Photos: 2 year old girl abducted during a church programme in Lagos

        

Facebook user, Anene Jasper, says his 2-year-old daughter was abducted during a programme at the Anglican Church of Living Faith in Abulosun in Ojo local government area of Lagos state on Monday, October 23rd. The little girl went to church with her mother. Read what he wrote below

" My daughter she is missing, they took her away during church program here in Lagos at Anglican church, please anybody with information about her should report to any nearest police station, please help me share the picture'

Cossy Orijakor to empower two fans with free shops for 2years after successful butt surgery

             

Nollywood actress, Cossy Orijakor who underwent a successful surgery yesterday to have her butt enlarged so as to balance it with her massive boobs, will be empowering two of her fans by giving them free shops in Abuja for two years.

Taking to her Instagram page today, she wrote:

'Due to the Success of my operation.... I wish to empower two fans by giving out free shops for two years....u can start a drink joint or anything u wish. There is a room you can stay if ur stranded.... This shop is located in front of new orange market Maraba.. I lost my phone in Abuja so don't have the current video of this two shops. It's finished Painted yellow. Complete with front wall tiles and floor tiles. So if u live within Maraba or Asokoro.. Do a video as to why u need it and dm me...you can also recommend someone that is Poor or average. I will check your Instagram account to make sure you deserve it. Good luck

Beautiful pre-wedding photos of young Nigerian couple

     

Gift Clarke, who is set to wed her partner before the end of 2017, released these lovely pre-wedding photos. The young groom and bride to be are looking so lovely together.

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Travis Scott steps out with another lady amid claims he's expecting his first child with girlfriend Kylie Jenner (Photo)

         

Travis Scott, who is rumoured to be expecting his first child with girlfriend Kylie Jenner was pictured out with a female friend during a trip to a recording studio on Friday.

The 25-year-old rapper and the unidentified lady looked relaxed as they made their way into the Soho Studio in New York.

Travis Scott and Kylie Jenner who started dating in April are reportedly expecting a baby girl in February.

     

Monkeypox: Health minister confirms 6 more cases

THE Minister of State for Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, has announced laboratory confirmation of six additional cases among the suspected cases for Monkeypox. These include two cases each in Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom States, one in Enugu State and one in the Federal Capital Territory.

With this, there are nine confirmed cases of Monkeypox in Nigeria.

Announcing this in his office Friday,  Dr Ehanire noted that investigations are on-going to see if any of the new cases has a link with the Bayelsa cluster, where the outbreak started.

He, however, called for calm among members of the public, as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is working with all affected states to ensure case finding and adequate management.

He added that as frightening as the manifestation of the ailment may seem, no fatality has been recorded to date.

As at the 25th of October 2017, a total of 94 suspected cases have been reported from 11 states namely Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Ekiti, Enugu, Imo, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Rivers and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

He noted that the newly confirmed cases are patients already being managed by public health authorities and have been receiving appropriate clinical care since onset of the illness.

Ehanire said that “The Federal Ministry of Health, through the NCDC, is in close contact with all State Epidemiology Teams, as well as the health facilities providing clinical care to both suspected and confirmed cases.

“State Commissioners of Health have also been advised to place all health care facilities and Disease Surveillance and Notification Officers on alert, to ensure early case detection, reporting and effective treatment.

“A National-level Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) led by the NCDC with support from our development partners, is coordinating outbreak investigation and response across affected States. The EOC includes the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, as well as experts from partner agencies.

“The EOC provides daily support to State Ministries of Health in active case finding, epidemiological investigation, contact tracing, case management, psychosocial support and risk communication.

“The NCDC has also deployed Rapid Response Teams to the four States with confirmed cases. Measures have been put in place to ensure proper investigation of all reported cases, effective sample collection and testing, as well as case management of all suspected and confirmed cases. Risk communication activities have been heightened to advise the public as well as healthcare workers on preventive measures.

“A nationwide communications campaign has begun, to inform Nigerians of key preventive measures to take to curtail the further spread of monkeypox.

“The NCDC has been working with poxvirus experts from the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to ensure that every available step is taken to trace how this outbreak may be spreading, and in understanding the links between case cluster, in order to prevent further spread.

