by Rachel Ogbu A terrible fire has claimed the life of a two-month old baby and her parents on Wednesday night when their residence in Kajola community, Osun State, was burnt down in what is believed to be an accident. The fire was said to have occurred at about midnight and everything both life and property were...
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by Rachel Ogbu The Senate might re-consider its decision to amend Section 29(4)(b) of the 1999 Constitution, which defines the full age of a woman seeking to renounce her citizenship. On Wednesday, President of the Senate, David Mark admitted while receiving the Gender and Constitutional Reform Network in the Senate that religious sentiment played a role in the...
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by Rachel Ogbu A married woman identified as Glory Abbey died in a room at the Kings of Queens Hotel during a romantic session with a young lover over the weekend in Lagos, new reports say. Described as a housewife, reports said Abbey’s body was abandoned by the yet to be identified man who fled immediately without...
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by Rachel Ogbu The First Lady of Nigeria, Patience Jonathan has returned home from a three-day trip to Geneva to mourn her late mother, Charity Oba. Patience was said to have arrived into the warm embrace of her husband, President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja yesterday at exactly 9.40 p.m. after a trip to Geneva...
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by Alkasim Abdulkadir However, the girl child in Nigeria’s villages and sub-urban centers has a greater chance of seeing thE four walls of a class room when compared to a nomadic girl child, in spite of federal government’s intervention. As the debate of child marriages rages on in Nigeria I had cause to remember an encounter two years...
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Abdulsalami Abubakar,
Alkasim Abdulkadir,
csr,
Hajya Amina Ahmed,
Maizube Nomadic School,
Mathematics,
Nafisa Ibrahim Madako,
Niger,
nomad,
Quranic school
by Naomi Lucas But as narrow-minded and backward as we may think Yerima’s submissions are, it’s imperative to understand how the minds of the Yerimas of this world work. [READ: Naomi Lucas – What’s all this noise about the girl child?] “Difficult adjustments were inevitable and there were comic, even absurd results. Several pig farmers...
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airport,
child,
chinese,
Female Genital Mutilation,
Indians,
Malaysians,
Naomi,
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society,
Yerima
by Rachel Ogbu The death toll has risen to 77 with many more injured after an express train derailed outside Santiago de Compostela in north-western Spain. Train operator, Renfe has confirmed 218 passengers in total and an unspecified number of staff were on the eight-carriage train during the crash on Wednesday. Spanish authorities have described...
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by Ayisha Osori For instance, senator (ex-governor) Abdullahi Adamu voted to keep the provision but he has at least two daughters, educated and over 20 years of age who are still unmarried. There are many interesting angles to the Senate vote on Section 29(4)(b) of the 1999 Constitution on July 16, 2013, and the reaction...
Read MoreAbdullahi Adamu,
Chapter 3,
Constitution,
Ekiti State,
Ex-Governor,
Exclusive Legislative list,
Femi Ojodu,
husband,
mark,
nigeria,
political parties,
Sharia law
by Chisom Ukaegbu Lagos State Government has vowed to prosecute all those who might have been responsible directly or indirectly for the recent collapsed buildings in the state. The latest being on Ishaga Road in Surulere, which claimed four lives. At a joint inter-ministerial briefing by Commissioner for Special Duties, Dr. Wale Ahmed, Attorney General...
Read MoreAttorney General,
building,
commissioner,
Commissioner for Justice,
defective,
Dr Wale Ahmed,
Fashola,
government,
lagos state,
offenders,
Physical Planning,
prosecute,
Special Duties,
State Ministry,
The Vanguard,
urban development
by Oge Okonkwo International Award winning Alternative soul musician Bez Idakula debuts the movie-style music video for his hit single ‘SAY’. Directed by Kemi Adetiba, ‘SAY’ stars Bez and Ify Jones. Look out for Ify Jones; her sexy shoulder tattoo and lips. And then there’s Bez, shirtless in a Jacuzzi! Read Bez’s Thank you...
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The University of Southern California is facing a federal investigation for alleged failures by school officials and campus police to prosecute rape. In response to a Title IX complaint filed in May, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights launched the inquiry on June 26, although complainants only received notice over the weekend that...
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It was a fierce and very public row that was just too hot to handle. Standing in the middle of the street screaming at each, this young Chinese couple found the only way to cool things down was to remove their clothes. So they did just that with first the man and then the woman...
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by Lai Labode We must ask ourselves and our legislators if a child can legally give consent to marriage or sex… CARNAL KNOWLEDGE of a girl child is an expression of perversion. CARNAL KNOWLEDGE of a girl child is violent robbery of her youth. CARNAL KNOWLEDGE of a girl child is mindless rape. CARNAL KNOWLEDGE of...
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carnal,
child,
Girl,
injury,
Justice,
knowledge,
Lai Labode,
perversion,
psyche,
rape
Two teenage girls died yesterday after jumping into a notoriously dangerous river. They are thought to have leapt up to 30ft from a bridge at a spot that has become popular among teenagers for ‘tombstoning’. A witness said the girls, aged around 14, were part of a group who were daring each other to jump...
