Friday, 10 August 2012
Three-day funeral for Ghana’s late leader
A three-day state funeral for Ghana’s President John Atta Mills began in Accra on Wednesday, with thousands of mourners taking to the streets and lampposts, trees and state buildings draped in black and red.
Thursday, 9 August 2012
Today,Hillary Clinton arrives Aso Rock, meets Jonathan
The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton was in the Presidential Villa
for a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria in continuation of
her eleven nation Africa tour.
Thereafter, she moved to an expanded 50-minute meeting with
the National Security Council, comprising Jonathan (chairman), Vice-President
Namadi Sambo (deputy chairman); Chief of Defence Staff; Minister of Interior;
Minister of Defence; Minister of Foreign Affairs; National Security Adviser;
Inspector-General of Police; and Director-General of the State Security
Service.
Clinton departed Abuja for Accra at 7.25p.m where she will meet
with President John Mahama.She will spend the night in Accra and attend the funeral of late Ghana President John Atta Mills on Friday.
The meeting, was expected to discuss the rising security threats in Nigeria; the controversy over calls on Washington to designate Boko Haram as a terrorist group as well as Abuja’s reluctance to endorse the appeals; piracy in the Gulf of Guinea; and cooperation between Nigeria and the U.S on security.
Conjoined twins Abigail and Brittany
Not even the doctors thought they could survive.
Now the 22-year-olds, who share one body fused at the torso, will be starring in their own reality TV show chronicling their graduation from Bethel University in Minnesota, their post-grad job search and their travels through Europe with friends.
Now the 22-year-olds, who share one body fused at the torso, will be starring in their own reality TV show chronicling their graduation from Bethel University in Minnesota, their post-grad job search and their travels through Europe with friends.
The girls first captivated the world in 1996 when they appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and the cover of Life Magazine. Since then they have lived a quiet, normal life with their family in Minnesota, keeping away from the media spotlight until they agreed to appear on a documentary for TLC when they turned 16.
The broadcaster has now given them their own show called 'Abby and Brittany' which will premiere on August 28. When the Hensel twins were born on March 7, 1990, in Minnesota in the United States, doctors warned their parents Patty, a registered nurse, and Mike, a carpenter and landscaper, that they were unlikely to survive the night.
The girls have two spines, two hearts, two oesophagi, two stomachs, three kidneys, two gall bladders, four lungs, one liver, one ribcage, a shared circulatory system and partially shared nervous systems When growing up, they, like many twins, had very different personalities and tastes. Abigail, the feisty, stubborn one, liked orange juice for breakfast, while Brittany, the joker of the family, would only touch milk.
They also stunned doctors with their astonishing co-ordination while playing the piano, with Abigail taking the right-hand parts and Brittany the left. They enjoyed sports such as bowling, volleyball, cycling, softball and swimming.
And on their 16th birthday they passed their driving test, a mind-boggling feat of teamwork with each twin using one arm to control the steering wheel. Speaking at the time, their mother Patty, a registered nurse, conceded that could have been a problem. 'I don't know what would happen if they got pulled over for speeding.
Would they each get a ticket or just Abby because it's her foot on the accelerator?' The Daily Mail first introduced the Hensel twins 16 years ago, when they were six years old, and now their latest escapades show the dramatic progress they have made into early adulthood.
The Hensels are believed to be one of only a few sets of dicephalus twins in history to survive infancy, and when they turned 16, they allowed the cameras into their fiercely guarded private world to share this milestone in their lives.
Speaking back then, Brittany said: 'Believe me, we are totally different people.' It has not been unknown, however, for the twins to go out in a specially made top with two different necklines - to reflect their unique tastes - and leggings with each leg a contrasting colour and a different shoe on each foot.
One set of twins in every 40,000 is born connected in some way to each other and only 1 per cent of those survive beyond the first year.
Oh Look !what we have here!
What everyone has been talking about, what do you make of this?
It was seen in Pretoria, South Africa LIVE!
Naomi Campbell is that you?
Could this be what they call traction alopecia - a hair loss condition caused by the overuse of extensions
Naomi and boyfriend Vladislav Doronin jetskiing during the holiday
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
E-governance portal to be launched in Lagos by minister
The portal which is a Public Private Partnership (PPP) initiative between the Citizenship and Business Department of the ministry and Anchor Dataware Solutions (ADS), an Information Communication and Technology (ICT) solutions provider company.
