by Onyinye Muomah I have never been a parent neither have I ever lost a kid, so I can only imagine. And I imagine a trauma that can lead only to insanity and even suicide. Ever been hit in a car by armed robbers while struck in traffic? My friend and I were once. Actually,...
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Make no mistake about it, these are jobs that we can hardly do without in Nigeria. Regardless of the inhumane condition to work in, Nigerians have come to rely heavily on them for what they do. Last friday, 6th of July the US released it’s latest job reports which claims just 80,000 jobs were created...
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by Femi Owolabi “My life has always been about service. I am focused on serving my Creator, family and my country to the best of my ability and with your HELP I aim to be better at doing that.” President G. Jonathan (My Friends and I. 2010) Nigerians have been waiting in the forlorn hope...
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by Isi Esene The Federal Government recently added to the swelling numbers of the unemployed in Nigeria when it approved the sack of 3,000 employees of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC). The commission was said to have advised its staff to endeavour to shore up their educational qualifications to a minimum of a University...
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There are so many things about leaving home for “greener” pastures that turn out to be much less glamorous than advertised. “And the Olympic gold medal for seeking asylum goes to… Africa!” That’s not my line. It’s a cheap gag I found on the Internet and it irritated me a little...
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by Stanley Azuakola On the issue of the indicted fuel marketers, the language of the government is gradually changing. Previously, the government promised to go after all indicted marketers; but now, it’s promising to still go after them, but quite willing to negotiate with those who have “minor infractions,” so that they can “begin to...
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by Keli Goff The irony of course is that those targeting Lolo for being attractive — and benefiting from it — don’t seem to realize that their behavior is no different than others excluding them for not looking like her. Both behaviors are superficial and wrong. The same week that Sarah Palin returned to the...
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by Solomon Etim As they are aware that certain things like lunch and handouts would be offered, they come there to enjoy freebies. Three, as they understand that even the entire issue is tipped in deceit, they come there to meet the organisers of such conference as they look for ready arrow-heads or local drones...
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by Isi Esene The Kogi State police command has arrested two politicians said to be involved in the Deeper Life Bible Church attacks at Otite. The state’s commissioner of Police, Mohammadu Katsina, on Thursday said the command has identified the perpetrators of the attack which killed 20 people during a church service. Both politicians arrested...
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Time magazine and CNN both announced today that they will continue to employ Fareed Zakaria, following temporary suspensions after he admitted to plagiarizing a paragraph from The New Yorker for a recent Time magazine column. “We have completed a thorough review of each of Fareed Zakaria’s columns for Time, and we are entirely satisfied that the language...
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by Stanley Azuakola Since January 1st when President Jonathan increased the pump price of fuel leading to a chain of events hardly anyone could have predicted just a year ago, the eyes of the nation have been fixed on the oil and gas industry. However, this has not deterred the perpetrators of illegalities in the...
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Duniya David,
EFCC,
Felix Ayenuberu,
Idowu Balogun,
King. C. Fred,
Michael Ekanem,
MT Ocean Treasure,
NIMASA,
Olorunwa Omowunmi,
Omodara Emmaneul and Faith Akhahowa.,
Onuoha Ikechukwu,
Stephen Bamgbose,
Suru Lepe,
Wilson Uwujaren
by Ayo Olukotun Dr. Doyin Okupe, newly appointed Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, has hit the ground running by hard tackles of two well-known critics of the Jonathan administration, namely Pastor Tunde Bakare, General Overseer of The Latter Rain Assembly, and Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, a former Minister of the Federal Capital...
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Doctors have treated a young boy with a large birthmark on his face… by implanting horns in his forehead. George Ashman, 5, was born with a bright red blemish on his forehead and his mother Karen, 33, feared he would endure a lifetime of bullying. So when he was four he underwent a surgical procedure...
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by Hauwa Gambo The nation’s minister of Justice and attorney general of the Federation, Mohammed Adoke, has told his colleague at the Ministry of the Federal Capital Territory not to go ahead with the demolition planned for Abuja suburb, Mpape. According to reports, this was via a letter dated today, and made available to sections...
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Authorities in northeast Georgia say a jail deputy was fired and another resigned after they sent Facebook friend requests to an inmate while she was locked up in the county jail. Oconee County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Lee Weems said Monday that both deputies also had face-to-face conversations of a sexual nature with the 23-year-old inmate....
