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Etisalat extends deadline for entries for 2015 Easybusiness Millionaire Hunt

Nigeria’s fastest growing and most innovative telecommunications company, Etisalat, has extended the deadline for the entries of the 2015 Easybusiness Millionaire Hunt by one month.

Speaking on the latest development, Director Enterprise Segment, Etisalat Nigeria, Lucas Dada said the extension which was from Friday, June 12 to Sunday, July 12, 2015, is due to high demand and positive responses from its customers nationwide.

Director, Enterprise Segment, Etisalat Nigeria, Lucas Dada; Deputy Director, EDC, Pan-Atlantic University, Nneka Okekearu; CEO, Etisalat Nigeria, Matthew Willsher; Etisalat EasyBusiness Millionaire Hunt Winner, Idongesit Umoh, and Director, EDC, Pan-Atlantic University, Peter Bankole during the first edition.

To participate, he said, interested Easybusiness customers must recharge their Easybusiness line with N3,000, pay 3 months subscription upfront by dialing *345*3#, then text YES to 5885 to receive a unique code and URL to submit their business idea.

Etisalat Easybusiness Millionaire Hunt is aimed at empowering Small and Medium Enterprises in Nigeria. The 2015 edition will see 50 entrepreneurs with brilliant business ideas rewarded with training and office equipment, while the top 10 entries will be rewarded with N2 million each at the end of the program. 

'I put two bullets in him, I haven't slept since' - Tunisian policeman reveals how he finally killed beach gunman

 

A Tunisian police officer has revealed how he put 'two bullets' in the ISIS assassin to end his slaughter of holidaymakers lounging on a tourist beach.

The policeman, who wished to keep his identity secret, said he shot the murderer Seifeddine Rezgui following his 25-minute rampage. He spotted the gunman while he was praying in a side street and shot the 23-year-old aviation student, who was armed with an assault rifle and grenades.

 

Following his killing spree, Rezgui stopped outside a housing development belonging to Mayel Moncef, 56. 

As bullets rained down on the gunman from rooftop snipers, he dropped to his knees in prayer, allowing a grenade to roll from his hand and into the gutter.

Mr Moncef then picked up a stack of terracotta roof tiles and threw it on the head of the gunman, causing him to stumble. He walked a few yards before the policeman shot him dead.

'I put two bullets in him. I haven't slept since', he told the Sunday People. 

Witness accounts say Rezgui was seen laughing and joking among the midday bathers, looking like any other tourist.

But he was actually carefully picking out the victims he would murder with a Kalashnikov hidden in his parasol.

In the murderous rampage on the crowded Tunisian beachfront at El Kantaoui near Sousse, he killed 38 - with 36 seriously wounded. 

The British were his prime targets and at least 15 have been confirmed dead.

'One minute you're on a sun lounger then the next there are bullets whizzing past your head', one witness said. 

Last night, a Tunisian Interior Ministry source said that while Rezgui did not have a criminal record, he was known to authorities for 'low level radicalism' and was once stopped by police for smoking cannabis.

The source confirmed Rezgui was an active member of a radical group called Islamic Youth and would go to mosques controlled by radical preachers.

By the time he launched his killing spree in Sousse, Rezgui was said to be working with ISIS, which yesterday posted a picture of him with two assault rifles either side of him, on its website.

Using Rezgui's jihadi name, Abu Yahya al-Qayrawani, it described him as 'Our brother, the soldier of the Caliphate'.

Speaking from the family home in Gaafour, a poor area of Tunisia's Saliana province, his uncle Ali Bin Muhammad Rezgui said: 'He was a sweet boy when he was younger. He was a breakdancer and loved football. He should have had a long, happy life.' 

UK Daily Mail

Photos from the church wedding of Joseph Yobo's younger brother

Here are photos from the church wedding of footballer Joseph Yobo's younger brother, Gideon to his wife, Blessing Akpan, the younger sister of Super Eagles player, Hope Akpan which took place in Liverpool, England yesterday June 27th. Continue to see more photos...

 

  

 

Jenner in Givenchy

ZG Pick Your Fave: Kim Kardashian & Kris 

Like mother, like daughter!

59-year-old Kris Jenner has rocked Kim Kardashian’s exact looks a few times showing us how an older woman can pull off the look of a 34-year-old stylishly and in a more conservative way.

The mum of 6 was spotted out and about with her boyfriend Corey Gamble in Paris and we couldn’t help but notice she had on the same $2600 Givenchy body suit that Kim Kardashian had on the last time that she was in Paris.

The Givenchy stretch-knit bodysuit with raised V seam detail has a plunging lace-up grommet neckline with long sleeves and a curve skimming silhouette.

For her look, Kris Jenner paired it with a black blazer, black pants and knee-high boots.

When Kim wore the Givenchy body suit, she wore it in a suitably sexy fashion with just a belt cinching in her waist and knee-high boots. Kim wore her ensemble when she was out with husband Kanye West at Paris Fashion week in March 2015.

