WELCOME BACK OJB

After a successful heart surgery in far away India, OJB Jezreel has been finally discharged.
The ace producer sent out a release stating that he’s well, has been discharged and will soon return to the country.

Read below:

Dear fellow Nigerians.

Greetings from far away India !I am sure this note from me will catch you with a little surprise. I have been reading a lot of news about ME being published on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and different Blogs by my good friends.
I thought I must take out a quick moment and let you know that I am officially discharged today from the hospital, after a successful Kidney Transplantation Surgery, by God’s Grace. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all Nigerians for your prayers & good wishes, without which all this would not have been possible.
I also take this opportunity to thank my friends, fans and family for all the love, prayers and good wishes for a Speedy Recovery!! Be home with you soon …….
Thank you once again sincerely,
Your very own OJB Jezreel.

LADY GAGA NAKED IN FRONT OF GAY FANS (VIEW PICS)

Lady Gaga obviously has no limits. And with all that talent she has she probably doesn't need this. She performed completely naked at a London gay club on Saturday night. She began her performance at G.A.Y in this long, white petticoat-style gown, and later took off her dress in front of the audience.

GAGA CRAZE!

SAMSUNG EXTENDS SMARTPHONE LEAD OVER APPLE

Washington (AFP) - Samsung extended its lead over Apple in the global smartphone market in the third quarter as Chinese manufacturers also made inroads, a survey showed Tuesday.

The worldwide smartphone market saw record sales in the quarter, with growth of 38.8 percent from a year ago and 258.4 million units sold, the IDC survey said.

The South Korean electronics giant Samsung widened its lead, shipping 81.2 million smartphones, boosting its market share by nearly half a percentage point to 31.4 percent.

Apple sold 33.8 million iPhones in the quarter, but its growth was slower than the overall market, so its share slipped to 13.1 percent from 14.4 percent a year ago.

China's Huawei moved into third place, propelled by 76 percent year-over-year growth. It sold 12.5 million smartphones, grabbing a market share of 4.8 percent, just ahead of the 4.7 percent for fellow Chinese firm Lenovo.

South Korea's LG slipped from third to fifth place, with a 4.6 percent share, despite sales growth of 71 percent.

"Beyond Samsung and Apple at the top of the rankings is a tight race of vendors trying to break out from the pack," said IDC analyst Ramon Llamas.

"Chinese vendors Huawei and Lenovo moved past LG, and not far behind are two more Chinese companies, Coolpad and ZTE."

The survey did not break down the market share for Android, the dominant operating platform from Google.

But a separate report from ABI Research said Android's global market share reached a record 80.6 percent. ABI estimated Apple's share at 14 percent, with Windows Phone at four percent and BlackBerry 1.5 percent.

"The race for the third ecosystem is clearly favoring Windows Phone... but there remains little opportunity for new market entrants to make a significant impact on Android’s dominance," said ABI analyst Michael Morgan.

ABI's estimate showed 244 million smartphones shipped, with Samsung's share at 35 percent and Apple's 14 percent.

ABI said it expects Apple to sell a record 53 million iPhones in the fourth quarter, but that this would boost its market share only to 18.7 percent.

IDC's Llamas said the smartphone market is still growing at a solid pace and expects annual sales of one billion units in 2014.

The overall mobile phone market grew 5.7 percent from a year ago to 467.9 million units, with Samsung on top with a 24.7 percent market share, IDC said.

KIM KARDASHIAN'S WEDDING RING FETCHES $749K AT AUCTION

Somebody paid a pretty penny to own Kim Kardashian's old engagement ring from ex-husband Kris Humphries. Omg! can confirm that the "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" star's massive former sparkler was sold through Christie's auction house in NYC Tuesday for $620,000! (However, when you add in Christie's markup, the anonymous buyer will end up paying a total of $749,000.)


The bling, designed by Kardashian go-to jeweler Lorraine Schwartz, clocked in with a 16.21-carat center diamond and two 1.8-carat side diamonds. It was purchased by an anonymous online bidder. Bidding started at $200,000 for the piece of jewelry, which was reported to be worth $2 million when Humphries, 28, proposed in 2011.

The exes were famously wed for just 72 days before Kardashian filed for divorce on October 31, 2011 — though it took over a year and a half for their split to be finalized (they were officially divorced in May 2013). Kardashian quickly moved on with rapper Kanye West, and the pair welcomed daughter North West on June 15 of this year.

Humphries' intention to sell the bauble was first reported by RumorFix last month.

