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Welcome to Linda Ikeji's Blog

Photos: Fashola attends nieces birthday party in Lagos

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 01:22 PM PDT

Governor Fashola joined other members of his family to celebrate the 1 year birthday of his niece, Ameerah Inumidun Fashola...
 

FFK's family disowns his three children with ex wife Yemisi Wada, questions their paternity

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 01:28 PM PDT

In a very lengthy piece released today, the family of Former Aviation minister, Olufemi Olu-Kayode stated that they have disowned his first three children named Tope who got married last week, Temi and Tuminimu, all born by his ex wife Yemisi Wada. A rep of the Fani-Kayode family, Felix Olawunmi, who wrote the piece, detailed the relationship of the former minister and his ex wife and why they have decided to disown the children. The piece below...
The piece titled: "Temitope Fani-Kayode's blissful conjugal" published in Thisday of last week Saturday contained huge incorrect and misleading information. The motive, source and credibility of the information published are highly doubtful. Nigerians are urged to discountenance the disparaging remarks made against Chief Femi Fani-Kayode in the publication. As a member of the Fani-Kayode family and one who has followed closely the life and career of Femi-Fani-Kayode for almost 50 years, I believe it is pertinent for me to set the record straight.
In 1989 or thereabout, Femi got involved with Yemisi Adeniji, the daughter of Justice Adeniji of the Lagos State high court. He had been married previously to his first wife, Saratu Attah in 1987 and had a child with Saratu whose name is Folake who was born in 1987 but by that time Saratu and Femi had separated. Yemisi and Femi got very close and spent much of the time together and eventually she got pregnant. When she got pregnant, the issue of marriage came up. Femi's father, the late Chief Remilekun Fani-Kayode objected to the marriage because he believed that Yemisi was not a stable character and was not a serious minded person. He also had lots of contempt for her background. Femi insisted on going ahead with the marriage simply because Yemisi had said that she was carrying a child and that if he didn't marry her, she would kill herself and the child inside her. It was on that basis that they proceeded and got married. Femi's father refused to attend the marriage ceremony and told him that it would not last because he could see through Yemisi. Femi's Mother attended the marriage and Chief Duduyemi who was like a son to Femi's father came to represent the father. Once the marriage took place and everything was initially okay, they went to the UK to have the child. But throughout the marriage from the beginning to the end, it was turbulent and unpleasant. They had two children - Temitope and Tobiloba. Both of them were born abroad.
Throughout the period, Femi did his best to look after them but Yemisi was always going out and found it difficult to be a responsible and decent wife. By 1993, it got to a point that Femi almost had a nervous breakdown and instead of her standing by him, not only did she desert him, she went out and had extra-marital affairs. Another child was conceived in 1993, the child was born later on in the year and that child's name is Tumininu. But right from the outset, Femi said that she was not his child. I remember Femi telling me that he never touched Yemisi throughout that year, "yet, she maintained that it was my child."
At the end of 1993, Femi went to the Bible Seminary in Ghana. No sooner had he left than she said she would never have anything to do with him again and that was where the marriage completely broke down.
There was another development that affected the relationship. Yemisi's father was implicated by the Justice Kayode Esho panel that probed the Nigerian judiciary and the recommendation was that he be kicked out for corruption. Yemisi and her father told everybody that cared to listen that it was Femi's father that was behind this. Throughout that period and regardless of the fact that they had separated, Femi did his best to send money to Yemisis and school fees and allowances for the children.
When Femi's father died in 1995, he came back to Nigeria. The family questioned the paternity especially of the last child, Tumininu, and not only that, they were so disgusted by Yemisi's behavior and the insults and the things she kept saying about the family that nobody wanted her and her children to attend the burial. That was why their names were not listed among Femi's father's grandchildren during the burial notices. They forced themselves on the Christian wake-keeping.
After that, and for a number of years, Femi remained in touch. He kept sending her money for the children. He kept doing his best to take care of them. Even when Femi went to Ghana on exile in 1996 and came back again to Nigeria in 2001, throughout that period, he was in touch. He kept sending money to all three children irrespective of the uncertainty over their paternity. He took care of their school fees; he took care of their needs and gave as much as he possibly could. By 1995, he formally divorced Yemisi and inside the affidavit of divorce, he wrote there that one of the reasons was because he questioned the paternity of especially the last child. For fear of being exposed about the real paternity of the children, Yemisi offered to settle out of court and the divorce eventually went through and that was the end of it.After that, Femi got married to Regina his third wife in 1997 and moved on with  life as she did as well. He had a child from that union by name Remilekun in 1997 and spent most of his time in Ghana but eventually, he came back to Nigeria. Throughout those years, he kept sending money to the three children by Yemisi. He did his very best despite the fact that all through the years, all that Yemisi Adeniji did was to abuse him, insult him and tell lies about his family.
