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And two became one! Pippa Middleton and James Matthews leave the church hand in hand after tying the knot (photos)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 20 May 2017 15:33:00 +0000

Pippa Middleton and James Matthews have signed the dotted lines and are now legally a married couple. The newly weds were all smiles and looked so in love as they left the private ceremony at the church in Englefield hand in hand.

They are now headed for the reception which will hold in the garden of her family home.

Her sister, Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, could not return the favour by being her maid of honour but she was kept in charge of coordinating the flower girls and the pageboys. The first half of the event turned out successful partly due to her help with the kids.

More photos below.

Some Are Mourning, Some Are Celebrating: A Case Study of the Buharis and Babangidas By Reno Omokri

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 20 May 2017 15:25:00 +0000

This is an article written by Reno Omokri. Read on:

Let me start this piece by congratulating former President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida on the marriage of his daughter, Halima, to her beau, Auwal Abdullahi.

It goes without saying that the wedding would be the talk of Nigeria for aeons to come because of the kind of crowd it pulled.

In case you missed the news, let me inform you that no fewer than thirty private jets landed at Minna airport last weekend on account of this wedding that locked down Nigeria!

Thirty private jets. I do not even know what to exclaim! This is more than wow! Gosh does not even come close to the exclamation I wanted to express when I first read of this private jet convention in Minna! Gobsmacked is the only that comes close, but even it does not quite capture the reaction I had.

Thank God former President Goodluck Jonathan, who was amongst the wedding guests, does not have a private jet, because that would have been the major topic of the day. The propaganda loving All Progressive Congress would have capitalized on that to rubbish Jonathan. Lai Mohammed would have been hyper ventilating with excitement at the character assassination possibilities if such had been the case.

But the lesson Nigerians may want to take from this is that few, very few of those who arrived Minna in private jets have any sort of productive business venture that generates and sustains jobs in Nigeria.

Yes, there were a couple of folks made rich by oil and gas at the Minna private jet convention, but these are not people that did anything constructive, productive or job creating that gave them wealth. Some were given oil blocks or allocations, others were given allocations to import petroleum products. Even a monkey would prosper if given such oligarchic opportunities. But how does that sort of business create jobs or adds value to Nigerians?

Others amongst them are government contractors, supplying sundry items to the various governments at federal, state and local government level. They are basically suppliers. They buy and resell to the government. But how does that sort of business create jobs and adds value to Nigerians?

Yet, they have private jets, private jetties, private yachts and even private body guards!

Nigeria has one of the lowest, if not the lowest, tax to GDP ratio in the world. In a country of 190 million people, only 214 individuals in the entire country pay tax of 20 million naira or more. This is according to the very latest official figures from the Federal Inland Revenue Service.

Norway has a population of just 5.2 million people yet they have more than 100 times the amount of people paying tax of $65,000 of more (the equivalent of 20 million naira).

But the story does not end there. Norway has never had a private party or private wedding or any private celebration that attracted 30 private jets!

The funniest thing is that Norway gives Nigeria financial aid every year!

We have a political and economic elite that that are so rapacious and parasitic and who only think of what they can suck from Nigeria and could not careless that they are surrounded by some of the poorest people in the world according to official figures from the 2016 United Nations Human Development Index released on the 21st of March, 2017.

Norway is number 1 on that list. Nigeria is 152 out of 188 nations. Libya (102) and Iraq (121) both of which are war torn nations, outrank Nigeria. But most embarrassingly, Syria that has been enmeshed in probably the worst humanitarian crisis the world has seen in at least 10 years also outranks Nigeria (149)!

And almost all our elites are involved in this. President Muhammadu Buhari likes to be seen as the only good person in Nigeria but we have not forgotten so soon how, according to Daily Trust (which also happens to be the President's favorite paper) his own daughter, Zahra Buhari, received pre wedding gifts worth 47 million Naira from her then suitor and now husband, Ahmed Indimi. This same Ahmed Indimi likes to fly in private jets, pictures of which dot Nigeria's social media landscape. I can assure you that Ahmed Indimi is not one of the 214 Nigerians who pay tax of over 20 million Naira.

Yet right there in Indimi's Borno state, right there in Maiduguri where their palatial family house is a sprawling tourist attraction, there are millions of Internally Displaced Persons without food to eat and medicine for their ailments. Perhaps it is this sort of wickedness that Mohammed Yusuf saw and which made him conclude that Boko (book) must be Haram, if it can make people so oblivious to the suffering around them.

It is this same Indimi family that likes to marry and be married to Nigeria's high and mighty (President Ibrahim Babangida was also once their in law via the marriage of Mohammed Babangida, his first son, to Rahama Indimi).

Many Nigerians are not aware that if you isolate Borno state from the rest of Nigeria, that state becomes the poorest region on planet earth BAR NONE!

Borno has the highest unemployment rate in Nigeria and the second lowest primary school enrollment rate in Nigeria. What has her private jet loving, high and mighty marrying elite done to change that?

I was in Anambra once and the type of community spirit I saw there impressed me. They may not have a lot of private jets in Anambra, but in Anambra, they have community associations that give scholarships and business grants to those who are commercially inclined. There is NO poverty in Nnewi, one of the communities where this community spirit is most prevalent.

They build their own primary and secondary schools through community effort. I am dead serious. If you go there you will not believe your eyes! They have well tarred modern roads that were built through their private efforts. All over Anambra, the various towns and villages copy the Nnewi model.

