Buhari, Jonathan, Shonekan, others attend Council of State meeting; Obasanjo, IBB absent

President Buhari, his predecessor Goodluck Jonathan, former interim presidnt Ernest Shonekan and former military leade, Abdulsalami Abubakar, are presently attending the Council of State meeting holding at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

This is the second council of state meeting to be presided over by President Buhari. The first held in October last year.

Former leaders who were absent at the meeting include Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida, Shehu Shagari, Yakubu Gowon.

Also absent as at the begging of the meeting were Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara. State governors who are present at the meeting include those of Abia, Sokoto, Kaduna, Lagos, Taraba, Kogi, Plateau, Jigawa, Yobe, Kebbi, Katsina, Rivers, Borno, Niger, Adamawa, Imo, Cross River, Benue, Bauchi, Enugu, Kwara.

Beyonce Issues ORDER To Security: Rihanna And Kim Kardashian Are NOT ALLOWED IN BIRTHDAY PARTY!!!

September 6, 2016: You may think Beyonce is being PETTY – but she wanted to celebrated her 35th birthday WITHOUT two people who she doesn’t are for.

Our inside source who spoke with MULTIPLE PEOPLE who attended Beyonce’s start-studded 35th birthday party in Manhattan yesterday, and they all agreed that Kim Kardashian were NOT there – and they were NOT INVITED.

One insider explained, “Beyonce doesn’t like Rihanna, and Rihanna doesn’t like Bey. [Beyonce] believes that Rihanna was with Jay Z, and she’ll never forgive her for that.” And as for Kim, well it’s a little more subtle. The insider explained, “Kim would try and take over the party, and Snapchat everything. Nobody needs that.

The party was supposed to be low-key and for friends only. Kim ain’t her friend. Since BOTH Rihann and Kim were in New York last night, there was SOME CONCERN that the ladies may try and CRASH the party. We’re told that SECURITY AT THE FRONT DOOR was told to NOT ALLOW either woman into the venue if they arrived.

Labor Day Weekend Turns BLOODY In New York City . . . 4 People Are SHOT . . . One STABBED . . . The Night Before BROOKLYN’S Caribbean Day Parade!!

September 5, 2016: Last night in Brooklyn, New York, was J’ourvet – an all-night street party which leads up to the city’s annual Caribbean Day Parade. And it turned very violent. Here is what happened last night, according to the folks at the NY POST:

The first shootings happened about 4 a.m. at Flatbush Avenue and Empire Boulevard in Crown Heights, where a male in his late teens or early 20s was shot in the chest and died at a hospital, sources said. A 72-year-old woman was shot nearby as she sat on a bench, sources said. She is expected to live.

A 66-year-old woman was shot in the hand and arm at the same location and was listed in stable condition, police said. About 25 minutes later, a 22-year-old woman was shot in the eye just a block away, police sources said. She also died at a hospital. A woman was also stabbed in the area, but police said she refused medical attention.

Jose Mourinho has plans that could break his own world transfer record

For now, Paul Pogba is the most expensive player in the history of world football.

But even at an eye-watering £89 million ($118.6 million), Pogba may soon be usurped. According to reports, Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho is planning another hit on the world transfer record, and this time it is Atletico Madrid striker Antoine Griezmann in his sights.

Griezmann, 25, was the top scorer at UEFA Euro 2016 and struck over 30 goals for his Spanish club team last season.
The Frenchman says he would only leave if Atletico manager Diego Simeone also departed, but United has the financial muscle to make a deal happen, according to reports in The Sun and The Mirror.

Any deal would almost certainly eclipse the Pogba fee, and could end up nudging the £100 million ($133.2 million) mark.
 Mourinho knows he needs to start looking for a replacement for captain Wayne Rooney in the next two seasons. Griezmann would be a perfect tactical solution, if staggeringly expensive.

Ronaldinho Is Back At Barcelona

Was there ever a more perfect partnership than Barcelona and Ronaldinho. Sure it was just a quick fling in the bigger picture but what a wonderful time it was. Fortunately for the world of football the pair are back where they belong, in each others’ arms.

Unfortunately we won’t be seeing the two time FIFA World Player of the Year and one time Ballon d’Or winner back on the pitch at the Camp Nou, admittedly it wouldn’t be the same anyway and we’d rather keep the memories good, but he is going back to Barca as an ambassador.

