Weeks after “ruling” the 2014 MTV Africa Music Awards with multiple awards, Nigerian music star, Davido has again won the Best International Act – Africa award at the 2014 BET Awards 2014, which held last night at the Nokia theater, Los Angeles, USA.
Davido beat Mafikizolo, Tiwa Savage, Sarkodie, Toofan and Diamond Platnumz for the win.
The entertainer broke the news on his Instagram page with the photo and a caption which read: “Thanks to my fans!!! WE WON! BET BEST AFRICAN ACT 2014!! time to party!!!”
Been holding on to the news because I wanted to be 100% sure it's
true...unfortunately it is. Our Branama queen is gone. Kefee Obareki Don
Momoh passed away this morning June 13th at the US hospital where she
was taken to after she collapsed and went into coma. She never came out
of the coma. Her international manager Adeline has confirmed her passing
and Kefee's husband also confirmed to a Star FM staff, where he works.
What a sad day. May her soul rest in peace..Amen.
This is just too sad! She was just in
her mid 30s...looking forward to a great future...recently released a
song...working on an album, spent 8 months in the US to pursue courses in video production and directing so she could pursue her dreams...and now she's gone. Too sad!
Suspected Boko Haram militants kidnap 20 women from a nomadic settlement in northeast Nigeria
The 20 women were kidnapped near the town of Chibok, where Boko Haram abducted the 300 schoolgirlsPhoto: Boko Haram/AFP
By AFP
9:10AM BST 10 Jun 2014
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have reportedly kidnapped 20 women from a nomadic settlement in northeast Nigeria near the town of Chibok, where the Islamic militants abducted more than 300 schoolgirls and young women on April 15.
Alhaji Tar, a member of the vigilante groups set up to resist Boko Haram’s attacks, said the men arrived at noon Thursday in the Garkin Fulani settlement and forced the women to enter their vehicles at gunpoint. He says they drove away to an unknown location in the remote stretch of Borno state.
Tar said the group also took three young men who tried to stop the kidnapping.
“We tried to go after them when the news got to us about three hours later, but the vehicles we have could not go far, and the report came to us a little bit late,” he said.
In another incident, the Defense Headquarters said Monday that troops prevented raids by Boko Haram this weekend on villages in Borno and neighbouring Adamawa state. Soldiers killed more than 50 militants on Saturday night as they were on their way to attack communities, defence spokesman Chris Oluklade said in an emailed statement.
The Nigerian military has come under rising criticism from Nigerians who say they’re not protected by the security forces, left to fend off attacks by Boko Haram on their own.
Boko Haram, which wants to establish Islamic state in Nigeria, has been taking over villages in the northeast, killing and terrorising civilians and political leaders. Thousands of people have been killed in the five-year-old insurgency, more than 2,000 people have been killed so far this year, and an estimated 750,000 Nigerians have been driven from their homes.
In recent weeks, the extremists have used a two-pronged strategy and widened their theatre of operation beyond the remote northeast of the country. The group has bombed bus stations and marketplaces in three cities, killing about 250 people, and they are staging daily attacks on northeast villages, killing 20 people one day, and 50 another.
In one incident last week, the militants reportedly killed hundreds of civilians in three villages in the Gwoza local government. Residents said they had requested the military sends troops to protect the area after hearing Boko Haram militants were about to attack, but they said help never came.
The extremists abducted more than 300 girls from the Chibok Government Girls School on April 15, according to the police. Chibok community leader Pogu Bitrus says 57 girls escaped, leaving an estimated 272 still held captive.
With the unrelenting pace of modern life, a tidy, well-organized refrigerator is something that most people can only dream about. While we’d all love to keep our fridges ordered and clean, long work hours and other commitments often end up getting in the way. Having to throw away long-forgotten food items and making unnecessary purchases are just some of the more common annoyances of a household refrigerator in disarray. Continue...
To help restore order in the kitchen, LG Electronics (LG) set about finding answers to the question, “How can we make a fridge that’s more convenient to use and easier to keep organized?” After extensive consumer research, and a great deal of hard work, the company released a brilliantly rendered solution: the unique and innovative Door-in-Door.
According to a survey conducted by LG, four out of 10 consumers cannot, with any degree of certainty, name what’s inside their refrigerator. This lack of familiarity often results in food items being forgotten and eventually discarded. Moreover, a messy fridge leads one out of four consumers to waste time and money on unnecessary trips to the store to buy items they already have.
