by Isi Esene Now that the US Republican convention is over. This is the image that most stood out for us… and it’s not from the convention. In response to a skit by the legendary Clint Eastwood at the convention in which the director placed an empty chair to symbolize President Obama – a skit...
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by Stanley Azuakola “The law has been enacted and we are ready to enforce it.” And with that pronouncement by the Lagos State commissioner of Police, Umaru Manko, the advice for motorists and cyclists in Lagos is –brace up. Read: Lagos governor signs traffic bill into law Manko, who was represented by the deputy commissioner,...
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Rob Kardashian stormed out of his family’s therapy session in the last episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, after believing his career aspirations were being shot down by his sister Kim. But in the second part of the therapy session, which airs this Sunday, Kim keeps up the pressure on the volatile 25-year-old as...
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A mother who was left distraught after she failed her driving test for the fourth time endangered others when she tried to commit suicide by setting fire to herself. Yamkala Sapkota made the attempt on her own life when, despite spending thousands on 90 driving lessons, she was still deemed to be below the standard...
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This porky pair of pedigree bums have been placed on a strict diet after becoming so podgy their rolls of fat touched the ground when they tried to walk. Dumpy dachshunds Maddie and Josh had ballooned to double their body weight – 9kg and 11kg respectively – after being nearly ‘killed with kindness’ by their...
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One of the firms believed to be making the screen for Apple’s new iPhone is struggling with manufacturing problems, it has emerged. The gadget, expected to be revealed at an event on September 12 in San Francisco, is believed to have a larger, thinner screen that uses less power, boosting the handset’s battery life. Some...
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A sex attacker who molested a student was caught after she bit down on his hand – leaving his blood all over her coat. Detectives were able to track down Tony Jones using the DNA left on his victim’s clothing when they discovered it matched records held on their database. The 43-year-old pounced on the...
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Looks like the next season of American Idol just might feature a full panel of judges famous for something other than being judges on American Idol. TMZ reports that Randy Jackson’s role has been downgraded from judge to “mentor.” According to the website, Nicki Minaj is pretty much a lock to replace him at this...
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Police in Ann Arbor were called to a man’s apartment Wednesday night to settle a dispute between a john and his prostitute. The unidentified 45-year-old complained to the cops that the 19-year-old Ohio woman whose services he ordered online unexpectedly raised the price after their business transaction was concluded. Ann Arbor police Lt. Renee Bush...
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Mother-of-one Rachel Peters, 40, who had been an assistant at the school for 17 years and had a daughter younger than the boy, was said to have committed a “gross breach of trust” by a judge at Doncaster Crown Court. Kath Goddard, prosecuting, said Peters had even been given a warning by the school the...
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Although the world wide web has been around for less than a generation, Dr Christian Montag from the University of Bonn, said they had found a gene in people who could not drag themselves away. Most were women. Dr Montag said that, biologically speaking, internet addiction had the same genetic cause as smoking addiction. He...
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Covered in mud, five hours after starting, triple amputee Corporal Todd Love charges to the finish line after competing over ten miles of rugged terrain across 75 obstacles in an event called The Beast. Having lost both his legs and an arm in Afghanistan in 2010, this weekend Love took to Leesburg, Virginia, in an...
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An Amish bishop accused of orchestrating hair-cutting attacks in Ohio coerced women at his settlement into having sex with him so he could turn them into better wives, one of the women testified Thursday. The woman said what started out as hugs turned into kisses and then sex. She said she resisted at first. “He...
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The trial is over. There’s a conviction and a steep prison sentence. But justice is on hold for a young Texas girl who prosecutors say was repeatedly sexually assaulted by 20 people. The first man convicted in the case – Eric McGowen – is still on the lam after disappearing from the trial after the...
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Investigators say police have detained a man who has confessed to killing two women in a central Russian city, and then tried to mislead investigations by scrawling a message at the murder scene demanding freedom for jailed members of the Pussy Riot band. The man – a 38-year-old university professor named Igor Danilevsky – was...
