UK ADOPTS IKOT EKPENE PRISONS AS MODEL IN AFRICA

The ultra modern Ikot Ekpene Prisons in Akwa Ibom, which boasts of the latest correctional facilities has been adopted as a Model Reformation Centre in Africa by the United Kingdom.
The governor of the state, Godswill Akpabio, mentioned this during the president and chairman of council, Nigerian Insitute of Management (Chartered), Dr. Micheal Olawale's courtesy visit to Uyo on Friday. The governor explained that the prison is to train the inmates for post-prison endeavors and to prepare and assist them in re-socializing.
This is commendable.

PIC OF THE DAY: PRESIDENT OBAMA PLAYING BASKETBALL

                                                                  Nice.

TEACHER HELPS STUDENTS CHEAT COS' " THEY'RE DUMB AS HELL"

Fifth Grade math teacher, Shayla Smith, has been accused of  giving students answers and changing wrong answers after collecting the tests.She said she helped her student cheat because "they're dumb as hell". Her words were, 'I had to give your kids, or your students, the answers because they're dumb as hell,'" Jones told test-cheating tribunal. She claims she didn't speak out earlier because she feared reproof or reprisal from the principal.

I know this is serious but I can't help it; hehehehehehehe.

LADY GAGA ON THE COVER OF VOGUE IS PHOTOSHOPED

Don't be fooled by how perfect celebrities look, mostly it's the power of photoshop. Lady Gaga donned a curve-hugging gown that seemed to perfectly accentuate her hourglass figure for the cover of Vogue's September issue, but a behind-the-scenes video of Gaga's hair-raising photo shoot shows the singer may have gotten the airbrush treatment. Hmm, they have slimmed down her waist, arm and jawline.


Chai, but they can fit to fool us en.

AURORA SHOOTING: SUSPECT CALLED A PSYCHIATRIST MINUTES BEFORE SHOOTING

Defense attorneys revealed in court on Thursday that the suspect in the Colorado shooting that left 12 people dead and 58 wounded, tried unsuccessfully to call his university psychiatrist nine minutes before he opened fire during a Batman movie premiere.

James Holmes placed the call to a number at a hospital at the University of Colorado,  where he could reach psychiatrist Lynne Fenton, defense attorney said.

It wasn't clear why he called Fenton, and she wasn't immediately available to talk to him. Holmes is accused in the July 20 shooting that left 12 people dead and 58 wounded.

The detail about the call came out during a hearing about Holmes' relationship with Fenton, to whom he mailed a package containing a notebook that reportedly contained violent descriptions of an attack.

Omg!! If only she had taken the call, the disaster might have been avoided.

JOURNALISTS MOURN VANGUARD ENTERTAINEMENT EDITOR

The Nigerian media was thrown into mourning yesterday over the sudden death of the Vanguard Newspaper’s Entertainment Editor, Ogbonnaya Amadi. The journalist, who would have marked his 50th birthday by December this year, was said to have died in his office after an asthma attack. His colleagues made efforts to rush him to the  nearby hospital for treatment but met with heavy traffic on the Mile 2-Apapa Express Way, Lagos. He died on the way to the hospital.

Family members, friends and media colleagues thronged his Ogba, Ikeja residence yesterday to console his grief-stricken widow and children, who were yet to come to terms with the news of the sudden death of their father and breadwinner.

So so sad. May God give his family the fortitude to bear this irreparable loss.

2012 FIFA U-20: FALCONETS QUALIFY FOR SEMI-FINALS

The Nigeria U-20 women’s national team, Falconets, have advanced to the semi- finals of the ongoing FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Japan by beating Mexico 1-0 in the first quarter final.
Desire Oparanozie scored the only goal during the second half extra time from a header across from right back, Ugo Njoku.

You go girls, Nigeria is proud of you.

PARALYMPICS: NIGERIAN WINS GOLD MEDAL, SETS WORLD RECORD

Nigeria's Yakubu Adesokan has won a gold medal in Power lifting and also sent the World record crashing on Thursday with his amazing 178 kg lift in his men’s 48 category which was over three times his body weight. This is the first gold for Nigeria at the Paralympics and this is a deserving compensation to Nigerians after our disappointing feat at the just concluded Olympics.

Well done.

LUGARD AIMIUWU: CBN SHOULD ENCOURAGE THE USE OF COINS

The President and Chairman of Council, National Institute of Marketing Nigeria, Chief Lugard Aimiuwu, advised Nigerians against taking positions on the issue of restructuring the country's currencies, but to explore other advantages the currency restructuring could bring about, especially the coin usage.

“Maybe they should be encouraged to support a culture of having coin boxes all over the place where people can pay for things in coins. For instance, the dual carriage rail system they say they are doing from Lagos to Ibadan; if they ask the passengers to pay with coins, that will support the culture of coin usage.

It is not professional to write off a policy without having facts and figures, but one thing that is very obvious to me is that if you have N5,000 in one note on the same size of paper for the other notes, the cost of producing it will be cheaper", he said.

The estimated cost of minting the proposed new currencies is alleged to be N40bn.

Do you agree with him?

CYNTHIA'S MURDER: PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF NIGERIA RELEASES STATEMENT

The Pharmaceutical  Society of Nigeria faulted the arraignment of the two pharmacists, Orji Osita and Maduakor Chukwunonso, for the murder of Cynthia Osokogu.
At a press conference on Thursday, the President, PSN, Mr. Azubike Okwor, said both pharmacists were people who should have been punished separately if at all.

Read the statement