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"A large capacity is not the only factor people consider when buying a refrigerator,” said Mr. Hyunwoo Jung, General Manager, Home Appliance Division, LG Electronics. “Smarter, more intuitive food organization is now a must due to today’s busy lifestyles. Our Door-in-Door provides users with easyaccess to the items they use the most and gives them the freedom to arrange things just the way they like it. Not only does the Door-in-Door save time, it also keeps cold air locked inside the refrigerator’s main compartment. We are continuing to receive industry recognition and consumer praise for this innovative and practical of features. LG is dedicated to making life easier and will always strive to deliver next-level convenience to its customers.”
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LG is the industry leading manufacturer when it comes to incorporating an additional compartment within the fridge’s front door. The original Door-in-Door made its debut in South Korea in February 2010. The feature has since become a global market trend. In 2011, they were introduced to markets in North America, Asia and South and Central America, with launches in Oceania, the Middle East and Africa coming the following year. LG has sold over 1.4 million Door-in-Door refrigerators worldwide and continues to refine its celebrated double layered door.
jall the benefits the Door-in-Door offers, it’s no wonder the feature has been integrated into each of LG’s global refrigerator categories, including side-by-side, French-door, top freezer and bottom freezer refrigerators. The company has gone one step further this year; the remarkable Double Door-in-Door refrigerator, released in South Korea, puts one Door-in-Door on the right door and another on the left, adding a whole new level of convenience. Even better, consumers around the world will soon get a chance to experience this convenience since LG is planning to launch the Double Door-in-Door in additional markets around the globe.
Double Door-in-Door refrigerator is a great example of LG’s ongoing effort to make life better for consumers in diverse markets around the world. After creating the original Door-in-Door in 2010, the company has upgraded the feature each and every year to enhance convenience in more intuitive ways.
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Our boys have landed in Brazil ahead of the 2014 World Cup starting this Friday June 13th. The footballers traveled over 15 hours. 1 and a half hours to Miami, 9 hours to Sao Paolo and a two-hour bus ride to their hotel. Go Super Eagles. Make us proud!! See more photos after the cut...
The Nigerian Army has announced the captured of three people they believe are suppliers of arms for the dreaded Islamist militant group, Boko Haram.
According to reports, the suspects include a retired Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP, and a corporal, Abu Haruna, Solomon, arrested for illegal trafficking of arms and ammunition.
* The Nigerian Army
It was gathered that the suspects were captured in Nsukka by men of the Nigerian Army while they were travelling in a bus heading to the North from Imo State.
Some of the arms and ammunitions recovered from them include 40 AK47 magazines, 4 boxes of AK47 live ammunition, 100 pieces of live cartridges, one piece of Denin Mopol khaki and charms concealed in a cap.
The captured arms suppliers confessed their involvement in supplying of arms to insurgents in the Northern Nigeria.
A police corporal serving in Imo State Police Command was also involved in the arms running, according to a source.
* File photo of Boko Haram insurgents
The retired DSP, Abu Haruna, confessed that he had been in the business of arms dealing since he retired from the police.
He said their mission was to supply the ammunition to thier buyer in Taraba state.
The suspects were said to be taken to Nsukka Police Division before their transfer to the state CID. READ MORE: http://news.naij.com/66965.html
Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade , Director of Defence Information, on Monday announced that the Nigerian army at the weekend killed about 50 Bomo Haram sect members in a foiled attack on villages in Borno and Adamawa states.
*Nigerian Army Personnel
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) made this known in a statement issued to newsmen in Abuja.
According to the statement, the sect members were on their way to attack selected communities, when they were ambushed by soldiers along Bilta, Borno State, upon receiving intelligence report on the Islamist intention.
Olukolade said the attack was launched at about 10:00 p.m. on Saturday, as the terrorists trooped out of the forest to embark on their mission.
The DHQ spokesman revealed that four soldiers sustained bullet wounds during the assault.
“More than 50 terrorists died in the fierce encounter that ensued, while 30 rifles, 36 hand grenades, 7 machine guns and 11rocket propelled grenade tubes were captured by the troops” Olukolade said. “Also recovered from the terrorists are 3,500 rounds of ammunition, six smoke grenade canisters, locally fabricated guns and four vehicles used by the terrorists in the foiled attack”.
