Actor Mike Ezuruonye Shares New Photos, Hangs Out With Ice Prince & Emmanuel Adebayor

The Nollywood actor is currently on vacation. He shared some of his holiday pics from the UK and Toronto, Canada.
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PHOTOS: Beyonce & Jayz Ride A Bike To Diddy's Party

The power couple are showing off their romantic side. Jay and Bey rode on a bike to rapper Diddy's New year party at the Versace mansion. 

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See Photos Of Mercy Aigbe's Louis Vuitton Handbag Cake As She Celebrates Birthday

The beautiful actress is a year older today. Happy birthday to her... see more pics after the cut....

Aliko Dangote Tops Forbes List Of 'The Biggest African Billionaire Gainers In 2013'

The rich are getting richer, No one made bigger bucks in Africa in 2013 than the continent’s richest man, Aliko Dangote. The Nigerian cement, sugar and flour mogul saw his fortune soar $10.1 billion, or 79% through Wednesday, the 31st of December 2013. The biggest catalyst was his Dangote Cement shares which has experienced a 74% run-up over the last 12 months. He is now worth $22.9 billion according to FORBES’s most recent statistics, up from $12.8 billion at the end of December 2012.
Africa's richest woman, Folorunsho Alakija and Mike Adenuga also made the list.
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PHOTOS: Rihanna Hosts Friends To Intimate Dinner In Her New $14.6million Penthouse

So we finally get to see the domestic side of Rihanna. The 25-year-old star took to the kitchen as she hosted a New Year's Eve dinner for nearly 20 of her friends before headed out to Jay Z's 40/40 club to see in the New Year in style. 
Rihanna invited friends including Cara Delevingne, hairdresser Yusuf, best friend Melissa Forde and manager Jenn Rosalesto to dine with her at the singer's new $14.6million New York City penthouse.
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EPIC SHOWDOWN - Floyd Mayweather Jr. Set To Finally Face Manny Pacquaio

Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao have already booked a date to settle the score once and for all. According to a source close to situation, the megabuck showdown between Money May and the Pacman will finally take place in September 2014 after several failed attempts to arrange the biggest match in boxing history.

Youtube Boxing channel 78Sports TV reported that the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao showdown is already a done deal. The source, who disclosed insider's information about Mayweather's upcoming fights with Robert Guerrero and Saul Canelo Alvarez before these bouts were actually announced, indicated that Money May has already agreed to terms with Pacquiao.

"Great news in the world of boxing. He [the source] is telling me that Floyd and Manny Pacquiao will be fighting in 2014 guaranteed and it's already done," the 78Sports anchor said in his 16-minute commentary on Youtube. "Everything else that you will see will be just theatrics from here on out. But the fight is already done"

HOW TO MAKE FREE CALLS WHILE CHATTING ON BLACKBERRY MESSENGER

Am sure some must have tried this out while some are not even aware of this, in today's post i will be showing you how you can make free calls while chatting on BBM.

In my own case i use my Android phone to
power my blackberry to ping and browse free of charge without even subscribing for any BIS.

All i did was to
configure my android to tether and broadcast network that powers my blackberry.


So lets go to straight the main purpose of this post, some people have wireless network in their offices, houses etc and yet they are not exploring this unique feature of Blackberry Messenger whereby you can call your friends that are also connected to a wireless network all for free to talk as long as you desire,
see the screenshot below to see how you can talk to your friends for free while pinging on blackberry..continue ....

How to Watch Live Football Matches and Tv programs using your android Phone, Tablets etc

This is the best android app I can always count on when it comes to streaming Live football matches, Live wrestling matches, Live News programs, Live Movie channels, Live events and sundry.

This App impressed me to the point that I stopped missing to watch Dstv because the dstv mobile decoder cannot even offer me what this great App is offering me now. not to mention about the other alternative apps like the spb tv, netflix Apps that I removed after I installed sybla tv.

The fact remains that, I don¡¯t only watch live matches with this App but also gets update on the time the live broadcast will start coupled with thousand of other channels available at all time for free....CONTINUE....

