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PARIS—In tennis, 11 years is an eternity. The athletes get bigger and
faster. The balls are hit harder. More and more attention is paid to
training, diet and recovery. Equipment changes, tactics evolve,
technique is refined. For one player to last that long in tennis is a
feat.
Then there is Serena Williams, who won her second French Open title Saturday, 6-4, 6-4, over Maria Sharapova.
Williams first reached the No. 1 ranking in July 2002. Nearly 11 years
later, she's still there—and still better than everyone.
Since the introduction of tennis's computer-ranking system in 1975,
no other world No. 1 has been older than the 31-year-old Williams, and
no other No. 1 has had as many years between her first and latest visit
to the top. Williams' play here these two weeks suggests she's going to
stay there for a while more.
It's been more than a year since Stephanie and hubby Linus tied the knots grand style in France.
Here's what she told BellaNaija about the rumors that swirled sometime
in December that she was pregnant. She also got to share why and how she
and her husband chose France.
BN: Sometime in December, rumours swirled that you were pregnant. How did you take this?
It’s a good thing. That means they (Nigerians) are praying for me to
pop out the little ones. Yeah, the little ones are coming soon, but you
know, everything is in God’s hands and I’ll have a baby when I’m
supposed
Following the death of the UNIBEN student, Ibrahim Momodu on 27th
May, 2013 in Benin City, Edo State capital, the Inspector-General of
Police, IGP, MD Abubakar, has directed the Commissioner of Police, Edo
State to take urgent and appropriate steps to unravel the real
circumstances that led to his death.
This was contained in a statement posted on the Facebook page of the Nigeria Police on Saturday.
While restating his Administration’s zero tolerance for any act that
infringes on the fundamental rights of all citizens, including the
rights to life, IGP affirms that no stone will be left unturned in the
quest for the truth, stressing that the Force will not condone any act
of cover-up in the case.
“The IGP condoles the family, friends and colleagues of the late
Ibrahim Momodu. He implores them to remain calm and patient as the Force
has put all hands on deck towards ensuring a quick dispensation of
The proud papa posted this adorable picture on Twitter, showing off five
of his six children. Femi also has a teenage son, Made, with former
wife, Funke Kuti.
The comedian and singer is being heavily criticized on Twitter for
burying four guys in the sand in his new video - Buga Won Reloaded,
which was released yesterday. Continue...
A Phoenix couple are facing first-degree murder and child abuse charges in the beating death of their 2-year-old son.
Phoenix police officers and Phoenix Fire Department
paramedics responded to the family's apartment near 83rd Avenue and
McDowell Road for a report of a child not breathing. They found the boy
unresponsive and paramedics transported him to a local hospital where he
was pronounced dead.
A witness told police that he heard the boy's father, Darnell Moses
Alvarez, 24, disciplining him in the morning and again in the afternoon.
He said he did not see the discipline but described it as "excessive."
The boy's mother, Davieanna Marlena Blake, 21, told investigators that
Alvarez hit the child with a belt after discovering he had wet himself.
Blake said she did not intervene because she did not want to upset
Alvarez
Iyanya's in London for his Kukere concert which will hold tomorrow June
9th at IndigO2 and another concert which hold on June 14th in
Manchester. See more photos below:
BBA Housemates Bolt from Sierre Leone and Betty from Ethiopia had sex
just three days into the show. If you haven't seen the video yet, Watch the Video below...then thank me later. *wink*
From Left: Mother , Two Sisters and Kamal Yusuf Aliyu (son)
Residents of Gusau
metropolis in Zamfara State were shocked recently after the swollen
corpse of one of their neighbours and two of her daughters were found
dumped inside a nearby dam in the area. More shocking was the suspicion
that mother and daughters were killed by their own blood, 25-year-old
Kamal Yusuf Aliyu. The suspect who is presently in police net has
reportedly given reasons why he killed his mother and younger sisters. Narrating the
circumstances that led to the ugly incident, the Police Public Relations
Officer in Zamfara State, DSP Lawal Abdullahi said that the command
started by investigating a case of criminal conspiracy, armed robbery
Conjoined male twin delivered at University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital five days ago through caesarean section. Pictured on the rescucitaire and radiant warmer as the doctors are working round the clock to keep them alive. Their abdomen and thorax
are fused. 2D Echo showed that they have separate heart. Abdominal scan
also showed that they have different abdominal organs.