He said the four soldiers that sustained injuries in the operation have been taken to a secure military medical facility for medical attention.
Olukolade said that the military had embarked on cordon and search in the area in order to fish out the wounded sect members.
Can an artiste be more powerful than a political office holder who is more respected in her country and in the diaspora?
This
above question has to do with the Nigerian’s Finance Minister, Dr.
Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, while delivering her speech at the convocation
ceremony at Babcock University, Ilisan Remo, Ogun State, on Sunday, June
1st.
Dr.
Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, was addressing the 1,544 graduating students of
the institution when Davido’s sudden entrance at the event created an
uproar of distraction.
The
AYE crooner dramatic entrance while the special guest of honour, the
Minister of Finance, was delivering her speech, made the Minister pause
and watched the diversion.
Davido’s
arrival held the audience spell-bound that the Minister had to pause
her speech and watch the students celebrate the artiste’s arrival who,
happens to be part of the graduating students with a degree in Music.
To
respect the Finance Minister, Davido’s father, Chief Deji Adeleke, who
was present at the occasion had to walk his son out for there to be
calmness.
AC Milan fired coach Clarence Seedorf on Monday after less than five
months in charge and replaced him with youth team boss Filippo Inzaghi, a
move that had been on hold for two weeks.
"AC Milan have dismissed coach Clarence Seedorf and handed over the
first team to Filippo Inzaghi until June 30, 2016," the Serie A club and
seven-time European champions said in a statement.
Former Netherlands midfielder Seedorf, who had no previous coaching
experience and spent 10 years of his playing career at Milan, quickly
fell out of favour despite overseeing a significant improvement in
results.
Milan won 11 out of 19 Serie A matches under the Dutchman compared to
only five of the previous 19 under predecessor Massimiliano Allegri on
their way to an eighth-place finish, missing out on the Europa League by
one point.
Seedorf, 38, was playing for Botafogo in Brazil when he he was offered
the Milan job and cut short his playing career to accept what he clearly
felt was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
A crushing 5-1 aggregate defeat by Atletico Madrid in the Champions
League round of 16 appeared to turn the tide against Seedorf, who as a
player won the Champions League with Ajax, Real Madrid and Milan.
Former Italy striker Inzaghi, who has also never coached at senior level, had been in charge of the club's under-19 team.
He spent 11 seasons playing for Milan, winning two Serie A titles and
two Champions League crowns, and collected 57 caps for his country.
Inzaghi was on the end of one of former Manchester United manager Alex
Ferguson's most famous quotes when the Scot said: "That lad must have
been born offside".
Most critics agreed that Seedorf was not to blame for Milan's recent
troubles which has seen them slip down the pecking order in Serie A and
the Champions League.
Milan's difficulties began at the end of the 2011/12 season when they
decided it was time to balance the books and sold talismanic striker
Zlatan Ibrahimovic and key defender Thiago Silva to Paris St Germain.
Other long-time servants also left including defender Alessandro Nesta and tough-tackling midfielder Gennaro Gattuso.
The club hailed a new philosophy based on finding and developing
talented young players yet went and did exactly the opposite, hiring
players in the middle or latter stages of their careers.
The 2013 summer transfer window saw them splash out 11 million euros on
journeyman striker Alessandro Matri who failed to settle and was loaned
to Fiorentina in January.
Slovenian midfielder Valter Birsa was signed from Genoa as a free agent
while Kaka, 32, returned to the club after four injury-prone years at
Real Madrid in a classic case of what Italians call "reheated soup"
(minestre recaldati).
In January, the club then plucked Michael Essien out of Chelsea's reserves.
Milan promised to stick with coach Massimiliano Allegri until the end of
the season, but lost patience with him in January and brought in
Seedorf amid great fanfare.
The immediate past governor of Nigeria’s Central Bank, Lamido Sanusi,
has been named the new emir of the powerful Kano emirate, to succeed
late Ado Bayero who died on Friday.
Mr. Sanusi’s appointment was announced Sunday by the secretary to the Kano state government, Suleiman Bichi.
The announcement followed the recommendation of the four members of
the Kingmaker council who nominated the new emir to the governor.
