by Funmi Fadipe The recent death of Cynthia Osokogu via the activities of suspected criminals on social media has brought to fore the good, the bad and the ugly sides of such networking sites. The social media commonly used in Nigeria include Facebook, 2go, Yahoo! Messenger, BBM, Netlog, Badoo, Eskimo, Twitter and Nimbuzz. They all...
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Travis Bradberry at Forbes.com recently wrote a piece about how the regular consumption of caffeine can be very bad for your EQ, or Emotional Intelligence. This is startling news for anyone who consumes coffee as a way to start their day. Some even use coffee to start their afternoons and evenings as well. Bradberry begins...
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Samsung’s stock took a major hit this week after the company lost a $1.05 billion judgment in its copyright infringement case with Apple Computer. The company is also threatened with the possibility that Apple is going to push the judge to get several Samsung products off the US market, especially those that relate to its...
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Nigeria is a bundle of contradictions. For years we’ve lost sleep over the amount of money wasted on private electricity generation, how the lack of regular power supply has shut down businesses, led to job losses, and turned thousands of artisans into commercial motorcyclists that constitute a menace on our roads. For years we have...
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We’re not so sure where people go to find mail order brides, but maybe this story will make you reconsider if you think about becoming one. A man was dumped by a Ukranian mail order bride. Apparently, the man was highly distraught after the incident and wanted to make sure the woman paid for her...
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Apple is planning to release a smaller version of the iPad to be called the iPad Mini. According to the Apple blog site Macotakara, a source from Asia says that the new device is going to have a screen that is just 7.85 inches in width. The product is expected to go on sale in...
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Mitt Romney doesn’t exactly advertise the fact that he is a Mormon. Actually, he avoids speaking about his Mormon faith as much as possible. But in a country where the separation of church and state is not taken all that seriously, you knew that Mitt was going to have to speak on the issue at...
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Apple may have laid a pounding on Samsung in its recent billion dollar court settlement, but things are not always what they seem. Samsung actually makes a lot of money from Apple, since Samsung has some supplier relationships with the company that serve to enhance its bottom line significantly. For one, Samsung is the sole...
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A magazine in Spain, Magazine Fuera de Serie, has published a photoshopped image of a partially nude First Lady Michelle Obama. The image shows FLOTUS sitting in a chair, covered with what appears to be an American flag, with one of her breasts exposed. It looks as if the first black First Lady has been remade...
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by Isi Esene The Senate Committee on Banking, Currency and other Financial Institutions yesterday ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria to halt its planned altering of Nigeria’s currency structure with the introduction of the N5,000 note. The Committee chairman, Mr. Bassey Otu, expressed surprise during a media briefing saying such proposed change required a comprehensive...
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What happened in Vegas somehow found its way down to us through Genevieve’s instagram account where she posted photos from her road trip through the Sin City. She looked radiant in the pictures and she seems – of-course – to be enjoying every bit of her time in the US. She gave updates of her...
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by Stanley Azuakola The English language may be Nigeria’s lingua franca, but in Imo State, South East Nigeria, speaking English in public is the surest way for a traditional ruler to be dethroned. Henceforth, according to the Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha, any Imo State monarch, who speaks English in any public forum in the...
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A man who spent more than two decades behind bars was freed Friday after DNA evidence cleared him in the rape of a 14-year-old Fort Worth girl. David Lee Wiggins was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 1989, although neither of the two fingerprints found at the scene matched his. The girl, whose...
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Real estate agent Maria Pantazopoulos, 30, drowned after her dress got wet and she was dragged into the river near a ‘violently’ rushing waterfall in the Ouareau River near Dorwin Falls, north of Montreal, Canada. The newly married woman was posing for pictures on a rock when the tragic incident happened. Pantazopoulos slipped while she...
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A New Zealand man dubbed the “accidental millionaire” or “runaway millionaire” after he fled to China with a small fortune deposited into his account because of a bank error, has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison. Gas station owner Hui “Leo” Gao, pleaded guilty in a New Zealand court to seven charges that...
