Rachel Bilson in tory Burch flats

Pregnant Rachel Bilson was seen out in Los Angeles as she stopped by Earth Baby before picking up sweets at Belmont Bakery on tuesday.
She wore a white tank tpp with a stretchy maci skirt while she carried a Miu Miu Vitello Soft Bag and wore a Tory Burch Viv Two Tone d'Orsay Flats

Update: Ejigbo pepper sodomy suspects arraigned in court

Some of the men involved in the Ejigbo pepper sellers torture were today June 27th arraigned before a Lagos Magistrate court sitting at Igbosere. The magistrate after much deliberations granted bail to all ten of the arraigned suspects. Four other suspects are still at large. Present at the court hearing today was human rights activist Dr Joe Odumakin. Continue to see more photos

Actress/Singer Tonto Dikeh Gets Rihanna Like Tattoos On Her Arms [See Photo]

PokoLee of the Lee temple seems to be enjoy her new name and fame in D’banj’s DB Records, the actress has finally joined the likes of Rihanna to get the famous traditional tatts on her arm,
see pictures below…

Pic: Chika Ike shares sexy lingerie photo taken inside her bedroom

#SEXY LADY

Photo: Rita Dominic shows off hot body in black swimsuit

The actress is currently in Mauritius and wore this black one-piece that showed her amazing body....

Don’t Call Me ‘Omo Baba Olowo’Again – Davido Warns

Davido’s Father
He apparently stormed the music
industry some years ago as David
Adeleke aka ‘Davido’. He has also
been well known as ‘Omo Baba
Olowo‘ which literally means ‘son of
a rich man’ in Yoruba language. As
the appellation became what the son
of a Nigerian billionaire businessman
was known with and the talented
young singer even went further to
release an album ‘Omo Baba Olowo’
with the name as the titled.
Speaking recently on a show, Davido
said, ‘I find it annoying when people
relate me with my father’s money. I
can rely on my money and spend my
money on anything I feel like
acquiring. I have worked hard for
myself and I am working for my kids
to also be ‘Omo Baba Olowo’
I guess he said so maybe because he’s
tired of people linking him as the son
of a wealthy father.
Well! what do you think?

I NEED TO KNOW: Ubagroupees Is It Proper For A Guy To Buy Panties As Gifts For A Female Friend ? [18+Only]

I have been wondering lately about
things that could make or break a
relationship between a male and a
female that are just casual friends.
and then this came to my mind so i
decide to bring it to you guys.
Looking at the appropriateness of
lingerie’s being offered as a gift from
a guy to a lady he has only a platonic
relationship with.
Most people feel that a gift of panties
or any other undergarment is an
insult that means the guy in question
is hoping for something other than a
brother-sister relationship.
So many people however might not
seem to see anything wrong with it.
In fact, one lady says she will not
only gladly accept it, but she will also
tell him where to buy nice ones in
case he would like to do it again.
Would you as a guy buy lingerie for
a girl you are just friends with?
And ladies, would you accept a gift
of panties from an ordinary friend
without making a fuss, or would you
feel offended?

US army flying drones over Baghdad - official

The US military is flying armed
drones over Baghdad to defend
American troops and diplomats in
the Iraqi capital if necessary, a
senior US official said Friday.

"For the last 24 to 48 hours, we've started
that," the official, who spoke on condition of
anonymity, told AFP, confirming earlier media
reports.
The move comes after the United States
deployed 180 troops as military advisers in
recent days to help the Iraqi government
army fend off the advance of Sunni militants,
who have captured territory north and west of
the capital.

Tiwa Savage looks GORGEOUS on the cover TW magazine (PHOTOS)

Music superstar and MAVIN first lady Tiwa
Savage is the face on the cover of the October
2013 issue of TW magazine.
Ms. Savage exhibiting the aura of a made
woman she is, talks about music, love and her
life as a performer and as just Tiwa Savage.
Gorgeous and strong!

