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Global economist and Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala photographed with Oprah Winfrey and Dr Tererai Trent at the 4th annual ‘Women InThe World’ summit which took place at the�Lincoln Center in New�York. We would love to know your thoughts on this post. Drop your comments

Reports indicates that the Deputy Governor of Ekiti State, Mrs Funmilayo Olayinka is dead. It was gathered through a family source that Mrs. Funmilayo lost battle to cancer few hours ago. She was 52 years old. Until her demise, Funmilayo has been deputy to Dr. John kayode Fayemi since October ...

A petrol tanker explosion that�occurred�early Friday on the ever busy Benin-Ore expressway in Nigeria has killed not less than 100 people. Most of those who lost their lives in the inferno, according to eyewitnesses, are passengers who were locked in when the explosion occurred and could not escape from their ...

The Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babatunde Fashola has urged residents in Lagos to be cautious� of drinking freely declared alcohol at social centres by unknown persons. The governor called for the caution while addressing security bodies, transport union and community development groups in the state on the recent growing ...

United States of America’s President Barack Obama plans to give back 5 percent of his pay in a gesture of solidarity with government workers who must take unpaid leave as a result of deep spending cuts that went into effect last month. The president’s self-imposed pay cut would be effective ...

Courtesy of RLG Communications Nigeria, BRT rides will be free in Lagos throughout the month of April. RLG, a subsidiary of AGAMS Group of Companies, is a pan African company engaged in the production of communications equipment such as mobile handsets, electronic notebooks, tablets, laptops, LCD TV monitors, and has ...

After the fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old student on a New Delhi bus last December, 3 Indian�engineering students may have found the solution to protecting one’s self from rapists. The students designed this camisole � dubbed Society Harnessing Equipment or SHE ��which�has pressure sensors sewn in around the bust ...

Word out has it Ebube Essien Garricks, the 27 year old lady who won and actually received her� N64 million MTN Ultimate Wonder promo prize money has relocated to the UK. She is said to have travelled to further her education and maybe, remain there We would love to know ...

President Goodluck Jonathan arrived to commission a church in Enugu state on Tuesday. The church reportedly built by the deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu had ailing governor, Sullivan Chime welcoming Mr. Jonathan at the airport. An important photo taken of Mr. Chime’s face swollen on the right cheek tells that ...

For allegedly raping two minors at the Light of Hope Orphanage, Akute, Ogun state, a Pastor and Director of the orphanage, simply identified as Pastor Atunde was on Wednesday arrested by policemen from the Zone 2 Command, Onikan, Lagos State. Atunde was arrested following a petition received from a non-governmental ...

Following the recommendations of the presidential committee on the rationalisation and restructuring of its parastatals, headed by Mr. Stephen Oronsaye, the federal government has finally approved the scrapping of some of its agencies. According to Leadership Newspapers, the agencies pencilled down to be scrapped include the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination ...

Last night, Universal Channel (DStv 117) on MultiChoice’s DStv pay-TV platform mistakenly aired an “obituary” of Remembering Madiba Nelson Mandela who is still very much alive. And now the TV channel is profusely apologizing for the “technical error”. “Like any international broadcaster, Universal Networks holds obituaries ready for every major ...

A �LAGOS landmark is set for a new status � if the Federal Government succeeds in its plan to find another use for it. The 37-year-old National Theatre in Iganmu, Lagos Mainland is to be converted into a five-star hotel. Minister of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation Edem Duke has ...

The NYSC Director, Public Relation, Mrs Bosede Aribigbe, on Tuesday advised prospective corps members to obtain their JAMB registration numbers, to avoid demobilisation. Aribigbe �in Abuja said �that one of the requirements for participation in the orientation exercise was the presentation of JAMB registration number. According to her, only corps ...

No fewer than seven persons were feared dead and 52 houses burnt when the people of Enugu-Otu Aguleri in Anambra East Local Government Area of Anambra State and Ashonwo/Odeke in Ibaji Local Government Council of Kogi State engaged in a bloody clash over disputed land on their oil rich borders. ...

The residents of Karu, a satellite town of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) who were in the mood of Easter Celebration, were thrown into pandemonium on Monday evening, when an explosion suspected to be from a waste can rocked an empty and undeveloped plot of land behind the MR. BIGGS ...

Mr. Obafaiye Shem has been removed from his office as the commandant of the Lagos state branch of the Nigerian Security & Civil Defense Corps. He was replaced by Mr. Adesuyi Clement from Oyo State Command. The Commandant General of NSCDC, Dr. Olu Abolurin, who was in Lagos weekend over ...

The Presidency on Monday broke its silence on the latest foreign trip of wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, insisting that she is only attending to the health of her mother, Mama Sisi, who is currently receiving medical attention in Germany. According to a statement by her Special Assistant (Media), ...

As we join Christians in the celebration of Easter,may we truly reflect on the quintessential modus vivendi of Master Jesus The Christ who peregrinated this incarnation as an exempli gratia of self abnegation,puritanical excrescence,spartan discipline,mental magnitude,hierophantic candour and altruistic effusions,qualities which have become a desiderata for national resurgimento.” We would ...

Sources in Kano have confirmed that explosions have been recorded in two different parts of the city. Men of the JTF are battling to restore normalcy. A bomb went off around Unguwa Uku, along the busy Zaria highway, causing serious panic. Casualty figure remain sketchy as at the time of ...