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Rihanna — who isn't known for being overly considerate of others (including her own fans) — pushed the boundaries again. This time, however, authorities pushed back.

The pop princess was asked to leave Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque complex on Friday when she attempted to pose for an unauthorized photo shoot at the place of worship. Posing in a black jumpsuit with a wrap that covered her head, the star still managed to look rather sultry as she stared into the camera, caressed her hips, and even rolled around on the floor a little. She completed her look with a giant gold necklace and bright red lips that were positioned in a bedroom pout.

Staff reportedly spotted her and requested that she leave the compound because her actions were considered to not be in line with the "sanctity" of the site. And while RiRi wasted no time tossing up the pics on Instagram, the mosque publicly addressed the situation as well, releasing a statement to explain its position — not that it needed much explanation.
"In the event of behavior that violates the moral codes of access to the mosque, or other visit regulations — such as taking inappropriate pictures, posing in ways that are improper in the context of sacred place, talking loudly, or eating — the violators are directed in a polite manner that reflects the civilizational and tolerant attributes of Islam."

According to the authorities, Rihanna showed up "for a private visit to the mosque, at a gate that is not reserved for visitors, without prior coordination with the Centre’s management and without identifying herself." It does concede, however, that the 25-year-old star did leave "without entering the mosque, after being asked to do so." So … that's good at least.

Still, the tide may be turning against the self-described bad girl, as even fans seem to be getting fed up with her diva behavior. Just two days after the mosque incident, Rihanna's performance in Johannesburg, South Africa, proved to be pretty disastrous.
The city's biggest newspaper, The Star, ran an article on its front page called Ri-Ri Rip-Off slamming the singer for her "obvious" lip-synching and calling the show "below par."

One fan explained, "I think she was actually lip-synching because, at some points, the words of the song were happening but she wasn’t singing along. I don’t know if she was doing it for the whole show." According to another, she wasn't. "You knew she was singing because she wasn’t always on key," Nicole Contini quipped.

And this is hardly the first time the singer has taken heat for a lackluster show. For the last year, she has been nearly chronically late to her own concerts and has yet to apologize once.

Which makes it pretty much par for the course that she has yet to respond to the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque's statement or even take the photos down. Back in July, we asked when fans would say enough is enough. Soon, we may get our answer.

Source: http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/stop-the-presses/rihanna-kicked-abu-dhabi-mosque-doesn-t-seem-165642339.html

patriotic007: he resigned because he said the truth about the true distribution of nigerian population.How can we say that katstina is more populated than enugu or Anambra and kano is more populated than lagos?All over the world the further away from the coast the lesser the population except Nigeria for political reasons

Becouse those mami water are impregnating your women.p

They were employed in their graves of course.

Imagine what will happen in social media if Iweala is a Northerner and this guy a Southerner. But since the reverse is the case even this thread is still in the first page.

Almost all the Governors in Nigeria are bearing doctors with some chairmen of LGAs. Very soon they will give her cook that title.

Mountain of contribution to the pastors.

Becouse he dies living behind only 2 pairs of cloths without a house of his own.

They are our brothers from the other side of river niger, always on the fast lane.

Not only in the Church but in all aspect with the exception of beer palour.

okosodo: Notice that all islamic countries have short life span. See what jihad has done

Your eagerness to attack Islam would not allow you to read before making comment. Qatar that is number one for men is not a Muslim country abi?

FOLYKAZE: The women should organise children, lead them for protest and rain curse on him in front of Channels building

But when your pastors are servicing young boys, you did not call for protest abi?

Let him dropped his appointment first.

Source:http://travel.yahoo.com/blogs/compass/world-biggest-superyacht-costs-mere-605-million-163121823.html

In the billionaire boat wars, a new record holder is making waves. The Emirati royal family has run the Russians aground with its seaworthy superbeast: The brand-new ship Azzam, at 590 feet, overshadows the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich's yacht, Eclipse, by 57 feet.

