Monday, 23 September 2013

Photos: Footballer ronaldinho pays $58,000 to get his teeth fixed

After years of refusing to fix his crooked teeth, saying his fans loved his trademark grin, 2-time FIFA World Player of the Year winner (2004/ 2005) Ronaldinho has changed his mind and finally gotten it fixed. The Brazilian football superstar paid $58,000 to have his teeth realigned, and gums altered.

Rohaldinho had the procedure at an orthodontic clinic in Brazil last month but the photos and video of the surgery were only released to the public two days ago. See the before and after photos after the cut



CBN will contribute N50bn to AMCON Sinking Fund – Rep

Abuja - The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Banking and Currency, Rep. Jones Onyereri, said the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) would contribute N50 billion to the Assets Management Corporation (AMCON) sinking fund.
Onyereri (PDP-Imo) made the announcement at a one-day public hearing on a bill to amend the AMCON Act 2010 organised by the committee in Abuja on Monday.
The fund is a safety net for AMCON to ensure it meets its obligations arising from debt securities issued by it.
It also insulates the tax payer from obligations occasioned by financial mismanagement by the banks.
He said that commercial banks in the country would be mandated to contribute an amount equivalent to 50 basis points of their total assets to the fund.
“The key component of the amendment bill relates to setting up of a sinking fund or Resolution Cost Fund.
“It basically obligates a bank to contribute annually an amount equivalent to 50 basis points of its total assets to the fund and CBN is to contribute N50 billion to the fund,’’ he said.
According to him, the amendment is aimed at strengthening AMCON as an institution to be able to carry out its functions.
The legislator said the bill would remove contradictions relating to the purchase agreements between AMCON and financial institutions.
“What this bill, therefore, seeks to do is to codify the obligations of both the CBN and the banks and to give the previous agreement between parties the force of law,’’ he said.
He said the committee would continue to work with regulatory authorities and banks to find ways of reducing the high interest rates in the country.
Onyereri said that about N600 billion recovered from bad debts had restructured a lot of non-performing loans.
The Speaker, House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, who declared the hearing opened, said AMCON was created to protect the public from shocks in the banking system.
Represented by Rep. Garba Datti (APC-Kaduna), the Deputy Minority Whip, Tambuwal said it was house duty to protect the welfare of the people from the major brunt of financial institutions.
“This public hearing is, therefore, part of a carefully laid down strategy by the 7th Assembly to ensure that the nation’s financial sector is given the needed impetus to function properly,” he said.
The Managing Director of AMCON, Mr Mustapha Chikeobi, who supported the bill, said that the amendment was to ensure that the corporation worked effectively.
Chikeobi urged other stakeholders to view the amendment from a positive perspective, adding that it was not aimed at empowering AMCON.
Other stakeholders in attendance include, NDIC, Guarantee Trust Bank, Mainstreet bank, Skye bank, Keystone bank, Stanbic bank and financial experts. (NAN)

Chris Brown calls Jay Z out in new interview, says he gets a thug pass.

In the latest issue of Jet magazine Chris Brown wonders why Jay Z gets a pass for stabbing someone and selling drugs but he doesn't get a pass for beating the heck out of Rihanna.

Chris Brown tells Jet magazine...
“No disrespect, because I’m a fan, but nobody brings up the fact that [Jay Z] stabbed somebody and sold drugs. He gets a pass.”
In 2001, Jay Z got three years probation for stabbing record producer, Lance 'Un' Rivera, for leaking his album  Vol.3...Life and Times of S. Carter one month before its release date. Jay Z explained what happened that night. Continue...


But first, more from Chris Brown's Jet magazine interview

On his relationships with Karrueche Tran and Rihanna:
"Relationships are the most difficult part. That’s why I was honest with those two girls and I put out that video. My ex and I broke up because of the “situation” and she had moved on. I fell in love with another girl. Then my ex came back, so it was like, 'What is a man to do?' I told them both the truth. I didn’t do the sucker role."
Read the full interview when the issue hits stands Monday, Sept. 23.

On the media:
“The media is full of yellow journalism. A lot of things I say, they will flip it. Instead of them getting off on all the positive stuff that I do, they will bring out the negative and draw out that story.”

On the media:
“The media is full of yellow journalism. A lot of things I say, they will flip it. Instead of them getting off on all the positive stuff that I do, they will bring out the negative and draw out that story.”
***

Now to Jay Z. In an excerpt from Jay Z's new book, Decoded, he explains what happened the night he stabbed record producer Lance "Un" Rivera.

From the NY Post

He says he was infuriated because someone had leaked a bootleg copy of “Vol. 3 . . . Life and Times of S. Carter” more than a month before the release date of the album.

When he asked who was behind the leak, everyone kept repeating the same name: Rivera.

When Jay-Z saw him at rapper Q-Tip’s album release party at the Kit Kat Klub, he confronted him. Rivera “got real loud with me right there in the middle of the club,” Jay-Z writes, “It was strange. We separated and I went over to the bar . . . I was . . . in a state of shock . . . I headed back over to him, but this time I was blacking out with anger.”

After this, chaos ensued in the club, “That night the guy went straight to the police and I was charged with assault.”

He says he decided to plead guilty after watching Puff Daddy’s trial on weapons violations that same year. Puffy was acquitted, and Jay-Z says he feared the state would be harder on him after failing to convict his friend.

“The hilarious thing,” he writes, “if any of this can be considered funny, is that the Rocawear bubble coat I was wearing when they paraded me in front of the cameras started flying off the shelves the last three weeks before Christmas.”

