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Saturday 17 December 2016

Zahra Buhari & Ahmed Indimi At Their Tradol Wedding

A billion smile.... They say the guy is very loaded aside his dad. Then i said, who will give out Zahra to a man that is not capable?Next jor! Lol... Beautiful couple!

Xmas Visit: Kalu Visits Kanu, IPOB Leader In Prison

A former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, on Friday paid a visit to the incarcerated leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, where he said the latter did not deserve to be in detention.

Kalu, who recently defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress, posted a picture he had taken with Kanu during his visit to Kuje Prison.

A very poor newly wedded,
young couple lived in a
small farm. One day the husband
made the
following proposal to his wife:
Honey, I will leave the house: I
will travel faraway,
get a job and work hard in order
to come back
and give you the comfortable
life that you

Wizkid recently cancelled all upcoming shows due to ill health and advice from doctors. But a Ugandan showbiz outfit (Face TV) won't accept that, especially when they have paid him for a show and he didn't deem it fit to refund the money. A court has now issued his warrant of arrest and Interpol have also been alerted to arrest himself and his manager, Sunday Are. Read the full story after the cut....

Child Masquerade! Anything goes in Nigeria. See more photos after the cut...

In this recession there nothing you won't see.

Friday 16 December 2016

Congo: Govt. Allegedly Orders Ban Of Social Media Come Sunday

Internet service providers (ISP) in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been told to block social media from Sunday, reports AFP news agency.

One ISP representative told AFP anonymously that they received instructions from the government to enforce the ban from 18:00 on Sunday.

The Federal Government has launched an information application called, Federal Government of Nigeria Information App (FGN IAPP).

While unveiling the app yesterday in Abuja, Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the introduction of the App was in line with his promise on assumption of office “to leverage the unique power of Information and Culture to drive

The Anambra State government is to spend N25 million in the de-worming exercise of children between one and fifteen years.

The week-long exercise would take place in all the 21 local government areas of the state. The implementing partners, including the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP, and the state Ministry of Economic Planning, had already conducted the needs assessment survey of poverty distribution and access to social services in the 21 local government areas during which they identified the six most underserved LGAs in Anambra State, where the exercise would begin.

The ceo of TasalaHQ salon, Dupe Talabi expressed her ordeal with robbers on Instagram. She was robbed on Eko Bridge yesterday night by six men. Her ordeal...

"The most traumatising thing that has EVER happened in my life happened this evening. After an amazing day at @tfdseries , I was stuck in traffic on eko bridge, literally 5 mins away from home.

You will need your card to be placed on the reader before you can have access to the wedding ceremony of Zahra Buhari and Ahmed Indimi. If you were thinking of gate crashing, you better have a rethink. And oh yes, we have posh gate crashing too. People looking for people to patronize their businesses ad ofcus people looking for spouses (Coughs) The A on the card stands for Ahmed while the Z is for Zahra... Full pic below....

Zahra Buhari and Her Mom before her Wedding Today

The Pretty daughter of the President is getting married to son of Billionaire Indimi.

Buhari Releases N471.8m For Falcons, Super Eagles

The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation has released the mandate to Central Bank of Nigeria for payment of naira equivalent of US$1,173,820.00 at N305/$ to Nigeria Football Federation in other to be able to pay outstanding winning bonuses for Super Eagles in the 2018 World Cup Qualifying Matches and for the Super Falcons’ participation in the 10th Women’s Africa nations Cup.

Lol, so after Gov Wike and other PDP members recently had a protest against the brutality of the Nigerian Police Force during the last legislative election and pointing out other faults, APC has now held their own protest accusing the Governor of killing party members during the Dec. 10 election. They are also protesting attacks on the police by the Governor. More photos after the cut.

Lol, well he asked for it and they told him to come to their office for a better option. A lady also gave him another response, something entirely different. Private and personal! Lol. More tweets below…

President Barack Obama on Thursday called for retaliation against Russia for the hacking of Democratic National Committee emails that federal authorities believe was meant to sway the presidential election in President-elect Donald Trump’s favor.

