He’d always been a man of few words and this is among the qualities that endeared me to him. It always felt like there was more to him than he gave off and there was. I’d always loved Onus. He was what everyone would call the perfect man. Every female loved him. The three month...
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by Rachel Ogbu Movie lovers and the Nigerian film industry workers were in shock yesterday, November 15 when news that veteran actors, Pete Eneh had died. Eneh died few days after he had one of his legs amputated due to infection , at Park Lane hospital in Enugu. His health was said to have deteriorated after...
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“There is nothing radical in what we’re discussing,” journalist and climate change activist Bill McKibben said before a crowd of nearly 1,000 at the University of California Los Angeles last night. “The radicals work for the oil companies.” Taken as on its own, a statement like that would likely sound hyperbolic to most Americans—fodder for...
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Police in Connecticut say a man stole a car used to deliver Chinese food and continued dropping off orders so he could keep the customers’ money. Keith Hinds was charged on Friday with larceny, possession of less than half an ounce of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and other drug charges. It was not known...
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Steven Werner is protesting a Michigan principal’s decision to educate his daughter on porn, calling it an act of bullying and demanding a written apology. The 10th grade girl went to school on halloween wearing a pink and black female pirate costume the other week, but was called to the Utica High School principal’s office...
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His “coconut sized” genitalia was just the beginning. A man was admitted to a Bangkok hospital after an unlicensed olive oil injection meant to enlarge his penis caused an infection so horrible his testicles swelled to the size of the medium size fruit, the Bangkok Post reports. Six months ago, the 50 -year-old man, who...
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His most quoted movie line is the famously threatening ‘you talkin’ to me’ from Taxi Driver. But Robert DeNiro was fuming over quite the opposite when he started an argument with Jay-Z at Leonardo DiCaprio’s birthday party in New York. The legendary actor allegedly scolded the rapper for failing to return not just one, but...
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Save for fire and brimstone, no one can distil in a nutshell what exactly Tunde Bakare and Buhari were going to do better than Jonathan and Sambo. Let me quickly share one truth: anyone who believes, even for one second, that President Goodluck Jonathan won the 2011 elections because he rigged the polls will never...
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A 12-year-old girl from southwest China’s Guizhou Province was sold by her mother for 3,500 yuan (US$551) to a family that needed a wife for an allegedly mentally retarded son. The girl, named Jia Jia, was sold in August last year from her hometown in Pingba County to a woman surnamed Xu in Guiyang, the...
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by Isi Esene The Kano State police command yesterday narrated in detail how armed robbers invaded the Wapa Bureau de change at Fagge on Tuesday carting away large sums of money from the traders. The Kano Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Magaji Musa Majiya, said the robbers disguised as customers before launching their attack...
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The world is all abuzz about the possible rekindled relationship of Rihanna and Chris Brown . But one music mogul is not pleased. According to The Sun newspaper, in Britain, Jay –Z has warned Chris Brown not to hurt Rihanna again. After, a concert at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Jay-Z pulled the young...
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The FDA reported that high-caffeine 5-Hour Energy drinks have been cited in the deaths of 13 people in the last four years. An FDA spokeswoman said in an interview with Bloomberg News that the energy shot has been associated with 92 “adverse event” reports in that time, including 32 hospitalizations. The FDA is investigating the deaths....
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The Joint Task Force (JTF) known as Operation Restore Order announced yesterday it had shot dead a man suspected to have killed Gen Mamman Shuwa in Maiduguri recently. The JTF said in a statement that it had conducted a major offensive operations at Nganaram, Bulabuilin and Bayan Quarters areas of Maiduguri metropolis leading to the...
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Tears flowed free yesterday in Madauchi community in Zango Kataf local government area of Kaduna State following an early-hour killing of six members of one family by yet-to-be-identified terrorists. Gunmen had, early last month, stormed the same community and killed one woman, Ms Goodness Daniel, and wounded a young man, Linus Abbiyan. LEADERSHIP gathered that...
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, narrated before a Federal High Court in Abuja, how a former Minister of Works, Hassan Lawal, diverted over N75 billion meant for the construction of a bridge across River Benue. The anti-graft agency which made the disclosure shortly after it re-docked the ex-minister on an amended 44-count...
