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- Photos from Abba Atiku Abubakar's wedding in Adamawa yesterday
- Photos: Meet another Nigerian Transgender, Lady Mandy
- Lupita's Nyong'o steps out in Grace Jones' inspired haircut
- Introducing FanRoyale Premium Ice Cream
- Dear LIB readers: Should I arrest my blackmailers or pay them?
- On Nigeria's Rebased Economy - By Reno Omokri
- Guess who?
- Regina Askia was in Nigeria; talks about why she came home..
- What is wrong with this picture?
- Music video director, Sesan, shoots video for US rapper French Montana
- 135 civilians killed in Boko Haram attacks since Wednesday
- Photos: Actress Anita Joseph shares make-up free photos
- Look glamorous this Easter season with our fabulous jewelry pieces
- My crashed marriage, the true story - Femi Kuti
- "Oscar is a liar, he shot my sister in a fit of rage': Reeva's sister says
- Killer child-bride speaks: ‘I regret killing my husband, 17 days after wedding
- More photos from Half Of A Yellow Sun premiere
- Koga Entertainment Presents - Skinnie Tweed
- Guests at GEJ's daughter's wedding received customized iPhones
- First photos from Half Of A Yellow Sun premiere
| Photos from Abba Atiku Abubakar's wedding in Adamawa yesterday Posted: 13 Apr 2014 11:22 AM PDT | ||
| Photos: Meet another Nigerian Transgender, Lady Mandy Posted: 13 Apr 2014 10:53 AM PDT           | ||
| Lupita's Nyong'o steps out in Grace Jones' inspired haircut Posted: 13 Apr 2014 10:18 AM PDT    FYI: Lupita is wearing an Antonio Berardi dress, Christian Louboutin shoes, a Judith Leiber clutch, a Leroy's Place Grace Jones ring, a Joan Hornig ring, and EF Collection earrings. | ||
| Introducing FanRoyale Premium Ice Cream Posted: 13 Apr 2014 10:16 AM PDT  Discover a whole new way to pamper yourself, enjoy FanRoyale Premium Ice Cream proudly produced by Fan Milk Nigeria Plc. A blend of the smoothest of cream and the richest of flavours, FanRoyale is available in 3 distinct flavours namely: Vanilla Strawberry Stripping – a Vanilla flavored Ice Cream with Strippings of Strawberry flavour Cappuccino Chocolate Chip – a Cappuccino flavored Ice Cream with Chocolate Chips Rum N' Raisins – a unique blend of Vanilla Ice Cream, Rum (0.15% alcohol content) and Raisins Continue...  The proudly Nigerian and first-of-its-kind indigenous Premium Ice Cream product - poised to be a competing brand to the likes of Blue Bunny and other similarly imported Ice Cream products, was officially unveiled by the staff of Fan Milk Nigeria Plc on Friday, 11th April, 2014 at a cozy launch event in that held in Ikeja, GRA, Lagos. FanRoyale Ice Cream is available for purchase in major supermarkets and stores in Nigeria and several Experiential Launch activities have been scheduled to specially welcome Ice Cream lovers to the delicious experience of FanRoyale. Lovers of Ice Cream - and its indulgent nature, should watch out for the 'Royale Lounge' popping up in select locations in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja where they will be exclusively pampered by the FanRoyale brand. The Royale Lounge would make its first appearance in Ikeja City Mall, Lagos on the 18thof April (Good Friday) 2014. Following appearances of the Royale Lounge would be at Everyday Emporium, Port Harcourt on the 26th of April, SIlverbird Galleria, Victoria Island, Lagos on the 1st of May and a final appearance at the Grand Towers Mall, Abuja on the 4th of May 2014. Ice Cream lovers would be pampered like never before at the Royale Lounge and it promises to be a very exciting and indulgent experience. The Royale Lounge tour and its activities can be followed using the '#RoyaleTreatement' hashtag on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and also by following and liking the Fan Milk Nigeria Plc Social Media pages.         Twitter: www.twitter.com/FanMilkNigeria Instagram: www.instagram.com/fanmilknigeriaplc | ||
| Dear LIB readers: Should I arrest my blackmailers or pay them? Posted: 13 Apr 2014 05:52 AM PDT 
