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17. Stephanie Okereke-Linus

16. Monalisa Chinda

15. Mimi orjekwe

14. Ebube Nwagbo

13. Daniella Okeke

12. Nse Ikpe-Etim

11. Funlola Aofiyebi-Raimi

10. Angela okorie

9. Damilola adegbite

8. Venita Akpofure

7. Peggy Ovire

6. Mercy Aigbe-Gentry

5. Bimbo Akintola

4. Genevieve Nnaji

3. Rita Dominic

2. Adunni Ade

The Nigerian movie industry gets a lot of credit for its outputs but not often do we recognize the ladies whose beauty, appeal and style help ensure we retain the numbers in terms of viewership and ratings.


We definitely owe them way more than we even know.

Some of us grew up watching several names on this list, other names got into the mix as things sizzled in the local movie scene. In all, we love the balance and sexiness they bring to our screens time and again and quite frankly we can never eulogize them enough.

We take out today to recognize 24 of the most beautiful and fashionable Nollywood actresses around today even though some of them stretch things beyond the bounds of decency from time to time, they will always be our favourite women on the big screen.

With no further ado, here are our most appealing Nollywood actresses in no particular order:

1. Nsikan Isaac

– Eighty-three soldiers, including a commanding officer, are still missing 4 days after the Nigerian army came under Boko Haram attack

– The details of the attack are still catchy as the troops went missing after the attack

– Hundreds of insurgents attacked the base of the Nigerian army on the border with Niger on Monday, October 17


Four days after the Nigerian army came under Boko Haram attack, at least 83 soldiers, including a commanding officer, are still missing, Premium Times reports.

According to top level military sources monitoring the development, the soldiers were still missing in action as of Friday morning, four days after the attack.

On Tuesday, October 18, the Nigerian Army confirmed the attack in a statement, but did s not given further updates. It did not also admit 83 soldiers were missing.

It was reported earlier how the Nigerian troops drowned in a river as they scampered for safety in the face of a superior firepower from the terrorists.

About 22 of the fleeing soldiers were later rescued by their Nigerien counterparts and dispatched to a hospital in Diffa, southern Niger, several others were fatally wounded after Boko Haram opened fire on them when they jumped into the River Yobe.

The missing Commanding Officer of 223 Tank Battalion in Gashigar, was identified as K. Yusuf, a lieutenant colonel.

Military sources further revealed that the troops could not withstand Boko Haram because they had only two light armour tanks to work with.

Even the two tanks were withdrawn from the battlefront in Damasak to Gashigar, leaving soldiers in Damasak and other small units nearby with no tank.

Apart from the poor equipment, the renewed show of strength by Boko Haram has frightened many, coming after months of relative success by the soldiers.

In another development, the chief of army staff Tukur Buratai on Tuesday, October 18, said all Boko Haram terrorists have been eliminated from Nigerian territory.

The army chief speaking in Lagos at the Albati Barracks while commissioning some structures said most of the terrorists’ attacks are carried out by insurgents from the Lake Chad Basin. Buratai said these attacks are mostly carried out outside the borders of Nigeria.


https://www.naij.com/1018157-bharam-attack-83-nigerian-soldiers-missing.html

tiwasiaife:
Why are you violent? Google amechis profile and tell me the school he read law?
Work with fact and not hear say
Amechi is not a lawyer
Ejike Asiegbu
Hon victor Antai
Rotimi Amechi Are university classmates

Sorry for my hostile reply.
I thought same before but was corrected to the fact that he is a lawyer.

Hahaha

tiwasiaife:
Amechi is not a lawyer
Do ur research.

Shut up, Right honorable Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi is a law... I am a Rivers man, who are you to say what you don't know.

– President Muhammadu Buhari expressed his deepest condolences to the Saro Wiwa family, the people of Rivers state, and Nigerians on the sudden and tragic passing of Ken Wiwa

– He also commiserates with the people of Ogoni kingdom over the passage of their illustrious son

– He also said prayed that the Almighty God will comfort all who mourn the deceased and grant his soul eternal rest


President Muhammadu Buhari has extended his heartfelt condolences to the Saro-Wiwa family as well as the government and people of Rivers state on the death of Ken Saro-Wiwa Jnr.

In a statement by the special adviser to the president on media and publicity, Femi Adesina, the president also commiserates with the people of Ogoni kingdom over the passage of their illustrious son, author and environmental activist, who was an ardent believer in the unity, progress and stability of his community.

The statement reads in parts: “President Buhari joins them in mourning the sudden and painful passing of a promising Nigerian whose willingness and dedication to the clean-up of Ogoni land inspired a healing process in Nigeria after the death of his father, Ken Saro-Wiwa.

“As the world mourns Saro-Wiwa Jnr, the president believes the commitment of the journalist in serving three Nigerian presidents in various capacities clearly exemplifies his patriotism, statesmanship and foresightedness.

“President Buhari, who has initiated the process of cleaning up the Niger Delta region, urges family, friends and associates to honour Saro-Wiwa’s memory by making his dream of an environmentally safe, secured and prosperous Ogoni land a reality.

“The president prays that the Almighty God will comfort all who mourn the deceased and grant his soul eternal rest.”

The Niger Delta region has been thrown into mourning following the death of Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr. According to Sahara Reporters, Saro-Wiwa Jr died on Tuesday, October 18.

The son of the late Ogoni activist served as an adviser to former president, Goodluck Jonathan.

His father, Ken Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in the Niger Delta. Due to his activism against the degradation of the land and waters of the Ogoni people by oil companies.

Meanwhile, Buhari has consoled the widow of the environmental activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr, assuring that her family is not alone in mourning the passage of the illustrious son of Ogoni land.

