President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Aminu Maigari has been impeached by members of the executive committee of the football federation for “financial misappropriation, misapplication and maladministration.”.
This is coming few days after the administrator resumed his office following FIFA intervention in Nigeria soccer-related activities. The impeachment notice was signed by 8 out of 13 members of the committee.
An Air Algerie flight with 116 people on board which has been missing for few hours now has crashed in after flying through violent storms. It was reportedly found near Niamey, the capital of Niger. The Flight 5017 lost radar contact 50 minutes after takeoff from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. It was supposed to have landed at Algiers’ Houari Boumediene Airport a few hours later.
A statement from Swiftair reads: “Swiftair informs that an MD83 of this company, operated by Air Algerie, took off from Burkina Faso at 0117 Z for Algiers and expected arrival time 0510 Z but has not reached its destination. Until now there has been no contact with the aircraft.
“At this moment, emergency equipment and personnel of the company are working to find out what happened and as we get more details about what happened we will issue new releases.”
Two surgeons and two assistants on Monday, July 21, 2014 successfully extracted 273 teeth from 17 year-old, Ashik Gavai’s mouth. The operation lasted for 7 hours.
According to the doctor in charge, Dr Dhiware, Ashik’s condition which was described as “rare” and a “world record” was a complex composite odontoma where a single gum forms lots of teeth. It’s a sort of benign tumour.
His jaw had been swollen for 1 year and 6 months. His father who thought it was cancer brought him to the dental section of Mumbai’s JJ Hospital. After his operation, Ashik was left with 28 teeth.
Speaking further on the case, Dr Dhiware said, “At first, we couldn’t cut it out so we had to use the basic chisel and hammer to take it out. Once we opened it, little pearl-like teeth started coming out, one-by-one. Initially, we were collecting them, they were really like small white pearls. But then we started to get tired. We counted 232 teeth.
According to medical literature available on the condition, it is known to affect the upper jaw and a maximum of 37 teeth have been extracted from the tumour in the past. But in Ashik’s case, the tumour was found deep in the lower jaw and it had hundreds of teeth.”
Who knew respected writer, Chimamanda Adichie has been keeping a natural hair? That’s some real hardwork there. These beautiful shots were taken by top photographer, Lakin Ogunbawo for Riposte magazine; a smart magazine for women. The award-winning author was interviewed/featured in the new issue of the magazine.
Photo-credit: Lakin Ogunbawo
More celebrities seem to be taking a cool walk into politics. Actor cum director, Desmond Elliot is one of them. Even though he doesn’t look like someone who would give politics a thought. Anyways, here are his reasons.
“The current situation is very pathetic. I feel God has helped me thus far and I want to give back through politics that will be favourable to the youths. The worst part of our national life is that the level of corruption has not allowed youths to understand what it means to live a meaningful life . Just because of lack of knowledge of what to do, we are being sidetracked. There are no jobs, and issues like these lead to frustration. A whole lot needs to be done on agriculture, every state in Nigeria needs to see how it can contribute to nation building. There’s a lot that needs to be done.”
Chelsea FC has unveiled it’s 3rd kit for the 2014/2015 season. The first and second kits are blue and yellow respectively. This new sky blue and black kit will soon be available for fans to buy.
It’s the season of weddings. Nigerian music legend, Sunday Adeniyi, popularly called King Sunny Ade recently gave one of his beautiful daughters out in marriage. The ceremony was held recently in Ondo.
Actress/movie producer, Doris Simeon released these gorgeous photos to mark her birthday. The mother of one was a year older yesterday.
“A brand new me has been born as I celebrate my birthday today and like it is written in the holy book, old things have passed away as new things are just by the corner”. She added.
Remember the Hollywood movie, “Boonsville Redemtion”, actress Stephanie Okereke-Linus featured in? These are behind-the-scene photos from the movie which was shot in Los Angeles.
She’s playing the role of Doris, a lady from the second generation of slave trade in America whose parents came from Nigeria. Doris is no longer a slave and she lives with her Uncle in this community where people are not judged by their race or colour. She is a strong compassionate woman who forms a bond with a young girl, Melinda, who grew up not knowing her father. Doris plays the role of convincing her Uncle to reveal the truth to this young girl about her father’s whereabouts. She also helps take care of Miss Mary, Melinda’s grandmother when she was ill and sheltered a young boy who had no place to stay.