by Isi Esene President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said that the January fuel subsidy protests were not carried out by ordinary Nigerians who wanted to express their opposition to a government policy saying the protests were stage-managed by a class of Nigerians who wanted to maintain a status quo of corruption in the petroleum sector. Jonathan...
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by Isi Esene Nigeria is inching closer to achieving steady power supply as the National Council on Privatization (NCP) Tuesday shortlisted 21 bidders for 10 out of the 11 electricity distribution firms in the country. The NCP meeting which took place at the Aso Rock presidential villa was presided over by Vice President Namadi Sambo....
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by Reuben Daba Nigerians were excited when they heard that American rapper Rick Ross was going to shoot a Nigerian video alternate version of his hit single, Hold Me Back. Well, the video is out… and we are not sure many will like it. The video shot in Lagos and directed by DRE Films and...
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A Nevada recluse left behind a stunning treasure when he died this spring — officials say they discovered $7 million in gold bars and coins in his home. Walter Samasko Jr. died in his Carson City home in May. His body wasn’t found until June after his neighbors complained of the odor emanating from the...
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Regardless of what you think of Carlos Romero’s penchant for donkey sex, he certainly has courage in his convictions. Romero, 31, was arrested Monday and charged with misdemeanor sexual activity with an animal, by officials in Ocala, Fla., but believes the real outrage is that the Sunshine State is “backwards” towards zoophilia. The charges stem...
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Two young unarmed policewomen were shot dead today, before one of Britain’s most wanted men was arrested on suspicion of murder after handing himself in at a police station. Pc Fiona Bone, 32, and Pc Nicola Hughes, 23, were attending a report of a burglary in Hattersley, Greater Manchester, when they were attacked with a...
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A heavy-drinking drug user has been jailed after stabbing a man in the belly because he refused to have sex with her. Joanne Buckley, 29, would not let her victim David Tawes seek medical help after plunging a knife into his abdomen and told him she would say she knifed him because he tried to...
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A terminal cancer victim died in bed hand in hand with her husband who couldn’t face life without her, an inquest has been told. Bowel cancer sufferer Maureen Read, 71, had just discovered her condition was incurable and had just been prescribed a strong painkiller to cope with the pain when she died alongside her...
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The Lagos State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Ade Ipaye, on Monday said the state government would ban smoking in public places. He told the News Agency of Nigeria that the provisions of the new traffic laws had prohibited people from drinking or smoking while driving in the state. Ipaye said though the...
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by Isi Esene Manchester United Football Club of England has announced a £4.7m just one month after the club listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Revenue fell by 3.3 per cent over a one year period to £320million, although the club predicts income of between £350m and £360m next year, if the team...
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A 20-year-old woman who falsely claimed she was raped by three men because she regretted having sex with them has been jailed for two years. Rosie Dodd, of Nottingham, claimed the men, who were aged 21, 23 and 25, assaulted her at a home in Clifton, Nottinghamshire, in the early hours of a Saturday in...
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A woman who already had 12 children has given birth to quintuplets after conceiving them naturally. The 48-year-old woman from Melbourne, Australia gave birth to two boys and three girls by caesarean section today. Tragically one of the girls died before the birth. A team of 30 specialists including paediatricians, anaesthetists and nursing staff delivered...
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An outbreak of Ebola fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo may have claimed up to 32 lives since May, including that of a woman who had just given birth, the World Health Organisation said Tuesday. By September 15, “a cumulative total of 72 cases was recorded, including 14 cases that were confirmed positive after...
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Doctors in Sweden say they have performed the world’s first mother-to-daughter uterus transplants “without complications.” Specialists from the University of Goteborg on Tuesday said two women received wombs from their mothers in surgical procedures on Sept. 15 and 16. The university said one recipient had her uterus removed many years ago due to cervical cancer...
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A Jewish New Year celebration turned tragic when a teenager woke in a Brooklyn home to find his 1-year-old brother drowned in a toilet, police sources said Tuesday. The body of little Mendi Altman was found by his 13-year-old brother at an aunt’s 11th Ave. home in Borough Park late Monday night. Police sources said...
