by Stanley Azuakola Nigeria’s Petroleum minister, Diezani Allison Madueke is back in the country. She had reportedly been in the United Kingdom, where she was hospitalised over an undisclosed ailment. A report that she debunked on her Facebook page, sparking a huge debate on the social networking platform. Allison-Madueke was at today’s Federal Executive Council...
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by Dr Jonny Bowden My mentor, the late great nutritionist Robert Crayhon, used to say this: “The two great dangers with nutrition are thinking it does too much, and thinking it does too little.” The same can be said of exercise. This article is about exercise. And about weight loss. And about the relationship between the...
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by Abdullahi Aborode As we all know every policy has its advantage and disadvantages, these are few reasons why I’m now in support of the introduction of the N5000 note and if it will be implemented ‘diligently’ it will not ruin the economy. It’s been an ongoing debate for a while now and a very...
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by Isi Esene With $40,000 to spare you have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join President Barack Obama in New York City later this month as he harnesses the star-power of Shawn Carter, popularly known as Jay-Z and superstar wife, Beyonce to raise more funds for the upcoming presidential elections in November. It has been confirmed...
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by Dean Praetorius Social media would undoubtedly have painted a clearer picture of what happened inside the towers in 2001. On September 11, 2001, I had no idea if my parents were alive or dead. They didn’t work in the towers but like so many other commuting Long Islanders, it was far from implausible that either...
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by Isi Esene Lufodo Academy of Performing Arts (LAPA), a performing arts educational institution run by accomplished actors, Joke Silva and Olu Jacobs bring you an opportunity to be molded and polished for careers in theatre, film, and television. LAPA delivers teaching and practical based training of international quality and capacity, sufficient to attract international...
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by Brian McLaren As a Christian, I’ve certainly seen it and felt it in the Christian community, expressed often in a sense that the more you love Jesus, the more inhospitable you’ll be toward other faiths. On this 11th anniversary of 9/11, it’s a good day for us to look back and assess the damage. The...
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by Emmanuel Onwubiko and Nneka Okonkwo From all indication, youth unemployment is a menace in Nigeria and constitutes a real danger and a threat to Nigeria’s democracy. IN Nigeria, democracy has been restored over a decade ago, with so much hope and expectations by the people. For instance, it is assumed that with democracy, people...
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by Ayo Olukotun For those who may be too young to know, ‘happy survival’ was the predominant form of cordiality and felicitous exchange among the Igbo and other inhabitants of South-East who survived the trauma and murderous incivility of the Nigerian civil war. Thank God Nigeria today is not at war; that is if you...
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by Reuben Daba Really, it’s hard to understand Kim Kardashian. I mean, who compares her former relationship with cancer? That’s exactly what Kim K did in an interview with the UK Guardian last weekend. She was the cover star for the weekend edition of the Guardian and in the corresponding article titled, “Kim Kardashian: my life as a...
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by Stanley Azuakola Aw… ain’t they adorable? Diddy’s twin daughters D’Lila Star and Jessie James, are seen taking a stroll here with their baby dolls in California. The girls are cute, let’s just hope he doesn’t spoil them… to much. You know he recently gave his son Justin, a $400,000 car for his sixteenth birthday....
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by Habibu Abdallah It is time for our policy makers to use their vision to propel Nigeria into a full blown progressive flight. This is a veritable welcome to the future… The vision of Abraham Levitt and his sons, William and Alfred, in the 1950s to build more than 100,000 houses during the aftermath of...
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by Isi Esene George Udoh, the special adviser to the minister of Interior yesterday released a statement denying speculation that the minister, Abba Moro, is involved in gunrunning and arms smuggling. He reportedly advised relevant security agencies to look into the allegations and bring to book those behind the false publication citing it as a...
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by Isi Esene It’s official, the Lagos State Government has made it mandatory for residents of the state to beautify their environment or risk a six months jail term. According to reports, this information was disclosed yesterday by Tunji Bello, the commissioner for the Environment, at the inauguration of the Lagos State Parks and Gardens...
