The Metropolitan Police has started an investigation into alleged comments by referee Mark Clattenburg towards Chelsea players during Manchester United’s 3-2 win on Sunday. The Football Association had already begun an investigation following a complaint from Chelsea. They accused Clattenburg of using “inappropriate language”, including racial words, towards two players. Neither Chelsea nor the FA... Read More
by Shani K. Collins In fact, 1 in every 4 women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime; 85% percent of domestic violence victims are women; and women between the ages of 20-24 are at greatest risk of non-fatal intimate partner violence. Domestic violence is a serious matter. It has existed for years, but often... Read More
by SirListALot There are serious things that should be considered when you start an office romance, as dating a workmate has serious implications on all aspects of your life, and also effects those around you. There’s an old saying that comes to mind – don’t dip your pen in the company ink! In the mid... Read More
by Anne Fisher A ‘brand name’ an employer recognizes and respects will matter a lot more than whether you earned the degree online or in person. Online degrees can be just as effective on the job market as the traditional kind, but not all programs are created equal. Here’s what to look for before you... Read More
Because of low ratings, Anderson Cooper’s nationally syndicated daytime talk show “Anderson” will not return for a third season, The New York Times reports. “We are extremely proud of Anderson and the show that he and the entire production team have produced,” Telepictures, a division of Warner Bros., said in a statement. “While we made... Read More
by Hauwa Gambo It looks funny at first glance and has gone viral, but no kidding here – it’s ‘agege’ bread gone from the streets of Palmgrove, Ijesha and Mushin to the snowed-down roads of the United Kingdom. The official business is hosted at agegebread.co.uk. We’ve always wondered how come Nigeria has been unable to... Read More
by Dr. Boyce Watkins Sex is thrilling, amazing and incredibly powerful. In fact, the drive for sex can make a man insane. But as Spiderman’s uncle once said (I really love this quote and I use it all the time) “with great power comes great responsibility,” and with manhood comes accountability. I’ve been a black... Read More
To say that the Proprietor, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), is passionate about education is to say the least. He does not just love education; he has sponsored the education of many less privileged Nigerians. Besides, he has been on the council of many universities until he established ABUAD. Now... Read More
by Okechukwu Nnodim It is important to state some of the things which are not mandatory before establishing a business. Management experts, human resources consultants and renowned economists interviewed by this correspondent say that there are some things that can be ignored when you want to start a business. Below are a few: •Academic qualifications... Read More
by Reuben Abati Barring any other development of equally impactful effect, the great event of the year 2012 for Nigerians would probably be the floods that submerged many communities across the country, forcing a rude awakening about the reality of climate change and Nigeria’s share of this global phenomenon. Which is ironic in one sense... Read More
by Isi Esene President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday approved the redeployment of permanent secretaries who were sworn-in on October 17. Five new ones were also posted. The new permanent secretaries posted are Alhassan J. Gana, who was posted to office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (Cabinet Secretariat); Sunday J.F. Jegede, Office of... Read More
by Hauwa Gambo The Presidency yesterday denied suggestions that it was forced to direct that the report of Mallam Nuhu Ribadu’s Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force be submitted on Friday because of its leakage. “It is very obvious that people are trying to politicise such a thing that does not require politics,” said Reuben Abati,... Read More
Against expectations that the firm being backed by a former Head of State, Gen, Abdusalami Abubakar, Integrated Energy Distribution and Marketing Limited, will get at least two of the bigger power distribution companies in the country, it has been given only the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company. The company had led other bidders for the Eko,... Read More
by Hauwa Gambo The Federal Government will re-open the Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos, one week ahead of the scheduled delivery date of November 6, 2012. This was confirmed by the Special Adviser to the Minister of Works on Media, Tony Ikpasaja, yesterday. According to him, the Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen, will “open the rehabilitated... Read More
by Hauwa Gambo Well, even as the frightful Hurricane Sandy ravages the US East Coast, it’s interesting to see that the Nigerian problem of fake crisis photos is, in fact, a global one. See below 7 fake Hurricane Sandy photos that have been flying around social media over the past two days – even the... Read More
