Tuesday, 26 February 2013

Naira Falls Marginally at Interbank, WDAS

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Naira and Dollar notes

Obinna Chima

The naira slipped against the United States dollar at both the interbank and Wholesale Dutch Auction System (WDAS) yesterday as a result of strong demand for the greenback.

It is a must win for the opposition in the coming 2015 election. What other way to drum it into the ruling PDP ears than the forming of the All Progressive Congress (APC) by ACN, CPC, APGA, and ANPP.

Kenya Elections: Candidates Clash in TV Debate

Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki delivers his speech during the national celebrations

SKY NEWS

In the last of their televised debates, Kenya's presidential candidates have urged voters not to repeat the violence of the bloody 2007-2008 elections.

Vice President Namadi Sambo

Crusoe Osagie

Nigeria was conspicuously missing from the list last weekend as smaller African nations staked sizable funds to tackle challenges of food security in the continent.

Education Minister Lauds THISDAY’s Initiative to Honour Teachers

Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufa’i

Damilola Oyedele

More commendations came Monday for THISDAY for its initiative to honour teachers at the 18th edition of the THISDAY Awards holding in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, today.

Chief Olabode George

Nkiruka Okohae

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State appears set for another round of crisis as the party’s leader, Chief Olabode George, is said to have sold the idea of fielding the governorship candidate of Democratic Peoples Alliance (DPA) in the 2007 election, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, as the party’s standard bearer for the 2015 governorship election to President Goodluck Jonathan.

Boko Haram, which claimed responsibility for the abduction of the seven members of a French family kidnapped in Cameroun last week, Monday turned the pressure on President Goodluck Jonathan as security agents continued manhunt for the abductors with the aim of rescuing their victims.

It is a must win for the opposition in the coming 2015 election. What other way to drum it into the ruling PDP ears than the forming of the All Progressive Congress (APC) by ACN, CPC, APGA, and ANPP.

Major General Muhammadu Buhari

Onyebuchi Ezigbo

The National Leader of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Major General Muhammadu Buhari, has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)

Helping Hands for Working Mums

A typical neigbourhood day care center

For working mothers, juggling a career, domestic chores and childcare can be an onerous task. But now, neigbourhood day care centers are springing up to help mothers, just as the business might as well be a goldmine, reports Ebere Nwiro

Mrs. Bunmi Razak has 5-month-old and 18-month-old children to care for. She had catered for them without housemaid until now.

Hostages: France Will Not Negotiate with Boko Haram

French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian

REUTERS

France will not negotiate with gunmen claiming to be from Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram who have taken a French family of seven hostage, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Tuesday.

Tribute to Goldie...

The Burial Ceremony of Goldie Harvey was held today at Vaults & Gardens Ikoyi. The ceremony started at exactly 10am. It was a private funeral for which close friends, associates and Family members attended.

Eat if you Dare!!!

It takes one with a strong heart to eat these beautifully created fruits

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Police Arrest Hairdresser, Boyfriend for Kidnapping 7 Year Old

Culled: emelieezeobi

By Chiemelie Ezeobi

The Lagos State Police Command yesterday paraded a 19-year-old head dresser, Bolanle Fasasi and her 24-year-old boyfriend, Raymond Quadri for allegedly kidnapping a 7-year-old boy simply identified as Daniel at Ikotun area of Lagos.

Many African girls are working as prostitutes in Europe especially Italy to send money home to their families, but what their families don't know is that they are suffering. View more pictures by photographer Paolo Patrizi about migration linked to prostitution below;

Late Reeva Steenkamp

The funeral of model and law-school graduate Reeva Steenkamp who was slain by her boyfriend Oscar Pistorius was held in South Africa today.

LAGOS PRO, DSP NGOZI BRAIDE

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Lagos PRO, DSP Ngozi Braide

By Chiemelie Ezeobi

Following Monday's explosion at Miracle Sand Beach under the bridge linking FESTAC Ton to Amuwo Odofin Local Government, THISDAY gathered that some persons have been arrested in connection with the act.

