Michelle Obama Posts Throwback Pic Of Herself And Hubby To Celebrate Xmas

America’s first lady, Michelle Obama shared the photo on twitter to wish the world a Merry Xmas. Cute couple!

Photos:The Emamis and Elliots Mark Wedding Anniversary

Warri billionaire Ayiri Emami and his wife, Asba celebrated their 5th wedding anniversary today, Dec. 26th. They got married in 2009 and are blessed with two kids. Actor Desmond Elliot marked his too, see photos below:

They are blessed with four kids...happy anniversary to them!

Photos:Eldee And Family With Santa Claus

                                                                                        Beautiful Family!See more below

Photos Of Celebrities At Music Meets Runway

Music Meets Runaway held last night and the celebrities dressed to impress.See pics below

Photos Of Nigerian Celebs Xmas Greeting Cards

Baby Crushed To Death After Falling Off Mother's Back in Delta state

                                                                       Not real photo

A 4-months old baby girl had died after she fell off her mother’s back while she was struggling to adjust the wrapper with which she strapped the baby to her back, while the motorcycle she was travelling in was still in motion.

The baby fell on the middle of the road and a truck conveying crates of soft drinks which was directly behind them crushed her to death immediately.

Officials of Ughelli Command of the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, which were later called to the scene, were seen clearing the remains of the dead baby from the road as sympathizers consoled the mother. 

*carrying a baby strapped to your back on bike is a very risky thing to do.I feel it should be banned.

Wednesday News In Brief

Good morning! Here are 10 things you need to know this morning:

1. The Nigerian Army has sentenced three officers and 13 other soldiers to two years’ imprisonment each over Boko Haram abduction of the over 200 schoolchildren from their hostel in Chibok, Borno State. The soldiers, included a Lieutenant Colonel, a Captain and a Second lieutenant. The officers include Col. A. O. Ojo, Capt. O. O. Ogunrinde, and 2nd Lieutenant ,V.I. Godknows.

2. Relatively, The Nigerian military has announced the restriction of vehicular movement in both Maiduguri, the Borno state capital and Damaturu, the Yobe state capital following security report at its disposal. According to the latest order, vehicular movement in the states will be prohibited as from 6pm on Wednesday, December 24, to 7am on Sunday, December 28, 2014.

3. The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has announced that N54, 415,386.70 had so far been raised as his campaign funds donated by ordinary Nigerians through direct deposit and sale of cards. He was optimistic that the financial support he was receiving from Nigerians would boost his campaign. Buhari said this at a press briefing on the Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari Crowd Funding Platform, in Abuja, on Tuesday.

4. Rivers state governor and the Director-General of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation, Rotimi Amaechi, on Tuesday said only a strong leader like Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) could address the rising issues of insurgency and corruption in the country. He called on Nigerians to vote out Jonathan in next year’s election for the betterment of the country.

5. President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday said Nigerian actors and actresses were the greatest ambassadors of the country. He said had consistently brought glory to the country through their movie roles. He was speaking while playing host to Legends of Nollywood, led by Mr. Paul Obazele, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

6. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said that there was no over-voting at its Lagos Governorship primaries as alleged by former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, in his suit before a Federal High Court in Abuja. The party’s denial is coming through a counter-affidavit it filed in opposition to Obanikoro’s application.

7. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has appealed to the United Nations to intervene in the move by the Nigerian military to sentence 54 soldiers to death for an alleged offences of mutiny and conspiracy to commit mutiny. SERAP, in a petition dated December 23 and sent to a group of five UN special human rights rapporteurs, and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, said the sentence was against the fundamental human rights stipulated by the UN, asking it to prevail on the military not to carry out the execution of the officers.

8. The All Progressives Congress has said that it’s still studying the proposal by former Minister of Foreign Affairs and elder statesman, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi that the party signs an agreement of no-violence after the 2015 election with the PDP, saying it will react to the proposal as soon as it is carefully analyzed. The party was reacting through its publicity secretary, Lai Muhammadu.

9. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused the All Progressives Congress, APC of deviating from issues-based campaign to attacking its presidential candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan. It said it will continue to adhere to issue-based campaign, describing the recent comment on Gen. Buhari whom it termed a semi-illiterate as a compliment

10. The National Orientation Agency (NOA) has warned the general public to watch out for agents of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) who are looking for willing Nigerian youths to recruit as fighters. NOA Director General and Coordinator, National Information Center (NIC), Mr. Mike Omeri gave this warning in a statement he issued on Tuesday, asking members of the public to be at alert and ignore such recruitment move.

Photos From The Coronation Of New King Of Apara Kingdom In Port Harcourt

A new King of the famous Apara Kingdom in Obio Akpor Local Government Area Of Rivers State was crowned on Friday the 19th Of December 2014.
The coronation ceremony attracted several chiefs,owhor holders,youths,women,members of the press  and top dignitaries including Barr. Nyesom Wike.
The new King is HRM King C.A Worlu Wodo and he's married to his sweetheart,Lolo Priscilia Worlu wodo.They are blessed with four children and 2 grandchildren.See more pics below

Dele Momodu Posts Pic Of Him And Wife Kissing To Celebrate Her Birthday

Dele Momodu’s wife, Mrs Bolaji Momodu is a year older today, and the veteran journalist/publisher shared a photo of them kissing to mark her special day. Happy birthday to her!

Theresa May Wants To 'Send Home' Foreign Graduates

Foreign students could be forced to leave the UK after their courses finish under tough new rules being considered by the Home Secretary, reports say.

Theresa May wants the Conservative party's next manifesto include a pledge to make non-European Union graduates return home and apply for a work visa from abroad if they want to continue living in Britain, according to The Sunday Times.

At the moment most students switch easily to a work visa from within the UK.

Under the proposal, universities and colleges would be fined and stripped of the right to sponsor foreign students if they fail to ensure that students left the UK.

A source close to the Home Secretary told the newspaper that Mrs May has warned the Prime Minister that failure to act on foreign students will make it impossible for him to hit his target of cutting net migration.

"Making sure immigrants leave Britain at the end of their visa is as important a part of running a fair and efficient immigration system as controlling who comes here in the first place," the source said.

"Theresa is pressing for the next Conservative manifesto to contain a policy that will make sure that anybody coming here on a student visa will have to leave the country in order to apply for a new visa of any kind.

"She wants to make the colleges and universities that sponsor foreign students responsible for ensuring their departure.

"And she wants to be able to fine colleges and universities with low departure rates and deprive the worst of them of their right to sponsor foreign students."

But senior Liberal Democrats warned Mrs May's plan could deprive the UK of highly-skilled graduates.

A senior Lib Dem source said it made "zero economic sense" and "such a blunt instrument would not get our support".

An aide to Deputy PM and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg added: "We think it is a very bad idea to get rid of people who have spent years training to be physicists and computer programmers.

"We've invested a lot in these people and to turf them out for the sake of some figures doesn't make any sense."

Mrs May is also likely to face resistance from Chancellor George Osborne, who encouraged David Cameron to ditch quotas for immigrants in his recent speech on EU migration because it would hurt the economy.

Mr Cameron has insisted that only the Tories can offer "competence" on dealing with immigration.

Writing in the Daily Express on Saturday, Mr Cameron said his Government had addressed some of the problems inherited from a Labour administration that "let immigration get out of control".

"I came into office with a single-minded determination to turn all this around - and real progress has been made," he said.

"We put a cap on those coming here to work from outside the European Union - and we have seen the numbers fall significantly, close to levels last seen in the 1990s.

"Major work has been done to clamp down on the bogus 'colleges' that were really just a front for people to come here, with more than 800 of them shut down so far."

Official figures from the Office for National Statistics show that 121,000 non-EU students entered the UK in the year to June, but only 51,000 left, meaning 70,000 stayed behind in just one year, The Sunday Times says.

The business department has calculated that the number of foreign students coming to the UK will rise by more than 6% a year up to 2020.

