Dame Patience to replace Kuti on new N5000 note… in last week’s news with a pinch of salt

by Stanley Azuakola N5000 Note Gets New Faces FIRST lady, Dame Patience Jonathan made news last week with her reported rest or admission in a hospital in Germany or Dubai where she went to treat either stomach upset or appendicitis. However, A Pinch can authoritatively reveal that most of what Nigerians heard is false. The... Read More

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September 7, 2012

“I never heard anything so hollow” – Top 10 vicious tweets on Obama’s #DNC2012 speech

by Stanley Azuakola This morning, as United States president Barack Obama delivered his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, the reactions on Twitter was instant. The president set a record, with approximately 52,757 tweets about him per minute. And what tweets! Some of the reactions put to question a claim... Read More

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September 6, 2012

“No one could have repaired all the damage” – See the Top 10 quotes from Bill Clinton’s #DNC2012 speech

by Hauwa Gambo Sadly, even though Governor Kayode Fayemi and Governor-in-Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu are in Charlotte for the United States Democratic National Convention 2012, we will still be unable to vote in their presidential elections. No matter, we were glued to CNN for William Jefferson Clinton’s spectacular speech yesterday – and we present our... Read More

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September 6, 2012

SNAPSHOT: Bill/Barack 2012: The hug that won Obama the election

by Hauwa Gambo As expected, with his almost-60 minutes speech nominating Barrack Obama for a second term Democratic National Congress run for president yesterday, Bill Clinton hit, as CNN’s Wolf Blitzer would say, not just home run but Grand Slam! But what many really paid attention to was the passionate hug between the two men... Read More

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August 1, 2012

Photo of the Day: Register your child at the President Obama High School (Benue branch)

by Adeniyi Abdul Well, we certainly know where we’ll be sending our kids now if we want them to become upstanding and respected citizens of the world like President Barack Obama. Wonder if he knows about this? Or wait, forget we asked.

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July 3, 2012

Declaration of assets: Agreeing with the US is not an agreement, foreign minister says

by Tolu Orekoya Whether or not the president cares to divulge his assets to the Nigerian public has been debated about in the media since the now infamous “I don’t give a damn!” comment made almost two weeks ago. In light of Nigeria’s foreign affairs relations, it may have put the country in a somewhat dicey situation, and now,... Read More

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June 28, 2012

“The common sense of a doorknob” – The top 10 tweets from when the world attacked Sarah Palin today

by Adeniyi Abdul Ah, Sarah Palin; where do we begin? From her statements about being able to see Russia from her backyard to her being unable to state the name of a single newspaper during a 2008 CBS News interview with Katie Couric, she has become a global legend. She’s also an American politician. So... Read More

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June 28, 2012

“Obama lies, freedom dies” – Check out the top 10 tweets on Obamacare (for those who care)

Earlier today the Supreme Court in a narrow 5-4 ruling upheld the heathcare law put in place by President Obama. The law affects how Americans get health care, and also provides new court guidelines on federal power. The most controversial part of the ruling is the fact the court upheld that the individual mandate requiring... Read More

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June 27, 2012

Funke Aboyade: The presidential nuisance of Goodluck and Patience Jonathan

by Funke Aboyade I hate to be the one to say it but the President, Goodluck Jonathan, and his wife, Dame Patience Jonathan’s, visits to different parts of the country are fast becoming a nuisance. Let me explain. At least thrice in the last two or so months the President and his wife have at... Read More

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June 26, 2012

Wanted: Architect for Nigeria’s problems

by Tabia Princewill IT seems that every time we tell ourselves that things could not possibly get any worse in this country, the forces of evil laugh at our naïve musings and purport to prove that when evil is allowed to continuously push events in one direction, without the counteractive weight of truth, justice and... Read More

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June 25, 2012

Global Citizen: Obama, the underdog

by Robert Kuttner Co-founder and co-editor, ‘The American Prospect’ Ten of twelve states that most polls consider to be in play this year are states that Obama carried in 2008. Those would be Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Colorado, Virginia, New Mexico, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, and New Hampshire. The two toss-ups that McCain won are Missouri and... Read More

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May 15, 2012

Watch Video: First Obama, now Jay- Z — it’s cool to be gay

by Tolu Orekoya Shawn ‘Jay-Z’ Carter is following in the footsteps of the POTUS, Barack Obama, and coming out in favour of gay marriage. “I’ve always thought of it as something that is still holding the country back,” he tells CNN in the interview. “What people do in their own homes, it’s their business.” It... Read More

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April 1, 2012

World Bank to make decision on April 16… Okonjo-Iweala to meet Board April 9

by Hauwa Gambo New reports indicate that the World Bank could pick its new president as early as April 16 after interviews with the three candidates. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, minister of finance and coordinating minister of the economy, is scheduled to be interviewed by the 25-person board on April 9, according Bloomberg. The bank has officially confirmed... Read More

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June 30, 2011

Dated: Islamic banks, gay marriages and more from last week’s high points

by Ifreke Inyang 20, June 2011 Tragedy struck in Enugu and Oyo states as 46 persons died in separate auto accidents. The accident in Enugu, which occurred at Egede village on Ninth Mile-Nsukka Highway, involved a commuter bus belonging to Peace Mass Transit with number plate BENUE – XB 504 TKP and another bus owned... Read More

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May 2, 2011

9-11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden killed

by Sola Fasasi In the early hours of this morning, US President Barack Obama announced that Al Qaeda leader and September 11, 2011 mastermind Osama Bin Laden had been killed in a US Navy SEAL helicopter raid. The operation took place in a mansion where Bin Laden resided in Abbottabad, an affluent city located in... Read More

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