Ex-President, Goodluck Jonathan is a year older today, 20th November, 2015, the quite amiable ex Nigerian leader is celebrated worldwide, most especially as the new face of democracy.
Celebrities are no left in celebrating the highly esteemed man. Top comedian, Bovi and actress, Omoni Oboli celebrated him on social media.
Bovi wrote:
Happy birthday to my Oga mi, my lesson in history, my president, my friend.
Omoni Oboli also wrote:
Happy birthday to my dad, hero, friend and president! Your humilty and love for humanity teaches me a lot! #HappyBirthdayGej
Armed jihadists have gone on a dreadful shooting rampage and have taken 170 hostages at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali.
Sky News reports that automatic weapons fire has been heard on the seventh floor of the 190-room hotel, where three militants have taken 140 guests and 30 members of staff hostage.
Security sources say the gunmen freed some hostages including those able to recite verses of the Koran.
The hotel is frequently used by foreigners and Air France crew in Mali. Malian army commander Modibo Nama Traore said 10 gunmen stormed the hotel Friday morning shouting “Allahu Akbar” or “God is great” in Arabic before firing on the guards and taking hostages.
According to a statement by the Rezidor Hotel Group:
As per our information, two persons have locked in 140 guests and 30 employees
The US embassy in Bamako has urged embassy staff to seek cover from the attack, tweeting that all Americans in Mali should ‘shelter in place’.
I bet you’ll have a hard laugh as I did after I saw this… I still laugh every time I see the name! Lol
A man whose actual name is Phuc Dat Bich felt the need to take to Facebook after no one believed that he was actually named Phuc Dat Bich.
Phuc Dat Bich posted an image of his passport onto the social networking site alongside a rant which highlighted his frustrations.
He wrote:
“I find it highly irritating the fact that nobody seems to believe me when I say that my full legal name is how you see it. I’ve been accused of using a false and misleading name of which I find very offensive.
“Is it because I’m Asian? Is it? “Having my [Facebook account] shut down multiple times and forced to change my name to my ‘real’ name, so just to put it out there. My name.
“Yours sincerely, Phuc Dat Bich.”
LMAO! “Yours Sincerely, Phuc Dat Bich” I believe it’s his real name though
Delaying defecation could be extremely dangerous than you think. Some health experts are warning that, as well as the obvious discomfort, in extreme cases holding a poo in for a lengthy period of time could even result in death.
Those who repeatedly put off going to the loo run the risk of developing a dysfunction in the muscle used for pooing, say researchers.
In worst case scenarios, people can suffer an impacted bowel – when an immobile mass of faeces builds up in the rectum, resulting in chronic constipation.
Left untreated, an impacted bowel can require surgery or even kill, experts warn.
Kyle D Staller, a gastroenterologist at Massachusetts General Hospital says that people who get into a habit of holding in can develop a dysfunction in the muscle used for pooing.
“So holding in is bad. If you don’t poo when you need to, all the waste and toxins are just sitting in there”And your body keeps making waste, it can lead to an impacted bowel.Sometimes surgery is required, and if left untreated, an impacted bowel can actually kill you.”
Quite curvy Nollywood actress, Halima Abubakar paid a visit to wife of Billionaire/Business Woman, Dabota Lawson‘s beauty store to patronize the ex beauty queen’s makeup line.
World’s most wanted terrorist group, ISIS have newly threatened to blow up the white house and kill the President Hollande of France in their latest devastating video.
In the wearisome video, an unknown militant tells the camera:
“What do they expect from the nation of Islam, other than more of these strikes?
“We bring Hollande and the people around him the good tidings – as we bring Obama and the people around him the good tidings – of more of these strikes. Allah willing, we shall roast them with explosive belts and car bombs. We shall follow them wherever they may go, and Allah willing, we shall lead them like slaves, like dogs.”
In a second segment of the video, a different terrorist tells the camera:
“Oh Crusader France, Allah willing, we shall pulverize your palaces.Allah willing, you shall know no happiness, and will not live for long. “We started with you, and we shall finish with the false White House, which we shall render black with our fire, Allah willing.”We shall blow it up like we blew up the false idols in this good lands.
“Oh Crusaders everywhere, know that you are under threat, and that Allah has ordered us to fight you.”
Former Nigeria head coach Clemens Westerhof has claimed that new coach, Sunday Oliseh can’t take the national team to the 2018 World Cup finals in Russia.
