Economist GMAT Tutor's $25,000 MBA Scholarship Contest Is Now Open

 Economist GMAT Tutor's $25,000 MBA Scholarship Contest Is Now Open 
$25,000 scholarship will go to the highest scorer on Economist GMAT Tutor's online-simulation exam

Ignorance is Destroying More Lives in Nigeria Than Corruption and Terrorism

Nigerian voters collecting political bribes of foodstuffs.  

Ignorance is destroying more lives in Nigeria than corruption and terrorism.

The ruling class will continue to cheat and exploit the poor masses who have become willing pawns in the political chess of Nigerian political rulers.

The masses know how to make more noise than sense.
They attack themselves from the street to the internet over their political support for or against political office holders who are power greedy title chasers and not nation builders.

Video: Igbo Man Demands for Money, Yoruba Man Asks for Change and Hausa Man Watches

Igbo Man Demands for Money, Yoruba Man Asks for Change and Hausa Man Watches 

An Igbo Obioma street tailor demands payment from Gbenga, a Yoruba customer in a house in Lagos and the Hausa sitting on a motorcycle simply looks on. From "Lagos is Working" documentary film by Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, Publisher/Editor of NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series distributed worldwide by Amazon Books. https://www.amazon.com/author/ekenyerengozimichaelchima .

Igbo Obioma itinerant street tailors in Lagos are disappearing and many Hausas from northern Nigeria are now seen with the traditional Singer 99K sewing machines carried on their shoulders on the streets of Lagos.

UK Armed Forces in Nigeria and Somalia To Combat Terrorists

UK Armed Forces Deployments Tackle Security Threats in Africa

LONDON, 05 August 2016 / PRN Africa / --

The UK is playing a substantial role in tackling security threats across Africa, with deployments in Nigeria and Somalia.

Around 30 British troops have recently arrived in Somalia to bolster a United Nations mission, while a 35 strong RAF team have been training Nigerian personnel helping to fight Boko Haram.

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An RAF Short Term Training Team have been advising the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) in how to defend their airbases from threats such as that from extremist group Boko Haram.

African Speakers Want AU Member States To Ratify Malabo Protocol

 The Prime Minister of Lesotho, Rt Hon Bethuel Pakalitha Mosisili opens the 8th Conference of Annual Speakers at the PAP headquarters in Midrand, South Africa.
 
African Speakers Lobby for A Stronger Continental Assembly -Want AU Member States To Ratify Malabo Protocol

ARUSHA, Tanzania, 05 August 2016 / PRN Africa / -- The 8th Annual Conference of Speakers has opened in Midrand, South Africa. In attendance at the two-day Conference whose theme is from “Adoption of the African Union Treaties in particular the new Protocol of the PAP” are over 30 Speakers from the National Assemblies and Regional Parliaments in the continent.

Where is Burundian Journalist Jean Bigirimana?

Where is Burundian journalist Jean Bigirimana?
Burundi journalist missing for two weeks

NEW YORK, 05 August 2016 / PRN Africa / -- The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned about the welfare of Burundian journalist Jean Bigirimana. The journalist's news outlet says he has not been seen or heard from since July 22.

Simone Ashley Manuel Makes Epic Olympic Games History for Blacks

Simone Ashley Manuel Makes Epic Olympic Games History for Blacks

 Simone Ashley Manuel (born August 2, 1996) is an American competition swimmer specializing in sprint freestyle. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, she won two gold and two silver medals: gold in the 100-meter freestyle and the 4x100-meter medley, and silver in the 50-meter freestyle and the 4×100-meter freestyle relay. In winning the 100-meter freestyle, a tie with Penny Oleksiak of Canada,

Manuel became the first African-American woman to win an individual Olympic gold in swimming and set an Olympic record and an American record.

Manuel also holds three world records as a member of a relay team, and she is a two-time individual National Collegiate Athletic Association champion, becoming one of the first three African American women to place in the top three spots in the 100-yard freestyle event in any Division I NCAA Swimming Championship. Since 2014, she has attended Stanford University where she swims for Stanford Cardinal.

Source: WIKIPEDIA.

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Kellogg's Honours Gold Medal Winning U.S. Gymnastics Team And All Around Winner Simone Biles

Gold Medal Winning U.S. Gymnastics Team And All Around Winner Simone Biles To Adorn Gold Medal Edition Boxes Of Kellogg's® Special K® Red Berries
Team Kellogg's™ Athlete And USA Gymnastics Celebrate Gold Medal Wins With Time Honored Kellogg's Tradition 

3 Outstanding Things That Happened Since Muhammadu Buhari Became President of Nigeria

3 Outstanding Things That Happened Since President Muhammadu Buhari Became Head of State of NigerNigeria for the Second Time.

Just to mention three outstanding feats since President Muhammadu Buhari became Head of State for the second time.

"FIFTY" highest grossing Nigerian movie made N400 million in 2016.
Achieved by Mo Abudu.

Nigeria became the first African country to qualify for quarter finals in Table Tennis at the Olympics.
Achieved by Nigerian Olympian Aruna Quadri.

Nigeria's under 17 national soccer team, Golden Eaglets won the FIFA World Cup. FIFA.com - FIFA U-17 World Cup Chile 2015 - Nigeria http://m.fifa.com/u17worldcup/teams/team=1888317/photos/index.html#2731796

All these happened just in the first year of President Buhari's administration.

Singapore Offers US$753, 000 To Every Rio Olympics Gold Medal Winner

 Sprinter Timothee Yap: ‘I want to write my name in Singapore’s history books’

Some Athletes Are Chasing Huge Gold Medal Bonuses 

~ By Niall McCarthy, Aug 9, 2016.

The glory of winning a gold medal is a massive incentive for athletes competing in Rio but the impressive bonuses on offer add another more lucrative dimension to the games. The size of the bonus on offer varies hugely by country. For example, British athletes do not receive bonus for winning a gold medal whereas American competitors get $25,000 for every gold they take home.

Successful athletes from Singapore are awarded a prize of $1 million Singapore dollars, not a bad day at the office at all. Indonesia offers its successful Olympians around $380,000, according to Fox Sports Australia. The following infographic provides an overview of the biggest estimated cash rewards for gold medal winners in Rio (the values were converted from Australian to U.S. dollars).

This chart shows the estimated bonus per gold medal at the Olympic Games in Rio.

Source:Statista.