The bigger boat came at a price: According to CNN, just to build the thing cost $605 million. And that doesn't include the cost for upkeep, which can be 10 percent of the boat's price, per year.

The previous biggest yacht, belonging to Roman Abramovich. (Photo: Associated Press)Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu Dhabi, is reportedly the owner, according to the Telegraph.

The boat is big — much bigger than a football field and larger than some cruise ships. And relatively speaking, it's fast. It is said to reach speeds of up to 30 knots, or about 35 mph, making it one of the fastest superyachts on the seas.

Although no details of what lies inside have been forthcoming, clues could come from the Eclipse yacht, which boasts features that sound like something a James Bond supervillain would own: an armor-plated master suite, two swimming pools, two helipads, a mini submarine, and even its own missile defense system.

The luxe ship, which the website Super Yachts calls "the most challenging and complex yacht ever built," was also built in record time: just three years and a year of engineering. Engineer Mubarak Saad al Ahbabi assembled and directed the team. Lurssen developed Azzam's technical engineering, Nauta Yachts designed the exterior, and Christophe Leoni designed the interior.

"She truly represents another milestone in yachting history," Peter Lurssen told the Daily Mail.

Source:http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/why-a-former-model-is-covering-up-for-love-182140949.html

A British model and mom is ditching her life of posing in lingerie for one of modesty and obedience as a Muslim wife, said U.K. reports on Monday.

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“Meeting Mohammed has made me really look at my life,” Carley Watts, a model who regularly bares almost all for publications such as Elite Online Magazine, told the Sun about her lifeguard boyfriend, Mohammad Salah. She added, "My friends think I'm mad and that this is just a phase."

The two met while Watts was vacationing in Salah’s native Tunisia in April, when, Watts explained, every man flirted with her except for Salah.

"I saw it as a challenge," she told the Sun. "I went over one day and asked him his name. His English wasn’t very good so at first we spoke in a mixture of English and what little French I remember from school. We went for a walk on the beach together and things developed from there, but all we did on the first trip was have a kiss." She went back to visit him three weeks later and they soon fell in love.

So in October, the model says, she and her 2-year-old daughter, Alanah, will move from Norfolk to Monastir, in Tunisia, where she will convert to Islam before marrying Salah in the spring.

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Boyfriend Mohammad Salah and daughter Alanah. Photo: FacebookIn Tunisia, the divide between secularists and Islamists has widened since the ouster of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali more than two years ago. The role of Islam has grown in Tunisian society and been included in a new constitution, but the divisions are seen as less severe than in countries such as Egypt.

Watts’s spokesperson did not return a call from Yahoo! Shine seeking comment on Monday. But in the Sun interview, Watts acknowledged that she and her fiancé are quite different.

"Mohammed is solely focused on family life,” said Watts, who claimed her old job required her to "generally act outrageous."

"Now my life is set to change beyond belief," she told the Sun. "I don’t have any worries, though.”

Her new in-laws won’t be informed of her modeling career, she said, adding that the fact of her being a single mom was alarming enough. “He explained that he loved me and wanted me to be his wife and they have come round to that,” she said. “He accepts that [glamour modeling] is what I do and doesn’t try to change me. But he says once we are married my body is for his eyes only.” Watts now covers her shoulders and ankles out of respect when she is with her future in laws. She also fasted during Ramadan last month.

Watts seems drawn in by the customs. “Single mums don’t exist in his world and men who get unmarried women pregnant go to prison. It is all about family and he idolizes his mother. These are the kind of values I love about their culture,” she explained. “Women are treated with respect and they also respect themselves and their bodies. They don’t do one-night stands or casual flings. When I’m with Mohammed I feel so content, calm and happy. I know he’s the kind, family man for me.”

She added, "Since meeting him I feel like my life has a different meaning and direction. Morals and family values are more important to me now.I know it sounds mad when I’m still getting my boobs out for a living, but it’s for the best."

