Recent news of Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation has sparked speculation that more may be involved than the publicly cited reason that the Holy Father’s health no longer enabled him to continue. Sources close to both the Pope and the Vatican have informed LIGNET that Benedict’s decision was brought on by his declining health in the...
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by Omozuwa Gabriel Osamwonyi It is almost foolproof that pastor is Satan’s mouthpiece if he stops proclaiming truth and is always interpreting biblical footnotes. Be careful, if he has formed the habit of using Greek lexicon to fierily reinterpret (should I say misinterpret?) Sometime ago at a public forum, a well-respected acquaintance of mine made...
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by Rachel Ogbu A teenager now 19 has narrated how she became a sex slave at the age of 11. She told the Old Bailey court while giving evidence at the trial of nine men accused of grooming children and exploiting them for sex in Oxford of how she was seduced by an older man...
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by Usman Gbadamosi As good as he was as governor, becoming a senator representing Kwara senatorial district and chairman of senate on environmental issues have revealed dramatically a greater leader in Bukola Saraki. The will of a man is stronger than iron bars and the ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments...
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A convicted terrorist was cleared of plotting another atrocity today after claiming he was using bomb-making chemicals to treat his warts and bad teeth. Nicholas Roddis, 27, was jailed for seven years in 2008 after he sparked a security alert by leaving a hoax bomb on the bus. He was released in January 2011 and...
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by Feyi Fawehinmi They say statistics are like a bikini, what they reveal is very suggestive but what they conceal is even more vital. Nigeria, I fear, is in grave danger of becoming a serious country when it comes to data gathering and reporting. Exhibit A: Dr. Yemi Kale, Nigeria’s Statistician General in charge of...
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by Aninoritse Odeli-Serrano So Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, with all due respect, I would ask that you deal with your past Jezebel’s, Delilah’s, Athalia’s and Yemoja’s. Habouring so much venom and anger is destructive. Femi Fani-Kayode is a smart man. I mean an actual brilliant man. His educational background tells us so. He went to some...
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by Rachel Ogbu The Federal Government has planned to sanction Wazobia FM after two of its on air personalities were accused of provoking people against polio immunization calling it a Western conspiracy to cause infertility which led to the recent killing of seven health workers and three others in Kano State. Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu,...
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by Rachel Ogbu The Speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly, John Dabwan, was allegedly attacked on Tuesday night at a church crusade in Jos South Local Government Area. It is believed it was an assassination attempt as the gunmen arrived as members of the Christian Rural and Urban Development Association of Nigeria were holding...
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by Rachel Ogbu Managing Director of Shell Petroleum Development Company, Mutiu Sunmonu, said on Wednesday that the best way to solve the problem of crude oil theft was to find out who the sponsors were and deal with them because they are working here in the government. “The truth is that the small criminals in the...
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by John Campbell Recent Ansaru activities may indicate that the wider Boko Haram movement is evolving from a movement focused on specifically Nigerian issues, to one with a transnational character. Over the weekend, a radical Islamist group called Ansaru carried out a sophisticated kidnapping operation in Bauchi, northern Nigeria. The seven victims, all expats, were working for...
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Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo of the Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced a former banker, Vera Ogbonna Akanni to nine years imprisonment for defrauding her bank customers various sums of money to the tune of N35.4 million. The convict was prosecuted on an eight count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence and...
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by Chi Ibe Islamic sect, Boko Haram has kidnapped a French family of seven; among them three children in northern Cameroon it is confirmed. The President of France, Francois Hollande, on Tuesday told journalists during a visit to Greece that the French tourists were kidnapped by members of the Islamic sect. “They have been taken...
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by Theophilus Ilevbare The merger between the ACN and CPC alone might just be enough to see out the PDP, as a school of thought will have us believe. No, it is a political miscalculation. There is a need to provide a credible alternative to the electorate, a radical change borne out of the growing...
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by Akan Ido Edo state governor, Adams Oshiomhole has reportedly rejected a proposal by the Information Minister, Labaran Maku to bankroll the Good Governance Tour led by the minister across the country. Oshiomhole who was speaking in Benin yesterday at a seminar on tax laws in the state said he does not believe in using...
