FEC orders removal of universities from IPPIS
Posted on August 17, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has ordered the swift removal of universities from the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) platform. This decision reverses the federal government's previous approval. The directive was issued during a council meeting led by President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, shared the update on his verified X handle.
[Read More]Gospel singer Lanre Teriba attacked by gunmen in Lagos [Photos]
Posted on August 17, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
ThePage reports that the attack took place on Saturday, March 7, 2020, along the Berger end of the Lagos/ Ibadan expressway while the act was returning from an engagement. According to the report, the singer was returning from a wedding ceremony where he had gone to perform. Nigerian gospel singer, Lanre Teriba also known as Atorise is presently in the hospital following an attack by yet to identified gunmen suspected to be herdsmen.
[Read More]Japanese Soccer Team Urawa Reds Plays to Empty Stadium
Posted on August 17, 2024
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| Tandra Barner
Japanese soccer officials have found a novel way to prevent racist behavior in the stands: Don’t let the fans show up.
Officials ordered one of the top teams in Japan’s professional J-League to play in an empty stadium Sunday as punishment for a “Japanese only” banner that fans displayed during a game in Tokyo earlier this month.
That incident came amid rising concerns in Japan over nationalist sentiments. Japan is mired in ugly disputes with neighboring China and South Korea over territorial claims and historical issues.
[Read More]Juliette of the Herbs
Posted on August 17, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
To outsiders it sounds incredibly arcane: the life of Juliette de Bairacli Levy, an herbalist who specializes in holistic veterinary medicine. But tightly told story will be a plus on the fest circuit and should find a strong afterlife on cable and niche homevideo due to growing general interest in alternative medicine.
To outsiders it sounds incredibly arcane: the life of Juliette de Bairacli Levy, an herbalist who specializes in holistic veterinary medicine.
[Read More]Kit Harington Talkes Game of Thrones, Gunpowder on HBO
Posted on August 17, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
Game of Thrones star Kit Harington shifts into producing with Gunpowder, a miniseries in which he plays his real-life ancestor on his mother’s side, Catholic rebel Robert Catesby. Catesby was part of Britain’s 1605 Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament. Gunpowder airs on HBO nightly from Dec. 18 to Dec. 20. TIME spoke to Harington—currently at work on the final season of Thrones—about coming into his own as a producer and what he learned from his bosses on the Game of Thrones set.
[Read More]Medicine: The Foreign Route | TIME
Posted on August 17, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
With only a B average at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Ronald Koval of Dover, N.J., knew that he faced tough competition when he applied for admission to medical school back in 1965. So he was not surprised when each of his eight applications was rejected, one with a curt note wishing him success in another field. But Koval refused to abandon his ambition to become a doctor.
[Read More]Men Are More Satisfied By Bromances Than Their Relationships
Posted on August 17, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
Young men get more emotional satisfaction out of “bromances”—close, heterosexual friendships with other males—than they do out of romantic relationships with women, according to a small new study published in Men and Masculinities.
Intimate male friendships have become more socially acceptable in recent years, say the study authors, and that’s largely a good thing. But they caution that the shift could lead to weaker bonds among dating or married couples, or even reduce the likelihood of men and women pairing up at all.
[Read More]Minor League in History - On This Day
Posted on August 17, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
Events in Sport 1900-04-26 Newly renamed American League opener in Cleveland draws 6,500 (still as a minor league, was Western League) 1901-09-05 National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, better known as Minor League Baseball is formed at the Leland Hotel in Chicago 1902-06-15 Minor League's most lopsided baseball game: Corsicana 51; Texarkana 3 Justin Clark of Corsicana, Texas minors hits 8 home runs in 1 game 1909-06-19 1st baseball game, an exhibition between local Elks lodge teams, played under lights in Cincinnati, Ohio Babe Ruth Contract 1914-07-09 Boston Red Sox purchase future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth's contract from minor league Baltimore Orioles
[Read More]Nigerian Singer Adokiye Kyrian Offers Virginity to Boko Haram for Missing Girls
Posted on August 17, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
June 26, 2014 2:57 PM EDT
A Nigerian pop singer told the country’s Vanguard newspaper that she would offer up her virginity to the Islamist group Boko Haram in exchange for the safe return of about 300 girls who were kidnapped about two months ago in the Nigerian town of Chibok.
“I wish I could offer myself in exchange,” said up-and-coming pop singer Adokiye Kyrian.
“They are between 12 and 15 year old girls for Christ sake.
[Read More]Pedro Almodvar to Receive 2024 San Sebastian Donostia Career Achievement Award
Posted on August 17, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
Spain’s most iconic modern arthouse filmmaker, Pedro Almodóvar, will be honored by the country’s most prestigious festival, San Sebastian, with the Donostia Award for career achievement on Sept. 26.
Always a bridesmaid and only now a bride, Almodóvar has handed out his share of Donostia Awards in the past to the likes of Antonio Banderas, Al Pacino and Woody Allen.
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