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  The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) have insisted that they will not back down, in their decision to reduce thee winning bonus of the Super Eagles. The national team arrived late in Brazil for the Confederations Cup, after delays due to protests over slashed bonuses and subsequently, missed flights. The NFF now pays the squad members $5,000 – half of what they used to recieve and the general secretary Musa Amadu, says there won’t be any going back, because of their financial situation. “Even at $5,000, the Super Eagles remain among the best-paid national teams in Africa,” he said. “It is a decision of the NFF executive committee, taken after thorough deliberation, and we cannot go back on it no matter the amount of blackmail. “The NFF have gone to great lengths to explain the situation that we have found ourselves and we expect those who should have an understanding of this matter to give dispassionate opinion.”

Actress Liz Dalsiva has just been delivered of a baby boy at a hospital in Surulere last week sunday. The actress who was alleged to have three people hanging on her neck as owners of her pregnancy, we learnt, is in good health condition alongside her baby. Well, now that the baby has finally come, let’s see if the nasty allegation about her is just a hoax or a calculated attempt to rubbish and disrepute the well-dressed Yoruba actress, Liz. The preparation for the naming ceremony is going on as two cows and caterers are at her residence in surulere.

If gist reaching First Weekly Magazine is anything to by, then the short drama witnessed during the Bisi Ibidapo Obe/Dino Melaye saga might repeat itself again. But this time, it will shift to another Yoruba actress named Liz Da Silva. Tale-bearers within the Yoruba film industry alleged that the upcoming sexy actress, Liz Da Silva, who recently held her baby shower in May in Lagos in the presence of few friends, is not sure, who is responsible for her pregnancy out of her three lovers. According to speculations within the Yoruba movie industry circle, Lizzy, as she is fondly called by her friends, has allegedly taken her pregnancy to three different men, none of whom has accepted responsibility for the unborn baby. Digs done by First Weekly Magazine showed that Liz Da Silva first went to MC Oluomo, who allegedly slept with her on the night of Oshodi Day, which held in December 2012, but MC Oluomo reportedly denied responsibility for the pregnancy. Rumour-mongers told Firs

It is no longer news that son of ‘holiness preacher’ and the General Superintendent of Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor W.F Kumuyi walked down the aisle with his heartthrob over the week. However, teeming followers of the respected former university don have condemned the classy wedding, which they tagged: Un-deeper-life-stic. A close look at the weeding pictures of the couple posted online saw the bride donned in accessories that had been anathema to the ministry. She was clad in a transparent fitted stylish short sleeves wedding gown, eyelashes, earrings makeup and wedding flower, which had never happened in the history of the ministry. An angry follower of Kumuyi, after viewing the pictures commented, “People have refused to live their own life but rather attach it to an apron of hypocritical philosophy and man made doctrine. I exonerate the dynamic Senior Kumuyi,I think it is the people that have refused to change, I respect Kumuyi and his teachings but the people h

The Lagos State Government on Saturday said it had taken a number of precautionary measures to guard against flooding in the state. Mr Tunji Bello, Commissioner for the Environment, stated this in an interview in Lagos. Bello said that although the state government had always undertaken routine flood prevention measures, it had stepped up preparations in view of heavy rainfall predicted this year in the state. The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) had on Thursday alerted Lagos State and some other states in the South West that they would experience heavy rainfall and flooding. Dr Anthony Anuforom, NIMET Director-General, who gave the alert, said the impact would be minimal if the affected states took proactive measures. Bello said part of the measures taken by the government included construction of new drainage channels, canals and aggressive expansion of existing ones. “We are also desalting drains and we are clearing canals across the state to ensure free flow of wa

Lagos State First Lady,Dame Abimbola Fashola, has called on community leaders, traditional rulers and non-governmental organization in Lagos to use their influence to sensitize residents, especially pregnant women and children, to the need to use primary healthcare centers in their locality in order to reduce maternal and child mortality in the state. She made this call at the Lagos West II Senatorial District town hall meeting on maternal and child reduction programme at Awuwo Odofin Local government secretariat, noting that more people would use the services provided by the primary healthcare centers if community leaders as well as traditional monarchs would make public announcement. “To enable all targeted groups take advantage of these services, community leaders needs to be actively involved. We don’t want our children and pregnant women to die young. I appeal to Lagosians to take advantage of this opportunity by ensuring that every member of the family, particularly children

