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Monday, 16 September 2013

Andrea Giaccaglia shows off hot bikini body

Ghanaian Andrea Manuela Giaccaglia is Banky W's rumoured boo. Though the two have not been seen in public since July. Nice body!

Wande Coal throws money into the crowd at Davido's O2 concert


Heard Wande Coal and his crew threw 50 and 20 pound notes into the crowd from their VIP seats at Davido's concert last night.

IG of Police kisses his new wife on their wedding day

Inspector General of Police Mohammed Abubakar married Zarah Bunu in a 3-day wedding carnival that started last week Thursday and ended on Saturday. Seen above kissing Zarah  after tying the knot in Abuja. Is she going through her phone while being kissed? Lol

Kcee performed at the wedding. See the photos below..




GOV. OBI RECEIVES APGA'S "MOST FAITHFUL PARTY MAN OF OUR TIME" AWARD'



His Excellency, Anambra State Governor Peter Obi has received APGA's most faithful party man of our time award.

Presenting the award, the National Chairman of APGA, Chief Victor Umeh said the honour was well deserved and recalled that the Governor had remained faithful to the party and had continued to fight relentlessly its progress and growth.

Chief Umeh noted that the Governor was able to transform and elevate the state to a pride of place because of prudent and transparent management of available resources.

He expressed confidence that APGA flag-bearer in the coming governorship election, Dr. William Obiano and his deputy, Dr. Nkem Okeke would build on the strong foundations already laid.

Earlier, a stakeholder in the party and former Deputy Governor of Anambra State, Dr. Okey Ude said the award was in recognition of Obi’s travails in politics, after which he remained in APGA, even when forces that be wanted him to leave the party.

He recalled how he brought pride to APGA by being the first governor to come in through the court, back from impeachment and to go for tenure interpretation that led to the staggering of the elections, among other achievements.

Responding, Governor Obi, thanked them for the gesture and assured that he would remain in APGA as long as he remained in politics.

He expressed satisfaction that the state had become viable and a reference point in the country with enough potential to attain greater heights under Dr. Obiano and Dr. Okeke.

The Governor urged people of the State to be wary of desperate politicians who he said might attempt to use material wealth to mortgage the state.

In his remarks, Dr. Obiano said he would work hard to sustain the tempo of development in all sectors to further elevate the state to higher level.- SOURCE: DAILY POST

Sunday, 15 September 2013

LORD LUGARD CREATED NIGERIA TO LAST FOR 100 YEARS ONLY -IBB

LORD LUGARD CREATED NIGERIA TO LAST FOR 100 YEARS ONLY -IBB

From former military President, Ibrahim Babangida came a shocker yesterday when he revealed that Lord Lugard created Nigeria to last for only a 100 years.
The self-acclaimed Evil Genius said this in Lagos yesterday September 13, 2013 at the presentation of 2 books in honor of foreign affairs minister during his regim, Bolaji Akinyemi.
Speaking yesterday Babangida had said “As Nigerians, we are aware of the great doubts that have been cast about what 2014 portends for the continuing existence of our nation. I am aware that Nigerians have taken great umbrage at these predictions. Even Lord Lugard who founded what has been called Nigeria gave it a life-span of 100 years.
I regard it as a challenge to our intelligence to ensure that these portends and prophesies do not become self-fulfilling.
“We should engage these predictions on an intellectual level, testing whether the facts justify the conclusions.
“But on a practical and public policy level, we must import honesty into our public policy assessment. First, we must identify the problems that need to be addressed. Secondly, we must address these problems honestly. Thirdly, we must identify the most current and the most appropriate mechanism for addressing these issues.
“Let me make this clear. My position is not dictated by the fact that foreigners are making these predictions. We don’t even need foreigner sources as a reference point. The Nigerian media is awash with alarming news about our problems.
“My position is dictated by my conviction that Nigeria is precious enough to be saved. It deserves an investment of our time and resources to make Project Nigeria a success. But the starting point has to be an admission that we need to fix things.”
Babangida also stated that mistakes of past administrations are putting pressure on the country today though he refused to identify the mistakes or the past administrations that made them.
Said he “Some of the mistakes of the past have now come to haunt us. But let me make one thing clear. Not all these mistakes were made out of callousness or bad faith or malice.
“Most people in office do their best. They act to the best of their ability. Unless we think that our leaders have divine ability, we have to admit that even with all the best of their abilities and even with the best faith and with the best of all intentions, human beings will still make mistakes,” In his own comments, Professor Akinyemi called for a national dialogue saying “Zoning, federal character, rotation, marginalization of the brightest and the best will only make the much prophesied collapse of Nigeria in 2014 a self- fulfilling prophecy.
We cannot build a nation on a system that takes care of the few while condemning the many to penury. A system that cannot take care of the many that are poor cannot save the few who are rich.”
SOURCE : myemag

