Photos: Trailer falls in a busy road in Port Harcourt this morning

This trailer fell this morning on a busy road in Port Harcourt as it was trying to swerve land. Luckily no life was lost. Aren't there people/agencies to inspect these containers before they hit the road?

Run All Night

“When a man is driven by passion, he can do the unimaginable”. And no one knows this better than the amazing actor Liam Neeson. 

 The mention of his name immediately conjures action-filled images in one’s head. No one makes a crime more exciting than Liam. 

 

From the “Taken” series to this new captivating movie “Run all Night”, Liam has shown he’s a master at this game and he never jokes with his own. He loves hard and fights harder so when you mess with anyone he loves, you better be a fantastic dancer because you WILL face the music. 

You never want him as an enemy because no one wields a gun better than him. So when you are on the run, who else would you rather have as a protector?  We all know the answer to that.

This and so much more makes the new thriller “Run all night” absolutely spectacular. Situated in the Mafia world, Liam Neeson plays a former Irish mob enforcer who had to fight against his former boss who also happens to be his closest friend and an entire Mafia-nation in defense of his loved one. This action-packed, adrenaline pumping, heartbeat-increasing movie features other fantastic actors such as Joel Kinnaman, Common and Ed Harris and is certified to enthrall you from the beginning to the end.

But don’t take my word for it. Hurry to the nearest cinema starting Friday 17th April, 2015 with your family and friends because seeing they say, is believing. 

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Ariana Grande's father checks Big Sean over instagram comment

Rapper Big Sean, who is dating Ariana Grande, shared a photo of himself on instagram and wrote "I give that D...#Detroit". Ariana's dad saw the post and went on the comment section to check Big Sean lol. He wrote "That D. better be Detroit Sean". Lol.  Sir, I doubt he meant Detroit...hehe

Pic credit: MTO

Pics: Nigerians in South Africa seek Asylum at Home Affairs office

To avoid being killed or injured, some Nigerians who live in areas where Zulu boys have unleashed terror ran to the Department of Home Affairs in Pretoria to seek refuge. There, they claim the security asked them for money before they were allowed to enter the compound. Is Nigeria that bad that people would rather live like this than come home?

Photos: Water Vendor sighted at Lagos High Court

A LIB reader who is a lawyer was at Lagos High Court Ikeja yesterday and saw this. He wrote;

"Some pictures I took at Lagos High Court Ikeja yesterday showing a water vendor selling water to Lagos High Court. Lagos is working indeed"

See more pics after the cut...but is there anything wrong with it? Share your thoughts...

The body on 50 Cent's baby mama though, no wonder he put a child in her

Model Daphne Joy is the mother of 50 Cent's 2 year old son, Sire, and her body is the truth. The 28 year old model and aspiring actress showed off her amazing physique during a vacation in Miami, Florida, this week. See more photos after the cut...

12 Nigerian & Ghanian Christian migrants killed following religious clash on a Boat in Italy

12 Nigerian and Ghanian migrants who were traveling on a boat with Muslim migrants from Libya to Italy were this week killed after the Muslims on the boat threw them into the sea following a religious clash on the boat. According to report, the motive for the attack was because the victims 'professed the Christian faith while the aggressors were Muslim'.

The illegal immigrants, 105 of them in number, left Libya on Tuesday in a rubber boat. When they sailed north across the Mediterranean Sea, a fight broke out and the Muslim occupants in the boat, mainly from Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal engaged in a fight with their fellow immigrants who were Christians and threw 12 of them overboard, Italian police said.

Other Christians who survived the attack on the boat told police that they were spared "because they strongly opposed the drowning attempt and formed a human chain".

The Italian police have arrested 15 of the Muslims that carried out the attack and they will be charged with multiple homicide. 

Rapper Reminsce shows of his adorable daughter 'Hafusa

 

By now, you all should know that indigenous rapper, Remilekun Khaled Safaru otherwise known as Reminisce, has a 4-year old daughter called Hafusa.... 

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Talented rapper Reminisce showed off his adorable 4 year old daughter Hafusa..The father of two named his soon to be released album titled "Baba Hafusa'after her.

Not yet married, he has two girls from the same lady.

See his two kids below

By now, you all should know that indigenous rapper, Remilekun Khaled Safaru otherwise known as Reminisce, has a 4-year old daughter called Hafusa.... 

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Remilekun Khaled Safaru otherwise known as Reminisce, has a 4-year old daughter called Hafusa.... 

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Remilekun Khaled Safaru otherwise known as Reminisce, has a 4-year old daughter called Hafusa.... 

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Meek Mill wants to give Nicki Minaj a fairytale wedding

Meek Mill plans to give Nicki Minaj a fairytale wedding ..According to E!an insider privy to the details said  for the actual wedding ,these two aren't going to waste any time and notes that Meek wants to make sure he offers a memorable day for his bride-to-be.

"The wedding will likely happen sooner rather then later, it's just how their relationship has been going,Nicki has been waiting for this special day for some time and Meek wants to make it perfect and a fairy tale come true for her. This is such an exciting time in her life."

Presidential Poll: How Orubebe Plotted to Abduct Jega

A report by the Reuters news agency has unravelled an alleged plot by some persons close to President Goodluck Jonathan to abduct the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral  commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, on Tuesday, March 31, to stop him from announcing the results of the presidential election and declaring Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) as the winner of the poll.

According to Reuters, central to the plan were Jega's security detail and Godsday Orubebe, a former Minister of the Niger Delta Ministry. Orubebe's role was to cause a disturbance at the collation centre as cover for the abduction of Jega.

Quoting pro-democracy advocates and an Abuja-based diplomat, the report said:

 As Muhammadu Buhari closed in on Nigeria's presidency, an aide to election commission chairman Attahiru Jega sent a text message to an independent voting monitor, warning of an imminent threat to the electoral process. 

The aide had unearthed a plot by supporters of President Goodluck Jonathan to disrupt the public announcement of the national election results and kidnap Jega in a bid to wreck the count, according to pro-democracy advocates and a Nigeria-based diplomat.

Central to the plan, they said, were Jega's security detail and Godsday Orubebe, a former cabinet minister from Jonathan's Niger Delta, an area whose leaders feared a change of power would mean an end to the perks it enjoyed under Jonathan's presidency.

Orubebe's role was to cause a disturbance at the headquarters of the commission as cover for the abduction of Jega. Orubebe did not respond to requests for comment on the details of the plot.

The commission, called INEC, also declined to comment and turned down requests for an interview with Jega, whom Reuters was unable to reach independently. Reuters found no evidence to suggest that Jonathan, who conceded defeat in the election, was involved. His spokesman and his party, the PDP, did not respond to requests for comment.

While the plot would likely not have changed the result, it could have unleashed fury among Buhari supporters in the north, where 800 people were killed in rioting after his last election defeat in 2011.

But the plot's failure enabled Africa's most populous country to complete its first credible vote since independence in 1960.

"NIGERIA ON TRIAL"

The plot to derail the election in its closing moments was pieced together by Reuters from the text message, events on the ground and interviews with democracy advocates and diplomats in the capital, Abuja.

When he sent the SMS, the election official, whom the sources declined to name for his own protection, hoped the outside world would hear of the plot, the text of the message made clear.

"Fellow countrymen, Nigeria on Trial," read the SMS sent on the morning of March 31 to Clement Nwankwo, head of the Situation Room, an Abuja-based coalition of human rights groups and democracy advocates monitoring the polls. Reuters later saw the SMS.

"Plans are on storm [sic] the podium at the ICC Collation Centre and disrupt the process," it continued, the official dropping words and letters in his haste.

"Nobody is sue [sic] what will happen. Please share this as widely as possible."

At that moment, INEC chairman Jega was about to preside over the announcement of results.

TALLY COUNT

Since the end of army rule in 1999, all four previous votes had been marred by violence and ballot-rigging.

The 2015 poll was different in two crucial aspects.

It was a genuine race, pitting Jonathan, saddled with an ailing economy and an Islamist insurgency, against a former general promising to get tough on corruption and the Boko Haram insurgents.

Voters had also been given biometric ID cards linked to their photographs and fingerprints, making it hard to inflate voter numbers significantly.

As tallies from around the country showed Buhari on course for a win, unidentified PDP hard-liners started to panic, seeking ways of manipulating the count, Nwankwo and the diplomat said, citing political contacts in the Delta and Abuja.

Realising they could not engineer an outright win, PDP agents set about doctoring the tally at collation centres in pro-Jonathan areas to ensure Buhari failed to meet a requirement for 25 percent support in two thirds of states, Nwankwo said, citing reports from election monitors on the ground.

A Reuters reporter witnessed and photographed one tally list in Port Harcourt with suspiciously similar totals for registered voters at polling stations: 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 450. In another tally centre in the city, 17,594 valid votes were recorded out of a registered voter population of 11,757, the Reuters reporter said.

Foreign election observers also noted the peculiarities - and contacted diplomats in Abuja who called in international intervention.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his British counterpart Philip Hammond - in Switzerland for talks on Iran - issued a tough statement saying vote counting "may be subject to deliberate political interference".

"CREATE A FRACAS"

But as Buhari's lead grew, some PDP supporters from the Delta, including Orubebe, decided on a final gamble: to create a disturbance in the main INEC hall and have thugs snatch Jega from the stage, according to Nwankwo and the Abuja-based diplomat.

What the group planned to do after the abduction is unclear, the diplomat and Nwankwo said, but the confusion could have triggered nationwide violence.

"It was a desperate thing, mostly by a group of people from the Niger Delta who were in the room," Nwankwo said, describing events that unfolded publicly in the minutes after he received the SMS.

When Jega opened proceedings on the morning of March 31, Orubebe, the former Niger Delta minister, grabbed a microphone and launched into an 11-minute tirade accusing Jega of bias.

"Mr. Chairman, we have lost confidence in you," he shouted, pushing away officials trying to make him surrender the microphone. "You are being very, very selective. You are partial," he continued, surrounded by three or four supporters. "You are tribalistic. We cannot take it."

