2013 Savewater International Photographic Competition

ELIGIBILITY: Entry is open to all schools and individuals.

RULES AND REGULATIONS: Full rules and regulations can be found here


PRIZE:
There are three categories of entry with great prizes on offer, plus a People’s Choice award for 2013.

CategoryPrizeOpen Winner: 15-inch: 2.3GHz MacBook Pro valued at $2,000
Runner-up: Adobe Lightroom valued at $200
Senior student
(13 to 17 years of age) Winner: NIKON D5200 digital SLR camera with 18-55mm lens kit valued at $999
Runner-up: Adobe Lightroom valued at $200
Junior student
(up to 12 years of age) Winner: Canon PowerShot A4000 IS digital camera valued at $150
Runner-up: iPod shuffle valued at $55
People’s Choice
(public vote) Winner: iPad mini valued at $370
Runner up: iTunes voucher valued at $50



HOW TO APPLY: To apply, see here


DEADLINE: September 30, 2013


MORE INFORMATION: For more information click here



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“Nigeria’s Next Celebrity Photographer” Online Competition | A Car, Trip to Dubai & an Apple Mac up for Grabs

ELIGIBILITY: Anyone with a camera phone, an iPad and a camera can participate.

RULES AND REGULATIONS: Full rules and regulations here


PRIZE:

1st (Grand Prize) – Brand New KIA RIO (2012) edition
2nd prize – Holiday trip DUBIA for 3 days
3rd prize – Apple MacBook Laptop




HOW TO APPLY:

Interested participants are required to register their pictures a twww.signaturestudios.com.ng and then the public will vote for their preferred picture.
Each registration costs N 500. The more pictures uploaded the more the chances of winning.
Eight contestants with the highest number of votes will emerge and be lounged for two weeks at the Protea Hotel Apo, Abuja, where they will be assigned various photography tasks, to be held in December.




DEADLINE: Not Specified
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2013/2014 MUSTE Undergraduate and Postgraduate Scholarship for Nigerians

ELIGIBILITY:
All Nigerian youth are eligible for the scholarship. In the first ten years of the program, 1439 youths from all cross Nigeria have been awarded scholarship. About one hundred awardees are selected each year from a pool of four hundred applicants. Scholarships are awarded on the basis of personal intellectual ability, leadership capability and a desire to use their knowledge to contribute to society throughout Nigeria by providing service to their community and applying their talent and knowledge to improve the lives of others.


• Be a registered member of Youth Empowerment & ICT Foundation
• Have their Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination result or the equivalent
• Have a current admission letter into a recognized higher level institution
• Undergraduate applicant must have passed JAMB and Post-JAMB examinations
• Undergraduates already in school must attach a recent photocopy of their school I.D
• Higher degree applicant must hold a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent, and have at least two years of recent full time professional experience, acquired after a university degree.



RULES AND REGULATIONS: Full rules and regulations can be found here


PRIZE: The MUSTE Scholarship provides bursary to cover the cost of completing an undergraduate or higher degree program that is within 3 – 6 years. It is also subject to satisfactory academic performance in the subsequent year of the degree program. The Scholarship provides benefits for the recipient only, and intends to cover:
• Tuition
• A monthly subsistence allowance, for living expenses and books. More on the prize here


HOW TO APPLY: To begin your application, see here


DEADLINE: Not Specified

MORE INFORMATION: For more information click here



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The World Bank Group Fellowship Program

ELIGIBILITY: Doctoral students of African descent within one or two years of completing a Ph.D. program in the following fields: Economics, Demography, Applied Statistics and Econometrics, Impact Evaluation, Education, Health, Energy, Agriculture, and Infrastructure.
Candidates must:

Be enrolled in an academic institution and returning to university after the fellowship
Be 32 years of age or below
Have an excellent command of English, both written and verbal
Possess strong quantitative and analytical skills

RULES AND REGULATIONS:

About the FellowshipFellows will spend a minimum of six months at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. getting hands-on experience in development work. This includes knowledge generation and dissemination, design of global and country policies and the building of institutions to achieve inclusive growth in developing countries. While benefitting from research and innovation in multiple sectors, Fellows will also work on economic policy, technical assistance, and lending for eliminating poverty and increasing shared prosperity. Special attention will be given to work with Fragile and Conflict-Affected States.
Fellows will be expected to complete a research project and prepare a research paper to present to staff. High-standard papers may be published internally.
Specifically, selected participants will:

Gain a better understanding of the World Bank Group's mission and operations
Access quality data for their research work
Interact with seasoned experts in their field of development
Contribute to the World Bank Group's mission
HOW TO APPLY: After submitting an application online, the most promising candidates will be identified and their application packages forwarded to World Bank Africa Region managers and participating departments for consideration. Departments and managers will then indicate their preferences, as well as the project to be undertaken.
Selected candidates will then be notified and, upon acceptance, will be hired as short-term consultants for a minimum of six months. Fellows will receive consultant fees, round-trip economy class air travel to Washington, D.C. from their university, and worker's compensation insurance. 

Application Form

DEADLINE: Not Specified

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World’s Top 10 Most Educated Countries

Based on a study conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),24/7 Wall St. compiled a list of the 10 countries with the highest proportion of college-educated adult residents. Topping the charts is Canada — the only nation in the world where more than half its residents can proudly hang college degrees up on their walls. In 2010, 51% of the population had completed a tertiary education, which takes into account both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Canada commanded the top spot in the last study in 2000, but even still has shown serious improvement. A decade ago, only 40% of the nation’s population had a college degree.

Snagging the number two most-educated spot was Israel, which trailed Canada by 5%. Japan, the U.S., New Zealand and South Korea all ranked with more than 40% of citizens having a higher-education degree. The top 10 most-educated countries are:

1. Canada

2. Israel

3. Japan

4. United States

5. New Zealand

6. South Korea

7. United Kingdom

8. Finland

9. Australia

10. Ireland

Sources: Yahoo

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Church Members Mistreat Homeless Man in Church Unaware It Is Their Pastor in Disguise

Pastor Jeremiah Steepek transformed himself into a homeless person and went to the 10,000 member church that he was to be introduced as the head pastor at that morning.

He walked around his soon to be church for 30 minutes while it was filling with people for service, only 3 people out of the 7-10,000 people said hello to him.

He asked people for change to buy food – no one in the church gave him change.

He went into the sanctuary to sit down in the front of the church and was asked by the ushers if he would please sit in the back.

He greeted people to be greeted back with stares and dirty looks, with people looking down on him and judging him.

As he sat in the back of the church, he listened to the church announcements and such.

When all that was done, the elders went up and were excited to introduce the new pastor of the church to the congregation.

“We would like to introduce to you Pastor Jeremiah Steepek.” The congregation looked around clapping with joy and anticipation.

The homeless man sitting in the back stood up and started walking down the aisle. The clapping stopped with all eyes on him.


He walked up the altar and took the microphone from the elders (who were in on this) and paused for a moment then he recited,

“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.

“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

‘The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

After he recited this, he looked towards the congregation and told them all what he had experienced that morning. Many began to cry and many heads were bowed in shame.

He then said, “Today I see a gathering of people, not a church of Jesus Christ. The world has enough people, but not enough disciples. When will YOU decide to become disciples?”

He then dismissed service until next week.

Following in the footsteps of Jesus Christ should be more than just talk. It ought to be a lifestyle that others around you can love about you and share in.

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Kidnap Kingpin Says He Keeps His Hostages in Church, Shares Ransom with His Pastor

A 38 year old wanted kidnap suspect has been arrested by the Anambra State Police Command.

The suspect, Okafor is a graduate of Mathematics from the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.

Okafor popularly known as Igwe did not only fall afoul of the law as a kidnapper, he also messed up the temple of God by keeping his victims in a church and sharing his loot with the pastor.

