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Members of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Friday clearly deviated from the known slogan of "You do not argue or disregard ministers of God while sermonising" as they booed one of the officiating priests at the lying-in-state of late ASUU President, Festus Iyayi for advising ASUU to suspend the strike.

Iyayi reportedly died in an auto accident in Lokoja, Kogi State on his way to ASUU NEC meeting to seek ways of resolving issues that brought about the industrial action.

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…Tukur Insists No Shaking Over Sack Plot

There are growing anxiety in the air and within the top hierarchy of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) that the National Chairman of the PDP, Mr. Bamanga Tukur, may be the sacrificial lamb to ensure that the remaining two aggrieved governors remain in the PDP.

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President Goodluck Jonathan has joined other world leaders to pay his last respect to the departed former South African President Dr. Nelson Mandela.

Mr. Mandela passed away in the ripe old age of 95, in his home, after months of ill health.

United States President Barak Obama, British Prime Minister Mr. David Cameroon, United Nations (UN) Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, Former US President Mr. Bill Clinton and a host of other world leaders have also expressed sadness over the death of Mr. Mandela.

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South African President Jacob Zuma has confirmed the death of former South African President Nelson Mandela.

FrontiersNews was the first medium globally to confirm the death of the antiapartheid icon.

In his nationwide broadcast, on Thursday night, President Zuma's said "He is now resting. He is now at peace. Our nation has lost its greatest son. Our people have lost a father."

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Ladies make sure the password to your Bra is confirm o, to prevent hacking

It's no longer enough to have smartphones, smartwatches, smart TVs and smart cars. Now a tech company is bringing artificial intelligence to lingerie.

Researchers at Microsoft have developed a prototype of a "smart bra" embedded with physiological sensors that seek to monitor a woman's heart activity to track her emotional moods and combat overeating. The sensors can signal the wearer's smartphone, which then flash a warning message to help her step away from the fridge and make better diet decisions.

Read more: http://www.frontiersnews.com/index.php/component/content/article/44-foreign-news/6792--microsoft-developed-a-smart-bra

The presidency on Wednesday showed evidences to the world that it has actually paid the sum of N200 billion into an account with the Central Bank of Nigeria designated for funding the nation’s comatose universities.

This development has shown clearly that the striking lecturers have no basis to still remain adamant in calling off the more than five months old strike.

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American Actress and singer, Marilyn Monroe in 1968 was found naked in bed with hands on her phone. It was discovered that she had taken over 40 pills.

Former Super Eagles player, Uche Okafor was in January, 2011 found hanging at his Dallas residence in Texas.

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Yaya Toure has won the 2013 BBC African Footballer of the Year award. The Ivory Coast and Manchester City midfielder, who had been nominated in each of the past four years, beat Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Victor Moses, John Mikel Obi and Jonathan Pitroipa to this year's crown.

The 30-year-old told BBC Sport: "I think I've been nominated for five years in a row and finally winning the award is amazing.

Read more: http://www.frontiersnews.com/index.php/sports/39-sports/6738-breaking-news-yaya-toure-man-city-striker-wins-the-2013-bbc-africa-footballer-of-the-year-award

Feelers from Awka, the Anambra State capital indicated that the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate, Willy Obiano, has won the Anambra State governorship election which was concluded in the state on Saturday.

Results of both the Saturday’s supplementary and 16th November election released so far by the collation officers, indicates that APGA polled a total of 180,178 votes, while the people’s Democratic Party (PDP) flag bearer, Tony Nwoye came second with 97,700 votes.

Read more: http://www.frontiersnews.com/index.php/politics/36-politics/6715--apga-candidate-willy-obiano-wins-anambra-governorship-election

The Coordinating Minister for the Economy (CME), Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala had when inaugurating the Committee on harmonisation of taxes warned States, Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to desist from using contractors to collect revenues.

The CME added that the police have been directed to enforce the new directive of government.

Read more: http://www.frontiersnews.com/index.php/business/37-business/6681--okonjo-iweala-makes-u-turn-over-hiring-of-consultants-for-tax-collection

...Gives Striking Lecturers Up To December 4 Or Considered themselves Sack

The Federal Government Thursday ordered the re-opening of all government universities with immediate effect.

The Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesome Wike who gave the directive in a news conference in Abuja also directed universities vice chancellors to advertise vacancies both internal and external to replace any staff who failed to resume work on or before Wednesday, December 4th 2013.

Read more: http://www.frontiersnews.com/index.php/news/6676--breaking-news-fg-orders-re-opening-of-nations-universities

Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi has said that the quest to protect the overall interests of the people of the state was the major reason why he decided to join the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Amaechi who spoke to newsmen in Port Harcourt after the deflection insisted that he bears no grudge with the President. The governor also added that the nPDP joined the opposition APC in order to position themselves for the 2015 elections.

Read more: http://www.frontiersnews.com/index.php/politics/36-politics/6668-governor-amaechi-explains-why-he-joins-apc

Most women are often worried whenever their menstration is delayed. Some of them especially those who have stop giving birth do suspect unwanted pregnancy but research has shown that in most cases, there is no pregnancy.

