Korede Bello Poses with Buhari's Cute Daughters in Aso Rock

God Win crooner, Korede Bello is fast becoming the ladies' favourite. The Buhari girls love him too..!

Photos from Nuella and Tchidi Chikere's baby dedication

Actress Nuella Njubigbo and her movie producer hubby Tchidi Chikere dedicated their baby girl Testimony today July 12th. Actors Olu Jacob and Joke Silva as well as singer J Martins were at the dedication. More photos after the cut..

Photos: Pregnant Kim & Kanye step out for lunch & some shopping

Kanye blessed the world with his rare smile as he stepped out with his pregnant wife Kim Kardashian in Malibu yesterday for some shopping before a lunch date at a sushi restaurant. Kim, who is said to be four months along - squeezed her growing bump into a tight halter dress. More pics after the cut...

Church in Jos rocked by explosion this morning

The Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) church in Tudunwa, Angwan yashi, near the Federal Secretariat in Jos, was rocked by explosions this morning. Details are still sketchy but witnesses say they expect high casualty as worshipers were at the church for the Sunday service when a bomb went off. Details later.

President Buhari recalls ambassadors

Pres. Buhari has recalled Nigerian non-career ambassadors in foreign countries. The ambassadors were recalled as part of efforts to reposition the country’s foreign policies. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, confirmed the recall.

Adesina said only non-career ambassadors are affected in the recall.

“Yes, I can confirm to you that non-career ambassadors have been recalled by the Federal Government,” the presidential spokesman said.

Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman escapes from prison

Top Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has escaped from a maximum security prison for the second time, security officials announced yesterday. Guzman, who headed the powerful Sinaloa Cartel, was last seen in the area of the showers in the Altiplano prison outside of Mexico City

The National Security Commission said in a statement that Guzman went to the showers shortly before 9 p.m. and wasn't seen for a while. Upon checking his cell, authorities found that it was empty.


A search operation began immediately in the surrounding area and highways. Flights have also been suspended at Toluca airport near the penitentiary. 

Guzman was captured in February 2014 after more than a decade on the run. He faces multiple federal drug trafficking indictments in the U.S. and was on the DEA's most-wanted list.

Guzman had been caught previously in Guatemala in 1993, extradited and sentenced to 20 years in prison in Mexico for murder and drug trafficking. He escaped from another maximum security prison, Puente Grande in western Jalisco state, in 2001 with the help of prison guards.

The Sinaloa Cartel empire stretches throughout North America and reaches as far away as Europe and Australia. The cartel has been heavily involved in the bloody drug war that has torn through parts of Mexico for the last several years.

Sinaloa is believed now to control most of the major crossing points for drugs at the U.S. border with Mexico.

Source: AP

Sunday Oliseh and the NFF, Marriage of convenience - by Aderonke Ogunleye-Bello

Article written by journalist and Sports development Enthusiast, Ogunleye-Bello. Read below..

Few days ago on my facebook wall, and in my usual habit of dialogue with intellectuals on football matters in Nigeria, we discussed the appointment of Sunday Oliseh. It was full of mixed reactions as patriotic and passionate Nigerians on Super Eagles, their beloved team. My conclusion, Nigerians are desperate for a positive change. Its been a shock jamboree this year at the NFF under the guise of propagating change and who says they are taking steps in the wrong directions.

They have entertained us with more administrative drama than articulated football programmes. Its all about entertainments anyways. It is no longer news that the NFF is getting set to unveil Sunday Oliseh. But the federation will unveil an inexperienced and jobless man.

Realistically, he lacks the experience for such huge position. Ideally, he should have started with the junior team to garner the desired cognate experience like Samson Siasia who grew from the ranks to become the toast of many Nigerians with his successes with Dream Teams.

No doubt, Oliseh is eloquent and as an experienced and accomplished footballer, he appears to understand the game as a pundit and through his write-ups. In fairness to him, Oliseh has indeed proven to be knowledgeable and tactically astute.

Having said that, we can only wait and pray to see if these talks can be translated into actions. However, anyone who properly understand the game can discuss it. Being a good pundit doesn't make one a good coach. In coaching, theorical experience is totally different from practical coaching 'Enu dun rofo jare' - Its easy to cook vegetable soup with verbal description.

Yes, Oliseh possesses the highest UEFA coaching license, abandoned on the shelve for a long time now, I equally hope that the knowledge acquired hasn't eluded him. However, I will appeal we give him trial and benefit of the doubt. Let's say its a marriage of convenience between the NFF and Oliseh. The questions are; why should the NFF appoint an inexperienced coach to oversee our dwindling Super Eagles.

When last did Oliseh attend a refresher course? Can he work with the National Technical Director, Shuaibu Amodu and the NFF Cabals? Why can't NFF make it transparent enough by calling for applications like the Ivorians and other nations rightly did? Is there any iota of truth that NFF practically begged him to take the job? As an apostle of local coaches for the national teams, there is nothing wrong in hiring him, but everything is wrong when we circumvent or short circuit the recruitment standard.

If Oliseh should fail and I pray he doesn't, Nigerians will come hard on NFF, with dangling hammers falling on them from many directions. The federation should get ready and immunize itself against the impending onslaught. Before you tag me a prophetess of doom, history has proved that inexperience may not actually pose serious challenge to Oliseh succeeding since cases abound of such coaches succeeding in the past, Jurgen Klinsman of Germany belongs to this category of inexperienced but successful coaches.

