Happy Birthday kelly Rowland

Happy Birthday to this pretty lady and Music Icon Kelly Rowland! She's just added one more year today.

Have a blast dear!!!

Beyoncé Knowles: The Queen B

From Vogue Magazine

Has there ever been a steeper, stranger, more rollicking two-week roller coaster in American pop-cultural life than the one Beyoncé Knowles rode from the middle of January (not long after I interviewed her for Vogue) into early February? 

The craziness started, of course, with that national anthem on the Capitol steps; Beyoncé’s soaring rendition was lavishly praised at first, but then it was revealed to have been sung to a prerecorded track. The resulting uproar was noisy and blustery and as close to a scandal as Beyoncé had experienced in her life; for an artist accustomed to controlling the narrative, it was unfamiliar, awkward territory. It got nasty—Beyoncé was shoved forward as a symbol of a synthetic generation—and yet she said nothing for ten days, until surfacing in a white Olcay Gulsen minidress at a Super Bowl press conference in New Orleans on January 31. 

There, she opened by singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” again—clearly live—in a soulful and satisfying and very much Beyoncé way. As a bit of crisis-management stagecraft, it was a knockout, and after Beyoncé sailed through to the “home of the brave,” she smiled and offered two words to her skeptics:

“Any questions?”

 

Nigerian Actress Nse Ikpe Etim To Wed This February 14th!

 

Our antennae has picked that this award winning  Nigerian Actress who got engaged during the Christmas period will get married this Thursday 14th of February 2013.

We gathered that  she will be marrying a man she dated when she was much younger. He is UK based, so she will be relocating to the UK after the wedding, though sources close to the actress says she will continue acting. 

That makes them two (Uche Jombo)

We will keep you posted for pictures and even videos! Watch out! ;-)

Pope Benedict XVI to resign on February 28th

Pope Benedict XVI has announced that he will resign on the 28th of February, 2013. This is the first time ever a pope will resign.

His resignation he said was because he no longer has the strength to fulfill the duties of his office.

Read his resignation statement.

Who Gets Best Player/Performance At The AFCON Games?

Below are pictures of some of our players.

I know the games aint over, but who would you give it to as per best performance?

NAF has only one serviceable aircraft for training

The Air Officer Commanding Training Command, Air Vice Marshall Isyaku Umar, has lamented that the Nigerian Air Force Base in Kaduna has only one serviceable aircraft for the training of officers and men.

Umar told Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Alex Badeh, who was on his maiden familiarization tour of the NAF base in Kaduna yesterday that “the NAF base has only one serviceable aircraft used in the training of its personnel”, saying the training base needs a minimum of three aircraft to be able to conduct its local training as well as VIP missions.

He said since his assumption the command has been able to aid the federal government’s efforts in internal security operations with men and helicopter deployment and has as well participated actively in the recent Mali operation in line with NAF’s directives.

The command, according to him, has successfully graduated six student pilots (SP) of 38 course and five student instructor pilots recently concluded their training at 303 Options Training School.

Speaking after his tour of various units in the NAF base, Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Alex Badeh said his visit to the Kaduna Training Command was to familiarize with officers and men of the command with a view to repositioning and moving the Air Force forward.

“I expect myself to give approval for maintenance of facilities that are dilapidated...  we are recruiting more and more people in the service now as our services are required at all times and if resources permit, we will build more accommodation for our officers and men. Kaduna base has always done well, although there are small challenges here and there, but the government is doing its best to provide for our needs”, he said.

Source: Daily Trust

Choi! This is bad o! 

President Jonathan not going to SA, sends delegation to support the Super Eagles

Here's Reuben Abati's tweets.

Here's My Take On: 53 die in Zambia’s worst bus crash

It was a black day in Zambia as 53 people were killed in a high-speed collision between a bus and a truck in Zambia on Thursday.

The government said the accident was one of the country’s worst-ever traffic accidents.

The bus carrying 73 passengers hurtled into an oncoming truck, leaving bloodied bodies and wreckage on a main road north of Lusaka.

“I can confirm that 53 people have died in the accident,” AFP quotes Harry Kalaba, an official in the Vice President’s office, as saying at the crash site 100 kilometres (60 miles) north of the capital.

“There was serious speeding by all the vehicles involved,” Kalaba said.

A survivor of the crash, Ackim Shawa who spoke on his hospital bed told AFP that, the Zambia Postal Service bus — which also runs passenger transport services — had been taking passengers from the Copperbelt mining province to Lusaka.

“While closing in on its final destination the bus had been trying to swerve to avoid another oncoming vehicle.”

Fifty-one people on the bus died, while the truck driver and his assistant were also killed.

Pictures from the scene show bloodied and lifeless bodies lying next to the mangled wreckage of the vehicles.

Kim K Still S**** ... Even In Pregnancy!

On Thursday, Feb. 7, the mom-to-be stepped out in L.A. wearing a sheer black shirt over a black bra, with black flared trousers. 

Obviously, pregnancy doesn’t make Kim balk on her fashion sense!   

Commendable!

Lionel Messi signs a two-year contract extension with Barcelona

Lionel Messi has signed a two-year contract extension with Barcelona which will tie him to the Spanish club until June 2018. The Argentina international, 25, enjoyed a record-breaking year for club and country, scoring 91 goals in 2012.

Messi signed a new deal on Thursday afternoon and follows Carles Puyol and Xavi, who both signed their extensions last month. Defender Puyol and midfielder Xavi agreed new deals until 2016.

A statement on the Barcelona website said: "This afternoon Leo Messi extended his contract with FC Barcelona through June 30 of 2018.

"The signing ceremony was attended by the player, president Sandro Rosell, vice-president Josep Maria Bartomeu and the director of football Andoni Zubizarreta.

"Messi added two additional years to his existing contract, which was set to expire in June of 2016.

"The player, who joined the club when he was 13 years old and made his first-team debut three years later, will be 31 when his contract expires." Barcelona are top of La Liga with a nine-point cushion over nearest rivals Atletico Madrid. They are away to AC Milan in the last 16 of the Champions League on 20 February.

Messi has been in the best goal-scoring form of his career and surpassed Gerd Mueller's 40-year-old record of 85 goals scored in a calendar year with a brace in a 2-1 win over Real Betis on 9 December.

Messi had agreed the contract at the end of last year but has only just signed it.

He has scored eight times in Barcelona's first five La Liga matches of the calendar year, including four against Osasuna in a 5-1 win on 27 January.

Last month he was awarded the Ballon d'Or for a fourth year running ahead of Barcelona team-mate Andres Iniesta and Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid.

Source: BBC

He is soooo humble! 

Reps suspend Jamb’s E-Test, summon Education Minister

The Minister of Education, Professor Rukayyatu Rufai  was  summoned by the House of Representatives over the planned conduct of computer based test for the 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) by the Joint Admission Matriculation and Examination Board (JAMB).

Prof. Rufai’s led Ministry of Education was directed to suspend the computer-based test planned for April this year and revert back to the use of old existing centres and the new secondary schools constructed by various arms of government.

Reason is: to give more time to equip these schools with necessary infrastructure to conduct computer test.

The motion was sponsored by Hon. Ali Madaki, from Kano State.

Rukayyatu is expected to appear before the House Committee on Education, alongside the JAMB Registrar in other to explain the “reason behind the policy somersault that led to change in takes off of the policy from 2015 to 2013; the law that empowers JAMB to contract out the conduct of examination to private firms? And who the firms are.”

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