Once on a mission to collect N5 million ransom from the family of victim in Asaba, Delta State, he was rounded up by crack policemen and locked up in a cell.

Okafor, however, escaped through the window of the cell to continue his evil trade until the hardworking members of the State Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Anambra ended his reign of terror.

The kidnap kingpin in his own words: “I graduated from Unizik in 2006 and I studied Mathematics. I did my NYSC in Abuja and I served in NNPC at Berger. After graduation I was going to Ghana to buy clothes to sell in Lagos State.

“I am now involved totally in kidnapping where I make quick money. When I kidnapped I used to take my victims to my church in Awkuzu where the General Overseer, Pastor Nwaezeagu always collects the victims from us and at the end, we would give him his own share.

“We decided to join the church so that the members would not suspect us that we were keeping some victims we kidnapped inside the church.”

“I was the one who was involved in the kidnapping of the traditional prime minister in Enugu-Ukwu and we collected N50 million from the victim before we released him and I gave Pastor Nwaezeagu his 20 per cent share on that day.

“I kidnapped another woman in Awka and collected N30 million from the family of victim and kept her in the church and, after the family paid the ransom, I released the suspect and I gave Pastor Nwaezeagu the sum of N200,000.”

ABRIEFED

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CRIME: SUPER SMART RATS....joining the police force

Holland's 'sniffer rats' have a nose for crime-fighting

Five "sniffer rats" have been in police training in the Dutch city of Rotterdam, learning how to distinguish between scents - including drugs and explosives.

The brown rats are due to go into active service next year, operating under the names Poirot, Magnum, Derrick - TV detectives popular in the Netherlands - and Jansen and Janssen, the Dutch names for the bowler-hatted detectives in Tintin.

It means the Netherlands will be the first country to use trained rats in civilian police investigations.

SOURCE (EXTERNAL LINK)

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Men with larger testicles are lesser fathers – STUDY

Men with larger testicles tend to be less involved fathers than those with smaller testes, a new study suggests.

The findings, detailed in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, are correlational, so they can’t say exactly why the trend exists but only that there is a link.

But men who produce more sperm have bigger testes, and sperm production is extremely energy intensive for the body, so it may be that fathers “face a trade-off between investing energy in parenting and investing energy in mating effort.

Scores of studies have shown that children with involved and caring fathers tend to do better emotionally, socially and educationally.


A 2011 study in the Philippines had already suggested that men who have high testosterone levels are more likely to marry. Even so, those men who are eventually more involved in day-to-day child care duties — such as changing diapers, running the bath or kissing scraped boo-boos — see their testosterone levels drop more than men who remain aloof after having children.

But testosterone has many roles in the male body, so it wasn’t clear whether the drop in the male hormone occurred because men were investing more in parenting than in mating.

Those surveyed were 70 married men ages 21 to 55 who had between one and four children. Only four of the men routinely did more caregiving than the mothers. The men with bigger testes had a more hands-off parenting style, and as fathers, they tended to have higher testosterone levels.



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Lion rips Ethiopian zookeeper’s neck

 A lion at the Addis Ababa zoo attacked and killed a zookeeper Monday after he forgot to close the door to the inner cage where the lion sleeps, officials said.

The lion, named Kenenisa after a famous Ethiopian runner, killed Abera Silsay, 51, as he was cleaning the cage.

“He entered cage number 10 where Kenenisa lives and he forgot to close the door (to the lion’s sleeping chamber)… Finally, the lion came and he mauled him,” the zoo’s director general Musie Kiflom told AFP.

The lion bit Abera’s neck as guards tried to scare Kenenisa off by shooting live rounds into the air and pounding on the cage’s roof.

It is the second time a zookeeper has been killed by a lion at the centre in the past 17 years.

Musie said the zoo will step up its training for keepers after the attack.

“We have to update them on how to protect the animals, how to work with the animals, how to keep them, how to clean them,” he said speaking near the cage where the attack took place.