I daresay that there is more evidence of private and community development in Anambra than there is of any type of federal government presence. Anambra does not even have an airport! Borno does. Anambra does not even have a publicly built federal university! The only so called Federal University in Anambra, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, was built by the state government with contributions from private citizens and then compulsorily taken over by the military government of General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida via Decree No. 34 of July 15, 1992. But in Borno, they have a massive federal university WHOLLY built with Federal Government funds.

If any state deserves to be poor from lack of Federal Government presence, that state is Anambra. If any state deserves to be rich by reason of the existence of Federal Government presence, that state is Borno. But Borno is poor while Anambra is rich! Why?

Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are sponsoring immunization and other medical interventions in Borno state. They are together the richest people on earth. Yet their life styles is nowhere near as lavish as Nigeria's private jet loving parasitic elite.

Both Gates and Buffet are known for their frugality. Both of them have shown more concern for Nigeria's poor than any of the owners or leasers of the 30 private jets that converged in Minna last week.

In fact, Bill Gates has personally visited with many of the poorest Nigerians and has administered vaccines to their children with his own hands!

If those thirty private jet owners or leasers could do in their communities what Nnewi people do in theirs, then most assuredly Nigeria would not be in recession today.

Jeff Bezos of Amazon is worth $67 billion, Mark Zuckerberg is worth $55.5 billion. Both of them are young people who made their money by dint of hardwork, yet none of these two billionaires had a wedding as spectacularly opulent as either Zahra Buhari's or Halima Babangida's weddings. Mark Zuckerberg actually got married at a simple ceremony in the backyard of his home in Palo Alto, California in front of 100 guests.

The British charity, Oxfam, recently released a report on inequality in Nigeria. According to Oxfam, the combined wealth of the five richest Nigerians, put at about $29.9 billion, could end extreme poverty in the country!

According to Oxfam, in recent years the number of millionaires in Nigeria has increased by 44% while the number of those living in poverty has increased by 69%!

And instead of the shameless Federal Government of Nigeria to appreciate Oxfam, not just for its years of charity work in Nigeria, but for this new report which distills the issues militating against Nigeria's efforts to increase human development, it turns around to condemn the report and accuse Oxfam of 'inciting' Nigerians against her elite!

It is becoming clearer and clearer that Nigeria, as currently designed, can hardly produce young people with the mindset of Bezos or Zuckerberg.

You see, if we do not redesign Nigeria and ensure that the wealth of the nation is more equitably redistributed, we will find out soon enough that Nigeria, as it is currently designed, is designed to fail.

Nigeria has such a high unemployment rate because the wealth of the nation is trapped in the hands of carpetbaggers, rent seekers and influence paddlers who flaunt their wealth at the masses without even giving them token employment.

And it is not as if Nigerians are not willing to work. We are. Strive Masiyiwa, the Zimbabwean founder of Econet, famously revealed how stunned he was when he found out how willing Nigerians were to work.

When he came to Nigeria in 2001 and wanted to hire staff for his new company, Econet Wireless Nigeria, he advertised for jobs seeking people with telecommunications experience who had electronic engineering degrees and a minimum of five years relevant experience.

Mr. Masiyiwa, a dollar billionaire with experience working all over the world was stunned at the response.

Let me allow him tell his story because I can not possibly tell it better than him.

"I came into the office to find postal bags, piled to the ceiling!

"I only want to see the applications from people who meet our requirements, and not from chancers who aren't qualified," I complained.

"Sir, these are the ones we have vetted."

"What?! You mean there were more than this?"

"Thousands, sir."

Then I came up with an idea: "Why don't you separate for me, the most qualified academically. Set aside people with MBAs, and even PHDs."

A day later, another postal bag of applications was delivered to my office. I was staggered!

There were thousands of people with qualifications in just this one discipline with MBAs and PHDs! Many had qualified in the best universities around the world. There were also GSM-qualified Nigerians working internationally, including in America and Europe, wanting to return home!

I was blown away by the qualifications. I thought to myself: "You can start almost any business or industry here. I wish investors would one day discover the wealth of this nation."

Whenever I hear people talk about the wealth of Nigeria in terms of oil, I shake my head to say: "You have no idea what you're talking about!"

The true wealth of Nigeria is its extraordinary human capital, and passion for education. Unleash that and no one can stop them!"

The funniest thing is that Strive Masiyiwa, a dollar billionaire who made his money from a productive industry like the telecommunications sector and who provided enduring jobs for literarily tens of thousands of Nigerians, does not live as large as many Nigerian elite.

No wonder that the exploitative carpetbagging elite of Nigeria chased him out of Nigeria!

Strive Masiyiwa is the antithesis of the exploitative Nigerian elite who epitomize at least six of the seven deadly social sins:

Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Religion without sacrifice. Politics without principle.

The only one they do not epitomize is Science without humanity because that involves work and intellectual and creative abilities which many of our elite lack. If it were cleverness and guile, they would supersede even the best!

Ango Abdullahi

Ango Abdullahi has no basis for saying that the North would not allow Professor Yemi Osinbajo succeed Muhammadu Buhari in 2019. The North does not decide for Nigeria. Nigerians decide for Nigeria.

What Ango Abdullahi seems to have forgotten is that it was Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu that God used to make Muhammadu Buhari President in 2015. If the Northern Elders Forum could have made Buhari President, they would have done so in 2003, 2007 and 2011 when Buhari tried unsuccessfully to become President.

