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INEC Officials Postpones Elections, Elections To Now Hold On March 28th and April 11th Respectively. 

Prof. Attahiru Jega INEC Chairman has just briefed the media on the outcome of their meeting today. He said the 2015 general elections has been postponed by 6 weeks. The  decision was made after briefings with various stakeholders notably political parties, security agencies, civil society and the media. He said 26 out of the 28 registered parties were at the meeting. Jega blamed the postponement on lack of security and collection of PVC. He said only 66% of the 96% PVCs has been collected. The presidential election will now hold March 28th while Governorship election will now hold April 11th. 

 Jega To Be Removed, INEC's New Chairman Allegedly Nominated:

Going by the information making rounds, the successor to the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega has been nominated.

If things go as planned the in-coming INEC chairman is going to be Prof Nazim Olufemi Mimiko, a professor of Political Science and International Relation and a former VC of Adekunle Ajasin University, Ondo State.

The embattled Prof Jega who has long compromised his position as INEC boss, will be officially proceed on his three months terminal leave with effect from March 1, 2015 in compliance with the civil service procedure.

Complete List Of Winners From the 2015 Grammy Awards:

Sam Smith

The 2015 Grammy Awards was an exciting one and was full of surprises but in the awards given and other antics. Newcomer, Sam Smith stunned all by taking home 4 well-deserved awards including Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album. 

Full list of winners from the 2015 Grammy Awards

Album Of The Year
Beck, Morning Phase – WINNER
Beyonce, Beyonce
Ed Sheeran, x
Sam Smith, In the Lonely Hour
Pharrell Williams, Girl

Best New Artist
Sam Smith – WINNER
Bastille
Iggy Azalea
Brandy Clark
Haim

Record Of The Year
Stay With Me (Darkchild Version), Sam Smith – WINNER
Fancy, Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX
Chandelier, Sia
Shake It Off, Taylor Swift
All About That Bass, Meghan Trainor

Song Of The Year
Stay With Me (Darkchild Version), Sam Smith – WINNER
Chandelier, Sia
All About That Bass, Meghan Trainor
Shake It Off, Taylor Swift
Take Me to Church,” Hozier

Best Rap Album
The Marshall Mathers LP2, Eminem – WINNER
The New Classic, Iggy Azalea
Because the Internet, Childish Gambino
Nobody’s Smiling, Common
Oxymoron, ScHoolboy Q
Blacc Hollywood, Wiz Khalifa

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
Say Something, A Great Big World ft. Christina Aguilera – WINNER
Fancy, Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX
A Sky Full of Stars, Coldplay
Bang Bang, Ariana Grande, Jessie J & Nicki Minaj
Dark Horse, Katy Perry ft. Juicy J

Best Rap Performance
 Kendrick Lamar – WINNER
3005, Childish Gambino
0 to 100/The Catch Up, Drake
Rap God, Eminem
All I Need Is You, Lecrae

Best Alternative Music Album
St. Vincent, St. Vincent – WINNER
This Is All Yours, alt-J
Reflektor, Arcade Fire
Melophobia, Cage the Elephant
Lazaretto, Jack White

Best Rock Album
Morning Phase, Beck – WINNER
Ryan Adams, Ryan Adams
Turn Blue, The Black Keys
Hypnotic Eye, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Songs of Innocence, U2

Best Rock Song
Ain’t It Fun, Paramore – WINNER
Blue Moon, Beck
Fever, The Black Keys
Gimme Something Good, Ryan Adams
Lazaretto, Jack White

Best Country Album
Platinum, Miranda Lambert – WINNER
Riser, Dierks Bentley
The Outsiders, Eric Church
The Way I’m Livin’, Lee Ann Womack
12 Stories, Brandy Clark

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
The Monster, Eminem ft. Rihanna – WINNER
Blak Majik, Common ft. Jhené Aiko
Tuesday, I Love Makonnen ft. Drake
Studio, ScHoolboy Q ft. BJ The Chicago Kid
Bound 2, Kanye West & Charlie Wilson

Best Rap Song
Kendrick Lamar – WINNER
Anaconda, Nicki Minaj
Bound 2, Kanye West & Charlie Wilson
We Dem Boyz, Wiz Khalifa
0 to 100/The Catch Up, Drake

Best Country Song
I’m Not Gonna Miss You, Glen Campbell – WINNER
American Kids, Kenny Chesney
Automatic, Miranda Lambert
Give Me Back My Hometown, Eric Church
Meanwhile Back at Mama’s, Tim McGraw ft. Faith Hill