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The Nigeria Navy said yesterday that it has arrested seven suspected sea pirates who attacked a fishing trawler, in an attempt to kidnap its occupants on the high sea of Bonny in Rivers State. The security outfit said the suspects were arrested on the morning of November 13, following a distress call put across to...
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Violence and targeting of government officials in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, continued Thursday in Bulabulin ward of Biafara area, as gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram sect members shot and killed three Igbo traders in their respective shops by 11am on Thursday. The gunmen, according to an eyewitness and resident of Bulabulin ward,Chindo Ibrahim,...
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I am talking about the English Nigerians speak, sometimes hard to understand for foreigners who are not used to the particular Nigerian intonation, but simply beautiful with all its idiosyncrasies and creativities. This is long overdue, in fact, it is almost too late. As I was starting to write up this list of typical Nigerian...
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A woman who allegedly stabbed her husband said she did it after, “Jesus and Mary told me to kill him because he is Satan’s spawn!” according to a police report. Police in South Carolina released new details from the Nov. 9 attack, which landed 36-year-old Tammi Estep behind bars and her husband in the hospital,...
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by Rachel Ogbu A Japanese sprinter won the Guinness World Records as the world’s fastest man on four limbs. It is part of the ongoing trend around the globe for the weirdest, funniest and downright idiotic stunts performed in the hope of getting worldwide reputation and a place in the 2013 edition of Guinness World...
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by Rachel Ogbu Meet Jose Mujica, a man who lives on a ramshackle farm in Uruguay and drives a 1987 Volkswagen. The name sounds familiar? That’s because Mujica is the President of Uruguay. Now referred to as the poorest president in the world, President Mujica has shunned the luxurious house that the Uruguayan state provides...
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A man accused of robbing a cab driver in Daytona Beach, Fla., might have gotten away if he hadn’t left his wallet in the taxi, according to cops. Officials at the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office say Terry Smith, 42, got into a taxi early Sunday morning with an intricate plan for robbing the driver that...
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by Isi Esene Femi Badejo, the Access Bank staff who was allegedly shot five times by the police on Saturday still has some bullets lodged in his wrist. Four of the bullets lodged in his body have been removed but the fifth has been left for fear of complications which might arise in removing it....
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by Isi Esene Marian Onoyume, the wife of Vanguard Newspaper’s Rivers State correspondent, Jimitota Onoyume, who was abducted on Monday by gunmen has been freed. She was released to her family on Thursday after spending 3 days in the kidnappers’ custody. Mrs. Onoyume who is a teacher, was seized abducted earlier in the week at...
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by Rachel Ogbu The University of Jos came to a standstill yesterday November 15, after some students came out to protest over tuition fees hike. The protest spread to Jos-Bauchi roadscausing disruption in traffic movement. Reports claim that students organised the protests after viewing statements posted on the university’s website indicating that tuition rose from...
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by Rachel Ogbu Yesterday, President Goodluck Jonathan launched a fresh campaign to totally remove the subsidy on fuel. President Jonathan said total removal of subsidy on petroleum products was the only way to attract investors to the oil sector and put an end to the importation of petroleum products as it is currently being done. About...
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by Rachel Ogbu News reports claim Nollywood actor, Pete Eneh is dead. Early this month we reported the actor lost his leg after a surgery to save his life. The veteran actor was said to have sustained some kind of injury last year, and because he didn’t take proper care of it, it led to serious infection that...
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by Rachel Ogbu The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has re-arraigned former managing director of Union Bank Plc, Barthlomew Ebong and five other executives of Falcon Securities Limited, a Subsidiary of Union Bank Plc. They were brought before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos yesterday over alleged money laundering. Ebong is standing trial...
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by Isi Esene Reports say four men yesterday lost their lives in a multiple accident around Otedola Bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The incident caused a gridlock on the highway which left motorists stranded for hours. According to Bisi Kazeem, the deputy education officer of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), the accident included an...
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by Isi Esene Over 101,398 candidates who wrote the 2012 May/June West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) have had their results withheld allegedly due to examination malpractices. This was reportedly disclosed yesterday by the National President of All Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS), Hajiya Fatima Abdulrahman, shortly after the 54th...
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