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Lying on her hospital bed and staring into space, Miss Katherine Ijedinma (pictured above), couldn’t fathom out how she escaped escaped from gunshot fired by the 27-year-old man (name withheld), who stormed her and gunned down everyone on Saturday, February 16.

A Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt Tuesday ordered the Federal Government to pay N37.6b compensation to the people of Odi community in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State over the invasion of their community by armed soldiers during the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Another Veteran Nollywood actor Dies. Justus Esiri nollywood actor who shot into limelight in the 80s as headmaster in the popular TV drama series The New Village Headmaster, and father to music artist, Sidney Onoriode Esiri better known as Dr SID sources says died last Night.

“I Thought She Was An Intruder… I Fired Shots” Read Oscar Pistorius’s Account of the Night he Shot his Girlfriend Dead

Oscar and Late girlfriend Reeva

By Adeola Adeyemo

Today in a South African Court, Paralympics and Olympics athlete, Oscar Pistorius gave an account of the events that led to the murder of his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine’s Day.

Here is the reported text of his affidavit read in the Court as he sought bail after being accused of murdering his girlfriend as reported by CNN.

Tips for Husbands of Pregnant Women

One of the most remarkable period in a woman's life is her pregnancy period.It is also the most confusing period for the husband of pregnant women. Everything changes, her face, her body, her eating ability and worst of all her patience.Here are tips for the pregnant woman and her husband during that crucial time in their life– the time of pregnancy.

The truth is for a women being pregnant is a wonderful and difficult experience all at the same time and this sometimes is why a wide array of emotions are displayed.

Although many young Nigerians dream of Britain as an Eldorado and would even give a limb for a British visa, many well-educated Britons of Nigerian descent are choosing to relocate to their parents’ country of birth. KIMBERLY WARD speaks with some of the returnees to find out why they decided to make the transition from Britain, their adoptive country, to Nigeria, their fatherland.

the Victim Sandra and her relative

It was a bloody weekend at Igando area of Lagos State, when a suspected kidnapper said to be operating in Delta State, attacked the Lagos home of his girlfriend, killing her and seven others.

The alleged kidnapper, identified simply as Henry, who is currently on the run,

Buhari

Former head of state, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) has said that only death will separate him from politics and 2015 presidential contest. General Buhari who was the 2011 presidential candidate of the opposition Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) that had just merged into All Progressives Congress (APC) said as long as he lived he would never quit politics.

South African Prosecutor Gerrie Nel charged Olympian Oscar Pistorius with premeditated murder of his model girlfriend at a bail hearing on Tuesday. The prosecutor said that Pistorius shot 29-year-old Reeva Steenkamp four times through the bathroom door of his home in a guarded and gated complex in the South African capital, Pretoria.

one of the bomb blast Victims

There was chaos yesterday at the Festac Town area of Lagos State, when an Improvised Explosive Device

(IED) planted by a yet-to-be identified person exploded, killing the Chairman, Sand Dredgers Association, Mr. Oladele Pius and left several others including a police officer with varying degrees of injuries.

AS the Islamist group, Ansaru, claims responsibility for the kidnapping of seven foreigners in a deadly raid on a construction site in Bauchi State, there is palpable fear that terror groups are upping their bloody games. The workers were taken on Saturday night from the offices of Setraco,

For Going AWOL Jonathan Orders Action against Maina

Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Force, Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina

President Goodluck Jonathan, Friday ordered immediate arrest of the Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Force, Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina for abdicating his duty without official reason.

IGP Mohammed Abubakar

A former reporter with the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), Kaduna National Station and legislative aide to Senator Mohammed Sale, representing Kaduna Central senatorial zone, Mallam Mohammed Ibrahim Matazu has been killed by his second wife.

Simon Kolawole

I was close to tears. I arrived Abuja, last Tuesday, shortly after the Super Eagles returned from South Africa where they had just played their way into the hearts of millions of football fans to become the champions of Africa. Why was I so touched?

Kemisola lost her mother on Wednesday 26th December 2012 and returned to Nigeria with her husband, Akin from the United States for the burial after living there for about a year. Sadly, she was kidnapped at about 8.30pm in Ajah, Lagos on Sunday 10th February 2013.

