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- Pic: Nigerian football star, Fikayo Tomori signs professional contract with Chelsea
- Mariah Carey steps out in sexy black dress on date night with BF
- Jimmy Iyke says his table water is better than Eva & the rest...:-)
- Nicki Minaj's bitter ex-boyfriend Safaree lashes out on twitter
- Right Entertainment set to sign two new acts
- Ambode approves welfare support for mother of 3 set of twins whose husband absconded
- Chris Brown goes of on his babymama's mother
- See where a car was found in Lekki, Lagos
- Kenny Ogungbe's daughter graduates (photos)
- New Video: Edanos Ft Timaya – Whine For Me
- Photo: Drake shares a shirtless pic on instagram...
- This guy says he looks like Ice Prince
- Ace presenters share their story on the cover of this week's Vanguard Allure
- Photos: Lala Akindoju and Lilian Esoro meet actor Damon Wayans
- Bauchi Governor appoints man as his Senior Special Assistant on Scheduling
- Pics: Palmchat crowns Yaba Tech student winner of Miss Palmchat contest. Gives brand new car & N500k
- Photos: Suspect breaks down in court when judge recognizes him as a former classmate
- Photo: Man abandons family after wife gives birth to 3rd set of twins
- Dear men, what would you do if this guy slapped your girl's butt?
- Pics from Pastor Chris Okotie's 57th birthday celebration + see all the gifts he got!
- New Video: Floxy Bee - Eko Wenjele ft. Edge
- Popular US blogger Necole Bitchie quits blogging - read her emotional goodbye message
- Photos: Actress Paschaline Okoli poses in her nightgown in sexy new pics
- This Irina Shayk's new naked photo though...
- Photos: Buhari, Saraki, Dogara, Ambode at APC NEC meeting
| Pic: Nigerian football star, Fikayo Tomori signs professional contract with Chelsea Posted: 03 Jul 2015 02:02 PM PDT   |
| Mariah Carey steps out in sexy black dress on date night with BF Posted: 03 Jul 2015 01:54 PM PDT |
| Jimmy Iyke says his table water is better than Eva & the rest...:-) Posted: 03 Jul 2015 01:54 PM PDT   |
| Nicki Minaj's bitter ex-boyfriend Safaree lashes out on twitter Posted: 03 Jul 2015 01:22 PM PDT |
| Right Entertainment set to sign two new acts Posted: 03 Jul 2015 01:09 PM PDT   Aspiring signees should visit www.rightentertainmentng.com and also can send in their materials (previously recorded demos) to the email: info@rightentertainmentng.com. Follow our social media platforms for further information concerning the different stages of the process and requirements.  CONTACT Twitter: @rightentNG Instagram: @rightentertainmentng Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rightent Website: www.rightentertainmentng.com Furthermore, we have a world-class studio set up for your sessions and recordings bookings situated at No 5a Taiye Olowu Street off Victoria Arobieke Street Lekki Phase 1, Lagos State. |
| Ambode approves welfare support for mother of 3 set of twins whose husband absconded Posted: 03 Jul 2015 01:00 PM PDT  In a statement released by Governor Ambode's Chief Press Secretary, Habib Aruna, Ambode said that despite the present economic situation it is wrong for anyone to abandon their own children. He promised to help the mother of six who had until now been taking care of her children from with the little money she made from the day care centre where she works. |
| Chris Brown goes of on his babymama's mother Posted: 03 Jul 2015 12:36 PM PDT  |
| See where a car was found in Lekki, Lagos Posted: 03 Jul 2015 12:16 PM PDT   As seen on Chevron Drive, Lekki yesterday. Photo credit @Batarhe |
| Kenny Ogungbe's daughter graduates (photos) Posted: 03 Jul 2015 11:13 AM PDT   |
| New Video: Edanos Ft Timaya – Whine For Me Posted: 03 Jul 2015 11:08 AM PDT Green Cash Entertainment signed recording/performing artiste, Edanos has dropped the visuals to his last hit single, 'Whine For Me' featuring Egberi Papa 1 of Bayelsa, Timaya. The banging up beat reggae tune was produced by 'Orbit', Mixed and Mastered by 'Suka Sound', while the video was shot in Lagos by Unlimited LA. Enjoy... |
| Photo: Drake shares a shirtless pic on instagram... Posted: 03 Jul 2015 09:56 AM PDT  |
| This guy says he looks like Ice Prince Posted: 03 Jul 2015 09:55 AM PDT   |
