Photos: Lamido of Adamawa, Dr. Barkindo Aliyu Mustapha loses his mother
Hajjiya Sa'adatu Aliyu mustapha (pictured with the young man and some women before her death) the mother of Lamido of Adamawa, Dr Barkindo Aliyu Mustapha has died at the age of 102. Hajjiya Sa'adatu was laid to rest today according to Islamic rites in Yola, Adamawa State.
Aisha Buhari host social media change agents to dinner in Aso Rock
Wife of President Buhari, Aisha Buhari hosted a dinner for Social Media change agents at the state house Abuja yesterday December 22nd. See more photos after the cut...
Photos: Cristiano Ronaldo attends Miami Heats game..
The Real Madrid star fresh from a 10-2 bashing of Rayo Vallecano in the weekend, traveled to Miami to watch the basket ball game between Miami Heats and Detroit Pistons and took some pictures with Heats player Luol Deng. The club even announced his presence to the crowd, saying: "Soccer superstar Ronaldo is in the crowd tonight!" The Portuguese wore a tie and suit jacket alongside a pair of designer jeans and took a few selfies with fans. See more photos after the jump...
Woman rejects boyfriend's proposal because the diamond on the ring was too small (photos)
The Diamond on the ring was too small. That's the apparent reason that could be deduced after a Chinese woman turned down her boyfriend's marriage proposal. The poor guy was down on one knee, proposed with a bunch of red roses, surrounded by dancers he’d hired specially for the event and was being watched by dozens of onlookers when his girlfriend turned and walked off.
At first, she seemed to be thrilled by the performance on a street in Chengdu, the capital city of south-west China’s Sichuan province, and at one point started to cry as her boyfriend walked towards her. But surprised everyone by walking away after seeing the ring her boyfriend was proposing with.
In a screen shot of a message sent to her friend after the attempted proposal, she complained. “Before we agreed on a one carat diamond ring. Why is it so small? Is he so careless or he just doesn’t care?”
It's not clear when the incident took place but the photographs have been circulating online in China. Many people on Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter, said that she didn't deserve the proposal.
Judge excuses self from Nnamdi Kanu's Treason case
Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court Abuja has excused himself from hearing the treason charges filed against Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra by the Federal Government. Justice Mohammed's decision comes after Nnamdi Kanu this morning objected to the judge hearing the six count charge filed against him by the Federal government.
Kanu during court hearing argued that the hearing will be an exercise in futility as officials of the Department of State Security will not obey any order in his favor.
“Thank you very much my lordship, but my objection is that I will not receive a fair trial before this court. The information I got is that I will not receive a fair trial before this court. I will not sacrifice the due process of law because of speedy court process over the principle of natural process on the altar of speedy release. In other words, I would rather remain in detention than subject myself to a trial that I know amounts to perversion of justice. Your lordship, previous court rulings have been given by courts of competent jurisdiction in this country, Nigeria which were not carried out by the DSS"he said
Counsel to the Federal government who is also the Federal Director of Prosecution, office of the Attorney General, Mohamed Diri, argued that based on section 396 (2) of the constitution, Kanu had no right to object to being tried by the court until after the plea is heard. However Diri's submission was overruled by the judge because according to him, Kanu had the right to reject the trial, “after all justice is rooted on confidence”.
“If any of the parties has no confidence in the court, he has the right to say so”, the judge said. He added that the prosecution would have done the same thing if they were in Kanu’s shoes. “Assuming it was the prosecution, if they had no confidence in the court of jurisdiction; would they not have done so? I hereby remit the case file to the honorable chief judge of this court to reassign it” the judge said.
Kanu is being tried on a six count charge which treason.
Miss Colombia finally speaks days after the Miss Universe disaster
Days after Miss Colombia was crowned the Miss Universe...for two minutes, the world's famous runner-up is speaking out. Ariadna Gutierrez took to her Instagram page on Tuesday and wrote:
"After the storm comes the calm. I want to thank each and everyone of you who have sent messages of support and strength. Every one of you has become an incredible human being in my book and I am the most fortunate and thankful for having the support not only from one country but from the whole entire world.
Your destiny is written for you. And my destiny was this. I was able to bring happiness to my country after becoming Miss Universe for only a couple of minutes... Today because of that COLOMBIA and the LATIN COMMUNITY are being talked about in every corner of the world. I also want to congratulate the Philippines for their new Miss Universe. The happiness that you must be feeling must be incredible. Life continues and in the future we will find out why things happen the way they happen. Thank you all for your LOVE SUPPORT and KINDNESS."
Photos: You should see these inspiring photos
This hardworking young man went from peddling clothes on the streets to owning his own clothing store. The photos were shared on twitter.
Annie needs your urgent help!
Annie was diagnosed of Primary Mediastinal B-cell Lymphoma cancer on November 2nd 2015 & he needs urgent Chemotherapy to stop his cancer from spreading to some sensitive parts of his organs. His family is begging well meaning Nigerians to help save him by donating towards his treatment.
