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It was gathered that Chief Emmanuel had paid her bride last year after his wife of more than 40 years, Lady Eudora, with whom he had three sons and five daughters, died on 28 August 2011, aged 63. According to a family source, "he was distraught when his wife died and wanted to marry her immediately but was convinced by his kinsmen to wait for a while". Though his children are not in support of the marriage, they have to go along with it as they have been warned by their father to either accept it and co-operate or be cut off, a source revealed. With the traditional wedding out of the way, the church wedding will hold on September 21st, 2013 and they will be wedded by Rt Rev. Emmanuel Maduwuike, Bishop of Ikeduru Diocese of Anglican Communion at the Bishop’s chapel by 10am.  

Social observers have said that meetings are the third major time waster in the world of work. And that as much as 50% of work time is spent in meetings, either group meetings or one-on-one meetings. In the estimate of almost every one of them, at least 50% of this time is wasted. This means that as much as 25% of all working time is lost in meetings of one kind or another. As someone who have from a tender age been in organisations and have been saddled with various responsibilities that make attending meetings almost inevitable, I do not agree any less with them. At a point in my life, I remember contemplating severing myself from any form of social or faith-based organisation, just because of the enormous time they take from me, most of them in meetings. But I realized that if I did that, it would be suppressing an important need in my life; the need to matter, to contribute and to be recognized. And I would not also have been this much experienced and skilled, and lots of ...

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, on Sunday announced Tuesday Oct. 15 as Eid-el-Kabir. A statement issued in Sokoto by Prof. Sambo Wali, the Chairman of Sokoto Sultanate Advisory Committee on Religious Affairs, said this followed the sighting of the crescent from across the country on Saturday. “This is sequel to the declaration of Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013, as the first day of Zul-Hijja, 1434 AH, by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III. “The sultanate advisory committee on religious affairs at its meeting on Saturday, Oct. 5, received reports from various moon sighting committees across the country confirming the sighting of the new Moon of Zul-Hijja,1434 AH, on Saturday, which was the 29th day of ZulKi’ida,1434 AH,’’ the statement said. NAN reports that Eid-el-Kabir is celebrated world-wide on the 10th of Zul-Hijja, the 12th month of the Islamic calendar, and is marked by the slaughtering of ram after a special morning prayer. It comes a day after pilgrims...

About a week after President Jonathan sacked nine ministers, he has again sacked two more people. In a statement signed by his Special Adviser (Media & Publicity) Mr Reuben Abati, Pres. Jonathan announced the sack of two special advisers - Mrs. Joy Emordi, the Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters and Dr. Tunji Olagunju, the Special Adviser to the president on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) The statement said the sack is with immediate effect.

Hell was let loose yesterday at the Ahajioku Convention Centre in Owerri, the Imo State capital, when security aides  to Governor Rochas Okorocha, suddenly whisked the governor away from the centre following a bomb scare. An eyewitness told Saturday Mirror that, the governor who was holding a meeting with some political stakeholders in the state, was interrupted by his security aides, who broke protocol to alert him of imminent danger. The source, said that the attitude of the security operatives, which provoked fear among the audience resulted to a stampede, which left several people injured as they scampered to safety. According to the source, "Suddenly the security men started running helter skelter and cordoned off the podium to shield the Governor, so everybody started running in all direction and some of the people were trampled upon, the source who pleaded anonymity said. "But after the initial pandemonium, it was discovered that the course of the stampede was...

Real Madrid soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo is appealing to Florida officials to drop charges against an over-enthusiastic fan who was arrested during a match after rushing the field to embrace him. Ronaldo, one of the world's highest-paid athletes handled the incident calmly during a match in Miami in August, even chatting with the 19-year-old fan, and telling security officials to take it easy on him before he was carted away. The Portuguese striker is now asking prosecutors to drop charges against Ronald Gjoka, a Canadian student who faces two counts of disorderly conduct and trespassing as a result of the incident in front of 70 000 fans during an International Champions Cup match in Miami between Real Madrid and Chelsea. "I was playing at Sun Life Stadium last month when a fan entered the field," Ronaldo wrote in a hand-signed letter sent to the prosecutor. "We hugged, and we spoke for a while, until security arrived to escort him off the field. He ...

President Goodluck Jonathan has promised Nigerians steady power supply by the end of the first quarter of next year, citing government’s huge investment in power generation as the basis of his promise. Giving the assurance, yesterday, in Ajaokuta where he commissioned the National Integrated Power Project, NIPP, 434 Megawatts Geregu II Power Station in Ajaokuta, Kogi State, Jonathan noted that no nation can be industrialised without steady power supply, adding that his administration remained fully committed to power sector development. According to him, the commissioning was part of the programmes lined up by his administration to shore up power generation in the country, adding that despite the problems encountered in the process, the sheer determination of government had made it to remain focused on its realisation. “Without power, no country can industrialise. If we must industrialise, we must fix our power sector. This project is part of our commitment to providing elec...