Frank Rikjaard and Lother Matheus are other great examples that come to mind. However, Nigeria's terrain is entirely different from Europe in terms of attitude and administration. They have a totally different mentality and attitude. Without our tribal goobledegooks. If their Coaches fail, they give them another opportunity to continue which is a rare possibility in Nigeria.

If a Coach fails, we will call him all manners of derogatory names that might derail his ambition if such a Coach is not focused. My greatest fear of this marriage and what poses as threats to Oliseh are his would-be employers, the NFF. Oliseh is the beautiful bride now because they want someone out at all cost and to also satisfy Nigerians yearning for the appointment of a local coach.

Will the NFF in its characteristics give the necessary support to Oliseh to succeed? Will they be patient enough to stay by his side if he fails? And will their marriage end in war, like past coaches. What are the antecedents of his foreign assist? Oh well, lets allow time to be the judge.

Undoubtedly, we will have it rough at first since he has not done this before. Even as someone who played football to the highest level, coaching is more practical than theoretical. My advice if you ask me, is that Oliseh should imperatively be mentally and psychologically strong and resilient to deal with the high expectations of many Nigerians.

During his playing days, he picked quarrel and insulted both the Federal Government and the NFF, before turning his back on the team. I hope such attitude will not come back to bite him on the foot. Oliseh will have to carefully work with the foreign coach to understudy the home front for a smooth transition.

I want to implore my colleagues in the media to sheath their sword and give him chance. Nigerians should be patient, support Oliseh and see him to greater heights. There is a saying that there is time for everything'. Any position, relationship or office anyone is holding today is just temporal.

Whatever you do in your tenure is what posterity will judge you. Sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, I wish him a blissful marriage with the NFF.

Aderonke Ogunleye-Bello Journalist, Speaker, Change Agent, Sports for development Enthusiast, Advocacy. 

SSS Has Transferred Madam Marilyn Ogar To Maiduguri

This is the problem with government work. If you talk too much in a bid to show loyalty to a government, when that government is kicked out and a new one comes in, you may be in trouble. Chai!!

The changes at the Department of State Services (DSS) entered another phase during the week, with the new postings and a series of reversals of the actions of the previous leadership.

The tough-talking Marilyn Ogar, who was until recently the Deputy Director of Public Affairs of the service, has been transferred to the war zone zone, Borno State capital, Maiduguri.

But sources say the posting may be put on hold for now, following insinuations that it was “punitive.”

Ogar, as spokesperson, was responsible for defending the activities of the agency in the media and she is said to be paying for some of her pronouncements, notably in the face-off with the Bring Back Our Girls group and the raids on the Lagos office of the All Progressives Congress (APC) last year.

She has already lost her promotion, following the nullification of the recent exercise.

“Right now, she is just hanging around in Abuja, awaiting the next order,” a source at the agency said.

May D’s White Babe Says It’s Her Job To Take Care Of Him

When I hear a Naija babe saying I can't take care of a man, I can't do that for any man; I laugh. They claim to be practicing Miss Independent like white girls, but this white lady has proved them wrong. *Smile!*

Ex-Governor Sule Lamido Cries Out From Prison

After spending just 72 hours with his two sons in Kano Central Prison, immediate past governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, has cried out and imputed political motives to his incarceration.

According to the former governor, he is being persecuted by those who feel that they would not be able to actualise their presidential ambition in 2019 with him around the political arena.

Lamido, who spoke exclusively to Sunday Vanguard through his media aide, Umar Kyari, drew the attention of Nigerians and the international community to the attempt being made by those he called “my political enemies” to silence him using the instrumentality of the EFCC.

Lamido pointed out that it was clear from the outset that there was a grand design to put him away in prison for a long time under the guise of money laundering so as to pave the way for his political enemies.

The former governor, whose many supporters relocated to the Kano Central Prison where they kept vigil over him and his two sons, said he was determined to prove to Nigerians that he was innocent but was merely being witch-hunted by those who feel threatened by his rising political profile.

Lamido’s spokesman said: “This current effort to frame and denigrate the former governor of Jigawa State with a view to rubbishing his high performance in office will come to naught at the end of the day.

“Lamido remains nothing but a scion of accountability and integrity who has always fought on the side of the people, particularly the downtrodden and the vulnerable, since he came into the national political scene.

“He remains unshaken over the trumped-up charges slammed on him by the EFCC knowing that he has not committed any offense to warrant being thrown into the prison over a bailable offense.

“But the refusal by his traducers to grant him and his sons bail when others charged same day and time for even more grievous offences were admitted to bail speaks volume of the intention and mindset of those who are after him.

“Nonetheless, Sule Lamido strongly believes that, after being imprisoned several times all in a bid to pave the way for sustained democracy in Nigeria, the current effort by the EFCC and others to humiliate him and his family over the so-called money laundering charges will not break his resolve to continue to fight on the side of the people.

“It is Lamido’s strong belief that having not committed any offense against the state to warrant being sent to prison, he and his sons will be freed and vindicated against the wicked plot of their adversaries”.

Meanwhile, Lamido is said to be overwhelmed by the large number of friends and well wishers from across Nigeria who have thronged the prison to show solidarity with him and his two sons.

A close source at the prison told Sunday Vanguard that Lamido was jolted by the show of love and solidarity that he shed what the source described as “tears of joy” on Friday.

You may wish to know that Lamido and his two sons, according to the charge sheet of the EFCC, are being tried for alleged money laundering of N1.3bn at a Federal High Court sitting in Kano.