Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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Korea insist on World Cup team
August 11 friendly South Korea football federation has insisted that Nigeria, parade the same players that featured in the 2010 World Cup group B encounter in a proposed August 11 international friendly in Seoul, South Korea.
Nigerian striker, Yakubu Aiyegbeni fumble infront of South Korea goal post in South Africa. The Korean are insisting on taking the Eagles again
He said that the NFF was taking the match seriously and would soon meet to take action on the Korea request.
South Korea showed Nigeria the exit door at SA 2010 in their last group B match in Durban. Nigeria had gone ahead, but the Koreans equalised and took the lead.
They were heading for victory until Yakubu Aiyegbeni scored from the spot to level the game. Yakubu missed a begging chance in that match.
Nigeria and Korea so far in their encounters have played four times, with the Asians winning two and the other two ended in a draw, the last one being the group B World Cup match in Durban.
We ‘ll use strength and speed against Mexico, Falconets Coach
Nigeria’s Esther Sunday is pursued by Japan’s Emi Nakajima, left, and Shoko Yamada.
The encounter that will decide the group and probably a fourth successive quarter_final place for the Nigerian girls.
Coach Egan Adat is confident his wards will rise to the occasion and he owes his confidence to the to the combination up front of Ebere Orji and Desire Oparanozie.
Soon after beating Japan, the coach said his players were more clinical in front of goal. He looked forward to the match against Mexico with optimism.
“I’m very pleased and happy for my players. But we now need to focus on Mexico, our upcoming opponents. We’re not quite there yet – we need to make sure of our place in the next round in the final group match,”
Continuing, coach Egan said, “As I said after our opening draw with England, my players have a winning mindset. In the first game, all we were lacking was that little bit of luck you need to claim three points. Against Japan our game clicked into place right from the kick_off, and we overcame them with our strength and speed.”
Nigerian forward Ebere Orji was confident. ”We try to stamp our style of play on games, by controlling possession and attacking in numbers,” said Orji, who with three assists has played a key role in all of Nigeria’s goals thus far.
“Many of the players in the squad know each other from our New Zea land 2008 campaign and that familiarity extends to the field of play The match between Nigeria and Mexico comes up from 2 pm Nigerian time
My regret as single mother — Monalisa Chinda
Monalisa Chinda
By Aaramide Pius
Nollywood, screen goddess, Monalisa Chinda is no doubt, a beauty to behold any day. She is rave of the moment and she is sizzling hot at this time. Lisa who broke up with her erstwhile husband barely some months ago bares her mind in this extensive interview with Aramide Pius.
She spoke on her challenges as a single mother, her career and what life has taught her. Excerpt;
What has changed ever since you became a Glo ambassador?
Well nothing really in terms of my career. Only that I have to go Glo events. You know being an ambassador, you have to go their events and programmes. It has also made me realize that I’m not just an actress but that people are actually watching me. It has given me more self belief that I’m being noticed and appreciated for what I do. It is a privilege.
What is the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning?
I say my prayers after which I cleanse my face. After doing that I rush into the gym to work out.. I gym four hours everyday. Two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening, four hours of work out everyday.
Are you a colorful person?
Yes I love colours. You can see my house, it is a reflection of who I am. I’m a very colourful person and into interiors too. I love Peach, Pink and colours of that nature. I love babyish colours; I have always loved that since I was a child.
Are you a designer freak?
I love good and quality things, it doesn’t have to be tied to a particular name. There so many beautiful things out there that are not tagged to any name and you have some stuffs too that are good and made by designers that are not popular and they are really good stuffs. So for me, good quality is my watch word, not really the name of the designer on it.
With your busy schedule and the nature of traffic in Lagos, do you drive yourself or you have a chauffeur?
Yes I do drive myself. The traffic at our end in Lekki is timing. If you do not know how to time your way around Lagos, you will not find it funny at all. For instance, if I’m going out for the day, I will make sure that by the time I’m dropping my child off at school, I’m already dressed for my outing.
If I leave around 8 am, the traffic will not be as congested as it will be later in the day. Shooting around Lekki makes it better for me because of proximity.
So which programme do you love the most and that you watch?
I love to watch comedies because I love to laugh a lot. There is a particular comedy programme that I love to watch all the time.
There is also this programme where primary school questions are asked adults but then the adults have to rack their brains to get answers. I love the programme a lot. Such things trip me.
What is the most beautiful experience you have ever had?
Having my baby is that most beautiful experience I have had.
What is the craziest thing a fan has told you?
I can actually remember the day when a six year old baby who must have watched one of my movies the previous night where I may have acted like a bitch, saw me. Immediately, he just sat opposite me starring at me thinking of what to do to me.
Next he rolled a piece of paper and threw it at me. When the mother saw him, she was mad at him. He then came close to me to tell me he was sorry.
