Photos from Governor Rauf Aregbesola's 2nd-term inauguration

Here are photos from the second term inauguration ceremony of Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State which held at the Osogbo Township Stadium this morning. Aregbesola was re-elected Governor of the state in August 2014. More photos after the cut...

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Photos from Tonto Dikeh's foundation press conference

Actress and singer Tonto Dikeh is launching her foundation, The Tonto Dikeh Foundation, soon and held a press conference yesterday to let people know what it's about.

According to what she said yesterday, the non-governmental organization will partner with schools, hospitals, Motherless babies homes clinics, therapeutic counsellors, mosques, churches, government ministries, government agencies and well meaning Nigerians and other NGOs, Charity foundations who wants to make positive impact in our country. See pics from the press conference after the cut.

Tonto said she's focusing on giving support to young girls who have been either raped, molested or assaulted and will also cater for pregnant and nursing mothers who have been displaced due to flood and insurgency in some areas in Nigeria. 

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Al Jazeera investigation of fake doctors leads to 3 arrests in Delta state

African journalists, Nigeria's Rosemary Nwaebuni and Ghana's Anas Arameyaw go undercover to expose fake doctors in Delta State, leading to 3 arrests. Read the full story and watch the 25-minute documentary below...

In this week’s episode of Africa Investigates, Anas Arameyaw Anas and Rosemary Nwaebuni go undercover with secret cameras to expose fake doctors in Delta State, leading to three on-camera arrests.

Nigerian law forbids abortions, except in cases where the patient’s life is in danger. Despite this, Nigeria’s Fake Doctors shows Rosemary, who is not even pregnant, twice being offered abortion services from unlicensed practitioners.

Precious Johnson Chuckwudi, who operates a pharmacy in Delta State, offered to provide an abortion - and agreed the price - despite Rosemary’s negative pregnancy test, while Mr and Mrs Ogboru offered Rosemary an abortion in the dirty backroom of a bar, without conducting a pregnancy test.

The Nigerian Medical and Dental Association (NMDA) and Ministry of Health (MoH) have confirmed that neither Chuckwudi nor the Ogboru’s are licensed and registered as medical doctors and that their shops are not registered clinics. Nigerian police arrested Mr and Mrs Ogboru on camera on the basis of evidence that Rosemary and Anas filmed.

Nigerian police also arrested Charles Igudala, who operates a clinic at Dictat Royal Home in Warri, Delta State, after he was covertly filmed offering medical services and injections to Anas in extremely unsanitary conditions. The NMDA and MoH confirmed that Igudala is not a licensed and registered doctor, while Dr Alfred Ebiakofa of the Nigerian Ministry of Health said that Igudala had been a target of the Nigerian health authorities for some time, but that they “had not been able to catch him before.”

Rosemary and Anas also film other fake doctors wrongly diagnosing healthy patients with malaria and typhoid, as well using as a Quantum Resonance Analyser, a highly controversial machine of unproven effectiveness that is used to illegally diagnose - merely on the basis of tones and lights  - a variety of serious illnesses to perfectly healthy patients.   

Spell of The Albino, the last investigation Anas filmed for Africa Investigates, won a One World Media Award and was nominated for a Royal Television Society Award.

Nigeria’s Fake Doctors, the third episode of Africa Investigates, premiered on Wednesday, 26 November 2014 at 22:30 GMT / Thursday, 20 November at 00:30 CAT, with repeats on 27 November at 11:30, 28 November at 05:30, 29 November at 18:30, and 30 November at 07:30 CAT.

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MBGN Iheoma Nnadi currently at Miss World. How to vote for her..

2014 Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria Iheoma Nnadi has joined over 70 other beauties from other parts of the world at the Miss World event happening in the UK and needs your support. Details on how to vote for her after the cut...

The Miss World application has to be downloaded either by IOS (App Store) or ANDRIOD. Once downloaded, you can click on vote and must pick three contestant to add on to the top 3 list. Always remember to add Nigeria that way you have voted for Iheoma.

Here is a direct link http://www.missworld.com/TheCompetition/TheMissWorldMobileApp/

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Cricketer who delivered ball that killed Phil Hughes leaves hospital in tears

He must be devastated. The ball he threw killed another man. 22 year old Bowler Sean Abbott, whose bouncer hit Philip Hughes in a freak accident on November 25th pictured above being comforted as he left St Vincent's Hospital today after the 25 year old was confirmed dead.

Sean is said to be inconsolable, though he's getting a lot of support from family, friends and fans of late Philip Hughes. Nobody blames him for his death. See more photos after the cut...

