2Face released a press statement where he relaunched his brand and name. It read:
I am pleased to officially announce that Nigeria's biggest act, 2Face Idibia has relaunched and rebranded his brand and will henceforth wish to be known as 2BABA!
Aside this, 2Baba will also very soon, release a new single featuring Phyno and titled "CODED TINZ"!
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Kate Moss's little sister, Lottie Moss turned 18 yesterday and went all out to make sure it was a night to remember with this eye-popping sheer outfit that showed her bra and underwear at Wyld bar at W London. More photos after the cut...
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Former Super Eagles captain Austin Jay-Jay Okocha has said that Nigeria performed poorly at the just concluded Glo-CAF Awards because no Nigerian player is good enough to be named African Footballer of the Year.
Okocha told journalists at the event in Abuja that Nigerian football had gone down drastically.
According to him, the country now ranks a distant 66 in the world and 14 in Africa, adding that the results posted recently by Nigerian teams and clubs in Africa have not been very encouraging.
The former Bolton Wanderers captain said the country must go back to the basics and accept that it is no longer ranked among the giants of African football.
He explained that doing that would not only help the country to not only rise up the world football rankings, but also to start preparations for the 2017 Cup of Nations and the 2018 World Cup respectively on time.
He said, “I don’t think any of our players at this moment deserve to be there because we have struggling this time around. We must try to work hard to make sure that we will have one person in contention next time. Honestly speaking we are going through a rough period, but there is nothing to be ashamed of.
“We all need to battle and make sure we return to where we really belong. We have signs that could suggest that we may qualify for Gabon, but we must work had to see it work out by acknowledging that first of all we are not doing very well, so we have to humble ourselves by starting afresh.
“Once we accept our faith at the moment, I think there will be a fresh beginning for us.
“Deservingly, we are at our current ratings because our results have not been very encouraging. We just need to accept it and then fight our way back. I have no fear about the Super Eagles qualification for Gabon 2017. You know that football knows no small or big country this time around.
“But we must first admit our that our current form is not that good, so that we can begin to put certain measures tat will return us to where we should be by first seeking to qualify for the nations cup. I believe that Sunday Oliseh will give us the ticket for Gabon.”
Scott Disick is taking his "casual" relationship with his new lady Lina Sandberg out of the shadows and throwing some subtle shade at his ex-girlfriend in the process.
Kourtney Kardashian's former boyfriend and the Swedish model were spotted leaving the Polo Lounge together in Beverly Hill. Situated inside the A-list Beverly Hills Hotel, the restaurant is frequented by some of Hollywood's biggest names, including the mother of his 3 children.
"It's very telling he took Lina to the Polo Lounge," a source told E! News. "Aside from the fact it's very public, it's somewhere Kourtney always goes for lunch, both on her own and with the kids. She's there a lot."
Could this just be a simple coincidence? Not likely.
"I would say he's sending her a message," the source added.
A former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of pursuing a selective war against corruption and ignoring the rule of law.
According to Okupe, recent developments including the arrest of the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, is making the President to lose respect.
“Buhari is respected but with the hounding of opposition members, he is losing respect in the eyes of the international community. This selective probe is eroding his integrity,” He told our correspondent in a telephone interview.
Okupe condemned Metuh’s detention, insisting that the PDP sourced and utilised its campaign funds the same way the All Progressives Congress did.
He said, “The Federal Government should not try to dabble into or control the finances of the PDP. The way and manner the ruling party is undertaking its selective probe by hounding opposition leaders is unbecoming and very disheartening.
“Party finances are not the business of the government. The former National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, cannot deny that he didn’t collect money for campaigns during the last elections.
“Why is the Federal Government not asking questions on the sources of the APC’s campaign funds? The way the PDP spent billions of naira to fund its campaigns in the media was the same way the APC did theirs? Where did the APC get its campaign funds from? The opposition must be given the liberty to thrive.”
Reacting to an allegation that a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, benefited from the $2.1bn arms funds, Okupe said the former minister merely provided a service to the PDP during the electioneering and should not be questioned.
Okupe urged the President to be tolerant of criticism even as he condemned a statement credited to the National Chairman of the APC, John Odigie-Oyegun, in which the APC chair asked Nigerians not to abuse Buhari.
He advised Buhari to emulate Jonathan who he said was insulted by many leaders of the opposition but never retaliated.
Fani-Kayode had said on Wednesday that the All Progressives Congress spent more than the Peoples Democratic Party which was in power during the last general elections.
Fani-Kayode, who was the spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation, made the claim while reacting to the probe of some key officials of the PDP by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.
He said, “No election campaign anywhere in the world, including that of President Buhari was run with just words, goodwill, grass and pebbles and neither were we given free campaign adverts or airtime. All these things were run and paid for with large sums of money.
