Teenager Suffers from Stroke, Rendered Blind, Brain-Damaged After Smoking the 'Fake' Marijuana

Emily...hooked up to an ECG

A teenager from Cypress, Texas, has been left with brain damage, paralysis and is unable to see after smoking 'synthetic marijuana' that she bought from a gas station last December and is also suffering a series of strokes.

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LETTER TO MR PRESIDENT

Dear President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan,

Firstly, a very warm welcome from your week long trip to Switzerland and Ethiopia. How did your parley with the group of ‘Eminent Persons’ go? I hope the same you had with the leaders of Netherlands, Norway and Costa Rica; as well bosses of Huawei, Total and Coca-Cola will yield some interesting results.

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SKIN SHADES RIVALRY WITHIN AFRICAN RAINBOW

Africans everywhere must count their blessings for a unique gift in their variety of colors that occur naturally by genetics and celebrate it. While African Americans championed “black and proud” era in the sixties to reclaim their beauty, we seems to have forgotten what it took and have neglected beauty of different hair styles. Africans have become so complacent, they even bleach to heighten their skin and hair that grow naturally. 
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Govt, General Electric seal N160bn investment deal

The Federal Government on Thursday signed an investment deal of $1bn (about N160bn) with General Electric of the United States.
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Senate To Probe Corpses Dumped In Ezu River

The Senate on Thursday mandated its Committees on Police Affairs and Security and Intelligence to carry out a thorough investigation into the discovery of over 30 dead bodies that comprised mostly of males.
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BRIBERY SCANDAL: FG ARRAIGNS FAROUK LAWAN TODAY

The federal government will today arraign the former chairman of the House of Representative Ad-hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy, Hon. Farouk Lawan, and the secretary of the committee, Mr. Boniface Emenalo, before an Abuja High Court for allegedly receiving $620, 000 bribe from a businessman, Mr. Femi Otedola, to remove his two oil firms, Zenon Petroleum and Forte Gas Ltd, from the list of companies indicted in the fuel subsidy scam. 
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TOOTHLESS LAWS, FASHOLA LEAVE OKADA RIDERS AND TRADERS ALONE

The recent ban on motorcyclists popularly known as Okada by the Lagos State Government on 475 roads in the metropolis indicated another infamous creation of armed robbers in the state. The enforcement of its new traffic law restricting the operations of commercial motorcycles a.k.a Okada on the some of the restricted routes could add another round of congested traffic hold ups in state. Over 3000 motorcyclists have been seized by the law enforcement officials, yet Okada riders still ply some of the restricted routes in the state.
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First Bank opens banking lounges for the affluent

First Bank of Nigeria Limited has opened lounges in Lagos and Abuja, designed to provide priority services, comfort, security, luxury, as well as access to financial advisory services to customers.
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AfDB to invest $150m in Nigeria's rice production

Nigeria's quest for self-sufficient status in rice production by the year 2015 has received a boost, as African Development Bank (AfDB) unfolded plans to invest $150 million (N23.7 billion) in the country's rice value chain under the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA).

According to the Chief Operations Officer, AfDB, Dr. Patrick Agboma who disclosed this yesterday at the opening of a two-day stakeholders workshop of the Bank Pre-Appraisal Mission on Rice Value Chain Development Programme (RVCP) in Abuja, the support is also part of the scheme.

Farouk Lawan, Emenalo Remanded In Prison Custody

SAN FRANCISCO, February 01, – An Abuja High Court Friday afternoon remanded the former chairman of the House of Representative Ad-hoc Committee on fuel subsidy regime, Hon. Farouk Lawan and the secretary of the committee, Mr. Emenalo Boniface, in prison custody till February 08, 2013 when their bail application is expected to be determined.

NOT ALL POLITICIANS ARE CORRUPT - ANENIH

 Former Board of Trustee (BOT) Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih has stated that although there are corrupt persons in every society not all Nigerian politicians are corrupt as some people think. 

