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Friday 3 September 2010

Nigerian experts handle first kidney transplant in Maiduguri varsity

The University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH), in collaboration with the Bayero University Teaching Hospital, Kano and Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has successfully conducted a kidney transplant on a 31-year old Suleiman Usman. The kidney was donated by his brother, Abubakar Usman at the university’s Kidney Centre.

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Buttercups Events

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What's the best way to handle an interfering mother-in-law?

























I've been married for seven months and I feel I am more married to my mother-in-law than my husband. She is relentless with her criticism and constantly questions everything I do. She doesn't live with my husband and I (she lives in the main building) but she has a key to our house and lets herself in all the time. Her attitude is beginning to affect my health. Help!

Linda says...people will treat you the way you let them treat you.

Please share your thoughts
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Shakira's Waka Waka makes history















Shakira’s song, Waka Waka (It's Time For Africa) has become the best-selling World Cup song in history.

According to the numbers, Waka Waka managed to sell over two million sigles after being released.
It also became a viral sensation.
The video on YouTube has become the #4 most watched YouTube clip of all time! It’s also the #3 most viewed music video of all time!

Waka Waka may have been made popular by Shakira and Freshlyground but the song has been around since 1986. The orininal song is titled "Tsamina Zangaléwa." by a 1986 Cameroon Band, Golden Sounds 
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Pictures from Omawumi's Video Premiere at Swe Bar

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Muna and Jen's outfits...I want!

















































Loves it!!!
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Kanu Nwankwo donates building to University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital

Kanu and wife Amarachi

























Footballer Kanu Nwankwo has done it again. He recently commissioned an ultra modern building he donated to the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital called the Heartland Building as part of his interest and commitment to helping people with heart diseases.
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King cobra and grey mongoose clash in classic battle, but who ends up as dinner?

















It's a classic battle between two age-old enemies as these two creatures stare into each others eyes. This epic showdown between mammal and reptile sees an Indian Grey mongoose taking on one of  the world's most poisonous snakes...a king cobra.

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Okey Bakassi planning to run for Imo State Assembly

























Comedian, actor and special adviser on Entertainment to Gov Ohakim of Imo State, Okey Bakassi, is said to be planning to contest for the Imo State of Assembly come 2011.
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OD's Hustle of Die album out soon!

























Rapper, OD, is set to drop his second album titled Hustle Or Die this September.Watch out for that!
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Ghana ahead in internet speed

Ghana has been ranked number one in Africa for internet speed, thanks to Vodafone Ghana's launch of it's 4MB speed capacity, which is West Africa's fastest consumer internet cafe's broadband package.

Aside being ranked number 1 in Africa, Ghana has also moved from the 176th position globally to 52nd for downloads and 11th for uploads.

You want to know Naija's rank? Go to Source
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Pastor Chris Oyakhilome's vast media empire


In case you didn't know, the founder and senior pastor of Christ Embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, is one of the biggest investor in the media in Naija today.

He owns the National Daily Newspaper, and National Standard Magazine
He's a co-owner of Super Screen TV
He owns Infinity TV Network (Satelite TV)
He owns a record label called LoveWorld Records
Plus LoveWorld Cyber Ministry, LoveWorld Television, Love World Christian Network, LoveWorld Multimedia Ministry and LoveWorld Publishing Ministry.
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Celine Dion shows off her huge baby bump

























  Pregnant 42year old Celine Dion posing on the cover of Canadian magazine 7 Jours with husband René Angelil and their nine-year-old son René-Charles
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Kel now with Chocolate City

























Sexy rapper Kel is said to have moved from her former label Clarence Peter's Capital Hill to Audu Maikori's Chocolate City which has artistes like MI, Jesse Jagz, Ice Prince and Wizkid.
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God bless Grandmas...lol
















Grandma's have a way of grounding your ass when you start smelling yourself...ha ha!
Loves it!
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Sexy Uche Jumbo...

























Badass chick! Never seen her this sexy...

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Thursday 2 September 2010

For the ladies...

 
You better keep looking.
I hear it helps with menstrual pain. If you are not on, then stress related ailments...lol
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MNET's Top Ten African Rappers.

















