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Check out these beautiful photos of Omosexy at a press conference organized for GOtv Ghana. The actress and others hosted a news briefing with content producers "iFactory" at the Tang Palace, to celebrate African and Ghanaian content on GOtv and AfricaMagic.

See more photos at http://www.exlinklodge.com/2016/02/actress-omotola-dazzles-in-red-white-at.html

The 24 year old Henry Effiom from Cross River State contested for Mr Tourism Nigeria 2015 where he emerged First Runner Up as Mr Tourism Nigeria Planet.

Effiom, a 300 level Business Administration studemt from University of Abuja is also a model. See the new photos released by him....


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Abraham Kator of Kenya beat other top marathoners across the world to win the first Access Bank Lagos City Marathon Saturday at a time of two hours, 16 minutes and 21 seconds (2:16:21). Halima Huseen Kayo of Ethiopia emerged winner in the female category of the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon while Emmanuel Gyan was the first

Nigerian to cross the finish line, but finished 7th position overall. The Kenyan with bib number 341, will pocket the sum of $50,000 for winning the tournament, while the Nigerian, Gyan from Plateau State will be given the sum of N1 million for his effort. Dignitaries at the finishing line include the Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen Tukur Buratai, Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung, Hamad Kalkaba Malboum, a Cameroon national, current President of the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA).

He has been at the helm since 2003, when he replaced Lamine Diack who became President of the International Athletics Federation (IAAF), who led the delegation together with Solomon Ogba President of Athletic federation of Nigeria and Fatma A. Awake, the Vice President of the Athletic federation of Kenya.

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Rivers State Governor Nelson Wike visited traders today at the Mile 3 wood market which recently got burnt. During his visit, he sympathized with traders that lost their property and promised to donate the sum of 200 million naira to enable them pick up again and continue their wood making businesses.

More photos............. http://www.exlinklodge.com/2016/02/wike-promise-to-donate-n200-million-on.html


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Yoruba Actress Fathia Balogun Releases New Stunning Photos To Celebrate Her Birthday






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Nollywood actress Fathia Balogun celebrated her birthday today. Faithia Balogun popularly called Fathia Balogun was born on the 5th of February 1969 in Delta State and she turned 46 years old today but she is looking like she is in her 20's guys.


She released these pics today to mark her birthday.


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Nollywood actor Saidi aka Saheed Balogun and his ex-wife, Fathia are celebrating their birthday today. Saidi Balogun was born in Enugu on the 5th of Feb 1967 to a parents from Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria and his ex wife, Faithia Balogun popularly called Fathia Balogun was born on the 5th of February 1969 in Delta State.

Saidi Balogun is a Nigerian actor, film-maker, director and producer. Saidi was born on February 5, 1967, in Enugu State, southeastern Nigeria but hails from Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State southwestern Nigeria where he had is primary, secondary an tertiary education. He graduated from Kwara State Polytechnic (now Kwara State University). He began acting in 1978, when he presented his first television program titled "Youth Today" on NTA. He produced his first film titled City Girl in 1989 but had featured, produced and directed several Nigerian films over the years. He has featured, produced and directed several Nigerian films over the years.

Faithia Balogun was born on February 1969 at Ukwara, water side local government area of Delta State, southern Nigeria. She attended Maryland Primary School and Maryland Comprehensive High School in Lagos state, where she obtained the West African School Certificate before she proceeded to Kwara State Polytechnic where she received a diploma certificate.

She has starred, produced and directed several Nigerian films over the years. In 2008, she won the Africa movie Academy Award for the Most Outstanding Actress Indigenous and her movie Iranse Aje won the best indigenous film of the year. On April 2014, she won the Africa Movie Academy Award, having emerged as best actress of the year along with Odunlade Adekola who emerged as best actor of the year. Faithia Balogun also won the Best Indigenous Language: Yoruba award for the work done in the film Iya Alalake at the 2015 Africa-Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards AMVCA. She was formerly married to the veteran nollywood actor, Saheed Balogun.

She is the mother of two of Saidi’s children, Aaliyah and Khalid Balogun. Wishing them many happy returns and if not for the intricacies of celebrities in naija and their problems, this two would have been happily married and in love with each other today. Any which wey sha, congrats on your birthday..

more on http://www.exlinklodge.com/2016/02/nollywood-ex-couple-saidi-faithia.html

The winner of Nigeria's Next Super Model Victoria Daropale has emerged the winner of Fresh Faces world contest in Barcelona Spain, last night after walking at Barcelona Fashion Week. Victoria was discovered at an event by the head booker and head scout for ISIS Models, Uchenna Okwudima. Uchenna has a penchant for discovering talents, he also discovered winner of 2013 Nigeria's Next Supermodel Cynthia Abdulahi in Ajegunle. Cynthia is currently signed to Brave Models Milan, 20 Management Cape town and is also from ISIS Models.

