OLORI AJOKE, LAST WIFE OF THE ALAAFIN OF OYO RELEASES BEAUTIFUL PHOTOS TO CELEBRATE HER 27TH BIRTHDAY

Ajoke, the youngest wife of the Alaafin of Oyo who is a student of University of Ibadan marks her 27th birthday today and releases beautiful photos to celebrate the day.

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PHOTOS:A TEAM OF 50 MEDICAL SPECIALISTS IN KENYA SUCCESSFULLY SEPARATED CONJOINED TWIN GIRLS

 Doctors at the Kenyatta Hospital on Wednesday morning November 3rd, successfully separated conjoined twins in the first ever surgery of its kind on the continent.

A team of 50 medical specialists separated the twin girls, Favour and Blessing, whose lower backs were fused, in an operation that took 23 hours and concluded at 5am on Wednesday morning after a two year hospital stay.

 

The twins are currently admitted in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital but KNH Acting Chief Executive Officer Thomas Mutie, told reporters that they are expected to make a full recovery.

“It is the first time in Sub-Saharan Africa, outside South Africa where this kind of operation has been done successfully. So this fete is a statement to the world ‘in KNH and in Kenya, we can do what other people can do."

The girls have been admitted to the hospital for the last two years since their birth in late 2014. The doctors however opted to given the children time to grow before putting them under the knife to allow them time for preparation and to allow the girls to grow in strength as explained by doctor Mutie.

"These particular ones were joined in the sacro area, in the bottom area, and they had to be given food to grow, to have enough muscles for that separation to occur. So this day marks the culmination of those two years of preparation and I’m humbled by the importance and enormity of this event."

Below is a report posted by the Hospital on its official Facebook page: 

"On 1st November 2016, the Kenyatta National Hospital and School of Health Sciences - University of Nairobi medical team successfully separated the conjoined twins Blessing and Favour. The separation surgery of the Sacrophagus twins who were joined at the lower back took 23 hours. The twins have been in KNH since 5th September 2014 following their referral from St. Theresa Hospital, Kiirua in Meru County.

The multidisciplinary team of over fifty (50) medical specialists including paediatric surgeons, neurosurgeons, plastic and reconstructive surgeons, anesthetists and nursing teams performed the 23 hour long highly delicate surgery on 1st November 2016 at the KNH Main Theatres leading to the successful separation of the twins. The surgery ended 2nd November, 2016 at 5:00am.

The children have been admitted in the Specialized Surgical Paediatric Ward for over two years to allow development of key organs and also enable them gain appropriate muscles to withstand the surgery. The conjoined twin girls who were born on 4th September 2014 were joined at the sacral region of the lower spinal cord. 

 

Surgery of this nature usually required planning and regular consultation by a multi-disciplinary team of KNH and School of Health Sciences, UON specialists to exchange ideas on how best to perform the procedure while minimizing risk of either paralysis or neural damage. 

 

Having been convinced that time was appropriate, the team set on the surgery on 1st November 2016, at 6.00am and after 23 long hours in theatre, they emerged with the two separate children who are currently admitted in the ICU. The children are stable, receiving specialized care and we are monitoring progress. We are confident that they will fully recovery and live normal independent lives to adulthood.

 

We thank God for this great milestone and celebrate the team for the job well done. It has taken not only skills but patience, commitment and self confidence to bring this joy to the mother, relatives, friends and honor to our country for the first ever sarcophagus surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The Successful surgery is a testimony that the country is endowed with medical specialists who can handle complicated human health challenges"

 

 See photos of the twins at birth, in 2014 and also photos of the doctors after the surgery, below...

THE COMPLETE LIST OF WINNERS AT THE CMA AWARDS 2016

 

The 50th annual CMA Awards were held tonight in Nashville, with Garth Brooks taking home the top prize of Entertainer of the Year. Brooks, who returned to country music in 2014 after a lengthy hiatus, beat out last year's winner Luke Bryan, Chris Stapleton, Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood.


