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Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10. The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and as supplystarted to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy at $20. This renewed the efforts o...f the villagers and they started catching monkeys again. Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer rate increased to $25 and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it! The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $100! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him. In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you ...

Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10. The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and as supplystarted to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy at $20. This renewed the efforts o...f the villagers and they started catching monkeys again. Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer rate increased to $25 and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it! The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $100! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him. In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you ...

The Truth: When Men become Monstrous : Looking at this gruesome and extremely unpleasant pictures what do think resulted to this? A man dealt treacherously with his wife ...

Looking at this gruesome and extremely unpleasant pictures what do think resulted to this? A man dealt treacherously with his wife for not giving birth to a male child. After trying to persuade her to abort the pregnancy of which was female foetus, he decided to deal with his wife after she put to bed.   This phenomenon is called Female foeticide and we should all stand together against it. Male or female kids are from God and both of them should be given the same kind of care, attention and love. The following picture below shows a better view of how she looks like after a plastic surgery was carried out on her.  

It is 98 years ago that Mary Slessor, the Scottish missionary to Nigeria, died. She was reputed to have led crusades that stopped some societies from killing twin babies at birth. Such births were taboo and not tolerated. While her history remains alive, as her remains were interred in Nigeria, it seems some communities in Nigeria, even today, are out to rubbish and undo what Slessor did. It might shock you to hear that there is still a community that still sees twins or multiple birth as abomination. But it is more confounding to find that the communities are in the nation’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT). How awful that even within the world’s newest city, with all the trappings of modernity, the preponderance of religions and inclinations that abhor killing of human beings, twin kids are still sacrificed to the gods of tradition that don’t want them alive like the biblical story of the notions that passed their babies through the fire of Molech. Imagine yourself visit...

Babatunde Jezreel Okungbowa popularly known as OJB is no stranger to the Nigerian music industry. Matter of fact, he can be described as one of the pioneers of the industry as a veteran music producer and singer. In an interview culled from Nigerian Tribune in which he talks about his sojourn in music and how he has remained relevant for almost two decades, OJB shared his thoughts on Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh’s entry into the music scene. He said: “The problem is that she wasn’t listening to the key thing. People did not download the song out of love but out of surprise. If she really wants to go into music professionally, she needs to take out her time and learn how to sing.” However, OJB notes that she did not learn as her subsequent efforts do not show any remarkable improvement. “It’s a lot easier to cross into acting from singing but a lot harder to cross into singing from acting. If after her first single, she got better people to coach and produce her songs,...

Britain’s special interest in Nigeria, according to the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Dr. Andrew Pocock, is simply because the country sees a future in Nigeria. Pocock said this when he paid a visit to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Abuja. “This interest in Nigeria is not only because we are friends of Nigeria, partners of Nigeria but we see a future in this country that is extra ordinary; Nigeria is one of those countries with great potentials,” Pocock said. The British envoy however described corruption in Nigeria as ‘something that has impacted negatively on the lives of Nigerians, the government and economy of the country on a daily basis According to him, with over 30 years of military rule in Nigeria, public infrastructure, tendering, allocation and delivery system have been at its lowest ebb. Pollock noted that because of corruption in allocation and delivery process, cost of infrastructure in Nigeria has been three times higher tha...

Chinua Achebe, the internationally celebrated Nigerian author, statesman and dissident who gave literary birth to modern Africa with “Things Fall Apart” and continued for decades to rewrite and reclaim the history of his native country, has died. He was 82. Achebe died following a brief illness, said his agent, Andrew Wylie. “He was also a beloved husband, father, uncle and grandfather, whose wisdom and courage are an inspiration to all who knew him,” Wylie said. His eminence worldwide was rivaled only by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Toni Morrison and a handful of others. Achebe was a moral and literary model for countless Africans and a profound influence on such American writers as Morrison, Ha Jin and Junot Diaz. As a Nigerian , Achebe lived through and helped define revolutionary change in his country, from independence to dictatorship to the disastrous war between Nigeria and the breakaway country of Biafra in the late 1960s. He knew both the prestige of serving on govern...

