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Kate Henshaw teams up with Spacepointe

Its official! Award-winning Nollywood actress Kate Henshaw has now become the brand ambassador of SpacePointe, an innovative ecommerce outfit. SpacePointe has an online marketplace called PointeMart.com especially focused on helping small businesses showcase and sell their products and services online.

The SpacePointe team is quite excited to partner with Kate Henshaw especially as she brings a fantastic reputation as well as a plethora of experience to the table!

With over 20 years in the film industry, she has represented some very strong brands and continues to do so. Mr. Osato Osayande (the Chief Operations Officer of SpacePointe) alluded to some of the reasons that led to the selection of Kate, saying that “Kate’s brand as a Nollywood celebrity is known, trusted, honest and true. She is the real deal and we are quite honored to partner with her!”

 Kate is committed to the success of SpacePointe and views this as a win-win partnership!

Simplify with PointeMart.com
Shop on your online marketplace and find the best deals on things you buy every day and things you buy once in a while.

With thousands of retailers on our platform, we work every day to bring you discounts and new products across your online marketplace!! From memorable gifts, to everyday essentials, you can buy them on PointeMart.com for less.

$2.1m seized cash: Ex-NHIS boss appears before EFCC

                   

Former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Dr. Olufemi Thomas has voluntarily submitted himself to EFCC, to clear the air on the $2.1million cash seized at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Ikeja- Lagos.

One Mr. Ibiteye Bamidele (pictured above), a bureau de change operator who was arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for being in possession of the $2.1m cash suspected to be laundered,  had implicated the ex-NHIS boss.

The suspect was however declared wanted by the EFCC on Thursday on the suspicion that he had absconded to evade justice.

But Thomas, a former Commissioner for Health in Ekiti State voluntarily submitted himself for interrogation on Friday at EFCC Headquarters in Abuja but denied that he was planning to run away because he did not get any invitation from the anti-graft agency.

Dressed in a white brocade, Dr. Thomas who arrived the EFCC around 10: am was drilled by the commission's operative to ascertain his level of complicity.

He was released at about 2:pm. However, the EFCC spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren could not be reached as at press time to confirm the interrogation.

His media aide, Mr. Sola Adeyemi had in a statement described his boss as a thoroughbred professional and dutiful public servant who would not stand in the face of the law.

The statement reads in part,"Dr. Femi Thomas is a law-abiding public individual that has treatable addresses in Lagos and Ekiti. He is a man that I work with and I know him for his words and actions. As I speak, we are yet to receive any formal invitation from any quarter on the allegation.

"For the avoidance of doubt, my boss is not on the run, he is in Nigeria, he is available and ready to present himself to the EFCC as soon as he is invited."

Thai man sentenced to 30yrs in prison for Facebook posts insulting monarchy

A 48-year-old man named Pongsak Sriboonpeng was today Friday August 7th handed the lengthy prison sentence by the military court, having been prosecuted under Thailand’s royal defamation law.

His lawyer Sasinan Thamnithinan told AFP that his sentence was 60 years - a decade for each six Facebook posts he made but this was halved as he had pleaded guilty.


"It's broken the record," she said about the severe jail term. She further added that because Pongsak was arrested while Thailand was still under martial law there was no right to appeal the sentence passed by the military court.

Under Section 112 of the Criminal Code, anyone convicted of insulting the king, queen, heir or regent faces up to 15 years in prison on each count.

(Photo of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit) 

Photo from the bus accident on Lagos - Ibadan Expressway..

This happened today on Lagos-Ibadan expressway and caused serious traffic. However, according to the twitter user who shared the picture, no life was lost.

Rivers state students in the UK cry out, say they've been abandoned, facing deportation

Students who were sponsored to a UK university by the Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency (RSSDA) under the River State government have reached out to LIB, saying they have been abandoned by their state government. They say their school fees have not been paid for two years and their visas have been curtailed. Below is what a student wrote in;

We are 2nd year students with the university of Huddersfield currently hoping to progress to final year by September or going on placement as some of us have chosen. It is with deep shock that we realized that the RSSDA (Rivers state sustainable development Agency) under the rivers state government who is our sponsor have not paid our fees for 2 years.

The university have made all efforts to get the money from them but they have since attributed the non-payment to the government of rivers state not releasing funds. The university even went to the extent of travelling to Nigeria for the money. We are more than 11 students with the cost of each student fees being 12,500 pounds each. Since all effort have failed to get the money from the agency, the university have come to the resolve of suspending our studies and revoking their sponsorship on our visas, Hence, giving us 60 days to leave the country. The have 10 days to revoke the visa cancellation if the agency gives them a time frame for payment and the 10 days expires this Friday. The agency have deliberately refused replying the university on several emails and refused to also commit to them by giving them time frame for payment. Worst of it all is that the agency have not even acknowledge the situation or even comfort us and take responsibility for whatever damage this might incur. They said and I quote “they don’t even have our flight money back”.

We are stranded!!! We have not been paid allowance and rent money for 9 months now which is meant to be 800 pounds a month. Fees owed by the government around England and other part of the world have amounted to about 3 billion naira. We need this video to spread let the whole world see how politics is affecting the future of the country. PLEASE!!

Smirnoff's Spinall & Friends Tour take party to Enugu

Enugu, are you ready for the party of a lifetime? This Saturday, the Smirnoff’s Spinall and Friends Tour will be coming to your town. It definitely will be an epic night of partying with the unstoppable DJ Spinall, Burna Boy and Oga Boss Ill Bliss.

The Smirnoff’s Spinall and Friends Tour treated consumers to an epic doubleside parties in Benin, Port Harcourt and Abuja and it is was indeed a once in a lifetime experience.

This weekend, Saturday 8th of August, 2015, Enugu plays host to the Smirnoff crew. You definitely can’t afford to miss it as your favourite DJ the unstoppable DJ SPINALL a.k.a TheCAP will be live in Enugu with his friends, that Ibo boy, Ill Bliss and the man that knows how to party, Burna boy will thrill consumers to a great time.

The venue is 2nite club, Villa Toscana Hotel, Aguleri Street, Enugu. It is going to be a refreshing time as consumers will also have the opportunity to have a taste of the new Smirnoff Guarana.

Keep up with updates and breaking news simply by following us on Instagram - @SmirnoffNG, Twitter: @SmirnoffNG and Facebook:  

·         www.facebook.com/SmirnoffNigeria.

·         Remember you have to be 18+ to party with Smirnoff.

Bangladesh blogger hacked to death for atheist views. The 4th to be killed in the country this year

Popular blogger Niloy Chakrabarti, who used the pen-name Niloy Neel, 40, was killed yesterday Friday August 7th after a gang armed with machetes broke into his home in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was well known for his atheist views and anti-Islamic writings.

"They entered his room in the fifth floor and shoved his friend aside and then hacked him to death. He was a listed target of the Islamist militants," Imran H. Sarker, head of Bangladesh Blogger and Activist Network told AFP

Police confirmed Chakrabarti had been murdered by a group of half a dozen people in the capital's Goran neighbourhood, although they had no details on his background or the motive for the killing.

 "There were six people who knocked his door, saying that they were looking to rent a flat," Muntashirul Islam, a deputy police commissioner, told AFP. "Two of them then took him to a room and then slaughtered him there," Islam added."His wife was in the flat but she was confined to another room."

Niloy

His body being removed

Asif Mohiuddin, another secular blogger who himself survived an attack by militants in Bangladesh in 2013, described Chakrabarti as an atheist "free thinker" whose posts appeared on several sites.

"He was critical against religions and wrote against Islamist, Hindu and Buddhist fundamentalism. He was a founding member of a rationalist organisation," Mohiuddin, who is now based in Berlin, told AFP by phone.

Niloy is the fourth secular blogger to be killed in the Muslim-majority nation since February, when Bangladeshi-born US citizen Avijit Roy was hacked to death in Dhaka. His wife was also badly injured in the attack. The other victims include Ananta Bijoy, Das who was attacked by a group wielding machetes on May 13 as he headed to work in Sylhet, and 27-year-old Washiqur Rahman who was hacked to death in Dhaka in March. Most secular bloggers have either gone into hiding, often using pseudonyms in their posts, or have fled abroad.

Activist groups say they fear that Islamist hit squads have hit lists which contain the full names and addresses of the bloggers. Bangladeshi authorities banned the hardline Islamist group Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) following Das's murder in May, after facing accusations that they were doing too little to stop such attacks.

In a recent petition addressed to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, authors including Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood called on her government "to do all in their power to ensure that the tragic events of the last three months are not repeated, and to bring the perpetrators to justice". "We are gravely concerned by this escalating pattern of violence against writers and journalists who are peacefully expressing their views," said the petition.

Bangladesh is an officially secular country, but more than 90 percent of its 160 million people are Muslim.

-NDTV Image Credit: (Getty)  

As seen on Ogoja-Calabar highway this morning

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Billionaire daughter Bim Fernandez stuns in new sexy photos

Stunning Abimbola Fernandez is one of the daughters of billionaire businessman, Deinde Fernandez. I've featured here a few times before...she's a singer and a true fashionista. More pics after the cut...