In a telephone call on Thursday, the president, while consoling the widow and her children, enjoined them to take solace in the knowledge that their late husband and father lived to see the beginning of the restoration of the devastated ecosystem of Ogoni land – a struggle which he had inherited from his late father, Ken Saro-Wiwa.

He urged the widow to remain emotionally strong and resilient at this sad period in the life of the family, stressing that Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr did not die in vain, as his earthly exploits will remain evergreen in national consciousness.

The president’s telephone call followed his condolence message on Wednesday, in which he extolled the achievements of the late author and journalist.

https://www.naij.com/1015940-sad-read-buhari-said-saro-wiwa-jnr.html

– John Paden has revealed how Buhari was almost killed during the Biafran war

– The details were revealed in the biography of Buhari written by Paden

– The details revealed are available on pages 16 & 17 of the book



On pages 16 & 17 of the book: Muhammadu Buhari: The Challenges of Leadership in Nigeria, written by President Muhammadu Buhari’s authorized biographer, some revealing details have come to light.

John Paden wrote: “Buhari was among the first of the junior officers to be sent into battle. He served until the end of the war. Buhari fought at Awka, and later commanded a brigade at Makurdi.

“He also had to defend areas between Enugu and Abakaliki. He learned to distinguish the types of weapons being fired at his men by the sounds of the gunfire.

“On one occasion, while marching with his men toward Ogoja, Buhari ran into a group of rebels, and the federal soldiers suffered serious casualties. On another occasion, a rebel sniper killed someone standing next to Buhari.

“Many in Buhari’s battalion died from typhoid as a result of lack of clean drinking water, describing in detail the difficult terrain the troops had to overcome during the war.

“The rainforest of the southeast was very different from the dry savannah of the north, and often Buhari would lead his men with machetes as they cut their way through thick vegetation.

“Buhari emphasized the importance of seemingly unimportant matters, such as the need for his men to keep their socks dry lest they be crippled by fungus. The health of his men was of critical importance, as was his own.”

On page 17, Paden wrote that when Buhari was commenting on the war, he said that he was lucky to have escaped with his life, that it could have gone either way.

The biography has been quite revealing as many details abouty Buhari’s life that was not known before have been revealed.

There is an interesting excerpt on how, Buhari helped to save the life of ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo during the Sani Abacha regime in 1995.


https://www.naij.com/1015631-exposed-read-buhari-almost-killed-biafran-war.html

Na fun be that?
He is dying.

SamuelAnyawu:
Hmmmmmm.


Going to shower in a stream?

See you, don't you know we riverines prefer river to bucket water?

tiwasiaife:
Who and who are lawyers

Amaechi and inyang are lawyers.

There are emerging reports that a remote military camp in the northeastern region of Nigeria, has been raided by Boko Haram insurgents.


The insurgents reportedly stormed the camp on Monday, October 17, wounding 13 soldiers and taking away an unknown number of soldiers.

According to a statement made by the army on Wednesday, October 19, an operation to get back the missing soldiers is still ongoing as the army has gone after Islamic extremists that attacked the camp.

Monday’s attack comes a week after one faction of Boko Haram released 21 of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped from northeastern Chibok town, and as Nigeria’s government is negotiating for the release of another 83 of the girls abducted 2½ years ago.

The attack on Gashigar, on the border with Niger, is the third reported attack on the military after months of a lull during which the Islamic extremists hit soft civilian targets.

Army spokesman Col Sani Kukasheka Usman called the attack a “temporary setback” committed by “remnants of Boko Haram” that forced the soldiers to retreat. An operation is in progress to find the missing troopers and “clear the Boko Haram terrorists at the general area,” his statement said.

It is believed the attack is by a splinter from Boko Haram that calls itself the West Africa Province of the Islamic State. The IS named a new caliph of its only franchise in sub-Saharan Africa in August, provoking a struggle with Boko Haram’s longtime leader Abubakar Shekau. A battle of words on social media indicated the dispute is over Shekau’s indiscriminate killing of Muslims.

The group loyal to Shekau negotiated – with the Swiss government and International Committee of the Red Cross acting as intermediaries for Nigeria’s government – last Thursday’s release of 21 Chibok girls, the first such negotiated settlement.

President Muhammadu Buhari, who flew to Germany the day the girls were set free, is scheduled to meet with them and their families later Wednesday, according to a social media message posted by the official account of Nigeria’s presidency.

Boko Haram’s 7-year-old Islamic uprising has killed more than 20,000 people, forced some 2.6 million from their homes and left tens of thousands facing famine-like conditions, according to aid agencies and the U.N.


https://www.naij.com/1014526-breaking-tension-as-boko-haram-raid-military-camp-kidnap-soldiers.html

Formula 1 activation in Naija.. .. Omehn, na for Ogoni oh.

lofty900:
he's not a public figure, his father was. It's normal for wike to send his condolences but don't come and tell me niger delta is thrown into mourning.

Dude, he is also a public figure who rose to fame through his father's achievements.
He countlessly contributed to Invitations by the state government.
He was born and raised in the U.K,He seldomly visits home and that's why you know little or nothing of him.

lofty900:
No body is mourning anybody. How come nobody heard of him before now?

Hey, I won't let you talk ill of him in death, if you haven't heard of him, that doesn't mean others haven't also... He is a public figure and my state governor and government have identified with his family.

Oma307:
RIP but wetin kill am?

I no know oh but I guess he might have been sick, he chatted last with me on may 14th, and ever since, he doesn't reply me again (Facebook)

Wizzyblack3:
That one wey Faze take sing?

Yea