by Stanley Azuakola The last time President Jonathan handed out national honours in 2011, the biggest hitch during the event was the shortage of medals to decorate the recipients. The medals were not enough, even though the presidency compiled the list itself and knew how many Nigerians were expected to be honoured that day. This...
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by Isi Esene Scarcity of petroleum products is slowly creeping into Lagos and other south-west states due to the vandalization of the Arepo distribution pipeline which supplies products to depots in these states. The scarcity will affect Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Kwara and Ondo States because petroleum products from the Atlas Cove jetty is normally conveyed...
Read MoreArepo,
Atlas Cove Jetty,
Bode-Saadu,
Erin-Ile,
Farouk Ibrahim,
Ilorin,
kwara,
lagos,
nnpc,
Offa,
Ogun,
Omu-Aran,
Ondo,
Oyo,
pipeline,
vandals
More details were revealed Friday about the man who shot at Anchorage police officers a day earlier, causing dozens of officers to descend, closing a major thoroughfare and forcing SWAT teams to evacuate a motel. Heavily tattooed Jason Barnum, 37, was arraigned on one count of attempted murder in the first degree and two counts...
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Kate Middleton continues her reign as style queen as she tours through Southeast Asia with Prince William, part of Queen Elizabeth’s ongoing Diamond Jubilee celebration. The newly minted Duchess of Cambridge brought to mind another stunning royal during a stop at the Assyakirin Mosque in Malaysia on Sept. 14, 2012. Dressed in a light grey...
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Google said on Friday that it would not comply with a White House request to reconsider the anti-Islam video that has set off violent protests in the Arab world in light of its rules banning hate speech on YouTube, which it owns. Google said it had already determined that the video did not violate its...
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After months of speculation and a rotating roster of bold-faced names, “American Idol” has finally made its decision. Nicki Minaj and Keith Urban will be joining Mariah Carey at the judges table for season 12, and veteran host Randy Jackson will fill out the fourth slot, Fox announced Sunday. Minaj, 29, and Urban, 44, will...
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Despite a chilling confession, a West Virginia jury acquitted David Mitchell of raping and murdering an 83 -year-old woman two decades ago, leaving him free to continue his reign of sexual perversion from the Appalachians to Central Park. The shocking 1990 acquittal came after jurors heard Mitchell’s graphic account of his brutal assault on an...
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When First Lady Michelle Obama stepped onto the stage of the Democratic National Convention wearing a pink silk jacquard Tracy Reese confection, nobody was more surprised than the designer. “When she walked out, we found out,” Reese told the Daily News last week. “We were still at work preparing for my show, and we all...
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A 45-year-old woman was fighting for her life after her husband stabbed her in the neck inside their Brooklyn home early Saturday, cops said. The woman was knifed twice near her throat during an argument with her husband, Rafael Serda, 48, inside their East New York home around 1:30 a.m., police said. The wounded woman...
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Facebook status update: already married — twice. A Washington man pleaded guilty to bigamy after his wife learned he was married to a second woman by looking at Facebook’s “people you may know” notification. The second woman’s profile picture showed her with the first bride’s husband standing near a wedding cake. Alan O’Neill, a 42-year-old...
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by Isi Esene The first pictures of the Egyptian born US man who is suspected to be behind the amateur movie considered to be in bad taste by followers of Islam have been released. Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, is reported to be at the center of the probe into the amateurish movie “Innocence of Muslims,”...
Read More.US,
Anna Gurji,
blasphemy,
Christopher Stevens,
egypt,
Embassy,
libya,
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula,
Protests,
Sam Bacile,
Yemen
Venus and Serena Williams started out supporting a documentary that told their life story but now that they have realized that the movie paints a negative picture of their father,Richard Williams, they have withdrawn their support. Until recently, the Williams sisters had the intention of appearing on the red carpet at the movie’s premier at...
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Chris Brown’s Fortune Album It appears that a group of morality vigilantes in the UK haven’t forgiven Chris Brown for the domestic dispute he had with his then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009. Several copies of Chris Brown’s Fortune album have been labeled with a sticker saying “WARNING – Do not buy this album! This man beats women” in HMV stores...
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Last month on Kim Kardashian’s reality show, Kanye West told Kim he’d buy her a new wardrobe if she promised to trash her old clothes. “[You’re] getting on best dressed lists now,” he told her as he sifted through her new wardrobe. Ironically, West’s fate for his girlfriend’s fashion sense is heading in the opposite...
