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It is a moment of celebration for jANIFA Funke Akindele Bello and her husband Abdulrasheed Bello aka Jjc Skillz.  Funke Akindele and Abdul Rasheed-Bello aka JJC Skillz are celebrating their first wedding anniversary today, 23rd August. They got married last year in London have released their wedding photos to mark their 1st anniversary.  See the sweet messages they wrote themselves on Instagram and more photos below..... JJC Skillz wrote;  “ One of the happiest days in my life ,I married my beautiful wife @funkejenifaakindele one year ago today. In a blink of an eye, 365 days flew by. May all the days of our lives be happy and filled with adventure. Love you my queen #marryyourbestfriend #oneyearanniversary’ Funke wrote; “It’s been you oh Lord!! Thank God for another year together! Happy Anniversary to us boo. You are the best Bola! @jjcskillz #happyweddinganniversary #allglorytoGod. Photo credit: Neeceebossladyblog HWA  JANIFA

WAYNE   ROONEY has announced his retirement from international football with immediate effect, ending his reign as ENGLAND captain after holding talks with manager Gareth Southgate.  The 31-year-old player  joined EVETON from  Manchester United  in the summer after 13 years at Old Trafford, was dropped from Southgate's latest squad for the summer fixtures against Scotland and France in June. His good start to life back at Goodison Park, where he made his professional debut as a fresh-faced 16-year-old in 2002, triggered suggestions that he would be in line for a recall to the England squad with Southgate naming his team for next month's 2018 World Cup qualifiers against Malta and Slovakia. The forward scored in both the 1-0 victory over Stoke City and the 1-1 draw with Manchester City, but has decided the time is right to end his international career 14 years after making his England debut.

YUL EDOCHIE has picked his expression of interest and nomination forms to contest for the November 18, 2017, governorship election in ANAMBRA STATE, under the platform of the Democratic Peoples’ Congress (DPC). Yul, son of veteran thespian, Pete Edochie, stormed the national office of the Party with his army of supporters in Abuja, at about 3:58pm to formally join the race. According to the actor turned politician:  I am joining the race to harness the creative potentials of the youths and the resource-endowment of Anambra to move the state to the next level of development, reduce poverty rate through wealth ‎and job creation, provide infrastructure and develop critical sectors in the state. These would occupy my governance model if elected to govern the state for the next four years.” Confident of his chances, Edochie noted that he was neither scared nor intimidated by the crop of tested politicians  in the race to govern Anambra State, stressing that h

OTUNBA SEGUN ADEWALE, popularly known as AEROLAND, is a Nigerian philanthropist,entrepreneur turn businessman, politician and the Lagos West Senatorial Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)in the 2015 senatorial election and Past Chairman of Lagos state peoples democratic party Olabode Ibiyinka George ("Bode George") is a Nigerian politician who became Military Governor of Ondo State, and later Chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority, then national vice-chairman in the southwest zone of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) While the SHERRIFF faction was then under the leadership of OTUNBA SEGUN ADEWALE supported by the PDP governorship candidate,  Mr. JIMI AGBAJE, the Makarfi faction is still under the control of Mr. MOSHOOD SALVADOR with the support of former PDP Deputy Chairman, Chief.BODE GEORGE Due to an appellate court decision that initially recognized Sheriff as the National Chairman, the LASIEC accepted the list of th

Entertainers are eyeing to be Governors, as some of them have shared their Governorship campaign banne r on social media. KINSLEY OKONKWO Kcee and YUL EDOCHIE gunning for the Anambra state governor’s seat this year. KCEE slogan aptly captured on his banner reads, ‘Peace and enjoyment for all According to YUL, he wants to save the youth from their suffering and fix the problems of the state. “It breaks my heart and these people don’t care. People are suffering. I want to fix the problems of the people. I want to give them the good life they deserve,” he said. The singer and the actor shared a poster on social media declaring their intentions to pilot the affairs of ANAMBRA STATE. 2017 AKAPAKO MASTER Terry G  as joined the trend of musician wanting to contest for governor.Terry G is not only running for governor but as deputy governor of Benue state.He wrote: MY PEOPLE, THE TIME IS NOW. POWER BELONGS TO THE YOUTHS, SAY NO TO OLD CARGOS… VOTE TERRY G FOR

Tottenham are close to an agreement with Paris St-Germain to sign defender Serge Aurier, 24, for £23m. Barcelona forward Lionel Messi, 30, had a role in preventing Liverpool playmaker Philippe Coutinho's move to the  Nou Camp as he did not want Ivan Rakitic, 29 or Sergi Roberto, 25, used as makeweights in any deal for the 25-year-old Brazilian.  Barcelona will make a fresh attempt to sign Coutinho when club officials at the Champions League and Europa League draws, along with their Liverpool counterparts, on Thursday.  Chelsea striker Diego Costa, 28, wants to move to Atletico Madrid - and has got the removal men in at his Surrey home. West Ham manager Slaven Bilic says he has enough central defenders, despite 29-year-old Winston Reid's injury,as the club edge closer to signing defensive midfielder William Carvalho, 25, from Sporting Lisbon. . Paris St-Germain are close to agreeing on a season-long loan deal for Monaco and Fr

A Nigerian, Emmanuel Oluwatosin Kazeem,  accused of obtaining more than 125,000 stolen taxpayer identities from across the United States has been convicted in federal court in Oregon.He was found guilty on 19 counts of mail and wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.A jury in Medford returned the verdicts Friday against Emmanuel Oluwatosin Kazeem, 34, who lived most recently in Bowie, Maryland. Prosecutors say Kazeem bought over 91,000 of the identities from a Vietnamese hacker who got into a database belonging to an Oregon company called CICS Employment Services. Most of the personal information belonged to people living in Oregon and Washington and were used to file fraudulent tax returns between 2012 and 2015.Over 2,800 fraudulent returns were linked to Kazeem with attempted refunds in excess of $26 million and actual losses to the federal government of nearly $7 million. IRS criminal investigators traced more than 2,000 wire tran

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday presided over a crucial meeting of the National Security Council. The meeting was attended by Nigeria’s military chiefs as well as the Inspector General of Police, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. The meeting is the first such meeting presided over by the president since he returned to the country on Saturday after 103 days in London for medical treatment.

The lawyer who successfully defended Michael Jackson against child molestation charges will represent Bill Cosby when he is retried on sex assault charges later this year, the comedian's spokesman says. Tom Mesereau, one of three lawyers named as forming Cosby's new legal team, is best known for helping to secure an acquittal for Jackson in the pop star's 2005 child molestation trial in California. Cosby, 80, was long beloved by US television audiences for his family-friendly style of comedy, before dozens of women came forward to accuse him of a series of sexual assaults dating back to the 1960s. He is due to be retried beginning on November 6 on charges of sexually assaulting Andrea Constand, a former administrator at his alma mater Temple University, at his Philadelphia-area home in 2004. Cosby denies wrongdoing, saying any sexual contact he may have had with his accusers was consensual. The jurors who heard Cosby's first trial in the Constand case were