MTN MAGIC SIM UNLIMITED BROWSING NEW SETTINGS - JANUARY 2014

New settings for MTN Magic Sim Unlimited browsing
Dial *407# to migrate to MTN family and friendz.
Then load 250 via a phone set your set time to 0:00 and date 12/12/2015
Go to message ,leave 3 space type 2H send to 131 remove sim put in ur modem browse and make sure u finish the 150mb within the 2hrs still connected to d modem, if your browser is not going again, and you don't see massage from mtn, know that you have exhausted your 150mb, please don't disconnect your modem just go to massage type 2 send to 131, u will see the message of you exhausted your 2hrs then type reset send to 131 do the reset thing at least 5 times do not disconnect oooooo, check your browser, the stuff will pick up, then you are browsing again.
Enjoy!
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LEARN:HOW TO RESTORE AND RECOVER YOUR LOST BBM CONTACTS

You may be looking for a way to restore or recover your BBM Contacts if you increasingly cash yourBlackberry device .

Contained by this article, I shall discuss with you how to recover or  restore your BBM Contacts even if  you include not at all backed up the BBM Contacts.

With no much story and  explanation, we already know with the aim of The BBM get in touch with back up is like a store up or safe box where your Blackberry envoy contacts are being saved and synchronize, though the frequency in support of which this is being made is single-minded by your BIS or BES subscription and the service bringer.

Furthermore, you can manually back up your BlackBerry envoy get in touch with in the sphere of a folder on your media card(Memory Card). In support of details on how to work out, this article should guide you on how to Back Up your BBM Contacts in support of Easier reinstatement.continue after the cut..

READ > Online All the Time? Check Out 4 Ways to Use Social Media to

	By Aina Tolulope Social Media today transcends just being seen as tools to connect with others and share ideas. It has moved from the social to the personal and even bears some measure of influence on the career aspects of an individual?s life. Today it is easier for employer?s to gauge, through online sources, certain attributes of a candidate?s qualities and suitability for a job. To use social media to your career advantage is to understand that employers now make use of social mediato identify, attract and verify talents. You can stand out and attract a prospective employer?s attention via various social media channels. While it may not be too significant at the moment social media is beginning to play an increasingly noticeable role in the recruitment process.CONTINUE...... Apart from the normal channels of recruitment, person to person referrals now go on via such social channels like Twitter and LinkedIn. Employers seeking candidates will readily ask their colleagues on social platforms to refer any suitable candidates they know. Candidates on the other hand can utilise the many opportunities presented by the nature of social platforms to attract the attention of the HR people at their target organisations. In a report released by CareerXroads it was shown that as much as 40% or recruiters and business executives believe some key social platforms (LinkedIn, Twitter) have some recruiting value and can help in the recruiting process. The focus in this write up is on what you, as a career individual, can do to utilise social media effectively in your job search. Show Your Creative Abilities One of the greatest strengths of social platforms today is that it has democratised the process of showcasing talent. Whether you are a fledging developer, graphic artist, digital marketer, lawyer or security professional it has become easier to creatively demonstrate your expertise and knowledge in your chosen specialisation. Social media has transcended just Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Forums, video sharing sites, blogs etc have all become essential parts of social media. If you are the ambitious type you can come up with a strategy to make yourself heard and relevant on any of these social platforms. The next section shows how you can leverage on social media to show your knowledge and value to a prospective employer. Provide Valuable Insights and Content in Your Field of Expertise If you commit to learning as much as you can about your career area of choice you can use the various social platforms to provide valuable insights and content which could impress the right people. It doesn't matter what kind of work you do or intend doing the social media is available to use in showcasing your possible suitability and usefulness to an employer. Develop Relationships With Industry Influencers Before the days of social media it was virtually very difficult to get in touch with influencers and important professionals in an industry. Today with the right approach you could be having meaningful conversations with such people on a social media platform. Build a network of industry influencers As this will not only help you keep in tune with cutting edge ideas in your industry you can also leverage the network and familiarity to get useful tips and insider information on certain suitable opportunities. Optimise Your Online Reputation and Profile These days more and more employers may readily check you out online to get an idea of your antecedents and determine how suitable you are for the job. Managing your online reputation is all about ensuring that work shows when people search for you will consist of information that will showcase your expertise, quality and suitability as a professional in so and so area. This means you should use all necessary social platforms (many of them are high ranked sites respected by Google). You can also create online resume profile on career platforms like Ngcareers and put up the best possible information to showcase your work history, experience, achievements and career related projects. When someone checks you out your social media profiles should showvideos, articles, designs (if you are in a design related industry), projects etc that you have accomplished. Let your online presence speak volumes of your ability and promise as a career individual.
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Download Dr Sid's New Album here..

 -  Dr Sid's New Album. Download Free!