#LoveWins: White House Shines Rainbow Colours in Celebration of Same Sex Marriage Ruling

America is still celebrating Friday’s landmark Supreme Court ruling that allows same-sex couples nationwide to marry.

The White House was illuminated in rainbow colors on Friday evening, as a show of solidarity for the gay rights movement, CNN reports.

Official Twitter account of the White House tweeted:

Toolz, Sarkodie, Fally Ipupa, John Dumelo, Majid Michel & More Attend the BET International Nominee Reception Party

The countdown to the BET Awards has begun and after a long flight Toolz is documenting her experience on the trip as it happens.

The media personality attended the BET International Nominee Reception party last night – a party that hosted the nominees in the International Artist of the Year category.

Sarkodie, Fally Ipupa, John Dumelo, Majid Michel, Alex Okosi and more attended the event which held at the Staples Centre.

There were performances from Nicki Minaj, Tinashe, Neyo and more.

I Dropped My Presidential Ambition For Buhari —Bukola Saraki

Senate President Bukola Saraki has denied reports that he is nursing the ambition for presidency in 2019, saying he actually quit his presidential bid in the 2015 election for President Muhammadu Buhari.

Saraki stated that he contributed immensely to the emergence of Buhari as President and contributed greatly to his victory in the presidential election held on March 28, 2015.

The Senate President, who spoke to select journalists in an exclusive interview in Abuja on Saturday, also denied having plans to dump the APC due to the crisis in the party over his leadership of the Senate.

Rather, he said what remained paramount in his mind at the moment was how to support the Buhari-led administration to tackle the various social and economic problems confronting the country.

Saraki said, “I was the first person that stepped down his political ambition, once General Buhari announced that he was going to contest the presidential election. And since then, prior to the period of election, I worked tirelessly to support his emergence.

“Even some of my friends who are not supporting me now are doing so because I did not support them in their presidential ambition and that I supported President Buhari. That is why I find it funny that the same people are now claiming to love Buhari more than me. It is a very funny world.

“These are people that I was begging to leave the stage for Buhari to run since all of us are young. They are now the ones going round to say that Saraki did not like Buhari but time will tell.”

Explaining what happened on the National Assembly leadership election day, Saraki said he smuggled himself into the chamber on the day the 8th Assembly was inaugurated when he became aware of an alleged plan to abduct and prevent him from standing for the Senate presidential election.

The Senate President also defended his absence from the International Conference Centre venue of a proposed meeting between President Buhari and APC lawmakers on the day of the election.

He insisted that he did not receive any invitation for the meeting.

Saraki said, “As regards the meeting, on the morning of the inauguration, I didn’t finish meeting until 4am of that day and I had got information that efforts would likely be made to make sure that I didn’t get access into the chambers.

He said the plan before was that senators-elect should go to the Transcorp Hilton Hotel around 8:00am and 9:00am to proceed to the National Assembly.

The Senate President said he was, however, advised against going to the chamber at the scheduled time as there were plans to stop him from being part of the day’s proceedings.

Saraki said he got into the National Assembly Complex as early as 6:00am and stayed in a car in the car park from then till quarter to 10:00am. He noted that all through the period, there was no communication to him.

“So, anybody who said they spoke to me to go the ICC was not true because I didn’t even know what was going on. All I was monitoring was how people were arriving at the complex. It was at quarter to 10:00am that I got information that the Clerk to the National Assembly had entered the chamber.”

Saraki, a two-term ex-Governor of Kwara State and former Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, said it was at that point that he got down from the “small car” in which he was hiding and entered the chamber.

“Even when I was in the chambers, I didn’t know what had transpired earlier on. The only thing I observed was that it appeared that some of our senators were not in the chamber. But for the fact that my colleagues arrived in batches, I had the opinion that they were on their way. And by 10:00am, the programme started.

“Before I knew it, my election had come and gone. Even, my people were worried. It was only when I got into the chambers that they were relieved,” Saraki added.

Saraki continued, he described Ekweremadu’s deputy Senate presidency as painful and unfortunate, but maintained that it was caused by the absence of his APC colleagues. He recalled that the PDP senators had announced to the public that they were supporting him.

He further said, “With regard to the deputy, when they told us that they had a candidate, we, too, told them we had a candidate for Deputy Senate President in the person of Senator Ali Ndume.

“We never, in our imagination, thought they (other APC senators) would not turn up. By the time we got there, we were only 24 while the PDP was more than 40.

“It is unfortunate that we have a PDP man as deputy Senate President. It is painful. It is painful for any APC member because when we went through the struggle. That was not what we signed for.”

Saraki said it was unfair to put the blame on “one side” as it was a combination of errors and miscalculations that led having some senators at another place instead of being on the floor of the Senate.

“So, to suggest that it was out of a desperate act to emerge (as Senate President) is what I reject completely and those who followed the events would know that I didn’t have that deal to emerge,” he claimed.

The APC, however, described Saraki’s claim of non-invitation as a lie, "all senators-elect were invited."

Korede Bello meets the Inspector General of Polic

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