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by Steven Strauss “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.” ~ Peter Thiel, Founders Fund website We live in an age of rapid change. Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter and many other innovators have changed how we work, communicate and live. But is this a new industrial revolution? Twenty-some years ago, a large...
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A British skydiver who miraculously survived a 13,000ft fall in New Zealand has told of the terrifying moment his parachute failed to open. Liam Dunne, 35, broke his back and said he “ought to be dead” after crashing to the ground at high speed and landing in a bog. But since the accident during the...
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A 28-year old man in China has become an internet sensation after building his very own Lamborghini replica. Wang Jian, who hails from a rural area of China’s eastern Jiangsu province spent 60,000 yuan (£6,000) building his replica of Lamborghini’s 2007 Reventon, The famous Italian manufacturer is reported to have made only 21 Reventon models...
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By Stanley Azuakola If we didn’t follow the Edo gubernatorial elections as closely as we did, we might have thought that the election season in that state is still on. The war of words currently ongoing between the Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole and the PDP candidate in that election, Charles Airhiavbare, is reminiscent of...
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by Seyi Lawal So the guys over at The Future Awards think we’ll go easy on them because we’re their media partner? Well, they have something huge coming on. Some things were amazing, and others not so much. Here’s our run down! High points Performances If inspiration was what they were reaching for, then we...
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by Sunny Elem If I would be given a chance to start all over again, I would choose network marketing,” Bill Gates once said. Now think for a while: why would one of the world’s richest men recommend network marketing? It is very simple: he knows that network marketing is one such business model which...
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A woman turned herself into the authorities after a surveillance tape showing her allegedly taking $13 from a 10-year-old girl went viral. On Aug. 11, the young girl went into a beauty supply store in Shreveport, La., to shop for her grandmother, who was sitting in the car, KETK-TV reported. As she placed her money...
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Mathew Knowles is having some serious trouble with his Music World record label, according to several sources, including EURWeb and the AlwaysAList blog. After having his music banned from Radio One just a few months ago, some are saying that Mathew is having trouble replicating the success that he saw with his daughter, Beyonce. Knowles...
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Most of you haveread the story about Craig Lamar Davis, the ordained minister who is being accused of having unprotected sex with multiple partners while being HIV-positive. A blog published a letter from a woman by the name of Ronita McAfee, who gives a well-documented take on Pastor Davis’ behavior and warns the community...
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NewsOne is reporting that African Americans are at the highest risk of all ethnic groups of catching the new, untreatable form of Gonorrhea. The disease is resistant to drugs and spreading rapidly, leading to warnings from the World Health Organization. Health officials are warning that since the disease affects African Americans more than other groups,...
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Eleven thousand, eight hundred and eighty-six (11,886) abandoned projects that will cost an estimated N7.78 trillion to complete! These alarming figures are from the report of the Presidential Projects Assessment Committee (PPAC) set up in March 2011, by President Goodluck Jonathan to look into cases of abandoned Federal Government projects. If the government does not...
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Anti-war protesters were in full affect during the RNC convention, and a few of them caught up with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice while she was giving a speech. “You cannot be compassionate and kill people in the war of choice, the war on Iraq,” Retired Colonel Ann Wright shouted while Rice was speaking at...
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A new manual for sales that was leaked this week to Gizmodo.com shows just how far Apple is willing to go when it comes to playing with your head to get you to buy its products. The manual describes everything a sales rep should do in order to get you to part with your dollars,...
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The new iPhone 5 is expected to be released by Apple in the near future, and it’s creating a frenzy of sell-off activity for the old iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. This might be for good reason. Some are saying that once the iPhone 5 is released and announced, there won’t be much of a...
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I wasn’t always a Mummy’s Girl- that’s a lie! Kind of… My mummy was my best friend right from nursery school when we would walk from her office to my school chatting all the way. The first person who I can remember teasing me about my huge pre-adolescent tummy was my mother. She said I...
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