by Chris Barnes Remember in the Michael J. Fox movie Doc Hollywood when the old country doctor tells him that you can pretty much cure anything with a can of Coca-Cola? He was partially right. Since the first glass was poured in 1886, people have enjoyed it as a beverage as well as finding...
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by M.anifest My last experience with Africa express turned out to be a grand conspiracy to have a freakish amount of fun. It was an intoxicating five-hour experience on a Spanish beach with 50,000 people and fifty plus brilliant musicians, losing our minds to raw hypnotic grooves. There were many moments of utter delightful chaos,...
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Being the text of a paper presented by Obiageli “Oby” Ezekwesili On August 28, 2012 @ the 2012 Nigeria Bar Association Conference, Abuja, Nigeria. Part 1 of this Series Now what is Good Governance? Good governance signifies the way an administration improves the standard of living of the members of its society by creating and making available the basic...
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Isi Esene Eedris Abdulkareem, the Kennis Music rapper and former member of the Remedies trio has hit back on former president Olusegun Obasanjo who famously lambasted him for critcising the country in his 2004 hit song, ‘Nigeria jaga-jaga‘. Obasanjo, recently, fired verbal shots at the rapper – yes, rapper – in Abeokuta, Ogun State, at...
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35-year-old Iyabo Oladunni, is a mother of five girls who has now been blessed with a set of quadruplets. She gave birth to the quintuplets at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan. Iyabo, who lives in Ijaye Orile near Ibadan, Oyo State, with her husband, Olayemi Oladunni, is a tailor by profession, while her husband...
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by Stanley Azuakola Her album has got to be one of the most anticipated in showbiz. And now Waje, the soul singer, has released two singles from that album. The two songs “OkoMi” and “I wish” were released today to coincide with her birthday. Cool eh? The title of her forthcoming album is...
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The 7ft porbeagle took hold of Hamish Currie’s boot after his crew had managed to haul the animal onto the deck of their vessel. Fortunately for the 53-year-old fisherman, he had been wearing steel toe-capped boots which protected him from any serious damage from the shark’s razor sharp teeth, although his shoe was left in...
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Some of us have been led to believe that Tyra Banks graduated from the Harvard Business School. The fact is that this isn’t true. Getting a certificate for a nine-week course in a non-degree extension program is very different from going through the grit and grind of a four year college degree or even an...
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by Stanley Azuakola The ninth edition of The Channel O Music Video Awards will be holding on November 19, 2012 in Kliptown, Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. The organisers of the awards, which is one of Africa’s most prestigious, have announced the nominees in all fourteen different categories. In all, 13 Nigerian artistes got nominations with D’banj, Brymo,...
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by Stanley Azuakola The tragic story of Cynthia Osokogu, the lady who was invited to a hotel in Lagos by her Facebook friends, then raped and murdered, continues to generate ripples two weeks after the news broke out. Cynthia’s killers have already been arrested and paraded by the police. The two main suspects, Echezona...
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Holly Stuard’s husband just put her resume in front of thousands of fresh faces. The Ohio man rented billboard space reading “Please Hire My Wife” to help the former Toledo University employee get back to work. “Over the last five or six months, she’s had a few opportunities come along that we thought looked really...
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John Travolta’s former gay lover is opening up for the first time about their passionate six-year-relationship — spilling all the secrets to the new issue of the National Enquirer. Former pilot Doug Gotterba, 62, claims that the 58-year-old big screen heartthrob’s sexual appetite was insatiable, that he wanted to make a sex tape, and that...
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A message in a bottle has been pulled from the ocean 98 years after it was written, and officials say it is the world’s oldest of its kind. Scottish fisherman Andrew Leaper found the letter in his nets while sailing off of Scotland’s northern coast. And on Thursday, Guinness World Records confirmed that is the...
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Oh! That’s awkward! TMZ video cameras prevailed upon Seal to discuss his impending divorce with Heidi Klum. Seal, it turns out, was all too happy to talk about how he wishes Heidi would not “fornicate with the help.” A little background: Heidi and Seal always made a huge showy deal of their love by repeatedly...
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Being the text of a paper presented by Obiageli “Oby” Ezekwesili On August 28, 2012 @ the 2012 Nigeria Bar Association Conference, Abuja, Nigeria. First I wish to thank the Bar Association for inviting me to their 2012 Annual Conference to speak on a topic very dear to my heart. I pay due respect to the...