Nigeria has changed. Unfortunately, people like Ango Abdullahi and Junaid Mohammed, who add very little value to Nigeria and exist only to make provocative statements should realize that should their words precipitate crisis today or in 2019, both they and those they represent will be the biggest losers because they have more to gain from a united and peaceful Nigeria founded on the rule of law than others.

Nigerians will famously remember Ango Abdullahi as the liar who said that money from the North was used to develop the oil industry in the South. His exact words in 2014 were as follows:

"It is the North that developed the present day oil industry in this country. It is Northern money; it is the Northern leadership that developed the oil industry."

Since Ango Abdullahi purports to be a professor and since he is from the North, let me use the words of another Northerner who happens to be a professor to respond to him.

On Saturday the 6th of May 2017, Farooq Kperogi wrote thus:

That money from the North funded oil exploration in the South. Professor Ango Abdullahi actually repeated this lie recently. He said this, ironically, while exhorting Emir Sanusi II to “go and read history.” The truth is that not a dime of northern Nigeria’s money contributed to oil exploration in the Niger Delta.

When oil was discovered in commercial quantities in Oloibiri in 1956, Shell bore the financial burden for the exploration. Other Euro-American oil companies later joined in oil exploration. It wasn’t until 1973 that the Nigerian federal government acquired 30 percent shares in oil companies. By 1973, Northern Nigeria had ceased to exist; it had been divided into states.

In any case, colonial records show that the biggest motivation for amalgamating northern and southern Nigeria was because northern Nigeria wasn’t financially self-sustaining and the British Imperial Government said it would never subsidize colonial administration anywhere in Africa. So Lord Lugard amalgamated the two regions and used the surplus from the south to sustain the north. It’s illogical to say that a region that wasn’t financially self-sustaining financed oil exploration in the Niger Delta.

It is a very sad day when a character like Ango Abdullahi is called an elder statesman. I think a better word for his ilk would be an agbaya! Professor (?) Abdullahi can ask Farook Kperogi to tell him the meaning of that word!

Reno's Nuggets

Never marry just because plans are at an advance stage. If there is doubt in your heart, call it off. Embarrassment is better than a wrong union. It is easier to change I dont into I do than to change I do to I don't. And be aware that the sexier the woman, the higher the maintenance. The lovelier the woman. The lower the maintenance. Sexy is expensive. Love is not. Finally, do not be moved by beauty. With fake hair, fake lashes and fake eyes, any girl can be fine. Focus on character. It has no fake #RenosNuggets

Reno Omokri is a Christian TV talk show host and founder of the Mind of Christ Christian Center and the Helen and Bemigho Sanctuary for orphans. He is the author of three books, Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God, Why Jesus Wept and Apples of Gold: A Book of Godly Wisdom. His upcoming fourth book, Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years: Chibok, 2015 and Other Conspiracies, is set for release in June.

10 of the Funniest Odunlade Adekola memes on the internet

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 20 May 2017 15:23:00 +0000

At the moment, Nollywood actor, Odunlade Adekola's photos is about the most used and most popular meme on the internet. His meme worthy expressions in movies has made him extremely popular on social media and Nigerians simply can't get enough of him. See more after the cut...

couple's pre-wedding photo

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 16:31:00 +0000

couple's pre-wedding photo

As seen on Instagram... It seems to be part of their pre-wedding photoshoot...

Wrestling legend, John Cena proposes to girlfriend in front of 70K fans at Wrestling Mania ring

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 16:29:00 +0000

Wrestling legend, John Cena proposes to girlfriend in front of 70K fans at Wrestling Mania ring

Legendary wrestler, John Cena stunned fans when he got down on one knee to propose to Nikki Bella, his longtime girlfriend and wrestling partner, in front of thousands of spectators.

The proposal happened in the middle of the ring at WrestleMania after Cena and Bella beat The Miz and Maryse in a mixed tag team match on Sunday.

A brave Cena grabbed a microphone after the match and said to Bella:

This is what you wanted over a year ago. You broke your neck and did everything you could to come back because you wanted a WrestleMania moment. I’m so very proud of you

Right before your surgery, there would be a time when you would be a little loopy and I could ask you anything I wanted. If you gave me an honest answer, you wouldn’t remember what you said. After a year and half, you asked me all the time. I promised I would tell you when the time is right. The time is right.

“You were kinda glassy, in and out. At the last moment, I said, ‘Can you hear me?’ You said, ‘Yes.’ I said, ‘I only have one question.’ You said, ‘What is it?’

“Do you know one day I’m going to marry you? And you said, ‘Yes.’

'I just need you to say yes one more time.'

Cena then reached into his pocket, pulled out a ring box and got on bended knee.

'I have been waiting so long to ask you this, ‘Will you marry me?’

Bella nodded. The two then kissed and embraced.

This will be Cena's second marriage, following his divorce from his first wife, Elizabeth Huberdeau, in 2012.

Watch the engagement video below...

21-year-old Nigerian Mo Adeniran wins The Voice UK

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 16:25:00 +0000

21-year-old Nigerian Mo Adeniran wins The Voice UK

21-year-old UK born Nigerian Mo Adeniran was last night crowned the winner of the The Voice UK 2017 during the show’s finale.

Mo, who works night shifts at a hotel, beat other contestants with his rendition of Iron Sky which had the judges turning their chairs. His victory left him in shock while his mentor, Jennifer Hudson, burst into tears of joy.

