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Ladi Kwali you know her check the back of your 20naira notes to see the only female on Nigeria currency. She was born in the small village of Kwali, present Kwali Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, in 1925 (Other historians indicate her date of birth is actually 1920). She grew up in a family that kept up with the folkloric female tradition of pottery making. Mallam Mekaniki Kyebese, Ladi Kwali's younger brother, stated: “even in the early years of pottery making, Ladi Kwali excelled in the crafts and her wares were often sold even before they were taken to the markets”. During her first professional years, the traditional cultural environment moved her to produced pottery pieces that were influenced by the Gbagyi tradition and accentuated with personal idioms. Her approach to clay was echoed by mathematical undertones, made visible by the continuous display of symmetry. Kwali was awarded an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire ) in 1962 . ...

PROTOCOLS 1. I welcome everyone gathered here today for the first meeting of the newly-elected National Executive Committee of our party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), after the National Convention held in June, 2018. 2. The new NEC members assumed duties at very critical and challenging times. With General Elections coming in early 2019 any political party worth its salt must get its internal dynamics right, and march as a team towards a decisive time as that of major elections in a country. 3. Today, we are meeting to look at some major decisions that will get us ready for an excellent performance at the polls next year, starting with party primaries at various levels. I urge you all to ensure that decisions taken here today are those that will avail the good of the party, and ones that meet the yearnings and expectations of our teeming members and supporters nationwide. They look up to us for guidance, and we must not disappoint or fail them. 4. Let me congratulate the cu...

Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode on Thursday commissioned an ultra modern Ferry Terminal and the Headquarters of the Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA) in Falomo area of the State, restating that no efforts would be spared to harness the potentials of water transport sector for the overall benefit of residents. The Governor, who also commissioned a Multi-level Car Park within the same premises, said the unveiling of the edifice which was delivered through a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement with MTN Nigeria, signposts the readiness, willingness and ability of the State Government to take full control of its waterways and would continue to do so effectively. Governor Ambode, who was represented by the State’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Adeniji Kazeem, said completion of the project, which started seven years ago, was an eloquent demonstration of the appreciation and recognition of the efforts of the State Government toward the overa...

PROTOCOL. 1.​Let me say, once again, how wonderful it is to see so many talented and purposeful young people at this first edition of the Public Dialogue Series with Political Parties on Youth Candidacy and Party Primaries. Looking at you, I see future leaders who present themselves as capable and worthy to take on the mantle of leadership in this country, and this gladdens my heart. 2.​From my interactions with many of you, and with your contemporaries across the country, I can see that we are blessed with a determined generation that stands ready to join with us to power a Nigerian renaissance. The quality of people I see here today affirms my belief that, indeed, you are Not Too Young To Run. 3.​I deeply appreciate this opportunity to share some of my ideas about where we are as a nation, as well as the challenges before us as we approach the great decider that is the 2019 General Elections. 4.​It is widely acknowledged that ours is a relatively ‘you...

A man who confessed to murdering the traditional ruler of Odo Oro Ekiti, Oba Gbadebo Ogunsakin has revealed why he did it. The suspect who allegedly stabbed the traditional ruler of Odo Oro Ekiti, Oba Gbadebo Ogunsakin, to death, on Friday confessed to the crime, saying he carried out the act to reclaim the throne. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the 40-year-old Omonoyi Ademola, who was said to be mentally unstable before the crime, said he didn’t envisage that the Oba would die. Omoniyi, who looked unkempt and remorseless, shocked journalists with his eloquence and good command of the English grammar when he was paraded by the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Bello Muhammed, along with 26 other suspects. He claimed that the late Oba attacked him first when he visited the palace to pass important information to him. Omoniyi claimed that he was told by the spirits and his own family that it was the turn of his clan to reign over the community; and that, based on this ...

