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And the winner of Big Brother Africa Season 8: The Chase is…

…you will just have to wait to find out!

After 91 days in the Big Brother House, this Sunday 25th August 2013 during the 2-hour live finale, one of the 5 finalists – Nigeria’s Beverly, Ghana’s Elikem, Namibia’s Dillish, Nigeria’s Melvin and Zambia’s Cleo, will win a whooping $ 300,000.

From the beginning till now, Africa has watched each of the contestants fully transition into their own.

With Nigeria leading with 2 contestants, it is left for Ghana, Namibia and Zambia’s contestants to battle for the top spot.

Hosted by Nigerian media personality IK Osakioduwa, the finale will witness loads of electrifying on stage performances.

Nigerian rapper Ice Prince, South Africa’s DJ Ganyani, award winning Ugandan rap star Keko and Ghanaian group R2BEES, have all been confirmed to provide musical entertainment on Sunday.

DSTV recently profiled a few fun facts about the finalists on the official website.

Check it out!


Beverly – Nigeria | Model

Originally a Ruby, Beverly is probably the luckiest of the pack having gone through the entire Season without facing the dreaded Eviction dagger.

It’s safe to say that the Nigerian lass literally walked her way to the Finale. On love, she had a bad experience very early in the game when Uganda’s LK4 tried two-timing her with South Africa’s Koketso.

Seeing the Ugandan choose Koketso over her must have been a huge blow but she soldiered on, thanks to being swapped to the Diamond House.

No one wanted to believe that Betty’s Bolt had his eyes fixed on Beverly but that was her story and she stuck to it. It was only after Bolt moved to the Ruby House that he started confessing to a few transgressions. Beverly won HoH twice during the Season.


Elikem – Ghana | Tailor/Actor

“That nigga Elikem”, as his beau the gorgeous Pokello refers to him, became the first confirmed finalist of The Chase. The Ghanaian Chasemate fought quite a few battles to make it to the finish line in one piece.

Having been the target of serious frenemy squabbles, it took Elikem a while to wake up and smell the coffee. The Taylor was quite popular with the ladies before settling with Zimbabwe’s Pokello and the ladies had to take a chill pill.

A man of firsts, Elikem is also the only Chasemate to have had the nerve to nominate his love-interest when he put up Pokello. He is also the first Ghanaian to make it to the finale.

This original Diamond became Head of House three times and survived five Evictions; twice by Africa and three times by the respective HoH.


Dillish – Namibia | Psychology Student

The last confirmed finalist, Diamond Dillish must still be pinching herself after surviving the last eviction that saw South Africa’s Angelo and Ethiopia’s Bimp bite the dust.

The princess, as Pebbles calls her, is another one that became a regular under the guillotine but Africa would not hear any of it and she was saved on all occasions.

Though she managed to go through the entire Season without falling for any of the guys, Dillish occasionally spoke about yearning for some good loving. Sadly, the Namibian princess failed dismally to make Head of House.


Melvin – Nigeria | Model/Actor

The only Chasemate to have tested fate and put his own head on the chopping block during his tenure as Head of House, a move that will go down as one of the boldest of the Season.

Perhaps that’s the reason why his fellow Housemates could not nominate him ever again, they were still picking up their jaws from the floor. The Nigerian hottie almost wears a permanent smile and never bothers anyone.

That’s why it was quite a spectacle when Dillish rubbed him the wrong way this week, making him very angry. Though he only faced Eviction once, by his own doing anyway, Melvin won Head of House three times during his days as a Diamond.

This actually made it hard to recall that Melvin is actually an original Ruby.


Cleo – Zambia | Musician/Artist

Hakeem’s sweetheart or Mrs Mandaza as she became fondly known on the Big Brother Africa Twitter streets, Cleo surprised many when she pulled herself together and continued with The Chase even after her beau was booted out.

Having survived four evictions, the Zambian emcee has proved to be quite a strong contender in the game. Though this original Ruby couldn’t quite crack winning Head of House, she really pulled her weight and was always so close.

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MAN OF GOD vs GOVERNOR

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Can't see Tonto Dikeh on the list abi d OP no wan make front page?

