Qatar Airlines plane with Flight No. QR592 from Doha to
Lagos in distress due to mid air tyre burst, while preparing to land @ MMIA
Lagos.
Saturday, 29 September 2012
Balotelli reconciles with his ex-girlfiend,Raffaella Fico
Joke Silva’s 51st Birthday
The Ventran actress,Joke Silva celebrates her 51st birthday today.
Happy 51st
Birthday!
Saudi Arabia defends refusal to accept Nigerian women for hajj
“The rules for the pilgrimage have been in force for several years and must be applied as they stand, since nothing new has been introduced,” said hajj ministry spokesman Hatem bin Hassan Qadi, quoted by the official news agency SPA.
“Women aged under 45 must be accompanied on the journey by a ‘mahramu,’” a male with legal authority, the ministry said in a statement.
“This is mentioned on the entry visas … and those who do not respect the rules are not authorised to enter” the kingdom, which is home to Islam’s holiest sites in Mecca and Medina, it said.
Hundreds of Nigerian women, among more than a thousand denied entry to Saudi Arabia, flew back from Jeddah late Thursday after Nigeria suspended flights to the kingdom for next month’s hajj.
The angry would-be pilgrims, who were turned back because they were not accompanied by men, denounced their treatment at the hands of the Saudi authorities, with one traveller saying they had been treated as criminals.
A statement by the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria described the situation as an “unprecedented and worrisome development”. In all, more than a thousand Nigerian women have been stopped from making the hajj.
They began arriving at Jeddah airport on Sunday and some had been stranded in Saudi Arabia for five days.
Some Nigerians bombard nude photos to Hong Kong billionaire’s daughter for marriage offer.
Gigi Chao, daughter of property tycoon Cecil Chao, entered a civil partnership with her girlfriend of seven years in a ceremony in Paris five months ago.
But Mr Chao, 76, has told the South China Morning Post that reports of his daughter’s civil ceremony were “false”. He announced the HK$500 million dowry earlier this week.
It has sparked a deluge of offers. Speaking on Thursday Miss Chao, 33, said she had received about 200 proposals and that the number of people following her on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook had jumped by 1,500 since her father’s announcement.
“People are contacting me on Facebook, by email, on Twitter. It’s ridiculous. I can’t sort out the serious proposals from the half-hearted ones. I can’t make head or tail of it,” she told The Daily Telegraph.
Miss Chao, an executive director of her father’s company, Cheuk Nang, said that in addition to receiving enquiries from gentlemen who say they are looking for love and ask her out on a date, she has received some introductions that are less conventional.
Some hopefuls have attached nude photos of themselves or provided information about their financial situations. She has received proposals from all over the world, including Nigeria, India, Turkey and Bulgaria. Numerous bankers have contacted her. “Some of them had obviously done their research, you know, gone on my Facebook and looked at my background,” she said. “Some of them are quite poetic.” But far from getting angry at her father, she said she was “touched”.
“At first I was entertained by it, and then that entertainment turned into the realisation and conviction that I am a really lucky girl to have such a loving daddy, because it’s really sweet of him to do something like this as an expression of his fatherly love,” she said. While Miss Chao knew that her father would go public denying the union, she did not know he would offer the reward. “I think the HK$500 million really came as an afterthought.” Even though Mr Chao has not accepted the union, Ms Chao said she loved her father and that they had a good relationship.
“It’s not that he can’t accept me,” she said. “It’s that he can’t accept how society would view me and the status that it would incur. Marriage is still a form of social status. I do understand him. I understand why he’s doing this.” She added: “But I don’t appreciate getting 1,500 emails.” Ms Chao, who also runs Haut Monde Talent, a model management and PR firm, met her partner, Sean Yeung, who also goes by Sean Eav, while they were working together.
Miss Chao she was drawn to Miss Yeung because she was straightforward, not manipulative, honest, had strong family values and cared about her friends deeply. “I’m very happy when I’m with her,” she said. Miss Chao, who has dated men and women, said she has always been open and honest about her relationships to her family. However her mother has not accepted her sexuality. Ms Chao recalled that when she told her mother about a relationship with a girl when she was 16 years old, her mother “banged her head against the wall, literally”.
Although they have become more visible in recent years, members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community in Hong Kong are still largely not accepted by the vast majority of the population. Miss Chao believes gay rights are picking up, but said work was still needed on the social mentality. Mr Chao is not so conventional himself.
He made headlines in 2003 when his Rolls-Royce caught fire while he and his girlfriend were inside.
The tycoon has never married and once claimed to have had “intimate relations” with about 10,000 women.
Friday, 28 September 2012
Chef cooks wife-Los Angeles
The murder took place before she was declared missing in October,2009. Viens was found guilty in September 27, 2012
Tonioloba(9months) who was kidnapped at RCCG has been found
Toniloba and his kidnapper, Comfort
Amos, were found in Benin after maximum investigations and tracking by family
and friends with help from the police.
Comfort's accomplice,both had jointly
asked for well over N10million for the child,was caught in Auchi, Edo State and
he led the police to Comfort who was with the child in Benin.
FIFA U-17: Flamingoes set to rout Colombia on Saturday
Iyanya acquires 2010 Range Rover Sports worth N11 million
Rumour has it that he bought this new brand jeep!
Wow! Nice!
Lewis Hamilton signs £60m three-year deal
Makoko Slum in Lagos- Daily Mail UK’s reports
According to Daily mail UK Growing up in shacks built on murky water in the midst of filth; men, women and children struggle through life each day.
Their canoes drift on the water as piles of rubbish float outside their shacks.
Shabby shacks on stilts, floating waste and rickety boats fill the expanse of murky water.
But for the thousands of poor people forced to live in Nigeria’s infamous Makoko slum in Lagos, this is their home.
Every day life for the many fishermen and their families revolves around paddling and rowing through the filthy, oily water in the slum – but this does not stop the young children from beaming when they see a camera.
Do you remember when I posted a similar story on this,here is a recap, in case you missed it.
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