In the drastic life changing moments Victoria Daropale won a brand new car sponsored by Ifeanyi Oputa of Studio 24, tickets to Paris,Milan, Malta and New York. She will cover Showcase Magazine and other international magazines.

Joan Okorodudu the brainchild behind Nigeria's Next Super Model and owner of ISIS MODELS in an interview said that "Surely God is faithful and He opens big doors since Victoria has won the two shows which have happened in less than a period of two months''. Joining Victoria in the competition was Benjamin Onaji who was scouted/discovered in the market place by Aju Elumelu James sister to the originator of Nigerias Next Super Model. He worked his way up to be the winner in Nigeria's Next Super Model.

In the words of an international photographer Nacho Martinez, he stated that Victoria Daropale is the next world top model

http://www.exlinklodge.com/2016/02/nigerian-model-emerges-winner-of-fresh.html

Kate Henshaw has joined the league of no nonsense Nollywood stars hitting fans the moment they pick on them online. The mother of one recently got into an argument with a fan who tried to bully her over her mother-tongue.

The fan had wrote, “You that cannot speak your ibibio,” ,but kate sharply replied, “and who are you, If you have nothing to say with the incorrect info you have, why not keep silent?”

more at http://www.exlinklodge.com/2016/02/nollywood-actress-kate-henshaw-blast.html

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Nollywood Actress Uche Nnanna's son, Mike, turned a year old yesterday February 2nd. She shared these adorable photos of him on her social handle.

Happy birthday to the little man........ more pics at http://www.exlinklodge.com/2016/02/nollywood-actress-uche-nnanna-shares.html

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Should i say gone are the days girls or ladies had some dignity in this country or in Africa as a whole? This our notion of trying to become or live the livestyles of the advanced country have inadvertently distroyed us. Later They’d say they’re following them from the village after they’ve searched tirelessly for husbands and it proves futile.

This Facebook User posted pictures of herself smoking weed but deleted it after she received lot of bashing. Is it that mothers are too busy chasing after wealth and what children will eat than advicing their kids? Or is it that the advice to the kids falls on deaf ears? And i ask again, were have all the manners gone?

more pics at http://www.exlinklodge.com/2016/02/imagine-what-this-girl-posted-on.html

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War On Instagram As Sonia Exposes Husband’s (Nollywood Actor IK Ogbonna) Cheating Secrets

It is no news now in Nigeria that part of being a celebrity is to become a cronic womanizer or a sex addict or even a husband snatcher. Nollywood actor IK Ogbonna and his beautiful wife Sonia washed a part of their dirty linen in public yesterday when the two exchanged words with each other on Instagram

Sonia was the first to take to Instagram to call out her husband for allegedly cheating on her. See the mayhem as it unfolds below....

more at http://www.exlinklodge.com/2016/02/war-on-instagram-as-sonia-exposes.html

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OAP Toolz and her fiance, Tunde Demuren were hosted to a dinner party in Lagos this evening ahead of their traditional wedding which takes place on Saturday January 30th 2016.

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Unemployment for Nigeria, hmmmmm, nawaooooh. Lagos "Eko City" nawaoooh. The sight i saw today along Oshodi is something worth talking about. I can't even tell were the problem is. Is it because of the mass unemployment and economic woes of Nigeria or is it that people are no more worshiping God how they should?

When i was driving along Oshodi today I saw this hilarious but troubling sign on a Church along the road, (name witheld). It reads:

"Job Opportunity - Ushers Needed, N5000 & You Work only 4 Times A Week"

I couldn't take a picture of it though because i was driving and if i try to park somewhere eh, KAI people wey full there go use me chop afternoon food... lol.

I got really confused as to why a church of that caliber should put up a sign like that. Is it that people are no more working for God? Or is it that they are doing this favour to Nigerians because of the mass unemployment that have crippled us?

Please guys, what is happening? What do you think? more at http://www.exlinklodge.com/2016/01/lagos-nawaooh-job-vacancy-ushers-needed.html



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The former reviered Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mrs. Farida Waziri, on Sunday, January 24, lost her daughter, Jackie Ifidon-Ola (nee Waziri), to an undisclosed ailment. According to Punch, the Jackie, 39 died at an Abuja hospital in the early hours of Sunday.

