Ikpeba, Okocha, Amokachi in London Legends tourney

More former Nigeria greats like Victor Ikpeba, Garba Lawal and Celestine Babayaro will feature for the country at this year’s Star Sixes Tournament in London. Already former Nigeria captain Austin ‘Jay Jay’ Okocha and Daniel Amokachi have confi rmed their availability for the legends’ competition. Th e tournament will be played between July 13 and 16 in London. Nigeria, who will be well represented by some of the top talents from the country’s Golden Generation of 1994-96, are pitched against Brazil and Italy. Th e Super Eagles won AFCON 1994 in Tunisia and made their World Cup debut few months later in the United States of America. Th ey were only denied a place in the quarterfi nals of the 1994 World Cup by eventual fi nalists Italy. Th e core of this team will then go on to clinch an historic Olympic soccer Gold also in the USA two years later

Serena and Venus Williams' 75-years-old father set to divorce 38 years old wife

Richard Williams, father of tennis champions, Serena and Venus Williams' has filed for divorce from his much younger wife in West Palm Beach, Florida.

In his petition, the 75-year-old tennis coach often credited for training his daughters in their younger years and laying the foundations that eventually made them into tennis superstars believes his 38-year-old wife of seven years, Lakeisha Williams, is an alcoholic.

He also claims she is stealing his social security checks and transferred ownership of their cars and a house to herself by forging his signature.

Williams, who married Lakeisha in 2010, also claims she moved out last year and left their now 5-year-old son, Dylan, in his exclusive care. Lakeisha is barely older than his two daughters - Serena is 35 and Venus will turn 37 on Saturday.

Richard Williams also alleges she left him for 'a new person' who has 'serious criminal, felony charges pending who could impose a danger to the minor child,' the document reads.

When reached on her cellphone, Lakeisha said she couldn't talk and hung up.

But Sandy Becher, her Miami lawyer, called Richard's petition 'outrageous.' The mail online stated.

'We categorically deny each and all the allegations he has made in the petition,' Becher said. 'When the issues come before the court, they'll be proven to be patently false.'

DailyMail.com called Serena and a woman claiming to be one of her assistants picked up her cell phone and promised to leave a message for Serena to comment.

Richard is currently overseas and didn't return calls for comment and neither did his lawyer, Reginald Sessions.

The divorce petition, however, alleges plenty about his relationship with Lakeisha, which includes an unusually graphic litany of complaints against Lakeisha, a nurse's assistant by trade.

Pogba speaks on terror attacks in England'

Manchester United midfielder, Paul Pogba, has said that the four terror attacks that killed many and left scores injured in England recently, have nothing to do with Islam.

Pogba who is a Muslim and went on a pilgrimage to Mecca after last season, told the latest edition of Esquire Magazine, that people must not give in to insurgency.

The 24-year-old played in the Europa League final, that took place two days after a suicide bomber blew himself up at the Manchester Arena.

United beat Ajax 2-0 with Pogba scoring the second goal and dedicating the victory to the 22 victims and the scores who were injured.

“It’s a very difficult moment but you cannot give up. We can’t let them get in our heads — we have to fight for it.

“Sad things happen in life but you cannot stop living. You cannot kill a human being. To kill a human being — it’s something crazy, so I don’t want to put religion on it.

“This is not Islam and everybody knows that. I won’t be the only one saying that,” he said.

Obama making nostalgic visit to city of his childhood

Former President Barack Obama and his family are set to visit his childhood home city of Jakarta at the end of their 10-day vacation to Indonesia, where they went whitewater rafting and visited an ancient Buddhist temple.

Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo will host Obama on Friday at the Bogor Palace in West Java, a grand Dutch colonial building famous for its 200-acre botanical gardens and the herd of spotted deer that roam the grounds.

Obama was incredibly popular in Indonesia during his presidency, and many here saw him as a symbol of hope and religious tolerance because of his years living in the Muslim country. A statue of the kid still remembered as "Barry" by childhood friends was erected outside the elementary school he attended in Jakarta.

The boy who Davido promised to sponsor loses mom

It’s quite unfortunate to bring you this sad news, this early Friday Morning… But Utibe, the young boy who got Davido’s attention after singing “IF” has lost his mom.