“This is especially so with publicity and media because that was the lifeblood of the various campaigns. I repeat, there is nothing that we did in the campaign organisation or that my directorate did that Lai Mohammed, Buhari and the APC did not do in theirs.
‘As a matter of fact, they spent far more than we did but I have no idea where they got their money and whether they were private or public funds.”
The ex-minister also denied reports that he collected N1.7bn from the embattled former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.
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A mother died of an apparent heroin overdose in front of her seven-month-old daughter while inside the baby’s hospital room. Nearby the girl’s father was found unconscious after he too took the drug while visiting.
The death of Mary Ann Landers has shocked the small town of Trinity, Alabama, where she and her husband where known as doting church-going parents.
Just hours before the 32-year-old died on Wednesday the couple had taken to Facebook to update the progress of their daughter who had undergone surgery.
The mother was later found slumped on the floor at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Centre and her husband Wesley Landers was discovered unconscious in nearby room.
He was found with a heroin syringe in his arm and revived with Narcan. Another two syringes were nearby on the bathroom counter, documents state.The father has since been arrested and faces charges of possession of drugs, carrying a concealed weapon, having weapons while under disability and possessing drug abuse instruments.
A judge ruled for his bond to be set at $500,000 (£344,000) bond.“It just goes to show you how strong the grip is of drugs,” said Hamilton County Coroner Dr Lakshmi Kode Sammarco.She added that in just the last two weeks, her office has investigated more than 20 overdose related deaths.
“There is just something inherently wrong with bringing a child to a very specialised medical centre, one of the best in the world, and then making a really bad mistake and losing your own life,” Dr. Sammarco added.The Landers daughter had been admitted to the hospital in Cincinnati for a trachea reconstruction surgery.
"I've got to say now nothing really surprises me,” said Chief Tom Synan of the Hamilton County Heroin Coalition. "It is shocking where it happened, how it happened. You're right there with your child.”
Policemen attached to the Anti-Robbery Squad, State Department of Criminal Investigation, Yaba, have arrested three members of the Odua People’s Congress with two police guns.
The suspects ─ Gbadamosi Azeez, aka Agarasha; Salami Raufu, aka Orobo; and Waheed Oseni, aka Oosa ─ were apprehended with a pump-action rifle and an AK-47 rifle after a tip-off that the men were allegedly planning to rob Mushin residents during the Yuletide.
It was learnt that the police had first arrested Azeez, who allegedly used his tricycle to ferry ammunition for the group.
The suspect was said to have led the police team to Folarin Street, Mushin, on December 29, where Raufu and Oseni were arrested.
Azeez, an indigene of Ogun State, denied knowledge of the guns, saying he had been called by a leader of the OPC, Olori, to drive him to meet a friend.
He said, “I am a member of the OPC and I drive a tricycle. I have been doing this for two years now. Sometime in December, 2014, I had finished working and parked my tricycle by the roadside.
“Orobo (Raufu) called me on the telephone that our leader, Olori, wanted to see me. When I got to his house, he said I should start my tricycle and take him to Ojuwoye to meet a leader of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, called No Case.
“When we got there, he asked me to excuse them. After I returned, he said he was done and we could go back. It was last week Tuesday that the police suddenly arrested me and said the meeting between our leader and No Case was to sell police guns. I have never carried a gun and don’t know about it.”
It was learnt that Azeez, however, took police detectives to meet Raufu, who had called him on the night of the incident.
Raufu, while also claiming innocence, said he only acted on instructions.
The 32-year-old motorcycle rider said Olori had instructed him to contact Azeez so they could take a gun to No Case.
He said, “Olori took a gun inside the tricycle that night and we went to Ojuwoye, where he had a discussion with No Case. He took another gun into the tricycle, and when we arrived, he handed the guns to Oseni. I have never robbed or done anything with the guns. Olori, who is at large, can explain better.”
Oseni, a baker, said after he collected the guns, he kept them in his ceilings and didn’t do anything with them until the police came and asked for them.
The 29-year-old Oyo State indigene said he collected the guns because of the respect he had for his leader.
A police source said the Force got a tip-off that the men were planning to rob with the guns, adding that they also traded in ammunition.
The Deputy Police Public Relations Officer said he would get back, but he had yet to call back as of the time of filing this report.
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Seven female corps members serving in Ebonyi and Enugu states were raped while returning to their places of primary assignments after the Christmas holidays. According to reports, the commercial bus the Corp members were traveling in, was attacked by robbers dressed as Police officers at a spot on the Kaduna-Abuja highway last week Sunday January 3rd. The robbers after the attack stole their jewelry and other items.