When in 2001, Femi returned to Nigeria and Yemisi reached him and he saw the children from time to time. He did his best for them throughout that period. Eventually, he got into government and all she ever did was just to demand for money. He did his best for her. He kept on doing the best he could do; he kept on taking care of the children.
When Femi was appointed a minister, Yemisi tried her best to scuttle his ministerial clearance in the Senate by telling lies about him all over the place but she failed. After he was confirmed as a minister, she now decided to settle with him and tried to restore a reasonable relationship and she begged for help. Femi assisted her and the three children. He even bought a house for her in London.
Femi did all these purely out of compassion and not because he owed her anything. Quite apart from that, throughout that period, he was taking care of the fees of the children, by cheque, by transfer, by cash and he was seeing the children regularly.
When Femi stopped being minister and EFCC started hounding him, she then started sending abusive text messages and saying he was going to go to jail.
What caused that hatred was simply the fact that Femi was happily married to somebody else and had moved on with his life. Nevertheless, Femi still interacted with the children for quite some time. Eventually she poisoned the mind of the children that not even the children themselves ever acknowledged nor ever came to court to support Femi during the case. Femi refused to have anything to do with them from 2012 onwards. From that period, he cut himself off completely and Yemisi's desperation got more. Yemisi was granting series of interviews, denigrating him, running him down and saying he had done nothing for the children.
Eventually, a few weeks back, Femi read on the internet that one of the children was getting married. Once he read that, he reached out to the Randle family saying that "if you are getting married to anybody that bears the name Fani-Kayode, we should know about it", but he said Yemisi objected to Femi's family having anything to do with the marriage and that if he wanted to have anything to do with the marriage, he should try and settle everything between them first. So, Femi's family members met with the Randles and with Yemisi's mother.
Femi's family asked uncles like Chief Alex Duduyemi to intervene because they would not participate in this wedding unless one condition was satisfied and that condition was this, that all the three children have a paternity test. Despite Femi's pleas that his family should try and overlook that, they said no way.So when they said they would not go for the paternity test, Femi's family said they would not have anything to do with the wedding. The family has it on good authority that the July 5th day set for the wedding was in the hope that Femi would have been jailed by then and that his being jailed would also be celebrated at the wedding. The Randle family didn't reach out to Femi's family, and in Yoruba tradition. All Femi's family asked for was a paternity test which they refused to do. Once it was clear that all the discussions did not bear any fruit, the family as led by the head of the Fani-Kayodes now took a decision that a few days before the marriage, they would take a full page advert and also announce on television that the girl was not their daughter and that she has nothing to do with the family.
But at the last minute, Femi intervened and appealed to all the elders to just ignore them and leave them. They had the first ceremony, they had the second ceremony, they had the third ceremony, not one of Femi's family members attended. The only one that attended was Femi's first daughter, Folake, and she did that with his understanding.
The talk that Femi didn't do anything for the children is all rubbish. He did plenty for the children. They said that he was beating Yemisi while pregnant. It is all lies. If he was beating her, why did she stay to purptedly have two more children? Why should anybody be concerned about things that happened in a marriage that finished almost thirty or twenty five years ago? Femi has moved on. He has a very good relationship with the mother of Folake. He has a good relationship with Folake. He has a very good relationship with the mother of Remilekun. He have a good relationship with Remilekun, his youngest daughter.
It is only Yemisi that he does not have a good relationship with because she's full of bitterness and hatred and envy. There is no way he would have a good relationship with her children because they have no respect for him, they have never honoured him; they wanted him to go to jail.
The only recognition they have before high society is the fact that she is Femi Fani-Kayode's ex-wife. The only reason why people recognise Yemisi's girls is because Fani-Kayode is attached to them.
As far as we are concerned in the Fani-Kayode family, Femi has two children, Folake and Remilekun. The family does not recognize those other three. We don't wish them ill; we have no hatred for them. They are not just part of us. So, nobody should be surprised that we didn't go to the wedding. And there is no question of reconciling with supposed daughters that have no respect for their father, that have no love for their father and have done nothing but run their father down everywhere.
In fact, there was a time Femi begged them to change their name from Fani-Kayode because in our culture, what they are doing is shameful. You do not side with one parent against the other, and you do not expect a man, a father, to take rubbish from a child. Their mother is so embittered, so full of hate and malice. They have chosen to go that way and we have chosen to ignore them and not to go on a war path with them or start talking about them because we have class and they do not.
So, Femi does not hate his children. He is just indifferent to the ones borne by Yemisi. He has no fatherly feeling for those children except for Folake and Remilekun. The lies that he is an absentee father that never takes care of his children could only have come out from a hateful, venomous and malicious heart. Anyone can ask Folake's mother, anyone can ask Remilekun's mother, Femi takes good care of his children.