Utibe went viral after several media houses posted videos of him singing Davido’s IF, and then a user, Shamrock80 who was moved by this, reached out to the young lad, bought him some foodstuffs, and tried to set him up in a school.

Shamrock met with Utibe and Utibe’s Mum, and he revealed that she suffers from paralysis… Davido got himself involved, and promised to sponsor Utibe for Life..

Then, Davido revealed he’s building a house for the young lad… But it’s so unfortunate his mum won’t see him succeed. She died this morning.

Shamrock who is spearheading everything about the welfare of Utibe and His Mum, broke the news, he wrote;

Rest in peace UTIBES MUM.. U struggled to live, u where always telling me u want to start business I told u to recover first, now I got a call u are gone so soon, if life was to be sold I will buy some more years for u…I tried to battle with ur health,but my best wasn’t good enough, Who will look after utibe and the two younger sisters.. Who will live in the huz we are building for u… I just wish u slept in that huz even for a second.. My heart is heavy. But GOD knows best. Rip ma’am.

Protest rocks Osun state secretariat over unpaid pension arrears

Author: Kess Ewubare

- Pensioners have locked out workers at the
Osun state secretariat in protest to over the
failure of the state government to pay their
pension arrears
- The pensioners maintain that they would
deny workers entry into the building
- One of the leaders of the pensioners, Yemi
Lawal, accuse Governor Rauf Aregbesola of
planning to divert the second tranche of
N12,7 billion Paris Club loan refund
Pensioners have besieged the Osun state
secretariat and locked out workers in
protests over the failure of the state
government to pay their pension arrears
and gratuities
The siege on the secretariat which
occurred on Friday morning, June 30, was
sequel to similar protests a day before,
The Punch reports.
During the Friday protest, the pensioners
prevented workers from gaining
entrance into the facility after they
locked the main gate as well as the
second gate.
The protesters held placard bearing
various inscriptions demanding the
payment of the areas and rained abuses
on the governor.
Security agencies comprising of the
police, operatives of the Department of
State Services and Nigeria Security and
Civil Defeñce Corps were deployed to
ensure that the protest did not turn
violent.

One of the leaders of the pensioners,
Yemi Lawal, maintained that they would
deny workers entry into the building.
He said Governor Rauf Aregbesola was
owing them 12-month pensions and the
gratuities of those who retired between
2008/and 2012 had not been paid.
He accused the governor of planning to
divert the second tranche of N12,7 billion
Paris Club loan refund.
Meanwhile, the Nigeria Union of Local
Government Employees (NULGE), has
released a reports showing that at least
23 states of Nigeria currently owe local
government workers their salaries
Ibrahim Khaleel, the national president
of the union, stated this in a statement
issued on Monday, June 26, in Abuja.
Mr Khaleel said that Bayelsa state is
owing local council workers the most
with between 10 and 16 months unpaid.

25 migrants found dead on Libya coast

By AFP
Some of the corpses were washed ashore on a
beach near the Libyan capital, but most were on
rocks off the suburb of Tajoura.
The bodies of at least 25 migrants who
drowned trying to reach Europe were found
near Tripoli Tuesday, the Libyan Red
Crescent said.
Some of the corpses were washed ashore on a
beach near the Libyan capital, but most were on
rocks off the suburb of Tajoura in a state of
decomposition, an AFP photographer at the scene
said.
The onset of warm weather has seen a surge in
migrants boarding boats for the perilous journey
across the Mediterranean, putting pressure on
rescue services.
Italy's coastguard said more than 8,000 migrants
had been rescued off the coast of Libya in a 48-
hour period to Tuesday.
Its Libyan counterpart said it had rescued 147
migrants, including 19 women and four children,
off the western town of Sabratha on Tuesday
morning.
Most were young people from Cameroon, Sudan,
Mali and Senegal, said Libyan navy spokesman
General Ayoub Qassem.
They were found crammed aboard a makeshift
rubber dinghy, said an AFP cameraman who was
on the rescue boat.
The coastguard moved them one by one onto a
rescue vessel.
Once on board, the migrants remained silent, tired
and visibly disappointed at not reaching their
destination.
On their arrival in the port of Zawiya, west of
Tripoli, they were put in a truck to be taken to a
detention centre in the town.
A woman clutching her baby sobbed in the truck,
her dreams of reaching Europe having evaporated
in a matter of hours -- along with the money she
paid for the journey.
The navy spokesman, Qassem, said several
migrant boats were spotted off Libya on Tuesday
along with at least six privately operated ships
"claiming to carry out rescue operations".
One of the vessels entered Libyan waters before
the coastguard forced it to leave, he said,
accusing the boats' operators of "complicity" with
people smugglers.
Migrants intercepted or rescued by Libya's
coastguard are usually held in detention centres
until they are sent home.
But many become prey to extortion and abuse at
the hands of human traffickers, who have
exploited years of chaos in Libya to boost their
lucrative but deadly trade.
More than 73,300 migrants have landed on Italy's
shores since January, a 14-percent rise on the
same period last year.
Just over 2,000 people have died or gone
missing feared drowned while attempting the
crossing since the beginning of 2017, according
to the UN's refugee agency.

