The speed and secrecy with which Dame Jonathan was shipped out of the country suggests our leader might believe in Nigeria, but won’t put all his eggs in this basket. A few years ago, a well known professor was invited to Nigeria from the United States at the behest of one the South-West governors. The...
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Gregory Johns, 42, was killed at a motel in Treasure Island, Fla. He was wanted for sexually assaulting and impregnating his girlfriend’s 11-year-old daughter. Gregory fled when his girlfriend’s daughter was taken to the hospital for stomach pains and underwent tests that revealed she was pregnant. Johns immediately asked his girlfriend for the keys to her...
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A North Carolina woman is accused of trying to poison both of her lovers in her love triangle. 22 year old Tara Jackson allegedly put anti-freeze in one lover’s drink and a muscle relaxant in the other lover’s food. Jackson’s love triangle involved her and her neighbor, Donald Russell, who lived in the house next-door...
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Actor and rapper, Will Smith, may be making his debut as a director in a new movie that tells the biblical story of Cain and Abel. The film, “The Redemption of Cain,” has gotten the go ahead from Sony Pictures Entertainment. The film is reported to have a vampire spin on it. There has been...
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by Akan Ido A telephone operator in the household of the former military ruler, Late General Sani Abacha, who is standing trial for alleged theft of Maryam Abacha’s jewellery has accused their son, Abdullahi Sani Abacha, of involvement in the crime. The accused, Abdullahi Ali, who was charged to court along with three others for the...
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by Stanley Azuakola These are dangerous times to be a journalist in Nigeria. Just last month, Benedict Uwalaka, a photo journalist with Leadership newspaper was assaulted at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) by hospital officials, when he went to cover the release of the corpses of the Dana crash. On Tuesday in Abuja another...
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A husband and wife duo is wanted by the police for shooting a police deputy and for carjacking. They allegedly shot the sheriff’s deputy of L.A. County early on Sunday morning. The attack took place on Durfee Avenue in South El Monte outside of a convenience store. According to the authorities the Temple Station deputy...
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Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, was buried on Sunday. Expectedly, there was a performance of grief and lots of adulatory expressions at the burial. From Jacob Zuma to Susan Rice, encomiums poured in. While some of the eulogies were touching, the truth is that he was just another sit-tight autocratic leader who spent 21 years...
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Nigerian music superstar Wizkid Ayo Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, has taken to Twitter to lambaste UK-based Nigerian rapper, Fresh L. Wizkid’s action might have been fueled by a tweet by the London-based artiste that his label mate, BOJ was better than the Pakurumo singer. Fresh L, known in real life as Ladi Lanre, tweeted...
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The owner of the “Hitler” clothing shop in western India says he will remove the sign and rename his store after hearing people’s complaints. Rajesh Shah said Tuesday he had chosen the name in memory of his grandfather, a strict disciplinarian whom the family referred to as “Hitler.” The shop in Ahmadabad, the main city...
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China’s hopes for a smooth, once-a-decade political transition have been shaken by a lurid new scandal involving the death of a senior official’s son who crashed during what may have been sex games in a speeding Ferrari. Details of the March accident in Beijing, which allegedly also injured two young women, have stayed under wraps...
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A terrible headache probably isn’t the sensation people are hoping for when they turn on a porn video. But unfortunately for a 24-year-old bachelor in India, that’s exactly what has happened for the last two years whenever he tried to watch an X-rated movie. According to a case study on the man, who is unnamed,...
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One academic is proposing a cure for morning sickness that some moms-to-be might find in bad taste — sperm. Gordon Gallup, a psychologist at SUNY-Albany has a theory that pregnant women who are continually exposed to the father’s semen are less like to suffer from AM nausea. Gallup, who specializes in human reproductive competition and...
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“Your Excellency, I scan the Nigerian media everyday and I also do same for American and British media and I am aware our media is not as cynical and contemptuous of their government and the man in power as the British or American media Without conducting a poll or a content analysis, Dr Goodluck Jonathan...
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by Sodiq Oyeleke It is better to look at the sources of Islam, and its history to determine whether Islam does indeed advocate violence. Whether it is a bomb going off in a marketplace, school, religious centres, or the hijacking of an aircraft where innocent people are held at ransom to achieve political ends, we...