A handful of critics on Twitter had nothing but vitriol for the model’s decision. “You've pissed away ur career, & now ur'e nothin but a controlled woman, a slave,” wrote one. Another warned her not to unpack in Tunisia. But a lone tweeter praised Watts, writing, “Welcome to islam dear, masha allah [praise God], finally u got right path.”

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo was involved in an underground attempt to cut a slice of oil bloc OPL 245 in the dubious Malabu oil deal, the man at the centre of the scam, Dan Etete, told a British High Court.

According to details of the approved judgment by Lady Justice Gloster of the Commercial division of the Royal Court of Justice, London, in a breach of contract case between Malabu Oil and middleman Emeka Obi, owner of Energy Ventures Partners Limited (EVP), Mr. Etete, a convicted felon and sole signatory to Malabu accounts, said his licence to the oil block was revoked in 2001 because conflicts erupted after Mr. Obasanjo made personal demands on the controversial oil bloc.

Mr. Etete, as Petroleum Minister in 1998, had fraudulently awarded OPL 245 to a company he had interest in, using a false identity Kwekwu Amafegha. The oil bloc has since gone through different ownerships, legal tussles and deals before it was controversially sold for $1.1 (over N170 billion) to Shell and ENi in controversial circumstances last year, with the Nigerian government playing a shady role in the deal.

Mr. Etete suggested that Pecos Limited, which was listed as a previous shareholder in Malabu’s records with the Corporate Affairs Commission, was a company connected to Mr. Obasanjo’s regime.

Sources knowledgeable about the Malabu deal told PREMIUM TIMES that Pecos, owned by businessman Oyewole Fasawe, was used to secure ownership of a significant percentage of the oil bloc in 2001 at a time Mr. Obasanjo and his then vice president, Atiku Abubakar, were very close; with Mr. Fasawe doing deals on behalf of both leaders.

Pecos was controversially removed as a shareholder in 2010 after licence to the oil block was re-awarded to Malabu and replaced with Munamuma Seidougha and Amaran Joseph, both of whom had 10 million shares each. Both men have close links to Mr. Etete and anti-corruption investigators believe they were fronts used by Mr. Etete to outmaneuver his business partners.

A career of bribery and fraud

The court document also shows that Mr. Etete, who was convicted for money laundering in France, collected bribe in excess of N375 million ($2.5 million) between 1996 and 1998 when he was the country’s petroleum minister.

The document also shows that the government was surcharged N2.7 billion ($18 million) in signature bonus accrued from the award of licence for OPL 245. Out of the $20 million obligatory bonus that should have been paid to the government Malabu only paid a paltry N300 million ($2.04 million) in 1999.

Flawed personality

The judge while delivering judgement also spent time profiling the former minister.

According to Lady Gloster, during the course of the trial, Mr. Etete came across as one with inherently flawed personality. The judge described his evidence as “self-serving, self-contradictory, unrealistic, argumentative or, at times, almost impossible to follow.”

The judge said Mr. Etete “frequently changed his story, often within a few minutes of having given a directly opposing answer. The manner in which he gave his evidence was argumentative and extravagant.”

“He was prone to make wild allegations of fraud and forgery, or point the finger of blame at others, including his own trusted financial advisers and lawyers, without any appreciation of the serious implications of his accusations. His recollection was very poor and, at times, the only conclusion which I could reach was that he was being deliberately dishonest.

“My ultimate conclusion was that I could not rely upon him as a witness of truth. I also conclude that, in a commercial context, he would have presented an almost insuperable challenge as a counter-party to negotiations,” the judge said.

Source: http://saharareporters.com/news-page/malabu-11bn-fraud-obasanjo-demanded-share-bribe-etete-tells-british-court-premium-times

or Nigerian women, after Thursday’s First Lady Patience Jonathan’s Women Jamboree came the gift-sharing and worries over money.

After participating in Mrs. Jonathan’s Abuja-shutting festival, tagged "Celebrating Nigerian Women for peace and Empowerment" which locked the Federal Capital territory down for most of the day, delegates bused into Abuja from the 36 states of the federation were handed various gifts as a reward for taking part in the event.