Underwood wasn't shut out, however. The singer was named Female Vocalist of the Year for a fourth time, her first win in the category since 2008. Chris Stapleton repeated in the Male Vocalist race, delivering a humble and heartfelt acceptance speech that nodded to everyone from Dolly Parton, who received the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award, to wife Morgane Stapleton. 

Right around last year's CMA Awards, Eric Church surprise released his album Mr. Misunderstood. That record took home Album of the Year honors tonight, with Church performing its current single "Kill a Word" with vocalist Rhiannon Giddens.

The Single and Song of the Year winners were both inspired by personal experience. Thomas Rhett wrote the Single of the Year "Die a Happy Man" for his wife, while Lori McKenna penned Tim McGraw's "Humble and Kind," the Song of the Year champ, for her children.

While Brooks' Entertainer victory was unexpected, the night's biggest surprise came in the Vocal Duo of the Year race as rootsy sibling duo Brothers Osborne edged out three-time winners Florida Georgia Line. Brothers TJ and John Osborne were visibly emotional accepting the award, and when Little Big Town accepted their own trophies for Vocal Group of the Year, Karen Fairchild expressed her amazement at the Osborne coup. 

Maren Morris was also teary-eyed at the podium. The "My Church" singer was named New Artist of the Year.

Dierks Bentley was announced as the winner of Musical Event of the Year along with Elle King in recognition of their duet "Different for Girls" earlier in the day. Chris Stapleton's "Fire Away" was named Music Video of the Year.
Here's the complete winners list of the 50th CMA Awards.
Entertainer of the Year

• Garth Brooks - WINNER
• Luke Bryan
• Chris Stapleton
• Carrie Underwood
• Keith Urban

Album of the Year

• Black - Dierks Bentley
• Hero - Maren Morris
• Mr. Misunderstood - Eric Church – WINNER
• Ripcord - Keith Urban
• Storyteller - Carrie Underwood

Single of the Year

• "Die a Happy Man" - Thomas Rhett - WINNER
• "Humble and Kind" - Tim McGraw
• "My Church" - Maren Morris
• "Nobody to Blame" - Chris Stapleton
• "Record Year" - Eric Church

Song of the Year

• "Burning House"- Cam
• "Die a Happy Man" - Thomas Rhett
• "Humble and Kind" - Tim McGraw - WINNER
• "My Church" - Maren Morris
• "Record Year" - Eric Church

Male Vocalist of the Year

• Dierks Bentley
• Eric Church
• Tim McGraw
• Chris Stapleton - WINNER
• Keith Urban

Female Vocalist of the Year

• Kelsea Ballerini
• Miranda Lambert
• Maren Morris
• Kacey Musgraves
• Carrie Underwood - WINNER

New Artist of the Year

• Kelsea Ballerini
• Brothers Osborne
• Maren Morris - WINNER
• Old Dominion
• Cole Swindell

Vocal Duo of the Year

• Brothers Osborne – WINNER
• Dan + Shay
• Florida Georgia Line
• Joey + Rory
• Maddie & Tae

Vocal Group of the Year

• Lady Antebellum
• Little Big Town - WINNER
• Old Dominion
• Rascal Flatts
• Zac Brown Band

Music Video of the Year

• "Burning House" - Cam
• "Fire Away" - Chris Stapleton - WINNER
• "Humble and Kind" - Tim McGraw
• "Record Year" - Eric Church
• "Somewhere on a Beach" - Dierks Bentley

Musical Event of the Year

• "Different For Girls" - Dierks Bentley feat. Elle King - WINNER
• "Home Alone Tonight" - Luke Bryan featuring Karen Fairchild
• "The Fighter" - Keith Urban (featuring Carrie Underwood)
• "Think of You" - Chris Young (duet with Cassadee Pope)
• "You Are My Sunshine" - Morgane Stapleton with Chris Stapleton

Musician of the Year

• Jerry Douglas (Dobro/Lap Steel Guitar)
• Paul Franklin (Steel Guitar)
• Dann Huff (Guitar) - WINNER
• Brent Mason (Guitar)
• Derek Wells (Guitar) 

BEYONCE'S STUNNING LOOK AT THE CMA AWARDS 2016

Beyonce's stunning look to the 50th annual CMA Awards held in Nashville,where she performs 'Daddy lessons' on stage.

