LK4 And Koketso Evicted From Big Brother Africa - TV/Movies - Nairaland

Having had two weeks of a love connection, with a few forces against their partnership, LK4 and Koketso have left The Chase tonight. South Africa’s Koketso didn’t even know that she was nominated. She had been placed on the chopping block by Selly who preferred saving Biguesas from Eviction.
The Ugandan Prince said a prayer earlier this evening before the Rubies had their dinner. Koketso was at his side as always, holding her man’s hand as he emotionally thanked the Almighty for the time spent with ‘friends’ and how much the BBA opportunity meant to him. Maria was so touched by his words that she thought Elikem was the one praying.

Namibia Vs Nigeria W-C Qualifier: On Wednesday At 8pm - Sports - Nairaland

The Brave Warriors of Namibia will host the Super eagles of Nigeria in a 2014 FIFA world cup qualifier in Windhoek, Namibia. It will be recalled that the eagles defeated the Namibians 1-0 in the first leg in Calabar in June 2012. Ike Uche scored the only goal of the game.

The Super eagles can advance to the playoff round of the African qualifying zone, if they beat Namibia, and Malawi fail to beat Kenya. The reigning African champions can also extend their unbeaten run in FIFA World cup qualifiers to an astonishing 23 consecutive matches.
Venue: Sam Nujoma independence stadium

Atoke’s Monday Morning Banter: Skonki, Skele & Skillachi

By Atoke

It’s so good and exhilarating to be alive. The world is bright and beautiful. The birds are chirping so nice and musically…. Urgh! I can’t pull it off mehn! Nahh! I tried guys… I really did but Mondays ARE a drag! However, if I was going to look at it from the glass-half-full perspective, I’d say it’s 5 more days to the weekend so hurrah! So, what did you get up to this weekend? On this end, I basked in the the delightfully cool breeze that comes from two days of rain. It didn’t matter that there was no power and of course the cable signal started misbehaving when the rain started. It cut short my Superman marathon but it was fun while it lasted.  Watching a movie you saw as a kid with adult eyes is actually very heart breaking. As I watched Christopher Reeve in his tight spandex, all I could think of was “What? I actually grew up thinking this dude was zipping through the New York skies?”

The Superman franchise sold us sha! Many years ago, I knew this dude who had everything of his with the “S” emblazoned. Socks, backpack, notebooks, and towels… all with the Superman logo. He was a die hard comic book enthusiast.  I can’t remember his name now but everyone called him “Robo Robo.”  I don’t remember the origin of the nickname but it was always funny. Robo Robo tried very hard to shake off the name but it didn’t work. A few years ago, I saw him getting into his car in front of the Zenith bank on Admiralty way and I wanted to get his attention and then I realized I didn’t actually remember his name and I couldn’t start shouting “Robo Robo” at a grown man.

Who comes up with these nicknames? Some of them are very cool but some are just plain wrong!  When the NTA soap opera “New Masquerade” was airing, they introduced a new character called “Syracuse”. I don’t remember much about Syracuse but I remember that Syracuse was quite vertically challenged. Somehow or the other, everybody in the house in Ilorin started calling me “Syracuse”.  Somehow,  the nickname morphed from “Syracuse” to “Syra oni Syra”, to “Syra”. I couldn’t shake off the name and just thanked the deities above that it didn’t leave that house. So, I came home one holiday, and I must have been trying to gather sympathy from the wrong sources because I told my brother and he made it worse. He funkified the “Syra” to “Sera” which kind of sounds like “Sarah”.  Dearly beloved, that is how I got stuck with “Sera”.

Nicknames are not bad actually when they’re cute like “Tin Tin” or “Kess”;  but when you have “Bondo”/ “Jango”/”Rabitte”/ “Beast”/ “Dodongba” you begin to wonder why the universe is so unfair. There was a guy in my secondary school whose surname is “Adeoti” and somehow he got dubbed “Goatie”.  Then, as if it was not bad enough, his younger brother came and got called “Small goatie”. Then there are some nicknames that you dub yourself and everybody kind of buys into it… like my friend Kunle Bello. Everybody and their dog calls him “KB”. He went on to adopt it as his stage name “Kaboom – The Detonator”.  Yes, I sound bitter, he has such a cool nickname.

Anyway, please share your nickname with us and some of the funniest and most boring nicknames ever…. don’t forget to share the history and the embarrassing and not-so-embarrasing facts behind the names.

Have a fabulous week ahead. Don’t worry, it’ll soon be Friday.

Peace, love & cupcakes!

Toodles!

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Tonto Dikeh falls on stage at Iyanya's concert last night

I'm not going to assume and say she was drunk when she came on stage to perform at the Kukere concert in London last night, but she definitely behaved odd. She said something about not wanting to wave because her armpit wasn't shaved and kept mouthing off until she fell.

They had to help her off the stage. #Pokothingz! Hehe.

Nigerian Woman Killed In Spain By Kung Fu Instructor, Juan Carlos Aguilar – RIP Maureen Ada

                                              

June 6th, 2013 – Nigerian Woman Killed In Spain By Kung Fu Champion, Juan Carlos Aguilar – RIP Maureen Ada

On Tuesday, close friends of Mauren Ada Ortuya, a 29-year-old prostitute killed by Kung fu instructor, Juan Carlos protest gender violence in Bilbao, Spain over her brutal death.

We learnt the Nigerian woman died of multiple wounds after she was beaten and tied up by the Kung Fu World champion.