How much do you know about Nigeria, especially her leaders? Who founded the Central Bank of Nigeria? Did you know that Obasanjo had no shoe when he wooed his first wife? Also, only two states, Ogun and Katsina, have produced the most civilian Presidents in Nigeria's 56-year old history? Read on: 1. Till date, no President/Head of State has been born in or after 1960, the year Nigeria got her independence. 2. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo is the only President whose exact year of birth is unknown. He was shoeless when he wooed his first wife, Remi. He is diabetic. He’s the only president to lose his wife, Stella, while in office. 3. Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan are the only Vice Presidents to ever become President in the nation. 4. Obasanjo and Muhammadu Buhari are the only persons in the nation’s history to rule as both Military Head of State and Civilian President. 5. The two Presidents who succeeded Obasanjo, first as Head of State in 1979 and as President in 2007 did not comple...

I told my wife to follow me to somewhere and I drove off to SPAR on azikiwe road. I did not even tell her that we are going to SPAR When we got there, she exploded "Do you have money? What are we doing here? I said "just follow me and pick anything you want." Right inside SPAR, I picked a cart and wheeled it behind her. "Pick anything you want baby." See women o! Na so she dey pick, pick, pick. The cart was full. Then she picked her own cart too, and in minutes, her cart was full too. I picked the bill, almost N86,000. As we were going out of the mall, something struck her ... "You did not buy yourself anything! she wondered" "Ah, I have no cash left i said. Let us go home ..." "No, I have some money she said. Let's go back and pick what you want. So we went back. My wife picked a bill of N42k for me alone. Now, you know I never knew my wife had money on her? But she brought it out and spent it on me because I had impressed he...

The suspect has been asleep for more than 24 hours after his arrest, while a 400mg tablet of Tramadol was found in his pocket. The kidnapper after being arrested by policemen Police in Ondo State have arrested a suspected kidnapper who slept off while planning to abduct a renowned pharmacist in the state. The suspect, whose real name was yet unknown, was said to have attempted to abduct the owner of the Chinery Pharmacy in Owo, when he was arrested. Femi Joseph, spokesperson of the Ondo State Police Command, made the disclosure in a press interview. He said investigations showed that the suspect was under the influence of Tramadol. He explained that the suspect and his gang members had invaded the pharmacy to kidnap the owner, but luck ran out on them as the victim raised the alarm and escaped through the back door. "A gang of kidnappers entered into the Chinery Pharmacy with the intention of kidnapping the pharmacist, who, on sighting them with arms, escaped through t...

Bayelsa state governor, Seriake Dickson, announced the passing until glory of his mother, Mrs Goldcoast Dickson, yesterday 8th August, 2018 at M. D. Anderson Cancer Centre, Houston, USA. He made the announcement on his twitter account as follows: "It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of my dear mother, Mrs Goldcoast Dickson who succumbed on the 8th of August 2018 after months of battling cancer at the University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer centre, Houston, USA. She was aged 72 years." May her gentle soul rest in peace.

Senator Oluremi Tinubu was on Tuesday, ordained Assistant Pastor at the 66th Annual Convention of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. "> "> "> "> ">

Pepsico announced on Monday that Indra Nooyi will step down as the chief executive officer, on October 3, ending a 24-year run with the organisation, half of which she spent as the company’s chief executive. Nooyi will stay on as Pepsico chairman until early 2019, the company said, in order to ensure a smooth transition to her successor, Pepsico president Ramon Laguarta, reports Forbes. “Leading PepsiCo has truly been the honour of my lifetime, and I’m incredibly proud of all we have done over the past 12 years to advance the interests not only of shareholders, but all our stakeholders in the communities we serve. Growing up in India, I never imagined I’d have the opportunity to lead such an extraordinary company,” Nooyi said in a statement Monday. Ian Cook, Pepsi’s presiding director on its board of directors, in a statement on Monday said,” she has delivered strong and consistent financial performance, managing with an eye toward not only t...

