Photos: Dele Momodu visits President Buhari at Aso Rock

The publisher of Ovation magazine met with President Buhari today. Another photo after the cut...

Davido shows off artwork with his baby's face

 

Proud Dad, Davido, shared an artwork of his baby's face wearing a crown  and an O.B.O. pendant on the wall of his Lekki home. Too cute! 

Caitlyn Jenner gets support from the Kardashian/Jenner clan as she awaits the ESPYS award

All of Caitlyn Jenner's children and step children (except Rob Kardashian) and their spouses/partners  were on hand to give him support for the ASHE award she's about to receive. Kim and Kendall shared these pictures of the 'Squad' on their respective pages. More photos after the cut..

  

Ciara and her beau Russel Wilson stun at the ESPYS

Ciara and her beau Russell Wilson attended the ESPYS looking amazing!

The NFL player wore a mauve coloured suit, while Ciara stunned in Grecian inspired frock which showed off her tiny waist.

The dress featured a thigh high split, and she wore a belt which was of a similar hue to her partners outfit.

He said even though it looks like their outfits are cordinated he said it was pure coincidental because Ciara flew in few hours before the event and she didn't know what he was going to wear. More photos after the cut..

NYC Reaches $5.9 Million Settlement with Family of Unarmed Black Man Eric Garner Killed by NYPD

Do you remember Eric Garner?

He was the 43-year-old African American man who was killed by a White 29-year-old police officer Daniel Pantaleo, after putting him in a choke hold while trying to arrest him.

According to New York Times, New York City on Monday reached a settlement with Garner’s family, agreeing to pay $5.9 million to resolve a wrongful-death claim over his death.

Eric Garner and his wife, Esaw

Photo Credit: New York Times/Youtube

REVEALED: Okonjo-Iweala Took $1bn for Jonathan’s Election

Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole has revealed that the ex-Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of illegally taking $1billion from the federation account to prosecute the failed re-election bid of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Speaking in the state capital, Oshiomhole said the former Minister also needs to say how the Excess Crude Account was drawn down to $4.1 billion from the peak of $10billion when no approval was given by the National Economic Council for any withdrawals.

The Governor who said Okonjo-Iweala would have been declared a pathological liar if she were a witness in court due to the inconsistencies in her statements, added that a forensic audit would truly determine how much was illegally spent from the federation account under her watch.

He said government would now hold Permanent Secretaries, Directors and Deputy Directors responsible for any fraud detected in departments saying he has trimmed down the cost of running government.

He said: “the truth is, many things went wrong even at the federal level. As you might have read in the papers, while the federal government, under Goodluck Jonathan, with the then Coordinating Minister of the Economy liked to blame “Governors” for wasteful spending, for not saving for the rainy day, for not investing properly, the truth is the real weakness in the Nigerian federal chain has been the Federal Government.

“Our hope is that with the new President, given his pedigree we will break from the past.

“As I’m sure you will soon begin to hear when all the numbers are published, last week, I complained aloud that Edo State lost about N10 billion over a four year period from only one source the NLNG remittance to the federation account.

“How did I arrive at the figure? I used my 4-Figure Table and I asked myself at $2.1 billion remitted by NLNG as taxes and Shell, and by the way, Shell is not the only oil operative, we have Chevron and several others. They shared the $2.1 billion based on the revenue allocation formula, Edo State got about N2.27 billion. So I said, thank God this money came after the departure of Okonjo-Iweala and President Jonathan. If the PDP were still in charge in Abuja, this money would have been taken."

Another Young Nigerian athlete drowns (photos)

Student-athlete, Oluwatoni Onikeku, 20, a student of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, died on Sunday July 12th while swimming with friends in the Deerfield River in Deerfield, Massachusetts.

Toni, who was an active member of the campus community, was a high jumper and sprinter for the track and field team, the River Hawks, at the university, where he earned several medals.

His family left Nigeria when Toni was 7 and have been living in Fitchburg for 13 years. He has been described as a well liked teammate, outstanding athlete, strong student, and an active member of Student-Athlete Advisory Council. May his soul resr in peace...

 This was his last instagram post. Same day he died. May his soul rest in peace, amen. 

You can’t play for Super Eagles anymore if you are not in first division - Oliseh

Coach Sunday Oliseh has fired a warning, stating that he will only consider players who feature in top leagues both home and abroad.

Stephen Keshi, however was known to call up players from the lower leagues overseas.

Sunday Oliseh said he wants to make changes and not do the same thing Stephen Keshi did. He said:

“If you are not playing  in first division in anywhere in the world and in Nigeria, you cannot play for the Super Eagles henceforth,” Oliseh warned at a media presentation in Abuja on Wednesday.

“However players coming from the under-aged teams are the only exception to this rule.”

Oliseh said it is an honour to lead the Eagles now as a coach, but that he cannot turn around the footballing fortunes of the country by himself.

“It’s a great honour to be a coach of this nation,” he said.

“First of all, I am not coming as a Messiah. I am not coming as a man who can single handedly turn Nigeria to Germany.

“I am coming in to do my best and give if possible 150% all the time.

“The state we are now in Nigeria I think we are all not happy with. Gone are the days we have individual players who can single handedly win a match for you. But we have the potentials and that is our belief and the players must know that it’s an honour to be invited to the national team.

Vanguard 

Benenoise soldier strips female workers naked & tie them to a tree for allegedly stealing (photos)

This story is so bizarre and I really don't know how authentic it is. Someone sent it to me. According to the story, a Republic of Benin soldier named Corporal Chabi Séni stripped five girls naked and tied them to a tree after accusing them of stealing from their madam who owns a bar and who is his wife. The soldier decided their punishment would be to parade them naked and have someone take photos of the girls while the bar manager is seen kneeling in the background. I had to crop the girl's naked bodies out of the pics but I will include his face. Is there any way this man can get arrested for this?

That is the soldier with the manager kneeling. As you can see, he's looking at the naked girls. What a hopeless man.. 

Senior civil servants demand a minimum wage of N46, 000

The Association of Senior Civil Servants demanded a minimum wage of N46,000 for workers.
The union’s Secretary-General, Mr. Bashir Lawal, in Lagos State, on Wednesday, said that the existing N18,000 minimum wage was too little to meet the socio-economic demands of workers.

According to him, they arrived at a minimum wage of N46,000 per month after the union met with the National Public Service Joint Negotiating Council.
He said,

“In the past one year, we presented a proposal for salary review to the Federal Government but the government said that the price of crude had fallen. “We argued that if the price of crude is 30 dollars per barrel and the resources of the country are well managed, money will be enough to pay workers decent salaries.

“From the memo we submitted to the NPSJNC, we computed what it will take for an average worker to survive and we arrive at N66,000. “So, we took 75 per cent of that and we arrived at N46,000 minimum wage.

 Lawal said that the new minimum wage demand will not cause crisis in the economic sector, he said:

“If the government believes that the amount will create crisis, we will tell them what to do to ensure that everybody will be carried along.”