The search is on for Nigeria's FIVE greatest LIVING LEGENDS.
Criteria For Nomination
•Selfless Service
•Enduring Achievements
•Sincerity of Purpose
•Resilience
•Patriotism
•Uprightness
•Respectability
•Incorruptibility
Check out the list as presented by SILVERBIRD GROUP/VANGUARD
1. Prof Dora akunyuli
2. Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu
3. Olusegun Obasanjo
4. Alhaji Balarebe musa
5. Chief Gani Fawehinmi
3. Olusegun Obasanjo
4. Alhaji Balarebe musa
5. Chief Gani Fawehinmi
6. Chief Akintola Williams
7. Wole Soyinka
8. Chinua Achebe
9. King Sunny Ade
10. Chief Anthony Enahoro
11. General Yakubu Gowon
12. Prof Pat Utomi
13. Alhaji Aliko Dangote
14. Emeka Emegwali
15. David Dofinone
10. Chief Anthony Enahoro
11. General Yakubu Gowon
12. Prof Pat Utomi
13. Alhaji Aliko Dangote
14. Emeka Emegwali
15. David Dofinone
16. Cardinal Olubunmi Okojie
17. Chief Emeka Anyaoku
18. Kanu Nwankwo
19. Hakeem Olajuwon
20. Pastor Enoch Adeboye
20. Pastor Enoch Adeboye
What do you guys think of this list? And if you were to pick 5 people, who would you go for?
If you're interested in voting, here's how to do it...
The voting can be cast using the special short code 35120. The voter types the name of their choice and sends to the short code 35120. The service is available to all the networks and costs N100 per vote.
FIRE GUTS KEKE OGUNGBE’S HOME - Ayeni Adekunle 
For the second time in about two years, the BQ housing entertainment mogul Kenny Ogungbe’s audio-visual equipment has been gutted by fire, leaving all his multi-million naira equipment scarred.
The recent inferno, which occurred in the evening of Thursday March 19, was believed to have been caused by electrical wirings. The property, containing top-of-the-range HD equipment, speakers, consoles and many other audio-visual equipment, used for Kennis Music, Kennis TV and Primetime Africa satellite broadcast was burnt completely, before members of the Lagos State Emergency Fire service could put out the fire.
The affected property is situated in Ajao Estate, Lagos.
‘‘Everyone is OK. We thank God no lives were lost’’, Keke said in a statement issued through his publicist.
The boys quarters, now a one-story-ed building, was still a bungalow when the first fire outbreak occurred nearly two years ago.
‘‘I must thank the Fire service for acting promptly. And I thank the Lagos Governor, The Nigeria Police, all media houses, my neighbours and other concerned citizens too. We thank God we were able to contain the fire before it could spread further’’, Keke commented.
Close friends and associates who have visited as at press time include veteran producer Wale Adenuga, Keke’s friend and partner Dayo Adeneye, Keke’s brothers Taiwo and ID Ogungbe and Ayeni Adekunle.
For the second time in about two years, the BQ housing entertainment mogul Kenny Ogungbe’s audio-visual equipment has been gutted by fire, leaving all his multi-million naira equipment scarred.
The recent inferno, which occurred in the evening of Thursday March 19, was believed to have been caused by electrical wirings. The property, containing top-of-the-range HD equipment, speakers, consoles and many other audio-visual equipment, used for Kennis Music, Kennis TV and Primetime Africa satellite broadcast was burnt completely, before members of the Lagos State Emergency Fire service could put out the fire.
The affected property is situated in Ajao Estate, Lagos.
‘‘Everyone is OK. We thank God no lives were lost’’, Keke said in a statement issued through his publicist.
The boys quarters, now a one-story-ed building, was still a bungalow when the first fire outbreak occurred nearly two years ago.
‘‘I must thank the Fire service for acting promptly. And I thank the Lagos Governor, The Nigeria Police, all media houses, my neighbours and other concerned citizens too. We thank God we were able to contain the fire before it could spread further’’, Keke commented.
