by Hauwa Gambo The editors of Mania Magazine have released the latest cover – for their August 2012 ‘Body Issue’ – and showing off a body to die for is style icon and beauty entrepreneur, Nike Oshinowo. Oshionowo speaks in the interview about leaving her job as coordinator of Miss Nigeria, and shares her opinions...
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by Isi Esene An uncompleted building in Dutse Alhaji, an Abuja suburb, collapsed today killing three people and injuring nine others. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the National Emergency Management Agency’s (NEMA) head of Public Relations, Mr. Yushau Shuaib, confirmed the incident and adding that five injured people have been taken to...
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by Adeniyi Abdul South African Olympic racer Oscar Pistorious is shown in the picture above about to race a little girl named Ellie Challs. Pistorious is a double amputee who made it to the semi-final of the men’s 400m event at the ongoing London 2012 Olympic Games. He was 11 months old when doctors discovered...
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by Isi Esene The State Security Service (SSS) yesterday denied Mr. Farouk Lawan from leaving the country through the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos. Lawan, who is currently embroiled in a bribery scandal involving the chairman of Zenon Oil, Mr. Femi Otedola, was billed to fly out for the lesser Hajj in Saudi Arabia...
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by Isi Esene Apparently as a response to the spate of terror attacks perpetrated by militant insurgents, almost daily in the northern part of the country, the Nigerian Army Counterterrorist and Counter-Insurgency (CTCOIN) Centre at the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, Kaduna, has trained 439 additional soldiers to be deployed to crisis-prone areas...
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by Adeniyi Abdul What is this – Bash-GEJ week? “Uncontrollable laughter” is not exactly a phrase which finds it’s way into every criticism directed at President Goodluck Jonathan, but for Mohammed Fawehinmi, son of the late Gani Fawehinmi, it is – as lawyers say – the fit and proper reaction. In a statement released earlier...
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by Isi Esene The survivors of the Monday attack on a Deeper Life Bible Church in Okene, Kogi State yesterday have narrated their harrowing experience during the attack on them during a service. The attack, carried out by unknown gunmen, has so far claimed twenty lives. A survivor who narrated his experience from the hospital...
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by Lagos Hunter “If you argue that Dangote’s ‘Graduate Driver Academy’ isn’t an insult to the years you spent at the university, then you deserve to be a driver” The tweet above dragged me into an extended debate with a couple of folks who thought that I was being senseless. Their arguments? “After all, Dangote...
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by Adeniyi Abdul Former minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai has never been one to shy away from speaking his mind and recent comments he’s made about President Jonathan are no exception. In a recent interview El-Rufai criticised Goodluck Jonathan’s ability to handle the insecurity in the country and stated that he...
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Change has never really been about big things and events, it has always been about seemingly small events amplified to immeasurable proportions. Rosa Park only sat in a bus. The chain reaction of her insistence has not stopped till today. The world has changed and is changing at an increasing rate. Power used to be...
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by Isi Esene Nigeria made power generation history (by our own standards) on Monday as the public power supply output reached a peak of 4,237MW. According to the Daily Trust Newspapers, the power generation feat was revealed yesterday by the minister of Power, Professor Bart Nnaji, at a meeting with the ministry’s directors. The statement which...
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by ‘Ifreke Inyang Sao Paulo’s vice president, Joao Paulo de Jesus Lopes, has confirmed that Paris Saint-Germain, have contacted the club with a €45 million deal for Lucas Moura. The 19-year-old midfielder is being courted by Manchester United, who have already put in a bid, but it is understood that PSG’s offer is bigger. “We...
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by Isi Esene A newly appointed judge of the Delta State High Court, Justice Marcel Okoh, was yesterday abducted by gun-wielding youths at Oria-Abraka on his way to the oil rich city of Warri. Justice Okoh was the former director general of Public Prosecution (DPP) of Delta State and the vacation judge for High Court...
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by Isi Esene The Kogi State governor, Idris Wada, yesterday ordered a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the Central Senatorial District of the state. He announced this in a state-wide broadcast as a direct response to the killing of members of the Deeper Life Church in Okene on Monday. The governor also announced the donation of seven...
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by Isi Esene Chinwe Amoloku, an expectant mother, obviously wasn’t expecting an early arrival of her baby when she decided to visit the convenience over the weekend at Umusan Ogbe, Kwale, Delta State. In the course of doing the needful, it was reported that she ‘accidentally’ delivered the baby in the pit latrine without the...