SID’s much anticipated sophomore album titled “SIDUCTION”.
This album follows the overwhelming success of his 2010 debut album “TURNING POINT”, which featured the hit songs “Something about you”, “Pop Something”, “Winchi Winchi” and “Over the moon”.
The album title “SIDUCTION” is an infusion of Dr SID’s Persona into the word “Seduction” and is defined as “The art of charming someone and appealing to their senses through Dr SID’s music”
“SIDUCTION” is a testament to Dr. Sid’s evolution as an artist. It has a variety of influences including Afrobeat, Pop, Hip-hop, RnB, Dub-step, Dance, Trance, Dancehall and soul, all blending beautifully into an AfroPop Naija sound that is uniquely Dr SID...continue to download.....

Dwyane Wade & Gabrielle Union were not on break when he fathered a child

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The mother of Dwyane Wade's love child has been revealed. Her name is Aja Metoyer, (pictured above) a popular Miami groupie who has two other children with her high school sweetheart, Damon Wayans Jr. And according to new reports, Dwayne and Gabrielle Union were not on break when the baby was conceived like Dwyane Wade claims...

Photo: D'banj grabs lady's butt on stage

Let Ms Nnaji catch you...:-). The Kokomaster pictured above grabbing the butt of dancer during the Lagos Countdown event that took place yesterday morning

Fresh Prince of Bel Air actor, James Avery, 'Uncle Phil' dies at 65

James Avery, the actor who played Uncle Phil in popular 90s sitcom Fresh Prince of Bel Air has died. He passed away yesterday December 31st in an LA hospital days after undergoing open heart surgery. He died from complications from the operation. He was 65 years old. May his soul rest in peace, Amen.

Ludacris also fathers a child with a woman that is not his fiancee

What is wrong with these men, don't they use condoms? DWade is not the only male celeb to father a child while in a longtime relationship, rapper Ludacris also did.

Ludacris, who is engaged to longtime girlfriend Eudoxie (pictured with him above), just welcomed a daughter with an Atlanta groupie named Tamika Fuller.

According to TMZ, Ludacris just filed court docs to legally establish paternity for Cai Bella Bridges, born Dec. 9th, and to set a limit on the amount of child support that can be awarded to his baby mama

Ludacris is claiming he earns only $25,842.41 a month which would limit child support to $1,754.66 a month under Georgia law. What about his Fast & Furious paycheck? Don't lie, Luda!

Must read! An open letter to Nigeria's new generation - Funmi Iyanda

Open letter to a new generation, keynote delivered by Funmi Iyanda at the ThinkOyo 30under30 awards recently. Read below...

The thing about age is, it is catching. It’s like a hysterical jester lying in wait for the fool.

I want to tell you about Mrs Okoro. Before l turned nine, school was a vaguely irritating distraction from the pursuit of happiness in play and adventure. Every school day, I’d wear my red checked dress and burgundy beret uniform and passively submitto school. l was not a rebellious child. I was a bored child who daydreamed through classes until lunch when the school served asaro and chicken with bananas and ground nuts as snacks. That was until l got to Mrs Okoro’s class.

Mrs Okoro made letters become words, words which became stories, stories which became my life. I loved her dearly, perhaps it was transference as l’d recently lost my mother but at nine, l started going to school because she was there. One day walking out the gates after school, l saw Mrs Okoro getting into a bus ahead of me so l ran across the road to get into the same bus. I didn’t bother checking for traffic. The next thing l rememberis thinking heavenlooked rather like Akoka road. I had been hit by a car and was staring up at the concerned faces of Mrs Okoro and others. The driver was distraught; he was a student at Unilag and in the moment before pain cut through my adrenalin, l remember being happy l had been hit by a grand university student not some infernal danfo bus driver.

He took me to the university health centre where the nurses gave me a large cone of ice cream to comfort me before treating me and putting me in the big university bus home. My heart was swollen with pride as the shiny big bus drove down our dirt street in Bariga. Not a dime was exchanged, no one called my father at work, there were no mobile phones and we had no phone at home. There was no need; the system took care of me.  It was Nigeria 1980.

Recently on my way out of Nigeria, the Murtala Mohammed airport was thrown into chaos, people were sweating and swearing, passengers stranded as all electronic equipment had stopped working.  The place stank because there was no water to clean the toilets.  I watched the white airline crew walk by with barely contained derision as they gingerly sidestepped the mess. The problem wasn’t that there was no electricity at the airport, that’s normal; it was that someone had not supplied the diesel to run one of the generators.