An Open Letter To The Federal Republic Of Germany: Africa Is Not A Country

How can the German Federal Cultural Foundation believe that 2 million Euros will promote cultural relations with the whole continent of Africa (and not even involve the Africans in the process)?

K-NET Launches New Ultrafast Unlimited Broadband Internet Services Anywhere Across Sub-Saharan Africa ...Broadband Internet speeds of up to 8Mbps and retail prices starting from $30 per month

ACCRA, Ghana, February 1, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- K-NET (http://www.knetgh.com), a leading African telecommunications company offering triple-play voice, data and video services across sub-Saharan Africa, is pleased to announce the launch a new range of broadband Internet service packages which offer businesses and consumers unrivalled levels of performance and value for money.

Tell Magazine's Apology To Akpabio Insincere - Lawyer

 
 GOVERNOR GODSWILL AKPABIO

In san Francisco,   A leading legal practitioner in Akwa Ibom State, Barrister Uwemedimo Nwoko, has described as mischievous and half-hearted the apology tendered by the management of Tell Magazine in its last edition to the Governor, the Government and people of Akwa Ibom State on the malicious, defamatory and derogatory cover story it published on Governor Akpabio in the wake of the 2011 governorship elections wherein the governor was painted as a murderer and cultist.

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Ace comedian Emeka Smith weds (congrats)

The popular comedian held his traditional wedding on the 12th of January 2013 in Warri, Delta State, the hometown of his bride, Prisca Adigwu. Their white wedding will hold this Saturday in Lagos.

Man Wins $10,000 For Having The Ugliest Face In The World

He is able to make a face the ugliest in the world and is earning $10,000.

Tang Shuquan of the city of Chengdu, China, has worked at contorting his face in the most horrible way possible. He was rewarded for his years of hard work with a $10,000 prize and medal of the Guinness World Record for the most twisted face in the world. He challenged any person in the world who can make an even uglier face he will award $15,000.

 

 

Shuquan, which looks perfectly normal when not turning his face upward, his jaw may protrude so high that it covers the lips and bites his nose. The strange face is called 'gurning. "It's not pretty.

 

 

Shuquan started doing public performances 10 years ago, and is known as the King of the distorted faces by Chinese media, according to the news media. Shuquan competed in the Guinness World Records show in Italy in March, and was finally awarded the Medal of the Guinness World Record.

N17Million Scam: EFCC Arraigns Kaduna Deputy Speaker Today

Dogara

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , EFCC, has concluded plans to charge the Deputy Speaker, Kaduna State House of Assembly, Hon. Mato Dary Dogara, to court over his roles in a N17 million fraud.

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Assistant Pastor Charged With Having Sex With 15 Year Old Church Member

In singapore,an assistant pastor of a church was charged on Monday with having sex with a 15-year-old student.
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Congrats to Mallory Hagan as she Wins Miss America

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Snoop Dogg Dodges Questions About Indian Gang-Rape Incident

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"If any Bollywood directors would love to have me in a movie, I am ready," he says before his first-ever India concert tour.

NEW DELHI – Snoop Dogg has landed in Mumbai for his first India visit, which will see the rapper perform in the western city of Pune near Mumbai on Friday, and in Gurgaon near Delhi on Sunday.

Oscars 2013: British Students Celebrates 'Head Over Heels' Nomination

 

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Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly of The National Film and Television School earned recognition for their animated short about a long-married couple.

