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- Ex NDDC commissioner sentenced to 3 years in jail for stealing transformers worth N220m
- Photos: 2face Idibia celebrates his first daughter as she turns 9
- Beats By Dre Tour Earpiece Giveaway by Phonage
- Photos: 'Transgender woman' floors 5 men in street attack after one pulls off her wig
- 20 year old Nigerian man shot dead in Peckham, UK
- GEJ sacks NHIS CEO, confirms Gwarzo as DG SEC & Peter Obi as chairman of SEC
- Photos: Actor Chinedu Ikedieze and wife vacation in Paris
- Chiviva Hair Wholesales
- Pres. Jonathan orders immediate release of report of forensic audit of NNPC accounts
- Dear LIB readers; my husband is constantly comparing me with his exes
- Jerry Ogbodo (Tonto Dikeh's stylist), who are you trying to shade?
- 21 killed by Boko Haram in Yobe today
- Kim K speaks on Bruce Jenner’s transition, says she doesn't understand it but supports him
- Throwback pics of IBB, Gowon taking a ride with Queen Elizabeth
- How to get to your NYSC camp
- Bruce Jenner's first wife speaks on his transition, says he told her in the 70s
- Lagos Govt to provide Wi-Fi services for residents (in parks only)
- Obasanjo & Buhari will eventually fight, Buhari will be a formidable opponent - Babatope
- Lol. Man dressed as Jesus carrying a cross runs in London Marathon
- Agya Appiah Bitters throws a challenge to Nigerians: Taste it, be the Judge'
- US Daily Beast comes for Tinubu in new article, calls him 'Heroin Kingpin'
- Women who gave birth via C-Section are now being shamed?
- Mocheddah's denim-on-denim look is everything! (photos)
- It might take you a while to work out what is actually happening in these photos
- Photos: Nigerian babes rock Kim K's famous Balmain VMAs dress
Ex NDDC commissioner sentenced to 3 years in jail for stealing transformers worth N220m Posted: 27 Apr 2015 01:09 PM PDT An AkwaIbom State High Court has sentenced Pastor Godwin Moffat (pictured above), a former NDDC Commissioner representing Akwa Ibom State, to three years imprisonment for stealing 56 transformers worth N220, 176, 320 which was meant for oil producing communities in the state. In a 56 count charge filed in court by the EFCC, Pastor Moffat was said to have applied for 90 electricity transformers and 4 generators from NDDC for Akwa Ibom State sometime in February, 2006. Approval was given for 70 transformers but he diverted same to his house in Eket on the pretext that there was no space to accommodate the newly issued 70 units of transformers at the NDDC office in Uyo. He thereafter sent only 14 Units to NDDC office in Uyo while he withheld 56 units which he could not account for till date. One of the count reads, "That you Pastor Godwin Moffat Eyo being a former Akwa Ibom State representative on the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) on or about 14thApril, 2006 at Uyo in the Uyo Judicial Division did fraudulently steal a 300 KVA/33/0.415 Transformer Serial No. 1712496 valued at Four Million, Eighteen Thousand, Five Hundred and Sixty Naira (N4,018,560.00), property of NDDC and thereby committed an offence of stealing contrary to Section 399 and punishable under Section 404 of the Criminal Code Cap. 38, Volume 2, Laws of Akwa Ibom State, 2000". | ||
Photos: 2face Idibia celebrates his first daughter as she turns 9 Posted: 27 Apr 2015 01:00 PM PDT 2face Idibia's first daughter and first child with Pero Adeniyi, Ehi, turned 9 years old today and the proud dad took to instagram to send a lovely shout out to her. He posted these photos and wrote; "Oh my cuteness! ehi idibia is 9yrs 2day. gosh time really flies. many more years and blessings for u my princess😇. Daddy loves u always. HBD darlyn !". More pics of the beautiful girl after the cut... | ||
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Photos: 'Transgender woman' floors 5 men in street attack after one pulls off her wig Posted: 27 Apr 2015 12:27 PM PDT This is the shocking moment a 'transgender woman' launches a street attack on five passersby - after a man pulls off her wig. Footage shows a man, who is dressed as a woman, dancing in a London street, holding a sign that reads: 'Who run the world? Girls'. But moments later, a man approaches aggressively and pulls off the performer's wig. Within seconds, the transgender woman completely switches persona, and reverts to a gruff male voice before attacking five pedestrians for 'laughing'. Leaving all five men unconscious on the floor, the now wigless man scares off another two onlookers by screaming loudly in their faces. The shocking clip was actually set up as part of a social experiment by Trollstation, to see whether any bystanders would intervene. No one did, but viewers have claimed it is because the footage is unrealistic. One wrote: "It would have been more believable if you beat up less people, maybe 2 at most, get a choreographer to teach you how to a least make a believable fight. It would be more impactful." Another added: "It looks fake though, that's why no one got involved." The clip was uploaded to YouTube on April 25 and has since clocked thousands of views Source: UK Mirror | ||
