Ronaldinho loses £500,000 a year for drinking Pepsi.

Football Legend Ronaldinho preactically Paid £500,000 for a can of Pepsi.

That's exactly how much Brazilian football legend Ronaldinho lost in a sponsorship deal with Coca-Cola after turning up at a press conference and sipping nonchalantly from a can of Pepsi.

Ronaldinho stunned Coke chiefs at the Atlanta-based firm who immediately demanded that the plug be pulled on his huge endorsement deal, according to a report in the 'O Estado de Sao Paulo' newspaper.

Group to declare state of Biafra Nov 5 2012

 

A pro-Biafra group, Biafra Zionist Movement, BZM, announced, yesterday, that it had commenced the process to launch the struggle for a State of Biafra with the international community, saying that the formal declaration of the new Biafra Republic had been slated for November 5.

This came as Conference of Igbo Youth Organizations, CIYO, warned that Ndigbo “would no longer watch in silence while our brothers and sisters are slaughtered like animals” in the Northern States.
National President of BZM, Benjamin Onwuka, at a briefing said what prevented the realization of Biafra republic over the years was the inability to get the support of world powers, like the United States of America to back the project.

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Peter Okoye gets new Tattoo

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B2K Singer Raz B Nearly Slices Off Hand in Freak Hotel Accident

 

According to TMZ, B2K singer Raz B nearly died on Sunday July 8th in China after accidentally falling through a glass door in his hotel room, slicing his wrist wide open and losing a lot of blood. Raz later told reporters that he tripped hard inside his room and when he tried to break his fall, he crashed through a sliding glass door. Raz says the broken glass caught his wrist and ripped it to pieces, tearing through ligaments, nerves, tendons, right down to the bone. Raz passed out and was rushed to Huashan Hospital Fudan University, where doctors operated to repair his mutilated wrist. He was released from the hospital yesterday Monday July 9th.

Meet the twins born in different countries

 

Twins are normally born minutes – if not hours – apart, but Dylan Joseph and Hannah Rose Fox will be able to say they were born in different countries

 

The youngsters were welcomed to the world in England and Scotland last Sunday as their parents, Donna Keenan and Joe Fox, settled down to watch the Euro 2012 final.

With no time to get to the hospital, paramedics were forced to deliver Dyland on the living room floor.
But as the twins were being born four weeks early, medical staff pulled out all the stops to get Ms Keenan to hospital in time for Hannah’s arrival.

Homeless couple returns £6,500 found in rubbish bag

A homeless Brazilian couple who live under the bridges of Sao Paulo found a rubbish bag filled with 20,000 reals (£6,500) on a sidewalk on Monday – and promptly turned it into the police.

Officials said the pair were out for a dawn stroll when they heard an alarm.

They walked closer to see what was going on and stumbled on a briefcase and a rubbish bag full of money. The pair alerted a nearby security guard, asking him to call the police.

"When we arrived, the couple gave us the money. It might be the money stolen last week from a Japanese restaurant," said Bruno dos Santos, a Brazilian military police spokesman.

The homeless pair "had the opportunity to flee with the money, but they called a security guard and asked him to call the military police. What they did is commendable," the spokesman said.

Jesus Silva Santos, the man who found the money, told the press that he earned a little more than £5 a day from recycling rubbish.

  

"My mother taught me never to steal," he said.

Source: agencies

Meet the businessman who hands out £1,000 to complete strangers

How would you react if you were approached on the street and handed an envelope filled with money? No seeming rhyme nor reason.

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The card that Mr Lucky hands to those he randomly encounters. 

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Hannah, who worked out the clues on Twitter and tracked down the £1000 to a pub in Soho, London.  

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'Lucky' Linda, owner of a fish and chip shop in Vauxhall, London who smiled her way into recieving the £1000 gift.  

 "You are lucky," you are told. But with this luck comes a responsibility: that you promise to do something good with it.

An anonymous millionaire is currently putting people to the test by handing out £1,000 to those he randomly encounters. The Sunday Telegraph spent the day with him whilst he paced the streets of London hunting for 10 lucky recipients.

The reactions were varied, from the stunned to the suspicious to the simply delighted.

He has given away close to £100,000 to people he has met around the world. He hands those that he chooses a sleek card explaining his project and allows them 48 hours to get in touch. Sometimes he adds in a treasure hunt for extra entertainment and leaves the invites hidden in bookshops or landmarks and sends clues out from his Twitter account

Congolese warlord sentenced to 14 years for using child soldiers

The International Criminal Court today Tuesday July 10th sentenced Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga, 51, to 14 years in prison for using child soldiers in his rebel army in 2002-03.

