Two women caned in Indonesia for selling food during Ramadan

Murni Amris receives three lashes after being caught selling food to the public.

 Two women have been publicly caned in Indonesia for selling food during Ramadan.
Murni Amris, 27, received three lashes and Rukiah Abdullah, 22, two in front of a crowd of hundreds which gathered at a mosque in the city of Jantho, southeast of the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, Indonesia.
They were found guilty of violating Islamic sharia law by selling rice on a stall at noon during the Muslim fasting festival.

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Ibidun Ajayi Ighodalo bags international Award.

 Former Miss Lux and CEO of Elizabeth R Event management firm, Ibidun Ajayi Ighodalo has just been honored in the UK with the prestigious International Entrepreneur of The Year Award. The award was inspired by her consistent innovativeness in the creative business. The event which held some weeks back also featured An evening with Elizabeth R.

Ibidun, who launched her out-of-this-world marquees and My Dream Wedding TV Show recently, is married to pastor Ituah Ighodalo of Trinity House.

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"Pulling Out" Rivals Condoms, Study Says

Ask most sexually active people today about the pullout method as an effective form of contraception and you're likely to induce eye-rolling and snickers.

But withdrawal before ejaculation during intercourse is more than just "better than nothing," a new study claims, noting that it is nearly as effective at preventing pregnancy as condoms.


The study, titled "Better than nothing or savvy risk reduction practice? The importance of withdrawal," appears in the latest edition of the journal Contraception.

The authors find:

"If the male partner withdraws before ejaculation every time a couple has vaginal intercourse, about 4% of couples will become pregnant over the course of a year. However, more realistic estimates of typical use indicate that about 18% of couples will become pregnant in a year using withdrawal. These rates are only slightly less effective than male condoms, which have perfect- and typical-use failure rates of 2% and 17%, respectively."

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'Save our souls' hit cinemas

Oby Edozien and Prof. Soludo

After staging a successful premiere, Oby Edozieh has taken her new block buster movie, Save Our Souls to the cinemas with Silverbird Cinema being the first of the cinemas to embrace the high budget movie that was shot in Nigeria, England and India.

The movie Save our Souls which is directed by Moses Iyang and has  the likes of Kenneth Okonkwo, Elebelu Elebuwa, Chioma Chukwuka, Ebere Okaro, Segun Arinze, Oby Edozie herself as cast is about the emotional and psychological trauma that comes along with cancer and its effect on victims and their families, as well as various ways people choose to deal with it.

Speaking on the movie, Edozieh said ‘the movie has been very involving in terms of budget and other logistics, especially since the cast and the movie had to be moved to the two countries, but with the quality of movie we came up with, all the effort was worth it’.

She further said “Save our Souls is not only an entertaining movie but a very educative one and has won the support of big shots, organisations that are deeply concerned about the pain of people with cancer and will at anytime support cancer management or if possible eradication, firms like First Bank, the Federal Ministry of Health and Oby Gold Foundation.

The sassy actress disclosed that she is elated that the movie is accepted in the cinemas; that means Nigerians are after qualitative and educative works. Speaking further, she revealed that the presence of the movie in the cinema will help in propagating the message against cancer.

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Winners at the Naija Stories Independence Contest.

First Prize of $150 - Emmanuel Iduma with Electronic Freedom.
Second Prize of $100 - Remi Roy with A Heart for the Game.
Third Prize of $50 - Dipo Adesida with Never Again
Naijastories.com is a website committed to promoting the writing and reading of Nigerian Fiction. The Nigeria Independence day contest was set up to mark the October 1st and Naija@50 celebrations. Short fiction pieces were required of contestants to reminisce on what’s changed in the past 50 years and what may be ahead. The total cash prize of $300 was used to sponsor the contest.  The contest opened on Sept 8th and received 35 entries. Out of the 28 stories that qualified for the first stage, 14 were shortlisted from popular voting and were further  reviewed by the Naija Stories Editors to select the winners.

The Naija Stories website and some of the contest entries were featured on the BBC News Nigeria Blog Round-up. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11445817
The winners were then selected and announced on Friday, Oct 1, 2010. Ten stories also got honorable mentions and are listed below.
Trumpeter on independence day - Henry C. Onyema
Nigeria by 2050 - Joshua J. Omojuwa
The Parade - Sylva Nze Ifedigbo
WHEN THE GREEN STORM CALMS - Emmanuel Ukoh
My Independence Day - Anderson Paul
Lonely Hearts - Funmi F
MR OLUMIDE'S EXPERIENCE - Lawal Opeyemi
I believe - Fabian Agakemeh
Breaking Free - Ifreke Inyang
Passing of a Memory - Fred Nwonwu.

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"I will never marry again" - 9ice says

"Toni and I are separated and a divorce is already in the pipeline. We can never come together again. If people are being fed by wrong sources about the possibility of reconciling, they are hearing from me now that it is not possible. We can't come back." 9ice said in a recent interview.
He went further to reveal that he will never get married again, though he plans to have two or three more children. He already has one son, Zion, with his ex, Toni Payne.

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When Nigeria's First Lady Patience Jonathan met Michelle Obama

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