What is your favorite day of the week?
Well may be Sundays. You know after going to church to worship, you come home and rest or you go visiting family friends and all that but really, I don’t care about any day of the week.
Can you tell the greatest challenge that you have had to face in life?
I would say that the challenge is that right now I’m a single mother which is not exactly very rosy.
Of course there is mixed feeling when you are out there alone wit the child because of the different ways people see single parenthood. What really bothers me is the fact that the child does not have a father figure at the moment.
It is quite a challenge because I grew up with both of my parents living together and what has happened to me is something I never could have thought would happen to me.
But I had to take a drastic decision because of my life. I am happy to be where I am however and I do not have any regrets.
How is your daughter adjusting to single parenthood, is she coping?
She is fine but I really don’t know how to answer the question. She is there and she is fine.
Does she not ask after daddy?
She does not know who daddy is.
Really?
Yes, she doesn’t know who daddy is.
Could your being at the top of your career at the moment be associated with the fact that you are now on your own?
Yes I’m more peaceful with myself now. I’m at peace with my creator and I have no fear of anything that is going to happen. I’m as free as a bird to do anything I want to that which is good.
I already started up my charity work which I was not able to do when I was in bondage. Right now, I’m more pleased; I’m more creative, I’m much stronger…
I finally confronted my fears because then, I was usually afraid of the next moment.
But now, I have taken the bull by the horn and I’m bolder, I’m more confident and I don’t think that there is anything that will happen to me now that will make my legs wobble. No! I will stay strong. I think that is it.
Omotola, Cossy in Lifestyle
The star-studded soap is part of the effort by the veteran actor to sensitise the populace on the adverse effects of drug abuse in our society, using the medium of the tube.
Omotola
Adams, a former Cartoon Editor of Vanguard Newspapers said in a chat with HVP that the soap, currently running on LTV Channel 8, Lagos, will be returned on Super Screen where it ran during its first season, and TVC respectively.
The soap is the brainchild of Paul Adams and his wife.
Lifestyle, according to Adams, is a product of passion. He has a strong desire to enthrone a society devoid of drug addiction.
“My passion is to advocate a drug-free society or relatively low participation of our youths in the use and abuse of harmful drugs,”Adams said.
While emphasizing that the soap is part of his noble contribution towards sanitizing the society and making it a safe place to live in, Adams explained that he has a desire to use the soap to highlight the activities of the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
Being a personal effort, the 25-minute soap according to him, stresses the need for government agencies to deem it necessary to support a project of this magnitude in order to actualize its mission.
“We are putting the project together to discourage youths and adults from using and trafficking in harmful drugs. I believe that we all owe it as a duty to contribute towards sanitizing our society and making it a safe place to live in.”
“Lifestyle is about life, it’s about reality and it’s about living. It also teaches that it doesn’t matter where you’ve been, you can live a new life apart from drugs, violence and crime.”
Adams however described the soap as “a contemporary drama serial on drug abuse, journalism, business, love, family and religion.”
Set in metropolitan Lagos, Lifestyle mirrors happenings in our society with a view to providing positive reinforcements to valuable norms like good business ethics, moral upbringing, fidelity in marriage, genuine faith in God and clean drug-free living amongst values.
At the center of the intriguing story is the Pataro family, headed by Chief Temple Pataro(Festus Agbueboh) a rich, influential business magnate and unknown to his family, a drug baron. His wife is Gwendolyn Pataro (Ngozi Ezeonu), a religious house wife with a questionable background that remains undisclosed to her family.
Their daughter is Joy Pataro and their son, Tony Pataro(Tuvi James) is an undergraduate drug-abuser.
“Lifestyle is an anti-drug campaign.. We have been at it for awhile. And we just ended the editing of Season 2. We want to start off Season 3 in earnest,” Adams, who has acted in several movies and soaps relayed to HVP.”
Nude photos: It wasn’t me, says Wande Coal
Wande Coal
Multiple award winning artiste, Wande Coal, real name Ojosipe Oluwatobi Wande Jnr, has said he was not the person in the controversial nude pictures which appeared on social networking site, Twitter, which allegedly showed him lying naked on a bed.
He said there was no way the person in the picture could have been him, adding that whomever was responsible for spreading the lies must have used Photoshop to superimpose his head on another man’s naked body.
Coal said he and his attorneys were still investigating the matter and would proceed with legal actions once they identify those behind the circulation of the pictures.
Speaking in the same vein, D’banj, who said he was in the United States when he heard the news, lamented that people could descend so low to do things that were capable of extinguishing the glittering career of Wande Coal. He described Wande as a humble, talented young man who all members of the Mo’ Hits were proud of.
He, however, admitted that the controversy had catapulted Wande Coal to international stardom.
