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I don't want to believe this but I must post it. Going by the tweets of these two Big Brother Africa’s lovebirds, it's likely they have called their social media buzzing romance quit as they both took to twitter to tweet about their feelings and struggles of life.   Beverly tweeted “Whatever life throws at you, even if it hurts you, just be strong and fight through it…” and some hours later, Angelo tweeted this......“Love me for who i am..not who/what u want me to be…” He further tweeted some more before rounding up with “What needs to be done…needs to be done…#DONE!!!”   Hmmn, they better not be done, I like them together and they look good together,  whatever happened to their love proclamation and bonding "sexscapades" on the BBA show. See their tweets after the cut:

Report coming in and on airwaves says; Late Admiral Augustus Aikhomu’s wife, Rebecca Aikhomu was kidnapped yesterday in Edo State. She was kidnapped alongside two of her children along the Benin-Auchi road by some fully armed gunmen and the kidnappers cum murderers not satisfied with their act of kidnapping, murdered the driver of the Admiral's Aikhomu's wife in the process. Few months ago, Human Right Lawyer, Mike Ozekhome was kidnapped and later released in Edo State. Details soon....

          Na which bride wan try this for this country ni ? Cats in replacement of bouquets in an African Country, especially Nigeria?!   It is fast becoming a culture and craze with brides in America. The idea is simple–photos of brides throwing their bouquets in the air on their wedding day are manipulated and the flowers are replaced with jumping kitties.   Excellent? You like it? As for me, I don't like it at all, I find cats scary. See more photos of brides throwing kitties.

This Young lady got the Nigeria social media buzzing months ago when she sent a photo of herself and a small boy claiming to be Wizkid’s son which Wizkid denied, to cap it up she was slammed by many as a gold digger, a celebrity wannabe and many didn't take her serious. But indeed, she truly is Wizkid's baby mama considering Wiz kid's recent move of uploading photo of his and son together on social media. That's a confirmation I guess.   The baby mama, Oluwanishola Ogudugu regularly updates her Facebook account with her son looking pretty happy too, just recently she uploaded photos of herself and a good looking dude cuddling and looking cosy. She definitely has moved on and seems pretty happy. See photo of her and new love after the cut.                                     ...

Pic credit of Mr. Okwudili Umenyiora : 360Nobs When photo of the alleged most expensive mansion in Nigeria surfaced on web, we all guessed it was owned by a top government official, one of the household known billionaires or so, but we all got it wrong, it was a less known figure. Who is the person ? Mr. Okwudili Umenyiora is a car dealer and the breezy news flying about is that he is the owner of the marvellous edifice everyone has been talking and gushing about.   It is reported that the house which reeks of money took four years to build and he only just moved in few weeks ago. The housekeeping is being done by five house keepers, one of which is a Philippine woman. This house must cost a fortune and reeks of money   Dili as fondly called is the half brother of Naeto C’s wife Nicole.   An interesting part of the story is; Dili is an  alleged Fraudster  and was once an alleged jailhouse informant ...

  Following survey conducted by Global Slavery Index , Nigeria tops list of its citizens living in slavery and very poor working condition. See report by CNN below. A new report claiming to be the most comprehensive look at global slavery says 30 million people are living as slaves around the world.   The Global Slavery Index, published by the Australia-based Walk Free Foundation , lists India as the country with by far the most slaves, with an estimated nearly 14 million, followed by China (2.9 million) and Pakistan (2.1 million).   The top 10 countries on its list of shame accounted for more than three quarters of the 29.8 million people living in slavery, with Nigeria, Ethiopia, Russia, Thailand, Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar and Bangladesh completing the list.   In terms of countries with the highest of proportion of slaves, Mauritania in West Africa topped the table, with about 4% of its 3.4 million people enslaved, followed by Hait...

How many have you been to? And do you agree with the rankings?   Condé Nast Traveller Magazine   announced the winners of its 26th annual Readers' Choice Awards yesterday as they do every year, this year's results introduce new categories, new hotels and re-ordered lists of the world's best destinations.   The magazine said this year's list was the most comprehensive ever, with 1.3 million votes cast for a whopping 16,000 properties around the world.   World's best cities The "Top 25 Cities in the World" list had refreshingly surprising additions and rankings -- Paris came in at a lowly 22 while Bruges and Cape Town tied for 11th place.   Budapest and Florence tied for second, while the very top spot was seized by the colonial city of San Miguel de Allende in central Mexico, which took the crown from last year's favourite of Charleston, South Carolina (which was tied for fifth this year).   Italy snapped up five of ...