Photos: VP Osinbajo, Tinubu others attended Sen. Mamora's mum's funeral

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 01:10 PM PDT

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo joined APC National leader Bola Tinubu and other APC chieftain to attend the funeral service for the mother of Senator Adeleke Mamora in Ijebu-Ife in Ogun state today August 8th. More photos after the cut...

Lol. Nomoreloss shades the heck out of Nigerian artists

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 05:42 AM PDT

Choi!

Bobbi Kristina's family accuse Nick Gordon of drugging and putting her 'face down' in the bathtub

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 04:57 AM PDT

Late Bobbi Kristina's family is now accusing Nick Gordon of murder. An amendment to the $40m lawsuit filed against him by Bobbi Kristina's family gives a chilling timeline of what they claim happened in the hours before she was found unresponsive in her bathtub on January 31st…

From TMZ
The lawyer says at 6 AM on January 31st -- hours before Bobbi Kristina was found face down in the tub -- Nick Gordon came home from an all-night cocaine and alcohol bender. The suit claims he reviewed camera footage and became irate.
The suit says Gordon began screaming at Bobbi Kristina, accusing her of cheating and calling her a "whore and bitch.". Their argument then went from room to room, and at some point the suit claims Gordon gave Bobbi Kristina a "toxic cocktail" that rendered her unconscious.
The lawyer then says Gordon dragged Bobbi Kristina to the bathroom where he placed her face down in a tub filled with cold water.
According to the docs, Gordon got in bed, put his head on a female guest's ankle and said, "Now I want a pretty little white girl like you."
Fifteen minutes later the suit says another person (presumably Max Lomas) discovered Bobbi Kristina in the tub.
The suit also says when Bobbi Kristina was pulled from the tub, one of her teeth was hanging loosely from her mouth, indicating she had been injured.
And this is odd ... the suit says authorities found a dust pan at the bottom of the tub.

"I will never ban Okada in Ekiti state' - Ayo Fayose

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 04:34 AM PDT

Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose met with artisans and Okada riders in his state yesterday where he promised them that he would never ban Okada in the state. According to him, until other means of livelihood is provide, no one should cut the existing one.

Photos from Obasanjo's private visit to president Buhari at the Villa

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 04:28 AM PDT

Former president Obasanjo paid a private visit to Pres. Buhari at the presidential villa on Wednesday August 5th. Details of their meeting is unknown. More photos after the cut ...
 
Photo credit: Ayourb

Birthday gift? Kylie Jenner shows off 2015 Mercedes G-Wagon

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 04:23 AM PDT

The reality star who will turn 18 on Monday August 10th drove this brand new bright red 2015 G-Wagon as she left Malibu's Nobu restaurant after celebrating at an early birthday party with her family. She later took to instagram to show off the very expensive Hermes bag she got. More photos after the cut...

Virtual reality is here in nigeria & you can become among 10 lucky winners to win a smartphone

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 04:23 AM PDT

Imagine having never seeing a movie or TV show before, then being taken to a cinema to watch Fast and furious 7 or the best movie you have ever experience in a cinema? Then multiply that experience by a thousand. That's what it's like using a virtual reality headset for the first time. 