So after further investigation we found out where she lived and one good sunday morning after church we went there. I saw her, very pretty young girl. She even looked younger than 21. Calmly I started to talk to her, asking her questions like my own daughter and she answered respectfully. She was calm until her mother came out and ask who we were. And then you know daughters now. My daughter challenged the woman Before we knew what was happening, this little girl just changed , as if she was charmed and started to curse my daughter She and my daughter started exchanging words and my daughter called her son a bastard. Dat was all. This girl rushed gave my 30 year old pregnant daughter a slap she ll never forget in a hurry. Being a mother I tried to defend my daughter who has started to shout. My intension wasn't to fight . But I couldn't help when I realized we were being attacked. This girl slapped me n tore my blouse, while her brother or boyfriend was busy filming everything with his phone. Since then someone has been blackmailing me with the video of me fighting with my breasts hanging out, threatened to put it online if I don't pay certain amount. The question is should I pay or just face the humiliation. I know my job is on the line. My husband that caused all these is away in the US but has given me his consent to arrest her and her friends. I'm soon to be a grand mother. Should I arrest these people and risk everything or just pay and leave the rest to God. Btw Linda, u are doing a nice job. Well done my dear. God bless u all as u help us. Amen | ||
| On Nigeria's Rebased Economy - By Reno Omokri Posted: 13 Apr 2014 05:51 AM PDT  An article by Reno Omokri, Special Assistant on New Media to President Jonathan
Never mind that a Chief Economist of the World Bank, Francisco Ferreira, has said that the rebasing "had exposed sectors where Nigeria's economy was recording dynamic growth, and therefore would be areas of attraction for investment inflows", unpatriotic politicians would want us to jettison this expert opinion for their negative inexpert opinion. The thing that they fail to understand is that any Nigerian who discredits the rebasing of Nigeria's economy is discrediting himself. It was Nigeria's value that was rebased not the government's value. But why should I even be surprised? Many of those who have been debased politically would not want Nigeria to be rebased economically. It is a classic case of misery wanting company. There is really very little you can do for such folk other than prescribe psychiatric therapy for the management of their inferiority complex because I am not sure that anything is as damaging to their reputation as their attempt to spite their country even as they think they are spitting its leaders. Nations, institutions and individuals are more likely to perform at their best if you commend them when they do well. Unfortunately, many of these people will ignore rather than reward good behavior and performance and find ways to spin good news into bad in order to condemn. To these people, I would recommend a principle I use in raising my kids. I praise them publicly and scold them privately ensuring that they grow up having a sense of personal value even as they adjust their behavior. The reason I do this is because I have noticed from experience that when a child is scolded publicly, bystanders remember the negative thing the child did and they never forget it even when the child has matured beyond that deficiency and even when you as a parent have forgotten it. People tend to look on themselves and their children with rose colored glasses and on others with magnifying glasses. Similarly, when we condemn Nigeria to the outside world on Traditional and New Media platforms, that condemnation sticks to the minds of foreigners and the foreign media and they don't see Nigeria as government and opposition, they just see Nigeria. Nigerians are irrevocably tied to the value of Nigeria. And it is obvious that these nay sayers are confused because in one breath they claim that the rebasing of our economy is fiction while in another they claim that our economic growth is not a result of any deliberate government policy. Now let's get technical. When Forbes named the Nigerian Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina as its African Person of the Year 2013, it was in recognition of his efforts of reducing Nigeria's food import bill by $6 billion annually. This $6 billion which used to go overseas now circulates within Nigeria adding to our Gross Domestic Product and lubricating other sectors of our economy. Nigeria is now near self sufficient in rice, wheat and poultry production as a result of the deliberate action of the government in eliminating the corruption in the fertilizer procurement and distribution system, free distribution of high yield seedlings to farmers and extension of agricultural loans to small and medium scale farmers. That agriculture is now big business in Nigeria was recently demonstrated when D'Banj, one of Nigeria's biggest pop stars, bought into the agriculture business with the launch of 'Koko Gari'. Farmers, are making more money and this did not happen by chance. It is a deliberate policy of the Federal Government and it is leading to one of the greatest wealth transfers in Nigeria's history. Another deliberate policy that is ensuring wealth transfer is the liberalization