By Chiemelie Ezeobi

The Lagos State Police Command, weekend, arrested two suspects, a prophet, Dare Akinrosoye with the Star Glory Church located at Egbe area of the state and his accomplice, Kunle Olaide, for possession of fresh human parts.

Wenger: Arsenal Must Respond against Bayern after FA Cup Exit

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has called on his squad to "show some response" in Tuesday's Champions League clash with Bayern Munich following the club's shock FA Cup exit at the hands of League Championship side Blackburn.

The Federal Government of Nigeria has concluded plans to collaborate with a safety organization to install surveillance cameras in all the major highways across the country. This is in a bid to curtail violation of road traffic laws and ensure there’s an eye out to see when criminal activities are being committed on our highways.

9 Secrets from a 73-Year Marriage

After 73 years of marriage, 94-year old Barbara Cooper knows how to get through matrimony's rough patches. The author of Fall in Love for Life shares her hard-earned wisdom.

By Holly Corbett,
REDBOOK.

On making time to make love

"I don't understand couples who say they are too busy or too tired to sleep together. Unless they are building roads all day or running a multi-national corporation,

The Dead Sea: One Of God's Wonders

In the Dead sea,nothing lives and it is so salty one can sit in it and can't be drown. This can be said to be one of the secret wonders of God's work

Names of the Sea

Known in the Bible as the "Salt Sea" or the "Sea of the Arabah," this inland body of water is appropriately named because its high mineral content allows nothing to live in its waters. Other post-biblical names for the Dead Sea include the "Sea of Sodom," the "Sea of Lot," the "Sea of Asphalt" and the "Stinking Sea." In the Crusader period, it was sometimes called the "Devil's Sea." All of these names reflect something of the nature of this lake.

First Lady, Patience Jonathan, recently opened up on her controversial medical trip last year, admitting for the first time she was very sick and was close to dying.

What would you call this?"I Am Personally Happy Goldie is No More" A Lady`s Reaction To Goldie`s Death

Shocking tweets from Miss Nkem that caused a lot of reactions from on tweetville , the reactions were so bad that it eventually resulted to her deleting her tweeter account.

Governor Babatunde Fashola Bequeats the Sum of N59m to the Super Eagles

The Lagos State Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) on Friday became the latest benefactor of the winning team, as he bequeated a sum of N59. 000 million to the Nigerian Super Eagles

Goldie's husband shares wedding PHOTOS in memory of her

Mr. Andrew Harvey Goldie's husband shares their wedding photos in her memory. He tagged it 'Memories of my loving wife' on his Facebook page.

Andrew at their traditional marriage and church wedding on April 2, 2006..More pics as you go down

Report: Singer, Goldie goes into coma, reported dead

Late Goldie

By Ebere Nwiro

In a bid to educate everyone on pulmonary embolism which is believed to be the cause of Goldie’s death eberay.blogspot.com brings to you the likely causes of Plumonary Embolism, it's risk factors, symptoms, how it can be treated and avoided.

“On behalf of Kennis Music, I’m sad to officially confirm the shocking and untimely passage of Nigeria’s pop star, Goldie Harvey. With a deep sense of loss, we announce the shocking death of our darling music star, Goldie Harvey.

Two more political parties in Nigeria have been removed from the system recently after the Independent National Electoral Commission unregistered them stating they failed to meet the requirements stipulated by the Electoral Act 2010 as amended.

Human resource managers say no matter how good a recruitment process is, companies are likely to have difficult employees now and then. When this happens, they say it is up to managers to deal with them. Simon Ejembi highlights how such employees can be handled.

Tuesday, 26 February 2013

Vice President Namadi Sambo

Major General Muhammadu Buhari

Onyebuchi Ezigbo

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Friday, 15 February 2013

“On behalf of Kennis Music, I’m sad to officially confirm the shocking and untimely passage of Nigeria’s pop star, Goldie Harvey. With a deep sense of loss, we announce the shocking death of our darling music star, Goldie Harvey.