The NEWS Headlines:
1. Mr. Endy Edeson the editor-in-chief of EDESON ONLINE NEWS is planning to start a QUIZ SHOW on facebook and winners will be given free recharge cards and a grand prize of a Blackberry phone. The QUIZ Show will start next week.
2. GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State, weekend, said that 10 Fish and Cassava processing industries would be established by his government before the end of the year to create more employment for Deltans. Briefing reporters in Warri, he said more than 17,000 Deltans have been offered employment since 2007 when he assumed office in the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, civil service, health, teaching, sports sectors.
3. The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) on Friday said it withheld the results of 112,000 candidates who sat for the May/June 2012 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). Giving a breakdown of the results; only 1,672,224 of the 1,695,878 candidates who registered for the examination nationwide sat for it. Those who sat for the examination include 923,974 males and 748,250 females and that only 1,545,004 had their results fully released. He disclosed that 771,731 candidates had six credits and above, 952,156 others had five credits and above while 1,107,747 had credits and above in four subjects. 1,246,729 students had credits and above in three subjects and 1,380,596 obtained credits and above in just two subjects. A total of 649,156 candidates who sat for the examination obtained credits in five subjects and above, including English Language and Mathematics. Also, out of the 114 blind candidates that registered for the examination, only 95 sat for it and 21 of them had credits in five subjects including English Language.
4. Hard times await those who live under flyovers bridges in Lagos State as Governor Raji Fashola (SAN) has owed to reclaim all the lands from those he described as illegal squatters and miscreants in the different parts of Lagos. This was coming as the governor disclosed that the Lagos new city, The Eko Atlantic, will only accommodate 250,000 residents and 150,000 commuters daily on completion.
5. An Abuja Magistrates’ court on Friday sentenced one Kale Hassan, 28, of Mabushi village to three months imprisonment for joint act and extortion without an option of fine. The Senior Magistrate, Mrs Vera Tukura, who did not give the convict an option of fine, handed down the sentence after the convict pleaded guilty and begged for leniency. Earlier, Police prosecutor Simon Ibrahim told the court that the matter was reported at Utako Police Station on August 9, by Mr Adeyoyin Adebayo of No. 147, 6th Avenue, Gwarimpa, Abuja. He said that the convict and another person, now at large, attacked the complainant around Zone 6 junction and accused him of stepping on their charm.
6. PART-TIME SUSPENSION UPDATE: The NUC has said that the part-time programmes being run by universities in the country have only been suspended and not scrapped.
FOREIGN NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT::
7. German director Kurt Maetzig, who was banned by the Nazis from making films but went on to co-found Communist East Germany's state-owned film production company, died on Wednesday, a former colleague told Reuters. He was 101.
8. British Arsenio Hall, whose TV talk show was among the hottest shows in the early 1990's, will return to late-night TV to host a new syndicated talk show in fall 2013. In fact, CBS Television Distribution (CTD) has sold the new Arsenio Hall late-night syndicated talk show to stations in more than 85 percent of the country. The show that will premiere in fall of 2013 is now set to air in all of the top 50 markets.
9. The Wikipedia pages of US presidential candidate Mitt Romney and other members of the Republican party who may run alongside him have been locked down. Wikipedia has put a silver padlock icon on the top right hand side of their entries. This means that anonymous users cannot make editorial changes to content relating to the politicians. The measures were taken after comedian Stephen Colbert suggested on US TV that viewers should edit the pages.
10. London is gearing up for the final events of the London Olympics ahead of Sunday night's closing ceremony. Crowds are expected to line the streets over the weekend to watch the walking races and men's marathon as athletics concludes in the Olympic Stadium. Organiser Locog said a number of extra closing ceremony tickets could be made available before Sunday's spectacular. Team GB are seeking to boost their best medal haul for 104 years but were unable to secure wins in BMX finals. Shanaze Reade finished sixth in the women's final and Liam Phillips fell in the men's race.

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