Commonwealth Nigeria pageant winners to represent Nigeria at International pageants 2015

Commonwealth Nigeria Pageant being Nigeria's biggest Pageant that celebrates life and family values officially presents her winners;
i) Beauty Istifanus - Miss Commonwealth Nigeria 2014/2016
ii) Ivannah Onuegbu - Miss Teen Commonwealth Nigeria 2014/2016
iii) Phoebeana Imafidon - Mrs Commonwealth Nigeria 2014/2016

iv) Obinna Acho - Mr Commonwealth Nigeria 2014/2016.

Commonwealth Nigeria Pageant is a licensed Pageant with a franchise from Miss Commonwealth Pageant Limited, United Kingdom, owners of the Commonwealth Pageants' Rights across the world. Strud Models International Limited remains the only licensed Organization in Nigeria with the right to organize theCommonwealth Pageant in the country and presents her winners at the International Contests of theCommonwealth Pageant.

The winners of the 2014 edition of the Commonwealth Nigeria Pageants (as already listed earlier in their various Categories) were crowned at the Prestigious Pageant held in Lagos on the 11th of October, 2014 with the overwhelming presence of the media, well meaning Nigerians and celebrities alike. All the winners were meant to represent Nigeria at the Grand Finale of Commonwealth International Pageant held in London on the 15th of November, 2014 but for the short timing between the Finale in Nigeria and the International Finals in London plus other logistical, sponsorship and financial impediments, all efforts by the organizers of the Pageant to make the representation successful were truncated.

As part of the commitment of the organizers to fulfill their obligations to the winners, the tenure of the winners has been extended till 2016, this will enable early preparation for the representation of the same winners (crown holders) at the 2015 edition of the Commonwealth International Pageant. This is to unequivocally inform the public that all winners of Commonwealth Nigeria Pageant crowned on the 11th of October 2014 are officially Nigeria's Representatives to Commonwealth International Pageant 2015.

The organizers will also like to use this opportunity to call on well meaning Nigerians and Corporate Organizations to support this huge feat to better fly the Nigeria's flag higher among other countries of the world. For more information about the Commonwealth Nigeria Pageant, visit the website; www.commonwealthnigeriapageant.org

Commonwealth Nigeria pageant winners to represent Nigeria at International pageants 2015

Commonwealth Nigeria Pageant being Nigeria's biggest Pageant that celebrates life and family values officially presents her winners;
i) Beauty Istifanus - Miss Commonwealth Nigeria 2014/2016
ii) Ivannah Onuegbu - Miss Teen Commonwealth Nigeria 2014/2016
iii) Phoebeana Imafidon - Mrs Commonwealth Nigeria 2014/2016

iv) Obinna Acho - Mr Commonwealth Nigeria 2014/2016.

Check out 2face Idbia's son's to-do list....lol

Sunmbo Adeoye shared it on instagram. How sweet!

Check out 2face Idbia's son's to-do list....lol

Sunmbo Adeoye shared it on instagram. How sweet!

Whats your take on this???

Hopefully, this 'ode' talk is just a joke...lol

Whats your take on this???

Hopefully, this 'ode' talk is just a joke...lol

Things you should not do after eating..............

Many of the eating habits we indulge ourselves in are absolutely dangerous!

While many of them cause more harm than good, we often feel that, because we enjoy these habits, they are healthy. Here are five things you must not do just after a full meal.

1. Don’t Sleep!

Have you ever tried sleeping immediately after a major meal? When you woke up, how did you feel? I’m sure you woke up still feeling full from the meal. This is because the meal has not been digested at all. This can affect your intestines in a bad way. Also, a nap immediately after a meal is also not relaxing.

2. Don’t Smoke!

Experiments from experts show that smoking a cigarette after meal is equivalent to smoking ten cigarettes at other times, increasing the risk of cancer. In any case, smoking is harmful to your body and you should not smoke at any time.

3. Don’t Bath!

Bathing or showering after a major meal will cause an increased blood flow to the hands, legs and body, and the amount of blood around the stomach will therefore decrease. This could weaken the digestive system in our stomach. Bathing after a meal delays digestion. The blood around the stomach flows to other parts of the body during a shower instead of helping with digestion.

4. Don’t Eat Fruit!

Different foods digest at different speeds. If you must eat fruit, eat it first as it is the easiest to digest. Fruit should be eaten an hour before a meal or two hours after a meal. Fruit will not be digested properly if you eat it directly after a meal. If you eat fruit just after a full meal, this can cause the stomach to be bloated with air.

5. Don’t drink tea.

Tea leaves are acidic and will affect the digestion process. If you consume protein in the meal, the acid from the tea will harden the protein content, making it difficult to digest. Drinking tea immediately after a meal will also interfere with iron absorption by the body. Avoid tea one hour before and after meals.