and privatization policy of the Federal Government. For example, the recent privatization of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, achieved two objectives. The first objective is wealth repatriation. Nigerians who had billions of dollars sitting idle in their foreign accounts repatriated those funds back to Nigeria to purchase the Transmission and Distribution companies that were sold ensuring that those billions now circulate within Nigeria adding to our Gross Domestic Product. The second objective achieved is that government funds which used to be budgeted annually to those firms are now freed up since they have been sold and can now be spent on other priority sectors of the economy further expanding our GDP. Moreover, the Backward Integration Policy on cement by the Federal Government has ensured that Nigeria has moved from being a net importer of cement to a net exporter of the product. Billions of dollars that were used to import cement before 2009 are now retained in Nigeria as well as billions from the sale of Nigerian cement abroad. These are deliberate policies for which the government should be applauded for. They are the basic principles of elementary economics that some opposition politicians can not grasp, yet they want to dislodge President Jonathan and return Nigeria back to the status quo. God forbid! Another example of a deliberate policy contributing to the expansion of Nigeria's GDP is the Local Content Bill signed into law by President Jonathan on April 25, 2010. As a direct consequence of this law, the oil majors have been forced to reserve for Nigerian engineers and technicians jobs that had hitherto been the reserve of expatriates workers. They have also been mandated to award contracts to Nigerian firms that would have gone to foreign companies prior to the signing of the Local Content Law. For example, as a direct consequence of this law, Royal Dutch Shell PLC awarded a 7.8 billion-naira ($49 million) natural-gas pipeline contract to a local manufacturer, S.C.C. Nigeria Ltd. This is the first time such has been awarded to a Nigerian company. Also, Mobil Producing Nigeria unlimited, as a direct result of the Local Content Law, awarded a multi million dollar contract to Niger Dock Nigeria PLC to build wellhead platforms. This is the first time such a contract has been awarded to a Nigerian firm. The effect of the Local Content Law is that hundreds of millions of dollars that would have hitherto left Nigeria is now retained in Nigeria swelling our GDP. Years ago, South Africa was the number one recipient of Foreign Direct Investment in Africa but she has since been overtaken by Nigeria under President Jonathan which according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has been the number one recipient of FDI in Africa for the past two years. Can such a feat happen by accident? Since the advent of the Jonathan administration, the education sector has consistently had the highest sectoral allocation in the Federal Budget. Nigerians now have access to education in record numbers (though more still needs to be done). Twelve new universities have been built in fulfillment of what President Jonathan said that "crude oil is not out "Black Gold". The real "Black Gold" of Nigeria are her people and they can grow in value via education". This is why Nigerians pay very affordable tuition fees at Federal Universities when compared to the exorbitant fees charged by state universities in the opposition controlled APC states. How sad that those who enjoyed free education have now become purveyors of expensive education. It is this focus on education and industry that has increased the capacity of the average Nigerian for enterprise and thrift which has resulted in the expansion of our economy. The President's daughter recently got married to her hearth throb and everything about the marriage was done in Nigeria. It is such patriotic actions of Nigerians spending their money in Nigeria that makes Nigeria grow. But of course, people who travel abroad to celebrate even their birthdays will not know that our economy is expanding. How could they, when their children, accounts, property and minds are overseas. It then become easy for them to overlook what is happening in Nigeria. Reno, | ||
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| Regina Askia was in Nigeria; talks about why she came home.. Posted: 13 Apr 2014 05:26 AM PDT | ||
| What is wrong with this picture? Posted: 13 Apr 2014 05:07 AM PDT  About the pic; a group of women last week held a peaceful protest in front of the NNPC HQ along Herbert Macaulay way in Abuja. They were expressing their support for embattled Minister of Petroleum Resources, Dieziani Alison-Madueke, who is currently involved in private jet scandal | ||
