First, Lady Gaga wore a dress made of meat. Now, how about one made of lettuce? Indian animal rights activists have asked pop star Lady Gaga to pose in a lettuce dress and embrace vegetarianism during her visit to India this weekend, where she would be part of the star-studded unveiling of the country’s first Formula 1 race.
A Moscow court handed down a 20-year sentence Friday to a young Russian Muslim for the murder of a football supporter that sparked unprecedented racist riots outside the Kremlin walls.
ExxonMobil, the world’s largest energy company, on Thursday posted a 41 percent profit jump for the second consecutive quarter as sales soared again on higher oil prices.
NATO decided Friday to end its mission in Libya on October 31, declaring it fulfilled its “historic mandate” to protect civilians as contact was made with Moammar Gaddafi’s fugitive son
On the coast outside Tripoli, a squalid refugee camp shelters hundreds of African migrants who found work under Libya’s former regime, but are now jobless, discriminated against and unable to return home.
Arsene Wenger told Arsenal shareholders on the eve of Saturday’s Premier League clash with Chelsea that his team will fight to get their season back on track.
Centuries of British royal discrimination came to an end on Friday after Commonwealth leaders agreed to drop rules that give sons precedence as heir to the throne and bar anyone in line for the crown from marrying a Roman Catholic.
Come October 29, 2011, all roads will lead to Rockview Hotel, Apapa, Lagos venue of the maiden edition of a body building championship tagged ‘Mr Flex Nigeria’, as body builders flex muscles for N2.5m prize money.
A CPC chieftain Dennis Aghanya has attributed the problems in the nation’s sports sector to the unwillingness of sport administrators “to put round pegs in round holes”.
UNFOLDING events across the country have now made it imperative for Nigerians to hold their leaders accountable and should demand for good governance.
IN less than a week, precisely October 31, 2011, Nigeria’s population will hit the 166 million mark. This figure implies that the country will be contributing about 2.4 per cent of the world’s population and at the same time, about five million people are added to Nigeria’s population on a yearly basis.
THE Police Assistance Committee (PAC) has embarked on intensive training programme for its grassroot members on how to pass information on-line to keep assisting security agencies on how to prevent, detect and combat crime in the country.
No doubt elements of subsidy exist in the pricing of petrol and kerosene sold in Nigeria. But before the federal government throws all of us into an unprecedented confusion by an unplanned removal of this subsidy we must ask questions because once the nation starts to burn you never know.
The local government election fixed by Akwa Ibom State Independent Electoral Commission, AKISIEC, for December 29 has been postponed to hold in the first quarter of next year.
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