Hisses,my mum even have that cloth,its old fashion

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Her presence alone go make the house mates say HI

Our own Tonto Dikeh has been selected and honored by the organisers of BIG BROTHER AFRICA (BBA) to perform and thrill the remaining house mates this sunday being the GRAND FINALE of BBA 2013.
If you all can remember,she was to represent Nigeria in this year Big Brother Africa but she rejected the offer with the excuse that she can't abandon her Acting and Musical profession not even now when she have invested so much on her musical career.
She was replaced by BEVERLY OSU with the help of DERENLE EDUN.
Tonto Dikeh now wishes to satisfy BBA MANAGEMENT by accepting their invitation to perform in the Grand Finale with with help of the same Derenle Edun.

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Our own Tonto Dikeh has been selected and honored by the organisers of BIG BROTHER AFRICA (BBA) to perform and thrill the remaining house mates this sunday being the GRAND FINALE of BBA 2013.
If you all can remember,she was to represent Nigeria in this year Big Brother Africa but she rejected the offer with the excuse that she can't abandon her Acting and Musical profession not even now when she have invested so much on her musical career.
She was replaced by BEVERLY OSU with the help of DERENLE EDUN.
Tonto Dikeh now wishes to satisfy BBA MANAGEMENT by accepting their invitation to perform in the Grand Finale with with help of the same Derenle Edun

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Our own Tonto Dikeh has been selected and honored by the organisers of BIG BROTHER AFRICA (BBA) to perform and thrill the remaining house mates this sunday being the GRAND FINALE of BBA 2013.
If you all can remember,she was to represent Nigeria in this year Big Brother Africa but she rejected the offer with the excuse that she can't abandon her Acting and Musical profession not even now when she have invested so much on her musical career.
She was replaced by BEVERLY OSU with the help of DERENLE EDUN.
Tonto Dikeh now wishes to satisfy BBA MANAGEMENT by accepting their invitation to perform in the Grand Finale with with help of the same Derenle Edun.
Congratulations to Tonto Dikeh.

Nigerian Navy parades four pirates in Lagos

So this is what African pirates look like? Jack Sparrow got me thinking all pirates were.. you know..:-)

Punch reports: 
The Nigerian Navy yesterday Tuesday August 20th paraded four suspected sea robbers who had allegedly hijacked a barge (huge boat) MV Crow, on August 14, 2013 at Escravos River located on the Gulf of Guinea. The men of the Nigerian Navy killed some sea robbers during a 30-minute gun duel on August 16.
The Commander, NNS Beecroft, Commodore Chris Ezekobe, said while addressing journalists at the Defence Jetty in Lagos that shortly after the hijack, the navy was alerted by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency

He said, “We were alerted by NIMASA’s Regional and Maritime Awareness Centre and we pursued the vessel to Aiyetoro in Ondo State. When we circled her, there was no sign of life on board. We called and radioed several times but there was no response. Of course, our suspicion was aroused and then we fired shots into the air. Once they heard the shots, the sea robbers came out and threw their weapons into the water.”

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ON October 5, 2012, when four male students of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) Rivers State were lynched by an out of control mob in Omuokiri Aluu in Ikwerre Local Government Area in jungle justice, the barbarism in the heinous murder attracted spontaneous public disgust and condemnation of global proportion.
The victims were Chiadika Biringa (20) of Theatre Arts Department; Ugonna Obuzor, 18 (Geology), Mike Toku Lloyd, 20, (Civil Engineering Department), all in second year studies and Tekenah Elkanah, 21 (Diploma (Technical) who were ultimately set ablaze to a cheering crowd by the mob over claims of stealing that police report has disclaimed.
Given the altitude of public interest in the crime, all eyes, including those of parents, relatives and friends of the deceased as well as human rights community, have been waiting  on the police and the court to exercise speedy investigation and trial of anyone connected with what has been named as ‘Aluu Four Murder’.
Public apprehension over  speedy dispensation of justice on the matter was rife from the very beginning following widespread notion of aiding and abetting on the crime by the police whose onus it lies to prosecute. October 16, following media testimony by a sister to Tekenah, one of the victims, the police reportedly dismissed Sergeant Lucky Orji for alleged role in the murder.