Tuesday News In Brief

Good morning! Here are 10 things you need to know this morning:

1. Death toll from the Bomb blast that occurred on Monday at the Dukku motor park in Gombe now stands at 19. This is according to police confirmation. The Police further confirmed that 25 others sustained injuries during the exploration.

2. The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ask the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to declare publicly names of those who donated N21 billion to its campaign funds as well as the source of such money. Deputy National Chairman of the Party, Senator Lawal Shuaibu argued that it is mandatory and in line with the Electoral Act for persons donating money to campaign funds to disclosed the source of such funds.

3. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has tagged General Muhammadu Buhari as a ‘semi- illiterate,’ asking Nigerians not to vote for him come 2015. PDP National Publicity Secretary, Prof. Wale Oladipo spoke against Buhari’s presidential aspiration when he hosted leaders of the party in the diaspora at the party’s headquarters in Abuja on Monday.

4. The Lagos state government has once again advised Lagosians to watch out and be wary of what they do, eat and drink during this Christmas celebrations. The statement government asked Lagosians to call the Ebola Help line or the Local Government nearest to them in case of any suspected case during the season.
This advise was given by the State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris.

5. An expert in explosives and weapons, Mr Biedomo Iguniwei, yesterday, argued that the collapsed building of Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, was caused by a high energy infrasonic weapon.
While testifying before the Coroner’s court, he said he drew the conclusion after a careful investigation was carried on the building as directed by the church.

6. The South West chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Makunjola Ogundipe has argued that the zone has benefited from the President Goodluck Jonathan administration than any other administration. Ogundipe spoke in Lagos yesterday at the launch the Goodluck Lagos Grasroot Project, GLGP.

7. The Kaduna branch of the All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday announced that Senator Caleb Zagi, who represented Southern Kaduna Senatorial District from 2007 to 2011 on the platform of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has now joined its fold and has officially dumped the PDP.

8. Report says the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has named its former National Chairman, Dr. Ahmadu Ali as President Jonathan’s campaign Director-General for the 2015 election.

9. The Vice-Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has faulted the present government under President Goodluck Jonathan’s watch, saying one of its major failures was its inability to tackle corruption. Osinbajo stated this during a Twitter chat tagged #AskProfOsinbajo

10. A former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, has instituted a N100bn libel suit against an acclaimed Australian hostage negotiator, Stephen Davies, for alleging that he is one of the sponsors of the Boko Haram insurgent group. Ihejirika filed the suit before a Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Abuja.

These are the people who contributed N21.27bn for Jonathan's campaign

President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election campaign has received a N21.27 billion boost.

Various companies, individuals and parastatals from various sectors donated the sum during a fund raising dinner organized by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday, December 20 in Abuja.

Read the list of all who made donations below:

• Tunde Ayeni - N2 billion
• Oil and Gas sector - N5 billion
• Real Estate and Building - N4 billion
• Transport and Aviation - N1 billion
• Food and Agriculture - N500 million
• Power - N500m
• Construction - N310 million
• Road Construction - N250m
• National Automotive Association - N450 million
• Shelter Development Limited - N250 million
• Friends of Jerry Gana - N5 billion
• PDP Governors Forum - N1.05billion
• 21 PDP governors - N50 million each
• SIFAX Group - N100 million
• PDP stakeholders in Rivers State - N50m.
• 15 states on the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission - N15 million

Some private individuals also gave donations while the Chief Fund Raiser and Chairman of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, who was out of the country, assured that he would personally see the National Chairman of the PDP, Adamu Mu’Azu, to offer his support.

Photos:Toyin Aimakhu And Linda Ikeji Get Costumised Coke Bottle

Celebrity Blogger Linda Ikeji and popular Yoruba Actress Toyin Aimakhu are recipients of Coca Cola personalised bottles...See pictures below

Wow!Congrats to them...

Photos:Empress Njamah and Mama Gee Cooking At Ibinabo Fiberesima's Wedding

 Empress doesn't shy away from cooking...Hardworking women...See more pictures below

What Ateke Tom Said At Ibinabo Fiberisima's Wedding

Ex-Militant, Ateke Tom who also stormed Okirika last weekend to witness Ibinabo’s wedding said the first thing he told her when she approached him about their dating story in the papers was for her to ignore them and move on. Ateke who was delighted about the day, said he sees the AGN president as his daughter and not a friend.

