Henry Chukwuma Onyema wins the inaugural JLF writing Competition

Henry Chukwuma with Toni Kan

Henry Chukwuemeka Onyema, teacher by day and writer by night, has emerged the winner of the inaugural JLF writing competition. He won for his short story, “Can I Trust You With My Life,” an adaptation of the biblical story of Samson and Delilah, and smiled home with his $1,000 prize money.

Announcing the winners, Toni Kan, one of the judges said Henry’s story scored 336 out of 400 points and was chosen for “his beautiful prose, precise diction, exciting action and ability to draw character portraits that were almost real to life.

The event held September 25, 2010 @the Silverbird Lifestyle store.

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Another 6 students kidnapped in Aba

The released pupils with pressmen yesterday

As parents, residents of Abia State and Nigerians celebrated the release of the 15 kidnapped pupils of a private school in Aba, six students have again been kidnapped in Abia State.


The victims are students of Federal Govt College, Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State. It was gathered that the kidnapped students were going back to school when gunmen ambushed their bus at Ohanze in Obingwa Local Government Area and took the hostage.

The kidnappers have asked for N12mil ransome and have threatened to kill the students if their demands was not met and in reasonable time.

When contacted, the PPRO, Abia State Police Command, Mr Geoffrey Ogbonna, confirmed the incident and said that efforts were on to effect the release of the students.

Source: The Sun Newspaper

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House of Nwocha's Fashion event coming soon!

Ugonna Umeruo

Ugonna Omeruo of House of Nwocha has announced the launch of her third fashion collection and fashion party called “ZION” and a ‘Face of Brand' unveiling. The event is scheduled to take place on the 24th of October, 2010 at Four Points by Sheraton, Lekki.

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Nigerian Biophysicist wins $500, 000 Science Prize

Dabiri

30year old biophysicist Genius, Nigerian Dr. John O. Dabiri is among the 23 winners selected across the globe in this years MacArthur Genius Awards, a fellows Program that awards “Genius” grants to exceptional inventors,  innovators and other creative types.


The MacArthur Foundation was quoted as saying that Dabiri is “investigating the  hydrodynamics of jellyfish propulsion, which has profound implications for our  understanding of evolutionary adaptation and such related issues in fluid dynamics as  blood flow in the human heart.”

This year’s honorees were contacted by The John D. and Catherine T.  MacArthur Foundation and offered $500,000 each with no strings attached over the next  five years to pursue work in their field of interest.

Biography
John Dabiri is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories and the Option of Bioengineering at Caltech.  He graduated from Princeton University with a B.S.E. degree summa cumlaude in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in June 2001.  In September 2001, he came to Caltech as a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow, Betty and Gordon Moore Fellow, and Y.C. Fung Fellow in Bioengineering. Under the supervision of Professor Morteza Gharib, he earned an M.S. degree in Aeronautics in June 2003, followed by a Ph.D. in Bioengineering with a minor in Aeronautics in April 2005. He joined the Caltech faculty in May 2005. In 2008, he was selected as an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator for research in bio-inspired propulsion, and Popular Science magazine named him one of its "Brilliant 10" scientists.

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"Nigerian Music is far better now than 50 years ago" - King Sunny Ade

"Fifty years ago, hardly would you find a family that allowed his child to play music. It is either you go to church and become a very strong member of the choir. Now, everybody wants to play music. In those days, the real traditional music was not being exposed. I don't know if it's intentional. It was when Fela Anikulapo Kuti took his music to London or America that we began to appreciate the power of Afrobeat. For instance, I started touring Europe and America from 1971 but not until 1984 that I became known all over the world. But now, Nigerian Music is far better. You release an album and you are known all over the place." - King Sunny Ade tells The Sun Newspaper

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Christiano Ronaldo's son pictured for the first time.

3-month old baby Cristiano out for a walk with grandma

Cute...!

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Despite blast, Nigeria @50 celebrations colourful

More pics when you continue...

 

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