Nneoma Anosike Wins Elite Model Look Nigeria 2013!

18-year-old Nneoma Anosike has won the 6th edition of Elite Model Look Nigeria. After a rigorous screening of about 1853 aspiring models across the country, Nneoma made the top 14 girls picked to battle their way in attaining a supermodel status.

At the grand finale held yesterday at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nneoma beat the 14 finalists to win the Elite Model Look Nigeria 2013! As the winner, Nneoma will join finalists from over 80 countries in the world finale in China on November 27, 2013.

Congrats girl

Fashola Unveils West Africa’s Tallest Hotel In Lagos

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos unveiled the tallest hotel in West Africa, Intercontinental Lagos, built at a cost of N30 billion. The hotel located at Kofo Abayomi Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria is a 23-storey building containing 358 rooms and 37 suites and a Presidential suite. The Intercontinental Lagos, a subsidiary of the Intercontinental Hotel Group, IHG, is owned by the Milan Group.

Unveiling the 5-star hotel, Fashola said the edifice would surely boost the hospitality and tourism industry in the state, while urging other entrepreneurs to look inward and invest their money in hotels and public utilities such as roads.

Fashola at the official opening of Intercontinental Hotel in Lagos. According to him, the unveiling of the hotel represented the increasing brands of hotels making Nigeria their choice destinations, saying that the tourism industry would be boosted by the new edifice.

Angry Arik Air Passengers Block Abuja Airport Runway (Photos)

Angry Arik Air passengers yesterday, Thursday evening caused confusion at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja after they disembarked from an Arik Air flight that was meant to take them to the Margaret Ekpo Airport, Calabar from Abuja.

The disgruntled passengers practically held passengers on other planes at the airport hostages as they blocked the runway of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, preventing planes from taking-off or landing.

According to reports, the angry passengers' flight that had the Cross River State Governor, Liyel Imoke, on board, was denied landing at the Calabar airport at about 5.30pm by the station manager due to safety concerns.

Genevieve Nnaji Signs Autograph at the Half A Yellow Sun movie premiere!

Nice one Genny. She really is a world class star!

56 years old Catholic Priest Arrested For Allegedly Molesting A 15-year-old Boy

A 56-year-old Catholic priest in Pennsylvania has been charged with molesting a 15-year-old boy after cops say he was caught in the act. Rev. Fr. W. Jeffrey Paulish was found with the boy -- who was wearing no pants in a car on the Penn State University campus last Thursday.

Initially, Fr. Paulish told police he was walking around the campus working on his homily and met the boy by chance. That the boy was in emotional distress and needed counseling which he was offering the boy, only to later admit that he had placed an advertisement on the "casual encounters" section of Craigslist website  and the two agreed to meet.  He also admitted to looking at male pornography.

(Photos) Transgender German man becomes first in Europe to have a baby!

A transgender man is the first in Europe to give birth to a baby after becoming pregnant through a sperm donor. The unidentified man, who was born a woman, delivered the baby boy at home with a midwife in the poor Neukoellin district of Berlin.

He insisted on a home birth because he refused to be listed as the mother on any hospital documents - a legal requirement of in Germany. The father, who maintained the reproductive organs of a woman, has been taking hormone replacement therapies for years to switch sexes.

Details about the sperm donor or any relationship information has been withheld from the public as the father wanted to protect his son from any attention. Officially the child, who was born on March 18, does not have a mother, only a father.

Fani-kayode Withdraws Comments On Bianca Ojukwu

A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has withdrawn the statement credited to him that he had an intimate relationship with the wife of the late Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and Nigeria’s Ambassador to Spain, Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu.

Fani-Kayode, also a former Minister of Culture, in a statement by his lawyer, Mr. Akinola Babatunde Rotimi, however, said the claim by Bianca that they were not friends and had never met was ‘patently false'.

The former minister, who was also a spokesman of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, insisted that he knew Bianca in the early mid-80s when he was a student at the London and Cambridge Universities respectively.

He noted that they were good friends at the time and had a few mutual friends who are still alive till date. The statement stated that though he had not seen Bianca for over 25 years, he spoke to her on the phone when her husband passed on last year.