Chris Attoh and Damilola Adegbite expecting first child, postpone their April wedding

Ex “Tinsel” co-stars Chris Attoh and Damilola Adegbite were supposed to walk down the aisle this weekend, April 12th, however, the wedding has been postponed.

According to a press release by Chris Attoh’s publicist, Rosie, her client and his wife-to-be have decided to postpone their wedding till later this year or early next year as they are expecting their first baby.

The rumour that Dami was pregnant has been on for sometime now but Rosie finally confirmed this in a press statement.

Dami wants “a fairytale wedding”, Rosie said, so the wedding has to be postponed.

Chris and Damilola had announced in January 2014 that they were a couple before later revealing they will be wedding this April.

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N446bn Loot: FG Files Fresh Charge Against Mohammed Abacha

The federal government has filed a fresh charge against the son of late head of state General Sani Abacha.

In the new charge, the son of the late dictator, Mohammed, is being accused of unlawfully receiving about N446.3billion allegedly stolen from government’s coffers between 1995 and 1998.

He is being accused in the nine-count charge of “dishonestly receiving stolen property” and “voluntarily assisted in concealing money”. The charge replaced the earlier one of 121 counts in which Mohammed was charged with Atiku Bagudu.

Bagudu has been excluded from the fresh charge, leaving only Mohammed.

In the new charge marked CR.21-24/2008, the stolen money allegedly received by Mohammed, which he was accused of concealing include 141,100,000 pounds sterling and 384,353,000 US dollars made up of cash and travellers’ cheques.

The charge dated February 24, 2014, was filed by a private prosecutor, Daniel Enwelum, who is prosecuting the case on behalf of the federal government and upon a fiat dated February 18, 2014, issued to him by the attorney-general of the federation.

Mohammed’s absence in court stalled his planned arraignment on the new charge yesterday before Justice Mamman Kolo of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory.

The prosecution counsel told the court that, even when Mohammed had been served with the charge, with evidence to that effect contained in a sworn affidavit by the court’s bailiff, the accused person has refused to attend court to take his plea.

The new charge was filed pursuant to Section 181 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) as an amendment to the earlier charge.

Enwelum urged the court to accept the fresh charge and deemed the receipt of the charge by the defence lawyer on behalf of the accused person as proper service.

He said the lawyer, Abdulllahi Haruna, has promised to receive the charge for his client.

Haruna said Mohammed was absent in court because he was not aware of the new charge. He urged the court to adjourn the case to a further date to enable his client attend court.

Mohammed is expected to be arraigned on April 29, 2014.

In Count 1, Mohammed is alleged to have, between August and December 1995 in Abuja, dishonestly received $36,480,000.00 made up of cash and travellers’ cheques, property of the federal government, believed to have been stolen.

Count 2alleges that Mohammed, between August and December 1995 in Abuja, voluntarily assisted in concealing $57,960,000.00 believed to have been stolen from the federal government.

Count 3 alleges that he, between October and December 1996 in Abuja, dishonestly received $26,913,500.00 believed to have been stolen from the federal government.

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Child bride in Nigeria kills groom, 3 others

KANO, Nigeria — A child bride forced into marriage in Nigeria killed the groom and three of his friends with a poisoned meal, police said Thursday.

Fourteen-year-old Wasila Umaru was married last week to 35-year-old Umaru Sani, according to assistant superintendent Musa Magaji Majia.

Over the weekend, the groom invited a dozen friends to celebrate at his Ungwar Yansoro village, about 60 miles from the northern city of Kano.

The teen told police she bought rat poison and used it to prepare a dish of rice.

‘‘The suspect confessed to committing the crime and said she did it because she was forced to marry a man she did not love,’’ Majia said.

The groom and a friend died the same day, and two other victims died later in the hospital. Umaru will likely be charged with culpable homicide, according to Majia.

Child marriage is common in the mainly Muslim and impoverished north part of Nigeria, where the numbers increase during drought because a bride price is paid and it means one less mouth to feed.

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Funke Akindele Denies News of Having Found Love Again

Popular actress Funke Akindele has denied the rumors that she has found love again. Actually, it was claimed by the latest news published in City People magazine that the star actress has fallen in love again. But, the news has been refuted by the star without any delay through a press release issued by her publicist, Mr. Biodun Kupoluyi.