Report said the deceased, who was based in London, is survived by her husband, two kids and her parents, Senator Ajuji Waziri and Dr. Farida Waziri.

Confirming the incident, media aide to the former EFCC boss, Ade Williams, said "highly placed Nigerian leaders have been visiting the Waziri family to console them in their Abuja home” since their daughter passed.

more at http://www.exlinklodge.com/2016/01/former-efcc-boss-farida-waziri-losses.html


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Lynxxx's parents, Chief and Mrs John Edozien are celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary today January 24th. Lynxxx's father was a deputy governor of the old Bendel state. The singer shared the photo above and wrote;

"So much to thank God for! Happy 40th Wedding Anniversary to my Wonderful Parents! May God continue to bless your Union and may we celebrate many more milestones in the name of Jesus! My Motivation & inspiration! Love you both to the moon and back!

Congrats to them both.

Lynxxx: Chukie Edozien, better known by his stage name Lynxxx, is a Nigerian hip-hop recording artist and entrepreneur. Born in Lagos to the family of Chief and Mrs John Edozien.

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Nollywood Actress Ronke Ojo-Anthony AKA Ronke Oshodi-Oke and her husband are celebrating their 7th wedding anniversary today. The actress shared this info via her Instagram page and also shared a photo from their wedding and wrote;

"1[i]6 years of friendship, 7 years of marriage tho you can b very naughty atimes but having u by my side has being wonderful my friend, my husband, my big baby, the father of my children. HWA to us." Happy wedding anniversary to them[/i]!

Ronke is a native of Ondo State but was born in Oworonshoki, a city in Lagos State Southwestern Nigeria, where she completed her primary and secondary education. She began her acting career with a drama group called Star Parade under the leadership of Fadeyi, a Nigerian actor but became an household name in the year 2000 when she featured in a movie titled Oshodi Oke, from which she got her stage name.

Her musical career began in 2014, the same year she launched her debut album which is yet to be released. In 2015, she released a single titled Ori Mi which featured 9ice. Born: July 17, 1974 (age 41), Lagos, Nigeria and married Anthony Gbolahan with adorable kids.

More pics below.... http://www.exlinklodge.com/2016/01/yoruba-actress-ronke-oshodi-oke.html



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Nollywood Actor & Comedian De-Don who plays the funny character Okeremute on M-net Africa sitcom: Do Good, alongside top acts like Basorge Tariah, Kate Henshaw, took his family to the U.S. for a fun vacation.

If you watch M-net always, he probably needs no introduction to you. Well he is chilling in US with his kids and beautiful wife and enjoying the cold weather over there.


More pics below......... http://www.exlinklodge.com/2016/01/nigeria-comedian-de-don-shares-pics-of.html



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Scam Alert: Check Out This Scammer's Response To A Victim He Tried To Scam. Hope you don't fall a victim to this boys. This is just one method they are using, believe me, they have a lot of disguised methods and please what ever offer you are giving, make sure you scrutinize it and probably talk to people before you even give it a thought.

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Role of NNPC’s Crude Oil Market Dept. exposed
NIMASA pocketed N65bn annually, says Amaechi

