Nigerian And World News

Sunday, November 1

Russian plane with 224 passengers onboard crashes over Sinai, Egypt

Ladies would you wear Kylie Jenner's ripped T-shirt dress?

The 18 year old wore this designer ripped and distressed T-shirt dress as she stepped out in LA yesterday. Would you wear this? See more photos below;

With Moschino designer, Jeremy Scott

Most Beautiful Face in Nigeria 2015 South East queen dazzles in new pictures

21 year old Maureen Oji from Enugu state emerged the South East queen at the Most Beautiful Face In Nigeria 2015 contest in June. Maureen is a final year Law student of Enugu state University of Science Technology, ESUT. More photos below;

Actress vows not to date Igbo men ever again, read why!

Nigerian Actress Queeneth Agbor says she won't be dating an Ibo guy again because "they are possessive and could be violent'.

The Micro Biology graduate of University of Calabar said the way and manner the last Ibo guy she dated treated her was unbearable!

Speaking on her ordeal with the with the Ibo boyfriend she refused to name, the Lagos based actress said. 'We were watching one of the movies I featured in together in his house, his mood suddenly changed when the movie got to the part I was kissing an actor. He kept a straight face but the burning anger was obvious. He couldn't hold it anymore when another kissing scene came up, he looked at me and said, "So you kissed" by the time I looked at him, and he gave me a huge, dirty slap. I had to run for my life. I thank God I left the place alive'.

Queeneth who has appeared in several movies in Enugu, Asaba and Lagos alongside Yemi Blaq, Charles Inojie, Yul Edochie, Uche Jombo, Desmond Elliot, Halima Abubarkar and other said the traumatic experience made her decide to put an end to dating Igbo guys. I have dated another one in time past too, he was so possessive, and it was like I shouldn't have a life outside of him.

Queeneth Agbor was born and raised in Cross River State, she is the first child among five siblings, she is a graduate of Microbiology in the University of Calabar.

Due to the love and passion she has for acting, she moved to Lagos to pursue her dream by enrolling in intensive acting classes for three months at Royal Arts Academy, a film school co-ordinated by Emem Isong a renowned award winning producer.

Through sheer hard-work and talent she was awarded the best graduating actress 2012… her ability to interpret a wide range of characters and attributes has gotten her roles in movies like Painful kingdom alongside Olu Jacobs, Chika Ike, Eve Esien and Ngozi Ezeonu. She has played a lead role in a short film titled The Movement (sanitation).

Photos from Lilian Esoro and Ubi Franklin's ongoing traditional wedding

Made Men Music Group Co-Ceo, Ubi Franklin and Lilian Esoro are holding their traditional wedding at the moment, their white wedding will hold tomorrow. See first photos below:

John Fashanu reveals how he paid his late brother £75k to stop him from coming out as gay

Ex-England footballer, John Fashanu has revealed the extents he went to prevent his elder brother, Justin Fashanu from coming out as gay. He said he paid him £75K to keep quiet about it.

The former Wimbledon striker made the shock admission a week after it emerged two top footballers - including an England star - plan to come out. In his first in-depth interview about brother Justin since his tragic suicide in 1998, he said:

"I begged him, I threatened him, I did everything I could possibly do to try and stop him coming out. I gave him the money because I didn't want the embarrassment for me or my family. Had he come out now, it would be a different ball game. There wouldn't be an issue, but there was then. Things are different now. Now he'd be hailed a hero."

Justin Fashanu shot himself into the limelight with a stunning goal against Liverpool in 1980, Nottingham Forest subsequently shelled out a record £1million for him but he failed to hit the heights expected.

In a newspaper interview in 1990, he claimed to have had an affair with a married Tory MP he met in a gay bar. John, 53, said:

"I'll never forget when Justin first told me. He called me in the evening time and said to me: 'I'm gay'. Then he said to me: 'I'm planning to go to a newspaper'. I said to him: 'Oh heavens forbid... oh my God. We don't need that. You're mad'. He promised when I gave him the money he would not go out and say that. Two days later... bang... headlines in a newspaper. I looked like a sucker. For me and my family it was like Hiroshima or Nagasaki on our lives. It knocked us dead, it was a total shock.

"People might not like it, but I was trying to protect my family. You've got to remember the public's perception of homosexuality at that time was that it was an abomination . It was taboo. Street boys were beating up gays in nightclubs. I give him credit for having the courage to come out and say it. But it caused a lot of confusion and animosity towards him, me, and my family.

"During matches, 30, 40, sometimes 45,000 supporters sang at me: 'You're big... you're black... your a*** is up for grabs... Fashanu... Fashanu'. As a result of him saying what he said, my mother died because of the stress. She actually died a year later on the day of his birthday.

"She was already old, very fragile and suffering cancer. Then to be told her second eldest son was a homosexual was too much."

John condemned Justin, then at Leyton Orient, soon after he came out and infamously said he would "not want to play or even get changed" in the same dressing room.

But last week John said:

"I've never spoken about these things before because I was stamped a homophobe. But things have changed and I make it very clear: I was wrong. It was ignorance on my behalf. I didn't understand him. I was trying to protect my family and I was worried about the effect on my career. In the process I lost my brother and I am very sad about that.

"He committed suicide because he was so distraught the world would not accept a black man who was homosexual. I couldn't understand it and I couldn't accept it and so whatever relationship we had before was killed .

"Previous to that, we had been very close, but it just shattered everything. I didn't speak to him again. There's a lot of sadness and regrets."

Two premier league stars including an England international are about to come out as gay and Fashanu says :

"If these young men feel it is the right time to come out and announce they are homosexual, please don't anybody victimise them. Please be careful with words, don't let it lead to the destruction of two men in their prime. I didn't have that wisdom 20 years ago and it led to the destruction of my late brother Justin.

"We must accept them. I beg everybody not to make the same mistakes I made. Give them as much understanding as possible."

John is a practising christian and he believes his brother was not actually gay, he credits his TV presenter daughter, Amal, 27 for helping him change his attitude.

"My daughter Amal is a very strong activist for gay rights," said John, who now lives in Nigeria, where homosexuality is still illegal. She has helped me a lot to understand a lot more about another way of life, which homosexuality is. I love her and I am very proud of the way she speaks about her uncle."

Check out Nicki Minaj's hot Halloween costume, dresses as a fairy princess

Nicki Minaj does wear interesting outfits sometimes. See more photos below;

Grassroots activists set to wed, shares pre-wedding photos

Child rights Activist, Ummy Saidu, a leading voice for vulnerable children in rural northern Nigeria is set to wed her longtime boyfriend, Hamzat Lawal, an Environmental and social justice activist who leads transparency and accountability campaigns on public spending as it impacts local communities and Climate Change Actions. See their pre-wedding pictures below;