Westerhof, who won the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations title with the Super Eagles in Tunisia, made his stance known after Nigeria beat Swaziland 2-0 on Friday.
Following the victory, Oliseh told the press he was proud of his team, and Westerhof said it was nothing to celebrate.
“Congratulations, you beat Swaziland 2-0 in the return leg match of the preliminary round of the qualifiers,” But does that really call for celebration? Yes, there are no minnows in football but who are Swaziland to hold the Super Eagles to a goalless draw?T
he Super Eagles won 2-0 in Nigeria but is it not a game the Super Eagles should be winning 6-0, 7-0 under normal circumstances? What type of football do they play in Swaziland?
“Swaziland is not the first match Super Eagles have played under Oliseh. There has not been any difference between their first game under him and the game with Swaziland.I’m sorry, with Oliseh, the Super Eagles may not go to the World Cup in Russia,” Westerhof declared.
In a quite classic and stylish way, Hollywood veteran, Jada Pinkett, had her cleavage on full display as she made an appearance at the Latin Grammys with her legendary husband, Will Smith.
When some students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH Ogbomoso stormed major roads in the city to protest continued robbery attacks on their female hostel and raping the helpless ladies, they did not in their wildest dreams think that the said robbers could be among them.
The state Police Command recorded a breakthrough as they arrested three suspects who were alleged to have been involved in the ungodly act. While parading the suspects alongside other suspects, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Leye Oyebade said,
“a 400L male student of the Department of Transport, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECh Ogbomoso who belonged to a notorious criminal gang nicknamed ‘Three Mopols’ was arrested on 3rd November, 2015 in his criminal hideout by the special anti robbery squad in Oyo/Ogbomoso.”
The gang, according to him, was responsible for breaking into students hostels, stealing valuable property and sometimes raping their female colleagues.
His arrest and subsequent confession led to the arrest of two criminal receivers – Adeyemi Samuel Taiwo and Adeyemi Samson Kehinde who received some of the stolen items.
When a search was conducted in the house of Kayode Oluwaseyi, a HP laptop computer belonging to one of his victims and a toy gun used for robbery operations were recovered. Kayode Oluwaseyi also confessed to have burgled several houses and carried out many robbery operations in the Ogbomoso area.
When asked what led him into that shameful act, the suspect confessed that it was true he was involved in the constant raids but tried to exonerate his accomplices saying they were not among the gang but that they always bought the stolen goods from him.
A transgender woman who had allegedly threatened to kill herself if she was sent to a men’s prison has been discovered dead.
Vicky Thompson, 21, was serving a 12-month term at HMP Leeds after breaching a suspended sentence. Solicitor, Mohammed Hussain had advised the judge she was “essentially a woman” and asked for her to be sent to New Hall women’s prison, near Wakefield.
According to Daily mirror, Ms Thompson, who had not undergone gender reassignment surgery , was so distraught at being jailed with men she warned she would commit suicide.
Prison rules state convicts should be placed according to their gender “as recognised by UK law” – that usually means as stated on their birth certificate.
Thompson of Keighley, West Yorks, had identified as female since her teens but did not have reassignment surgery.
Yeah well, not only does he have her heart, he also has her nails… How romantic is that? *Smugs*
Rick Ross‘s beautiful fiancee, Lira Galore, decided to show the world that her rapper man not only has her heart but also her hands as she designed his face on her nails and the title of his next album “Black Market” embedded on it.
It was reported on Thursday how a daredevil security man connived with his friends to murder a 25-year-old final year Civil Engineering student of the Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Imo State, Mr. Innocent Ndukwe.
A security guard, who was recently arrested by the Imo State Police Command for allegedly stabbing his boss to death and stealing his belongings, said he committed the dastardly act because he wanted to celebrate Christmas lavishly.
According to PUNCH, the guard, David Kwaguru, and two of his friends Friday Ayuba and Francis Amos, made away with the deceased’s Nissan Pathfinder with number plate, KRD109AD, two plasma TV sets, one home theatre and other valuables.
Confessing to the crime, the security guard said that the rationale behind their evil act was that they needed money to celebrate Christmas next month.
He said:
“Since oga Ndukwe had the money (because of his wealthy parents) and expensive household electronics, we decided to kill him, put the devices inside his vehicle and drive to Plateau State where we come from.
“We waited and monitored him. And when he went into the toilet, we broke the door open, tied his hands and legs and started stabbing him all over his body. We stabbed him several times in the neck and abdomen so that he would die quickly. After killing him, we drove off in the jeep only to be nabbed by the police at West End Road in Owerri.”