The soldiers who were pardoned last year for various offences during the fight against Boko Haram, have all been posted to the North East to fight Boko Haram. All 3,032 of the soldiers rejected the posting adding that they were never really pardoned and re-integrated into the Army, rather, re-sentenced to fight with Boko Haram and endanger their lives.
The soldiers also claimed that they have been subjected to unimaginable ill treatment after their pardon. They also said that since they have been kicked out of the barracks they have not been paid for seven months hence have been living from hand to mouth.
The Commandant of NASI, Major General Kassim Aldulkareem, informed them that they have been assigned new riffles and should be ready for deployment to the fronts on 11 January, 2016.
However, the soldiers complained that they have not been fully re-instated into the Nigerian Army, because attempts by them to report to their units were rejected at their bases since they haven't been given their re-instatement letters.
It was gathered that, they cried, “We are not going! Give us re-instatement letters! You are sentencing us back to war,” among others. According to sources, the Commandant hurriedly left when the soldiers were becoming uncontrollable.
One of the soldiers who spoke to some newsmen said:
“Look at me; I have put in about 28 years of my life serving this country. I have seen action in Liberia; I have been to Rwanda, Sudan and even served overseas and we the Nigerian troops did very well and were decorated in some occasions.
“But, our experience in fighting to save our motherland is too sad a story for the outside world to know. We are not cowards. We held on for over four months facing Boko Haram.
“I just want to say that after the Army dismissed about 5,000 of us, 3032 of us were pardoned last August. Since that time, the Army Authority has treated us like prisoners of wars.
“We were told to assemble in Jaji on August 17, which we did. Then on August 19, the General Officer Commander, GOC, of 1st Infantry Division, Maj. Gen Adeniyi Oyebade gathered us and without prior noticed moved us to Nigerian Army training Centre, NATRAC, Kontogora. Some of us found ourselves there in bathroom slippers. We were just taken straight to the place. Then, without any additional clothes or uniform, we were subjected to what was clear punishment, not training for another three weeks.
“Still in the clothes we came, we were again relocated to 333 artillery Barracks, Njetilo, Maiduguri. We got nothing but constant insults as cowards. We were there without uniforms no arms. They just left us there and we were abused and told to assemble at every two hours through these days for another three weeks.
“In Jaji, we went through another round of punishment, not training. Yet, we were not given any letter to show that we are still serving soldiers.
“So when the Commandant came and said we were going back to the North East, without clearing our status, we felt we have been punished enough.” he said.
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Very interesting article by Reuben Abati. Read below...
“What a relief, my friend!”
“What are you relieved about?”
“It is this David Adeleke and Sophia Momodu soap opera”.
“I tell you. It is a perfect subject for a good home video. But what is your own?”
“No. Nothing. I am just relieved that the parties involved have agreed to let peace reign”
“This will be about the third time I would hear of that matter being resolved.”
“Well, I think the Momodus and the Adelekes should just spare us.
They should not forget there is a child involved. They have suddenly made Imade Adeleke, the most famous victim of Baby Mama-Baby Papa palaver in Nigeria. Both Davido and Sophia and their supporters’ clubs should please protect the baby, and not make her a poster child for that kind of subject.”
“But me, I am enjoying the story oh.”
“Of course, too many sadists in our land enjoy other people’s misery.”
“But really, it is a simple matter. “
“If it were that simple, the drama wouldn’t be so entertaining. “
“What Davido wants, Davido gets. His father is rich. He is a famous musician. Davido says he wants custody of his daughter.”
“By taking her away from her mother by force, and giving her to his half-sister, and threatening to travel out of the country with the baby for medicals, without the mother’s knowledge or consent? A seven-month old baby, abducted at two months?”
“He gave reasons for that. He is talking about the biological mother taking cannabis and risking his daughter’s life”
“Cannabis?”
“Yes. Igbo”
“You seriously mean marijuana?”
“Yes, gbana as in Indian hemp. And Davido provided a medical report to confirm his claim.”
“You saw the medical report. You are sure it is genuine? Because I understand Sophia Momodu’s lawyers have written the lab to produce the original report of proof of drug abuse.”
“This their matter sef.”
“That’s why it is the child that is most important. I don’t like the way they have turned the young girl into a trophy to be fought over in a blood sport. We are in the age of the internet. Twenty years from today, someone could print out these funny details from the internet memory bank. A father, grandfather and a half-sister fighting a mother and her family over a baby and making sordid claims: It is not a fight that can be easily won.”
“I hear Davido says the Momodus cannot force him. He may even release a special song to make his position clear: No be by force.”
“Nobody is forcing him and his family to marry Sophia Momodu. They are just saying custody should be mutually agreed upon.”
“And he and his family are saying they want their daughter properly brought up. They too have a point. You should not take sides.”
