Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Ciroc Boys - Banky W & D'banj dapper on the cover of Tush mag

Nigeria's leading digital and print magazine – Tush Magazine is proud to announce the official release of its 11th issue featuring Banky W and D'banj the Ciroc Boys of Nigeria on its covers. 

The double cover magazine interestingly features two male personalities who against all odds have remained relevant in the Nigeria Music Industry allowing them seal numerous mouth-watering endorsements from local and international brands. 

Also featured in this issue are exclusive interviews with DJ SPINALL, DJ CUPPY, DEBOLA LAGOS, FALZ, ZAINAB BALOGUN, MOE MUSA and TAYO of the popular 24 APPAREL amongst several events, interesting and educating articles.



Tush Magazine is available on digital and print versions; The digital version is available across several online platforms, while over 10,000 glossy print copies will be distributed across major cities in Nigeria for free after its traditional “Meet and Greet” event where readers and fans can get free autographed copies of the magazines and photograph sessions with its issue 11 personalities.

Check out Jidenna's photoshoot with All Things Ankara

Jidenna teamed up with 'All Things Ankara' to promote "Nigerian Renaissance," in preparation of the Nigerian Independence Ball taking place in Maryland, USA. They did the shoot with Nigerian model Jessica Chibueze. More photos after the cut...



Court hearing begins in the case of a 15-year-old Nigerian boy Joey Adesina who was stabbed to death in London

On December 5, 2014, Joey Adesina was tracked, chased, cornered in a dead-end street in Padbury Court, off Bethnal Green road and stabbed to death by two men, Lincoln Olaribigbe, 23, and Georgie Philips, 20, according to prosecutors in court yesterday Tuesday, September 29.

The 15-year-old had been with a group of friends in Hoxton when he was chased by men from a blue Mercedes, the jury was told. He hid with a friend behind a parked car in the dead-end street but was spotted, pinned against a fence, then dragged away and knifed.

Adesina from Dagenham staggered to a local convenience store where he collapsed and died. George Phillips and Lincoln Olaribigbe deny murdering the boy. Anthony Orchard QC, prosecuting, said it was not known who had actually committed the stabbing and the motivation "may never be completely clear". But everyone in the Mercedes had been part of a joint plan to attack whoever they could catch in Joel’s group, so they were "in it together".

Mr Orchard told the jury that earlier in the evening a silver Astra, linked to Olaribigbe, had driven repeatedly at Joel’s group outside a pub. CCTV catches them jump out of the way and Joel throws a rock at the car. Some of the group, including Joel, had knives themselves, the court heard. As the group headed off, Olaribigbe transferred to the Mercedes, linked to Phillips, to search for them.

"Joel and his group of friends had been tracked and chased by two cars at different times in the hours and minutes leading up to the stabbing," said Mr Orchard.

Near the Bethnal Green Road the car screeched onto the pavement by them and they ran in different directions. Joel and his friend "ran into an apparent dead end road and hid behind a parked silver car," said Mr Orchard. "Two men were standing by the Mercedes which had its headlights pointing down the dead end. The two men were saying: ‘Where did they go? (Joel’s friend) asked him if the men had gone. Unfortunately Joel poked his head over the top of the silver car to look and one of the men said words to the effect of ‘that’s one of them.’"

The following day the blue Mercedes was found burned out in an Islington car park. The case continues.

Source: Evening Standard

Photo: Borno govt awards scholarship to girls who got orphaned by boko haram activities

Borno State Government yesterday Tuesday sent fifty girls whose parents were killed by Boko Haram on full junior and senior secondary school scholarship ‎at Zaria Academy, in Kaduna State, a famous institution said to have with records of excellence in academics.

Miley Cyrus steps out in baggy denim on denim

Miley was spotted in a baggy denim jumpsuit with a heavily embroidered denim jacket as she walked to her home after dinner. You like? More photos after the cut...

Megan Fox's estranged Husband files for divorce, asks for spousal support

Brian Austin Green, 42, is finally responding to his estranged wife 29 year old Megan Fox‘s request for a divorce. More than a month after the actress, 29, filed for legal separation, Brian has officially filed for a divorce. He filed for the divorce yesterday and requested spousal support from her, along with joint custody of their two children.


In the docs filed Tuesday, Green checks the box for spousal support.
Green has barely worked since last December when he and Megan were in a car wreck. Megan was not injured but Brian now has a serious medical condition called vertigo, which affects his balance and ability to work.
According to the document obtained by TMZ
He seems like his character, Sean, on Charlie Sheen's show, 'Anger Management', lol

Georgia's only woman on death row in 70 years is executed

After several last ditch effort to keep their client alive, Georgia has executed its only female death row inmate.
Kelly Renee Gissendaner died by lethal injection of pentobarbital today, Wednesday at 12:21 a.m. at the state prison in Jackson. She was convicted of murder in the February 1997 slaying of her husband. She conspired with her lover, who stabbed Douglas Gissendaner to death.
Gissendaner was the first woman executed in the state in 70 years.

