M.I gets punked

M.I Arrested by NDLEA,just watch how he reacted

Hajj commission suspends all flights to Mecca

With the on-going diplomatic row between Nigeria and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia over the detention of almost 1,000 female pilgrims and deportation of 171 females for coming to Hajj without male companions, the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has temporarily suspended all Hajj flights for the next 48 hours.

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This was announced in a statement on Thursday, signed by Abdullahi Mukhtar Muhammad, despite the optimism expressed by the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Nigeria. The ambassador, Mr. Khaled Abdrabuh, had earlier stated that the controversy over the detention of 908 female Nigerian pilgrims in Saudi Arabia and the deportation of some will be resolved later today.

Bomb Factory discovered in Kano

Items discovered were 100 detonators, the main primer for the construction of Improvised Explosive Device (IED), concentrated salt, used to mix with ammonium nitrate.

Others included: T and T, a high calbre military chemical for bomb making; battery chargers, laptop computers, finished IEDs, four AK 47 rifles and eight fully loaded magazines.

The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Ibrahim Idris, who confirmed this while briefing newsmen in Kano.

'We weren't kissing!' Nicole Scherzinger

 

She insists that she and Chris Brown were not kissing and they are just 'old friends'

But do you sense some kind of chemistry here?

Beyonce’s baby, Blue Ivy gets a custom made shoe

 

The design shoe is $800 worth of sparkly Swarovski crystals.

Beauty queen has quarter of her skull removed and stored in her stomach

                     The 36yr old wife and a mother,Jamie Hilton Mrs Idaho and competed in mrs America

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Jamie Hilton, one time a beauty queen in 2009. Mrs. Idaho (right), suffered a head injury when she slipped during a fishing trip and fell onto a boulder. She had surgeons to  put a quarter of her skull in her abdomen (bottom left) so that the bone would remain nourished and sterile as her brain swelling subsided.

It remained there for 42 days, leaving a large dent in her head (top left), until it was re-attached in a successful operation

Saudi Arabia ignores Nigeria's ultimatum: deports more, 510 Nigerian women pilgrims

Saudi Arabia yesterday deported more Nigerian women pilgrims, despite the country's warnings and 24 hour ultimatum to stop the detentions and deportations from the holy land.

Saudi authorities deported another batch of 510 Nigerian female pilgrims to this year’s hajj. 171 pilgrims had earlier been deported on Wednesday.

The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria had on Wednesday briefed the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House on the matter.

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The standoff began when the Saudi Arabian authorities discovered that hundreds of female Nigerian pilgrims were without their statutory male escorts which is a prerequisite to entry into Saudi Arabia.

The authorities of Saudi Arabia insisted that the women were unaccompanied by male relations which was considered against laid down rules of the kingdom. An adamant Saudi Arabia has so far refused to yield any ground to Nigeria on the issue of alleged unaccompanied female pilgrims, in spite of spirited diplomatic efforts by the Federal Government.

 An intriguing development was that the husband of one of the female deportees also returned home with his wife, in protest, when the Saudi Authorities refused to clear his wife, even after explaining that he was the husband of the woman. A highly placed source at the National Hajj Commission who disclosed this said that the return (in protest) by the male pilgrim in question was an indication that there was more to the stance of the Saudi authorities than meets the eyes.

 He said: “On board of the plane bringing the women is also a male pilgrim. He decided to return home with his wife in protest when his explanations and entreaties to the fact that his wife was accompanied fell on deaf ears. That shows clearly that there is more to the issue than meets the eyes”.

 It was learnt that the Chairman of the commission, Mallam Mohammed Bello, had a hectic day in Abuja, yesterday, as he had to shuttle between the Presidency and the National Assembly to brief his bosses in the executive, as well as, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, who is the leader of the Federal Government delegation to this year’s hajj.

 Officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, were, until yesterday, still making efforts to get the necessary clearance for a Federal Government delegation to visit Saudi Arabia with a view to resolving the issue. President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan had on Wednesday constituted a Presidential delegation to interface with the Saudi authorities over the issue surrounding the detained Nigerian female pilgrims at King Abdul-Azziz International Airport, Jeddah.

