Monday 13 July 2015
Iker Casillas breaks down in tears as he bids farewell to Real Madrid
After 25 years of defending the crest of the greatest team in the world, the most difficult day in my sports career has arrived: I have to say goodbye to an institution that's given me everything. I have come to this great stadium today to say goodbye to all of you. As of Saturday I'm no longer a Real Madrid player, now I'll be a Porto player. I am moving to Porto for many reasons.
'Firstly I am joining Porto because of the excitement that the coach has transmitted to me. Secondly, because of their affection, they have won me over. I'll do everything I can to not disappoint them and fight as hard as possible to win as many titles as I possibly can there.'
'This club didn't just teach me how to be a sportsman, it taught me how to be a person. I've learned a lot form all of my coaches. They have been a fundamental part of my development and my career. Every day we've been forming a part of Real Madrid and they've always supported me. I want to say thank you to my parents and all my family.
'Thank you to the Madrid fans for their support, helping me lift every cup, every triumph, for being with me in the good moments and the bad moments. Forgiving me a hand when I needed lifting up. I don't want to be remembered as a good goalkeeper or a bad goalkeeper, I just want to be remembered as a good person, with my faults.
'Thank you. Thank you. A thousand thank yous. Wherever I go, I will always shout Hala Madrid. I’m sure in the future we’ll see each other. I’m not going to say goodbye, because it’s not goodbye. I hope to see you soon. Thank you, to all of you.'
Floyd Mayweather's entourage involved in car crash with a bike
It's unclear if Floyd was riding in the SUV involved in the accident but in video obtained by TMZ Sports, you can see Mayweather at the crash scene while people attend to the fallen biker.
Emergency personnel raced to help but the biker's condition is unknown.
One witness at the scene said it looked as if the motorcycle clipped the back end of the SUV and the guy was ejected from his bike.
TMZ
Meet the woman with the most expensive body in the world (photos)
Amanda Lepore, 46, is one of the most famous transsexual fixtures on the New York
party and she has the most expensive body in the world...she bought 'em...:-)
Amanda who had a sex-change at age 19 has had three breast augmentations, buttock
implants and even had her bottom ribs broken so she could achieve a
smaller waist. It's illegal in the US so she went to do it in Mexico. She's also had multiple nips and tucks, lip injections, fillers, Botox, a nose job, a forehead lift and had her hairline lowered.
Asked how
much her cosmetic work has cost in total, the busty blonde declined to
provide an answer, merely stating: 'There is a reason I am labeled ‘The
Most Expensive Body On Earth’.
She says that her s*x change from male to female, was the most painful procedure she’s had done.
'It didn’t hurt when I got it done at the hospital,' she recounted. 'But
they give you a dilator as part of the healing process, which you have
to keep in for extended periods of time to stretch the vaginal opening. If
I could have a crystal ball and see what I look like now - you know,
modeling, hanging out with Daphne Guinness - I'd be like, "Wow, I can't
believe this" It felt like a knife. It was the most painful thing I had ever experienced.'
Amanda Lepore, 46, is one of the most famous transsexual fixtures on the New York
party and she has the most expensive body in the world...she bought 'em...:-)
Amanda who had a sex-change at age 19 has had three breast augmentations, buttock implants and even had her bottom ribs broken so she could achieve a smaller waist. It's illegal in the US so she went to do it in Mexico. She's also had multiple nips and tucks, lip injections, fillers, Botox, a nose job, a forehead lift and had her hairline lowered.
Asked how
much her cosmetic work has cost in total, the busty blonde declined to
provide an answer, merely stating: 'There is a reason I am labeled ‘The
Most Expensive Body On Earth’.
She says that her s*x change from male to female, was the most painful procedure she’s had done.
'It didn’t hurt when I got it done at the hospital,' she recounted. 'But they give you a dilator as part of the healing process, which you have to keep in for extended periods of time to stretch the vaginal opening. If I could have a crystal ball and see what I look like now - you know, modeling, hanging out with Daphne Guinness - I'd be like, "Wow, I can't believe this" It felt like a knife. It was the most painful thing I had ever experienced.'
Nicki Minaj shuts down skinny throwback photos of 'her'
"If u ever get to a point where u photo shop someone to make them look "unattractive" using someone else's body Ima need u to give up on life. There's no reason to be this pressed. Please go out there and chase your fkng dreams!!!! It's downhill for u after u take time out to do dumb ass shit like this. - and by the way, I wouldn't mind looking like vashti... She fly and I think she's from Trinidad like me".
Senate on a collision course with Buhari over Perm Sec’s refusal to honour invitation
On Sunday, there seemed to be an imminent clash between the Presidency
and the Senate over an alleged attempt by the Presidency to
disrespect the senate president.
Pro-Saraki senators are accusing the Presidency of asking the Permanent
Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Mrs. Anastacia Nwaobia, to an
invitation by the upper chamber.
Nwaobia had informed the Senate that she could not honour its invitation
without an approval by her supervisors but Saraki loyalists said the
Senate had the constitutional power to invite Nwaobia and that her
refusal constituted an affront to the legitimacy of the senate
president.
Saraki loyalists said:
“It will not augur well for our democracy if the Presidency will not allow civil servants to do their jobs. We should not carry the crisis in the APC to the Senate,” a pro-Saraki senator told one of our correspondents in Abuja on Sunday.
