Proud Mum Actress Tonto Dikeh celebrates her son's 3rd birthday - See Photos

Nigerian actress Tonto Dikeh is celebrating her son who turns 3 today.

The proud mummy shares adorable and cute photos of King Andre Dikeh and she penned a sweet birthday message for him....... Happy birthday Andre.

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Would You Rock This Khloe Kardashian Nails?????

Me: Hell Yeah...😘😘😘😘

OPAN Demand INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu Resignation Over Incompetence

The Online Publishers Association of Nigeria, OPAN, has asked the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu to resign from his position immediately over the shocking and disappointing of the postponement of Yesterday's Presidential and National Assembly elections.

In a statement signed by its president, Austyn Ogannah, OPAN accused the INEC boss of sinister motive and asked all stakeholders to join in the call for his resignation from office for gross incompetence.

The statement said:

“This postponement is an embarrassment to Nigeria and all those who believe in this country. The pain and shame is just unbearable. Several people travelled to various destinations this weekend to perform their civic duties – many events were adjusted to ensure they did not clash with today’s election only to wake up and be greeted with this heartbreaking announcement.

The financial damage is unimaginable. Enough is enough. Nigeria cannot continue to reward incompetence.

"President Buhari cannot give an election speech last night and you postpone a nationwide election on Election Day.

"The INEC had three and half years to prepare for this election and it has failed under Mr. Yakubu. With this development, OPAN and Nigerians have clearly lost confidence in the ability of this chairman to conduct free and fair elections.

"This election postponement raises pertinent questions: why was the election cancelled after sensitive election materials have been deployed? What happens to the materials, will the materials be recalled? How secure are those materials? How come INEC was not aware of the"logistics problems" until a few hours to commencement of voting?

Is INEC's postponement of the election within the said time frame constitutional in view of section 26(1) of the electoral Act as amended? (The section provides for security concerns and natural disasters, where cogent and verifiable as only reasons for postponing election.)

"Should Nigerians insist on the use of new ballot papers as the sanctity of the ballot papers are no longer assured?
“We hereby call on the INEC Chairman to resign or be removed from office if he fails to does".

Austyn Gianna
President

Daniel Elombah
General Secretary.

Read Official Statement ---- INEC Apologizes To Nigerians Over Postponed Election

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu,, has tendered an apology to Nigerians over the postponed election.

According to Yakubu, the commission is taking full responsibility for the postponement.

In a statement released a few hours ago, bad weather and other logistics issues, were listed as some of the reasons for the election being postponed.

Read Full Statement Below:

l. About thirteen hours ago, I conveyed to Nigerians the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to reschedule the 2019 general elections by one week. Presidential and National Assembly elections earlier scheduled for 16th February 2019 will now hold on Saturday 23rd February 2019, while Governorship, State Assembly and FCT Area Council elections scheduled for 2nd March 20l9 will now hold on Saturday 9th March 2019. The one-week adjustment was a painful one for INEC, but necessary in the overall interest of our democracy.

2. Nigerians will recall that when this Commission was appointed in November 2015, we promised Nigerians two cardinal things. First, we shall work hard to consolidate the improvements made in the management of elections. Secondly, we shall always be open, transparent and responsive. We have strived diligently to keep these promises in very trying circumstances.

3. In keeping with our promise to consolidate the gains of the last two electoral cycles, the Commission has conducted 195 rerun and off-season elections across the country since the last general elections. Most of these elections have been generally adjudged to show progressive improvements in planning, execution and outcomes.

4. This commitment to continue to improve on election administration has informed our preparations for the 20l9 general elections. Our goal is to plan carefully, execute meticulously and bring stability into election management in Nigeria. Consequently, we announced fixed dates for elections in Nigeria to the effect that Presidential and National Assembly elections will always hold on the third Saturday in February of an election year. While the Governorship and State Assembly elections follow two weeks later. Having settled this, we began the planning quite early, with a Strategic Plan (SP), 3 Strategic Programme of Action (SPA) and an Election Project Plan (EPP). In fact, the plan for the 2019 general elections was ready in November 2017 and we subsequently issued the timetable and schedule of activities for the elections over one year ago on 9th January 2018. We carefully followed the timetable and implemented 13 of the 14 activities as scheduled. We kept to the timeframe and have not missed the date fixed for any single activity.

5. In preparing for the 2019 general elections, we have come face-to-face with the realities of conducting such an extensive national deployment of men and materials in a developing country like ours. It is said that elections constitute the most extensive mobilization of men and materials that any country could undertake in peacetime. The challenges of doing so, even under the best of circumstances, are enormous. Within a period of 16 months, we registered over 14 million Nigerians as new voters, collecting their names, addresses, photographs and their entire ten fingerprints. Beyond that, we prepared, printed and delivered their Permanent Voter Cards for collection. I should note that of the 14.28 million Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) made available for collection, about 10.87 million or 76.12% have been collected.

