A Russian Artist nailed his own testicles to the ground in a bizarre protest against his country's authoritarian regime. Self-styled performance artist Pyotr Pavelnsky hammered a large metal nail through his scrotum and into the cobblestones in front of Moscow's Red Square as hundreds of horrified tourists watched on.

These our Golden Eaglets really look young o. I heard the oldest is actually 17. I said I heard...:-)

 Nigerian President Goodluck Ebere Jonathan was in Warri yesterday been Sunday November 10th to celebrate the 26th Jubilee Festival of the Word Of Life Bible Church and the birthday of the church's General Overseer, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor., Liyel Imoke, Governors Emmanuel Uduaghan & Jonathan Jang attended the jubilee and birthday celebration which took place at the church auditorium in Ajamimogah, Warri. See more photos of the event here

President Obasanjo, his wife, current Ebonyi Governor Martin Elechi and his deputy Dave Umahi and wife, former Ebonyi state governor Sam Egwu,plus Ebonyi House of Assembly speaker, Chukwuma Nwazunku and Nkem Owoh were all at the wedding. See more photos below

Don Jazzy, Dr Sid, Jude Okoye, Timaya, May D, Naeto C, Kay Switch, Teebillz, Freeze of Cool FM and many other stars attended the 27th birthday party of Iyanya which held last night at 31 in Lekki Phase 1.
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The quiet resignation of the brilliant Chief Executive Officer of the fastest growing telecommunications company in the country, Etisalat Nigeria,. Mr. Steven Evans, in September, may not be unconnected with some power play and office politics.
Mr Stev who pleaded anonymity, before Evans’ resignation, each time there was a forum where the CEO was to attend, there was always a representation, which was becoming more regular than expected.
Though Evans had contributed immensely to the growth of the company and by extension telecoms growth in Nigeria, but the power play from the company’s mother country, the United Arab Emirates, did not allow him to operate as he would have loved to.Evans’ tenure had lapsed but he could still come back on board if everything had been right and the environment conducive enough.
It would be recalled that Etisalat through Evans was able to hit over 15 million subscribers mark from zero subscriber.
Report  have it that Evans has returned to the United Kingdom after having been chief executive officer at Etisalat Nigeria since December 2008.
Evans joined Etisalat after it started full operations in Nigeria.
Etisalat is Nigeria’s fourth largest mobile operator, with just over 15 million subscribers, according to the Nigerian Communications Commission.
Etisalat Nigeria is a unit of the UAE Emirates Telecommunications Corporation.
Etisalat has not made an official announcement regarding the departure of Evans.
All efforts to reach Etisalat Nigeria’s spokesperson, Ms. Chineze Amanfo, on the phone proved abortive.
Amanfo did not pick her calls.
Meanwhile, Etisalat’s Chief Commercial Officer, Matthew Willsher, has reportedly been appointed as acting chief executive.

In support of continued strike of the university teachers, ASUU chapter of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia state yesterday held a peaceful rally to enlighten the public on the ASUU/FGN 2009 Agreement and MOU of January 24th 2012.

However, scores of policemen stormed the university campus, venue of the rally and stopped the lecturers from carrying the rally outside the campus.
They barricaded the main gate of the university with a number of their vans and prevented anybody from moving into and out of the university.

Tomi Odunsi is an actress in MNET’s TV series, Tinsel. She speaks with JOAN OMIONAWELE about her musical career, her life as an actress and other issues.

President Jonathan was at the wailing wall at Jerusalem old city - The place where the body of Jesus Christ was cleaned and perfumed before burial. The president was accompanied by Governor Martins Elechi of Ebonyi state, Gov Theodore Orji of Abia state, Governor Peter Obi of Anambra state, minister of Information Labaran Maku, CAN president Ayo Oritsejafor, Gov Suswan of Benue state, Gov Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State, Reuben Abati and others. See more photos after the cut...