GUBER CANDIDATE OF PPA IN ABIA STATE ACCUSED OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, ALLEGEDLY THREATENS TO KILL HIS WIFE.

Shared on facebook as follows: 'Please everyone kindly share till help comes and this man is disgraced and known for his evil!' - Irene Amos Abbot narrated how former national chairman of ALGON and the guber candidate of Progressive People's Alliance (PPA) in Abia State, Chief Chikwe Udensi has been physically abusing his wife, Chidimma Udensi. She alleged that the politician is threatening to kill her aunt and take away her children. 

Mrs Udensi, a graduate of Communication Science is the Finance Director of Sheiks and Bishops Ltd and Director, Continental Healthcare Ltd and several other organizations. Read the post below:

"Former ALGON national chairman and PPA gubernatorial candidate for Abia state 2015 Chief Chikwe Udensi is a violent abuser and has decided he'll kill his wife Dinma Udensi who's my aunt.

It started as normal couple arguments then slaps to minor beatings, and now major beating to the extent of almost disfiguring her. She has tried to endure but it's getting worse each day so No she will no longer stay in this marriage and die. NO WAY!!!

 

She has asked for divorce and he beats the hell out of her for bringing it up, because it'll dent the image he has made society believe of him, she's currently under lock and keys and he's not letting her go out.

She sent out an SOS and has asked that her story be made public.

He's very influential with the police force so it's almost impossible to rely on them. He constantly threatens to kill her or take away her kids if she sneaks away.

She has tried to leave many times but security is tight.
She's terrified of him and is a shadow of herself but after years of domestic violence she has become bold enough to go public about it.

 
If nothing is done, God forbid her corpse is the next we'll see!

 

This isn't the first, second or third time, it has been happening and she's had so many hospital visits to treat the injuries inflicted on her by him.

 

Chikwe Udensi is a womaniser, a violent abuser, arrogant and almost heartless.

I'm calling on human rights activists, lawyers and just anyone that can help fight free this woman, No one deserves to die in marriage NOBODY!

 

Please share till this goes viral, Chidinma is asking that this be made public before she's beaten to death.

 

PLS PLS share as if she's your sister, niece, daughter, sibling till help comes.

If you can help or know anyone who can help, kindly mail: savechidinma@gmail.com

God bless"

CLASSY BEHIND THE SCENE PHOTOS OF TIWA SAVAGE

 

 Behind the scene pictures of Tiwa Savage, from her new music video shoot

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DENRELE EDUN, BONANG MATHEBA, 5 OTHERS UNVEILED AS AFRIMA 2016 HOSTS

Denrele Edun, Bonang Matheba, Hauwa Allahbura and Pam Happi are among those announced as hosts of the AFRIMA 2016 awards ceremony.

This was made known in a statement released by the African Union and the international committee of the All Africa Music Awards.

“Ahmed Soultan is a Moroccan music star, who is also an AFRIMA double award winner. He is a leader of the Moroccan Group, Nayda. Soultan is a multilingual artiste and celebrity, who speaks English, French, Portuguese and Arabic fluently. He has performed at the GLO CAF Awards and he is also a nominee for one of the categories of AFRIMA 2016. His albums include ‘Music Has No Boundaries’ (2004), ‘Tolerance’ (2005) and ‘Code’ (2009).

“Bonang Matheba, is a versatile South African media personality, who anchors the popular SABC 1 Music Live Show. She is also a winner of the International Golden Horn Award for Best TV Presenter. Ika Jong is a multi-talented bilingual Congolese TV Broadcaster and celebrity.

“However, the red carpet hosts are Denola Grey, Denrele Edun, Hauwa AllahBura; and Pam Happi. Denola is a style blogger, model, fashion enthusiast, broadcaster on Ebonylife TV, Nigeria. He has carved a niche for himself in the fashion industry.

