WHY I DID NOT CONTEST FOR PRIMARIES. DABIRI-EREWA

A federal lawmaker, Rep. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, on Sunday said she decided not to return to the House of Representatives in 2015 to give others the chance to contest.
Dabiri-Erewa, an APC member, who presently represents Ikorodu Federal Constituency, spoke with newsmen in Ikorodu, Lagos.
She was among delegates who voted at the APC primary election for the House of Representatives in Ikorodu.
The legislator said she would, however, continue to work for the party’s success as she was among the founding members in the South-West.
“My decision not to contest in the next election was a hard one.
“But I took the decision to allow others come in to gain experience and also to allow true democracy prevail.
“The constitution allows us to contest as many times as we want but having run for three times, we should give another person the chance to run and gather experience,” she said.
On the APC primaries for federal constituencies, she said that she hoped the best candidates would emerge.
She said that the peaceful nature of the primaries showed that APC would be the party to beat in 2015.
“I have the belief that APC will triumph at the forthcoming 2015 general elections to enable Nigerians experience the desired change.
“I’m not only being optimistic at winning in Lagos State but also sure that APC will triumph at the federal level,” Dabiri-Erewa said.
She urged Nigerians to go out and vote for candidates of their choice.

Man Buys $1 Million Supercar, Crashes It 24 Hours Later

An unlucky driver who bought $1.15 branded supercar wrecked his it 24 hours later, Dallas, Texas, USA.

The vehicle was one of only 375 models that were made

2015 McLaren P1 is a seven-speed that goes from 0-62 mph in 2.8 seconds, it also boasts the twin-turbo V8 and its top speed of 217 mph. The vehicle was one of only 375 models that were made which base price is $1.15 million.

According to police reports, the 27-year-old owner of the car who bought it on Tuesday as early as Wednesday morning lost control and crashed into a guard rail. The driver and the passenger were injured in the crash and immediately rushed to hospital.

Images of the possibly the most exciting road car ever built quickly circulated around social media. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.

5 Aspects In Which Chibok Tragedy Changed Nigerians

April 14, the fateful day when nearly 300 girls were abducted in Chibok town, Borno State, became something that divided the lives of Nigerians into “before” and “after”.

First we counted days of the school girls missing. Then days turned into weeks, and weeks into months… And with hopes fading away inversely proportional to the time of the girls’ absence, we have nothing to do but pray that they will be released before the clock tinkle out 1 year.

It will not be an exaggeration to say that this tragedy has changed all of us. And this process continues as more than 7 months after the incident, our daughters are still missing.
The unprecedented Chibok abduction changed Nigerians in many ways…
1. We have become more distrustful 
When the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh, announced that the military found the girls’ whereabouts, weeks after the abduction, we believed that God heard our prayers. What we expected was the victims’ soon return. However it never happened and the army tops, backed by the government, continued providing the excuses for not rescuing the children. They said they would restrain from using force in order not to harm the girls.
With the time passing by and Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, mocking the rescue campaigns in the videos,  we started doubting that anyone knows anything about their location. Although the authorities insisted that they were working on the military operation aimed at releasing the victims, we could not understand why they had failed to come up with the solution for so long.
We did not and still do not know who to believe. The loud statements cause only irritation. When words are followed by zero result, these words mean nothing.
2. We have learnt the desparate truth: international intervention is not a remedy
While the response of the Nigerian government and military was characterized by many as slow and untimely, the most powerful countries in the world responded actively when authorized to do so by the Federal Government.
The breaking point was the US sending troops to Nigeria for finding and rescuing the girls. Many countries, including the UK and China, also showed commitment to helping out Nigerians…
What we though might come as the miraculous answer to the long-time question, brought same results, same nothing. At this point we stopped believing that someone would solve our problems.
3. We have started seeing political games everywhere
After the Chibok girls abduction the reports about Boko Haram sponsors began circulating in the media more often.
There came revelations by the Australian negotiator Stephen Davis who named the politicians allegedly responsible for supporting insurgency in the country.
The rival party politicians started shooting arrows at each other saying who sponsors Boko Haram and blaming each other for the mass kidnap of school girls.
Some went even further saying that the whole Chibok saga was a “scam” used for internal political games. This claim did not remain unnoticed and was followed by the protests during which the confused people demanded truth.
Ahead of the 2015 general elections, the tension is growing with every single day and everything looks and seems politicized.
4. We have lost faith in the eloquent words like “negotiations”, “talks” and “ceasefire”
While we do try to cherish the hope, the meaning of these words has altered in our minds.
For months we had been hearing from various sources that the government was holding talks with Boko Haram commanders regarding the girls’ release. Several times it was provided that the Nigerian authorities and the insurgents allegedly agreed on the conditions of the “swap deal”. But every time the deal for some reason failed and every such failure was traced by mutual allegations and accusations.
The October 17 so-called ceasefire agreement, which also stipulated for Chibok girls release, was followed by several ghastly attacks and Shekau’s video, in which he dismissed holding any talks with the Nigerian government.
5. As sad as it can be… we have become united by the common grief
Looking in the eyes of the girls’ parents, who wake up and go to sleep with one and the same thought every single day, we feel helpless, vulnerable and unprotected.
The whole country is grieving with Chibok community and the children’s families. We got united by pain and fear. And by the national prayer, which is …
Dear Lord, Bring Back Our Girls.