*L-R Ugonna, Lloyd, Tekena, Chidiaka; victims of Uniport killings.
Police investigation reportedly corroborated Tekenah sister’s claim that  Sergeant Orji was present at the scene of the murder and actually encouraged the mob to ‘deal with’ the victims. Reports say the dismissed policeman was to be charged to court alongside 13 other suspects.
The added challenge was the task of apprehending the needed suspects and adequate police investigation to support prosecution. October 17th 2012, twelve days after the murder, a Magistrate’s Court sitting in Port Harcourt was first to remand 13 suspects brought before it for allegedly being part of a mob that tortured the four casualties.
The suspects were in handcuffs and chains when they appeared in court on five-count of conspiracy and murder. Their Charge Sheet, PMC/2009C/2012, partly read, “That you conspired among yourselves to commit felony to wit: murder and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 324 of the criminal code Cap 37 and Section 319 of the criminal code Cap 37 volume III laws of Rivers State of Nigeria 1999.”
Presiding Magistrate Emmanuel Woke, affirmed the court had no jurisdiction to hear the matter. Woke immediately transfered the case to the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) for legal advice and subsequent arraignment in a High Court. The court also advised the suspects to seek bail from a High Court.
Chief Superintendent of Police, Henry Njoku, stood as counsel for the prosecution while A.A. Finebone appeared for the 1st Accused and village head of Aluu, Alhaji Hassan Walewa Austine Ojekudo. Others from the Nigeria Bar Association and the Human Rights Commission were in court as concerned parties for what they termed close monitoring of the case to ensure that the law takes it proper course without hounding innocent persons. This followed concerns of indiscriminate police arrests over the matter. The court threafter  adjourned till December 20, 2012.
When the court resumed December 20th, three more suspects were arraigned. 23 years old Finebone Jeffrey; Joshua Ekpe, 27 and Abang Cyril, 27 were brought under a five-count charge of conspiracy to kill the deceased.
“You and others at large on October 5, 2012, at Omuokiri, Aluu community in the Port Harcourt Magisterial District, did conspire amongst yourselves to commit felony to wit: murder and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 324 of the Criminal Code Cap 37 laws of Rivers State, 1999,” the charges read in part.
As with the first thirteen suspects, their pleas were rejected with Chief Magistrate Woke restating that his court lacked jurisdiction to entertain the case before adjourning till February 28, 2013.
At this tone of proceeding, the Human Rights Committee of the Port Harcourt NBA applied for case file of the suspects. Chairman of the Committee, Austin Ojeukeudo said the “association wants to ensure that there was no miscarriage of justice in the trial.” The court ordered release of the demanded documents to the NBA.
At the resumed hearing, the prosecutor said he was yet to receive any advice on the matter from the DPP to whom the case file was referred.
By February 28, 2013; suspects had risen to 18. Magistrate Woke discharged seven of the accused persons for want of evidence of complicity in the crime after reading the advice from DPP. Those discharged include the only female accused person, Cynthia Chinwo, George Nwadei, Ekpe Daniel, Gabriel Ochi, Endurance Edet, Lucky Agwurum, and Finebone Jeffrey, aka Soso.
The chief magistrate affirmed ,“It is a trite law that suspicion, no matter how strong, cannot take place of legal proof without concrete evidence to substantiate it, and as such, they were victims of circumstance, therefore, charging and prosecuting them will be an exercise in futility,” Woke ruled.
The magistrate further said there were seven other suspects who had been arrested, granted police bail, but were yet to be charged to court on the matter. He said no case had also been established against them and ordered that they be discharged too.
Proof of evidence
“Your original case file will be retained to enable us file information with proof of evidence for the avoidance of doubt, against Lawal Segun, ex-Sergeant Lucky Orji, Ikechukwu Louis Amadi, aka Kapoon, David Chinasa Ogbada, Abiodun Yusuf, Joshua Ekpe, Abang Cyril, Alhaji Hassan Welewa, Okoghiroh Endurance, Ozioma Abajuo and Chigozie Evans Samuel in the Port Harcourt High Court,” he said
Many keen watchers of the case consequently raised the question whether those so freed by the Magistrate Court were actually innocent or were beneficiaries of police’s poor prosecutorial commitment and competence.
The first hearing before the High Court on April 25, 2013 for the 11 remaining suspects suffered a set back when the Presiding Judge, Justice T.S. Orji declined jurisdiction to adjudicate on the matter. The DPP led by I. Otorubio and other lawyers had, that day, announced their appearances for the matter, but the Judge declared,: “I am related to the victims by birth and some of the accused persons by marriage. I know the accused persons and the victims. My hands are tied in this matter. I am sitting between the devil and the deep blue sea.”