“Thank you everyone at home, I just want to say thank you to Jennifer and all the coaches. An amazing thank you to the most phenomenal person I have ever met, thank you Jennifer,” Mo said after he was announced winner.

Mo also won a record deal with Polydor Records and the company congratulated him via their Twitter account.

“CONGRATS TO @imjustcalledmo FOR WINNING THE VOICE UK! We'll be seeing you soon,” they wrote.

Comedian Martin Lawrence proposed to his girlfriend

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 16:24:00 +0000

Comedian Martin Lawrence proposed to his girlfriend

Comedian and actor Martin Lawrence is getting married again. The 52 year old father of three who has been married twice before, over the weekend, proposed to his longtime girlfriend, Roberta, who shared the happy news on social media. Congrats to the couple...

A teen made a website where kittens punch Trump. So, Trump unleashed his lawyers.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 16:01:00 +0000

A teen made a website where kittens punch Trump. So, Trump unleashed his lawyers.

President Trump is busy this week helping to make sure millions of Americans don't lose their health insuran — -sorry, I mean, shutting down a teenage girl.

17-year-old Lucy from San Francisco recently designed a site called Kittenfeed.com (initially called TrumpScratch), where users get to punch Trump's face with tiny little kitchen paws. It seemed like a pretty harmless, anti-Trump site (the kittens don't even scratch!) — until she got a letter from the lawyers of a certain "well known businessman," The Observer reports.

That "internationally known" and "famous" businessman (his lawyers words, not mine) is, of course, Donald Trump. In the letter, Trump's general counsel encourages the teen to cease and desist and shut down the website.

Image: www.kittenfeed.com

After receiving the letter, Lucy decided to change the name of the website to Kittenfeed.com.That wasn't enough for Trump's counsel, who reportedly continued to press the 17-year-old girl. The family is waiting to see their next move.

"It’s so sad that his administration is focused more on being liked, burying real news and taking down sites like mine as they supposedly make him look bad," Lucy told The Observer.

Predictably, Trump's lawyers letter had the opposite effect of their intention. After The Observer published the report yesterday, the site's visitors surged from 3,000 to 50,000.

Lesson: you can mess with Trump's lawyers, but don't you ever touch an animated kitten.

The Walking Dead's star Steven Yeun and Wife Joana Pak Welcome First Child

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 12:02:00 +0000

The Walking Dead's star Steven Yeun and Wife Joana Pak Welcome First Child

News of the couple's pregnancy broke in December, only a couple of days after they tied the knot at the Paramour Estate in California in front of friends, family and a few of Yeun's former co-stars. The blushing bride wore a strapless ball gown that featured a purple, floral-adorned empire waist. She accessorized her wedding day look with a side braid and a gorgeous pink and purple bouquet.

Many of the actor's former TWD co-stars, including Norman Reedus, Andrew Lincoln, Melissa McBride, Sarah Wayne Callies, Chandler Riggs, Emma Bell and Alanna Masterson, attended.
In February Yeun showed off his wife's large baby bump in a series of photo booth pics. The images showed Yeun and Pak cuddling up for the camera before Pak took some solo shots where she cradled her baby bump.

Pak teased followers on Instagram in February by sharing samples of fabric in both pink and blue. "Nesting," she captioned the picture, leading many to wonder if she was teasing her baby's sex.
Congratulations to the new parents and their bundle of joy!

Ellen DeGeneres Heads to the Hospital After Wine-Related Accident

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:47:00 +0000

Ellen DeGeneres Heads to the Hospital After Wine-Related Accident

Ellen DeGeneres welcomed Claire Danes on her eponymous daytime talk show Tuesday, but before she sat down to chat with the Homeland actress, she had an announcement to make. "I have something to show you—it's that right here. Can you see it?" DeGeneres asked, directing the camera to show her splint. "I broke my finger. I know what you're thinking: 'How can you host a show without the tip of my ring finger?' I am not gonna let this thing beat me. I am not."

"So, you know how in gymnastics when you do a one-handed cartwheel and you have to spread the weight evenly between all your fingers? Well, I had two glasses of wine and fell into a door," DeGeneres continued, adding that she and wife Portia De Rossi "were coming home from a dinner party" and were "almost at the front door" when the accident occurred. "The dogs were so excited to see us and I caught the lip of the top step. I was a foot away from the door and I fell into the door and it did something to my finger, I knew something was wrong."
To her audience's surprise, DeGeneres showed a photo of her dislocated finger. "I should have warned you. Don't look at that. If you're squeamish, don't look at it," she told them. "I'm sorry."

"My first thought was, 'No big deal; Obama Care will cover this.' So, Portia drove me to the hospital—to the emergency room—and when I got there, of course, the receptionist had so many things for me to sign: a picture for her nephew, a T-shirt for her," DeGeneres joked. "No, they were wonderful. UCLA, thank you so much...There was a lot of people who were helpful, but Tammy, thank you so much. Tammy was my nurse who was taking care of me." DeGeneres then showed an X-ray of her finger. "Don't worry—this isn't as bad as the last one I showed you," she said. On second thought, she said, "Maybe it is. I was wrong. It's worse. I'm so sorry."
Fortunately, DeGeneres didn't break her finger after all.

