Stefano Gabbana (born 14 November 1962) is a fashion designer and, along with Domenico Dolce, the co-founder of the Dolce & Gabbana luxury fashion house. Gabbana was born in Milan to a father who worked in a printing factory and a mother who worked for a laundry service. His family is from Veneto: his father was born in Ceggia and his mother in Cessalto. He graduated from the Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche, a design institute in Rome. Read More...
A former secretary to the government of the federation (SGF) and presidential candidate, Chief Olu Falae has claimed he won the 1999 presidential election. Naija News recalls that former President Olusegun Obasanjo, then with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had defeated Falae who contested the election on the joint platform of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) and All Peoples Party (APP).
Speaking in an interview with Daily Trust, Falae claimed that the then military changed election results in favour of Obasanjo while he was asleep. Read More...
In the open, Chinese soldiers proverbially run. Cornered, they fight like wild tigers, defend every streetcorner and doorway, die frothing and screaming defiance. Ideal for such fighting is the ancient Chinese city of Shanhaikwan, the perfect corner. Surrounded by its own 40-ft. wall and backed by China’s Great Wall, Shanhaikwan is a 20th Century Thermopylae, the gateway defending China proper from Manchurian invaders. Last week several thousand Chinese soldiers, armed chiefly with old-style rifles, were ordered to defend Shanhaikwan against the simultaneous assaults of Japanese artillery (19 pieces), Japanese whippet tanks, Japanese machine gun crews, Japanese bombing planes (seven) and Japanese destroyers (two) which fired in high, wide, erratic fashion from their anchorage six miles away in the Gulf of Liaotung opposite famed Port Arthur. Read More...
