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       CARA DELEVINGNE:  Happy belated birthday! You recently turned the ripe old age of 22. How old do you really feel? KENDALL JENNER:  It fluctuates. Sometimes I feel like a complete kid when I’m running around with my friends being stupid for a week, and then sometimes I just want to sit in my house and sip tea and watch old movies like I’m 60. CD:  Sounds about right. Every time we’re together we’re either rolling around making bird noises or sitting on the porch in rocking chairs talking about the young people these days. Do you feel like an accomplished 22-year-old? KJ:  I feel like the life I live is extraordinary in a lot of ways but that it also comes with a lot of responsibilities. I’ve had to grow up pretty fast and deal with situations most 22-year-olds aren’t really put into. There are days and weeks and months when you just don’t stop. CD:  The pressure can be crushing sometimes. KJ:  It can! And you know m...

       A five-man panel of the Supreme Court on Friday, January 12, 2018 ordered the re-trial of a former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, who was charged with an alleged N338m fraud.   The apex court had reserved judgment till today to determine whether or not Ikuforiji should be tried afresh, as ordered by the Court of Appeal. The panel headed by Justice Mary Peter-Odili unani mously ruled that the case be re-assigned to another judge of the Federal High Court instead of Justice Ibrahim Buba, who had earlier absolved Ikuforiji of the charge.Justice Buba had, in a ruling in September 2014, held that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, failed to establish a prima facie case against Ikuforiji and his former aide, Oyebode Atoyebi.The judge had also dismissed the 56-count charge preferred against the accused by the EFCC. Dissatisfied with Justice Buba’s ruling, the EFCC appealed to the Court of Appeal, which up...

       The Supreme Court on Friday, January 12, 2018 dismissed an application by Destra Investment Limited, a company belonging to Olisa Metuh, , challenging the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court in a case of N400million fraud involving the former spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Metuh is standing trial on a 7-count charge of money laundering alongside his company, over the N400million he allegedly collected from the  Office of the former National Security Adviser, ONSA, in 2014 to campaign for former President Goodluck Jonathan.The offence breaches Section 15(2), (d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 as amended in 2012 and punishable under Section 15(3) of the same Act”.Destra Investment had through its counsel, Tochukwu Onwugbufor, SAN, challenged the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court to entertain counts one and two of the charge.According to Onwugbufor, “the court lacks jurisdiction to try allegations of corruption ...

          The House of Representatives Sub Committee on army has visited the 82 Division Nigerian Army, today Thursday the 11th January 2018. The honourable members were on oversight function to assess 2017 Nigerian Army capital projects in the Division's Area of Responsibility. In this light, the first point of call was the Headquarters of the Division, Abakpa Military Cantonment Enugu, where the members were conducted round major infrastructural projects including soldiers' living accommodation constructed or renovated by the Nigerian Army in Abakpa Cantonment Enugu. While going round the One Million Litres of water per day urban water treatment plant in the cantonment, the leader of the team, Honourable Musa Ado Tsamiya, commended the Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai and the General Officer Commanding 82 Division Major General Adamu Baba Abubakar for the renovation works and the construction of the water plant which are ...

      Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has presented over Seventy million naira cheques to nine communities for development of various infrastructural projects under the Ekiti State Community and Social Development Agency, EKCSDA. Presenting the cheques to the benefitting communities at the Government House Pavilion, Ado Ekiti on Thursday, the governor said the idea was to facilitate and fastrack development at th e grassroots across the state. Represented by his deputy, Professor Kolapo Olusola, Mr. Fayose said some of the infrastructural projects to be developed in the communities include accessible roads, health centre, lock up shops, class rooms, viewing centres amongst others. He called for proper maintenance of the projects when completed with a call on the leaders of each community to ensure effective monitoring of the infrastructure when completed. Earlier, Manager of EKCSDA, Mr Steve Bamisaye charged handlers of the projects to ensure transparen...

           PARADE OF DESMOND OKOTUBO, A SENIOR GANG MEMBER OF THE DEADLY KIDNAP FOR RANSOM AND CULTIST SYNDICATE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE KILLINGS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE ON 1st JANUARY,2018 IN OMOKU RIVERS STATE BY CSP JIMOH MOSHOOD, FORCE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER AT THE FORCE HEADQUARTERS, ABUJA ON 11th JANUARY, 2018. Concerned by the Gruesome Murder of Innocent people in Omoku Rivers state on the 1st January, 2018 by the vicious and Notorious kidnap for ransom and cult syndicate leader Don Wanny and his gang. The Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris, NPM, mni set-up special Police joint investigation team, comprising the IGP-Intelligence Response Team, the Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department, Force Department of Operations and the Rivers State Police Command to immediately unravel those behind the killings and bring them to Justice. 2. The IGP-Intelligence Response Team attached to the Joint Police Special Investigation Te...

       Lagos State Command of the Nigeria Police has arrested two notorious kidnappers at Elemoro, Ajah-Lagos after the kidnap of one Mrs. Mildred Mbajiorgu. Speaking on the incident, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Ajah, SP Mohammed Shehu Limawa, said he received a distress call from a lady who told him that she heard the voice of a woman crying for help in a dark blue Gulf 3 car with the registration KRD 845 EC. The DPO then alerted one of the Anti-Crime patrol teams along the route taken by the kidnappers and instructed the policemen to slow down traffic to about 20km per hour. According to the DPO, the directive slowed down the hoodlums' vehicle which ensured their arrest by the policemen who were in the waiting for them. The victim was rescued and taken to the hospital to treat the injury inflicted on her by the kidnappers. Meanwhile the suspects - Igwe Sunday, 28 and Chukwuemeka Bright, 21 years have been handed over to the operatives of the Spe...

            These are photos from the wedding of a young man who hails from Mgbakwu in Awka North, Anambra State, Okechukwu and his lovely German wife who is said to be a medical doctor in Germany. They had their marriage held in a registry in Germany before coming down to Anambra State to conclude with the Igba-Nkwu (Traditional Wine-Carrying Ceremony).More photos below.