LONDON – The National Film And Television School continued to uphold its track record of producing animation projects that garner Oscar recognition.
The British school was trumpeting Thursday's Oscar nomination for animated short film Head Over Heels from students Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly.
The short, which captures the emotional distance between a long-married husband and wife, is the third NFTS film to be nominated in the animated short film category since 2005.
Reckart, who wrote and directed the nominated short, described being nominated for an Oscar.
"It's such a great honor. We are so glad that this news will bring our film to more audiences around the world!" Reckart said.
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The pair will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of four times Oscar-winning animator Nick Park, himself a graduate of the NFTS.
Park's fellow Aardman Animations production stable mate (and co-founder of the British animation powerhouse) Peter Lord also secured an Oscar nomination for The Pirates! Band Of Misfits, in the animation feature film category.
British Film Institute director Ben Roberts said: "It’s also particularly great to see the U.K.’s world-leading animation sector in the spotlight today. Our stop motion specialists are showcased in two films in the best animated feature category, with east London’s Three Mills Studios the home for Frankenweenie and Bristol’s unstoppable Aardman Animations behind The Pirates! Our up and coming animators are also represented, with Head Over Heels flying the flag for the U.K. in the best animated short category. I wish all the nominees the very best of luck for the ceremony on 24 February."
In addition, three other NFTS alumni have also received nominations.
Roger Deakins is nominated for best cinematography for his work on Skyfall alongside Stuart Wilson, who earned a sound mixing nomination for his work on the James Bond box office smash.
Despite missing out on a best picture nomination, the latest 007 franchise entrant scored a total of five nominations.
Elsewhere NFTS graduate Dario Marianelli also earned a nomination for his original score for Anna Karenina.

Canadian Talent Consultant Charged in Alleged Actor Visa Scam

Andrew Boryski is charged with 32 counts; “this suspect, who’s an aspiring actor himself, has landed a role in a real life crime drama” says a federal agent.

Actor Andrew Boryski was charged with multiple criminal counts for cheating aspiring actors out of thousands of dollars in an immigration visa scam, the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office said Thursday in a press release.

Ellen DeGeneres to Film Segments for Talk Show in Australia

Taking a page from Oprah Winfrey's playbook, the TV star announces that "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" will film in Melbourne and Sydney in March.

SYDNEY - Ellen DeGeneres will take her talk show to Australia in March, she announced to her live audience alongside Golden Globe nominee Nicole Kidman at Thursday’s taping of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Australian media reported on Friday.

U.K. Police: 214 Crimes, 450 Abuse Complaints Recorded Against Late BBC Host Jimmy Savile

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Eagles’ performance bad for African football –Onigbinde

Chief Adegboye Onigbinde

Former Super Eagles’ Head Coach Adegboye Onigbinde has said that the Super Eagles’ performance against Cape Verde, tells a bad story about African football.

Tears as driver killed by LASTMA goes home

Scenes of the burial

Black Stars 3 Pharaohs 0

Kwadwo Asamaoh

Ghana recorded a comfortable 3-0 win over Egypt in an international friendly ahead of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations on Thursday night.

Udinese midfielder Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu was the man to get the ball rolling for his side with the first goal in the first period, and despite occasional threats from their opponent, the Ghanaians marched on to score another two goals and claim a sound victory.

The West African giants started superbly with great inter-positional and calm passes from the heart of midfield.

Catching Up With The Fashion Trend

I have a handbag i do carry suddenly started having heavy pains and the one of my colleague told me to read this online and i was amazed.

Big hand bags are in vogue among Nigerian ladies though there are some health implications associated with the trend .

Sexy goldie enjoying life in Malaysia

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Peter of p-square shares holiday photos

He's currently holidaying in San Fransisco, California, with heavily pregnant Lola Omotayo and their son, Cameron.

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The Oscar nomination 2013 -Full list of nominees

This nine years old Quvenzhané Wallis (above)  has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayal of Hush Puppy in 'Beasts of the Southern Wild', making her the youngest nominee for Best Actress ever.

Stephen Spielberg's Lincoln leads the 2013 Oscars with 12 nominations, Life of Pi eleven, Silver Linings eight, Les Miserables eight, Ben Affleck’s film Argo seven, French film Armour five,  Django Unchained five, Zero Dark Thirty five, Skyfall five times and Hobbit three times. .

NA WA OO

every day is a grace

Female 'Learner' Driver Crushes Youth Corper, Arraigned

Reports say the police in Ogun State on Thursday January 10 arraigned a 52-year-old woman, Kehinde Olubanke, before an Abeokuta Magistrate’s Court for allegedly crushing a 28-year-old youth corps member, Egbe Ogbu, with her car.