20 year old Nigerian man shot dead in Peckham, UK Posted: 27 Apr 2015 12:08 PM PDT | ||
GEJ sacks NHIS CEO, confirms Gwarzo as DG SEC & Peter Obi as chairman of SEC Posted: 27 Apr 2015 12:44 PM PDT State House press statement President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has relieved the Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Dr. Femi Thomas of his appointment with immediate effect. The President has also approved the appointment of Mr. Olufemi A. Akingbade as Acting Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer of the NHIS. Mr. Akingbade who hails from Ekiti State and holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science as well as a Masters in Business Administration was the General Manager, ICT in the NHIS until his new appointment. President Jonathan has also approved the confirmation of Mr. Mounir Haliru Gwarzo as Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr. Gwarzo who has been acting as Director-General of the Commission, was appointed to the Board of the Securities and Exchange Commission as Executive Commissioner in January, 2013. The President has also approved the appointment of the former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Reuben Abati Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity) April 27, 2015 | ||
Photos: Actor Chinedu Ikedieze and wife vacation in Paris Posted: 27 Apr 2015 11:51 AM PDT | ||
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Pres. Jonathan orders immediate release of report of forensic audit of NNPC accounts Posted: 27 Apr 2015 10:20 AM PDT State House press statement... We have noted with concern, the allegation by the spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Lai Mohammed that officials of the Federal Government are engaged in "last minute looting of the nation's resources, rushed privatization of key institutions and hurried recruitment into the public service". We also consider as most unfortunate and uncharitable, the suggestion by Alhaji Mohammed that the Jonathan Administration is trying to "tie the hands" of the incoming government merely by continuing to discharge its constitutional responsibilities until the end of its tenure. The Jonathan Administration which continues to do its best to ensure a smooth and peaceful handover over of power to the President-Elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, deeply regrets the unfairness and combative frame of mind reflected in Alhaji Mohammed's statement. President Jonathan has done his best in the past five years to discharge his constitutional responsibilities for good governance and effective leadership of the nation. Without any prejudice whatsoever to the freedom of the incoming administration to do as it pleases, within the confines of extant laws when it assumes office, the Jonathan Administration will continue to discharge its responsibility to govern until May 29, 2015. In continuing to fulfil the obligations of his office however, President Jonathan has not, and will never condone any form of unscrupulous conduct on the part of state officials. President Jonathan will also never authorise any attempt to create any problems for the incoming administration as the APC spokesperson, who ought to know that the outcome of the March 28 presidential elections does not imply a cessation of governance, unjustly alleges. As Alhaji Mohammed threatened in his statement, the incoming administration will be perfectly within its rights to review all actions of the present government as it may deem fit. We see nothing wrong with that. After all, the present Administration reviewed the actions of previous governments on assumption of office with resultant benefits for policy and project implementation. President Jonathan is also deeply concerned by the continuing suggestions that his administration still has anything to hide about the unproven allegation that about $20 Billion is unaccounted for by the NNPC during his tenure. To lay the matter to rest, President Jonathan in line with Section 7(2) of the NNPC Act, has directed that the full report of the PWC Forensic Audit of the NNPC accounts be released immediately to the public so that all Nigerians will be properly informed on the matter. Reuben Abati Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity) April 27, 2015 | ||
