Pictures From Sarah Ofili’s ‘Twerktastic’ Birthday Party

Sarah Ofili’s ’twerkastic’ birthday party held yesterday in Victoria Island Lagos. More pics when you continue

Parry hot!!

Drake’s Birthday Cake is rocking! Check It Out!!

Singer Graham Drake, turns 27.

The picture above, is an elaborate cake modeled after his hometown, Toronto, Canada.

Details on Drake’s birthday cake:

• His favorite hookah bar, Habibiz,
• a “Started from the Bottom” billboard,
• a Starbucks
• the CN Tower.
• The streets are paved with Smarties and then there is also a giant Toronto

 

 

I like! *just saying*

Nkiru Anumudu Rocks Big PineApple on her head To The Lagos Fashion & Design Week

The socialite first rocked a shoe hat to an event last month, before rocking a Pineapple hat which comes with a clutch bag to Lagos Fashion and Design Week which started on wednesday.

Fashion!! thumbs up or down?

Rihanna Twerking A Pole In Her Bikini In Greece

Last month Rihanna became the first girl to twerk on water in her new music video “Pour It Up.”



The Bajan pop beauty continues to twerk all over the world including her latest stop in greece where she strip down in her bikini.

RiRi posted these photo on her Instagram showing off her banging body in some elaborate pole including the one above where she posed in a twerking position on a rail.

Rihanna also shot a new campaign for her River Island fall collection.

Jim Iyke Spotted On New Movie Set In Ghana Weeks After Deliverance

Weeks after his deliverance at TB Joshua’s Synagogue church of all nations, Nollywood Actor Jim Iyke is back to work.

According to sources, Jim Iyke is now in Ghana to star in an upcoming movie titled ‘And Loves Comes Around‘.

From the look of things, Jim Iyke is now a calm man with clarity of vision.

Wishing him all the best in his career.

Nigerians now purchase any vehicle directly from US eBay through MicoStar Mall

MicoStarMall.com has partnered with eBay to enable Nigerians purchase any vehicle directly from US. Nigerians can now buy vehicles for the exact same price being sold on eBay and get it delivered to their doorstep in Nigeria. Their goal is to make it possible for Nigerians to purchase quality vehicles directly from US at affordable prices.

All you need to do is log onto MicoStarMall.com, and fill out a request form with vehicle of your choice from their auto section.

MicoStar Mall.com started over 15 years ago with their auto division MicoStar Motors. MicoStar Motors is known to be the pioneer of selling pre-ordered vehicles from US to customers in Nigeria. For the past 10 years , they had more Nigerian customers who pre-ordered vehicles from Nigeria and had them shipped from US to Nigeria than any other auto dealer in Nigeria.

 
Easy! 

Miss Nigeria Winner Akudo Ezinne Crowned Face Of Imo, Also A Street is Named After Her+ N500,000 Cash

The Imo State House of Assembly, last Tuesday, honoured the winner of the Miss Nigeria 2013, Miss Ezinne Akudo Anyaoha for emerging the winner of the beauty pageant.

DailyStar reports that Ezinne was invited into the Chambers during their session to receive the recognition and honour.

The house had described her achievement as one worthy of recognition and celebration, adding that her effort has not only projected a good image of the Imo woman but has also brought her to international limelight.

So, a motion was moved for her to become the face of the state.

The Speaker Rt Hon. Ben Uwajumogu added that a road be named after her so that it will always be in history that one of their own won the prestigious Miss Nigeria crown as this will serve as an inspiration to other younger girls in the state as well as the unborn.

 

The House members, however, noted that, this appreciation was necessary to further portray that they are not only interested in politics but they still care about other things in the state such as beauty and brains.
They wished her a very successful reign and prayed that her reign rubs off positively on the people of Imo.

Alongside the adopted motion for her to be the face of Imo and naming a popular road in Owerri after her, was a cash gift of N500,000.

“Can’t Sleep….I See Dead People” – Says Teebillz, Tiwa Savage’s Fiance

 

Make we believe say na joke abi pre-wedding dreams of anxiousness..

Tiwa Savage Jets Off To London To Shop For Her Wedding

MAVIN Records First Lady, Tiwa Savage, posted the picture on her Instagram page. She is on her way to London via Virgin Atlantic in preparation for her big wedding -  traditional marriage on the 23rd of November, in Lagos and white wedding in February, 2014 in Maldive Islands -  Mavin records’ songstress, Tiwa Savage and her fiance, TeeBillz went shopping in London yesterday.