Original Amber Rose meets Nigerian fake Amber rose


Popular video vixen Honey J. Willis also known as Honey Amber (She's said many times that Amber Rose is her inspiration) finally met her idol yesterday. Honey claimed she drove 4 hours just to meet Amber. They took photos and Amber Rose (the real one) shared one on her photos on her instagram page. Now, someone please bring Oprah or Tyler Perry to Nigeria...*dreaming*

Somali militant group alshabaab claim responsibility for kenyan mall attack


Hours after gunmen stormed Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, killing over 50 people and injuring over 150, Somali militant group, al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack via their twitter page, HSM Press Office @HSM_Press. After quite a number of Tweets explaining their actions and threatening to carry out more attacks, Twitter suspended the account.

Fortunately someone munched the entire tweet before the twitter account was suspended yesterday. See their tweets after the cut...



Man accused of rapping neighbour's 8-yr old daughter


A 32-year-old driver, Muhammadu Alabi, has been arraigned before an Abule-Egba Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, on a charge of alleged rape of an eight-year-old daughter of his neighbour.
The accused lives at 34, Emmanuel Aina Street, Aboru, Ipaja, Lagos. He, however, pleaded not guilty.
The prosecutor, Inspector Racheal Williams, told the court that the offence was committed at the residence of the defendant on September 3.
According to the prosecution, the accused called the child to his room to send her on an errand.
Williams said the suspect, however, raped the child and that her screaming attracted neighbours, who then rescued her and reported the incidence to the police.
The prosecutor said the offence contravened Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
The Magistrate, Mr. Tajudeen Elias, granted him bail in the sum of N2 million with two sureties in like sum.
Elias adjourned the case to October 8, for mention

miley cyprus performs in nipple pasties and fishest dress


Guess the criticism is not getting to her. Miley stepped out and performed on stage in a see-through fishnet dress at the iHeart Radio Music Festival which took place in Vegas yesterday. More photos from her performance after the cut...




 

Breaking News! Oyo governor, Ajimobi, sacks all commissioners, advisers

The Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, has sacked all his commissioners, assistants, and advisers. He announced the dissolution of his cabinet moments ago. Details coming. Source: Premium Times

Attackers will not get away- Kenyan President.

NAIROBI – Kenyan security forces were locked in a fierce, final battle with Somali Islamist gunmen inside an upmarket Nairobi shopping mall on Monday as huge explosions and a barrage of heavy gunfire echoed out of the complex.
A thick cloud of black smoke billowed out from the Westgate mall as Kenyan officials said the 50-hour-long siege — which has seen the gunmen massacre at least 69 people and take dozens more hostage — was close to being resolved.
“We think the operation will come to an end soon,” Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku told reporters camped outside the vast part Israeli-owned complex, which was popular with wealthy Kenyans and expatriates.
“We are in control of all the floors, the terrorists are running and hiding in some stores… there is no room for escape,” he said, adding that some hostages had been freed, but without giving specific numbers. Two gunmen were also killed in the fighting.
The Kenyan Red Cross said at least 63 people were recorded missing, thought to include hostages as well as those possibly killed or still hiding. Around 200 people were wounded, officials said.
Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents have claimed the attack, which began midday on Saturday, when the gunmen marched into the complex, firing grenades and automatic weapons and sending panicked shoppers fleeing.
Kenyan army chief Julius Karangi said the gunmen had different nationalities. Several foreign fighters, including Somalis with dual nationalities, are members of the Shebab force.
“They are from different countries. We have sufficient intelligence this is global terrorism,” Karangi said.
Lenku denied that any of the insurgents were women.
“There are no women, all the terrorists are men. Some of them had dressed like women,” he said
Shebab spokesman Ali Mohamud Rage warned that the hostages would “bear the brunt of any force directed against the mujahedeen” — signalling that hostages were being used as human shields.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta vowed the attackers will “not get away with their despicable and beastly acts.”
“We will punish the masterminds swiftly, and indeed very painfully,” he declared in a televised speech to the nation on Sunday, revealing that a family member — a nephew and his fiancee — were among the dead.
A Kenyan security source and a Western intelligence official said Israeli forces were also involved in the operation, along with British and US agents.
Non-Muslims selected for execution
The Shebab rebels said the carnage was in retaliation for Kenya’s military intervention in Somalia, where African Union troops are battling the Islamists.
“If you want Kenya in peace, it will not happen as long as your boys are in our lands,” rebel spokesman Ali Mohamud Rage said in a statement posted on an Islamist website.
Shocked witnesses said the gunmen tried to weed out non-Muslims for execution by interrogating people on their religion or asking them to recite the Shahada, or Muslim profession of faith.
The dead include four Britons including a British-Australian, two French women, two Canadians including a diplomat, a Chinese woman, two Indians, a South Korean, a South African and a Dutch woman, according to their governments.
Also killed was Ghanaian poet and former UN envoy Kofi Awoonor, 78, while his son was injured.
Mall worker Zipporah Wanjiru survived by hiding under a table with five other colleagues.
“They were shooting indiscriminately, it was like a movie seeing people sprayed with bullets like that,” she said, bursting into tears.
TOPSHOTS Smoke rises from the Westgate mall in Nairobi on September 23, 2013. Kenyan troops were locked in a fierce firefight with Somali militants inside an upmarket Nairobi shopping mall in a final push to end a siege that has left 43 dead and 200 wounded with an unknown number of hostages still being held. Somalia's Al Qaeda-inspired Shebab rebels said the carnage at the part Israeli-owned complex mall was in retaliation for Kenya's military intervention in Somalia, where African Union troops are battling the Islamists. AFP PHOTO / CARL DE SOUZA
Smoke rises from the Westgate mall in Nairobi on September 23, 2013. Kenyan troops were locked in a fierce firefight with Somali militants inside an upmarket Nairobi shopping mall in a final push to end a siege that has left 43 dead and 200 wounded with an unknown number of hostages still being held. Somalia’s Al Qaeda-inspired Shebab rebels said the carnage at the part Israeli-owned complex mall was in retaliation for Kenya’s military intervention in Somalia, where African Union troops are battling the Islamists. AFP PHOTO / CARL DE SOUZA
Security camera footage seen by Kenya’s The Standard newspaper showed gunmen raking toilet cubicles with a barrage of gunfire, apparently after learning that several people were hiding inside.
Cafe waiter Titus Alede, who leapt from the first floor of the mall to avoid being killed, said it was a “miracle from God” that he managed to escape the approaching gunmen.
“I remember them saying ‘you killed our people in Somalia, it is our time to pay you back’,” he said.
Other survivors said they played dead to avoid being killed.
Israeli interests in Kenya have come under attack before, and the Westgate mall — popular with well-to-do Kenyans, diplomats, UN workers and other expatriates — has long been seen as a potential target.
World powers condemned the chilling attack, which is the worst in Nairobi since an Al-Qaeda bombing at the US embassy killed more than 200 people in 1998.
US President Barack Obama called Kenyatta offering support “to bring the perpetrators of the attack to justice”, while UN chief Ban Ki-moon said the violence was “totally reprehensible”.
On Monday, the International Criminal Court excused Kenyan Vice President William Ruto from his crimes against humanity trial over deadly 2007-08 post-election violence for a week so he can deal with the attack.
Ruto’s lawyer Karim Khan called the siege “Kenya’s 9/11.”