The statement said that the Glo Ambassador has a good financial position and she does not need to rely on anyone to look after her needs. Funke said she is now living in her own apartment in highbrow Lekki, and she is the only one who has paid for the property. She confirmed that it was her who paid for the property and not the man who she has been rumored to have fallen in love with.

She also disclosed that nothing has improved between her and estranged husband. And also, she has not found a new love. The rumor of the Nollywood actress having been fallen in love with a new man was spread through a lead story in the current edition of City People Magazine. Soon after the release, the news has gone viral online.

A rep for the 36-year old actress said, "The star appreciates the concern of fans and a section of the media on this matter of the heart, pleads for understanding as she continues to concentrate her creative energy on her career and immediate family".

The rep added that Funke has enjoyed all the love she has received from her fans in past few months. She is enjoying her work and every second she gets to spend with her colleagues on sets and looking forward to many more precious moments ahead.

Funke denied the news of reconciliation with her ex-hubby Kehinde Oloyede. She urged the media to report what is true and follow proper journalistic procedures and ethical concerns in sensitive issues like this.

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Flying Cars has finally made and are now on sales

Flying Cars has finally made and are now on sales

The long awaited flying cars have been invented and are now on sales has autos.aol explained.

You may not be able to find it in a showroom or take it for a test drive, but you can now own an actual flying car for the low, low price of $295,000.

A year and a half after its 2012 maiden voyage, the Dutch-made PAL-V One is being sold in the 

Hammacher Schlemmer 2013 Christmas catalogue, Time reported. The two-seater PAL-V One is a three-wheeled motorcyclethat transitions into a gyrocopter. It packs a 230-horsepower, four-cylinder engine and takes only ten minutes to transition to flight.

The PAL-V One reaches 112 mph both on land and in the air and can manage 750 miles of road travel. That travel distance goes down to 220 miles once the One goes up, but that is still enough range for a driver to fly from New York to Philadelphia and back.

Included in the jaw-dropping price tag is comprehensive training on how to handle the gyrocopter. The buyer also must posses a Sports Pilot Certificate.

If you can't afford the PAL-V One don't worry, several flying cars, including the Skyrunner, the Moller Skycar, theAreomobile and the Terrafugia are in various stages of completion. Hopefully, prices will fall as the technology becomes more common.

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MH370 search area drastically reduced after two more pings heard

Navy divers from the Australian defence vessel Ocean Shield scan the water for debris. Photograph: Ryan Davis/AFP/Getty Images

The search area for the missing Malaysia airlines flight MH370 has been drastically reduced after two further detections of pings consistent with those of a black box from a plane late on Tuesday.

The head of Australia’s Joint Agency Co-ordination Centre, Angus Houston, said on Wednesday the Australian defence vessel Ocean Shield had detected two further pings on Tuesday – one in the afternoon and one in the late evening – that had allowed the search area to be further refined to 75,000 sq km. He said he was “optimistic” the plane would be found soon.

“I can now tell you that Ocean Shield has been able to reacquire the signals on two further occasions; late yesterday afternoon and late last night,” Houston said.

The smaller area would make the task far more manageable and would allow searchers to “plan much tighter search patterns”.

“Ocean Shield is now searching a reduced and much more manageable search area on the ocean floor,” he said.

“I believe we are searching in the right area but we need to identity wreckage to be sure that this is the final resting place of MH370.”

The plane has been missing for more than a month and is believed to have crashed in the Indian Ocean, claiming the lives of all 239 passengers on board.

Houston said the Ocean Shield would continue searching the area before launching the submersible underwater vehicle while the batteries of the black boxes are still believed to be active. The detections suggest at least one of the boxes is still transmitting, but that “they will very shortly fail”.

“We are not yet at the point of deploying the autonomous underwater vehicle … it is important to note that Ocean Shield can search six times the amount of area with the towed pinger locator than can be done with the sonar on the autonomous underwater vehicle,” he said.

On Monday it was revealed that the Ocean Shield had detected two pings that were believed to be consistent with frequencies from a black box. Houston said on Wednesday the Australian Joint Acoustic Analysis Centre had analysed the two earlier pings detected by the Ocean Shield and found could have come from the plane.

“The analysis determined that a very stable ... signal was detected at 33.331 kHz and that it consistently pulsed,” he said.

“They therefore assessed that the signal was not of natural origin and was likely sourced from specific electronic equipment … consistent with a flight data recorder.

There are 11 military aircraft, four civilian aircraft and 14 ships taking part in the search on Wednesday.