From former military President, Ibrahim Babangida came a shocker yesterday when he revealed that Lord Lugard created Nigeria to last for only a 100 years.
The self-acclaimed Evil Genius said this in Lagos yesterday September 13, 2013 at the presentation of 2 books in honor of foreign affairs minister during his regim, Bolaji Akinyemi.
Speaking yesterday Babangida had said “As Nigerians, we are aware of the great doubts that have been cast about what 2014 portends for the continuing existence of our nation. I am aware that Nigerians have taken great umbrage at these predictions. Even Lord Lugard who founded what has been called Nigeria gave it a life-span of 100 years.
I regard it as a challenge to our intelligence to ensure that these portends and prophesies do not become self-fulfilling.
“We should engage these predictions on an intellectual level, testing whether the facts justify the conclusions.
“But on a practical and public policy level, we must import honesty into our public policy assessment. First, we must identify the problems that need to be addressed. Secondly, we must address these problems honestly. Thirdly, we must identify the most current and the most appropriate mechanism for addressing these issues.
“Let me make this clear. My position is not dictated by the fact that foreigners are making these predictions. We don’t even need foreigner sources as a reference point. The Nigerian media is awash with alarming news about our problems.
“My position is dictated by my conviction that Nigeria is precious enough to be saved. It deserves an investment of our time and resources to make Project Nigeria a success. But the starting point has to be an admission that we need to fix things.”
Babangida also stated that mistakes of past administrations are putting pressure on the country today though he refused to identify the mistakes or the past administrations that made them.
Said he “Some of the mistakes of the past have now come to haunt us. But let me make one thing clear. Not all these mistakes were made out of callousness or bad faith or malice.
“Most people in office do their best. They act to the best of their ability. Unless we think that our leaders have divine ability, we have to admit that even with all the best of their abilities and even with the best faith and with the best of all intentions, human beings will still make mistakes,” In his own comments, Professor Akinyemi called for a national dialogue saying “Zoning, federal character, rotation, marginalization of the brightest and the best will only make the much prophesied collapse of Nigeria in 2014 a self- fulfilling prophecy.
We cannot build a nation on a system that takes care of the few while condemning the many to penury. A system that cannot take care of the many that are poor cannot save the few who are rich.”
SOURCE : myemag

Best Thing Bey Never Had


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When you're Beyoncé, every man fantasizes about you... even your ex. Beyoncé's alleged first love, ex-boyfriend Lyndell Locke, says that he cheated on Beyoncé and wishes that he hadn't. He also says that she was shy, an outcast in school and that he didn't know that she sang for a long time. He comments on her beauty a lot, which seems shallow, and says that had he not cheated, that they'd still be together. Wishful thinking, bro. Your 15 minutes may just be up.

Zimbabwean Witch Arrested After Her Powers Failed To Make her Disappear


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Wow! Things happen in Africa o, most traditionalists blame the presence of religion as the source of regression in the continent, but they forget to mention that the absence of Christianity or Islam is the presence of the non-sense traditional religion of voodoo and witch crafty …

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Kenneth Okonkwo brags he can last for 24hrs in bed – Who wan try KO?


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Kenneth Okonkwo  finally addressed the long-standing rumor that he once had a fling with married Mercy Johnson. Kenneth Okonkwo says it’s not true. But first read what he had to say about his sexual prowess. The Nollywood pioneer told Entertainment Express:
“I am strong sexually for 24 hours. My wife knows that. Each time I have an affair with any lady, she goes out to tell her friends, and her friend will end up developing interest in me. So when I married my wife, I told her if she know what’s best for her she should not tell any of her female friends what we do behind closed doors or else she will lose me” Oh yeah? Lol. He continues “When I was growing up, women older than me were coming for me, right in front of my mother. These women taught me a lot of things. I started kissing at a very tender age because it was part of the things they were doing to me, and I loved it. Maybe that is why my lips are red. They taught me how to be with women. They would give me their body to play with so I grew up knowing a lot about what women want. Till today, when I am sleeping with a lady she has to cum before me. I enjoy sex more when the women have enjoyed themselves”
When Asked if he ever had anything to do with Mercy Johnson because of the chemistry between them in a lot of their romantic movies, which involved a lot of kissing, Kenneth Okonkwo replied…
“That is funny, and do you know why? Before Mercy was born, or should I say when she was still in kindergarten, I had already started kissing ladies in movies. So she met me still doing it. Why would her own be different? When you match her good acting skill and my exceptional skill, it comes out natural and people would end up saying is there something going on? Mercy is like a younger sister to me. I am close to her and her husband so it makes me laugh when anybody talks about Mercy and myself in anyway. There can never be a fling between a brother and a sister. We are only professional colleagues.