“Pam Happi, who is fondly called Miss P is a bilinguist and a household name in Cameroon. She is the renowned hostess of Miss P Show, which is one of the most-watched Cameroonian talk shows.
“Hauwa Allahbura is a Nigerian model, actress and a TV personality whose rise to fame came when she won the Miss FCT pageant some years ago. She was born in Kanam Plateau and works as a TV presenter for VillageSquare TV a Nollywood entertainment channel broadcasting on ONTV but now a TV channel known as Trybe TV.

“Adenrele Oluwafemi Edun, popularly known as Denrele Edun was one of the red carpet hosts of AFRIMA 2015. Known for his unique fashion style and personality, he started his television career as an actor when he was 11 years and also a presenter/producer on a NTA children’s programme, Kiddievision 101.Denrele is an entertainment personality whose style has been described as “punk and fun”. He went into modelling, and after graduating from school, he joined Sound City, Nigeria, as a TV presenter.

“However, the AFRIMA 2016 events will be preceded by AFRIMA Music Village on Friday November, 4, 2016. This is a non-stop music concert with over 40 African artistes performing live at the Waterfront, Bar Beach, Victoria Island, Lagos Nigeria. Thousands of guests are expected in Lagos for the event.

“This event is free to those wearing the AFRIMA T-shirt which is available at www.ariiyatickets.com or at the Beach venue.

“Also, as part of the activities for nominees to have a feel of Lagos, there will be a guided tour of Eko Atlantic City, popularly called the Eighth Wonder of the World. Other tourists sites to visit include the Freedom Park, Broad Street, which houses relics of the slave trade and Nigeria’s struggles for Independence. Other historic places to visit in Lagos, which is AFRIMA’s official host city, will be a visit to the Palace of the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, which is located in Central Lagos, known as Iga Iduganran.

“The grand finale, the awards night, comes up on Sunday November 6, with thousands of guests expected in Lagos from across Africa and the world. The event will hold inside the prestigious Convention Centre of the Eko Hotels & Suites. The All Africa Music Awards is tailored to recognise and reward those who have given African music the most creative competitive edge in the global market within the year under review. Over 154 nominees are campaigning for votes from the public for the various categories of awards,” said the statement.

THE MOMENT DONALD TRUMP WINS THE ELECTION, I WILL CUT MY GREEN CARD MYSELF AND START PACKING UP - WOLE SOYINKA

 
Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, said he would destroy his green card if Donald Trump becomes president of the United States.

Soyinka said this on Wednesday while giving a speech to students of Oxford University, England, reports the Guardian UK.

“If in the unlikely event he does win, the first thing he’ll do is to say [that] all green-card holders must reapply to come back into the US. Well, I’m not waiting for that.

“The moment they announce his victory, I will cut my green card myself and start packing up,” said Soyinka, who is scholar-in-residence at New York University’s Institute of African American Affairs.
The internationally-acclaimed playwright and poet described Britain’s decision to exit the European Union as a “ridiculous decision”.

He said: “What is happening in Europe shouldn’t surprise any of us … It has happened before. We were here when Enoch Powell was leading his thugs out to drive blacks from here.

“It’s a constant fight to try to get a nation to recognise its own noble persuasions, its own persuasions of the loftiness of human possibility. It’s for young people like you to say no to them whenever that happens.”

Soyinka also informed the students that the torch of African literature is being carried by the younger generation.

“I think we of the older are getting a little bit tired, and I think our production gets thinner and thinner. But fortunately, it doesn’t worry any of us, as far as I know, because the body of literature that is coming out [is] varied and liberated.

“African literature suffered from some kind of ideological spasm in which the younger generation was bombarded by a sense of ideological duty, in other words it was bombarded with a very simplistic notion by leftist radical writers, very reformative revolutionary thinkers, that all literature is ideological and therefore writers must ensure that their writing illustrates progressive ideologies.”