Ini Edo spotted with Amber rose, rocking her $10,000 chanel lego clutch bag.

Genevieve Nnaji was first spotted rocking the Chanel Lego clutch bag which costs a whooping $10k (N1.58million). Ini Edo was spotted rocking the same clutch bag yesterday at the Miss Earth Nigeria pageant where she served as a judge, replacing Genevieve Nnaji who is not in the country

Friday, 20 September 2013

Idris Elba Covers GQ Looking All Types Of Dapper, Discusses Finding Out Son Isn’t Really his.

Idris Elba Covers GQSometimes you just have to sit back and thank the Lord for his many unforeseen blessings, like Idris Elba on the Cover of GQ magazine. I, for one, know this certainly brightened my morning.
Talking about his time on “The Wire,” acting in “Pacific Rim,” and what we can expect from “Mandela” this Fall, Idris is looking something like a dapper don is his GQ photo shoot, which is why the mag decided to include shots of him with a guideline on how to “Transform a Three-Piece into a Triple Threat.” Word of warning to all the men folk out there, you can’t do it like Idris — but we’re not mad if you try. Idris doesn’t sound like he’d be either, since, from the sounds of his interview, he is insanely oblivious to the power of his uniquely good looks.
“I sort of blended into the background quite a bit. I wasn’t the guy that was a big personality. I was the tall, silent, quiet type,” he told the mag of his life before fame. “I call it the invisible factor. On any ordinary street, walking down in London Soho in a cap, I’m just a f**king tall black man walking along.”
He seems to have left the word fine out of that last sentence. Don’t worry, we’ll fill it in for him.
Making him all the more charming, Idris also opened up to GQ about his prior marriage and the breakdown of the relationship:
“I liked the idea of being married. I was focused in on what I was trying to do in my life. And my girl supported me.”I had to keep going back and forth to New York, to London, to try and make a bit of money real quick. [She] didn’t adjust to the culture as quickly as I did. We just had a hard time. The next thing you know, we broke up.”
At the time, Idris’s ex-wife was pregnant and he was sleeping in an Astro van.
“I mean, it was like, ‘F**k, where did I go wrong?’ I had a lot of promise in England, you know? ‘What the f**k are you doing here? Your visa’s going to run out soon. You’re going to have a baby. What the f**k are you doing?’ That’s what’s going through my head.”
Not long after, Idris got picked up on “The Wire” and the rest was history — that is until the actor got involved with a new woman and began proudly boasting about having a son, only to find out it wasn’t his. As GQ tells it:
He was dating a woman in Florida, had been for a couple of years. They were living together and in love. She became pregnant and gave birth to a boy. For a brief moment, it was among the happiest times of Elba’s life. “The celebration of having a son—from a man’s perspective, it’s massive.” He told friends about it. He told reporters about it. Then came the suggestion—not from the child’s mother, but from elsewhere—that not everything was what it appeared to be. “It wasn’t immediately obvious—well, it was, because he didn’t look like me,” Elba says. “But it wasn’t immediately obvious what had gone down.”
Eventually, Elba decided to take a paternity test, which showed the child wasn’t his. “To be given that and then have it taken away so harshly,” he says, “was like taking a full-on punch in the face: POW.”
And then there was the fact that he’d mentioned the kid in public, the knowledge, even then, that at some point he’d be sitting in a room like this one, being asked about the worst, most humiliating thing that ever happened to him. “You know, the truth is—like, even admitting it, I’ll probably get laughed at for the rest of my life. But it is just tragic, and it happened.” He looks directly at me when he says this. “But I wasn’t knocked out. I stood right the Fawk back up, and I ain’t aiming to take another punch in the face ever again. Do you understand what I’m saying? It happened to me. I moved on.”

