Isi Esene This photo was sent to us by a reader with this caption (unedited): “Transparent Celestial Flesh seen by two children. A huge transparent arm of our Lord Jesus Christ, revealed during the ministration of Pastor Dr. Timmy Larry on 28th July 2012, 9:22pm, at the program Operation Breaking of Curses and Evil Covenants,... Read More
I have been a fan of Fareed for a long time, and his GPS show is one of the few I try not to miss, because of it’s informed view of global events and emphasis on balance and fact. In the last two weeks, there have been two big examples of what can happen when... Read More
by Eric Zuesse When Fareed Zakaria was suspended on Friday from Time and CNN, for plagiarism, this wasn’t merely justice, it was poetic justice: it rhymed. What it rhymed with was his own lifelong devotion to the global economic star system that he, as a born aristocrat in India, who has always been loyal to... Read More
by Stanley Azuakola Be not afraid, Lagosians, your state is not broke. That was the assurance given by the Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola, in an interview he granted to BusinessDay newspaper. Governor Fashola however, did admit the following: His administration has floated two bonds (the N50 billion, 5-year, 13 percent series 1 and the... Read More
by Isi Esene A 27-year-old man in Delta State has reported himself to the police for taking part in the kidnapping and killing of a woman last December. He said he is being tormented by the woman’s spirit who he revealed they buried alive in his compound when she became too weak. Mr. Charles Muka,... Read More
by Luke McGee For me, the Olympics are over. As I sat on my train home having left the Olympic Park on Friday for the last time, panicking that I had yet to iron a shirt for the wedding I was supposed to be attending in the morning, a sense of irrevocable sadness enveloped me.... Read More
by Doyin Jaiyesimi Things are looking bright in the power sector as the sector is attracting more high net worth investors. Honeywell Group is the latest company to signify interest in investing in the power sector. It has been announced that the group will be investing $1billion in power generation and transmission projects across Nigeria.... Read More
Now how does one blame Nigerians for being unruly in an environment in which the administrators have themselves refused to create any incentive for order? Now the Olympics are over. The Ghana-Must-Go bags we shipped to London for the purpose of ferrying medals back home will... Read More
The point being made is that before the Lagos State Government goes gaga over its new Traffic Law, it needs to do some soul searching as to if it has provided a conducive environment for motorists to commute. About a month ago, I spent a few minutes staring at a photograph on the front page... Read More
The Nigerian contingent to the London Olympics will return back to the country this week without a single medal. Not once did the crowd in London or the billions watching all over the world hear the Nigerian anthem sung for a medal. The last time that happened was 24 years ago in Seoul, South Korea.... Read More
by Isi Esene Saudi women may soon get an exclusively female city with no form of male interference. This is the crux of a new initiative introduced by the government of Saudi Arabia which seeks to build a city where women will be able live and work in a segregated environment. The industrial city, to... Read More
by Mayowa Salami You can imagine the shock that hit parishioners of the Saint Augustine’s Catholic Church, Ibusa, Delta State, when they were greeted with an abandoned baby girl in front of the church while filing in for morning mass over the weekend. The new born baby girl was said to have been abandoned by... Read More
by Isi Esene The Yobe State Deputy Governor, Abubakar Aliyu, whose convoy was shot at on Saturday at a checkpoint while returning from his farm, said the police corporal who opened fire on his convoy was drunk. He made this clarification through his press secretary, Musa Alaraba, who said it was untrue that the policeman,... Read More
by Isi Esene The marked $620,000 which Hon. Farouk Lawan allegedly received as bribe from billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola, seem to have grown wings. The police investigating the bribe scandal say they are unable to find the money. The money was allegedly offered to Farouk to remove Otedola’s company from the list of companies named... Read More
A local lawyer friend told me there are only two reasons expats come to Nigeria: love and money. ‘You know there will be a war in this country’, he states matter-of-factly, gazing out of the window of his overpriced apartment looking out to the Ikoyi skyline. He points down to the street below. ‘There will... Read More
