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By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John Whitehead, a former senior partner and co-chairman of Goldman Sachs who helped make it a top-tier Wall Street firm and led its international expansion, has died, the investment bank said on Saturday. He was 92. Whitehead joined Goldman Sachs in 1947 and worked his way to the highest rung of its corporate ladder before leaving after 38 years to become a deputy secretary of state under U.S. President Ronald Reagan. He was a chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a member of the board of the New York Stock Exchange. Active in political and philanthropic circles, he also served as chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp after the World Trade Center was destroyed during the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. "We grieve the loss of John Whitehead and honor his achievements and contributions in service to his country and Goldman Sachs," Goldman chief executive Lloyd Blankfein said in a statement. &q

The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, has said that there were `new developments’ that needed to be addressed before the conduct of the 2015 general elections. Jega made the remark on Saturday in Abuja when he and other officials of the commission met with representatives of the registered political parties at the commission’s headquarters. He said that the inputs of the leaders of the political parties were important in addressing the new developments. Meanwhile there are strong indications that the presidential and National Assembly elections originally scheduled for 14 February may have been rescheduled to March 28 while the governorship and state houses of assembly elections earlier fixed for 28 February may now hold on 11 April, all of these subject to final ratification of the meeting between INEC National Commissioners and State Resident Electoral Commissioners currently ongoing. The decision to reschedul

Abuja - The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on Nigerians not to vote for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari, for refusing to participate in the live radio and television debates organised for presidential candidates, reports Tribune. The party described Buhari’s contempt for debates and their organisers as despicable Femi Fani-Kayode, the Director of Publicity of the party’s Presidential Campaign Organization, said Buhari;s refusal to participate in the debates clearly shows that he is incapable of engaging in rigorous live television debates on the issues of governance. He said Buhari’s refusal speaks of his intellectual laziness and loss of touch with contemporary issues of development and statecraft. He urged the electorates to vote against Buhari as a recompense for his action.

Abuja - The federal government has directed that all schools from the primary to the tertiary level should remain open during the general elections, The decision was reached at a meeting between the federal government and the 36 states Commissioners for Education, including the F.C.T. Education Secretary. The meeting presided over by the Minister of Education, Ibrahim Shekarau, agreed that no holiday should be declared for the elections considering the fact that schools have lost much ground following their closure to prevent the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). Shekarau promised write the state governments to ensure that adequate security are provided for boarding institutions marked as polling units for the elections.

If you’ve been trying to figure out the components of a winning relationship, you aren’t alone! Researchers, philosophers, and lovers throughout time have been seeking the secret formula. In an effort to help you identify what to look for in a relationship, we’ve compiled 10 problems that often pop up and cause major problems. Also included are a number of recent studies that you can read for more information. On a mobile device? Feel free to flip through the slideshow and then scroll down the page for more details: You’re Bored The journal Psychological Science published a study that revealed couples who engaged in interesting activities (both together and apart) were much happier than those who were bored. You Fight a Lot, But Never Did in the Beginning of Your Relationship If you find yourself fighting a lot, you may want to examine the history of your relationships. A Florida State study discovered that those who fought during the first year or two, y

Heart Stop Beating is the story of two visionary Texas Heart Institute doctors, Dr. Billy Cohn and Dr. Bud Frazier. Frustrated by the often short lifespans and mulitple complications of usual heart replacement devices, the two  invented a two centrifugal pump machine. Cohn and Frazier tested the machine by removing the hearts of several calf’s and replacing them with the device. After much success it was time for human trials. The first patient would be Craig Lewis, was 55-year-old dying from amyloidosis, a disease which causes a buildup of abnormal proteins. The proteins clog the organs so much that they stop working. Lewis’ heart was so damaged, he only had 12 hours to live. So, in March of 2011, the doctors successfully replaced Lewis’ heart with the ‘continuous flow’ device they developed, proving that life was possible without a pulse or a heart beat– essentially without a human heart. Although Lewis died due to complications from his disease, the heart

when i was a boy,we use to be told that We are the leaders of tomorrow;i am now a man....when will this dreams be fulfilled? instead,We are still being rulled by our fore fathers. when will all this stop? Arise ooooh ye youths and claim your Right we are not longer gonna be rulled by our grandpa's anymore. This is our Right clickmoore.blogspot.com — feeling sad

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (front row C) and members of his government pose for a group picture after the first meeting of the new Cabinet in the parliament building in Athens, Jan. 28, 2015. New Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says he wants to reach a "fair, viable and mutually beneficial solution" with its international lenders as he begins to reverse the austerity measures he says have led to a humanitarian crisis in his country. Tsipras said Wednesday in Athens during his first meeting with his new Cabinet that he is eager to avoid any destructive confrontations with its creditors, but said Greece would no longer blindly submit to the demands of the European Union. The new government is seeking to eliminate some of Greece's massive debt and ease austerity measures imposed on it in exchange for more than $300 billion in loans, including reversing sharp wage and pension cuts. It is also canceling plans to privatize many of its assets

The Minister of State for Education, Prof. Viola Onwuliri, has said that President Goodluck Jonathan will win in Imo State in the February presidential election. This was contained in a statement by the minister’s assistant, Peter Osamgbi, on Tuesday. According to the statement, the minister addressed a group of professionals in Owerri, the Imo State capital. While fielding questions from the professionals, Onwuliri said President Jonathan had fulfilled his electoral promises to Nigerians through “his lofty transformation programmes which Imo State has immensely benefited from.” Onwuliri,who is also the deputy coordinator of the PDP presidential campaign in the state, said that “aside reclaiming the Government House from the APC government under Rochas Okorocha on February 28, the Imo PDP shall first and foremost deliver hundred percent votes for President Goodluck Jonathan on February 14 to further prove that Imo remains a PDP stronghold.” Source:punch

The University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, now known as Cambridge Assessment, on Wednesday confirmed that African language papers, including Hausa, were offered for the West African School Certificate Examination in the Northern Region in 1961. The UK examination body, in a statement on its website, also said that the number of candidates who sat for the WASSC Hausa examination in 1961 was 152. Cambridge was responding to allegations that the results presented by the All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) were fake as being alleged in some quarters. There had been reports that Hausa was not part of the WASSCE of 1961 as claimed in the results presented by Buhari. The examination body said it will not declare the results of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on the grounds that the Data Protection Act of 1998 prevents the body from declaring anybody’