Here are the seven most likely reasons your period might be late besides pregnancy ...

1. A Change In Your Regular Routine: Did you start a new job? Change your wakeup time? Go on vacation? It can take your body a little time to adjust to a change in your regular routine and that can impact your regular cycle, especially if the change started at the time you would normally ovulate, causing a delay or even a skipped cycle.

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Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State has insisted that neither himself nor his party, the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), rigged the November 16th governorship elections in the State, saying those accusing him are doing so because they were stopped from doing so.

Obi in a chat with newsmen at the venue of the launch of the third phase of the Youth Enterprise with Innovation in Nigeria (YouWiN) at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa Monday, said that APGA as a popular and acceptable party in the State would floor any opposition party any day any time in any election.

Read more: http://www.frontiersnews.com/index.php/politics/36-politics/6638--gov-obi-denies-rigging-anambra-polls

A junior officer in the Nigerian Army, Lance Corporal Zubairu Rafiu has narrated how he survived nine month detention and torture in Maiduguri in the hands of his superior officers who insisted that he must confess to be an informant or a member of Boko Haram.

Zubairu, who is a personnel of 93 Battalion of the Nigerian Army said that the more he denied that he never knew anything about Boko Haram the more he was tortured, adding that he sustained permanent injury and developed liver disease from the over battering, even as his superior officers are still touting him as Boko Haram long after he was found innocent and released from detention.

Read more: http://www.frontiersnews.com/index.php/news/6642--how-my-superiors-in-army-detain-torture-me-for-nine-months-forcing-me-to-agree-to-be-boko-haram-zubairu

The Chairman of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) Governors' Forum, Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State, has revealed that there are heavy weight members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who are pleading to join the party, but have been cautioned to wait till all the crisis rocking the party is resolved.

Akpabio fielding questions from newsmen said, many Nigerians will be in shock when the announcement will be made.

This is even as he has warned seven aggrieved governors (G7) to embrace peace as extended to them by President Goodluck Jonathan, warning that the same fate awaits them in their states if they do not desist from rebelling against him.

Read more: http://www.frontiersnews.com/index.php/politics/36-politics/6639--gov-akpabio-alleges-that-apc-bigwigs-are-begging-to-join-pdp

As the nation awaits, the outcome of Presidency's action over the report on the procurement of two bullet proof cars for the Minister of Aviation, Ms Stella Oduah, the minister last weekend allegedly organised a stage-managed assassination attack on her car.

This, sources in the aviation sector revealed that is a decoy organised by her to escape the hammer of sack by the presidency.

President Goodluck Jonathan had on arrival from London on Sunday confirmed that the report of the 3-man panel set up to probe the controversial bullet-proof car purchase had been submitted to him.

Though, he did not give an hint on the next line of action over the issue.

Read more: http://www.frontiersnews.com/index.php/news/6640-oduagate-minister-battles-for-survival-sets-self-up-in-assassination-attempt

There are indications that the five months old strike by universities teachers would be called off this week if President Goodluck Jonathan accede to their conditions.

Immediate payment of all outstanding salary arrears and allowances of varsity teachers without victimization topped the three conditions expected to be tabled when the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) officials meet with President Goodluck Jonathan later on Monday.

Read more: http://www.frontiersnews.com/index.php/news/6633-ASUU-strike-payment-of-salary-arrears-top-demands-as-officials-meet-jonathan

In Kenya 1.5 million people are living with HIV, and there are about 100,000 new infections every year. Despite this, some sex workers are having unprotected sex - and taking antiretroviral drugs afterwards to cut the infection risk. How reckless is this?

"Let me tell you the truth about why many of us don't use condoms," says Sheila who has been a prostitute in Nairobi's Korogocho slum for six years.

"We don't have money, and when you meet a client who offers to give you more money than you usually get, you have sex without protection even when you don't know his HIV status."

Read more: http://www.frontiersnews.com/index.php/component/content/article/44-foreign-news/6583--sex-workers-using-anti-hiv-drugs-instead-of-condoms

The Federal Government and organised labour, on the eve of the handing over of PHCN facilitates to its new owner reached agreement on pension issue, including non-payment of severance benefits to the workers.

About three weeks after no fewer than 7,000 workers are yet to get their severance benefit.

Before the handover of physical assets of defunct PHCN, Chairman, Presidential Committee on Power, Mr. Beks Dagogo-Jack had said that "the physical handover of the assets will take place after the last person has been paid."

Read more: http://www.frontiersnews.com/index.php/business/37-business/6599-phcn-handover-former-staff-cry-out-over-delayed-severance-package-payment

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional- Max Lucade.

Conflicts don't just happen in relationship, there are certain factors that could trigger conflicts in relationships, and recognising these factors is the first and sure way of dealing with conflict situations.

1. Differing Values- When people have differing values, conflicts can actually result. If one of your personal values in life is that God comes first and your partner have a completely different value, then conflict is bound to occur. Or if your value in life is that after God is your family, and your partner's personal value is that work comes first, conflict can also result.

Read more: http://www.frontiersnews.com/index.php/component/content/article/49-opinion/6500-opinion-factors-that-triggers-conflict-in-relationship

A former Military Administrator of Ondo State, Mike Torey is dead.

