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Monday, September 23, 2013
LMDGP rounds off 'Keep Your Environment Clean' campaign
Kenya Mall Horror: Famous Ghanaian poet, Kenyan president's nephew died in attack
Ghanaian poet and diplomat Kofi Awoonor, (pictured left) was among the 59 killed during the attack on Westgate Mall in Kenya yesterday. He was in Nairobi as a participant in the Storymoja Hay Festival, a 4-day celebration of writing, thinking and storytelling. The Ghanaian govt confirmed his death early Sunday morning. He was 78 years old. His son was also shot, but was not killed.
Also the president's nephew, Mbugua and his fiance Wahito (both pictured right) were killed in the attack yesterday.
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Wonder when you look best?
According to a recent study, faces change from hour to hour, with most people looking best in the morning right before they wake up. Researcher Anthony Savva says that during the night people go through the golden hours of sleep, which is when their body detoxes itself and absorbs any moisturizer that they have put on the night before if any. As the day progresses, exposure to sunlight, pollution, air conditioning, etc. affects the skin. Due to these external factors, as well as to post-lunch sugar slump our faces look most haggard between 4 and 5 pm which researches call the "ugly hour".
Lagosians spend N36bn on Owambe annually —Fashola
By Monsur Olowoopejo
LAGOS—Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, weekend, said more than N36 billion was spent annually by Lagos residents in organizing different social events.
This came as the governor said the solution to the unemployment crisis in the country did not require any foreign idea, saying “the answer is a Made in Nigeria strategy.”
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Sunday, September 22, 2013
World scrabble Chairman lauds Nigeria on Akpabio Classics -
Godswill Akpabio International Scrabble Classics has been adjudged as the best Scrabble competition in the world, so says the Chairman of the World English Language Scrabble Players Association ( WESPA ) Mr Elie Dangoor.
In a Goodwill message addressed to the President of the Nigeria Scrabble Federation Chief Toke Aka and sent to the organizers of the Classics which enters its 7th year this Wednesday in Uyo, Mr Elie Dangoor described the Classics as “prestigious”
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50% of my telephone calls are nasty – Police PPRO Ngozi Braide
Some people alleged that you didn’t get the PPRO job on merit, but through closeness to some men at the top hierarchy in the force. Is this true?
You know the irony is when people gossip about you, you are usually the last to hear it. The gossip must have gone round but I never heard about it. I can tell that I got to this position through hard work. I wasn’t just handpicked. There was an interview and I emerged the best. If people are saying that, it’s their problem.
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Tukur, Amaechi lock horns again
The crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party got messier on Friday with the ruling party asking the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, to write a formal letter to the Dr. Bamanga Tukur-led National Executive Council for his suspension to be lifted.
Amaechi, who spoke to SUNDAY PUNCH, over the weekend has, however, vowed that he would not write the letter.
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Nigerian Police bar youths from checking Amaechi's projects
Scores of youths attending an event organised by the Rotary Club with the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, were on Friday barred by policemen from inspecting some state projects in Port Harcourt.
The youths, who were about 600 in number, were said to be waiting for Government House buses to convey them from the Rivers State University of Science and Technology to some of the project sites before armed policemen stormed the place and stopped them from embarking on the planned inspection.
The students were from 11 states of the federation.
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Amaechi blames PH airport neglect on rift with Jonathan
Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, on Saturday accused the Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Stella Oduah, of abandoning the remodelling of the Port Harcourt International Airport because of his rift with President Goodluck Jonathan.
Amaechi, who said this in an interview withChannels Television, monitored by one of our correspondents, said apart from leaving the airport in deplorable state, the minister impounded the aircrafts belonging to the state “for no reason.”
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Wife nearly Killed Her Husband With Dagger Over Girlfriend
This was the case in the family of Mr and Mrs Ogodi of Ado town in the Karu area of Nasarawa State. The couple had been having some rough patches in recent times just as most families are prone to but the wife, Chidinma, probably never thought that the argument [over infidelity] would end up with her spending several night in police custody.
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Man arrested after catching wife red handed in bed with police officer
Peter Takavingofa, 25, was arrested after he allegedly bit the man, whom he caught sleeping in his bed with his wife.
Police officer Denhere Malvern, who is a member of the Chinamora police department in Zimbabwe, claimed the husband bit him during an altercation.
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Hoodlums visit Kenyan shopping mall, at least 22 people killed
One survivor said and that the attackers started from the Westage mall ground floor and made their way to the top. He said they had grenades and AK-47 rifles and he saw at least five of them. Local TV stations reported that the gunmen took hostages as soldiers and local policemen surrounded the mall. Another survivor said he was shot at by a man who looked like a Somali.
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Saturday, September 21, 2013
“I Was Extremely Angry When That Pastor Said I Should Go And Sin No More” – Ex-convict,Bode
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President Jonathan drops two special advisers
Just In: Gunmen attack & kill over 20 in uncompleted building in Apo, Abuja Read
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A Man threatens BRT boss with two large vipers!!
We learnt that the man, Sunday Ogbaide, who was later arrested by the Ketu Police Division, said he was sent by a yet-to-be identified person to sell the snakes to the BRT boss.
Yusuf told PUNCH Metro that no one could explain how the suspect gained entrance into the depot.
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Friday, September 20, 2013
Photo: Benue State Governor Plays The Role Of A Best Man At A Cook's Wedding
BUSTED: Pastor visits Prostitute After Being Caught Having An Affair With Married Woman
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Fake Corpers who planned To Abduct Yaradua's Daughter Caught and arrested SSS
Eze was paraded alongside six fake corps members who he has mobilized for service in different parts of Nigeria.
He was said to have processed forged NYSC registration document for five (5) students of University of Nigeria (UNN) Nsukka, who could not be mobilized for NYSC by the institution due to their inability to meet required academic needs to be a graduate from the university.
He was said to have processed forged NYSC registration document for five (5) students of University of Nigeria (UNN) Nsukka, who could not be mobilized for NYSC by the institution due to their inability to meet required academic needs to be a graduate from the university.
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