"Kim has been waiting for the day he would auction it," a source told Us Weekly in September, adding that Kardashian was the one who initially paid for the ring. "Everyone always asked what Kim did with the ring — she silently gave it back over a year ago! And Kris waiting until the divorce was final to sell it."
Us Weekly's source scoffed, "The ring is definitely not worth $2 million, not even half of that."

Do you think the bling is worth $749K?

OMOTOLA: WHERE ARE ALL THE EDUCATION FUNDS? FG, ASUU.

As the face off between the Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU and the Federal Government lingers  one of Nollywood actress, Omotola Ekeinde has added  her voice to the cry for solution. 

Omotola on her twitter handle want to know why there is a ‘crippling silence’ on the strike  issue that has been on for months now with out solution.

One will but join her to ask what importance do the two parties place on the lives of the youths of this nation when majority of them are at home doing what?  When they should be studying. 

Omotola twitted
Why is there a crippling silence when Nigerian schools have been SHUT 4 mouths and the youths are wasting away with their future uncertain?

Why are students of the Most Populous Black Nation in the World “Giant” of Africa Not in schools? where are all the education funds? #Nigeria

Education is a right not privilege. This should be the 1st Responsibility of every parent, state and country to their child #Nigeria#Education

One true question that is begging for answer is where are all the education founds ? Omotola has asked  and we hope she will get answers 

SEX SHOW OWNER ARRESTED AFTER RIHANNA’S THAI VISIT

BANGKOK  (AFP) – Thai authorities said Monday they had arrested the owner of a sex show visited by pop icon Rihanna — the latest crackdown inadvertently triggered by the singer’s tweets.

The bar owner on the island of Phuket has been charged in connection with the lewd performance, local district chief Veera Kerdsirimongkol told AFP, following an operation involving undercover officials.

“It was the result of the visit by Rihanna. The authorities will be more strict towards inappropriate shows or wildlife attractions,” he said.

Thai tourist officials were left red-faced after Rihanna’s tweets last month drew worldwide attention to the kingdom’s seedier side.

“Either I was phuck wasted lastnight, or I saw a Thai woman pull a live bird,2 turtles,razors,shoot darts and ping pong, all out of her pu$$y,” she wrote in a message in September to her more than 32 million followers on Twitter.

“The birds feathers were all damp! Lol. Only in #Thailand,” she added.

“And THEN she tried to turn water into coke in her $!! Uhh yea, all I’m saying is water went in and soda came out! I’m traumatized!!!”

It is the second time the pop diva has unwittingly helped to clean up Phuket, one of Thailand’s top tourist destinations.

Last month two men were arrested for possessing a protected slow loris after Rihanna posted a picture of herself with the primate on a night out during the same visit to the island.

The image — captioned “Look who was talkin dirty to me!” (http://instagram.com/p/efvnHRBM3B/) — generated outrage from wildlife activists about rampant exploitation of animals in Thai tourist areas.

Use of the slow loris and other protected species for tourist snaps — while common in Thai tourist resorts — is officially illegal.

According to wildlife protection campaigners, mother lorises are often killed while the young are stolen. The primates’ teeth are also removed due to their toxic bite.

Thailand’s sun-drenched beaches and libidinous nightlife have long been a magnet for tourists from around the world.

But following a flurry of complaints, foreign diplomats have called for a crackdown on scams and crimes against tourists in Phuket.

Local tourist police volunteers warn against venturing into strip clubs offering “ping-pong shows” due to the risk of overpriced drinks and threats of violence against people who refuse to pay.

“As well as dealing seriously with inappropriate shows and drugs, police will do more to protect the safety of tourists as the high season approaches,” said Phuket police chief Ongart Phewreungnon.

ONITSHA DEPORTEES SLAM N1BN SUIT AGAINST LAGOS.

ONITSHA — The Federal High Court 4 sitting in Lagos, presided over by Justice Anumogobia is expected to commence hearing on January 29, 2014 in a N1 billion civil suit instituted against Lagos State Government, by the 76 victims who were deported from the state and abandoned in Onitsha, Anambra State on July 24, 2013.

The suit was filed by seven of the deportees, including Joseph Aniebonam, Osondu Mbuto, Osondu Agwu, Nnenna Ogbonna, Emily Okoroariri, Friday Ndukwe and Onyeka Ugwu as the applicants, on behalf of the 76 others, while the Attorney-General of Lagos State and the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State are the respondents.