Germany legalises same sex marriage

German politicians have voted to legalise same-
sex marriage. A total of 393 politicians voted to
legalising "marriage for everybody", while 226
voted against and four abstained from voting.
The snap vote took place today, only days after
Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel changed
her mind to allow a free vote.
Ms Merkel, has always been against same-sex
marriage, but she allowed for the vote after
saying on Monday that politicians could take up
the issue as a "question of conscience". As
expected, she voted against the bill citing
concerns over the welfare of children.
Members of Ms Merkel's conservative coalition
were given the freedom to individually vote for
their choice rather than follow party lines. The
Chancellor said though she voted against
legalising gay marriage, she hoped Parliament's
approval of the measure would lead to more
social cohesion.
She said: "For me, marriage in the basic law is
marriage between a man and a woman and that
is why I did not vote in favour of this bill today."
Germany has allowed same-sex couples to enter
civil partnerships since 2001, but same-sex
marriages had remained illegal. All of Ms Merkel's
potential coalition partners after the September 4
election have been calling for the legalisation of
same-sex marriage. However, her traditional
Catholic conservative bloc was not happy when
she announced that she would allow politicians to
vote on same-sex marriage according to their
individual conscience drew the ire of some in her
traditionally Catholic conservative bloc.
The "marriage for all" bill will grant gay and
lesbian couples full marital rights and allows
them to adopt children. It will likely be signed
into law by the President some time after July 7.

Photos: Little girl gets emotional and cries as her 'boyfriend' moves away with his family

Twitter user @hayliebri shared these photos of
her sister crying after her 'boyfriend', whom she's
apparently close with, moved away with his
family. In a post which has since gone viral on
twitter with over 180,000 likes, she wrote: "My
little sister's boyfriend is moving and their
goodbyes were the saddest thing ever went" .
See more photos after the cut...

Kevin Hart's pregnant wife Eniko Parrish flaunts her baby bump in a skimpy floral bikini at the Beach

Eniko and Kevin Hart are expecting their first child
together...

Jay Z admits he cheated on Beyonce in his new album and the Beyhive drag him on Twitter