6. It is often not appreciated the magnitude of activities that the Commission undertakes during general elections. Not only have we recruited and trained about 1 million young people to serve as ad hoc staff, the magnitude of materials mobilized for our elections isenormous. For instance, the Commission has printed 421.7 million ballot papers for six scheduled elections, as well as 13.6 million leaves of result forms for the Presidential election alone. Indeed, managing 91 political parties and 23,316 candidates for whom votes will be cast in 119,973 polling units by over 84 million voters is certainly astounding. No doubt, preparations for the 2019 general elections have been extremely tasking for the Commission.

7. It is therefore not unexpected that such a tremendous national mobilization of men and materials will encounter operational challenges and we have had our own fair share of such challenges. There has been delay in delivering ballot papers and result sheets for the elections which is not unusual. However, I must emphasize that all the ballot papers and result sheets were ready before the elections despite the very tight legal timeframe for finalizing nomination of candidates and dealing with the spate of legal challenges that accompany it. In this regard, the Commission has been sued or joined in over 640 court cases arising from the nomination of candidates. As at today, there are 40 different court orders against the Commission on whether to add or drop candidates. The net effect of these is that there is usually roughly a one-month window for the Commission to print ballot papers and result sheets and either fly or transport them to several destinations until they finally get to each polling unit. Unfortunately, in the last one week, flights within the country have been adversely affected by bad weather. For instance, three days ago, we were unable to deliver materials to some locations due to bad weather. We therefore had to rely on slow-moving long haulage vehicles to locations that can be serviced by air in spite of the fact that we created five zonal airport hubs: Abuja (North Central), Port Harcourt (South South and South East), Kano (North West), Maiduguri and Yola (North East) and Lagos (South West) to facilitate the delivery of electoral logistics.

8. Apart from these logistical challenges, we also faced what may well be attempts to sabotage our preparations. In a space of two weeks, we had to deal with serious fire incidents in three of our offices in Isiala Ngwa South Local Government Area of Abia State, Qu’an Pan Local Government Area of Plateau State and our Anambra State Office at Awka. In all three cases, serious disruptions were occasioned by the fire, further diverting our attention from regular preparations to recovery from the impact of the incidents. In Isiala Ngwa South, hundreds of PVCs were burnt, necessitating the re-compiling of the affected cards and reprinting in time to ensure that the affected voters are not disenfranchised. I am glad that all the cards were quickly reprinted and made available for collection by their owners.

9. In Qu’an Pan Local Government Area, our entire office was razed, destroying all the materials prepared for the elections printed register of voters, ballot boxes, voting cubicles and several electricitygenerating sets. 11 Registration Areas and over 100 polling units were affected by the fire. We recovered quickly and have since replaced everything destroyed. In addition, we secured a suitable building from which to conduct the elections.

10. Perhaps the most serious was the fire incident in our Anambra State Office at Awka, which destroyed over 4,600 Smart Card Readers being prepared for the elections. These Card Readers take at least six months to procure. Despite this setback, we have practically recovered from this by mopping up every available spare SCR across the country and within 24 hours delivered them for elections to hold in Anambra State.

11. All these challenges mean that there have been differences in preparations from one state to another. Our overall assessment is that if the elections went on as planned, polls will not open at 8am in all polling units nationwide. Yet, we are determined that polls must hold at the same time everywhere in the country. In this way, elections will not be staggered. This is very important to public perception of elections as free, fair and credible. We promised Nigerians that we shall be open, transparent and responsive.

12. Faced with these challenges, we initially thought that we only require a maximum of 24 hours to resolve the logistics issues involved and complete our deployment for the election. This would mean shifting the elections to commence on Sunday 17th February 2019. However, given the restriction of movement during elections, that could affect many voters who worship on Sundays. While the Commission was considering the following Monday 18th February 2019 as an option, our ICT Department advised us that it would require 5-6 days to reconfigure about 180,000 Smart Card Readers earlier programmed to work only on election day Saturday 16th February 20l9. It is for this reason that the Commission decided to adjust the election dates to Saturday 23rd February 2019 for Presidential and National Assembly elections and a consequential adjustment of Governorship, State Assembly and FCT Area Council elections to Saturday 9th March 2019.

13. Some sensitive materials have been distributed. However, all such materials have been retrieved and will be taken back to custody of the Central Bank of Nigeria. I want to assure you that there will be proper audit to account for all materials.

14. In the next few days, the Commission will work on the basis of the following plan:

S/No. Activity Timeframe

– Completion/confirmation of deployment of materials (Monday l8th February 2019)

– Configuration of the Smart Card Readers (Sunday 17th Thursday 21st February 2019)

– Receipt and Deployment of sensitive materials to LGAs (Wednesday 20 and Thursday 21st February 2019)

– Refresher training for ad hoc staff (Thursday 21st February 2019)

– Deployment of personnel to RACs (Friday 22nd of February 2019)

– Election Day (Saturday 23rd February 2019)

15. I want to appeal to Nigerians and all other stakeholders for their understanding in what has been a very difficult decision for the Commission. But we believe that ultimately this is for the good of our democracy and country. I wish to assure you of our commitment to free, fair and credible elections.

