by ‘Jola Sotubo A 76 year-old woman met with good fortune after she was able to escape from the men who kidnapped her in Delta State on Monday. Otiti Esegba, managed to evade her captors and run for dear life about 5 hours after she was forcefully taken by her abductors in the early...
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by Rachel Ogbu An excited and newly engaged Kanye West has revealed to celebrity radio presenter, Ryan Seacrest that Kim Kardashian will take his name and that he plans to wear a wedding ring after they get married. He also told Seacrest that for a long time he had said he wanted Kim to be his...
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by ‘Jola Sotubo A fierce battle between security troops and members of the Boko Haram sect has reportedly resulted in the deaths of 127 people in Yobe State. The shoot-out began after the terrorists attacked an army barrack in Damaturu, the state capital, and reportedly overwhelmed the soldiers and disarmed them. The military facility, which...
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by Rodney Sule Truth be told, the APC gubernatorial candidate has all the makings of PR manager’s nightmare. Unbending, tactless and vainglorious, Ngige comes across as one man who would make the best Public Relations manager dread his job. When I first thought of writing this piece, my first inclination was to look at Senator...
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by Adewale Maja Pearce Given the ever-present danger of Nigeria’s implosion — brought about by militants in the oil-producing Niger Delta, Islamic fundamentalists in the northeast, ethnic cleansing in the north central region and kidnappers everywhere you turn — we fractious Nigerians are unified by one salient truth: We all know that we cannot continue...
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by Oge Okonkwo Nollywood actress, Janet Atayero-Oluseye who was popular in the Yoruba genre has died. The 32-year-old actress passed away on Wednesday, October 23, 2013. She was said to have initially complained of pains on her foot and was not able to walk properly for some months. Mrs. Oluseye was reported to have sought...
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by Femi Aribisala Moghalu maintains foreign aid is not a path out of poverty into development. Certainly, the volume of aid is grossly insufficient relative to need. But Moghalu goes further to argue that foreign aid actually militates against growth and development. Indeed, he maintains the chief instrument for the under-development of the continent is...
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by Bamidele Ademola-Olateju In our public service, certain species of corruption have gone mainstream and have become normalized, no where is the evolution of smaller evils into bigger evils more evident than in Nigeria. Examples are civil servants who do very little to earn the salaries they are being paid. The Nigerian public service is...
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by Olugu O. Orji Gorbachev’s reforms were defined by restructuring and openness: two concepts highly likely to dominate President Jonathan’s proposed National Dialogue. It shouldn’t therefore be far-fetched if it turns out to be our local adaptation of perestroika and glasnost. It is generally agreed that war is undesirable and one is not about to...
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Three children have been killed – all brothers, one of them a four-month-old baby – after a fire erupted in a Bronx apartment building on Friday night. The Fire Department said they were called to a six-story block at 64 West 165th Street, at Anderson Avenue, near Yankee Stadium, at about 8pm. The fire broke...
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by Steve Nwosu Like the lynch-mob, however, I am also not moved by revelations that the bid for the accursed vehicles was completed long before the present NCAA DG came on board – long long before the penultimate week’s crash of the Associated Airline chartered flight. I am just appalled at the cost, knowing fully...
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by Ifeanyi Okonkwo Many times I wonder how people like Abraham Lincoln found the courage to realize that they can, even when confronted by impossible obstacles, for at age twenty-two he failed in business and even when he ran for legislature the next year, he was still far away from success. Helen Keller was...
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A month after releasing her first single in eight years, former Spice Girls Mel B is now setting about promoting the song. And while her track For Once In My Life had a lacklustre chart performance, the 38-year-old singer was certainly on a high on Friday night as she launched a takeover of clubs in West...
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The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Offences Commission, ICPC, has summoned top management officials of the Petroleum and Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, over alleged N3.5billion fraud in the Petroleum Support Scheme, PSF. The invitation followed a petition by a Port Harcourt-based petroleum products marketer, Ledisi Dagogo-Jack. In a petition dated August 13, 2013, Mr....
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Navy ships are using Britney Spears to scare off Somali pirates. Captains are playing the popstar’s hits at full volume to deter ‘western culture-hating’ pirates and stop them boarding the ships, merchant navy officer Rachel Owens revealed to the Metro. Classic hits Baby One More Time and Oops! I Did It Again are being used...
