Meet Lil Wayne's three sons...

Lil Wayne, 33, has four children with four different women. A girl, Reginae Carter, who is 18 and three boys. He flew all his sons to Miami to be with him this weekend. The biracial one is radio broadcaster Sarah Vivian's son, born in 2008. The boy in red is Lauren London's son, born in Sept. 2009 and his youngest son, Neal, in dreads, born a few weeks later on Nov. 30 by singer Nivea.

Nigerian-born lifestyle blogger Patricia Bright and husband welcome their first child

Patricia Bright and her husband welcomed their first child today. The UK based blogger is one of the most popular African vloggers on Youtube with nearly 800k subscribers. Photo of Patricia and her husband after the cut...

Senate ask Amaechi to resign or apologise to Nigerians over issues arising from the controversy surrounding Lagos-Calabar rail project

The Nigerian Senate has asked the Minister of Transport, Chibuike Amaechi, to resign his appointment as Minister or apologize to the Senate and Nigerians over the Lagos-Calabar rail project that has generated a lot controversies in the last 48 hours. Members of the National Assembly and the presidency have been at loggerheads after media reports alleged that the National Assembly members had removed the Lagos-Calabar rail project from the budget presented to it by President Buhari. 

The reports alleged that the National Assembly members diverted the money meant for the said project to the Lagos-Kano project, favoring the Northern region.  Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara and Chairman House Committee on Appropriation Abdulmumin Jibrin, via their twitter handles refuted the claims while the Chairman Senate Committee on Transport, Gbenga Ashafa, in a statement he released, said although the project was not included in the original budget forwarded to the National Assembly by Buhari, Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi approached his committee to include the said project. 

 

Read the senate's position on the matter below...

The Senate today (Monday, April 11) advised the Presidency to come clean with Nigerians on the 2016 Budget and stop engaging in surreptitious campaigns of calumny against the Senate in order to cover up its serial errors.

Reacting to claims in the media credited to the Executive arm of government on the 2016 budget, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, in a statement in Abuja, said the National Assembly had bent backwards to wring a coherent document out of the excessively flawed and chaotic versions of the budget proposal submitted to the National Assembly.

He said : "while the executive is mandated to prepare and lay before the National Assembly a proposed budget detailing projects to be executed, it should be made clear that the responsibility and power of appropriation lies with the National Assembly. If the presidency expects us to return the budget proposal to them without any adjustments, then some people must be living in a different era and probably have not come to terms with democracy."

"We make bold to say however, that the said Lagos-Calabar rail project was not included in the budget proposal presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari and we challenge anyone who has any evidence to the contrary to present such to Nigerians."

Since the beginning of the 2016 budget process, it is clear that the National Assembly has suffered all manners of falsehood, deliberate distortion of facts, and outright blackmail, deliberately aimed at poisoning the minds of the people against the institution of the National Assembly. We have endured this with equanimity in the overall interest of Nigerians. Even when the original submission was surreptitiously swapped and we ended up having two versions of the budget, which was almost incomprehensible and heavily padded in a manner that betrays lack of coordination and gross incompetence, we refused to play to the gallery and instead helped the Executive to manage the hugely embarrassing situation it has brought upon itself; but enough is enough."

"This latest antics of this particular minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, is reckless, uncalled for and dangerously divisive. Apart from setting the people of the southern part of the country against their northern compatriots, it potentially sets the people against their lawmakers from the concerned constituencies and sets the lawmakers against themselves. This manner of reprehensible Mischief has no place in a democracy. We hereby demand from Mr. Amaechi a publicly tendered apology if he is not able to show evidence that the Lagos-Calabar road project was included in the budget. Otherwise, he should resign forthwith.

"Finally, by the provision of Section 81 (4) (a) and (b) of the constitution, the President is allowed to sign the budget and kick-start the implementation of the other areas that constitute over 90 percent of the budget where there is agreement between both arms, even as we engage ourselves to resolve the contentious areas, if there were any. We therefore maintain that even this contrived discrepancies are not sufficient excuse not to sign the budget into law."

"We therefore urge President Buhari to sign the 2016 budget without any further delay. For every additional day that the president withholds his assent from the bill, the hardship in the land, which is already becoming intolerable for the masses of our people gets even more complicated. Certainly, as primary representatives of the people we shall not vacate our responsibility and watch the people continue to suffer unduly."

Signed

Sen. Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi

Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs

FIFA writes letter to NFF, threatens to ban Nigeria if Amaju Pinnick is removed as NFF president

A high court sitting in Jos, Plateau State had on Friday, April 8, nullified the September 2014 election that put Amaju Pinnick in office as the NFF President following a petition by his opponent, Chris Giwa. But the world football governing body, FIFA has reacted to the Jos High Court ruling, saying it can't hold water on Nigeria Football Federation, NFF and any action to unseat Amaju Pinnick’s led board would attract a possible ban.

According to a letter by FIFA dated April 11, 2016, if the decision of the federal high court in Jos last week is carried out, it would be considered as an interference in the internal affairs of the NFF.

FIFA wrote in a letter addressed to Amaju Pinnick, the embattled NFF boss on Monday that Article 13 and 17 of FIFA are clear that there should not be interference whatsoever with the running of football in the country.

“All members associations have to manage their affairs independently and with no influence from a third party. The decision of the Federal High Court in Jos if implemented would amount to interference and the case would be brought to the highest authority of the FIFA for consideration for sanctions, including the suspension of NFF,” FIFA’s acting Secretary General, Markus Kathner wrote.

FIFA emphasised that Chris Giwa has taken his case as far the Arbitration of Sports, CAS, which he lost.

 

See the official document of the letter sent by FIFA to the NFF

The Royals, Kate & William go bare feet at the Ganghi Musuem (photos)

The Duke and Duchess, who are on a 7-day official visit to India and Bhutan removed their shoes during a visit to the Gandhi Smiriti museum today. See the photos after the cut...

Police today took over the headquarters of the NFF (photos)

As the crisis in the Nigeria Football Federation continues, the Nigerian Police earlier today took over the football governing body headquarters in Abuja. Continue to see more photos...

 

Rob Kardashian reveals that Blac Chyna was his motivation to lose weight, shares old photo

After falling into depression, gaining serious weight and hiding away from everyone, Rob K has finally got his groove back or better yet, is on the right path to happiness. The Reality TV star reveals that his fiancee - Angela 'Blac Chyna' is responsible for his weight loss. 

Blac Chyna had taken up responsibility of being his personal trainer and the results are coming in. Taking to IG, he wrote, 'Looking from where I started 298lbs  to my current weight now 248.4lbs )  I'm  focused and determined to reach  my goal weight 200-205lbs .... Happy I found my motivation'