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Taliban militants beheaded 17 partygoers for holding a mixed-sex gathering with music and dancing, Afghan officials said. The insurgents murdered the guests, who included two women, after attacking the party in northern Helmand late on Sunday because they considered it immoral. The attack happened in an area of Musa Qala district largely under Taliban control...
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Being an address given by Chude Jideonwo, executive director of The Future Project at The Future Awards 2012, Port Harcourt, Rivers It occurred to me for the first time as I sat in the car’s front seat and felt my father’s cold corpse in the back seat in May 2007. The nurses at the Ikorodu...
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After all, in the words of Vaclav Havel, “hope is a state of mind, not of the world”. “Everyone’s ashamed of the youth, cause the truth look strange; And for me its reversed. We left them a world that’s cursed. And it hurts”. – TuPac (Ghetto Gospel) When I read Pat Utomi’s piece a while...
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by Isi Esene Kim Kardashian, the 31-year-old reality TV queen, posted a snap of her butt tightly clad in a new pair of jeans. A very close-up snap. She lamented online saying: “I think my butt looks too big in these jeans!” She must have posted this because she clearly respects your opinion, so please...
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by Akan Ido Remember Solomon Oyeniyi, the music producer and artiste popularly known as K-Solo who was recently accused by his wife, Kikelomo, of battery? In her statement, she had claimed K-Solo regularly beats her and tries to extort money from her under various disguises. She had claimed: “K-Solo started beating me up after the...
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by Isi Esene Wayne Rooney suffered a nasty gash in a premier league match and here’s a snapshot of the Manchester United striker’s day on the pitch. The England star was left with a deep gash in his leg, a wound so serious it had to be treated in hospital. He stayed there overnight receiving...
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What – The Future Awards Season 7 Where – Aztek Arcum, Port-Harcourt When – 26th August 2012 by Hycinth Iyerosa
by Isi Esene President Barack Obama yesterday said the progress of Africa is inextricably linked with that of Nigeria, a development which underscores the country’s importance to the US policy thrust as it relates to trade, investments, and other key areas of bi-lateral engagement. Obama made this known at the ongoing US-Nigeria Trade and Investment...
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A nurse accidentally disposed of a kidney from a living donor this month at an Ohio hospital, and doctors tried unsuccessfully for at least two hours to resuscitate the organ in what medical experts describe as a rare accident, health officials said. “Human error rendered the kidney unusable,” University of Toledo Medical Center spokesman Toby...
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Make room on the mantle for one woman in Maine to get mother- and grandmother-of-the-year awards. That’s because 49-year-old Linda Sirois gave birth to her own grandson earlier this month. That accomplishment might sound complicated, but actually Sirois acted as a surrogate for her daughter who has a heart condition that makes it unsafe for...
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Don’t do the crime if you can’t contract the virus. A man stole a cell phone from an isolation ward in Uganda two weeks ago, but realized he had more than the police to worry about when he began showing symptoms of Ebola, the Daily Monitor reports. The unidentified, 40-year-old thief took a $23 phone...
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A Florida woman awoke in the middle of the night last week to a private show she didn’t want to see: a naked man dancing in the street outside her home. The 34-year-old woman woke up at around 1 a.m. on Aug. 15 after her dog started barking, TCPalm.com reports. She told cops she then...
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Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries’ divorce proceedings have dragged on far longer than the two were ever married, and lawyers for each party blame the other for delaying the case. Kardashian filed for divorce from Humphries on Oct. 31, and a month later he turned around and filed for an annulment, citing fraud. The 27-year-old...
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On Tuesday, Kristen Stewart was spotted for the first time since she admitted to cheating on boyfriend Robert Pattinson with married “Snow White and the Huntsman” director Rupert Sanders. Stewart looked somber in the photos wearing a backward baseball cap and a loose-fitting white crop top, and new reports claim that the 22-year-old has been...
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