Read MoreChloe Fowler,
divers,
Fatfield,
Girls,
police,
river,
Sunderland,
teenage,
tombstoning,
Toni-Beth Purvis,
Two bodies,
Washington
A woman who hired a private eye to catch the vandal trashing her family grave was sickened when she discovered the culprit was – her cousin. Sue Pullin, 67, called in a surveillance expert after her mother Mavis Budd’s resting place was repeatedly damaged over a three year period. But she was disgusted when covert...
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cousin,
culprit,
daughter,
dirty water,
grave.,
gravestone,
Mavis Budd,
mother,
private eye,
resting place,
Sue Pullin,
vandal
Dumpster illustration A homeless man who wanted to have a warm night’s sleep was killed after a tragic accident, according to press reports. The Texas man died when the trash compactor of a sanitation truck crushed him on Wednesday morning. The sudden and tragic death is really sad now that we have to live “without...
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A 3-year-old boy playing Spider-Man with his siblings fell out of a third-floor apartment window and was rushed to the hospital. The fall happened just before 9:15 pm on Monday at an apartment building in Anaheim, California, local police say. The boy was reportedly pretending to be Spider-Man and jumping on a bed when he...
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This is the moment a crocodile clamped its jaws around a trainer’s head during a stunt that went awry at a Thai tourist attraction. Screams can be heard from the audience in footage of the 27-year-old’s brush with death at the Samut Prakan Crocodile Farm in Bangkok on Sunday. It shows the trainer cautiously approaching...
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by Noble Oluwafemi G. “…this could be the next big advertising frontier!” What do people do in a toilet? According to Wikipedia, it is a sanitation fixture used primarily for the disposal of human excrement and urine, often found in a small room referred to as a toilet, bathroom, lavatory or Restroom. But there is much...
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Prince William and Kate Middleton have announced the name of their son – a little over two days after he was born. He has been named George Alexander Louis, and will be known as His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge. A Clarence House spokesperson said: “The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are delighted to announce that they...
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by Lanre Olagunju Whether free market systems can actually wear away an individual’s morality is a subject that will always be up for debate. But the reality is that free market system provides more opportunities that any other economic system. It would require a one sided view with several shades of immorality to say or...
Read Morecompetition,
Economic,
free market systems,
Globacom,
GSM,
immorality,
markets,
middle class,
MTN,
offline,
online
by Oge Okonkwo Senator Ahmed Sani Yerima is given special prominence as a superhero with the name ‘Yeriman’ in an episode of What’s Up Africa, a political satire on African issues hosted on Radio Netherlands Worldwide by Ikenna Azuike. The senator has been receiving criticisms for his role during the debate on amending the Nigerian constitution...
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A teenager has a rare condition that has left her skin so damaged that many people believe she has been involved in a fire. Hunter Steinitz, 18, has a rare genetic condition, harlequin ichthyosis, which means her skin is too thick and she has dry patches all over the body. She is unable to close...
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by Chisom Ukaegbu A pastor residing at Iyaba Umudim, Nnewi, Anambra State, got more than what he bargained for when he attempted to sleep with the wife of a policeman. He was reportedly set-up by the policeman and his wife after trying on several occasions to seduce her in return for money. The wife informed her...
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by Gillian Degraaf This is a very common mistake that all girls have made at one time. If you are thinking that skipping dinner or lunch will help you lose weight, you are very wrong! In fact, it will do the complete opposite. Small tricks to lose weight is what we all want, right? It’s...
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He is a self-professed associate of Japan’s notorious Yakuza who admits that his business interests are somewhat dubious. So Morohoshi-san might have been expected to select the most low-profile vehicle money could buy. Instead, the ‘businessman’, from Kabukicho, Tokyo’s ‘entertainment district’ bought himself a flashing neon Lamborghini Diablo. He is the star of a new...
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By Denise Schipani When you come home from work and start complaining to your husband about your demanding boss, to him it sounds like you’re asking for help—even if all you want is a sympathetic ear. While you may not buy into the idea that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, when it...
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by Oge Okonkwo The Minister of State for Health Dr. Ali Pate, resigned on Wednesday in Abuja. His voluntary resignation has been accepted by President Goodluck Jonathan and this was disclosed by Dr. Reuben Abati to the State House correspondents as his resignation takes immediate effect. Reports say Pate was leaving the Goodluck Jonaathan cabinet to take up...
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by Mustapha Rabiu Regardless of what’s cool, read avidly, and rigorously. Talk to clever people. Share what you learn, perhaps by writing about it. Try to say goodbye to your ego, and to the status quo. I don’t know what you want. I don’t even know who you are, nor do I want to pretend...
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by Abdullahi M.Seidu Allegations abound about how some members of the National Assembly ‘corner’ the funds of the constituency projects into their personal pockets without actually executing any projects. In the last couple of months, battles have raged between the executive and the legislative arm of government over the functionality of the 2013 budget. And...
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