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. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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::
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