Poloice confirm 7 killed at Apo ligislative quarters

Abuja – The Police have confirmed that seven persons were shot dead in two uncompleted buildings behind the National Assembly Quarters in Apo, Abuja , early  on Friday.
The buildings are located at Zone E in the area.
Mr Sunday Odukoya, the Assistant Commissioner of Police in-Charge of Abuja Metro Area Command, confirmed the killings to newsmen on Friday.
Commenting on an allegation that the victims were killed by soldiers, Odukoya said: “I have not heard something like that.
RESCUE OPERATORS EVACUATING REMAINS OF PEOPLE KILLED IN AN UNCOMPLETED BUILDING BY UNKNOWN GUNMEN AT APO ZONE E IN ABUJA ON FRIDAY (20/9/13).RESCUE OPERATORS EVACUATING REMAINS OF PEOPLE KILLED IN AN UNCOMPLETED BUILDING BY UNKNOWN GUNMEN AT APO ZONE E IN ABUJA ON FRIDAY (20/9/13)

Agagu to be buried Beside his father's grave

Okitipupa (Ondo State) – The late former governor of Ondo State, Dr Olusegun Agagu, is to be buried beside his father’s grave, his Kuyeju family in Lameha Quarters, Iju-Odo, has said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the late governor, who was 65, slumped and died on Sept. 13 at his Ikoyi residence in Lagos.
NAN also reports that the Ondo State Government has officially announced that Agagu would be buried on Oct. 4 at Iju Odo, Okitipupa Local Government Area of the state.
Chief Samuel Akinrogunde, a member of the Kuyeju family, told NAN on Friday in Iju Odo that Agagu had ordered that he should be buried beside his father’s grave at St. Paul’s Anglican Church cemetery.
“Before he died, he had ordered that he should be buried beside his father, late Chief Olorunfemi Agagu, who died in March 1973 and was buried at St. Paul’s Anglican Church,’’ he said.
Akinrogunde also thanked the state government for making the burial of the late former governor an official responsibility of the present administration.
He added that the family would begin early preparations for the Oct. 4 burial, adding that necessary arrangements would be made to forestall any hitch.
“Since the state government has announced Oct. 4 as the official burial date for Agagu, we will put our house in order to ensure a befitting burial for our son,’’ he said.
Akinrogunde, who also heads the family burial committee, said the body would collaborate with the government’s committee to ensure a befitting burial for the late politician. (NAN)
Organisers tried to keep this information under wraps until weekend when the grand finale will be aired but it has not been possible. Word is out that DJ Switch has emerged winner of Glo X-Factor Season One.
Though, her name has not been officially announced (will be aired weekend) DJ switch whose real names are Obianuju Catherine Udeh takes home a whooping prize of  N24m, a brand new SUV and a recording contract with Sony Music.
*DJ Switch
*DJ Switch
She beat Eshun and Vicky in the final event held at Dream studio, in Ikeja Lagos
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/dj-switch-wins-glo-x-factor/#sthash.ZyP1wcsi.dpuf
Organisers tried to keep this information under wraps until weekend when the grand finale will be aired but it has not been possible. Word is out that DJ Switch has emerged winner of Glo X-Factor Season One.
Though, her name has not been officially announced (will be aired weekend) DJ switch whose real names are Obianuju Catherine Udeh takes home a whooping prize of  N24m, a brand new SUV and a recording contract with Sony Music.
*DJ Switch
*DJ Switch
She beat Eshun and Vicky in the final event held at Dream studio, in Ikeja Lagos
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/dj-switch-wins-glo-x-factor/#sthash.ZyP1wcsi.dpuf