Nollywood Actress Ngozi Nwosu Departs For Germany For Medical Attention

Ailing Nollywood actress, Ngozi Nwosu,  is in high spirits at the moment as she concludes arrangements to travel to Germany for medical attention, after struggling to raise the sum of N6m for over a year.

6-Month-Old Nigerian Baby Kidnapped In Joburg Found Unharmed, Kidnappers Arrested

Revelation Jones

The Joneses

  The six-month-old baby boy, Revelation Jones,(above) kidnapped from his parents' home in Bezuidenhout Valley, Johannesburg, was found safe on Thursday, Gauteng police said.

Lagos House To Reduce Banned Routes For Okada Riders

The Lagos State House of Assembly is considering the reduction in the list of restricted 475 routes to be plied by commercial motorcyclists also known as okada riders in the state Road Traffic Law.

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2015: "Why Nigeria Needs an Igbo President" – Kalu

 As the campaign for a president of Igbo extraction ahead of 2015 polls intensifies, former Abia State governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, a key arrowhead of the project, fielded some questions. The politician, business mogul, founding member of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and convener of Njiko Igbo speaks with alarming frankness, shares insights into his political game-plan, relationship with his erstwhile protégé, Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State, bust-up with former President Olusegun Obasanjo and on key national issues.

Examination Failures: Students Speak Up

Though there was a slight improvement from previous years in the last final year public examinations, the performance is still below average.

POPULAR ACTOR OTOLO DIES?

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If report reaching us is anything to go by, the popular actor, Otolo may be no more.

Rita Dominic won the Best Actress of the Year Award in Kenya

Rita Dominic

Nigeria Actress Rita Dominic was announced as the winner of the best actress of the year award in the Kalasha Film and Television Awards which was healed in Nairobi Kenya Yesterday.

Mercy Johnson has finally Gave Birth in Us

Mercy Johnson and her Baby GirlCongratulation to Mercy Johnson, Mercy Johnson has gave birth to a baby girl in the United States.
Nollywood Actress, Mercy Johnson who got married in August 2011 has been seeking for a baby for the past 1 year.

Eminem Has Become “Born Again Christian”?

Eminem Has Become A BORN AGAIN Rapper

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CHRISTIAN!!” announces a headline from MediaTakeOut, which is still struggling to unlock its caps key.

Nkiru Sylvanus Family Disobey the Police and Pay the Kidnappers N8 Million

According to the Imo State Police Commissioner, Mr Adisa Bolanta we confirmed that the family of the Nollywood actress Nkiru Sylvanus later paid the kidnappers N8 Million for

her release, Imo state police commissioner has 

TONTO DIKEH RECEIVES NOLLYWOOD CONTROVERSIAL ACTRESS OF THE YEAR

Talking about controversy, one actress who is synonymous to that is the Nollywood star, Tonto Dikeh who has just been given the Most Controversial Actress of the Year, 2012.

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES: IBADAN STOOD STILL FOR LATE ACTRESS BISI KOMOLAFE

The late yoruba actress will be laid to rest today in Ibadan Oyo State.

Hot Pants Actress, Nuella Njubigbo Dumps Tchidi And Emenike For Gov. Rotimi Amaechi-the story behind it all

Nuella
No doubt, it's season of enjoyment for the beautiful Nollywood diva called Nuella Njubigbo who is said to have just acquired a brand new 2011 Toyota Highlander, SUV last December 2012. The wonder on wheels estimated to cost a whopping N8million.

Nigeria: The East Must Take Back the Narrative

Any objective observer would see very vividly, the currents and counter-currents of accusations and counter accusations, that has been blowing over a book by the famed Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. The title of the book is "There was a country" This book opened up cans of worms formerly hidden, as the victors controlled the message. Mazi Achebe is a global phenomenon and his writings, be it the "Things Fall Apart" (first book on indigenous life, by an indigene) or the present one -"There Was A Country"

IS THIS AS DISTURBING AS IT LOOK?