“Ok. He is talking about Marijuana. When he was head over heels in love with the Momodu girl, he didn’t smell marijuana? I am sure if he was given Marijuana before he was allowed to inhale, he would willingly exhale?
“He insists he was just 21 years old. And that he was seduced by a full-grown woman who took advantage of his youth and innocence.”
“Innocence, indeed. Was he raped? Did he not have a relationship with her, and did he not showcase her everywhere? He was 21. If he could be tricked at 21, then he should live with the consequences. “
“You are taking sides. I know why. You are Dele Momodu’s friend.”
“I am making uncommon sense. I am saying why is Davido asking for Sophia Momodu’s birth certificate after the fact? When the thing dey sweet them, they no dey remember say na the thing wey fowl chop, him go shit.”
“But you can’t force any man to marry a woman. Why the girl too go carry belle for him junior brother? She suppose know say Davido sef him na pikin. You no see as him papa they follow am, make dem no carry big yansh, big chest, fine face, cheat him son for Lagos”
“Him try well, well. But Davido, your boy, him no sabi use rubber?”
“That girl look like person wey go gree rubber?”
“You dey craze”
“My own is that fathers should just keep an eye on their sons and daughters. Let mothers also keep an eye on their daughters. To avoid stories that break the heart like this one, fine girls should just know that you can’t detain any man with a baby. Er beg.”
“The values of the younger generation are different.”
“Some strict parents will still never have allowed this to happen.”
“Some of these children are beyond control.”
“But we all suffer for it. This is why Ghanaian ladies insist that Nigerian men are unreliable. They say they use and dump women.”
“They say they…?”
“That’s what I hear.”
“They or we?”
“They.”
“You mean you have tried the Ghanaian market too? Tell your brother something about ECOWAS romance?”
“You are an incurable gossip. Ashawo, somebody.”
“But talking seriously, it won’t be fair to condemn Nigerian men. I think this is a thing about Nigerian musicians. Those people too like women. Young women, old women oh…any woman. Even the women musicians sef, any man wey stand well… fiam”
“That is more important to them than their art? No wonder many of them sing such trashy songs”
“There is even one of them who has seven children from five women or so. And there is one they call Whizkid”
“Superkid?”
“Whatever. But there is this kid musician who also has a child from an older woman. There is this joke that when his parents heard, they quickly took charge of the situation, by telling the Baby Mama that while they would accept the baby, everyone could see that the Baby father is himself still a baby, too young to take care of another baby, not to talk of a grown woman. They pleaded that no woman should pakurumo..ko…”
“ Nice joke. I laughed. Him sef na pikin, he never grow finish to take care of pikin. The girl fled.”
“That’s why I say it is a simple matter. Davido should have consulted his seniors in this matter. That one that has seven children from five women did it so well, today all his Baby Mamas married or single, are friends.”
“Wow. That’s a real Baba of the matter. Who is he?”
“I can’t mention his name. He is happily married now to one of the Baby Mamas. I don’t want to be accused of disrespecting another man’s wife.”
“Let Davido and Sophia just make peace for their daughter’s sake. And when the matter is settled, Davido knows where to go for tutorials if he really wants to fish in this type of troubled waters.”
“But our musicians sha. They can fight?”
“Who again is fighting?”
“Olamide and Don Jazzy.”
“That face-off over awards at The Headies event? But they have apologized”
“No. You don’t get the point. Why should artistes or producers or label owners fight over awards? What I have seen is that our young artistes are obsessed with awards. They seem to be more interested in being given a plaque than developing their real work. It is this same problem with Nollywood actors. Any small award is treated as if it is the Nobel Prize.”
“I see that too. It is the Grammy award disease.”
“No true artist should work with an eye on winning a plaque. The best award is the acceptance of the market place, not by a group of biased judges. If you are good as an artist, you are good, nobody can take that away from you.”
“Quite true. But it helps to have some plaques on the wall, I must say.”
“How many of those musicians who were called the best new acts on the block in the 80s and early 90s are still making any impact today? When a work of art is good, it will be evergreen; when an artist is good, his talent will endure.”
“Some of these new kids are great though. World-class talents. In the last few years, there has been an explosion of real talent.”
“I want to hear more about talent. Great art. Not drama kings and queens, not Baby Mamas and Lab Reports.”
“You are just old-fashioned. Controversy is part of art. Life itself is about controversy. Controversy produces great art. In the world of artists, all things work out as raw material.”
“That’s why people insist artists are mad.”
“But it is not only artists that generate or attract controversy. Politicians do.”
“I know. Controversy is the soul of politics, but here it produces stress and oftentimes, tragedy.”
“I’ll give you one example.”
“Which is?”
“In Oyo State, Governor Abiola Ajimobi is trying to embarrass the Olubadan in Council by trying to determine how existing vacancies within the hierarchy are filled. He is introducing INEC guidelines to Ibadan Chieftaincy affairs!”
