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An astonishing 'vertical village' has been named the world building of the year. The eye-catching housing development calleed The Interlace has been recognized in the World Architecture Festival 2015. The Singapore condominium includes 31 apartment blocks stacked by breeze blocks at angles to each other and won in the housing category. It includes 1,040 homes across eight hectares and was finished two years ago.

The world is fast changing! E-commerce & Mobile commerce is dominating at a jet speed.  Businesses are moving away from the traditional way: "walk in and shop" - Brick & mortar to Mobile commerce: "click & order". E commerce has taken a quantum leap from $55 billion USD in 2003 to $1.5 trillion USD in 2014 (10yrs). Global E commerce sales is projected to reach $2 trillion USD in 2015, whereas it took the automobile industry 100yrs to reach such leap. Watch a 1 minute video for details    http://bit.ly/1Nr5lbK This  FREE mobile app  is simply a mobile search engine that searches the internet and bring you best prices for anything you want to buy worldwide. Let's say you want to  buy a shoe, you can use it to compare prices from different stores and save BIG on purchases. You can also use it to search for flight tickets and book hotels anywhere. You can as well use it to find who is offering deals and discounts wherever you a...

Photo of refugees on their way to Germany through Slovenia Some people's reality! Quite sad! Photo Credit: Reuters

According to TMZ, Lamar's condition has deteriorated, and doctors are now telling his family that the longer he remains in the condition, he's in the less likely it is that he will recover. Sources tell TMZ, Lamar did indeed squeeze Khloe's hand Wednesday night, which gave everyone hope, but Thursday morning doctors are saying it well could have been an involuntary movement. As of Thursday morning, our sources say Lamar has shown no signs of consciousness or improvement. We're told 4 organs, including his kidneys, continue to fail. Our sources say doctors have been clear ... the fact that Lamar is not getting better significantly reduces his chances of survival. As we reported, on Wednesday doctors gave Lamar  a 50/50 chance  of pulling through. As one source put it, "The doctors are concerned it has been too long that he's been in this condition and now it's not looking good." 

Wow! LASTMA officials work on Lagos road (photo) A reader shared this and said early this morning at a checkpoint very close to bonny camp, heading towards Ahmadu Bello, she saw some Lastma officials working selflessly to try and find a solution to the bad roads by sand-filling it. This was done in their uniforms. Aww! Very nice of them.

Abandoned daughter gets surprise inheritance from unexpected source R ainwater Blackfoot was abandoned by her mother and put into foster care by her father. “He was telling me that he was having a happier life without me,” she said of her dad. Without the help of her parents, Rainwater’s life wasn’t the easiest. “There were many years where there was no food in the house,” Rainwater says. “I didn’t have electricity for months.” Foster care and constant struggle made it difficult for her to accept help and trust others. “If someone tries to help me out, there is usually a catch to it,” she said. In 2008, her father passed away and left her $86,000. She had no idea it was there waiting for her, until recently. However,  Inside Edition surprised her with a giant check for $86,000. “I could never have imagined in a million years that all this money would be sitting for me!” She exclaimed when she finally found out. Thanks to the We Find, You Keep campaig...

Happy dad! Mikel Obi cradles newborn twins in his arms His baby mama, Olga Diyachenko shared this photo of the footballer carrying his twin girls in their nursery

Wednesday, September 9, 2015 Buhari speaks on his recent appointments, says he chose people who have been loyal to him People who are loyal to you or people who can do the job? Just asking, what do I know? President Buhari yesterday broke his silence on the recent appointments he made which has been described as lopsided. In an interview with BBC Hausa which was translated by  Daily Trust , President Buahri said he chose people that have been loyal and steadfast with him right from his days in APP, CPC and then APC. "This is the nature of Nigerian politics. If they will do justice to me, as an elected Nigerian president, let them look at the Constitution a Nigerian president works with, there are people who will closely work with me that don’t need to be taken to the Senate. If I select people whom I know quite well in my political party, whom we came all t...

Wednesday, September 9, 2015 Oshiomole fires 4 of his commissioners Edo state governor, Adams Oshiomole has fired four of his Commissioners in the State Executive Council. A statement by the governor's Special Adviser, Media and Public Affairs, Prince Kassim Afegbua, says the termination of appointments is in line with the governor's commitment to strengthen the system towards optimal performance. Continue to see the affected commissioners The affected commissioners are: -Chief Lucky James, Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs; -Mrs. Maigida Blessing, Commissioner for Women Affairs; -Mr. Patrick Aguinede, Commissioner for Basic Education -Mr. Chris Ebare, Commissioner for Energy and Water Resources. The statement adds that the termination is with immediate effect. The affected commissioners have been advised to hand over all government property in their possession to the Permanent Secretaries in their respective M...

Photo: Saudi man divorces wife for dancing A Saudi man instantly divorced his wife after catching her dancing in front of the TV at their home. He told her what she did was an unforgivable. According to Emirates 24/7, the unnamed woman had waited for her husband to go out before she turned on her favourite TV music channel and started to dance in front of the TV set in her room. Her husband had warned her against watching such channels, but she went behind his back and ciphered some of them so he would not know she was watching them. The woman told the Saudi daily 'Sada' that her husband had warned her many times against watching such channels and that she must see only religious and social channels which he likes to watch. "She said that she waited for him to go out on that day, turned on her favorite channel and started to dance. As she was dancing, her husband returned home but she did not hear him coming as the music was loud. She said that when he saw her da...

Erm, this is a pastor in Aba (photo) According to this twitter user Chinedu Ozordi, this is a pastor in Aba, Abia state. Lol

EFCC chairman accused of diverting N1trillion loot recovered from corrupt politicians The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde, has been accused of diverting over N1tn recovered from corrupt politicians who forfeited their loots. A man named George Uboh recently petitioned the Senate, accusing the chairman of the anti-graft agency of diverting money recovered from corrupt politicians including former Governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha; and ex-Inspector-General of Police, Tafa Balogun. The Senate having received the petition which was dated July 31st, ordered its Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions to investigate the allegations. Both the petitioner and Mr Lamorde have been invited to appear by the Senate committee at Meeting Room 120 of the New Senate Building, National Assembly Complex, on Wednesday August 26th for some questioning. According to the petition which was addressed to Senate President Bukola Sa...

11 mins  ·  The death of any Nigerian at the hands of terrorists is a sad reminder that the war on terror is a task for all Nigerians not just the armed forces. I urge all Nigerians to continue to pray for peace in Nigeria and to support the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari as the government does its best to bring an end to these acts of terror and secure all Nigerians. May God bless Nigeria. GEJ.

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