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Read Arsene Wenger's letter to two Arsenal fans who got married.

They asked for it and they got it! Shannon and James, two die-hard Arsenal fans who tied the knot two weeks ago wrote Arsene Wenger (well, the wife did) to wish them a happy wedding. And he agreed. Above is a copy of the letter he sent to the couple.

Dear Shannon&James,

On behalf of all the players and staff here at Arsenal, may I take this opportunity to send you our congratulations and very good wishes on the occasion of your wedding day. We are very grateful for your loyal support of the club James and trust that you have now found your “perfect match”! Enjoy this Special day, we wish you both good health and every happiness in your future life together.

Yours Sincerely,

Arsene Wenger

MANAGER.

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2014 World Cup Schedule

64 matches, 32 Countries,  12 Venues, 1 Cup. The 2014 World Cup is finallyyyyy here. Wishing all the teams a fantastic outing. The host- Brazil will clash with Croatia today. Here’s a special shout-out to African Champions- The Super Eagles Of Nigeria. Go guys! It’s in you. Soar like the Eagles you’ve always been. Meanwhile below is a list of the fixtures for the tournament. 
FIXTURES
GROUP A:
12/06/2014 Brazil v Croatia (11:00 PM)
13/06/2014 Mexico v Cameroon (7:00 PM)
GROUP B:
13/06/2014 Spain v Netherland (10:00 PM)
14/06/2014 Chile v Australia (1:00 AM)
GROUP C:
14/06/2014 Colombia v Greece (7:00 PM)
GROUP D:
14/06/2014 Uruguay v Costa Rica (10:00 PM)
15/06/2014 England v Italy (1:00AM)
GROUP E:
15/06/2014 Switzerland v Ecuador (7:00 PM)
15/06/2014 France v Honduras (10:00 PM)
GROUP F:
16/06/2014 Argentina v Bosnia (1:00 AM)
GROUP G:
16/06/2014 Germany v Portugal (7:00 PM)
GROUP F:
16/06/2014 Iran v Nigeria (10:00PM)
GROUP G:
17/06/2014 Ghana v USA (1:00AM)
GROUP H:
17/06/2014 Belgium v Algeria (7.00pm)
GROUP A:
17/06/2014 Brazil v Mexico (10:00 PM)
GROUP H:
18/06/2014 Russia v South Korea (1:00 AM)
GROUP B:
18/06/2014 Australia v Netherlands (7:00 PM)
18/06/2014 Spain v Chile (10:00PM)
GROUP A:
19/06/2014 Cameroon v Croatia (1:00 AM)
GROUP C:
19/06/2014 Colombia v Ivory Coast (7:00 PM)
GROUP D:
19/06/2014 Uruguay v England (10:00 PM)
GROUP C:
20/06/2014 Japan v Greece (1:00 AM)
GROUP D:
20/06/2014 Italy v Costa Rica (7:00 PM)
GROUP E:
20/06/2014 Switzerland v France (10:00 PM)
21/06/2014 Honduras v Ecuador (1:00 AM)
GROUP F:
21/06/2014 Argentina v Iran (7:00 PM)
GROUP G:
21/06/2014 Germany v Ghana (10:00 PM)
GROUP F:
22/06/2014 Nigeria v Bosnia (1:00 AM)
GROUP H:
22/06/2014 Belgium v Russia (7:00 PM)
22/06/2014 South Korea v Algeria (10:00 PM)
GROUP G:
23/06/2014 USA v Portugal (1:00 AM)
GROUP B:
23/06/2014 Netherlands v Chile (7:00 PM)
23/06/2014 Australia v Spain (7:00 PM)
GROUP A:
23/06/2014 Cameroon v Brazil (11:00 PM)
23/06/2014 Croatia v Mexico (11:00 PM)
GROUP D:
24/06/2014 Italy v Uruguay (7:00 PM)
24/06/2014 Costa Rica v England (7:00 PM)