Already, the wedding has become the talk of the town. Many are positing that it will be the best  wedding in history. One however wonders whether it will beat the record set by Tuface and Annie when they wedded in Dubai.

Lerrus see na!

Kim & Kanye’s engagement was shot for her reality show

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kanye might have made his lavish engagement to Kim look like a surprise  by hiring an entire baseball stadium,but according to TMZ, it was all pre-planned for her reality show which is not doing good as far as ratings are concerned.Kim even had the perfect $6,800 dress to match her $1.6M Lorraine Schwartz engagement ring

“multiple cameras were rolling during Kanye’s proposal, so there’s plenty of material for the Kardashian reality show.  We’re told Kanye has final approval over whether it goes on the show or not.

 

Meanwhile Kim gushed”‘Last night was truly magical!!! I am the luckiest girl in the world!’I get to marry my best friend!’

Kris with the producer of Keeping up with Kardashians

Issorait!

33 YEAR OLD MAN GETS $100,000 WORTH OF PLASTIC SURGERY TO LOOK LIKE HIS ‘IDOL’ JUSTIN BIEBER

A 33-year-old man has spent five years and $100,000 in an effort to look like his hero – teenage pop idol Justin Bieber.

Toby Sheldon is a songwriter from Los Angeles who has used Bieber’s youthful features as the inspiration for numerous surgeries, including face fillers, a chin reduction and eyelid surgery.

Sheldon’s obsession with his appearance began when he started having treatments to prevent his hair thinning at the age of 23, but really took off when a pre-pubescent Justin Bieber hit the big-time in 2008.

Sheldon, along with hordes of preteen girls, became enamored of the pop star.
‘Once Justin shot to fame his face was everywhere and I all I kept thinking when I saw his picture was, “I want to look like him,”‘ Sheldon says.

Sheldon had already spent $8,000 on hair transplants to supplement his thinning blond locks, but he wasn’t happy with the results.
He took a picture of Bieber to his plastic surgeon to demonstrate exactly how he wanted his hair to look.

‘It took three transplants and a total of $21,000 to accurately lower my hair line, close off my temples and grow back my bangs,’ he says.
Once he had perfected his Bieber-style hair, Sheldon, who admits to a phobia of aging, decided he wasn’t finished.

Toby got Botox and Aquimid injections in his forehead and temples as well as eye surgery, which cost him $4,850, despite everyone – including doctors – telling him that the eyelid procedure was too much. “But it took going to eight different surgeons before anyone would agree to operate on me as everyone thought I was crazy to be obsessing over such a tiny detail,” Toby recalls.

He then noticed other features could be improved as well.
“When I first sought out to look like Justin I only paid attention to specific aspects of his boyish look like his hair and the structure of his face,” Sheldon says. “But the more I started studying Justin and young people in general it’s really their smile that gives them their youthful glow. If you look closely, you’ll notice that when younger people just barely have their mouths open they naturally show their top teeth, giving them a sort of natural and effortless smile,” he adds. Also called the smile surgery, this procedure is very popular especially in Korea and the number of people who have had it in the U.S. has doubled in the past year. For a whopping $30,000, Toby’s frown has been turned upside down and transformed into a “perma-smile.” SMH.

‘By using Justin’s charming baby face as my inspiration, I’ve been able to restructure my entire look to maintain a much more youthful appearance through plastic surgery.’

Sheldon says he admires Bieber for his youthful good looks, if not his musical output.

‘I didn’t necessarily listen to his music or fawn over him as a celebrity, but his face was just so flawless every change I made was modeled after him.’
In the past five years, Toby Bieber – as his friends now call him, has undergone various cosmetic procedures which add up to a staggering $100,000 in bills. But having so many invasive surgeries was not easy. He recalls that his smile surgery took more than a month to recover from, and that after his eyelid surgery, he couldn’t open his eyes for a week. However, he believes it was all worth it.

“Between our similar hairstyles, baby faced smile and overall youthful appearance I finally look like Justin Bieber and I couldn’t be happier about it,” he says.
Yet he still thinks there is room for improvement. “I know there is more work to be done in order to make a full transformation into Justin Bieber’s doppelganger like a nose job and jaw reduction, which my surgeon has suggested,” the wanna-be Bieber clone adds. However, Sheldon is content to look like a weird 15-year-old boy and to no longer be able to buy liquor without showing his ID.