The gifts were handed over to the delegates mostly led to Abuja by wives of PDP State Governors. As shown in these photographs, the gift items included deep fryers. Some of the delegates were apprehensive as money promised them which they were to receive through their state coordinators and their leaders was delayed until Friday morning. Most of the women therefore left Abuja city much later than they had planned. Some of the leaders of the women were seen making phone calls to their coordinators as they waited to get the money promised them, looking very worried.
or Nigerian women, after Thursday’s First Lady Patience Jonathan’s Women Jamboree came the gift-sharing and worries over money.

After participating in Mrs. Jonathan’s Abuja-shutting festival, tagged "Celebrating Nigerian Women for peace and Empowerment" which locked the Federal Capital territory down for most of the day, delegates bused into Abuja from the 36 states of the federation were handed various gifts as a reward for taking part in the event.

The gifts were handed over to the delegates mostly led to Abuja by wives of PDP State Governors. As shown in these photographs, the gift items included deep fryers. Some of the delegates were apprehensive as money promised them which they were to receive through their state coordinators and their leaders was delayed until Friday morning. Most of the women therefore left Abuja city much later than they had planned. Some of the leaders of the women were seen making phone calls to their coordinators as they waited to get the money promised them, looking very worried.

Source: http://saharareporters.com/news-page/photonews-patience-jonathans-gift-sharing-rented-crowd-stranded-abuja-after-2015-campaign-

Death toll rises to seven, and seven occupants rescued in the collapsed three-storey building at Ebute Meta, Lagos, says NEMA.

Source: http://leadership.ng/news/110713/lagos-collapsed-building-death-toll-rises-7

Wily2wily: Many of those dirty stinking Hausa/Fulani that owns oil wells in Tompolos land don't even know how to spell their names

After all they didn’t go to School, they better-off than those that went to University but cannot speak good English like your Mama Dame P. Jonathan

You will see how they will shy away from this thread.

You will see how they will shy away from this topic.

I am happy is Alhaji Lawal Kaita that is now complaining, after all he is one of those who force GEJ down our throat.

If God decide to make him a Governor, can you stop him?

Life Haram

Hospital Haram.

seunfly: One thing is common with islamic estremist sympatizers is that they know how to deny the incident on behalf of the perpetrators. We ve seen peaple defending boko haram at the begining of insurgence in Nigeria and we ve seen peaple come on tv or talk on the street to say that boko haram is from Nigerian government, American government, CIA, Christain group or are not muslims.
Instead of us to tell our selves the truth and try to find lasting solution to the problems from the truth we ve told ourselves, peaple are shying away from the truth either to preserve the integrity of their religion, stop peaple from seeing them as bad or they realy like it but could not do it openly.
Either way their actions and inactions paint them bad than the way they want peaple to see them.

Just like your Christian Pastors Stealing Ladies underwear, are they not Christians?

No comment.

Seek a loan and import a taxi from the UK that uses right hand drive this story get question mark.

Source: http://saharareporters.com/news-page/mega-church-pastor-oyakhilome-incorporates-secret-company-daughters-caribbean-tax-haven-pr

Secret documents link family and associates of one of Africa’s most popular pastors, Nigerian televangelist the Rev. Chris Oyakhilome, to an offshore company in the British Virgin Islands.

A business associate of the pastor says some directors in the company held shares on behalf of the pastor’s daughters, Sharon and Charlyn, who are now teenagers.

The company in question is Gmobile Nigeria Limited, an offshore firm incorporated in 2007 in a Caribbean tax haven, the British Virgin Islands, according to a cache of documents reviewed by Premium Times and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). The shareholders listed in the documents include Oyakhilome’s wife, Anita; another pastor in his organization, Thomas Amenkhienan; a business associate, Aigobomian Inegbedion; and another British Virgin Islands’ company, GTMT International Group Limited.