There is disturbing news within pastoral circles in Abuja concerning some backslidden colleagues whose recent patronage of a certain Port Harcourt based occult woman is a source of concern. This woman fabled with the ability to make people see visions of people’s names, phone numbers, bank details, colors of ladies underwear and sundry secrets. After reading my recent article ‘new style prophets : visions of phone numbers and ladies underwear’, a pastor who was about to be initiated into the Port Harcourt Cult of Prophets, out of little fear of God, sought a second opinion on the issue.

Nigerian Born UK Designer Stabbed To Death in London

The police found the 26 year old, dead in his apartment in Cedar Lodge, Exeter Road, Kilburn, on Saturday December 22nd, around 4.45pm following concerns about his welfare.

According to a postmortem, the cause of his death was as a result of multiple stab wounds.

2015 POSTERS: ANOTHER BAD OMEN FOR JONATHAN'S PRESIDENCY?

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The campaign posters of President Goodluck Jonathan which flooded the streets of Abuja on New Year day tends to be opening a new chapter in the country's political discourse.  In this report, GEORGE AGBA raises pertinent questions regarding the veracity of claims by both the presidency and the opposition as to who the real brain behind what may have appeared to be another New Year gift to Nigerians could be.

Since he was sworn in on May 29, 2011 as president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan's presidency has been confronted with ill-luck every first day of each year. On the two occasions his tenure in office have had to witness its entrance into a new year, it has been a tale of the president of Africa's most populous country in the shadow of his citizen's fury.

Missing N1bn IGR: Delta fires Union, Diamond bank

The sledge hammer, yesterday, fell on two banks - Union Bank and Diamond Bank, as the Delta State Government blacklisted them as revenue collection banks in the state for what it described as unethical banking procedures. Besides, the state government, through the Delta Board of Internal Revenue (DBIR), called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to investigate the affected banks to establish, if standard banking procedures are followed in their dealings with customers funds.

Virgin Atlantic announces new chief executive

Virgin Atlantic has announced that American Airlines executive Craig Kreeger will be its next chief executive.

Mr Kreeger will take up the job on 1 February, replacing Steve Ridgway, who is retiring after 11 years.

The news comes a month after US carrier Delta Air Lines bought Singapore Airlines’ 49% stake in Virgin Atlantic for $360m (£224m).

UNIBEN Prof announces alleged cure for HIV/AIDS

Prof. Isaiah Ibeh of the University of Benin, on Tuesday announced the development of a new drug that can possibly cure HIV and AIDS.
Isaiah Ibeh, who is the Dean of the School of Basic Medical Sciences of the university, announcec the development of a new drug that can posibly cure HIV and AIDS.
He told reporters in Benin that the herbal drug had undergone 'series of successful tests'.
He said 'We are at the threshold of making history, in the sense that we seem to have with us something that will permanently take care of what over time seems to have defied all solutions. 'We are talking about the latest discovery of an oral drug made from plants extraction in Nigeria for the possible cure of the pandemic, HIV and AIDS virus.''

Group threatens to sue MTN for poor services

The South-South Youth Leaders' Forum said it had concluded plans to sue a telecoms firm, MTN Nigeria, for continued poor services being rendered to the citizens.The group explained that it would not remain silent and watch MTN deliver substandard telecoms services to the South-South people and Nigerians in general.

Cameroon: Acquittal of 'gay' men jailed for wearing women's clothes exposes discrimination

In LONDON, United-Kingdom, January 9, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- acquitted two Cameroonian men jailed for "looking gay" because they wore women's clothes which exposes the systematic discrimination against perceived homosexuals in the country, Amnesty International said today as the pair's convictions were overturned by an appeals court.
Jonas Kimie and Franky Ndome have spent more than a year in prison following their arrest outside a nightclub in the capital Yaoundé in July 2011. They are among numerous people in Cameroon who have faced persecution for their perceived homosexuality.