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by Wilfred Okiche It is Oscar season and aren’t we excited. Amidst all the buzz about the films that got nominated and those that will or will not win, let us spare a thought for these early gems that started out with a lot of steam but now are only whispered about in bizarre alternate...
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by Paul Eze Startups can work on ideas for tools and apps that check and report on important body health parameters such as blood pressure, stress levels I had read somewhere a piece on why the next Facebook or Google may not come from Africa and it provoked some reflective thinking. As many commentators and...
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On February 9, 2013, in Pakistan’s Punjab province, Christian relief workers rushed to help some Christian women, whom, it was reported had been abused by security forces and Muslim hardliners. One of the women had been allegedly raped. Kaila Masih’s house was raided by some Muslims and some undercover police officers. Apparently they “beat and...
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by Rachel Ogbu Nollywood actor, Justus Esiri has died, news report claims. According to reports, he passed on last night. His son, music artist, Sidney Onoriode Esiri better known as Dr SID, updated his Twitter page: Esiri was a Member of the Order of the Niger (MON), became famous for his role as the headmaster...
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President Obama enjoyed some boys only vacation time over the weekend, which included a bit of Sunday golfing with Tiger Woods. On Friday President Obama was in Chicago discussing gun violence, but only hours later he was in a plush Florida resort area, preparing to relax a bit during his Presidents’ Day weekend. Even though...
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by Rachel Ogbu The Social Media Week in Lagos kicked off well, everyone has been talking about it. Now in its third day, here is the schedule for Wednesday; February 20. Health & Wellness 9:00am- 10:00am Eden Lifestyle Presents: Chi’s Yoga Hosted by Eden Lifestyle at MACE Hub: Terra Kulture beginner: Class open Business & Entrepreneurship...
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Olympian Oscar Pistorius today denied that he willfully killed his girlfriend, telling a South African court that he shot the woman through his bathroom door because he believed she was an intruder. Pistorius, 26 and a double-amputee Olympian, was charged today with premeditated murder, or a Schedule 6 offense, which under South African law limits...
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Studio Total via EPA A Swedish advertising agency parachuted the 879 teddy bears over a residential area in Minsk, Belarus, on July 4, 2012. A Belarusian border guard was sentenced to two years in prison Monday for failing to report a border crossing by a Swedish plane that parachuted hundreds of teddy bears into the...
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Last night, the stars were out for the 2013 NBA All Star Weekend! Celebrity row was a who’s who of the biggest names in hip-pop. Beyonce and Jay-Z smiled and greeted their peers, even getting a up close and personal meeting from Alicia Keys. The Empire State-sized reunion continued as Jay-Z was later spotted conversing with Diddy and Nas,...
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by Rachel Ogbu Gay people in Rome are celebrating the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, 85, drinkers at Rome’s best known gay bar, believe Benedict’s abdication is a blessing, reports claim. Flavia Servadei, co-owner of “Coming Out” a small bar in Via San Giovanni in Laterano which has been so successful since it opened in...
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by Rachel Ogbu Reality star and mother to be; Kim Kardashian seems to always be in the center of one scandal or the other, almost a way of life now one might say. Hundreds of Nigerians have taken to social media to show their anger after it was revealed that Kardashian was paid a reported...
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by Isi Esene Osaze Odemwingie has taken some time to vent on the social media network, Twitter, in tweets which appeared to be directed at Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi. He also used the opportunity to explain his disagreement with former Super Eagles player and coach, Samson Siasia. The striker, who was dropped from the...
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A Texas couple trying to give their son a little sister gave him four brothers instead, beating the odds to deliver quadruplets – two sets of identical twin boys conceived at the same time. Tressa Montalvo, 36, gave birth to quadruplets Ace, Blaine, Cash and Dylan on Valentine’s day, according to a statement from The...
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by Isi Esene The presidency has challenged PDP governors to produce any document signed by president Goodluck Jonathan limiting him to a one term presidency. Ahmed Gulak, the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Political Affairs spoke on an African Independent Television (AIT) programme yesterday maintaining that the president can not be intimidated away...
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by Akan Ido A High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers state has ordered the Federal Government to pay N37.6bn as compensation to the Odi community over the destruction ordered by the Obasanjo government in 1999. The FG was asked to pay N17.6bn as special damages and N20bn as general damages. It also restrained the FG...
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