Jay Z's new album was released in the wee hours
of this morning and it is all the rave at the
moment. The 4:44 album was dropped
exclusively on Tidal, a music streaming service
owned by Jay Z and some other music artists.
This is Jay Z's 13th studio album and it appears
to be really personal just like Beyonce's
Lemonade. In it, Jay Z revealed quite a lot,
including admitting that he cheated on his wife,
Beyonce and it affected her and their child, Blue
Ivy. He said it took Blue being born for him to
realize the value of his marriage.
He also rapped about that infamous elevator fight
with Solange and kind of acknowledged that it
had to do with him cheating. He called out his
former best friend Kanye West, OJ Simpson,
Rapper Future and more.
Following his revelations, the Beyhive went in on
the rapper specifically because he cheated on
their queen. The Beyhive aside, a lot of people
have praised the album as a work of genius and
one of the best in recent times.
The first song on the album is titled Kill Jay Z and
it makes reference to the death of the former way
of spelling his name without the dash. The new
spelling will now be JAY-Z, all in capital letters
and with a dash.
Calling out Kanye West in the first Song, Jay Z
said: "Ye' has changed. You dropped outta
school, you lost your principles. I know people
backstab you, I feel bad too. But this fuck
everybody attitude ain't natural. But you ain't the
same, this ain't KumbaYe."
Addressing the 2014 elevator fight with his
sister-in-law Solange, Jay Z confirmed in the "Kill
Jay Z" track that she attacked him because he
cheated on her sister and refused to acknowledge
his fault.
He rapped: "You egged Solange on. Knowin' all
along, all you had to say you was wrong."
Jay Z expressed remorse for cheating on Bey. In
the track Family Feud, he makes reference to
Becky, a name Beyonce mentioned in one of her
songs, "Sorry", from the Lemonade album when
she said, "better call Becky with the good hair".
Jay Z raps: "Yeah, I'll f*ck up a good thing if you
let me / Let me alone, Becky / A man that don't
take care his family can't be rich."
He continued in the track 4:44 "Look, I apologize,
often womanize / Took for my child to be born /
See through a woman's eyes / Took for these
natural twins to believe in miracles / Took me too
long for this song,"
"I don't deserve you, I harass you out in Paris,"
he added in "4:44". "Please come back to Rome,
you make it home. We talked for hours when you
were on tour. Please pick up the phone, pick up
the phone."
The father-of-three continued to address his
infidelity on the track titled "Kill Jay Z". He said
he could have lost his family from his cheating
ways. He went on in the same track to shade
rapper Future for letting his relationship with
Ciara end.
"You almost went Eric Benét.. Let the baddest girl
get away... In the FUTURE, other niggas playin'
football with your son," he says making reference
to Future's son with Ciara, Future Jr., whose
stepfather is NFL star Russell Wilson.
He also addressed his mother's sexuality and
finally acknowledged that she is a lesbian (read
here )
On the track titled "Family Feud", Jay Z talks
about Rev. Al Sharpton's mirror selfie that hit the
internet just last week (read here). This is an
indication that the 4:44 album was only recently
completed.
There are 10 tracks on the 4:44 album and they
include: Kill Jay Z, The Story of O.J., Smile,
Caught Their Eyes, 4:44, Family Feud, Bam,
Moonlight, Marcy Me, Legacy.

Photo: Man swears affidavit claiming he was forced to forge signatures for Dino Melaye's recall

A man by the name Tope Ayeni, has sworn an
affidavit claiming he was given N20,000 by the
APC chairman in Ayetoro Gbede/Duagbe ward 1
in the state, to convince people to sign the recall
register for Dino Melaye or forge their signatures.
Tope in the affidavit claimed that the chairman
asked him to give N500 to anyone he can
convince to sign the register. A copy of the
affidavit was shared by Dino Melaye above.
Last week, INEC released a statement saying it
has received over 180,000 signatures from
constituents of Kogi West Senatorial district
requesting for Dino to be recalled from the
senate.
Dino Melaye has however come out to say that
some of the people that signed the recall register
were dead people. He maintains that the state
governor, Yahaya Bello, is behind the plot to
recall him from the senate.

Photo: Man swears affidavit claiming he was forced to forge signatures for Dino Melaye's recall

A man by the name Tope Ayeni, has sworn an
affidavit claiming he was given N20,000 by the
APC chairman in Ayetoro Gbede/Duagbe ward 1
in the state, to convince people to sign the recall
register for Dino Melaye or forge their signatures.
Tope in the affidavit claimed that the chairman
asked him to give N500 to anyone he can
convince to sign the register. A copy of the
affidavit was shared by Dino Melaye above.
Last week, INEC released a statement saying it
has received over 180,000 signatures from
constituents of Kogi West Senatorial district
requesting for Dino to be recalled from the
senate.
Dino Melaye has however come out to say that
some of the people that signed the recall register
were dead people. He maintains that the state
governor, Yahaya Bello, is behind the plot to
recall him from the senate.