“I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections ... we need to take action,” Obama said in an interview with NPR, to be broadcast Friday. “And we will, at a time and place of our own choosing. Some of it may be explicit and publicized; some of it may not be.”

Cristiano Ronaldo celebrated his fourth Ballon d'Or award with his 500th goal at club level to seal Real Madrid's 2-0 win over Club America on Thursday and book his side's place in the FIFA Club World Cup final.

The Senate on Thursday hit back at the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, after he dismissed the legislative body as saying “balderdash” over the call for his removal and prosecution.

The Senate had on Wednesday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend Mr. Lawal and ensure his prosecution over alleged breach of Nigerian laws in handling contracts awarded by the Presidential Initiative for the North East, (PINE).

Nigeria has had a history of “wonder banks” offering clients unbelievable returns on their money, and in the 1980s and 1990s, the government had banned such banks and closed their operations. Is it because MMM are foreigners that they were allowed to operate freely and even to regularly criticise government?

Some smart and fast thinking Nigerians invented 419 to swindle the rest of the world and today some Russian 419 experts have swindled three million Nigerians of billions of naira. Their scheme was devilishly simple; go for the poor, greedy and gullible Nigerians not aware that their company – Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox – MMM has been swindling millions all-over the world for three decades. They looked for and got millions of Nigerians who cannot Google – it takes about 30 seconds on Google to realize MMM is a fraud. According to Mr. Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, Google’s

The Senate’s refusal to confirm Ibrahim Magu as head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, was months in coming. In the end, it was a rancorous power-play involving the Senate, the State Security Service, and the Presidency that sealed Mr. Magu’s fate.

At a hurriedly arranged press conference Thursday, the spokesperson for the senate, Abdullahi Sabi, announced that Mr. Magu’s nomination by President Muhammadu Buhari as EFCC chairman had been rejected.

He cited “security report”, and said the president would be informed of the decision.

Sport Scene: Lionel Messi will marry partner in July, 2017

Barcelona star Lionel Messi and long time partner Antonella Roccuzzo are to walk down the aisle in the 2017 in their native, Rosario, Argentina.

Report of the forthcoming wedding first came from Pablo Varsky, a prominent Argentine reporter. Spanish news agency, EFE then reported the same thing.

The Sen. Ahmed Makarfi-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will not change its registered name for a mega party, Prof. Jerry Gana, has said.

Gana, who chairs the PDP Strategic Review and Inter-party Affairs Committee, made the statement on Thursday in Abuja in an interview with newsmen during a meeting of the committee.

Rivers State, Governor Nyesom Wike has been reportedly caught on tape as he threatened to kill some INEC staffs in a phone conversation during the last Rivers Rerun election.

According to the leaked conversation by SaharaReporters, Wike was heard in a telephone conversation with officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), arranging payment to the officials in exchange for their help in rigging the recently concluded rerun in the state.

British Airways cabin crews joined rail workers and Post Office staff in threatening strikes last night in what was described as a ‘co-ordinated attempt to inflict misery at Christmas’.

The giant Unite union said BA cabin crew had voted overwhelmingly to strike over pay, with walkouts potentially starting as soon as December 21.

The move threatens to wreck the holiday plans of thousands of families.

Cell phone use on planes has been heavily debated as the airline industry attempts to keep up with ever-changing technology. It’s standard practice to be told by flight attendants to switch devices to airplane mode during transit; but what happens if you don’t follow directions? Unfortunately, the answer isn’t that clear.

Let’s start with some of the initial research. The reason for potential safety concerns is due to the fact that when you’re more than 10,000 feet in the air, your cell phone signal bounces off multiple towers and sends out a stronger signal. This is something that might conjest the networks on the ground. But, there has never been a case of a cell phone causing a plane to crash.

Vladimir Putin personally directed elements of the Russian hack of the US election as part of a “vendetta” against Hillary Clinton, according to a new report from NBC News.

