I Fasted For 10 Months To Become Gov – Amaechi.

He said, “As a government led by me, a government installed by Christ, if anybody tells you he installed me, tell him it is a lie. Tell him that I said I prayed for 10 months and I fasted from 6am to 6pm, calling on Christ to come down and Christ came down mightily and installed me as governor.

“That is why you can see that in the face of human effontery, I have been able to stand face to face with them and I say I have Christ in me.

“You must rise in that same spirit of having Christ in you and confront those who are confronting you. You must stand up for Christ because the Bible says ‘faith without work is dead.’

“We must not die. We must live and the way to live is to celebrate Christ and the way to celebrate Christ is to confront Satan and Satan is in different forms and shapes.

“If the police shoot at you, they are satanic. If government denies you your right to live, that government is satanic,” Amaechi added.

“All these you may want to attribute to political disagreement in Rivers State; but it is not true. It is simply because of those who lead us in Abuja; because the police is an establishment of the Federal Government and they have refused to curb the excesses of the police.

“Instead of the police to chase away criminals, they are shooting at innocent citizens. Don’t stop at praying. We knew we prayed, but as you pray, you must rise on your feet and confront the challenges of insecurity.
**I prayed for 10 months and I fasted from 6am to 6pm, calling on Christ to come down and Christ came down mightily and installed me.

The Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi has expressed that it was God that installed him as governor of Rivers state.

He said that "God, and not man, installed him as the state governor because he fasted and prayed for 10 months before he became the governor.

Amaechi said rather than chase criminals away from the state, the police had decided to shoot innocent citizens.

The governor, who spoke at Saint Vincent De Paul Catholic Church in Port Harcourt on Christmas day, said insecurity in the state was growing because the police had failed to do their job in an unbiased manner.

Maintaining that his government was installed by Jesus Christ, Amaechi urged the people to disregard those who claimed to be responsible for his emergence as the governor of the state.

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Rihanna Steps Out in Revealing Santa Costume[PHOTOS]

Rihanna revealed her sexy Santa costume on Monday. But by Tuesday, Riri’s idea of a Christmas celebration included roll ups and lip synching to Mariah Carey.

‘Lip synching to @mariahcarey Christmas album is my favorite thing to do at this kinda time!!! #MERRYCHRISTMAS,’ the 25-year-old singer shared on Instagram.
Christmas tradition: Rihanna shared this snap of of smoking a roll up whilst listening to Mariah Carey songs and wrapping presents

What’s wrong? Rihanna later shared this depressing holiday photo of her dressed as a reindeer, saying ‘And she gon’ shake it…’ – perhaps referring to the song She Gon Shake It (Like Red Nose)
Along with her caption was a photo of the Diamonds singer kneeling on the floor, clad in a large Tupac shirt as a blunt-like cigarette dangles from her red pout.
The star – whose eyes remained shut – appears to be wearing a metallic grill, and adding a festive touch, the Barbadian beauty donned a red and green elf-inspired headband.
The star multitasked during her musical session – seen holding a roll of scotch tape in her hand as a couple boxes sit on the floor in front of her, waiting to be wrapped.
A roll of Christmas-themed paper is also laying on the white couch behind her.

Leaving little to the imagination: Rihanna donned skimpy lingerie in a series of new pictures posted to Instagram on Monday
On Monday, Rihanna wore a scantily-clad ensemble to her friend Leandra’s Christmas-themed Lingerie Party at Priva Barbados Lounge and Night Club on Monday, adding on a shaggy St Nick coat upon leaving.
But the coat didn’t stay on for too long, as Rihanna opted to leave little to imagination in a series of pictures posted to Instagram earlier that day.
The Stay singer was wearing the same skimpy red nightie that featured sheer lace on the bust and a satin collar during the house party.
She paired the barely-there number with thigh-high tights and black booties whilst wearing her dark hair in cork-screw curls and complementing her negligee with red lipstick.

Saucy: The singer donned a skimpy red nightie that features sheer lace on the bust and a satin collar
In another, she kneels on a bed giggling, covering her face once again as a friend dressed as Santa lies beside her.
She is also seen kneeling on the same bed as she looks over her shoulders, a picture of a woman in a G-string visible on the wall behind.
Girl time: In another snap, she kneels on a bed giggling, covering her face once again as a friend dressed as Santa lies beside her
The singer is currently on vacation with her family in her homecountry of Barbados and also shared some pictures on Christmas Day with her family.
Wearing a reindeer antlers headband, Rihanna still chose a skimpy ensemble for the festive family day.
In the snaps, the curly haired songstress shows off her legs in a short sweater dress with a picture of slain rapper Tupac Shakur emblazoned on the front.

