Nigerian Times

SHISEIDO JENNIFER CONNELLY Jennifer Connelly, the New Global Spokesperson for the Shiseido Future Solution LX Line. (PRNewsFoto/Shiseido, Alexei Hay) TOKYO, JAPAN. TOKYO, Feb. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As Shiseido Co., Ltd. celebrates its 140th anniversary, the company announced that it has signed Academy Award-winning actress, Jennifer Connelly, who previously represented the company in Asia. Connelly will be the namesake brand's global spokesperson and face of its highly acclaimed premium skincare line Future Solution LX. Connelly's first advertising campaign as global spokesperson will debut this fall. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120202/NY43938 ) "I am honored to be working with Shiseido again and to be representing the Future Solution LX line globally," said Jennifer Connelly. "Like Shiseido, I believe it is important to prepare now for our future well being. I look forward to sharing my journey with Future Solution LX with women worldwide....

Iara Lee Dear Iara Lee, I read your "Obstructing Business": South Koreans on the March posted on 8/29/11 08:57 PM ET of the Huff Post World . Your observation of the human rights abuses in South Korea are surprising to us in Nigeria, because we thought South Korea is a more civilized country compared to communist North Korea and other Machiavellian governments in the world. We are disappointed by the maltreatment of human rights activists in Jeju-do and other parts of South Korea. The "Island of the Gods” is the island of peacemakers and not a base for warmongers. It has been reported that the naval base is estimated to cost 958.7 billion won, a civilian-military port complex that could simultaneously dock about 20 warships, including Aegis warships, and two 150,000- ton cruise ships. WOW! South Korea wants to launch a super power tussle with Japan and China or ready for a showdown with North Korea? The South Korean government should stop playing to the gallery of the US...

9 Aug 2011 15:12 Africa/Lagos Japan's Additional Assistance to Peacekeeping Training Centers in Africa TOKYO, August 9, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- On Tuesday, August 9, the Government of Japan has provided additional assistance to Peacekeeping Training Centers in Africa, amounting to 2.7 million US dollars (240.3 million yen). Out of this assistance, 500,000 US dollars will be additionally provided to the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) in Ghana and the Cairo Center for Conflict Resolution and Peacekeeping in Africa (CCCPA) in Egypt respectively, 800,000 US dollars additionally to the International Peace Support Training Center (IPSTC) in Kenya, as well as 900,000 US dollars newly to the ISS Peace Academy (ISSPA) in Ethiopia. Although a number of conflicts and civil wars are being settled in Africa, there remain volatile countries and regions and six UN peacekeeping operations (one of which is an AU [African Union] / UN hyb...

The nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine? Re : Russia woos Nigeria on nuclear power plant The Guardian newspaper of Nigeria reported on Monday, 01 August 2011 that Russia is bidding to build Nigeria’s first nuclear plant. It is the most unfortunate thing that will happen to this country. Yes it works in the developed countries, but they have actually been challenged by the difficulties to manage their various nuclear plants and at a great cost too. We don’t have the technological advancement to handle it. We can’t even maintain our roads, railways, no national carrier, etc. Look at the white elephant project at Ajaokuta and the mismanaged Delta Steel project which was almost taken over by the son of one of Nigeria’s former rulers. Our tertiary institutions cannot be upgraded where you see our beautiful daughters going to toilet with polythene bags while those who have ruled this country instead of upgrading them have establish...

17 Jun 2011 21:57 Africa/Lagos Courtesy Call on Ms. Makiko Kikuta, Japan' Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, by H.E. Mr. Godwin Nsude Agbo, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to Japan (Donation of Relief Money from the Federal Republic of Nigeria) TOKYO, June 17, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- On Wednesday, June 15, Ms. Makiko Kikuta, Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, received a courtesy call from H.E. Mr. Godwin Nsude Agbo, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to Japan. Ms. Kikuta expressed her appreciation for the daily commitment of Ambassador Agbo to strengthening the partnership between Japan and Nigeria, and the donation of relief money (394,592,725 yen) for the Great East Japan Earthquake from the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Ms. Kikuta then stated that she regarded this assistance as a proof of friendship and solidarity between Japan and Nigeria, and she would like to make efforts toward recover...

An African soldier during World War 2 The following true story is for Memorial Day and is published on the Red Room. Lest you forget, my father fought in Burma ~ by Chima Michael Ekenyerengozi May 26, 2011, 3:41 pm (In memory of my father Sunday Eke, who fought and survived the World War II in Burma) I have kept my father's identity card of Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF). But I have forgotten everything he told me about the role he and other thousands of Nigerians played as soldiers who fought for the British Empire and the allies in World War II . I do not know if my father won the coveted Burma Star. Marshall Kebby wrote about their exploits in Burma before he passed away over a decade ago. My father never kept a diary and it was after he died on November 19, 1983, that I knew that keeping a diary like Mr. Kebby would have helped me to know more about his past life as a soldier and ambulance driver before I was born. African soldiers of the Royal West African Frontier...

Days of Infamy: Active History and the Teaching of History by Newt Gingrich (more by this author) Posted 04/29/2008 ETUpdated 04/29/2008 ET This week our new novel, Days of Infamy , is being published by St. Martin's Press. Days of Infamy is the sequel to Pearl Harbor , (just released in paperback) and carries on the story of "what might have been" if a different, more aggressive commander -- Admiral Yamamoto -- had led the Japanese Fleet in their surprise attack at Pearl Harbor in December, 1941. The Wrong Admiral for the Wrong Job In real history, the Japanese high command assigned their Pearl Harbor strike force of six aircraft carriers to Admiral Chuichi Nagumo. If ever there was an assignment of the wrong man for the wrong job, it was this one. From the beginning of his forty-year career, Nagumo had been trained in surface warfare, especially the use of destroyers and cruisers as "hit and run" weapons. Thinking like a destroyer commander, he always saw th...