‘’I remember when Ibinabo came crying to me saying the papers wrote we are dating, I told her to ignore them. She is like my daughter and people will always talk about you.  She is getting married today and I am happy to give my blessings.’’ 

He further appealed to her husband to take proper care of her.

Monday News In Brief

Good morning! Here are 10 things you need to know this morning according to Daily Post:

1. The Plateau State Governor, Mr. Jonah Jang, has appointed his son, Yakubu, as the Commissioner for Lands and Urban Planning in the state. Prior to his new appointment, Yakubu was Jang’s Special Adviser on Special Duties. While addressing newsmen on Sunday, Abubakar, said his new appointment was to allow for continuity in government.

2. A new video released by the Islamist Boko Haram sect showed its armed members slaughtering civilians lying face down in an unidentified dormitory which the sect leader claimed was situated in Bama, Borno state. In the video, the sect vowed to continue to kill and destroy as its religious obligation. The video was released on Saturday.

3. The acclaimed Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr. Adewale Omirin, has dismissed the alleged order by Governor Ayodele Fayose, that he should be arrest with the other All Progressives Congress lawmakers in the state. In a statement through his Special Adviser on Media, Wole Olujobi, Omirin said that the APC lawmakers acted within the context of the constitution having sat in a public building in the state capital last Friday. He boasted that nobody can arrest them for carrying out their constitutional duty.

4. President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday appealed to all aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party aspirants following the outcome of its primaries across the country to remain in the party as the party was doing everything possible to ensure that their grievances were looked into and resolved immediately.

5. A report has showed that the Federal Government within its first six months of this year withdrew a total sum of N310.05bn from the Excess Crude Account. This information was contained in a document obtained from the Budget Office of the Federation. According to the document, the said amount was used to settle various government’s obligations as it has failed to meet its revenue target.

6. Former Foreign Minister and Deputy Chairman, 2014 National Conference, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, has call on Nigerians to be wary of the dangers that lie ahead of the February 2015 general elections. He said that some people were planning to pull the country towards disintegration. This warning was contained in a letter he addressed separately to both President Goodluck Jonathan and his political rival, Muhammadu Buhari.

7. The Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has expressed optimism that the APC would win the state come 2015. He further declared that no emperor will govern the state as the people will resist any aspirant with such quality.Amaechi, while speaking at the freestyle parade of the Rivers State Cultural Festival known as CARNIRIV in Port Harcourt on Saturday said Rivers people can only vote for individual of great leadership quality.

8. At least, 80 Boko Haram insurgents and two soldiers were killed when Boko Haram insurgents laid ambush for the military along Damboa road in Borno state. Report says gun duel ensued between the militants and the military personnel attached to 7 Division, Nigerian Army while they were on their way to Damboa, the headquarters of Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State. The incident reportedly happened weekend.

9.Ijaw youths have threatened to violently attack supporters of the presidential candidate for the All Progressives Congress, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), anywhere they are in the southern part of the country. The youths vowed to retaliate on any attack meted on Jonathan’s supporters in the North.

10. The All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) has said that Nigeria would not vote President Goodluck Jonathan again, as voting for him would mean that all that is presently wrong with the country would be sustained. This was contained in a statement posted on Buhari’s facebook wall on Sunday night.

Gunman Kills 2 NYPD Cops As 'Revenge' For Eric Garner's Death

Two uniformed NYPD officers were shot dead Saturday afternoon as they sat in their marked police car on a Brooklyn street corner — in what investigators believe was a crazed gunman’s ­assassination-style mission to avengeEric Garner and Michael Brown.

“It’s an execution,” one law-enforcement source said of the 3 p.m. shooting of police officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos.

The tragic heroes were working overtime as part of an anti-terrorism drill in Bedford-Stuyvesant when they were shot point-blank in the head by the lone gunman, identified by sources as Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, who had addresses in Georgia and Brooklyn.