These 5 points listed above are some of the commonest mistakes people make immediately after eating. Remember, health is wealth, therefore, you need to take great care of yourself!

Things you should not do after eating..............

Many of the eating habits we indulge ourselves in are absolutely dangerous!

While many of them cause more harm than good, we often feel that, because we enjoy these habits, they are healthy. Here are five things you must not do just after a full meal.

1. Don’t Sleep!

Have you ever tried sleeping immediately after a major meal? When you woke up, how did you feel? I’m sure you woke up still feeling full from the meal. This is because the meal has not been digested at all. This can affect your intestines in a bad way. Also, a nap immediately after a meal is also not relaxing.

Lagos PDP Elders Tackle Bode George Over Comment On Obasanjo

Elders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State have berated a chieftain of the party, Chief Olabode George, for his comments on former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

In a statement by Prof Tunde Olayinka, the elders said: “Whilst we are shocked at Chief Obasanjo’s action since an elder statesman is expected to be politically matured, we condemn in totality the words of Bode George, who called the former President an ingrate.

“Bode George is the ingrate not Obasanjo. He lacks the moral right to insult the PDP’s National Leader, his benefactor and former godfather.

“The Yoruba have a saying that a river that forgets its source will dry up forever. Obasanjo made Bode George who he is today.

“We want to recall that Bode George met us in PDP. He did not attend the April 1999 Jos convention, which delivered Obasanjo.

“When Bode George joined the PDP, he was not recognised. At that time, Sarunmi was the PDP arrowhead in Lagos.

“At the PDP Congress in October 1999 held at 1, Akilo Street, Ikeja, Obasanjo sent a directive to the delegates that Bode George should be imposed as the National Vice Chairman (Southwest) and Alhaji Murtala Ashorobi should be the Lagos State Chairman.

“Sarunmi became a minister at the time and Obasanjo told everybody that Bode George was his eyes and ears and anybody who did not want him should leave the PDP.

“Had he risen through the party hierarchy as required, he would not disrespect or misunderstand democratic norms.

“He presides over the Lagos PDP affairs with military precision.

“Why does Bode George try to play god all the time? He has deceived Jonathan and is still deceiving him.

“Bode George is not our arrowhead and we reject him as a leader. He does not represent our views.

“He is a beneficiary of the crisis between Obasanjo and Jonathan so he should stop fanning the embers of discord”.

Lagos PDP Elders Tackle Bode George Over Comment On Obasanjo

Elders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State have berated a chieftain of the party, Chief Olabode George, for his comments on former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

In a statement by Prof Tunde Olayinka, the elders said: “Whilst we are shocked at Chief Obasanjo’s action since an elder statesman is expected to be politically matured, we condemn in totality the words of Bode George, who called the former President an ingrate.

Star Wars: Some rumours 'are true'

By Tim MastersEntertainment correspondent in Los Angeles

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JJ Abrams has said some of the rumours surrounding his new Star Wars film are true.

The director was hosting the Irish Oscar Wilde awards in Los Angeles where actress Carrie Fisher was being honoured.

Fisher reprises her role of Princess Leia in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which is scheduled for release in December 2015.

The film reunites her with original co-stars Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford.

"I can't wait for you to see it. It's been a blast working on this and luckily we have an incredible post-production team," Abrams told the BBC News website on Thursday.

"There are always challenges as you go but it's been a complete kick to put this together."

In recent days a rumour about one of the characters in the film has beencirculating on some websites.

Asked about the secrecy surrounding the script, Abrams added: "We did the best we can to preserve the story for the audience, but it doesn't always work.

"There are a ton of rumours - some true, some false. But I'm grateful for everyone who would want to read a spoiler because it means that they care and want to see the movie.

"I know what it feels like, as an enormous Star Wars fan myself."

Carrie Fisher was presented with an award honouring her lifetime career

The annual Oscar Wilde awards, which honour the Irish in film, are one of a number of events in the run-up to the Oscars in Hollywood on Sunday.

As in previous years, it was held at Abrams' Bad Robot production company in Santa Monica.

Stephen Fry, who hosted the Baftas two weeks ago, presented Fisher with her honour.

"Everybody who knows her well would say she's witty and brilliantly clever," he said.

"She's had a huge career as a script doctor that most people wouldn't know about. She's written on and tweaked the screenplays of huge movies over the past 25 years."

Fisher's film career includes When Harry Met Sally, Hannah and Her Sisters and The Blues Brothers.

Her novel, Postcards from the Edge, was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Shirley MacLaine and Meryl Streep.

Her memoirs include Wishful Drinking which she also performed in a one-woman stage version.

Fry said: "She's charted her own adventures and misadventures with mental health and drugs in a way that was really pioneering, and very influential for a lot of people, myself included."

Also honoured were American satirist Stephen Colbert and Irish painter Colin Davidson.