Residents of Aponmode area of Moniya, Ibadan, Oyo State, were, on Friday last week, thrown into shock, as they beheld the dangling body of 15-year-old Alamu Daniel, after he committed suicide in his father’s house. The teenager, a senior secondary school (SSS) One student of Aponmode High School, Moniya, was said to have hung himself at about 11.00 a.m, after he left the school premises for one of the uncompleted rooms in his father’s house. His teachers and colleagues were reportedly shocked by the incident, especially because the deceased was still in school that day and even played football with his mates shortly before he went home to commit suicide. It was gathered that Daniel took an excuse from his colleagues, saying that he wanted to pick something from home which was not far from school. The teenager reportedly hanged himself in the same clothes he wore while playing football, while his mates reportedly heard of the incident few minutes after he had left them. When...

THE Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, has emerged winners of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Imperial Barrel Award competed by African universities. The university came first, scoring 79.33 percent, while Helwan University, Egypt and the Federal University of Technology, Akure came second and third respectively. Eight universities in Nigeria participated in the competition, including Federal University of Technology, Owerri; University of Lagos; University of Ilorin; Enugu State University of Science and Technology; Nnamdi Azikiwe University; Federal University of Technology, Akure; University of Ibadan and University of Calabar.

Watching TV While we all know that spending hours in front of the television is bad for your waistline, you may not know that it can also shorten your lifespan. Researchers from the University of Queensland found that for every hour you watch TV you may shorten your life by as much 22 minutes. Furthermore, research has suggested that watching TV could increase your risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Drinking from bottles and through straws You probably know that what you drink can affect your looks, but you may be surprised to hear that how you drink can also influence how well you age. In fact, sucking on straws and drinking out of sports bottles causes the same pursing action – and therefore the same fine lines and wrinkles around the mouth – as smoking. Try drinking directly from the glass whenever you can to help keep the wrinkles at bay. Too little (or too much) exercise The benefits of exercise are immeasurable for keeping you looking and feeling young. Not onl...

Foremost novelist, Prof Chinua Achebe, is dead. He was 82. A source said he died last night in a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. A source close to the family said the professor had been ill for a while and was hospitalised in an undisclosed hospital in Boston. Contacted, spokesperson for Brown University, where Mr. Achebe worked until he took ill, Darlene Trewcrist, is yet to respond to our enquiries on the professor’s condition. Until his death, Prof Achebe was the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies at Brown. Below is how the university profiled him on its   website . “Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe is known the world over for having played a seminal role in the founding and development of African literature. He continues to be considered among the most significant world writers. He is most well known for the groundbreaking 1958 novel Things Fall Apart, a novel still considered to ...

The Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu’s posters for the 2015 governorship race pasted along streets has angered the Nsukka elders in Enugu State who said it was the turn of Nsukka to produce the next governor of the state. The leaders said they were surprised that, Ekweremwdu would be nursing an ambition to govern the state even when his zone would have ruled for 16 years by 2015, when the incumbent Governor Sullivan Chime would hand over power after two terms of four years each. According to them, it was a mindless calculation “for political jobbers in their warped imagination to craft the possibility of the governorship seat still remaining in the same old Enugu zone beyond 2015. The statement entitled, “2015 Campaign Posters of Senator Ike Ekweremadu,” was signed by the Chairman of the Elders Committee in the area, Chief Maximus Ukuta along with Chief Nick Ojike, Prof. Damian Opata, Dr. Chuka Ezema, Chief Emmanuel Alachi, Sir Albert Nnamani and Major ...

I 've been staring at this picture and i can’t comprehend what happened. Was this police car trying to pull a James Bond stunt or is it a flying car??? Some accidents you see and it leaves you pondering...what do you think happened here???