“How can he possibly do that?”
“He is asking for certificates of mental, physical and marital fitness before Ladoja and Balogun can fill the Otun Olubadan and Osi Olubadan vacancies.”
“Marital fitness?”
“When people ask for physical fitness, don’t you know it is all encompassing?”
“All that is politics. I am sure it will be amicably resolved. Ajimobi is smart enough to know that you don’t fight the traditional institution. Governors will come and go, the Olubadan is the owner of Ibadan”
“Don’t tell me. Go and tell Ajimobi”
“Don’t worry. He knows. He just dey make body. Body language, they call it.”
“But what is happening in Bayelsa is not body language oh. When the people of Southern Ijaw go to the polls tomorrow to determine who will be the next Governor of Bayelsa state, they won’t be joking; the state will be at war.”
“May be not real war; let’s say blood sport.”
“You are speaking grammar. I just hope the election won’t be inconclusive again.”
“It is a combat for political supremacy.”
“Put it like this: the outcome may determine the future of Bayelsa state.”
“No. Put it like this: the outcome will determine the future of the PDP.”
“You are quibbling.”
“Dickson is core Ijaw. Timipre Sylva is Nembe.”
“I don’t get it.”
“The mind of the core Ijaw voter will make the difference. We pray for peace.”
“I have an idea now. Yes. All things being equal.”
“That’s politics for you.”
“But there are other forces.”
“That’s why there is so much at stake, and a question of where the stakeholders stand.”
“I know. Stakeholders matter. They have just allowed MTN to buy Visafone.”
“Really? Is that a reward for the fine MTN is supposed to pay?”
“It is a business transaction, nothing about government.”
“Everything is about government. Has MTN paid its fine, before being allowed to take over a home-grown company?”
“We should study what happened. Why do Nigerians get licenses and approvals, run a business for a while and then sell to foreign interests? HiTV. Now Visafone. ”
“One glaring failure of local content!”
“Look, let’s discuss that after MTN must have paid the fine.”
“I hear they have sacked 2, 000 Nigerian workers at Visafone, already. They have taken over.”
“What?”
“Oh, yes.”
“Oh no”
A French slackliner, jumper and wingsuiter named Tancrede Melet, accidentally fell more than 100ft to his death while getting ready to perform with a hot air balloon on Tuesday January 5th. According to his colleagues, the tragic event which happened in Drome, France occurred while he was tightrope walking between two hot air balloons. He fell while being suspended at the basket at arm's length.
Busty Nollywood actress Cossy Ojiakor took to her IG to announce that she will be getting married sometime this year. Congrats to her in advance. See what she wrote...
New York - Adele's record-breaking album 25 has scored another feat - the highest US sales during a single year in a decade.
The British singer's album unsurprisingly was the top-selling album of 2015 and spent its sixth week at number one on the year's final chart released on Monday by Nielsen Music.
25 sold 7.44 million copies in the United States by the end of 31 December - the most in a year since R&B star Usher's album Confessions sold 7.98 million copies in 2004.
However, Usher's album came out in March while Adele managed the massive year-end tally despite releasing 25 on 20 November.
25, full of ballads that touch on heartache and childhood nostalgia, was Adele's first album in four years and benefited from massive pent-up demand. Her previous album, 21, was the top-selling album in the United States in both 2011 and 2012.
But 21 did not reach the sales of 25 in either year, showing the historic nature of Adele's latest work.
25, led by the single Hello, enjoyed the biggest debut week sales on record both in the United States and Adele's native Britain.
In a move that challenged the music industry's conventional wisdom about the need for instant online music, Adele did not make 25 available on streaming sites and still managed the huge sales through physical copies and digital downloads.
os Angeles - Scott Disick would have "killed himself" if he didn't have children.
The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star - who checked into rehab in October 2015 following the breakdown of his relationship with long-term girlfriend Kourtney Kardashian - is determined to turn his life around and "make it right" for the sake of Mason, six, Penelope, three, and Reign, 12 months.
Speaking to Kourtney, her mother Kris Jenner and her sisters Khloe Kardashian and Kim Kardashian West, he said: "It's like, it's just terrible but like if I didn't have those kids I would kill myself.
"But I have them and I'm gonna be here and I'm gonna make it right for them.
"You know I just hope somehow, not that I'm religious but God could give me a chance or us a chance at this or something because like I just know that I'll never have the happiness that I would have otherwise and it's been nice having you guys in my life for so long so it's weird to lose that many people that quick you know?''
Kourtney, 36, admitted she believes Scott's desire to change is genuine but thinks he "doesn't know how to get there".
