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The battle of supremacy between the Peoples Democratic Party and its National Secretary, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, has been shifted to the Independent National Electoral Commission. Following a letter by Oyinlola to the commission yesterday notifying it about the Court of Appeal judgement that reinstated him to his position, the party sent a letter to the same commission today informing it that Oyinlola and three other persons have been suspended from the party. The others “suspended” are Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, Dr. Sam Sam Jaja and Amb. Ibrahim Kazaure. The National Working Committee letter, signed by party Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and dated November 12, 2013 comes one week after the pronouncement of the Court of Appeal.  It accuses the four men of engaging in anti-party activities in violation of the provisions of the PDP Constitution.

World Trade Center has been crowned the tallest building in the Americas, standing at a symbolic (and now official) 1,776 feet. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, an international body that determines the heights of skyscrapers, and ruled that the spire atop One World Trade is an architecturally significant feature of the building -- not an antenna. Council chairman Timothy Johnson said that the spire was clearly "the end of the architectural expression of the building," adding at a press conference today that "for us it was very clear that it was a spire and not an antenna." The decision makes the official height of the building 1,776 feet, not 1,368 feet, which is the height of the building's roof. It also allows One World Trade to beat out Chicago's Willis Tower as the tallest in the US. Willis Tower's antenna does not count towards its official "architectural height." Internationally, the Council is now projecting that O...

Tati Neves' press tour continues. The Brazilian model and bodybuilder who filmed Justin Bieber sleeping in bed last week is quoted extensively in a new interview with British tabloid The Sun -- in which the 27-year-old claims that, yes, she and Bieber, 20, slept together, and provides intimate details of their alleged tryst. "Take it from me, he's well endowed — and very good in bed," Neves is quoted as telling the Sun . "A man must know what to do to make me happy -- Justin did all that and more." Neves apparently tells the paper that she met the touring "Boyfriend" singer at a Rio de Janeiro club, Zax, when a member of his entourage invited him back to his rented nearby house for an after party.

Written by   Joe Eno       A   15 year boy, Asuquo Edet from  Akwa Ibom State - was mid last week tortured for more than four hours before finally axed on the head to a state of coma by assailants numbering about ten over allegation of using witchcraft power to kill his father.  N arrating his ordeal in the hands from those he called ‘local cultists’ to newsmen, Asuquo, who hails from Ikon- Edikor, Udung Uko Local Government Area, said he was reconciled with his parents few months ago by an Eket based non-profit organization, the Child’s Right and Rehabilitation Network (CRARN) that runs a centre for witch stigmatized children, having lived there for over a year. 

It has been revealed that members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) last week rejected food and drinks offered by the Presidency during a 13-hour meeting between the federal government delegation, led by President Goodluck Jonathan and the ASUU delegation, headed by Dr. Nasir Fagge, On the federal government delegation, were President Jonathan, Vice President Namadi Sambo, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim, Chief of Staff to the President, Mike Oghiadome, Ministers of Education, Finance and Labour, Nyesom Wike, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Emeka Nwogu, respectively and the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Julius Okojie.

I think most of us tie one necktie knot as we don’t have an easy guide showing us why & how to experiment with others ways to tie a tie. Well now you do! Here are 18 very clear & succinct diagrams showing you how to tie various necktie knots for work & casual wear. The Knots listed are: Four-In-Hand Knot Half Windsor Knot Full Windsor Knot Nicky Knot Bow-Tie Knot Kelvin Knot Oriental Knot Pratt Knot St Andrew Knot Balthus Knot Hanover Knot Plattsburgh Knot Grantchester Knot Victoria Knot Cafe Knot Eldredge Knot Trinity Knot Christensen Knot Also – note that we give the features of each. How common is the tie knot, difficulty to tie, knot size, and knot shape.

The Chairman of G.U.O. Motors Limited, Chief Godwin Okeke, on Monday commenced his evidence-in-chief at an Onitsha High Court in Anambra State, presided over by Justice Chudi Nwankwo, in respect of his abduction by kidnappers in Onitsha on Sunday, August 23, 2009. Chief Okeke who spoke under oath, shortly after the court granted a motion to file and serve additional prove of evidence with respect to one of the suspected kidnappers, Alexander Onyinanya, his employee, filed by the prosecution counsel, Chris Ajugwe with Mrs. N. D. Wilcox. Below is what Chief Okeke said about his kidnap after Church on a Sunday morning...

Governor Sullivan Chime and his estranged wife, Clara, have decided to go to their separate ways after he and his security men evicted Clara out of the Government House in Enugu on Monday. Following her exist from the seat of power in the State, Clara has been crying and blaming herself for not listening to those who told her earlier to dump her husband when he was battling a serious cancer... Clara said she had been under pressure to remain as Governor Chime's wife. She said she would have walked away from the marriage during the period Chime was sick and was away for five months, but remained on “very compassionate grounds.”

Five days after a promise to provide information on how Coscharis, which supplied the two armoured cars now at the center of a major scam in the aviation sector, paid BMW for the vehicles, the company’s management has disappeared from the radar of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The agency’s investigators last week grilled Josiah Samuels, the Managing Director of Coscharis Motors Limited, and he reportedly confessed that he was unsure how to find the information relating to payments made the BMW Group in Germany.