“An Interim National Guideline for Monkeypox has been developed and disseminated to all States for coordination of response activities. This is also available viahttp://ncdc.gov.ng/themes/common/docs/protocols/50_1508912430.pdf.”

Monkeypox is a largely self-limiting disease that resolves itself. Generalised vesicular skin rashes, fever, and painful jaw swelling are characteristic symptoms associated with an infection.

Although there is no specific medicine to treat the disease, when intensive supportive care is provided virtually all patients recover fully, as we have seen with the current outbreak.

Continuing Ehanire also said, ” It is thought that people could get Monkeypox if they are bitten or scratched by an animal, or contact animal blood in preparing bushmeat or have contact with an infected animal’s body fluids or sores. Monkeypox may also be spread between people through prolonged face-to-face contact, or through contact with body fluids or sores of an infected person, or items that have been contaminated with fluids or sores (clothing, bedding, etc.)

“Measures that can be taken to prevent infection with Monkeypox virus include avoiding contact with animals that could carry the virus such as rodents and bushmeat, especially animals that appear sick or were found dead in areas where Monkeypox occurs.

“The public is advised to always wash hands with soap and water after contact with animals or when caring for sick relatives, or managing soiled beddings.

“Nigerians are once again advised to remain calm and supportive of public health authorities, avoid self-medication and report to the nearest health facility if feeling unwell or notice any of the above symptoms in anyone around you. It is important to reiterate that supportive care can be provided and full recovery is mostly the case.

“Health care workers are strongly advised to take prescribed universal precautions while handling patients and/or body fluids at all times. They are also urged to be alert, be familiar with the symptoms and maintain a high index of suspicion. They are urged to adhere to guidelines stated in the Interim National Guideline for Monkeypox, and to report all suspected cases to the Local Government Area or State Disease Surveillance and Notification Officers (DSNOs).”

Battle of the albums: Yung L vs DJ Spinall

Album -Dreams
Artiste – DJ SpinallRecord Label – TheCap Music (2017)Duration – 35 minutesDJ Spinall, the young Nigerian man, born Sola Oluseye Desmond in Lagos in the 80s, is the very picture of a self-made star.

Discovering the power of expanding the range of his craft early, he’s morphed from the guy who plays at clubs into a bonafide star DJ and music curator without a doubt. After two albums in as many years, his latest outing sees DJ Spinall surrounding himself with some of Nigeria’s biggest – and smoothest – singers to produce a playlist of party, vibes and ‘new wave’ music.

‘Dreams’ is a total victory; a happy-hour album of back-to-back hits with an inclusive feel which would see DJ Spinall catering to diverse crowds such as the guy on the streets, and the Islandic music nerds with an obsession for everything that is ‘wavy’ and packed full of vibes. Opener ‘Thinking about you’ features the buzzing Niniola. It plays to her strengths as a House banger, drawn from the bars of Johannesburg and commoditiSed into a dope record.

The rest of the record continues that promise, with Wizkid experimenting with full jazzy horns for the darkly exciting ‘Opoju’. It’s a fresh take for Starboy, whose international ambitions have diversified his music palettes.  Harrysong is surprisingly terrific on the Calypso anthem ‘Hanky Panky’, Simi goes all out on the emotional, but party-flavoured ‘Don’t let me go’, and Wande Coal and Davido are on the banging, party-starting ‘Olowo’.

One of the best cuts of the year also makes itself known on ‘Lifetime’, as WurLD states: “When I pull up to see you, give me a reason to see you, promise I will never leave you/If I lose my cool, don’t say I drink too much.” It is simplistic in its design, but impossible not to love; just like DJ Spinall.

 

Album -Better Late Than Never (BLTN)

Artiste – Yung L

Record Label – Chocolate City (2017)

Duration – 68 minutes

Welcome to Yung L’s mind. Welcome to a world of Caribbean-themed party dance, shaking butts, s3xy women, wild parties, and a comedown of self-reflection mostly delivered in Naija-patois.

