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Bada Lekan a Nigerian bodybuilder cum fitness trainer have won the world natural bodybuilding federation Pro Universe contest that held on the 24th of September.

The 2009 Mr Nigerian bodybuilding champion who also won the 2015 edition of California Natural Muscle competition in the heavy weight category, says he will like to win the WBNF world championship for ten years in a row.

Source: http://www.nuelsblog.com/2016/09/a-nigerian-wins-wbnf-pro-universe.html?m=1

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Dream on. President of World Bank will always come from US, while IMF presidency will be from Europe. This arrangement is not going to change.

With the way your antecedents are, it's obvious this pant belongs to you

Another day, another GOLD medal for Team Nigeria with Josephine Orji continuing the country’s impressive outing so far, breaking the World Record to win women’s +86kg Powerlifting at the Rio 2016 Paralympics.

It was a one-side show for Orji who was more or less competing against herself, completely dominating her other competitors to win with a WR mark of 156kg.

The Nigerian had an impeccable performance that she established a big gap with her closest challengers. Poland’s Marzena Zieba won Silver finished with a mark of 134kg, with Netherlands’ Melaica Tuinfort winning Bronze lifting her best mark of 130kg.

Source : http://www.nuelsblog.com/2016/09/josephine-orji-breaks-world-record-to.html?m=1

It was a Black Wednesday for the people of Awka Etiti, Governor Obiano and the entire people Anambra State as a Truck believed to have lost control crushed a woman and her grandchild to death at IKB Junction in Awka Etiti.

Obiano who was returning from a condolence visit to the family of Onyema in Mbosi couldn't hold back tears and ordered the ambulance in his convoy to carry their remains to the closest mortuary.

May Almighty Father Bless the Souls of the Departed...

Attached are some GRAPHIC Pictures...

Credits: Ifeanyi Aniagoh (Ssa Media to the Gov)

Source : http://www.nuelsblog.com/2016/09/gov-obiano-in-tears-as-truck-crushes.html?m=1

Nigeria’s Flora Ugwunwa inspired a 1-2-3 for the African continent in the women’s F54 Javelin throw on Day 6 of the ongoing Rio 2016 Paralympic Games in Brazil.

The 32-year old was in a class of her own, erasing Tunisian Hania Aidi’s World Record (WR) of 18.86m set at the IPC World Championships in Doha last year.


Ugwunwa threw almost 2m, throwing an impressive 20.25m in her third attempt to also shatter Liwan Yang’s Paralympic Record (PR) of 17.89m set at the London Games four years ago.

Ugwunwa was a GOLD medallist at the 2015 African Games in Congo Brazzaville, and her feat in Rio earned Nigeria its second medal in Track and Field, following Laurrita Onye’s GOLD medal run in the women’s Shot put on Sunday.

Her win takes Nigeria’s tally of GOLD medals to seven, and is the country’s tenth medal overall at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

Source : http://www.nuelsblog.com/2016/09/flora-ugwunwa-smashes-world-record-wins.html?m=1

For more pictures from the Minister's visit to Rio visit http://www.nuelsblog.com/2016/08/sports-minister-dalung-poses-for-camera.html?m=1

The Minister of Youth and Sports Barrister Solomon Dalung has congratulated table tennis star Aruna Quadri on his 28th birthday marked at the Riocentro Pavilion yesterday and his recent feat at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.

Though he lost to the World's best table tennis player Ma Long in the quarterfinals of the men's singles, Quadri made history by becoming the first African to come this far. We are so proud of him. He was the man of the day as it took more than 45 minutes to get him out of the venue . Fans thronged in their numbers to take photographs and autographs of him.

Source: http://www.nuelsblog.com/2016/08/sports-minister-dalung-poses-for-camera.html?m=1

It came as a shock as the Nigeria Table Tennis player caused a huge upset by outclassing 5th seeded player in the game Chih Yuan Chuang with a shocking 4-0 win in the men’s singles event at the Rio 2016 Olympics.

Quadri achieved this result after beating Slovakia’s Wang Yang 4-2 in round 2,the result was more shocking seeing how Quadri won the game, he won the game effectively in a straight set of 11-6,12-10,11-6 and 11-7, without chan winning a game.