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This is the Senator, the largest pond cypress in the U.S. and, at 3,500 years old, the fifth-oldest individual tree in the world. Or anyway, this was the Senator, because on Jan. 16, the Florida tree burned from the inside out. Authorities initially ruled out arson, saying that friction or smoldering lightning damage may have...
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“Turn up the lights in here baby, Extra bright I want y’all to see this Turn up the lights in here baby, You know what I need, want you to see everything, Want you to see all of the light” – Kanye West (All of the lights Last week, the government of Goodluck Jonathan released...
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A Florida man picked up his girlfriend’s dog and beat her with it during a heated argument, police said. Michael Wayne Jones, 42, is in jail on charges of domestic battery by strangulation, criminal mischief and animal cruelty, WKMG-TV reported. He was fighting with his girlfriend Thursday at their Sanford home when she decided to...
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A married British woman who aborted her baby in the final week of her pregnancy was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday — a brutal crime that investigators called “cold and calculating.” Sarah Catt, 35, of North Yorkshire, England, was accused of using a drug she bought online from a company in India to...
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by Akan Ido Ever wondered what your favourite state looks like without the makeup? Well, now you have a chance. We couldn’t help concluding that black is indeed beautiful. Photos from NY Daily News
by Stanley Azuakola The National Assembly has returned from its two months rest. And just in case Nigerians did not take note, the House of Representatives resumed today and kicked off proceedings by ordering the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to shelve its plans to print the N5, 000 notes. Feedback from the Senate’s discussion...
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A female suicide bomber killed 12 people in Kabul on Tuesday in the deadliest single attack claimed to avenge a US film that has sparked a week of deadly protests across the Muslim world. The attack brings to more than 30 the number of people now killed in a violent backlash over a YouTube trailer...
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by Isi Esene The Borno State commissioner for Justice, Zannah Malam Gana, was yesterday killed by unidentified gunmen. Reports say the commissioner was killed Monday night at his residence. A government official who spoke to reporters on the condition of anonymity said, “He was shot dead by some gunmen in his house around 8:45 pm last...
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by Kunle Durojaiye Do you need to target other types of customers? What works for one business may not work for the other. It is important to track the right metrics. In today’s world, new businesses are born from the culmination of innovative ideas. Each business operates primarily to make profit on investment by providing...
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by Isi Esene All we have seen in the news recently are images of rage, violence, killings, stone-throwing and burning of flags in the Arab world following the release of the amateurish video by allegedly produced by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula disrespecting the Holy Prophet Mohammed. Despite the outrage in Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Sudan and other...
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by Stanley Azuakola The Federal government announced in early September, that just like last year, this year’s Independence anniversary event would be a low key one. Apparently, the Kwara Government did not get that memo. The state government has gone ahead to inaugurate a 22-member committee to oversee the celebration of Nigeria’s 52nd independence anniversary....
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge today won their fight to block a French magazine from republishing or selling topless photos of the royal couple in France or abroad. The civil court at the Tribunal de Grand Instance in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, also ordered Closer magazine to hand over all files of the...
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by Stanley Azuakola Show me a place where you won’t find Nigerians living and actively pursuing their livelihoods, and I’ll show you … the Bermuda Triangle – and even then, who knows? Iraq might be troublesome and unstable, but not enough to stop a Nigerian firm, Afren, which says it has commenced oil exploration at...
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by Stanley Azuakola The Federal Government on Monday announced a 17-member FG delegation to the 2012 Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. On the Hajj delegation are Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad; ex-warlord Alhaji Asari Dokubo; Sen. Abdul Ningi and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Nurudeed Mohammed. According to a statement in...
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by Reuben Daba For having sexual intercourse with another man “through the anus”, a 28-year old Nigerian actor, Bestwood Chukwuemeka, was on Monday sentenced to three-month imprisonment by a Karu Senior Magistrates’ Court, Abuja. The sentencing came after Chukwuemeka had pleaded guilty: “I am guilty of the charge against me. I was under the influence...
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