Dakore Egbuson Akande and hubby expecting baby number 2

A visibly pregnant Dakore Akande co-hosted the Nollywood Movies Awards which took place on Saturday night October 12th. Dakore, and her husband, Olumide Akande, already have a 2 year old daughter. Big congrats

Air disaster averted today as IRS aircraft makes emergency landing

Another air disaster was averted this afternoon when an IRS Aircraft made an emergency landing in Kaduna. A Fokker 28 plane, carrying 89 passengers from Lagos to Kaduna, developed hydraulic problems few minutes before landing at the Kaduna airport.
The aircraft's front tyres refused to come out during landing, forcing the pilot to land without them. Fortunately no one was injured.
The Managing Director of IRS, Yemi Dada, later explained what happened to reporters. He said:"The pilots received a low hydraulic warning minutes before landing, and this affected the landing gear, nose wheel steering, brakes, cargo doors, thrust reverser and the flight controls."“On final approach to Kaduna today on our flight 3390 with 89 passengers, our cockpit crew got a low hydraulic in system 1 warning and decided to take precautionary measures to ask for ground confirmation that all gears were down and locked."“The crew proceeded to land but followed procedure to disembark on the runway and not taxi in accordance with the procedure.” He said all passengers disembarked with the assistance of a crane before the aircraft was towed to ramp. He also said the airline's maintenance crew is checking the aircraft to see what happened.

US rapper Wale Folarin finally coming to Nigeria

Nigerian-American rapper Wale announced on twitter today that he's finally coming to Nigeria in November...most likely for a performance.

Peter Okoye gives lecture to CBN staff on entreprenuership

One-half of P-Square Peter Okoye was invited to Calabar on Thursday October 10th to give a special lecture at the Central Bank of Nigeria seminar for new recruits. He was invited to motivate the new employees, and also share the success story of P-Square and how they manage their finances.

President Jonathan visits Super Eagles camp in Addis Ababa

President Jonathan was in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for the Extraordinary Session of the African Union Heads of State & Government and decided to visit the Super Eagles players and their handlers during their training for the first leg World Cup play-off against the Walia Antelopes of Ethiopia.

Super Eagles arrive Addis Ababa for World Cup qualifying match

The Super Eagles this morning arrived Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for the 2014 World Cup qualifying first leg play-off match between them and the Walya Antelopes of Ethiopia which will take place today Sunday October 13th. Mikel Obi pictured above.

Victor Moses

Emmanuel Emenike and Nosa Igiebor

Ogenyi Onazi

Obinna Nsofor

Shola Ameobi

Mikel Obi

Coaches - Ike Shorunmu, Stephen Keshi and Daniel Amokachi

D'banj gets Guiseppe Zanotti sneakers from the designer himself

Yep, that is the Italian shoe designer himself holding up a pair of his famous custom Guiseppe Zanoti sneakers which he gifted to D'banj. D'banj posted the photo on his instagram page and wrote;

When u are big, u are big, when u large u are in charge.. I'm humbled big G !! also a huge thanks to Tonya Merritt best agent In the world! #ilovemyteam #guiseppeZannoti