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Professor Dora Akunyili, the former strong woman of National Agency for Food, Drug Administration Agency caused a stir when she appeared at the National Judicial Institute venue of the ongoing national conference in Abuja on Monday looking very pale and emaciated, a far cry from her usual vivacious self. Many delegates could not recognise her at first glance as they were shocked by her almost ghoulish appearance. Dora who also served as Information Minister and who was a failed senatorial candidate in her native Anambra state, had to introduce herself to some of the delegates who found it hard to recognise her.

Who Is Goodluck Jonathan? Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan ,  GCFR ,  BNER ,  GCON  (born 20 November 1957) is a  Nigerian  politician who has been  President of Nigeria since 2010. Prior to his role as President, he served as  Governor of Bayelsa State  from 2005 to 2007 and as  Vice-President of Nigeria  from 2007 to 2010. Jonathan is a member of the ruling  People's Democratic Party  (PDP). Early and personal life Jonathan was born in what is now  Bayelsa State  to a family of canoe makers. Jonathan holds a  B.Sc . degree in  Zoology  in which he attained Second Class Honours . He holds an  M.Sc.  degree in  Hydrobiology  and Fisheries   biology , and a  PhD  degree in Zoology from the  University of Port Harcourt . Before he entered politics in 1998, he worked as an education inspector, lecturer, and environmental-protection officer.

Who is Dora Akunyili? Dora Nkem Akunyili  (born July 14, 1954 in  Makurdi ,  Benue State ) is the former Director General of  National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control  (NAFDAC) of  Nigeria  and former (December 17, 2008 - December 15, 2010) Nigerian Minister of Information and Communications. She is a pharmacist and governmental administrator who has gained international recognition and won hundreds of awards for her work in pharmacology, public health and human rights. [ citation needed ] Akunyili ran for election as Senator for Anambra Central on the All Progressive Grand Alliance[APGA] platform in April 2011 but was defeated by  Chris Ngige of the  Action Congress of Nigeria  (ACN). She immediately sent a petition to the  Independent National Electoral Commission  disputing the result.

The anti-apartheid icon will be buried in his ancestral home. South Africa’s former president and respected anti-apartheid leader, Nelson Mandela, who passed away Thursday night, will be buried on Sunday, December 15, President Jacob Zuma announced Friday afternoon.

Mandela died on Thursday night in South Africa.‪ President Barack Obama has ordered all United State flags to be flown at half-mast Thursday night to sunset on Monday in honour of South Africa anti-apartheid leader, Nelson Mandela, who died on Thursday as tributes from world leaders and notable people all over the world continue to pour in.

Mandela died on Thursday. President Goodluck Jonathan has declared three days of national mourning for former South African President, Nelson Mandela, who died on Thursday.

Obasanjo first met Mandela when the latter was in prison in 1986. A former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, said the death of Nelson Mandela, the first black South African President, meant the world has lost a leader. Mr. Obasanjo, speaking from his hilltop mansion in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Thursday night, said his earliest contact with the former South African leader was when the latter was in prison in 1986, a meeting he described as ‘memorable.’ Mr. Mandela was in prison for 27 years and released in 1990.

A fondle on chest, a soft chant of love, a sound from heart, woke him up,. Through shaded labyrinth of silting darkness, he opened eyes pushing up eyelids hard. Weakness pasted his vision with receding time. Thick rheum sticks his eyelashes down. Pain of regrets craves out his love for life, one more chance in order to seek forgiveness. Body diminishes to disintegration. One by one cell retires into stillness. Bones clatter and rest under his skin. Long breathes and hiccups for fresh air.

For a while I feel numb, sad and upset. I was shocked And my world stopped But in the midst Of my emotional break down I saw you, memories are reflecting back faithfully. I remember how you show’d me the purpose to live and to take care of what interest me Too. You encourage me whenever I hit rock-bottom, When I was all alone and lost You held my hand and show’d me the way Thank you for everything That you’ve done for me "Nelson Mandela" What would I be without you Never wallow in self pity or regrets Are you’re loveliest virtues And that’s what I want to do To never fail to remember, And to enjoy reflecting To your idea’s and words of wisdom And though without you. My joy will be greater My love will be deeper My life will be fuller Because you shared your moments. My beloved MENTOR You’re deeply missed And forever etched in my heart. §¤§¤§¤§¤§¤§¤§¤§ § —GOOD— § § N I G H T § §¤§¤§¤§¤§¤§¤§¤§ =*%-._.-%* =. ‘-._G 0 0 D_.-’ ‘+._.+’ =%*-._.-*% =, ‘-....