| Ace presenters share their story on the cover of this week's Vanguard Allure Posted: 03 Jul 2015 09:39 AM PDT   Some people dare to dream. Others dare to work to actualise their dreams. That is the case of the subjects on this cover of this weeks Vanguard Allure.From 53 Extra's Ozzy Agu and Sika Osei to Star Gist's Vimbai to EL Now's Ekeng Bassey. This youngsters bare their minds on what it takes to dream and own it.   Credit: Creative Director: Nelly Mesik Photography: @AhamIbeleme Stylist: Annita for @Soupofficial Outfits for the females all by @TrishoCouture. Red blazer by @KingHakbal Makeup : Evelyn and Oluchi Onuigbo for @ZaronCosmetics Hair: Akin for Tj Hair. |
| Photos: Lala Akindoju and Lilian Esoro meet actor Damon Wayans Posted: 03 Jul 2015 09:26 AM PDT   |
| Bauchi Governor appoints man as his Senior Special Assistant on Scheduling Posted: 03 Jul 2015 09:08 AM PDT  |
| Pics: Palmchat crowns Yaba Tech student winner of Miss Palmchat contest. Gives brand new car & N500k Posted: 03 Jul 2015 09:07 AM PDT      Speaking to media representativesat the event, Mr. Mounirboukali, Marketing and Business development director, Afmobi Limitedexplained thatMiss. Palmchatwas initiated to especially target young ladies and make them switch to the Palmchat platform.He also said it aimed atraising role models that will impact the society positively "…the pageantry for usisn't just about beauty; the character and vision of each contestant playsa key role at the elimination stage of the contest because what we want is to have only best of the beststo come through" Mr. Mounirboukali added.    AFmobil Nigeria the umbrella company of Palmchat app handed Monah Chime keys to a brand new Hyundai i10 as the grand prize for winning the Miss. Palmchat 2014 contest. The Palmchat Country Manager Mr Henry Ikwuemesisaid the Miss. Palmchat2014 contest was a huge success and his team hoped for an even greater recall on 2015 campaign "We saw a lot of people download and sign up on Palmchat app while the Miss. Palmchat campaign was running last year, we do not want to lose that steam so this year we'll push even harder for a better Miss. Palmchat contestant that will give us an even greater campaign recall" Fielding questions from media persons at the event, Mr. MounirBoukali said that what Palmchathopes to achieve is a huge online community with all the support services that will create a true ecosystem where people interact with each other and with their favorite service providers' on-the-go. "Interactions with other people on Palmchat can be fine-tuned in such a way that you can only engage people that share your interest. One can also choose to keep an open profile that allows for broader interactions with the public" he added. Also at the event was MsYemisiOluwaseun, Country Manager for Palmplay Offline, which is a content distribution platform also owned by Afmobi stated that the dream is to have a very rich eco system were Palmchat and Palmplay offline is the one stop shop that caters for all the needs of the modern youth. She added that, presently on Palmplay Offline you can have access to thousands of content ranging from Movies, Music, Games, Ringtones, Applications, Books and other educational content, and this can be accessed through an Offline Box provided by Afmobi and is being deployed across the country.  With the Offline boxes there is no need to connect to the internet to get content as a single connection to the offline box gives you access to all content and downloading takes only a few seconds. She added    |
| Photos: Suspect breaks down in court when judge recognizes him as a former classmate Posted: 03 Jul 2015 08:54 AM PDT  "Oh my goodness!" replied Arthur Booth, then he broke down in tears. Disheartening.Booth, 49, was arrested on Monday after being spotted driving a car that matched the description of one allegedly involved in a robbery and failing to stop after a police officer signaled him to. A police chase followed, resulting in two accidents before he crashed the car. He fled on foot but was eventually caught and charged with various offences.  "Oh my goodness," replied Booth several times, at first with smiles and then breaking down in tears. "I'm sorry to see you here," replied Judge Glazer. "I always wondered what happened to you." "This was the nicest kid in middle school," she told the court. "He was the best kid in middle school. I used to play football with him, all the kids, and look what has happened." "What's sad is how old we've become," she continued before finishing the conversation with: "Good luck to you, sir, I hope you are able to come out of this OK and just lead a lawful life."  The judge set Booth's bond at $43,000 (£27,500). Source: Sky News |