Dear LIB readers; my husband is constantly comparing me with his exes Posted: 27 Apr 2015 10:03 AM PDT From a female LIB reader I am married to a man who constantly compares me with his ex girlfriend to my face!! Each time there is a little misunderstanding he constantly reminds me of how well his ex-girlfriend understood him and treats him. What does this mean and how do I deal with this? I am confused!! I have told him severally how well I hated it and he doesn't see a big deal in it, he doesn't even care how I feel about it. How do I get him to stop it? | ||
Jerry Ogbodo (Tonto Dikeh's stylist), who are you trying to shade? Posted: 27 Apr 2015 09:58 AM PDT | ||
21 killed by Boko Haram in Yobe today Posted: 27 Apr 2015 09:52 AM PDT 21 persons are feared dead after suspected Boko Haram members ambushed them in Bultaram village in Gujba Local government area of Yobe state on Monday April 27th. Baba Nuhu, an official of the local government where the men were killed, said the victims, all male, had gone to their deserted village to see if they could collect some food when they were ambushed and shot dead by the sect members. According to AFP, the victims and their families had taken refuge in Damaturu the Yobe state capital after the sect members attacked their village some months back "The men, 21 of them, were stopped at Bultaram (village) by gunmen we believe are Boko Haram who shot them dead," said Baba Nuhu | ||
Kim K speaks on Bruce Jenner’s transition, says she doesn't understand it but supports him Posted: 27 Apr 2015 09:48 AM PDT In his interview with Diane Sawyer, Bruce Jenner revealed that Kim was the most supportive of all his children/step children. Speaking about Bruce's transition for the first time, Kim told Today Show; "Bruce is the most honest … He has the biggest heart and I'm really happy for him that he is living his life the way he wants to live it and that he has found inner peace and just pure happiness. That's what life is about. I don't know what life would be like if you always felt like you weren't yourself." "I and most people could never truly understand what he's going through, but I don't even think we have to. I think as long as he is happy and he wants to live his life however he wants to live it, that just makes me happy and I support him 100%" "There still is an adjustment and there is family therapy. We're really close … We all really support him. "Say what you want about us but we work out everything as a family and we have the best communication and we are so in sync with each other. … We have each other to go through this experience, and I'm really grateful for that." "Right now, he's ready for the next challenge and ready to help other people that might be going through the same things that he is going through and that's something that he's really proud of and something that he is really ready to take on and I'm really proud of him for that." | ||
Throwback pics of IBB, Gowon taking a ride with Queen Elizabeth Posted: 27 Apr 2015 09:35 AM PDT Here's a throwback pic of Gen Ibrahim Babangida taking a ride with the Queen in her carriage during his visit to England in 1989. See more photos after the cut... And here's a pic of former Head of state, General Yakubu Gowon taking a ride with the Queen Elizabeth II during a state visit to England in June 1973. Photo credit: Getty Images/SeeMeSeeNigeria | ||
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Bruce Jenner's first wife speaks on his transition, says he told her in the 70s Posted: 27 Apr 2015 09:22 AM PDT Chrystie Scott was married to Bruce Jenner for nine years. From 1972 to 1981 and is the mother of his two oldest children, Burt and Casey Jenner, and she was the first person he ever confided in about his gender identity. Speaking about his Diane Sawyer interview, Chrystie told George Stephanopoulos on his radio show this morning about her shock when Bruce first told her in the first year of their marriage in the 70's. "I can't remember the exact words because it was such a shock to me, but he opened up his heart and confessed, and he had to share this deep, dark secret. He told me he wanted to be a woman, and understandably, I didn't know what to say. It's so hard to wrap your head around it, particularly because he was such a manly man. He never indicated anything feminine in his demeanor."Speaking about Jenner finally talking about it, Chrystie said; "I'm sure there are plenty of people that don't have the courage to come out at all, ever, and they live private, dark tortured lives and that's tragic. That's just tragic and the fact that he did share it with me that first year, I feel like that was actually a gift he gave to me to trust me with something so intimate." | ||
