Notable among those who attended the parade and carnival were the Ambassador of Nigeria to the United States, Dr. Uzoma Emenike and the Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations, Prof. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande. Mayor of New York Eric Adams and the Consul-General of Nigeria in New York, Amb. Lot Egopija and first Nigerian-American congressman, Adeoye Omolewa, also joined the revelers at the colourful parade. ADVERTISEMENT
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorched. That is to say, husbands who spend the torrid days of summer in air-conditioned offices reached by air-conditioned cars, buses or trains find it difficult to say no when overheated wives demand air conditioning at home. As a result, cooling units have become the smartest-selling home appliances after refrigerators and washing machines. Last year 2,200,000 U.S. families tried air conditioning for the first time.
As a health journalist, I've written the phrase “the COVID-19 pandemic” more times than I care to count in the four years since the World Health Organization (WHO) first used that term on March 11, 2020. But lately, the word “pandemic” has given me pause.
Maybe you’ve noticed it too: these days, a lot of people refer to the pandemic in the past tense. “During COVID,” they say, or, “when we were in the pandemic.
It was the Saturday after Memorial Day, and the comedian John Mulaney—perhaps the funniest man to ever spend a night with Bill Clinton—had come home to Chicago to reminisce about it with a few thousand of his former neighbors.
“I’d learned to play his campaign song on the piano. It was ‘Don’t Stop’ by Fleetwood Mac, from Rumours—an album written by and for people cheating on each other,” he said. “He let us know who he was right away.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has accused various tertiary institutions of conducting unauthorised admissions. The JAMB Registrar, Is-haq Oloyede, made these allegations during an admission policy meeting in Abuja on Thursday, July 18. The meeting, organised by JAMB, serves as a crucial platform for key stakeholders who play a vital role in the admission processes into tertiary institutions across the country, including vice-chancellors, registrars, rectors, and other principal officers from universities, polytechnics, colleges of education, and monotechnics.
When Chicago police arrested Joey Glimco on his first murder charge, the booking officer gave up counting Joey’s previous arrests, just listed them as “innumerable.”‘ Since that day in 1928, Tough Guy Glimco (alias Joseph Glinico, Joseph Glielmi. etc., etc.) has added a lot more arrests to his police record. Yet Joey Glimco, longtime extortion racketeer in Chicago’s West Side poultry markets, at age 50 is an official of the U.
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Kleenex tissue maker Kimberly-Clark Corp. is being sued for more than $500 million for allegedly falsely claiming their surgical gowns protect against Ebola.
California law firm Eagan Avenatti filed the suit Wednesday saying Kimberly-Clark continued to claim the ” Breathable High Performance Surgical Gown provided the highest protection, despite failing industry tests for protection against infectious diseases, including Ebola.
The law firm says millions of the gowns have been sold since 2011, putting health care workers and patients at “considerable risk,” reports Reuters.
Last week the New Jersey Assembly appropriated $35,000 for an investigation of the mayor of Wildwood, a hardened little resort town and fishing port between Atlantic City and Cape May. At the same time Wildwood’s Independent Taxpayers’ League announced they would circulate a petition demanding the Mayor’s resignation. Such news might pain an ordinary U. S. mayor, but not Wildwood’s 41-year-old Doris Warren Bradway. She is used to trouble. Since Republican Doris Bradway became New Jersey’s first woman mayor in 1933, her official acts have been investigated no less than ten times by grand juries, legislative and judicial bodies.
Speaking on the Naija 102.7 radio station, Nedu voiced his frustration regarding Christian's anger, and questioned the validity of the outrage. "The Olympics ceremony where they used drag queens for the last supper pictures,. I just went to ask people this question, why are you people complaining?" He asserted that since the Westerners introduced Africans to the Christian faith, their anger towards the Olympic board was misplaced.
imgurBrenna Martin displays her graduation gift
By any standard, Dr. Seuss’ Oh, The Places You’ll Go! is a great read. And Bryan Martin, a North Carolina dad, is hardly the first parent to purchase the volume for his graduating high-schooler. But Martin managed to one-up the sublime rhymer himself, incorporating in the book’s pages 13 years’ worth of hand-written teachers’ comments and insights about his daughter, Brenna.
When Martin first told Brenna, 18, he had a present for her, she thought she “was getting some cheesy graduation card.