Friday 30 September 2011

Olu Jacobs and Joke Silva renew wedding vows


Legendary actors, Joke Silva and Olu Jacobs renewed their wedding vows yesterday September 29th in Lagos, in celebration of Joke's 50th birthday. November 2011 will be exactly 26 years the acting couple have been married. Many more happy years ahead...and happy birthday to Mrs Jacobs.

Bill Gates Visits Nigeria, Signs MoU On Polio Eradication




Nduka Nwosu and Saka Ibrahim in Birnin

Abuja — Chairman of Microsoft Computers Worldwide, Mr. Bill Gates, yesterday visited Kebbi State, where he signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the state Governor, Alhaji Saidu Dakingari, to eradicate polio cases in the state.



The polio eradication signing agreement was attended by the Chairman of the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Mansur Shehu; the state Deputy Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Aliyu; commissioners, traditional rulers; including the Emirs of Gwandu and Argungu; Alhaji Iliyasu Bashar; and Alhaji Samaila Mera, respectively.

Gates said his association was determined to eradicate polio world wide and other related diseases. According to him Indian with a population of over one billion had one polio case recently due to measures taken by his foundation. He said the situation in Nigeria needed urgent attention with about six cases by 2010.

According to him, the situation in Kebbi State demanded urgent attention because government had taken drastic measures to make the state totally free.



"However, you would all agree with me here that a number of conditions need to be met to ensure successful implementation of our programme for revamping the primary health care system in Kebbi State," Gates said.

He also stated that with such measures in place, Kebbi State would rank among the best in the country, adding that: "To meet these conditions, the collaboration and support of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, our development partners are more than a welcome contribution in the right direction. The foreigner looked forward in the next two years the eradication of polio in Kebbi and other 35 states in the country."

Responding, Dakingari said his government had constructed over 200 primary healthcare facilities across the state in an effort to ensure that the necessary system or platform for routine immunisation was brought closer to homes where women and children live.
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"Now that the election is over, as from 2012 the government will be serious to commit a lot of resources on polio like in the previous years," he said.

It would be recalled that a statement signed by Michal Fishman of the Bil and Melinda Gates Foundation, had said Gates was accompanied to Nigeria by the foundation's chief executive officer, Mr. Jeff Raikes.

The statement also said Gates visit was essentially based on how to end polio and strengthen immunisation against other vaccine-preventable diseases with a follow up on the Abuja Commitments to Polio Eradication.

"Nigeria has achieved important success with polio over recent years and we are confident it can finish the job," Gates said.

Dear LIB Readers: My Boyfriend wants me to get pregnant before proposing

My boyfriend of over two years just told me that for him to propose marriage to me; I have to get pregnant first. I wasn’t brought up that way, and I never wanted to be a pregnant bride. I have tried to convince him for us to get married first before pregnancy but he is insistent. I almost feel like telling him to go to hell, but I am in late twenties. I really hate that a man is giving me this condition before marriage.

'How my father died inside a swimming pool at 45' - Tunde Obe

The entertainer shared his story in his Inner Circle column in Yes! Magazine this week. Read below...
The story of my father, the late Amb. Emmanuel Oyeleye Obe, was one of success, by any standard. He’d been serving in Senegal, Gambia and Mauritania simultaneously, as Nigerian Ambassador, which necessitated me, my mum and three siblings, living in Dakar Senegal, the biggest country of the three, during that period.
My mum, as an ambassador’s wife, needed not do anything but play the perfect hostess and organise lunch and dinner parties at home for her husband’s associates in diplomatic circles, whilst we the children (aged between 3 and 12years) simply went on with our plush, rich lifestyle, having gotten used to same whilst dad served in Mali, Tokyo, Geneva, Rome, and Washington DC previously.

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Genevieve Speaks On Mirror Boy

Actress, Genevieve Nnaji during the week revealed that she was fascinated by the simplicity of the story of Mirror Boy and the determination of the producer and director, Obi Emelonye to do something ‘special’ and the success of the movie in UK, Ghana and presently Nigeria has justified her choice.

“I was impressed with the way the writer spin a whole lot around of a simple story of mother and child and a spirit. It is told in such a way that you feel the three distinct characters. You feel the pain of a mother whose child is missing, you feel the trouble of an African boy born in Uk in search of identity and you feel the emotion of a reincarnated father who doesn’t want his biological child lost on the world of ‘missed identity’. It is the kind of story that touches you from the screen so I am not surprised at the success so far at the cinema’.

Mirror Boy which has been at Nigerian cinemas for four weeks running have so far grossed over N15 million and it sets the enviable record of being the highest selling Nollywood movie in Ghana and the longest running movie by any African in UK cinema.

The movie which was shot in Gambia features Genevieve Nnaji, Osita Iheme, and a Gambian star.

