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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Must Read: At 93, Millionaire-Newspaper Vendor Refuses To Quit

Pa Ephraim Obinedu, a 93-year-old newspaper vendor finds his way very early in the morning each day to the newspaper distribution point located at Amikwo Awka, the Anambra state capital. And despite his age, he struggles alongside youthful newspaper vendors to collect his supplies for the day. He has been in the newspaper vending business for several years, and seems not to be in a hurry to quit the stage despite being a millionaire. For him, life will be meaningless without an opportunity to take the newspapers from the distribution point to the streets for people to buy.
Last year, the Anambra State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), gave

A Must Read: 'Big Wahala'- Woman In Trouble Over Facebook Message

The Suspect, Afolakemi Mojisola Adeniyi,

A 23-year old mother of one has been arrested by policemen from Ipaja Police Station, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, for calling her

A Federal high court judge in Ikeja has restrained the Nigerian president from changing the name of the University of Lagos, a 52-year old school widely known as UNILAG.
Justice Stephen Adah granted the

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Women who go through in vitro fertilization (IVF) early in life have a higher risk of developing breast cancer compared to women who opt for

States evacuate ABU students, Army sends reinforcement

Boko Haram...this is not funny anymore!

There was tension in Kaduna on Sunday as Christian faithful observed the Sunday service amidst tight security.

Most residents stayed away from Sunday service following reports through text messages that churches in the state might be attacked on Sunday. The 24-hour curfew slammed on the state also ensured that many remained indoors even as the Kaduna branch of the Nigerian Medical Association complained that miscreants attacked its members and damaged their facilities during the crisis.
Also, there were indications that some

Josephine

Josephine Ibeh, a mother of four who resides at Agboroko area of Iyano-Iba in Lagos State, was hale and hearty until one day when she began falling ill frequently. She attributed the weakness and feverishness to malaria but decided to seek more medical advise when her health did not improve.
Josephine, who later went for series of tests, was shocked to her marrow when it was revealed to her that her problem is kidney failure. Worse still, it was not

An Eagan man who pleaded guilty earlier this year to offering an 11-year-old girl $100 for sex was sentenced this week to 12 years in prison.
Emmanuel Osei, 41, will serve his sentence at the

Children commit crime because they lack morals and not just because of the environment they live in, according to

Terrorist: Boko Haram Breaks Into Damaturu Jail, Freeing Detained Members

Police sources said suspected Boko Haram gunmen staged a daring attack on the Damaturu prison on Gashua Road, freeing several inmates around

A retired Consultant haematologist with the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Prof. Banji Adewuyi, and a consultant paediatrician, Dr. Olaosebikan Rasaq, have raised the alarm that

NO fewer than seven persons, three police men and four suspected armed robbers, were feared dead during a gun battle on Friday night at Okija, Anambra State along the Onitsha – Owerri expressway.
It was gathered that the robbers, who dressed in camouflagged army uniforms and were driving in a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV), had double-crossed the police patrol team, made up of members of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP)’s Special Task Force on Heinous Crimes for Zone C, and

Mugabe

More than a dozen soldiers and police officers are in trouble for eating food reserved for President Robert Mugabe during his visit to

AN expert in in-vitro fertilisation, Dr. Preye Fiebai, has said smoking could lead to infertility.

Fiebai, who is a consultant gynaecologist with Bridge Clinic, Port Harcourt, said heavy smokers were at the risk of

“When your neighbour’s wall is on fire; it becomes your business”. Horace, 63-8BC.

In the global economy, a country’s neighbor is not the nation sharing its border; it is the biggest trading partner – which might be half the planet away. Nigeria’s neighbours, in that sense, are not Benin Republic, Cameroun, or Niger. They are

While smartphones are taking on many of the features of personal computers, it is not really practical to leave them plugged into a wall throughout the day. This is a problem as apps, navigation services and faster network connections are causing our batteries to run out of juice more quickly than ever.
Thankfully, there are some obvious and not so obvious ways to extend battery life on our phones. Here are five tips worth exploring right away.

Know the good apps from the bad
Did you know that many of the more than one million apps available to download to smartphones contain programming errors and

Student 'Adegoke Kehinde' arrested for Druging and raping a Female student on Campus

A 24-year-old student of Yaba College of Technology (Yabatech), Adegoke Kehinde, has been charged to court for allegedly drugging and raping a female student on campus.
The victim, whose

Mugly voted world most ugliest Dog

Chaaaiiiii Men! This Dog make way, Imagine having this snoop dog as your pet.....think 'am'?

Meanwhile....This rescue dog from Peterborough - described as having a 'lovely personality [that] outweighs his looks' - won $1,000 and a year's worth of

SPECULATIONS are rife that the once harmonious relationship between the Nigerian movie industry, Nollywood and its counterpart, Ghana’s Ghollywood,is currently under threat as the movie marketers under the aegis of Film, Video Producers and Marketers Association of Nigeria (FVPMAN) has placed embargo on Ghanaian films with effect from the

A 20-year-old woman of Mumbwa has been arrested for allegedly killing another woman over a mattress.
The incident happened around 17:10 hours on Saturday in

Law enforcement agents and travellers were last week astonished when 66 wraps of narcotics, which tested positive to methamphetamine, were discovered in the private part of Mande Bala, 48, at the screening section of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on June 15, 2012.
The lady was promptly arrested by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency shortly before she was due to board a

Bayo Ogunbamwo

It was a sad end for Bayo Ogunbamwo, a commercial motorcycle operator in the Somolu area of Lagos, penultimate Friday. On that day, he had ferried a passenger to the Alakara area of Mushin. But on his way home after dropping off the passenger, he was brutally attacked by suspected armed robbers.
The okada operator was attacked at Ojuwoye by criminals, who dealt him several blows on the head and body with machetes and robbed him of his cash and motorcycle.
CRIME DIGEST gathered that despite Ogunbamwo’s cries for help, none was forthcoming from the residents of the area known as a notorious enclave of hoodlums. Wounded and in great pain, he had managed to find his way to the

A Must Read: Vocal slender: A ghetto boy’s astonishing rise from poverty to fame

God is Able: whom God bless no man can curse...na 'Baba' God for You!