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Ambassador Christopher Stevens is said to be among four US officials killed in a protest over a US-produced film that is said to insult the Prophet Muhammad. The US state department has only confirmed the death of one official – but it has not named them. Protesters have also attacked the US embassy in Cairo...
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Members of the Imo State House of Assembly have been mandated to proceed to South Africa on a five-day retreat on the orders of the state government. The move is alleged to prevent the swearing in of the Oguta state Constituency legislator-elect, Eugene Dibiagwu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The state High Court sitting...
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And then, I’ll pick up that guest bed I ordered in Mushin. They said they would deliver, but all of a sudden the guy asked for an extra thousand naira instead of 500. I told him to get lost. I’ll pick it up myself. What time is it? Will I be going against traffic? It...
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We cannot obviously deny the fact that not all the listed people are not deserving of the award but in a nation where politics is the biggest failure, why should politicians get the highest rewards in the land? Nigerian National Honours are yearly conferred upon Nigerians and friends of Nigeria who had rendered meritorious service...
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by Stanley Azuakola Tinubu told a lie. His party, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) is expectedly standing firmly by his side, defending him, but what they really should do is count their losses, pray that the public loses interest quickly, and move on. Tinubu is a donor and supporter of the United States’ Democratic...
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You are a gift to the world. Your life, your destiny, your wealth, knowledge and impact are treasures meant for the world much in the same way that prizes are given out to the winners of a promotion or competition. Promotions and competitions are usually characterized by the award of prizes to participants who...
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The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) has said that no fewer than 800 companies in Nigeria closed shop between 2009 and 2011 due to harsh operating business environment. Dr Herbert Ajayi, President of NACCIMA, gave the figure on Tuesday in Asaba in a paper he presented at a zonal...
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by Akan Ido An Abuja Chief Magistrate’s Court yesterday ordered the inspector general of Police (IGP) to comprehensively investigate the complicity or otherwise of both Senators Andy Uba and Chibuike Achigbu in the alleged $15m bribe offered by former Delta State governor, James Ibori to the former EFCC chairman, Nuhu Ribadu. After hearing the suit...
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When the man she had always called Uncle Joe, invited her to his room, four-year-old Ngozi was not worried. They lived in the same compound at 38, Eletu Edibu Street, Abule Ijesha, Yaba, Lagos and he was always nice to her and other children, buying them sweets or biscuits whenever he was around from his...
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by Stanley Azuakola Less than a month after Season 7 of The Future Awards was successfully staged in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, The Future Project, organisers of the event, are already taking stock and making plans to ensure that subsequent editions surpass the achievements of the just concluded season. In line with that,...
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The United States said it was taking measures to protect its citizens worldwide after protesters angry about an online film considered offensive to Islam attacked U.S. diplomatic compounds in Libya and Egypt on Tuesday. In Cairo, several men scaled the walls of the U.S. Embassy and tore down its American flag, according to CNN producer...
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by Isi Esene President Goodluck Jonathan put an abrupt stop to his state visit to Botswana and Malawi further fuelling speculation about the state of health of the first lady, Dame Patience Jonathan. Reuben Abati, the special adviser to the president on Media and Publicity had in a statement on Saturday, while announcing the president’s...
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by Isi Esene The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, yesterday stood in defence of the apex bank’s currency review policy saying the widespread arguments against it are not based on sound economic logic. Reports say he also took on the former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, describing him as “a good...
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A New Jersey woman has pleaded not guilty to reckless manslaughter in the case of a man who died after having his penis injected with silicone. The woman police say gave the injection, Kasia Rivera, appeared Tuesday in a Newark courtroom. The Essex County prosecutor’s office says 35-year-old Rivera gave 22-year-old Justin Street, who was...
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A South African man who had been in a coma for seven years was ‘woken up’ after being given a sleeping pill. Ayanda Nqinana, from Johannseburg, was left with severe brain injuries after his car crashed along an Eastern Cape road in 2005. His doctors said the father-of-one would most likely never recover. But his...
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A man claimed by Russia to be the oldest in the world has died at the age of 122, said regional officials. Magomed Labazanov was born in 1890, before last tsar Nicholas the Second took the throne, and he was 27 when Lenin seized power in the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, it is claimed. His...
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