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Waiting patiently or Wasting your time 10/19/2015 8:12 AM There are many uncertainties that comes with being in a relationship the most common is not knowing the plans of your partner, if your partner is as enthusiastic about the relationship as you are in most cases you never can tell because like the old saying goes time will tell but them time is of the essence if we could have a little glimpse of the future in the past we wouldn't have made a lot of mistakes, but you see life does not come with a mystic ball which one can use to have a clear glimpse of the future. I often read a lot of article advising women to stick with a guy with potential even if he is penniless, to be honest its not fun dating a broke guy it even gets worse when he dumps you the moment he gets financially stable, you will feel like a fool you will feel used a lot of women have found themselves in this situation then the "had I known" syndrome begins to clamp down on you, you start blaming your se...

Children in a government primary school located in Edo state Nigeria. How do we plan to use education to eradicate poverty when primary school pupils are made to sit on the floor to study. Children need a conducive environment for learning.

Nigerian student solves historically difficult maths equation in first semester at university *Ufot Ekong has won numerous academic awards from the university A Nigerian student achieved the highest grades at a university in Japan for 50 years and solved a maths puzzle in his first semester that was unsolvable 30 years ago. Ufot Ekong, who studied at Tokai University in Tokyo, achieved a first class degree in electrical engineering and scored the best marks at the university since 1965, the Flotilla Magazine reported. He began his success early at the university, solving a 30-year-old maths equation in his first semester. Throughout his university career Mr Ekong won six awards for academic excellence. The mathematician worked two jobs alongside his studies to pay his way as a student. Mr Ekong also speaks English, French, Japanese and Yoruba and won a Japanese language award for foreigners. He is currently working for Nissan and already has two patents for electronic car design to his...

A 39 year old woman, Christina Balazi, has been arrested for attempted murder after her husband Christopher was stabbed in the neck and chest in the frenzied attackclaims she stabbed her husband with a kitchen knife multiple times after he yelled out another woman's name during sex. Mr Balazi told police he and his wife of 10 years had been in bed together when suddenly she pulled a sheet over his head and started stabbing him with a kitchen knife. He wrestled her to the ground and snatched the knife from her grip before managing to run outside for help. As his wife chased after him she shouted: "I'm tired of this."Mrs Balazi, from West Palm Beach, Florida, got into her car and attempted to flee but was stopped and arrested after a police chase. Police said she admitted stabbing her husband and said it was because he had said the name of another woman in bed. Mr Balazi was treated for seven stab wounds at a local hospital . The defendant, who was said to suffer ...

Kim Kardashian who is currently pregnant with baby #2 took to her new website, KimKardashianWest.com to share her true feelings about pregnancy with her fans. She said:'I'm gonna keep it real: For me, pregnancy is the worst experience of my life! LOL' the 34-year-old wrote, in an effort to be open with her fans and subscribers. She continued to express her most frustrating concerns with the process, noting 'the complete mindf*ck of how your body expands and nothing fits.' She talked about how disgusting pregnancy can be, and how you're never prepared for it since no one likes to talk about it. 'Do you know you basically have to wear a diaper for two months afterwards?' she asked, joking it was 'so sexy.' 'I don't feel sexy, either, I feel insecure and most of the time I just feel gross,' Kim revealed of her state of mind during pregnancy. "I'm not sure why I don't like the experience like others do. Maybe it's the swe...

Take a look at this sexy photos of Rihanna.

With this picture its obvious that Scott won't be getting back with his longtime partner, Kourtney Kardashian. The 32 year old reality star last night shared a photo of himself with his teenage girlfriend, Lindsay Vrckovnik, in matching fur coats in a hotel bathroom in  Miami. He deleted the photo later... Goodluck to you Kourtney in getting a replacement for Scott.

Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote, has been named among the 50 most influential personalities in the world by Bloomberg, a business and financial news media in the US. The list consisted of CEOs, world leaders as well as religious leaders. According to Bloomberg, those who made the list are businessmen & women who "build companies and assemble fortunes. They run banks, or hope to disrupt them. They shape economies and spread ideas. They manage money and wield the clout that goes with the billions of dollars they invest."  Read what was written about Dangote after the cut .. He's feted like royalty. He has businesses ranging from cement to sugar to energy in a dozen sub-Saharan countries. He's a fixture at elite gatherings such as the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. No African has ridden the continent's halting march out of poverty toward potential prosperity as spectacularly as its richest person, the Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote. Dan...

British singer Rita Ora posed as a sexy mermaid for a new restaurant called...Sexy Fish, an Asian fish  and seafood restaurant that will open mid October 2015  in Berkeley Square.