Family fun: Rihanna cuddled up to her family members in a series of festive snaps she posted on Instagram on Christmas Day

That’s not very festive: While her reindeer antlers are extremely Christmassy, Rihanna’s Tupac Shakur sweater dress doesn’t quite fit with the theme
Presents galore: Rihanna enjoyed opening presents with her family on Christmas Day
However, she sports a huge smile as she and her family enjoy the day. She needs all the rest she can get as she gears up to front French fashion line Balmain.
The singer, who has a hand in designing her own range of outfits for River Island, will be the face of label’s Spring 2014 range, which launches in January.

Warm Christmas: Rihanna is spending the holidays in Barbados with her family, pictured in an Instagram snap on Sunday

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A very scary event took place recently at Utak Street, off Nkemba Street, in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Three months ago, a busy working class single mum employed a 17-year-old girl to help take care of her 2-year-old daughter.

Recently, while the lady was engrossed with a TV programme, her daughter needed attention and she called the help more than three times and the help kept responding that she was in the toilet.

When it became unnecessarily too long, she tiptoed into the help’s room and opened the toilet door.

To her horror, she met the help squatting with blood all over the bathroom with a stillborn newly delivered baby hanging in-between her legs. She screamed and ran out of her apartment into the street.

The entire neighbourhood came out and it took the intervention of neighbours to calm her down. The neighbours also helped rushed the help to the hospital.

While in the hospital, she refused treatment and claimed she drank herbs and was given some to insert in her v**ina to force the baby out. The help said she was warned not to allow orthodox medical treatment.

When asked, the help explained that the pregnancy was six months old. Her employer said she didn’t know she was pregnant as she is a very slim girl and she thought that the small protruding tummy was just an evidence of good living with her. She was smart in discharge of her duties, so there was nothing to suspect.

The help was sent parking afterward.

Pictures of the stillborn baby are given below. WARNING: Viewer Discretion Is Advised.

 Source: LIB

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GEJ FOOD POISONING; Gambian Court Begins Trial of The Chef Who Served The Food

The trial has begun in the case of a Gambian chef which allegedly caused President Goodluck Jonathan to go through a bout of food poisoning after serving him contaminated food.

President Jonathan stayed at Coco Ocean, a five star hotel, during a 2-day state visit last month and was said to have been served with the food which was stale.

The case is being heard by a Gambian Magistrate Court at the Kanifing Municipal Council before which the chef of the hotel, Ayoub Aliris, is being charged with negligence.

According to Leadership reports; Jonathan was said to have been served with food that had been preserved for a long period, causing him food poisoning during his two-day state visit in Gambia in November 2013.

The Gambian police is said to have charged the chef of Coco Ocean Hotel, Ayoub Aliris, with negligence and food poisoning on Jonathan and his delegation.But Aliris denied the charge when he appeared before the Principal Magistrate, Sheriff Tabally.

 

According to the police charge sheet, Aliris was said to have unlawfully or negligently cooked prawns served to Jonathan and his entourage as a starter during a special lunch hosted in honour of the visiting Nigerian president.

 

Lawyer to the plaintiff, Edward Singhateh, was also informed at the court premises that his client, Aliris, was arrested again for the second time after his release from the police custody.

The plaintiff was said to be under the custody of the National Intelligence Agency, but was later transferred to the State Central Prison Mile Two.

Jonathan was caught in a glare of media publicity over a “stomach upset” he suffered and was forced to enter a hospital in London to seek medical attention.

A prosecution witness, Babucarr Gomez, also a cook at Coco Ocean, explained that a day after the lunch, he received a call from his boss informing him that there was an infection in the food served to the Nigerians.

Gomez, who said he was ordered by Aliris to prepare the food, said he also ate it and was “vomiting, experienced stomach ache and frequented the toilet.

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Moment Of Truths; GEJ Drags OBJ To Human Rights Commission

Certainly the last is yet to be heard in this season season of letters.President Goodluck Jonathan has submitted himself to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) yesterday for probe over criminal allegations against him by former president, Olusegun Obasanjo.

Obasanjo had written, an 18-page letter to Jonathan in which he accused the incumbent of incompetence, engaging in anti-party activities, ethnicism and training about 1,000 snipers ahead of the 2015 polls.

In his response, Jonathan denied these allegations and is now specifically inviting the rights commission to unravel the truth in the allegation that his government had begun training over 1,000 snipers to terminate his political opponents.

According to Vanguard reports; In a letter to the commission, President Jonathan is seeking for a thorough investigation of the allegations against him, touching on alleged human rights abuses.

The letter, signed by the Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Mohammed Adoke, SAN, on the directive of Jonathan, had already been submitted to NHRC.

The letter dated December 23, 2013 was submitted yesterday. Sources close to the Presidency told National Mirror that similar letters had been written to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

The two anti-graft agencies are to probe allegations of economic crimes and official corruption against the Jonathan’s administration as contained in Obasanjo’s letter.