 The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, named Aminu Tambuwal as leader of that delegation. Other members are: Minister of State II for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Nuruddeen Mohammed, Ambassador Shehu Galadanchi; Sheikh Sherif Saleh and Chairman of the Hajj Commission, Muhammad Bello.

The delegation is expected to depart for Saudi Arabia as soon as an appointment is finalised with the appropriate Saudi authorities.

Spot out the similairites with Genny in these two pictures

           Her long extention is far from it, so lets get the ball rolling. What can you spot out?

Celebrity look-alike

Hilda Xpressurselfshow reader

Do you think they look-alike?

World's Most Expensive Dress? Who wan buy!

This black dress made of diamonds, weighs 29pounds  and Costs Over $5.6 Million
The British designer - Debbie Wingham's

Justin Bieber's marriage turns sour and bitter

 

The death of Avalanna Routh the  6-year-old girl that is,who had a very rare form of cancer (ATRT a deadly brain cancer) in case you missed it  here is a reacp.

The sad news was announced on Routh’s Twitter account early on Wednesday morning.

“Our darling Avalanna went to Heaven this morning. Oh Avalanna, the brightest star – you took our hearts with you, our greatest Love,”

MAY HER SOUL REST IN PEACE.

Red Ball- Nollywood actresses do the catwalk

Tiwa savage and Tuface  performed at the Florence Ita Giwa‘s Foundation for Children of Bakassi Charity event tagged The Red Ball on Sunday 23rd September 2012 at the Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.

                                                                Rita Dominic
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Geneieve Nnaji

Monalisa Chinda

Joke Silva

Funke Akindele

Shaw George

Annie Macaulay Idibia

                                                        

Court grants two suspects bail, remands driver, Cynthia's murder- PUNCH

The suspects granted bail – Nonso Ezike (22), who is the younger brother to Olisaeloka, one of the alleged killers, and Ezeaka Chinonso (27) – were arrested by policemen at Area E for receiving and selling Cynthia’s BlackBerry phone.

Nonso’s lawyer, Mr. J. C Ngobili, told the court that the accused was a student of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, and prayed the court to grant him bail in liberal terms.

The Magistrate, Mr. P.A. Adekomaya, admitted that although the offences were bailable, he pointed out that the bail condition ought not to be too liberal in view of the circumstances surrounding Cynthia’s murder.
He granted Nonso and Ezeaka bail in the sum of N500,000 each with two sureties in like sum, adding that the sureties must not be teachers or local government employees. He added that the sureties could be bank tellers.

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The third accused person, Gideon Okechukwu, a driver, was however charged with eight counts of murder, rape, robbery, conspiracy, administering a harmful substance to the deceased among others. Okechukwu had told PUNCH Metro before he was arraigned that he only drove the alleged killers from the area where the hotel was situated, adding that he had no role in Cynthia’s murder.

 Okechukwu’s lawyer, Bello, prayed the court to also grant the accused bail, adding that he had been held at the State Criminal Investigation Department. The magistrate, who quickly interjected, explained that it wasn’t within the jurisdiction of the court to grant bail for such offences. Okechukwu was remanded in Ikoyi Prison.

The matter was adjourned till October 3, 2012.

Petrol tanker explosion - 20 people burnt to death

About 20 people, mostly youths, were burnt to death yesterday when a petrol tanker from Lagos exploded at Kudu village in Mokwa Local Government, Niger State

An eyewitness told our reporter that the tanker fell because of the bad condition of the Mokwa/Bida Road. Immediately it fell, villagers, mostly youths, trooped to the scene to scoop petrol from the ground. The tanker later exploded.

Efforts by the village head and policemen to disperse the youths were not successful.

“The refusal of the boys to heed the advice was responsible for the high number of casualty,” the source said.

Confirming the incident, police spokesman Pius Edobor put the casualty figure at 16 and said those injured are being treated at the General Hospital, Mokwa.

Kim Kardashian spotted on white bathing suit…..Fab or Not?

