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  • Photo of Tiwa Savage & her cute son in Houston Texas

    Photo of Tiwa Savage & her cute son in Houston Texas

    Mavin Records artist Tiwa Savage pictured with her cute son
    Jamil ‘Jam Jam’ in Houston. He accompanied Tiwa on her tour in the U.S

  • 2016 Hajj: CBN directs banks to sell dollars to pilgrims at N197

    2016 Hajj: CBN directs banks to sell dollars to pilgrims at N197

    The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has directed banks and authorized
    forex dealers to sell the Pilgrims Travelling Allowance, PTA, to
    intending pilgrims at a concessionary exchange rate of N197 to $1. This
    directive was given ‎in a statement sent to banks yesterday August 4th.

    The statement reads in part

    “Each pilgrim is entitled to purchase a minimum of $750.00 and maximum
    of US$1,000.00 as PTA. The Federal Government has approved that
    intending pilgrims are to be sold the PTA at a concessionary exchange
    rate of N197.00 to the US dollar. No commission shall be charged by the
    banks for the sale of the PTA to the intending pilgrims. The Central
    Bank of Nigeria shall sale the PTA to the designated banks in Lagos and
    Abuja and the accounts of the respective banks shall be debited as soon
    as the funds are disbursed….”







  • Kim Kardashian steps out in Tshirt and new hairdo

    Kim Kardashian steps out in Tshirt and new hairdo

    Kim K was pictured out and about in LA yesterday wearing a T-shirt and sexy open toe boots. Another photo after the cut…

    Those shoes though…lovely!

  • Human trafficking: UK jails Nigerian woman for 22 years

    Human trafficking: UK jails Nigerian woman for 22 years

    A Nigerian woman, Franca Asemota, 38, found guilty of attempting to traffic Nigerian girls through Heathrow Airport to work as sex workers in brothels across Europe, was on Thursday sentenced to 22 years imprisonment
    Asemota was convicted on Wednesday at Isleworth Crown Court on 12 counts of conspiracy to traffic persons for sexual exploitation, trafficking persons outside of the United Kingdom for sexual exploitation and assisting unlawful immigration.
    A statement by the UK High Commission in Abuja, said five of Asemota’s victims gave evidence against her during the trial.

    One of them was rescued from prostitution in Montpellier, France, during a joint operation by the Immigration Enforcement and the National Crime Agency.
    Detectives told the court she was part of a criminal network that trafficked girls, boys and women from Nigeria to Europe using threats to guarantee their compliance.
     Asemota was identified as a trafficking suspect in 2012, but fled from Italy to Nigeria when some of her co-conspirators were arrested by Immigration Enforcement investigators.
     She spent time in Europe before the NCA tracked her down to Nigeria.
     In an operation coordinated by the NCA, she was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission in Benin in March 2015 and was subsequently extradited  to the UK in January this year, after her identity was confirmed.
    Asemota was said to have travelled with the girls on flights from Lagos to Heathrow, between August 2011 and May 2012, with the intention of reaching France.
    They remained airside during the transit at Heathrow, so, were not subject to Border Force passport checks. However, the trafficking attempts were foiled when French authorities identified the girl’s false documents on arrival in France.
    David Fairclough, from the Immigration Enforcement crime team, described the convict as the lynchpin of a trafficking ring which targeted vulnerable young women in Nigeria.
    He said, “Asemota was the lynchpin of a trafficking ring which targeted vulnerable young women in Nigeria, promising them a brighter future working in Europe. But it soon became clear that this was far from the truth. The victims, some as young as 13, were told they would be sold into prostitution. Asemota travelled with the girls in order to threaten them and keep them in line.”
    The head of the UK Human Trafficking Centre, Martin French, stated that Asemota took advantage of her victims in some of the worst ways possible.
  • Fayose, Mimiko better than Ambode –PDP

    Fayose, Mimiko better than Ambode –PDP

    Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode

    The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has faulted a poll by the African Leadership Magazine which rated Governor Akinwunmi Ambode as the best performing governor in the country.
    The Lagos PDP said the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, and his Ondo State counterpart, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, had performed better than Ambode.
    The opposition party’s reaction was against the backdrop of the rating titled, “Good governance poll for Nigeria’s top performing governors.”
    The PDP said the magazine’s poll was allegedly sponsored by the state government with the aim of misleading the public.
    While analysing the rating, the Publicity Secretary of the Lagos PDP, Gani Taofik, in an interview with our correspondent, on Thursday, described the rating as laughable.
    He added that it was far from the current realities in the state.
    “Can Governor Akinwunmi Ambode walk on the streets and receive the same kind of support that Governor Fayose gets in Ekiti? Ambode’s elitist style cannot be compared to that of Mimiko and Fayose, who are governors that the common man recognises and relates easily with.
    “Ambode cannot match the popularity and acceptability that both Mimiko and Fayose command in Ondo and Ekiti states respectively. Fayose and Mimiko are far better than Ambode,” Taofik said.
    Reacting to the PDP’s claim on Thursday, the Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress in the state, Joe Igbokwe, however, described the PDP’s statement as mischievous and laughable.
    Igbokwe said nothing good could come out of the former ruling party.
    In a text message sent to our correspondent, Igbokwe said, “The Lagos PDP will not acknowledge the monumental achievements recorded in the last 14 months by the Ambode administration, which are being appreciated by all and sundry.
    “Nothing good can come from the Lagos PDP or the national leadership of the party. They are the same. The only thing they know how to do is to scheme to get to power and use their positions to steal everything in sight. See where they left Nigeria in 16 years.”
    Taofik asked the governor and the magazine to defend the government’s policies in the housing, agric, transportation sectors, among others.
  • Fayose, Mimiko better than Ambode –PDP

