WWE star John Cena to star with Scooby Doo

   
WWE superstar John Cena and a host of other
wrestlers are going to star in an animated film
with Scooby Doo in a new collaboration
between WWE Studios and Warner Bros.
The grappling icon will appear in a new joint
project between WWE Studios and Warner Bros.
which will see the cartoon dog and the Mystery
Incorporated gang have to solve a puzzling
problem at Wrestlemania.
As well as Cena, the movie will feature a host of
the wrestling company's superstars turned into
animated characters, including Triple H, Kane,
The Miz, Brodus Clay, Santino Marella, Sin Cara
and Diva AJ.
WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon will
also become a cartoon version of himself and
will lend his voice to the project.
WWE Studios President Michael Luisi said: "We
are excited to partner with Warner Bros. on this
wonderful animated film. Kids and adults are
going to enjoy seeing their favourite WWE
Superstars in animated form join forces with an
icon like Scooby-Doo to solve a mystery at the
biggest pop-culture event of the year -
WrestleMania."

Gulder Ultimate Search 9 is out..

 To all my strong boys and girls that can withstand the stress, wahalas, and fun of the competition, especially the perseverance...ITS OUT...
GULDER ULTIMATE SEARCH is the reality show for achievers – individuals who are champions in their everyday lives. So where will Season 9 hold this year? The answer remains shrouded in secrecy; but will soon be revealed.  This year, the hallowed jungle awaits brave and daring young men and women, courageous enough to attempt to unearth the long lost fortune, hidden centuries ago by a wise Gatekeeper- a true hero of old.  The jungle is not kind to the contestants. This is not an adventure for the faint-hearted or lily-livered. It is a contest that will test contestants’ endurance, strength, courage and mental alertness. Past contestants have attested to the fact that Gulder Ultimate Search is no make-belief. What is beamed on TV is as real as it gets!

Photo of the Day..

   
I guess today isnt gona be a good Friday for this woman...Sorry girl..

Who wore it best? Rick Ross, Chris Brown or Drake?

                       
Go Chris brown, Go Chris brown.. abi wetin una tink..

Actress Ngozi Ezeonu(aka Madam G) gets Chieftancy title.

 

The veteran Nollywood actress got the Chieftancy title -Ada-Ife 1 of Ihite Owerri by HRH Eze C.F.N. Ezerioha, some days back in Imo State. E no easy but she got it..Go madam G...

PHOTO OF THE DAY...you wan try

 
Hehehehehe....this man get mind oo...

Presenting the world Oldest Twins at 102years..Wow..

Twins Ena and Lily declared the oldest in the world after celebrating their 102nd birthday together
Two sisters celebrated their 102nd birthday today as officially the oldest twins in the world – and were determined to spend it together.
Ena Pugh and Lily Millward, who were born on 4 January 1910, have always shared their big day with each other.
Lily was yesterday laid up in hospital with a broken hip – nevertheless, she had one special visitor when her twin Ena called to wish her happy birthday.


Family life: Sisters Ena Pugh, right, and Lily Millward have celebrated their 102nd birthday today, making them the world’s oldest twins. They still talk on the phone every day

Lily, front left, and Ena, front right, pictured as toddlers before the beginning of the First World War
The pair were given 102nd birthday presents of copies of the Guinness World Records book by their family so they could see their own entry.
Lily’s proud daughter Dianne Powell, 65, told Wales News Service: ‘My mum’s recovering in hospital after she slipped and fell just before Christmas. But she’s in good spirits and enjoying the attention of being one of the world’s oldest twins.
‘Ena pops in to see her in hospital when she can – they are very close. And despite the terrible weather she made a special effort to get together on their birthday.’
Farmer’s daughters Ena and Lily were born before the outbreak of the First World War when Queen Victoria’s son Edward VII was king.
The pair, who still live in their own houses near Brecon in the Welsh countryside, meet up for weekly shopping sessions and chat on the telephone virtually every night.

BOKO HARAM: At last Northern Govs intervene.