                                                                                                            PARIS(AFP ) – Switzerland broke the seal on its banking secrecy, until now considered virtually ironclad, by signing an international agreement on fighting tax evasion on Tuesday, the OECD said. This marks “the end of banking secrecy” in Switzerland, the head of tax issues at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Pascal Saint-Amans, told ...

  Daddy Wizkid proudly shows us his very cute and suave son. Is he not cute? He generously shared this first pic of his 2 years old son, Boluwatife  on his instagram page. Nice one!

Talks are continuing into reaching a compulsory prisoner transfer agreement, which could see more than half of the 534 criminals from Nigeria currently in UK jails repatriated.   UK Prisons Minister, Jeremy Wright, told MailOnlin e how ‘more foreign prisoners must serve their sentences in their own countries.’   Ministers have been ordered to step up efforts to end the scandal of more than one in eight prisoners being from overseas.   British Prime Minister, David Cameron vowed to end the practice of the British taxpayer picking up the bill for criminals with no business in the UK.   The Prime Minister said in 2010 that he would ‘personally intervene’ to send more foreign criminals home.   Britain has even made clear it would pay to build new prisons in countries like Nigeria to speed up the process of sending foreign criminals home. Up to £1m has been promised to upgrade Nigerian jails, including a new wing at Kirikiri Prison in Lagos. ...

    In Touch  confirms that Tom Cruise’s Ex- wife, Katie Holmes and Cruise's bestie, actor Jamie Foxx are dating.   “Katie and Jamie have been dating for a while,” an insider revealed to In Touch . The source added that Jamie, who is in NY filming the remake of Annie, is a frequent visitor at Katie’s apartment.   According to the source, Jamie and Katie have been careful and more than secretive about their relationship to avoid the paps chasing their every movement.    “They’re very Mission: Impossible about their romance,” said the insider  

1. Do not have unprotected sex. Sexually-transmitted diseases, such as gonorrhoea and Chlamydia, can damage the sperm-producing cells that block the tubes carrying sperm from the testis to the penis. 2. Avoid pesticides that control pests in the garden and on the farm. Such chemicals can damage the sperm-reproducing organs.   3. Avoid insecticides sprayed to kill mosquito. Such chemicals can damage the sperm- reproducing organs. Therefore, if you must spray your room against mosquitoes, allow at least one hour before going back to the room.   4. Avoid exposure to lead fumes generated in the manufacture of small cell batteries and in bullets. Such fumes can reduce sperm count through their negative effects on the hormones and the testis.   5. Avoid exposure to heavy metals like cadmium from the manufacture of heavy batteries, as they negatively affect the hormones.   6. Avoid exposure to paint fumes and plastic softening chemi...

From Prison to Challenging his death sentence, now to politics. Hmmn! In a sane environment, this man dares not toeaten by wolves.   A group, the Northern Emancipation Network, has advised President Goodluck Jonathan to reinforce his administration’s war against corruption by appointing Hamza Al Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer to late dictator, Sani Abacha, as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.   The group made the call at a press conference addressed by its Coordinator, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, who described Mr Al-Mustapha as a ‘brave, fearless and honest intelligence officer’ capable of taking the administration’s corruption war to the desired level.   “While we commend Mr President’s committed war against corruption, we advise him to reinforce the EFCC with an equally committed and dedicated head like Major Hamza Al Mustapha who is capable of moving the graft war to the desired level,” he said.   The group said...

A disturbing photograph of an indigenous woman from Mexico delivering a baby on a patch of grass outside a medical center has set off a firestorm online and sparked a national debate that led to the head of the clinic that turned the mother away being suspended. The shocking image, taken by a passerby, shows 29-year-old Irma Lopez , who is of Mazatec ethnicity, squatting after giving birth, her face contorted in pain and her tiny newborn son still bound by the umbilical cord and lying on the ground. The government of the southern state of Oaxaca announced Wednesday that it has suspended the health center’s director, Dr. Adrian Cruz, while officials conduct state and federal investigations into the October 2 incident. Mrs Lopez, a married mother of three, said that she and her husband were turned away from the Rural Health Center of the village of San Felipe Jalapa de Diaz by a nurse who said she was only eight months pregnant and ‘still not ready’ to deliver, even though the w...