GROUP C:
24/06/2014 Japan v Colombia (11:00 PM)
24/06/2014 Greece v Ivory Coast (11:00 PM)
GROUP F:
25/06/2014 Nigeria v Argentina (7:00 PM)
25/06/2014 Bosnia v Iran (7:00 PM)
GROUP E:
25/06/2014 Honduras v Switzerland (11:00 PM)
25/06/2014 Ecuador v France (11:00 PM)
GROUP G:
26/06/2014 Portugal v Ghana (7:00 PM)
26/06/2014 USA v Germany (7:00PM)
GROUP H:
26/06/2014 South Korea v Belgium (11:00 PM)
26/06/2014 Algeria v Russia (11:00 PM)
ROUND OF 16:
1. 28/06/2014 Winner Group A v Second Group B (7:00PM)
2. 28/06/2014 Winner Group C v Second Group D (11:00 PM)
3. 29/06/2014 Winner Group B v Second Group A (7:00PM)
4. 29/06/2014 Winner Group D v Second Group C (11:00PM)
5. 30/06/2014 Winner Group E v Second Group F (7:00PM)
6. 30/06/2014 Winner Group G v Second Group H (11:00PM)
7. 01/07/2014 Winner Group F v Second Group E (7:00PM)
8. 01/07/2014 Winner Group H v Second Group G (11.00pm)

QUARTER FINAL
04/07/2014 Quarter-Finalist 5 v Quarter-Finalist 6 (7:00 PM) (1)
Quarter-Finalist 1vs Quarter-Finalist 2 (11:00 PM) (2) 11.00pm)
05/07/2014 Quarter-Finalist 7 v Quarter-Finalist 8 (7:00 PM) (3)
Quarter-Finalist 3 v Quarter-Finalist 4 (11:00PM) (4) 11.00pm

SEMI-FINAL:
08/07/2014 Winner Quarter-Final 1 v Winner Quarter-Final 2 (11:00PM)
09/07/2014 Winner Quarter-Final 3 v Winner Quarter-Final 4 (11:00PM)

THIRDPLACE PLAY-OFFS:
12/07/2014 Semi-Final 1 Loser v Semi-Final 2 Loser (11:00PM)

FINAL:
Semi-Final 1 Winner v Semi-Final 2 Winner (10:00PM)
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" I am thankful for the gift you were to me " Read Amaka Igwe’s husband tribute to her

Charles Igwe, the husband of the late movie icon, Amaka Igwe has penned a tribute to her. The established filmmaker would be buried on Friday, 13th June in Imo. A Service of Songs was held for her on Monday, June 9th, 2014 at The Haven Events Centre at GRA Ikeja, Lagos.

“Thank you for the memories… for the joy… for the grace evident in you… the passion for God, for truth, for life, for doing right, for loving, for creating, for giving, for caring, for family, for making memories… and you did make memories, for me, for how children, for family, for the nation, for the world.

I am thankful for the time we had together… and for the gift you were to me and to this world… I am grateful to God for sharing in this world with you… I do know you have peace now, free from the labours of our world, present in the light and majesty of our Lord, for whom you lived and in whom you moved, and had your being.

I will see you again…

We will see you again…

This is to say… I miss you,…our children…they miss you…

We wish we had more time with you…

However,.. I say thank you

My life with you… was An Amazing Life..

Till we meet again…
Charles
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19-year-old Nigerian becomes youngest councillor in the UK

19-year-old Aisha Eniola, a Nigerian and daughter of a former Welsh Harp Councillor, Francis Eniola has become the youngest councillor in the UK. The final year student of Mass Communication has been elected into the Brent Council in London. Now, that’s some piece of greatness.
Eniola, who represents the Harlesden Ward and labour party garnered a total of 2,160 votes. Her counterparts, Simon Erskine of the Green Party and Paul Fowler, of the Liberal Democrat got 313 and 459 votes respectively. She also wowed moderators and guests during the pre-election debates.
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That funny moment Welsh footballer, Robbie Savage finds out he took his wife's passport for flight to Brazil

Now that’s really funny! And he says his wife should get a haircut, No, he should.lol. 39 year-old Welsh footballer, Robbie Savage almost missed his flight to Brazil after he found at the Heathrow airport that he took his wife’s passport by mistake. Now imagine you’re in Robbie’s shoes, your house is like an hour or two away from the airport and you have a flight to catch in 3mins. And then that happens. Whew!
“Wow thank you @britishairways great staff for rushing me through as I turned up with my wife’s passport just got mine in nick of time. “2nd time it’s happened I’m going to have to tell my wife to get her haircut. Nearly passed for her to be fair ! pic.twitter.com/a3a9qOvTIP” he wrote on his twitter account.
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Photos: Super Eagles touch down Brazil