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Police say a man accidentally shot himself in the buttocks at a Nevada movie theater during a showing of “The Bourne Legacy.” Police in Sparks, Nev., say the 56-year-old man’s injuries are not life-threatening and no others were hurt. Authorities say the man had a permit to carry a concealed firearm. The man told officers...
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As someone who loved the movie Lars and the Real Girl, I was excited to see that there’s finally a website where you can create your perfect man. Because we all secretly want perfection, right? Adorable flaws are so last week. Online dating/procrastination site iDreamofU allows you to “build your own Christian Grey” (their lingo, not...
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by Adeniyi Abdul Journalists in Lagos today staged a demonstration to protest the recent attacks on members of the press in the state. A photojournalist with Leadership bvcdsazxxNewspapers was assaulted last week at the mortuary of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital and just two days ago, two other photojournalists suffered similar fates in Ikeja....
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A 43-year-old naval submarine commander found himself in over his head in an extramarital affair, and faked his own death to end the romance, according to military authorities. Cmdr. Michael P. Ward II, who is married with children, allegedly met a 23-year-old Virginia woman, whose name has not been released, through a dating website last...
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Microbiologists are closer to understanding a strange ailment that causes snakes to act drunk and even tie themselves in knots. Experts have identified an ailment they call “mad snake disease,” a disorder which causes snakes like boa constrictors and pythons to regurgitate food and “stargaze,” a term for staring off aimlessly for long periods of...
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A woman is being fined for offering free lunch to local children in Philadelphia. Angela Prattis has been running a free lunch program in the Toby Farms Community of Chester Township, giving 60 children free lunch every day. The program is funded by the state department of education and administered by the archdiocese of Philadelphia....
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Anal tattoos are the “next big thing.” Or, at least, that’s what some people are saying after meeting this woman at the 17th annual South Florida Tattoo Expo, which was held at the Marriott Hotel, Golf Club & Convention Center in Coral Springs, Fla., last weekend. It felt “really, really good,” the 22-year-old said of...
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A pastor in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA has been arrested for doing things that alleged men of God simply aren’t supposed to do. Andrea Louis is being charged with three counts of molestation of a juvenile. He is the pastor of Act on Faith Ministries, located in Shreveport. A woman has told police that she had...
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Research scientists at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDs at Yale have assisted in developing an unconventional way to curb HIV infections in minority teens. They conducted research -with the goal to determine the factors that drive risk behaviors among adolescents- by interviewing three dozen boys and girls, between the ages of 10 and...
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by Adeniyi Abdul Sun Jifa of the Guanmashan, Jilin province, northern China lost both his arms 8 years ago when a homemade bomb he built himself exploded. It turns out bombs aren’t the only thing he knows how to make, as he’s built himself new prosthetic arms. Sun was building the bomb to use during...
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by Stanley Azuakola Nigerians, especially residents of the nation’s capital Abuja, woke up on Wednesday to the realization that fuel had become scarce. Valuable man-hours were lost as queues returned to the petrol filling stations. Everyone took notice, and the Federal government realized that it had some explaining to do. So explain they did, as...
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On August 4th, Ugandans hosted their first LGBT Pride Parade. The movement was sparked partially because the country’s President, Yoweri Museveni, attributed his success in cutting his country’s HIV infection rates from 28% to less than 10% to the absence of ‘gays’ in 2002. Ugandan LGBT activist, Val Kalende, recently blogged about her experience at the...
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by Isi Esene There are startling statistics coming from Professor Alfred Ihenkuronye, a food science expert, on the number of people who die from food poisoning in the country. He said over 200,000 people die of this ailment annually. The professor of Food Science and Technology at the Federal University of Technology (FUT) Minna, spoke...
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An Oregon priest faces first degree sexual abuse charges after being accused of fondling a 12-year-old boy Sunday night. Investigators said that Father Angel Armando Perez, 46, invited the victim over to his house for a sleepover. Around midnight, the boy was awakened by flashes. When he opened his eyes, he claimed his underwear was...
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by Adeniyi Abdul Leaders of the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) suspended the membership of Syria earlier today. This took place during a meeting in Mecca and is meant as a gesture to protest the ongo ing violence in the country. A statement issued at the end the summit said participants had agreed...
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