Although, National Mirror could not get copies of the letters, a copy of Jonathan’s letter to NHRC confirmed yesterday that both the ICPC and the EFCC had also been directed to handle allegations touching on economic crimes.

In the memo signed by Adoke (SAN) and addressed to the Executive Secretary of the NHRC, Prof. Bem Angwe, the AGF requested the commission to investigate the allegations on the human rights violations contained on pages 9-10 of the letter dated December 2 written by former President Obasanjo to President Jonathan.

The memo with number HAGF/NHRC2013/Vol2/5 reads in part: “Re: Before it is too late: “May I draw your attention to the above and the attached State House memorandum dated December 23, 2013 in respect of the above subject matter.

“I am to request you to investigate the allegations bothering on the human rights violations contained on pages 9-10 of the latter dated 2nd December 2013, written by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, to President Goodluck Jonathan, attached to the memorandum under reference.

“In order to properly delineate the issues within your sphere of competence particularly as other issues raised in the letter are being investigated by appropriate agencies of government, I have decided to reproduce the relevant paragraphs below.

According to Adoke the paragraphs to be investigated by the commission are: “Allegations of keeping over 1,000 people on political watch list rather than criminal or security watch list and training snippets and other armed personnel secretly and clandestinely acquiring weapons to match for purposes like Abacha and training them where Abacha trained his own killers, if it is true, it cannot augur well for the initiator, the government and people of Nigeria. “Here again, there is lesson of his to learn from anybody who cares to learn from history.

Mr. President would always remember that he was elected to maintain security for all Nigerians for personal or political ambition or interest of anyone.

“The Yoruba race adage says ‘the man with whose head coconut is broken may not live to savour the taste of the succulent fruit’. Those who advise you to go hard on those who oppose you are your worst enemies.

“Democratic politics admits and is permissible of supporters and opponents. When the consequences come, those who have wrongly advised you will not be there to help carry the can. Egypt must teach some lessons. “Presidential assistance for a murderer to evade justice and presidential delegation to welcome him home can only be in bad taste generally but particularly to the family of the victim.

“Assisting criminals to evade justice cannot be part of the job of the presidency. Or, as it is viewed in some quarters, is he being recruited to do for you what he had done for Abacha in the past? Hopefully, he should have learnt his lesson.

Let us continue to watch,” the memo added. The Presidency had attached two exhibits to the letter including the original letter written by Obasanjo and the reply by President Jonathan.

Both letters were replete with accusations and counter- accusations, some of which were criminal. National Mirror gathered yesterday that the NHRC would invite the two dramatis personae in the crisis: former President Olusegun Obasanjo and President Jonathan to expatiate on the allegations contained in the two letters.

 

A source at the commission, who did not want his name mentioned, also said that those connected in the allegations would be invited to assist the rights commission by providing particulars to the allegations. The particulars, National Mirror learnt, would guide the commission to arrive at a just conclusion on the sensitive issue. Although the commission had acknowledged the letter, no formal step has so far been taken on it

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How 4 men kidnapped me at gun-point and left me in the bush yesterday – Ex-CAN president

Premium Times today spoke exclusively to former president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and former primate of the Anglican Church, Peter Akinola who was kidnapped yesterday at gun point and freed same day following a search party led by the Ogun governor, Ibikunle Amosun.

He revealed that the men took hostage of him and his driver as he was leaving his office along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