In response, her 32-year-old former partner vowed to do his best to prove he has turned his back on his hard partying ways and is ready to be a committed father and partner to Kourtney.
In scenes which aired on the latest episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, he said: "I want to be able to be the man that you've always wanted. I could party I could go out every night I could do whatever, it's not the life that I really want.
"I know what I want and I may not get it but I know that I would literally hate myself for the rest of my life if I didn't at least try and I realise that if I don't make a change now like it'll never be able to be OK and it may not be but I'm damn well gonna try.
"I wanted you guys to know that and I wanted to see you guys and I just love you all and miss you guys so much you know?"
Khloe, Kris and Kim all reassured Scott: "We love you too."
He thanked them and then left.
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Jaden Smith has pushed the envelopes once again as he has been named the face of Louis Vuitton Spring/Summer Womenswear 2016 campaign..Louis Vuitton's creative director Nicolas Ghesquière unveiled his latest spring-summer 2016 women’s ad campaign on Instagram in which Jaden is seen wearing a skirt for the ad.
Renowned South African Archbishop, Desmond Tutu's daughter,Canon Mpho Tutu has married her longtime lesbian lover, Professor van Furth,in Netherlands.It is the second marriage for both. The wedding will be celebrated in Cape Town in May 2016.
“The couple are very grateful to their families and friends for their love and support‚” the family said in a brief statement.
Furth is a professor in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Vrije University in Amsterdam and Tutu is currently the executive director of the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation.
Canon Tutu, the youngest daughter of Desmond and Leah Tutu, was married to Joseph Burris. They had two daughters, Nyaniso and Onalenna.She is an ordained Episcopal priest.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu who promotes gay rights ,has said the oppression of gay people around the world is the “new Apartheid.”
“I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place,”
“I would not worship a God who is homophobic and that is how deeply I feel about this.“I am as passionate about this campaign as I ever was about apartheid. For me, it is at the same level,” he added.
Zinedine Zidane has been unveiled as the new coach of Real Madrid. The club's president, Florentino Pérez, revealed the appointment at a press conference held at the Santiago Bernabéu otoday following the conclusion of the meeting of the club's Board of Directors:
"Good evening, first of all thank you to everyone for being here at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu. I appear before you to announce the agreements just reached by the Board of Directors of Real Madrid. Today we have made the difficult decision, particularly for me, to terminate the contract of Rafa Benítez as first-team coach.
I wish to underline that he is a great professional and a magnificent person, and I would like to take this opportunity to place on record my gratitude to him for his hard work and dedication during his months as coach of Real Madrid".
I would also like to announce that the Real Madrid Board of Directors have decided to name Zinedine Zidane as the new coach of the first team. There can be no doubt that Zidane is one of the game's all-time great figures. He knows better than anyone just what it means to lead the Real Madrid first-team squad. He's fully aware of how tough and at the same time how exciting this demanding position is. Furthermore, Zidane knows the players, as many of them lifted the club's tenth European Cup in Lisbon with him as assistant coach".
22-year-old Ganiu Amusa, was arrested by the Lagos State Police Command on Sunday for allegedly raping a five-year-old boy, in the Alakuko area of the state.
It was gathered that Thompson, who lived with his family on Oremeji Street, had complained about pains in his anus when his mother, Adenike Ejigbo, gave him a bath.
The boy was said to have tod his mum that Amusa had lured him to a place where he (Amusa) allegedly penetrated his anus. The mother was said to have raised the alarm and reported the matter at the Alakuko Police Division. But the case had been transferred to the State Department of Criminal Investigation, Yaba, on Monday for further investigation.
A police source said that the suspect had confessed to the crime.
He said:
“The boy had been complaining about pains in his anus to his mother. He had been having pains since the day the suspect penetrated his anus. That was how the mother reported the matter at the police station.
“The suspect did not deny the incident. He is blaming the devil. But the matter has been transferred to the SDCI, Yaba.”
The Lagos State Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Aliyu Giwa, confirmed the arrest.
Punch
An extremist suspected to be British and a young English-speaking boy have appeared in a new Islamic State propaganda video that appears to show the murder of five hostages accused of being UK spies.
The 11-minute footage, which was released by the Isis media wing, includes a “message for David Cameron”, read by a masked man with a British-sounding accent who threatens attacks in the UK.
Standing behind five kneeling hostages in orange jumpsuits, the unknown extremist repeatedly points a gun at the camera while claiming to be preparing an invasion of Isis fighters in Europe.
The video then appears to show the murder of the hostages, who allegedly “confess” to having completed reconnaissance missions that were sanctioned by British authorities.
The clip, which has not been independently authenticated, concludes with footage of a young child in military-style fatigues, who warns in English: “We are going to go kill the kafir [non-believers] over there.”