Netherlands close 8 prisons due to lack of criminals



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As prison populations surge in the UK, with overcrowded cells and repeat offenders, the opposite is happening in the Netherlands.
The country is actually to close eight prisons because of a lack of criminals, the Dutch justice ministry has announced.
Declining crime rates in the Netherlands mean that although the country has the capacity for 14,000 prisoners, there are only 12,000 detainees, reported the nrc.nl.
The decrease is expected to continue, the ministry said, with Deputy justice minister Nebahat Albayrak saying that natural redundancy and other measures should counter any forced lay-offs.
A report last year on prison overcrowding said that surging populations undermined the rehabilitation of prisoners and risked increasing reoffending in the future.
The Criminal Justice Alliance (CJA), which represents more than 60 organisations, called for the government to urgently limit “the unnecessary use of prison, ensuring it is reserved for serious, persistent and violent offenders for whom no alternative sanction is appropriate”.
It came after Chief Inspector of Prisons Nick Hardwick said the rising pressure on prisons from budget cuts and increasing numbers cannot go on indefinitely.
Read more: Huffington post
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Judging 'controversy' can't steal Floyd Mayweather's thunder in lopsided win over Canelo Alvarez

















 Not everyone goes home from an evening in Vegas $8,000 in profit but Cynthia J. Ross did just that on Saturday night. And even though Ross, a ringside judge, pocketed approximately 5,000 times less than Floyd Mayweather, it is hard to argue that she deserved a cent of it.
While every pay-per-view customer around the world, every fan at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, both Mayweather and his opponent, Canelo Alvarez, and even the guy with the wonky eyesight squinting from the nosebleed section saw that this was one of the biggest blowouts in recent boxing history, a lady with one of the best seats in the house missed it.
Ross scored the contest, if you can call it that, as a 114-114 draw, handing six rounds to each fighter. To all other witnesses, it seemed like the Mexican youngster barely landed six convincing punches, let alone did enough meaningful work to deserve a judge's nod.
In Ross' defense … (crickets).
Horrendous judging does nothing for the credibility of boxing and her reported paycheck of $8,000 should at least demand a certain level of competence. Mayweather's response when the decision was announced – "What the [expletive] is that?" said it all. Of course, boxers are routinely able to delude themselves over the actual veracity of the decision-making but there should have been no confusion here.
"It was so one-sided," boxing legend Bernard Hopkins said. "I don't care who it is, when it is not right, it is not right. I don't know where it came from."
 Just as Mayweather knew that he had convincingly won just about every round, so too was Alvarez well aware of how badly he had been beaten. The 23-year-old's corner even told him at the midway point that he needed to win every round from that stage onwards, evidence that they believed he had been shut out until then. 
Even the cards of Dave Moretti (116-112 to Mayweather) and Craig Metcalfe (117-111) left something to be desired. Yahoo Sports' Kevin Iole scored it 120-108, while all three Showtime television experts gave Alvarez no more than two rounds. 
The official statistics showed that Mayweather landed a total of 232 punches, compared to 117 for Alvarez. He was especially dominant with the jab, connecting with 139 to 44.
"He was simply too good," Alvarez conceded after the fight.
That sentiment was obvious to everyone except Ross, who incredibly gave Alvarez rounds 1, 3, 8, 9, 11 and 12 was also one of the judges that gave Timothy Bradley a laughable decision over Manny Pacquiao last June. 
Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer was furious that boxing's biggest fight of the year was tainted by such ludicrous judging. Ross was appointed by the Nevada State Athletic Commission, which selects all judges for fights within its jurisdiction.
"The whole world was watching and obviously that scorecard was a disgrace," Schaefer said. "How that judge could be appointed after the decision of Bradley and Pacquiao is not a question I can answer. How can that happen? Is it going to happen again?"
For his part, Mayweather took the high road (sort of) when asked about the judging controversy.

"The best commission in the world is the Nevada commission, so I’ll leave it in their hands," Mayweather said. "[Ross], I think, could be older. I believe it’s a woman, she could be kind of older."

Saturday, 14 September 2013

Alcohol, smoking rule night life at motor parks

A Lagos motor-park

In major cities and towns across the country, villages strategically located along highways, there are up to more than 3000 motor parks and joints in  which travellers eat, drink and smoke without mandatory closing time, from morning through the night till day break.

Licensing authorities at any level of government are not in place to regulate and control the establishment and activities of these kiosks, stores, drinking palours, joints, restaurants, open spaces with tables and chairs mounted to sell alcohol- all within a few blocks in some cases, around the neighbourhood or vicinity.