Wednesday, 18 September 2013

Blackface reacts to Tuface’s alledged wedding invitation

Against the backdrop of the recent interview where 2face alleged he had invited Blackface to his wedding,Blackface has reacted in an interview with Abuja based radio station Hotfm stating that 2face keeps avoiding him for reasons best known to him.
He says he’s been trying to get across to 2face to talk about his song African queen that has been sang by a Jamaican artist in the US without the right to do so…’ if someone sings that song it means someone gave out the right ’he keeps avoiding me cos he doesn’t want to talk about these issues.
Blackface, Tuface
Blackface, Tuface
For the wedding ‘he would have put the blame on his management and called me or something’ but till today since he returned from his wedding in Dubai, he hasn’t called me, my uncle whose house we stayed throughout the days of our musical career passed away during the time of his traditional marriage, then the white wedding he never called to even ask about my uncle or to sympathize with me, so there must be something wrong somewhere …it must be about the music money.
In any case Blackface has a new single titled ‘see you move’ enjoying airplay on some radio stations across the country.
Two of Nigeria’s current sensation in the pop music category PSquare and Wizkid have been pitted against Fuse ODG, LCNVL, Mafikizolo in the BEST AFRICAN ACT of the 2013 MTV Europe Music Awards.
The eventual winner goes on to compete in Worldwide Act category which last year flaunted D’banj who did not win.
Psquare-2-and-whiz-kid
The other nominees for the awards includes…
BEST SONG
Bruno Mars – ‘Locked Out Of Heaven’
Daft Punk – ‘Get Lucky’ (ft. Pharrell Williams)
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis – ‘Thrift Shop’ (ft. Wanz)
Rihanna – ‘Diamonds’
Robin Thicke – ‘Blurred Lines’ (ft. T.I. and Pharrell)
BEST POP
Justin Bieber
Katy Perry
Miley Cyrus
One Direction
Taylor Swift
BEST FEMALE
Katy Perry
Lady Gaga
Miley Cyrus
Selena Gomez
Taylor Swift
BEST MALE
Bruno Mars
Eminem
Jay Z
Justin Bieber
Justin Timberlake
BEST LIVE
Beyoncé
Green Day
Justin Timberlake
P!nk
Taylor Swift
BEST NEW
Bastille
Icona Pop
Imagine Dragons
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
Rudimental
BEST VIDEO
Justin Timberlake – ‘Mirrors’
Lady Gaga – ‘Applause’
Miley Cyrus – ‘Wrecking Ball’
Robin Thicke – ‘Blurred Lines’ (ft. T.I. and Pharrell)
Thirty Seconds To Mars – ‘Up In The Air’
BEST AFRICAN ACT (winner goes on to compete in Worldwide Act category)
Fuse ODG
LCNVL
Mafikizolo
P-Square
Wizkid
BEST ROCK
Black Sabbath
Green Day
Kings Of Leon
Queens Of The Stone Age
The Killers
BEST ALTERNATIVE
Arctic Monkeys
Fall Out Boy
Franz Ferdinand
Paramore
Thirty Seconds To Mars
BEST HIP HOP
Drake
Eminem
Jay Z
Kanye West
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
BEST ELECTRONIC
Afrojack
Avicii
Calvin Harris
Daft Punk
Skrillex
BIGGEST FANS
Tokio Hotel
Thirty Seconds To Mars
One Direction
Justin Bieber
Lady Gaga
BEST LOOK
Harry Styles
Justin Timberlake
Lady Gaga
Rihanna
Rita Ora
BEST PUSH
Karmin (October 2012)
Rudimental (November 2012)
Imagine Dragons (January 2013)
A$AP Rocky (February 2013)
Bastille (March 2013)
Austin Mahone (April 2013)
Bridgit Mendler (May 2013)
Tom Odell (June 2013)
Iggy Azalea (July 2013)
Icona Pop (August 2013)
twenty one pilots (September 2013)
BEST WORLD STAGE (WS)
Alicia Keys – WS Manchester 2012 (aired Dec. 7th)
fun. – WS Rock Am Ring 2013 (taped June 7th)
Garbage – WS Mexico 2012 (aired Dec. 21st)
Green Day – WS Rock Am Ring 2013 (taped June 9th)
Jason Mraz – WS Live In Myanmar 2012 (taped Dec. 16th)
Jessie J – WS Malta 2013 (taped 26th June)
Linkin Park – WS Mexico 2012 (aired Oct. 26th)
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis – WS Wireless 2013 (taped 13th July)
No Doubt – WS Frankfurt 2012 (aired Dec. 28th)
Paramore – WS Rock Am Ring 2013 (taped 7th June)
Rita Ora – WS Malta 2013 (taped June 26th)
Robin Thicke – WS Malaysia 2013 (taped 8th September)
Snoop Lion – WS Durban 2013 (taped May 18th)
The Black Keys – WS NY Webster City Hall 2012 (aired Oct. 12th)
The Killers – WS Big Day Out 2013 (taped Jan 18th)
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/psquare-wizkid-grab-2013-mtv-europe-music-awards-nomination/#sthash.rN7jVOBp.dpuf
Two of Nigeria’s current sensation in the pop music category PSquare and Wizkid have been pitted against Fuse ODG, LCNVL, Mafikizolo in the BEST AFRICAN ACT of the 2013 MTV Europe Music Awards.
The eventual winner goes on to compete in Worldwide Act category which last year flaunted D’banj who did not win.
Psquare-2-and-whiz-kid
The other nominees for the awards includes…
BEST SONG
Bruno Mars – ‘Locked Out Of Heaven’
Daft Punk – ‘Get Lucky’ (ft. Pharrell Williams)
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis – ‘Thrift Shop’ (ft. Wanz)
Rihanna – ‘Diamonds’
Robin Thicke – ‘Blurred Lines’ (ft. T.I. and Pharrell)
BEST POP
Justin Bieber
Katy Perry
Miley Cyrus
One Direction
Taylor Swift
BEST FEMALE
Katy Perry
Lady Gaga
Miley Cyrus
Selena Gomez
Taylor Swift
BEST MALE
Bruno Mars
Eminem
Jay Z
Justin Bieber
Justin Timberlake
BEST LIVE
Beyoncé
Green Day
Justin Timberlake
P!nk
Taylor Swift
BEST NEW
Bastille
Icona Pop
Imagine Dragons
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
Rudimental
BEST VIDEO
Justin Timberlake – ‘Mirrors’
Lady Gaga – ‘Applause’
Miley Cyrus – ‘Wrecking Ball’
Robin Thicke – ‘Blurred Lines’ (ft. T.I. and Pharrell)
Thirty Seconds To Mars – ‘Up In The Air’
