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NEWS & REPORT

7 ways you can get scammed & how to stop it

By Laura Moss

 

Fraud & deception

You're smart, you're financially savvy, and you'd never fall for one of those get-rich schemes. But that doesn't mean you won't get scammed. It's easy to assume that only the truly gullible are prey for con artists and scammers, but that's not always the case. Take a look at these seven popular ways

NEWS & REPORTING

Nigerian financial minister may quit for world bank

If the permutations go in the positive, Finance Minister Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala may soon quit President Goodluck Jonathan's cabinet as her names is on top of those being tipped to lead the World Bank.

GENERAL NEWS

UNEP Report: Example of Nigerian govt. nonchalant attitude

 By Nwaorgu Faustinus

Following the United Nations Environment Protection (UNEP) Report on the extent of environmental pollution and degradation in Ogoniland in 2011, and the federal government’s so to say nonchalant attitude to show concern to the people from the area, the Prince of Niger Delta politics, Prince Tonye Princewill has described the report as another example of the government keeping quiet on serious environmental issue that affect the well-being of the Ogoni natives.

POETRY

Our spirituality

 By Odimegwu Onwumere

There are a lot of manifestations

of spirituality here, in you, among us.

Brethren! We don't practice Yoga,

but we are connected to Chukwu Abiama.

ENTERTAINMENT & BUSINESS

 New list of Budapest clubs to avoid

This list has arrived to our editorial office and has been written in order to inform our visitors which are those night clubs that are better to avoid. We claim that this list is not the personal opinion of the operators of Budapest - Sexguide but it is based on the experiences and opinions of our visitors. 

COMMENTARY

Ghana: The enlightenment & the superstition of killing deformed children   

By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong

Ghanian president, Atta Milla

Realistically,the Ghanaian enlightenment movement is expanding. Traditional inhibitive values are being critically scrutinized boldly without fear of ethnocentrisms.  It is in this sense that deformed children, for centuries killed in some parts of Ghana, for being evil, are getting not only media and civil society attention but of late officialdom.

COMMENTARY

Nigeria: Is EFCC fighting corruption or freeing the corrupt?

 Uzoma Ahamefule

Mr Ibrahim Lamorde, EFCC boss

Immediately the news broke that Nuhu Ribadu has been appointed the chairman Petroleum Revenue Special Taskforce, the first thing that came to my mind were his days in EFCC. Then I thought deeply about Nigeria and I remembered what Senate President, David Mark said at a lecture marking former Governor of Imo state, Chief Ikedi Ohakim’s first year in office, precisely 16 May, 2008.

ANALYSIS

 From Berlin to Brussels: Will Europe under-develop Africa again?

By Chukwuma Soludo

Africa is in trouble. Its future is once again on the table, and it is Europe that holds the ace. Unlike the Berlin Conference of 1884 to 1885 which balkanized Africa among 13 European powers as guaranteed sources of raw materials and market, the current contraption under the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) spearheaded from Brussels is the modern day equivalent of the Berlin Conference.

LIFE & STYLE

Men who make great husbands

I have been asked this question over and over and I know Women are less likely to date just for fun, and they tend to have very clear ideas on what type of man makes a good husband. So we asked some happily married women (married 15years and above) to share their secrets and also searched for articles and came up with this:

COMMENTARY

Rivers’ free medical health care?

By Odimegwu Onwumere

"A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones" - (Proverbs 17:22). The later was the mood of a caller who identified himself as Hon. Henry on the 18^th March 2012. He was crying on phone that his child was very sick.

BUSINESS

Nigeria: Good living no longer a matter of cash

By Clifford Ndujihe
 

Nigerians love cash and they want to show it when they have got it. To the average Nigerian, good living is a matter of cash. The Nigerian politician loves to deal with cash and transacts businesses in 'Ghana-Must-Go bags' loaded with cash.

NEWS & REPORTING

Open your mind & speak out against racism

European-wide Action Week against Racism is on
The European-wide Action Week against Racism began on 17 March around Europe and will run until 25 March. This year the slogan is "Open your mind and speak out against racism". The Czech Helsinki Committee has issued a press release on this event, which is organized by the international UNITED network and supported by the various organizations around Europe conducting the anti-racism campaign. A video clip promoting the week in the Czech Republic can be seen here: http://www.romea.cz/romeatv/index.php?id=detail&source=t&vid=YZJgtcMmvB8&detail=YZJgtcMmvB8

NEWS & REPORT

Hindus ask Lady Gaga to take up Gypsy apartheid issue

Lady Gaga

Welcoming international pop icon Lady Gaga’s reported statements about affinity to Gypsy lifestyle, Hindus have asked her to highlight the plight of European Roma (Gypsies) who faced apartheid conditions.

HEALTH & TRADITION

Traditional male circumcision with a modern edge 
By David Njagi

Many countries are short of resources to meet the high demand for male medical circumcision. (Photo Courtesy Edward Echwalu)

Tharaka-Nithi, Kenya — A chorus of ululations pierces the dawn at Pius Nyaga's homestead in eastern Kenya, marking the end of a brief ritual near the family cowshed. Nyaga's son, Antony Mwiti, has just completed the rite of passage into manhood - the traditional way.

COMMENTARY

God’s rights, women’s rights, human & democratic rights

 By Odimegwu Onwumere

Many people are hardly obeying God in the present-days. They are much concerned about how to make Human Rights and Democratic Rights effective, instead of the ways of God. Especially, the politicians and feminists are culprits. And when you try to put the record straight that God laws/rights detailing how men and women should operate in the world is sacrosanct, they tell you that you are living in the past and are barbaric. But even though they change God laws/rights for their selfish pleasures, a point from the bible perception says, "I am the LORD, I change not." (Malachi 3:6).

INTERVIEW

African democracies 'represent the future
Says U.S. Policymaker

According to the Congressional Research Service, the administration has identified democracy-building programs as its top foreign assistance priority in Africa, after three presidential global initiatives directed at health, hunger and climate change, and has asked Congress this year for a 19 percent increase. In the second part of an AllAfrica interview, the administration's top official dealing with Africa policy, Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson, assesses the continent's recent record and details current U.S. efforts to encourage and strengthen democratic practices throughout the sub-Saharan region. Excerpts:

LIFE & STYLE

Zooming in on Kelani’s World

Tunde Kelani

Tunde Kelani who is widely referred to as TK is that Nigerian ace cinematographer. If the story of the Nigerian movie industry or Nollywood is told or written, it would without doubt be incomplete without the inclusion of prolific cinematography, Tunde Kelani, writes SBF

CONFLICT

Boko Haram agrees on ceasefire, picks mediator

After years of frequent bomb attacks on security formations, religious houses and killings of innocent citizens within the northern states, the Boko Haram sect has agreed to cease fire on two conditions.