Quadri remains the only African player left both in the Men and Women’s singles.

source: http://www.nuelsblog.com/2016/08/aruna-quadri-qualify-for-round-4-of.html

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For more throwback pics visit http://www.nuelsblog.com/2016/06/epic-throwback-picture-of-president.html?m=1

President Muhammadu Buhari(Left) and you can see Former president Olusegun Obasanjo approaching from behind.


Source: http://www.nuelsblog.com/2016/06/epic-throwback-picture-of-president.html?m=1

The Oxford English Dictionary has revealed the menu of new words added to its monumental collection. Now you can call someone bruh without fear of contradiction or error. Among the new list you will find numerous shocking and funny entries.
Check out the new words below and tell us which one is your favourite in the comment box.

 Awesomesauce, adj. : (U.S. Informal) extremely good; excellent


 Bants (also bantz), pl. n.: (Brit. Informal) playfully teasing or mocking remarks exchanged with another person or group; banter

 Beer o’clock, n.: an appropriate time of day for starting to drink beer

 Blockchain, n.: a digital ledger in which transactions made in bit coin or another cryptocurrency are recorded chronologically and publicly

 Brain fart, n.: (Informal) a temporary mental lapse or failure to reason correctly

 Brexit, n.: a term for the potential or hypothetical departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union

 Bruh, n.: (U.S. Informal) a male friend (often used as a form of address)

 Buttdial, v.: (U.S. Informal) inadvertently call (someone) on a mobile phone in one’s rear trouser pocket

 Butthurt, adj.: (U.S. Informal) overly or unjustifiably offended or resentful

 Cakeage, n.: (Informal) a charge made by a restaurant for serving a cake they have not supplied themselves

 Cat café, n.: a café or similar establishment where people pay to interact with cats housed on the premises

 Fast-casual, adj.: denoting or relating to a type of high quality self service restaurant offering dishes that are prepared to order and more expensive than those available in a typical fast food restaurant

 Fatberg, n.: a very large mass of solid waste in a sewerage system, consisting especially of congealed fat and personal hygiene product that has been flushed down the toilets

 Fat-shame, v.: cause (someone judged to be fat or overweight) to feel humiliated by making mocking or critical comments about their size

 Grexit, n.: a term for the potential withdrawal of Greece from the Eurozone (the economic region formed by those countries in European Union that use the Euro as their national currency)

 Hangry, adj.: (Informal) bad-tempered or irritable as a result of hunger

 MacGyver, v.: (U.S. Informal) make or repair (an object) in an improvised or inventive way, making use of whatever items that are at hand

 Manspreading, n.: the practice whereby a man especially one travelling on public transport adopts a sitting position with his legs wide apart, in such a way as to encroach on an adjacent seat or seats

 Mic drop, n.: (Informal, chiefly U.S.) an instance of deliberately dropping or tossing aside ones microphone at the end of a performance or speech one considers to have been particularly impressive

 Mx, n.: a title used before a persons surname or full name by those who wish to avoid specifying their gender or by those who prefer not to identify themselves as male or female

 Rage-quit, v.: (Informal) angrily abandon an activity or pursuit that has become frustrating especially the playing of a video game

 Skippable, adj. : (of a part or feature of something) able to be omitted or passed over so as to get to the next part or feature

 Wine o’clock, n.: an appropriate time of day for starting to drink wine

Credit: Oxford Words Blog

SOURCE: http://www.nuelsblog.com/2016/06/see-new-words-added-to-oxford-english.html

1. His names are Stephen Okechukwu Chinedu Keshi. He hails from Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State and was born on January 23, 1962.

2. As a super Eagles player he played as a defender for Nigeria and for various club sides.
3. Stephen Keshi coached National teams of Nigeria, Togo and Mali.

4. He is the only coach to have qualified the Togolese team to the world cup till date.

5. His first club was ACB football club, later he joined New Nigeria Bank, Stade d’Abidjan, Africa sports, Lokoren, Ander Lecht, RC Strasbourg among other clubs.