Also speaking, an accomplice, Ayuba, said that it was Amos that first struck the victim in the neck while he stabbed the student in the stomach.
He said:
“It was Kwagwuru who told us about the student. Since we are all from the same state, we decided to run back to Plateau after the crime, and not to return to the South-East ever again. We also planned to sell the vehicle and other valuables and share the loot.”
While parading the suspects, the CP said the police control room got a call on the incident and policemen raced to the crime scene.
He said:
“As a result, the assailants who tried to escape were subsequently apprehended along West-End old Nekede road, Owerri.”
He said that the deceased was found in a pool of blood in a toilet at his residence when policemen arrived.
A judge in Osun State, Justice A. O. Oguntade, at the state High Court, Ede, on Thursday barred journalists from covering the divorce proceedings involving millionaire businessman, Deji Adeleke, and his estranged wife, Teju.
Adeleke, who is the Chancellor of the Adeleke University, is the father of popular musician, Davido. PUNCH reports he was present in court on Thursday but the estranged wife was not when journalists were chased out.
Oguntade had on Monday, November 16, prevented journalists who were present at the court by
chasing them out of the court room.
The judge again on Thursday asked journalists present in the courtroom to go out before the proceedings started.
On entering the court, Oguntade said:
“Journalists present in this court should go out. I repeat, journalists present in this court should go out now.”
The judge asked his orderly to escort the journalists out and the orderly relayed the order to the senior police officer, Adeoye Yekinin, who led a team of armed policemen deployed in the court for the divorce case.
The police officer, however, was polite in carrying out the order as he pleaded with the two journalists including their correspondent to vacate the court.
The armed policemen waited patiently for the journalists to leave before they returned to the entrance of the court.
Some of those present in court expressed shock over the heavy presence of armed policemen.
One of the lawyers present in the court for another matter said one of the parties involved in the case did not want publicity.
Counsel for the estranged wife, Mr. Kemi Pinheiro (SAN) , had during the proceedings on Monday accused the judge of bias.
Despite the allegation, Oguntade ordered journalists out of the court and instructed his orderly to ensure they were chased out of the court.
Everyone is Jumping on Adele’s Hello. EME’s First Lady – Niyola Joins the league of Nigerian Singers – Praiz, Omawumi and Ruby Gyang to make their versions of Adele’s HELLO.
Bangalee himself – DBanj paid a visit to South Africa briefly a few day ago and he paid a visit to one of SA’s Hottest Rappers – Casper Nyovest at his SA Home.
The two stars both took snaps outside of his home! That’s that African connection.
A 48-year-old Artisan, Alabi Rasheed, on Thursday urged an Ikorodu Customary Court, Lagos, to dissolve his 10-year-old marriage to his wife, Sherifat, over the paternity of their second child.
Rasheed, who resides at Baiyeku Road in Igbogbo, told the court to dissolve his marriage following a DNA test that confirmed he was not the father of the second child.
“My wife is into infidelity act and I have caught her severally, one day, I took the two children whom she claimed was mine to do a DNA test without her consent.
“From the result, I discovered that the second child was not my own.
“Moreover, I am tired of her disgraceful act in the community; she is a debtor and could not even account for her business money.
“She was always arrested by the police over debts,’’ he added.
Sherifat,42, denied the he husband’s claims, and begged the court to reunite them.
“My husband didn’t tell me he was taking our children for a DNA test, he only told me they were going to a birthday party.
“I did not believe he did any DNA test, he just wanted to use that as an excuse for divorce.
“I want this court to help reunite us and settle our indifferences amicably,’’ she said.
The President of the court, Omolara Abiola, ordered them to go to hospital to repeat the paternity test on the children and bring the result for court consumption.
She adjourned the case till Dec.2,for further hearing. (NAN)
All women are queen and it is my opinion that a woman’s hair is her crown. There’s something spectacular about a woman’s hairstyle that makes her unique and making hairstyle choices is not as easy as it seems.
Here are 6 lovely hairstyles that our top female celebrities have rocked that we think would look perfect on every other woman and would make her even more beautiful.
1. Dreads
Deliberately tangled or etched ropes of hair, the dreads likewise called locs are normal even amongst African men particularly Nigerian men.
Back brushing, plaiting and brushing are utilized to support the locks while the arrangement of uniformly estimated ropes takes arranging and upkeep together with your regular hair.
In the event that you plan to go locs, it is required to wash your hair as frequently as could be expected under the circumstances. Nigerian and International option act, Asa looks magnificent in this.
Another Nigerian celebrity who once rocked the dreads hairstyle is actress Dakore Egbuson.
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Port Harcourt’s Very own – Duncan Mighty and his wife have welcomed their first child together.
The singer announced the birth of their child on Instagram this morning with the caption:
“God I praise your holy name for this blessing and honour added to me today. And to my wife am short of words chai nne. thanks u”
The child is however not Duncan Mighty’s first. The singer was recently dragged to court by his baby mama over their child’s welfare earlier this month.
Nigeria is one of the largest and most populated countries in Africa. It prides in not only having some of the richest men in Africa, but also the world.
While we believe there are several more Nigerians that would rank among the richest in the world today, we’ve discovered that just a few have made the Forbes list of richest people in the world, the reason being that companies like Forbes and Bloomberg estimates the wealth of individuals and usually rank them based on the value of shares they have in quoted companies (ie companies listed on the stock exchange).
In this article, Buzz Nigeria takes a look at Forbes list and have combined that with information from other sources such as Bloomberg and Ventures Africa to come up with a more comprehensive list of the richest men in Nigeria, these are billionaires and multi millionaires, all figures are in US dollars.
20. Oba Oteduko
Net Worth: $550 Million
Industry: Diversified
Obafoluke Otudeko’s net worth is estimated to be $550 million according to Forbes (estimated to be worth $1 billion by Ventures Africa).
He is a Chartered banker, Chartered accountant, and also a Chartered Secretary by profession. Dr. Oba Otedeko’s business interests spread both locally as well as internationally.
His wealth comes from investments and entrepreneurship, he sits or has sat on boards of prestigious firms that include Fan Milk Plc, Airtel Nigeria, Honeywell Group, First Bank of Nigeria, Eco Bank, Guinness Nigeria Plc.
Honeywell group where he serves as the Chairman of the board is a business conglomerate with operations stretching across oil and gas, flour milling, real estate and marine transportation.
Anchorage Leisures, a subsidiary of the Honeywell Group, owns Radisson Blu which is a prominent waterfront hotel in Victoria Island, Lagos. Oba also owns minority stakes in First Bank and Ecobank.
Whitenicious CEO, Dencia has proved her critics wrong by sharing an image of her bare hands. This comes after she was a subject of questions cause of her flair for jumpsuits and hand gloves.
Some of her fans speculate that she is probably hiding “Dark Knuckles“. The singer took to her Instagram page last night to dissolve the motion by sharing the photo of her bare hands.
She wrote:
Hi guys & Dolls,Dencia here ( every post from me will be signed Dencia) So I see comments all over the place about me never showing my hands (fingers) & I’m like wait I’m I supposed to take pictures with my hands up?everyone knows u almost never know what to do with your hands when taking pictures or the only option is to do the classic hand waist pose which I hate.Today on my way to the hospital I’m like ugh my nails are falling apart then I randomly take pictures of my skinny long fingers �� then I decide to post.The truth is the knuckles & joints struggle is real for everyone, a lot of people have hyper pigmentation on there from whites to black to every ethnicity.The hands get used & abused a lot and if u notice your left hand always looks better than the right hand that’s cuz the right Hand is the slave lol.I usually spend time ( like 10 times a day) putting lotion on my knuckles, infact I came up with a solution I have been testing which makes that easy, u see when u moisturizer ur whole hand,they all get equal moisturizer but the knuckles need more & need it often to keep a nice tone to match the rest of your hands.Until then when using our knuckles & knees cream,apply directly on the (3points & 2 points) until it clears up before using all over your hand (btw ladies filters make your knuckles look darker) Xo Dencia
World’s most popular social networking site, Facebook deleted a woman’s account because they ‘thought she was a terrorist’.
Isis Anchalee took to twitter to air out her displeasure of their action. When some users suggested she change the name and use her initials instead, she fired back saying she won’t change her birth name because Jihadists use it.
She said she even sent Facebook a copy of her passport to prove her account was genuine. Her story emerged after a friend asked her why an exchange of messages between the pair had been marked as ‘spam’.
Not less than 20 people lost their lives on Wednesday in a multiple accident at the Tollgate end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Ogun State.
Among the dead were a pregnant woman; a yam seller identified as Iya Nimota whose daughter would be having her wedding on Saturday; five bread sellers; two policemen and motorists.