He said the four-men gang blocked his car, and pulled him and his driver out at gun point. One of the bandits then took over the steering wheel while another member pinned down the cleric and his driver at the back.
Two other gang members followed behind in a Toyota Primera car they brought for the operation.
“We could not even identify the road the bandits were taking us through as we were ordered to lie face down or else they would blow us up,” the former CAN leader said.
As Mr. Akinola and his driver were held to the ground, the car continued to navigate territories unknown to the clergyman and his driver.
Mr. Akinola believes the gunmen could have driven him and his driver around for about 100 kilometres before their eventual release.
As they drove along, the abductors began making demands for ransom, to be paid in dollars, Mr. Akinola said.
“As the unpleasant journey was on, the bandits requested ransom in dollars, threatening that failure to offer the foreign currency would attract death,” the retired prelate recalled. “But I told them am a retired pastor living in the village and that I don’t have money, that I live on pension, that I’ am building the centre with the help of friends around the world and that I don’t have money.”
Mr. Akinola said the gang then ransacked the vehicle and when they didn’t find any money, they, in disappointment, decided to release their captives.
“After about a 100-kilometer journey, they stopped and asked us to come down, in an area we don’t even know the terrain,” he said.
“The gang then asked us to go into different directions into the bush.
“I took to the right hand side,while my driver took to the left hand side, and we had to use our hands to clear the bush, while the gang later left with the car. I just kept praying for safety,” the cleric said.
He said some minutes later, he found himself on the main road and that as he was wondering about the “angel” that would take him home, a detachment of police officers arrived, firing gunshots.
“I  saw a police vehicle coming and there were gunshots, and the police team later came to rescue me from the spot,” Mr. Akinola said.
Mr. Akinola commended the police and the Ogun state governor for promptly swinging into action to rescue him and his driver.
“The police honestly impressed me, they did wonderfully well,” he said. “I have to praise them, and I appreciate the governor who left his work to the bush looking for us. It’s unprecedented for a governor to personally lead a team into the bush. He risked his life and yet he didn’t mind that. I’ am deeply touched and impressed.”
Mr. Akinola beamed with smiles for most of the time this interview lasted and his narrations were intermittently punctuated with praises to God.
The driver, Jonah Amodu, in his own narration, recalled that he was about to take off with his boss, when he noticed a strange car a distance away, with four men inside.
He said the driver of the car suddenly stopped with two gun-wielding men jumping  out.
He said he was ordered out of the driver’s seat while one of the men took over the steering of the primate’s Land Cruiser Jeep.
“They ordered me and my oga to lie face down at the back and immediately drove off,” Mr. Amodu said. “We didn’t even know where we were heading to. I was even hit with gun on my back as they asked us to cooperate with them.”
Mr. Amodu recalled that after the long unpleasant journey, the bandits at a point dropped them and asked him and his boss to take different directions into the bush, stating that, it was a place he could not even identify if taken to the area any other time.
“I trekked inside the bush, before luckily I got to a road, and then later located an Anglican Church in the area, where I narrated our plights to the church officials who immediately rose up to the challenges,contacting relevant personalities before our final rescue,” he said.

It’s a true Christmas miracle

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If younger generation nudists think they can overthrow Afrocandy, they should think again. That's according to her though. They've got nothing on her and to prove it she shared sexy  Christmas photos and a nude photo.

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Gay Man Burnt Alive By Anti-homosexual mob in Uganda (Viewer Discretion)

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Uganda Anti Homosexuality bill. Death opposed but life imprisonment just fine.

It seems the ongoing struggle to bring awareness to the plight of same sex persons in the African region is increasingly being fraught with increased disarray.

Point in case the latest photo to make social media rounds, this time first appearing on imgur of that of what the posting individual has termed gay person burned alive by anti gay mob in Uganda.

The harrowing image involves that of an individual, one assumes a gay person who has literally been burned alive. How or why the circumstances have come to be are not known. As the deceased lies forlorn near railway tracks, onlookers, including children look on, one imagines resigned, elated that yet another individual has been ‘appropriately punished’ for having gone against the grain of society. 

The image comes off the back of a purported video that made the rounds last week including that of two gay men beaten to death by an angry mob with planks of wood. In that video image, police are seen abiding by the crowd as they continually to mercilessly beat the two men to death. In the background an ambulance is sent back on its way.

Told recently, Akinyi Ocholla, a self confessed lesbian from Nairobi who works for Minority Women in Action and is a member of the International Gay and Lesbian Association: ”Being gay in this country isn’t exactly easy. It’s not as bad as in Uganda, but it’s still not easy. But you can actually pass. If you don’t make too much noise or stand out too much, then you can live comfortably — that is, until the neighborhood finds out. Then you can’t really know what’s going to happen.”

Over the weekend Uganga lawmakers passed new laws in relation to those persons engaging in same sex. Tells the BBC:  Uganda’s parliament has passed a bill to toughen the punishment for homosexual acts to include life imprisonment in some cases.

The anti-homosexuality bill also makes it a crime punishable by a prison sentence not to report gay people.

The prime minister opposed the vote, saying not enough MPs were present.

May we ask when will these atrocities stop once and for all and why do they continue to happen and why to date has the United Nations allowed such action to persist? Surely it must be time to put a stop to such inappropriate treatment of other human beings, even if their lifestyles are not condoned by various cultural or religious imperatives in the region. Which begs the question why they are so violently condemned in the first place

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Nigeria's former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has described the late Nelson Mandela as a man who raised the beacon of human struggle to lofty heights of nobility.
Obasanjo, who addressed journalists in his home in Abeokuta on Friday, said Mandela's life was an example of what people should all aspire for.
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"In all situations, he lived nobly and died in nobility. Let us bear in mind that we all have the opportunity to act nobly in whatever position we find ourselves," he added.
He described Mandela's death as a monumental loss to all human races and called on all to emulate the life and times of the great leader.

"His demise is a loss to his family who will miss a caring patriarch; the people of South Africa who will miss a guide, Africa who will miss a role model and the world who will miss a leader.
"When we teach our children lessons for tomorrow, let us remember lessons Mandela gave the world in forgiveness and forbearance,'' Obasanjo said.