16. As Chairman of INEC, and on behalf of the Commission, we take full responsibility for what happened and we regret any inconvenience our decision might have caused.

Who Rocked It Better? ---- Fashion mogul Toyin Lawani Versus Reality star Alex

Fashion designer and celerity stylist, Toyin Lawani and Ex-Big Brother Naija housemate, Alex go head-to- head in a battle of the  "Disney princesses".

On Feb.15  Alex shared photos from a Princess themed photoshoot for her birthday on her IG handle. While, Toyin Lawani shared hers to promote her Tiannah fashion empire brand.

Who do you think wore the look better?
                            Toyin Lawani

                             Alex

Nollywood actress Ini Edo celebrates as she hits five million followers on Instagram

Nollywood actress Ini Edo was in a celebration mood on Feb.14 as she celebrated five million followers on Instagram.

The actress who couldn't hold back her happiness on Valentine's day posted a beautiful photo of herself on pose on Instagram wearing a red flowing cape dress with a red hat.

Congratulations Brownsugar....

Swiss actor, Bruno Ganz who played Adolf Hitler in the movie "Downfall" passed away at 77

Bruno was born in Zürich, Switzerland in 1941. He was renowned as one of the greatest actors in the German-speaking world.

The star - who played Adolf Hitler in 2004 movie Downfall - died at his home in Zurich on Friday after a career which spanned 50 years.

He was diagnosed with cancer of the colon in 2018, and immediately started chemotherapy, forcing him to cancel an appearance at the Salzburg Festival.

In 1996, he received the Iffland-Ring, a prestigious award for German-speaking actors, which the bearer traditionally disposes of until death and passes on by will to the male actor he considers the best in German-language theater.

His last film performance was as Verge in Lars von Trier's horror movie "The House That Jack Built" (2018), playing a character that alludes to the figure of Virgil in Dante's "Inferno."

Beyonce Shares Smoking Hot Valentine's Day Photos

Singer Beyonce celebrated Valentine's Day over a romantic date night with her husband, Jay Z.

The songstress, look ravishing and sexy as she displays her hourglass figure in a latex mini dress with lace sleeves and a heart shaped clutch.
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Nollywood Actress Chike Ike looking Hot In New Photo

Literally Stunning.....

US Singer Katy Perry And Actor Orlando Bloom Are Engaged

Congratulations to  the happy couple...

Actor Orlando Bloom and US singer Katy Perry confirm their engagement. The two started dating in 2016, broke up in 2017 and got back together in 2018 and got engaged on Valentine's day 2019. They both  shared the wonderful news on their Instagram account.

Maghan Markle steps out in All - White look for a gala performance

She is literally glowing...

The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle looked radiant as she arrived at the Natural History Museum in London on Feb. 12 for a gala performance of The Wider Earth.

The show was in support of The Queen’s Commonwealth Trust and The Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy, and Meghan showed off her baby bump in the best way!

She looked chic and sophisticated in a fitted white turtleneck midi dress by
Calvin Klein and an Amanda Wakeley Cream Sculpted Tailoring Crombie Coat.

She paired the all-white look with green suede pumps and a clutch.
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Canadian Popstar Justin Bieber is Reportedly Seeking Medical Treatment for Depression

Canadian popstar Justin Bieber is reportedly seeking medical treatment for depression. According to PEOPLE, the 24-year-old singer is "struggling" with mental health issues and getting counselling.

“Justin seems down and tired. He has been struggling a bit,” a source told the publication, adding that it's got nothing to do with his marriage to Hailey Baldwin.

He is very happy being married to her. It’s just something else that he struggles with mentally. He has good help around him and is receiving some treatment. He seems confident he will feel better soon," the source continued.

Bieber also opened up about his depression in the March issue of US Vogue, which features himself and his supermodel wife on the cover.

Spain - Thousands demand prime minister Pedro Sanchez resigns

Thousands of supporters of Spain's right-wing opposition have rallied in Madrid to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. Many are furious his government is negotiating with Catalonian separatists.

An estimated 45,000 people packed into the capital's Plaza de Colon, many of them waving Spanish flags and signs reading "Stop Sanchez" and "For a united Spain, elections now!"

The rally was organized by the conservative opposition Popular Party (PP) and the center-right Citizens Party, with backing from the far-right party Vox.

"The time of Sanchez's government is over," PP leader Pablo Casado told reporters at the start of the march. His opposition party is firmly against the prime minister's decision to tackle political tensions in northeastern Catalonia by negotiating with pro-independence parties.

Brad Pitt attends ex-wife Jennifer Aniston's 50th birthday party - See Pic

In a move that turned just about every head in Hollywood, Brad Pitt stopped by his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston 's 50th birthday party in Los Angeles on Saturday evening.

The actor was photographed wearing a newsboy cap as he entered the Sunset Tower on Saturday evening to celebrate with his former wife.

Among other guests and attendees were Witherspoon, Ellen degenerative , Kate Hudson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cindy Crawford , Robert Downey Jr. , Jason Bateman, Jennifer Meyer, Brad Pitt, John Mayer, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom.