MAMA 2010 AWARDS WINNERS....

Lagos, 11 December 2010: Congolese artist Fally Ipupa, and Nigeria’s 2Face led the winners at the third edition of the MTV Africa Music Awards with Airtel (MAMA), each taking home two trophies at the music awards ceremony at the Eko Expo Hall, Lagos on 11 December 2010. Nominated in four separate categories, Fally Ipupa scored wins for Best Video (“Sexy Dance”) and Best Francophone act while 2Face, a former MAMA winner from 2009, picked up trophies for Artist of the Year and Best Male. Cabo Snoop notched up a music first for Angola by becoming the first ever Angolan winner at MAMA 2010, taking home the prize for Best Lusophone act. The inaugural Best Anglophone award went to Kenyan Gospel breakthrough artist Daddy Owen – the first time a gospel artist has won a MAMA. Song...

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Nigerian footballer collapses and dies on the pitch

Monday, December 13, 2010 Nigerian footballer collapses and dies on the pitch Emmanuel Ogoli The camp of Nigeria Premier League side, Ocean boys is in mourning as their left full back; Emmanuel Ogoli slumped and died during a League match yesterday Sunday Dec 12, in Yenagoa. The incident occurred in the 39th minute of their League game at home to Niger Tornadoes but Ogoli was confirmed dead on the way to the hospital in an ambulance. May his soul rest in peace...am...

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The World's Fattest Woman

Meet Terri Smith: The World's Fattest Woman 49 year old mother of one, Terri Smith, is believed to be the World's Fattest Woman, weighing 700lb. She is confined to her bedroom in her Ohio home unable to move, stand or roll over by herself. Suffering from severe headaches which doctors fear could stem from a brain problem, Terri urgently needs a brain scan - but is too big to fit inside an MRI machi...

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America's Youngest Billionaires

Facebook catapults three 20-somethings onto the list, but the youngest isn't who you think it is. The Facebook phenomenon strikes again, this time helping catapult two new 20-somethings into the ranks of America's richest for the first time and bringing down the average age of America's richest ever so slightly to 65.7. Only eight American billionaires are under the age of 40, and three of them co-founded Facebook. The youngest? It isn't who you think it is. The world's youngest billionaire is now 26-year-old Dustin Moskovitz, who is eight days younger than his former Harvard roommate and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. The social-networking site's first chief technology officer, Moskovitz left in 2008 and started Asana, a software...

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Nigerian Slangs

So peoples, LGT! 1. LWKM - Laugh wan kill me 2. LWKMD - Laugh wan kill me die 3. MIDG - make i dey go 4. WGYL - we go yarn later 5. IGA - I gbadun am 6. ICS - I can't shout 7. DJM - Don't jealous me 8. WBDM - Who born d maga 9. UDC - U de craze 10. NUS - Na u sabi 11. WSU - who send u 12. OSABZ - over sabi 13. ITK - I too know 14. WDH - wetin dey happen 15. NDH - nutin dey happen 16. FMJ - free me jo 17. BBP - bad bele people 18. HUD - how u dey 19. WKP - waka pass 20. BBG - baby girl 21. KKL - Kokolette 22. MML - mamalette 23 GFF- Gbono fe le fe le (e.g., she GFF) 24. NTT - Na true talk 25. IKU - It koncain u? 26. NDM - no dull me 27. LGT - let's goo there 28. IFSA - I for slap am 29. IGDO - I go die o 30. YB - Yess boss 31. NLT - No long thing 32. 2GB - 2 gbaski (e.g., the song 2GB!) 33....

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Eko Atlantic City

Eko Atlantic City, Lagos Eko Atlantic is a dynamic new city that will rise from the Atlantic Ocean, adjacent to Victoria Island in Lagos, Nigeria, the biggest and fastest growing city in West Africa. It will be built on land that is being reclaimed from the sea, and is now for sale. Eko Atlantic will become home to at least 250,000 residents, with commuter volume expected to exceed 150,000 people daily. In essence it is a huge reclamation project, replacing land that was lost during a hundred years of severe coastal erosion. Complex marine works engaging world-renowned consultants and contractors to roll back surging waves from the Atlantic Ocean have already...

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