In tandem with the determination of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to fight corruption, especially in the revenue generating agencies in the country, Nigerian Pilot investigations have revealed that the organisations are not only fleecing the country dry, very powerful forces are behind their stubbornness in yielding their respective operations to needed due diligence.
The report of the month-long investigation also reveals the role of the Crude Oil Marketing Department, CMOD of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC and the embattled Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA among others in the entire scheme.
Agencies short-change Nigerians
With 82 federal revenue-generating agencies, Nigeria ought to be awash with cash. But the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has been worried that on the contrary, not much revenue is coming from the agencies. Instead, it has been reports of corruption, graft and practices inconsistent with the government’s revenue drive. This development caused the government last week to announce its decision to probe all revenue generating agencies of the federation. In view of the present poor revenue from crude oil sales, the decision was considered by many as timely if not overdue.
Investigations
Nigerian Pilot found out that many federal government agencies such as NIMASA, NCAA, NAMA, NCS, NIS, NDLEA, FAAN, NPA receive revenue in foreign currencies but some of them change the money in the black market and remit Naira to the treasury; with the amount remitted usually far below the amount generated. The difference is shared among the management staff. Also alleged large-scale sabotage involving top managers of the agencies is making nonsense of the nation’s drive to fiscal discipline.
Before the coming of the present NNPC leadership, the Crude Oil Marketing Department, COMD of the NNPC, this newspaper found, out was a chief culprit in this regard. Apart from the general belief that NNPC is a major source of revenue to government, the COMD is the main cash cow. But its operations are not made public.
For instance, in the third quarter of last year, the redeployment of the head of its crude oil marketing division, Gbenga Komolafe, was announced by the NNPC and his immediate subordinate was seconded to succeed him. Although NNPC’s statement announcing his replacement fell short of stating so, stakeholders in the oil and gas sector concluded that the development was not unconnected with the report of the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) released days earlier which disclosed that over $32 billion oil revenue was lost to NNPC’s mismanagement of Domestic Crude Allocation (DCA), opaque revenue retention practices and corruption-ridden oil-for-product swap agreements.
The report covered a 10-year period while Mr. Komolafe was only appointed to the crude oil marketing division in which the former GGM served for only one year.
Indeed, the GMD, Ibe Kachikwu, shortly after he assumed office last year, admitted that things had been done inappropriately in the corporation. Said he:“Things have been done wrongly and things need to be done differently. We are doing a lot of work in terms of repositioning, restructuring, getting the right personnel in key places and setting a culture of accountability and service delivery so that the new NNPC that you are going to see will be a different institution altogether.”
According to one expert, “the NRGI report offered a deep, independent analysis of how NNPC sells its oil, and found that the national oil company’s discretionary spending from domestic crude oil sale revenues has skyrocketed, exceeding $6billion a year for the 2011 to 2013 period (i.e. over $18 billion in three years).”

The document, which was published before the coming of the present leadership led by Ibe Kachikwu, stated that NNPC’s approach to oil sales has remained riddled with corruption largely because of its inability to either develop its own commercial or operational capacities, or facilitate the growth of the sector through external investment.
Experts told Nigerian Pilot that the foregoing need not be if revenue agencies and departments like COMD are given appropriate target and remit all collected revenues.
Last October, the federal government raised the alarm over what it described as rip-off by revenue generating agencies in the process of remitting revenues to government vault. It therefore put measure in place to audit these agencies. The move by the federal government to audit the revenue-generating agencies was informed by the need to curtail corruption as the diversion of federally collected revenue is believed to be taking a huge toll on the finances of government.
Besides, it was found out that for over10 years, COMD has never been audited. The forensic audit of NNPC by KPMG last year did not include the CMOD. According to NNPC egg-heads, “to probe COMD will be an endless journey because most documents of transactions in that department are usually destroyed for reasons outsiders don’t really know.”
In calling for a special audit of the department, experts suggest that allocations of crude oil to top and well connected Nigerians including executives of NNPC from 2009 through May 2015 must be investigated alongside revenues from such transactions.
To do this efficiently, the experts said the list of contracts being serviced as well as the interests of joint venture stakeholders who are still not well known must be investigated.
While they argue that the Auditor General of the Federation must conduct the foregoing special audit of COMD, the experts task the Accountant General to conduct treasury inspection of the Division and come up reports of crude produced over the period as well as quantity sold and revenue remitted to see if they tally.
The experts spoken to, also called for parliamentary inquest into COMD believed to be the richest arm of NNPC even as they alleged that some NNPC executives own refineries offshore while others are key players in the downstream sector.
“That is a way out for government and Nigerians to know why it is difficult for Nigeria to determine barrels of crude produced via the JVCs. There is a grand conspiracy there to rip off the country revenue-wise on a very regular basis,” said a consultant in the oil and gas sector.
However, Nigerian Pilot gathered that the present leadership under Ibe Kachikwu as both the NNPC GMD and Honourable minister of state, Petroleum resources, has successfully blocked all the identified leakages including scraping the age long crude oil swap deals. bidding process is now done in a transparent and open manner, televised LIVE and winners selected. Other reforms include revitalizing the refineries, resuscitating moribund firms and agencies, enhanced staff welfare, establishment of anti-corruption desk in all the subsidiaries and the corporation, publication of monthly statement of accounts including crude oil production amongst other reforms, some still ongoing.
On other things the NNPC under the present leadership is doing, Kachikwu has this to say:“The whole idea is to go back to being able to look at your appraisals; and how well have you done in the job? If you have done very well, how do we elevate you to a position where you can offer more service? If you have not done well enough, we can retrain you and if you have not done well enough and there is no possibility of retraining you, we will let you go.