‘She cool like that!’: Davido lounges with US singer, Jennifer Hudson in LA (LOOK)

Davido who is currently in Los Angeles was
spotted with “Dream Girls” star Jennifer
Hudson.
The “Aye” chart topper was casual in a
white tee, jeans, and black slippers. But of
course, his get-up would not have been
complete without his gold chains.
“She cool like that! !!! Great Person” he
captioned the photo of Jennifer who strikes
quite a sexy pose in a black tank top, jean
shorts and see-through pant hose.
Are they working on music together? Only
time will tell.

I Want To Hire A Private Investigator To See If My Fiance Is Cheating. Please i am desperate

Ok so i am a 29 and half year old female
living and working in Abuja. I have a
boyfriend or let me say a fiance and we have
been together for 3 years. We love each other
and we were planning to get married soon.
The problem is i am suspecting he is
cheating. I have reasons to say this. I am
really stressed about it and i cant sleep or
eat as i cant marry someone i dont trust.
So i want to hire a private investigator to
follow him around and investigate if he is
cheating. I want to catch him red handed. I
really want to.
Does anyone know where i can hire an
investigator? Do we have one in Abuja?
Please i am desperate. Please help a dear
sister in need.

Pastor Caught For Having 3some With Two Sisters In Lagos

A 49-year-old pastor, Friday Arthur, has
been charged before an Igbosere
Magistrates'Court in Lagos for the alleged
defiling of two under-aged sisters aged 10
and 11 in Lagos.
The Prosecutor, Sgt. Victor Eruada, told the
court that Arthur committed the offence
between March 28 and April 6 at the Ikota
Housing Estate section of Lekki, Lagos.
Sgt. Eruada said the pastor had, at various
times, lured girls into his room and defiled
them… He explained that the offence violated
Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos,
2011. Section 137 prescribes life
imprisonment proper convicted of the offence
of defiling a child.
Arthur, who resides at No. 856, Ikota
Housing Estate, Lekki, Lagos, is facing a
demand of defilement. The 2 sisters and their
female guardian were in court.
Surprisingly, once the charges were read to
him, Pastor Arthur pleaded not guilty. The
Magistrate, Mrs Linda Balogun, granted the
pastor N500,000 bail with two sureties and
adjourned the case till May 27.

Suarez's grandmom slams FIFA's 'barbaric' ban for nine matches over biting incident

Luis Suarez's grandmother defends
Uruguay football player by
slamming FIFA's "barbaric" move
by imposing four month ban from
all football-related activity as
punishment for biting Italy's
Giorgio Chiellini in his team's final
Group D clash on Tuesday.

"Everyone knows what they've done to Luis.
They wanted him out of the World Cup.
Perfect, they did it. They chucked him out of
there like a dog," Lila Piriz Da Rosa said
from Suarez's birthtown Salto in north-west
Uruguay.
Piriz, who has 22 grand-children, said
football authorities had been watching
Suarez from the outset.
"This was on purpose," she said of the
sanctions given to the brilliant but volatile
Suarez, who has been punished three times
now for biting and once for racism.
"They had their eyes on him to see what he
does. It's barbaric what they've done to him,"
Piriz Da Rosa added. "I'm his granny and I
love my boy loads!" Piriz Da Rosa said.
Uruguay striker Luis Suarez is out of the
World Cup after being handed a nine-match
ban by FIFA for biting Italian defender
Giorgio Chiellini during their Group D game.
The world's governing body said Thursday
that Suarez is also banned from any football-
related activity or from entering any football
stadium for four months, meaning the
Liverpool striker will miss the start of the
Premier League and the Champions League
season.
It is the biggest match ban ever imposed by
FIFA at a World Cup and follows similar
incidents involving Suarez.

See Pics from 'Warri Again' Show

Ufuoma Ejenobor, Waje, Mo, Sir Shina
Peters, Burna Boy, Banky W, Joseph
Benjamin, and Queen Nwokoye were at the
Warri Again comedy show, which took place
in Warri on February 14 .
More pics below(after the jump).........