Please donate via his sister - Udonsah Katherine Ekaete - Access bank 0026784829 or Udonsah Katherine Ekaete Eco bank 2652006541. Also u can login on line to donate into a US account on the link belowhttps://www.gofundme.com/gdb93vmx.
College students hold grand funeral for dead cockroach (photos)
Students at a Texas A&M university found a dead cockroach in their lab and what did they do? Give it a befitting funeral. The roach, named "Rosie," was left unattended in the anthropology building for two weeks, according to a post on Imgur by user jimmyevil, presumably lying in state.
Cigarettes, flowers, stones, notes and coins were all placed next to her corpse in the following days. A poster reading "never forget" was also added, while a Post-It note said, "You were always there to say hello to me in the morning, Rosie! We will miss you." Poor Rosie was eventually cremated on a funeral pyre in grand style.
US University students scramble to take a selfie with GEJ in the US
This was after he gave a lecture at the Presidential Precinct in Virginia, USA...
Forbes’ top 10 most overpaid actors in Hollywood 2015
Johnny Depp has been named the most overpaid movie star in Hollywood by Forbes magazine after posting a string of box office turkeys.
Depp, one of the highest-paid actors on the planet with estimated annual earnings of $30m (£20m), returned just $1.20 for every $1 he was paid according to the financial magazine’s metric.
His poor position is due to the financial failure of movies such as Mortdecai, Transcendence and The Lone Ranger, all of which bombed at the box office on the back of derisive reviews. The Lone Ranger was the biggest turkey, with studio Disney estimated to have lost upwards of $150m on the western, but comedy Mortdecai pulled in just $47.4m at the global box office against a production budget of $60m alone, and sci-fi thriller Transcendence only just recouped its $100m production costs, with marketing and other expenses likely to have put the film well into the red.
All 10 actors on the “most overpaid” list are male.
1. Johnny Depp: $1.20 per $1
2. Denzel Washington: $6.50 per $1
3. Will Ferrell: $6.80 per $1
4. Liam Neeson: $7.80 per $1
5. Will Smith: $8.60 per $1
6. Christian Bale: $9.20 per $1
7. Channing Tatum: $10.80 per $1
8. Brad Pitt: $12.00 per $1
9. Ben Affleck: $12.30 per $1
10. Tom Cruise: $13.60 per $1
FG files fresh charges against Pro-Biafra leader Nnamdi Kanu
The Federal Government has filed fresh charges including treason against founder of Radio Biafra and leader of the Independent People of Briafra IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu before Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court Abuja.
The fresh case filed and signed by the Director, Public Prosecution, Mohammed Saidu Diri, for the Attorney-General of the Federation comes barely a week after Justice Adeniyi Ademola ordered the unconditional release of the accused since there was no pending charges against him about two months after his detention in October.
The DSS after the court ruling, had kept him in their custody and decided to file fresh charges against him. The new case against him is meant to be heard by the court today December 22nd. Part of the charge against him reads
“That you, Nnamdi Kanu and other unknown persons, now at large, at London, United Kingdom, between 2014 and September, 2015, with intention to levy war against Nigeria in order to force the President to change his measures of being the President of the Federation, Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federation as defined in Section 3 of the Constitution of the Federal Re- public of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) by doing an act to wit: Broadcast on Radio Biafra your preparations for the states in the South- East geo-political zone, South-South geo-political zone, the Igala Community of Kogi State and the Idoma/Igede Community of Benue State to secede from the Federal Republic of Nigeria and form themselves into a Republic of Biafra, and thereby committed an offence punish- able under Section 41(C) of the Criminal Code Act, CAP C38 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.”
Source: Punch
Afrocandy reveals racy Christmas photos (18+)
Mother of 2 and business entrepreneur, Afrocandy, released her Christmas photos and they are really...see for yourself. More photos after the cut...
Breakdown of the 2016 Budget
GDP Growth Rate Projection4.37%Revenue Projection. : 3.86 Naira
Deficit : 2.22 trillion Naira (equivalent to 2.16% of Nigeria’s GDP)
Oil Related Revenues : 820 billion Naira
Non-oil Revenues : 1.45 trillion Naira
Projected Independent Revenues : 1.51 trillion Naira
Capital Expenditure : 1.8 trillion Naira (30% of total budget)
Works, Power and Housing : 433.4 billion Naira
Transport : 202.0 billion Naira
Interior : 53.1 billion Naira
Special Intervention Programs : 300 billion Naira
Education : 369.6 billion Naira
Defence : 294.5 billion Naira
Health : 221.7 billion Naira
Ministry of Interior : 145.3 billion Naira
Foreign and Domestic Debt Service : 1.36 trillion Naira
Sinking Fund towards the retirement of maturing loans : 113 billion Naira
Non-debt Recurrent Expenditure : 2.65 trillion Naira
