Maria Balotelli
Penalty Stats: 27 taken – 26
scored – 1 saved
Maria
Balotelli missed a penalty as Napoli kept up their 100 per cent start to the
2013-14 season with an impressive 2-1 over AC Milan at San Siro on Sunday.
At least 30 hostages remain trapped inside an upscale mall in Nairobi, Kenya more than 24
hours after unsuspecting shoppers were met with a siege of terror when
attackers dressed in black, wearing facemasks and vests, threw grenades and
opened fire on unsuspecting crowds.
A tearful DJ Switch aka Obianuju Catherine Udeh has emerged the first winner of the world’s biggest singing reality TV show, X
Factor in West Africa. Catherine who hails from Udi, Enugu State, and studied Geology
at the University of Port Harcourt, worked briefly with Halliburton and before she became a DJ. She grew up in Warri, Delta State, but lives in Abuja.
Her father is late and she is the last of eight children. (well, she is now almost certain to be number one, just joking oh)
David
Moyes, Man United new coach was handed his worst defeat in his role as
Manchester United new coach when his team was defeated 4 – 1 by Manchester City
in their first derby of the season.
Exercise is
essential for a healthy pregnancy, but one photo of a pregnant woman weightlifting has ignited a
fiery debate on how much pregnant women should sweat.
I read this piece by Abimbola Adelakun (Punch) and I found it very interesting. It requires a bit of patience but if you read it, you would be glad you did, I was.
The politician in the governor and his
“co-conspirators” in the state House of Assembly might eventually kowtow rather
than cause offence. Already, the favoured Nigerian political propaganda of
my-enemies-are-at-the-gate has been creeping into official communication. But
the law should not be reversed because it has merits that cannot be invalidated
by an Abrahamic ethos rooted in the Stone Age. Okorocha should maintain
steadfastness in the face of underwhelming conservatives who reduce the
complexity of human existence to the lessons of their Sunday School classes.
Meanwhile, I find it curious that the most vociferous campaigners against the
law are men.
I said this would happen when I wrote a piece title: Pensioner, 71, sues ASUU. Read it Here and now it’s beginning
to manifest. If ASUU doesn’t get their acts back to school soon, even their
own students and those who were in support of their course would begin to see
them as the part of the problem.
This story is culled from P.M News: A 13-year old girl has narrated how her
biological father, Stephen Chimaraobi, and his friend, Paul Oha, raped
her for seven years in their Ojodu home in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria.
Following her revelation, the police at
Grammar School Division, Ojodu, arrested her father and his friend.
Pope Francis has warned that the Catholic Church's moral
structure might "fall like a house of cards" if it doesn't balance
its divisive rules about abortion, gays and contraception with the greater need
to make it a merciful, more welcoming place for all.
Pope Francis, in the first extensive interview of his
six-month-old papacy, said that the Roman Catholic Church had grown “obsessed”
with preaching about abortion, gay marriage and contraception, and that he has
chosen not to speak of those issues despite recriminations from some critics.
Fighting
erupted in the House of Representatives on Tuesday when seven
governors loyal to the New Peoples Democratic Party visited the House in
Abuja.
A
member of the House from Bayelsa State, Mr. Henry Ofongo, was punched and
shoved repeatedly by his colleagues for daring to oppose the visit.
His jacket was pulled off by some members.
I wish to appeal to the
Federal Government, especially the members of the National Assembly, to make
the proposed change of plate number an ongoing process for those who had
followed the normal process to obtain the old plates and also bring the price
down to N7,000. Besides, government should put aside this issue of arresting
defaulters on the expiring date. If this is not done, Nigerians will see them
as leaders without empathy and insensitive to the people.
A
71-year-old pensioner in Kano State, Mallam Dankano Garba Ahmed, has dragged
the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) and eight others to the National
Industrial Court of Nigeria over the ongoing strike embarked upon by the union.
AFP is reporting that, Swaziland's
King Mswati III has chosen an 18-year-old beauty pageant contestant as his 14th
wife, a palace spokesman said Tuesday, days before a much-criticised
parliamentary vote.
