ORDOS, China (AFP) – Global beauty queens dressed in shimmering ball gowns competed Saturday for the coveted tile of Miss World in the unlikely setting of a Chinese mining city on the edge of the Gobi desert. Miss World contestant, Nicaragua’s Lauren Gabrielle Lawson Guerrero, waits backstage prior to a rehearsal for the final ceremony […]
The estranged couple Nelson Mandela’s grandson and political heir has banished his wife from their home after he discovered she had given birth to his brother’s baby. Mandla Mandela, 38, was accused of bigamy when he married teenager Anais Grimaud while still married to his first wife. Now, following weeks of media speculation […]
Two Nigerians resident in Candolim town in the state of Goa in India are currently in trouble with the law following illegal possession of narcotic/psychotropic drugs. Reports say after a tip-off, the Calangute police conducted a raid that led to the arrest of Ifeanyi Pascal Obi (26) and Emmanual Joshua (30). Police said Mr Ifeanvi […]
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru With days running out for Nigeria to initiate a possible reversal of its surrender of the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon, aggrieved indigenes of the former Bakassi have commenced a subtle rebellion AFTER October 10, 2012 every issue concerning the once disputed Bakassi Peninsula should technically come to a halt. That day would […]
BY BEN EFE Fraudsters parading themselves as Imo State government officials have conned former Nigerian Olympian, Gloria Alozie and a score of European athletes into parting with their money, in the name of participating in a phantom Imo Marathon. Alozie who won a 100m hurdles silver for Nigeria at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, disclosed […]
MARIKANA (AFP) – Dozens of people were killed after South African police opened fire on hundreds of armed workers on a wildcat strike at a platinum mine, in one of the deadliest days of protest since apartheid. Police gave a toll of 30 and rising, while the powerful National Union of Mineworkers said 36 had […]
AS a radical activist concerned with the dialectical struggle for the creation of a new society, Governor Rauf Aregbesola was convinced that physical well-being was central to social reformation and the building of an egalitarian society. Therefore, when Governor Bola Ige introduced the Young Pioneers programme in the Second Republic (1979-1983) which involved the training […]
LAGOS — What most Nigerians culturally do by using corporal punishment to correct their children when they do wrong and go scot free has become the albatross for two Nigerian couples resident in the United Kingdom. For beating their six children with brooms, hoovers and wires and even giving their baby a morphine overdose after […]
The South African High Commission recently informed me of something I was not aware of about myself. In very clear terms and very few words, I was told that: “With reference to your application for a visitor’s Visa, please be informed that your application has been denied for the following reason(s): INVALID COPY OF YELLOW […]
LONDON (AFP) – Sprint king Usain Bolt said he had lost all respect for Carl Lewis after the US sprint legend restated his concerns over the toughness of Jamaica’s drug-testing policy. Speaking after winning the 200m at the London Olympics to seal a second consecutive sprint double, Bolt said he held sprint icon Jesse Owens […]
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