Going back to any sort of flat screen is boring and disappointing. 

A virtual reality headset takes advantage of a Smartphone, using its screen and processing power to deliver a virtual world. It incorporates a pair of lenses and a divider so each eye's image is kept separate, simulating a virtual or a 3d experience. The fun is endless, there are great apps supporting vr like the Oculus cinema, a Video app which has you hanging from a helicopter flying over Iceland. You look up and see the helicopter and when you look down you see a shadow of yourself hanging off it, it gets better from there. 

In the Battle for Avengers Tower app you find yourself right in the fray with the comic book characters. Look left and Thor is wielding his hammer, look up and Iron Man is firing rockets and looks right to see Hulk smashing bad guys. It's not all fun and games though. The opportunities to let people experience the inaccessible are huge. I got to "swim" with whale sharks and "fly" through space and "travel" to Venice.



ISN'T IT JUST 3D?

Unlike 3D, which appears to have died yet another death in the TV market, which is a very expensive static screen with things "popping" out of it. With virtual reality you are "inside" the game or movie and you have a 360 degree view of everything. Hear someone creeping up behind you? Turn around and they are right there trying to grab you, another way to watch 360 content is youtube 360 videos

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Photos: Amara Kanu Nwankwo puts her fit bod on display

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 04:20 AM PDT

That's a mother of three. Amazing!

Photos: Powerful typhoon hits Taiwan. 6 dead, over a 100 seriously injured

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 03:59 AM PDT

At least six people have been confirmed dead, four missing and over sixty seriously injured when Typhoon Soudelor hit Taiwan early this morning Saturday August 8th. Taiwan Power, the island's main power company, said 2.94 million households are currently without power. Hundreds of flights have been delayed or cancelled, according to Taiwan authorities.

Thousands of people were evacuated as the storm approached and the island's military put tens of thousands of troops and thousands of vehicles on stand-by for rescue operations.

The storm made landfall early in the morning on the island's east-coast counties of Yilan and Hualien, bringing up to 1,000 mm (39 inches) of rain in mountainous northeastern areas and wind gusting up to 200 kph (124mph). Typhoon Soudelor is expected to cross the Taiwan Strait and hit the Chinese province of Fujian late today. Some photos below...



Image Credit: REUTER/AFP/Stringers/twitter users

Men of God failed to deliver Jonathan from a spell - Bishop Okonkwo

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 03:53 AM PDT

In an interview with Vanguard to celebrate his 70th birthday, former president of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria and the presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM), Bishop Mike Okonkwo said that men of God in Nigeria failed to cast the spell on ex president Jonathan while he served as president.
"I admire ex-President Jonathan so much, but he didn't have the gut to fight corruption. I will also blame the men of God. I will say the men of God, failed Jonathan. Because Jonathan was operating like somebody under some spell and we (the men of God) had the responsibility of taken him out of the spell, pray with him even for three days and whatever was holding him would have been removed.
But we did not do that. Probably, he had the intention of doing the right thing but forces were against him and don't forget he was not a matured christian. We would have taken him out and probably we would not be in this mess today"he said

Bad state of the Calabar-Akpabuyo-Bakassi-Cameroon express-way

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 03:30 AM PDT

A LIB reader writes in;
"This is the road that leads to the Bakassi Cameroon border. There's a civil servants residential estate in Akpabuyo and its this road that leads there. So many people use the road all hours of the day but with the condition now, people are stuck in traffic for hours.
Its a road for Unicem Trucks too. And these trucks keep getting stuck and falling everywhere. Now we're begging the government.  People are suffering here.

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Posted: 08 Aug 2015 03:23 AM PDT

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Very graphic photos from accident in Delta that killed 12 passengers in a bus

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 03:06 AM PDT

The horrific and unfortunate accident happened on August 6th around 6pm at Ubulu Okiti Junction in Aniocha South LGA of Delta state. A driver of a commercial bus carrying 14 passengers lost control on the highway as he was trying to avoid a towing van which entered the highway without caution.

The bus, carrying mostly students, and traveling from Asaba to Agbor, unfortunately ran into a stationed trailer parked beside the Express way as he made to avoid the towing van. Of all 15 people in the bus, only 2 survived and are in critical condition at the hospital. The photos after the cut are really horrific so viewer discretion is seriously advised...