Nollywood actress, ChaCha Eke, and Nollywood director, Austin Faani
(The Bank Job, Strikeforce), got married on (June 1), in Asaba, Delta
State. See more pictures below:
Durban - In what has been described as an
incredible feat, a team of South African divers, including at least four
from Durban, has rescued a man who spent almost three days in an air
bubble - 30m under the sea - after the tugboat he was on capsized off
the coast of Nigeria.
Ten other crew members died and one is still missing. Many of them were locked in their cabins as a precaution against pirates.
But Nigerian Harrison Okene had
just got up when the ship rolled. He was able to get himself into an air
bubble just 1.5m by 3m, where he perched on a table to keep himself
alive, drinking softdrinks out of cans that were floating around him.
According to the owners of the
boat, West Africa Ventures, the vessel capsized, but did not sink to the
The detained Lebanese’ lawyer seeks respect for the constitution.
President Goodluck Jonathan
is in receipt of a forceful request by state security agents
recommending the immediate demolishing of one of Abuja’s most popular
supermarket, Amigos, but has surprisingly withheld an
approval more than a week after investigators sealed the supermarket for
its Lebanese owners alleged terrorism link.
PREMIUM TIMES had reported how officials excavated ‘boxes’ from minor
excavation works within Amigo. A security official involved in the
activities however said no major weapons were recovered from the boxes,
contrary to rumours, with only a pistol found in one of them.
Sources at the Department of State Security Service, SSS, told
PREMIUM TIMES that the president has refused to communicate his decision
on the matter to the Service, more than 72 hours, as is usual with
BUT for the vigilance of Kaduna residents who tipped the police off
about a bomb neatly concealed in a laptop computer near the ever-busy
Jema’a Road, by Ahmadu Bello Way, a major catastrophe would have rocked
that part of the state capital on Friday.
Barely 24 hours after the Northern State Governors Forum meeting in
Kaduna, unknown terrorists had targeted the Assembly of God’s Church,
which was bombed last year during the 2012 Easter Sunday celebration
during which many people died.
But this time around, immediately the Kaduna State police command was
alerted of the presence of the suspicious laptop kept some few metres
from the church, the anti-bomb squad immediately swung into action
In
the entertainment industry, image is everything. So it shouldn’t come
as a surprise that all our superstars go over and beyond to look their
very best.
In the past, this might have been all
about rocking the sleekest suits and the freshest snickers. Now it’s all
about what is underneath their clothes! Health and fitness is a major
priority so today we have some of the biggest names in the African
entertainment industry who have the best looking 6 packs and biceps.
Thank Goodness for social networking
sites, stars are more than happy to share photos of their everyday
lives. See who made the list and this should motivate you to make your
way to the gym today!
Naomi Campbell has made
quite a comeback to print this year with her risque new spread for
Vogue Brazil. And, with all the heavy buzz about her firing her protege,
you can imagine how many questions came to our minds when we heard the
celebrity model was in Ghana.
Former Nigerian beauty queen and Nollywood star Regina Askia Williams is pretty in a print top and white pants on the cover of the June 2013 issue of Beauty Overdose Magazine.
The leading Nigerian actress in the 90s
and early 2000s who moved to the U.S for over a decade to start a
family, speaks to the publication at BUKA in New York on her life,
family and what she has been up to over the years.
In the editorial spread, Regina is seen
lounging on a Victorian-era inspired sofa. She also poses in a red top
and white skirt while clutching a glass. Cheers!