Four years ago, Yung L had a big hit. ‘SOS’, his record produced by Chopstix introduced him to a wider pop audience. He dined out on that record, performing at many concerts and prepping himself up for the next level. That level never came.

Subsequent singles have failed to garner the attention and acceptance necessary for a pop star to be made, although he did find some success in ‘Pass the aux’, it was limited to the dance circuits of Nigeria. A new deal with Chocolate City earlier in 2017 brought some structure to his energy, and it was only a matter of time before the primary dancehall artist would put together a body of work.

“Better Late Than Never” (BLTN) announces itself late. It’s a personal triumph for the man who has served music for almost a decade. That decade is packed with stories and failed attempts to fly which Yung L precipitates on opener ‘Where you dey’.

The 19-track album contains two parts of the singer. One shows loyalty to his core influence and style from the Caribbean. His vocals – malleable and Promethean – continue to serve him all through. ‘Nina’ is a reggae syrupy serving, while the urban production of ‘Superman’ enable him to rhyme ‘tire’, ‘fire’, ‘tyre’, ‘acapella’, ‘choir’, ‘stepper’, ‘dada’, and ‘river’ together. He finds kindred spirit in R2bees on ‘Suzzy’, a classic dancehall record in which plans to cruise with his Suzzy, (“Me I wan say, tell me anything you wan dey, Monday to the Sunday, we dey vibe we dey cruise.”)

But you get a feeling that Yung L makes much his best work when he isn’t bound by the rules of dancehall. ‘Pressure’ allows space for Sarkodie to drag him to Kumasi with deep claps and ambient kicks. And he stays behind in Ghana to record ‘Migrate, one of the best cuts from the album. He stretches himself to produce sunny Highlife on ‘Anya’. While ‘Gbewa’ is the zenith of his versatility. It’s a record of House music, which knocks the stress out of your mind.

Consumed whole, BLTN thematic consistency provides an all-encompassing experience where happiness and being alive is a lifestyle, rather than a state of mind. Isn’t that what we all aspire to as a people?

How Boko Haram killed 15 Nigerian soldiers in two attacks

         

More details have emerged of the daring Boko Haram attack on a military base near Damaturu, the Yobe State capital on Tuesday.

PREMIUM TIMES reported the attack on the base in Sasawa village, near the Yobe State capital.

Although the army is yet to provide details of the attack, a spokesperson confirmed it on Tuesday.

“Yes, there was an attack and we repelled it,” Kayode Ogunsanya, a colonel, and spokesman of 3-Division Jos, said, adding that “there were casualties on both sides.”

Efforts to get Mr. Ogunsanya to provide more details on Friday were unsuccessful. He did not return calls or respond to text messages.

The Commissioner of Police in Yobe State, Abdulmaliki Sumonu, also confirmed to journalists that the village was attacked on Tuesday night.

“The attack happened on Tuesday night; we are still working on the details,” Mr. Sumonu said on Wednesday.

Top military insiders have now told PREMIUM TIMES that at least one officer and 10 soldiers were killed in the attack.

Seven other soldiers who were also part of the attacked troops are still unaccounted for, our sources said.

We have details of the officer, a lieutenant, who died in the unfortunate incident but this newspaper is concealing his identity as we are not sure his family has been appropriately informed of the development.

A large cache of arms including two gun trucks, communication radios and small arms were also carted away by the Boko Haram fighters.

“Large quantity of foodstuff were also carted away by the Boko Haram,” an official said.

Boko Haram has in the past weeks amassed large quantity of arms after attacks on military formations or during ambushes on troops, our sources said.

    

One source, a top military officer, was worried that the captured ammunitions are those the insurgents will use in carrying out further attacks on troops.

“Sadly, the Boko Haram has amassed large quantity of arms, ammo and high calibre weapons from the army within one week”, the source said.

“These same equipment would be used against own soldiers and civilians. They brutally attacked the soldiers and escaped neatly into their hideouts.”

However, while the Sasawa attack is the most recent, military sources told PREMIUM TIMES it was the second such attack within one week on soldiers fighting the Boko Haram in the North-East.

