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Tottenham Hotspur have given striker Emmanuel Adebayor an immediate and indefinite leave of absence, with the former Arsenal striker set to return to Togo to settle a personal issue. The club announced via twitter this morning that the Togo international would leave return to his homeland to sort out a personal problem, while they failed to elaborate on what the matter entails. “We can confirm that Emmanuel Adebayor has been given permission to return home for personal reasons. This is a private matter and so we will not be providing any further comment,” Spurs tweeted. Adebayor’s older brother Kola said earlier this month that “Muslim spiritual men” had "brainwashed” the 30-year-old into believing his mother had placed a curse on him. Reports then surfaced that the forward had kicked his mother out of his house because she was using juju against him. Adebayor later denied these reports, claiming she decided to leave. Adebayor will now ret...

The general parlance that Nigerians do not dull when it comes to anything they do has come to play yet again as the country has set another ignominious record as the country with the highest number of  criminals  in the United Kingdom, amongst other African countries. In a new report released by the  UK Home Office , out of a total number of 106, 000 registered Nigerians living in Britain, 832 of them are confirmed as  criminals  who have been recorded as offenders. They have been indicted for various criminal endeavours like murder, rape, drug trafficking, stealing, credit card fraud or love and marriage scams. Other African countries with high number of criminals include Somalia which has 558 criminals out of its 45,000 citizens while Zimbabwe has 482 bad guys from a population of 50,000. Algeria has the least number of citizens living in the UK with just 9,000 but they have 305 criminals. But on the world scale, Jamaica tops the ratin...

Miss Bumbum 2014 has had surgery to return her to being a virgin so she can once again enjoy her first time with 'someone special. Indianara Carvalho, 22, hopes her surgery will garner the controversial Bumbum title 'some respect', will be revealed in racy new pictures set to be released on Christmas Day.. The model, who says she wants to use her newly virginal status to find love, had 'vaginal rejuvenation surgery' which includes a hymenoplasty.Women undergoing the latter treatment must abstain from sex for at least three months after undergoing the procedure. Speaking about her surgical plans, Miss Carvalho said:... 'I wanted to undergo surgery to reconstruct my virginity before I have new photographs done. I wouldn't feel good about appearing naked if I wasn't exactly as I came into the world if you know what I mean.'I think I also want to give a bit of respect and new concept to the Miss Bum Bum title by being a virgi...

Pope Francis has said he might have only two or three years left to live. On a plane trip back from South Korea, he told journalists he believed he only had limited time left to complete his reforms of the Roman Catholic Church. Asked about how he copes with his popularity, he said: ‘I try to think of my sins, my mistakes, so as not to think that I am some- body important.’ He then added with a smile: ‘Because I know this is going to last a short time, two or three years and then… to the house of the Father.’ According to a Vatican source, the 77-year-old has previously told those close to him that he thought he only had a few years left. He also revealed that he would consider retiring if he felt he could no longer perform his duties.  His predecessor Pope Benedict XVI resigned in February last year. ‘If you asked me if, in the future, I felt I could not go forward, would I do the same? I would do the same. Benedict has opened a door,’ Francis ...

A Facebook user posted this to his account showing his girlfriend & her son both naked in a bathtub! He quickly removed it after serious backlash from other users who saw it as inappropriate and asked for child services to look into it. Even if that is your son, why get naked with him? Or is this OK?

A Nigerian man who is an asylum seeker in in Dublin, Ireland, Peter Ifedayo, has brought shame to the whole country by posting n.ude photos of a single mother he was dating on his Watsapp page because she refused to give him money. The heart broken Nigerian woman, Olabomi Ojuade, has been traumatised and has been unable to come to terms with the actions of a man she loved and trusted with all her heart. She has also taken to Youtube to release videos where she talks about the shame she has been made to undergo as well as warn women to beware of men they give their hearts to. According to the story she gave out, she met Peter some months ago, not knowing his stock in trade is dating rich women in that country and living off them. He asked her for a relationship and thinking she has found the man to ease her of her loneliness, she gave her heart to him, gave him love and trusted him with her life. Then after a few months of dizzying love affair, in whi...

Kim Kardashian could be super glad she's broken up with ex, Ray J but his recent ex girlfriend,  Princess Love  would rather die than lose Brandy's little brother! Reports say Princess threatened suicide on Wednesday after getting a buzz that Ray was having an eye on Chris Brown's ex girlfriend,Karrueche Tran. Police reports claim they were called up after she called the singer and threatened to shoot herself. However, she later called him again to tell him she wouldn't go through with it. According to TMZ, Ray broke up with Princess Love Tuesday night after a big fight and later headed to a studio to shoot a New Year's Eve special for BET. Eyewitnesses claim Karrueche was also on the show and Ray hung out with her until 4 AM. There are still no confirmation if both Ray and Karrueche are hooking up but do you think the singer's ex was right to attempt suicide?