A combined team of State Security
Service (SSS) and military police personnel last night raided the
Asokoro, Abuja residence of Late Hassan Agwai Mohammed (Ciroman Keffi),
claiming to be searching for illegal Chadian immigrants.
The
security personnel who arrived the residence at about 9 p.m. in four
trucks belonging to the Directorate of State Security (DSS), one
military truck and a bus, ordered the arrest of all the occupants of the
duplex, three bungalows and an adjourning mosque in the residence.
One
of the sons of the late Ciroman Keffi, Hussein, who confirmed the
incident to LEADERSHIP WEEKEND, said that the security personnel, forced
all of us out of the house and ordered us to lay face down. This did
not include the females. They searched the whole buildings which lasted
for about forty-five
Shannon Rogers Guess Richardson was arrested Friday in connection with the mailing of ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, NBC reports.
Guess Richardson lives in New Boston, Texas, and was arrested in Arkansas on charges that will be filed Friday afternoon, authorities told NBC.
According to an FBI affidavit obtained by the Associated Press, Richardson contacted authorities on May 30 to implicate her husband. She later failed a polygraph test and investigators also found inconsistencies in her story, the document said. Richardson then admitted mailing the letters knowing they contained ricin, but
Heart-warming
pictures of the real life Mowgli, a girl who spent the first ten years
of her life growing up in the African bush, have been released for the
first time.
The magical images chronicle the life of Tippi
Benjamine Okanti Degre, who was brought up with wild animals, just like
Rudyard Kipling's hero did in The Jungle Book. The images in
'Tippi: My Book of Africa' - now being published worldwide for the first
time - show the young girl making friends with an elephant, who she
calls her brother, and a leopard, her best friend. See more photos below:
More than nine million students packed
exam halls across China for the opening day of the country’s university
entrance exam on Friday —with attempts to stop cheating even leading to
bans on metal bra clasps.
Students in the northeastern
province of Jilin were banned from wearing clothing with metal parts and
education authorities installed metal detectors in exam centres to
clamp down on “wireless cheating devices”, the state-run Global Times
reported.
Authorities have become increasingly concerned about the
risk of examinees using devices such as smartphones — some of which
have become smaller and easier to hide — as an illicit aid during tests.
Around
9.12 million high school students were registered across China to sit
the crucially important two-day
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Nigeria’s
Central Bank Governor, appears unable to shake off a report that he
funneled public funds to Maryam Yaro, a married mistress whom he gave a
job at the bank he oversees.
Premium
Times was first to report the scandal in which Mr. Sanusi was accused
of abusing his office in order to advance an amorous relationship with a
woman.
Several sources told SaharaReporters that Premium Times
has been under intense pressure from associates of the CBN Governor
since the expose was published. In the wake of the report, the CBN also
issued a widely circulated rebuttal claiming that Ms. Yaro was never a
staff of the bank, that she was employed at Nigeria Incentive-based Risk
Sharing Systems For Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), and that the
governor had no hand in her recruitment.
But records obtained by
SaharaReporters suggest that the bank’s claims are an attempt to muddle
up the
During her concert last night in Belgium, Rihanna shocked her fans
when she randomly pulled one of her male fans on stage, leaped on top of
him and gave him the hottest lap dance ever as the crowd cheered.
Clad in a kinky black corset, the raunchy pop superstar pushed her
chosen plaything to the stage, stradled him and seductively, writhed up
and down his midsection.
Not content with leaving it there, Rihanna grabbed his hand, pushed it against her chest and ran it down her body. See more pictures, plus watch the steamy video below:
Facebook and social networking sites may be good for our social
lives, but they can cause havoc in our romantic relationships, according
to a new study.
From emotional and physical cheating to break-up and divorce,
researchers found ‘Facebook-induced jealousy’ significantly increased
the risks for couples of all ages.
Research found that conflict was much more likely to occur when the
website was used excessively, because some people tended to jealously
monitor their partner’s activity or even to reconnect with ex-partners.
