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NAOMI ONI, ACID ATTACK VICTIM HAS THIS TO SAY ABOUT THE ATTACK

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                                           Now                                                           Then 31 years old Naomi Oni said she felt miserable and left alone    when the police authority who supposes to support her said the acid attack on her was self inflicted. She said the police claimed that she poured acid on herself    because she wants    to get plastic surgery. Though it was later found out that the acid attack was from her friend Mary Konye...

MY HUSBAND CAN NEVER CHEAT ON ME- ANGELA OKORIE

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When asked if she can ever leave her matrimonial home on the bases of infidelity, the pretty actress responded: "In the first place, it will take a lot before my husband can go for another woman. That can only happen when I don't satisfy him in everything, which I do. It is only when a woman does not satisfy her man in everything that he goes in search of other women.  I've never caught my husband with another woman, so I don't believe all men are polygamous in nature. I don't think so. There are good men and I married one." READ MORE:  http://news.naij.com/57295.html

WHY NIGERIANS ARE BEING DENIED UK VISAS

Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Dr Dalhatu Sarki Tafida, has explained that many Nigerians are refused UK visas because they do not apply in good time. Speaking in London during a courtesy visit on him by the Minister for Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Relations, the High Commissioner lamented that most Nigerian visa applicants normally leave it very late before applying, and may not meet the requirements for the visa within the short time. He said the situation was also the same with British-Nigerians who apply for Nigerian visas, disclosing that “99 per cent of their applications fall within the category of urgent or emergency visas”. Dr Tafida who was responding to a complaint by a member of the Minister’s delegation that the UK often refuses visas even to top Nigeria government officials said the UK’s visa policy was “generous” compared with other countries. “We should be fair to the UK. If you meet the criteria, you get UK visa. Th...

2 WEEKS GIVEN EFCC TO ARREST STELLA ODUAH

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The recent corruption allegation against the Minister of Aviation for the illegal purchase of 2 armored BMW cars at the outrageous price of N255 million generated citizens’ uproar and received popular condemnation from different stakeholders in the polity,” the group said in a letter to the anti-graft agency. Last October, the House of Representative ordered its committee on aviation to probe the purchase of the armored vehicles. The committee submitted its report a week later dismissing every claim made by the minister in relation to the purchase. The report revealed that there was no appropriation for the purchase. It also revealed that due process was not followed in the procurement. Quoting section 7 (I) of the EFCC Act, Say No Campaign noted that the anti-graft commission is empowered to investigate all economic and financial crimes. It therefore asked that the EFCC commences investigation into the purchase of the armored cars; arrest the minister and prosecute her...

LAGOS STATE ASSEMBLY ORDERS THE RE-OPEING OF REGISTRATION PORTAL

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  The House gave the directive after a six-hour plenary session in which each of the parties-the school management and the students- addressed the law makers. Speaker of the House, Mr. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, who presided over the plenary session, said “The house also demanded that the school management re-open the portal for  two days while carrying out the necessary repairs to allow the affected students register for the second semester of 2012/2013.” He also asked the school management to take stock of the damages done at the university during the crisis and carry out the necessary repairs. According to him, “The students union executive must write a letter of apology to the school, and all the students of the school must sign an undertaken to be of good behaviour.” Ikuforiji added that the House would raise a committee to look into the causes of the crisis and fish out the perpetrators for necessary actions.

GOOGLE APOLOGIZES FOR INTERNET GLITCH

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Google apologized Friday after the Internet giant’s widely used free email and an array of other services were disrupted by apparent software woes. “Earlier today (Friday), most Google users who use logged-in services like Gmail, Google+, Calendar and Documents found they were unable to access those services for approximately 25 minutes,” Google engineering vice president Ben Treynor said in a blog post. “For about 10 percent of users, the problem persisted for as much as 30 minutes longer.” Google did not disclose the full extent of the Gmail glitch but the brief outage was believed to have affected millions of people, including those using the service at work. Complaints were posted online from Europe, Canada, the United States and elsewhere. An online Google Apps tracking dashboard, which indicated that a dozen services — including Gmail and its social network Google+ — had experienced problems. “Whether the effect was brief or lasted the better part of an hour,...