Best Country Duo/Group Performance
Gentle On My Mind, The Band Perry – WINNER
Somethin’ Bad, Miranda Lambert with Carrie Underwood
Day Drinking, Little Big Town
Meanwhile Back At Mama’s, Tim McGraw ft. Faith Hill
Raise ‘Em Up, Keith Urban ft. Eric Church

Best Country Solo Performance
Something In the Water, Carrie Underwood – WINNER
Give Me Me Back My Hometown, Eric Church
Invisible, Hunter Hayes
Automatic, Miranda Lambert
Cop Car, Keith Urban

Best Pop Vocal Album
In the Lonely Hour, Sam Smith – WINNER
Ghost Stories, Coldplay
Bangerz, Miley Cyrus
My Everything, Ariana Grande
Prism, Katy Perry
x, Ed Sheeran

Best Urban Contemporary Album
G I R L, Pharrell Williams – WINNER
Sail Out, Jhene Aiko
Beyonce, Beyonce
X, Chris Brown
Mali Is, Mali Music

Best Dance/Electronic Album
Syro, Aphex Twin – WINNER
While (1, Deadmaus
Nabuma Rubberband, Little Dragon
Do It Again, Röyksopp & Robyn
Damage Control, Mat Zo

Best Pop Solo Performance
Happy, Pharrell Williams – WINNER
All of Me, John Legend
Chandelier, Sia
Stay With Me, Sam Smith
Shake It Off, Taylor Swift

Best Reggae Album
Ziggy Marley, Fly Rasta – WINNER
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Back on the Controls
Sean Paul, Full Frequency
Shaggy, Out of Many, One Music
Sly & Robbie & Spicy Chocolate, The Reggae Power
Soja, Amid the Noise and the Haste

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Cheek to Cheek, Lady Gaga & Tony Bennett – WINNER
Sending You a Little Christmas, Johnny Mathis
Nostalgia, Annie Lennox
Partners, Barbra Streisand
Night Songs, Barry Manilow

Best Americana Album
The River & The Thread, Rosanne Cash – WINNER
Terms of My Surrener, John Hiatt
Bluesamericana, Keb’ Mo’
A Dotted Line, Nickel Creek
Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, Sturgill Simpson

Best Spoken Word Album
Diary of a Mad Diva, Joan Rivers – WINNER
Actors Anonymous, James Franco
A Call to Action, Jimmy Carter
Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America, John Waters
A Fighting Chance, Elizabeth Warren
We Will Survive: True Stories of Encouragement, Inspiration and the Power of Song, Gloria Gaynor

Best Gospel Album
Help, Erica Campbell – WINNER
Amazing, Ricky Dillard & New G
Withholding Nothing: Live, William McDowell
Forever Yours, Smokie Norful
Vintage Worship, Anita Wilson

Best Rock Performance
Lazaretto, Jack White – WINNER
Gimme Something Good, Ryan Adams
Do I Wanna Know?, Arctic Monkeys
Blue Moon, Beck
Fever, The Black Keys

Best Metal Performance
The Last In Line, Tenacious D – WINNER
Neon Knights, Anthrax
High Road, Mastodon
Heartbreaker, Motörhead
The Negative One, Slipknot

Best R&B Performance
Drunk In Love, Beyoncé ft. Jay Z – WINNER
New Flame, Chris Brown ft. Usher & Rick Ross
It’s Your World, Jennifer Hudson ft. R. Kelly
Like This, Ledisi
Good Kisser, Usher

Best R&B Song
Drunk In Love, Beyonce ft. Jay Z – WINNER
Good Kisser, Usher
New Flame, Chris Brown ft. Usher & Rick Ross
Options (Wolfjames Version), Luke James ft. Rick Ross
The Worst, Jhené Aiko

Best R&B Album
Love, Marriage & Divorce, Toni Braxton & Babyface -WINNER
Islander, Bernhoft
Lift Your Spirit, Aloe Blacc
Black Radio 2, Robert Glasper Experiment
Give The People What They Want, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings

Best Dance Recording
Rather Be, Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne – WINNER
Never Say Never, Basement Jaxx
F for You, Disclosure ft. Mary J. Blige
I Got U, Duke Dumont ft. Jax Jones
Faded, Zhu

Best Latin Pop Album
Tangos, Ruben Blades – WINNER
Elypse, Camila
Raiz, Lila Downs, Niña Pastori & Soledad Pastorutti
Loco de Amor, Juanes
Gracias Por Estar Aqui, Marco Antonio Solis

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media
Frozen – WINNER
Guardians of the Galaxy
American Hustle
Get On Up: The James Brown Story
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Music Video
Happy, Pharrell Williams – WINNER
We Exist, Arcade Fire
Turn Down for What, DJ Snake & Lil Jon
Chandelier, Sia
The Golden Age, Woodkid ft. Max Richter

Best Music Film
20 Feet From Stardom, Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer & Judith Hill – WINNER
Beyoncé & Jay Z: On The Run Tour, Beyoncé & Jay Z
Ghost Stories, Coldplay
Metallica: Through The Never, Metallica
The Truth About Love Tour: Live From Melbourne, Pink.

Davido Spotted Taking Photos With Billionare And Oil Mugul Femi Otedola:

EFCC Arrest Son Of Former Adamawa State Gov, N15b Allegedly Found In His Company Accounts:

Two weeks after he and his father, former Adamawa state governor, Murtala Nyako were declared wanted by the EFCC for financial impropriety while in government, the operatives of the EFCC this morning arrested Abdul-Aziz Nyako, the son of Gov Nyako in Gombe state. His arrest comes after N15 billion meant for the state was found in accounts of 5 companies owned by him.

Read the EFCC press statement on his arrest below after the cut...


Barely two weeks after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, declared former Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako and his son, Abdul-Aziz, wanted, operatives of the anti- graft agency, this morning arrested the younger Nyako in Gombe, Gombe State. He was immediately flown to Abuja where he is currently being grilled by a crack team of detectives who had been working on the Adamawa investigation for several months.

Abdul-Aziz, who was declared wanted by the EFCC in the case of stealing, abuse of office and money laundering, is currently telling investigators all he knows about illicit funds traced to companies where he has interest.

Specifically, he will have to explain how over N15billion funds belonging to Adamawa State was laundered into the accounts of five companies owned by him-  Blue Opal Nigeria limited, Crust Energy Nigeria Limited, Blue Ribbon Multilinks Limited, Tower Assets Management Limited and Blue Ribbon Bureau De Change.

The funds was funned into the accounts of the companies from Adamawa State accounts domiciled in a new generation bank by the account officer who incidentally is the manager and an in-law to ex-governor Nyako.

The manager claimed he transferred the funds through verbal instruction from the former governor  for purposes which are not stated.

Investigations revealed that from 2007 to 2011 within Nyako’s tenure in office, before he was impeached in 2014, he had directed that all of the state owned accounts domiciled in various banks be transferred to the new generation bank .

Abdul-Aziz’s company, Blue Opal, is said to own, among other investments in Nigeria, an estate  in Abuja, while his father’s account officer owns several properties and investments scattered around Abuja, Yola and Kano.
Former governor Nyako is still on the run.
Wilson Uwujaren
Head, Media & Publicity
13th February, 2015

Kendall Jenner Stuns In New Shoot For Allure Magazine: PHOTOS

 

TY Bello Speaks On Waiting For 9yrs To Have A Child, Her Struggle With Endometriosis, IVF & Motherhood Experience 

 

Celebrity photographer and singer, TY Bello who welcomed a set of twin boys in October 2014 after waiting for 9 years, recently sat down with Genevieve mag where she opened up about her struggles with Endometriosis, dealing with pressures from friends and family to get pregnant, the rumors that she didn't carry her pregnancy herself and the birth of her twin babies.

TY, who revealed she went through IVF to conceive her boys, said the journey to pregnancy was a very intense one for her. Read...

"My journey to pregnancy was a very intense one. I had just been through the toughest nine years of trying to get pregnant, being confident that it would be a breeze since I had always known that I would make a great mother. It was quite humbling when it didn't happen as I had envisioned it. It was grueling actually" she said

TY says she had always joked about having twin boys to make up for the lost time of motherhood and that she never knew God was listening to her. 

"At first we didn't know I was carrying twins. When I was going for my test, I didn't feel pregnant. Before I went, I heard in my spirit, 'Wear something nice'. I questioned the voice and wondered if it was nice to dress so nicely and get disappointed, setting myself for a heartbreak. In the end, I obeyed. I decided in my mind that whether I was pregnant or not, I was not going to stop believing. My doctor was very dramatic about the announcement too. She screamed so much we couldn't even decipher her words. I had a delayed reaction as her words wouldn't sink in. It was overwhelming, We were truly happy and couldn't stop crying. I  remember two people, Pastors Obi Pax Harry and Angela Ashong telling me matter-of-factly that I was going to have twins. It happened to the detail. My friends know how I have always made it a joke about having twin boys to make up for lost time. I wanted boys because I joked that I was an eternal fourteen year old lanky boy myself and so we would all get along. I can't believe God was listening. It was few months before we could confirm that we were having boys"