Close friends and associates who have visited as at press time include veteran producer Wale Adenuga, Keke’s friend and partner Dayo Adeneye, Keke’s brothers Taiwo and ID Ogungbe and Ayeni Adekunle.
Storms Obi Asika picks wedding date - Abiola Aloba (Encomium)
Obi Asika, the head honcho at successful record company STORM REDCORDS, has finally decided to get married. He will be marrying his hearthrob of many years, Yetunde Bakare, the Nigerian American returnee who is a partner in a new events company that is into artiste management called RED CARPET. April 26th 09 would be the traditional wedding ceremony and May 1st for the white wedding.
Obi Asika, the head honcho at successful record company STORM REDCORDS, has finally decided to get married. He will be marrying his hearthrob of many years, Yetunde Bakare, the Nigerian American returnee who is a partner in a new events company that is into artiste management called RED CARPET. April 26th 09 would be the traditional wedding ceremony and May 1st for the white wedding.
Congrats!
KONGA ALBUM LISTENING PARTYHost: FUNKY MONKEY ENTERTAINMENT
Start Time: Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 10:00pm
Location: Black Pearl
Street: Akin Adesola Str. Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria
Phone: 08028552546
RIP to Natasha Richardson. Can't believe she's gone.
Actress Natasha Richardson died from bleeding in her skull caused by the fall she took on a ski slope, an autopsy found Thursday. The medical examiner ruled her death an accident, and doctors said she might have survived had she received immediate treatment.
Alot of us can learn from this very unfortunate incident. Here's what the doctors said about what happened to her...
Richardson suffered from an epidural hematoma, which causes bleeding between the skull and the brain's covering, said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the New York City medical examiner's office.
Such bleeding is often caused by a skull fracture, and it can quickly produce a blood clot that puts pressure on the brain. That pressure can force the brain downward, pressing on the brain stem that controls breathing and other vital functions.
Patients with such an injury often feel fine immediately after being hurt because symptoms from the bleeding may take time to emerge.
"This is a very treatable condition if you're aware of what the problem is and the patient is quickly transferred to a hospital," said Dr. Keith Siller of New York University Langone Medical Center. "But there is very little time to correct this."
Such bleeding is often caused by a skull fracture, and it can quickly produce a blood clot that puts pressure on the brain. That pressure can force the brain downward, pressing on the brain stem that controls breathing and other vital functions.
Patients with such an injury often feel fine immediately after being hurt because symptoms from the bleeding may take time to emerge.
"This is a very treatable condition if you're aware of what the problem is and the patient is quickly transferred to a hospital," said Dr. Keith Siller of New York University Langone Medical Center. "But there is very little time to correct this."
For those who don't remember Natasha, she played the role of Lindsay Lohan's mum in the remake of "The Parent Trap" in 1998.
So sad! May her soul rest in peace
Story of the day
Wonder shall never end...
Read and be amazed!
Up to 1,000 detained in Gambia witch hunt-Amnesty
From: http://www.reuters.com/
DAKAR, March 18 (Reuters) - Witch doctors and security forces in Gambia have detained up to 1,000 people on suspicion of being witches, Amnesty International said on Wednesday. Police in the African country dismissed the reports as lies.
Victims have been held in secret detention camps for up to five days and forced to drink hallucinogenic substances which have killed at least two people through kidney failure, the London-based human rights organisation said in a statement.
"At 5 a.m. the paramilitary police armed with guns and shovels surrounded our village and threatened the villagers that anyone who tries to escape will be buried six feet under," it quoted an unidentified eyewitness as saying of a recent raid.
Around 300 men and women were forced on to buses at gunpoint and taken to President Yahya Jammeh's home area of Kanilai, Amnesty quoted the witness as saying.
"Once there, they were stripped and forced to drink 'dirty water' from herbs and were also bathed with these dirty herbs. A lot of these people who were forced to drink these poisonous herbs developed instant diarrhoea and vomiting whilst they lay helpless," the witness added.
Gambia's inspector general of police, Essa Badjie, rejected the reports as lies.