6. From 1981 to 1995 when he stopped playing international football for Nigeria, Keshi appeared 64 times in the Eagles color and scored a total of nine goals.

7. Keshi also worked as head coach for the Junior Eagles at the 2001 African Youth Championship.

8. He won the African Nations Cup in 1994 as a captain and as a coach in 2013 and he was very fluent in French and English Language.

9. Keshi is survived by four children and his mother and he is generally known as the Big boss.

10. He lost his wife of 33 years, Kate who died on December 9, 2015 after fighting a long battle with cancer.

Source: http://www.nuelsblog.com/2016/06/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-late.html

5.How You Can Prevent Crying While Chopping Onions

Chopping onions produces the chemical syn-propanethial-S-oxide that stimulates your eye's lachrymal gland that then releases tears as a response. How can you stop this? Chew gum while you chop. It can actually help you avoid tearing up.


Source:http://www.nuelsblog.com/2016/06/5-things-you-wont-believe-you-never-knew.html?m=1

4.How To Easily Check If Eggs Are Bad Or Good

While it's up for debate as to exactly how long eggs stay good for, there's now one way you can know for sure: Drop an egg in water and if it flows on top then it has gone bad bit if it stays down then go ahead and enjoy your diet.

Source:http://www.nuelsblog.com/2016/06/5-things-you-wont-believe-you-never-knew.html?m=1

3.Never Lose Your Tea Bag Again

Unbelievable, now this must be easier for you now.

Source:http://www.nuelsblog.com/2016/06/5-things-you-wont-believe-you-never-knew.html?m=1

1.Fire Has No Shadow

It is still a strange thing to everybody, I think the scientists in the house should explain to us the rationale behind this.

2.Baby Rabbits Are Called Kitten

Some people actually think its only baby cat that is called kitten, now I know you will be wondering how you didn't know this.

source :http://www.nuelsblog.com/2016/06/5-things-you-wont-believe-you-never-knew.html?m=1

Chief Festus Sam Okotie - Eboh (1919-1966) was a prominent and eloquent Nigerian politician and former minister of Finance during the administration of sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.

Photo credit:Nigeria Archive

Source:http://www.nuelsblog.com/2016/06/epic-throwback-picture-of-first.html?m=1

The photograph of this cat was shared by a Japanese photographer under the Twitter handle @hanamomoact and the image has received thousands of retweets from people enamored with the strange effect that's been created.
The photographer who lives in United Arab Emirates took the pictures of the cat as it wandered the desert sands.

The cat as you can see have a hole perfectly carved into the side of its body.

The colors inside the circular spot on the cat’s side perfectly resemble a dark shadow and patch of desert when viewed from a high angle. From the side, however, the shape is so defined it actually resembles a pie chart.

While the hollow effect is enough to stop you in your tracks, it’s easy to see how the image plays with your eyes.

Source:http://www.nuelsblog.com/2016/06/see-cat-that-is-blowing-up-twitter-over_8.html?m=1

English is such a complex language, it is filled with traps that we all frequently fall into. With this list I hope to clear up at least a few of the confusing words we use every day. This is a list of some of the more common errors people make with English.


1. Practice / Practise

In US English, practice is used as either a verb (doing word), or noun (naming word). Hence, a doctor has a practice, and a person practices the violin. In UK english, practice is a noun, and practise is a verb. A doctor has a practice, but his daughter practises the piano.

2. Bought / Brought

Bought relates to buying something. Brought relates to bringing something. For example, I bought a bottle of wine which had been brought over from France. The easy way to remember which is which is that bring start with ‘br’ and brought also does. Buy and bought start with ‘b’ only. This is one of those difficult ones that a spelling checker won’t catch.

3. Your / You’re
Your means “belonging to you”. You’re means “you are”. The simplest way to work out the correct one to use is to read out your sentence. For example, if you say “you’re jeans look nice” expand the apostrophe. The expanded sentence would read “you are jeans look nice” – obviously nonsensical. Remember, in English, the apostrophe often denotes an abbreviation.

