble, there’s still a reason to be thankful. It’s a really difficult when mother nature takes the life of somebody you love. There is nobody to be angry with, to lock up or get justice from. When Hurricane Sandy hit New York city, it took away about 74 tragic fatalities... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu For the 2012 African Footballer of the Year award, the Confederation of African Football, CAF, has released a new shortlist of 10 players. The list included the current holder of the title, Yaya Toure and two of his countrymen, Gervinho and Didier Drogba. Mikel Obi is the only Nigerian left in the... Read More
France’s first female justice minister was seeing up to eight boyfriends at around the time she had a love child, it was claimed yesterday. Revelations about Rachida Dati’s extraordinarily busy love life have emerged in a bitter row about the paternity of the 47-year-old’s daughter. Multi-millionaire businessman Dominique Desseigne, 68, is refusing to take a... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu Jennifer Hudson, 31 who normally wears her long her straight unveiled a stunning new curly look on Saturday night at a gala in Paradise Island, Bahamas. With tight curls on top, and a long ponytail in back, all eyes turned to the superstar as she strutted in front of the cameras at... Read More
by Isi Esene Five members were killed and hundreds injured on Sunday when a church collapsed in Nnewi, Anambra State. The church, St. Thomas the Aguiros Catholic Church, located at Ezenifite community, in Nnewi South Local Government Area was under construction. The church was said to be thrown into pandemonium with children yelling and other... Read More
by Isi Esene Oby Ezekwesili, the former World Bank vice-president for Africa, over the weekend said she prays for Nigeria’s oil and gas resources to dry up soon so that the government can stop its over-reliance on petroleum. She urged the federal government to do something urgent about the spate of unemployment in the country... Read More
“Money isn’t everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children.” – J. Paul Getty
by Piers Morgan A few years later, Labour leader Harold Wilson came up with his own version: “A week is a long time in politics.” The point being that no politician, however brilliant, can ever plan for stuff happening that’s completely beyond his or her control. A week ago, if you’d asked me who was... Read More
by Isi Esene One of the Rivers State government House vehicle drivers, Ibiba Jack, was early on Saturday electrocuted at his official residence. The chief press secretary to the governor, Dave Iyofor, confirmed the sad incident saying the governor, Rotimi Amaechi and his wife are deeply saddened by the tragedy. “Governor Amaechi and his wife,... Read More
If this is truly a man’s world, why can’t we fight for it to be a woman’s world too instead of throwing ourselves at the feet of men? My belief tells me I was created from the rib of man not from his shoe lace. It took me ages to decide what to write about,... Read More
It is a tough world for today’s woman even though I have learned to love and appreciate my own womanhood but, it hasn’t saved all the abused and victimized woman all over the world. Yes, I said that and my shocked girlfriends screamed: A ‘feminist’ like you would dare say that?! How? Why? Well, to... Read More
by Hauwa Gambo Following speculations that the family of late Super Eagles striker and legend, Rashidi Yekini, might have played a part in his death in May this year, his family has spoken up. “We did not kill Rashidi as it was widely publicised,” his younger sister, Rofiat, told Tribune at the wekeend. “What we... Read More
by Hauwa Gambo The presidency has made it clear that it is ready to dialogue with violent sect Boko Haram, but not under conditions it set last week, which included going to Saudi Arabia and release of their detained members. According to Special Adviser to the President on Inter-Party Affairs, Senator Ben Obi, speaking at... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu Chika Unigwe, winner of this year’s Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Literary Award has expressed gratitude over winning the award with the novel ‘On Black Sisters’ Street’. “I have read some of the writers on the long list of 10 and admired their works, and so to come this far with my... Read More
“I am convinced that they need to die,” Oshiomhole insists on men who killed and dismembered victims
by Isi Esene Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole has insisted that the two death-row convicts in the state, Daniel Nsofor and Osayinwinde Agbomien, deserve to die and he owes no apology for taking his stance. The governor admitted that his position gives him a choice to exercise a prerogative of mercy but he has decided not... Read More
