Saturday 13 September 2014

View inside America's most expensive house valued for $139million

Who wan buy? America's most expensive home is up for sale and it could be all yours for just $139m

The massive estate named 'Le Palais Royal' - The Royal Palace, is situated in the seafront of Millionaires Mile, Hillsboro Beach, Florida. It boasts of a 22-carat gold leaf gate, a $2million marble staircase and the first-ever IMAX Theatre to be contracted for private use.

The estate, which spans over 60,000 square feet, comes complete with 11 bedrooms, 17 bathrooms, 4,500-square-foot pool, a 12-foot cascading waterfall, double loop LED-lit waterslide, fire pit, swim-up bar for outdoor entertaining, a 492-foot private dock that can accommodate up to a 185-foot mega yacht and an underground garage with parking for over 30 cars.

It is the most expensive home publicly listed for sale in the US. See inside the house after the cut...



Wednesday 10 September 2014

Federal Government set to ban ‘ponmo’

PONMO
POMO
Federal Government may have concluded plans to ban sale and widespread consumption of hides and skins(Ponmo)which is a delicacy to most Nigerians.
This indication emerged Tuesday  when the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina called for competent regulations that would check the consumption and sale of the product.


He said this at the 3rd joint anniversary of Animal Science Association of Nigeria (ASAN) and Nigeria Institute of Animal Science held at the University of Ibadan.

Monday 1 September 2014

Chime redeploys impeached dep gov to civil service

Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi
A former deputy governor of Enugu State, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi, has been redeployed to the state civil service.
A source in the Government House informed our correspondent that the development followed Onyebuchi’s impeachment, and the subsequent appointment of a new deputy governor.
Onyebuchi was a staff of the Enugu State Civil Service before his appointment to political office.
However, the source, who did not wish to be named, did not disclose the particular ministry, department or agency of the government to which Onyebuchi was redeployed.
The former deputy governor’s current rank in the service was also not disclosed.

The Essential Dora Akunyili Lives- Ojo Maduekwe

A few months before Professor Dora Akunyili was appointed National Conference member, she sent me a text message with a United States number to say she had just been through a major health challenge but was improving. I eventually met her in Nigeria some weeks later.
For someone who had been through the valley of the shadow of death, she looked remarkably strong, and was clearly vibrant. She definitely was not the same Dora that was shown on the internet when she took her place at the National Conference shortly after I visited her. It was subsequently argued on the social media, partly out of genuine concern by some, and partly out of other considerations by others, as to whether it would have been better for her to excuse herself from the rigors of the conference and proceed wherever, to take care of herself.
I read some of her responses to those suggestions at the time, and I said that was vintage Dora. Dora was too full of life to live it incrementally. Her passing away in the manner, time and context in which she took her final bow, brought to mind Dylan Thomas’ plea to a dying relative:
“Do not go gentle into that good night...
Rage, rage against the dying of the light”

Black Nigerian woman gives birth to white baby (Photos)

 A mother has beaten odds of a million-to-one by giving birth to a baby who appears to be of a different race.Catherine Howarth, 32, from Milton Keynes, is Nigerian by heritage, and so was, at first, a little taken aback when she saw her son Jonah for the first time.

With his pale skin, green eyes and light brown hair, Jonah, now three months old, looks like any other new-born baby - but, when seen in his mother's arms, his uniqueness is obvious.
Recalling the moment she delivered Jonah in Milton Keynes Hospital on June 1, his mother told the SundayMirror:

INCREDIBLE!!! Brazilian man born with his head upside-down

A man born with physical disabilities so severe his head is Upside-down has defied the odds to become an inspirational public speaker.

Claudio Vieira de Oliveira, 37, was born with his neck folded back on itself, as well as badly deformed legs and almost no use of his arms and hands. Doctors told his mother to stop feeding him as a newborn as they believed he had no chance of survival. But Claudio from Monte Santo, Brazil, has overcome his extreme disadvantages to graduate as an accountant and become a public speaker. Continue...


Ebola: Female doctor tests positive in Port Harcourt

A female doctor who was on admission at the Green Hart hospital where late Port Harcourt doctor, Iyke Enemoah, was treated after he got infected with the deadly virus by an ECOWAS official, has tested positive to Ebola.

Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu revealed this today September 1st during a meeting of the National Emergency Council on Ebola outbreak in Nigeria. Continue...