Dillish wins Big Brother Africa - The Chase

Dillish Matthews from Namibia has won the 2013 Big Brother Africa - The Chase. She goes
home with $300, 000. I think she deserves to win. Beautiful girl with a good character.
Congrats to her!

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Bizarre! Boy flies Arik Air plane hiding in tyre hole

A teenager named Daniel Ikehina unbelievably beat airline and airport security at the Benin airport on Saturday August 24th and sneaked into the tyre compartment of a Lagos-bound Arik flight. The boy flew safely with the aircraft which left Benin around 9am today and landed at Murtala Muhammed airport, hidden throughout in the undercarriage. He was immediately arrested by airport security after passengers saw him emerging from the aircraft tyre hole. Arik spokesman Banji Ola explains what happened: The management of Arik Air has expressed shock over the incident wondering how the teenager beat the Aviation Security personnel at the Benin Airport to get to the runway. The pilot of Arik Air flight W3 544, departing Benin Airport for Lagos at 9.00am today 24th August, 2013 reported to the control tower the presence of a strange boy in the bush about 200 – 300 meters at the end of runway 23. The control tower told the Captain that they

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Gunmen kidnap Mike Ozekhome in Edo •Kill 4 policemen

 FOUR policemen were feared killed on Friday in Edo State after a gun duel that ensued between policemen and armed men, who abducted foremost human rights lawyer and social critic, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN.  According to the Edo State Police Commissioner, Foluso Adebanjo, Ozekhome was kidnapped along with his driver at the Ehor end of the Benin-Auchi expressway at about 3:30 pm.  Providing details of how Ozekhome was abducted, Adebanjo said that operatives of the state police command, led by the DPO of Ehor Division, responded swiftly to a distress call at about 3:30pm that an unspecified number of armed men had blocked the Benin-Auchi expressway along Ehor axis but that the armed men ambushed the police patrol vehicle and opened fire on the policemen.  Adebanjo said after a thorough search conducted on the abandoned vehicle of the kidnapped victims, they were convinced that the abducted persons were Chief Ozekhome and his driver, noting that some of the kidnappers

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Fraudster clones ministers phone,swindles him of N3 million

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Muhammad, has fallen victim to a man, who specialises in cloning phone numbers and using same to commit large scale fraud in the process.

The Minister, according to security information, fell into the trap set for him by one Ibrahim Sabo Takat, who lives in Wuye District of the FCT, who used his phone number and gave instructions, as if the Minister was the one doing so.

In particular, Takat succeeded in ordering the Chief of Staff to the Minister to pay the sum of N3 million into his own account domiciled with Diamond Bank with number 0011141544, posing as if the Minister was the one giving the order.

Unknown to the Chief of Staff, he quickly arranged and paid the amount into Takat's account on Thursday, August 8, 2013 without suspecting any foul play.

Shortly after the amount hit the account, Takat promptly withdrew it and disappeared into

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Shocker! woman turns up alive 2weeks after her own burial

Thirteen days after saying their final farewells to a Sharolyn Jackson, a Philadelphia family got a pleasant surprise when they found Jackson alive and well.  The fifty-year-old was pronounced dead after a body matching her description was found on a street corner on July 20. (Via Daily Mirror)  The body was identified as Jackson by her son and a friend, and was buried under Jackson’s name on August 3. (Via Legacy)  But just 13 days after her

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Actress Stella Damascus advices women on how to keep their men

Actress Stella Damasus took to her Adiva blog yesterday to advice women on how to keep their men. Read it below "...let me go to the topic I want to discuss today "keeping your man" This is for the married women o please this is not targeted at single girls. Now we know that the one thing men cannot live without apart from money is SEX. In this forum I really don't care where anyone is from or what religion you belong to, I will be as raw and honest as possible. I do not understand why women especially Africans do not talk about sex when we know that it is the one thing we do regularly with so much pleasure. Read the full article after the cut...