Why will any grown man want to look like a 19 year old popstar??? Dude’s mental state is really questionable.
Just weird…

Sexy Nollywood actress Ebube Nwagbo takes her sexiness to another level

Nollywood actress Ebube Nwagbo, takes her sexiness to another level… 

 

Here is a photograph showing extremely fit Ebube and her charming cousin.

The stunning girlfriend who was 'dragged to her death by jealous boyfriend' who was 'hurled' from Sydney balcony

Lisa Harnum, above, died after falling from the 15th floor of an apartment in Sydney, Australia in 2011.

This is the stunning girlfriend who fell 15 stories to her death, moments after being filmed grappling with her 'controlling and abusive' fiancé

Lisa Harnum was allegedly heard yelling, 'please help me, God help me' as she fought for her life on the balcony of the flat she shared with Simon Gittany in Sydney, Australia, on the night of July 30 2011.

But nobody came. Moments later she was lying dead, her body 150-feet down on the footpath below.

And today it was revealed the 30-year-old's terrifying last moments were captured on the very pin-hole camera Gittany set up to spy on her every move.
Gittany, 37, has pleaded not guilty to murdering his Canadian-born fiancée claiming he was trying to save her from suicide before she fell.

A neighbour, however, claims he saw a topless man 'fist-pumping' on the terrace after something had gone over the edge.


Another witness walking past The Hyde apartment block in the heart of the city told police he saw a topless man holding what appeared to be black luggage horizontally over the balcony before it fell to earth.

'Of course, it was not a piece of luggage, it was Miss Harnum wearing black clothing,' Crown prosecutor Mark Tedeschi QC said today at Gittany's murder trial.

Gittany was so jealous, Mr Tedeschi claimed, that he had banned her from seeing friends, forbade her from taking a job as a hairdresser and even hired a personal trainer to come to their home so she wouldn't go to the gym where he thought she would be ogled by other men.

Terror: His hand clamped over her mouth to stifle her 'bone-chilling' screams for help, a shirtless Simon Gittany wrestles fiancee Lisa Harnam - minutes before she plunged 15-storeys to her death. The footage was captured on a pin-hole camera that he set up in the flat to spy on her

 

Man accused of throwing girlfriend from balcony arrives at court

Describing Gittany as 'controlling and abusive', Tedeschi said he made her become Catholic, do her hair and dress exactly how he told her.

He believed it was her function in life to submit to his will as the male in the relationship,' Mr Tedeschi said.
 

Click here  to watch the video.

Oprah Winfrey Shuns Obama, Refuses White House Invitation

Oprah Winfrey has been notably distancing herself from President Obama and First Lady Michelle and apparently her latest slight came against Obamacare.

The media icon was asked to attend a meeting at the White House along with other celebrities to see how they could help create some positive publicity for the Affordable Care Act.

Rather than jumping on board like Alicia Keys and Jennifer Hudson, Oprah reportedly quickly said that she would not be attending the meeting.
'All of Oprah’s top people thought she would go, because when the president invites you to the White House, most people automatically say yes, but Oprah said she didn’t have the time or inclination to go. It wasn’t like she had to think it over. It was an immediate, flat-out, unequivocal no,' an Oprah advisor told journalist Ed Klein.

According to Klein, the slight is just the talk show host's latest way of getting back at the Obama administration for failing to live up to the alleged promises that they agreed to when Winfrey campaigned for Obama in 2008.
The talk show host used her sizable clout to help get the then-one-term Senator elected, and she thought that in return, she would be able to have special access to the administration.

There were big plans, and a team was put together to come up with proposals that would have been mutually beneficial. But none of that ever happened.
Oprah sent notes and a rep to talk to Valerie Jarrett, but nothing came of it. It slowly dawned on Oprah that the Obamas had absolutely no intention of keeping their word and bringing her into their confidence.

This is a burnt bridge that will not be fixed anytime soon, Klein argues, which could come at more of a cost to the TV host than the President.

'Obama hasn’t budged, and neither has Oprah. She’s hurt and angry, and I seriously doubt that Oprah will ever make up with the Obamas. She knows how to hold a grudge,' a source close to Winfrey said.