The story of how the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, continues to act against its own rules and the price it is paying The fate of those who would come after me would be worse than what the party is putting me through”.  That was the curse placed on the Office of the Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.  It was Barnabas Gemade who placed it. In 2001, after the shambles that attended the party’s move to dump Gemade as Chairman, the latter wanted a competitive election.  Gemade sought to engender an electoral process that would produce the new Chairman.  He wanted to re-contest, having failed to benefit from the additional one-year for the tenure of members of the PDP National Executive Committee, NEC.  And because the maximum party leader of the time, President Matthew Okikiolakan Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo, no longer wanted to suffer Gemade, the latter “just had to go”. For the PDP, it sometimes obeys its own rules in the breach. It was in bitterness that Gemade made what has now t

In a blog post published Thursday , Instagram introduced the app's new video-sharing feature by showcasing four short cinematic clips people had shared with its service. There was a video of Kobe Bryant walking through a doctor's office on crutches; another of babies gurgling on a blanket; a whimsical one of an amusement park ride above the mountains of Hong Kong; and a video of a latte being made in a Santa Cruz café. Once the new service went live to Instagram users, however, the videos rushing in were of a decidedly different sort: Every few seconds brought a new clip of people speaking into their smartphones, extended at arm's length, with expressions of disbelief, horror, surprise, confusion and excitement. There were stop-action videos of people smiling and sticking their tongues out. One girl filmed herself lip-syncing to Miley Cyrus. "This is awkward!" another teen squealed. It marked a major moment not only for Instagram -- which had just anno

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Former Super Eagles defender, Bright Omokaro has said that the Eagles made appreciable improve-ment in their match against Uruguay on Thursday in the on-going Confederations Cup compared to their first outing against Oceanian champions, Tahiti. “There was a commendable approach, which the boys took this time around; they improved a lot upon the previous game against Tahiti. “Football is a game of luck, and it dangles. It can swing in your favour and at other times, can favour the other side. I’m happy they are showing improvement,” Omokaro, nicknamed 10-10 during the 1990 Africa Nations Cup in Algeria, said Also contributing, Harrison Okagbue, a former coach of Uganda, said the Eagles were not left a slim chance to qualify and that Keshi should work on their mind set. “Right now, we are in a tight corner. For us to prevail, we have to defeat Spain. “It will sound strange though, but we can still come out victorious if only the boys can play their best and learn how to pass ba

Satisfied with the level of work carried out by army engineers in the reconstruction of internal roads within the Barracks at Onitsha, Governor Peter Obi Friday presented another cheque of N100 Million Naira to the Army, bringing it to N200 million given to them so far for the project. Presenting the cheque, the Governor said that it was in line with the policy of his Government to work with all the Federal agencies in the State on the reason that all of them ultimately serve the good of the State and her people. He regretted that before he became Governor, it was  a cat and mouse relationship between Anambra Government and Security agencies in the State and that the State suffered because of that. “If you remember, in that reckless era, the State was burnt down. But I can assure you that with the level of civility we have restored, such a thing would not happen again, the Governor said. He also urged the army to continue to utilize the funds properly. He said that Government was

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  Video, meet Instagram. Facebook on Thursday announced that it had added video recording, editing, filtering and sharing capabilities to Instagram, the immensely popular photo sharing service Facebook bought last year for $1 billion. "We need to do to video what we did to photos," said Kevin Systrom, the co-founder and CEO of Instagram. "What we've done is made Instagram better." The app allows Instagram's 130 million monthly active users to record 15-second collages of video clips. Users can delete and re-record clips, and the app features Cinema, a video stabilization tool. Like photos that are shared on the app, videos on Instagram will have 13 custom filters. If any of this sounds familiar, it's because Facebook is taking a page right from Twitter's book. In January, Twitter released Vine , an app that records (and then plays on a loop) 6-second video clips. For Twitter, Vine has been nothing short of a huge succe

