Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Pres. GEJ appoints new Chief of Staff - Brig General Arogbofa
Photos: Actors'Guild of Nigeria (AGN) members visit President Jonathan at the State House
Gr*phic Pic: Aborted baby found at a university female hostel bathroom
Court jails ex-banker 115years for N8.9m scam (EFCC press release)
A Lagos High court sitting in Igbosere, presided over by Justice Adebisi Akinlade on Monday February 17, 2014 sentenced Jamiu Seun Odunayo (pictured above), a former banker, to One Hundred and Fifteen Years (115) imprisonment with no option of fine over an offense which borders on fraud, stealing, and obtaining money by false pretense.
Must read! Chimamanda Adichie writes on the anti-gay law.
Article written by award winning writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie titled 'Why can’t he just be like everyone else?' Find it below...
I will call him Sochukwuma. A thin, smiling boy who liked to play with us girls at the university primary school in Nsukka. We were young. We knew he was different, we said, ‘he’s not like the other boys.’ But his was a benign and unquestioned difference; it was simply what it was. We did not have a name for him. We did not know the word ‘gay.’ He was Sochukwuma and he was friendly and he played oga so well that his side always won.
Femi Kuti, D'banj, other African artistes collaborate on ONE theme song
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World press digest February 19: 'Pentagon experiments with electric brain stimulation'
Check
out some several stories worth reading. The US Air Force is
experimenting with electric brain stimulation on several dozen
volunteers in the hopes it may improve alertness and acuity in personnel
who must spend hours monitoring drone footage and surveillance data.
A
proposal to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, championed by
President Obama, could reduce total employment by 500,000 workers by the
second half of 2016, although it would also lift 900,000 families out
of poverty and increase the incomes of 16.5 million low-wage workers in
an average week.
Thai protesters drop at embattled PM's Bangkok office after deadly police crackdown
Anti-government
protesters in Bangkok on Wednesday surrounded the temporary office of
caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, the day after a police
crackdown left five dead in the capital's centre.
Suthep Thaugsuban, secretary general of the People's
Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC), led a convoy of 200 cars to the
Permanent Secretary of Defence office in northern Bangkok, which
Yingluck and the cabinet have been using as a temporary office since
protesters closed down Government House in December.
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
LIVE UPDATES: Kiev fierce clashes: govt and opposition talks fail, new wave of unrest in Ukraine.
Twenty-five
people have been killed in clashes between rioters and police in Kiev
by 6 am local time on Wednesday, the Ukrainian press office said.
"Twenty-five people have died: eight of them after hospitalization in
city healthcare institutions, four at an Interior Ministry hospital, 13
dead were delivered to the Kiev city clinical bureau of forensic
medicine," a spokesperson said. A total of 351 people who were injured
during clashes in the city center sought medical assistance, according
to Kiev paramedic brigades and healthcare institutions.
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"Border guards have been trying to divert transport vehicles to other checkpoints," the spokesperson said.
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CEO Of JP Morgan Replies Pretty Girl Seeking To Marry A Rich Man
A young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum:
Title: What should I do to marry a rich guy?
I’m going to be honest of what I’m going to say here. I’m 25 this year. I’m very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above. You might say that I’m greedy, but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class in New York.
APC Was Shaped For Nigeria's Prosperity, The Best Is Yet To Come - Tinubu
He said "What we seek is a fair social impact that we may avoid social calamity".Tinubu spoke weekend in Sierra Leone, as he was honored with honorary doctorate degree of Civil Laws, (Honoris Causa) by the 50-year-old Njala University.
Why I Am Afraid Of Death - Veteran Actor, Pete Edochie speaks
"I smoked for 21 years before I quit, and each time I got tensed up, I looked for a cigarette, and psychologically I was puffing away the anger; but there is no other thing it does for you physically but to destroy your lungs".
Kiev death toll rises to 14, police say 6 officers shot dead
Six Ukrainian policemen were shot dead in clashes with anti-government protesters on Tuesday, police said, raising the overall reported death toll to 14.
All of the officers died from gunshot wounds.
Story: Guy Invites ladies
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liked out and she came
with 2 friends. A few
minutes later she invited
another one making 3
girls with him. As the
NNPC must be tamed now
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Stoppoing US drone attacks would be a sign of weakness - Expert
The United States is planning to transform airbases in Central Asia to perform drone attacks in Pakistan. The US claimed that their main goal is Al-Qaeda destruction, but the total number of civilians killed is already about 2.500. The Voice of Russia talked to military extpert and political analyst Muhammad Aslam Khan.
Why does the US perceive its drones as an effective military solution?
It
is very economical. It is a question of saving a lot of effort
implementing drones for attacking each target. Another aspect is that
America is pulling out from Afghanistan and most of the Western press is
labeling it as a departure of the troops. But actually, the situation
on the ground dictates that this should rather be called a hasty
withdrawal, if not a retreat. America wants to save its face,
particularly in the domestic politics, because after an over a decade
battle against the Afghan Taliban there hasn’t been any clear success.
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Ukraine to restrict traffic into violence-torn Kiev
Ukraine will restrict incoming traffic to Kiev from midnight to prevent the escalation of clashes of anti-government protesters with police, the government press agency said on Tuesday.
"To prevent human casualties and the escalation of conflict we ask the citizens of Ukraine to take into account that transport in the direction of Kiev will be restricted from midnight," it said.
Nine people died during clashes in Kiev on Tuesday, seven civilians and two policemen, police said.
Ukraine's opposition asks for truce till morning
Opposition leader Arseny Yatsenyuk asked Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich for a truce till morning.
The leader of the Ukrainian Batkivshchyna (Fatherland)
opposition party, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, has asked President Viktor
Yanukovich for a truce until morning.
Yatsenyuk appealed to Yanukovich while speaking from a stage on Maidan amid a standoff between armed protesters and police.
Police start assault against main Kiev protest camp
Ukrainian riot police are moving in against thousands of protesters on Kiev's Independent Square.
Fresh clashes rocked Kiev's main protest camp on Independence Square with riot police confronting anti-government protestors. Police
warned women and children to leave the area as they moved on opposition
positions with water cannon while protestors responded by throwing
Molotov cocktails and setting fire to part of the tent encampment.
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