Sean Abbott

Philips parents and other family members leaving the hospital today after hearing of his death.

How it happened...

This is the shot that caused Phil Hughes' fatal injury on Tuesday afternoon

Hughes, pictured after absorbing the shot, collapsed face first to the ground shortly after the bouncer hit the back of his head

Hughes collapsed onto the pitch seconds after this picture was taken

He collapsed shortly after being struck by the bouncer

He received mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on the pitch and was soon whisked by medical transport off the pitch to St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney where he died two days later...today!

RIP, Philip.

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Denrele Edun's fashion transformation in the new issue of Complete Fashion

We have watched Denrele evolve into a nationwide TV personality over the years and have taken sincere pleasure in seeing him transform the minds of viewers all over Africa. In this Issue, Complete Fashion magazine explores a different side of Derenle with no extremes. They were able to get him out of his ‘Akpolas’, those gladiator shoes he is identified with.  

Beverly Naya and Zainab Balogun also cover the new issue. See their cover after the cut...

 

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Photos: Beauty queen rescued from kidnappers who posed as Aliko Dangote on Facebook

The Lagos state Police command has rescued the current Miss Nigeria International 2014 & daughter of an aide to Kwara state Governor, Miss Sa'adat Bibire, who was abducted two weeks ago by a gang of kidnappers who deceived her to come to Warri, Delta state from Lagos after they promised to make her the ambassador of the Aliko Dangote brand.

The gang, made up of students of the Delta state Polytechnic Ozoro, had opened a Facebook account disguising as Aliko Dangote and contacted Sa'adat. They invited her to Warri with the promise to make her Dangote brand ambassador. On getting to Warri, Sa'adat was kidnapped and taken to a place on the outskirts of Ozoro town in Isoko Local Government Area in Delta state. The kidnappers then contacted her family and asked for N20m ransom, which was supposed to be paid into a Malaysian account. 

Parading one of the suspects before newsmen, the Lagos state Police commissioner said a manhunt for the kidnappers was immediately launched after they contacted the girls family but only one of them was arrested while the others are currently on the run.

When interrogated, one of her abductors, 23 year old Patrick Ifada (pictured above), said he was lured into the kidnap gang because of the money offered

"I accepted to join the gang because of the money involved. We opened a fake Facebook account pretending to be Alhaji Aliko Dangote and we convinced her to come over to Delta State to meet the businessman. At first, our ransom was N20 million. When they were not forthcoming with the money, we brought it down to N15 million and then N10 million. I was the one staying with the victim in our hideout. We were using the quarters of one of our members, Destiny. We are five in number and I was promised a huge sum. Other gang members are Destiny, Marcus Omajuwa, Ugada and Chuka. We are all students of Delta State Polytechnic, Ozoro, ND 1. I was studying Computer Science. She was in our hideout for about two weeks. We asked the Special Adviser to pay the ransom into a Malaysian account that one Fred helped us to set up. None of us raped her. Destiny told us we were only going to make money from her family, and not to assault her" he told Vanguard

The wife of one of the kidnappers was arrested alongside Patrick.

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Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes dies two days after being struck by ball

So sad to hear that this guy finally died. Been following his progress since yesterday. Australian Cricketer Philip Hughes has died two days after a ball hit him in the neck during a match between his team and South wales at the Sydney Cricket Ground on 25 November 2014.

Though he was wearing a helmet at the time of the freak accident, Philip collapsed and was rushed to St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney where he underwent surgery and was placed into an induced coma. He died this morning from his injuries. He was 25 years old. May his soul rest in peace, amen.

Doctors said his injury was a rare vertebral artery dissection which led to subarachnoid haemorrhage, which is bleeding in the brain. See pics taken immediately after he fell after the cut...

Hughes was struck in the neck by a bouncer from New South Wales bowler, Sean Abbott.

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New photos of Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin & new wife, Maryam Augie

The couple got married on Maryam’s birthday on November 24th at Emir’s Palace Argungu, Kebbi State. Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin is the youthful Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Finance. He holds a Bachelor degree, M.Sc and PhD in politics, Diplomacy & international affairs from University of Abuja and ABU Zaria respectively.

Maryam turned down many high profile jobs to fully concentrate as CEO of AYAHAY Foundation. She holds a Bachelors Degree in International Business from the National American University Sharjah, Dubai and MBA from Ehsal University Brussels. 

Black tie event for their wedding has been schedule for 20th December and the wedding reception comes up on 21^st December,2014 at the Harrow Park Golf Club, CBD Abuja

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