The National President of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, (NUT), Comrade Michael Olukoya, on Monday, October 5, said that the union has lost over 600 of its members to Boko Haram attacks, Daily Trust reports. Olukoya made the statement during the 2015 World Teachers' Day celebration in Ado Ekiti. According to him, 308 teachers were killed in Borno, 75 in Adamawa, 18 in Yobe, 25 in Kaduna, 120 in Plateau, 63 in Kano and two in Gombe states. The figure is in addition to the 19,000 teachers that had been displaced and are suffering great losses due to the activities of the of insurgents, he said. While calling on the federal government to beef up security around public schools in the country in order to prevent further loss of lives, the NUT boss also urged the government to increase teachers retirement age to 65, to prevent premature retirement and retention of matured and experienced individuals in the system as a way of arresting the falling standard of education in Nigeria.

Kogi State APC Chairman, Alhaji Hadi Ametuo, has assured Kogi people that his party’s candidate in the forthcoming governorship poll, Prince Audu Abubakar, would return the over N11 billion he allegedly stole while in office. Audu is being prosecuted by the anti-graft agency, EFCC, for misappropriating N11 billion of the states’s funds while he was governor between 1999 and 2003. Responding to the questions from the media regarding Audu’s 11billion naira EFCC case, he said “Nobody is a saint. No governor can claim he has not done any malpractice or stolen anything during his time in the office. “We heard of Saraki’s case, even Tinubu is being accused of stealing funds but the truth is that Prince Abubakar Audu has pledged to return the money to the Kogi treasury when he gets elected on the November 21st, yes he will return the 11billion naira or even more than that and that will add to the Kogi economy”. Ametuo, who rated Audu’s first term in the office more t...

See Faces Of Boko Haram Members Behind Abuja Explosions Following last Friday’s multiple suicide bombings in Nyanya and Kuje areas of Abuja, which left 18 people dead and 45 injured, Boko Haram militants, claiming loyalty to Islamic State (Isis), in a statement, yesterday on Twitter, said they were behind the bombings. Recall that sometime in March 2015, Boko Haram renamed itself Islamic State’s West Africa Province (Iswap). The leader of Isis, a militant group that controls parts of Syria and Iraq, however accepted the pledge of allegiance from Boko Haram, in May 2015. Eventhough, the authenticity of the statement, which issued under the name Iswap, could not be verified, the group released the photos of three male suicide bombers who it said were behind Friday’s deadly attacks.

Mixed reactions have trailed the proposal by the national assembly to grant immunity to its presiding officers with many Nigerians describing the move as unnecessary and Ill timed. The minority leader of the House of Representatives Hon. Leo Ogor was quoted as saying that the national assembly was proposing to amend the constitution to grant immunity to the presiding officers as well as the head of the judiciary as enjoy ed by the president t and his vice and governors and their deputy. But speaking with Vanguard in Abuja, respondents said the move was not borne out of altruism. According to a lawyer, Barrister Manasseh Ejiofor, the proposal was uncalled for and smacks “legislative rascalism” “Why are they bringing up the issue of immunity now? Whose interest are they serving? There are so many issues for the national assembly to address the least of which is the issue of immunity for its presiding officers. They should concentrate on making laws for the benefit ...

Following last Friday’s arrest and conditional bail of Nigeria’s former Petroleum Minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, and four other suspects, the British National Crime Agency ordered them to report today (Monday) at the Charing Cross Police Station. Journalists, early on Monday morning, stormed the Charing Cross Police Station, London, to await the arrival of the former minister who is b eing investigated over alleged money laundering case and bribery. Broadcaster and activist, Kayode Ogundamisi, in a series of tweets via his Twitter handle, @ogundamisi shared photos from the Charing Cross Police Station, as well as photos of court 10 at the Westminster Magistrate Court, London, where the ex-minister is purportedly to be charged. Ogundamisi, said: “Only three cases listed for court 10 at the Westminster Magistrate Court. Diezani Alison-Madueke is not listed. Officials at West Minster Magistrate Court said they have not seen the former Petroleum Minister, D...

Operatives of the Economic Financial Crimes Commission have taken over the residence of the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, in Asokoro, Abuja. The operatives stormed Alison-Madueke’s residence on Friday shortly after she was arrested by the police in the United Kingdom. The EFCC officials, who were fully armed, were sighted in two buses at the gate of the residence as of 8pm on Friday. They had earlier stormed the place with three trucks, one of which was marked ‘police.’ Earlier, the former minister was arrested by the operatives of the National Crime Agency in London, the United Kingdom. Investigations revealed that Alison-Madueke was arrested in relation to offences bordering on fraud and bribery. The Spokesman for the UK High Commission in Abuja, Joe Abuku, confirmed to one of our correspondents that five persons were arrested by the agency. The International Corruption Unit of the NCA, on its website, also confirmed the ...

