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Hahahaha....Scuffles in the house•Like Nigeria, Like Ukraine: Parliamentarians
in Ukraine fighting on the floor of the
parliament this afternoon.

American Idol Winner; Phillip Phillips Had Eight Operations During American Idol Run.

Imagine what Phillip Phillips could do if he
were 100 percent healthy.
The American Idol winner dazzled viewers
all season long, despite battling chronic
kidney problems – and having eight
separate surgeries – since the competition
began, his father told PEOPLE Wednesday
after an eventful finale.
The younger Phillips, 21, suffered with a
build up of kidney stones and underwent
multiple operations to remove them. In the
next few weeks, after another surgery to
reconstruct his kidneys, he is expected to
make a full recovery in time for the Idols Live
tour.
"The recovery's probably two to four
weeks," said his father. "He's healthy, he's
good. His kidneys are good. I can't wait for
America and the whole world to see him
[after his surgery], because he's a big cut-
up. He's going to have some fun."
The singer himself told reporters
Wednesday that the problems were a
struggle but that he had the support to get
through them.
"I'm going to get some surgery done, so I'm
going to get all better for the tour," he said.
"It was very tough [getting through the
season]. I had great doctors and great
people surrounding me [who] really helped
out, so it's just a blessing to be here."
Wow!...just speechless.

Nigerian Man Goes To China To Find 'American Dream,' Launches Social Network

Gbooza.com is Spartan Arinze's new social
network/news aggregator for Nigerians.
Spartan Arinze is pursuing the American
dream, in China. He's created a social
network for Nigerians and Nigerians living
in China called Gbooza! It's part Facebook,
part Huffington Post and completely devoted
to Nigerians. It's not a run-away success yet,
but Arinze is confident.
When Spartan Arinze landed at the
Guangzhou airport in southern China more
than a decade ago he had $300 in his
pocket and he didn’t speak a word of
Chinese but he felt destined to do
something big.
“I came to China with the hope of looking
for the American dream. You must have read
that on my profile,” Arinze said.
The online profile he’s talking about is on
gbooza.com — the website Arinze launched
two years ago. As for his dream, Gbooza is
it.
“Some people dream of business, my dream
was media,” he said.
The connection between Nigeria and China
is built on trade. Arinze remembers
watching as more and more Chinese goods
flooded the marketplace near his home in
Nigeria’s Anambra State. At the time, visas to
China were relatively easy for Nigerians to
get. So Arinze decided to take his chances
and go to the source of all those goods,
where he hoped to make enough money to
start his own social networking website.
“That was the biggest risk in my life," he
remembered.
Arinze spent his first few years in
Guangzhou doing whatever odd job would
keep him there – teaching English, exporting
purses to Nigeria – all the while researching
and planning for the launch of his own
social network. He studied sites like
Facebook and Yahoo. They weren’t quite like
the site that he hoped to create. But then
one day he was searching the Internet and
he accidentally came across a new website:
The Huffington Post.
“I said, ‘Wow, this is the kind of thing I want
to create,’ ” he said.
Gbooza! launched in 2010. The name
Gbooza, like Yahoo ends with an
exclamation point. It’s a Nigerian expression
meaning surprise or astonishment.
“It can mean a bang, explosion, something
like that,” Arinze explained.
The site is part social network, part news
aggregator and all focused on the Nigerian
community in China.
“I cannot create a news website for
Americans,” Arinze said. “I am Nigerian so I
have to create something for my people.
And being in China here, I want to create
something that will benefit my people and
benefit China. We feature Chinese news and
we feature events of Nigerians in China too.
Gbooza is no Facebook yet. The site has
about 2,000 members and gets around
5,000 pageviews a day. But Arinze is still
dreaming big. His next plan: making
gbooza.com the number one social news
network in Africa.

BBA: UpVille First Nomination; Mampi Nominated Most.

Mampi was the common denominator
during the first Upville Nominations.
Everyone with the exception of gossip
buddy Maneta, put Zambia's Mampi on the
chopping block this week. This is not
surprising, considering the complaints in
the past week about her pre-disposition to
gossip.
Maneta, on the other hand, has the second
highest number of Nominations, thanks to
her friendship with Mampi. Lady May told
Big Brother how the two have formed a
formidable gossip duo, while Roki did not
hesitate to put his fellow countryman up,
revealing how Maneta is "slowly fading into
Mampi." DKB, who is Head of House was
surprisingly put on the chopping block by
Prezzo, who he spends a lot of time with.
Prezzo's reason for Nominating the
comedian is that DKB is not real with himself
and is trying too hard to fit in. Mampi pulled
the trigger at him too, without so much as
batting an eyelid. "He has been stepping on
my toes the last week. He has such a big
head now that he is Head of House", she
said.
Goldie garnered two Nominations, from
Mampi and Maneta respectively. Mampi
called Goldie a plastic pretender, while
Maneta called her "fake." Lady May and
Prezzo each got a Nomination apiece. Barbz
Nominated Prezzo, after assuring Big
Brother that it wasn't because of their past
issues. "He says Africa loves him, so this is
his chance to prove it", she said.
Roki and Barbz can rest easy. Mampi - 6
DKB - 3
Maneta - 3
Goldie - 2
Lady May - 1
Prezzo - 1
Barbz - 0
Roki - 0
No one
Nominated either of them.

Pictures Of Today's Suspected Sucide Bomber.

Police said they caught a suspected terrorist
at the proposed venue of a ministerial
conference Abuja today.
The person whose identity is
now known reportedly came to the Radio
House with high grade explosives and
rounds of ammunition.
The Radio House was to play host to three
federal ministers who were scheduled to
present their achievements in office in
preparation for the annual May 29th
"Democracy Day" ritual.

84 Lagos private hospitals to offer free services.

Private doctors under the aegis of the
Association of General and Private Medical
Practitioners of Nigeria have earmarked 84
private hospitals in Lagos State where
patients could get free health care services.
The state Chairman of the association, Dr.
Olayinka Oladosu, said on Sunday that the
move was to ensure that lives were not lost
while the state government negotiated with
its sacked doctors.
Oladosu explained that the hospitals were in
most parts of the state to ensure that
residents did not have to travel far distances
to get treatment.
He said the hospitals would offer free
treatment only to patients with general
hospitals cards.
Oladosu said the association had also
provided seven emergency centres in each
local government.
He said, “We cannot seat back and go
against the Hippocratic Oath that we have
sworn to.
“Our colleagues in dispute should be
assured that this move is not in any way to
scuttle their negotiation with the state
government.”
The National President of the association,
Dr.Anthony Omolola, said doctors in the
selected private hospitals would attend to all
cases while complicated ones would be
referred to consultants in the public
hospitals.
He added that the association took the step
to reduce the agony of patients who were
traumatised by the strike.
Some of the hospital are Maryland Specialist
Hospital, Nusamin Hospital, Ericon Clinic,
Havillah Clinic and St. Patrick Clinic.

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