Nigerians watched, aghast, on live television.

Meanwhile, Jega's security detail was approached by unidentified individuals telling them to stand down, according to Nwankwo and the diplomat.

But the bodyguards refused.

"Some of the guards who had been guarding Jega for years demanded a written order," Nwankwo said. "But it didn't exist."

Jega then rebuked Orubebe: "Let us not disrupt a process that has ended peacefully," he said as Orubebe slumped in his chair.

"Mr. Orubebe, you are a former minister of the Federal Republic. You are a statesman in your own right. You should be careful about what you say or about what allegations you make," he said.

Later, Orubebe congratulated Buhari on Twitter, expressing his "apologies to fellow Nigerians".

Husband Divorces Wife for Rejecting PDP and Voting for APC

The troubles caused in several families by the just concluded general elections in Nigeria are too numerous to mention. As you read this, two women in Kaduna State have incurred the wrath of their husbands for choosing to vote for candidates of the APC during the last general elections in the state.

The two middle age men who are from Kaninkon community in Jema’a Local government Area of the State divorced their wives after the last Saturday gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections.

According too Leadership, the two men are members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna and they warned their wives to vote for their party but the wives insisted that they are going with the majority in the state who were yearning for CHANGE.

The saga did not end with these two men, another man was said to have also sent his aged mother out of his house because she rejected his pleas to vote for the PDP but cast her vote for APC candidates.

The truth is, politics has been causing problem in families, but I guess these ones are taking it too far.

Photos: Father of 3 Morbidly-Obese Children Plans to Sell his Kidney to Save Them

An impoverished father has revealed that he plans to sell his own kidney to fund life-saving treatment for his three morbidly-obese children.

Sisters Yogita Rameshbhai Nandwana, five, and Anisha, three, and their 18-month-old brother Harsh, are among the world's heaviest young children. Weighing  (34kg), (48kg) and  (15kg) respectively, the food they eat in a week is enough to feed two families in a month.

Now their father Rameshbhai Nandwana, 34, of Gurjarat, India, is planning to sell his kidney to earn the money needed to see top specialists. DailyMail reports that he said:

‘If my kids continue to grow at this rapid rate they will have major health issues. We’re terrified they will die.’

Yogita and Anisha eat 18 chapatis, 3lbs of rice, two bowls of broth, six packets of crisps, five packs of biscuits, 12 bananas and a litre of milk daily. And their extreme hunger means their mother Pragna Ben, 30, spends most of her day making their meals.
She said:

‘My day starts with making 30 chapatis and 1kg vegetable curry in the morning. After that I am again in the kitchen preparing more food. Their hunger never stops. They demand food all the time and cry and scream if they’re not fed. I am always in the kitchen cooking for them.’

The couple have one older daughter, Bhavika, six, who weighs an average 2st 7lbs (16kg), and do not know why their other three children are so big.
Mr Nandwana said:

‘When Yogita was born she was extremely weak and weighed just 1.5kg (3.3lbs). We were worried for her health. So we fed her a lot during the first year of her life to build her strength but by her first birthday she had bloated to 12kg (1st 12lbs). 

Our third daughter Anisha also gained weight in similar fashion and by her first birthday she was 15kg. 

But we only realised they were suffering from a disorder when our son Harsh was born as he too gained weight quickly during his first year. We started looking for medical help and consulted many doctors but they would just refer us to bigger hospitals that I couldn’t afford.’

Mr Nandwana earns just Rs 3000 (£35) a month - but usually has sufficient money to buy enough food to fulfil the large appetite of his children.

He continued:

‘I am a daily wage labour and I usually get paid Rs 100 a day but there are times when there is no work at all.
‘I work in fields, dig wells, and do whatever menial job I can find to earn money.
'And I’m constantly worried about finding the money to feed my continually hungry children.’

Despite his paltry income, Mr Nandwana spends about Rs 10,000 (£110) a month on food for his children and said he 'cannot leave them starving'

He added:

‘If I don’t have the money, I borrow it from my brothers and friends. But I make sure I feed my children when they need.’

The father has spent Rs 50,000 (£540) on seeing doctors and treatment over the last three years – without any improvement in his children’s condition.
He said:

‘No one in our family has a giant frame. Only my children are overweight. As parents, it pains us immensely to see them unable to move. They cannot walk; they cannot do anything on their own. Selling my kidney is a desperate measure. But I’m now desperate to get the right help for my children.’

Miss Ben cannot pick up her children so she has to watch them roll around when her husband is at work - or use a trolley to pull them around.
She said:

‘They need me to help them bath or when they need the toilet. I’m only 40 kg so it’s impossible for me to pick them up. It’s a struggle when my husband is at work. 

They are usually restricted to the same place for the whole day and because of that, they cannot go to school. All they do all day is eat and play and giggle with each other.   

I want my daughters to get an education and play like other kids. I want them to have a life. This is no life.’

 

Local doctors believe the children are suffering from Prader-Willi syndrome, but do not know how to treat it. The rare genetic condition causes various symptoms including constant hunger, reduced muscle tone, restricted growth and learning difficulties.