Intelligence officials say they have a “high level of confidence” that the Russian president took charge of how material stolen from the Democrats would be leaked.

The officials said they have compelling evidence that Mr Putin was involved, and that the operation could not have gone forward without authorisation from the most senior leaders within the Kremlin.

The Hidden Symbolism In How Tech Leaders Were Seated In Their Meeting With Trump | BusinessInsider

Earlier today, Donald Trump met with a who’s who of tech industry leaders in a summit at New York City’s Trump Tower to discuss how they can work together in his new presidential administration.

A lot of these leaders had spoken out against Trump or some of his statements during the presidential campaign, and so much was made about the seating arrangement at the event. Was there some kind of rhyme or reason to who got to sit where? Does it even matter?

More than 4,000 commercial flights on any given day are being flown by pilots who have experienced suicidal thoughts, a landmark study on the airline industry suggests.

An international survey of pilots by Harvard University found 4.1 per cent had contemplated killing themselves at least once in the previous fortnight, and 12.6 per cent met the criteria for depression.

Pilots diagnosed with acute depression are automatically deemed unfit to fly, but experts have warned many cover up their symptoms for fear of losing their careers.

The Nigerian Senate has rejected the nomination of Ibrahim Magu as Chairman of anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The lawmakers said they could not okay President Muhammadu Buhari’s nomination of Mr. Magu based on security report available to them.

The spokesperson for the upper legislative chamber, Aliyu Abdullahi, revealed this Thursday afternoon after the Senators emerged from a closed-door meeting where Mr. Magu’s confirmation was discussed.

I am calling on everyone who has suffered from Arik Air’s sense of impunity, its inefficiency, and gross incompetence, to speak up now. We must collectively stop this situation.

I got information that my leader, mentor and the servant Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was returning to Nigeria yesterday after weeks of vacation and business abroad. I was to be at the Nnamdi Azikwe international Airport, Abuja betweem 8 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. to welcome and honour the servant leader. Around 9 a.m., I sent one of my kids to the Lagos Airport to get me a flight ticket. He got the ticket and I was billed

In an atmosphere of extreme sectionalism that pervades the Nigerian political culture, it is better to keep the home front united behind you, irrespective of political differences. The same friends cheering Amaechi on today will exploit the faultline in his home base to undermine him while using his public display of impunity to discredit him, in the case of a power struggle that may most certainly arise within the APC.

Frontline Niger Delta region’s oil producing Rivers State, host to leading multi-national oil companies, as well as the largest oil and gas infrastructure in Nigeria, is truly the treasure base of Africa’s second largest oil producer. Nigeria’s economy is heavily dependent on oil and gas export earnings (90 percent). It is not always gloomy in the Niger Delta. Oil producing states benefit significantly from the natural resource endowments of their land. A constitutionally guaranteed 13 percent derivation payable to oil producing states have put them ahead of other states in terms of

“We oppose any religious body – whether presided over by men or women – that seeks to rule over us.” So say more than 300 mostly Muslim women, but also others from different faiths who have been abused in their personal lives. These women are voicing their alarm, through a powerful statement published by Open Democracy, about the growing power of religious bodies such as sharia councils, and demand that their voices also be heard in the current debate.

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, on Thursday stormed Zenith Bank in Ado Ekiti to withdraw money from his bank accounts earlier frozen by the Economics and Financial Crimes Commission.

His action followed the judgment of a Federal High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti which ordered the bank to immediately unfreeze the accounts after condemning the action of the EFCC.

Frozen accounts: Fayose playing politics with courts

Man Who Ate Potatoes For A Year Reports Dramatic Weight Loss | FoxNews

A man who set out to eat nothing but potatoes for an entire year has said that in addition to shaving off more than 100 pounds, he’s come off antidepressants and his cholesterol levels have lowered. Andrew Taylor, of Melbourne, Australia, said that while he was criticized for his diet at first, it helped him break his addiction to unhealthy food, News.com.au reported.

