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Monday 4 February 2008

News around the world

Let me start this random news with unconfirmed reports that our very own Romeo Tuface Idibia was once again attacked by armed robbers and had his Range Rover stolen from him at gun point sometime last week. Like I said, this is unconfirmed for now but as soon as I get the real scoop, I'll let y'all know.

Meanwhile, the lady below left her 8 children to come marry a Naija man...read her story



A woman accused of leaving eight children with little food and no money while she traveled to Africa to marry a man she met on the Internet has been arrested. Shanell Monique Mosley, 33, was met by authorities as she got off an Air France jet Monday at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, and charged with child endangerment and child abandonment for leaving the children in squalid conditions
When she left for Nigeria on December 31, Mosley told her 15 year-old daughter she would return in a month. Mosley’s children are ages 1, 7, 8, 9, 15 and 16, Jordan said. The other two children found in the home were 3 and 4 year-olds the family cared for on behalf of a single father who worked, Jordan said.
The 9 year-old son told authorities he and the baby ate a still-frozen pizza for breakfast the morning they were discovered home alone. There were no diapers, baby food or formula for the infant, no sheets on beds and fruit was rotting in a basket.


Michael Jackson's kids

The presidential candidate of All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) General Muhammadu Buhari has alleged that there was no election in 29 states and that results were arbitrarily assigned by INEC officials in collaboration with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in last year’s presidential polls

Maria Shriver -- wife of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and a member of the powerful Kennedy political clan -- on Sunday endorsed Barack Obama for US president, just days after her former-actor husband backed Republican John McCain.


President Boris Tadic wins Serbia's run-off presidential poll, beating challenger Tomislav Nikolic.

Former Governor of Abia State, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, has instituted a N500 million suit against a columnist, Abdul Rasaque Bello-Barkindo, Leaders & Company Limited, publishers of THISDAY newspapers for alleged defamation. The suit was instituted on behalf of the plaintiff at the Abia State High Court sitting at Igbere division


Chadian rebels are pushed back from the capital N'Djamena, which they had seized over the weekend.
The Federal Government has set up a technical committee to negotiate a new salary scale for doctors with the Nigerian Medical Association.The move followed the decision of the NMA to call off their last Friday’s strike. The committee, which is headed by the Permanent Secretary in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Ambassador Baba Ahmed, has till February 29, 2008 to submit its report.


Barrels containing about 2.5 tonnes of cocaine have been seized from a ship off the coast of Liberia. It is the single largest drug seizure in the country's history, according to maritime officials. The ship, the Blue Atlantic, was spotted on the high seas on Thursday by a French military vessel, which intercepted and towed it to the port.

The U.S. military said Monday that it accidentally killed nine Iraqi civilians during an operation targeting al-Qaida in Iraq south of Baghdad.The civilians were killed Saturday near Iskandariyah, 30 miles south of the Iraqi capital, U.S. Navy Lt. Patrick Evans told The Associated Press. Three more civilians were wounded and taken to U.S. military hospitals nearby, he said.


Wesley Snipes was acquitted of federal tax fraud but was convicted on three misdemeanor counts of failing to file a tax return.charges today.

Lagos State is set to wear a new look as the state government weekend, in a landmark move, awarded contracts for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of 31 major roads.


Friends of the Browning family mourn Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008, outside a Cockeysville, Md., home where John and Tamara Browning, and their sons Gregory, 13, and Benjamin, 11, were found dead Saturday. Baltimore County police arrested Nicholas Waggoner Browning, 15, and charged him with four counts of first degree murder in the deaths of his family.
Read full story here http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=4236530

SAG Awards Red Carpet + News

Brad and Angie

By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama opened narrow leads on Hillary Clinton in California and Missouri one day before crucial "Super Tuesday" nominating contests in 24 states,


Michelle Pfeiffer

Britney Spears, who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder got her stay in a psychiatric ward extended Sunday, as doctors decided to keep her hospitalized an additional 14 days.
By VOA News Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga on Sunday called for the deployment of international peacekeepers to help contain the violence in the country.



Ciara has done a version of Janet's Feedback, turning the song into a duet with Miz Jackson.
Research and teaching equipment may gulp N1.9bn in this year’s federal budget, even as investigations reveal that funding for education and health is still low in spite of President Umaru Yar’Adua’s pledge to transform the two sectors. The N1.9bn allocation for research and equipment in federal universities is N326m higher than the N1.6bn allocated in 2007 budget.



Marcia Cross

Potuguese footballer, Cristiano Ronaldo is the world's most expensive player. He just signed a deal to renew his contract with Manchester United for$88 MILLION! For the next six years


Ellen Pompeo

Crocodiles have killed three people and injured two others near the central Mozambique town of Chemba, according to news reports.
The victims are said to have been attacked while bathing in the flooded Zambezi river.


Eva Longoria

Three naval ratings were on Saturday night killed by militants who attacked a houseboat stationed at the Shell Petroleum Development Company‘s Tora Manifold in Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. Some of the militants, naval personnel and officials of the SPDC were also injured in the attack which occured shortly before it was learnt that members of the House of Representatives from the South-South would this week meet in Bayelsa State over the crisis in the Niger Delta.