I sat in a corner, observing people; those who fascinated me most were the band of men, mid thirties to late forties, Nigeria’s emerging business and political elite. I recognised them by their Louis Vuitton luggage, logo jacket and velvet slippers, disguising their social anxiety with an unabated desire for the pointless. Seemingly oblivious to their environment, they strutted about backslapping and rolling their r's, being cocky, rude and dismissive to everyone.

What stuck me most about these preening peacocks though, was their total lack of shame at the state of things. They are the band of new-Africa-rising, proudly Nigerian jingoists, living in a glass bubble as far removed from the Nigerian reality as you can get. For them patriotism is not a recognition of failure and a determination to redress it, but a slogan to be worn, tweeted or liked.

Later on, crammed into a rather unsanitary first class lounge, I watched them posturing for furtive young female travelling companions, clearly under instructions to pretend not to know them. The odd thing is that these are no corn farmers made good from my native Ida ogun, these lounge dwellers are very well educated and uncommonly well travelled Nigerians. A defective fraction of the immense amount of brainpower and knowledge Nigeria has produced. They help prevent their peers fulfilling their potential and a pool of brilliant thinkers, explorers, scientists, innovators and artists is lost, squandered by a nation that strangulates its best.

I often hear foreigners perplexedly comment that Nigerians are some of the best educated, urbane and confident black people they have ever met, so how come the country is so, well, Shit?

One reason staring them in the face is that, the best-educated, urbane and confident elite they delight in meeting has failed us.

The question therefore should be, what is it about the country that makes it impossible for its bright, hard working, resource rich population to organise itself into collective prosperity? What is it that turns some of Nigeria's brightest technocrats into hand wringing, head-scratching incompetents when they achieve power?

You see, Nigeria was founded as an economic proposition to collect and remit resources to the empire, with the British government entrenching a feudal, centralized, western-education-phobic elite in the North and a westernized, Judeo-Christian, anglicised elite in the south.

On departure, these elites with their distinct cultural differences but common goal of avarice became the new imperialists. Imbued with a servitude underpinned by self-loathing and a voracious appetite to mimic their former bosses, they confused westernisation for civilisation and like all counterfeiters concentrated on the surface of things. Thus, to their thinking, the more resources of the land they could coral, the more trappings of the west they could possess and the more civilised they could become.

That unwelcome process continues today. 

For this elite, the rest of their kith and kin fill them with unease and even disgust and they condemn them to poverty and a passive consumption of other people’s science, innovations, religions, art and technology as though such achievements are beyond us. They also condemn their own children to future poverty not just material but emotional and cultural. Notably the stolen wealth hardly outlives the first generation.

Each time the elite is replaced, it is by a new generation similarly afflicted and culturally insecure with the same desire to fraudulently acquire a large share of the common wealth themselves.

This is self-loathing in action. It is a terminal disease.

Our common humanity and civilisation should be guaranteed by carefully protected, ever evolving structures, systems and processes, which reflect all our highest values and aspirations. Kajola ni Yoruba nwi.

The system designed by the British was to serve the big empire. It was not designed to work for us and never will.

We all know this and every so often the government of the day will propose a state sponsored jamboree to endlessly chew the curd of that vexatious issue of reform, only to artfully spit it out when the people are sufficiently distracted by the increasingly circus-like, mad-max dystopia we are living through.

The dysfunction at Nigeria’s heart remains because it serves the interests of whichever big man muscles or cheats his way into power. (Note; I said man, the system will never allow for a woman, at least not a woman who won’t do the needful.)

But what about the people? What about the youth?

The subtext of Obasanjo’s recent letter to Jonathan is what they used to call two fighting boy and boy in the streets of Shomolu. The people can sense this it is not their fight; they are as disconnected from the elite as the elite are from them.

They know their place is to submit and dream. They want to be the next big cat. They have no real distaste for those who have stolen their future; often they just want to replace them. The grudging admiration seeping through their envy fuelled whimpers of protest reveals fragile egos easily stroked by association with those who have raped them, then thrown them a bit of Vaseline and warm towels.

They desire to be the ones at the airport with the designer bags and unplaceable accent. The one’s who are gearing up to follow the path of those before them. To flaunt luxuries but live in situations so far removed from the vision of life those luxuries where designed for. When Karl Lagerfeld designs each Chanel bag he cannot possibly envisage it may end up in a place where the carrier can be dragged out of a car and raped in daylight with witnesses and no repercussions. Yes that happened. The baubles do not make us civilised, a country built on a political structure that allows the creativity, innovation, and talent of all to thrive does. 

Nigeria in 1980 was by no means a perfect place but would my counterpart in Shomolu today have a Mrs Okoro or such access to public health care?