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Arsenal targets Benzema and Di Maria

Arsenal are working on deals to sign Real Madrid attacking pair Karim Benzema and Angel Di Maria. The Gunners are prepared to pay £40m for 25-year-old France striker Benzema after missing out on Gonzalo Higuain and Liverpool's Luis Suarez. Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger also wants Argentina left-winger Di Maria, 25, and is understood to be chasing a keeper and a defender as well. The Londoners won 3-0 at Fenerbahce in the Champions League on Wednesday. It means they are in control of the qualifying play-off tie heading into the second leg at Emirates Stadium on 27 August and should they reach the Champions League group stage for a 16th consecutive season, it could help attract transfer targets to the club. Wenger is a long-term admirer of Benzema, who joined Real from Lyon for an initial £30m in 2009, while Di Maria arrived at

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Hon. Makinde marries miss Osun State

Nollywood actor turned politician, Hon. Rotimi Makinde, representing the Ife Federal Constituency in the lower House of the National Assembly has taken his somewhat whirlwind romance with the reigning Miss Osun State, Miss Oyebanke Oyelami to the level as the couple is set to be united man and wife this Saturday at the Adah Golf Course, Ile-Ife, in Osun State. Their romance has attracted some criticisms from people who believed the Honourable legislator dumped his former wife for the beauty queen. But the Honourable has come forth with a strong defence at a recent discuss where he explained

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Tragedy! 8 members of PDP Abia chapter, Die in Auto crash

Eight members of Peoples Democratic Party, Abia state chapter have been confirmed dead and six critically injured as a result of ghastly auto crash along Anambra-Enugu highway.

The men were returning from the Anambra state ward congress, where they worked as auxiliary staff in preparation for the governorship election holding on 18th November this year.

The surviving six members who were reported to be critically injured were rushed to the federal medical centre, Umuahia, thanks to the state government who sent in ambulances since the industrial action embarked upon by health workers affected the operations of UNTH Enugu.

On learning about the news the state secretariat of

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Facebook joins tech giants to launch "internet.org"

Mumbai ::Social networking giant Facebook has joined forces with six other technology giants including the likes of Nokia and Samsung to launch "internet.Org" with an aim to make Internet access affordable for people across the globe.

Focussed on enabling the next five billion people without access to come online, the founding members of the project include Facebook, Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm and Samsung.

The initiative will see the partners collaborate on developing lower-cost, higher-quality smartphones and deploying Internet access in underserved communities.

"Everything Facebook has done has been about giving all people around the world the power to connect. There are huge barriers in developing countries to connecting and joining the knowledge economy," Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement.

Internet.Org brings together a global partnership that will

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Mandela making "dramatic progress" says daugther

Nelson Mandela has made “dramatic progress,” and may be going home “anytime soon,” said his daughter Zindzi on the eve of his 95th birthday.   “I visited him yesterday and he was watching television with headphones,” said Zindzi Mandela in an interview with Britain's Sky TV. “He gave us a huge smile and raised his hand ... He responds with his eyes and his hands.”   Mandela is gaining “energy and strength,” said his daughter. “I should think he will be going home anytime soon.”   The latest description by Zindzi — who is one of Mandela's daughters by his second wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela — is a significant improvement from court documents filed by the family earlier this month which said he was on life support and near death.     Mandela has been in a Pretoria hospital since June 8 and officials say his condition is critical but stable. The news of the improvement in Mandela's

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Up for Grab! Android 4.0 CapacitiveTouch Tablet PC - 1.2Ghz, 8GB,512MB, Wi-Fi (White/ Black)

Super lightweight and the ideal size for portability and usability. Be the first to show off the smarter person's tablet PC. Inside the box is everything you will need to be fully up and mobile with your deluxe customizable unlocked Internet Tablet PC. The Google Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) operating system, which is the latest Android OS, provides better user experiences. You can talk with any popular IM tool you want, such as Skype, MSN, Google+, etc. Smart surface design, thin, lightweight, and portable - giving your business handling and personal entertainment at your fingertips. The tablet is a new era of personal computing. It is in a handy format so you can use the tablet in your personal space to navigate freely with a simple tap of your fingers. You can take your tablet anywhere to surf the Internet wirelessly (wireless network required), send an email or listen to music, watch movies, and handle official business. It is perfect for the on-the-go business person to

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Who will be $300,000 richer in Big Brother?