Cate Blanchett

Barring any last-minute change, the Federal Government is set to name Brig. Gen. Oluwole Rotimi (rtd), former military governor of the old Western State, as Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States



Also, the annual Polo Tournament is currently going on at the Lagos Polo Club. It started on Saturday February 2nd and will end next week Sunday. Be there!

Ok, that's all the news I have for now...

We'll see what tomorrow will bring.

Keep a positive spirit always!

13 comments:

lemonade factory said...

yipee,am no 1....... dat woman who left her kids must be either mad or love struck silly.anyways nothing new under d sun.... have a fab week linda

madam t said...

The news about the mother that left her 8 kids makes me very mad.Some of these women because of man palavar will do anything.I'm pretty sure that she's hoping that the man will marry her or better still she's already carrying baby no 9. I'm sorry to say o, but she's very foolish

Flowers and Poetry said...

Thanks Linda!

Anonymous said...

heard bout this whole tuface thing again!!armed robbers want to finish the guy sa!

Anonymous said...

Who do you know Miz Jackson is?

Anonymous said...

ronaldo is not yet the most expensive player! hes not yet upto beckham, beckham receives half-a-million pounds a week.!

Nwanyi Ocha said...

Nice one - thanks

Anonymous said...

With our Romeo; Tuface. (Linda is laughing.)

They are either 2 things, one, it could be that death is knocking at his door, God forbid - but from the look of things going on in his side, there is an element of truth in my statement.

Secondly, it could be a publicity stunt, as in, he is trying to get back on the throne. 'Cause i tell ya... da music industry in Naija is just taking it to a different level.

So, if one's levels as a musician is beginning to be questionable, omo! Ma mi! Nobody cares to know, o! One gats to dey evolve. You know whaaat i am saying!

So. Tuface inorder words is doing sthg different to reclaim his throne by being in the news all, if not, most of the time.

To identify a music legend he or she has to be releasing albums every single year whether they like it or not. That is the art of the game.

Music industry is fun and then again it is hard.

Tuface should just take it easy both in his private and professional lives. Especially in his private life. He should respect the women in his lives even when they are not respecting themselves. Two wrongs can never make a right. No matter what.

(Linda nwa mama i am beginning to preach, pls, forgive me.)

It is just that this Tuface sheananigan, (i hope i got the spelling, right) is getting tired and old; abeg, what else is new?

Let him, pls, focus on a charity work or sthg like Matthew Mensah, Obaro Ibru, Femi Amure and the rest or work with children, you know, do sthg positive, (not comparing him to them, just pointing out what they are doing, which is positive, as they are celebrities in their own right, as well.)

Him being educated or not does not have anything with him giving back to the massess that have being supportive of his career since it's inception. As he, also, is a UN Ambassador, (don't know much about the details, as i read it somewhere on the internet.)

Yea... yea... "there are haters out there," we all know the saying, but then again, some people do hate and they get it back as well. I am not accusing anyone of anything, pls, don't get me wrong - just saying.

Anyway...enough of my writing and thanks, Linda, for giving me the space to do just that. I really appreciate it.

Lulu said...

Its funny, here i am in a Oklahoma City hotel headed for 9ja, and i hear Tuface's Range Rover Sport(damn!) been stolen in Anthony Village in Lagos! someone should analyze these his run-ins with armed robbers. One of his baby mamas (or some other hooptie?) must be mad at him.

Juliana said...

Linda,
Where do u get the energy to post all these things, babe u dey try o! Well done jare bcos is not easy updating my blog so i must comment ur effort. I check ur blog daily b4 i check my mail.
My comments are strictly on the Nigerian matters.
That mother of 8 is not only stupid but out of her mind. She lives in a ghetto with her 8 kids and still had money to fly to Naija to marry one mumu? I know she was 419ed so the question of say she did not pay her way down did not arise.
Buhari allegations is no longer news as if we don't know that already.
Former Governor of Abia State, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, instituting a N500 million suit against a columnist, Abdul Rasaque Bello-Barkindo, Leaders & Company Limited, publishers of THISDAY newspapers for alleged defamation, is not only laughable but stupid. Is the same man that has been commiting the same offence on others especially Obasanjo (I am not his fan but...) in his Sun Newspapers. He cannot win this case if we have bright lawyers they will feed him with his own medicine.
TuFace pray to God o! These attacks might not be ordinary o! You have to also learn to return all glory to God for your successes by living a life worth emulating by are numerous youth who are you fans.
Enjoy ur week and have a blessed

Unknown said...

I wouldn't be surprised if one of his baby mamas is setting his hoe ass up with these robberies, or he's not simply not security conscious at all.

But come Linda, what's up with the random photos in the middle of news about others?

Fausset said...

i see sumone has been taking a look at my blog...

EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima said...

Your blog has more to read than most offline society magazines in Nigeria.

On the African American woman who abandoned her little kids for a love trip to Nigeria.
She was love crazy.
Good men are scarce in America.
She was a fool for love. But she is not alone.
One African American woman paid two teenage boys $5, 000 to fxxk her.

Sorry, I have to use the X-rated fxxk instead of sex, because there is a big difference in having sex and to fxxk.

Men can also be desperate for women.

Linda, see this Love Bug fever about a basketball coach in Abuja.

The world is full of love crazy people.

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