CLINTON AND BARACK OBAMA WARNS VOTERS AGAINST VOTING FOR TRUMP

Hillary Clinton painted a grim picture of life under a Donald Trump presidency Wednesday, warning undecided voters as the ever tighter White House race entered its final five-day stretch.

Clinton made an optimistic choice in staging a huge rally in Arizona, a swing state she hopes to poach from the Republicans, but the Democrat’s tone was grim as she invited voters to envisage her defeat.

“Imagine it is January 20, 2016 and imagine that it is Donald Trump standing in front of the Capitol,” she told a 15,000-strong crowd in Tempe, triggering a chorus of boos for her Republican opponent.
“Imagine that he is taking the oath of office and then imagine that he is in the Oval Office making the decisions that affect your lives and your future,” she said.
Clinton painted a picture of Trump as a president who demeans women, exacerbates racial divisions and is so thin-skinned and unpredictable that he could “start a real war instead of a Twitter war.”

The note of caution was echoed by President Barack Obama, who warned voters that America’s very future was at stake. He will duel with Trump on Thursday when they hold rival rallies in Florida.
“The fate of the republic rests on your shoulders,” he declared in North Carolina, one of a handful of swing states where the race will be decided.

“The fate of the world is teetering and you, North Carolina, are going to have to make sure that we push it in the right direction,” Obama declared.

The 70-year-old Republican, by contrast, treated supporters in Florida to a now familiar tirade, predicting Clinton’s downfall and vowing to “drain the swamp” of corruption in Washington.

Appearing before fans at a triumphal rally in Pensacola, Trump stuck closely to his well- rehearsed stump speech focused on his “contract with America, a plan to end government corruption.”
And he boasted that many opinion-makers and voters are now flocking to his standard.

“We’re only left with one person, crooked Hillary Clinton. We’re going to win. We’re going to win.”
Such talk — partly supported by one poll on Tuesday showing him moving slightly ahead of Clinton — has delighted America’s foes, made its allies queasy and spooked financial markets.

Trump has been battered by scandals that would have sunk a less brazen showman: accused of sexual assault, of not paying taxes and of ties to Russia’s Vladimir Putin and the mob.

But renewed FBI scrutiny of Clinton’s use of a private email server when secretary of state has fired up the Republican’s raucous fan base and fed doubts about the Democrat’s trustworthiness.

– Foregone conclusion –
US markets have not responded well. The Dow fell 0.4 percent and the broader S&P 500 was off 0.7 percent at the close. Earlier major markets in Asia and Europe had tumbled more than one percent.
The dollar continued to slip against the euro, losing 0.3 percent to $1.1093, while the Mexican peso — sensitive to Trump’s threat to build a wall on the country’s border — lost one percent.

The dramatic tightening in the opinion polls also frightened bookmakers. Ireland’s Paddy Power had already paid out $1 million to punters who bet on Clinton, assuming her victory a foregone conclusion.

But on Wednesday, the firm said 91 percent of bets now favor Trump, whose odds have narrowed.

This week, US Secretary of State John Kerry admitted the campaign has been “downright embarrassing” as he deals with America’s friends and foes abroad, and the latter are in full voice.

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — whose regime paints America as a comic-book foe — crowed that the “catastrophic reality” of the candidates “goes beyond what even we were saying.”
In Britain, a giant effigy of Trump wielding the head of his rival Clinton was to be burned during traditional November 5 bonfire night celebrations.

– Long-shot bets –
The long and often unedifying 2016 race is now being fought in a few corners of a few states, most notably Florida, Ohio and North Carolina.

These three states offer the best chance for both candidates to cross the winning threshold of 270 out of 538 electoral college votes.
But the two hopefuls have also placed some final long-shot bets.

Clinton traveled to Arizona, which Democrats haven’t won since 1996 when her husband Bill claimed the presidency by a landslide.

An Emerson poll on Wednesday had Clinton losing the state by only four percentage points, and both of its Republican senators oppose Trump, offering the prospect of a shock Clinton win.

Meanwhile, Trump has raised eyebrows by campaigning in Wisconsin and Michigan, both traditionally Democratic states where polls show Clinton leading by six points or more.

