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Willie Obiano Is The Best Man For Anambra- Bob Manuel Udokwu

Nollywood actor, Bob manuel Udokwu has publicly declared his staunch support for Anambra state gubernatorial candidate, Willie Obiano.

Manuel also predicted that Willie Obiano will win the elections that were held on saturday.

He told punch,

Willie Obiano is just the best man to succeed Governor Peter Obi. He has a distinguished career in money management; he knows what is best for Anambra. 

He had worked with Governor Obi for over 10 years in the banking industry. He surely knows how best to consolidate on the existing programmes and projects.”

He added, “I tell my colleagues that it is not all about inducements, but about collective growth.

“Those who were inviting actors for dinners whenever they wanted something in the past were only interested in self actualisation, not collective growth.”

“As the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Obi on Creative Media, I have submitted proposals on how we can fast-track the growth of the industry and the government is already working on that.”

It's Fast Becoming An Anthem! How Mega-wealthy Arab Men are Accessorizing their Supercars and Powerboats with Lions and Cheetahs

For many Mega-rich Nigerians, expensive cars, jewelry, private jets, state of the art houses are some of the ways to show off their wealth. However for mega rich Arabs, nothing shows off their affluence like owning wild felines. Yes you read right, Rich Arabs now put up an ostentatious show of wealth through the acquisition of Lions, Tigers, Hyena's and Jaguars. See how it is being reported below:

For mega-wealthy young men of the Gulf Arab states nothing says 'I am rich' more aptly than to Instagram yourself and your lion or cheetah posing alongside your Mercedes or Lamborghini or motoring along in a speedboat.
Showing off the Persian Gulf's latest 'ultimate status symbol', the penchant for posting big cat photos on Instagram betrays the young men's sheer bravado or stupidity, depending on your point of view.
Indeed, while the intimacy on display the owners seem to share with their cats is clearly touching, others could possibly think of better ways to flaunt their wealth than sharing feeding time or bathing with fully grown 400 pound lions.

Eagerly followed by over 250,000 followers on the popular photo-sharing website, Humaid AlBuQaish , has become cult viewing as he regularly posts himself and his big cats online.
While it is not entirely clear what AlBuQaish does for a living or how he accumulated his fabulous wealth and pets, it is clear that he lives a life of luxury that most can only dream of.

Feeding time: Another mildly disturbing picture reveals that the lions are not without want when it comes to being well looked after

Trusting his cats implicitly, AlBuQaish is pictured feeding his menagerie of lethal predators and wrestling with them - all the while showing off the fact that he owns such magnificent creatures.
Engaging in one-upmanship online, others have posted pictures of their big cats being taken for a spin in a speedboat - while others are happy to place their heads into their prized possession's mouth.
The trade in big cats in the Gulf reflects how status among the wealthy is all important, where a rare white lion will sell for around $50,000(N8,000,000)

Jasim Ali runs the Ras Al Khaimah Wildlife Park in the United Arab Emirates and he adopts and cares for those animals that are discarded once they become too large and dangerous for their boastful owners.
'If someone buys a very expensive animal, he is boasting that he has enough money to get anything he wants,' he said to CNN.

'If he has a tamed wild animal like a lion, he is trying to show off that he is brave. But this is not courage; this is animal rights abuse.'
Of course there is nothing to suggest that any of those in these pictures would openly flaunt ownership of illegal animals so publicly online.
However, the problem is such that in 2010 over 200 illegal animals were confiscated in the United Arab Emirates in 2010.
Among the animals taken into custody are white lions, tigers, panthers and cheetahs as well as hyenas
According to a report from the International Fund for Animal Welfare, illegal trade of big cats in the UAE is a growing problem. Not all big cats are illegal; they just need proper papers to be sold.

Estate agent bags 15 year sentence for fraud

A Nigerian High Court in Ikeja, capital of Lagos state on Monday sentenced an estate agent, Michael Olabameji, to 15 years imprisonment for defrauding 100 accommodation seekers of N29.8 million.
Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo convicted Olabameji, 42, of the 99-count charge of obtaining money by false pretence preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Onigbanjo sentenced the convict to 15 years imprisonment on each count, which is to run concurrently beginning from Feb.1, 2010, when he was remanded in prison.
The judge said: “the convict inflicted untold hardships on the victims and callously deprived them of their hard-earned money with a false promise of accommodation.
“It is immaterial that he had the mind to refund the money to the victims as he had claimed in his confessional statement to the EFCC.”
He said the property which was used by the convict to perpetrate the fraud was actually owned by another person who had leased it to him from 2010 till 2025.
Onigbanjo said the 16-apartment building, located at No. 2, Amuda St., Kirikiri, Lagos, should therefore, be managed by the EFCC till the expiration of the lease.
According to him, the proceeds recovered from the rent are to be paid to the victims as restitution.
The EFCC Prosecutor, Mrs Bunmi Bosede, had told the court that Olabameji committed the offences between January and July 2008.
She said he had collected various sums of money from victims as tenancy and agreement fees.
Mr Joseph Igwe, who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on behalf of the victims, applauded the judgment.
Igwe said that they had suffered both financial and psychological hardship as a result of Olabameji’s actions. (NAN)


Source: PM News

I Had a Need to Tell Africa’s Story- Mo Abudu

Mo Abudu‘s dream is all about selling Africa to the World.