BEST AFRICAN ACT (winner goes on to compete in Worldwide Act category)
Fuse ODG
LCNVL
Mafikizolo
P-Square
Wizkid
BEST ROCK
Black Sabbath
Green Day
Kings Of Leon
Queens Of The Stone Age
The Killers
BEST ALTERNATIVE
Arctic Monkeys
Fall Out Boy
Franz Ferdinand
Paramore
Thirty Seconds To Mars
BEST HIP HOP
Drake
Eminem
Jay Z
Kanye West
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
BEST ELECTRONIC
Afrojack
Avicii
Calvin Harris
Daft Punk
Skrillex
BIGGEST FANS
Tokio Hotel
Thirty Seconds To Mars
One Direction
Justin Bieber
Lady Gaga
BEST LOOK
Harry Styles
Justin Timberlake
Lady Gaga
Rihanna
Rita Ora
BEST PUSH
Karmin (October 2012)
Rudimental (November 2012)
Imagine Dragons (January 2013)
A$AP Rocky (February 2013)
Bastille (March 2013)
Austin Mahone (April 2013)
Bridgit Mendler (May 2013)
Tom Odell (June 2013)
Iggy Azalea (July 2013)
Icona Pop (August 2013)
twenty one pilots (September 2013)
BEST WORLD STAGE (WS)
Alicia Keys – WS Manchester 2012 (aired Dec. 7th)
fun. – WS Rock Am Ring 2013 (taped June 7th)
Garbage – WS Mexico 2012 (aired Dec. 21st)
Green Day – WS Rock Am Ring 2013 (taped June 9th)
Jason Mraz – WS Live In Myanmar 2012 (taped Dec. 16th)
Jessie J – WS Malta 2013 (taped 26th June)
Linkin Park – WS Mexico 2012 (aired Oct. 26th)
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis – WS Wireless 2013 (taped 13th July)
No Doubt – WS Frankfurt 2012 (aired Dec. 28th)
Paramore – WS Rock Am Ring 2013 (taped 7th June)
Rita Ora – WS Malta 2013 (taped June 26th)
Robin Thicke – WS Malaysia 2013 (taped 8th September)
Snoop Lion – WS Durban 2013 (taped May 18th)
The Black Keys – WS NY Webster City Hall 2012 (aired Oct. 12th)
The Killers – WS Big Day Out 2013 (taped Jan 18th)
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/psquare-wizkid-grab-2013-mtv-europe-music-awards-nomination/#sthash.rN7jVOBp.dpuf
Two of Nigeria’s current sensation in the pop music category PSquare and Wizkid have been pitted against Fuse ODG, LCNVL, Mafikizolo in the BEST AFRICAN ACT of the 2013 MTV Europe Music Awards.
The eventual winner goes on to compete in Worldwide Act category which last year flaunted D’banj who did not win.
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The other nominees for the awards includes…
BEST SONG
Bruno Mars – ‘Locked Out Of Heaven’
Daft Punk – ‘Get Lucky’ (ft. Pharrell Williams)
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis – ‘Thrift Shop’ (ft. Wanz)
Rihanna – ‘Diamonds’
Robin Thicke – ‘Blurred Lines’ (ft. T.I. and Pharrell)
BEST POP
Justin Bieber
Katy Perry
Miley Cyrus
One Direction
Taylor Swift
BEST FEMALE
Katy Perry
Lady Gaga
Miley Cyrus
Selena Gomez
Taylor Swift
BEST MALE
Bruno Mars
Eminem
Jay Z
Justin Bieber
Justin Timberlake
BEST LIVE
Beyoncé
Green Day
Justin Timberlake
P!nk
Taylor Swift
BEST NEW
Bastille
Icona Pop
Imagine Dragons
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
Rudimental
BEST VIDEO
Justin Timberlake – ‘Mirrors’
Lady Gaga – ‘Applause’
Miley Cyrus – ‘Wrecking Ball’
Robin Thicke – ‘Blurred Lines’ (ft. T.I. and Pharrell)
Thirty Seconds To Mars – ‘Up In The Air’
BEST AFRICAN ACT (winner goes on to compete in Worldwide Act category)
Fuse ODG
LCNVL
Mafikizolo
P-Square
Wizkid
BEST ROCK
Black Sabbath
Green Day
Kings Of Leon
Queens Of The Stone Age
The Killers
BEST ALTERNATIVE
Arctic Monkeys
Fall Out Boy
Franz Ferdinand
Paramore
Thirty Seconds To Mars
BEST HIP HOP
Drake
Eminem
Jay Z
Kanye West
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
BEST ELECTRONIC
Afrojack
Avicii
Calvin Harris
Daft Punk
Skrillex
BIGGEST FANS
Tokio Hotel
Thirty Seconds To Mars
One Direction
Justin Bieber
Lady Gaga
BEST LOOK
Harry Styles
Justin Timberlake
Lady Gaga
Rihanna
Rita Ora
BEST PUSH
Karmin (October 2012)
Rudimental (November 2012)
Imagine Dragons (January 2013)
A$AP Rocky (February 2013)
Bastille (March 2013)
Austin Mahone (April 2013)
Bridgit Mendler (May 2013)
Tom Odell (June 2013)
Iggy Azalea (July 2013)
Icona Pop (August 2013)
twenty one pilots (September 2013)
BEST WORLD STAGE (WS)
Alicia Keys – WS Manchester 2012 (aired Dec. 7th)
fun. – WS Rock Am Ring 2013 (taped June 7th)
Garbage – WS Mexico 2012 (aired Dec. 21st)
Green Day – WS Rock Am Ring 2013 (taped June 9th)
Jason Mraz – WS Live In Myanmar 2012 (taped Dec. 16th)
Jessie J – WS Malta 2013 (taped 26th June)
Linkin Park – WS Mexico 2012 (aired Oct. 26th)
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis – WS Wireless 2013 (taped 13th July)
No Doubt – WS Frankfurt 2012 (aired Dec. 28th)
Paramore – WS Rock Am Ring 2013 (taped 7th June)
Rita Ora – WS Malta 2013 (taped June 26th)
Robin Thicke – WS Malaysia 2013 (taped 8th September)
Snoop Lion – WS Durban 2013 (taped May 18th)
The Black Keys – WS NY Webster City Hall 2012 (aired Oct. 12th)
The Killers – WS Big Day Out 2013 (taped Jan 18th)
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/psquare-wizkid-grab-2013-mtv-europe-music-awards-nomination/#sthash.rN7jVOBp.dpuf
aassdfffTwo of Nigeria’s current sensation in the pop music category PSquare and Wizkid have been pitted against Fuse ODG, LCNVL, Mafikizolo in the BEST AFRICAN ACT of the 2013 MTV Europe Music Awards.
The eventual winner goes on to compete in Worldwide Act category which last year flaunted D’banj who did not win.
Psquare-2-and-whiz-kid
The other nominees for the awards includes…
BEST SONG
Bruno Mars – ‘Locked Out Of Heaven’
Daft Punk – ‘Get Lucky’ (ft. Pharrell Williams)
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis – ‘Thrift Shop’ (ft. Wanz)
Rihanna – ‘Diamonds’