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by Stanley Azuakola This year, the number one challenge of the Nigerian government has been how to curtail the menace of Boko Haram. One of the greatest criticisms of the Jonathan administration is the frequent setting up of committees without implementing the recommendations that flow from such committees. This tradition did not begin from the...
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by Stanley Azuakola Oil has murdered sleep, and has set friendly neighbours on the path of acrimony. Since August 30th when Orient Petroleum Resources commissioned its facilities in an occasion where President Jonathan declared Anambra State as the 10th oil producing state, there has been tensions between the states of Anambra, Kogi and Enugu. The...
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Very regular Arthur, 90, has called in into The Griffin almost every day since turning 18. Back then, in 1940, a pint cost a shilling – now it’s £2.75. And he’s drunk 30,000 of them over the years. The retired council worker, who left school at 14 and never married or had children, said he...
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by Stanley Azuakola Obinna Ekezie is a former NBA player turned technology entrepreneur. At the age of 18, Ekezie left Nigeria for the United States where he spent the next decades. He earned a full athletic scholarship to attend university at the University of Maryland from 1995 – 1999. He played for five teams in...
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Women who regularly take ibuprofen and paracetamol are more likely to go deaf, say researchers. The non-prescription painkillers are widely available at supermarkets and are taken by millions every day to ease headaches and inflammation. But a study of more than 62,000 women found taking the drugs just twice a week increases the risk of...
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by Stanley Azuakola Not everyone is impressed by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s co-ordination of the nation’s economy, especially as regards her handling of Nigeria’s debt profile. Festus Iyayi of the University of Benin, Edo State, is one of such. And in an event on Friday, the professor described the recent utterances of the finance minister as “irresponsible and...
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… At that point it started to feel like I probably preferred the many Chinese locals who hadn’t heard of Nigeria before. At least I could sell the country as whatever I wanted. The ones I met at the forum knew Nigeria too well and knew all the sides that made me sad. “Where is...
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by Akan Ido The battle for a sizable number of young people we see in our daily interaction is the desire to lose weight, look sexy and be noticed, but for Lizzie Velasquez, its far deeper than that. Velasquez was born with a rare disease which prevents her from gaining weight. She has no fat...
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by Isi Esene She has been described in diverse superlatives but her recently released photos, on her official website, can only be described as stunningly sexy. ToolzO, the on-air-personality, talked about the pictures saying, “When I’m in front of the camera trying to remember to ‘suck-belle’, show off my better left-side, trying to make my...
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Then my mother gave me Chike and the River as a birthday gift, and I began to slide the glass door of the bookshelf open again and again, to read Things Fall Apart, The Concubine, Weep Not, Child, books I had dismissed as boring. I was eight the first time I heard it. I had...
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by Rob Enderle For the last decade, Apple has set the gold standard for product launches, and credit has always rested unequivocally on the shoulders of Steve Jobs. The company always knew how to woo loyalists, but when Jobs returned, he found a way to speak to the rest of us when presenting products like...
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by Isi Esene The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is reported to be investigating five judges; two chief judges and three judges of the Federal High Court, for keeping fat bank accounts. According to reports, the EFCC has in its possession their statements of account and how the funds were transferred into the said...
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by Stanley Azuakola It was a naira rain in Aso Rock yesterday as President Jonathan showed critics that he appreciated the efforts of the victorious Paralympics athletes and female Under 20 footballers, Falconets, who did the country proud. At a reception in their honour, President Goodluck Jonathan announced cash gifts of N1m for each Falconet,...
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by Isi Esene Emmanuel Iheanacho, the former minister of interior and owner of Integrated Oil and Gas has been released by the State Security Service (SSS), Lagos State Command. Iheanacho’s company was accused of dealing in illegally acquired petroleum products. Officials of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and armed forces personnel attached...
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by Isi Esene The assault case leveled against David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido continues to linger as Hashiru Azeez, the owner of the taxi whose driver was allegedly assaulted gives an insight into the intrigues surrounding the case, Punch is reporting. Azeez, the car owner who employed Femi Ajibola, the driver who claimed he...
Read MoreAdemola Olamide,
asssault,
Bar Beach,
car keys,
David Adeleke,
Davido,
Femi Ajibola,
Femi Balogun,
Hashiru Azeez,
police,
Valerie Obaeze
by Stanley Azuakola Nigerians are missing me – Dame Patience The wife of Nigeria’s Vice-President, Hajiya Amina Sambo, has turned down calls for her to step up and assume the role of acting first lady of the federation, saying she is not interested in the job, as she is loyal to her boss, Dame Patience...
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