Lagos Govt to provide Wi-Fi services for residents (in parks only) Posted: 27 Apr 2015 08:46 AM PDT The Permanent Secretary of the Lagos state Ministry of Information Communication Technology, ICT, Mrs Nike Animashaun, has revealed plans by the state government to provide Wi-Fi services to residents of the state. Speaking at the state ministerial briefing in Alausa recently, Mrs Animashaun said the first phase of the Wi-Fi connectivity would be installed in parks within the state. She listed the first parks to benefit from the WiFi installment as Oshodi, Alausa and Ajegunle parks. "The Wi-Fi services will be in some of the parks in the state and when it is deployed, residents of Lagos State would be able to access Wi-Fi in some of the parks," she saidBut who goes to these parks? Mrs Animashaun said that the state government came up with the idea to stimulate and encourage the interest of children in science and technology. She however did not state if the Wi-Fi connection will be free of charge. | ||
Obasanjo & Buhari will eventually fight, Buhari will be a formidable opponent - Babatope Posted: 27 Apr 2015 08:40 AM PDT In an interview with Punch, PDP chieftain, Ebenezer Babatope said former president Obasanjo and incoming president Buhari will eventually fight but Buhari will prove to be a formidable opponent. When asked what he foresaw of Buhari and Obasanjo's relationship, Babatope replied; Many of them who are jumping up and down now will know better when Buhari must have finished dealing with them. Buhari is a Fulani man from Daura. The northern agenda to get rid of southern leadership started in the 2011 elections. Obasanjo had his reasons. He supported Jonathan to succeed Yar'Adua and he was the same person that said Jonathan should go. As an individual, he has his rights. I am told he has been given three ministerial slots. It could be more than that, so let him go ahead but it does not stop Obasanjo tomorrow to take his biro to wipe Buhari clean and clear but the difference is that when he is fighting Buhari, he will be fighting a different kind of opponent. Buhari is a Fulani; I keep on saying that and they are very rugged and tactical in their approach to power. It is going to be an interesting fight but it is going to come. | ||
Lol. Man dressed as Jesus carrying a cross runs in London Marathon Posted: 27 Apr 2015 08:17 AM PDT Someone posted this pic on instagram yesterday saying they spotted a man in the London Marathon dressed as Jesus - on the cross. The man was later identified as Makoto Takeuchi from Japanese rock band The Chambers Flag. He thought running as Jesus would be cool and didn't bother wearing shoes because according to him, 'Jesus didn't wear any.' | ||
Agya Appiah Bitters throws a challenge to Nigerians: Taste it, be the Judge' Posted: 27 Apr 2015 08:07 AM PDT Has anyone noticed the number of alcoholic bitters drinks hitting the market? People seem to be making a decision to enjoy and still stay healthy. The problem is that many consumers are still unsure about the composition of their choice of bitters. A large number of blends in the market are either unhealthy formulations or spiked with artificial additives and preservatives, which contain toxins that are harmful to the body organs over time. Some of these products on the market are not even approved by NAFDAC. Interestingly, Agyiah Appiah Bitters, one of the leading brands out of Ghana has made a very bold claim, as it makes its entry into the Nigerian market. This claim is really bold. '100% Natural Bitters, 100 % roots, bark and herbs, No Artificial flavour, No Artificial colour. TASTE & BE THE JUDGE'. Briefing the media last Friday, the acting CEO of the company Mr Andrews Akolaa, stated that its entry into Nigeria was for one major reason: to provide Nigerian consumers with healthy alcoholic bitters in its purest, most natural form. And the consumer can feel this distinction, which is noticeable in the brand's aroma and smooth taste down the throat. Commenting further on accolades poured on the brand by consumers of Agya Appiah bitters in Ghana especially for its enhancement of libido and virility, which has given it the nickname 'waist & power', Mr. Akolaa says that although it's not being marketed as an aphrodisiac, there have been testimonies by consumers. It is indeed part of the age long benefits inherent in the selected organic plants that have been properly blended. He mentioned that consumers have also testified to other health benefits, such as women consumers alluding to its efficacy in alleviating menstrual cramps and restoring appetite. Agya Appiah Bitters is a blend of 13 carefully selected plants, each with its own preventative value. It has been endorsed by the Centre for scientific research into plant medicine in Ghana, an affiliate of WHO, the FDA in Ghana and NAFDAC in Nigeria. Head of production, Samuel Ohemeng explained that the alcohol component added to the mix has been scientifically proved to assist better secretion of medicinal value from plants and enhance efficacy better than any other fluid. In the coming weeks, the Agya Appiah team will be storming markets and bars across Nigeria to allow people the opportunity to sample how natural bitters tastes so they can make the distinction from brands with additives and make healthier choices. Are you man enough for this challenge? | ||