Vocal Slender

CHUX OHAI goes in search of Eric Obuh, a musician who is steadily leaving behind the poverty-ridden streets of Ajegunle to the limelight

Like most performing artistes in Africa, Eric Obuh, aka Vocal Slender, had to struggle against massive odds to survive. But at 30, this tall musician seems to be clearly on the path to fame. However, the journey has been tortuous and every inch of the way strewn with thorns and pain.

Born in Ajegunle, a ghetto in Lagos State and home to a fair mix of skilled artisans, labourers, traders, petty thieves, robbers, prostitutes, and

....Plz continue reading to watch his video after the cut..

Unless an urgent intervention is put in place to safe guard the lives of buyers and consumers of salt in circulation in Sapele market, Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State, their lives may be in serious danger. The killer salt was discovered, weekend in

Today, June 23, is the International Widows’ Day; a day set aside two years ago by the United Nations General Assembly. The declaration calls on member-states and other international organisations to end all negative practices associated with widowhood.

Widows go through harmful practices n Nigeria: include having their heads shaven, “usually with a rigid sharp object such as a broken bottle; being forced to sleep with their dead husbands’ corpses; being forced to

First Photo Of Boko Haram Representative...

Proudly Boko Haram...?

The photo above shows a Man Wearing Boko Haram *Terrorist* T-Shirt, we don't know what his ~~fashion~~ motives are but you must agree that he is passing ~~an evil~~ a message.

....What do

Kryxtal Lounge in Wuse 2

A bomb exploded at the popular Crystal Lounge in the Wuse II district of Abuja. According to eyewitnesses, at about 11pm yesterday, a bomb-laden car parked between the Etisalat office and another building exploded opposite a popular night club, Kryxtal Lounge in Wuse 2, Abuja. Another report said that a man entered a crowded food court, planted the bomb and then ran away while another version said that it was an PHCN Electric transformer that exploded. However, number of Casualties yet unknown but many people sustained various degrees of injury when they scampered for safety, also so many cars were destroyed in the attack.

Scene of the Blast.

Meanwhile Soldiers cordoned off the area and threatened to shoot–

Scientists discover new drug to treat deadly cancer

Scientists in Singapore have discovered a potential new treatment that may bring some hope for cancer patients with a highly aggressive form of lymphoma.
The compound involved is already being tested on a different illness – to treat rheumatoid arthritis, a local media reports.
It has been screened for safety, and so the

A Bulawayo woman allegedly possessed by evil spirits stabbed herself to death before she rose from the dead and is now battling for life at Mpilo’s intensive care unit.

The 24-year old Seventh Day Adventist Church member has been in the ICU since Wednesday last week after she

A 21-year-old Beitbridge man allegedly raped his neighbour’s wife in full view of her two-year-old baby before he went on to kill the woman and the toddler by striking them with an

President Goodluck Jonathan on his return from Brazil on Friday fired his National Security Adviser, Retired General Patrick Owoeye Azazi and appointed Retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki, to replace him.

The Minister of Defence, Mohammed Bello Haliru, was also affected in the shake-up that is coming after unabated violence and attacks by Islamic sect, Boko Haram in states across northern Nigeria.
The new NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (RTD) is a one-time ADC to

Boko Haram sect, Habeeb Bama

A suspected cell leader of the Boko Haram sect, Habeeb Bama, who was arrested on Tuesday in Damaturu, Yobe state by the Joint Task Force (JTF) is reported to have died at an undisclosed hospital.

Habeeb Bama who allegedly masterminded the bombing of the police headquarters in Abuja and the bombing of Saint Theresa Catholic Church, Madalla, reportedly died as a result of

The Wages of Thieves....

Caught in the Act.

These 2 men attempted to steal a water tank and that is the price they had to pay when they were caught.

What you see in the photo will certainly happen to

3rd mainland bridge

The state of the Lagos Third Mainland Bridge is no news, as many people ply that bridge with their hearts in their mouths, because of its deplorable state.
On this regard, the third mainland bridge in Lagos will be closed to traffic for repairs for four months starting from July 1, 2012. The first signals for the proposed closure came through several

Must Read: How poor sleep raises stroke risk

Can getting less than six hours of sleep daily increase the risk of developing stroke? Researchers have established the relationship between sleeping disorders, hypertension, obesity, heart disease, diabetes and stroke.

MEDICAL experts are divided over the contribution of sleeping hours to the increase in the number of people coming down with stroke.
While some school of thought say sleeping less than six hours a day is a major risk factor for stroke, to others the major risk factors are hypertension, age, high cholesterol, obesity and genetic factor. They say the minor risk factors for developing stroke include being a

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