| Music video director, Sesan, shoots video for US rapper French Montana Posted: 13 Apr 2014 05:00 AM PDT     | ||
| 135 civilians killed in Boko Haram attacks since Wednesday Posted: 13 Apr 2014 04:53 AM PDT  This was made known by Senator Ahmed Zannah, who said the attackers first target was a teacher training college in the town of Dikwa, where they killed five people, abducted several women, then burnt down the college library before escaping. Then the militants attacked two villages near the border with Cameroon killing a further 130 people. The senator said the attacks took place on Wednesday and Thursday. According to Amnesty International, at least 1,500 people, half of them civilians, have been killed in the north in 2014 alone. | ||
| Photos: Actress Anita Joseph shares make-up free photos Posted: 13 Apr 2014 04:53 AM PDT   | ||
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| My crashed marriage, the true story - Femi Kuti Posted: 13 Apr 2014 03:39 AM PDT  Because of Made, maybe you and Funke see to talk about common things but we are shocked to see her sitting next to you at 'Femi Segun's burial? If she too understands that he needs his father then we must get rid of our misunderstanding. He was the one at the church who said 'please sit beside my mother'; I had to oblige him. I could have refused because I went with my girlfriend, so I told my girlfriend not to be annoyed and she understood. Does it mean you and Funke may come back as husband and wife? I doubt it. But you never know. You never know what God has in plan for you. What if you say never and something just happens? If they told me she would leave my house one day, I would have said it is impossible. So, if she comes back one day, you never know what can happen. One sickness can hook you down and she might be the person by your bedside, what would happen? I don't pray for it but you never know what God has in plan for you. So, I am not the one that tempts fate. Right now, I am content, I am happy, we are friendly and my children are also happy. Tell me your greatest memory of Funke? Are you trying to bring us back because this question is mischievous (laughs). There are many great memories of her. I can't say one or two because it is not possible to throw 10 years away. There are great, good and bad memories. All are memories. How did you meet Funke? I met her at a restaurant where I was playing jazz, at a place called '44' in Ikoyi. She came with my cousin, Funmi Ransome-Kuti, they were in UNILAG together. She was so beautiful and she was looking at me, so I knew she likes me. So, I told my cousin to introduce me to her. That's how we met. How did you eventually propose to her? I didn't propose; one day, I just told her that 'from today, we are boyfriend and girlfriend'. She said, 'ha ha, what kind of love is this?' I said, 'when we have been calling ourselves everyday, are we misleading ourselves? And it was on a Christmas Eve. I said to her 'from today you are my girlfriend, if you have a boyfriend, get rid of him now because I must not see him when I get to your house' and she laughed. That was how we started. I am sure you don't want to pull that off your mind so soon? It is off. Like I said, I have a new life. I am staying with two of the mothers of my children; we all stay in the same house. I have a very good family. They are content, but they respect Funke. If Funke comes, they will excuse us. They are very respectful of her. Don't forget we are in Africa; this is the way we grew up, so if she comes around they give her the respect. If I go to the church and she is there, if I say 'please I have to sit with her', they will accord her the respect. And I am sure she has her life. Can we ever get together? I can never say no, because something can happen that may be for good or bad and we'll be together again. Never say never! If you ask if I am happy right now, I am very happy not just with my relationship, I am also very happy with my children who are progressing, which is really my priority. At 52, I have experienced a lot. If I die today, I cannot complain in heaven that I did not enjoy my life. My biggest challenge is to ensure my children have a good life. I want the children to grow up very stable and that requires a lot of sacrifice on my part. I cannot use my selfish, jealous or whatever interest to disrupt their future, which is the same attitude I have with Made. He is doing very well. He is playing piano well. And probably if I use his mother's problem as an obstacle in his life, it might just be worrying him. And you never know why children have psychological problems, but it is the parents' duty to always protect their children. 