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by Adeniyi Abdul Score one for sportsmanship. Hungarian swimmer and recent Olympic champion Daniel Gyurta has revealed that he will be honouring a fallen rival in a very special way. Gyurta who won the gold medal for the men’s 200-meter breaststroke and set a new world at the London Games last week, has announced that...
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by Adeniyi Abdul Winner of the 2012 edition of the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria Pageant Damiete Charles-Granville is pictured above in Ordos, China, where she is currently taking part in activities leading up to the finals Miss World event on the 18th of August. She has been shortlisted for the Beach Fashion Challenge as...
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Isi Esene Nigeria’s RnB star and EME label boss, Banky W has released a video highlighting his experience at the London Olympics torch-bearing relay on July 1, 2012. Banky W joined notable faces like Kanu Nwankwo, Sasha, Funke Akindele, Yaw, and others to represent Nigeria as they lifted the Olympic Torch as part of the...
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by Adeniyi Abdul Winners of the 2012 edition of the Anzisha prize are set to be announced in Johannesburg, South Africa on the 29th August by the African Leadership Academy (ALA) and The MasterCard Foundation. he Prize which is now in its second year aims to identify exceptional young people between the ages 16 to...
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by Greg Bishop The buzzer sounded the end of the fairy tale, and the Nigerian team limped off the court in slow motion, unwilling, unable to let go. As they filed into the tunnel, the crowd stood in unison and cheered the team they call D’Tigers. D’Tigers lost against on Monday, this time to France,...
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by Isi Esene Three out of the seven private universities whose licences were recently suspended by the National Universities Commission (NUC) have been let off the hook. The universities were suspended for violating its guidelines in physical facilities and academic programmes. The directive was contained in the commission’s bulletin released on Monday. It said the...
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by Isi Esene The mission head of the Cameroonian contingent to the London Olympic Games has confirmed the disappearance of seven members of the country’s delegation. According to ChannelsTV, the missing team members include five boxers, one swimmer, and a soccer player. The mission head, Mr. David Ojong confirmed this incident on Monday in a...
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by Isi Esene “My lord, I want an end to this marriage. My wife is impatient, domineering and lousy. She is fond of beating me over any minor issue.” This was the submission of Mr. Ayinla Kangu to the Ilorin Area Court on Monday pleading for the dissolution of his five-year-old marriage to Raliatu Ologede...
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‘So sick of niggas “I want money like Cosby” (Who wouldn’t?) – Jay Z (Dead Presidents) Nigerians have always had this penchant for believing in the impossible. At one point, this ability to suspend reality and invent ours was “cute”, as my friends would say. Someone has to point out this “miracle seeking” behavior...
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by Adeniyi Abdul In the latest of catty remarks that have been exchanged between the two superstars over the years, Sir Elton John has branded Madonna a “fairground stripper”. The British singer who has attacked Madonna for various reasons in the past (for which he generally ends up apologising) is apparently fed up with her...
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by Isi Esene Four additional victims of the shooting at a Deeper Life Church, Okene, Kogi State, have been confirmed dead. Gunmen attacked the church, yesterday evening, while a church service was in progress. The gunmen were reported to have blocked the exit of the church and started shooting indiscriminately at the worshippers. The attack...
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by ‘Ifreke Inyang New Arsenal signing, Santi Cazorla, has revealed that two of the club’s former players, Robert Pires and Cesc Fabregas, convinced him to join the Gunners. The Spanish midfielder, has been unveiled as Arsene Wenger’s third major signing and is already in pre-season camp with the rest of the squad in Germany....
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by Isi Esene The Defence Headquarters (DHQ)in Abuja yesterday alerted the public on its number plate, stolen from one of its official vehicles where it was parked on Sunday. It is suspected that the number was stolen so as to be used in perpetrating a crime in view of the high level of insecurity in...
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by ‘Ifreke Inyang Usain Bolt, who is a four-time Olympic champion already, has stated that he is not from away from attaining legendary status. The 25-year-old shattered his own Olympic record he set four years ago in Beijing, winning the 100m final in 9.63 seconds. “This gold means I am one step closer to...
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by ‘Ifreke Inyang One of Arsenal’s major shareholders, Alisher Usmanov, has followed up his open letter to the club, with yet another interview, laced with scathing remarks. The Russian owns 30% of the club’s – the second highest – but has questioned the Gunners’ ambition yet again. “Disregarding the series of trophyless seasons, you...
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