Obasanjo, who eulogising Mandela, recalled the times when he was voted to become South-Africa's post-apartheid president.
"During the first non-racial democratic elections in 1994, I was on election observation assignment in South Africa and was there for his campaign and when he cast his vote.

"He was devoid of bitterness or anger against anybody except the hated apartheid system.
"He went on to win the election and more importantly led South Africa to the extent that the country was able to cast aside its apartheid legacy and take its place in comity of nations.
"Certain that his task was completed, Mandela modestly refused to seek re-election after his first term in office as his presidency elapsed.

"I still recall his pragmatic words when he said to me 'Olu, show me a place in the world where a man of 80 years is running the affairs of his country.
"This, to me, reflects an unequalled sense of modesty for a man who spent 27 of the prime years of his life in prison for a just cause.

"Yet he still kept a calm and peaceful disposition to those who took away his freedom for all those years of his life,'' he explained.

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Wishing Our Readers A Merry Christmas!

I would like to wish you our readers a merry Christmas. Jesus is the expression of God's love - the reason for the season. Share the love with the world around you. Enjoy carefully. Stay alive! Happy Holidays.

Kemulch

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One of Nigeria’s biggest banks GT celebrated young Nigerians who are talented in their field/industry and also encourage them to do more.

The hashtag for the weekly post is #TuesdayTalent so every Tuesday a new talent in Nigeria is recognized (when will they recognize me?)

TWEETS ABOUT TOBBIE MAGUIRE AKA TCD

Past features has been on UCHE UGO, Atim Ukoh , Feyisope Akinyosoye, Enang Ukoh, TOYOSI FARIDA, DANIEL EMEKA, LAOLU BANJO and others.
So if you are out there and you are doing something great and spectacular maybe we don’t know but your friends know about you, let GT Bank recognize you and also showcase your work.

LAOLU’S WORK

TOYOSI FARIDA WORK

Happy holiday!!!

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Beyoncé Brings Sex to the Runway in 'Yoncé'[VIDEO 18+]

Singer and supermodels star in racy new clip

Beyoncé and a bevy of supermodels strut their stuff in the two-minute video for "Yoncé," one of the 17 new clips to appear on her surprise new eponymous visual album. However, even though the song's hook purrs, "Yoncé all on his mouth like liquor," Queen Bey never opens her mouth in the video, leaving that instead to her model friends – Chanel Iman, Joan Smalls and Jourdan Dunn.
The models takes turns writhing, groping and flaying their bodies for the camera while Yoncé licks a lollipop and caresses herself in a form-fitting bodysuit. About halfway through, Smalls takes a little lick off Beyoncé's bosom. It all ends, fittingly enough, on a runway – proving again that all the world is Yoncé's stage.
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Ricky Saiz, who directed the clip on a hot summer day in Brooklyn, said recently that he based the concept on George Michael's "Freedom! '90" video, which featured Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington and other top models of the day. "That was the drop-off video," he told the Cut."It was amazing. We wanted to do something more contemporary and a bit more street and, of course, use iconic black women."
He also discussed Beyoncé's nipple-emphasizing bodysuit. "Our stylist Karen Langley was incredible," he said. "When she brought out that Tom Ford for YSL molded bodysuit with the pierced nipples, I was like, 'No way that B is going to wear this.' And she did and looked incredible. She's open. I've never worked with anyone that is more willing to try new things.

Source: Rolling Stone

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The 5 Richest Entertainers in Nigeria And How They Make Millions [SEE]

The Nigerian music industry has become one of the most lucrative ventures in the country, a far cry from how it was in the past.

Musicians in the country now rake in the big bucks and make millions from performances and endorsements.

Ventures Africa, after presenting the list of Nigerian billionaires, has now compiled a list of the “5 Richest Contemporary Entertainers In Nigeria”

Here they are below:

2face
Born Innocent Idibia, the former member of the band, Plantashun Boyz, is among the richest artists in the industry. With two platinum records already behind him, Tuface (2Face) is speculated to be worth about 550 million naira ($3.47 million). He has had endorsement deals from companies such as Guinness, which earned him 20 million naira ($125,000) and Airtel, which earned him 22 million naira ($139,000).
He was also rumoured to have collected 30 million naira ($189,000) from the producers of the Phat Girls movie. Tuface has invested heavily in real estate and stocks, and made bug money from it. He once said his goal was to recover all the wealth taken from Africa.

D’banj
Apart from his music interests, D’banj has moved into other sectors. His interests include Koko Mansion, a TV reality show, Koko Lounge, an upscale hangout in Lagos and the UK, Koko Foundation, a charity, and Koko Mobile. There are also rumours that he is set to launch Koko Records. The bulk of his money comes from endorsements – his endorsement deal with Globacom telecommunications cost 70 million naira ($442,000).
He has a multi-million naira endorsement with energy drink Power Fist, a deal with the makers of the Virgin Colour soft drink and another huge deal with a popular jeweller. Another endorsement which runs into millions is with Chris Aire, with D’banj acting as the face of his watches.
He collects between 5 million naira ($31,500) and 7 million naira ($44,200) as performance fee for local gigs, and even bigger fees across the rest of Africa and in the US and the UK. Like his old boss, Don Jazzy, D’banj also bagged a recording deal with Kanye West’s G.O.O.D Music. D’banj once said, “I work hard so that money, awards, endorsements, bookings and kokolets chase me.”