The Northern States Governors Forum recently set up a committee to look into the state of insecurity in the region. The move considered belated in some quarters, is the first overt move by the northern governors to stem the crisis that has turned the region into a theatre of war.
THE decision of the governors of the 19 northern states  to set up a 41-man committee to address the spate of bombings and other terrorist actions in the region came out of the blue. For long the governors had kept mute on the issue with many of them skirting around calls for decisiveness from the populace.
Their silence and that of other notable northern leaders at one point forced the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, to chide them over what he insinuated was either cowardice or cringing fear.
Speaking during an Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, summit in January, Senator Mark berated Northern leaders over their inability to condemn terrorism in the region. He had fumed: “Won’t we be able to condemn current degree of insecurity in the North occasioned and heightened by Boko Haram? Are we afraid to openly condemn Boko Haram either for political reasons or out of fear of possible attack by the sect? ”
Despite this challenge by Mark and several others, nothing much came from the northern leaders and governors except, calls now and then, for dialogue with the sect by a few northern radicals such as Alhaji Balarabe Musa, Alhaji Ali Monguno, Shehu Sani and the Arewa Consultative among others.
The 41-man rescue squad: The seeming quietness inevitably sent signals of acceptance of the actions of the Boko Haram group by the northern leaders. Even when northerners and Muslims were the subject of the attack as it happened in Kano last January, not much expression of revulsion was expressed. It was as such not surprising that some alleged that Boko Haram had become a tool by the north’s elite to negotiate power ahead of the 2015 general elections.

Train crushes danfo bus in Lagos

    
IKEJA—An accident involving a train and a danfo bus occurred, yesterday, at the Ajayi Farm railway crossing in Ikeja, Lagos, injuring four persons, among them, a pregnant woman.
Unconfirmed report said  one person died during the stampede.
The incident happened barely two days after a similar one also involving a commercial bus occurred at the same spot, where several persons reportedly sustained injuries.
An eye-witnesses account said yesterday’s incident occurred about 7a.m. with the train colliding with the vehicle with number-plate XF 899 FGG which was driving towards Ikeja.

FUEL STRIKE THREAT: Indicted marketers resort to blackmail – FG

The Federal Government, yesterday, accused petroleum marketers who were indicted by the Aig-Imoukhuede Committee on Subsidy Payments of hoarding fuel to put pressure on the authorities to withdraw the charges against them.
The petroleum marketers had earlier issued a seven-day ultimatum to the government to pay all outstanding claims on petroleum subsidy or they will shut down filling stations nation wide.

The government also clarified that its recent withdrawal of charges against four of the subsidy fraud suspects did not amount to discharge and acquittal. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, said yesterday that it withdrew the cases based on fresh evidence with a view to consolidating and preferring new charges against the affected firms.

Two hours of sporadic gunshots paralyses activities in Damaturu

A severe gun duel  that lasted for almost two hours rocked the city Damaturu, the Yobe state capital,
Wednesday afternoon, paralysing economic activities in the trouble state. The Police Public Relations officer, Mr. Toyin Gbadegesin, who confirmed the incidence to Channels Television said it was an attack on security forces by suspected members of the Boko Haram sect. He revealed that security forces have gone to carry the corpse of a civil defense officer believed to have being killed by the insurgents at Gwange Area of the metropolis and on their way back, they were attacked by other
suspected sect members.
The security forces according to him repelled the attack. According to him, there were no casualties on the side of the security forces pointing out that security operation are still on going at the area because the attackers are believe to have been hiding. A Joint Task Force (JTF) source told Channels Television that one arrest has so far been made at the scene of the attack.

20 men killed by security forces arnt Boko haram, says Qaqa

Boko Haram denies its 20 men were killed by security forces, The Islamist sect, Boko Haram, denied on Monday that 20 of its fighters had been killed in a raid by security forces in Maiduguri the day before, saying all those killed were civilians.
A security officer said a mixed military and police force, tipped off about a Boko Haram
meeting on Sunday, had been fired on when they approached the site and killed 20 “terrorists” for
the loss of one soldier in the ensuing shootout. Boko Haram spokesman, Abu Qaqa, told a teleconference for journalists in Maiduguri, capital of Borno State and the sect’s heartland, that his fighters had not been meeting at the place where the military said it killed them.
“They only succeeded in killing civilians,” Qaqa said. “Twenty of us cannot risk sitting in a volatile place to hold a meeting ... It is not possible.”..