The former senator was the president of the INC. The President of the pan-Ijaw socio-cultural organisation, Ijaw National Congress (INC), Tari Sekibo, on Monday slumped and died in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.

The former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Festus Iyayi, is dead, union officials said. Detail of the incident is still sketchy but a News Agency of Nigeria report says Mr. Iyayi, 66, died in a motor accident in Lokoja. The late university teacher was among ASUU leaders who met with President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja last week to deliberate on how to end the four-month strike by lecturers. Mr. Iyayi is believed to be travelling to Kano for Wednesday’s National Executive Committee meeting where a vote is likely to be taken on whether the ongoing strike should be called off. Details later… Below is Mr. Iyayi’s brief biography as published by Wikipedia. Iyayi was born in Edo state, Nigeria. His family lived on little means but instilled in him strong moral lessons about life. Iyayi started his education at Annuciation Catholic College in the old Bendel state popularly known as ACC finishing in 1966. In 1967 he went to Government College Ughelli, graduating i...

. . .Continuation, The military authorities offered to allow her to travel to the UK to see him when he was gravely ill, but she felt compelled to refuse for fear she would not be allowed back into the country. Her last period of house arrest ended in November 2010 and her son Kim Aris was allowed to visit her for the first time in a decade. When by-elections were held in April 2012, to fill seats vacated by politicians who had taken government posts, she and her party contested seats, despite reservations. "Some are a little bit too optimistic about the situation," she said in an interview before the vote. "We are cautiously optimistic. We are at the beginning of a road." She and the NLD won 43 of the 45 seats contested, in an emphatic statement of support. Weeks later, Ms Suu Kyi took the oath in parliament and became the leader of the opposition. And in May, she embarked on a visit outside Burma for the first time in 24 years, in a sign of apparent confiden...

Aung San Suu Kyi stood for election for the first time in 2012 Like the South African leader Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi has become an international symbol of peaceful resistance in the face of oppression. The 66-year-old spent most of the last two decades in some form of detention because of her efforts to bring democracy to military-ruled Burma. In 1991, a year after her National League for Democracy (NLD) won an overwhelming victory in an election the junta later nullified, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The committee chairman, Francis Sejested, called her "an outstanding example of the power of the powerless". She was sidelined for Burma's first elections in two decades on 7 November 2010 but released from house arrest six days later. As the new government embarked on a process of reform, Ms Suu Kyi and her party rejoined the political process. On 1 April 2012 she stood for parliament in a by-election, arguing it was what her supporters wanted even...

He was born in London on January 29th 1934. His father was Rex Harrison and his mother, the first of six Mrs. Rex Harrisons, was Collette Thomas. They divorced in 1940. During the war Noel lived by the wild north Atlantic in Bude, North Cornwall, with his mother’s parents. He went to private schools until he was fifteen, after which his mother took him to live in the Swiss Alps and he never went to school again. He went ski-racing instead and was British champion in 1953. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * I’ve played guitar and sung songs all my life, and made my living at it some of the time. Nightclubs, supper clubs and private parties were my chief source of income all through the fifties and early sixties. I also got married and had three kids. Then I moved to the States and my career took off there. I had a record on the charts (A Young Girl) and starred in a TV series (The Girl from UNCLE). I was part of the “British Invasion” spearheaded by the Bea...

Edward Snowden, a former US National Security Agency contactor, fled to Hong Kong in May after revealing extensive internet and phone surveillance by US intelligence. Mr Snowden, 30, had been living with his girlfriend in Hawaii but left for the Chinese Special Administrative Region where, with his consent, the UK's Guardian newspaper revealed his identity. After the US filed charges and asked local authorities to extradite him, Mr Snowden left Hong Kong on 23 June, initially for Moscow but with the intention of seeking asylum in Ecuador. Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said that Mr Snowden's asylum request was being "analysed". Journalists who interviewed him at his secret location in Hong Kong described him as "quiet, smart, easy-going and self-effacing. A master on computers." Explaining why he decided to leave the US, he told the Guardian: "I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things… I do not want to live...