Deportees

The suit was brought as a motion on notice pursuant to Order 11, Rule 1&2 of the Fundamental Rights (Enforcement Procedure Rules), 2009, Sections 34 (1) (A), 35, 40, 45 (1), 42 (1), 46 (1) and 6 (1) of the 1999 Constitution, as amended; Articles 5, 6 and 12 of African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights.

In the motion filed on their behalf, through their legal counsel, Chief Barrister Ugo Ugwunnadi, an Onitsha-based legal practitioner., the applicants are praying the court to declare that they, as Nigerian citizens are entitled to the enjoyment of their fundamental rights as provided for in Sections 34, 35, 36, 37, 40, 41 and 42 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended.

The applicants are also seeking a declaration of the court that their arrest and detention in various camps, Oshodi rehabilitation centre, police cells and prisons, within Lagos State for no offence known to law and without trial and conviction by a court of competent jurisdiction, amounted to a serious breach of their rights as provided for in the relevant sections of the constitution, adding that such an action was illegal, null, void and unlawful.

They also sought an order of the court to declare that their deportation from Lagos State of Nigeria to Anambra State of Nigeria on July 24, amounted to a gross violation of their rights and a breach of the provisions of the 1999 Constitution, as amended.

They noted that the court should mandate the first respondent to re-absorb and accommodate the applicants within Lagos State of Nigeria since they are Nigerian citizens and are entitled to reside in any part of Nigeria, including Lagos State.

The applicants equally sought a perpetual injuction restraining the respondents, their agents, privies, subordinates, workers and officers, howsoever called, from their further deportation or refusing them free entry into Lagos and free exit therefrom, as well as an order mandating the respondents to tender a written apology to them by publishing the apology in the following newspapers: THISDAY, Vanguard and Daily Sun continuously for 30 days, from the date of the first publication, for unlawful and gross violation of their constitutional rights.

Also in their written address, the applicants noted that the issue for determination is whether the action of the respondents in arresting, detaining and their subsequent deportation from Lagos to Onitsha, Anambra State is justified in law, in view of the supreme provisions of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria, adding that if the issue is resolved in the negative and against the respondents, the applicants are entitled to the reliefs sought.

Facebook Owner (Mark Zuckerberg) Buys Neighbouring Houses just For Privacy

Mark Zuckerberg just made an unusual purchase.Well, four purchases.Facebook's billionaire founder bought four homes surrounding his current home near Palo Alto, Mercury News reports. The houses cost him more than $30 million, including one 2,600 square-foot home that cost $14 million. (His own home is twice as large at 5,000 square-feet and cost half as much.)Larry Page made a similar move a few years ago so he could build a massive, 6,000-square-foot mansion. But Zuckerberg's reason is different. He doesn't want to live in excess, he just wants a little privacy.Zuckerberg reportedly took action after he learned that a developer wanted to purchase one of his neighbor's homes and use the fact that Zuckerberg lived close by as a marketing tactic. He started purchasing the homes last December. Zuckerberg will lease the four homes he just bought back to its current residents.It's sad yet ironic that Zuckerberg has to go through great lengths to protect his privacy. Yesterday news broke that Facebook was removing yet another privacy feature. Soon, even people who wish to remain hidden from Facebook searches will have no choice but to be searchable on the social network.

A LOOK AT THE WORLD'S LARGEST INSECTS

A terrifying plague of giant hornets has killed 41 and injured more than 1,600 in central China.

The massive creatures, which can grow up to five centimetres long, started appearing in massive swarms around the cities of Ankang, Hanzhong and Shangluo.

The Asian giant hornet has a six-millimetre sting that contains deadly venom which actually attracts others of its kind to the victim.

They may be frighteningly large, but they're not quite the biggest insects out there. Here are eleven that can put them to shame.

27 DIE IN IRAQI SUICIDE BOMBINGS

Suicide car bombers attacked an elementary school and a police station in a small northern Iraqi village on Sunday while another on foot detonated his payload among Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad, killing at least 27 people including children, officials said.

The attacks are the latest in a relentless wave of killing that has made for Iraq's deadliest outburst of violence since 2008.

The mounting death tolls are raising fears that the country is falling back into the spiral of violence that brought it to the edge of civil war in the years after the 2003 US-led invasion.

Sunday's blasts began about 9.30am in the Shiite Turkomen village of Qabak, just outside the town of Tal Afar.