  Mrs. Felicia Sani led angry Nigerian mothers and market women to Abuja in protest of the never ending strike women protested and demanded an immediate end to the lingering industrial action. “She stated, ASUU people must not allow themselves to be instrument of chaos in the hands of disgruntled politicians.   What they are doing now shows they are becoming politicians. They are making our children to suffer. This is not the way to collect entitlement from government.”   Thousands of the women who first assembled at the Eagle square took to the streets of Abuja and later visited the Ministry of Education and its Labour and Productivity counterpart.   Brandishing various placards with such inscriptions as “ASUU, do not kill our education system” and “Our children are idle, ASUU take them to classroom”, they sang solidarity songs while appealing to lecturers to go back to class.   Probably with women intervention, the FG and the lectu...

          Oh goodness!!! See that Skull, zoom the photo to have a good view, imagine one's skull removed and still with life. Imagine if all human's head were just like the above photo,   Na die, Choi! lol! A California jury has awarded 43-year-old Antonio Lopez Chaj $58 million as compensation for his horrific injuries. Chaj was left deformed and brain damaged after a security guard bashed in his skull, leaving him unconscious, in April 2010 during a bar fight at La Barra Latina in Torrance. Doctors were forced to remove part of his skull and brain. “His skull is like a pie with 25 percent cut out of it,” Attorney Federico Sayre said at a news conference Monday. He is no longer capable of speaking, needs assistance walking and requires 24-hour care to survive. After attempting to break up a fight between a bartender, a security guard and two of his relatives, the unlicensed guard who worked for DGSP Security a...

The divorce rate has sky-rocketed over the past few years in the World and in Nigeria.    Some studies have revealed that most of the time, women are the ones who take the first step and file the divorce papers, when they feel like their marriage has become a burden. Take a visit to the Lagos State High Courts in Ikeja and Igbosere-Lagos, ask the Registrars for the figures of divorce cases been filed and syou would be shocked at the figures.  I don't want to mention the number of  divorce cases have appeared in court for this year, double that with that appeared for by other lawyers, that's a huge figure pulled.  Trust me, it's love turned to deep hate, you don't want a failed marriage for no particular good reason, so work it out.   See top 10 most common signs that your marriage is doomed and you need to start working on it.   1. You Are No Longer The Great Team You Once Used To be A marriage creates a very strong bon...

  The friendship between rapper Game and Khloe Kardashian is getting stronger by the day. It is rumoured both are now dating. Khloe attended the Supreme Teams Friday Night Rox with boyfriend Game and still wearing her wedding band as seen in the pics above.    Game made headline all through last week and also this week for defending his girlfriend when paparazzi overwhelmed her with questions about her marriage and Lamar Odom.   Game insisted they were really close friends, enjoyed partying and hanging out together and not dating as rumoured. He tells Us Weekly  exclusively. "Khloe is my friend. She is like a sister. We have never [slept together] and will never be sleeping together." Odom is a pal, too, he says. "Lamar is my homie and her husband," "I wish people wouldn't spread such false rumors." ( Us Magazine )but Radar Online reports: Radar Online exclusively reports; "It might have just looked like Sunday night bowlin...

                                                   Fifth edition of FELABRATION kicked off told in Lagos with a debates tagged “Movement of the People-The Fela and Bob Marley Perspectives”. Speakers are Nana Rita Marley, ably represented by Elanor Wini also in attendance are Prof John Collins, Vivan Goldman and Prof Sola Olorunyomi.        

  Saudi Gazzette reports that Twenty-five Nigerians in Saudi Arabia to perform this year’s Haj have been arrested over theft in Makkah. The thieves identities were not disclosed, “all with prior criminal records.   Quoting Makkah Police spokesman Lt. Col. Abdul Mohsin Al-Maiman; “The thieves robbed pilgrims inside the Grand Mosque and broke into several shops and houses in Makkah. Several members of the gang were nabbed red-handed and they guided the police to other members who were hiding in an old building on Al-Mansour St. 80 cell phones and over SR50,000 in currency was seized,”    The report says, about 1.38 million pilgrims from Nigeria and 117 other countries are performing the Haj this year, according to Saudi Minister of Interior and Chairman of the Supreme Haj Committee Prince Muhammad Bin Naif.   Saudi Gazette quoted Prince Muhammad as saying that of the 1,379,531 foreign pilgrims, 752,424 were men representing 55 percent and 627,10...