Pastor Enoch Adeboye Pastor Enoch Adeboye, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has promised “great manifestations of God’s power and grace” upon the lives of participants at the church’s 66th Annual Convention. The convention, which began on Thursday with a Ministers Conference, formally starts today and runs till Sunday. The theme is “Dominion.” Already, streams of participants from around the world have been pouring into the Redemption Camp, which according to the estimation of Pastor Adeboye, during the monthly Thanksgiving Service of the Church on Sunday, was almost half full. He advised participants not to miss it because it will be one of a kind. Giving a background of the theme, he said, “Dominion was God’s original mandate for mankind at Creation: for man to dominate, to rule, to control, to subdue; to be fruitful and to exercise authority on earth. “However,” he said, “man lost ...

Chines doctors and a patient used to illustrate the story [photo: South China Morning Post] Chinese scientists have developed a new diagnostic method for coronary heart disease which has a 33 per cent higher accuracy rate compared with conventional methods. Developed by Shanghai Jiaotong University, the new technology is called Quantitative Flow Ratio (QFR) measurement system and has been approved by the China Food and Drug Administration. A coronary angiography is the most conventional diagnostic method of coronary heart disease in China. However, the internationally recognised high-precision assessment technology is expensive and requires complex surgical procedures, which have not been popularised in China. Based on the computational analysis of an X-ray coronary angiography image, the system obtains the QFR, which can help identify coronary heart disease. The new method does not require additional surgeries or drugs. A clinical study led by Fuwai Hospital of the Chinese Aca...

9 corps members were drowned in River Mayo Selbe in Gashaka Local Government Area of Taraba state. Daily Trust gathered that 22 corps members got drowned in the river while swimming on Saturday. It was further gathered that out of them, 9 died while 13 were rescued by the villagers. The Police Public Relation Officer, Taraba state command, ASP David Misal, confirmed the incident. He said 9 out of 22 corps members died. ASP Misal further stated that 7 corpses were recovered and the search for the remaining 2 corpses continued. "Information at our disposal reveals that 22 Youth Corps members serving in the state were on a picnic party in River Mayo-Selbe in Gashaka LGA on Saturday when the incident happened." ASP Misal said. He said they were swimming in the river when the volume of water in the river increased which carried the victims away. The NYSC state Coordinator, Mrs  Florence Yaakugh, also confirmed the incident. She disclosed that the seven bodies have been r...

No fewer than 11 people have died from a cholera outbreak in Kano State, reports have said. The cholera outbreak, Wuzup Naija gathered, has also hospitalised 47 others at Hanya Madaki, Halin Sarki, and Kunchi villages in Bebeji Local Government Area of Kano State. A youth leader in the affected area, Ubali Dawud Abubakar, who confirmed the outbreak, said the three villages had been battling the suspected cholera outbreak for over one week. He said that despite reports to the appropriate authorities, there had been no response. According to him, the remains of the last victim of the cholera outbreak were buried yesterday evening. Also, a parent of one of the victims, Musa Abdullahi, said about 47 persons had been treated at homes, as well as at some Patent medicine outfit, within the affected communities, while the villages hit by the suspected cholera had no hospitals or clinic. In his reaction, the Public Relations Officer of the State Health Ministry, Ismail Garba Gwamaja, cl...

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has said God had not revealed to him who will succeed him as the church’s G.O. Pastor Adeboye said this the ongoing ministers’ conference of the mission holding at the Redemption Camp, Mowe, Ogun State. The ministers’ conference is a precursor to the 66th RCCG convention which starts on Monday. Both events are held annually. Speaking on Saturday night at the conference, Pastor Adeboye said, “God has not told me about any successor at all, whether you believe it or not. “Elijah knew before Elisha knew that he would succeed him, Moses also knew that Joshua would succeed him and likewise Eli knew before Samuel and not the other way round and therefore, God will tell me first before any other person about who will become my successor as a general overseer. “So, those of you who are carrying rumour of who would be my successor or claiming to be the one that God had chosen should desist from such act a...