The four kingmakers who nominated Mr. Sanusi include the Makaman
Kano, Sarki Ibrahim, the Sarki Bai, Alhaji Adnana, the Sarki Dawaki Mai
Tuta, Bello Abubakar, and the Madakin Kano Yusuf Na Buhari. The man Sanusi
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi was born in Kano Northern Nigeria, on July 31,
1961. He obtained degrees in Economics and Islamic Law from the Ahmadu
Bello University, Zaria and the International University of Africa,
Khartoum.
After teaching economics for two years at the Ahmadu Bello
University, he started a banking career in 1985 with Icon Limited
(Merchant Bankers) and later worked with the United Bank for Africa Plc
and First Bank of Nigeria Plc.
His banking career spanned various fields including issuing House activity, Financial Advisory Services and Credit marketing.
However, it was in the field of Risk Management that he earned his
professional reputation, having distinguished himself as the Chief Risk
Officer in the two largest banks in the Country, UBA Plc and FBN Plc.
He rose to the position of Group Managing Director/Chief Executive
officer of First Bank Plc, the largest bank in the country in January,
2009 and was appointed the 10th Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria
(CBN) in June, 2009.
He was however suspended from office by President Goodluck Jonathan
on February 20, 2014 after he was accused of “financial recklessness”.
Many Nigerians however believed Mr. Sanusi was targeted for blowing
the whistle on corrupt national oil company, the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation which he accused of failing to remit at least
$20billion oil revenue to the Federation Account.
Prior to his suspension, Mr. Sanusi had exposed the NNPC as a cesspool of corruption.
Tonto is really a kind hearted lady! She treats her housemaid right. She
was once seen hangin out with her and now enrolled her for jamb
lessons, which yielded a fruitful result!
Things have gone South for Justin Bieber ... way South -- TMZ has learned he's down Mexico way while the heat blows over from the video of his racist joke.
According
to our sources, Justin's been holed up in a sick villa in Playa del
Carmen. We're told la casa has five bedrooms, a private squash court,
gym equipment, sunken trampoline, outdoor hot tub, snorkeling gear ...
and a lot more.
The villa typically rents for $1,550 - $4,000 a night and even comes with a private chef and a personal concierge.
Bieber's not alone ... his amigo Khalil's been spotted on the grounds, as well as Rita Ora (see above).
One of Nigeria’s most prominent traditional rulers, Ado Abdullahi Bayero, the Emir of Kano has died. The Emir died early today June 6th in Kano according to family sources.
Ado Bayero has been the Emir of Kano since 1963 and was a former ambassador to Senegal. May his soul rest in peace...amen
While delivering his paper yesterday June 5 at the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria in Abuja, President of Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria and Archbishop of Jos, Most Rev. Ignatius Kaigama said that the global Bio-tech market where people sell their body parts; vagina, womb, ovaries in exchange for money, has penetrated into Nigeria and that some Nigerian women are now targets of those behind this business.
According to him, this market is being handled by businessmen in partnership with some members of the National Assembly.
"Some scientists and dubious businessmen use members of the National Assembly to gain legal access to the wombs and ovaries of women and young girls. It is becoming increasingly clear to us that even in Nigeria, our women have become the targets of all manners of intrigues, especially as their fertility is concerned. Personal private parts of women, ranging from wombs, ovaries and human eggs risk being put up as commodities for sale at the global biotechnology market-places.” he said
There's a protest currently going on at the University of Lagos. Students are protesting UNILAG authority demanding that some students pay N20,000 for late editing or registration of Course Forms.
The students first converged at the University's Senate Building where they shouted slogans and sang protest songs, demanding that the school ends this form of exploitation today, while accusing their VC of corruption. They left the senate building and went on a rampage through all the faculties in UNILAG demanding their rights.
The students then blocked entrances to the school, preventing cars from going in and out of the campus.
The students claim they registered late because the school management shut the school portal against registration, only for the school to demand an extra N20,000 from students registering late. The police are currently there to calm things down.
Lol. Yes you read right. The actor/movie producer who welcomed a set of twins on May 27th has revealed that he and his wife named their son and daughter Hollywood and Nollywood respectively. He revealed this on his Facebook page, saying everyone should take note that they are the first in Nigeria to bear such names. See what he wrote after the cut...
Things have gone South for Justin Bieber ... way South -- TMZ has learned he's down Mexico way while the heat blows over from the video of his racist joke.