Mother Burnt Son's Penis, Nipples Off, Makes Him Consume Faeces, Urine *yuck*

Christine Gelineau

New Hampshire, United States -- A woman has been imprisoned for up to 30 years for torturing her own son.
Christine Gelineau is accused of burning her then-18-year-old son's penis and nipples off with a lighter. The young man was repeatedly tortured and then coerced to lie that his wounds were self-inflicted.

At the 53-year-old woman's plea and sentencing hearing, the victim gave a detailed description of his brutal abuse sometime between April 10 and 14.

"Dear ex-Mother," he began, reading from a statement as the woman sat sobbing nearby. "What you did to me is unforgivable. You beat me, starved me, almost chopped my penis off, threw my clothes away, wouldn't let me bathe. You almost killed me by having me take three antidepressants and two muscle-relaxers.
"Now that I know you're a complete criminal and only wanted me dead so you could go back to your old life. You won't be able to attend my graduation or see me go on to college, so I wish you goodbye. I hope you realize you have lost everything you had."

Gelineau pleaded guilty to first-degree assault and witness tampering.

As part of a plea bargain, she was sentenced to nine to 30 years in state prison.
Assistant county prosecutor said the man suffered permanent nerve damage in his penis when Gelineau burnt it with a lighter.

Gelineau had admitted to detectives that she burned the tip of her son's penis, but she said she did so only after he "threatened to have sex with her."
The woman put gloves on because she thought her son was "dirty," grabbed and twisted his penis and then held a lighter to it for several seconds, as he screamed in pain.

Gelineau also pressed her son to eat human faeces. She threatened to burn his genitals if he refused. However, when the young man complied, Gelineau burnt it anyway.

She also allegedly kneed her son in his face and struck him repeatedly in the stomach with a pen, but those charges were dropped as part of the plea bargain.
Though it's unclear what prompted the abuse, prosecutors said they believe it had something to do with the victim, who is mentally challenged, no longer receiving financial assistance from the government because he wasn't enrolled in school at the time.

The victim was also strangled with a scarf, punched in the face, his nipples were burnt off with a lighter, his ankle was twisted until it cracked.
Gelineau abused her son together with another man and the victim's 29-year-old cousin.

When detectives interviewed the victim for the first time, he claimed his wounds were self-inflicted. In a subsequent interview, though, the victim contradicted parts of his earlier account and said that all three defendants had carried out the abuse.

The victim is now living with an aunt and uncle, and is back in school.
The young man remained composed as he read his handwritten statement in court, never looking at his mother as he ticked through a list of gruesome abuses. When he finished, he returned to his seat and buried his head in a relative's arms, the sound of his mother's sobs echoing in the background. After a few seconds, he began crying himself.

Violence!

Drama in MIC Okusanya family as four unknown women surface with kids, claiming to be his wives

As the family of late Mr. Tunji Okusanya Snr, Managing Director, MIC (Magbamowo Industrial Company) Funeral Services, battles to get over the tragedy that befell  them after the ill-fated Associated Airlines plane crash that killed him and four of his workers, some unknown women have surfaced in the family claiming to have children for the deceased Okusanya Snr.apart from his legitimate wives

 

The women and the children that claim to be Okunsanya’s, were never introduced to other members of the family by the late Okusanya.

A family member said:

“I am surprised because he did not tell or show the wives and children to his friends and family members as it has turned out to be. But such an incidence cannot be ruled out considering the status of the MIC boss.

He lived a larger than life lifestyle. Women chase such people who are successful, even if they do not chase the women. It is not a crime to have many children and we do not count children in Africa..

LEADERSHIP Friday learnt that with the present development, the total number of children fathered by Okusanya outside his matrimonial home and the ones that are known to the family member stands at nine children, including a two-month-old baby.

 

Culled from Leadership

Police disrupt ASUU protest

Over 1,000 anti-riot policemen yesterday in Calabar disrupted a protest march by the University of Calabar branch of Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities, ASUU. This is even as the union said only justice to the 2009 agreement signed with the Federal Government can guarantee peace in public universities.

The police barricaded the university’s gate to prevent ASUU members from kick-starting the demonstration, which the union claimed would have been peaceful. Addressing ASUU members at the school gate while speaking on the theme, “Save university education in Nigeria,” ASUU branch Chairman, UNICAL, Dr. James Okpileye, charged members to remain steadfast in the struggle of winning the war against oppressive tendencies by the Federal Government.