MNET Africa compiled a list of the TEN best rappers in Africa.
Check it out below...in their particular order

1. HHP (South Africa)
2. D Black (Ghana)
3. M.I (Nigeria)
4. Zeus (Botswana)
5. Sasha (Nigeria)
6. R2BEES (Ghana)
7. Nameless (Kenya)
8. Dama Do Bling (Mozambique)
9. Ikechukwu (Nigeria)
10. Tumi (South Africa)

HHP is a better rapper than M.I? Really?
Like my sister would say...Let there be peace!


BTW eLDee should be on that list jo!
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"For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf" out Nov 11


















Tyler Perry's production of 'For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf' was supposed to open during Martin Luther King Holiday weekend 2011, but Tyler pushed the date up so he could be considered during this year's award season. The new opening date is November 5.

What the heck kind of title is "For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf"?
What's the literal meaning? I read literature in school but this one pass me...
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Photo of the day...



















When the General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God, Enoch Adeboye met James Ibori!

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Sex Workers In Ghana Protest Against Nigerian Invasion
















Ghanaian girls who offer sex for money at Adum, a suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti region, have expressed anger over some Nigerians importing younger and prettier girls who are gradually taking over the sex business.

If not for the intervention of the assembly member for the area, Albert Osei-Banahene, the enraged sex workers would have hit the streets in their nakedness and marched from one office building to another, just to get the authorities to come to their aide.

LOL! Sex business is serious business oh!

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Adaeze Igwe Yobo...now!



















Kinda looking a little different..
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Lighthouse: Television and Filmworks

And then…there is Light!

Out of the blue emerges what could perhaps be suggested as Nigeria Africa’s answer to DreamWorks SKG (I am sure you get the idea). A very promising new-age Film and TV production outfit by the label: Lighthouse Television and Filmworks has firmly berthed in Lagos, Nigeria. From the ongoing whisperings and murmurings this could be it - a new cornerstone in local TV and Film programming could be on the horizon at long last. Developing…
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Okadas in Lagos
















Drivers of motorcycle taxis wait for passengers on a sidewalk along the outer marina road in Lagos August 31, 2010. Nigeria's commercial hub Lagos is trying to bring order to hundreds of thousands of chaotic motorcycle taxis, banning them from major roads and from carrying pregnant women or riding on the pavement. The bikes, known as "okadas", swarm like mosquitoes around sub-Saharan Africa's most populous city, swerving to avoid bribe-hungry traffic police, often mounting the kerb and frequently carrying entire families on their tired frames. - Reuters.
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There are men...and there are MEN...chai!

























Actors Blair Underwood, Boris Kodjoe and Lance Gross on the upcoming issue of Essence Magazine.

Some women have all the luck...imagine being married to any of these men...especially Lance..chai...as in every night o, every night! If you know what I mean...*wink*
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Nigerian lady, Virginia Jibowu Gets ‘Apartheid Treatment’ At King’s College London




















Not less than 166 signatures have been collected in a petition addressed to the British Prime Minister, David Cameron against the raging apartheid treatment meted to one Ms. Virginia Jibowu by the King’s College London. 

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The 14-year-old Brazilian girl who at 6ft 9in cannot fit on the school bus

Tallest: Elisany Silva towers over her friends as they play on the beach in Braganca in the Brazilian Amazon state of Para. The 14-year-old cannot attend school because at 6ft 9in tall she is too big to sit on the bus


14 year-old Elisanya Silva measures unbelievable 6ft 9in tall, making her one of the biggest teenagers in the world. The pretty youngster is believed to be suffering from a rare disease which has caused extreme growth.

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Wednesday 1 September 2010

Happy new month!
















You better get to living life to the fullest
You better get to giving all you have to those who deserve it.
And don't forget to throw in a little forgiving to those who hurt you and loving those who love you.
You better get to knowing and showing a little bit more concern about where you're going in life.
You better don't sweat the small stuff and keep your chin up when times are tough
And if it gets too rough, fall on your knees and pray.


Happy new month.
L
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Caroline Ekanem finally quits acting, now runs a multi-million naira production company

Caroline and husband, Musa Danjuma

























Pretty actress, Caroline Ekanem has officially quit acting. Her new found love is now music and artist management. The mother of two now runs a multi-million naira production company called Guepard Productions, in Lekki, Lagos. Her husband, former Defence Minister, Gen. TY Danjuma's younger brother and director in Southern Petroleum (A crude oil exploration company), Musa Danjuma is the Chairman of Guepard Productions while she's the MD/CEO.