    Fayose, Mimiko better than Ambode –PDP

    Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode

    The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has faulted a poll by the African Leadership Magazine which rated Governor Akinwunmi Ambode as the best performing governor in the country.
    The Lagos PDP said the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, and his Ondo State counterpart, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, had performed better than Ambode.
    The opposition party’s reaction was against the backdrop of the rating titled, “Good governance poll for Nigeria’s top performing governors.”
    The PDP said the magazine’s poll was allegedly sponsored by the state government with the aim of misleading the public.
    While analysing the rating, the Publicity Secretary of the Lagos PDP, Gani Taofik, in an interview with our correspondent, on Thursday, described the rating as laughable.
    He added that it was far from the current realities in the state.
    “Can Governor Akinwunmi Ambode walk on the streets and receive the same kind of support that Governor Fayose gets in Ekiti? Ambode’s elitist style cannot be compared to that of Mimiko and Fayose, who are governors that the common man recognises and relates easily with.
    “Ambode cannot match the popularity and acceptability that both Mimiko and Fayose command in Ondo and Ekiti states respectively. Fayose and Mimiko are far better than Ambode,” Taofik said.
    Reacting to the PDP’s claim on Thursday, the Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress in the state, Joe Igbokwe, however, described the PDP’s statement as mischievous and laughable.
    Igbokwe said nothing good could come out of the former ruling party.
    In a text message sent to our correspondent, Igbokwe said, “The Lagos PDP will not acknowledge the monumental achievements recorded in the last 14 months by the Ambode administration, which are being appreciated by all and sundry.
    “Nothing good can come from the Lagos PDP or the national leadership of the party. They are the same. The only thing they know how to do is to scheme to get to power and use their positions to steal everything in sight. See where they left Nigeria in 16 years.”
    Taofik asked the governor and the magazine to defend the government’s policies in the housing, agric, transportation sectors, among others.
  • Nigeria beats Japan 5-4 in their first match at the 2016 Rio Olympics

    Nigeria beats Japan 5-4 in their first match at the 2016 Rio Olympics

    Nigeria’s men’s football team, had a disastrous start when they were left stranded in Atlanta, fortunately it got resolved. They get to Olympics and while on the field for their match against Japan, the wrong National anthem was played.
    The Nigerian U-23 team did a great job beating Japan 5 goals to 4 in Manaus on Thursday just hours after landing in Brazil for the Rio 2016 Olympics. Oghenekaro Etebo became the first Nigerian to score a hat-trick at the Olympics.
    There were 8 goals scored in 77 minutes.

    Sadiq Umar got the goal fest underway, putting Nigeria ahead barely five minutes in. Three minutes later Japan was awarded a penalty, which Shinzo Koroki converted from the spot to level the score at 1-1.

    Japan had barely finished celebrating when Nigeria regained the lead through Oghenekaro Etebo.

    Two minutes later, Takumi Minamino scored again for Japan, tying the score at 2-2. 

    After the first 15 minutes there came a period of relative calm until Etebo struck again three minutes before halftime, taking the jet-lagged Super Eagles into the break with a one goal lead.

    Nigeria extended the lead five minutes into the second half after Umar went down in the box and won a penalty. Etebo completed his hat-trick from the penalty spot to make it 4-2, Nigeria.

    Nigeria scored again in the 66th after Japanese goalkeeper Masatoshi Kushibiki rushed out to shut down an attack, leaving his net unattended for a charging Etebo who promptly made it 5-2 in the 66th minute.

    Etebo, who plays his club soccer in Portugal, had a particularly good night, putting five shots on goal, scoring four, and becoming the first Nigerian to score a hat-trick at the Olympics.

    In tthe 70th minute substitute Takuma Asano who side-heeled in a cross from Hiroki Fujihara from close range made it 5-3.

    Moments later Asano, who was recently signed by Premier League giants Arsenal, rocketed an effort off the post although the whistle had blown for offside.

    Japan scored again in extra time through substitute Musashi Suzuki who pulled the ball back away from the defense and slotted it to the far post past Nigeria keeper Emmanuel Daniel, settling the score at 5-4 in Nigeria’s favor.

    By that time it was midnight local time and the exhausted Nigerians had just claimed victory in what has far and away been the most entertaining match we’ve seen yet in the Rio Olympics. Not bad for a team that had started traveling at 7 a.m. 


    Well done to our players!