Okpileye noted that recently ASUU wrote a letter to the police informing them of the union’s plan to embark on a peaceful road walk but to his greatest chagrin, police came and barricaded the institution’s gate, preventing his members from conducting it.

“Why would market women and students be allowed to carry out demonstrations but ASUU’s peaceful rally is being disrupted?” he asked. Also speaking, a former National ASUU President, Festus Iyayi, berated the Federal Government for employing savage strategy of ‘no-work-no-pay’ to cause starvation to lecturers, stressing that the teachers would not be intimidated by such “a theory of cascading mediocrity.” Iyayi said the introduction of no-work-no-pay was not new to the union, adding that when ASUU returned from the trenches, they would implement their own theory of ‘no-work, no-pay.’

The ASUU branch Chairman, Cross River University of Technology, CRUTECH, Dr. Nsim Ogar, urged the police to be cautious in discharging their duties. He stressed that it was ASUU’s turn today, it could come to when the police too would be aggrieved with government’s poor funding of public institutions and might decide to fight for their right.

In Osogbo and Ile-Ife in Osun State, vehicular and human activities were paralysed for hours as angry lecturers of the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, and Osun State University, UNIOSUN, staged rallies to force the Federal Government to implement the agreement reached with the union in 2009.

The lecturers held their rally at the Freedom Square in Osogbo while those at Ile- Ife went round the ancient town to register their grievances against the government on the matter. Addressing the crowd, the OAU Chairman of ASUU, Dr. Adegbola Akinola, said: “The Federal Government is yet to fulfil the agreement reached with the leadership of the union and the sensitisation rally was in compliance with the directive from the national secretariat of the union since the government has not worked in line with the agreement reached with the union. “The government is not transparent over the ASUU’s demands and that is why the union’s position is to sanitise the tertiary education sector.”

Dr. Amos Idowu of the Department of Public Law said that “the enlightenment rally was to ensure that tertiary institutions in the country are funded the way it should be. We are saying no to bastardization of tertiary educational system as was done to primary and secondary education system.

“We are covered by the law which gives every Nigerian the right to express their mind. We are out to claim civil and political rights by educating members of the public why ASUU is on nationwide strike so that the government will be proactive in taking care of education in the country.”

The Chairman, UNIOSUN branch of ASUU, Dr. Abiona Joseph, said that the rally was to educate the people on what was actually happening and correct the impression by the people that ASUU rejected the offers of government.

Policemen were stationed to monitor the peaceful rally so as not to be hijacked by hoodlums. The Chairman of the University of Ibadan chapter of the union, Dr. Olusegun Ajiboye, while speaking at the town hall meeting and presentation of NEEDS assessment report to clergymen, civil society, labour and students, said the appeal by President Goodluck Jonathan to be patriotic was not needed but the implementation of the agreement reached with the union.

He said that it was sad that a President that claimed that corruption was not Nigeria’s problem could watch while a minister bought bullet-proof vehicles for N255m, and claimed there was no money to fund education. Ajiboye called on President Jonathan to teach youths in the country the virtue of fulfilling agreement and not play politics with lives of children of the masses.

He berated the President for speaking out publicly on the ongoing strike close to four months after it began, maintaining that he had not been patriotic and sensitive enough to the needs of Nigerians.

He said: “Will it have been possible for Mr. President to be quiet if his children are in one of our public institutions and be at home for four months? Does the President care about the future of the country while the children of the masses in public institutions have been asking their President to be more sensitive and patriotic enough to public institutions?.

“How many years of appeal will make Mr. President implement a four-yearold agreement? The truth is we are tired of appeal. We need action.” The ASUU boss added that the union had shown enough patriotism by suspending previous strikes after the Federal Government failed to fulfil the agreement in phases, stating that the 2012 strike was suspended as a patriotic compromise to allow government implement other components of the agree-ment but the government deceived the union.

“We believe in ASUU that if the future will be better, today must be good. We cannot live on appeal while children of the rich use public monies abroad and even use Federal Government scholarship scheme to school abroad,” he said. The Chairman UI Strike Information and Propaganda Committee, Prof. Dele Layiwola, said Nigeria is the biggest and most disappointing black nation where leaders do not love their citizens.

The Dean, Faculty of Arts, Prof. Remi Raji-Oyelade, who presented the NEEDS report, described it as a ‘’thesis of rot in Nigeria Public Education’’, adding that the report means that “Now excellence in education deserves serious attention”.