Mystery as Nigerian couple gives birth to white baby in UK
Ben & Angela Ihegboro with baby Nmachi
LONDON—A BLACKcouple, Ben and Angela Ihegboro, has amazed genetics experts, as their newly born baby, Nmanchi, is a white, blue-eyed blonde.
The couple, of Woolwich, south London, have two other children: four-year-old, Chisom, and sister, Dumebi, 2.
According to a report in the Sun of London, Ben, 44, a railway customer services adviser, said: he and his wife just sat there after the birth staring at her for ages – not saying anything.
parents with newborn Nmachi with other children; Dumebi and Chisom
He said: “In
“The first thing I said was ‘What the flip?’, he recalled. Ben added later that: “Of course, she’s mine. My wife is true to me. Even if she hadn’t been, the baby still wouldn’t look like that.”
Nmachi, whose name means “Beauty of God” in Nigerian parlance, was born at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup, Kent, where doctors there told them she is not an albino.
Ben, who went to Britain with Angela five years ago and works with South Eastern trains said: “She doesn’t look like an albino child anyway – not like the ones I’ve seen back in Nigeria or in books. She just looks like a healthy white baby.”
He went on: “My mum is a black Nigerian although she has a bit fairer skin than mine.”
Angela, 35, declared that Nmachi’s colour doesn’t matter. “She’s a miracle baby. But still, what on earth happened here? However, the child has baffled the genetics experts because neither Ben nor wife Angela has any mixed-race family history.
We don’t know of any white ancestry. We wondered if it was a genetic twist. But even then, what’s with the long curly blonde hair?”
DNA test to verify paternity
Chisom, the couple’s four-year-old son, was quoted as remarking: “We are a black family. Suddenly we have a white sister.” Ben also noted “We are baffled too and want to know what happened, but we understand life is very strange.”
It was not immediately made clear whether or not a DNA test was done to verify her paternity. Often described as a “fingerprint,” DNA is more comparable to a “body print” inclusive of internal workings and future traits and is often almost 100 percent exact.
However, Prof. Bryan Sykes, Head of Human Genetics at Oxford University and Britain’s leading expert, called the birth “extraordinary” He said: “In mixed race humans, the lighter variant of skin tone may come out in a child – and this can sometimes be startlingly different to the skin of the parents.
This might be the case where there is a lot of genetic mixing, as in Afro-Caribbean populations. But in Nigeria there is little mixing.”
Sykes said both parents would have needed “some form of white ancestry” for a pale version of their genes to be passed on. He added: “The hair is extremely unusual.
Even many blonde children don’t have blonde hair like this at birth.” The expert said some unknown mutation was the most likely explanation. “The rules of genetics are complex and we still don’t understand what happens in many cases.”
Genetic mutation
Other experts, however, propose that some form of unknown racial or genetic mutation was the most likely explanation for Nmachi’s colour. A genetic expert,
Dr. Rick Kittles who runs a genetic tracing company, African Ancestry Inc.,
described “race” as white or black, and more of a social concept than a real biological concept.”
In his words: “Race is based on two things: skin colour and ancestry. You can’t really (see) somebody’s ancestry, but you can tell their skin colour.” According to him, while physical features are determined by a small number of genes, genes do not determine race specifically.
Kittles feels strongly that race and ethnicity are separate. He argues that genes determining physical features do not determine internal makeup or predisposition to certain diseases.
Kittles who had always been interested in genetics in African populations started working on collecting data many years ago and his from studies determined that three out of 10 African men had European genetic heritages.
Up to 85 percent of Kittles’ African Ancestry’s clients are an exact match with ethnic groups in the database. The other 15 percent are closely related.
Jega reads riot act to commissioners
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega
By Ben Agande
ABUJA—THE National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, yesterday, ordered resident electoral commissioners not to accept any form of assistance from state governments as doing so would compromise their independence.
Jega who was swearing in new resident electoral commissioners at the INEC headquarters, said as the commission moved towards the conduct of the next general elections, there was need for a “reflection on our past practices so as to learn from them,” noting that even when assistance were freely offered by state governments, “approval for accepting such assistance must be obtained from the commission.”
He told the resident electoral commissioners: “Reports reaching the commission indicate that there is a need for caution in the relationship between Resident Electoral Commissioners and state governments.
“The practice by some RECs in the recent past of going cap-in-hand to state governments for assistance is to be discouraged because it is capable of undermining your independence. RECs are advised to get in touch with the national headquarters to address whatever problems they may face.
Even in instances where financial assistance is freely offered as is done to other federal agencies, approval for accepting such assistance must be obtained from the commission. You will agree with me that such measures are essential in ensuring confidence in your work.”
The INEC chairman noted that the conduct of credible elections in the country was feasible and urged the RECs to do their best in achieving the objective.