The founder of the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) and commander of its military wing the Patriotic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (FPLC), was found guilty of abducting children as young as 11; forcing the boys to fight and commit atrocities and turning the young girls into sex-slaves.

Having spent the last 6 years in prison, Lubanga is expected to serve only 8 out of the 14 year prison sentence.

Rivers State Governor gives cars, cash to Dolphin & Rivers Angels

River State Governor Rotimi Amaechi yesterday Monday July 9th gave money and cars to NPL champions - Dolphin and the women’s cup holders, Rivers Angels.
   
Each player of Dolphin got a Nissan Sunny car and N500,000, while the coaches got one million Naira each with a car. The Rivers Angels, who won the female FA Cup last season, each got a Ford car and N500,000. 

The reward, according to the Governor, is to reward the teams for their hard work so far and encourage them to push harder to retain their title this season. 

Stampede as explosion rocks venue of passing-out parade

There was an explosion yesterday at the venue for the passing-out parade of members of Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC) in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, but no casualty was recorded. The incident occurred at the Civic Centre, close to the state police command headquarters, as the PCRC members were ending their two weeks training.

Some of the trainees said the explosion came from a nylon bag outside the handball field venue of the training, thereby causing a stampede

Plateau bloodbath: Senator, Majority Leader died of exhaustion –Rep

                        

Senator Gyang Dantong and Plateau State Majority Leader, Gyang Fulani, died of exhaustion on Sunday, it was revealed yesterday. The two lawmakers were among the 104 persons who lost their lives when suspected Fulani herdsmen began their rampage on four local governments last Saturday.

Confirming the cause of the legislators’ deaths yesterday were a member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Simon Mwadkon, who slumped alongside the late Sen. Dantong, 53 and the late Hon. Fulani, aged 54. The two died when they were ambushed on Sunday during the burial of those who died in the first attack.

Herdsmen kill General on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

When Brig. Gen. Sylvester Iruh (retd.) left Ilorin, Kwara State, on Friday, July 6, his goal was to return to his family in Akute, Ogun State.
Having left them for a day to attend a burial in Ilorin, Iruh must have been eager to return to his Akute residence.

But his hopes were dashed when he was attacked by suspected herdsmen on the Long Bridge on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

Iruh's wife, Christiana, told our correspondent on Monday that she was expecting her husband when she received call that he had been attacked.

Third Mainland Bridge gridlock begins. Diversion routes

 

Diversion routes as released by Lagos State Commissioner for Works, Kayode Opeifa:

1. University of Lagos Waterfront (towards Lagos)
2. Oworonshoki Interchange (towards Lagos)
3. Adeniji Adele Interchange (towards Oworonshoki/Toll Gate)

Daily Diversion Periods;
A. 12 Midnight to 12 noon
1. Vehicles approaching from Oworonshoki and Ikeja/Toll gate/Ikorodu Road end of the Bridge will have unhindered access to the bridge towards Lagos Island.

I Have Video and Audio evidence of Lawan collecting bribe - Otedola

The House of Representatives Committee on Ethics came under further scrutiny, yesterday, after oil magnate, Mr Femi Otedola, accused one of its members of lying in his account of Otedola's controversial appearance before the committee last Tuesday.

Responding to published comments where Rep. Ibrahim Bello, a member of the committee was quoted as saying that Otedola told the committee that he did not have the video recording of his transaction with Rep. Farouk Lawan, Otedola affirmed that he never told the committee anything as such.
Otedola had in the past insisted that he is in possession of audio and video recording of Lawan negotiating and collecting the bribe money.

Why I turned down N500,000 compensation -Victim

Barely one month after the Dana plane crash, victims, whose property were destroyed, were invited by the airline management to come for their compensation.  Daily Sun gathered that while some of the victims received what the airline described as advanced payment of the compensation ‘towards interim relief to secure temporary accommodation,’ others refused to collect on the ground that what they were offered was not commensurate with their losses.
Those who collected the advance payment were made to sign a letter of acknowledgement. However, it was not certain where the letter originated from, though it was addressed to Dana Airline Management, 51, Allen Avenue, Ikeja.

Robbers strike in Osogbo, kill businessman

                    

Armed robbers, numbering about seven, yesterday struck in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, killing a popular businessman and hotelier, Mr Rasheed Babatunde Bolarinwa and carting away money and other valuable worth millions of naira.
The robbers, it was learnt invaded, the late Bolarinwa’s residence located at Alekuwodo area of Osogbo at midnight and demanded for a huge amount of money after they had searched the house.