A trailer reportedly rammed into four commercial buses, three private cars and a police patrol van.
PUNCH gathered that the policemen, from the Sango Police Division, had at about 11pm on Tuesday, stopped a bus conveying yams, and insisted on collecting N200 from the driver.
The illegal checkpoint reportedly created a traffic snarl.
The trailer, from the Lafarge Cement Company, Ewekoro, conveying hundreds of cement bags, had a brake failure, and ran over the line of vehicles, pushing three of them into a canal at the junction.
While the 20 casualties had been taken to the Ota General Hospital morgue, the others were said to be in a critical condition at the state hospital.
A survivor of the accident, Lateefat Olukogun, said they had encountered 10 police checkpoints on the road and bribed the policemen at each checkpoint.
She said when they got to the Oando area of Tollgate, they met another team of policemen, who flagged down their vehicle.
She said:
“All we were carrying in our truck were yams and sacks of garri. The police never allowed us to have breathing space as they kept stopping us on the road and collected N200 from us.
“I was the one paying them and I had spent everything I had. I had N100 left on me. I begged the policemen to take the money from us and allow us continue with our journey, but they insisted that we pay the N200.
“The driver then gave his boy N500 and asked him to go and look for change to give the policemen. The guy crossed to the other side of the road to look for change. Few minutes later, he returned and gave them the N200. He had barely paid the money than we heard a loud bang.”
Olukogun said she did not sustain severe injuries because she sat next to the driver
“Iya Nimota was sitting at the back. The trailer crushed her. The driver of the bus, however, got seriously injured and he is in the hospital,” she said.
A relative of Iya Nimota, Rasheedat Adenekan, told the publication that the deceased was preparing for her daughter’s wedding. While showing the victim’s scarf, which was still hanging on the crushed white van, she said the deceased was almost home when the accident happened.
“I can’t believe she is dead,” she wailed.
Another eyewitness, identified only as Sulaimon, said the trailer started crushing vehicles from the Dalemo bus stop, adding that no fewer than eight vehicles were affected.
He said:
“The road leading to the Tollgate area is a slope. This caused the trailer to move at a high speed when it lost control and hit v ehicles. Three cars fell into the canal instantly. We all mobilised to the scene to rescue the people.
“Four persons sitting at the back of a commercial bus were crushed instantly. Three people who were selling bread on the road were killed. The trailer broke their skulls. Three others lost their legs. Some people in the cars that plunged into the canal also died.
“There was commotion at that moment. Two of the policemen waiting to collect money from the driver were among the dead. We began to convey the injured persons into buses that would take them to a hospital around 2am.
“We appeal to the state government to put bumps on the slope to forestall a recurrence.”
An official of the Federal Road Safety Corps, who was part of the rescue team, told the publication about 12 people died in the accident.
He said:
“I was sleeping when we got the call that an accident had happened. We pulled out at least six people from the water, dead. But I am aware 12 people died in all.”
Meanwhile, there was a drama around 10am on Wednesday in the area after some soldiers descended on the policemen, including a Divisional Police Officer.
A witness said that the accident had caused a traffic jam on the road and as the soldiers were passing in their truck, they became stuck.
“One of them came down and started controlling the traffic. A policeman suddenly came to challenge him. The solider, who had been told that the police caused the accident, slapped the policeman.
“As some other policemen surrounded him and started to beat him, the soldier’s colleagues arrived and descended on the policemen. They beat up the policemen and slapped their DPO. The police had to run away from the place,” he said.
An aggrieved young mother has revealed how her twisted boyfriend made her hold their baby twins while he killed them.
22 year old Megan Hiatt, is recovering in a hospital after being hit by several bullets fired by lover Gawain Wilson who also killed her father before turning the gun on himself.
Megan mother Melissa Batch told what her daughter had told her from her hospital bed in Jacksonville, Florida.
She said:
“Mama, he killed them. He killed them in my arms. He made me hold them when he killed them. He made me watch.”
The two children were Hayden, nicknamed Chunky Monkey Reese, and Kayden, called Little Bit Rose.
Ms Batch thanked God her daughter survived and added:
“He gave Megan the strength to drag her body across the room. She had to crawl through her babies’ blood, then through the shooter’s blood, and to her dad to hear his last words.”
Miss Hiatt and Wilson’s relationship was troubled and it is understood he would regularly smash items around the home when he flew into a rage.
He pleaded guilty to strangulation in 2013 and attended a domestic violence programme.