Democratic Republic of Congo will start using an Ebola vaccine as early as Monday to counter a new flare-up in the heavily populated eastern part of the Central African country, which emerged just as an earlier outbreak was being pronounced over. Four people have tested positive for Ebola in and around Mangina, a town some 100 km (60 miles) from the Ugandan border, and 20 others have died of similar hemorrhagic fever symptoms without having been tested for the disease. The WHO says the new outbreak presents a high regional risk, given the proximity to neighboring countries. It was discovered in July, just as health officials were declaring the end of another outbreak 2,500 km away in the western part of the country, which killed 33 people since it emerged in April. The earlier outbreak was officially pronounced over last week. Officials have not yet been able to determine if the two outbreaks are linked. Officials are already making steps to deploy a vaccine manufactured by Merck ...

Former professional wrestler, Glenn Jacobs, popularly known as Kane has emerged the winner of the mayoral race in Knox County, Tennessee, US. Jacobs defeated Democrat Linda Haney, with most of the votes counted on Thursday, reports  FoxNews At his watch party, Jacobs, a Republican, claimed his victory while reminding his constituents that when he first announced his bid for mayor, he was greeted with “pretty resounding laughter” from some politicians. “But this professional wrestler got into a no-holds-barred, last-man-standing match, and when the bell rung, he was victorious, We were victorious.” The former champ, who spent roughly 20 years in professional wrestling and won several world titles, ran a campaign focused on keeping taxes low, while prioritizing quality education, job creation, and improved infrastructure.

Reseachers said on Friday that heavy drinking or long-term abstinence could both contribute to increased risk of developing dementia. Researchers from French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) and UCL investigated the association between midlife alcohol consumption and risk of dementia into early old age. Their findings are based on 9,087 British civil servants aged between 35 and 55 in 1985 who were taking part in the Whitehall II Study, which is looking at the impact of social, behavioural and biological factors on long-term health. Participants were assessed at regular intervals between 1985 and 1993 on their alcohol consumption and alcohol dependence. Alcohol consumption trajectories between 1985 and 2004 were also used to examine the association of long-term alcohol consumption and risk of dementia from midlife to early old age. According to the study, of the 9,087 participants, 397 cases of dementia were recorded over an a...

Africa continent combined of hot and pleasant places such as desert, rain forest and plains, the rivers here longer and acquires lots of drainage area since the continent large in size and thousands of tributaries join to the rivers. Many countries in Africa naturally rich by a depth of forest with the variety of Animals including endangered. The Rivers usually flow heavily in the rainy season and create many streams which merge to main rivers where that Make Rivers size larger could be longer. As everyone knows the Nile is the longest river on earth that measured officially but there are some discussions whether Nile or Amazon is the longest in the World. 1. Nile River The Nile is the longest River in Africa and even in the World which flows through 11 African countries (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Egypt, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan). The main outflow is Mediterranean and its total length is about 6,650 km, the Draina...

Amara,  wife of former Nigeria captain Nwankwo Kanu,  has joined her husband’s  fans  to celebrate the football legend who turned 42 on Wednesday. The former African Player of the Year (1996, 1999)   played for   Ajax, Inter Milan, Arsenal, West Brom  and Portsmouth before hanging up his boost in 2012. Amara, with whom he celebrated 14 years anniversary in July, wrote on her Instagram page,  “Oh look what 1st August brought us. Happy birthday to you champ @kingkanu4. You are loved.” Kanu’s  fans also took to Twitter to send birthday wishes while they listed his achievements and career highlights, according to the News Agency of Nigeria. They commented under his post on Twitter through his handle @papilokanu. Kanu wrote, “I thank God. Happy birthday to me.” @MistaYawan tweeted, “Happy birthday to the man that made me fall in love with Arsenal.” @Bimbogramm wrote, “He is on...