US Daily Beast comes for Tinubu in new article, calls him 'Heroin Kingpin' Posted: 27 Apr 2015 08:01 AM PDT US Daily Beast profiled APC leader Bola Tinubu in an article titled 'Nigeria's Next Leader's Ties to a Heroin Ring' where they described Tinubu as a 'heroin kingpin'. Tinubu will not like this. Read below
Although his case has been bandied about the Nigerian press for years, Tinubu's involvement in a federal drug and racketeering investigation waged jointly by the DEA, FBI, and IRS has gone unreported elsewhere, even after his ascendance to Karl Rove-like status last month. A recent gauzy Financial Times profile of him, for instance, neglected to mention that two decades ago Tinubu was identified as a bagman for two Nigerian heroin movers who operated out of Chicago and Hammond, Indiana. They were Adegboyega Mueez Akande and Abiodun Agbele, Akande's nephew, who was exposed to law enforcement after selling white heroin first to Lee Andrew Edwards, another dealer later jailed for trying to murder a federal agent, and then to an undercover cop. In a 1993 court docket from the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois, which The Daily Beast obtained from Sahara Reporters, a Nigeria-focused news outlet, IRS Special Agent Kevin Moss said that Akande had run the white heroin ring in the late 1980s until 1990, when he handed off the U.S arm of the business to his nephew, who had arrived in 1988. Akande then returned to Nigeria but continued to oversee the operation from abroad with the help of others at home and in the United States, including his relatives. One of the individuals identified in his cartel by Moss was Tinubu, then a Chicago State University-educated accountant working as a treasurer for Mobil Oil Nigeria Ltd, a subsidiary of energy giant Mobil Oil, which was still a few years shy of its famous merger with Exxon in 1999. In the biography section of his official website, Tinubu is described as having emigrated to the United States in 1975 "in search of the proverbial Golden Fleece with a heart brimming with unrelenting determination to achieve his visions." This is certainly one way to describe his tenure stateside. In 1989, Moss said in an affidavit, Tinubu established an individual money market account, into which he deposited $1,000 in traveler's checks, and a negotiable order of withdrawal account (NOW) at First Heritage Bank in Country Club Hills, Illinois. The address Tinubu gave the bank was the same as the listed headquarters of Globe-Link International, the front company owned by Akande and his relatives. Bank employees told Moss that Akande had personally introduced them to Tinubu in December 1989 when who also opened a joint checking account with his wife, Oluremi Tinubu, who already kept a joint account with Akande's wife at First Heritage. Five days after the NOW account was opened, $80,000 was wired into it from a bank in Houston maintained by one of Akande's relatives. Tinubu would later use the NOW account to buy a $10,000 Certificate of Deposit for an $8,000 car loan, listing Akande as his cousin on the application. At the time, Tinubu's take home as a Mobil Oil Nigeria executive was a mere $2,400 a month and he claimed not to have any other revenue streams. Yet he still managed to deposit $661,000 into his individual money market account in 1990 and then another $1,216,500 a year later. He also opened more accounts with Citibank in its worldwide personal banking unit, transferring over half a million dollars from his First Heritage money market account into one of them in early 1991. Mobil Oil Nigeria told Moss that Tinubu's role at the company never involved transferring large sums of money between banks and that it didn't keep deposits in any institutions in the south suburbs of Chicago, where First Heritage was based. Moreover, although Tinubu moved back to Nigeria in 1983, he neglected to file U.S. income tax returns after 1984 despite having sizable, interest-generating deposits in American banks. All of this was enough to persuade a magistrate judge of the Northern District to issue seizure warrants for Tinubu's First Heritage and Citibank accounts. Collectively, more than $1.4 million belonging to the Nigerian was confiscated. There's no evidence that Tinubu was ever indicted for any crime. He eventually settled with the district