The women Leader specifically lauded the governor for providing financial assistance to over 5,000 beneficiaries of her project in the 23 local government areas of Benue State by the state governor. She gave the commendation in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, during the flagging of the pilot scheme of her nationwide pet program, "Project 774 Explode Initiative" for women in politics. On Friday, a statement by the Media Office of the National Women Leader in Abuja said that "
Whether you live in an area with a warmer climate year-round and are looking to supplement an existing ceiling fan or central air system, or are looking for a standalone air conditioning unit, a portable air conditioner can help. “Portable air conditioning units can easily be moved from room to room and do not look unsightly as a window unit sticking out the window,” says Chris Walters, HVAC expert, holder of Class A license in air conditioning and refrigeration in Texas, and owner of The Training Center of Air Conditioning & Heating based in Houston, Texas.
Biz Watch | TIME
2024-08-15
You’ve Got Google
The world’s leading search engine sent a message to Yahoo, MSN Hotmail and other Web-based free e-mail services: you’ve got competition. Google confirmed rumors it was testing Gmail, a free service that will not only allow subscribers to send and receive e-mail, but also tap the firm’s trademark keyword search facility to retrieve e-mails. The gee-whiz feature: 1 GB of free storage — between 250 and 500 times more than at Yahoo and Hotmail.
Blaqbonez drops new single 'Back In Uni'
2024-08-15
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Label: Chocolate City Details/Takeaway: Rapper Blaqbonez returns with a new single that captures his many escapade as a student back in the university were he left a trail of heart broken women in his wake. The single is produced by celebrated UK producer JAE5 who delivers a bouncy swing beat for Blaqbonez to lay his smooth bars.
Books: Come-Ons | TIME
2024-08-15
MY HARD BARGAIN by Walter Kirn
Knopf; 145 pages; $18.95
In his first book, a collection of 13 short stories, Walter Kirn demonstrates a flair for opening sentences. He understands the allure of the odd: “The whole way down to Phoenix in the car, my job was to tranquilize the dog.” He knows firearms are likely to arouse interest: “Luckily, I had a gun hidden away.” And he senses that puzzlements invite curiosity: “He’d always liked motels even better than sleeping at home — they provided the essentials and left a man to himself; but in New York City they’d only have hotels, and Clarence Dahlgren felt confused.
Books: Seer v. Slob | TIME
2024-08-15
THE WRECKAGE OF AGATHON by John Gardner. 243 pages. Harper & Row. $6.95. Dying in a Spartan jail in the year 500-and-something B.C., the hero of this sharp and provoking little antihistorical novel finds no difficulty in giving verbatim quotations from the Dryden translation (17th century A.D.) of Plutarch’s Life of Lycurgus (2nd century A.D.). It is true that he is a certified Seer of Apollo, and the future drifts before his eyes as effortlessly as the past or the present.
Profession: Tennis Player
Biography: Daniil Medvedev is a Russian professional tennis player best known for winning the 2021 US Open, becoming the world No. 1 in 2022, and winning 20 ATP Tour singles titles, including six Masters titles. He was recognized for defeating the top three players in the world at the 2020 ATP Finals and for his rivalries with Stefanos Tsitsipas and Alexander Zverev.
Introduced to tennis at age 6, Daniil Medvedev began his junior tennis career in 2009.
April 29, 2016 12:02 AM EDT
DNA evidence presented in a Spanish court appears to prove that a bullfighter is the son of one of the country’s best-known matadors.
Manuel Díaz, 47, has long claimed that he is the offspring of Manuel Benítez, 79, a.k.a “El Cordobés” (a reference to his southern Spanish hometown, Cordova), the BBC reports. But the elder man rejects the claim that he fathered Díaz — who himself became a bullfighter and also uses the name “El Cordobés” — after meeting Díaz’s mother, a maid, at the height of the older man’s popularity in the 1960s.
The Daily Mail UK reported on the couple's challenges and experiences. Seaborn was diagnosed with a tumour in February 2022, during her second pregnancy, which was six months along at the time. "I got diagnosed with cancer at the start of the year, which was a massive shitter, but it made me massively reflect on our mortality. We had the diagnosis of the tumour and the next day Eds went down into the basement and wrote seven songs in four hours.