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More than 100 inmates married at a Mexican border prison on Friday in a collective ceremony meant to give their families legal rights for visits and for court proceedings. The Civil Registry Office director of Chihuahua state, who officiated, said the mass wedding is part of a government’s strategy to regularise the inmates so they...
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Students at University of Maryland are using pedal power to break a human-powered helicopter record (but hopefully to break nothing else). As surfaced by the blog Popsci, a video shows freshman Henry Enerson taking the vehicle up in the air—with nothing more than foot pedals keeping the thing above the ground—hovering eight feet up, and...
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Prison inmate Carlos Garcia spent months working on an escape route from Lea County Correctional Facility in Hobbs, New Mexico using a razor blade on the end of a popsicle stick. For nearly five months, Garcia used the blade to break down a metal bar, break a window in his cell and even put up...
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney launched the final leg of his quest for the White House by visiting storm-battered Louisiana on Friday. He drove through a town that was flooded by Hurricane Isaac in part because it’s still outside the vast flooding protection system built with federal funds after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Romney...
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Nonso was never implicated by any of the alleged killers; he has never met them before and didn’t sell Rohypnol to any of them. The alleged killers have been apprehended, Nonso should not take the medicine for another man’s crime. If you visit the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Higher Ground parish in Oluti, near...
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The Sacramento area man charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting his 50-year-old Shingletown son because he did not like his country music karaoke singing pleaded no contest today in Shasta County Superior Court to assault with a firearm. In exchange, William Henry Oller Sr. was sentenced to time served in jail and placed on...
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Two anti-Obama signs in Hanson, Mass are creating quite a stir, according to The Enterprise. Both signs creatively malign President Obama, with one depicting a young girl shooting a bird and saying, snarkily, “Thanks Obama, you’ve spent my lunch money, my allowance, my inheritance, 35 years of future paychecks. You Jerk.” Of course, the young girl...
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If we were gorgeous supermodel Irina Shayk, we wouldn’t cover up either. The stunning 26-year-old supermodel and 2011 Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover girl was spotted in Monaco attending the UEFA Champions League draw with her boyfriend, soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo. The pair have been dating on and off — but mostly on — since 2010....
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A Good Samaritan has been knocked down and killed after he sprinted across a road to hand back a dropped wallet with £400 inside. Teacher Li Xiaopeng had run up debts of £6,000 financing his own primary school in Lanqiao, Shaanxi province, western China, and was in dire financial difficulties. Despite this, the 41-year-old desperately...
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by Hauwa Gambo So, we were quietly going about our business this morning, when we cam across this priceless full page advert in Thisday. On its face, there’s nothing wrong with this. The no-doubt impressive mother of the Oyo State governor has passed on and surely must be celebrated by her accomplished son. So...
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Funsho Amosun,
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South African prosecutors have sparked outrage after charging 270 miners with the murders of 34 of their striking colleagues who were shot dead by police. The mass killing of the strikers at the Marikana mine this month was one of the most shocking incidents since the end of white rule in 1994. And now the...
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A woman who suffers from one of the world’s worst cases of gigantism has finally stopped growing thanks to aggressive new treatment. Tanya Angus, 33, from Las Vegas, stands at nearly 7ft tall and weighs 400lbs having suffered from the rare pituitary disorder acromegaly for over a decade. Efforts to treat the condition, that causes...
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A quick thinking schoolboy has been hailed a hero after rescuing a little girl from a runaway car rolling toward a busy main road. Seamus Buckley, 14, leapt into action when he saw the driverless car on a collision course with a four-year-old girl fastened in a safety seat. Seamus managed to free the terrified...
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Seeking to capitalize on a major legal victory over its rival Samsung Electronics Ltd, Apple Inc has asked a federal court in a separate case to find that four additional Samsung products, including the Galaxy S III, infringe Apple’s patents. In February, Apple alleged that at least 17 Samsung products infringe its patents. In a...
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Shares of Facebook Inc fell 4.5 percent to a new low on Friday after brokerages cut their price targets on the company’s shares, saying several lock-up expirations over the next year will weigh on the stock. Early investors got the green light to sell Facebook shares for the first time on Aug. 16, sending its...
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