Nigerian Doctor Member of US National Cancer Advisory Board

A Nigerian, Dr. Olufunmilayo Falusi Olopade, was  among six individuals appointed into key administration posts yesterday by United States President Barack Obama.

A statement by the White House Thursday said Olopade, who is the Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics, Associate Dean for Global Health, and Director of the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics at the University of Chicago,  had been appointed by President Obama as a member of US National Cancer Advisory Board. (more…)

Emem Isong Celebrates 15 Years in Nollywood as Writer/Producer

Emem Isong Celebrates 15 Years in Nollywood industry as Writer/Producer, with other showbiz personalities like Stella Damasus, Desmond Elliot, Uche Jombo, Ini Edo, Stephanie Okereke, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, Monalisa Chinda, Zik Zulu Okafor,Julius Agwu and many other stars. Check out the pictures of this celebration which was held last night.

Thousands Of Women March Through Streets in Jos To Protest Killings

The central Nigerian city of Jos was brought to a standstill yesterday as thousands of women dressed in black marched through the streets to protest the continuing violence in Plateau State.

The group’s spokesperson Rhoda Awang said, ‘Women are killed and children are killed. Pregnant women are killed and the babies cut out of their wombs. We have local chiefs in all the 17 Local Government Councils. Where are they and what are they doing? We have former governors, where are they? Where is Yakubu Gowon (the former Nigerian President who is from Plateau State)? If the people are killed in the state who will they rule over?”

The women’s anger was further fuelled by the deaths of a woman and child during an attack on a village in Vom on the previous night, and they made clear their rejection of any federally instituted state of emergency in Plateau State. They also called on Plateau State Governor Jonah Jang to relocate Jos’s Motor Park and the Vegetable Market from the Bauchi Road and Farin Gada areas, as several non-Muslims have disappeared there.