On October 18, at about 12 noon, members of the terror group attacked an army convoy led by the Commanding Officer of 81 Battalion, a lieutenant colonel (name withheld), along the Damboa-Maiduguri road.

The soldiers were said to be on their way to Maiduguri from their base in Bulabulin.

Four soldiers were killed and five others injured during the attack, sources told PREMIUM TIMES.

Three of the slain soldiers were corporals while one was a warrant officer. Their names are also being withheld until we are sure their families have been contacted.

“The military lost weapons, equipment and a hilux vehicle including a ground to air communication radio in that attack,” one military source said.

The two recent attacks on soldiers occurred despite the successes by the military against the insurgents in the past two years.

The terrorist Boko Haram sect has lost most of the territory it once controlled in the North-east but it is still able to carry out sporadic attacks, many of them on civilians.

The insurgency has caused about 100,000 deaths since 2009 and displaced over two millions people, mainly from Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima said in February this year while delivering a paper on “Managing the Boko Haram Crisis in Borno State, Experiences and Lessons for a Multiparty, Multiethnic and Multireligious Nigeria” in Abuja.

Too late! Kim K covers her face when she realised paparazzi were taking her photos

                 

Kim Kardashian stepped out with her face completely free of make-up as she headed to the gym in Beverly Hills.

She was later seen sitting on a pavement outside the gym as she closely examined some green juice bottles to make a choice. Her natural beauty shone through her make-up free face and she didn't seem bad at all for a 37-year-old.

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Lol! Nigerian man in South Africa buys a G-Class for a man to apologise for impregnating his wife

    

Court invalidates South Africa’s withdrawal from ICC

south african  president , jacob zuma South Africa’s decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, ICC, was unconstitutional, a court in the country’s administrative capital, Pretoria, ruled Wednesday. South Africa announced in October that it was leaving the ICC on the grounds that its membership hampered its efforts to help resolve conflicts in Africa. The main opposition Democratic Alliance took the government to court, arguing that Justice Minister Michael Masutha acted unlawfully by announcing the withdrawal without seeking parliamentary approval. Judge Phineas Mojapelo said the power to conduct international treaties belonged to the executive, but that such agreements must go before parliament. In 2016, Burundi, South Africa and The Gambia, expressed their intentions to withdraw from the court. But on February14, The Gambia told the UN that it would remain in the ICC, reversing the previous administration’s plan to withdraw from the tribunal. Subsequently, Namibia, Kenya and Uganda also began to contemplate withdrawing from ICC. The court has repeatedly been criticised by African states as an inefficient, neo-colonial institution of the Western powers to try African countries. This argument is supported by the fact that nine of 10 situations under investigation, with three others under preliminary investigations, involve African countries. African state parties to the Rome Statute make up the biggest regional membership, comprising 34 of the 124 members. From 2009, African countries have called for collective withdrawal from the ICC but some countries have pushed back. Nigeria, Senegal, Cape Verde and some other countries resolved to remain with the ICC.

Burundi becomes 1st country to quit ICC

Switzerland to return $321m Abacha loot - Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami says

                              

ISIS threatens Nigeria VS Argentina friendly match

       

ISIS has posted a picture of Lionel Messi in prison. The mockedup image of Messi in a prison jumpsuit, with blood coming from his eye has forced the  Argentine Football Association to demand for special security for star player Lionel Messi and other members of the national team.

President of the Argentine Football Association Claudio Tapia on Thursday met the Russian ambassador to his country Victor Koronelli to discuss the threat posed by Islamic State after the group also published an image alluding to next year’s football World Cup in Russia, warning those who visit Russia that they will face attacks.

Tapia has also been working with Koronelli and another Russian diplomat, Dmitriy Belov, to work on additional security at Moscow’s Bronnitsy Training Centre, which will house the Argentine team for the World Cup. 

Nigeria Football Federation early in the week confirmed that the Super Eagles will play Argentina in the Russian city of Krasnodar on Tuesday, November 14 at the Krasnodar Arena Stadium.

Who wore this sheer lace top and jeans look better......Dabota Lawson or Khloe Kardashian?

                    

When Did Hawaii Become A State?

The state flag of Hawaii next to the flag of the United States