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"I dislocated my finger. That's what they call it, which is an incorrect term because I knew where it was located. It was just wrongly located is what it was," she joked. "So, do you know what they do when you dislocate your finger? It's very technical. What they do is they take the part that's dislocated and then they just snap it right back into place. Yeah, you can see why they have to go to eight years of medical school. Before they did it, I was in incredible pain and Tammy said, 'Do you want a shot?' And I said, 'No, I had two glasses of wine—that's what got me into this mess in the first place, Tammy.' She meant a shot to numb my finger. She said, 'You're gonna feel a little prick.' This is a daytime show—you make up your own joke there."

Michael Rozman/Warner Bros.

"She said, 'You're going to feel a little prick and then sme burning.' There was burning, all right," DeGeneres recalled. "So, the stuff—whatever that numbs you—they should make that different, because oh my God. Burning followed by cursing is what happened. Think of any curse word—just think of any curse word—and I said that. I invented three new ones, actually."
"It was a hard weekend for me, but I put on a brave face and I made it through. Luckily, my friends from Shutterfly heard my story and they love helping people out in need, so they wanted to present me with this check for $10,000, which is so nice," she said. "Thank you so much. I'm no hero, but I deserve this. I'm gonna watch my steps very carefully as I dance."

After taking her seat, DeGeneres shared a few more details from her hospital visit. "When I was leaving, I went through the emergency room and tons of people—the people who were conscious, anyway—were looking at me. There was this one cute couple...They came up to me and he was like, 'Can we get a selfie with you?' I was like, 'Yeah, sure.' It's like 12:30 now. So, he and his girlfriend are sitting there getting a selfie and he says, 'I hope you're going to be OK.' And I said, 'I just dislocated my finger. What happened to you?' And he goes, 'I got hit by a bus'... I said, 'Are you OK?' He said, 'Yeah, I think so...I don't know. I may have a concussion.'"
"He won," DeGeneres told Stephen "tWitch" Boss. "He won the story."

Mike Epps' Ex I Need $109k/Mo. ... This Life Is Expensive!!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:19:00 +0000

Mike Epps' Ex I Need $109k/Mo. ... This Life Is Expensive!!

Mike Epps' estranged wife is asking him to fork over six-figures every month to support the fam ... according to new docs.

Mechelle Epps claims Mike makes $3.5 million a year, but recently cut her off from bank accounts and credit cards, leaving her high and dry with zero income. She says Mike never wanted her to work during their marriage, and now she can't land a job because she's too old at 36.
In the docs, Mechelle says she spends several thousand bucks a month on shoes and clothes for their 10 and 12-year-old girls. Plus, the girls have to get their hair braided at an "expensive salon" ... not to mention food, vacations and $72k per year for private schooling.
Mechelle says her mom handles nanny duties for a mere $3,500 monthly, plus another $600 to cover Mom's Mercedes.
According to the docs, $109,036 per month from Mike should cover everything. Mechelle also wants sole possession of their house. He filed for divorce in January 2016, but they've yet to reach a final settlement.

Rio Ferdinand reveals he turned to alcohol to get through the grief of loosing his wife to breast cancer in 2015

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:17:00 +0000

Rio Ferdinand reveals he turned to alcohol to get through the grief of loosing his wife to breast cancer in 2015

In a soon to be aired BBC documentary, Rio Ferdinand: Being Mum And Dad, the former England footballer and ex-Manchester United defender revealed that he turned to alcohol following the death of his wife Rebecca in March 2015, after experiencing guilt that she died and not him.

Breaking down while filming, Ferdinand said he started drinking in the middle of the night to get through the grief of losing her to breast cancer.

The 38-year-old who is now a single-parent to their three children Lorenz, 10, Tate, eight, and Tia, five, met Rebecca when he was just 21 and they got married in 2009 on Peter Island, after he proposed during a trip to Las Vegas in 2007, a year after their eldest Lorenz's birth.

'At the beginning I was drinking a lot at night time. We have a lady lucky enough who lives with us, she would go to bed and I'd come back down in the middle of the night and probably drink a lot for the first three or four months. But I would get up and do the school run and stuff.'

Ferdinand said he can now sympathise with people who go to 'dark places' following trauma and grief. He insisted that it was the people who he surrounded himself with that gave him the drive to succeed for his children.

'That's why a network of people around you is so important. And I was fortunate to have that and also having my kids as inspiration to make sure I get up and do things and try and make things work. Some people aren't afforded that, some people haven't got that, and that's when I started to become a bit more sympathetic when people do go to places that are dark places.'

He added: 'I used to look at people or read stories and think, how can you be so selfish and commit suicide or attempt to commit suicide or whatever. But I can actually sympathise now because I understand that you get to places where you think, if I didn't have that network of people or my kids who I use as an inspiration to be able to get up and think straight, I can understand that.'

"Changing HIV Law Would Be Crazy ... Exposing Partners IS a Felony!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:11:00 +0000

Lil Eazy-E"Changing HIV Law Would Be Crazy ... Exposing Partners IS a Felony!

Lil Eazy-E is ripping California lawmakers for even thinking about lowering the penalty for knowingly exposing a sex partner to HIV, because doing so could give unscrupulous people a license to kill.
Lil Eazy, whose father died from AIDS complications in 1995, says there's gotta be hard consequences ... and a proposed bill does the exact opposite. The bill would make it a misdemeanor instead of a felony, as it is now.
The idea is reportedly an effort to eliminate the stigma of being HIV positive, but Lil E -- an HIV activist -- thinks it's a Pandora's box.
He adds ... "common sense" dictates leaving the law unchanged.