You Are Not Going To Steal My Man this Time - Tonto Dikeh

 Controversial Nigerian Actress has expressed that she will not allow so called friends steal her man again.

In a recent post by the beautiful actress, she threw shades at one of her old friends who she alleges took her man from her.


She mentioned this as a response to people who asked her why she hid her man’c face in a kiss pic she took with him.
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When one fan asked who she was referring to she did not hide the identity.
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Tonto Dikeh is a Nigerian Actress who has a mass following her, she started acting in Nollywood in 2006.
She has been alleged to be dating Kelly handsome.

Yemi Blaq Speaks On His Relationship With Juliet Ibrahim

Yemi Blaq has settled the rumors going around of extra marital affairs on his part by revealing the truth.

In a new interview with Vanguard, he talked of his relationship with Ghanaian top actress, Juliet Ibrahim.

Yemi and Wife

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He also said that his lovely wife is aware of the friendship between them and is okay with it.
When questioned, if he would have married Juliet if he wasn’t married, the actor said yes.
Excerpts: 
You have a very close relationship with Juliet Ibrahim, how does your wife react to that?
She’s okay with it. My wife is a professional through and through. When we were shooting ‘The Distance Between’, my wife wrote the script. She wrote my character to have a romantic relationship with both Rita Dominic and Mercy Johnson. She was on set while we were shooting and after doing a kissing scene with Mercy Johnson, my wife called me aside and said “That kiss is not real. You need to make it real”.
She knows that as long as I’m on set, it’s my job and I’m doing the kissing not because I’m enjoying a kiss from a woman, but because it’s the character doing the kissing, not me. If I kiss a girl outside the set, I’ll have a lot of questions to answer. She knows about me and Juliet.
Was it movies that brought Juliet Ibrahim and you together?
Yes. The funny thing is I’ve heard about her, seen her and the first time we really had time to relate was when we shot the movie ‘ Corporate Operations’ with Alex Mouth in Abuja, but there was no time to bond. Shortly after that, she called me while she was in Ghana and there was this movie we were shooting ‘Number One Fan’, starring myself and her.
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I went over to Ghana for the movie and that was where we really had the chance to bond. I knew her real person behind the screen, she’s nice, hardworking, dedicated and focused and those are the qualities I appreciate in a human being. We are still friends till today. I was at her birthday party sometime ago in Lagos and we had a great time partying all night long. Once again, my wife knows about it.
If you weren’t already married, would you have married Juliet; is she your kind of person?
Yes, she’s my kind of person. She’s smart, dedicated, but it’s a pity I’m not single. It’s a great thing I met my wife first and if you ask me, ‘If I had to do it all over again, would I change anything?’. I’d tell you it’s nice to be with someone with whom everyday is a new day with its own challenges, rewards and beauty. My wife is creative, crazy, lovable and she’s my love.

Yemi Blaq is a Nollywood Nigerian actor and started his acting career 2005.

Two of my kids are not mine... Femi Kuti

He revealed in a one on one with Encomium Magazine a few days ago that after he ran DNA tests, he was informed that Dupe and Tosin are not his.

Femi Kuti

He doesn’t understand why a woman would deceive him.
Femi has five kids,  Made, Afolabi, Dupe, Tosin and Ayomide. Dupe and Tosin (boy and girl) have been revealed to not be his biological seeds.
Femi revealed his disappointment that women he once cared about could deceive him.
He described how he came to the discovery.