I the year... *. 1907: Born in Winterset, Iowa *. 1939: layed the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach *. 1940: Co-starred with Marlene Dietrich in Seven Sinners *. 1968: Co-directed The Green Berets, which backed US involvement in Vietnam *. 1969: Won an Oscar for his performance in True Grit *. 1975: Co-starred with Katherine Hepburn in Rooster Cogburn *. 1979 :Died of cancer "If we could have brought out The Oregon Trail, it would have generated a million dollars in revenue," he said, standing in a room with klieg lights at the museum last summer. As he spoke, a Comstock Cowboys CD played in the background. The music has simple chords with lonely-guy lyrics: "I rode in the deadwood one dark, stormy evening." Sigman said he believed The Oregon Trail was misfiled and placed in the wrong canister. The movie posters belong to private collectors He picked up a rusted canister, a storage case for movie prints, that been lying on the floor. It was empty, except for a bro...

I the year... *. 1907: Born in Winterset, Iowa *. 1939: layed the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach *. 1940: Co-starred with Marlene Dietrich in Seven Sinners *. 1968: Co-directed The Green Berets, which backed US involvement in Vietnam *. 1969: Won an Oscar for his performance in True Grit *. 1975: Co-starred with Katherine Hepburn in Rooster Cogburn *. 1979 :Died of cancer "If we could have brought out The Oregon Trail, it would have generated a million dollars in revenue," he said, standing in a room with klieg lights at the museum last summer. As he spoke, a Comstock Cowboys CD played in the background. The music has simple chords with lonely-guy lyrics: "I rode in the deadwood one dark, stormy evening." Sigman said he believed The Oregon Trail was misfiled and placed in the wrong canister. The movie posters belong to private collectors He picked up a rusted canister, a storage case for movie prints, that been lying on the floor. It was empty, except for a bro...

¤ Synopsis Abraham Lincoln is regarded as one of America's greatest heroes due to both his incredible impact on the nation and his unique appeal. His is a remarkable story of the rise from humble beginnings to achieve the highest office in the land; then, a sudden and tragic death at a time when his country needed him most to complete the great task remaining before the nation. Lincoln's distinctively human and humane personality and historical role as savior of the Union and emancipator of the slaves creates a legacy that endures. His eloquence of democracy and his insistence that the Union was worth saving embody the ideals of self-government that all nations strive to achieve. ¤ Childhood: Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. Thomas was a strong and determined pioneer who found a moderate level of prosperity and was well respected in the community. The couple had two other children: Abraham's old...

~NAME: Abraham Lincoln ~OCCUPATION: Civil Rights Activist , Lawyer , U.S. President , U.S. Representative ~BIRTH DATE: February 12 , 1809 ~DEATH DATE: April 15 , 1865 ~Did You Know?: Lincoln was an accomplished wrestler: He was defeated only once in about 300 matches, and is enshrined in the Wrestling Hall of Fame. ~Did You Know?: Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln, was saved from getting hit by a train by Edwin Booth, John Wilkes Booth's brother. ~PLACE OF BIRTH: Hodgenville, Kentucky ~PLACE OF DEATH: Washington, D.C. ~Full Name: Abraham Lincoln ~Nickname: Honest Abe ~Nickname: The Great Emancipator Best Known For. Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. He preserved the Union during the U.S. Civil War and brought about the emancipation of slaves. Follow LaNUBlog with http://twitter.com /LATEST_GISTS

Continuation,.. "We live in the most unequal part of the world, which has grown the most yet reduced misery the least," he was quoted as saying by the National Catholic Reporterat a gathering of Latin American bishops in 2007. "The unjust distribution of goods persists, creating a situation of social sin that cries out to Heaven and limits the possibilities of a fuller life for so many of our brothers." One issue for the Vatican may be the state of the new pope's health. He lives with only one lung, since having the other removed as young man because of an infection. Nonetheless, he is said to be in good shape. He is said to be a football fan, supporting Buenos Aires team San Lorenzo de Almagro.