What is wrong with these photos?

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 03:16 AM PDT

You see anything? Corrupt minded people...lol. See another tricky photo after the cut...

Singer Immaculate stuns in new pics as she releases new single, Osanle

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 03:23 AM PDT

Vivace Records presents the diva Immaculate looking sassy and chic in her new pics, as she drops another banging hit "Osanle". Produced by A list music producer and Vivace Records CEO Tee-Y Mix. This track will certainly make you move. See more pics and listen to the song after the cut...





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Actress Ufoma Ejenobor McDermott releases lovely pregnancy pics

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 02:34 AM PDT

The actress is expecting her second child with her husband Steven McDermott. They already have a son born in 2012. Ufoma is said to be expecting a girl this time. Big congrats to her and Steven...

Credits

Photo: Reze Bonna
Styling: Ese Okpomo
Make up: House of Tara Costume & Accessories: Garnet 25

Boy with giant hands gets pioneering surgery after being dubbed 'the devil' (photos)

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 02:29 AM PDT

8 year old Kaleem suffers from a rare medical condition called macrodactyly, that means he has giant-sized hands. He's been excluded from school and cast out in his local village in India because he is believed to be "the child of the devil". Kaleem's own uncle believes that because his mother visited latrines when she was pregnant with Kaleem that it could have infected him with "demons".


 
A Channel 5 documentary titled 'The Boy with the Giant Hands', follows Kaleem and his family as they prep for life-changing surgery.

Kaleem is more than apprehensive but faced with a future of illiteracy and constant bullying it appears it is the only chance for him. As he spends his days playing with a rubber tyre by himself Kaleem says: "I don't go to school because the teacher says the other kids get scared when they look at me."
The family travel thousands of miles to visit a leading reconstructive surgeon in southern India, who is convinced he can improve the function in Kaleem's hands.

The doctors have to work against the clock during the complicated surgery to manoeuvre between fatty tissues and swollen nerves in Kaleem's hands. The invasive surgery is risky for the malnourished eight-year-old, as he has to build up his strength so he can get his hands reduced to a regular size.

The documentary sees Kaleem get his fingers shortened but the recovery could take months before the youngster notices a difference.
It's down to the team to help Kaleem get through the intensive post-rehabilitation and convince the local villagers and the school the young boy is not the "devil child".

Source: UK Mirror

What shocked a man who wanted to show love to his family

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 02:12 AM PDT

Is it asking for too much for a young man to be given the opportunity to give his family a treat according to his taste? Definitely not. But it is one thing to wish and another thing to have what you wish. (Dr Nnaeto Orazulike, GMD of Genesis Group, with wife, Dr Ngozi Orazulike, at the dinner)

A young husband and father living with his family in Port Harcourt wanted the best for his family. He and his wife were blessed with twin boys, vibrant and adventurous.

 During weekends, especially, the man wanted to take them to places where they could have fun and bond as a family. But there was a snag. Such places were hard to come by in Port Harcourt. It was frustrating, demoralizing and even shocking. So what were the options available to him? Make do with the unsatisfactory places around and keep complaining? Stay indoors always and live a boring life? 

 Fold his arms and pray for somebody to do something?

Well, the man of ideas Nnaeto Orazulike decided to be the change he wanted to see. And The Genesis Centre was born.

This is not fiction.
 
Have you been to Genesis Deluxe Cinema either in Lagos, Port Harcourt or Enugu before? I am sure most of us who have must have been captivated and immersed in the wonderful ambiance than to think about how it all started. I am sure this will interest you.

As a young couple, living and working in Port Harcourt was real fun for Ichie Nnaeto Orazulike and his beautiful wife Dr. Ngozi Orazulike. Life and business were just seamless and God blessed them with two wonderful boys. There is always the need for busy families to create time to bond with their kids especially on weekends. However, as the boys were growing up, it dawned on him that family entertainment destination was almost nonexistent in The Garden City. As is typical of the business maverick, Orazulike needed no further research to reveal to him the quantum of opportunities in that hospitality category, given the abundance of middle- to high-income family segments in the Port Harcourt city.


