Serena William and Alexis Ohanian spotted in New Orleans as they begin plans for their glamorous wedding

New parents, Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian who became engaged in December 2016 have started planning their glamorous wedding.

According to DailyMailTV, Serena Williams is secretly making plans to wed the millionaire entrepreneur father of her baby daughter in a romantic ceremony in New Orleans before the end of this year.

On Monday morning, the Tennis champ and Reddit co-founder fiancé Alexis Ohanian took a private jet day trip from her Florida home to meet their wedding planner in the Big Easy and visited multiple prospective venues around the cultural city

They were also spotted inside Meril, an upmarket restaurant, in the city's warehouse district, owned by celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse.

The couple who were out without their six-week-old daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr,  were joined by a wedding planning crew and are believed to have discussed menu options and other arrangements for the nuptials

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accelerated promotion to 'Master Warrant Officer' to become a captain for his bravery and selfless service

The council of the Nigerian Army has approved the accelerated promotion and commissioning of Garba Abdullahi from the rank of Master Warrant Officer to the rank of Captain.

Garba was considered worthy of this promotion for his gallantry and bravery and selfless service to the Nigerian Military.

The Military, on Monday 16th of October approved the granting of the Executive Commission to 79NA/21553 Master Warrant Officer Garba Abdullahi of the 159 Battalion of the Nigerian Military to the rank of Captain. Abdullahi, according to the Nigerian Military has shown great professionalism in the discharge of his duties and a really likeable dedication in the cause of service delivery, despite being Non-Commissioned.

Abdullahi’s leadership qualities has made him a liked figure to his Commanding Officer who considered it worthy to assign him a higher responsibility as the platoon commander of one of the leadership of the Battalion, a role he played excellently to the admiration of both his superiors and subordinates alike.

The newly commissioned Garba Abdullahi has since been decorated with the badge of his new rank of Captain at the Battalion Headquarters located in Geidam, Yobe State by his Commanding Officer Lieutenant Colonel Owoicho Augustine Obochi, to the happiness of both officers and soldiers of the 

Present Buhari lays wreath at the tomb of Turkey’s founding father

Yesterday, President Buhari laid a wreath at the mausoleum of Turkey’s founding Father Mustapha Kemal Ataturk in Ankara.  

This was part of activities line up for the President who is on an official visit to Turkey where he would attend the Developing-8 summit today.

Photos: Ivanka Trump dons figure-hugging velvet turtleneck and sharp gray pencil skirt as she steps out of her Washington D.C home

Ivanka Trump stepped out in style as she was photographed while leaving her Washington, D.C. home on Thursday morning.

The 35-year-old first daughter os US president Donald Trump donned a figure-hugging velvet turtleneck which she paired with a light gray pencil skirt. Ivanka who's an advisor to her father also completed her look with a pair of $100 black pointed-toe heels as she headed out the door.

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This abandoned street needs the attention of the Lagos State Govt

This is Ashimowu Bakare Street linking Lawanson road in Itire and Oduduwa/ kilo. For over 15 years nothing has been done. Please Lagos State Governor the people in this community need help.

Teen facing murder trial for helping 16 year old girl kill herself

A Utah man, Tyerell Przybycien, 18, will be tried for murder in the hanging suicide of 16-year-old Jchandra Brown, whose twisting body was captured on video.

Przybycien was arrested, charged with murder and a misdemeanor count of failing to report a dead body.

A judge ruled Tuesday that he should stand trial in the death of Brown, who asked Przybycien, a close friend, to help end her life.

According to prosecutors, Przybycien texted a friend, saying he was excited to watch someone die. “It be awesome,” he wrote. It would “be like getting away with murder”.

He thoroughly planned the details of her suicide with her and even went as far as buying rope and a spray air duster for her to use to kill herself.

He picked her up from work on May 5 and drove her to Maple Lake, a site he had researched, authorities said.

Przybycien helped fasten the rope to a tree and tied a noose for the poor girl because she didn’t know how to do it herself.

Then he made a pedestal for her to stand on and started recording the teenage girl committing suicide. With his cellphone, he recorded her putting the noose around her neck and inhaling the pressurized air, which caused her to pass out and fall off the pedestal.