  • Shekau rejects Al-Barnawi, says he was deceived by ISIS

    Shekau rejects Al-Barnawi, says he was deceived by ISIS

    Abubakar Shekau, who was replaced by Islamic State as Boko Haram’s leader has spoken out about the news, claiming that he was betrayed and denouncing his purported new leader as an infidel.
    He said this in an audio message, his first in over one year, after IS on Tuesday published an interview with Sheikh Abu Musab al-Barnawi in its Al-Naba online weekly magazine in which he was introduced as Boko Haram’s new leader.
    In the interview, Barnawi talks about the history of jihad in this region but makes no clear reference to Shekau.
    Since March 2015, Barnawi has appeared in several videos distributed by Boko Haram, claiming responsibility for successive attacks, earning him the reputation of group spokesman, experts say.
    But in his message, Shekau takes aim at Barnawi, dismissing him as an infidel who condones living in an un-Islamic society without waging jihad.
    And in a tacit acknowledgement that his own position as leader may have been usurped, he speaks of being tricked by some of his followers.
    “They deceived me,” he said.
    “And now I find myself being forced to follow another character who practices disbelief,” he says, in a message which becomes increasingly more animated as he speaks.
    Berlin-based jihadist expert Yan St-Pierre of the Modern Security Consulting Group, who confirmed the voice in the audio recording as Shekau’s voice, said his message had laid bare divisions within the group.
    St-Pierre said the message suggested Shekau was trying to retain his base of support within Boko Haram without compromising the commitment to IS.
    “In the message, Shekau refers to Boko Haram under its previous name, but with some ISIS propaganda elements, as if he wanted to reassure its old combattants and base, without denying his commitment to (its leader Abu Bakr) al-Bagdadi,” he said.
    Speculation over the fate — and alleged disappearance — of Shekau has been rife in recent months: he was last seen in a YouTube video in March, looking weak, and saying: “For me, the end has come.”
    He became Boko Haram leader after Nigerian security forces killed the group’s founding chief Mohammed Yusuf in 2009, sparking an insurgency that has left 20,000 people dead and forced 2.6 million people to flee their homes.
    But the group has become fractured under his leadership, experts told AFP after the Barnawi interview was released.
    “Boko Haram has lost its prestige and become difficult to control (under Shekau). Today, Boko Haram is divided into several little groups,” St-Pierre said.
    And a Nigerian security analyst said he believed Shekau was still alive, but that IS may be seeking to clean up Boko Haram’s reputation among jihadists, by ousting a leader seen as disorganised and unreliable.
    Boko Haram has been pegged back by an aggressive fightback from the Nigerian military since January 2014, losing territory and its capacity to mount conventional attacks.
    Source: Punch News Papers
  • Choi! Nigerian U17 team wiped out as all but two players fail age test

    Choi! Nigerian U17 team wiped out as all but two players fail age test

    Found this hilarious report on Euro Sport. According to the report, 26 players of Nigeria’s Under 17 team passed the age test. Read the report below…

    “Nigerian football is in a state of shock after an astonishing 26
    players failed age tests carried out ahead of an Under-17 African Cup of
    Nations qualifier, according to a report.

    Africanfootball.com reports that a mandatory MRI screening carried out
    on 60 eligible players showed almost half were ineligible to play.






    The existing first XI was far more badly hit, however, with only two
    players passing the MRI test – an astonishing blow for a squad which won
    the FIFA U17 World Cup last year for a record fifth time.

    MRI tests have been used for several years to prevent age fraud in
    football, and are considered 99% accurate up to the age of 17.
    “It is a disaster,” a Nigerian official told the website.

    “Virtually the first team the coaches have been working on have been
    disqualified. It’s a serious problem.”

    The players who failed the tests have now left the training camp in
    Abuja, where they were staying ahead of Saturday’s Cup of Nations U17
    qualifying match against Niger.

    “Several of the players were in tears and total shock when the final
    results came through,” adds Samm Audu’s report on Africanfootball.com.

    “Among those who flung the age test was a star striker, who came through
    the national U15 team and has been outstanding in training leading up
    to Saturday’s AFCON qualifier.

    “Another promising player disqualified only recently forced his way into
    the starting XI of coach Manu Garba’s team after a late call-up.”

    It’s not the first time that age fraud has been discovered in the
    Nigerian youth system: back in 1989 the nation’s youth teams were banned
    for two years for faking players’ birth dates at the 1988 Olympics, for
    example.

    It did not stop after that, however.

    In 2010 former Nigerian FA president Anthony Kojo Williams told the BBC:
    “We use over-age players for junior championships, I know that. Why not
    say it? It’s the truth. We always cheat. It’s a fact. When you cheat,
    you deprive the young stars that are supposed to play in these
    competitions their rights.

    Source: Eurosports/Africanfootball.com/Linda Ikeji





  • Photos: Pres. Buhari inaugurates Governing Council & Board of Trustees for the cleanup of the Niger Delta

    Photos: Pres. Buhari inaugurates Governing Council & Board of Trustees for the cleanup of the Niger Delta

    Pres. Buhari today inaugurated the Governing Council and Board of
    Trustees for the Implementation of the United Nations Environment
    Programme UNEP, at the state house Abuja today August 4th. More photos
    after the cut.

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