Our dear Super Eagles have arrived Brazil and are warming up for a spectacular World Cup event. Like I reported earlier, they would be lodging at the Vitoria Hotel Concept Campinas, a 19-floor edifice with 253 rooms which also boasts of a spa, a hydrotherapy room, a swimming pool, a heliport, fully fitted gym, four restaurants, shopping centres, bakeries to mention a few.
They will also be training at the 40,988 capacity Estadio Brinco de Ouro de Princesa stadium located in the heart of the city of Campinas. Nigeria’s first match is against Iran on Monday, 16th June, 2014.
Soar high Eagles!!!
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Amaka Igwe: Friends, colleagues, Nollywood attend Service of Songs

The Service of Songs for the late movie veteran, Amaka Igwe, who passed away on the 29th of April 2014 was held on June 9th, 2014 at The Haven Events Centre at GRA Ikeja, Lagos.
Roll call of celebrities who came to pay tribute to the Nollywood icon include family, friends, Nollywood practitioners; Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Richard Mofe-Damijo, Bukky Ajayi, Wunmi Obe, Olu Jacobs, Kunle Bantefa, Ngozi Nwosu, Seyi Shodimu, Keppy Ekpeyong, Bimbo Akintola, Nobert and Gloria Young, Patrick and Ireti Doyle, Tony Umez, Kanayo .O. Kanayo, Ego Boyo, Ali Baba, Teju Babyface to mention a few.
Amaka will be committed to mother earth on Friday, June 13th, 2014 at Ndiuche Arondizuogu in Imo State.
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Opinion: Why Nigerian women will NEVER stop bleaching. | By: 'Jola Sotubo

The Nigerian obsession with light skin has been well documented and it is common now to see women with different tinges of black, pink and green marking their skin, all telltale signs of lightening attempts.
Everyone claims not to understand the trend; “Love your skin”, “Be proud of your colour” are the messages people scream aloud but a subtle yet much clearer voice is heard saying “Lighter is better”.
When Dencia’s product “Whitenicious” was released, I was sufficiently outraged, like many other people were. I joined conversations about how she wasn’t proud of her skin and was intent on taking advantage of those who were like her. But then my mind, unforgetful sponge that it is, cast me back to a time when I was not so different from Dencia and her “kind”. As a teenager, I hated myself, plain and simple. The only thing I thought God had gotten right about me was my brain.
For everything else I faulted him; my eyes were too small, my nose shaped like shorts, my hips too big and my skin? Gosh how I hated it. I would daydream for hours about the kind of life I would’ve had if I had been mixed race. I’d concoct an entire family line where my father was American and my mother Costa Rican or she could be Indian and he a mixed race Yoruba man. I even got myself a name to fit the part; Natasha. I loved the sound of it. For some reason I felt that lighter skinned girls had the best of everything and it certainly seemed so a lot of the time.
Maybe if I was like them, then the boys would look at me in adoration. Maybe if my skin looked like warm chocolate milk, my boyfriend wouldn’t have cheated on me with Nadia, the half-German girl. Maybe, the guy I liked wouldn’t have chosen Mary the Asian instead of me. Maybe, just maybe.The world constantly chooses light coloured women over dark ones. It’s there in the modelling industry, it’s there in music videos, i t’s there in Hollywood. There are those dark skinned women who stand their ground and pull through, but they are the exception rather than the rule.
I managed to conquer my self-esteem issues before they did any real damage, but the main reason why I never bleached my skin, and never will, is because I’ve seen the after effects, and they’re not pretty. I resisted bleaching not because I didn’t want lighter skin, but because I didn’t want to ruin the skin I already had and because I didn’t want to face the health risks that could arise from having bleached skin. This means that the only thing that differentiates me from the “bleachers”, is a little more foresight.
The truth is that life is hard on dark skinned women and not everyone can deal with the discrimination that comes from being several tones away from what’s widely acceptable. The reason why Nigerian, and indeed African, women will never stop bleaching, is that there’s too much pressure to do it and there’s too much to gain from being lighter skinned. Everyone wants to be appreciated and valued and so that dark girl will lighten her skin just to attract that “fine boy” or to get that ushering job, or to secure herself at the top of a career that focuses solely on beauty. Insecurity is rampant and it is very expensive to maintain.
There are those women who love their skin and would never bleach and there are those who will continue to put money in Dencia’s pockets. The skin bleaching industry will continue to grow and people will continue to find better and better ways to do it until the results are almost seamless. The world can stop this, of course, by taking its focus off beauty and physical appearances and starting to look at what a woman possesses on the inside. However, we all know that this will never happen. So, let the bleaching continue.
Credit: ynaija.com
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