The Mirror Boy’ is an enthralling journey as seen through the eyes of a London- born 12 year old African boy, Tijani. After a London street fight on 13th of June, in which a local boy is hurt, Tijan's mother decides to take him back their roots, to Gambia. On their arrival in Banjul, Tijan encounters a strange apparition, a boy smiling at him in a mirror and vanishing. Seeing the same boy in a crowded street market the next day sets in motion a chain of events, with Tijan finding himself lost. While Tijan's panic-stricken mother struggles to find her son, Tijan is left alone in the company of the enigmatic Mirror Boy, seemingly only visible to him. A cathartic climax helps TIJANI to unravel the mystery of the MIRROR BOY. It also provides him with a rather mystical explanation for the way his life has cascaded from the 13th of June towards this inter-twined fate with a father he has never met.

TOC RADIO INTERVIEW


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Thursday 29 September 2011

Jackson Doctor Delayed Calling 911, Witness Says

LOS ANGELES — One of Michael Jackson’s staff members testified on Thursday that on the day of the singer’s death, he saw Jackson lying on a bed while his personal physician gave him chest compressions with one hand. He also said the doctor had asked him to put various medical supplies in a bag before calling 911.

Alberto Alvarez, Jackson’s director of logistics, said he had gone into Jackson’s bedroom in his rented Holmby Hills mansion once Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray, realized that the singer was incapacitated after the doctor had injected him with a potent medicine.

Dr. Murray, 58, who is on trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court on charges of involuntary manslaughter in the singer’s death, faces up to four years in prison if convicted.

Mr. Jackson, 50, died June 25, 2009, after Dr. Murray gave him a dose of propofol, a surgical anesthetic the singer took to relieve his insomnia.

Prosecutors argue that Dr. Murray was negligent, first in regularly dispensing propofol to Jackson and then by failing to monitor the singer’s vital signs and to immediately seek emergency help as he lay dying.

Dr. Murray’s lawyers, however, have said that Jackson caused his own death by taking propofol by himself when Dr. Murray was using a restroom at Jackson’s mansion. The doctor’s lawyer, Ed Chernoff, said Jackson also got regular injections of a pain killer from another doctor, which Dr. Murray was unaware of.

Mr. Chernoff said during his opening statement that propofol, which is not commonly used outside medical facilities, could be administered safely at low levels.

On Thursday, Mr. Alvarez said he saw Jackson lying on his back with his eyes and mouth open while Dr. Murray tried to revive him.

“When I came into the room, he said, ‘Alberto, hurry, we have to get him to a hospital, we have to get an ambulance,’ ” Mr. Alvarez said.

Mr. Alvarez said that when he asked what had happened, Dr. Murray told him, “He had a bad reaction.”

Mr. Alvarez called 911, he said, following Dr. Murray’s instructions.

But before making the 911 call, he said, Dr. Murray instructed him to help put some medical supplies into a bag, including a handful of vials from Jackson’s nightstand and a saline bag with another bottle inside it from an IV stand.

Mr. Alvarez said he thought they were packing up the medicine to get ready to go to the hospital. When prosecutors on Thursday showed Mr. Alvarez a saline bag and a vial of propofol that the authorities had removed from the Jackson mansion, Mr. Alvarez said they looked like the materials the doctor had asked him to put in the bag.

The prosecution is seeking to establish that Dr. Murray delayed calling 911 and tried to conceal the drugs, including propofol, that he was giving Jackson.

On Wednesday, Michael Amir Williams, Jackson’s personal assistant, testified that after Jackson was pronounced dead at a hospital, Dr. Murray asked him to drive him to Jackson’s house so he could recover “some cream in Michael’s room or house that he wouldn’t want the world to know about.”

Mr. Williams said he refused that request, as well as a later request from Dr. Murray to take him to get something to eat.

Jackson’s head of security, Faheem Muhammad, testified that after Mr. Williams told him about his conversation with Dr. Murray, he decided not to allow Dr. Murray to re-enter the Jackson mansion.

Mr. Muhammad told the court that before Jackson was taken to the hospital, he walked into the singer’s bedroom to find Jackson incapacitated, his body lying on the floor, with Dr. Murray beside him. Mr. Muhammad said Dr. Murray, a cardiologist, had asked, “Does anyone know CPR?”

Mr. Muhammad said Jackson’s two older children — Prince and Paris — had been outside their father’s bedroom, crying. He said he took them to another room in the house.

Timothy Williams contributed reporting from New York.

Photos From Obiwon's Traditional Wedding




Photos From Obiwon's Traditional Wedding

Congratulations to Sir Uti!!!

Uti Nwachukwu has just been given the Young Person of the Year award at Leadership Newspaper awards in Abuja.Big Congrats to the King...