"I think they are neglecting what is happening in Afghanistan. They are lying," he told Reuters by telephone.
"Tell them they are lying. See what is happening in Palestine and Iraq... The Gambia is a peaceful country," he said. Other officials could not be reached for comment.
Amnesty said eyewitnesses and victims said the people seeking witches, themselves known as witch doctors, had come from nearby Guinea, but were accompanied on their raids by Gambian police and army and national intelligence agents, along with members of Jammeh's personal guard, known as "green boys".
Gambia, a tiny sliver of land along the banks of the eponymous river jutting into the middle of surrounding Senegal, is mainland Africa's smallest state.
Human rights organisations and press freedom watchdogs accuse Jammeh's administration and security forces of using arbitrary detention and other abuses of power to gag political opponents and restrict freedom of expression.
Halifa Sallah, a leading opposition figure who challenged Jammeh in the country's most recent presidential elections in 2006, was arrested 10 days ago and charged last week with spying, sedition and holding an illegal meeting.
Party officials said then that Sallah had been arrested after travelling outside the capital Banjul to investigate reports that armed groups were going from village to village searching for witches. Belief in witchcraft is common in West Africa, where traditional animist beliefs coexist with Islam and Christianity.
Victims have been held in secret detention camps for up to five days and forced to drink hallucinogenic substances which have killed at least two people through kidney failure, the London-based human rights organisation said in a statement.
"At 5 a.m. the paramilitary police armed with guns and shovels surrounded our village and threatened the villagers that anyone who tries to escape will be buried six feet under," it quoted an unidentified eyewitness as saying of a recent raid.
Around 300 men and women were forced on to buses at gunpoint and taken to President Yahya Jammeh's home area of Kanilai, Amnesty quoted the witness as saying.
"Once there, they were stripped and forced to drink 'dirty water' from herbs and were also bathed with these dirty herbs. A lot of these people who were forced to drink these poisonous herbs developed instant diarrhoea and vomiting whilst they lay helpless," the witness added.
Gambia's inspector general of police, Essa Badjie, rejected the reports as lies.
"I think they are neglecting what is happening in Afghanistan. They are lying," he told Reuters by telephone.
"Tell them they are lying. See what is happening in Palestine and Iraq... The Gambia is a peaceful country," he said. Other officials could not be reached for comment.
Amnesty said eyewitnesses and victims said the people seeking witches, themselves known as witch doctors, had come from nearby Guinea, but were accompanied on their raids by Gambian police and army and national intelligence agents, along with members of Jammeh's personal guard, known as "green boys".
Gambia, a tiny sliver of land along the banks of the eponymous river jutting into the middle of surrounding Senegal, is mainland Africa's smallest state.
Human rights organisations and press freedom watchdogs accuse Jammeh's administration and security forces of using arbitrary detention and other abuses of power to gag political opponents and restrict freedom of expression.
Halifa Sallah, a leading opposition figure who challenged Jammeh in the country's most recent presidential elections in 2006, was arrested 10 days ago and charged last week with spying, sedition and holding an illegal meeting.
Party officials said then that Sallah had been arrested after travelling outside the capital Banjul to investigate reports that armed groups were going from village to village searching for witches. Belief in witchcraft is common in West Africa, where traditional animist beliefs coexist with Islam and Christianity.
Photos of the day
Charles Manson before
Charles Manson NOW
California corrections officials have released a new photograph of convicted mass murderer Charles Manson, who is now bald with a thick gray beard.
The photo of the 74-year-old Manson was taken Wednesday as part of a routine update of files on inmates at Corcoran State Prison, where he is serving a life sentence for conspiring to murder seven people.
The photo of the 74-year-old Manson was taken Wednesday as part of a routine update of files on inmates at Corcoran State Prison, where he is serving a life sentence for conspiring to murder seven people.
The cult leader was first sentenced to death for the 1969 murders of movie star Sharon Tate, coffee heiress Abigail Folger and three others stabbed and shot to death at Tate's home in Los Angeles. The next night, two others were stabbed to death at their homes.
Later!