“The NNPC is not a public service. It is a corporation and we run like a company generating money for the people of Nigeria. And so, that whole concept of ‘anything goes’ should stop. And this is the first stage of that whole process.”, he stated. In a bid to move the corporation forward, the NNPC has adopted what it described as “20-fixes” with which it hopes to reform its operations, guarantee profitability and perhaps run a transparent national oil company. NNPC through the “20-fixes” which are embedded in five cardinal business objectives that it intends to pursue, plans to amongst other initiatives, attain zero tolerance for corruption, restructure its major subsidiaries as well as enhance probity in its operations across board. The corporation’s “20-fixes” also include its intentions to restructure Joint Venture funding and reduce cash call demands; improve retail profitability; deploy and attract focused investments; expand crude oil marketing and generate electricity profitably. Also to be done within the initiative are, reduction and audit of running costs; restructuring of corporate centres and staff; renegotiation of existing contracts including Production Sharing Contracts (PSC); streamlining of subsidy management as well as improve security of the country’s critical petroleum pipelines. The corporation will also restructure its refining business; improve on its use of information technology for its businesses and demand for top-notch service performance from all its staff. Nigerian Pilot recalls that immediate past director-general, budget office Bright Okogu, had regretted that revenue-generating agencies practically spent a larger chunk of what they generated by upping their expenditure to match their revenue. That was fallout of findings when he was still in office. Said he: “We have uncovered that some relevant revenue generating agencies, anytime there is increase in the size of revenue collection, their expenditure went up. In 2009, we found that a particular agency generated N85 billion but spent 83.2 billion. In 2010, I decided to conduct a study to a particular agency which generated N1.7 billion but jerked up the spending to N1 billion. That was why we sent a letter to the President that we need to change the pattern”. The presidency then agreed and issued a directive that revenue-generating agencies must remit at least 25 per cent of their gross revenue while basing their budget on the balance after remittance. However, it is still believed that revenue targets set for most government agencies were peanuts compared to what they actually generated. For instance, the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS in 2010, got a revenue target of N561 billion; Federal Inland Revenue Services, FIRS, in 2008, had a set target of N2.27 trillion. Their targets are said to be peanuts when compared to the actual earning capacity of these agencies. -

Source: http://nigerianpilot.com/fraud-revenue-agencies-fleecing-nigeria-dry/#.dpuf

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The premiere of the highly anticipated movie "Beyond Blood" and directed by Greg Odutayo, held this past Thursday at the Silverbird Cinemas on Lagos Island. The movie reflects on the life of a young lady who, after series of uncontrollable events, decides to run away from her fears and gets caught in a cycle of unpleasant circumstances.

Speaking at the premiere, Greg Odutayo, revealed that it took five years to come up with such brilliantly written and captivating story. It was a full house as Nollywood actors and actress, movie producers and writers were in attendance. Jimmy Jatt and daughter, Mr. Raw, Adunni ADe, Caroline etc.

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Editor’s note: One of the most scandalous investigations launched by the Muhammadu Buhari’s government is the case of former National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki. Julia Payne of the Reuters analyses how this case will affect Buhari’s anti-corruption war. Read her analysis below....

The trial of the former security adviser Dasuki and his associates

True to his election promises, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has gone all out on corruption, alleging mind-boggling sums plundered from state coffers and giving investigators licence to pull in big hitters once thought untouchable.

Now comes the hard part: making the charges stick.

The first test comes on Wednesday with the opening of the trial of former National Security Advisor Sambo Dasuki, accused of fraud over $68 million of defence spending, part of a wider $2.1 billion in arms deals under scrutiny. Dasuki will be joined in court by ex-minister of state for finance Bashir Yuguda, an ex-director of finances at the NSA and a former head of the state oil firm, who also face corruption charges. Former defence minister Bello Haliru Mohammed has separately been accused of fraud and colluding with Dasuki. They have all pleaded not guilty.

Nigerians gripped by reports of missing millions

Most of the funds alleged to have been misused were earmarked for the fight against Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which has killed thousands in northeast Nigeria in the last seven years. The allegations have dominated television bulletins and newspapers for weeks, an indication of how badly Nigerians want to see justice for those who they believe have been stealing with impunity for years.

Although an immediate adjournment is likely, longer-term a successful trial and conviction is crucial for Buhari, a 73-year-old former military ruler who won the election last year largely on the back of vows to get tough on graft. “Dasuki’s trial is very significant because it addresses the challenge of impunity that we have seen in government,” said Clement Nwankwo, director of the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre, a think-tank in Abuja.

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