Stephen Fry hosted the awards, where painter Colin Davison (second left) and Stephen Colbert were also honoured

Star Wars: Some rumours 'are true'

By Tim MastersEntertainment correspondent in Los Angeles

Continue reading the main story

OSCARS 2015

• Birdman and Budapest top Oscar list
• Oscars 2015: Nominations list
• Oscars 2015 diary
• Dragon sequel wins animation award

JJ Abrams has said some of the rumours surrounding his new Star Wars film are true.

The director was hosting the Irish Oscar Wilde awards in Los Angeles where actress Carrie Fisher was being honoured.

How to spot a Russian bomber

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Two Russian bombers have been escorted from near UK territory - the latest in a series of similar incidents. How easy is it to spot a Russian plane, asks Jon Kelly.

The Ministry of Defence insists that the Russian aircraft did not enter British airspace, which extends 12 nautical miles from the nation's coast. But it says they were inside the UK's "area of interest", and the RAF scrambled Typhoon jets to intercept them. If the MoD's account is accurate, they may have been flying too far away for ordinary plane spotters to detect them - although a woman in Cornwall claims she saw them flying inland.

Each was a Tu-95 MS, also known by its Nato reporting name "Bear-H", a four-engine long-range bomber, equipped with turboprop-driven propellers and set-back wings that give it an unmistakable silhouette.

Tu-95 bomber

The most noticeable thing about the Bear, the earliest iteration of which entered service in 1956, is the almighty racket it makes. Its contra-rotating propellers spin faster than the speed of sound, creating their own sonic boom, making it one of "the loudest combat aircraft ever built", says Justin Bronk of the Royal United Services Institute. The Bear, which typically carries six or seven crew members, is not the fastest aircraft in the Russian fleet, reaching speeds of only about 575 mph (920 km/h). But it is regarded as one of the most reliable, says Bronk, which helps account for its longevity.

A Tu-160 strategic bomber

Another bomber you might expect to see just outside British airspace is the Tu-160, known as the Blackjack, two of which were intercepted by RAF Tornado F3 fighters off the Scottish coast in 2010. Unlike the Bear, the Blackjack is capable of supersonic speeds of up to 2,200km/h. "It's essentially a heavier and faster equivalent of the American B1B Lancer," says Bronk. It also has a longer range and can carry more nuclear-capable missiles. An upgraded version of the TU-160 made its maiden flight in November 2014.

Then there's the Tu-22M3 strategic bomber, which is also supersonic and nuclear-capable. "It's not as big as the Bear and the Blackjack," says Bronk. "Its closest Western equivalent is the F-111." Its variable-sweep wing allows it to take off quickly and fly at very low altitudes. There are thought to be over 100 TU-22Ms in service in the Russian fleet.

The MiG 31 interceptor

Sometimes Bears are escorted by supersonic MiG-31 interceptors, says Bronk. Among the world's fastest combat aircraft, they are equipped with onboard radar that can track 24 airborne targets and attack six at a time. But Bronk says: "Although they are extremely fast and carry powerful radar, they are a essentially an evolution of a very old design, the MiG-25, and are no match for the RAF's Typhoons in air-to-air combat."

The incident in Cornwall is unlikely to be the last time radar operators detect Bears. There was a similar incident in January when two Bear bombers were escorted by RAF jet after causing what the Foreign Office called a "disruption to civil aviation". The RAF intercepted Russian aircraft on eight occasions in 2014, and the same number of times in 2013, according to MoD figures released under the Freedom of Information Act.

"Bear raids" just outside British airspace were a common occurrence during the Cold War, sometimes taking place every week, says defence analyst Paul Beaver. Back then, he says, the intention was to test the RAF's reaction time. Their frequency lessened in the final years of the Soviet Union and stopped altogether when the Berlin Wall fell. Under Vladimir Putin's leadership, however, they have resumed. Yesterday, Prime Minister David Cameron said he suspected the Russians were "trying to make some sort of a point", and Bronk agrees. "Essentially, it's rattling the sabre."

Thanks to Nick de Larrinaga of IHS Jane's Defence Weekly for assistance with this article

How to spot a Russian bomber

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• Weekendish: The best of the week's reads
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Two Russian bombers have been escorted from near UK territory - the latest in a series of similar incidents. How easy is it to spot a Russian plane, asks Jon Kelly.

A Year Later, $19 Billion For WhatsApp Doesn’t Sound So Crazy

Messaging is the center of mobile. Snapchat is raising at around a $20 billion valuation. And no one cares who owns apps. On February 19, 2014, we didn't know any of these things for sure. So when Facebook announced it would pay $19 billion to acquire WhatsApp — an app most American pundits had never used — it seemed ludicrous. Zuck had to be crazy, right?

Wrong.

Without WhatsApp, Facebook’s international situation would look a lot dicier. And if a competitor like Google acquired it instead, it could have been disastrous.