Kenenisa the lion was unharmed and remains in the zoo, which was closed Monday after the incident.

The Addis Ababa zoo is home to 15 endangered Abyssinian Lions, found in Ethiopia and famous for their black manes.

The lions are kept in enclosed cages, but the zoo is set to move to a larger, grassier enclosure in the Ethiopian capital in the next 13 months.

The Addis Ababa zoo was opened in 1948 by former emperor Haile Selassie, who established the centre to house his pet cub lions Molla and Lullu

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UK-Based Nigerian Movie Producer Theodora Ibekwe Wins Best Actress Award

England-based Nollywood movie producer Theodora Oyebade nee Ibekwe is the latest recipient of Achievers Awards.

On Saturday night, the Nigerian community along with friends and well wishers gathered at the London Welsh Centre, for the Nigeria UK Based Achievers Awards.

Among the winners was newly married, PR Guru, Film Producer and Actress,
Theodora Ibekwe-Oyebade, who dazzled in an Ankara evening gown. She was
beautifully made up by Libeks BC.

During her thank you speech, she said “I dedicate this award to my husband
(Ayo Oyebade), who has been a great support to me over the past year, never
leaving my side…”

Theodora now has three awards, this year, to add to the twelve she has
received in just a few years. She remarked that 2013 is so far her best year
ever.

 (photo): Newly married Theodora Ibekwe and husband, Mr Ayo Oyebade at the event.



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Pregnant Ini Edo Requests For Privacy On Twitter As Miscarriage Fear Sets In

couple of hours ago, Ini Edo took to Twitter to share her mind.

Hear Ini in her own words below;

“I know you wish me well, but I would really appreciate if I am not mis-quoted and people wouldn’t make insinuations about my private life.”

Its not her fault.....she shouldnt be blamed  for planning to keep her pregnancy secret because in 2012, the actress suffered a terrible miscarriage after announcing her pregnancy in a soft-sell magazine.

Since her marriage in 2008, the actress has battled to have a child.



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Miss Earth 2013 Brings American Celebrity Stylist Ryan Christopher To Nigeria

After searching all over Nigeria for a professional hair stylist and fashion expert, the organizers ofMiss Earth Nigeria 2013 seem to have become dissatisfied.

This move forced them to travel all the way to America to bring in professional celebrity stylist Ryan Christopher.

Ryan will be responsible for giving Miss Earth Nigeria 2013 contestants beautiful looks and teaching them cat-walking skills. He arrived Lagos last week.




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NEWS BREAK: Rainstorm destroys homes in Katsina

A heavy downfall accompanied by rainstorm on Monday destroyed many structures in Bakori and Danja Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Katsina State.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the affected structures were mostly mud houses and some public schools.

Alhaji Tijjani Lawal, the Transition Committee Chairman of Danja Local Government, told newsmen that relief materials would soon be distributed to the affected victims.

Lawal however recalled that the LGA had experienced a similar incident in 2012.

“A committee has been constituted to assess the extent of the damage,’’ he said.

In Bakori, the council’s Transition Committee Chairman, Alhaji Mansur Rabi’u-Banki, described the incident as unexpected.

Rabi’u-Banki cautioned the people against indiscriminate refuse disposal, as well as the blocking of waterways.

He appealed to state and federal governments for urgent intervention.

The chairman urged the residents to refrain from indiscriminate felling of trees.

“We all need to plant more trees to check desertification,’’ he said.


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FG approves N4bn for UNIZIK

The Federal Government of Nigeria has approved the sum of over N4 billion for developments project and earned allowances for staff members of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.

The Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Boniface Egboka said the allocated funds were part of needs assessment document produced by universities in Nigeria to the federal government.

According to the Vice Chancellor, out of the 100 billion approved by the federal government to 61 universities for renovation of hostels, building of laboratories, faculties and lecture rooms. Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka was allocated N3.050 billion and another N1.44 billion for earned allowances out of the N30 billion approved.

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