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by Michelle Rhee Poverty presents huge challenges in our schools. But expectations of academic success for a child should never hinge on the circumstances of his or her birth. A recent ad campaign we launched at StudentsFirst to raise awareness around the weak academic performance of U.S. students compared to their global peers drew all...
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by Wilfred Okiche Iwe is a fitting tribute to the late MC, one brother honoring another. ‘Iwe’ is a popular chant among the Igbos of the South Eastern region of the country. It connotes feelings of rebellion, anger, grief, and sadness and it is to this chant that crossover highlife rave-of-the moment, Flavour N’abania turns...
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by Raheem Oluwafunminiyi In the last couple of weeks, the Presidency via its media inner circle has been having it tough with critics, most especially the hard-nut-to-crack opposition parties, the ‘army of sponsored and self-appointed anarchists’ and also ‘the twittering, pinging, Facebook crowd of the new age’. This tough battle between the President’s men and...
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by Isi Esene The Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC), led by Olusegun Runsewe, yesterday declared its intention to sue the management of Cosmilla Hotel where Cynthia Osokogu was allegedly murdered by Echezona Nwabufor Okwuomo and Ezekiel Nnechuwu Olisa Eloka. The corporation accused the management of the hotel of not complying with laid down processes and...
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by Dawn Sweeney and Tom Nelson Having access to ample nutritious food is critical to a child’s healthy development, especially as it relates to their physical health, cognition, academic performance, and emotional and social well-being. For the millions of school-aged children heading back to school, having proper nutrition can mean the difference between returning to...
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Ghawar is the reflection of the fact that Nigeria’s economy cannot not be based on oil in 30 years’ time. Ghawar is the largest oil field in the world. It has produced over 60 billion barrels of oil so far. This field alone accounts for about 50 per cent of Saudi Arabia’s daily output of...
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by Adam Hanft Mrs. Obama’s speech deftly wove together the leadership role of the first lady as created by Mrs. Roosevelt, and the culture of introspection, emotion, and confessional drama that was the daily conversation on Oprah’s couch. There were two figures who stood, invisibly but powerfully, behind Michelle Obama as she gave her speech...
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by Sil Lai Abrams Do you love someone so much that your willing to do anything for them, even if it kills you? Anyone who’s read some of my past columns knows that I’m an outspoken critic of the ‘Real Bad Girls Basketball Wives of Atlanta who Love Hip Hop’reality show genre. While I personally can’t...
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by Isi Esene The national publicity secretary of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Lai Mohammed has described the non-performance of the N2.3 billion contract awarded to presidential aide, Dr. Doyin Okupe’s company, Value Trust Limited, by the Benue State Government as an “official endorsement of corruption”. While speaking with newsmen today in Abeokuta, the...
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by Isi Esene Yinka Johnson, the banker who was accused of killing Hammed Balogun, an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) last month in Ajah has been re-arraigned on a revised charge of reckless driving as against manslaughter which was earlier considered by prosecutors. At the resumed hearing yesterday, the Police prosecutor,...
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It appears that Christianity is no longer all-embracing, with ‘hugs’ now reserved for card-carrying members of the church club and their well-connected friends. I grew up in a proper Christian home; one in which family prayers were hour-long events that couldn’t be missed (if only for the fear of the promised wrath of God upon...
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by Hauwa Gambo Sadly, even though Governor Kayode Fayemi and Governor-in-Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu are in Charlotte for the United States Democratic National Convention 2012, we will still be unable to vote in their presidential elections. No matter, we were glued to CNN for William Jefferson Clinton’s spectacular speech yesterday – and we present our...
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by Hauwa Gambo As expected, with his almost-60 minutes speech nominating Barrack Obama for a second term Democratic National Congress run for president yesterday, Bill Clinton hit, as CNN’s Wolf Blitzer would say, not just home run but Grand Slam! But what many really paid attention to was the passionate hug between the two men...
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by Stanley Azuakola Right from his first few months in office, one thing the body language of President Goodluck Jonathan made very clear was that he would want to be remembered for his efforts in the power sector. Recent reports also indicate that the president’s party, the Peoples Democratic Party is desperate to see progress...
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by Stanley Azuakola It was the entertainment story everyone was talking about last week — that the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) had banned singer Wande Coal’s ‘Go Low’ video on Terrestrial TV last week. Everyone had a side and online groups had heated debates on the matter. Well, it turned out that the NBC did not actually ban...
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