"I
can confirm that the king has introduced to the nation a new liphovela (royal
fiancee)," said Ludzidzini palace governor Timothy Mtetwa.
It’s been claimed that a police
officer disturbed the scene of Whitney Houston's death by moving a sheet which
covered the dead singer's naked body to comment on how good she still looked.
The Aba
Elephants defeated Warri Wolves via penalties on Sunday evening at the Teslim
Balogun Stadium in Lagos to emerge winners of the country's oldest football
competition. The match ended 2-2 after normal regulation time. There was no extra-time.
Forbes magazine has released yet another ranking
of the 21 richest Nigerians. Surprisingly, the richest woman in Africa,
Folorunsho Alakija, worth $600 million (N97 billion) is missing from the list.
According
to Forbes, the value of shares held in quoted companies, size and market share
of their companies, number of companies they own and its assumed value and the
impact of the companies on the Nigerian economy were the yardstick used in
compiling the list.
Nina Davuluri became the first contestant of Indian
heritage and the second consecutive contestant fromNew York to win the Miss America pageant
Sunday night.
Davuluri, 24, won the title as the
nationally televised pageant returned home to Atlantic City.
Teenage girls see
sexualisation as ‘part and parcel’ of their lives because of the raunchy
behaviour of pop stars such as Rihanna and Miley Cyrus, an academic claimed
yesterday.
Their skimpy
outfits and sexual dance moves are ruining the self-esteem of girls, according
to Professor Dionne Taylor, an expert in criminal law.
Christ
Embassy this afternoon celebrated their first ever concert for their yearly
distribution of their daily medication, “rhapsody of reality”.
The program
which was to feature gospel arts like Frank Edwards, Buchi, Eden, Ada and
others was billed to start at 12 noon but actually kicked off well passed 2pm.
Six fake officials of the Lagos State Traffic
Management Authority, LASTMA, have been arrested by the Lagos State Taskforce
on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit.
They were caught while allegedly
extorting money from motorists in Lagos Mainland, Lagos State.
Syrian
dictator Bashar Assad is guilty of crimes against humanity United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said yesterday. He Syrian regime is guilty of
'many crimes against humanity', but stopped short of blaming it for chemical
weapons attacks.
Archbishop Pietro Parolin, the new
secretary of state of the Vatican and right-hand man of the Pope has said that
celibacy is a tradition rather than a law and hence should be opened to discussion.
This has given rise to the assession
that, priest could be allowed to get married possibly if they want to.
Two traffic police women, Corporals
Elizabeth Itolor and Jennifer Azingbe, who were videotaped
receiving N100 bribe from a bus driver in Lagos, have been
dismissed from the Nigeria Police Force.
Itolor
and Azingbe, attached to the Makinde Police Division, were said to have
received their dismissal letters on Wednesday.
The Pope just took delivery of his new ride,Glitz, a 1984 Renault 4.
The clunky five-seater
is a throwback to the pontiff's old car in his native Argentina.
Vocal about his preference
for a humble lifestyle, the spiritual leader has announced he will drive the
29-year-old white manual whenever he can get away from his predecessor's flashy
bullet-proof ride
Kidnapped human right lawyer and
Senior Advocate, Chief Mike Ozekhome has finally gained his freedom exactly 20
days after he was forcelly abducted by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers.
According to recent research conducted by a German psychologist,66
percent of people turn their heads to the right when kissing so that their
noses don’t bump–but the art of kissing is so much more than not having your
noses bump or teeth crash. Kissing is the basic human need to connect. Whether
it’s with babies, grandparents, old friends, on each cheek, or passionately
with a lover, kissing is a favorite act across the globe and probably the only
thing no matter the culture or religion, that we all agree is wonderful.
Here are 5 easy steps to helping you become a great kisser:
Wife of kidnapped Archbishop of the Ecclesiastical Province of
the Niger Delta, Mrs Beatrice Kattey, has appealed for her husband's, Most Reverend Ignatius Kattey unconditional release.
Bishop
Kattey was abducted Friday night in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, along with his
wife but she was later abandoned.