There is love in the air and this is the right season to flaunt the fabulous you. But have you wondered how to pull the new look and how best it will work out for you? Sure you have some nagging questions on your mind regarding what you should wear and how you should look [...]
US snowstorm causes power cuts in Washington DC region
“This is may be the biggest storm that we have had”
Hundreds of thousands of people remain without power in Washington DC and nearby states after a blizzard blanketed the area with record snows.
Electricity was cut to at least 300,000 homes as the snow felled trees, and cut [...]
The governor of Nigeria’s south-eastern state of Anambra, Peter Obi, has been re-elected, the electoral commission has announced.
The result was rejected by all other parties, who said their supporters were disenfranchised because their names did not appear on the electoral register.
The Nigerian government has admitted there were some irregularities during Saturday’s election.
A BBC reporter in [...]
Dr Murray has denied he caused Michael Jackson’s death
Los Angeles prosecutors will file a criminal case against Michael Jackson’s doctor on Monday in connection with the singer’s death, officials say.
Dr Conrad Murray’s legal team says it expects him to be charged with involuntary manslaughter.
The announcement came shortly before the doctor had planned to surrender himself [...]
Nigeria’s former international, Austin ‘Jay Jay’ Okocha, has signified intention to be on the board of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), whose elections are due in August.
It was gathered that ‘Jay Jay’, who featured for the country at international level for more than 13 years and captained the team to the 2002 World Cup, will [...]
Group threatens to attack oil facilities if Jonathan is not made acting president
The agitation for Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan to assume the position of Acting President is set to take another dimension as a group, Network of Freedom Fighters (NFF), threatened to launch attacks on oil installations if Jonathan is not allowed to take over.
The NFF, [...]
Dr Murray has denied he caused Michael Jackson’s death
Los Angeles prosecutors will file a criminal case against Michael Jackson’s doctor on Monday in connection with the singer’s death, officials say.
Dr Conrad Murray’s legal team says it expects him to be charged with involuntary manslaughter.
The announcement came shortly before the doctor had planned to surrender himself [...]
Super Eagles’ defender Joseph Yobo in the early hours on the new year’s day took former Miss Nigeria, Adaeze Igwe to the altar at the Evangelical Bible Out reach Ministries International (EBOMI) prayer city in Jos.
The General Overseer of EBOMI Prayer City, Prophet Isah El Buba while officiating at the early morning wedding which was [...]
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Minna — Federal University of Technology, FUT, Minna has expelled five of its students for allegedly raping a female student of the institution.
Three students are also charged with criminal conspiracy and indecent assault.
The students involved are Kevin Ajiboye of Agricultural and Bio-Resources Engineering, Chidi Ebere Makwuguwo of
Mathematics and Computer Science Department and Lanre Oseya of [...]
ENUGU—AUTHORITIES of the University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, have set up a nine-member panel of inquiry to look into the January 16 violent demonstration by students of the Nsukka campus as part of the moves to ensure quick return of the students to the campus.
The Governing Council of the university, which set up the panel [...]
The governor of Nigeria’s south-eastern state of Anambra, Peter Obi, has been re-elected, the electoral commission has announced.
The result was rejected by all other parties, who said their supporters were disenfranchised because their names did not appear on the electoral register.
The Nigerian government has admitted there were some irregularities during Saturday’s election.
A BBC reporter in [...]
MINISTER of Information, Professor Dora Akunyili, at the Federal Executive Council, Wednesday, presented a memorandum on the need for the President to transmit a letter to the National Assembly to enable the Vice President to act as Acting President. The memo, however, was not discussed by the Council. Below is the full text of the [...]
Middletown blast: ‘Mass casualties’ at US power plant
A huge explosion has rocked a power plant in the US state of Connecticut, with US media reporting at least two people killed and many more injured.
People living several miles from the plant reported that their homes were shaken by the blast at the Kleen Energy plant, being [...]
BEIJING — A senior Chinese official said on Thursday that China would not bow to pressure from the United States to revalue its currency, which President Obama says is kept at an artificially low level to give China an unfair advantage in selling its exports.
The official, Ma Zhaoxu, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, said at a [...]
ABUJA—FORMER Head of State and two-time presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), has formally resigned from the party.
His resignation was contained in a letter dated January 30, 2010, titled “Withdrawal of my membership of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP” and addressed to the ANPP National Secretary, Senator [...]
ABUJA—The House of Representatives has begun the alteration of contentious section 145 of the Constitution to provide for an automatic transfer of Presidential powers to a Vice President after a President fails to transmit a letter to the National Assembly within three weeks of his absence from the country.
The Bill also seeks to amend section [...]
Call it Jollof Rice, Jolof Rice, Joll of Rice, Djolof Rice, Osikapa Jelof, Red rice or Party rice you are right. Adults and children love this spicy and tasty rice meal. Jollof rice is a favourite meal in the West African region and very popular amongst Nigerians and Ghanaians alike. I do not know [...]
LAGOS — MEDIA stakeholders in the nation have asked President Umaru Yar’Adua to cede power to Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan or resign within seven days. Also yesterday, the Senate restated its stand on President Umaru Yar’adua’s prolonged absence from the country, and reaffirmed its resolution that the President should transmit a letter of his medical vacation [...]
CHANGSHA, China — With a few quick keystrokes, a computer hacker who goes by the code name Majia calls up a screen displaying his latest victims.
“Here’s a list of the people who’ve been infected with my Trojan horse,” he says, working from a dingy apartment on the outskirts of this city in central China. “They [...]
ABUJA —THE plot to ferry ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua back to the country may have been concluded as the consent of the Saudi Arabian monarch, Sheik Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz has been secured for the use of the king’s air ambulance suitable for the nearly six-hour trip back home.
Saudi Arabian sources told Vanguard, yesterday, that [...]
Towards finding a lasting solution to the incessant cases of youths restiveness and militancy in the constantly troubled Niger Delta region, the governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, in collaboration with the Niger Delta Development Commission, have announced the offer of sponsorships to 370 youths from the region.
Also, as part of their youth empowerment and [...]
Maintaining a healthy and youthful skin this year should be a top priority since physical appearance is important for each person. Every man and woman hopes to maintain their health and youthful appearance for as long as possible but without care this is not possible.
Wrinkles, fine lines and the skin’s appearance can be affected throughout [...]