Four pregnant women looking beautiful in their maternity photoshoot

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:52:00 +0000

Four pregnant women looking beautiful in their maternity photoshoot

These pregnancy photoshoots of these group of friends are so adorable! More photos after the cut.

I save my money. No be club?" Baskemouth on why he doesn't go to nightclubs

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:49:00 +0000

'You are actually getting stressed out to spend your own money' - says Baskemouth on why he doesn't go to nightclubs

Basketmouth thinks it's too stressful to party at nightclubs. In an interview with HipTV, the comedian said:

"It's too stressful. I swear what I am about to say, some club owners would not like it. You go to a club, it's crowded, you can't dance, everyone is hitting you, the drinks are expensive.
If you look at it at the end of the day, you are actually getting stressed out to spend your own money. I would rather just stay at home. Buy the drinks and keep it's real. It's cheap. Call my friends to come to my house and drink. The money I would spend on a bottle of brandy in the club, I can use it to buy 3 at home. It's just #11,000 for a bottle (of a particular brand) but in the club, is it i #35,000? I be mumu? I be igbo, I save my money. No be club?"

Jamie Vardy reveals death threats over alleged involvement in Claudio Ranieri’s sacking

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:41:00 +0000

Jamie Vardy reveals death threats over alleged involvement in Claudio Ranieri’s sacking

Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy has revealed he received death threats after it was alleged by UK Media outfits that he played a major role in the sacking of former coach Claudio Ranieri, barely 9 months after winning the club's first premier league title.

Leicester City prior to Ranieiri's sack were languishing in the relegation zone and the club owners shockingly made the decision to sack the Italian manager, replacing him with Craig Shakespeare.

It had been reported that senior players such as Jamie Vardy and Schmeichel had asked the owners to sack Ranieiri – but the players have categorically denied the claims

And now Jamie Vardy has revealed that he received death threats from Leicester fans over the alleged gang-up.

In an interview published by Guardian UK newspapers on Tuesday morning, Vardy said:

“The story is out there, then people pick it up and jump on it and you’re getting death threats about your family, kids, everything,” Vardy said. “I try to get on with it but when people are trying to cut your missus up while she’s driving along with the kids in the back of the car it’s not the best. It’s happened plenty of times. It is terrifying.”

Vardy said the threats had been made “on social media, walking down the street, you name it” and insisted he was wrongly named as one of the players who allegedly turned against the manager who won the first league championship in Leicester’s history.

He also denied there was a problem with the players and their former manager.

“No, not at all. Basically if there was an issue you went and did it in the gaffer’s office, man to man. Or you did it on the tactics board because he was happy for you to come in and put your opinion across.

“Apparently the meeting that got him sacked I read one story that said it was straight after the Sevilla game. Absolute shambles. It said I was personally involved in a meeting when I was actually sat in anti-doping for three hours. The stories were quite hurtful. A lot of false accusations were being thrown out there and there’s nothing us, as players, could do about it.”

Vardy was also criticized for not posting a farewell message to his former manager on his social media account, immediately after his sacking.. But he has revealed that he took over 48 hours to post a social media message because 'it was very hard' for him.

“I can understand what you are saying but, personally, my tweet was [meant to be] going out straightaway, but I wrote it that many times I couldn’t quite get the wording right. You don’t know what to say. It was 24 hours before I did it but we had just got back from Seville. We were delayed, landed, then went straight home, kids in the bath and straight to bed myself.

“It’s hard. Don’t get me wrong, what he did for Leicester was unbelievable and nobody would have expected that [title] in a million years. We can only thank him for that. The way this season has gone, players never seem to be the ones who get the sack. It always falls on the manager and that is what has happened. We are all sincerely gutted that it did.

“I get abuse at every stadium that I turn up at. You are always going to get stick from fans. It is part and parcel of football. I’m one that carries on and winds them up a bit. Do I enjoy it? Yeah, it’s just me. I couldn’t tell you why I get it, but it’s part of the game. I am not really fussed about it. It’s fine by me.”

Vardy also explained why he had not chosen to report the death threats to the police. “All that can happen is they get banned on Twitter,” he said.

“People get cut up but if there’s no cameras you’re screwed.”

Tupac’s handwritten 'Dear Mama' Lyrics to be sold for $75K

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:29:00 +0000

Tupac’s handwritten 'Dear Mama' Lyrics to be sold for $75K

With fans doing all they can to earn whatever prized possessions left behind by Tupac 20 years ago, his handwritten 'Dear Mama' lyrics has now been placed up for sale. According to TMZ, MomentsInTime.com is selling Tupac’s handwritten lyrics to his 1995 hit song 'Dear Mama.'
The three-page love letter to his mother Afeni Shakur is being sold for $25,000 each, for a total of $75,000.

The sheets were said to have come from the studio where Tupac recorded the song and MomentsInTime.com say they purchased them from a private collector in Poland.

However, it was also reported that there are a few notations on the side, of names of rappers Tupac may have potentially wanted to collaborate with.

Man arrested for stealing a whole house

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:27:00 +0000

Man arrested for stealing a whole house

A man named Nyan Tun AKA Kalapu, has been arrested in Yangon, Myanmar for stealing a whole house. According to members of the community, the theft may be related to an ownership dispute between Kalapu and the house owner, Han Win Aung.
Police officer Maung Maung Oo told local newspaper, Eleven, that the home had recently been bought by a man named Han Win Aung from Thanlyin, but it seemed that the person who sold the home t him may not have been the real owner of the house. Maung Oo said:

“He bought the house for K1 million, but the actual price of the house was K5 million. We are now investigating the case, and we know that Nyan Tun had at least one accomplice”.