Tanzania have pulled out the African Athletics Championships in Nigeria due to what it called poor organisation and security concerns in the west African nation. "> Flags of countries participating are hold as contingents march during the opening of the 21st African Senior Athletics Championships at the Stephen Keshi Stadium in Asaba, Delta State in Midwestern Nigeria, on August 1, 2018. The five-day biennial African Senior Athletics Championship has got underway at the Stephen Keshi Stadium in Asaba, Delta State in Midwestern Nigerian. / AFP PHOTO / Tanzania was expected to send five athletes to the biennual championships in the southern city of Asaba, but officials said they were dissatisfied with the poor travelling plans to the event, as well as the threat of insecurity from extremist groups in the region. The lead-up to the event, which was due to have gotten under way on August 1, has seen more than 300 athletes from 20 countries stranded for two days in Lagos, witho...

A judge of the Akwa Ibom State High Court, Justice Okon Okon, escaped death on Tuesday as some convicts attacked him on the court premises in Uyo for sentencing them to death. It was learnt that as soon as the presiding judge pronounced the death sentence on the kidnappers, the convicts started to abuse him. They also threatened to kill the Akwa Ibom State Government’s prosecution team. The criminals later went berserk, destroying the window of the courtroom and causing pandemonium along Ikot Ekpene Road, where the court is located. A source said, “The situation became messy, as litigants and lawyers in other courts ran helter-skelter for dear lives. “For about an hour, the kidnappers refused to leave the courtroom. It took the intervention of a combined team of soldiers and policemen to take the convicts to a waiting prison vehicle.” The names of the convicts were given as Bernard Ajomaya, Christian Naya, Daniel West and Shedrach Dala. They were accused ...

File photo of Indian Rapid Action Force personnel along with Punjab Police personnel patrol. PHOTO: NARINDER NANU / AFP Police in northern India on Tuesday said that a major manhunt was underway for eight men accused of having sex with a pregnant goat that later died. The suspects face prosecution under the colonial era Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that outlaws “intercourse against the order of nature” — the same provision that also criminalises gay sex. Police raids were being conducted in the Mewat region of Haryana state, around 100 kilometers (60 miles) from Delhi, to look for the men. “We have identified three of the eight accused and the police teams are out on raids to arrest them as soon as possible,” police official Naazneen Bhasin told AFP. The case was launched after the owner of the goat saw three men sexually assaulting the animal late at night last week. “He initially raised the alarm fearing goat thieves but was shocked at what he saw,” local police inspe...

An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, on Tuesday, remanded a 47-year-old man, Premie Imafidon, for allegedly slapping his wife to death. Imafidon is facing a one-count charge of murder. The Prosecutor, Sgt. Maria Dauda, told the court that the accused committed the offence on June 15 around 7.00 pm at No. 25, Apata St., Agege, Lagos. She said that the accused slapped his wife, Hope who was 42, which resulted in her death. The offence contravened Section 224 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Section 224 stipulates death sentence for murder. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs A.O. Ajibade, remanded Imafidon in Ikoyi Prisons and ordered that the case file be sent to the State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for advice. Ajibade adjourned the case until Sept. 3

Women in various parts of South Africa have taken to the streets to protest the increasing levels of gender-based violence in the country. As South Africa celebrates Women's Month throughout August and National Women's Day on August 9, hundreds of women have decided to use the occasion to raise awareness of violence against women and children under the 'Total Shutdown' banner. South Africa's femicide rate is  five times more than the global rate . According to  a report by Africa Check , the global figure for femicide in 2015 was 2.4 per 100,000 women, while South Africa's rate was four times higher at 9.6 per 100,000 women. Dubbed an 'intersectional women's march' and organized by  WomenProtestSA , the march calls for women to take to the streets under the rallying cry: "My body, not your crime scene." Organizers also called for men to support by not spending or taking part in any economic activity. They also urged men to donate to ...