Both Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu
Dogara, had spurned the party’s directive on who to lead the National
Assembly and had ridden on the back of an alleged alliance with the
opposition Peoples Democratic Party members to clinch the leadership
posts in both chambers.
The APC had preferred Ahmad Lawan, a Senator from Yobe State, as the president of the Senate.
The Lawan group in the Senate on Sunday said it supported Nwaobia
because Saraki was said to lack both legitimacy and the moral right to
invite the permanent secretary to brief the senate on the state of the
economy.
It was learnt that senators loyal to the Senate President were angry
that the Presidency could encourage the civil servants to disobey the
Senate.
The Senate ad hoc committee on Finance, in a letter dated June 29, 2015,
had invited Nwaobia and some officials of the finance ministry to
appear before the committee on July 8.
But when the permanent secretary did not honour the invitation at 11am
on July 8, the Clerk to the National Assembly, Alhaji Salisu
Maikasuwa, wrote another letter to her the same day, restating the
invitation.
The permanent secretary was said to have sent a text message to the Senate on July 7, explaining why she could not come.
The senate said:
“Your action is a deliberate violation of the provisions of Section 67(2) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999(as amended).
“You are, therefore, requested to appear before the Senate leadership as contained in your aforementioned letter on Wednesday July 8, 2015 at 2.00pm prompt.”
The third letter to the Permanent Secretary, written by the Chief of
Staff to the Senate President, Issa Galaudu, also stressed the
importance of the meeting. It read,
“Please note that your text message of yesterday, Tuesday, July 7, 2015, which I received by hours of 20:02 pm, suggesting that you would not make today’s meeting, is unacceptable.
“This is an affront to the President of the Senate and its leadership. The provision of Section 67(2) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), is very clear and unambiguous in this regard. Hence, you do not need the permission of any official before you attend or appear before the Senate.
“Consequently, I have the instructions of the President of the Senate and leadership that you do appear before them on the date and time earlier communicated to you, Wednesday, July 8, 2015 by 11am prompt. It is my belief that you will comply unconditionally.”
A source in the ministry said that, based on civil service procedures,
it would be wrong for the permanent secretary to honour the invitation
without first getting the approval of the Head of Service of the
Federation.
The source said since the permanent secretary reports directly to the
HoS and not the Senate, it would amount to a breach of protocol for her
to appear before the lawmakers without getting the consent of the HoS.
A pro Lawan group, in a statement by its spokesman, Senator Kabir
Marafa, on Sunday, said that since Saraki had allegedly violated some
sections of the Constitution to emerge as senate president, he could not
accuse another person of committing the same offence.
The senator said,
“I read with open mouth amazement, the letter written by both the Chief of Staff to the Senate President and that of the Clerk to the National Assembly on the refusal or inability of a government functionary to honour the invitation of the “leadership” of the senate.
“They were saying the refusal violates section 67(2) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Can somebody please tell them that they are guilty of similar, if not higher offence?
“They, in fact, not only violated the Constitution to ascend to the Senate leadership, they murdered it.”
The Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the Senate President, Mr. Yusuph Olaniyonu, declined to comment.
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See pics of the 3 siblings who survived trailer accident in Anambra yesterday
The surviving children aged 7 years old, 4 years old and 6 months old are being treated at the Regina Caeli Hospital in Awka the state capital. Another pic after the cut...
FG threatens to stop Sunday Oliseh’s unveiling as new Super Eagles head coach on Wednesday
According to The Guardian, a letter was sent to NFF from the office of the NSC yesterday July 12th, stating that Sunday Oliseh's appointment as the new head coach for Super Eagles after Stephen Keshi's sack did not conform with the Procurement Act procedure for engagement.
According to NSC, the office of the head coach of the Super Eagles is still vacant and no one has been appointed to take over from Stephen Keshi. A source in the Nigeria Sports Commission's management team said
"The procedure for hiring Sunday Oliseh did not pass through the Procurement Act. It was the same when the NSC employed the High Performance Directors. The Sports Commission requested for waiver for selective bidding, which enabled us to select people based on their credentials. We selected people and interviewed them in the United Kingdom. The Deputy Director in charge of Procurement attended because it is a procurement exercise, which must go in accordance with the Procurement Act. The engagement of Oliseh is a contractual one but it is unfortunate that the federation may not have been guided accordingly. If the federation goes ahead to unveil Oliseh on Wednesday without following the due process, they would be violating the Procurement Act, they would be found liable. The truth is that even if they have secured the consent of a private company to pick Oliseh’s bills, the law of the land on engagement must be observed. The procedure is for the NFF to write to the Sports Commission informing them of their plans to engage a technical expertise like the Eagles chief coach and his assistants, specifying the terms of relationship. If they don’t want to advertise, they can do selective bidding. If they must interview and hire Oliseh alone, they must apply for waiver of certificate of no objection giving reason for the decision to settle for him alone. Unveiling him on Wednesday is tantamount to violation of the due process of the procurement in accordance with Procurement Act. Writing to NSC is just a point of information and point of information is not a legal process. NSC has no business with their day-to-day operation but if the operation violates the law, we will draw their attention to it and take any managerial and administrative measure that must be taken. As I speak to you, NSC does not know whether there is any unveiling this week because we are an institution guided by official communication and far as we are concerned, nobody from the federation has communicated to us officially if there will be any unveiling". he said
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