The United States Embassy in Nigeria, on Thursday, issued an emergency message to its citizens in Nigeria, advising them to be extra-cautious, based on the threat of attacks by terrorist groups. The warning came after militants attacked the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, killing the US ambassador and three other Americans, hours after a mob... Read More
by Reuben Daba Mo’cheddah is back! The Afro pop singer teamed up with May D to bring us the hot single Coming for You. The hype of the two singers alone is enough to make you want to love the song. Thankfully, it wasn’t a bad attempt at all. Listen to the audio here: Now... Read More
by Demola Rewaju Think of what you want most in a man… I guarantee you that whatever it is you thought of first is what you miss most about a particular former lover. If yours was sexual, stop reading and seek deliverance. For every phenomenon there are usually several factors but the number one reason... Read More
It is hilarious that while the political parties in the United States are preparing for public debates to lure swing votes, our parties are locked in a war of words over a gold card invitation to a convention. It was 1993, and Naughty by Nature had just released an album titled 19 Naughty III, made... Read More
by Grace Murano 1. The average frequency for sex is two times per week A Durex survey outlined that the average number of times people have sex is 103 times per year, 1.98 times per week and 0.28 times per day! Incorporating sex into your life does have its benefits, including stress relief and increased energy,... Read More
by Akan Ido Aloma Mariam Mukhtar, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) has blamed the office of the Attorney General of Nigeria (AGF) for the delay in the dispensation of high profile cases in the country. She said this yesterday while administering oath on 25 new Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN). According to reports, she... Read More
by Isi Esene The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is going back to the roots in preparation for the 2015 general elections promising to take back states it lost to the opposition. This was disclosed by the national chairman of the Party, Bamanga Tukur, who also revealed that plans are underway to hold a crucial session... Read More
by Amanda Nelson If you haven’t paid for a book and it isn’t available in the public domain, downloading it without paying is wrong. You’re stealing. I stumbled upon a blog post this morning that gave me pause (pauses). The author had recently purchased an e-reader and was pirating digital copies of all the paper... Read More
Turmoil in the Arab world linked to a contentious video denigrating the Prophet Muhammad spread on Thursday to Yemen, where hundreds of protesters stormed the United States Embassy, two days after assailants killed the American ambassador in Libya and crowds tried to overrun the embassy compound in Cairo. Witnesses said Yemeni security forces were trying... Read More
by Akan Ido The director general of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig-Gen. Nnamdi Okore-Affia yesterday blamed the perceived lack of discipline among corps members on inspectors of the scheme accusing them of extorting money from corps members. He said this at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp in Sagamu, Ogun State at the 2012... Read More
I’ve learnt to embrace it all. By embrace it all I mean, I’ve learnt to look at every experience as a piece to the puzzle that is Chiamaka Uwadoka. This is going to start with the usual ‘I didn’t know what to write when I was contacted to do this’ paragraph because well, I didn’t.... Read More
by Isi Esene Yes, you have seen several brand promotions come and go but someone who must be nothing short of a genius has crafted this once-in-a-lifetime gift promo: The Ultimate Girlfriend promo! – a spoof of MTN’s Win an Aeroplane Promo. We can bet a lot of guys would give their lucky game-pad or... Read More
by Lisa Astor An agency executive vows to stop reminding her younger colleagues how hard she worked “back in the day” and how easier they have it. My—ahem—older colleagues and I will often swap war stories about how PR was “done in our day” and how easy the younger practitioners have it. We’ll lament on... Read More
by Poornima Gupta Apple Inc’s new iPhone goes on sale on Friday with a bigger screen and 4G wireless technology, as the company seeks to safeguard its edge over rivals like Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Google Inc. The iPhone 5 fulfilled many of the expectations laid out by gadget geeks and technology analysts ahead... Read More
Boko Haram appears to be essentially an indigenous phenomena, with any international links having marginal influence. Baron David Alton of Liverpool, a member of the UK House of Lords, has raised with Baron David Howell of Guildford, a minister at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (the UK foreign ministry), his concern that a London-based Islamic charity, Al... Read More