From
emotional and physical cheating to break-up and divorce, researchers
found ‘Facebook-induced jealousy’ significantly increased the risks for
couples of all ages
The study, led by Dr Russell Clayton, of the University of Missouri,
U.S., surveyed Facebook users aged
The emotionally charged
contention over President Goodluck Jonathan’s state pardon granted
former Gov of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, just won’t go
away. The issue resurfaced with news of the United States of America
(USA) formal seizure of Alamieyeseigha’s $700,000 (about N105 million)
mansion in Rockville, Maryland, a suburb of Washington D.C. The home is
owned by Solomon & Peters Ltd., a shelf company controlled by
Alamieyeseigha. The seizure of Alamieyeseigha’s U.S. corrupt property gives further disgrace to Jonathan’s pardon. It is a noteworthy fact
that he had, last year, forfeited a $401,931 Massachusetts brokerage
fund in the US. The latest legal sanction against
After securing a role in the Hollywood blockbuster Hunger Games, Nigerian- Hollywood actor Dayo Okeniyi is starring in another major production with some of Hollywood’s biggest names. Runner Runner, a film directed by Brad Furman stars Academy Award winning director and actor Ben Affleck and music star Justin Timberlake.
The movie is centered around a Princeton grad student Richie (Justin
Timberlake), believing he’s been swindled, travels to Costa Rica to
confront online gambling tycoon Ivan Block (Ben Affleck).
Richie is seduced by Block’s promise of immense wealth, until he
learns the disturbing truth about his benefactor. When the FBI tries to
coerce Richie to help bring down Block, Richie faces his biggest gamble
According to a report by Punch, a heavy loaded 40-foot container fell on
a government meat van yesterday June 6th, crushing a passerby and
wounding several others. The sad event took place at Ikeja
Along Bus Stop on Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway in Lagos.
Eyewitnesses said the truck had swerved
off the road to avoid colliding with some policemen, who were chasing a
motorcycle rider, before the incident occurred around 9am.
The victim, identified as Samuel
Ogunnaike, was an employee of a popular phone dealer in Computer
Village, Ikeja, and was on his way to the office when he met his death. Any hope that he could survive the
A man woke up after getting a nose job to find that the plastic surgeon had removed his nose entirely. Patient
Vishal Thakkar went to Dr Angelo Cuzalina, the president of the
American Board of Cosmetic Surgery, for more than eight surgeries over
the course of a half a dozen years. Mr Thakkar said after he went through a
divorce in 2006, he decided to 'do something selfish' and get a nose
job. He was living in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the time and went to
one of the leading plastic surgeons in the area, Dr. Cuzalina.
A 24 year old Nigerian, Uwa Osamede Imafidon, just graduated from the
University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) in the US with Masters degree in
Microbiology and made a 4.0 CGPA out of the maximum 4.0 CGPA.
Before
her sojourn abroad, she had earlier bagged a First Class Degree in Crop
Science from University of Benin, as the Best
Graduating student in her Department. So proud of her! See photos of her
when she was in Nigeria for her first degree below:
All eight participating
nations have now confirmed their squad lists for the FIFA Confederations
Cup holding in Brazil this month. Nigeria is not left out.
After much anticipation and excitement, Super Eagles coach Stephen
Keshi has unveiled his 23-man squad. They are:
The Chief Magistrate Court in Kiyawa
Local Government Area of Jigawa State has sentenced Professor Festus
David Kolo of the Faculty of Education at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU),
Zaria to two months imprisonment for knowingly enticing a married woman
who was a student in his department contrary to Section 389 of the
penal code law.
Principal State Prosecution Counsel
Mustapha Adamu, who read the First Information Report (FIR), said on May
21, one Muhammad Ghali of Takur Quarters Dutse “reported you, Prof.
Festus David Kolo of ABU, Zaria, knowing fully well that Mrs Bushra
Ghali Muhammed is his wife, and you have been making advances towards
her, inciting her, calling her often, sending her love text messages
using your phone”.
The FIR also said, “You, Prof. Kolo, were
caught red handed by the police at Dan Musa Guest House