 Boko Haram again! This seems like a daily occurrence, yet the government says they would tackle the issue of Boko Haram, probably waiting for another committee to be set up or as a School of thought would say Boko haram issue would stop when a Northerner becomes President or as another school of thought would say, Boko Haram is alleged to be used by certain top players and officials in government  to clearly state that President GoodLuck Jonathan is a failure.    Last night, a Police station and Keystone Bank was bombed by some criminals suspected to be dreaded Islamic militant, Boko haram in Makarfi, Kaduna State.   Reports says the incident happened around 8pm when an unknown number of gunmen, suspected to be Boko Haram members, detonated a bomb in the bank and carted away unspecified amount of money.   “The Divisional Police Station in Makarfi also came under attack but no casualty is recorded in the two attacks so fa...

  Anthony Marsh and Lee Davis used social media sites to groom teenagers with the former failing to tell victims that he has HIV Two men from South Yorkshire – one with HIV – have admitted dozens of sex crimes against teenage boys across the country.   Anthony Marsh and Lee Davis, both from Doncaster, used social media sites, including the gay sex app Grindr and the now defunct Bebo , to groom 10 boys aged as young as 13 over a period of seven years.   Some of their victims had only just come out as gay and had their first sexual experience with the men, according to the detective in charge of the case. The sex was usually unprotected and Marsh, who has HIV, did not tell the teenagers that he carried the virus.   Police have identified 20 victims so far – all of whom have since tested negative for HIV, the Guardian understands. But detectives fear there could be dozens more young men who had sex with Marsh.   Most of the abused boys wil...

                      The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) said at the weekend that the National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS), which has been condemning it over the strike is ignorant of the situation.   Chairman, Kogi State University branch of ASUU, Sylvester Ukwuteno said this during a protest by the union over the failure of the governor to honour the 2009 agreement.   “We want people to know that the Federal Government is deceiving Nigerians and that ASUU will not go back to the classroom until public universities across the country are revitalized. NANS members are talking based on ignorance because the strike is not just about welfare.    We are poor people like other Nigerians who do not have money to send their children to private universities, but infrastructure in public schools are dilapidated. We have resolved th...

METRO NAIJA reports that Ethiopian football fans went wild and caused chaos against Nigerian residents in Ethiopia.   Ethiopian fans went on a destroying spree after the super eagles won the game 2-1 and boosting Nigeria's  hope for  Brazil 2014 World Cup ticket. They were seen burning Nigerians’ businesses and properties as evidenced in picture above.   I hope FIFA and CAF took note of this happening. This is definitely bad spirit of sportsmanship and Ethiopian fans should be fined.

              Lizzy Anjorin has reportedly denounced her former Christian religion and embraces Islam and wishes to call be called ‘AISHA’. The pictures above confirms it.   The rumour going round is that she embraced Islam because her new fiancé is Muslim. Aisha is presently in Mecca for Hajj obligation according to Muslim rite.   If the rumours going round is true, wishing her well, Lizzy Anjorin undoubtedly has paid her dues in the industry and her current movie “Kofo De First Lady.” is making waves. See pics of her when a Christian and also a Muslim after the cut...                                              

                   I find Femi  Kuti very interesting, recently reports has it that Femi Kuti stated he has stopped “running after ladies” because he is now over 50 years. Further, he hinted on his problem with “marriage” See excerpts in his own words.   “I am no more sexually active. When you see a beautiful woman, when you reach my age and you have responsibility like myself, you will know what I am talking about. Before now, as a young man, you would want to go after her.   [But now] there are many nights I go and sleep alone not because I don’t have girlfriends or want a girlfriend, when I think of the responsibility I have in my life, I will immediately have a rethink. The women in my life also have responsibilities. I can tell you that the mothers of my children, we stay together, we are very serious. You could say we are husband and wife but I don’t believe ...

  I love lace, really love it, the soft feel and classy look of a lace, I mean good quality lace. Decided to share pictures of the duchess on lace, yes! I do love her decent and really classy dress style. I do hope she braces her lace trend as she hosts guests in her new home. I definitely would love to see another stunning lace gown on her.   Finally,   Kate Middleton , Prince William , and Baby George have the moved into their new home at Kensington Palace and by royal standard, she would host friends and other royals at her new home. We are thinking what her style would be and considering her love for lace gowns, would she be pulling another stunning lace dress when she hosts at her new home? Check out the Duchess on stunning gowns after the cut.                                   ...