Hmm..so who exactly is saying the truth..#justasking

Delta demands Ibori’s N2.2b..(#oletins)

The government of Delta State has filed an application before a Federal High Court to claim
the N2.25 billion ($15m) allegedly offered as bribe by former Governor James Ibori.
The court had ordered him to forfeit the money to the Federal Government following an exparte
application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC). Ibori allegedly offered the money as bribe to former EFCC Chairman Nuhu Ribadu through an undisclosed source in 2007.
The money has since been kept in the custody of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), after he denied
offering money to Ribadu. In an application filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja, Delta State Government claimed that the money belongs to it and that the court should
order its return to its treasury. The application was filed by Chief Charles Ajuyah SAN, Delta State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice.
In the application dated August 10 and supported by 35-paragraph affidavit, the state averred that the money in dispute was offered by Ibori while he was in office as governor. The deponent, Nkiru Bridget Emakpor, averred that the money would facilitate the current developmental projects in the state. She stated that Ibori was a governor of the state between May 29, 1999 and May 29, 2007, the period the money in dispute was alleged offered by Ibori.
On that basis, Delta said the $15M was the exclusive property of the state and is entitled to
collect it as the bona fide owner. It averred that any money, asset or property
recovered from Ibori rightly belonged to Delta State and that same should be returned to it as it
has always maintained its entitlement to any asset recovered from Ibori.
The deponent said any denial by Ibori in respect of the money cannot affect entitlement of the state
to the amount.

Church attendance drops 30 percent in Kaduna - Bishop

 
The Kaduna Diocese of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion)
said on Friday that worshippers’ attendance in churches in the volatile state has
dropped by 30 per cent. In Lagos, the state government is adopting fresh measures to further enhance of lives and property. One of such measure is the plan to take over abandoned property within the metropolis which are believed serve as hideout for criminals. Aside this, the state has also unfolded plans to sanitise motor parks and regulate the operations of motorcycle (okada) and commercial buses restricting them to specific identifiable routes. Kayode Opeifa, Lagos State commissioner for Transportation, says apart from re-registration of the yellow commercial buses, and restricting them to assigned routes, the drivers and
conductors may also be required under the new regime to wear uniforms for easy identification.
There have been several reported cases of robbery with okada and commercial buses in
what is known to the residents as “one chance”. Josiah Fearon, the diocesan bishop of Anglican
Communion in Kaduan, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) after the first session of the 19th
Synod which held in the north central state that churches are now characterised by poor
attendance, a development he attributed to the current national security challenge.
Fearon said the drop in attendance has also led to a corresponding drop in financial support to
the churches through the offerings, tithes and fund raising for the development of projects. He
specifically attributed the decline in churches’
fortunes to the spate of attacks on Christians
during services by the deadly Islamic sect- Boko Haram.

Robotic suits that can help the disabled..

 

Iron-man style suit enables paraplegics to stand and walk.

It is Called the Ekso, the battery-powered robot suit was launched at a new technology shop in a science park outside Cambridge in June and will be made commercially available in Britain, if you are paralyzed, there is hope .

"Technology is reaching the point where those who have been disabled can be re-enabled," the Guardian quoted Andy Hayes, Ekso Bionics's managing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, as saying.

The price tag for the exoskeleton is 100,000 pounds but the company hopes to lower to 50,000 pounds within the next two years.

Ekso thinks robotic suits can not only aid disabled people, but also enhance the abilities of everyone.

The firm's CEO, Eythor Bender, has said he believes exoskeletons are "the jeans of the future," offering assistance with manual labour.

"Shipyard workers could probably only hold a 10kg angle-grinder for a couple of minutes. Whereas if they had a bionic suit, they could work for hours and reduce costs," said Hayes.

Theoretically, Ekso's suits have many uses but in practice, their applications are more limited.

In a trail, a patient who suffered a spinal cord injury is delighted to be able to rise from her chair and walk. However, two of Ekso's staff have to guide her movements.

Ekso doesn't claim to offer a simple fix for paralysis. Yet it does believe that regular exercise in the suit could help in other ways, such as increasing bone density, improving bladder functions, and aiding weight loss.

Source-ANI

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Lab-grown meat gives food for thought..(this is gonna be strange)..

(CNN) -- A burger grown in a laboratory. Sounds like science-fiction? Well up until very recently it probably was but now the prospect of lab-grown meat appearing on our supermarket shelves is closer than ever.

Synthetic or test-tube meat involves taking a small amount of cells from a living animal and growing it into lumps of muscle tissue in the lab, which can then, in theory, be eaten as meat for human consumption.

As well avoiding killing animals, scientists believe it could help reduce the environmental impact of meat production.

The technology to create artificial meat has been around since the turn of the century -- NASA once looked into developing it for their astronauts -- but making an edible and commercially viable product has remained out of reach. It also remains to be seen whether consumers will accept it as an alternative to farm animal-based meat.

But now a U.S. scientist says he is closer than ever to achieving the technological breakthrough. What's more, he believes a market for his lab-grown meat does exist.

Hungarian-born Gabor Forgacs, of the University of Missouri, is a specialist in tissue engineering, working to create replacement tissue and organs for humans. He realized the same technology could be used to engineer meat for human consumption.