Present at the town hall meeting include the Oyo State Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Bashir Olanrewaju; the Leader of Herbal Medicine, Dr. Esalaye Aarunoyemi; the Chaplain of the Chapel of Resurrection, Rev. Olatunji, students and members of the civil society. Meanwhile, the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala, said she was not responsible for prolonged industrial action by university lecturers in the country contrary to rumours being peddled by faceless people about her roles in the crisis.

The Minister, in a statement by her media aide, Paul Nwabuikwu, said contrary to some recent media reports, the Federal Government had not adopted a take-it-or-leave-it approach in its negotiations with ASUU. Rather, she explained that the approach was focused on positive engagement and achieving sustainable solutions to the challenges facing higher education in the country, adding that that is why President Jonathan recently appealed to ASUU to respond to government’s positive steps by calling off its strike in the interest of suffering students and parents.

Okonjo-Iweala lamented that despite the appeal, some elements in ASUU had been distributing pamphlets and flyers with abusive and inflammatory messages against her in mosques and other places, pointing out that the ugly development is taking academic unionism to a new low and infusing it with unnecessary politics.

Kidnappers of Osun Speaker’s wife jailed 27 years

The Osun State High Court sitting in Iwo yesterday sentenced the five persons standing trial for kidnapping the wife of the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Alhaja Muibat Salaam, to 27 years imprisonment.

In his over one hour judgement, the presiding judge, Justice Moshood Adeigbe, sentenced the five persons to seven years for conspiracy, 10 years for kidnapping and 10 years for unlawful possession of fire arms.

While stating that each term of the sentence would run concurrently, Justice Adeigbe said the five convicts deserved the full punishments because the offence they committed was callous, heartless and condemnable.

The judge said: “The prosecution have been able to establish their case against the defendants and the confessional statements were clear that the accused persons met at Royal Hotel in Agbor, Delta State, where they planned the kidnap, perfected it in Lagos and carried it out in Ejigbo.

“The exhibits also showed that the five accused persons kidnapped the PW2 (Mrs. Salaam), forced her into a trailer and dragged her into the bush on their way to Lagos before the Ogun State Police Command arrested them. “I hold that the prosecution have established their case and therefore found the five accused persons guilty of conspiracy, kidnapping and unlawful possession of firearms”.
The five convicts, Chukwudi Okereke (40), Ogbole Ochijile Elijah (25), Okonkwo Lucky (33), Kaikine Mahah (35) and Nwadinnor Philip (30) were said to have conspired and armed with AK 47, kidnapped Mrs. Salaam, who was returning from her shop in her Honda Accord car marked OSHA02 at about 8pm around Oke-Oyo Road in Ejigbo, Osun State on October 9, 2012
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The prosecution, led by the Osun State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adewale Afolabi, claimed that the convicts had confessed to the kidnapping of the Speaker’s wife in their individual statements to the police during investigations.

However, the defence counsel, Messrs. Sam George and Fredrick Komolafe, prayed the court to temper justice with mercy, saying the convicts were married and they have children.

Good riddance to bad rubbish!

Rihanna asked to leave Abu Dhabi mosque over photo shoot

Rihanna was asked to leave before she entered the mosque building

Pop star Rihanna was asked to leave a famous Abu Dhabi mosque complex after posing outside the building for an unauthorised photo shoot.

The singer tweeted pictures of herself in a black jumpsuit and headscarf on photo-sharing site Instagram.

A statement from the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Centre, said she was asked to leave after "inappropriate pictures" were taken
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The photos "did not comply with terms and conditions" of organised visits.

Rihanna performed live in the capital of the United Arab Emirates on Saturday.

The mosque said Rihanna, 25, first arrived "at an entrance that was not designated for visitors".

Tourist attraction

"She was confronted by the mosque officials and directed to the appropriate entrance to the mosque, to carry out a visit under the normal conditions."

She was asked to leave after striking a series of poses for the photo shoot.

The statement claimed Rihanna turned up at the mosque "without any previous co-ordination with the administration".

Several of the photos could be construed as suggestive, with one showing the pop star lying on her back in the mosque's courtyard.

The mosque is a major tourist attraction which welcomes non-Muslims - it had more than three million visitors last year.

Rihanna's publicity team is yet to make a comment...

