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Governor of Rivers state, Rotimi Amaechi turned 50 today and some of his friends threw him a party. Kaduna state Govenor elect, Nasir El Rufai, Hon Abike Dabiri, Senator Magnus Abe and others were some of the special guest at the event. See more photos below Photo credit: Debola Williams

Disney pri ncesses including  Ariel, Pocahontas, and Jasmine mimic  Kim Kardashian's sauciest self-portraits in illustrations created in honor of the reality queen's book Selfish. The images were created  by Isaiah Stephens, an artist and illustrator based in Boston and released on Cosmopolitan. More pics below

A Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, Abia State, has struck out the suit filed before it by Ochiagha Reagan Ufomba against All Progressives Grand Alliance and others over the governorship ticket of the party in the last April elections, saying it lacked merit. Ufomba had dragged APGA to court, claiming that he was the authentic governorship candidate of the party in Abia State and not Dr. Alex Otti, who contested the election on the party’s ticket. In the suit, Ufomba argued that Chief Victor Umeh, the then national chairman of the party, was not the chairman and that the primary elections conducted by Umeh leadership and monitored by INEC was illegal. Joined in the suit were APGA, Dr. Alex Otti, Chief Victor Umeh and Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Ufomba argued that Otti was not a properly registered member of the party and could, therefore, not be the party’s governorship candidate for Abia State. But in her ruling, ...

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has accused the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, of mismanaging the nation’s economy in the last four years and feeding Nigerians with half-truths. Oshiomhole, in an article in which he review the nation’s economy in the last four years, said Okonjo-Iweala ran the Excess Crude Account as a one-man show, adding that her recent outcry that oil marketers were falsifying subsidy claims might have been done in fear of the incoming president, Muhammadu Buhari. The governor said: “As the country transits from one democratic dispensation to another, there is no gainsaying the fact that the state of the nation’s economy is the focal point, especially with the unending fuel scarcity which is gradually grinding the nation to a halt. No doubt, the best person to explain the state of the economy today is Dr Okonjo-Iweala, Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy,...

Read the press statement below... Senator-elect, Otunba Dino Melaye, said he has never been a government contractors and will not be one. He also called on Nigerians to pressurize the incoming Assembly to reduce exuberant salaries and allowances of Nigerian legislators. Melaye who will be representing Kogi West Senatorial District under the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC), spoke in Abuja  on Tuesday  night during a reception organized in his honour his friends and relatives. According to him, the high cost of running the National Assembly is unacceptable because Nigeria is in a serious financial crisis. "Leaders must make sacrifices in order to move the country forward. Contrary to suggestions from certain quarters, I will not relinquish my activism while in the Senate. I will continue to oppose anything that is not in the interest of Nigerians. "‎I have never done government contracts in my life, from local, state to federal levels. ...

Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu, on Tuesday maintained that fuel subsidy is a major source of corruption in the country. Aliyu added that funds believed to be coming from SURE-P are actually from the federation account. The governor said this in Minna at the inauguration of a three-star hotel constructed jointly by the Niger State Development Company Limited and the State SURE-P. He believed that a total removal of subsidy from petroleum products by the Federal Government remains the best solution to stop the endemic corruption in the system. Aliyu said, “I have been vindicated. When some years back I took a principled position as one of the few governors who said ‘remove fuel subsidy’. It is a cartel for corruption. “Many people did not understand that time, some publicists didn’t agree with me. They said ‘don’t remove it, it is the common man that will suffer’, but I said ‘which common man, when already the time you are talking about subsidy...

Director of Media and Publicity of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Committee, Femi Fani-Kayode, has threatened to release proof of how members of the National Working Committee (NWC), of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), sabotaged the campaign of President Goodluck Jonathan, leading to his defeat at the polls. Speaking to a group of Journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, Fani-Kayode insisted that insisted that some members of the NWC of the party worked for the All Progressives Congress (APC). He said that calls for the resignation of the entire NWC by him and other stalwarts of the PDP including outgoing governors were in order. The former minister called the NWC members traitors, who went as far as collecting money from the APC to betray President Goodluck Jonathan. Fani-Kayode added that he has in his possession proofs that the party leadership sold out, warning that he would made public their secrets if they failed to throw in the ...

According to Guinness World Records, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson set a new record last week for the most selfies taken in 3 minutes. The actor reportedly took a whopping 105 selfies with fans at the London premiere of “San Andreas” to achieve that title. A Guinness World Records adjudicator was reportedly on hand to ensure that “selfie rules were followed.” The full face and neck of participants had to be visible in all the shots, with no blurring  See the comment by shes_here, too funny.

Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi has accused the governor-elect of the state, Nyesom Wike of murder The rant comes on the heels of the decision by Wike to probe him. According to Amaechi, Wike hired a certain ‘Ateke’ to kill a man, mutilate him and hang him from a tree all in a bid to become Governor. Speaking on Tuesday at his 50th birthday anniversary public lecture in Port Harcourt the governor said, “I refused to probe Dr. Odili’s tenure because when they ask of my report, it won’t be who you probed but what you did. If Wike accuses me of corruption, he was my Chief of Staff for my many years. “A thief cannot call me corrupt. He was my Chief of Staff, if I have no records I have records on him. All the noise Wike is making is to have negotiation with us so they can stay in office illegally but we must go to court. “I am a Christian, I have never killed anybody and I will never kill anybody. Instead of killing anybody I will give up my ambit...

Kim K has never hidden her desire to have another child and has been undergoing IVF treatment to increase her chances to conceive a second child, according to a new report. According to Us Weekly, Kim will reveal an implanted embryo did not take during Sunday’s Keeping Up With The Kardashians mid-season finale. A preview clip for this week’s episode shows Kim lying down on a doctor’s table in tears with her mother Kris Jenner, as they look at an ultrasound together. She said she was told a few years ago by 3 different doctors that she could never get pregnant so she decided to have her eggs frozen.’ Kim said: ‘I was just about to do that when I found out I was pregnant with North. I want a boy and another girl; I want it to start happening straightaway. ‘I loved being part of a huge family – and I want that for North. We'd do IVF if nothing happens, but we both want to keep trying naturally.’ she said. Another option they are consi...

Heartbreaking story told by a mother (Daniel at 2years old and Jeremy a newborn). Read below... My ex-husband and I got married because I was pregnant. It was a stupid reason to get married, I know, but we were 23 and there was pressure from parents—basically from everyone – so we went ahead with it. John and I had been dating for about a year, and in February 2000, we were husband and wife. My pregnancy was a tough one. I was put on bed rest halfway through, and at about 33 weeks I felt something that I thought was my water breaking. The doctors said everything was fine, but when I went to an appointment a couple weeks later, they rushed me to be induced because I had no fluid left. I was just past 35 weeks when I had Jeremy, but he’d gone for two weeks with very little fluid, so it was as if he was delivered at 33 weeks. When he was born on May 27, the doctors said Jeremy was healthy, but I noticed right away that he cried all the time. Not just cry, scream. It wa...