The area around the stricken village has long been a hotbed for hard-to-rout Sunni insurgents and a corridor for extremist fighters arriving from nearby Syria.

One car bomb in the tiny village targeted an elementary school while children ages six to 12 were in class as another struck a nearby police station, Tal Afar mayor Abdul Aal al-Obeidi said.

The dead included 12 children, the school principal and two policemen. Another 90 people were wounded, he said.

The village is home to only about 200 residents and part of the single-storey school collapsed as a result of the blast, he said.

Tal Afar is 260 miles northwest of Baghdad.

"We and Iraq are plagued by al-Qaida," al-Obeidi said. "It's a tragedy. These innocent children were here to study. What sins did these children commit?"

Another suicide bomber, this time on foot, blew himself up hours later as Shiite pilgrims walked through the largely Sunni neighborhood of Waziriyah in the north of the Iraqi capital.

At least 12 people were killed and 23 wounded in the attack, according to police and hospital officials.

They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to brief reporters.

It was the second time in less than 24 hours that a suicide bomber managed to thwart security checkpoints and target Shiite pilgrims making their way to a golden-domed shrine in northern Baghdad where two revered Shiite saints are buried.

A suicide bombing in the largely Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah, not far from the site of Sunday's attack, late on Saturday killed 51, authorities said as they revised the death toll upward. That and other attacks on Saturday left a total of 75 dead.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility but suicide bombers and car bombs are frequently used by al-Qaida's Iraq branch.

It often targets Shiite civilians in an effort to undermine the Shiite-led government. Its extremist ideology considers Shiites heretics.

United Nations figures released this week showed that at least 979 people, most of them civilians, were killed last month alone. At least 135 have died violently since the start of October, according to an Associated Press count.

A 23-YEAR-OLD GRADUATE OF COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, ILARO, OGUN STATE HACKED JAMB, NECO, NSCDC, SSS, NIS SITES

A 23-year-old graduate of College of Education, Ilaro, Ogun State, who has been on wanted list of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), for notoriety on hacking into websites of government agencies and sale of fake recruitment forms has been arrested.

The suspect, who simply gave his name as Adeniji Lukman, from Osun State, was paraded in Abuja, on Monday, before newsmen by the Commandant-General of NSCDC, Dr Ade Abolurin.


Lukman confessed to have committed the cyber crime of hacking into websites of government agencies, including security agencies and selling of fake recruitment forms to unsuspecting job seekers.

He told newsmen that he was an expert in website design and had been using that advantage to defraud many Nigerians.

Answering the question on why he chose cyber crime with his talent, the suspect said, “it is ignorance. I have a talent and I know how to design website.”

Dr Abolurin disclosed that the suspect had been notorious for hacking into websites of government agencies, including the NSCDC, States Security Service (SSS), Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), National Examination Council (NECO) and Nigeria Customs Service.

The suspect was also alleged to have hacked into the website of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) and was already having a rip-off from the current recruitment exercise being conducted by into NIS.

He was also alleged to have hacked into the website of JAMB and produce questions and answers likely to feature in the examinations and sold them to the public before the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) was held.

“The suspect before us is an expert in website design. He can hack into any system, most especially government agencies’ system.He develops portals through which he used to put some adverts, advertising for recruitment for all these agencies.

“He just graduated from College of Education, Ilaro, in March and he went to computer training centre where he learnt some of these things.

“The crux of the matter is that when he hacked into our system, there were so much outcries in the country. This got to my knowledge late last year, and so we started trailing the suspect.

“We thank God, on September 26, we got him. He is 23 years. He was arrested in Osun State,” he said.

WASTED TALENT, WHAT SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT DO WITH THE YOUNG BOY?

PICTURES FROM AFRICA FASHION WEEK, LONDON 2013

According to the organisers, their goal is both to celebrate London’s diversity and to promote Africa’s culture through fashion.

“There is a lot of African talent on the continent and also in the diaspora but they don’t always have the financial back-up, they don’t always have the means to turn their passion into a business”, Sinem Bilen-Onabanjo, from the organising team.

Watch out for a self-taught designer who surprised many with the quality of her work, Tumisola Ladega (right), of Nigerian descent. She is only 14 years old.

JULIET IBRAHIM SHOWS OFF HER CUTE SISTERS, SONIA AND NADIA

The sexy Ghanaian actress posted the picture on her Instagram page, showing off her equally stunningly sexy sisters, and they seem to be asking us, ‘who is hottest?!’

          Let's debate on this, Who is the Sexiest of all...?

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