He said: “I did a DNA test and was told two of the children are not mine. The first two (after Made), a boy and a girl.  It is very serious.  I never knew somebody could give you what is not yours.  I’ve three boys now. I can’t father children I was tricked to believe I am their father,” he lamented.
Dupe and Tosin have both been returned to their mothers.
Because of the betrayal, he returned the two children, Dupe and Tosin, to their mothers.

Femi’s first kid, Made’s mother is Funke, his ex-wife.
Bisi Ajala gave birth to Ayomide and one other child that the DNA test recently proved not to be Femi’s.  The third woman’s name was not revealed.

Singapore court upholds anti-gay law

Singapore’s highest court on Wednesday dismissed a constitutional challenge against an archaic law criminalising sex between men, striking a fresh blow to the city-state’s growing gay-rights movement.
The Court of Appeal upheld rulings by lower courts that it was up to Parliament to repeal the provision in the penal code, known as Section 377A.
“Whilst we understand the deeply held personal feelings of the appellants, there is nothing that this court can do to assist them,” judges Andrew Phang, Belinda Ang and Woo Bih Li said in a written verdict.
“Their remedy lies, if at all, in the legislative sphere,” the judges said.
The ruling addressed two separate challenges to the law.
One was by Tan Eng Hong, who was arrested after being caught with a male partner in a public toilet cubicle in 2010, while the other was filed by a gay couple.
The judges said they only considered “legal arguments” and not “extra-legal considerations and matters of social policy which were outside the remit of the court”.
According to the judges, examples of extra-legal arguments put forward by the appellants’ lawyers included that Section 377A represented “the tyranny of the majority” and that the sexual conduct of their clients caused no harm to others.
However judges said such arguments were not for the courts to consider
In a statement, Tan’s lawyer M. Ravi said the judgment was a “huge step backwards for human rights in Singapore”.
Ravi added that it was “disturbing” that “the Supreme Court has now thrown this issue back to Parliament, when other Commonwealth countries have struck down this legislation as discriminatory and (an) absurd relic of the colonial past”.
Section 377A, first introduced in 1938 by British colonial administrators, carries a maximum penalty of two years in jail for homosexual acts.
The law states: “Any male person who, in public or private, commits, or abets the commission of, or procures or attempts to procure the commission by any male person of, any act of gross indecency with another male person, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 2 years.”
Alhough Section 377A is not actively enforced, the government has said it should stay on the books because most Singaporeans are conservative and do not accept homosexuality.
A scientific survey conducted by researchers at the Nanyang Technological University in 2010 and published last year found Singaporeans’ views towards homosexuality gradually becoming more positive compared to attitudes in 2005.
The study found religion a major factor determining attitudes towards homosexuals, with Muslims and Christians being the most negative.
But the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) rights movement is growing steadily in Singapore, one of the world’s wealthiest and most modern cities.
Over 20,000 people gathered in a peaceful rally supporting gay rights last June despite a fierce online campaign against the event by conservative Muslims and Christians.

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PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN CLOCKS 57

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan clocked 57 years today.
He was born exactly 57 years ago in Ogbia, Bayelsa state.
We bring you the photographs of the celebration in Aso Villa today.

President jonathan, his wife and mother, Eunice

Jonathan, wife and mother joined in the cutting of the cake. Second right is ex-Anambra governor, Peter Obi

The chaplain of Aso Rock , Obioma Onwuzurumba,, second left, was also at the event to bless Jonathan and his family

And a birthday hug for Dame Jonathan, by hubby Goodluck Jonathan

Later today, the birthday boy will leave for London to preside over a meeting of Nigeria’s Honorary International Investment Council (HIIC) which opens in the British capital on Friday.
The HIIC which was established in 2004 advises the Federal Government on matters pertaining to Nigeria’s economic development, making the Nigerian economy more competitive globally and attracting greater direct foreign investment to boost domestic industrial growth and job creation.
Deliberations at the HIIC meeting in London will focus on the current investment landscape in Nigeria, developments and opportunities in the ongoing upgrade and expansion of Nigeria’s public infrastructure, as well as opportunities and reforms in Nigeria’s rail transportation, power and construction sectors.
President Jonathan attended same event last year. But he fell ill, triggering controversy of over-drinking.

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