In the Lagos metropolis for example, these motor parks for both intra and inter-state travelling can be found at Ojota, Maza-Maza, Mile 2, Mile 12, Jibowu, Ojuelegba, Oshodi, Iyana-Iba, Iyana-Ipaja, Agege, Oworo, Sango-Otta, Abule-Egba and Ikotun.
A Lagos motor-park

A Lagos motor-park

Others are at Lekki, Obalende, CMS, Owode, Ikorodu, Epe, Volks, Ajah and other places with high concentration of people across Nigeria.

At most of these motor-parks and major bus stops, operators of the drinking spots are usually women and young girls. All sorts of alcoholic drinks are sold. From soft drinks to beer, stout, wines, brandy, gordon gin, chelsea, Bertola, illicit gin locally known as “ogogoro” in various components.

Cigarettes of different brands including Indian hemp (marijuana), cocaine, heroin are also not left out. Majority of the customers are bus and taxi drivers, tricycle operators, conductors, motor-cyle riders and Agberos when they want to cool down after running up and down extorting money from private commercial transporters.

In addition, there are numerous travellers,  day and night, boarding buses to different destinations in the East, West, South and North, and even to neigbbouring countries in the sub-West  African region.

Some people preferred night travels inspite of the danger involved as  armed robbers could disguise as genuine passengers only to pull out guns while on the journey. Armed robbers may operate on the highway, shooting and dispossessing passengers of their goods, luggages and money.

Before the journey commenced, travellers often waited for the night buses to load which could depart between 10pm and 12 midnight. They will relax at these joints to drink and eat before departure time.

Some of these inter-state bus drivers often consumed excessive liquor before hitting the road on a trip that could last for five, eight, twelve hours and above.

According to a traveller at Maza-Maza park going to Abuja, a lot of accidents are caused by reckless druken drivers. “There are no government guidelines  on alcohol consumption especially for commercial drivers in this country. The Police should crack down on the patrons and the bars around motor parks who sell alcohol indiscriminately.

“We don’t have restrictive time for sale of drinks and it’s particularly wrong for drivers to be under the influence of alcohol while driving. By this, they are putting the lives of passengers in grave danger.”

Reports have showed that thousands of Nigerians die annually on road accidents due to reckless driving. Moreover the government itself seems to lack a coherent alcohol policy.

Investigation by Saturday Vanguard showed that  many people  are against unlimited sale and use of alcohol by commercial transport operators, preferring a ban outright of alcohol sale in motor parks. The government has not found a way out of this to address the growing concern from the public on this  issue. “We are building a big problem ahead if we don’t really find a workable solution to alcohol-related road accidents in our country”, said Mr. Kennedy Tosin, a textile dealer, a frequent traveller.

“A minority of dealers in alcoholic drinks at motor parks are responsible for the carnage on our highways. A staggered closing hours for sale of drinks to commercial drivers will reduce the number of accidents on the roads. Varied hours can help and consumption pegged at tolerable limit,” he suggested.

According to Tosin, “if you allow people to drink more, they will drink more and that could lead to more antisocial behaviour, crime and more abuse of alcohol.”

He added: “A lot of people share this view. In a typical Friday night around motor parks thousands of people roll up to over 300  restaurants, bars, beer palours, disco clubs, licensed and unlicensed to sell alcohol. They serve drinks, chicken and fried meat from 5pm to as late as 5a.m. in some cases.”

It has been discovered that at times, violent crimes and kidnapping are hatched from these spots. Prostitution also flourished as women of easy virtue stayed around looking for customers who will take them home.

No wonder Police often raided such places in search of criminals who hang around these “dark spots”.

Some people, after spending time at the motor parks, proceed to night clubs in quest of more fun. It’s like having good time around the clock. Those without permanent places of abode, could move into nearby places with facilities for toilet and bathing to clean up and start another day afresh.

Some travellers are however compelled to stay very late at the motor parks which have also become transit zones for those who arrived a city late in the night without immediate connecting transportation to their eventual destination.

Truck and trailer drivers conveying haulage goods from the west to the north and East could stop at Ore, Oluku  junction, Sagamu, Ijebu-Ode to rest and re-fuel. In the course of the long journey, they make use of the entertainment facilities in the motor parks to relax, eat, drink and socialise within the environment.

So these motor parks provide ‘safe haven” for genuine travellers, “shelter” for travellers in transit, drinks and food for many, and hide outs for the criminally minded. Therefore, the good and the bad, often availed themselves with what the motor parks  can offer.

In the first half of 2013, about 1,397 persons were killed in road accidents in different parts of Nigeria. Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC Corps Marshal Osita Chidoka who disclosed this recently said that the frequency of these accidents were due to “non-compliance with traffic laws, especially overspeeding by motorists”, adding, “the current situation calls for urgent steps to deal with the menace of road traffic crashes.”

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