Don Jazzy
Real name Michael Enebeli, Don Jazzy, is the founder of now defunct Mo’Hits and now runs Mavin Records. He is one of the most sought after producers in Nigeria. As a child he was a member of Good Morning Kids, a group created by his father.

He is known for his business dexterity, building Mo’Hits from scratch to become one of the biggest entertainment empires in the country. He recently signed a recording deal with Kanye West – a move that not only boosted his reputation as an entertainer, but also his wealth.

Psquare
Singing and dancing duo Peter and Paul Okoye won the KORA award for Best Africa Artiste in 2010, collecting a $1 million prize in the process. Shortly after, the duo got an endorsement deal with Globacom telecommunications worth about 240 million naira ($1.5 million) for four years. Their seven-city American tour in 2010 earned them a whopping $1m and have also built a house valued at 300 million naira ($1.9 million).

They own Rayfield Hotel, Jos, and two multi-million naira factories in the same city, where they built a multimillion naira bakery and sachet water companies for their parents. The bulk of their wealth comes from concerts, especially in Africa, where they charge about 2 million naira ($12,600) per show. They have sold over 14 million copies of their CDs since 2005.

Banky W
Banky W has become one of the richest entertainers in the industry, making the bulk of his wealth from gigs, where he charges between 2.5 million naira ($15,800) and 3 million naira ($19,000) per show and performs three to four times each week.
A brand ambassador of Estisalat, one of Nigeria’s telecommunications giants, he also featured in Coca Cola-Nigeria’s World Cup theme song and Microsoft’s Anti-cyber Crime Initiative. An entrepreneur, Banky W has invested heavily in various businesses and also doubles as a philanthropist, founding the Mr. Capable Foundation, where he provides tuition fees for indigent and brilliant students. He is also the force behind EME music which has, arguably, the Nigeria’s fastest rising artiste (Wizkid) under the label

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Top 5 Dating Tips for Both Men and Women

After interviewing gurus that counsel both men and women on dating, we noticed something that was quite curious. Some of their dating advice was actually gender-neutral and could be applied to both sexes. As we see it, good advice is good advice.
Here are the top five dating tips for both men and women:  

1. Be Open Minded: The number one rule we have heard from both sides of the fence is to go into every date with an open mind. Your ideal partner, based on your personal checklist, may be completely different from the person that you could be truly compatible with. Everyone has this warped sense of who their perfect partner should be, but when interviewing countless older couples who have been married for more than 50 years – their life partners were completely different from the person they initially imagined.
2. Don’t Research Before a First Date: In these days of Google and Facebook, it’s easy to be tempted to do a little research before you even go out on a first date. Don’t do it! You’ll get a false impression of the person, and can make strong judgments without even knowing him/her yet.
   
3. Don’t Bring Baggage: Avoid talking about old relationships, negative experiences, etc. Have those conversations only after several dates. There is little to gain by dwelling on the past.
   
4. Be Honest About Yourself: You can avoid specific topics early on, but don’t lie about things. Starting a relationship based on lies is never a good idea.
   
5. Leave on a High Note: Keep a first date short, and it’s always better to leave on a high note. Meeting for coffee or a meal is great, but don’t make long drawn out plans for another date – excuse yourself and say goodbye. Better to leave the person wanting more.

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Watch The Sex Scene in Miley Cyrus’ Video for “Adore You” To Be Released 26/12/2013

In her “We Can’t Stop” video, Miley Cyrus rolled around on a bed. In “Wrecking Ball,” she rode a wrecking ball nude. It looks like she’ll be combining bed rolling and nudity in her latest video, “Adore You,” which is set to debut this Thursday, December 26. Happy Boxing Day!



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Miley posted two previews of the “Adore You” video over the weekend on Instagram. Both clips show the singer shooting herself with a grainy video camera image, giving a voyeuristic vibe, as if it’s meant to be private. She’s wearing only underwear, and seemingly no make-up. In the second clip, though, there’s a very special little moment: Miley slides her hand into her underwear in the midst of her writhing watch the clip below

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Woman who preaches with breasts open releases new video (WATCH)

An African-American woman has become notorious for exposing her breasts while “preaching the gospel”.
LaTascha Emanuel, who heads LaTascha Emanuel Ministries and is a self-acclaimed evangelist, became popular after she released a video in which she was preaching and fondling her breasts simultaneously.
Ms. Emmanuel has released another video in which her breasts are only barely covered while she speaks about unforgiveness. Click below to watch video

http://ireporterstv.co/ir_fullvideo/wow-another-video-from-the-lady-who-preaches-with-her-breast-open/

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This woman lost her 7-month-old pregnancy ‘after getting kicked by Lebanese boss’ (PICTURED)

A  woman in Lagos has lost a pregnancy of 7 months after allegedly being kicked in the stomach.