Nollywood Actress Liz Ajorin Shows off Her Body in Hot Bikini...*MEN only...lol

Pardon me...lol. You know in Naija any thing
worn to the beach or pool (even wrapper), is
"our bikini". But in the real sense bikini =
pant and bra!
The actress who's much popular in the
Yoruba film industry, flaunted her flat tummy,
fine face and evenly fair skin as she enjoyed
a day off at the beach! Beautiful woman!
She's probably the hottest Yoruba actress in
Nollywood...

Ghanaian player J Ayew's 'junk' on display during World Cup match

There's nothing hotter than a hot dude who is well endowed, right ladies?.. Lol. During a game between Portugal and Ghana yesterday June 26th at the ongoing World Cup in Brazil, Portuguese player William Carvalho in an attempt to get the ball grabbed Ghanaian player Jordan Ayew's shorts, putting his privates in full display to the delights of millions of female football fans watching from around the world. Some girls are so lucky! *sigh* See more photos and the vine video after the cut.

Sexy Rapper Cynthia Morgan In Exclusive Interview

The gorgeous and talented rapper Cynthia Morgan of Jude Okoye's Northside Records, recently stopped by for a chat with Pulse TV. In her exclusive interview, she and explains the details of how she got signed up with Northside Records, and shares the details of how she had mistakenly started a rumour that she was dating the elder brother to the P-Square duo (Jude).
The fashionable rapper reveals a soft side to herself which contrasts the 'Ragga' and 'Hardcore' personality she projects in her music videos. She is indeed an amazing woman.

taking over the fight against Boko Haram as snakes are now chasing the deadly gang out of their hideouts.

he saying that God fights for the helpless is slowly playing itself out in the deadly Sambisa Forest, Borno State, hideout of the insurgent sect, Boko Haram, as reports have emerged that some of their members are now fleeing the owing to the fact that deadly snakes have been attacking them as well as some of them suffering spiritual attacks.
This information was gleaned from two members of the Islamic militant sect who were arrested by members of the Civilian Joint Task Force.
The Daily Post newspapers quoted one of the Boko Haram members, Kolo Mustapha,  as saying:

French Montana Gifts Khloe Kardashian A $29,000 Jeep On Her 30th

 Everyone except Rob Kardashian was out in New York to celebrate Khloe Kardashian's 30th birthday. Her boyfriend, French Montana did the epic - gifting the reality TV star with a 4x4 white jeep worth $29,000!!!
The family celebrated the ceremony at the Don Coqui restaurant in New York and present were Kris Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, kendall Jenner and many other friends and family.

Funke Akindele, Chioma Chukwuka Akpotha & Ali Nihu has been unveiled as Omo Ambassadors.

It must be a season of endorsements as  Nollywood actors Chioma Akpotha, Funke Akindele and Ali Nuhu join the league of celebrity Ambassadors  The above listed actors have been unveiled as brand ambassadors for OMO detergent, which is marketed by Unilever Nigeria. Congratulations to them.

@Afrocandy Cossy Dedicates Nude Photos Of Her Boobs To Ahmed Musa!

Cossy Orjiakor Is Super Eagles Number One Fan 

Cossy Orjiakor might not be a fantastic actress or singer but what she lacks in these departments, she makes up for them in the controversy departent.

Drama Queen, sometime actress, sometime singer, Cossy Orjiakor is not one lady who allows an opportunity to hug the headlines to pass her by.

Some say she loves being controversial so as keep people talking about her. This, we cannot agree less because she has almost overstepped the bounds of sanity with most of her actions.

The recent one is the photo and tweet she posted on her Twitter handle sending her support to the Super Eagles of Nigeria after the team qualified for the second round of the on going FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

She said she is dedicating her nude photo to Ahmed Musa who scored both Nigerian goals in the 3-2 defeat to Argentina.