US President Barack Obama has warned Russia that its bombing campaign to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will suck Moscow into a quagmire that will be hard to get out of. Obama said Russia was also failing to distinguish between Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant fighters and more moderate rebels in Syria. “An attempt by Russia and Iran to prop up Assad and try to pacify the population is just going to get them stuck in a quagmire and it won’t work,” Obama told a White House news conference on Friday. “From their perspective, they’re all terrorists. And that’s a recipe for disaster.” Russia continued bombing Syria on Friday for a third straight day. Targets have included ISIL’s main stronghold in Raqqa, but also the provinces of Hama, Aleppo and Idlib where few ISIL fighters operate. Obama said he would not turn the Syrian civil war into a “proxy war” between the US and Russia. “This is not some superpower chessboard contest,” he said. Aljazeera....

The reserves which fell by $940m (N185 billion), about two weeks ago, has fallen again by $210m, CBN latest data have revealed. The reserves now stand at $30.48 billion, a fall from $30.69 billion two weeks ago, and $31.47 million a month earlier. Though the reserves fell by 3.14 percent by the month, 23.03 percent depletion has been recorded, relative to the September 2014 figures. The central bank has used the reserves to support the local currency, selling dollars to bureau de change operators twice a week, as it narrows the gap between the official and black market rates. The reserves crossed the $30 billion mark in July, when it saw an increment of 5.6 percent from $29.03 billion in June, to $30.69 billion. In August, the CBN indicated that foreign exchange reserves rose by $350 million (N70 billion) to $31.43 billion, but has since then fallen twice, with no succour in view. The dwindling experienced so far has been attributed to efforts of the present...

President Muhammadu Buhari Says Late Submission Of Handover Notes By Goodluck Jonathan Is Major Reason He Delayed Constituting A Cabinet Whose List Of Nominees Is Now At The Senate Following rising anxiety over his inability to constitute a cabinet four months after he was inaugurated as President, Muhammadu Buhari, has given fresh reasons he was unable to select from the array of human capital available to him, to form his cabinet. Speaking in nationwide address to mark the 55th Independence anniversary of the country, President Buhari said late submission of handover notes by Goodluck Jonathan formed a major reason for the delay. He argued that handover notes, which were submitted four days to his inauguration, afforded his transition committee led by Ahmed Joda, little time to thoroughly study it and make the necessary changes. He however argued that rushing to form a cabinet would have been counter-productive adding that the delay was also aimed at making...

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), yesterday, denied playing any part in the process that led to the issuance of Nigerian Visa to the wanted ISIS chief, Ahmed Al Assir in Lebanon, even as it said two men connected to Al Assir, who he was coming to visit in Nigeria, had been arrested in Kano and immediately handed over to the National Security Adviser, General Babagana Monguno (rtd). The Comptroller-General of the NIS, Martin Abeshi, who debunked any complicity of the Service, while speaking at a news conference in Abuja, said “From the record available, the Immigration Service did not issue that visa. It might be the officials of the foreign affairs ministry because they also issue visa on our behalf.” Abeshi however, said the NIS went into action to arrest those connected to Al Assir immediately it gathered an intelligence that he was coming to Nigeria. Said the NIS boss: “When we were told that the person [Al Assir] was heading to Nigeria, the people the ...

The Nigerian Military says it will not be in a hurry to rescue the secondary schoolgirls in Chibok who were abducted in April 2014. The Acting Director, Defence Information, Military Headquarters, Abuja, Col. Rabe Abubakar, who said this at a press conference in Lagos on Thursday, noted that while it was of utmost concern to the military to rescue the girls, the operation required demanded adequate patience and planning. Abubakar added that recent efforts by the military in the rescue of over 200 women and children held captive by Boko Haram proved that the military was on course in recovering the girls. He said, “The issue of the low morale of the Nigerian military men has now become a thing of the past. The operation to recover the Chibok girls is alive and still ongoing. We have continued to make rescue efforts, and we will do all within our powers to bring the girls. “However, we will not rush to do this. It requires diligent intervention and a high-level ...