In a seemingly deliberate emulation of Isis videos featuring the British extremist Mohammed Emwazi, the footage focuses on one man wearing a balaclava and repeatedly addressing the prime minister directly.
Gesticulating in a manner similar to that used by Emwazi, aka Jihadi John, the unnamed terrorist repeatedly waves a gun at the camera as he references British airstrikes in Syria.
On Sunday, UK security agencies began the hunt for what appears to be a Briton in the Isis video.
British investigators do not yet know the identity of the man taunting Cameron and making threats directed against the UK. They saw the video for the first time along with the rest of the world.
A Foreign Office spokesman said the video was “Daesh propaganda”, using another name for the terror group, and added that the government was examining its content.
Investigators have no way of authenticating the video but are working on the assumption that it is real. The man, in addition to delivering an anti-British tirade, gives the impression that he was also involved in the execution, but the footage may have been edited. He does not appear to have a regional or working-class accent.
The young boy in the video is not necessarily British and could easily be a Syrian or Iraqi who picked up some English.
The hostages, who are accused of being paid to gather information about Isis in Raqqa, Syria, are said to be aged between 25 and 40. The men are all labelled as murtad in the footage – meaning apostate in Arabic. They appear to ask for forgiveness and call for Muslims to return to the faith.
Ubi Muhammad Abdul Ghani, 26, and Ha’il Marwan Abdul Razaq, 40, are both described as cameramen. Faisal Hamud al-Ja’far and Umaar Hamud al-Ja’far, both 25, as well as Mahyar Mahmud al-Uthmaan, 31, are named as the three remaining hostages, who appear to be shot dead by Isis extremists.
Ghani appears to say in Arabic translated by the Guardian that he had agreed to do covert camera work, such as taking videos and stills, in the city that is now an Isis stronghold. The video, he said, had been used by the BBC and other media. The BBC declined to comment.
Regarding the appearance of an English-speaking child, the academic said: “There is, sadly, nothing strange about it – children are regularly used by Isis to execute alleged spies.”
The Guardian
&A man who had his penis ripped off in a horror accident in childhood is to lose his virginity to an "award winning" dominatrix.
Mohammed Abad from Edinburgh is to spend 'time' with Charlotte Rose in London after a dinner date this week.
Rose, a sexual freedom campaigner, offered to have sex with Mohammed after learning he had surgery to fit an 8-inch bionic penis which has only just begun working.
use his bionic penis now he's been offered sex for free
The 43-year-old was lucky to survive after he was run over in Huddersfield, in 1978, aged six - now he's excited for the moment he's going to have sex for the first time.
He said:
“I have waited long enough for this — it’ll be a great start to the new year. "My penis is working perfectly now so I just want to do it. "I’m really excited. I can’t wait for it to finally happen.”
Mr Abad first had surgery to fit the 8inch bionic penis in 2012 and it has now become fully functional.
Mr Abad first had surgery to fit the 8inch bionic penis in 2012 and it has now become fully functional.
The penis has two tubes which inflate when he presses a button on his testicle.
Rose who won British Erotic Award for Sex Worker of the Year in 2013 offered to have sex with Mohammed for free after learning about his plight from newspapers and the TV show Embarrassing Bodies.
The 35 year-old mum-of-two who starred on a Channel 4 series on prostitution called ‘Love For Sale’ alongside actor Rupert Everett has waved her usual £200-an-hour fee.
She said:
“I am so honoured that he chose me to take his virginity.
We plan to have a dinner date so we can get to know each other and then two hours of private time. I’m not charging him.”
Charlotte stood as an independent candidate in the Rochester and Strood by- election, added: “I’m happy to help him build up confidence.
“Hopefully he can then find a lovely lady to settle down with.”
It has been a rocky road to sexual awakening for Mr Abad who dreams of becoming a father one day.
Two years ago he married but neglected to tell his wife of his condition until their wedding night.
She left him last year after becoming tired of waiting.
UK Mirror
Waow! He was caught using her pics on his watsapp wall with a note that reads: "thanks for coming".
Politicians self get soft heart? Anyway congrats to Samuel Benedict Jumbo. She's pretty I must con
Free speech campaigners have hit back in the row over Donald Trump - by signing a petition that calls for him NOT to be banned from Britain.
The attempt on Parliament's website comes after Labour shadow minister Jack Dromey joined calls for the 'dangerous' demagogue to be banned under hate speech laws.
It claims banning Mr Trump, who owns two Scottish golf resorts, would be "illogical" and says: "We shouldn't be banning people for their opinions on domestic actions in a US political race that doesn't concern us."
But the 8,000-strong call to ban him was outstripped last night by 360,000 signatures (and counting) on an earlier bid to stop the Republican Presidential hopeful coming to Britain's shores .