She also wants Nigerian girls to say no to Brazilian hair until the Eagles bring back the World Cup.

Photos: Beyonce shows her booty on stage

Fans who attended Beyonce and Jay Z's Miami concert on Wednesday night must have had the time of their lives. Not only did they watch private home clips of the couple's secret wedding & Beyonce's bare pregnant belly, they also saw Beyonce bare ass. (I'm thinking she probably wore nude stockings)

Beyonce and her dancers wore a costume with the ass cut out when she performed the song "Naughty Girl". See more photos after the cut...

More photos from Omotola and Dakore Akande's photo-shoot

Told y'all earlier that actresses Dakore Akande and Omotola Jalade Ekeinde are brand ambassadors for a P&G product that will be unveiled soon. Here are more photos from their photo-shoot for the brand yesterday. See more photos after the cut.

How can we build an effective national peace movement?

If we are to present a credible challenge to the system of interlocking interests that combine to entrench militarism, our movement needs to be able to engage with that complexity.  OSINACHI SIXTUS UBA


Peace will not come unless we can begin to loosen the stranglehold of militarism. To transform the way people think and the systems that currently dominate our world we need a strong and effective movement for peace, on a global scale. How can we build one? The responses  to this question suggest that movements are like other life forms, being complex and having their own ungovernable energy and dynamics.
Effective campaigns for change work with the grain of their society in some respects while they undermine it in others. They are fluid, they may cut across party political divisions and they may be based on alliances among unlikely bedfellows. Some are short-lived – mere spasms perhaps – whereas other campaigns last decades. That seems healthy to me, and I know it is replicated all over the world. It does, though, mean that, like OSINACHI UBA  I do not expect there to be one peace movement in some urban and rular area, let alone a single global peace movement. What I see is a world-wide web of movements for social change, which are effective at changing the world a step at a time, without being co-ordinated by a guiding hand. To make our collective efforts more influential, we need to share information. That is already happening, greatly facilitated by the internet and email.
I like working in a small group because I believe in ‘quiet processes and small circles, in which vital and transforming events take place.’However, I acknowledge my debt to others, past and present, in that bigger web of change-making: environment and justice movements active in my home town, the civil rights movement in the nigeria the peace-makers in faith groups, and activists in other area/society Their experience and insights support me; I gain strength and momentum from them.

I have read about the power of linked but separate campaigns demonstrated in my unborntime, in my own direct peace movement experience as an activist in the European Nuclear Disarmament campaign (END). The 1980 END Appealstated, ‘We must commence to act as if a united, neutral and pacific Europe already exists. We must learn to be loyal, not to 'East' or 'West' but to each other, and we must disregard the prohibitions and limitations imposed by any national state.'  By this END meant that those of us who were working for nuclear disarmament in Western Europe should support dissident movements in the former Soviet bloc. Those movements flourished and played their part in ending the Cold War. This showed me that behaving as if the world we want has already come about is not only possible but empowering and effective.

The nigeria I want is one where there is a better way to resolve conflict than resorting to war. I question any assumption that violence is hard-wired into our human brain. It is clear to me that violence is not a solution to geo-political and geo-economic problems, any more than it is the solution to problems in the family or the neighbourhood. If I say that to a politician, I risk being called naïve, idiotic or woolly-minded. So I work to counter the hopeless and hideous assumption that violence is the answer; I campaign for the day when that assumption is viewed as an aberration; and I will act now as if that day had come.

people may like the way i combines the idea of a web of movements with a sense of continuity through time. And share her belief that it really works to behave ‘as if’’ we are already living in the world we are trying to create. The historic example she gives demonstrates that this is no mere philosophical comfort blanket. Moral consistency works. This is the transformative approach to conflict and change, which is founded in respect for people: their needs, rights and capacities for good. The passionate conviction of Judith’s final statement has a power that speaks for itself.
For me, like the activists in Bath cited in your article Platform for humanity, the question has become “how can we build a national justice and peace movement?”As governments and economic institutions combine to squeeze civil society, civil society needs to strengthen its power to push back, challenge the injustices and reclaim its space. We need first to recognise our own place in these systems of injustice, the ‘structural violence’, and our own power to struggle out of it.