'Nobody send us message; we slept with each other, we born pikin, you now want to give the pikin problem.' I don't indulge in that. Since there is a child involved, I try my best to keep my reservations to myself by just facing the truth. You don't believe in monogamy? Yes. I grew up in a polygamous home. I grew up wanting to be like my father. I grew up wanting to have many women; that was my training. I will not tell you it is right or wrong. You see my son, he believes in monogamy. He has one girlfriend that he has been following for many years, and they want to get married. I don't pray for them to breakup. If they want to even get married in the church, I will not stop him. Whatever he wants to do I will not use my own life to rule, direct or control my children. They must have the liberty to choose because if they fail or succeed, they have to understand it is their life. I can always be a good father. I will have to teach them how to take good decisions because I love them. I am not going to discourage my son by saying 'what if she breaks your heart, so get ready for heartbreak', because I don't pray for it. I can only support him. If he is successful and even if he breaks up with this girl, he might still go for another person. But for whatever reason, this is the life he has chosen for himself and I love it that he is happy. Because of the way I was brought up, there is no way I can be faithful to a woman. I will not even try it. I wasn't trained to do so. I didn't grow up with that attitude. I grew up in the real house of Kalakuta where there were women and I loved it. So, I wanted the same thing for myself. Now, I don't have the life of Kalakuta but I know that I can't leave that dream and say I want to be faithful to one woman. I will rather be by myself; truth, I love my freedom. I don't love the part that I owe anybody anything. Even the people with me know that I love my freedom. I like to sleep when I want to sleep, if I want to go out I love to enter my car and go on my own; I love my independence. I was brought up with total independence. Did you give Funke a ring, that 'with this I thee wed'? No, she bought the ring. And you put it in her finger? Yes, in the registry. That makes you a monogamist so you cannot marry another wife under the Nigerian law? I am not a monogamist because we are divorced. It looks like you sacrificed all when Funke was with you? No, I didn't. When we got married she was pregnant and I knew it was a boy. I didn't know how I knew but I just knew. I told her 'we will get married, but I will never be faithful to you'. She knew one of my dancers then was my girlfriend. I have been dating her long before I met Funke.. Funke's mother and I are not good friends. When she (Funke's mother) came back into her life, we started having problems. I don't know if that is part of the problem or if it is Funke who is bored with the marriage or her friends were talking to her, whatever the reason, I tried my best to bring her back. I tried to even change my ways. Many things went on, those that are close to me know that I went out of my way, when I saw that I was wasting too much energy, I had to relax. Funke and I didn't talk for a long time. It took us years to understand that there is a son in our midst. I didn't want to open the can of worms because we have settled all these. It is something that we have left behind. I have forgiven her and I will not tell you that I was totally right, but was I sincere in my marriage? Yes be rest assured that I was. I wasn't doing anything that she wasn't warned of before. That I won't have girlfriends? She knew that I was a very humble polygamist. I tried to be as discreet as possible but you know the more you are getting popular, the more people are taking your tales to your wife. She might find condoms in my car that I forgot to hide very well, who knows? Why then did people blame your sister, Yeni, all this while…? I will never reveal to you why our marriage broke up, but YK (Yeni) definitely was never part of it. YK and I even fought because she advised Funke to take Made along with her, and I said if she takes Made I am in trouble, because I love made and I want him to be with me. All my life was circled around Made, so if Funke had gone with Made maybe I would have committed suicide, because everything in my life in that marriage was based on Made. I saw Made as my inheritor; I saw him as the next Anikulapo to take the music to another level. So, my investment emotionally, financially, everything was stationed on Made. If Funke had left with Made, I didn't have another child, and a