There is a new SCOOTER that folds up and fits partly into a backpack and can be carried everywhere you go. The electric bike has a top speed of 28mph and takes just an hour to charge and will also set u back a meager N487,000 .Look on the bright side ,TIMARIV or whatever traffic task force you have in your state will never have the luxury of impounding your scooter. The company that designed the Moveo hopes that it will be on sale by January 2014

This Courageous and probably warri RAT was captured by the CAT above and fought for its life for 15minutes. As luck would have it, it escaped.....END OF STORY....heheheheheheeeee

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has added its voice to those of other critics of government’s decision to grant state pardon to former governor of Bayelsa State, Mr Diepreye Alamieyeseigha and former Managing Director of the Bank of the North, Mr Shetima Bulama. The NLC has asked President Jonathan to withdraw the state pardon to the two beneficiaries. The NLC said in a statement signed by its President, Comrade Abdulwahed Omar, that it was totally unacceptable that those who committed economic crimes in such magnitude that affected public interest were granted state pardon. The statement, titled: “Withdraw State Pardon In National Interest,” says “We are alarmed by the decision of the National Council of State to pardon Mr Diepreye Alamieyeseigha who was impeached as governor of Bayelsa State and eventually convicted by a properly constituted court for stealing public funds; and Mr Shetima Bulama, a former managing director of Bank of the North, who was also convicted for...

Students of Abia State University, ABSU, who were on a peaceful demonstration to protest the planned revocation of the degree awarded former governor of the state, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu by the institution, were molested by soldiers and policemen yesterday. The students who had converged on the administrative block as early as 7am to prevent a Senate meeting over the matter – which is believed to be the continuation of the persecution of the former governor, were beaten black and blue and whisked away by combined team of soldiers and mobile policemen. The protest had started in a peaceful manner and within thirty minutes, the team of security operatives stormed the campus, beating every student on sight, including those who were not part of the protest. In the ensuing milieu, students and staff were seen scampering for safety It would be recalled that Kalu had cut short his degree programme at the University of Maiduguri and had transferred his transcripts and other detail...

The plane carrying   Italy’s players to Switzerland was struck by lightning on Wednesday ahead of the team's clash against   Brazil on Thursday night. The Azzurri travelled to Geneva from Florence to play the World Cup 2014 hosts in a friendly game but were greeted while landing with lightning bolt, though no players were harmed. The players were shaken by the incident, but any chance of a crash or similar incident having nearly occurred were rubbished by the plane's captain. "The situation was always under control," assured Roberto Andolfato told   Sky Sport . Juventus   Claudio Marchisio tweeted afterwards: "Beautiful plane scare today! We are now in our hotel in Geneva, and tomorrow big challenge against Brazil." Cesare Prandelli's men face the Selecao on March 21, before preparing for a World Cup qualifier against minnows Malta next Tuesday.

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has cleared the Lagos State Commandant of the Corps, Mr Obafaiye Shem, of any ‘wrongdoing’ over his inability to name the organisation’s website during a live interview on Channels Television recently. The Commandant-General of the Corps, Dr. Ade Abolurin, made this known wednesday in Abuja, at the annual national cooperative corps, saying that Shem did not commit any crime in the blunder, contrary to the rumours making the rounds that he has been suspended. Abolurin, who did not confirm whether the commandant was on suspension or not, said if Shem was being interviewed and in the process lost his composure, it should not call for a sanction. When approached by journalists to know his position on the matter, the NSCDC boss said: “It is an internal measure, we will keep you posted. We are still on course because he has not committed any offence. If a person is being interviewed and in the process he could not comport himself...

The Truth: Alamieyeseigha’s Pardon Is A Symbol Of Corrupt Men... : The Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described the state pardon granted a former governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseig...

The Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described the state pardon granted a former governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, by President Goodluck Jonathan,  as an act of impunity and a symbol of corrupt mentality. Also,the Nigerian Bar Association on Wednesday described the pardon as a bad signal in the anti-corruption campaign. Alamieyeseigha, who was convicted of corruption charges, was pardoned alongside other ex-convicts, including Shettima Bulama, Lt. General Oladipo Diya, Major-General  Tajudeen Olanrewaju, the late Major General Musa Yar’Adua and the late Major-General Abdukareem Adisa. Soyinka, on Wednesday, lent his voice to those of civil society groups, international community and individuals who had stridently condemned the President’s action. He spoke in Lagos during a programme ushering in the Lagos Black Heritage Festival. Referring to a statement made by the Special Adviser to President Jonathan on Media, Dr. Reuben Abati, who had, on a...