  BAD MARKET Mr. 419: Hello, how are you? Ayo: Fine. Pls, who am I speaking with? Mr. 419: Haba, don't you remember me? Who do you know in UK dat could be calling? (Sensing a scam, Ayo threw in a trap…) Ayo: Johnson! Is that you? (Meanwhile, Ayo doesn't know any Johnson in UK) (Thinking it's a break, he swallows the bait) Mr. 419: Of course, this is Johnson! How come you didn't recognize my voice initially? (Ayo certain it's a scam, he decided to punish him verbally and financially. He had the time that morning so he was going to assist him waste his call credit.) Ayo: Jooooooohnson! Kai! Omo buruku gbaa ni o! (You are a very bad boy). Your father died, you didn't so much as show up or send a note. Omo a se iru e fun e o! (Your children will repay you with such). Didn't you hear about his demise? He was so bitter and full of original and heavy curses for you. Mr. 419 (Obviously sub

You’re stronger than you think you are. Mistakes teach you important lessons. Every time you make one, you’re one step closer to your goal. There is nothing to hold you back except you. You can press forward long after you can’t. It’s a matter of wanting it bad enough. No matter how much progress you make there will always be the people who insist that whatever you’re trying to do is impossible. You are limited only by your own imagination. Let it fly. Perception is reality. Your instincts can be trusted. There is only one question to ask yourself: “What would you do if you were not afraid?” It’s often hard to tell just how close you are to success. The only mistake that can truly hurt you is choosing to do nothing simply because you’re too scared to make a mistake. Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart. You have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life. Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how

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The past few days has seen Wizkid caught up in spiraling events that has either threatened his life or almost landed him in trouble! First it was a near-tragic automobile accident involving his newly acquired Porsche Panorama and then on Wednesday afternoon, June 19; a near-detention incident at the Zone 2 command Onikan of the Nigerian Police force after he was invited to explain why he allegedly collected N500,000 from some University of Lagos students and then failed to appear at their show. The story is just unfolding. According to investigations, Wizkid was invited alongside his manager Godwin Tom for questioning by the police after he failed to appear at UNILAG’s Concert of Life which took place at the institution’s Sports Centre on May 21st. He was at the station for a few hours and was only allowed to leave after he’d written a statement and bailed by his lawyer. *Wizkid He was asked to report to the station next week. Observers say, these Unilag students may have be

‘ Thank you God for blessing me today, and thanks to MTN oya limpopo ‘’ The quote above is from a very happy Kcee (former KC Presh band member) who recently joined the likes of Iyanya, Chidinma, Praiz, Wizkid and Davido as one of MTN’s brand ambassadors. He put up this photograph on his Instagram page yesterday showing him putting pen to paper to seal the deal. KCEE at the signing Kcee couldn’t have worn a better smile. Congrats to him.

A police corporal, Ajisafe Amos, escaped being lynched yesterday by angry students of the University of Ibadan when he gave a 400-level student of the institution, Adewale Adegboyega, a hot chase and allegedly shot his car at the main entrance of the university. Adegboyega, who is a student in the Department of Guidance and Counselling of the institution said he ran into the campus because he was not sure of his safety in the hands of the policemen he encountered. The police corporal reportedly shot twice with one bullet hitting the rear tyre of the student’s car. As the students heard the gunshots, they reportedly scampered for safety for fear of stray bullets. In protest of the action of the police team, the students led by the Student Union Government President, Babatunde Badmus, demanded the dismissal of the trigger-happy policeman. He added that it was dangerous for a policeman to shoot in  densely-populated institutions like the University of Ibadan. They seized the i

For the first time, a Nigerian hospital has blazed the trail in metallic replacement of the whole arm bone, shoulder and elbow joints. The life-saving medical procedure which is the first in Nigeria and West Africa was performed by a team of surgeons at Lagoon Hospitals, Lagos. The team was led by Dr. Segun Abudu, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Orthopedic Hospital, Birmingham UK, seconded to the hospital. Commenting on the ground breaking surgery, the Hygeia Group Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Lars Stork noted that a significant number of Nigerians who go abroad for similar treatment will now have it done in the country. Stork added that the outstanding achievement demonstrated the commitment of the hospital to operating at global standards. Research shows that there are only approximately 50 – 60 cases of this type of surgery performed even in the UK to date, therefore making this surgery historical. This operation adds to the number of high-end surgeries we ha