The club are set to open a new international office in New York as they look to grow their brand across the world, something they’re shockingly poor at compared to the likes of rivals Real Madrid and Manchester United, and the Brazilian will be used as an ambassador throughout the US.

After five years making beautiful samba style football at the Camp Nou Ronaldinho was sold to AC Milan by Pep Guardiola who worried his party lifestyle might rub off on Lionel Messi. After that the forward was never the same again at Milan or then when heading back to Brazil.

His most recent appearance as a footballer was in the Indian futsal league alongside Ryan Giggs. His time there was cut short after just two games because of a commitment to be an ambassador at the Paralympics.

Ronaldinho is finally going home to where he belongs

Why do Africans crave so much for the Whites

Let us talk about Mark Zuckerberg picture of eating African food with his hands and the applause he is receiving from Africans, both from the poor and the elite.
It saddens me that in 2016, a white person eating African food will receive such accolades from Africans.
I have been living in the UK for 9 years and I have travelled around many white people's countries. I have been at dinner tables with many white people. I have eaten white people food with white people cutleries and never, never have I seen any surprise on the faces of these white people that I can eat like them.
Do you know why? Becuase white has been set as the standard of how the world works. When a white person speaks any African language and post videos online, that video will go viral among Africans. Even with the worse attempt at speaking the language or with horrible accents.
But I remember how many times black people have been called out by white people for their accent or the poor attempt at speaking white people's language.
Not only that, I am yet to see white people posting videos of black people trying to speak Spanish, Italian, English or German and seeing that video going viral among white people.
The madness that comes with Mark's visit and his eating of food with his hands, has his unintended consequences in the way black people are perceived and treated by white people.
Would it have been a pleasure to meet Mark? Yes, indeed it would have been. Would I have melted in his sight? NO, I won't.
The reason is, Mark is one of the many examples of a good system. A system where things work. A system that builds itself on the endless possibility that the mind of man can achieve.
There are many Marks in Nigeria and many of them are trying, but we will celebrate them. This is because, without white endorsement, black talents is nothing but the waste of time and space.
Mark didn't develop facebook by praying in a church on Monday to Sunday, nor was he and his friends able to develop the largest social media platform in the world because they pray five times a day in a mosque.
No! it was not about how religious they were. It was about how visionary, coupled with a system and a government that have his people at the heart of governance and not how many wives and concubine, nor how many houses and wives.
Black people, your future is bleak, a very very bleak one. Yes, we can hold white people responsibility, but it is as far as we can. They are not responsible for the bullshit we buy from ourselves.
We have created heroes out of Pastors, Imams, and politicians, while our talents and creatives suffer.
We have allowed white standard as a benchmark for our lives, while we are doing catch-up, a catch-up that will never catch-up, simply because, we are not white people and no amount of bleaching creams we use, we will never be white.
No amount of white western education we have, no amount of white western food we eat, no amount of white western friends or lovers we have, we will never be white. We will never meet and beat the benchmark.
It is time to rethink and restructure the benchmark, shift the goal post, rearrange and reaffirm. Let us look within.
So that when the next Mark Zuckerberg eats amala with his hands, it becomes the norm and not some angels among mere mortals.

SOMETHING TO PONDER OVER!!!!
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REVENGE: Teenager Arrested For Selling Bar Soaps As Mobile Phones In Lagos

Segun Adeyefa, an 18-year-old man, whose ‘hustle’ is to sell bar soaps in the guise of mobile phones to unsuspecting people in traffic, has been arrested by operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS), of Lagos State Police Command, while on a routine patrol of Ikorodu Motor Park on the night of Tuesday, August 30, 2016.

Adeyefa who confessed to the act said he was on a revenge mission after he was also swindled in the same manner about a year ago by his likes, adding that he had successfully sold the bar-phone to a man at N3,500 before he was caught that day.

Segun Adeyefa

Hear him:

“My action was prompted when I was swindled by two guys about a year ago by this way. That very moment I promised myself to revenge. I learned those tactics by understudying the material. The item contained cut-to-size soap, carton and wrapped all together with a cello tape.

What I usually do is called exchange. My prospective victims will have the mind of buying the handset from me but unknowingly to them, I would have changed the real handset to soap wrapped with a cut to size carton put inside an envelope.”

“I will engage them in discussion after showing them the real phone initially, and in the process of bargaining for the price, I will change it.

And, I will tell them to keep the phone inside their pockets immediately that people are watching us.”