Even after she fell off the pedestal and was twisting in pain, Przybycien continued filming for 10 minutes, authorities said. He left the phone near her body, along with the receipt showing that his credit card was used to purchase the rope, prosectuors said.

Przybycien's attorney said his client’s actions did not cause the girl’s death and that she was responsible for ending her life.

Tuesday’s court ruling said it was “reasonable to infer” that he intended to cause Brown’'s death, adding that without his actions, she would not have died.

If convicted of murder, Przybycien could face 15 years to life in prison. However, he is expected to enter a plea bargain later this month.

Mrs Ajoke Murtala, Dr Fayemi others at AGJES 2017

Wife of Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Mrs Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi; Wife of the Vice President and Keynote Speaker, Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo; former First Lady, Mrs Ajoke Murtala Mohammed; and Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi and a host of others examining some gemstones at the Africa Gems and Jewellery Exhibition and Seminar in Abuja on Thursday.

VP's wife, Mrs Osinbajo; ex first lady, Mrs Ajoke Murtala, Dr Fayemi others at AGJES 2017

Wife of Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Mrs Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi; Wife of the Vice President and Keynote Speaker, Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo; former First Lady, Mrs Ajoke Murtala Mohammed; and Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi and a host of others examining some gemstones at the Africa Gems and Jewellery Exhibition and Seminar in Abuja on Thursday.

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Model opens up about the horrific beating she recieved from MMA fighter 'War Machine'

Former porn star, Christy Mack, 26, who suffered a horrific beating at the hands of her ex-boyfriend, former MMA fighter, Jonathan Koppenhaver aka "War Machine," has opened up about the horrific domestic violence she suffered in his hands.

She said:

“I was in extreme, excruciating physical pain,”  she said about the 2014 incident.

She said that her relationship with the fighter was “very passionate” and “very tumultuous,” as well as “very abusive.”

It all started when War Machine came to her Las Vegas home unannounced one night and became enraged when he found her in bed with another man, businessman Corey Thomas.

She said:

“He came in and jumped on top of me and started beating me in the face,” Thomas recalled. “I'm down on all fours, he's trying to choke me. I’m bleeding from my face, I can't see.”

“While he was beating my friend, I made a 911 call,” she said.

She said War Machine then turned his attention back on her, and unleashed two hours of merciless terror on her.

“This was a whole new level I had never experienced," she said. "He punched my teeth out, he broke my nose, my complete eye socket was fractured,” she said. “I could hear him going through the drawers downstairs and finding knives. I knew this was my chance, this was my only chance. If I do not leave now, I will die.”

She said she ran out of the back door of her house and jumped over the fence. She was naked and covered in blood, and went door-to-door until someone around the block answered and called for help.

“I need police or medical. There is a lady in front of my door beaten up," the neighbor told a 911 dispatcher. "I don't know who beat her up."

After a two-week trial in March 2017, during which Mack tearfully relived the ordeal, her ex boyfriend, War Machine, was convicted of beating and sexually assaulting her, as well as beating Corey Thomas.

He was sentenced to 36-years to life.

“I do feel quite a bit safer with him being away for that amount of time,” she admitted.

Mack says she is recovering well, and is now devoting herself to helping other victims of domestic and dating violence.

“I do feel that justice has been served and I hope that so many more people can [also],” Mack said.

Proof That Fashola Is Not Serious- Reno Omokri

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Real life Coming To America! Woman becomes princess after she marries man she met at a club who turns out to be an Ethiopian prince

An American woman became a princess after marrying an Ethiopian prince she met in a nightclub. 

At the time they met at a Washington DC nightclub 12 years ago, Ariana Austin, now 33, had no idea that Joel Makonnen was an Ethipian prince. On that night, Ariana had been out with a friend when they were approached by Joel in the Pearl nightclub. Joel, who works as a lawyer, told her there and then that she was going to be his girlfriend. 

He did not reveal to her that he was a prince, It was only when they started dating seriously that he told her of his royal heritage just like in the movie Coming To America. 12 years after that first meeting, Ariana and Joel married in a lavish Ethiopian Orthodox Christian wedding with 13 priests, two crowns, and a pair of capes on 9 September. According to the Times, the wedding festivities, which took place in Maryland, involved a "marathon day of events that lasted from 11 a.m. until late in the evening, and took place within two states."