And pronto: an idea was born. That idea was The Genesis Centre Port Harcourt. It was conceived to provide the great city with a one-stop shop for family entertainment: A lifestyle centre where every member of the family will be engaged in different fun-filled experiences ranging from restaurants game zones, cinemas and exotic lounges.  As the development was going on, a similar opportunity came in Lagos at the Palms Mall: the birth of Genesis Deluxe Cinemas.

So it was the same experience of not finding a befitting place for an outing and the same drive in filling gaps in hospitality industry that fired Orazulike to found the Genesis Deluxe Cinemas in 2008. Genesis Deluxe Cinema is about the leading cinema developer and operator of multiplex cinemas in Nigeria. Since the launch into the Nigerian market in 2008 in Lagos, Genesis Deluxe Cinemas has grown to 4 cinemas with 18 screens and over 2,500 seats in Port Harcourt, Lagos and Enugu.

The journey into the cinema industry began with the belief that he could provide a unique entertainment experience, where the best international and domestic movie releases could be enjoyed within ultra-modern, friendly and welcoming ambiance. As is typical of Genesis investments, today one can say with confidence that Genesis Deluxe Cinemas is a market leader within the Nigerian cinema industry and is the brand of choice for commercial developers looking for a cinema vendor that not only drives traffic, but also brings extra value to the table.

According to statistics, Nigerian film industry, popularly called Nollywood, is rated the third most valuable film industry in the world behind India and the US. In spite of the giant strides Nigeria has made in the film industry, Nigeria has one of the lowest number of cinemas when compared to its peers in film business like India and United States. As such, cinema industry in Nigeria still has a long way to go. 

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas has taken upon its shoulders the responsibility of driving the process of bridging the gap that currently exists within the cinema industry by opening 30 new locations and 120 screens within the next 5 years.


Genesis Deluxe Cinemas' offers are tailored to appeal to the different segments of the family for maximum satisfaction. These include Extra Comfortable Seats, VIP Seating, Cosy Lounges, Game Zones, Dolby Digital Sound/Screens, 3D Movies, Discount Ticket Prices and Fabulous Student Pricing. GDC also offers Membership to its valued customers, offering points that can be redeemed against tickets and concessions.

The business has blossomed. Today, the Genesis Group spans different market categories like restaurants, hotels, catering, cinemas, real estate, bakery/confectioneries, facilities management and lifestyle. One hears of Genesis Restaurants, Genesis Deluxe Cinemas, Genesis Fill-up, Genesis Bread, The Sojourner by Genesis, and more. The Genesis brand has gradually but steadily become a conglomerate that has spread across the federation, employing about 2,500 people. 

In recognition of his giant business developmental strides and contributions to the Nigerian economy, Orazulike was recently honoured by the University of Port Harcourt with an award of Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa).

In his acceptance speech on behalf of other honorary doctorate degree recipients, Dr Nnaeto Orazulike, who is the Group Managing Director of the Genesis Group, urged Nigerians to change their negative thinking about Nigeria. Orazulike noted that the fact that foreigners continue to establish new businesses or expand existing ones in Nigeria is a testimony that they see what we don't see in our economy.

His words: "We need to change our perception about our country and start looking at the opportunities and how to harness them. I am not saying that the challenges are not real, but beneath every challenge exist legitimate business opportunities. It was this desire that inspired the Genesis Group."

He listed some of the opportunities in Nigeria and how foreign companies are tapping into them, and ended the speech by saying: "My parting words to us today is for us to look at the brighter side of Nigeria and view it from a different perspective and be prepared to take the opportunities staring us in the face. This way, we can help in poverty alleviation in our country. If every Nigerian can commit to propagate one positive thing about this great country especially when we are abroad, our story will begin to change. Like I will always tell anyone who cares to listen, no one can love us more than ourselves."
 
That same evening, a dinner was held in his honour at the highbrow Asia Town, Old GRA, Port Harcourt. Captains of industry and the crème de la crème of society attended the dinner. They included the current MD and former MD of Fidelity Bank Plc, Mr Nnamdi Okonkwo and Mr Reginald Ihejiahi respectively; former Chairman of APGA, Chief Victor Umeh; Chairman of Seplat Petroleum,  Dr ABC Orjiako; President, South-East – South-South Professionals, Mr Emeka Ugwu-Oju, and others.