by Hauwa Gambo Following immense public pressure from the media and civil society, the three aides of the Taraba governor, Danbaba Suntai, whose were also victims of last Thursday’s air crash have also been flown to Germany for treatment. It will be recalled that the governor was transferred from the National Hospital to a German... Read More
by Hauwa Gambo President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday declared that he survived January’s fuel subsidy removal protests because his mandate from the Nigerian people is popular. The President was speaking in Freetown, Sierra Leone at a meeting with the chairman of the country’s National Electoral Commission (NEC), Christina Thorpe, as well as politicians and candidates for... Read More
That’s one way to even out the ol’ onions. Doctors in Mexico augmented a 45-year-old man’s left testicle with an implant normally used for shaping a chin, according to Live Science. The surgery was reported in this month’s issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine. The unnamed man was born with one tiny right testicle... Read More
Justin Bieber has been sued by a Michigan man who claims the pop superstar stole his credit card and purchased a penis enlargement with it. According to CBS Detroit, the plaintiff, who identifies himself in court papers as Selena Gomez’s father, alleges Bieber spent $426.78 on the enlargement and never paid him back. The documents... Read More
Yeah, she’s definitely got milk. Alicia Richman of Granbury, Tex. has been declared the new Guinness World Record holder for “Most Breastmilk Donated,” CBS DFW reports. Between June 2011 and March 2012, The 28-year-old mother of one donated 11,115 ounces — or 694 pounds — of breastmilk to charity, according to Guinness. By volume, that’s... Read More
An Austrian court has ordered a bank robber be given back £51,000 that he stole 19 years ago. Bank manager Otto Neuman stole £150,000 in cash as well as gold bars and gold coins from his own branch in 1993. After getting into financial difficulties, he recruited two accomplices to stage a fake robbery at... Read More
That’s gotta hurt. Doctors at Shanghai, China’s Zhongshan Hospital removed a dildo from the intestines of a 30-year-old man, according to Shanghai Daily. The doctors said the man had inserted the dildo into his body to “enhance sexual pleasure with his wife,” the paper reports. “If we did not remove the dildo in time, the... Read More
A man from northern China divorced and sued his wife earlier this year for being ugly. That’s not a joke. Neither is this: That man recently won the lawsuit. That man is Jian Feng and he said his issues with his wife’s looks only began after the couple’s daughter was born. Feng was appalled by... Read More
If you’re an active user of Twitter, you know that everyone uses the micro-blogging platform — even the President of the United States. It turns out that those 140 characters have major impact on the web. The impact of those 140 characters — which is less than the 160 characters allowed for text messaging —... Read More
He’s known as “Wildman Phil” and makes his living traveling to schools and parties, educating kids on creepy, crawly reptiles and animals. But at a stop outside a Walmart in Englewood, Colorado, someone stole everything he had and – likely a little more than they expected. Phil Rakoci stopped at the store at about 5... Read More
Don’t spend that $780,000 just yet. Justin Sisely, the director who helped a woman auction off her virginity as part of a documentary, may face sex trafficking charges, according to the Daily Mail. Brazilian Catarina Migliorini sold her virginity last week in an online auction to a man in Japan known as “Natsu” for $780,000.... Read More
It’s the day some Facebook employees have waited years for: Their paper wealth now has an official cash value, to the tune of $5.2 billion. Before this week, those employees were rich only on paper. That’s because Facebook used a special form of equity compensation called “restricted stock units” that become actual, tradeable stock only... Read More
Consumers are outraged by Samsung’s new line of plasmas and HDTVs. The company’s lastest model of televisions offer high-tech features such as a microphone set, a built-in HD camera, and speech recognition software. It also listens and responds to specific voice commands. The software enables Samsung to recognize who is viewing the TV and personalizes... Read More
When you go to the doctor to get surgery, you don’t expect to be burned alive. But Professor Kira Reed of Syracuse, New York went through that kind of nightmare. The professor was pregnant, in the middle of a cesarean delivery. During the procedure, Dr. Reed suffered a burn on her side when doctors used... Read More
Hell was let loose recently in Abayawo, Ilorin, Kwara State capital, Southwest Nigeria after a middle aged man’s corpse was recovered from a well at Ile Alowo-Eru in the area. A mob, suspected to be kinsmen of the victim, identified as Kabiru Yellow of Oju Ekun area in Ilorin, went on the rampage in Ile... Read More