Mrs. Alexandra Ossai, 34, was said to have been kicked by her Lebanese boss, one Kaveh Noine, resulting in the death of her baby.

Mrs. Ossai got into a disagreement with her boss and according to her he proceeded to verbally and then physically abuse her. The kick to her belly was said to have damaged her placenta and her unborn baby’s face.

According to Laila’s blog:

Currently at a private hospital in the Fagba area of Lagos State, Ossai had to have an emergency surgery four days after the kick to save her life as the kick damaged her placenta.

Ossai, who until December 13, 2013, was a supervisor with a Lebanese owned firm, Toppan Printing Company, alleged that Noine assaulted her many times during her eight months stay at the company.
She said:

“I started working at Toppan in April. I earn N17,000 salary and work from Monday to Saturday.
Anytime Noine was annoyed, he would beat the person he was angry with. Sometimes, he would throw whatever he can lay his hands on at the person.
Prior to that incident, Noine had slapped me many times.
Noine had said he would hold me responsible for the shortcomings of the people I supervised. As a result, I often assisted my subordinates in their duties to make sure that Noine had nothing to complain about.”

However, Ossai said on December 12 2013, Noine had flown into a rage when he noticed something on the floor in her section.

“It was a container for a drug. That is what we do; we produce packets for drugs and perfumes. So when Noine saw one of such packets on the floor, he was so angry that he gave me a blow to the chest,” she recalled.

She said Noine subsequently went into his office and typed a termination letter for Ossai, which she refused to sign.
Her refusal allegedly enraged him further and after verbally abusing her, he was said to have told her that it was her last warning.
The following day, Ossai ran into Noine while coming from his secretary’s office. Noine allegedly dragged Ossai back to the office and called her a wicked woman.
Ossai said:

“He said I looked like a mad person. After abusing me, he hit me on my neck twice. Then, without warning, he kicked my stomach with his knee.  Some co-workers were there but they did not intervene. I felt a sharp pain in my stomach.”

The mother of one, whose younger brother and sister also worked in the same company, said she prevailed on her siblings not to attack Noine when they heard the news.

“I never for once told my husband what I was going through at work. I didn’t want him to come and fight Noine. I pleaded with my siblings not to fight,” Ossai said.

Although the pains eventually subsided after two days, it was learnt that in the early hours of Monday, Decemeber 16, 2013, Ossai began to bleed.
She was rushed to a private clinic at Fagba.
She was told that her placenta had been damaged as a result of the kick and that she had to undergo emergency surgery to save her life.
She said:

“I didn’t know that my baby had died until two days after the surgery. I was told my baby lost his face too due to the kick.”

She said a report was made at the Area F police command the following day by her aunt, Mrs. Olabisi Jaiyeoba.
Jaiyeoba said:

“When Ossai’s husband and I were refused entry into the company, we went to report to the police. They accompanied us there and even had to force their way in.
The administrative manager lied that Noine had travelled out of the country. But as of that Tuesday, he was still in the country.
It was later that we learned that he travelled last Friday.”

Efforts to get a response from the Deputy Manager of Toppan printing Company, Mr. Abass Al-Souki, proved abortive as his phone number indicated that it was unreachable.
However, the admin manager, who declined to identify herself, said that the factory was closed for the Christmas holidays.
She said:

“We closed for the holidays last Friday and would reopen on January 8 2013. I would not like to speak on that matter because it is already with the police. Also our company lawyer is on it. You can only get across to our management in January 2014.”

Legal counsel for Toppan, Mrs. Nnebe, said that she could not comment on the matter.
She said:

“It would be best if you wait for the police to conclude their investigation. Ossai has only made an allegation. Let the police finish their investigation and then we would give our response.

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ngozi Braide, said:

“The incident which occurred on Thursday was not reported to the police until Tuesday. It took about five days before it was reported. So when the police arrived at the suspect’s workplace, they were informed that he had travelled.
It took a long time for the complainant to report the matter. But we are investigating.

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Women groups protest against torture of Ejigbo women, petitions Lagos Assembly [PHOTOS]

Women advocacy groups today marched in protest against the violent torture and sodomization of two women at Ejigbo over alleged stealing of pepper. The Women Arise group presented horrible clip of the sodomy to participants during the protest and also presented copies of the video in Compact Disk to members of the Lagos State House of Assembly, who were also handed a petition demanding investigation and justice for the affected women. Continue...