The media mogul who has made a name for herself as an undeniable force to be reckoned with when it comes to media in Africa, sits down with Etan Smallman of the  Independent UK for an interesting conversation on how she hopes to shape Africa with her television network Ebony Life TV.

It was launched on Sunday 30th June 2013 in Lagos .

How did Mo – a human-resources executive for oil giant ExxonMobil with no TV experience, become “Africa’s Oprah?” Read excerpts from the interview below;

Excerpts

On trying to contact Oprah when she wanted to go into TV: “The first thing I did was to buy a box collection of Oprah’s 20th anniversary, which had about 20 tapes of various episodes that she’s done. Then I somehow got the details for her studios in America. I must have sent Madam Oprah Winfrey tons of emails. I was really hoping that she would give me the necessary guidance and mentorship to become Africa’s talk-show hostess and executive producer of my own show.”

On being one of the few black children schooling in England: “I was born in England and I am very at home here. I went to school in London and Tunbridge Wells. I was probably the second or third black person in that school and you find that you are being continually asked questions that just boggle your mind. Do you guys live in trees? Do you guys dance around fires? What do you eat for breakfast?

For ever and ever, I always felt that I had to fight to prove who I was. For me, I think somewhere deeply buried in my subconscious was a need to tell Africa’s story. My burning desire is just to tell everybody: listen, we’re not a bunch of savages. We really are gifted.”

On showcasing the way Africans live today: “People don’t think that people live in Africa like this. They don’t think that we have high-profile events where people look glamorous and they’re all dressed up. But this is Africa today – people need to know that this kind of Africa exists, we have moved into the modern age. BBC and CNN are in Africa but they don’t cover things like this. They’re going to look for some horrid bush and some forsaken story about HIV.”

On International Aid for Africa: “Maybe I should plead the fifth in this instance… Yes, it’s termed as aid. But then I think that Africa has been robbed of so much that I don’t see it as aid – I’d just call it payback time. I just think we’re the most misunderstood continent on the globe today.I do also believe that African governments need to play a stronger role in changing perceptions of the continent – because it doesn’t just happen by itself. The reason why I say that people want to go to America is because they see all those amazing movies and they think they’re going to make their fortune and become a star. We all know it doesn’t work that way, but that’s the power of media.”

On stereotypes: “My days are way too busy to let racism get at me; I try not to notice it. You hear it from all sorts of people, ‘I don’t really like black people, but I like you, you’re different’. You’d be amazed, but they think they’re actually being nice – it’s a compliment. That happens in the UK, it just happens. The most amazing thing is when I go to the States, and they’re like, ‘My God, you have a British accent!’ What do you expect me to have?”

On Oprah being refused to buy a bag at a boutique in Zurich: ”If that can happen to Oprah – hello, she’s my hero – it could happen to anyone. I know what my salary is every month. It would probably pay the wages of a lot of people in here today. But the thing is that people just think, oh, maybe you’re collecting the dole or something.”

On sexism in the corporate world: ”Yes, I think it is a man’s world, and some men will say that you are ‘overbearing’ or they will say: ‘Sit at home and raise your children’. In that same breath, I’ve had a lot of support from men. I think I’ve had more support from men than I’ve had from women. They’ve said, ‘OK, Mo, go out there and let’s see what you can do’.”

On women not fully supporting other women: ”There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other (a quote by former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright). It’s one of the big things I preach all the time. We often pay a lot of lip service to women supporting women but I think it’s in our genes to just pull each other down a lot of the time, and that’s one major battle that women need to fight. Women don’t trust each other, I think it’s a global trend.”

Latasha Ngwube Named Editor of Pride Magazine Nigeria

Latasha Ngwube has gotten herself a new gig.

The Contributing editor for Vanguard Allure, is now the editor of Pride Magazine Nigeria.

BN can confirm that a Nigerian firm recently acquired rights from the London-based publication which is one of Europe’s largest lifestyle glossy for women of colour. It is however not a subsidiary of Pride Magazine.

Latasha has had a very interesting and long career in the media world.

She was the fashion editor for Soundcity’s Blast Magazine from 06-07, a junior fashion and beauty correspondent at Thisday Style Magazine and later promoted to the senior fashion and beauty correspondent/assistant editor.

She left Thisday Style in July 2011 and became the contributing editor for Vanguard’s Allure Magazine in September 2011.

The magazine will be launched soon. Congrats Latasha

Source: BellaNaija

Sen. Tari Sekibo Dies

The President of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), and former Senator of the Federal Republic, Tari Sekibo, has died. Mr Sekibo slumped today in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State and was pronounced dead at the Federal Medical Center where he was rushed to. RIP sirr