TY says she discovered that a long standing undiagnosed battle with Endometriosis was responsible for her delay in pregnancy

"In perfect timing though, two older friends of mine, Dr Odaga and Mrs Morin Desalu came into our lives and helped us be more proactive in our journey to becoming parents. What started with dark clouds took a turn. For instance when Aunty Morin whisked my husband and I to see her doctor at George's hospital. We discovered that a long standing yet undiagnosed battle with Endometriosis was responsible and I just assumed I had the worst period pains. Shortly after that, through Dupe Kupoluyi, we met a fantastic doctor named Yemisi Bero at the Arc Clinic who became our fertility doctor. I went through my IVF cycle with her, probably in the middle of the busiest seasons in my career. I remember jabbing myself at airports sometimes just to keep with the schedule as I worked like crazy. Sometimes I think I stayed so ridiculously busy just to keep my mind off the difficult process. To the glory of God, that cycle was successful and everything inside of me screamed for me to slow downed but I didn't just know how. I decided to start a pregnancy journal and instinctively titled it "Quiet Streams" Immediately I knew then that everything was going to change and it did. It was like a switch was flipped and my body went rest mood"

Asked if there were pressures from family and friends during the wait for her babies, she said

"Oh you can't even begin to imagine. Society and even your personal fears can pressure you before a desire manifests. In our society, as with most, once you hit a four year mark after your wedding, everyone around you starts to blare their alarm. Nine years? Now that was deafening. Every time I prayed, I knew everything was going to be fine and my life was in the course set for me. The pressure gets more difficult when you are trying and it isn't happening. It was important I turn a deaf ear sometimes. It was important that I didn't feed my doubts. Someone once said to me after the babies came, "You can't call your experience waiting, you were living your life to the full before their arrival". I explained that that was exactly my waiting experience. I always say that Christ came to die that we may have life and have life abundantly and that I want to live life to the maximum. If you allow yourself to sustain a state of misery because you don't have something, whether marriage, children or a dream career, then you can't have a full life. It is in the place of living outside of the tyranny of the desire that it comes to you in its full glory. I knew for sure I was born to be a great mum. I just wasn't sure on how it would play out but I knew it would happen nonetheless"

On the lowest points during her journey, TY said

"There were some tough days especially towards the end when I battled with thoughts that God had given me everything else I asked him for and that maybe this was the one thing I would have to let go of. I however knew deep down that this was untrue. I concluded that our desire for parenthood was persistent only because it was a prayer answered. Faith opened me up to the reality that God would answer me and I didn't need to hand-twist  him as to how. This was what helped open my heart to an IVF process in the first place "

On whether she ever considered adoption or surrogacy, she said

"We put every option on the table. It helped that we had so many friends who had gone through the different paths to parenthood. Ironically while trying, I had photographed a family that had tried for over a decade and had just welcomed a bay via a surrogate mother. I have done countless baby shoots before and I saw no difference between theirs and others. It was really comforting when I observed the bond was exactly the same across board. I also have friends that adopted children and they are not in anyway less happy. Motherhood is truly spiritual. I think considering other options isn't giving up but letting go. It's in this place that Miracles happen".

On the effect of the illness, Endometriosis during her pregnancy, she said;

"Endometriosis can make conception more tricky and difficult but I and countless other women stand as testament that it doesn't make it impossible. But at the end of the day, people react differently so its difficult to generalize. For me once my pregnancy progressed, it seized to be a major concern"

Addressing rumors that she did not carry her boys herself, that she engaged the services of a surrogate, TY said

"Funny enough I had a shoot during my pregnancy and the makeup artist who did my makeup during my maternity shoot was in a room where this was being thrown around and she couldn't stop laughing as she spent enough time with me when I was pregnant. I was blessed to have Kelechi Amadi-Obi make the photographs and it was special as he had photographed our wedding as well. Its beautiful to have your bump photographed in appreciation but not necessarily as evidence of your being with a child. There are women who would become mothers via adoption or surrogacy. The difference is insignificant. We all carry our children"

Her advice to women who are waiting for a child, TY said;

"Waiting of any kind can be very troubling. You can't imagine what a waiting woman goes through. I have sooken to may women and they described the process as getting an endless cycle of hope and disappointment. That is what breaks the spirit coupled with the stigma, especially in this part of the world. My advice is to never let go of the desire to be parents as God himself put it there. Celebrate the fact that you are alive and never take it for granted. Give yourself permission to experience joy, to dream and fulfill purpose as you wait. It adds value to the type of parent you become. It is always worth it in the end".

 Hmm that's it for this post o...i don try na abi?

Don't forget.... JESUS rules.

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