| Photo: Man abandons family after wife gives birth to 3rd set of twins Posted: 03 Jul 2015 08:53 AM PDT  The couple welcomed their first set of twin, both girls – Goodness and Goodnews in 2009 and in 2011 welcomed another twins – a boy and a girl, named John and Joyce. Ruth, who gave birth to the couple's third set of twins, Daniel and Daniella last month, was at the Lagos State Secretariat, Alausa yesterday July 2nd with her six children, to solicit for government's assistance. "I met my husband in 2002 but we got married in 2008. We met in the village at Umuahia. I don't want to leave the children and run away. This is why I want government to help us. I was using traditional way of family planning where I calculate some days before having intercourse. It was working for me. You can see my first set of twins is four years old. You know as women, we cannot deny our husband that thing whenever they request for it. Whenever I mistakenly take in, he would say that I was pretending. Sometimes, I would go through long process to abort the pregnancy. After that, another one would happen. I would still have to go through the process again to abort it. When this one happened he still insisted that I was pretending until the pregnancy became obvious. My Church was responsible for the payment of the first delivery. The church paid N120, 000 for the delivery of the first set of twins. The two deliveries of the twins have been through Caesarean Section for which we paid N120, 000 each. The last twins are through normal delivery. Since I gave birth to the children, I have tried calling my husband but he would not pick once he knows that it is me. I contacted his mother and other relatives to tell them that he has run away. They promised that they will call back. Since then, none of them has called me. It is not easy for me at all. I know only two of his relations. One of them lives in Ikorodu; the other one lives at Ajegunle. My elder brother, who could have also helped, is very angry with me for giving birth to another set of twins. He warned me before not to have any other child after the two sets of twins, especially with the kind of husband I have. I cannot put my hands in blood shedding by committing abortion. I want Nigerians to help me because there is nobody to pay their school fees. I went for immunisation some days ago and I told them my condition and why they have not been seeing me. It was there that they advised that I should come to government. Government should please help my children; no one to help me with house rent, electricity bill, school fees, food and so on" she saidSource: The Nation |
| Dear men, what would you do if this guy slapped your girl's butt? Posted: 03 Jul 2015 09:36 AM PDT   Question asked by an American personal trainer. What would you do? But keep his size in mind before you answer that question! Lol |
| Pics from Pastor Chris Okotie's 57th birthday celebration + see all the gifts he got! Posted: 03 Jul 2015 08:27 AM PDT |
| New Video: Floxy Bee - Eko Wenjele ft. Edge Posted: 03 Jul 2015 08:15 AM PDT  After the success of her recent single "Can't Help Myself", the talented artiste is here with another smash hit song titled; "Eko Wenjele (RMX), produced by George Nathaniel, featuring Egde. The video was shot and directed on a location in Lagos, by Lanre Genesis. CONNECT WITH FLOXYBEE www.Twitter.com/iamfloxybee www.Instagram.com/floxybeethequeenofhikossomusic www.facebook.com/FloxybeeTheQueenOfHikossoMusic |
| Popular US blogger Necole Bitchie quits blogging - read her emotional goodbye message Posted: 03 Jul 2015 08:11 AM PDT  "This is probably the most difficult thing I've ever had to do…And I will cry after I write this. I'm am very sadden to announce that today is my last day as a 'celebrity gossip blogger.' It's also my last day running the site as you know it, NecoleBitchie.com.  