Nigerian Times

7 Feb 2012 09:00 Africa/Lagos Mary J Blige Joins Forces With Belvedere Vodka and (RED)(TM) to Help Save Lives LOS ANGELES, February 7, 2012/PRNewswire/ -- Award-winning, multi-platinum singer Mary J Blige will be performing at a private pre-Grammy event on February, 9th 2012 to celebrate the partnership of Belvedere [http://www.facebook.com/belvederevodka ], the world's first super premium vodka and (RED)(TM). [http://www.facebook.com/joinred ] (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20120207/510730 ) The exclusive performance will be followed by a private party at Bardot, Los Angeles to help raise awareness around HIV/AIDS and emphasize the need for consumers to unite in support of programs that help eliminate HIV and AIDS in Africa. In winter 2011, BELVEDERE (PRODUCT)[RED(TM)] Special Edition bottle [http://www.facebook.com/belvederevodka ] launched to raise proceeds for the Global Fund(TM) to fight HIV/AIDS. The (RED) [http://www.joinred.com ] inspired packaging will conta...

The Friends Africa and Access Bank Plc organized a workshop on Workplace Policy Development on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria for empowering companies to strengthen and develop workplace policies for the general health and welfare of workers. The workshop held on Friday December 2, 2011, at the Multi-Purpose Hall of the University of Lagos. The SMEs Workplace Policies Development program is an initiative of the Friends of the Global Fund Africa, delivered in partnership with Access Bank Plc. The program which was introduced in 2010 seeks to engage, train and assist African Small and Medium Enterprises in the development and implementation of Workplace Policies for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The program held its first successful series of workshop across Nigeria in the first quarter of 2010 reaching a target of over 250 SMEs spread across the North, East and South of Nigeria. The Workshops took place in Lagos (South), Enugu (East) and Minna (North). In 2011, the program is targeted ...

1 Dec 2011 00:56 Africa/Lagos Experts at Congressional Hearing Warn of Threat to U.S. from Nigeria-Based Boko Haram, Link to AQIM PR Newswire WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2011 Cite danger of expanding terrorist ties across Africa's Sahel, flooded by Libyan arms WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At a hearing today of the House Committee on Homeland Security's Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, experts warned that the Nigeria-based militant group, Boko Haram, is posing an emerging threat to U.S. interests and the U.S. homeland. The panel also heard compelling evidence that Boko Haram has established links to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), which is expanding a broad network of terrorist ties to militant groups across Africa's Sahel, including Somalia-based al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), and members of the separatist Polisario Front based in Algeria. "The U.S. intelligence community has underestimated the threat po...

The story of Chidinma has been circulating round social networks and blackberries since days ago. The story below: I am Chidinma from one of the Eastern States, If You are reading this, then I would have given up the Ghost by now and this is my story. Please don't judge me but pass on this confession. It may save lives of innocent young girls like me & help better our wicked economy that steals even from the poor. Myself and six (6) of my friends are into modern day prostitution popularly called RUNZ. We service top politicians, Musicians and Businessmen for a very good pay (#350,000)-- Politicians fee pay outing. These men don't use condom on us(of course with such money you don't have a say) they draw our blood with syringe and test in their private lab to check our HIV status before sleeping with us. I had dealings with the doctor who was paid #2million per- show. He reliably asked me to quit that our blood was being taken(after the tests) to their occultic...

16 Aug 2011 01:01 Africa/Lagos Kaiser/UNAIDS Study Finds Drop in Overall Disbursements For Aids Response in 2010, Seven Out of 15 Governments Report Reductions PR Newswire GENEVA and MENLO PARK, Calif., Aug. 15, 2011 GENEVA and MENLO PARK, Calif., Aug. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Funding disbursements from donor governments for the AIDS response in low- and middle-income countries fell in 2010, dropping 10% from the previous year's level, according to an annual funding analysis conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), available at http://www.kff.org/hivaids/7347.cfm. The study found that donor governments disbursed US$ 6.9 billion in 2010 for HIV prevention, treatment, care and support -- US$ 740 million less than in 2009. The decrease was due to a combination of three main factors: actual reductions in development assistance, currency exchange fluctuations, and a slowdown in the pace of ...

Olympic athlete and women’s volleyball competitor Kerri Walsh uses her weapons-grade hotness in the fight against HIV/AIDS infection.