Guepard Productions which started barely a year ago is involved in artist management and also has a multi-million naira state-of-the-art recording and production equipments for editing and handling of audio-visual jobs.

Life is good! :-)
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Michelle Obama in Duro Olowu

























Duro Olowu is a Nigerian born London-based designer.
Fantastic stuff!
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Tuesday 31 August 2010

Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers, Study Finds

One of the most contentious issues in the vast literature about alcohol consumption has been the consistent finding that those who don't drink actually tend to die sooner than those who do. The standard Alcoholics Anonymous explanation for this finding is that many of those who show up as abstainers in such research are actually former hard-core drunks who had already incurred health problems associated with drinking.

But a new paper in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research suggests that - for reasons that aren't entirely clear - abstaining from alcohol does actually tend to increase one's risk of dying even when you exclude former drinkers. The most shocking part? Abstainers' mortality rates are higher than those of heavy drinkers.

What kind of 'study' finds that heavy drinkers outlive non drinkers? These researchers have fall my hand o...:-)

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Pictures from Nottinghill Carnival...

























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"I'm not Weird MC's lesbian partner" Goldie

Goldie and Weird MC

























"I heard the rumor too. I found it very amusing and very sad. I appreciate strong women. Women who have been through trying times and have pulled through and forged ahead. I look up to such women. In our industry, Weird MC is one of such women. In a male dominated industry, she managed to carve a niche for herself. I moved closer to her because I wanted to tap from her. I regret that our friendship was trivialized." Goldie addresses the lesbian rumour trailing her and Weird MC

Source: Encomium Magazine

I don't know about her sexual preference but I do know that Weird MC is one of the nicest, most humble people I've ever met. Very unassuming and down to earth.
Loves her!!!
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Pastor Taiwo Odukoya's new wife delivers baby boy in SA ..

























Pastor Taiwo Odukoya's South African wife, Rosemary Simangele, has just put to bed. She was delivered of a bouncing baby boy on Friday August 27th in her home town of South Africa. Mother and son are said to be doing great.

They were married on Tuesday, January 5, 2010 after courting for two years.

Congrats to them.
And yeah, I think I'm thinking what you are thinking...:-)
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Photo of the day...

























I like seeing these two loved up...
Even though I still can't imagine them having sex...
Can you? lol
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Ayefele donates car to EWAN

Ayefele presenting the key of the Peugeot 406 salon car he donated to EWAN to the chairman, Mr.David Ajiboye



















Yoruba gospel singer, Yinka Ayefele recently donated a Peugeot 406 salon car to the Entertainment Writers Association of Nigeria (EWAN).

Great stuff!
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Dbanj's Kokomobile out soon!!!











The mobile phones will be officially launched into the market first week in October. They will be launching with Nigeria @ 50.
Kokomobile is a phone for the youths. Some of the functions include: Yahoo Messenger, Msn, GTalk, Google Search, Twitter app, Facebook app, GPS, 1st Bank Online banking app, Koko Chat.

Wonder what the selling price is.

Meanwhile I don't do adverts for free anymore o. Hope I get a sample product...*wink* *wink*
I like the pink one...(Those hair people have spoilt me...lol)
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Someone needs your advice
























 Here is story and your advice is welcome.

Three days ago, I met the fiancée of my very close pal from Nigeria, she had come to the UK for a medical checkup. Seeing her face to face shocked me to the marrows as I realized she was someone I had known way back in my University and early working days in Naija. I would spare you the dirty details, but basically she was a slut.

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Raw Sex and The City in Church.

























A Lagos based pastor, Pastor Paul Adefarasin of House On The Rock, has banned all minors from going to his church next Sunday where he will be preaching on “raw sex”. Adefarasin was reported as saying men and women will attend separate services same day, because men and women cannot listen to the same message.

Raw sex??? I'm thinking about showing up there next Sunday...:-)
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Monday 30 August 2010

Ramsey Noah before before

 
Oh dear...:-)
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New Dawn with Funmi on NTA International
















You can now enjoy your favourite editions of New Dawn with Funmi on NTA International (Channel 130 on DSTV) at 5am & 8.30pm Wednesdays.
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Red Carpet: 62nd Primetime Emmy® Awards [2010]


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