ASUU vows to continue strike till agreement is honoured

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday vowed to continue on their 114-day-old strike unless the government honoured the 2009 agreement it entered with the union.

The Chairman of ASUU at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Prof. Adegbola Akinola, and his University of Ibadan chapter counterpart, Dr. Olusegun Ajiboye, said President Goodluck Jonathan did not need to plead with the lecturers to end the strike.

Akinola told journalists during a rally staged by members of the union in Ile-Ife on Monday, that  'ASUU does not need any plea from Mr. President. We are not asking for impossible things. The Federal Government reached an agreement with us and we are asking them to honour it. It is so simple.'

'Government should be honourable. Is it honourable not to honour an agreement? Certainly no. The Federal Government should not allow the public universities to continue to degenerate. Posterity will not forgive us if we allow public universities to totally collapse.

'Our country has the resources to honour the agreement but education is not given priority.

'We won't allow public universities to be destroyed. That is why they are establishing private universities all over the country with the nation's money. Except those owned by the missionaries, tell me which of the private universities was not established with the nation's resources?'

Akinola said that infrastructure were decaying in public  universities because of the   neglect they had suffered.

He explained that the strike was not about members of the union but a means to force the government to do the right things.

The ASUU chief warned that  children from poor  homes  might no longer have access to university education if the union  should succumb to the blackmail being employed against it by the government.

Also Ajiboye said at a town hall meeting and presentation of the  National Economic Empowerment Development Strategy assessment report to clerics , civil society,  labour and students at the Trenchard Hall, UI on Monday, that  Jonathan's plea  would not make ASUU end the strike.

He  said, 'Will the President be quiet if his children are in one of our public institutions and be at home for four months? Does he care about the future of the country while the children of the masses in public institutions have been asking their leader to be more sensitive and patriotic enough to public institutions?

'How many years of appeal will make the President implement a four-year-old agreement? The truth is that  we are tired of appeals. We need action .

'In ASUU, our belief is that today's event will shape the future. We cannot live on appeal while the  children of the rich use public funds to study abroad and even make use of government scholarship scheme.'

However, about 200 heavily armed policemen on Monday stopped members of ASUU from carrying out an enlightenment walk on the   strike in Calabar,  Cross River State.

The walk  was organised by the University of Calabar and Cross River  State University of Technology branches of ASUU.

It  was to take off from the UNICAL gate at 7am through some streets of Calabar, but the policemen ensured the union members  did not leave the gate of the institution.

They  said they were acting on 'orders from above.'

The Chairman ASUU, UNICAL branch, Dr. James Okpiliya, said, 'Our union is law- abiding. We wrote to the police and other security agencies on our intention of walking the streets in pursuance of our cause to put the records straight.

'Many groups have been walking the streets giving people the wrong impression about the situation. We just want to put the records straight. The police are telling us that they have orders from above not let us walk the streets of Calabar. It is a shame. You can all see the hypocrisy of government.

'They allowed youths and market women but they would not let us   do the same. We would remain resolute. No amount of provocation would stop us.

'We are not on strike because of our salaries. We are fighting for our students and the terrible conditions of our universities. Most of our science students do not know the difference between a Bunsen burner and a stove. They don't even know the chemicals.

'The Tertiary Education Trust Fund today has become a main funding source of our universities, but this is not to be so. TETFUND is only an intervention agency. Government has bailed out banks and even Nollywood, but not our universities.

'The strike would continue as long as the government remains adamant. The President said after all, the strike in Ghana lasted two years; so that means this one could  continue even up to five years.'

The Chairman of ASUU, CRUTECH branch, Dr Nsing Ogar, said the Federal Government must honour the 2009 agreement.

But  university administrators in the country on Monday expressed concern over the  strike and appealed   to both ASUU and the Federal Government to urgently reach a compromise on the issue.

The National President of the Association of Nigerian University Professional Administrators, Mr. Samuel Mwansat,  made this appeal at the ongoing annual retreat of the National Council Members of the association   at the Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun in  Ogun State.

He stressed that the current disagreement between ASUU and the government required 'understanding.'

In Abuja,   Okonjo-Iweala,  accused  ASUU of taking unionism to an all time low with its   latest approach to  the strike.

She   accused  the union of   introducing    politics  to  the strike  through the  distribution of 'flyers riddled with lies in mosques in the North.'

