Baloogg's Blog : 2015-02-08

Saturday, February 14, 2015

Naija For Life!!! Meet The Woman Who Sells Akara In Brazil (Photo)

Recipe taken to Brazil by slaves from West Africa, Akara is sold on the streets of Brazil,It is called Acarajé

President Goodluck Jonathan has been cautioned by some lawyers to stop differentiating between the acts of stealing and corruption.
The President had during the 8th presidential media chat on Wednesday maintained that there was a difference between the two acts. This came several months after he first made a similar statement.

Who on earth could do it better than him?
                          Who could be the right person to be there other than him?
                   What other righteous,capable and trusted person could Imt need apart from him?
                 A Nollywood star,mc, stand up comedian with multiple awards, far and near, Nigeria gottalent season 2 semi-finalist, Peak milk IMT best comedian 2010, Etisalat imt best comedian 2011, Indomie imt best comedian 2014,imt comedy representative on Enugu state road block season 5.

The TV host, actress and comedy star applied a playful and goofy approach to the photo shoot. See photos below>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

2 Face and his wife Annie Idibia alongside their kids, in-laws and some friends are currently enjoying the season of love at a pool side somewhere in Lagos.

Annie's manager and friend shared the photos. See below......

                Today Valentine's Day, February 14, 2015, A bride and groom laying inside a pink coffin during a bizarre wedding ceremony that took place at Wat Takien temple in Nonthaburi province, on the outskirts of Bangkok.
                   At 9:09am, ten Thai couples laid in the pink couple on Saturday during the wedding ceremony organised by the Buddhist temple. The couples believe that laying briefly in the coffin will get rid of bad luck and usher happiness into their lives.
                   Absolutely weird, isn't it? But that's what they believe in.'

After their brief separation and reconciliation a few weeks ago, Toyin Aimakhu and Adeniyi Williams‘ love is waxing even stronger. Hubby Adeniyi has stepped up from the level of buying ear rings...oh yea, he can now afford to buy her a car for Valentine’s Day!

                      Robin van Persie was stopped by police on his way to the Manchester United training ground on suspicion of over speeding and driving under the influence of alcohol.
                    The Dutchman was driving on the M60 in his Range Rover, when he was pulled over by Greater Manchester Police.
                   He was spoken to by a female officer, before being let on his way with just a ticket and a warning probably based on self recognition to join the rest of his United team-mates.

Boko Haram right now in Gombe is dropping letters warning people to stay away from the March 28 elections. Earlier on today, hundreds of Boko Haram Islamists invaded and attacked the restive northeast Nigerian city of Gombe, firing heavy guns. AFP reports that locals also confirmed to them that the insurgents threw leaflets at them that were asking them to boycott the forthcoming general elections.

From Sahara Reporters
Ballots meant for the Nigerian presidential election were found yesterday at the premises of a local printer in the Essex area of London.
Our sources said the sensitive election materials, which ought to have arrived in Nigeria earlier in the week, were unsecured at the premises of Panther Printing Services in London. SaharaReporters was able to confirm that a Nigerian firm named Cemoz International Limited had been contracted to print some ballot papers for the 2015 presidential elections.

The Kaduna State Government in partnership with the Bank of Agriculture has distributed cheques worth 1billion naira to small scale farmers in the state.

This is aimed at boosting agriculture and food security in Nigeria.

The money was disbursed to cooperative societies and individual farmers who have fulfilled the conditions of the Bank that enabled them to access the loan.

The Bring Back Our Girls campaigners in Abuja have launched a formal six weeks count-down for the rescue of the abducted Chibok girls who have been in captivity since April 2014.

According to the group, the countdown will help them monitor the activities of the multinational forces toward the eradication of the insurgents and the rescue of the Chibok girls from their captors.

The group expressed confidence in government’s ability to restore security in the north east and rescue the school girls.

Yaya Toure, Manchester City Midfielder

The coach believes that the Cote d'Ivoire international would not only be a great signing for the Nerazzurri but also the whole of Serie A.