 

On Monday she was spotted at Miami Beach with her sister Kourtney

65-yr old grandma with cocaine

A 65-year old grandmother, who is also a mother of six, was on Wednesday arrested for alleged drug trafficking, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.

Hassan Fatimat Abike, was to board a British Airways plane at the Murtala Muhammed international airport in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, when she was arrested with carrying 1.740kg of cocaine packed in balloons and inserted in ten plastic containers of herbal syrup into London in herbal syrup with two international passports that bear Hassan Fatimat Abike, A03348648 and A3771781A.

 She claim it was given to her by a friend. The case will soon be charged to court, meanwhile NDLEA said, it was not her first time going to London and  that she is also known as Chika Okoye.

Half-human,half-goat- a woman gives birth in Jigawa

How did this happen? details were not given, but so far the delivery took place in general hospital in Jahun,Jigawa State. But em! personally,I've looked oooooo! looked! looked oooooooo! can't really see the half-human,half-goat.................So you be the judge.

Patience Jonathan is Battling Parkinson’s Disease,really?

SaharaReporters broke the news that Mrs. Jonathan was flown to a hospital in Wiesbaden, Germany close to a month ago to undergo emergency treatment after a botched procedure in Dubai.

In interviews with three sources familiar with Mrs. Jonathan’s health status, SaharaReporters learnt that the Nigerian president’s wife is beset by Parkinson’s disease, a degenerative syndrome. The disease is a progressive disorder of the nervous system. A medical source described it as “a fairly common disorder that occasions degeneration of the nervous system.” The source added that the disease leads to “progressive impairment and disorder of movement.”

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An online medical site notes that Parkinson’s “is characterized by progressive loss of muscle control, which leads to trembling of the limbs and head while at rest, stiffness, slowness, and impaired balance. As symptoms worsen, it may become difficult to walk, talk, and complete simple tasks.”

The bombshell revelation about the First Lady’s medical woes was first made by a source familiar with Mrs. Jonathan’s previous secret treatments in Spain and Italy. The source disclosed that Mrs. Jonathan had battled Parkinson’s for some years now. In addition, doctors had advised her to “do something urgent about her morbid body mass index (BMI),” said the source.

She added that Mrs. Jonathan had indeed considered undergoing the kind of tummy tuck procedure that former Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha once had. Two other sources close to the Jonathans confirmed that the First Lady has been dogged by Parkinson’s. One said the disease was largely responsible for her clumsiness, drawling speech and slow movement at public events. He added that Mrs. Jonathan has been suffering serious trembling in the left hand.

 “That’s why she always uses her right to hold the microphone when speaking at public events,” the source revealed. Mrs. Jonathan also reportedly is affected by stiffness of the limbs and trunk which affects her movement. A news staffer at the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) told SaharaReporters that Mrs. Jonathan’s aides warned reporters covering her never to film her beyond her waist. “Her senior personal assistant told the crew covering her long ago: ‘Don’t ever film Madam’s waist. Show her face only.’ That’s been the code at NTA.” Two other sources stated that Mrs. Jonathan had made efforts to slow the disease that had started to ravage her.

“She has been visiting a health farm in Italy on a regular basis since 2010,” one source revealed. “To alleviate her pain, she has been taking her medication religiously.” A friend of Mrs. Jonathan’s said that the First Lady’s health maladies include anxiety, occasional memory loss and disorientation.

In addition, her blood pressure often rises to dangerous levels, forcing her to take a cocktail of anti-hypertensive drugs. Also, sources said that some officials attached to the First Lady’s office described her as constantly depressed, prone to snapping at people at the slightest provocation.

“The First Lady can just get angry at the slightest provocation and rain abuses at anybody in sight,” he said. As happened during the health crisis of the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, the Nigerian Presidency’s reaction to Mrs. Jonathan’s health condition is to be mum.

When SaharaReporters contacted a senior aide of President Jonathan on the matter of the First Lady’s illness, he sharply said, “I’m not saying anything. And please don’t mention that you spoke to me.”

SaharaReporters learnt that officials of the Presidency are under a virtual oath of secrecy on the issue of Mrs. Jonathan’s health crisis.