The United States Supreme court denied Gissendaner, 47, three stays of execution on Tuesday.
The Supreme Court of Georgia also denied her a stay of execution Tuesday and the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles declined to grant her clemency after it met on earlier on Tuesday to consider new testimony from supporters. The board didn't give a reason for the denial, but said it had carefully considered her request for reconsideration.
Gissendaner was previously scheduled for execution Feb. 25, but that was delayed because of a threat of winter weather. Her execution was reset for March 2, but corrections officials postponed that execution "out of an abundance of caution" because the execution drug appeared "cloudy."
The parole board, which is the only entity in Georgia authorized to commute a death sentence, also declined to spare Gissendaner's life after a clemency hearing in February. Her lawyers asked the board to reconsider its decision before the second execution date, but the board stood by its decision to deny clemency.
Gissendaner's lawyers last Thursday submitted a second request to reconsider the denial of clemency, and the board agreed to review new documents and hear from her representatives.
Pope Francis' diplomatic representative in the U.S., Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, on Tuesday sent a letter to the parole board on behalf of the pontiff asking for a commutation of Gissendaner's sentence "to one that would better express both justice and mercy." He cited an address the pope made to a joint session of Congress last week in which he called for the abolition of the death penalty.

Two of Gissendaner's three children already asked the board earlier this year to spare their mother's life. Her oldest child, Brandon, who had not previously addressed the board, wanted to make a plea for his mother's life, said Susan Casey, an attorney for Gissendaner.

In the request for reconsideration, Gissendaner's lawyers cited a statement from former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Norman Fletcher, who argued Gissendaner's death sentence is not proportionate to her role in the crime. Her lover, Gregory Owen, who did the killing, is serving a life prison sentence and will become eligible for parole in 2022.

Fletcher said he has now decided he was wrong in his decision to deny Gissendaner's appeal in 2000 when he sat on the state Supreme Court, the statement says. He also notes that Georgia hasn't executed a person who didn't actually carry out a killing since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

Gissendaner's lawyers also argued she was a seriously damaged woman who has undergone a spiritual transformation in prison and has been a model prisoner who has shown remorse and provided hope to other inmates in their personal struggles. The new request included testimony from several women who were locked up as teens and who said Gissendaner counseled them through moments when they felt scared, lost or on the verge of giving up hope.

Two of her three children, Dakota and Kayla, previously addressed the board and earlier this month released a video pleading for their mother's life to be spared. They detailed their own journeys to forgiving her and said they would suffer terribly from having a second parent taken from them.
Douglas Gissendaner's family said in a statement Monday that he is the victim and that Kelly Gissendaner received an appropriate sentence.
"As the murderer, she's been given more rights and opportunity over the last 18 years than she ever afforded to Doug who, again, is the victim here," the statement says. "She had no mercy, gave him no rights, no choices, nor the opportunity to live his life."
Kelly Gissendaner repeatedly pushed Owen in late 1996 to kill her husband rather than just divorcing him as Owen suggested, prosecutors have said. Acting on her instructions, Owen ambushed Douglas Gissendaner at Gissendaner's home, forced him to drive to a remote area and stabbed him multiple times, prosecutors said.

Investigators looking into the killing zeroed in on Owen once they learned of his affair with Kelly Gissendaner. He initially denied involvement but eventually confessed and implicated Kelly Gissendaner.

Stranger's act of kindness towards new mom with crying baby on a plane goes viral

When Rebekka Garvison boarded her flight with a newborn baby from Chicago to Atlanta last week, her fear of being judged became a reality.
Garvison noted how quiet the flight was when she got on. She took her seat next to a couple who did not look happy that her baby Rylee would be sitting with them. Already stressed out from traveling, Rylee started crying immediately.

 
Rebekka Garvison
To avoid any issues, she moved two rows ahead where there were two empty seats instead of one. This way, Garvison would have more room to tend to her baby.
As Rylee continued to cry despite her mother's efforts to calm her, the woman in the seat next to her, Nyfesha Miller​, asked if she could try calming the baby. 
 
As soon as Miller held Rylee in her arms, the little one stopped crying. By the time the flight took off, she was sound asleep in the stranger's arms. Miller even carried her off the flight so Gavin could get all of her belongings together. Miller said "it wasn't a problem."
Nyfesha Miller
 
Gavin was so thankful to Miller that she shared her appreciation in a Facebook status. The grateful mother openly told Miller that she will "never understand how happy this act of kindness has made my family. You could have just rolled your eyes and been irritated like everyone else, but you took her and held her the entire flight and let me get some rest and peace of mind."
 
 

Monday, September 28, 2015

Michael Jackson's teenage daughter steps out in red hair

Paris Jackson, 17, showed her new red hairdo as she and a male friend enjoyed a stroll in Calabasas on Sunday after having lunch. She's beautiful. More photos after the cut...
 

Photos: Okada rider electrocuted in Otukpo, Benue State

According to Idoma Voice, the incident happened on Thursday morning, September 24. He fell into a puddle of water on the road, close to a poorly insulated electric pole & was immediately electrocuted. The two passengers he was carrying were however unharmed. See the graphic pic after the cut...