Nigerian born transgender, Stephanie Rose, has once again called out to ‘God’ as being behind the death of hundreds of pilgrims in the recent Mina, Saudi Arabia stampede when Muslim pilgrims gathered to carry out Islamic ritual of stoning the Devil. It will be recalled that Rose, born Dapo Adaralegbe has before now, put out all sorts of comments to buttress her real hatred for God. In her recent Facebook posts, the transgender alleged that God is actually the Devil that the pilgrims went to stone in the Holy land and He ended up killing them. She wrote: “The same God is the devil that they had gone to stone in Mecca. What else can you expect from the blood thirsty Abrahamic God that delights in killing and destruction? He stoned them back with death…. They did not go to heaven or Hell fire, their souls are reincarnated after many years. “Yes … The Abrahamic God is the God and devil of this wicked World! I know the Abrahamic God so well … He has plotted many ev...

A Kenyan man has been charged with 12 offences including rape, impersonating a gynaecologist and operating a clinic without a licence in Nairobi, BBC reports. The accused, Mugo wa Wairimu pleaded not guilty and has previously denied that he raped his patients. Kenya’s Medical Practitioners Board has denied Wairimu is a registered doctor after a Kenya TV report in a footage revealed an unidentified man allegedly assaulting an unconscious woman on a clinic bed. The secretly recorded footage was filmed by a suspicious staff member. BBC reports that Wa Wairimu has been in custody since his arrest, as it was argued that releasing him might endanger his life because of the public outrage over the affair. The court ordered, Friday, that he remain in custody until Monday 5 October when his bail application is to be heard. Also, hearing in the case will hold November 23. BBC Reports.

AFP – A series of explosions rocked the city of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria on Thursday, with casualties feared, witnesses and police said. It was not immediately clear how many blasts hit the Borno state capital but one police officer said as many as seven went off and locals reported at least two bombs were strapped to teenage girls. Acting director, army public relations, Colonel Sani Usman confirmed the multiple explosions at Sajeri, Maiduguri and he stated that at least 14 persons were killed and 39 injured. Boko Haram Islamists have increasingly used suicide bombers to target civilians, including in Maiduguri, where on September 20 at least 117 people were killed in a wave of attacks. “The first bomb was strapped to the body of a teenage girl, who wanted to kill worshippers at Ajilari Cross,” said Bashir Ali, a driver in the area. Ajilari Cross, near Maiduguri airport, where there is also a military base, was one of several places in the city hit...

A South African king has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for a series of charges including kidnapping, assault and arson. Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo, from Nelson Mandela’s Thembu ethnic group, was jailed by the Supreme Court of Appeals. He had approached the SCA to overturn a 2009 court ruling on the matter, which had sentenced him to 15 years. The charges relate to a dispute he had with some of his subjects more than two decades ago. He was accused of kidnapping a woman and her six children, setting their home on fire and beating up four youths, one of whom died, because one of their relatives had failed to present himself before the kings’s traditional court. The king has never denied the charges but believed his actions were in line with disciplining his subjects, reports say. In Bloemfontein in the Free State Province, a panel of judges looked at his case in August and the evidence presented before sentencing. The Eastern Cape High Court had sentenced him t...

President Muhammadu Buhari is yet to submit a list of his ministerial nominees to the senate, Dino Melaye, acting senate spokesman, has said. According to Melaye, the senate was still awaiting the list as at Wednesday afternoon. “I want to announce that we are still waiting for the ministerial list from the president,” the senate acting spokesman said. “I want to advise there is no need for agitation. September expires 12 midnight today. And I want to assure Nigerians [that] as soon as we get possession of the list, we will communicate to them. “I also want to assure Nigerians that we will attend to the ministerial list expeditiously, but diligently. It is not going to be business as usual. We are going to properly screen the nominees, and only those who meet the constitutional and moral requirements will be cleared. “We want Nigerians not to be agitated. September expires 12 midnight. The doors of the senate president are open 24 hours.”

President Muhammadu Buhari says he will head the Ministry of Petroleum Resources in the new cabinet. Addressing some select reporters in New York, United States, on Tuesday, after addressing a Global Leaders' Summit on Countering ISIL and Violent Extremism, he said: "I wil remain Minister of Petroleum. I will appoint a minister of state for petroleum." According to him, this step is being taken as part of efforts to sanitise Nigeria’s oil industry which is said to be plagued by corruption, massive fraud, and crude oil theft. Buhari restated his determination to sanitise Nigeria's oil industry and free it from corruption and shady deals. He said that the first step in this direction had already been taken with the appointment of a new management for the NNPC and its subsequent reorganisation. The president said that the prosecution of those who misappropriated NNPC's revenue under past administrations would soon commence. On corruption, h...

Last night singer Neyo's pregnant girlfriend, Crystal Renay deleted all his photos from her instagram page. It all started after she posted this picture of herself and Ne-Yo cuddled up on her pagee. That's when Fameolous caught a messy commenter asking if Crystal knew about the big booty stripper Ne-Yo was messing with in DC. A few hours after this comment, Crystal deleted all traces of Ne-Yo from her page. When her followers asked her if she'd broken up with him, Crystal uploaded a video of her engagement ring assuring fans all was  well but quickly deleted it.