Over the next six months, I found myself hopping from couch to couch as I moved to Atlanta, and worked hard to grow my following. My friend Lauren tells the story of one day waking up to me laying on her floor with my head resting on my computer. I had fell asleep while blogging!!!!! And that was the reality of my life at the time, I couldn't really afford to log off my computer, unless it was to attend an event. I refused to send out any more resumes and work at a job I hated. Plan B? Forget about it, this was my only option, and I had to make it work. My breakthrough finally came when Munson Steed of Rolling Out invited me to speak on the Female Success Factor tour, alongside Chilli. It was my first public speaking engagement and I cried as I told the story of how losing my parents, moving to New York to pursue a job in entertainment, and feeling a since of failure after I was forced to move back to the hometown I grew up in with no money to my name, inspired me to launch my own website. I was tired of sending out resumes and looking for a job — so I had created one. Although I was still broke and living on couches, the perception was that my site was huge, was enough for those young women to find inspiration in my story. I found power in that. I also realized that speaking to young women gave me more fulfillment then those blogs I was posting every day. But still, I kept posting. I had a vision of how big my site could be…but what I didn't know was that God's plan for me was bigger than my vision. Over the next seven years, I won awards, was featured in magazines that I grew up on, including Ebony and Cosmopolitan, I was on TV, I went on tour with a pop star (Hi Rihanna!), was offered television shows and acting roles (most of which I questioned if I deserved), and I was able to upgrade from those couches I was sleeping on to my own bed. And the best part of it all was that it happened to a small town girl, who's vision was greater than the amount of money she had to make it happen. Won't he do it! If I could do it, anyone can! Despite all of those things, I continued to notice that I was experiencing more fulfillment and success from women coming to me on the street and saying, 'Your story inspires me so much!!' than I did the 'you got all the tea, I love your celebrity blog!!!' I was getting more fulfillment out of speaking engagements, panels and inspirational interviews than I was flying to a luxurious location, given freebies and standing next to someone famous. I began measuring my success not by the amount of people who read my blog, or the money I made, but by the number of people I was able to touch, motivate and inspire. I also started to realize what purpose was – and I knew to be happy, I had to start living a purpose-driven life. I had to start thinking about what I wanted my legacy to be, and what steps I'd have to take to start living in it. I think about how I want to be remembered all the time and one thing I know for sure is that I never wanted to be known for being JUST 'a celebrity gossip blogger.' I've asked myself time and time again – When all is said and done, what will people say about you? How are you elevating your audience? What are you doing to contribute to your culture in a positive way? Are you doing a good job of pushing the culture forward? How are you touching people and changing their lives? The fact that I can't answer that right now is problematic for me. I always felt that no matter how much positivity we promoted on the site, the salacious stories were always going to overshadow them. The 'Bitchie' in the website name was always going to be counterproductive to the mission I had of being a source of inspiration, and launching a platform for women to tell their stories. There is a constant internal struggle between being a character –Necole Bitchie—when I walk out in public, and being the women I know I was meant to be. Eventually, I began feeling like I wasn't doing enough and I would never reach my goals. I felt stuck! I felt boxed in! No matter how much success people thought I had, or how many pageviews our stories generated, I felt as though I was regressing. There was also a constant struggle of what I thought my audience wanted to see (salacious tea), and what I wanted to post (Inspirational women interest stories.') I was so exhausted from fighting that battle, that I literally felt defeated and I mentally gave up. Over the last few years, people have sent me emails and asked, 'Why don't you post on your personal blog site anymore, that's where I receive my inspiration.' Honestly, it was hard for me to be a source of inspiration when I'm enslaved in my own struggle. I had to go back to fixing me first. The other day, I read an article in the Harvard Business Review titled, 'Stop Worrying About