I thought the organizers of Big Brother Africa would be easy on their own contestant, but I was shocked last Sunday when South Africa’s Angelo was kicked out.  Now we are left with Nigeria’s Beverley and Melvin, Ghana’s Elikem, Namibia’s Dilish and Zambia’s Cleo.  Truth is, it could be anyone’s money at this point. Anyone but Beverley. Nigeria favours Melvin over her. My money would be on Dilish, though.  Angelo became the 22nd housemate to be evicted, bringing an end to the final couple in the House - Bengelo. The 91-day reality show on DStv ends this Sunday. It has been an unpredictable season with some of the promising characters and entertaining personalities crashing out of the game before they could say BBA.  Clearly at this point, in line with the show’s unpredictability this year, whoever wins on Sunday will be no shock. Africa seems to be rooting for Elikem or Dillish, though.

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Woman pours hot oil on lover for refusal to marry her

A Karu Senior Magistrates’ court, yesterday, sentenced a 25-year-old woman, Victoria Alonge, to one-year in jail for pouring hot oil on her boyfriend, Roland Nna, over his refusal to marry her. The Senior Magistrate, Omolola Akindele, summarily sentenced Alonge without an option of fine after the convict admitted to committing the offence in court. Alonge was arraigned by the police on a one-count charge of causing grievous hurt on Nna, her boyfriend, who lives in Kurudu, Abuja. The Police Prosecutor, Cpl. Paschal Njoku, had earlier told the court that Nna reported the incident at Kurudu Police Station on

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Latest on ASUU strike !Jonathan directs immediate action to end strike

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday directed the two Federal Government committees negotiating the requests by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), to take immediate measures at ending the on-going strike. The Chairman of the Universities Needs Implementation Committee, Gov. Gabriel Suswam of Benue, made this known after a closed-door meeting of the two committees and other stakeholders with President Jonathan at the State House.in Abuja. Vice-President Namadi Sambo, the Chairman of the Earned Allowance Committee and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim were in attendance at the meeting. Also in attendance were, Ministers of Education, Prof. Ruqayyat Rufai, Labour, Emeka Wogu, the Executive Secretary of National

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Petroleum Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke Accused Of spending N2 Billion on private jet

A group that tags itself whistleblowers against corruption has accused Nigeria’s Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, of squandering millions of dollars of public funds to rent private jets for the conduct of her official activities. In a petition to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the group, known as Crusader for Good Governance,” demanded that Ms. Allison-Madueke be investigated for her habit of spending extravagant sums to rent private jets for her official hops. Ms. Alison-Madueke has frequently traveled around the world in private jets since becoming a minister, first under the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and later under President Goodluck Jonathan. In addition, she often moves members of her family in private jets. In 2010, President Jonathan appointed Ms. Alison-Madueke to the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, the nerve center of the

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Must Read- Open Letter to Gazidis by Arsenal Fans Group

A group of disgruntled Arsenal fans have written an open letter to chief executive Ivan Gazidis, expressing their "deep concern" with the state of the club. The Gunners' 3-1 defeat to Aston Villa on the opening day of the Premier League season prompted the move, with a failure to act in the transfer market chief among the worries held by the Black Scarf Movement . The open letter in full: Dear Ivan, We write to you as Arsenal's largest and fastest-rowing supporters' group, to convey our deep concern at the current state of our team going into the new season. In early June, around season ticket renewal time, you were widely quoted following your Q&A event where you spoke about the club's new financial firepower and ambition moving forward. Many fans saw this as the club finally about to break free from the shackles of moving stadium; new commercial deals were coming into place, we had a vast amount of cash available in the bank, profit from the Queensland Road property project was secured, the vast increase in

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