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by Rachel Ogbu Mariah Carey has still got it and she’s not losing her iconic shape anytime soon. The mum of two and wife to TV Presenter Nick Cannon released the cover art of her new single, “The Art Letting Go” on Monday via Facebook to the delight of her over 10, 000 loyal fans....
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Running for a bus in high heels could cause misery for millions of women in later life. A new study has found that even short bursts of activity in stiletto shoes can lead to knee problems in the future. Experts now say that even these relatively small amounts of activity in high heels could lead...
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by Rachel Ogbu 30 year old Glory Ojuala stood at the Customary Court in Ejigbo Lagos State on Monday, October 28 to recount how her husband, Alex Ojuala had maltreated her just after she gave birth to their third child. The nursing mother said Alex had drugged her for three days straight so he could...
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It has long been hailed as the cheat’s way to exercise – while having fun. And now Canadian researchers claim to have discovered exactly how many calories the average person burns during sex. They say that in young people, sex burns an average of 4.2 calories a minute for men and 3.1 calories a minute...
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Battling for victory in front of a ferocious crowd Muay Thai child warriors are forced to fight by their parents who wager every penny they have on them. The shocking black and white photos form part of an eye-opening series by German photographer Sandra Hoyn called Die Kampfkinder, roughly translated as Fighting Kids. Buoyed on by...
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A Chinese man frustrated at being single cut off his own penis then, in agony, decided to cycle to a hospital for treatment. When he arrived doctors told him they couldn’t help save his manhood and ordered him to cycle back home to get the penis before he could be treated. When Yang Hu, 26,...
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An ‘insanely jealous’ boyfriend tried to fill his new girlfriend’s eyes and ears with Polyfilla in a week of sickening abuse. Levi Mason, 24, beat Jamie Gorman, his partner of just three months, with a broom and pressed a nine-inch knife against her thigh. He also threatened to pour acid over her face so that...
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by Rachel Ogbu Supermodel extraordinaire, Naomi Campbell looked every inch like “The Lady In Charge” in newly released editorial photos from W Magazine. Campbell who was recently linked to dating Nigerian billionaire Kola Aluko was shot a few hot spots in Ghana including the University of Ghana (Legon), The National Theatre, Movenpick Hotels and MarketSquare. ...
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by Frederick Nwabufor A gross percentage of Igbo people see the self-concocted concoction of troubles of Stella Oduah, the Minister of Aviation as a poisonous potion ladled out to the public by the “venomous” Yoruba media in a bid to pull her down and discredit her for the good works she has been doing because...
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Hi all, It’s been another busy week with news headlines swirling around and becoming almost too numerous to keep up with but here we are again with the major highlights of the week. We started the week on a rather interesting note when musician Burna Boy stripped down to his briefs during his performance at...
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by Rachel Ogbu Updates reaching us today claim that the Enugu State Governor Sullivan Chime has got his wife under house arrest and she is now seeking assistance from human rights bodies to gain freedom. Published by the Nigerian Eye who referenced Sahara Reporters as source, the First Lady of Enugu State Clara Chime,...
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by Ahahonu Kingsley What am I saying then? The national questions still remain vital and as a matter of necessity must be answered. ‘Are we to live together and under what conditions?’, a statement of fact, which has assumed a national question is often credited to the late Bola Ige. The dualistic National Question has...
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by Rachel Ogbu There was confusion at the Abuja Nnamdi Azikwe Airport yesterday, October 28 after a plane set to land from Lagos suddenly ascended again seconds away from the ground. It comes less than a month after the horrific incident involving an Associated Airlines Embraer aircraft that killed 13 including a commissioner in Ondo...
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by Osisiye Tafa Computer Village is not an exact location. It is a warren of streets on which you find similar merchandise. Choked within a small area in-between Oremeji Street, Ola-Ayeni Street, Otigba Street, Olayi Tomori Street and Pepple Street, all that area is the famous Computer Village. Some places are more than a patch...
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by Adaobi Tracia Nwaubani Some weeks ago, shortly before Nigeria’s independence day, I received a mass text message. Nigeria was going to turn 53 years old a few days later, on October 1, and there were concerns that the terrorist group Boko Haram might have planned something special to mark the big day in the...
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