Witnesses said they saw at least one person taking the house apart and taking it away in a car.

After his arrest, the South Dagon police station filed charges against Kalapu for theft. It is unclear if the house can be put together again.

Obituary of the female Air Force officer who was murdered by her jealous boyfriend The burial arrangements of the Air Force officer, Sholape Oladipupo a.k.a Shomzy who was killed by her colleague and boyfriend, Lieut Kalu is out. Her candle light procession hold on March 22nd, 2017 in Badagry town, Lagos state. She will be b

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:19:00 +0000

Obituary of the female Air Force officer who was murdered by her jealous boyfriend

The burial arrangements of the Air Force officer, Sholape Oladipupo a.k.a Shomzy who was killed by her colleague and boyfriend, Lieut Kalu is out. Her candle light procession hold on March 22nd, 2017 in Badagry town, Lagos state. She will be b

Pedophile who raped girl 225 times from the age of six bags 16 years in Jail

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:16:00 +0000

Pedophile who raped girl 225 times from the age of six bags 16 years in Jail

A British pedophile who raped a young girl for 225 times from the age of six has been jailed for 16 years.

The man identified as Anthony Morgan, in a ‘campaign of rape’, targeted the young girl, ruining her life, especially while high on cocaine and alcohol, Metro UK reported.
Appearing before Liverpool Crown Court, Judge Andrew Menary who presided over the case told him:

'You repeatedly raped almost week in, week out that young girl, on too many occasions to count. What you have done to this girl is to essentially ruin her life up to this point. Who knows whether or not she will ever recover from the psychological ordeal and impact you have inflicted upon her.’

He added:

‘You accept you have an unhealthy and abiding sexual interest in young children. I have no doubt at all that you pose a high risk of serious harm to children and will continue to do for an indefinite and unquantifiable period in the future.’

Dan Travers, prosecuting, told the court: 'He would ask her to have sex and when she refused he would keep asking. He would eventually get angry and just do it anyway.

'It’s difficult to envisage a more serious campaign of rape,' he said

Morgan pleaded guilty to eight counts of rape and one count of attempted rape but denied raping the girl no fewer than 60 times before she turned five.

He was sentenced to 16 years in prison with an extended four years on licence after preying on his victim on 225 separate occasions. He will spend two-thirds of his sentence in prison before being considered for parole and will have to sign the sex offenders’ register for life.

We are not afraid of Trump's sanctions, we are prepared to counter attack the U.S' - North Korea boasts Following North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's failed missile launch on Wednesday coupled with the four ballistic missiles fired into the sea of Japan early this March, U.S president Donald Trump has promised to crack down on North Korea as they now pose a very serious threat to world peace and order. But reacting to claims by the Trump administration to use 'military action' if necessary on North Korea following recent visits by secretary of state [Rex Tillerson] to Japan, South Korea and China, North Korea has claimed they don't fear any new U.S sanctions, and Choe Myong-nam, deputy ambassador at the DPRK (North Korean) mission to the United Nations in Geneva said 'Supreme leader' Kim Jong-un is developing a “pre-emptive first strike capability” and an inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) that will be tested soon. Reacting to Donald Trump's plans to inflict more drastic measures to counter North Korea’s nuclear and missile threat, Choe said; “I think this is stemming from the visit by the secretary of state [Rex Tillerson] to Japan, South Korea and China … We of course are not afraid of any act like that,” “Even prohibition of the international transactions system, the global financial system, this kind of thing is part of their system that will not frighten us or make any difference.“ Choe told Reuters. North Korea claims their missile tests is a result of plans by Japan, South Korea and the U.S to invade their country soon, saying Rex Tillerson's visit to their neighbors was mostly about using military action on North Korea. “All he (Rex Tillerson) was talking about is for the United States to take military actions on DPRK,” Choe said. 'North Korea rejects claims by Washington and Seoul that the military drills are defensive. They involve strategic nuclear bombers and a nuclear submarine that recently entered South Korean ports', he said. “In the light of such huge military forces involved in the joint military exercises, we have no other choice but to continue with our full acceleration of the nuclear programmes and missile programmes. It is because of these hostile activities on the part of the United States and South Korea.” “We strengthen our national defence capability as well as pre-emptive strike capabilities with nuclear forces as a centrepiece,” Choe said. Chloe meanwhile refused to to give technical details of North Korea’s latest rocket test even though his country called it the 'greatest historical event' that would lead to “fruitful outcomes”. “I can tell you for sure that the inter-continental ballistic rockets of the DPRK will be launched at any time and at any place as decided by our Supreme Leadership,” Choe said. Military analysts believe it won't be long before North Korea masters the technology of making an ICBM (Inter continental ballistic missilie) to hit the United States as they have already mastered the process of getting the missile powered. “The United States has been talking about launching pre-emptive strikes at North Korea,” Choe said. “And we have been prepared to deter, to counter-attack such attacks on the part of the United States. “We would utilise every possible means in our hands and the inter-continental ballistic rocket

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:15:00 +0000

We are not afraid of Trump's sanctions, we are prepared to counter attack the U.S' - North Korea boasts

Following North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's failed missile launch on Wednesday coupled with the four ballistic missiles fired into the sea of Japan early this March, U.S president Donald Trump has promised to crack down on North Korea as they now pose a very serious threat to world peace and order.