Instead, Facebook possesses the most popular messaging app, and has neutralized the biggest threat to its global domination of social networking.

Why?

Chat Is The Mobile Portal

No apps get opened as often as messaging apps. While you might spend longer in total scrolling through Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or Pinterest, the frequent short sessions with chat apps make them a vector for other experiences. That means they’re more valuable than they might first appear.

How do you monetize chat? It’s a tough question. Sure there’s stickers, but there’s too much competition to charge much upfront for an app and it’s too disruptive to show ads. But platforms, hubs, portals — whatever you want to call them — hold plenty of opportunities to cash in.

The messaging apps from Asia are proving this as we speak. China’s WeChat also lets you call ataxi, pay friends, search, shop, buy movie tickets, and more. Japan’s Line hosts Line Pay, Line TV, and an identity platform for games. Why fumble with a bunch of different apps, passwords, and payment methods when you can do it all while you chat?

Even Snapchat is expanding far beyond messaging. Its Stories product for broadcasting sequences of photos and videos is a hit with star content creators. Its Snapcash feature lets you quickly pay friends through Square Cash. And its new Discover portal collects Snap-formatted content from premium producers like Comedy Central, CNN, ESPN and Vice.

A lot of critics wondered how Facebook could earn money from messaging on WhatsApp, considering it’s vowed not to show ads and only charges its skimpy $1 subscription fee in a few markets. The answer is it doesn’t have to. By taking a cut of commerce, or charging for promotion of content, it could keep chat lean and clean while monetizing other parts.

It Missed The Boat On Snapchat

Facebook famously offered to buy Snapchat for somewhere around $3 billion. With 20/20 hindsight, we know that was a short-sighted low-ball. Snapchat rejected the offer, and all of Facebook’s efforts to clone it since have failed spectacularly.

Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel laughs it up

Now Snapchat is trying to raise around $500 million at a $20 billion valuation. Its Stories feature has grown into a competitor to Facebook’s News Feed. And Discover could make it all quite monetizable if it gets popular. Snapchat is constantly cited as where teens are ditching your parents’ social network for.

Snapchat has become one of the banes of Facebook’s existence, and I’d imagine Facebook wasn’t willing to let it happen again abroad. So rather than trying to pay what WhatsApp was worth a year ago, it resigned to pay what it may be worth one day.

Parent Companies Don’t Matter

Whenever a tech giant buys a popular startup, there’s always some immediate backlash from users, and worries that people will jump ship. But time and time again, we’ve seen that if the acquired startup is allowed to run at least somewhat independently and can simply carry on its mission with more resources, fans stay loyal.

Instagram had around 30 million users when Facebook bought it for $1 billion. Now it has over 300 million users and Citigroup values it at $35 billion.

Some Kickstarter backers and early developers moaned when Facebook acquired Oculus. But it’s since flourished into the premier virtual reality platform. CEO Brendan Iribe told me the acquisition helped by boosting confidence of big devs because they knew Oculus wouldn’t run out of money and shut down.

The Parse developer platform has grown from 60,000 apps to over 500,000 since Facebook bought it. Flurry flourished with Yahoo. Twitter’s ownership didn’t deter people from Vine.

Facebook buying WhatsApp wasn’t going to ruin it, and it didn’t. It’s kept growing from 450 million monthly users a year ago to 700 million last month.

The Scary Alternative

More risky than Facebook not buying WhatsApp was what would happen if a competitor did.

Most obviously, Google could have used WhatsApp to jumpstart its late-to-the-game Hangouts messenger. Suddenly, Facebook would be battling a deep-pocketed competitor to replace SMS as the way the world chats.

Without it, Google has seemingly surrendered in the messaging war. Since WhatsApp runs independently, Facebook has been able to focus on its Messenger app in its home market, which has risen to 500 million users.

WhatsApp has achieved massive popularity in the developing world where SMS fees are hard to swallow. That’s because discretionary income is less common, which also makes monetizing these users with ads difficult. That’s a problem for Facebook that WhatsApp can help solve. Through mobile payments that are widespread in places like Africa, WhatsApp could monetize where it’s tough for its parent.

And whether it stayed independent or sold to someone else, WhatsApp could have challenged Facebook’s iron grip on social networking. It’s not just chat. WhatsApp offers a status update feature reminiscent of AOL Instant Messenger’s away messages. But if you squint, those statuses look quite similar to what people post to the Facebook feed.

Since messaging is the core feature of mobile, WhatsApp could have wedged its way into becoming a full-fledged social network starting with statuses.

We won’t know for sure until WhatsApp starts bringing in serious revenue. But in the age of the desktop web, AOL and Yahoo grew huge by using their frequent use to become the portals to everything else. Messaging apps are the portals of mobile, and Facebook owns the biggest one.

Crazy like a fox.