The minister, in a  statement by her Special Adviser, Paul Nwabuikwu,   said contrary to the position being  spread by ASUU, she had  not taken a 'take-it-or-leave-it approach' to the face-off between the union and government.

She claimed that  it was ASUU that had taken  such an approach,  saying   no government had  been as responsive to the demands of the striking lecturers as that of Jonathan.

The statement reads in part,  'Contrary to some recent media reports, the Federal Government has not adopted a take-it-or-leave-it approach in its negotiations with ASUU. Rather, the approach is focused on positive engagement and achieving sustainable solutions to the challenges facing higher education in the country.

'That is why President  Jonathan recently appealed to ASUU to respond to government's positive steps by calling off its strike in the interest of suffering students and parents.

'Despite this, for several days now, some elements in ASUU have been distributing pamphlets and flyers with abusive and inflammatory messages against  Dr. Okonjo-Iweala in mosques and other places. This is taking academic unionism to a new low and infusing it with unnecessary politics. I am sure majority of ASUU members are not in support of this.'

She said the  government  was  working hard   to seek practical and sustainable solutions to the challenges facing higher education in the country.

According to her, ' The President has made available N100bn  a year in the first instance to repair hostels, laboratories and classrooms and other facilities in the universities.

'An offer  of N30bn has also been made to ASUU   towards the  earned allowances of its members.'

#God's intervention we seek#

INEC uncovers 93,526 multiple registrations in Anambra

The National Commissioner, Election Monitoring, Independent National Electoral Commission, Dr Ishmael Igbani, said on Monday in Abuja that the commission hads commenced cleaning up of voter's register and data consolidation.

He told the News Agency of Nigeria that the exercise was part of the activities lined up by INEC to ensure a hitch-free 2015 general elections.

Igbani expressed optimism that the exercise would eliminate duplication or multiple registration.

The national commissioner added that detection and elimination of multiple registrations was made possible by the new technology deployed by the commission.

He said, 'Through the exercise the commission had detected 93,526 multiple registration cases in Anambra State ahead of the November 16 governorship election.

'This represents five per cent of the registered voters in Anambra and they have been removed from the voter's register.'

Igbani explained that to ensure the best ever conducted election in the country, chip-based permanent voter cards would soon be issued to all voters.

Female suicide bomber attacks Russian bus, kills six

A female suicide bomber attacked a bus in southern Russia yesterday, authorities said, killing at least six people in the deadliest such blast outside the volatile North Caucasus region in nearly three years.

The bombing in Volgograd was likely to raise fears of further attacks by Islamist militants as Russia prepares to host the 2014 Winter Olympics in February in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, not far from the mainly Muslim North Caucasus.

The attack, which investigators blamed on a 30-year-old woman from Dagestan, the North Caucasus province at the centre of an insurgency, also wounded 32 people, of whom eight were in critical condition, the federal Investigative Committee said. State television showed footage, taken from a camera mounted on a driver’s dashboard, of an explosion ripping through the bus as it travelled along a tree-lined road, sending shards of metal and glass flying. Passengers scrambled out of doors and windows after the bus had stopped.

“There was a blast – a bang – all the glass flew out of the windows,” an eyewitness named Ivan, who had been driving behind the bus, told state-run Rossiya-24 television. “The cloud of smoke quickly dissipated and then I saw people start to fall out and run out to escape the bus,” he said.

“It was a horrible sight.” Citing a regional investigative source, the Interfax news agency said identity documents belonging to the suspected bomber were found near the site, and that she was believed to have been the wife of an Islamist militant. The federal Investigative Committee named the suspect as Naida Asiyalova, 30, of Dagestan. “This woman got on the bus at one of the stops and the explosion occurred almost immediately afterwards.

This was confirmed by the surviving passengers,” Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said. “The blast was big, it was huge,” Vladimir, a man who said his daughter survived the bombing, told Ekho Moskvy radio.

“When I came to pick her up, half the bus was simply not there. It was scary. Very scary,” he said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Volgograd is a city of around 1 million people that lies 900 km (560 miles) southeast of Moscow and a few hundred kilometres north of the North Caucasus and Sochi, at the western end of the Caucasus range, where Russia will hold the Winter Olympics.

President Vladimir Putin has staked his reputation on the Games and ordered authorities to boost security in the North Caucasus, where the Islamist insurgency is rooted in two post-Soviet wars pitting Chechen separatists against the Kremlin.