Moments after killing the two officers, he too was dead, having turned the gun on himself on a nearby subway platform as cops closed in.

“I’m Putting Wings on Pigs Today,” a person believed to be the gunman wrote on Instagram in a message posted just three hours before the officers were shot.

“They Take 1 Of Ours…Let’s Take 2 of Theirs,” the post continued, signing off with, “This May Be My Final Post.”

He used the hashtag #ShootThePolice, along with two other hashtags referencing Garner and Brown.

The Instagram page included an image of a silver automatic handgun with a wooden handle. Another image showed the same camouflage pants and distinctive blue sneakers worn by the gunman as his body was carried from the scene on a stretcher.

Brinsley walked up to the cops’ patrol car at the corner of Myrtle and Tompkins avenues, approaching from the sidewalk.

Witnesses told police that Brins­ley wordlessly blasted into the patrol car’s front passenger-side window.

Then he stood stock still for a few moments, fleeing into the subway only when he heard the sirens of a second police car.

Once in the subway, “they engaged the guy and he did himself,” one investigator said.

Brinsley was a fugitive who had just murdered his girlfriend in Baltimore Saturday morning, sources told The Post.

The two officers were pronounced dead at Woodhull Hospital, where their colleagues and family members huddled tearfully.

City Council President Melissa Mark-Viverito and Mayor Bill de Blasio were less than welcome guests at the poignant gathering.

“We’re all in this together,” the mayor told grieving cops, according to a cop who was there.

“No we’re not,” one officer said tersely in response.

Just last week cops began signing a “Don’t Insult My Sacrifice” waiver, distributed by the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, that warned the mayor and speaker to stay away from funerals of cops killed in the line of duty.

Lieutenants Benevolent Association President Lou Turco, like many cops, likened the murders to the 1988 assassination of Police Officer Eddie Byrne.

The 22-year-old rookie cop was alone in a squad car in Jamaica, Queens, guarding the home of a witness in a drug case, when he was shot in the head five times. The hit was ordered by jailed drug kingpin “Pappy” Mason, in retaliation for his arrest.

“I don’t even know how to respond to this,” Turco said. “Twenty-eight years on and I don’t know what to say.”

Another cop, who is black, said he fears that “this is just the beginning.

“There are people out there who will want to be copycats. The tension out there is the worst I’ve ever seen it.”

Both shooting locations — above and below ground — were scenes of blood and terror.

“I heard shooting, — four or five shots,” ear-witness Derrick McKie, 49, told The Post of the cops’ tragic murder.

“It sounded like from a single gun,” he said. Ambulances and police cars — at least one located only a block away — rushed to the scene, he said.

“I seen them putting the cop in the ambulance. He looked messed up,” McKie, a barber, added. “He took a high caliber weapon to the face. He was lifeless…I couldn’t see where the holes was that, all I could see was blood. His body was lifeless.”

Singer and songwriter Uriel Winfree III rushed to his roof when he heard the gunshots nearby.

“There was a cop on the ground everyone was around him,” he recalled.

“They were doing CPR on the cop, then they loaded him in the ambulance and they are hauling ass. Everyone was hauling ass.”

Carmen Jimenez, 32, a social worker from Bed-Stuy, was on the platform when the gunman ran inside, pursued by officers.

“Everything happened so quick,” said Jimenez, who is eight months pregnant.

“We were standing waiting for the G train. We heard arguing from the other end of the platform.

“It looked like two cops came in there was lots of yelling and they said, ‘Everybody get down.’

“We tried to get out of there, and there was a lot of shouting, people were screaming, people were trying to run.

Brinsley has a criminal record dating back to at least 2006, when he was arrested in Georgia for carrying a concealed weapon, a knife, as well as shoplifting, according to online records.

The next year he was nabbed in Dekalb County., Ga., for criminal trespass, and by 2009, he was indicted in Ohio for robbery — a charge that was later apparently dismissed.

In 2011, the shooter was arrested again in Georgia for reckless conduct, tampering with evidence, criminal property damage, and discharging his weapon. The outcome of the case is unknown.culled