politician had already threatened me that what if Made dies? So, I thought that was a threat from the government saying they will kill Made. I was very protective of Made, which was another reason I decided to have other children. What if I lose Made? What will I do? If you check the Anikulapo and Ransome-Kuti families, there are not many boys; everybody is just having girls. So, the only inheritor of the Kuti dynasty was Made. My cousin in America had a girl, Yeni had a girl, others also had girls, and Made was the only boy. I thought of protecting him or else the Anikulapo-Kuti clan will die. Seun also had a girl; the only person that recently had two boys was Kunle. He just had his own boys when Made was already a teenager. He also opened up about his half brother in Australia... We heard your father had a son in the US? He didn't have a son in the US; it is in Australia. Have you met him? Yes. What is his name? Couney. How did he meet you? I went to play in Sydney and he came to meet me there. That was about four or five years ago. Did Fela ever tell you about him or how did you know? Fela told us about one woman that probably got pregnant for him. She told Fela she was pregnant but she disappeared with the pregnancy. Fela now came and told us the story. He (Couney) met my sister on Facebook and told her the same story. And he traced his mother because his mother put him up for adoption, so when he met his mother, she then told him that his father was Fela. How old is he? I am a year older than him. So, he is part of the inheritors of Fela? Yes, but he doesn't want to be known. He doesn't want anything, he just wants to meet us, and case closed. He answers Kuti too? Yes. Are you not inviting him to Nigeria for a visit? He will make his decision. He doesn't want much publicity. It was his son who wants to know the family. He has met us, if he wants to go the extra mile that is his business. What does he do, is he into music? He is into drawing. I don't know much about him. We talk once in a year. I went to Australia early this month and my sister told him I was there, but he didn't come to meet me because he was busy. Don't forget that 50 years of our lives have passed, where do we want to start the friendship. He is a very nice person. He is probably a Fela's son, we cannot say for sure except there is a DNA to prove it. And to do that, would you have to bring Fela from the grave? But from my perception he looks like Fela. | ||
| "Oscar is a liar, he shot my sister in a fit of rage': Reeva's sister says Posted: 13 Apr 2014 02:59 AM PDT   In an exclusive interview with UK Daily Mail today, Reeva's sister Simone (pictured left) says they are in no doubt that Pistorius is a liar. "He is trying to convince the court that they were really close and that he cared for her. It's not true. He is a disgusting liar. At the start of the trial, my heart stopped as he walked past, ignoring us. I like to think his heart stopped too. He knew we were there but he almost lost his balance and fell over when he saw us. 'Then he sat in the dock, smirking. He killed my sister and yet he still seems to be enjoying his celebrity status. During the adjournments he marched around as if he was still a star while my mother and I just wanted to hide away. I don't understand how anyone could commit that act – kill someone – and behave like that.'
Simone, 48, who has given up her career and life in England to live with her parents in South Africa since Reeva's death, says the whole family tried to offer forgiveness to Pistorius before the trial began, but that her feelings had changed over the past three weeks. "It has been such an eye-opener for me,' she says. 'Until I walked into the courtroom it hadn't really hit me that Reeva was dead, that I'll never again see her coming through the door, bouncing around, being in charge of us all like she used to be. 'Sitting there beside my mother in that formal setting, with the whole proceedings aimed at finding the truth about the night she died, I finally took it in and it almost destroyed me. I couldn't go there for more than a day. 'I wouldn't be able to control my feelings. I would be sobbing, distraught and angry listening to his continuing lies.' "As the court adjourned for the weekend, the prosecutor Gerrie Nel was in the middle of questioning Pistorius about whether Reeva screamed when he was shooting her. I admire his persistent questioning and he is right to focus on that point,' "I believe that she was screaming and that he knew it was her he was shooting. I believe they were arguing and that he is an insecure, unpredictable man who might have been thinking he couldn't live without her if the row ended badly.