Finally, BBA Star Game ends Last Sunday, the 2012 Big Brother Africa Star Game came to an end after 91 days. And as you must have heard, 22 year old South African Keegan is the winner! All this can’t be news to BBA followers. Keegan had six votes to beat Prezzo (Kenya) his lone rival... Read More
by Osita Egbubine US presidential campaigns are always roller coasters. One moment, Candidate A is leading, then a seed falls from the sky and the other candidate steals ahead. Pollsters have a field day polling people in every possible constituency- gays without siblings, blonde Negroes, adults under 18- trying to find out where they stand... Read More
by Catherine Bennett So all-pervasive is the social networking service that non-users are now treated with deep suspicion Colorado killer James Holmes, not a fan of Facebook. It is a frustration for those who study them that there are not enough murderous psychopaths to help isolate, at all reliably, characteristics specific to the type. Not... Read More
by Sonala Olumhense IF you have yet to read the New York Times story of Nigeria’s remarkable basketball team to the London Olympics, it is available online. Before I comment on it, here is a question: to whom, exactly, is President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria accountable? His answer last week, as he vigorously tried to... Read More
What Nigeria needs today is a government of the brightest Nigerians regardless of political affiliations. Fellow Nigerians, I’m not about to discuss football or our ill-fated participation at the London 2012 Olympics. It is better not to write on what has brought ignominy and despair on a country of 160 million people or more. We... Read More
Neigh means no. Jeremy Johnson, 20, of Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to breaking into a barn and performing oral sex on a female horse, Pennlive.com reports. Johnson was sentenced to two-and-a-half years probation for defiant trespass and sexual intercourse with an animal. Police were called to the Perry County farm for a possible break-in at around... Read More
A mother and son from Tamarac, Fla, may be placed on Santa’s naughty list after being accused of stealing $2 million worth of toys. The Broward Sheriff’s Organized Retail Crimes Unit arrested Ignatius “Michael” Pollara, 46, and his mother, Margaret Pollara, 70, on Thursday, accusing the pair of stealing more than $2 million in merchandise,... Read More
What’s more alarming: seeing a dead body in a river, or seeing that dead body get up and start moving toward you? Sue Hubbard of Williamsport, Pennsylvania was sure that the man she saw floating in the Susquehanna River on Thursday was a drowning victim, WNEP reports. She was so sure, in fact, that police,... Read More
Isaak Lasson can finally breathe easy after three years of sinus problems. The cause? A single wheel-shaped Lego piece that he got stuck up his nose back when he was 3. At least that’s what his dad, Craig Lasson, said he thinks. His son started having a hard time breathing back then. “I felt so... Read More
As if carrying and giving birth to twins isn’t hard enough, Siobhan Anderson, a mom from Amityville, N.Y., gave birth to hers on two different highways last Saturday! More precisely, she delivered them in two separate highway stops while trying to get to the hospital. Gavin, the first, was born outdoors, beside Southern State Parkway,... Read More
When the reality TV shows are no longer banging down your door, those bangs get replaced by the IRS. Flavor Flav, who opened up the reality TV bonanza that we have today, is in debt to the IRS for nearly a million dollars that he earned during the time he was on television each night.... Read More
Israeli Judaic scholar Menachem Cohen, 84, spent 30 years correcting what he believed to be a plethora of errors in the Hebrew Bible. This is the first edit in 500 years for the Hebrew Bible. Correcting a total of 1,500 grammatical errors, Cohen’s work is slated to be published next year. He said his main... Read More
Former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield is finally getting a divorce from his wife, Candi Holyfield. The divorce has been finalized, and comes in the middle of very serious financial problems for the fighter. Evander has declared bankruptcy this year, had his mansion foreclosed upon and even sold his Olympic medal. Candi filed for divorce in... Read More
The US women’s 4×100 meter relay team pulled off a whammy this week. The team not only confronted and broke a quarter century old record in the relay event, they crushed it. Allyson Felix, Tianna Madison, Bianca Knight and Carmelita Jeter ran a shockingly fast time of 40.82, which is more than half a second... Read More