On the Voters Register, Jega said: “The success of this exercise would depend on the RECs” adding that they should make serious assessment of their operational readiness and capabilities at the state and local government offices for this exercise, and for subsequent on as we move towards the election.
He urged them to work together in harmony to satisfy the yearnings of Nigerians for a credible, free and fair elections, adding: “Let us conduct our affairs responsibly, with honesty, integrity and impartiality.”
New INEC commissioners named
Meantime, President Goodluck Jonathan has submitted names of two more commissioners for the Independent National Electoral Commission to replace those earlier dropped because of their membership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Similarly, the President also submitted the names of Justices of the Court of Appeal for confirmation as Justices of the Supreme Court.
Those nominated for confirmation as commissioners in the Independent National Electoral Commission are Ambassador Mohammed Ahmed Wali, Northwest, and Dr Christopher Okubai Morgan, North Central.
President Goodluck said the appointees were “suitable replacement for confirmation by the distinguished Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
Nominations for Supreme Court justices
Those nominated for appointment as Supreme Court justices are Justice S. Galadima, North Central Zone, Justice of Court of Appeal, and Justice B. Rose Vivour, South West Zone, Justice of Court of Appeal.
President Jonathan in his letter said their appointments were in conformity with Section 231 (2) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic which gives the President powers to appoint a justice of the Supreme Court acting on recommendations of the National Judicial Commission, NJC, and subject to confirmation by the Senate.
According to the President, “these appointments have been necessitated by the recent retirements from the service of Justice I.L. Kutigi, North Central Zone, and Justice B.O. Aderemi, South West Zone.”
Suspect killed in P-Harcourt Army Barracks
PORT HARCOURT—ONE person suspected to be on a sinister mission was gunned down in the early hours of yesterday, at the Port Harcourt Army Barracks otherwise called Bori Camp, Rivers State.
Commenting on the incident, the Public Relations Officer of the barracks, Major Aminu Illyasu, said the suspect gunned down was with two others and they had tried to jump into the barracks through the fence at about 2am.
He said soldiers on patrol ran into them and two escaped when they sighted the soldiers. He did not say what the intention of the men were, meanwhile, there were speculations that the suspects were probably armed robbers, who were running from the law and felt jumping into the barracks would be a safe place for them.
According to another account of the incident, the suspects may be on a mission to attack the barracks.
NDDC boss makes case for improved healthcare in N-Delta
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mr. Chibuzor Ugwoha, has reiterated the need for improved and affordable health care delivery for communities in the Niger Delta region.
Speaking at the flag-off of a weeklong NDDC/Pro Health Free medical programme at the Catholic Hospital, Obosima, Ohaji Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State, the Managing Director, who was represented by Dr George Uzonwane, an Assistant Director, said the call became necessary because the attendant consequences of oil exploration and exploitation have brought untold hardship on the people, especially exposure to diseases.
He said it was for this reason that the NDDC was intervening in the health sector and urged the people to take advantage of the free medical programme and fight against endemic disease to stay healthy.
In an address, His Royal Highness Eze P. Onyeukwu, lauded the free health care programme, pointing out that the people of Obosima and its environs have benefitted greatly from the programme.
Also speaking, Coordinator of Pro-Health International, Dr Abiodun Aderibigbe, disclosed that about 3,500 patients were treated for various ailments during the programme.
Oppose Jonathan, face God?s wrath ? Cleric
UGHELLI—THOSE opposed to the 2011 presidential ambition of Dr Goodluck Jonathan, have been warned to either reverse their stance or face the wrath of God.
Handing down the warning in Ughelli, Delta State, founder of the Jesus is Real Ministry, Ughelli, Apostle Charles Ometan, said the emergence of Dr Jonathan as President of the country was divine.
Ometan said, “the Lord said to me in the month of May, that those against Goodluck Jonathan in the year 2011 will have bad luck. And the Lord said to me, ‘Announce it to this great nation, that the nation must hear this.’ So I have no choice but to do that which the Lord asked me to do.
“Goodluck Jonathan is the hand of God. He is the finger of God for this nation. God has appointed him so that he can do that which God wants him to do for this nation. My advice for the people of this great nation is that everybody from the East, the West, the North and South should work with Goodluck Jonathan, so that this nation can move forward.”
On how he would reconcile his vision with the agitation of the Northern, who are insisting that the presidency should be in the North in 2011, he said the presidency was never zoned to the North and that President Jonathan would only be completing the 1st and 2nd term of his master, late President Umaru Yar’Adua by 2015.
He said, “I am not only talking to Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, leaders but the people of the nation as whole because if you go against what God has assigned, Goodluck Jonathan was not the person that was elected into the position, it is the hand of God for this nation.
“Even the South_South, it was not something that they bargained for. You will agree with that many Southerners did accept Goodluck Jonathan becoming the President of this country. If there were to be election, the people of the South would not have voted him,” he added.
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