Robin Thicke – ‘Blurred Lines’ (ft. T.I. and Pharrell)
BEST POP
Justin Bieber
Katy Perry
Miley Cyrus
One Direction
Taylor Swift
BEST FEMALE
Katy Perry
Lady Gaga
Miley Cyrus
Selena Gomez
Taylor Swift
BEST MALE
Bruno Mars
Eminem
Jay Z
Justin Bieber
Justin Timberlake
BEST LIVE
Beyoncé
Green Day
Justin Timberlake
P!nk
Taylor Swift
BEST NEW
Bastille
Icona Pop
Imagine Dragons
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
Rudimental
BEST VIDEO
Justin Timberlake – ‘Mirrors’
Lady Gaga – ‘Applause’
Miley Cyrus – ‘Wrecking Ball’
Robin Thicke – ‘Blurred Lines’ (ft. T.I. and Pharrell)
Thirty Seconds To Mars – ‘Up In The Air’
BEST AFRICAN ACT (winner goes on to compete in Worldwide Act category)
Fuse ODG
LCNVL
Mafikizolo
P-Square
Wizkid
BEST ROCK
Black Sabbath
Green Day
Kings Of Leon
Queens Of The Stone Age
The Killers
BEST ALTERNATIVE
Arctic Monkeys
Fall Out Boy
Franz Ferdinand
Paramore
Thirty Seconds To Mars
BEST HIP HOP
Drake
Eminem
Jay Z
Kanye West
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
BEST ELECTRONIC
Afrojack
Avicii
Calvin Harris
Daft Punk
Skrillex
BIGGEST FANS
Tokio Hotel
Thirty Seconds To Mars
One Direction
Justin Bieber
Lady Gaga
BEST LOOK
Harry Styles
Justin Timberlake
Lady Gaga
Rihanna
Rita Ora
BEST PUSH
Karmin (October 2012)
Rudimental (November 2012)
Imagine Dragons (January 2013)
A$AP Rocky (February 2013)
Bastille (March 2013)
Austin Mahone (April 2013)
Bridgit Mendler (May 2013)
Tom Odell (June 2013)
Iggy Azalea (July 2013)
Icona Pop (August 2013)
twenty one pilots (September 2013)
BEST WORLD STAGE (WS)
Alicia Keys – WS Manchester 2012 (aired Dec. 7th)
fun. – WS Rock Am Ring 2013 (taped June 7th)
Garbage – WS Mexico 2012 (aired Dec. 21st)
Green Day – WS Rock Am Ring 2013 (taped June 9th)
Jason Mraz – WS Live In Myanmar 2012 (taped Dec. 16th)
Jessie J – WS Malta 2013 (taped 26th June)
Linkin Park – WS Mexico 2012 (aired Oct. 26th)
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis – WS Wireless 2013 (taped 13th July)
No Doubt – WS Frankfurt 2012 (aired Dec. 28th)
Paramore – WS Rock Am Ring 2013 (taped 7th June)
Rita Ora – WS Malta 2013 (taped June 26th)
Robin Thicke – WS Malaysia 2013 (taped 8th September)
Snoop Lion – WS Durban 2013 (taped May 18th)
The Black Keys – WS NY Webster City Hall 2012 (aired Oct. 12th)
The Killers – WS Big Day Out 2013 (taped Jan 18th)
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/psquare-wizkid-grab-2013-mtv-europe-music-awards-nomination/#sthash.rN7jVOBp.dpuf
Two of Nigeria’s current sensation in the pop music category PSquare and Wizkid have been pitted against Fuse ODG, LCNVL, Mafikizolo in the BEST AFRICAN ACT of the 2013 MTV Europe Music Awards.
The eventual winner goes on to compete in Worldwide Act category which last year flaunted D’banj who did not win.
Psquare-2-and-whiz-kid
The other nominees for the awards includes…
BEST SONG
Bruno Mars – ‘Locked Out Of Heaven’
Daft Punk – ‘Get Lucky’ (ft. Pharrell Williams)
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis – ‘Thrift Shop’ (ft. Wanz)
Rihanna – ‘Diamonds’
Robin Thicke – ‘Blurred Lines’ (ft. T.I. and Pharrell)
BEST POP
Justin Bieber
Katy Perry
Miley Cyrus
One Direction
Taylor Swift
BEST FEMALE
Katy Perry
Lady Gaga
Miley Cyrus
Selena Gomez
Taylor Swift
BEST MALE
Bruno Mars
Eminem
Jay Z
Justin Bieber
Justin Timberlake
BEST LIVE
Beyoncé
Green Day
Justin Timberlake
P!nk
Taylor Swift
BEST NEW
Bastille
Icona Pop
Imagine Dragons
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
Rudimental
BEST VIDEO
Justin Timberlake – ‘Mirrors’
Lady Gaga – ‘Applause’
Miley Cyrus – ‘Wrecking Ball’
Robin Thicke – ‘Blurred Lines’ (ft. T.I. and Pharrell)
Thirty Seconds To Mars – ‘Up In The Air’
BEST AFRICAN ACT (winner goes on to compete in Worldwide Act category)
Fuse ODG
LCNVL
Mafikizolo
P-Square
Wizkid
BEST ROCK
Black Sabbath
Green Day
Kings Of Leon
Queens Of The Stone Age
The Killers
BEST ALTERNATIVE
Arctic Monkeys
Fall Out Boy
Franz Ferdinand
Paramore
Thirty Seconds To Mars
BEST HIP HOP
Drake
Eminem
Jay Z
Kanye West
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
BEST ELECTRONIC
Afrojack
Avicii
Calvin Harris
Daft Punk
Skrillex
BIGGEST FANS
Tokio Hotel
Thirty Seconds To Mars
One Direction
Justin Bieber
Lady Gaga
BEST LOOK
Harry Styles
Justin Timberlake
Lady Gaga
Rihanna
Rita Ora
BEST PUSH
Karmin (October 2012)
Rudimental (November 2012)
Imagine Dragons (January 2013)
A$AP Rocky (February 2013)
Bastille (March 2013)
Austin Mahone (April 2013)
Bridgit Mendler (May 2013)
Tom Odell (June 2013)
Iggy Azalea (July 2013)
Icona Pop (August 2013)
twenty one pilots (September 2013)
BEST WORLD STAGE (WS)
Alicia Keys – WS Manchester 2012 (aired Dec. 7th)
fun. – WS Rock Am Ring 2013 (taped June 7th)
Garbage – WS Mexico 2012 (aired Dec. 21st)
Green Day – WS Rock Am Ring 2013 (taped June 9th)
Jason Mraz – WS Live In Myanmar 2012 (taped Dec. 16th)
Jessie J – WS Malta 2013 (taped 26th June)
Linkin Park – WS Mexico 2012 (aired Oct. 26th)
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis – WS Wireless 2013 (taped 13th July)
No Doubt – WS Frankfurt 2012 (aired Dec. 28th)
Paramore – WS Rock Am Ring 2013 (taped 7th June)
Rita Ora – WS Malta 2013 (taped June 26th)
Robin Thicke – WS Malaysia 2013 (taped 8th September)
Snoop Lion – WS Durban 2013 (taped May 18th)
The Black Keys – WS NY Webster City Hall 2012 (aired Oct. 12th)
The Killers – WS Big Day Out 2013 (taped Jan 18th)
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/psquare-wizkid-grab-2013-mtv-europe-music-awards-nomination/#sthash.rN7jVOBp.dpuf