court, turning over $460,000 of the seized $1.4 million, with the remainder released back to him. The Beast tried repeatedly to contact Marsha McClellan, the U.S. attorney who prosecuted the case, but was unsuccessful. "I'm not surprised at all," said Virginia Comolli, a specialist on Nigeria and author of Boko Haram: Nigeria's Islamist Insurgency. "There's a trend of various Nigerian politicians at the highest levels involved in dodgy business deals around the world, in property and cash. Even ones who seem fairly clean turn out to have some dark histories." The perfect case in point is Tinubu's political project and new president-elect of Nigeria, General Muhammed Buhari, who in 1983 helped overthrow a democratically elected government in a military coup d'etat on the grounds that the government was undisciplined and corrupt. "He resorted to brutal methods, beating up people for not queuing properly and imposing limitations on the media," Comolli said. "I think a lot of the votes Buhari got were anti-Jonathan rather than pro-Buhari." Even before that trouncing, however, Tinubu had a relatively positive reputation in Nigeria, according to former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria John Campbell. "He is widely regarded as having been a highly successful governor of Lagos state," he said. "Together with Tinubu's handpicked successor, Babatunde Fashola, Lagos has seen dramatic improvements in everything from practical stuff like garbage collection to the collection of taxes and the provision of public services," Campbell told The Beast. Though even here, the ex-diplomat admits, Tinubu's good governance has been clouded by controversy. "He established a company to do the tax collecting in return for a cut and, at one point, Tinubu and Fashola appeared to be splitting over the percentage of Tinubu's cut." Drug charges do indeed appear to be the sine qua non for Nigerian high office. The year 1993, when Tinubu's assets were seized, was a turbulent period for Nigeria following the cancellation of a national election and the establishment of a military dictatorship. Moshood Abiola, the rightful winner of that election, was accused of narcotics trafficking. So too is "Prince" Buruji Kashamu from the People's Democratic Party, who has faced extradition back to the United States since 1998. Kashamu was indicted by a federal grand jury in Chicago for being the elusive "Alaji," a globetrotting drug kingpin who smuggled heroin into O'Hare International Airport from Europe and Asia. Piper Kerman, the memoirist who inspired the Netflix series Orange is the New Black, famously worked for Alaji. Kashamu denies the charges and insists that he was purportedly a counterterrorism informant to the U.S. government before and after 9/11, and that the real trafficker was his now-deceased brother. Despite his party's general loss to the All Progressives Congress, Kashumu was elected in March as senator of the southwest Ogun state. In what appeared to be a magnanimous gesture to the winner, he took out an advertisement praising Tinubu as a role model. The Jagaban was distinctly unimpressed. He trashed the comparison in a statement signed by his media adviser, claiming that for Kashamu "to liken himself to Bola Tinubu is for a small rut to call itself a mountain." Tinubu instructed the "false praise singer" to go face the music in the Windy City before deigning to talk to him. | ||
Women who gave birth via C-Section are now being shamed? Posted: 27 Apr 2015 07:44 AM PDT | ||
Mocheddah's denim-on-denim look is everything! (photos) Posted: 27 Apr 2015 07:33 AM PDT Toke Makinwa looks nice but that outfit Mocheddah has on is extra nice.... | ||
It might take you a while to work out what is actually happening in these photos Posted: 27 Apr 2015 06:24 AM PDT When you look at these photos, what do you think is going on? It's a little confusing at first, right? Well, let me explain. Vanessa and Melanie are lesbian partners. Last year, Vanessa (with the long hair) was pregnant with the couple's first child. The couple celebrated with the photo on the left. Then fast forward to 2015 and Melanie (in low cut) is the one now pregnant with the couple's second child. The couple took a similar picture (on the right) with the son they welcomed last year sitting on the floor playing with sand. They shared the photos on Facebook and it went viral. Continue...
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Photos: Nigerian babes rock Kim K's famous Balmain VMAs dress Posted: 27 Apr 2015 06:23 AM PDT Kim K wore her Balmain beaded mini dress at the VMAs in 2014 - Nigerian babes have become a little obsessed with the dress, buying knockoff versions of it and still looking fabs in it! |
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