And let’s celebrate what has already begun. We've seen what were essentially nonviolent “people power” movements remove oppressive governments in Eastern nigeria, South-East nigeria and North nigeria More recently, we’ve seen transnational actions mobilising and organising simultaneously against war, nationllisation and climate change. To counter the summits of world leaders, we’ve seen the rise of the world and regional social forums, hugely valuable for discussion and sharing ideas. We need now to scale these up into action forums: joining hands across boundaries with others trapped in the same system

There are nonviolent struggles for justice everywhere, although we have to seek them out. With new technology it’s easy; we can research and learn from each other..Resources such as Wikileaks make secret information accessible; hand devices can record events and upload them instantly, validated by GPS co-ordinates, date and time – good for election and human rights monitoring, unarmed accompaniment work and much more. We can challenge mainstream reporting instantly by publishing our own reports; we can turn the surveillance back onto repressive police forces and militias. We can share our nonviolent training methods to transform attitudes and behaviours and understand contexts.

In these apocalyptic times, it's easy to see everything falling apart, and it's easy to counter positive ideas with negative evidence. But if we choose to hope and look for signs, we might just see them.

Genius  insistence on linking peace with justice takes us back to the notion of ‘positive peace’. He is right to believe that there can be no peace – negative or positive – without justice, just as there can be no justice without peace. And while he points to the need to confront injustice, his aim is to transform rather than triumph over people. His enthusiasm for using to advantage the ease of modern communication is an example of the positive spirit of his thinking and in line with his advocacy for hope

The vision of a global peace movement requires us to think about where and how power is located and exercised at a global level. Players such as Rivers State. lagos state Delta state Edo state anambra state E.T.C  are emerging as new national powers, and they are forging new alliances. The power of corporations also continues to grow, particularly in relation to the exercise of warfare, as evidenced by the huge increase in private military and security companiesinvolved in the boko haram conflicts. If we are to present a credible challenge to the system of interlocking interests that combine to entrench militarism, our movement needs to be able to engage with that complexity.

If this is true, then the current landscape of diverse movements, initiatives, groups and people is an asset. There is a rich variety of effective efforts to resist militarization and war – whether through peacebuilding efforts in war-torn communities, non-violent mass mobilisation to resist oppression, movements to ban weapons such as cluster bombs, or the negotiation of nuclear-free zones. I’m cheered  suggestion that the multifariousness of the peace movement is not only inevitable but also strategically useful. I agree that good analysis of the sources and dynamics of nationl power could enable us to see our own role and potential more clearly. I think her point about the need to build understanding between resisters and advocates is a vital one and is closely related to the need for public education about the nature and potential of conflict transformation.

The idea of  ‘transformation’ is central to all this, reflecting as it does not only the depth and breadth of the change that is needed, but also the fact that we cannot bring about that change unless the manner of our action matches the values that shape our goal: those of respect and inclusiveness. If this is our goal we must go deeper in the way we approach peace, harnessing our own deepest values and longings as motivating power, and reaching out to other people at that level, finding the things that bind us all together. To do that we must reach beyond our own anger and prejudices, recognising that others are capable of compassion and speaking to them, in osinachi’s words, as if they shared our values, hopes and fears. That way we can get beyond the ideologies that divide us and arrive at the heart of the matter, which is our common humanity. We must hope that the urgency of the problems we face will at last enable our insight, wisdom and caring to match our technical intelligence, for in the end we will sink or swim together.



OSINACHI SIXTUS UBA

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Photos from City People Entertainment Awards

The City People Entertainment Awards held this past Sunday June 22nd in Lagos. Actress Eniola Badmus flanked by two ladies above. See more photos after the cut..