90 year old woman who donated N1M to Buhari pictured with Kebbi state First Lady


90 year old Hajia Fadimatu Mai Talle Tara who was alleged to have been abandoned by APC after she gave her N1 million savings towards the campaign of President Buhari, is pictured above with the first lady of Kebbi state ,Zainab Bagudu and her aide. Reacting to the story that the woman had been abandoned, APC released a statement saying the wife of the Kebbi state governor had been in touch with her.

90 year old woman who donated N1M to Buhari pictured with Kebbi state First Lady


90 year old Hajia Fadimatu Mai Talle Tara who was alleged to have been abandoned by APC after she gave her N1 million savings towards the campaign of President Buhari, is pictured above with the first lady of Kebbi state ,Zainab Bagudu and her aide. Reacting to the story that the woman had been abandoned, APC released a statement saying the wife of the Kebbi state governor had been in touch with her.

90 year old woman who donated N1M to Buhari pictured with Kebbi state First Lady


90 year old Hajia Fadimatu Mai Talle Tara who was alleged to have been abandoned by APC after she gave her N1 million savings towards the campaign of President Buhari, is pictured above with the first lady of Kebbi state ,Zainab Bagudu and her aide. Reacting to the story that the woman had been abandoned, APC released a statement saying the wife of the Kebbi state governor had been in touch with her.

90 year old woman who donated N1M to Buhari pictured with Kebbi state First Lady


90 year old Hajia Fadimatu Mai Talle Tara who was alleged to have been abandoned by APC after she gave her N1 million savings towards the campaign of President Buhari, is pictured above with the first lady of Kebbi state ,Zainab Bagudu and her aide. Reacting to the story that the woman had been abandoned, APC released a statement saying the wife of the Kebbi state governor had been in touch with her.

Australian officials move on plans to block Chris Brown's entry into the country


Chris Brown took to his instagram page to deny reports that he's been denied visa to enter Australia for his December show after a government official announced her intention to block his entry into the country because of his 2009 domestic violence conviction. He's since deleted the post above...

Chris Brown's One Hell of Night Tour is scheduled to kick off Dec. 9 in Perth and end Dec. 16 in Brisbane, Australia but he may not enter the country. According to new reports, immigration officials have moved forward with their plans to block him. Just yesterday, he was given an official “notice of intention to consider refusal” of his visa application and he has 28 days to appeal.

FG declares Thursday Oct. 1st public holiday


The Federal Government has declared Thursday October 1st as a public holiday to commemorate Nigeria's 55th Independence anniversary. The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Interior, Abubakar Magaji, made the declaration on behalf of the FG in a statement signed by the ministry’s Director of Press, Yusuf Isiaka.

Photos: Ambode attends church service to commemorate beginning of Lagos Legal Year

Lagos state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode attended a church service to commemorate the beginning of 2015/2016 Legal Year held at the Cathedral Church of Christ Marina, Lagos today Sept. 28th.


Muslim father strangled daughter, 19, to death in 'honour killing' after she was caught stealing condoms for sex

Muslim man, Asadullah Khan, strangled his own 19-year-old daughter to death with his bare hands after learning from police she had been caught shoplifting condoms to have sex with her forbidden boyfriend. He and his wife Shazia then dressed the dead girl named Lareeb (left), a dental technician, in her clothes, wheeled her in a wheelchair from their high-rise apartment to the family car, drove to a secluded embankment in their home city of Darmstadt in Germany, and tipped the corpse down it.

Khan, 51, with tears streaming down his face, admitted the killing because in his eyes she had brought 'dishonour' on the family with her love for a boy he didn't approve of. He and his wife were wed in an arranged marriage and he wanted the same for her.


Khan and his wife, originally from Pakistan, are on trial for murder at the State Court in Darmstadt. Shazia, 41, described how she was a downtrodden woman, totally in the thrall of her husband, and unable to save her daughter.
The court heard how the parents sent Lareeb's sister Nida, 14, to a relative on the evening of the murder in January this year.

Nida gave evidence against both her parents, saying her mother was as strict as their father, often striking both of them.

The mother held out her arms to Nida when she appeared in court on Friday but Nida refused to acknowledge her.
Nida said: 'My Mama was not suppressed, she could do what she wanted. She used to hit me with a stick.
'We were never allowed to talk about her boyfriend. My father used to say my sister should be forcibly married in Pakistan.' 


The court heard Nida is now in therapy and has nothing more to do with her parents.
Shazia said that on the night of the murder Lareeb had quarelled again with her father and hit him. He later crept into her room as she slept, knelt astride her and strangled her.
'I couldn't stop him,' the mother said in a statement read by her lawyer. 'I have rheumatism and didn't have the strength to fight him off. I wanted to scream, but I couldn't.

'Lareeb stayed away from the home for several nights in a row and stopped wearing the headscarf. One day we received a letter from the police saying she had been caught trying to steal condoms.
'At this point it became clear that there was sexual contact. When I showed the letter to my husband he snapped.'
Killer Asadullah, who speaks no German, said he 'loved' his daughter. 
The trial continues.

Culled from UK Daily Mail