See Photos: Dr Sid Rings Closing Bell for the Nigerian Stock Exchange

Mavin Records artiste Dr Sid was today invited by the Nigerian Stock Exchange to their Year End Trade Closing Gong Ceremony where he was given the honour of ringing the closing bell. lol, see how excited Dr Sid was at the event. Good stuff! See more pics after the cut.

Photo: Davido, his dad and siblings storm Dubai to welcome the new year

Great stuff!

Two Germans killed in Nigeria

Two German Nationals have been shot dead in Nigeria. According to German newspaper, Ostsee Zeitung, the two nationals, both male aged 34 and 20 were working as engineers at Julius Berger and were shot dead last Saturday December 27th while riding on a motorbike in Abuja.

Confirming the incident to AFP, a foreign affairs official said “Unfortunately we can confirm that two German nationals were killed in Nigeria last weekend".

See what the mother of the transgender teen who killed herself wrote on Facebook

17 year old Leelah (Josh) Alcorn committed suicide on Sunday December 28th by walking in front of a tractor trailer and left a suicide note before he died. But when her mum reacted to her death on Facebook, she wrote something that many folks in the gay/transgender world are very upset about. First the mother said she was 16 when Leelah wrote she was 17. Carla called her Joshua instead of the name she'd given herself, Leelah and she also refused to acknowledge that Leelah had committed suicide instead she wrote that she was hit by a trailer. Meaning that she still doesn't accept who Leelah was as a person even after she committed suicide. After the backlash, Carla deleted the post and removed herself from Facebook. Leelah Alcorn blamed his suicide on his Christian parents...

Leelah's parents

Miss Black Africa UK & other queens release 2015 charity calendar

British/Nigerian model and 2014 Miss Black Africa UK winner Jacqueline Ilumoka (pictured left) alongside other finalists of the 2014 Miss Black Africa UK have released stunning 2015 charity calendar to raise money for handicapped children in Africa. See pics from the calendar after the cut...

An unborn Palestinian baby girl whose mother died in an Israeli airstrike was saved by doctors.

The girl who was named after her mother, Shayma Shiekh al-Eidnow
The premature baby girl was delivered from her dead mother’s womb by emergency caesarean section.
It was gathered that the girl’s mother did not survive an Israeli airstrike that took place exactly when Muslims in Palestine started celebrating the Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.

The premature baby girl was delivered from her dead mother’s womb by emergency C-section

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The girl who was named after her mother, Shayma Shiekh al-Eidnow, now is in an incubator at a hospital and has a 50/50 chance of survival. One of the doctors who helped the girl draw the first breath said that ‘what’s happened is a miracle’.
READ MORE: http://www.naij.com/70362.html

A woman with two wombs has given birth to a healthy baby girl in Barry, Wales, UK.

Woman with two wombs, Jane Woodhead with her daughter Grace

Jane Woodhead is an unusual woman with rare condition, known as uterus didelphys, that means there is a double uteri with two separate cervices, and often a double vagina as well. The only possible way for Jane to have a child was IVF treatment, at least doctors said so.
READ MORE: http://www.naij.com/310381-woman-two-wombs-gives-birth-baby.html

See World’s First Transplant Baby Delivered

The world’s first womb swap baby, named as Vincent, has been delivered using an unrelated donor in Gothenburg, Sweden.
The 36-year-old woman gave birth to the world’s first womb transplant baby using his friend’s womb. The boy has been called Vincent – a name derived from the Latin for ‘to conquer’ – to mark the extraordinary lengths his mother undertook to have him.

An unnamed woman gave birth to the world’s first womb transpalntant baby using his friend’s womb

Vincent’s mother was devastated when she was told at the age of 15 that she did not have a womb. She was able to carry her own child after a 61-year-old friend offered to donate her womb. Despite being long past menopause, her womb worked normally during the pregnancy.
The donor’s womb from the 61-year-old woman has been removed – and transplanted in Vincent’s mother. Born by C-section two months prematurely, Vincent weighed just under 1,8 kg. Now the miracle baby is breastfeeding and growing well.Vincent’s father said: “We now have the most amazing baby. He’s no different from any other child, but he will have a good story to tell.”

“As soon as I felt this perfect baby boy on my chest, I had tears of happiness and enormous relief. “

His mother said: “As soon as I felt this perfect baby boy on my chest, I had tears of happiness and enormous relief. I felt like a mother the first time I touched my baby and was amazed that we finally did it. I have always had this large sorrow because I never thought I would be a mother – and now the impossible has become real.”
Now doctors are preparing for two more arrivals – but this time each one is being nurtured in its grandmother’s womb. The pregnancies are part of a revolutionary Swedish project to allow childless women to fulfil their dream of starting a family. The extraordinary procedure means each womb will have carried two generations of the same family.
Eventually, the technique could also be used on women who have been born without an organ or have suffered the agony of repeated miscarriages. Using a donated womb also means that expectant mothers can have babies that are genetically their own and experience the joys of pregnancy.
READ MORE: http://www.naij.com/301245-woman-delivered-transplant-baby-with-friends-womb.html

Zimbabwean Woman Forced To Have Sex With Dead Husband

A bizarre incident took place earlier this year in Zimbabwe, where a woman could not neglect the last wish of her late husband.
According to India Today, one Sarah Simirayi of Svisvi was forced to have sex with her estranged husband… in his coffin… after death… before his burial.
Sarah left her husband for a new lover, however some time later she moved back to her hometown after having broken up with the man. Soon after her return, her estranged husband Nunurayi died at the age of 68.
He put his last will in writing. In a note, which he asked to be read at the funeral, the man said that he died because of being heartbroken over missing her. And asked Sarah to fulfill his last wish and have sex with him before the burial.

Photos: Khloe Kardashian steps out in killer LBD

Khloe Kardashian looked stunning in a little black sequined dress as she hosted a pre-New Year's Eve party at 1OAK Nightclub inside the Mirage Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on Tuesday Dec. 30th.

New music: Onyinye Osadebe - Nwata Nwanyi ft Vector & Dialect‏‎

Onyinye Osadebe, the newly crowned prince of high life music and Morgan Entertainment artiste teams up with Nigeria's finest rapper Vector and Dialect bringing sweet melody to spice this track which was created during their recent visit to Osadebe's palace. Listen below...

A New Year message to Nigeria’s youth from Muhammadu Buhari

...and here's Gen. Buhari's New Year message to Nigerian youths...

As we welcome the year 2015, I have shared a message to Nigerians in general, but I find it crucial to send another message directly to Nigeria’s youth, who are the major stakeholders of this enterprise.

The year 2014 was a challenging one for most citizens of our dear country.

We remember our compatriots who were brutishly killed or maimed by evil terrorists in 2014. I remember with a still broken heart that 219 of our children from Chibok are yet missing, let down by a country that should protect them. I remember that, even as I speak, some of our towns and villages are yet under the occupation of Boko Haram.

Yes, it is enough for you to despair. It is enough for you to wonder if your country cares about you and can protect you. But do not despair.

2015 has arrived at a time of great discomfort; but the beauty of the New Year is that we can look forward with renewed hope and the knowledge that things can and will change. 

In Nigeria’s case, we can truly look forward to the change that the elections can, and will, bring. Our country will be secure again. Our country will prosper again.

I have faith that 2015 is the year we shall begin to write a new story - a story of our youth creating jobs and expanding the frontiers of innovation and creativity everywhere from Mavin Records to the Co-Creation Hub; a story of genuine investment in our children and students be they in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka or in the Delta State University, Abraka; a country that finally makes a permanent shift from our debilitating dependence on the free-falling price of crude oil.

I have unshakeable faith that 2015 will be the year of change.

Now some of you have asked me: what exactly does ‘change’ mean?

I have taken time to explain this at different opportunities, but on this special day, let me remind you in five short statements.

Change means:

1.      A country that you can be proud of at anytime and anywhere: where corruption is tackled, where your leaders are disciplined and lead with vision and clarity; where the stories that emerge to the world from us are full of hope and progress. 

2.     A Nigeria in which neither yourselves, nor your parents, families or friends will have to fear for your safety, or for theirs.

3.     A Nigeria where citizens get the basics that any country should provide: infrastructure that works, healthcare that is affordable, even free; respect for the environment and sustainable development, education that is competitive and outcome-oriented in a knowledge-economy.

4.     A country that provides jobs for its young people, reducing unemployment to the lowest of single digits and providing safety nets so that no one is left behind.

5.     A Nigeria where entrepreneurship thrives, enterprise flourishes and the government gets out of your way so that you can create value, build the economy and aggressively expand wealth.

Are these things truly possible? Of course. That is the essence and outcome of leadership, and that is what my party and I promise you as we get into 2015.

My dear friends, this New Year, more than ever before, I am hopeful about Nigeria.

Yes, you are disappointed and you are angry, as you are entitled to, but you must never give in to the temptation to feel so weighed down by those who have failed you that you lose your hope and your energy and your passion to see change. You must never give up on Nigeria.  

Together, we can build a nation that is secure, prosperous and gives everyone a fair chance.

This is the promise that 2015 holds. That is the promise that change will bring. That is the promise that I bring to you.

Once again, I wish everyone a happy and prosperous New Year. 

Thank you and God bless Nigeria.

AirAsia flight found upside down at the bottom of the sea, passengers found holding hands

Indonesian search officials have now confirmed they have located the fuselage of AirAsia flight 8501 on sonar radar, upside down on the sea floor, not far from where three of the bodies from the doomed AirAsia flight were found holding hands when discovered floating in the Java Sea. Officials from Basarnas, Indonesia's search and rescue agency, say the plane wreckage has been located in 24 to 30 metres of water and one of the seven confirmed recovered bodies was wearing a life jacket. 

Lieutenant Airman Tri Wobowo, who was co-piloting Indonesia's C130 Herclues aircraft, was the first to discover debris from the plane and witnessed the tragic scene. 

'There were seven to eight people. Three of them held hands,' he told a local newspaper. 

A plane door, a blue suitcase, oxygen tank and the remnants of an emergency slide were among the objects found about 10km from where the plane was last detected on radar. But the most harrowing discoveries were the corpses floating in the Java Sea - about 100 miles off the coast - and search chiefs fully expect none of the 162 passengers and crew on board made it out of the wreckage alive.

Source: UK Daily Mail

A Yoruba Fuji Star KWAM 1's daughter, Sekky. Caught kissing in public with Swanky Jerry

Yesterday I shared a pic of celebrity stylist Swanky Jerry kissing a lady in public (read here). Well, the lady is KWAM 1's daughter, Sekky. She's also a stylist. Stylist kiss stylist = nothing is bad in it! :)

Tokunbo cars to cost more from January 1, 2015

As from first of January 2015, prices of imported used cars otherwise known as Tokunbo or second-hand cars are expected to go up as the second phase of the national automotive policy which was announced in November 2013, will commence.

Car dealers would be expected to pay the federal government 70% duty on all imported cars. FG had in 2013 introduced the national automotive policy with the view of encouraging local assemblage of automobiles in Nigeria, increasing the import tariff from 22% to 70%. The first phase of the policy involving the payment of 35% duty came into effect in February 2014 while the second phase which would have started in July this year was postponed to Jan. 2015.

Minster of Police Affairs warns police will arrest anyone who makes inciting statements, calls out Obasanjo

Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan, has threatened to arrest and prosecute anyone, no matter how highly placed in the society, that makes inciting comments to heat the polity in Nigeria. He made the threat while speaking at the launch of a book by Mr. Yinka Odumakin in Lagos State titled "Watch the Watcher" yesterday December 29th. He accused former President Obasanjo of trying to introduce an interim government in Nigeria after loosing his bid to impose his own Vice Presidential Candidate on the APC. Watch the video after the cut ...

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Photos: Juliet Mgborukwe and ex-husband Chima Ojukwu reconcile

In 2012, former Soundcity presenter and actress Juliet Mgborukwe revealed that her marriage to her US-based husband Chima Ojukwu ended just a few months after it was contracted in October 2011 over irreconcilable differences. (Read story here). Well, Juliet and Chima are back together. The couple, who had been talking for a while, decided to give their marriage a second chance. In fact, Juliet has moved to the US to start afresh with him. Hopefully, it works out for them this time...

Aww, Peter Okoye gushes about his wife, says he's the luckiest man

How cool!