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Peruvian Jesus Born To Virgin Mary On Christmas Virgin Mary, a 20-year-old Peruvian woman, gave birth to a baby boy on Christmas day and named him Jesus, Peru's state news agency said on Friday. The baby's father, Adolfo Jorge Huamani, 24, is a carpenter. Religious Peruvians compared him to Joseph the Carpenter in the Bible. "2,000 years later the story of Bethlehem is relived," read the headline about the birth in El Comercio, the main newspaper in Peru, a predominantly Catholic country. The mother, Virgen Maria Huarcaya, delivered the 7.7 pound (3.5 kg) boy, Jesus Emanuel, in the early hours of Christmas at the central maternity hospital in Lima, the capital. "A few days ago we had decided to name my son after a professional soccer player," the father said. "But thanks to a happy coincidence this is how things ended up."
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A visibly enraged Chief Mike Ahamba (SAN), lead counsel to the All Nigerian People's Party (ANPP) at the 2007 Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal, emerged from the Court of Appeal complex, Abuja on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008, shortly after the petitions of ANPP were dismissed by the court in a unanimous decision, and thundered before pressmen:Conversation of an Angry man
Who exactly should we make our "Man of the Year? Already major newspapers and magazines have decided to give it to Barack Obama, the first African American to be elected president of the United States of America.
Candour's Niche
The much-awaited cabinet shake-up and appointment of new ministers to work with President Yar'Adua was finally wrapped recently.
Scruples
This year, this column would occasionally undertake the clearly hazardous but enlightening task of character study on some political personages whose actions and inactions have significantly influenced the tenor and character of the kind of unedifying politics we proudly play in these parts.
The Roundtable
Last month I did an article titled "Lawlessness in partnership with law enforcement agents" which drew attention to the hell that Lagos roads have become, owing to the recklessness of commercial vehicle operators and their law enforcement collaborators.
Speaking Out
As someone who has spent a few nights in detention fighting for democracy, I have always considered the vote as something close to being sacred.