Oyakhilome is founder and president of one of Africa’s largest Pentecostal churches, Believers Loveworld Inc. (aka Christ Embassy), which claims “hundreds of churches … affecting millions of people” in all the continents of the world, with a strong presence in the United Kingdom, South Africa, United States, Canada and Nigeria.

He has also set up satellite broadcast channels in the United Kingdom (LoveWorld TV), South Africa (LoveWorld SAT) and Nigeria (LoveWorld Plus). He hosts a TV show, Atmosphere for Miracles, which airs on television networks in Africa, North America, Australia, Asia and Europe, according to his church’s website.

His church has a series of business interests, the website says, that include vibrant TV and Internet ministries and a publishing outfit that churns out the popular “Rhapsody of Realities” booklet, which is like a second Bible to members of his church.

He is as controversial as he is entrepreneurial. Critics believe he is excessively flamboyant, dressing most of the time in expensive suits, top-of-the-range shirts and ties and exotic shoes.

Some of his critics have alleged that he has staged miracles, bringing forth impotent men, infertile women and people with AIDS who testified they’d been instantly healed. In the wake of controversy over faith-healing practices by Oyakhilome and other pastors, the Nigerian government banned unverified miracles from television in 2004.

His wife, Anita, is also a pastor in the church. She heads the international division of the ministry and is regularly credited with growing the church’s presence around the world.

Until now, there has never been any suggestion that she was involved in financial dealings.

Documents reviewed by ICIJ and Premium Times show that Anita Oyakhihome held 17, 750 of Gmobile’s 50,000 shares, with Amenkhienan owning 1,500 and Inegbedion 750. The fourth shareholder, GTMT International, also a British Virgin Islands’ company, owned by South African investors, held 30,000 shares.

The documents show that some of these individuals held shares in trust for two minors. The records don’t identify the minors, but Inegbedion confirmed that the minors referred to in the documents were the Oyakhilomes’ daughters, quickly adding that there was nothing wrong with that.

“Their parents bought the shares for them because they have rights to own shares,” Mr. Inegbedion said. “A day-old child has a right to own shares in companies.” He declined to say which of Gmobile directors held shares in trust for the girls.

The Oyakhilomes did not respond to emails sent to their personal and church websites.


Setting Up Gmobile

In 2007 Anita Oyakhilome and her partners retained the services of a Dubai-based company, Covenant Management Consultancy (CML), to help it register Gmobile Nigeria Limited in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), a Caribbean chain largely controlled by the United Kingdom. On June 26, 2007, CML in turn approached BVI-based Commonwealth Trust Limited (CTL) to complete the task of setting an offshore company.

After some preliminaries — including name checks and consultation with lawyers — CML’s Susha George wrote to CTL’s Shonia Mathew on July 3 giving her the go-ahead to incorporate Gmobile. In that same two-paragraph message, George informed CTL “two shareholders of this company are minors.” She also asked whether additional documents or procedures were needed for the minors to be owners of the company.

Mathew replied the same day, saying that shares of the company could only be held in trust for the minors.

“Please note if the beneficial owners are minors, then the shares would need to be held in Trust for them until they are of age to act in that capacity,” she wrote, adding that “it may be wise to contact an attorney regarding the formalities of the company.”

Aig Inegbedion…. “Nothing wrong with the Oyakhilome girls holding shares”.

Seven days after Gmobile’s incorporation, company records show, shares were issued to Anita Oyakhilome, Amenkhienan, Inegbedion and GTMT Limited, a BVI company.

Another curious aspect of the company, which became dormant on May 1, 2009, was the makeup of its board of directors. Its first director was not a human being but another offshore company, Covenant Managers Limited, an offshore firm also set up by Dubai-based Covenant Consultancy Limited in July 2005 to offer nominee services to corporations and individuals incorporating companies in the BVI. In the offshore world, nominee directors or shareholders serve as stand-ins that allow the real people behind companies to keep their identities hidden.

As first director, Covenant Managers approved the opening of a bank account in the United Arab Emirates or any other place in the world. It is not known in which bank the account was eventually opened nor whether it was used to move funds.