Suspects in the murder of The UNIPORT FOUR at the Rivers State High Court, Port Harcourt, yesterday. Photo: Nwankpa Chijioke
Justice Orji also became worried to notice that no counsel appeared for Ikwuchukwu Louis Amadi, the third accused person. She ultimately withdrew from the case, assuring all parties that she would consequently return the case file to the state Chief Judge, Justice Iche Ndu (now retiring) for reassignment.
Counsel to one of the accused persons, Mr Kennedy Amos, reacting to Justice Orji’s withdrawal, said the “Bar is pleased with the decision of the judge in the interest of justice and to avoid casting aspersions on the judiciary.
On the 1st of August, a new Judge, Justice L.L. Nyordee took over and the Solicitor General in Rivers State, Rufus N Godwins, led the prosecution instead of the DPP.
The Prosecution, however added one more suspect arrested by the police, increasing the number of suspects standing trial to 12.
Following the additional suspect, Godwin asked the court for substitution of the charges earlier filed against the eleven suspects.
Counsel for the 9th accused, Chief O.C.J. Okocha, (SAN) objected that arraignment ought to precede application for withdrawal or substitution of a charge. Okocha termed the application as misconceived, adding that the Prosecution was wrong to have cited a section that dealt with application amended in a matter where withdrawal and substitution of charge were involved.
In his ruling, Justice Nyordee granted the application and proceeded to strike out the previous charge. Lawal Segun, Lucky Orji, Ikechukwu Louis Amadi (aka Kapoon), David Chinasa Ogbada, Abiodun Yusuf, Joshua Ekpe, Abang Cyril, Hassan Welewa, Okoghiroh Endurance, Ozioma Abajuo and Chigozie Evans Samuel who have been in custody since last year in connection with the murder then took their plea, so was John Ayuwu (aka Johny Barbar) who was being included.
They pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge of murder and negligence.
Godwins told the court  that the accused committed the offence contrary to sections 319(1) and 515 of the Criminal Code Law of Rivers State (1999).
The accused were represented by counsels. The 3rd and 8th accused who lacked legal representation at the last sitting were represented by a team from the Legal Aid Council, led by Jane Frances Bianeyi.
After the plea, the Prosecutor adopted the criminal indictments with proofs of evidence filed against the accused and expressed the readiness to call its first witness but urged the court to remand the accused in custody.
Counsel to the first accused, Joshua Kehinde told the court that the crime for which the accused are charged are mere allegation as the law deemed them innocent until proven otherwise. He told the court that he had filed bail application for his client and was ready to move the motion.
The motion, however,  could not be heard as judge adjourned the matter till August 15 for hearing on bail applications realising that some lawyers were yet to file theirs and some files were yet to reach the Prosecution.
When trial resumed on August 15th, the Prosecution led by the Solicitor-General, Rivers State Ministry of Justice, Rufus Godwins opened the trial with the first Prosecution Witness, Raphael Ezeji, a Senior Police Officer who led investigation into the Aluu Four killings.
Two sets of suspects were on trial on separate charges. Charged with murder are: Lawal Segun, Ex-Sgt. Lucky Orji, Ikechukwu Louis Amadi (aka Kapoon), David Chinasa Ogbada, Abiodun Yusuf, Joshua Ekpe, Abang Cyril and John Ayuwu.
Traditional Ruler of Aluu, Alhaji. Hassan Welewa; Okoghiroh Endurance, Ozioma Abajuo and Chigozie Evans Samuel are facing a charge of negligence.
Ezeji, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) and second in-command in the Homicide Department of the Rivers State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) told the court some of his findings which he had deposed in an affidavit on the death of the four youths.
Ezeji said, “On October 5, 2013; my department received a report of the gruesome murder of four undergraduate students of UNIPORT at Aluu.
Gruesome murder
“The report we received was that these four boys were stripped naked, paraded with jubilation and about to be set ablaze at Omuokiri Aluu. As a result, the police division Isiokpo dispatched a combined team to rescue the victims, but because of the distance between the scene of crime and Isiokpo, they had hung condemned tyres on their necks, while some others were with dog, hounding them.
“The crowd they met on the scene when they arrived were shouting ‘kill them, kill them’. Before the police could rescue them, they had already poured petrol on them and lit fire.”
Ezeji said photographs of the remains of the deceased and the streets on which they were paraded naked were taken in course of investigation. He said these documents added to web extracts of the video clips of the killing formed part of exhibits attached to the case file submitted to the prosecution.
Attempt by the prosecution counsel to tender the said photographs/video as exhibits were objected to by 10 of the 12 defendants.
The court fixed the ruling on the admissibility of the exhibits for a later date, August 15th Sitting also provided an opportunity to hear applications for bail of each of the accused persons. All 12 in separate applications urged the court to admitt them to bail, stressing that bail is their constitutional right irrespective of the gravity of the offence alleged to have been committed.
Lighter punishment
5th Accused, 16-year-old Abiodun Yusuf, urged the court to grant him bail, considering his age. His counsel, G.B.Sanusi, told the court that Yusuf as minor was not supposed to be tried together with other accused persons in the open court.
Counsel to the second set of defendants, including Alhaji Welewa urged the court to grant them bail, saying their offences carry lighter punishment of two years if convicted. They told the court, that they have already spent close to one year in detention over the matter for allegation of negligent, to wit felony to prevent murder, crime and misdemeanour.
The prosecution objected to the bail applications and urged the court to dismiss their applications for lack in merit. Prosecutor Godwins recognised the court’s discretion to grant bail but argued that due to the serious nature of the offences, it would be unusual for any court to consider granting bail without convincing reasons.
The case was adjourned till October 17 for ruling on the bail application.