And he spent most of Wednesday in Florida — which is likely to make-or-break his presidential dreams — and was to remain there Thursday seeking to build momentum before the dash for the finish line.

WOMAN IMPERSONATING HERSELF AS A LAWYER AS BEEN ARRESTED IN ZARIA

 

The police on Tuesday arraigned a female accused, Fatima Ibrahim, at a Chediya Magistrates’ Court in Zaria, Kaduna State, for impersonation.
The Prosecutor, Sgt. Abubakar Ibrahim, said the police had on Oct. 17 received a petition bordering on impersonation from Augustine Agum, Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Zaria branch on behalf of the association.

Ibrahim said that the accused had been parading herself as a lawyer having not been trained and qualified as one. He told the court that in the course of police investigation, the accused neither affirmed nor denied the allegation against her.

The prosecutor said the offence contravened Section 179 Penal Code. Fatima confessed committing the offence and said that circumstance made her do so.

The accused immediately retracted her guilty plea shortly after the prosecutor applied for her summary trial under Section 157 of Criminal Procedure Code (CPC).

The accused counsel, Abdurrasaq Ahmed, thereafter applied for her bail, arguing that the alleged offence was bailable.

The Chief Magistrate, Auwal Musa, granted bail to the accused in the sum of N500,000 with two sureties in the like sum.

Musa said that the sureties must present bank account statements, letter from a traditional ruler, authentic residential address and telephone number.

“It is not an easy case because it tempers with the reputation and credibility of members of the bar profession, therefore, we are all affected,” he said, and adjoined the case till Nov. 15 for hearing.

I FIND MYSELF HAVING INTERCOURSE WITH STRANGE WOMEN AND EVEN ANIMALS - MAN THAT ATTEMPTS SUICIDE(WRITES A LETTER)

The letter

A driver, Jacob Elegbede, who attempted to hang himself behind a primary school in Zanda, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, has blamed spiritual forces, saying  he did not know what came over him.

The 48-year old father of one stated that he was not himself when he climbed a tree in an attempt to commit suicide in a nearby bush, noting that he simply found himself on the tree along with the rope he wanted to use to kill himself.

Elegbede, who worked with a construction company in Abuja, twice attempted to hang himself on Saturday and Sunday, prompting his neighbours to alert policemen, who arrested him.

Before the suicide attempt, he had written a note in which took responsibility for the planned crime and also asked for forgiveness from his family and neighbours.

Elegbede, who hails from Badagry, Lagos, also listed the names of his creditors whom he owed various amounts, craving their forgiveness.

The suspect, in an interview with PUNCH Metro at the FCT Police Command, Abuja, on Wednesday, explained that his problem began about 18 months ago, when he started suffering from insomnia.

He said his situation got worse when he started having strange dreams and suffering from hot flashes in his head and chest.

He said, “I also started having strange dreams in which I find myself having intercourse with strange women and even animals.

“I worship at the Mountain of Fire and Miracle church in Abuja, but I couldn’t go for prayers or deliverance because I work from Monday to Sunday and there was no time for any other thing. I believe my problem is spiritual because I can’t even explain how I found myself on the tree with a rope to hang myself.”

Asked about the suicide note that was recovered by the police, Elegbede, stated that he could not remember writing the said letter because he had no pen or paper in his room.

“I strongly believe some spiritual forces were behind my problem because while I was in the cell last Saturday, I had a wet dream in which a dog was licking my private parts,” he said.

The FCT Commissioner of Police, Muhammed Mustafa, said the suspect would be arraigned in court after investigation, adding that attempted suicide was a criminal offence.

(PHOTOS) KENDALL JENNER AND WILL.I.AM LAUNCHED THEIR HEADPHONES CALLED IAMPLUS

 

Rapper Will.I.Am launched headphones called IAMPlus which is co-owned by model Kendall Jenner who turned 21 today. Naomi Campbell, Kendall Jenner, India Love and model Shaun Ross are all Ambassadors of the headphones. 

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