She was left in coma for hours after the assault before she eventually passed away on Sunday at Basurto hospital in Bilbao, Spain.

Maureen was taken to the hospital after Police found her at Juan Carlos Aguilar’s gym in a state of coma.

According to police investigations, the Kung-fu instructor also confessed to killing a Colombian woman whose remain was found at the gym.

May her soul rest in peace.

Africanized bee swarm kills Texas man

 A Texas man died after a swarm of Africanized bees disturbed by his tractor attacked, stinging him more than 1,000 times Saturday.

The bees were living inside an old chicken coop that Larry Goodwin, 62, was pushing over to clear off his Moody, Texas, property, neighbor John Puckett told CNN affiliate KCEN-TV.

"He lifted the whole hive and disturbed them all and they just came swarming out of there and trapped him on his tractor," Puckett said.

His daughter and neighbors rushed to help, but they said there was nothing they could do to save Goodwin.

"When we got to him, he was purple, he had thousands and thousands of bee stings on his face and arms," Tanya Goodwin said.

Puckett said his wife and daughter were stung 100 times. "I came pretty close to losing my family," Puckett said.

Allen Miller, whose company Bees Be Gone removed the hive after the attack, said he's seen more Africanized bee hives in the past few weeks than he normally sees in a year.

"If anybody has any brush or anything on their lands, please clear it, because they don't want to go through this," Tanya Goodwin said. "Nobody needs to go through this."

Africanized honey bees, known colloquially as "killer bees," are believed to have entered Texas in 1990 and have since spread to at least 10 other states, from California to Florida.

Africanized honey bees, which are hybrids of African and European bees, can be highly defensive around their nests and swarm more frequently than other honey bees, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The venom carried by honey bees has similar potency.

Ebube Nwagbo Seals Hair Sponsorship Deal With Miss Global Nigeria Pageant

 

As the form sales for the 2013 Miss Global Nigeria pageant kicks off, contestants for the next event which promises to be glamorous are sure set for a surprising adventure with the array of topflight celebrities that are joining the planning team every day.

The most wanted kidnap kingpin in Delta State, Kelvin, suspected to be a drug addict, ambushed and killed three officials of the Nigeria Prisons Service, NPS, Warri, with his gang, 48 hours after he phoned the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ikechukwu Aduba, begging for amnesty.

Chisom Ihemebirim, 25 year old man sells son for N500,000

THE Abia State Police Command has arrested a 25-year-old man, Chisom Ihemebirim from Amuzi Obowo in Imo State, for selling his one and half years old son, Chidubem Chisom for N500,000.

The command also arrested one Abraham Ukaiwe, 27, from Asaga Ohafia in AbiaState said to be Ihemebirim’s accomplice in the deal to sell the boy.

Little Chidubem Chisom was said to have been sold to one Mercy Nwachinemere, 45, of Umudi Abayi in Osisioma, Abia State who has also been arrested.

Akwa Ibom Widows Forced To Drink Bath-Water Of Husbands Corpses

Widows have suffered hard times in Akwa Ibom state in a custom allowing the seizure of deceased husbands’ properties and subjecting their widows to inhuman practices such as shaving of the head and making them drink the water used to bath the corpses of their husbands, among others. A sigh of relieve can now be heaved in the Southern Nigerian state as the custom has now become illegal.

In a bill passed by the House of Assembly and signed by the governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio, the state government outlawed the custom which maltreat widows after the deaths of their husbands, declaring it as unlawful and inhuman.

Speaking on Democracy Day, the governor declared that it had become unlawful for widows to be maltreated in Akwa Ibom, saying defaulters of the law risk fines and three years imprisonment.

In her reaction, First Lady of the state, Chief (Mrs) Unoma Ekaette Akpabio, commended the House of Assembly and the governor for the pro-women law, describing the passage of the law as a breakthrough for the womenfolk in the state.

According to her, “I appreciate the state House of Assembly and the state governor for standing with the womenfolk through this law. Akwa Ibom State has, in the last five years, shown itself as pro-masses and pro-women.”

Drugs and Condoms Found Inside Boko Haram Camps

More of the dirty sides of the insurgents’ lifestyle are being revealed as troops continue to stumble on strange and bizarre objects such as several used and unused condoms as well as charms and amulets of various shapes in the captured terrorists camps.

Man admitted threats to kill Prince Harry just hours after brutal murder of Drummer Lee Rigby

A white Muslim convert threatened to kill Prince Harry just a day after the shocking murder of a soldier in Woolwich.

Ashraf Islam, 30, formerly known as Mark Townley, confessed to police that he wanted to kill the third in line to the throne, who has served in high profile tours of Afghanistan.

Kidnappers storm Obasanjo Farms, abduct two Asians

Men suspected to be kidnappers  Friday  morning stormed Obasanjo farms in Mfamosong, Akamkpa Local Government Area of Cross River State and kidnapped two Asians said to be staff of the Oil Palm Estate.

He deceived me into marrying him

 I am in my 40s, a second wife and stepmother to four children. Sincerely, when I met my husband in Port-Harcourt, I didn’t know he had a wife, let alone having children.

New BBC Director General takes a break just six weeks after starting his £450,000 job

BBC Director General Tony Hall has been rapped for taking a holiday just six weeks into his new job.

Lord Hall is due back at his desk tomorrow according to a BBC source after reportedly going off on a break on May 24th.

He had agreed to take up his £450,000 role in early March, but didn't start until April 2nd after taking another holiday.

Under fire: Tony Hall took a holiday just six weeks after taking over as Director general of the BBC