Inter boss Roberto Mancini has pleaded with the club to splash cash to lure Manchester City ace Yaya Toure to San Siro.

Nigeria moved a place up to forty second in the world ranking and seventh in african.

Meanwhile, newly crowned africa champions ivory coast moved up eight places to twentieth position in world ranking and second in africa.
Algeria remain africa’s highest placed team occupying the eight position and number one in Africa while equatorial guinea climbed into the top fifty for the first time.

Maradona Undergoes Facelift, Shows off New Look (Photos)

Diego Maradona, Argentine World Cup-winning football legend, has undergone a facelift, local Argentine media reports.
Maradona, who has always been in the news in his native Argentina, has also released pictures of his fresh-face, posing with his girlfriend Rocio Oliva.
The 54year-old ex-footballer has had some problems with the woman, who is 24year-old (30 years his junior), but they appear to be happily back together.

A woman has been jailed after she marched into her former lover’s home and ripped his penis and scrotum to shreds with her bare hands. Christina Lorena Reber was sentenced to two years in jail after she tore her ex’s testicular sack from his body in a savage attack.
Reber, 46, was reportedly in a drunken rage when she decided to go to the unnamed man’s home in Indiana. According to a police report, the victim, who has not been named, had broken up with Reber just days before. The couple had been seeing each other for eight months and it seems Reber was not ready for the relationship to

Two weeks after he and his father, former Adamawa state governor, Murtala Nyako were declared wanted by the EFCC for financial impropriety while in government, the operatives of the EFCC this morning arrested Abdul-Aziz Nyako, the son of Gov Nyako in Gombe state. His arrest comes after N15 billion meant for the state was found in accounts of 5 companies owned by him.
Read the EFCC press statement on his arrest after the cut...

The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola, said on Thursday, that “Lagos is working” because of the change of attitude and dedication to work in its Public Service.

Governor Fashola made the observation at a Pens-Down ceremony held in Alausa, in honour of the retiring Head of Service, Mrs Josephine Oluseyi Williams.

The Federal Operations Unit customs(FOU) Zone C of the Nigeria Customs Service has seized 37 different items suspected to be contraband goods, with a total duty paid value of one hundred and seventy nine million naira.

Addressing reporters at the command headquarters in Owerri, the Imo State capital in south-east Nigeria, the Area Controller of FOU zone C, Mr David Dimka, said that the goods varying from car tyres, trucks, bags of cement, cartoons of frozen turkey and bale of second hand clothing were all seized at different locations within the zone.

A retired Brigadier General says the continuous dragging of the Nigerian military into politics by politicians and opinion leaders is a dangerous trend that should end.

Williams Obene, a counter terrorist expert, said that the situation had reached an alarming rate, stressing that the military has the interest of the nation at heart.

“Nigerian military did not come down from heaven or hell. They came from the Nigerian society.

Liverpool FC Captain, Steven Gerrard, is to have a scan on a hamstring injury as Liverpool wait to find out the extent of the problem.

The midfielder was seen limping off with an injury during a 3-2 win over Tottenham Hotspur on Tuesday.
Prior to this, Major League Soccer club, LA Galaxy, had confirmed that Steven Gerrard would be joining it in July on an 18-month deal.

Ekiti State University Students Clash With Bus Drivers

Violence has erupted in Ado Ekiti on Friday morning following a disagreement between students of the Ekiti State University and bus drivers at Fajuyi park in the state capital.

The disagreement was said to have degenerated to a shouting match, which attracted some policemen who began shooting sporadically on arrival at the scene.

The West African Allied Forces led by the Nigerian military, supported by Chad, Niger and Cameroon, on Thursday stormed the Sambisa Forest in Borno State, killing a good number of insurgents.

A top military source told Channels Television that the air forces bombarded the insurgents, before ground forces moved in and incapacitated the insurgents.

According to report from UK Metro newspaper, and according to the paper, the Nigeria economy is set to overtake UK Economy given current growth rate. Read more articleClick to read here

Red Cross volunteers helping to safely bury people who die of Ebola in Guinea have been attacked in recent days by people attending the funerals, complicating efforts to stop the spread of the disease.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies reported Thursday that since March, the organization’s burial teams in Guinea have been attacked verbally or physically 10 times a month on average. Most recently, on Sunday in Forécariah, two volunteers were beaten as they tried to carry out a safe burial.

Christophe Gbenye, a radical nationalist whose brutal rebel warriors seized control of eastern Congo in 1964 and held hundreds of foreigners hostage until they were rescued by Belgian paratroopers dropping from American planes, died on Feb. 3 in Kinshasa. He was 88.

His death was reported by Radio Okapi, the United Nations-supported station in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A federal judge here ruled on Thursday that the local probate judge cannot refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, potentially adding some clarity to a judicial quarrel that has roiled Alabama for most of a week.

The order by Judge Callie V. S. Granade of Federal District Court came after a brief hearing and prompted cheers and crying in the halls of the probate court here, where several couples obtained licenses and were married before the license office closed.

Science Explains Why Meth Addicts Look The Way They Do

By now, most of us have seen the shocking before and after pics of people addicted to methamphetamines. Exactly what is happening inside each cell to cause such striking changes to a person’s face and body? Meth, scientists from the Italian Institute of Technology and UC Irvine say, causes abnormalities in the fat metabolism of cells and this triggers a rise in a type of molecule which promotes cell death. Understanding this, they say they can prevent the drug’s radical effects.
Physical Effects

Police reports obtained by The Associated Press show Whitney Houston's daughter was involved in a traffic accident that injured two people days before she was hospitalized.
Police in Roswell, Georgia, say Bobbi Kristina Brown was driving a Jeep Liberty on Jan. 27 when she lost control, crossed into oncoming traffic and collided with another vehicle. A passenger in the Jeep and the other car's driver were taken to the hospital.

"I am very happy to sign a new contract with Chelsea," Hazard, who has scored 13 goals in 36 appearances this season, told his club's official website. "Since I came here in 2012 I have always felt good and the club has been very supportive to me.

"The manager has helped me improve a lot, the fans have been fantastic and I have an amazing understanding with my teammates.

According to Bloomberg Billionaires, Nigeria's richest man Aliko Dangote lost almost half of his $21billion in 6 months. Is this true? And how did it happen?

                              Hanhan.... Could this be the only reason she dumped him? A horrified wife-to-be has dumped her fiancé after she filmed him appearing to HEADBUTT her beloved pet dog in a seemingly deplorable act of animal cruelty.
                              The woman had set up a secret camera in their flat in Sao Paulo, Brazil, although it is unclear why she was suspicious of her boyfriend.
                              At first, the man appears to be playing with the dog, but his behaviour is about to take a shocking turn.

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Niger Governor Bars Deputy From Council Meeting

Despite repeated promises by Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu of Niger State to accord his deputy, Hon. Ahmed Musa Ibeto, who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), his rights and privileges, the governor on Wednesday barred Ibeto from attending the state executive council meeting.
The governor had in his opening remarks at the weekly council meeting at the Government House, Minna, said he will not preside over the meeting with his deputy on seat, accusing Ibeto of calling him a thief in one of the APC campaign rallies in the state.

The All Progresives Congress (APC) has said the party’s leadership and members will not be intimidated by the latest antics of the Jonathan Administration to harass and intimidate the opposition, especially in the run-up to next month’s general elections.
In a statement in Lagos, Thursday, by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the recent military siege on APC National Leader Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’ residence and the Imo State Government House and the police harassment of APC’s Presidential Campaign Spokesman Garba Shehu fit perfectly into this emerging pattern.

Muna Obiekwe's step sister Chinwe Obiekwe has opened up on the illness which claimed his life ..She also explained why he didn't ask for help ..In an interview with Inside Nollywood during his burial ,she said ..