Billionaire daughter Bim Fernandez stuns in new sexy photos

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 02:05 AM PDT

Stunning Abimbola Fernandez is one of the daughters of billionaire businessman, Deinde Fernandez. I've featured here a few times before...she's a singer and a true fashionista. More pics after the cut...

As seen on Ogoja-Calabar highway this morning

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 01:59 AM PDT

*Sigh*

Bangladesh blogger hacked to death for atheist views. The 4th to be killed in the country this year

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 01:40 AM PDT

Popular blogger Niloy Chakrabarti, who used the pen-name Niloy Neel, 40, was killed yesterday Friday August 7th after a gang armed with machetes broke into his home in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was well known for his atheist views and anti-Islamic writings.
"They entered his room in the fifth floor and shoved his friend aside and then hacked him to death. He was a listed target of the Islamist militants," Imran H. Sarker, head of Bangladesh Blogger and Activist Network told AFP
Police confirmed Chakrabarti had been murdered by a group of half a dozen people in the capital's Goran neighbourhood, although they had no details on his background or the motive for the killing.


 "There were six people who knocked his door, saying that they were looking to rent a flat," Muntashirul Islam, a deputy police commissioner, told AFP. "Two of them then took him to a room and then slaughtered him there," Islam added."His wife was in the flat but she was confined to another room."
Niloy
His body being removed
Asif Mohiuddin, another secular blogger who himself survived an attack by militants in Bangladesh in 2013, described Chakrabarti as an atheist "free thinker" whose posts appeared on several sites.
"He was critical against religions and wrote against Islamist, Hindu and Buddhist fundamentalism. He was a founding member of a rationalist organisation," Mohiuddin, who is now based in Berlin, told AFP by phone.

Niloy is the fourth secular blogger to be killed in the Muslim-majority nation since February, when Bangladeshi-born US citizen Avijit Roy was hacked to death in Dhaka. His wife was also badly injured in the attack. The other victims include Ananta Bijoy, Das who was attacked by a group wielding machetes on May 13 as he headed to work in Sylhet, and 27-year-old Washiqur Rahman who was hacked to death in Dhaka in March. Most secular bloggers have either gone into hiding, often using pseudonyms in their posts, or have fled abroad.

Activist groups say they fear that Islamist hit squads have hit lists which contain the full names and addresses of the bloggers. Bangladeshi authorities banned the hardline Islamist group Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) following Das's murder in May, after facing accusations that they were doing too little to stop such attacks.

In a recent petition addressed to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, authors including Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood called on her government "to do all in their power to ensure that the tragic events of the last three months are not repeated, and to bring the perpetrators to justice". "We are gravely concerned by this escalating pattern of violence against writers and journalists who are peacefully expressing their views," said the petition.

Bangladesh is an officially secular country, but more than 90 percent of its 160 million people are Muslim.

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Smirnoff's Spinall & Friends Tour take party to Enugu

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 12:54 AM PDT

Enugu, are you ready for the party of a lifetime? This Saturday, the Smirnoff's Spinall and Friends Tour will be coming to your town. It definitely will be an epic night of partying with the unstoppable DJ Spinall, Burna Boy and Oga Boss Ill Bliss.

The Smirnoff's Spinall and Friends Tour treated consumers to an epic doubleside parties in Benin, Port Harcourt and Abuja and it is was indeed a once in a lifetime experience.

This weekend, Saturday 8th of August, 2015, Enugu plays host to the Smirnoff crew. You definitely can't afford to miss it as your favourite DJ the unstoppable DJ SPINALL a.k.a TheCAP will be live in Enugu with his friends, that Ibo boy, Ill Bliss and the man that knows how to party, Burna boy will thrill consumers to a great time.

The venue is 2nite club, Villa Toscana Hotel, Aguleri Street, Enugu. It is going to be a refreshing time as consumers will also have the opportunity to have a taste of the new Smirnoff Guarana.

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·         Remember you have to be 18+ to party with Smirnoff.

Most Beautiful Girl In Lagos 2015 releases stunning new photos

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 12:58 AM PDT

Queen Lynette Ndukwe, Most Beautiful Girl In Lagos 2015 who was crowned on the 31st of May 2015 stuns in new photos. More when you continue...

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