Photo: Man swears affidavit claiming he was forced to forge signatures for Dino Melaye's recall

A man by the name Tope Ayeni, has sworn an
affidavit claiming he was given N20,000 by the
APC chairman in Ayetoro Gbede/Duagbe ward 1
in the state, to convince people to sign the recall
register for Dino Melaye or forge their signatures.
Tope in the affidavit claimed that the chairman
asked him to give N500 to anyone he can
convince to sign the register. A copy of the
affidavit was shared by Dino Melaye above.
Last week, INEC released a statement saying it
has received over 180,000 signatures from
constituents of Kogi West Senatorial district
requesting for Dino to be recalled from the
senate.
Dino Melaye has however come out to say that
some of the people that signed the recall register
were dead people. He maintains that the state
governor, Yahaya Bello, is behind the plot to
recall him from the senate.

See the hilarious birthday message a twitter user sent to Minister of power, Babatunde Fashola

Babatunde Fashola, Nigeria's Federal Minister of
Power, Works and Housing turned 54 on June 28,
2017 and he got this very savage birthday
message on twitter. Very funny

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Viral video of a cute baby boy disturbing his parents as they tried to concentrate during Yoga

This absolutely cute video went viral on twitter. It
shows a little boy running around playfully and
interferring with his parents' Yoga stretches.
Watch the video after the cut...

Governor Ayo Fayose is right in asking Buhari To resign – Mike Ozekhome says

Two days ago, Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose,
addressed a press conference in his office where
he said that President Buhari is currently on life
support in the UK and that he should resign from
office so as to allow acting president Yemi
Osinbajo run the affairs of the country
appropriately.
Human rights lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, has come
out to lend his support to Fayose's call for
President Buhari's resignation. Speaking in an
interview with Channels TV, Ozekhome said;
"We have seen a situation where what
Dora Akunyili famously referred to as the
cabal. The cabal has consistently flown the
kite of Mr President, lurking behind and in
front of the corridors of power which was
why they gave us a voice some few days
ago, whether genuine or stimulated, that it
was President Muhammadu Buhari
addressing Nigerians with much profanity,
in his own native language of Hausa which
is not the recognized lingual franca. The
point they tried to make is that whether
we like it or not, Mr President is hovering
around here, he is right here with us. That
has not given the acting president who
has assumed full powers of the President,
Professor Yemi Osinbajo SAN, the
capacity, the ability, the space to act
because he continues to look behind his
shoulders whether they would throw in the
name of the president. So Fayose is
therefore right and right to call for Mr
President’s resignation because it is clear
that under section 143 and 144 of the
constitution, the Federal Executive Council,
which is made up of ministers appointed
by the President himself, cannot
recommend that Mr President be
subjected to medical report by a panel set
up for that purpose. We cannot continue
to be like a rudderless country, like an
aircraft flying without a compass, it is
dangerous”he said

Governor Ayo Fayose is right in asking Buhari To resign – Mike Ozekhome says

Two days ago, Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose,
addressed a press conference in his office where
he said that President Buhari is currently on life
support in the UK and that he should resign from
office so as to allow acting president Yemi
Osinbajo run the affairs of the country
appropriately.
Human rights lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, has come
out to lend his support to Fayose's call for
President Buhari's resignation. Speaking in an
interview with Channels TV, Ozekhome said;
"We have seen a situation where what
Dora Akunyili famously referred to as the
cabal. The cabal has consistently flown the
kite of Mr President, lurking behind and in
front of the corridors of power which was
why they gave us a voice some few days
ago, whether genuine or stimulated, that it
was President Muhammadu Buhari
addressing Nigerians with much profanity,
in his own native language of Hausa which
is not the recognized lingual franca. The
point they tried to make is that whether
we like it or not, Mr President is hovering
around here, he is right here with us. That
has not given the acting president who
has assumed full powers of the President,
Professor Yemi Osinbajo SAN, the
capacity, the ability, the space to act
because he continues to look behind his
shoulders whether they would throw in the
name of the president. So Fayose is
therefore right and right to call for Mr
President’s resignation because it is clear
that under section 143 and 144 of the
constitution, the Federal Executive Council,
which is made up of ministers appointed
by the President himself, cannot
recommend that Mr President be
subjected to medical report by a panel set
up for that purpose. We cannot continue
to be like a rudderless country, like an
aircraft flying without a compass, it is
dangerous”he said

Nigerians shading the hell out of Hushpuppi

Clearly, Hushpuppi has enjoyed his 10-minutes of
fame today but it comes at a price. Nigerian
twitter is currently dragging the heck out of him
and the tweets are absolutely hilarious...