But reacting to claims by the Trump administration to use 'military action' if necessary on North Korea following recent visits by secretary of state [Rex Tillerson] to Japan, South Korea and China,

North Korea has claimed they don't fear any new U.S sanctions, and Choe Myong-nam, deputy ambassador at the DPRK (North Korean) mission to the United Nations in Geneva said 'Supreme leader' Kim Jong-un is developing a “pre-emptive first strike capability” and an inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) that will be tested soon.

Reacting to Donald Trump's plans to inflict more drastic measures to counter North Korea’s nuclear and missile threat, Choe said;

“I think this is stemming from the visit by the secretary of state [Rex Tillerson] to Japan, South Korea and China … We of course are not afraid of any act like that,”

“Even prohibition of the international transactions system, the global financial system, this kind of thing is part of their system that will not frighten us or make any difference.“ Choe told Reuters.

North Korea claims their missile tests is a result of plans by Japan, South Korea and the U.S to invade their country soon, saying Rex Tillerson's visit to their neighbors was mostly about using military action on North Korea.

“All he (Rex Tillerson) was talking about is for the United States to take military actions on DPRK,” Choe said.

'North Korea rejects claims by Washington and Seoul that the military drills are defensive. They involve strategic nuclear bombers and a nuclear submarine that recently entered South Korean ports', he said.

“In the light of such huge military forces involved in the joint military exercises, we have no other choice but to continue with our full acceleration of the nuclear programmes and missile programmes. It is because of these hostile activities on the part of the United States and South Korea.”

“We strengthen our national defence capability as well as pre-emptive strike capabilities with nuclear forces as a centrepiece,” Choe said.

Chloe meanwhile refused to to give technical details of North Korea’s latest rocket test even though his country called it the 'greatest historical event' that would lead to “fruitful outcomes”.

“I can tell you for sure that the inter-continental ballistic rockets of the DPRK will be launched at any time and at any place as decided by our Supreme Leadership,” Choe said.

Military analysts believe it won't be long before North Korea masters the technology of making an ICBM (Inter continental ballistic missilie) to hit the United States as they have already mastered the process of getting the missile powered.

“The United States has been talking about launching pre-emptive strikes at North Korea,” Choe said. “And we have been prepared to deter, to counter-attack such attacks on the part of the United States.

“We would utilise every possible means in our hands and the inter-continental ballistic rocket

20-year-old model contesting in the upcoming elections in Kenya (Photos)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 13:02:00 +0000

This 20-year-old model contesting in the upcoming elections in Kenya

Sadaf Deen, a top Kenyan model will be contesting in the upcoming elections in August. The 20-year-old politician is hoping to get elected as a Mombasa representative during the August elections. If Deen succeeds, she will become the youngest woman to occupy the post. More photos after cut.

Jamb begins the sale of form for the 2017/18 academic session

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 14:15:00 +0000

Jamb begins the sale of form for the 2017/18 academic session

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has announced , on Monday, that it would begin the sale of forms for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination on Monday 20th March,2017.
The Board said the sale of forms will close on Wednesday 19th April, 2017 while examination holds 6th to 20th May, 2017.

This information was released via its official Twitter handle @JAMBHQ, the organisation said the registration fee for UTME 2017 is N5, 500.

The Tweets:

Cristiano Ronaldo To Star Alongside Angelina Jolie In Upcoming TV Series

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 14:14:00 +0000

Cristiano Ronaldo To Star Alongside Angelina Jolie In Upcoming TV Series

Real Madrid star, Cristiano Ronaldo is set make his acting debut alongside Hollywood screen queen, Angelina Jolie in a series about the Syrian refugee crisis.

Having made no secret about wanting to go into acting following his footballing career, the four-time Ballon d’Or winning footballer may now have his chance at some small screen action.

Titled Hayat Koprusu (Bridge of Life), the upcoming series will focus on a Syrian family fleeing the civil war for Turkey and will be filmed in Gaziantep, in the Anatolia region of Turkey near the Syrian border.

Eyup Dirlik , the director of the upcoming TV series, told website Turkish Football: ‘The series is about the plight of a refugee family and what they go through. There will be appearances from actors and actresses from all over the world including Cristiano Ronaldo, Angelina Jolie and (Arabic music star) Nancy Ajram.’

Cristiano Ronaldo to become a father again as Real Madrid star expecting twins via surrogate

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 12:10:00 +0000

Cristiano Ronaldo to become a father again as Real Madrid star expecting twins via surrogate

Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo has got the rumour mills in overdrive with baby news despite remaining tight-lipped about his personal life. After welcoming his first son Cristiano Jr in 2010, reports now claim that the 32-year-old athlete is expecting twin boys via an American surrogate.

When the Portuguese international had Cristiano Jr there were similar reports that suggested the use of a surrogate. According to The Sun, sources claimed that Ronaldo and his family are set to welcome the newest members of their family "very soon".

He has even planned to have the babies flown to his £5m ($6m) mansion on the outskirts of Madrid when they are born, reports said.

"Cristiano and his family can't wait to meet the new members of their clan," The Sun reported on Saturday (11 March). The source told the paper, "He likes to keep a tight lid on his private life but has told loved ones and close friends the baby boys are due to arrive very soon."