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According to a shocking report by National Daily Newspaper, a 7-month pregnant factory worker was beaten so badly by her Lebanese boss that she lost her baby. Workers in a Lagos based packaging and printing company, Toppan Packaging Company Limited located on Ladipo Oluwole in Ikeja Industrial Estate could not believe what they witnessed on Friday the 13th December 2013. When the shift manager, a Lebanese; Kaveh Noine beat up the Cleaning Unit Supervisor Mrs. Alice Ossai in their presence, due to what he deemed negligence on her part, his grouse, a portion of the factory is littered with dirt and she failed in her responsibility to rein in her team to keep the factory floor spick and span. Frantic efforts by Ossai to explain why the portion of the factory was littered with dirt, even after she was assaulted was rebuffed by Noine who shouted her down and asked her to come with him to his office fuming with rage; exasperated staff members on duty went in with Ossai in a bid to collect...

The strongest hint yet that President Goodluck Jonathan will seek re-election in 2015 has emerged in the form of a prayer request. Jonathan's undeclared ambition has contributed in heating up the polity and was one of the issues raised by former president Olusegun Obasanjo in his recent hard-hitting 18-page open letter in which he demanded that Jonathan should keep his promise to do only one term. Even though the Nigerian leader has not publicly declared that he will seek re-election, his ambition is well known to people in the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja. Indeed, worshippers at the Aso Rock Chapel have been requested to intensify prayers for Jonathan, who would have ruled Nigeria for six years by May 2015, to succeed in his re-election quest. In the Aso Rock Chapel "Prayer Guide" for this month of December 2013, worshippers are urged to "pray that the crises rocking the ruling party, the PDP will not mar the party's chances of victory in the 2015 ge...