Speaking to The New York Times about their first encounter, Joe said: "I said: 'You guys look like an ad for Bombay Sapphire'. Not even five minutes later I said: 'You're going to be my girlfriend'."

Prince Joel is the great-grandson of Haile Selassie I, Ethiopia's last emperor. Born in Rome, his parents Prince David Makonnen and Princess Adey Imru Makonnen, had been forced to live in exile after a communist coup in his homeland. His father had escaped the bloodshed in his homeland because he was studying abroad at the time. The family subsequently settled in Switzerland. 

Haile Selassie was the 225th and last in the line of King of the Kings of Ethiopia, ruling the east African country for 40 years until he was overthrown in 1974. The royal family traces its roots back to the Biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. 

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Police arrest 13 Nigerian immigrants in Bangkok for illegal entry, overstaying and romance scam

Immigration police Wednesday morning, October 18, searched a Bangkok condominium and rounded up 13 Nigerians for illegal entry into the Kingdom and overstaying their visa, as well as engaging in a romance scam.

Pol Lt-General Sutthipong Wongpin, the acting Immigration Bureau commissioner, led officers who searched six buildings of a condominium complex on Romklao road in Klong Sam Prawet subdistrict of Lat Krabang district at 10am and made the arrests.

Sutthipong said police searched the condominium after two Nigerians were arrested last week on charges of conducting a romance scam in Thailand. Information provided by the two men prompted police to conduct the search.

The immigration officers found 19 Nigerians living at the condominium. Six of them were found to have unlawfully entered the country and five of them had overstayed their visas.

Sutthipong said two other Nigerians were suspected of being involved in the romance scam.
Police also seized 15 passbooks, seven notebooks, 12 phones, one tablet and nine passports from the suspects.

Sutthipong said the two romance-scam suspects also had Facebook accounts in other names and used Western men’s photographs as their profile pictures.

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Burn survivor shares cute childhood photos before fire incident left him scarred for life

American burn survivor, Ken Mathews popularly known as kendawg on Instagram, shared some of his childhood photos before the tragic incident that changed his life.

He was only just three years old when fire ripped through his home,  killing his grandfather and leaving him with 90 per cent burns.

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priest and football coach

Revered Fr. Obinna Dike is a priest of the Catholic Diocese of Awka. was ordained in 2001,  he is a footballer, a referee, a coach, and founder of Anambra Independent Football League. Another photo below:

Lupita Nyong'o claims Harvey Weinstein also sexually assaulted her

Lupita Nyong'o has joined the long list of women who have accused disgraced mogul movie producer, Harvey Weinstein of trying to undress in front of her in a bedroom.

According to TMZ:

Nyong'o says she met Weinstein in 2011 at an awards ceremony in Berlin while she was still a student at the Yale School of Drama. Lupita claims several months later, she was invited by Weinstein to join him at his family home in Connecticut for a screening of a film.

Nyong'o says she arrived at Weinstein's home, met his wife and children and Harvey set her up to watch the film in his private screening room. According to Lupita, Weinstein interrupted the film just 15 minutes in and invited her to his private bedroom.

Once in the bedroom, Lupita says Harvey asked if he could give her a massage. The actress says she panicked and offered to give the producer one instead, he obliged, removed his shirt and laid down on the bed.

Nyong'o claims she fled the producer's home when he tried to remove his pants.

The actress says she turned down another advance by Weinstein not long after the massage incident and he threatened her career. It was after she won an Oscar in 2014 that Weinstein approached her once again, begging her to star in one of his films ... an offer she declined.

Wife of the former and political gurus Mandela do knee surgery

Winnie Mandela; a South African activist, wife of late Nelson Mandela and politician who has held several government positions and headed the African National Congress Women's League has been admitted to the Milpark Hospital.  

A statement released Thursday says the icon was admitted to hospital on Tuesday for a minor procedure on her knee and the procedure was successful.  

According to her spokesperson, Victor Dlamini, 'she will be kept at the hospital for the next two weeks to ensure that she has adequate rest and her progress can be monitored closely. I visited her at the hospital this afternoon and she was in high spirits. She said her health problems go back to her time when she was banished to Brandfort and her knee first gave her trouble. We chatted about many things and she said she was looking forward to the ANC conference in December'.

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