Let us sound a warning to our "betters," as they push and pull the country one way and another in their hustle; it is untenable, there will be a snapping, one, which no one can predict.

So what shall we do? What will the young intellectual elite of today do differently?

A youth cultural revolution of ideology and values perhaps? Jettison the hypocrisy, the pseudo religious, anti women, anti children, anti poor patriarchy. Turn away from the bigotry, the megalomania, and the cultural bravado. Free yourselves and your future. Speak the truth to power and each other, not just on twitter, to face. Refuse to participate in the racket, the hustle, and the lie. Be better than that which is on offer.

Thatcher, a deeply polarising figure, but outstanding leader once said;

“Watch your thoughts for they become words.
Watch your words for they become actions.
Watch your actions for they become habits.
Watch your habits for they become your character.
And watch your character for it becomes your destiny.

What we think, we become. "

 Start now before you become the company CEO, the minister, the commissioner, the senator. Lead from within and without.

Abraham Lincoln once said of citizens desiring change; make me. Make your elders and leaders take you seriously. Help the few good men and women in power by showing there is a generation who can and will stand with them. Insist on the structural and constitutional changes that which will free our collective creativity, innovation, science, ideas and culture.

Civilisation is neither westernisation nor exclusive to other climes. It is building a society on values and institutions designed to protect not the strongest but the weakest as we are only as strong, as honourable, as respected and valued as the sum of our weakest parts.

Now what? My job is to tell stories with context, sometimes l don’t know the end. Write your own ending. Shape history.

Demi Moore shows off banging bod& new toyboy at Mexican getaway

Before I even say anything about the younger new man, that is a banging body for a woman over 50. The actress, 51, was spotted kissing and cozying up to her much younger new boyfriend at the beach near their luxurious resort on family holiday in Tulum, Mexico on New Year's day. The guy doesn't look older than 30 but who cares, Demi is enjoying her cougar life :-). His name is Sean and he works in the music business. See more photos after the cut...

Photos: Basketmouth, IK Osakioduwa and others at Youth Enterprise Conference

Basket Mouth, IK Oskioduwa and NairaBET.com CEO Akin Alabi were the main speakers at the Youth Enterprise Conference that held at Eko hotel and Suites in December. More pics after the cut..

Chris Brown & Karruche put on PDA as they spend new year together

Awww...they seem so in love. Chris Brown spent New Year's day with his girlfriend Karrueche Tran who paid him a visit in rehab and shared a pic of her sucking his tongue outside the Malibu clinic on her instagram page.

"Getting chrae on New Years Day haha #Corny #Ha#HappyNewYears,' Karrueche wrote

Lol! Read actor Benjamin Joseph's funny New Year message

He shared this as a broadcast on his BB yesterday. No oshofree things this year. Hehe. Read below..

"Happy New Year folks, glad we all had a seamless crossover into the new year. It is new year, things take a turn for the better. Change is constant. We should all desire to grow and achieve as much as God desires for us. Please permit me to share this general announcement:

Please don't ask me to do things pro bono for you, or your organization/magazine/newspaper/etc, unless you fancy being let down, personally.

I have serious bills to pay, just like the rest of y'all, so if you want to hire my services, we can talk, but otherwise, don't even think about approaching me - the time for me to pump up my resume with the fleeting thrill of being a good samaritan is over unless you pay for it. I repeat over!

And nope- no friendship calls as far as business is concerned. Thanks, I have to draw the margin somewhere, and since this last yearly quarter seems to be the one where I've been asked the most for free expertise, let me reiterate once and for all: nothing in the world is free, my expertise being the least amongst them."

OMG! Dino Melaye shows off new girlfriend, says he's very happy

Dino Melaye has already moved on from his estranged wife, Tokunbo Melaye, who is currently battling with him in court over their divorce. The former House of Rep member shared photos of his new girlfriend on his Facebook page this morning and wrote - "New beginning, I am very happy".

Men and how fast they move on. Fine chick. Anyone know who she is? See another pic after the cut..

Oh dear! Dino Melaye introduces new woman as Mrs Melaye

The babe is even wearing a ring. Are they married?

Kenyans ridicule President Jonathan over Presidential fleet...lol

Kenyans mock President Jonathan over fleets of presidential aircraft he traveled with when he visited Kenya during their just concluded Independence Day celebration...

The woman in the video said:

BBA winner Dillish buys Elikem the bike she promised him in the BBA House

How thoughtful. So nice of her!