50-year-old Mohammad Akhlaq was beaten to death and his 22-year-old son severely injured on Monday night in UP's Dadri, allegedly by residents of Bisara village, around 45 km from Delhi, after rumours spread in the area about the family storing and consuming beef, police said. (above - Photo of the wife and daughter of the man killed by the mob)Six people were arrested in connection with the attack, sparking protests that led to police firing, damage to vehicles and injuries to a 20-year-old welder who works for the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) facility in the area. Police said they have sent samples of meat taken from Akhlaq's home "to the forensics department for examination". Akhlaq's daughter, Sajida, said the family had "mutton in the fridge" and not beef. The attack on Akhlaq and his family took place around 10 pm in Bisara after an announcement about the family consuming beef was allegedly made at a local temple, police said. Wh...

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has rejected calls from the United Nations (UN ) to implement gay rights in his country. Speaking on September 28, at the 70th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting, Mugabe said that upholding human rights is the obligation of all member states, but vehemently rejected the imposition of what he called “new rights” for gay marriage that have been advocated elsewhere in the world. The 91-year-old Zimbabwean strongman said: “We equally reject attempts to prescribe new rights that are contrary to our norms, values, traditions and beliefs. We are not gays. Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification and double standards will not,” he told members of the General Assembly. Mugabe has previously called homosexuals “worse than pigs and dogs.” A spokesman for his ruling party, Zanu-PF, has said same-sex marriage had no place in Africa. Currently chairman o...

The referee, who is said to be a policeman by day, ran to the changing rooms and returned to the pitch with his service gun and confronted the players. But thankfully, he didn't shoot as his colleagues restrained him. He is said to be facing disciplinary actions.

Sen. Oluremi Tinubu on Tuesday said that she did not get the support of her husband, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to run for second term in the past National Assembly elections. Tinubu, Lagos Central Senatorial District, made the disclosure while answering questions at the ongoing “Women in Government’’ conference organised by the South-West Region of the Department For International Development (DF ID). The conference was organised in collaboration with the Lagos State Office of the Deputy Governor. She said that it was her district leaders who got the form for her and talked her husband into allowing her to run for the position. According to her, Asiwaju likes his wife to be at home and what is more confusing to me is that most Muslim men do not want their wives to work, but I am a hard worker. “People have been saying that I got to this position because I am Asiwaju’s wife. “What they did not realise is that in the past election, my husband asked me not to go for a se...

Incumbent Chairman of the 8th National Assembly and Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has urged members of the Red chamber to ensure that the long-awaited ministerial list of President Muhammadu Buhari is treated with urgency, when it is eventually submitted by President Buhari this week. Saraki, whose led Senate resumed on Tuesday, after its 4th recess in 110 days of its existence, in his Resumption Address, expressed optimism that the presence of ministers will create the space for greater policy engagement between the legislative and executive arms of government, adding that it will also enable the Senate to begin to respond in a more systematic manner to the various economic and social challenges confronting the nation. The full text of the address tweeted by the Senate President via his Twitter handle, @bukolasaraki read in part: “As we await the list of ministerial nominees this week, I believe the presence of ministers will create the space for greater p...

Pope Francis on Monday admitted that Catholic Church hierarchies shielded the crimes of paedophile priests. The Pontiff stated this hours after meeting people who were abused in their youth by members of the clergy. Speaking to reporters on the return flight from Philadelphia to Rome, at the end of his pilgrimage to Cuba and the United States, Francis said abusing children was “almost a sacri lege’’ and a betrayal of the call of God for a priest. “And those who have covered up these things are also guilty, even some bishops have covered up, it is a very bad thing,’’ the pontiff stressed. On Sunday, the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics spent about 30 minutes with three women and two men who were sexually abused by clergy members. “I promise that all those responsible for the sexual abuse of children will be punished,’’ Francis later told a gathering of bishops, saying he felt “deep shame’’ about the acts. The pope told the audience that “these crime...

FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, is adamant he will continue in his role at the world football governing body. The 79-year-old is facing prosecution, for allegedly making a “disloyal payment” of two million Swiss francs – around £1.3m – to UEFA president, Michel Platini which was “at the expense of FIFA.” Blatter is also being investigated about a TV deal with Jack Warner. Despite calls for the embattled Swiss to step down, he has made it clear he is going nowhere. He reiterated that, “he had done nothing illegal or improper,” after criminal proceedings were opened against him last Friday by the Swiss Attorney General.