4. Its / It’s
As in the case above, the apostrophe denotes an abbreviation: it’s = it is. Its means “belongs to it”. The confusion arises here because we also use an apostrophe in English to denote possession – except in this case; if you want to say “the cat’s bag” you say “its bag” not “it’s bag”. “It’s” always means “it is” or “it has”. “It’s a hot day.” “it’s been fun seeing you.”

5. Two /To / Too
With a ‘w’ it means the number 2. With one ‘o’ it refers to direction: ‘to France’. With two ‘o’s it means “also” or refers to quantity – for example: “There is too much money”. A good way to remember this one is that too has two ‘o’s – ie, it has more ‘o’s than ‘to’ – therefore it refers to quantity.

6. I Could Care Less
I have to add this one because it is one I especially hate. When you say “I could care less” you are saying “I care a little so I could care less”. Most people when using this horrific sentence mean to say “I couldn’t care less” which means “I care so little I could not care less”.

7. Dryer / Drier
If your clothes are wet, put them in a clothes dryer. That will make them drier. A hair dryer also makes hair drier.

8. Chose / Choose
This is actually quite an easy one to remember – in English we generally pronounce ‘oo’ as it is written – such as “moo”. The same rule applies here: choose is pronounced as it is written (with a ‘z’ sound for the ‘s’) – and chose is said like “nose”. Therefore, if you had to choose to visit Timbuktu, chances are you chose to fly there. Chose is the past tense, choose is the present tense.

9. Lose / Loose
This one is confusing. In this case, contrary to normal rules of English, the single ‘s’ in loose is pronounced like an ‘s’ – as in wearing trousers that are too loose. Lose on the other hand, relates to loss – for example: “I hope we don’t lose this game”. A good way to remember this is that in the word “lose” you have lost the second ‘o’ from loose. If you can’t remember a rule that simple, you are a loser!

10. Literally
This one is not only often used in error, it is incredibly annoying when it is used in the wrong way. Literally means “it really happened” – therefore, unless you live on a parallel universe with different rules of physics, you can not say “he literally flew out the door”. Saying someone “flew out the door” is speaking figuratively – you could say “he figuratively flew out the door” but figuratively is generally implied when you describe something impossible. Literally can only be used in the case of facts – for example: he literally exploded after swallowing the grenade. If he did, indeed, swallow the grenade and explode – that last sentence is perfectly correct. It would not be correct to say “she annoyed him and he literally exploded” unless she is Wonder Woman and her anger can cause people to blow up.

SOURCE|http://www.nuelsblog.com/2016/06/10-common-english-language-errors-you.html

This comes from the set of the movie ‘Anambra Women’.Let's keep supporting our own (Nollywood)

Source:http://www.nuelsblog.com/2016/06/caption-this-picture-of-actresses-ngozi.html?m=1

She is truly a beauty Queen.


Source:http://www.nuelsblog.com/2016/06/most-beautiful-girl-in-nigeria-unoaku.html?m=1

Source:http://www.nuelsblog.com/2016/06/adaeze-yobo-shares-lovely-photos-of-her.html?m=1

Former Mbgn Winner Adaeze Yobo shared this Adorable family picture of the Yobos which they took this Sunday morning.

Source :http://www.nuelsblog.com/2016/05/gun-used-to-shoot-us-black-teenager-in.html?m=1

The pistol that was used to kill a US black teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012 has been sold for $250,000 (£172,000), US media Reports.
The gun was put up for auction by George Zimmerman who fired the shot that killed killed Trayvon but was acquitted by the jury.

According to CBS News Zimmerman said that the auction was successful and had raised fund for worthy causes. He thanked the United Gun group and it's owner for having the 'Moral Fortitude for hosting his firearm auction'.

This has cause a heralding controversy as Activists Described it as Putting a tag on the price to murder black people in the United States Of America.

The adorable Anambra state born Nollywood actress was born on the 23rd of May 1965.

Here is 20 photos of her over the years.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HER!!!!!!!!!!!

source:http://www.nuelsblog.com/2016/05/20-adorable-pictures-of-actress-ngozi.html

The Nigerian soft porn actress shared this new photo on her Instagram page and said Its a new beginning.

Source:http://www.nuelsblog.com/2016/05/afrocandy-shows-off-her-bootylicious_23.html