Naija wake up... Stomach infrastructure....hmmmmm

A prime suspect in the murder of Cynthia Osokogwu, Okwumo Nwabufor, has told an Igbosere High Court that the nu de photos of the late girl found by the police in his laptop were planted there by the police.

He said: “When the police searched my residence, they took my iPhone and my iPad. They must have put the photographs into the laptop.”

BET award winning act, Davido has just made an announcement that’s got social media buzzing. The HKN boss took to Twitter to announce a trip to Kenya on March 28, 2015, a day that falls on the new date of the presidential election which INEC earlier scheduled for February 14, 2015.

Since his announcement, however, Davido has been subjected to the Basketmouth treatment.

The All Progressives Congress presidential candidate for the 2015 general election, General Muhammadu Buhari, has stated why his administration of 2015, if elected, will be different from that of 1984.

Buhari, who has come under heavy criticism for his alleged misdeeds as the head of state in 1984, stated in an interview with CNN on February 11, why he should not be criticised.

Paul Play Dairo

Nigerian hip-hop and R ‘n’ B singer, Paul I.K. Dairo, has dragged telecommunications service provider, Etisalat, before a Federal High Court in Lagos for allegedly infringing on his copyright Daily Independent reports.

The multiple award-winning artiste is asking Justice Chukwujeku Aneke to compel Etisalat to pay him N200 million for using his song, Mosorire in its popular reality series, Nigerian Idol, for two consecutive years without seeking his consent.

Tiffany Two is the world’s oldest cat

Meet Tiffany Two who is 26 in cat years the equivalent of 121 human years and is considered to be the oldest feline in the world.

Tiffany Two was born on March 13, 1988 in San Diego, California, and still manages to go up and down the stairs. “She’s not afraid of anything or anyone. She walks right past the dogs, she’s very feisty,” said her owner Sharon Voorhees.

Pope Francis has caused quite a stir after he branded couples who choose not to have children 'selfish' and said they are part of a 'greedy generation.'

He made the remarks in front of a large crowd during his weekly general audience in St Peter's Square, Rome.' According to the Guardian the pontiff said...

The renowned goal keeper wrote"She has always been and she will always be.#tbt.so happy to have been this lucky.#MACHERRIMADIAMOND

This man loves his wife....

Late Muna Obiekwe

The sudden passing of Muna Obiekwe is arguably the most shocking entertainment industry news story of 2015 so far. The well loved actor died in January 2015 and prior to his death, most fans had no idea he was struggling with health problems.

Inside Nollywood spoke to Chinwe Obiekwe who is identified as Muna’s step sister, at the actor’s burial ceremony.

A suicide bomber on Thursday launched an attack on innocent marketers in Biu Local Government Area of Borno State, north east Nigeria, leaving 15 people dead and many others injured.

Biu is the largest Borno town in the southern part of the state, located 187 kilometres south of the troubled Maiduguri, the state capital.

The election of a new national executive of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has ended in chaos in Abuja.

Aggrieved delegates were caught on Channels Television camera smashing and emptying ballot boxes with ballot papers flying on the floor of the International Conference Centre.

The workers alleged that the ballot papers were designed to favour one of the candidates vying for the President of the union.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has kicked against the deployment of soldiers for the March 28 and April 11 elections or subsequent elections in Nigeria.

EL-rufai said that the military have no reason to be at polling centres or collation centres during elections, insisting that only the Police is constitutionally empowered to monitor elections in the country.

As part of efforts to contain acts of insurgency in the North East and secure the entire area for the forthcoming general elections, the National Information Centre (NIC) says it has intelligence reports which indicate a considerable movement of Boko Haram recruits from locations such as Geidam, Mairi and Dupcha (all in Borno State) to training camps within the general area.

Addressing a news conference in Abuja, Coordinator of the Centre, Mr Mike Omeri said previous major attacks by insurgents, including the siege on Bama and Monguno military bases, were preceded by such massing up of fighters in training camps within the proposed targets.

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