"She was a loving, outgoing girl who always spoke up about her feelings, she didn't hold back. She had lived her life until then in safety and security and would not have felt panicked into silence.' "Reeva was beautiful and much-loved. She had had few boyfriends and they remained close even after the romance was over. She didn't know anything about volatile relationships and fighting. I can't bear to think of her last moments. It was a terrible shock to see photographs of her head shown to the court. "And all the time Pistorius is crying and vomiting in front of us. My poor mother somehow has to endure this day after day. She is being so strong while this is breaking her up inside. She feels strongly that she must be there for Reeva.' | ||
| Killer child-bride speaks: ‘I regret killing my husband, 17 days after wedding Posted: 13 Apr 2014 02:19 AM PDT  Wasila now says she regrets killing her husband. The killing happened 17 days after their wedding. Speaking with a Vanguard reporter at Bompai police HQ, Kano, where she is being held, Wasila said; "Mine was a classical example of youthful exuberance; it dawned on me shortly after that it was a joke taken too far to resolve a forced marriage question. I have never enjoyed the opportunity of going to Islamic school or acquiring Western education. My father forced me into this mess by stubbornly forcing me into a relationship I was not prepared to live in" "Though my target was my late husband, I must confess that my blood went cold when I realized I had committed mass murder". Continue...Narrating how she executed the mass murder, she said, "On the fateful day, my husband's meal was prepared by the senior wife and put in my room as I was due in fulfillment of his rotational duty in a polygamous setting. I obtained the rat poison for just N100 and, at my convenience, mixed it with the local dish prepared for him. When he returned home for the feast, he came with those who were destined to die with him. I was restless but could not stop it from happening. "I felt normal and slept after the incident but the consequence of my action was clear when I was picked up by the police and I felt cold for the first time". "Destiny appears to have played a wicked one on me at this early stage of my life and I would rededicate the rest of my life to sincerely seek Allah's forgiveness".However, despite the overwhelming evidence the police have to prosecute the alleged culpable homicide, they seemed to be in a dilemma due to age of the suspect. Commenting on the development, Kano State Police Command Public Relations Officer, ASP Magaji Musa Majia, said "the case has been referred to appropriate authorities for the next line of action". Majia told Sunday Vanguard: "I am assuring you that Wasila would appear in court soon because we have limitation on the number of days we can keep a suspect no matter the perceived weakness of the case or the personality involved". - See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/04/killer-child-bride-speaks-regret-killing-husband-17-days-wedding/#sthash.qzGBt6en.dpuf | ||
| More photos from Half Of A Yellow Sun premiere Posted: 13 Apr 2014 01:39 AM PDT   Beautiful movie, by the way. And fantastic acting! Continue to see more photos from the premiere.   Biola Alabi and Bolanle Olukanni   Chimamanda Adichie and Ebi Atawodi             Right, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi and Yewande Sadiku (Executive producer)       Layole Oyatogun and Yewande Sadiku with Mosun Ogunbanjo   Emem Ema and Lara George   Mr and Mrs Labi Ogunbiyi and Mr and Mrs Gbenga Oyebode   Mrs Kene Mkparu and Naya Amobi   Jimi Sonuga and Muhtar Bakare   Omoye and Onyeka Onwenu   Ozy Sammie Okposo and Mrs Taiwo Ajai-Lycett   Tokini Peterside and Yewande Sadiku with Reni Folawiyo j
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| Koga Entertainment Presents - Skinnie Tweed Posted: 13 Apr 2014 01:16 AM PDT   Skinnie makes a debut with Funky Party and Chairman i hail o. Both tracks produced in Koga Studios by Puffy T and in house producer Coded. http://www.kogastudios.com/ http://www.kogastudios.com/ | ||
| Guests at GEJ's daughter's wedding received customized iPhones Posted: 12 Apr 2014 02:21 PM PDT        | ||
| First photos from Half Of A Yellow Sun premiere Posted: 12 Apr 2014 01:21 PM PDT     Cast of the movie, O.C Ukeje, Chiwetel, Genevieve, Gloria Young, director and writer of the movie Biyi Bandele and Chimamanda Adichie...   |
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