by Isi Esene Erastus Akingbola, the former managing director of Intercontinental Bank Plc. yesterday described the 16 Count Charge brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as spurious, malicious, and false. While responding to the allegations of stealing leveled against him, Akingbola denied defrauding the company which he co-founded. He said,... Read More
by Stanley Azuakola Just 24 hours after the Red Cross announced that since July, at least 137 people have died from flood-related causes in Nigeria, tragedy struck again when ten teenage girls were drowned in the Karim River in Taraba State. The Karim River is fed by River Benue, and the water level of River... Read More
Presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati, yesterday explained the reasons behind President Goodluck Jonathan’s return from his foreign trip to Malawi and Botswana ahead of schedule. Abati reportedly said the president finished his mission on the second leg of his trip earlier than expected further explaining that there is no hard and fast rule to the duration... Read More
by Stanley Azuakola Students in Edo State public schools are in for interesting times. That’s because the state government has introduced an initiative they call Executive Teaching, which would require the governor, his deputy, commissioners and directors to serve as guest teachers twice a week in select public schools. The initiative was announced on Monday... Read More
by Stanley Azuakola Yesterday in Benghazi, Libya, the embassy of the United States was attacked. Four people – three embassy officials, and the United States’ ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stephens – lost their lives as a result. The killers of the US officials were protesting against an amateur video shot in the United States, which... Read More
Her son beat up and raped a law student who had been thrown off the last bus home for being 20p short of a £5 fare. But Sarah Moran showed no more shame or remorse than her child Joseph did as he was jailed indefinitely yesterday for the ‘brutal and horrific’ attack. She protested outside... Read More
Police in Miami Beach say a homeless man broke into a car, stole a credit card and then tried to use it to buy a beer – from the bartender the card belonged to. The case was cracked when 53-year-old David Weber handed the card to the bartender who took his order Monday night. The... Read More
A Kentucky man did not consent to have his penis amputated and the doctor who performed the surgery had options other than removing the organ, even though cancer had been found during a surgery, an attorney argued Tuesday to the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Kevin George, the lawyer for Phillip Seaton of Waddy, told the... Read More
It took three cans of hairspray, one large bottle of gel — and, of course, 15 years to grow it out — but Kazuhiro Watanabe has made history. The Japanese designer has shattered the Guinness World Record by more than a foot with his 3-foot, 8.6-inch mohawk. You can ask why he did it, but... Read More
An Egyptian-born bodybuilder has just had his 31 inch biceps crowned the biggest in the world. Moustafa Ismail, 24, has spent ten years pumping iron twice a day and his upper arms now have the same circumference as a grown man’s waist. But despite his cartoon proportions he hates spinach. Give us a lift: Model... Read More
In his first public talk since Facebook’s IPO in May, Mark Zuckerberg said the stock’s decline was “obviously disappointing,” and admitted the company had “burned two years” by focusing on the wrong mobile technology, reports the Financial Times. But he came across as upbeat and confident at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, arguing that investors are... Read More
Stop the presses, because Prince William has actually discussed the babies he will one day have with wife Kate. Specifically, he would like two of them, Wills said today while the couple was touring Singapore as part of Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee. “Someone asked him how many children he would like to have, and he... Read More
When a South Carolina woman heard a thump from her ceiling Saturday night, she assumed it was an animal. Instead, her sons and an adult nephew went into the attic to find … the woman’s ex-boyfriend, who had been living there. “He had packed all the old coats and jackets into the heating unit and... Read More
US Marines are en route to Libya to reinforce security at the American consulate in Benghazi, reports CNN, following last night’s slaying of US ambassador Chris Stevens. The team of 50 Marines, known as the Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team, specializes in protecting embassies, reports the AP, although experts point out that the Marines’ jurisdiction is... Read More
The Afghan government has reportedly censored YouTube to prevent anyone from watching the anti-Muslim film that inspired violent mobs in Libya and Egypt, leading to the death of the US ambassador to Libya. “We have been told to shut down YouTube to the Afghan public until the video is taken down,” a Ministry of Communications... Read More