Monday 10 December 2012

Modern-day Noah rebuilding Ark in Maryland

 Greene with his Noah's ark

Richard Greene was reading the Bible one night in 1974 when, he says, God spoke to him. "He would say, 'Richard, there was an Ark, and so shall it be, now build it as your new church'," Greene says.
Two years later the retired pastor from Frostburg, Maryland set to work rebuilding Noah's Ark, to scale, on the edge of an interstate highway.

Job Creation: Going Beyond the MDGs

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Labour Minister, Emeka Wogu

As debate on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) agenda gathers pace, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) says that the most pressing priorities are job creation and social protection, writes Linda Eroke

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has called for jobs and livelihoods to be at the heart of the development agenda after the target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) passes in 2015.

Four Ways to Become a Lagos Socialite

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Lagos Socialite

By Karen Eloke Young

It’s a crazy society we live in especially the “Lagos Society” – I should know, I am deeply entrenched in it. From the nightclub appearances to fashion shows, to appearing in the fashion pages of glossy magazines to extravagant elite weddings, beach hangouts at Ilashe – you see faces that soon become familiar faces and gradually become known and influential faces…well, sometimes.