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Senate prescribes 10-year jail term for pension thieves

Senate yesterday, passed the Pension Reform Act with a prescription of a 10-year jail term for pension thieves.

The new Act officially accommodates employees of private firms in the contributory pension scheme.

The passage of the bill automatically repealed the Pension Reform Act 2004 thereby, making it possible for every person who worked in either the public service of the Federation,  the Federal Capital Territory,  states or local government and the private sector, to receive pension benefits as and when due.

The scheme covers private organisations with at least three or more employees.

The new law, stipulates that apart from a 10-year jail term, anyone who misappropriates pension fund must also refund three times the amount embezzled by him or her.

Also, whoever attempts to misappropriate the fund, on conviction, will be liable to the same punishment as it is prescribed for the full offence in the Act.

It provides that all monies received as penalty by the Pension Commission shall be paid into the Pension Protection Fund, which would  be established under section 82 of the Act.

In addition to payment of fines and serving the jail terms, the Act stipulates that anyone who misappropriates pension fund shall forfeit to the Federal Government,  any property, asset or fund with accrued interest on the stolen money.

The Act also imposed a fine of N10million on any pension fund administrator, who fails to meet the obligations of the contributors while each of the directors of the firm would pay N5million each as fines.

It also provides that, “notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the commission may, in addition to the penalties stipulated under this Act,  impose additional sanctions on the board, any director, management,  manager or officer of a pension fund administrator or pension fund custodian that violates any of the provisions of this Act.”

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FG to Introduce Herbal Medicine Course in Nigerian Universities

Herbal medicine is often regarded as esoteric science – studied and practiced by a select few. But thanks to a new university curriculum the federal government is introducing, herbal medicine may soon become a part of mainstream science in Nigeria.

The government has concluded plans to introduce herbal medicine studies in Nigerian universities, Vanguard reports. This announcement was made at the 3rd Annual Guest Lecture organized by Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, MHWUN, in Abuja.

Speaking on the necessity of formalizing the study of herbal medicine, Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu expressed that universal health coverage cannot be achieved without the involvement of trained herbal medicine practitioners.

“If you are a herbal practitioner, you are a doctor. A herbalist is a doctor. But the first function of a doctor is to take a diagnosis. Is it Lassa fever or Ebola?  Or is it Dengue or is it malaria or typhoid? You have to get the answer before you begin to give that herb,” he said. 

He also stated that to fully understand the human body and make accurate diagnoses, knowledge of subjects including anatomy, biochemistry, pharmacology, Physiology, are needed. And this is what a formal herbal medicine curriculum could provide.

The course may commence in universities as early as next year.

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A lecturer doing it with his student in the Office

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                                         A lecturer doing it with his student in the Office 

My figure drives men crazy – Evia Simon

My figure drives men crazy 

Evia Simon came into Nollywood in 2010 and between then and now, the curvy actress has done more than twenty movies. Some of her movies include, Three Generals, Stubborn Generals, Ifunanya, Oga Madam, Men in Bondage, released some days ago, Girls Cot, When Love Dies, and a host of others.

told me she has been having a flourishing career because of her talent and looks. Talking to me on how men react when they come in contact with her. “ I find their reaction annoying sometimes and embarrassing. Some even go as far as screaming and they let me know I am the reason they are screaming. Some go out of their ways to do the craziest things.

One of the craziest things a guy ever did was to leave his car parked along the roadside and entered the same cab with me just to have a word with me because if he had kept on driving he would have missed me. And it was so funny when I found out he parked his car along the roadside to follow me down to my house just to have a word with me” she said.

“ I am not the type of girl who is only interested in money. I believe in love. To me, love comes first. I hate to have anything to do with a guy because of his money. I can stand love and bear anything that comes with it but as for money I can’t stand everything that comes with it, because I hate it when someone makes me believe I am getting close only because of his money”.

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Problem brought me to the church; I never wanted to be a pastor-says Adeboye

Speaking on Friday night, at the April Holy Ghost Service dedicated to children, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye narrated his story of how he rejected his election to be a pastor by the founder of the church, the late Rev. Josiah Akindayomi.

In his sermon titled “Great and mighty seeds”, a former mathematics lecturer recalled how he joined the then unknown RCCG because of a problem.
Explaining the theory of greatness, the 72years old man of God said; some people are born great, some others become great by dint of their own efforts while others have greatness entrusted upon them. According to him, a problem brought him to the church.

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