                                     

                                                                                                                         

    The other day I was at the departure hall at Nnamdi Azikewe airport waiting for my flight. I was tucked away at a corner, from people's preying eyes, at least so I thought. My flight was delayed so I had about 2hrs to kill. As I reached into my backpack to get my iPad and keep myself busy till boarding time, a man with two teen girls approached me; they were all beaming with the most enchanting smiles I have ever seen.  "Charly these are my daughters, they’ve been worrying me that they want to take pictures with you” I obliged, as their father took position to capture a golden moment for his two teen daughters.

    Before anyone could say Charly, the boy in me jumped out. There I was clowning around, making funny faces, as the girls caught the monkeying around bug. And to everyone's entertainment and amusement, we turned the whole departure hall into a photo studio and a runway, hummm! Oh boy come and see. All of a sudden most of the waiting passengers, teens, youths, mums and dads started to lineup for their own Kodak moments. Na who find trouble now?

President Goodluck Jonathan has asked the Senate to include the Lagos State Development Policy Operation 11(DPO) into the 2012-2014 Medium Term Borrowing Plan of the Federal Government.

 A three year old Mississippi baby girl  born with the AIDS virus   (name withheld) , who did not show any active infection after doctors stopped her medication  18 months ago is   now an object of scientific curiousity.
This is because some doctors believe that it is a ‘medical first’  showing that    HIV can be put into remission.
The case was reported earlier this year but some doctors were skeptical that the baby was really infected rather than testing positive because of exposure to virus in the mom’s blood.

…Also Nsika Usoro and Steve Bajo for N107m Fraud


The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has declared an Italian, Mariani Albino wanted in connection with a case of obtaining money under false pretence, stealing and money laundering to the tune of N989, 288,400.00 (Nine Hundred and Eighty Nine Million, Two Hundred and Eighty Eight Thousand, Four Hundred Naira Only).

the Presidential Air Fleet has more aircraft that three domestic airlines combined! SMH! Read below...

    The declining fortunes of the domestic airlines have made President Goodluck Jonathan’s 10-aircraft Presidential Air Fleet larger than the fleets of three domestic airlines combined, investigations was revealed on Tuesday.

    The three carriers are Chanchangi, MedView, and FirstNation airlines. Chanchangi has one aircraft; Medview Airlines, three; while FirstNation has  two.

    IRS Airlines, with five aircraft in its fleet, has only one that is currently operational. The four others have been sent overseas for routine maintenance for a long time now.

    It can be technically assumed that the Presidential Air Fleet is bigger than the four domestic airlines, according to industry experts.

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ZUCKERBERG'S FACEBOOK PAGE HACKED TO PROVE SECURITY FLAW

When a young ‘white hat’ hacker using a 5-yr old broken laptop, finds a flaw in Facebook’s site security, tries repeatedly to alert Facebook’s crackpot security techs to no avail … he resorts to gaining their attention by hacking into and posting on mark Zuckerberg’s FB page to (can you hear me now Mark ?).

He tried to warn them.
A Palestinian researcher posted a message on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's page last week after he says the site's security team didn't take his warnings about a security flaw seriously.
"First, sorry for breaking your privacy and post(ing) to your wall," wrote Khalil Shreateh. "I (have) no other choice to make after all the reports I sent to (the) Facebook team.”

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 Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) is to hold a National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on Thursday to decide its next line of action over the lingering strike by university teachers.

 NUT President, Mr. Michael Alogba-Olukoya, said this in a telephone chat with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Tuesday.

The union had on September 26 given a two-week ultimatum to the Federal Government and the lecturers to resolve their differences and end the strike or face nationwide strike by NUT members.

The lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) embarked on the nationwide strike on July 1.

The lecturers described the strike as “comprehensive, total and indefinite.”

Alogba-Olukoya told NAN that the union extended the ultimatum following appeals from well-meaning Nigerians.

He, however, noted that the extension would end on Tuesday.

“Since we gave the ultimatum, well meaning Nigerians have been pleading with us.

“In order not to cry more than the bereaved, we gave them till October 22. The NEC members will meet on Thursday to decide our next line of action, “he said.

NAN reports that the university teachers are protesting non-implementation of an agreement they signed with the Federal Government in 2009 on improved funding of universities and payment of allowances to ASUU members.