The protesters created a catchphrase/hashtag "#Ejigbo2" to popularize the incidence and specifically to constant follow-up to just end.

Receiving the protesters, the Lagos House reps promised to move a motion today and set up a committee to immediately commence investigation into the incidence. The reps said chairman of the Ejigbo local government, Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan; all the market women in Ejigbo central market as well as all concerned in the incidence will be called to the panel.

Women Arise and other leaders of the protest will also be invited to the panel.

The petition by Women Arise group to the Lagos House of reps is reproduced below:

Attention:  Mr. Ikuforiji Adeyemi,
Speaker,
Lagos State House of Assembly,
Alausa, Ikeja,
Lagos.
Mr Speaker Sir,
PETITION ON THE DEHUMANIZATION OF TWO WOMEN IN EJIGBO, LAGOS STATE

The above Subject refers:

We are Women Arise for Change Initiative and we herein petition your good offices on behalf of two Nigerian women and Lagos State Residents in Ejigbo, hereafter referred to as “The Victims,” who sometimes this year were subjected to one of the most vicious forms of human rights abuses and the unspeakable horrors of brutality by certain depraved and savage men.

Indeed, there was outrage across the nation and around the world when video shots of the victims stripped naked, and being mercilessly beaten with pepper and sodomised with strange objects went viral (Attached is a Video CD of the sordid scenes).

As Nigerians and fellow citizens of the world watched the horrific scenes, they wondered if these were shots taken in the dark ages of savagery and primitivism.

Strangely enough, a Statement this month by the Chairman of Ejigbo LCDA, Kehinde Bamigbetan at the height of the furore, acknowledged that this unimaginable horror took place in his domain in February this year, and that the victims were a mother and step daughter accused of stealing pepper, and that the husband and father was a palm-wine tapper; but Bamigbetan’s Statement sadly to say, failed to outline the measures his office had taken since then to assure justice for the victims and ensure that the perpetrators are punished. Ironically, it is the same Bamigbetan whose gruesome kidnap few months back elicited genuine emotions and public goodwill, and the Lagos State Government and concerned Nigerians spared nothing to guarantee his release, and bring the kidnappers to book. Why did he appear to have turned a blind eye over the ordeal of the victims, and why is he just acknowledging to the public these atrocities after ten good months? Or is that the victims lives are of no value to him because they are pepper sellers from the household of Mr. Palm-wine tapper?

Women Arise for Change Initiative hold the belief that all peoples, including women are created equal by the Almighty, and they are therefore equal before the law; women’s rights are human rights.

To this end, we request and urge you to kindly use your good offices to set up an inquiry into this shameful incident and compel the Ejigbo LCDA Chairman, Kehinde Bamigbetan to share his knowledge of the crime and what he has done in tracking down the purveyors of these bestialities so that they can be brought to justice; adequate provisions must also be made to rehabilitate the victims, peradventure they survived these cruelties.

We strongly believe that there is a redemptive value for Lagos State in fishing out these criminals for punishment so that the State is not seen as a haven for atrocious human rights abuses, where barbaric and savage acts are tolerated by government officials; that is surely not a good face to present to potential investors and tourists to the commercial hub of the nation.

This is certainly one issue that will not die until justice is done, and we trust that you will act quickly and ably, and use your good offices to ensure that justice is done, for justice too long delayed is justice denied.
Thank you in anticipation of your prompt action.

Yours Faithfully,

Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin
President 
Women Arise for Change Initiative 
26, Adebowale Street, 
Ojodu-Berger,
Lagos.
Website: www.womenarise.org, 
www.campaign4democracy.org.

Source: Sahara Reporters

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When You Sleep and Wake-Up That is A Miracle!

The more I look at this picture the more scary life seems. Chukwuebuka Ani was (was???) young, smart, intelligent and excelled academically. He graduated from one of the most hectic medical schools in our nation with excellence.

I mean, I understand the greatest miracle in life is sleeping and waking. But you didn't have to  die to remind us. Seven years of hard work in medical school - the future was bright. The world was waiting to be blessed by your blessed hands.You were a blessing to friends. A smile from which so many people would have benefited . Are you really gone??? Forever?

Sad!!! Really Sad!!!

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British Airways Plane Crash In South Africa

A plane carrying more than 200 people has struck an office building while preparing to take off from the  Johannesburg South African .

The British Airways flight to London was taxiing at OR Tambo International Airport when its right wing hit the building, injuring four people inside.

Images show the wing of the Boeing 747 wedged in the structure.

South Africa's Civil Aviation Authority said the aircraft had travelled down a taxi-way that was too narrow for it

The incident involving the Boeing 747-400 happened late on Sunday.

The control tower "told them to take one taxi-way and they took another one. They took a wrong one," said aviation authority spokeswoman Phindiwe Gwebu

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