Ok oh! lets see how this will help!
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This much was disclosed by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ADS, Mr. Joel Adi while speaking with reporters at his office in Abuja. Adi said, “The project will revolutionise the way government business is conducted, improve commerce and industry, create jobs and accelerate the economic development of the country.
“The portal will ensure an easy flow of data, integrate and automate the operations of the department and streamline its naturalisation, citizenship, marriage registry and expatriate quota management systems.”
“We are putting finishing touches to all installations for the success of the project and the actualisation of the government’s goals.”
Divorcee beats foster son to death over missing N50 note
The people of Ijegun, a suburb in Lagos, were thrown into mourning on Sunday when a woman identified simply as Iya Anu, allegedly beat her foster son, Seubo, 16, to death for allegedly stealing her N50 to buy Gala.
Iya Anu, a serial divorcee presently with her third husband, is a mother of four, living at 8, Amosu Street, Ijegun, Lagos, with her family and the boy.
According to a source in the neighbourhood, she would regularly beat Seubo, her husband’s nephew and her children whenever they misbehaved, even to the point of injuries.
It however took a different dimension on Saturday when the the teenager, misplaced a N1, 000 note given to him for an errand on Saturday. As a result, she starved Seubo throughout Saturday and when the latter could no longer withstand the hunger pangs, he sneaked out of the house at night to buy the famed sausage roll – Gala.
On discovering this, Iya Anu, accused him of stealing her N50 and furiously pounced on the boy, beating him severely. According to a neighbout who spoke to the press, the accused must have used a hot object to batter the boy as his body was full of burns. Giving her name simply as Balikis, she said, “Iya Anu began to beat him on Saturday night.
The beating continued till about 9am on Sunday when her husband and the other children had left for church. “She battered him till he gave up the ghost about noon. When she realised that the boy had lost consciousness, she cried for help but it was already late. At a point, she wanted to run away but she was promptly rounded up.” A similar incident had been reported to the police in June by Alexander Akinnurun, the Proprietor of Alex Group of Schools, Ijegun, the school Seubo attended before his death. According to the proprietor, “She has been perpetrating those acts for quite some time now and reports of her heinous deeds abound.
In June, Seubo who happened to be one of my pupils came to school with a disfigured face and wounds on his body. “I was so moved by this that I reported the incident to the police. I don’t know how far the police went with the matter but I never expected that such an ugly incident would still repeat itself.”
It was also learnt Iya Anu who had reportedly used a knife to injure her first daughter, Anu, on her shoulders for erring sometime earlier in the year.
Solange Knowles first major contract with a fashion label.
Farouk Lawan Stopped at Airport from Travelling Abroad
He scheduled to board an Emirates Airline flight en route to Saudi Arabia.
Unexploded bomb discovered in another church in Kogi
This unxploded bomb(photo above)was discovered at the Revival Church in Lokoja, the capital
of Kogi state this is just a day
after the attack on the Deeper Life Church in Okene in which 19 people were
killed, including the Church’s Pastor. These are some of the injured members of the Deeper Life
Bible Church in hospital yesterday.
According to the Military spokesman, Lt. Col. Gabriel Olorunyomi, the gunmen surrounded the church in the middle of a worship service and opened fire with AK-47 assault rifles on the worshippers.
Soldiers searched for gunmen through the night, but have made no arrests as of this morning. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) spokesperson Yushau Shuaib said his agency has dispatched rescuers to the area.
Rihanna! Rihanna! good girl gone bad- will she learn from this?
Yesterday Nivea dropped her as their ambassador. The head of
Nivea’s parent company Beiersdorf revealed to German Media that they would not
be re-signing Rihanna because she doesn’t fit their family image.
'Rihanna is a no go. I do not understand how to bring the
core brand of Nivea in conjunction with Rihanna. Nivea is a company which
stands for trust, family and reliability.'
Do you think she’s going to change her ways ie: the nudity
posing, reckless drinking and smoking….’you
know what’?
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Usain Bolt glorifies Jamaicans 50th independence
Jamaicans are having a fun filled day, celebrating the
nation’s 5oth independence anniversary on Monday after Usain Bolt retained
the Olympic gold medal in the men’s 100m with his compatriot, Yohan Blake
taking the silver. Usain Bolt retained the title as the world’s fastest runner,
setting a new Olympic record of 9.63 seconds.
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