He became the first scientist in the United States to produce and publicly eat some of his tissue-engineered meat, at the 2011 TEDMED conference.

Iran Raises Quake Death Toll

 
Iran has raised the death toll from Saturday's two earthquakes to more than 300, a day after rescuers called off the search for survivors.
Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi told a session of parliament Monday that the latest death toll stood at 306, with more than 3,000 injured.
The 6.4 and 6.3 magnitude quakes struck minutes apart late Saturday afternoon, leveling several villages near the city of Tabriz and seriously damaging several others.
The office of UN chief Ban Ki-moon released a statement Monday expressing the Secretary-General's condolences and offering humanitarian support.
The United States on Sunday offered help and condolences to the people of Iran. The White House statement was addressed to the “Iranian people” and said the U.S. stands ready “to offer assistance in this difficult time,” but made no mention of the Iranian government.
Dozens of aftershocks have rumbled through the area, prompting thousands of people to spend their nights outdoors.
The Red Crescent aid society says it has given emergency shelter to thousands of people so far and is sending in more supplies.
Earthquakes are common in Iran, but few are significant enough to be noticed. The last major earthquake in Iran was a magnitude 6.6 quake in 2003 in the southeastern city of Bam, where 30,000 people died.

Two Buddhist brides wed in Taiwan (Same sex marriage))

Huang Mei-yu (R) and her partner You Ya-ting attend their Buddhist wedding ceremony in Taoyuan, Taiwan, on Saturday

CNN) -- Two women in veils and voluminous white gowns kneel in front of a statue of the Buddha, exchanging vows and prayer beads to the languorous intonations of Buddhist chants.

This unconventional ceremony on Saturday was the first same-sex Buddhist wedding held in Taiwan, where a landmark bill to legalize same-sex marriage has been pending since 2003.

No countries in Asia have legalized same-sex marriages so far, although there have been signs of progress in some -- most recently in Vietnam and Nepal.

IOC: OBJ, IBB should be prosecuted for treason - Uka

For systematically violating the constitution of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria by attending the G8 Summit of the
Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) in 2001, Professor Emele
Uka has said that former Nigerian leaders, Chief Olusegun
Obasanjo and General Ibrahim Babangida, should be tried for
treason.
Professor Uka, who is the Prelate and Moderator of General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, made his
position known on Sunday, while speaking with journalists during
the 20th general assembly of the church in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.
He explained that against the backdrop of the constitution, which
makes the country a secular state with provision for freedom of
worship, the act of the former leaders had automatically enlisted
Nigeria among the Islamic states of the world, hence the fight by
the religion to maintain the status.
He said: “This country, constitutionally, is supposed to be a
circular country, but when we find a systematic violation of the
constitutional provision, attempts by Muslim leaders: I mean
somebody like Ibrahim Babangida, I mean somebody like Sani
Abacha to systematically Islamise Nigeria, we don’t need to be
pretentious about that.
“They wen to register Nigeria in OIC as an Islamic country and
unfortunately, during the last meeting of the G8 Islamic countries
held in Egypt in 2001, Olusegun Obasanjo identified himself,
carrying Nigeria as an Islamic country by attending that meeting,
thereby making the people to feel that Nigeria is an Islamic
country and Islamic countries do not tolerate another religion.”
Professor Uka maintained the this was the reason behind present
insecurity situation in Nigeria, occasioned by the Islamic sect’s
insurgency, saying that the situation would persist except the
country is deleted from the list of Islamic countries of the world.
Giving reasons for his position he stated; “Islamic countries
forbid their country being ruled by a Christian. That is why they
feel that for Jonathan to rule Nigeria successfully, he must be
converted to Islam because they can’t stand being ruled by a
Christian. That is the fundamental problem. Nigeria must delete
itself from G8 Islamic countries of OIC. Nigeria must return to a
secular state that it was.

The hottest new cars for 2013

If you’re one of the many thousands of motorists who plan on returning to new-car dealerships in the coming months to renew your rides you might be confronted with an assortment of never-before seen cars with what are unfamiliar nameplates. The auto business has undergone dramatic changes over the last few years, and if you haven’t gone car shopping since before the economy crashed you’ll find it to be the proverbial brave new world. As they say, you can’t tell the players without a scorecard, so we’ve compiled a slideshow that highlights the 10 hottest models that are brand-new for the 2013 model year and which fresh elements each brings to the market. So let’s get ready to meet the freshman class of 2013..take a look..