After Covenant Managers officially resigned, GTMT directors were brought on board together with Anita Oyakhilome, Inegbedion and Amenkhienan as directors. They were Willem Johannes Jacobus Van Der Merwe, Karen Ann Smith and Daniel John William Mills. Reporting by Premium Times determined that Van Der Merwe, Smith and Mills were based in South Africa but we could not ascertain how they came to be associated with the Oyakhilome clan.
Inegbedion said the idea of incorporating Gmobile in a tax haven was suggested by the South Africans, who he said argued that BVI was an ideal neutral ground for the business partnership the Oyakhilomes were forging with GTMT to carry out the business of distributing data compression software in Nigeria.

“We were looking for a neutral ground where both parties could feel safe,” Inegbedion said in a telephone interview. “So we had to go to British Virgin Islands. But it was our partners who handled the registration.”

The only South African partner Premium Times was able to track down, Karen Ann Smith, declined to comment on the formation and businesses of Gmobile. “You are on the wrong trip, guy, as I’m not interested in talking about that business,” Mrs. Smith said on telephone. When she was pressed for details, she said, “You are wasting my time, as I have no interest in speaking to you.”


Fleeting Appearance

Gmobile does not appear to have carried out any business in Nigeria, South Africa or the BVI. Inegbedion and another individual who identified himself as Danny Mills made a fleeting appearance before journalists in Lagos in October 2007, almost four months after Gmobile was registered in the BVI, to say the firm was unveiling a GMobile product which allows users to maximize data storage and make an array of communications and services possible.
Danny Mills was introduced as the international sales director of Gmobile, while Inegbedion was introduced as chief operating officer of an unknown firm, LW GNet Nigeria.

Apparently, nothing has been heard of that product since that event. Today, Inegbedion introduces himself on his Facebook page as managing director of Paradigm Biz Solution Limited, a company the Nigerian Corporate Affairs Commission also says does not exist in its database.

Remmy Nweke, a well-regarded Lagos-based communications reporter, was among those who covered Gmobile’s press conference at the time. “Well, they came and met the media and said they were rolling out an irresistible product,” Mr. Nweke said via telephone. “But that was the last we heard of them.

They simply disappeared.”

Inegbedion said Gmobile was unable to roll out the product because the company’s partners in South Africa failed to deliver after his team, led by Anita Oyakhilome, paid $1.8 million for a distribution license.

To all appearances, Gmobile was simply a failed business venture. But other companies incorporated in tax havens such as the BVI have become known for involvement with illegal activities, including money laundering and tax evasion.

Taking advantage of the loose laws in several jurisdictions, offshore companies are easy to form in tax havens and owners can remain anonymous while using nominee directors as fronts and deploying the corporations to hide ill-gotten assets, launder funds, dodge litigation or evade taxes. Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, for example, was convicted of stealing public funds while he was governor of the oil-rich Nigerian state of Bayelsa. The state recovered more than 17 million British pounds from him, including assets he held through Solomon and Peters Limited (a company registered in the BVI) and Santolina Investment Corp. (a company incorporated in the Seychelles). Last month, he received a presidential pardon. Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has also accused another ex-governor, Abubakar Audu, of using two offshore companies in Bermuda (another tax haven) to hide ill-gotten assets. Audu denies the allegations.


Dealing with a questionable firm
The BVI Financial Services Commission found CTL, the offshore services firm that helped the Oyakhilomes to incorporate Gmobile, to be in repeated violation of the BVI’s anti-money laundering law between 2003 and 2008.

Thomas Ward, a co-founder of CTL who has worked as a consultant to the firm since it was sold to the new owners in 2009, said the company worked hard to make sure it didn’t take on shady clients.

“We believe we chose our clients carefully and we believe they honoured their agreements with us,” he said. But at times CTL’s staff was “either deceived or previously honest customers changed.”

Just like the Southerners are selling babies in this century.

How many lies the Presidency told Nigerian?

MENDS: lovers of Peace and prosperity.