“You can’t quit food, but I wanted to get as close as possible and wondered if there was one particular food i could eat and potatoes came up best,” he told the news website. “You literally get everything you need from potatoes. Everybody knows they’ve got lots of carbs but they have enough protein and fat and potatoes are really good for fiber, vitamin C and iron.”

Arik Air, West and Central Africa’s largest carrier has been leading the resurgence of Nigerian civil aviation by committing to being a quality airline adhering and operating to international safety and operational standards using modern aircraft and having high maintenance and safety standards.

Last week, the Department of Transportation proposed allowing airlines to decide whether or not passengers could make in-flight calls using Wi-Fi. Now, a debate has erupted over whether mobile usage while enhance fliers’ experience, or trigger new bouts of air rage.

Phone calls on flights have been banned by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission but that doesn’t include Wi-Fi calls — meaning technology such as Skype, FaceTime and Facebook Messenger were not explicitly outlawed.

(CNN)By selecting ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to serve as secretary of state, Donald Trump on Tuesday guaranteed that his four most influential departments will, if confirmed, be led entirely by white males for the first time since George H.W. Bush’s first Cabinet was approved in 1989.

Tillerson, who faces headwinds even among Senate Republicans, would be the nation’s top diplomat, while retired Marine Gen. James Mattis has been tapped to run the Defense Department, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions is the pick for attorney general and ex-Goldman Sachs banker Steve Mnuchin will be nominated to run the Treasury Department.

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Mallam Mohammed Lawal, says a national leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, will only leave the party if President Muhammadu Buhari quits the ruling party.

Lawal, who was the Deputy Director, Coordination and Implementation of the APC Presidential Campaign Office in 2015, therefore, dismissed reports that there was friction between Tinubu and the President.

Video Shows Officer Dragging Woman From Delta Flight After Boarding Incident | WashingtonPost

Police officers at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport dragged a passenger off a Delta Air Lines flight Monday after she refused to follow rules for boarding the plane, Delta and airport officials said.

The passenger, who has not been identified, got on the flight bound for San Diego without “complying with boarding and baggage check procedures,” Delta spokesman Trebor Banstetter told ABC News.

Mystery inside Ondo State: A Boy found in the middie of a block Buried Alive (Photos)

A mysterious event happened at ONDO ODUDUWA STREET, ONDO STATE.

A boy of about 12yrs old was found in the middle of moulded laid blocks. It is beyond imagination, it is unexplainable, The boy sang for like 3 days before the people around discover it was a human and began to break the wall.

He was placed behind the walls alive, buried alive behind walls, used as a foundation for a church building, and yet how he survive is still a mystery, Passersby use to complain about hearing a strange noise behind the wall until one man has the courage to break the wall and behold...

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani orders nuclear-fuelled warships as he accuses US of ‘violating’ deal | Independent

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has ordered the head of the country’s Atomic Energy Organisation to start planning the development of nuclear-powered ships in reaction to what he called the United States’ violation of their nuclear deal.

Earlier in December the US Senate voted to extend the Iran Sanctions Act by 10 years, a decision that was criticised by the Iranian foreign minister at the time who said it showed the US government had “a lack of credibility”.

Donald Trump’s presidency “could lead to a world war” and bring about the destruction of Israel, Iran’s defence minister has warned.

The Republican’s election victory has raised the possibility of the US withdrawing from a nuclear deal struck in 2015 with Iran to prevent Tehran from developing atomic weapons.

The US along with the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, including the UK, Russia, France, ratified the accord.

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Barcelona star Lionel Messi and long time partner Antonella Roccuzzo are to walk down the aisle in the 2017 in their native, Rosario, Argentina.

The Sen. Ahmed Makarfi-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will not change its registered name for a mega party, Prof. Jerry Gana, has said.

Rivers State, Governor Nyesom Wike has been reportedly caught on tape as he threatened to kill some INEC staffs in a phone conversation during the last Rivers Rerun election.

Wednesday 14 December 2016