Even at midnight more than 16,000 people an hour were signing the original petition and it had become the third-most popular of all time.
Source: UK Mirro
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This picture above is that of an Android Geminoid F, an eerily lifelike humanoid which stole the show at the World Robot Exhibition in Beijing this week.
Created by Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratory at Osaka University, Geminoid F was the star attraction as people crowded round her to have their picture taken and speak to the android.
Some people have even remarked that they found Geminoid F "sexy".
She previously found fame after becoming the first android film star - she co-starred in Japanese movie Sayonara, about the fall-out from a nuclear power plant meltdown.
With her realistic appearance, good looks and acting talent, you might think Geminoid F had it all - but some people, in particular her creators, are picky.
Kohei Ogawa, assistant professor at Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratory said there was still work to do on their living doll.
"Our final goal is creating some artificial intelligence by using this robot. "Most voice recognition systems do not work, especially in this kind of noisy environment. "In the future we're going to create some perfect AI system by using this robot
Kylie Jenner was spotted with her older sister, Kendall and bf Tyga, at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday in California
Investigators sorting through body parts from the flat raided by French police on Wednesday now believe Hasna Aitboulahcen, the woman who died there, was not the one wearing a suicide belt, a Police source said.
Headlines flashed around the world this week that Aitboulahcen had become Europe's first woman suicide bomber, after officials said they believed she had blown herself up at the scene of the raid in a northern Paris suburb.
One of the dead has been confirmed as Islamist militant Abaaoud. The other has yet to be identified.
"The initial findings from the special police indicated that it (the suicide belt wearer) was her," said the source. "But the skull we found on the pavement was not hers."
The fighting at the flat was so intense that not only were the police unable initially to identify the bodies, it took more than a day for investigators to establish that there had been three people and not two.
t's a few hours to the epic party at the #Smirnoffhouse. Do you have your invites yet? The #SmirnoffHouse will be the official launch party for the hottest DJ album ever to drop in Nigeria in the last three months of the year. Don’t miss the exclusive opportunity of partying with your favourite Nigerian celebs who will come out to support our very own unstoppable DJ Spinall at the #Smirnoffhouse tomorrow night.
This party is brought to you by Nigeria’s hottest DJ, the unstoppable DJ Spinall and Smirnoffhouse and it promises to be a most unforgettable party and remember, it’s strictly by invitation.
A few exclusive invites are still up for grabs; share the song you think must absolutely be played at your house party, re-gram this flier on Instagram or twitter using the #SmirnoffHouse hashtag and also tag @smirnoffng and you might be on your way to party experience that you won’t forget in a hurry.
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Well, you may want to listen to Nigeria’s Rap Diva, Eva on relationships. In one of those straight from the heart momentsshe opened up on Coke Tale, a segment of Coke Studio Season 3, Episode 3.It was truly vintage Eva as she spills it all out. Explaining that she’s done a lot of failing in the past, but that’s not something to dwell on - as it makes one get a better view ahead.
She cited failed relationship - something that resonates with girls - as one of those things that comes and goes. Giving a word of advice, she said: “You can't exactly be with the person you're supposed to be with, until you become the person you're supposed to be by yourself. Relationships are stupid sometimes, sometimes! But, I'm a lover, I love to love, I will love again, one day. Not today, right now, I'm loving only one person, and that's my dog: Frankie.
Even if you’ve lived in a hole these past weeks, you already know that Coke Studio is the new excitement on the music scene. Each episode offers much more than the riveting music, and one-of-a-kind performances. You get correctgist from your favourite artists.
This weekend, don’t miss Episode 6, for more Coke Tales and of course beautiful music from creative Mash Ups with Afro Di’ja joining Hernani Da Silva’ from Mozambique, Eva and Chameleon from Uganda, Olamide and Neyma from Mozambique, Flavour and Juliana from Uganda, and MI and Kenya’s Avril.
You can also give your favourite mash-ups a chance to get on the Coke Studio Africa album, by voting on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram with the hashtags #songnumber and #cokestudioafrica.
Coke Studio 3 is showing every Sunday on AIT at 6:00pm and Soundcity at 7.30PM, ONTV on Monday at 6.30pm, every Thursday on BCOS at 6:00pm and Nigezie on Friday at 7:00pm.
Source lindaikeji.blogspot.com
On Sunday night, Vivica Fox came for her ex 50cent by sharing an XXL magazine featuring him and Soulja Boy and implied 50 was gay and a "booty snatcher". After Soulja Boy slammed her, Vivica took to twitter to apologize to Soulja Boy for dragging him into the mix. Her tweets
Miley Cyrus poses completely naked backstage at her hosting gig for the MTV VMA Awards. The photo was released in the December 2015 issue of V Mag, which will soon hit newsstands.