Tuesday, 3 September 2013

Rivers PDP tags Amaechi A failure

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The Rivers State Leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, says it’s not surprised at Governor Chibuike Amaechi’s declaration of his membership of a tiny over-ambitious clique under a purported factional PDP whose only interest is to scatter the party and stop President Jonathan’s second term bid.
The party in a statement issued and signed by the Special Adviser on Media to the State Chairman, Jerry Needam said even though the reasons why Amaechi had scuttled all moves for peace in the state and stability in the PDP were not lost on it, his open declaration and support for those that never wish the PDP and President Goodluck Jonathan well has now left no one in doubt as to his real interest and purpose.
Regrettably, the party noted, Amaechi has already failed before he started because no one in political history had been used against his own and survived it.
It described Amaechi and his colleagues who are the foremost beneficiaries of the party’s toil as devil incarnates for plotting to destroy the very platform through which they got to the pinnacle of their political career.
The party reasoned that at worst, what Amaechi and his drummers ought to do if they no more feel safe in the PDP is to decamp or form their own party. But rather than do that they have chosen to stay put, to make sure they destroy the party but reassured them that their aim will not come to pass.
“While we wish you well in your chosen path against your own people for a pot of porridge, don’t say you were not told because you must fail in your bid and by the time you realize that, it would have been late,” the PDP replied Amaechi.
On the declaration of support of Magnus Abe, Wisdom Ake, Dakuku Peterside, Leyii Kwanee for the purported factional PDP, the party berated these lawmakers for blindly and sheepishly following their paymaster, Gov. Amaechi to destabilize the state and the nation.
The party regrets that these nondescript persons could be easily swayed like a pack of cards against the collective will of the state to satisfy the whims and caprices of their paymaster who is bent on wasting the tax payers’ money on a lost battle.
“That these National Assembly members could descend so low to encourage illegality portrays them as lacking self-confidence and will forever remain political babies that can never be independent,” the PDP concluded.

photo.The day OBAMA was caught KISSING a fellow MAN!!!!




It was in Hempstead, New York.  Barack Obama suddenly grabbed Mitt Romney and gave him a deep kiss. Shocked, Romney softened and gave into Obama for a good ten seconds before breaking away. This was after the 2nd presidential debate. It is quite obvious that Romney was still feeling confused and bewildered by this lip assault after the debates, and quite frankly, Obama should be charged with criminal assault. Romney did not ask for this and quite honestly, if this kiss was legitimate Romney wouldn’t have been so flustered and filled up with shame

Ebonyi Council Boss Arrested Over Rape Of Mother, Two Daughters

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The alleged mastermind behind the rape involving the Councilor of Ndiagu Echara Ward I in Ikwo Local government Area of Ebonyi State, Mrs Margret Elom and her two daughters (names withheld) was arrested today [Monday] by men and officers of State police Command in Abakaliki.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, DSP Sylvester Igbo who confirmed the arrest of the suspect, Hon. Sunday Otah, the Vice Chairman Ikwo LGA to 47ureports.com revealed that he (suspect) was arrested by the police based on the confessional statements made by another suspects, Sunday Nwaokponkwu, allegedly involved in the rape saga.
The mother of the victims who is also the current councillorship candidate of Ndiagu Echara Ward I in the last Peoples Democratic Party, PDP councillorship election in the state reported the incident to the police.
It should be recalled that the suspects who came at night when their victims were asleep raped them in turns at gun point after stealing the sum of N50, 000, nine different models of handset and a Carter motorcycle from them.
According to Igbo, police investigation would determine whether Hon. Otah was involved in the rape incident or not.
In his words, “The Police today arrested the alleged mastermind of the rape incident that took place in Ikwo local government area of the State; when we interrogated him, he denied involving in the incident saying that it was political motivated. If our investigation proves that he is
guilty, he will be charged to court but meanwhile we are still investigating the matter and we are the one to determine whether the allegation against him are true or not