The biggest question from Sony's interactive conference was "where's the console?". After detailing almost every major aspect of the PS4, the Livestream event ended without displaying the new next-gen box, leaving most to wonder if the rumoured concept art is true or if Sony is still working on choosing a design.

Airforce1: Tuface and his usual mumu dressing

A typical black man way of tinking

Finally,2baba was the man tHat xposed naija musics and he is still xposin it.
Abeg make una like my post

kenjudy: Kangratulasions lil' dada! It's just a matter of 9months nah. So no fear u hear? After which ur problems will double cos d baby has to feed and grow healthy. Welcome to d world or papas. Wen my g/f got pregy for me last year, I had no choice but to accept it cos I hate abortion like I hate devil himself. Tho we lost d baby after I engaged her, I loved to be a father even tho I only hoped on God to provide. So my piece, have her go for test or buy test kit, afterwards, if she's really pregy, then start warming up on how u can take care of d baby. Or better still inform ur parents cos they won't kill u if they're wise, but may just teach u small lesson. . No call God oo or say make u depend on God cos him no dey there wen una dey pinini!

Pls tell me more about test kit and I came here for drugs not for anytin

ayodeji752: Get postinon2 frm any medicine store. Tell her to take it wit regal gin before eating in d morning. I won't tell u d second one cos it's powerful. Pls get rid of d pregnancy cos we've gotten more Dan enough suicide bombers in nigeria. D fruit of ASUU strike.

Thanks for your concernut what of if she takes Postinon2 with water,will it work?

Beync:

Relax, I'll be right back with prescription

Thanks a lot,will be very grateful to get sumtin from u

Now,without a body,form a body from the topic about early preganancy

Not too long,there was P-Square pop corn here in lag and just today in Alausa in Ikeja,I got this table water.
I think Jay Z has a company in Nigeria for bottled water cos Lagos is a maga city to generate much income for him.Just my little tot.

Well said,I tink this nairaland head don dey too big,small tin,ban,its unfair,we made nairaland to be where she is today.check my profile,I registered in year 2005 and since den,I have been active,nt becos there is no orda forum bt because I love the comments from nairaland bt nowadays,the mods are just making tins hard and boring.make una take time oh

Same here

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Which side in lagos?pls be specific

Dancing and hanging everibody close to me for making front page d 6th 2day