How Much You Matter' and I had to wonder if my refusal to throw in the towel was because I was afraid of irrelevancy. Most people go through a stage where they fear that people won't care anymore — but that wasn't really my issue. Honestly, if I'm not relevant for the right reasons, I'd rather not be relevant at all. I realized it was taking me awhile to get the guts to walk away and pursue my true life passion because 1) I felt as though I was being ungrateful to walk away from what has proven to be successful and 2) I began living my life in fear. That fear was not just because I was scared to fail – but I was also scared of how great I really could be. To many people are not living their dreams because of fear. I DO NOT want to become one of those people. I had to destroy it, before it destroyed me. For seven years, I've given this platform everything in me. Now, it's time to refocus that energy into something that I truly believe in. I hope that one day my story will inspire young women across the globe to pursue their heart's desires, but I also want them to know that when their passion turns into a project, and it's no longer fun anymore, that it's okay to move on. It's okay to evolve, and it's definitely okay to reinvent. My favorite quote by Steve Harvey is 'You have to give up something to get something.' He always tells the story that after he gave up stand up comedy, he was given his own TV show, became an Emmy-nominated host on Family Feud, released books which were turned into movies and the list goes on. He now uses his gifts to grow a brand focused on empowerment and inspiration. Standing at the top of a mountain, feeling accomplished and at the top of your game is cool, but in order to climb another mountain and start a new journey, you eventually have to climb down. And you'll never know how great you can be until you take that risk. I would like to thank everyone for your continuous support over the years. It's so hard to grow an audience on the web and I don't take anything for granted. It means so much to me. I'd especially like to thank the writers who contributed to this site over the years (D. Joseph, Soraya Joseph, Erika Marie, Dwayne Yates, Tai Gooden, Kimmy Cason) , my videographers (Patrick Neree, Uniiqe and HD) and my friends who served as correspondents (Lauren Turner and Fallon Mercedes) for being amazing and assisting me in keeping this site running over the years. Also my sister Ma-Shyrra who learned how to sell ads and managed my social media when I was burned out. And I can't forget my amazing publicist Christina Rice who has become an incredible friend and helped me get my story out there. Lastly, thank you Bevy Smith. Last year, I attended her 'Life With Vision' event in New York City as a guest and her story of leaving her full-time job and six figure salary as a rockstar sales exec at a well-known publication to pursue her dreams of one day being on television (even when no one believed in her) really inspired me. I remember she brought me to the front of the room, to share my story of success with the attendees and I just stood there and cried while telling them that I knew it was time to move on. That the number 7 meant completion. It has taken me almost a year, but I'm doing it. That event changed me. Also a word about my grandmother: I used to sit and always wonder how she would feel about me and what I've accomplished if she was still alive. She passed away when I was 15, was the only entrepreneur I knew at the time, and she continued to stress education and business ownership to me. I am at peace today knowing that she would be smiling at me right now and be cheering me on as I step into the next part of my journey. Although it is the end of Necole Bitchie – it's not the end of my life journey. I've only scratched the surface of my true potential. As I transition into my next chapter over the next few months, and hopefully launch something new and positive, I can only hope for your continued support. It's not a 'good bye!' per say. It's a 'See you soon!' -Necole |
| Photos: Actress Paschaline Okoli poses in her nightgown in sexy new pics Posted: 03 Jul 2015 08:00 AM PDT |
| This Irina Shayk's new naked photo though... Posted: 03 Jul 2015 07:43 AM PDT  |
| Photos: Buhari, Saraki, Dogara, Ambode at APC NEC meeting Posted: 03 Jul 2015 08:09 AM PDT |
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