Iran To Send Another Monkey Into Space

Iran is planning to send another monkey into space, reports have said. Conservative daily Jomhuri Eslami quoted on Sunday the deputy head of Iran’s space agency, Hamid Fazeli, as saying the planned launch, within a month, is part of the country’s plans to send a human to space in 2018. Iran had earlier this year claimed it launched a monkey out of the earth’s atmosphere and successfully had it return. Fazeli was quoted in the article as saying animals with a similar weight as monkeys are under consideration as future space test subjects. In September, Iran suggested it may start launching Persian cats into space.

Cyclone Kills 17 In India

At least 17 people were reported dead after the most powerful storm to strike India in 14 years made landfall causing widespread damage. More than 800 thousand people were evacuated from their homes in advance of its arrival on Saturday evening. Mud huts have been washed away as have rice crops, power and communication lines and rail links. The storm is affecting more than 10 million people, up to a hundred kilometres inland.

Beverly Osu: “I See Myself As A Messenger Of God”

This is what Beverly said in a recent interview. The model and former  BBA contestant said she sees herself as a messenger of God.

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I attended Daughters of Divine Love Convent, Enugu State. I thought I would be a reverend sister but I abandoned the vision when I dropped out in my fifth year. I finished my secondary education in a secular institution before moving to Babcock University.

Open Letter to David Moyes from Man. United Fan in Nigeria

Poor start of the new season by Manchester United concerns players, experts and, of course MU fans from around the world. Below is the example of such concerns by a supporter of the ‘Red Devils’ from Nigeria (unedited). I’m sitting down here and watching the nigger I just handed N5,000 walk away, a fruity-arse smile on his black-as-Satan’s-heart Yoruba face and a spring in his hell-bound step. Why I gave him the money, you might ask.

2015 General Elections May Hold In January – Jega

If the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has its way, the 2015 general elections may hold in either January or February of that year. The last general elections held in April, 2011 and the commission recalled that if not for the Voter Registration exercise which preceded that year’s elections, it would have been held on an earlier date to give room for imminent legal actions to be resolved before the inauguration date of May 29th.

ASUU STRIKE: FG Fights Back

As the ongoing strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, enters the fourth month, there are strong indications that the Federal Government has commenced the implementation of the “No Work, No Pay” rule. It was gathered from a reliable source at the National Universities Commission, NUC, that the government has passed a directive to the various universities governing councils to stop payment of salaries of the striking lecturers.

Eid-el-Kabir: Monday Not Public Holiday, Says FG

Contrary to speculation in some quarters that changes have been made in the dates earlier declared as public holidays in commemoration of the Eid-el-Kabir festival, the Federal Government has reiterated that Monday is a working day.  The Federal Government, through the Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro said the clarification became necessary following  the strings of misinformation said to be publicized by some media houses in the country. Mr. Moro reaffirmed that the dates of the Sallah holiday still remains Tuesday, 15th and Wednesday, 16th October, 2013 and “wishes all Nigerians a most rewarding and peaceful celebration.”