According to his wife, the former Ondo MILAD who was a retired Colonel passed on Saturday morning.

Torey's death brings to three, the number of former governors of Ondo State that died within the past 50 days.

Dr. Olusegun Agagu slumped and died a day after he returned from a trip to the United States of America while Mike Okhai Akhigbe, a retired Vice Admiral of the Nigerian Navy and former governor of Ondo State died in the United States after a brief illness.

Read more: http://www.frontiersnews.com/index.php/news/6494-3-ex-governors-of-ondo-state-die-within-50-days

The Anambra State governorship election Saturday began on a shaky start with accreditation delayed in many areas.

According to reports monitored from Anambra North and Anambra Central senatorial districts, accreditation was stil on as at 1:30pm, about one and a half hours when accreditation ought to have ended.

The development confirmed that the election was characterised with delay in accreditation.

The All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Chris Ngige has accused the electoral body of deliberately delaying voters accreditation in the Central district in order to disenfranchise his supporters.

Read more: http://www.frontiersnews.com/index.php/politics/36-politics/6491-anambra-governorship-election-in-shaky-start

President Goodluck Jonathan is said to have demanded an immediate investigations into the starling revelation from a Swiss non-governmental advocacy organisation, the Berne Declaration over alleged fraudulent oil deals involving some Nigerian companies and top government shots in the oil sector.

This development is coming amidst lame refutal by NNPC spokeswoman Ms Tumini Green absolving the corporation of such monumental fraud.

FrontiersNews gathered that the departments likely to come under intense scrutiny are the Crude Oil marketing department of NNPC, Pipelines and Product Marketing Company (PPMC) and the Petroleum Product Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA).

Read more: http://www.frontiersnews.com/index.php/business/37-business/6371-heads-to-roll-in-nnpc-ppmc-ppra-over-swiss-firm-report

Sex workers in the state of Minas Gerais, which includes the World Cup host city of Belo Horizonte, have struck a deal with a bank as they will take payment by debit or credit card.

They will be given chip and PIN machines.

The women in Belo Horizonte, 270 miles from Rio, have adopted the slogan, “Enjoy now, pay later”.

Read more: http://www.frontiersnews.com/index.php/sports/39-sports/6428--2014-world-cup-sex-workers-to-accept-card-payments

The Federal High Court in Abuja Friday sentenced Thisday bomber, Umar Mustapha, to life imprisonment with hard labour.

The conviction of Umar Mustapha, a member of the terror group Boko Haram, came barely two days the United States classified Boko Haram and Ansaru as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation.

Read more: http://www.frontiersnews.com/index.php/news/6472-breaking-news-boko-haram-man-gets-life-sentence-for-bombing-thisday-the-sun-the-moment

The New York Post, a popular US based tabloid has reported how a Nigerian oil, gas and aviation tycoon, Mr Kola Aluko spent about $1.5 million in a few hours at Leo ­DiCaprio’s star-studded birthday bash.

According to nypost.com, the Multimillionaire businessman Aluko, a co-founder of the Made In Africa Foundation who was recently seen lunching in Paris with Naomi Campbell, was among a group of wealthy businessman who bought bottle after bottle of champagne at ­DiCaprio’s 39th birthday party at Tao Downtown late Sunday night.

The website reported that other big spenders at the lavish fete included “The Wolf of Wall Street” producer Joey McFarland and Texas businessman Nate Paul.

Read more: http://www.frontiersnews.com/index.php/news/6412-breaking-news-how-oil-tycoon-kola-aluko-spent-15m-in-hours-on-champagne-at-friends-birthday-bash-

A strange ailment has restricted the Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Samuel Adesina from attending public functions, FrontiersNews can authoritatively revealed.

The Speaker has not presided over the proceedings in the state Assembly in the last two months following the said ailment.

Mr. Adesina has also been absent in many state functions as his deputy, Mr. Dare Omiola had been playing his role in both the assembly and government functions.

In the history of Ondo State, Mr. Adesina is the first speaker that has spent three years in that position without being impeached by his colleagues.

He is also the first legislator that would be voted by his people to represent them in the state assembly for three consecutive terms.

Read more: http://www.frontiersnews.com/index.php/politics/36-politics/6468-exclusive-strange-ailment-bars-ondo-speaker-from-public-functions-

The Catholic Archdiocese of Onitsha Thursday denied the news making the rounds in some quarters that Archbishop Valerian Okeke has endorsed a certain candidate for Saturday’s governorship election in Anambra State.

In a statement by the Director for Communications, Onitsha Archdiocese Rev. Fr. Pius Ukor, the church said it is apolitical and does not support any particular candidate, adding, “it is one of our duties as the church not to meddle into the affairs of the political class, because the church is for all and does not discriminate against any person or groups”.

The Catholic Church statement came on a day the Police in Imo State said it has arrested 181 people who they described as mercenaries ahead of the Saturday’s poll in Anambra.

Read more: http://www.frontiersnews.com/index.php/politics/36-politics/6459-anambra-governorship-poll-catholic-church-denies-endorsing-any-candidate