by Joe Okei-Odumakin While it would have been more gracious to address the issues at stake without the festival of bayonet, there is no doubting the fact the very issues Ojukwu wanted us to address in 1966 are the same confronting us today in a nastier version. Sweet is the remembrance of the righteous says... Read More
On Tuesday President Barak Obama will be judged above all on his record restoring growth and jobs to the people of America. Obama is running neck and neck with Republican challenger Mitt Romney, who has assailed the president for increasing the country’s debt to record levels, for restoring only an anemic level of growth, and... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu Nuhu Ribadu, former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) recently went into details concerning his removal from the commission claiming it was in order to destroy the anti-graft agency. Yesterday, Ribadu who spoke on Frontline, a current affairs programme on the African Independent Television said his removal came a... Read More
The Romney campaign’s Jeep ad is “pernicious,” Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday just outside Cleveland, though he slipped and suggested that it was “President Clinton” who the Republicans were blaming. “I think it is pernicious,” Biden told a crowd of 1,100 in the gym at Lakewood High School, before continuing on to describe the... Read More
A woman who sadistically tortured a teenage boy and made him drink his own urine during a terrifying two-hour ordeal has been jailed for four years. Kerry Howle, 26, forced the defenceless 15-year-old schoolboy to eat a mouldy sausage roll which she had spat on and coated in cigarette ash. She smashed a glass ashtray... Read More
by Hauwa Gambo The Nigerian police authorities have stepped up their efforts to protect citizens in crisis-prone areas of the counrty. For one, it has advised churches and mosques in the attack-prone capital of Plateau State – Jos – to begin building concrete fences around their premises. According to the state police commissioner, Emmanuel Ayeni,... Read More
Advertising magnate Lord Maurice Saatchi has spoken of the unbearable grief of losing his wife to cancer and how he visits her tomb each morning to have breakfast with her. The 66-year-old says Josephine Hart’s death has been so painful for him that he still sets a place out for her during meal times. And... Read More
The chairman of the Petroleum Revenue Task Force, Nuhu Ribadu, has explained why he has remained firm in spite of high-level efforts by some members of his committee and some elements in the Federal Government and the oil industry to sabotage the work of the panel he led. There was open disagreement between members of... Read More
Chris Brown can’t seem to escape controversy at the moment. First he is caught in the centre of a love triangle with model Kerrueche Chan and superstar singer Rihanna and now the singer has come under fire after dressing up as the Taliban for a Halloween party. Chris, who posted a picture on Instagram, instantly... Read More
by DFTM She will intentionally stop using her birth control without you knowing and will even go as far as tampering with condoms prior to intercourse, i.e., putting a pin through her boyfriend’s condom package without him ever suspecting it. Every guy likes to wine and dine his woman, but when extravagance and material possessions... Read More
By Terri Orbuch, Ph.D. for Next Avenue Many couples mistakenly assume that talking and planning ahead takes the fun and romance out of the experience. This is a myth. What it can do is take the pressure off one of you to initiate and give you both something to look forward to. I met Georgia... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu Ego Boyo, famous for her role in the 90s soap opera, Checkmate popular is still in no hurry to return to acting anytime soon. In a recent interview, the actress said she was more into corporate business these days but has occasionally acted in a few short films for clients, documentaries and... Read More
Theresa Faiss’ marriage to former state Sen. Wilbur Faiss lasted more than some lifetimes, and earned congratulations from the president. Just months after being recognized as being the longest married couple in America, the matriarch of the Faiss family has died in Las Vegas at the age of 97. The couple were honored in January... Read More
by Isi Esene Tributes have continued to pour in from friends and associates who have had the opportunity of encountering Remi ‘Lagos’ Osholake, who died from Cancer yesterday in a United Kingdom hospital. The latest tribute is from international fashion designer, Adebayo Jones, who summed up his Remikable experience thus: Sadly my dear friend who... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu Meet Svetlana Pankratova, she’s the woman with the longest legs in the world. It was verified as measuring 132 cm (51.9 in) in Torremolinos, Spain on 8 July 2003. The Russian beauty according to Guinness World Records, is not the world’s tallest woman but her legs alone are 132 centimetres (4 ft... Read More