Nigeria's Rich Men And Their Sweet Young Wives

 The rich and wealthy in Nigeria all seem to have one thing in common, young and beautiful women who are all worth celebrating.

A good example will have to be Billionaire businessman, Alhaji Rasaq Akanni Okoya who got married to his youngest wife to death and mother of his 4 kids, delectable Sade Thomas Okoya who is now 35.

They got married last year, and Okoye who is now the Eleganza Empire chairman and also the Aare of Lagos.

The couple had a couple of years ago tied the knot but last year they decided to show the world a grand and societal wedding last year.

  

CHIEF EMMANUEL IWUANYANWU & FRANCES CHINONYEREM

72 year old billionaire last year shut down the airways when he decided to marry a woman almost 50 years his junior.

Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu is a politician and elder statesman and well known chairman of the Champion Newspaper and he got married to 26 year old Frances Chinonyerem Enwerem in a traditional ceremony in Owerri, Imo State and in a white wedding ceremony last year.

The wedding was held just two years after the statesman lost his dear wife of over 40 years to cancer.

  

CAROLINE DANJUMA & MUSA DANJUMA

They are said to be heads over heels in love despite their massive age gap and have already three kids together as a couple.

Musa Danjuma is the younger brother of General TY Danjuma (rtd) and Caroline is a former actress.

    

BOLA & REMY TINUBU

Former governor of Lagos state is very much advanced at the age department than his wife, Senator Remy Tinubu.

  

SUSAN HART & SUNNY KUKU

Former most beautiful girl in Nigeria 1994 edition Susan Hart got wedded to Doctor Olorogun Sunny Kuku, the well known medical director who co-owns Eko Hospital, many years back.

They recently talked to journalists about their relationship and the Ijebu high chief said marrying Susan is the best thing that happened to him.

He said: “I don’t wont to tell you how I met my beautiful wife but I can tell you that she is my friend. She is the best thing to have happened to me. As far as I am concerned, our meeting is divine. I don’t have to think about what to wear again. She does all the designs which comes out nice just the way I want it.“

Susan also had some sweet words about her husband and said: “Where I come from in Port-Harcourt, husbands are treated as kings. It’s the woman that makes it work and this is why it’s so hard for people to know how long we have been married. I accord him a lot of respect so he won’t see himself missing anything when he gets outside. It’s the woman who makes the marriage work. We have been married for a couple of years now and I am still enjoying it like yesterday and he makes me really happy. I have a son for him who is over 10 years old“.

Susan also talked about their massive age gap and said:  First of all, age is not a barrier in our marriage. I know you observed us from afar before you came to us, you will know that the age difference is nothing. We are best of friends. My husband’s humility and humbleness also makes us best friends.”

TUNDE SOLOYE & NIKE OSHINOWO

Another former Miss Nigeria Nike tied the knot with popular Dr Tunde Soloye years back at the age of 41 to the consternation of many who felt that Dr Soloye was too old for her.

However, the couple separated a few years back. Not ruling out the chance of coming back together.

 

DIM CHUKWUEMEKA ODIMEGWU OJUKWU & BIANCA OJUKWU

One more former most beautiful girl in Nigeria married her father’s friend, the great Ex war lord, Chief Odimegwu Ojukwu. She had to sacrifice and lose her crown to stay with her man, and they had three boys together.

ROTIMI MAKINDE & BANKE OYELAMI

The 24 year old ex Miss Osun state married N politician, Hon. Rotimi Makinde 48, last year in Osun.

ALAAFIN OF OYO & HIS 4 BEAUTIFUL WIVES

Recently, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi is in his 70′s but has four young pretty wives.

Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi and his four wives

APOSTLE ANSELM MADUBUKO & EMMY KOSGEI

The Revival Assembly Church General Overseer had lost his wife some years back and decided to get married to Emmy, his Kenyan born gospel singer wife is 34 even though he is 57.

70 Missing as Ferry Sinks in Phillipines

A ferry sank off the central island of Leyte in the Philippines on Saturday evening in the midst of bad weather.

At least 84 people were on the ferry. However, 14 have been rescued so far, and 70 are missing, Yahoo News reports.

Rescue operations are still ongoing.

According to reports, “the ferry had problems with steering and had also been buffeted by heavy rains, worsened by Typhoon Kalmaegi which is approaching the northern Philippines.”

Photo Credit: Muratcan Karagöz/Dreamstime.com

Struggling to get by in a Mexican slum

Many are forced to move to shantytowns without basic services as Mexico City dwellings become increasingly unaffordable.

From the top of the hill in Ixtapaluca, Mexico City looks attractive: the metropolis of 22 million seats on a valley surrounded by two beautiful volcanoes and mountains. The city still has a shrinking lake, Xochimilco, a legacy from pre Hispanic times, one of the few remaining natural reserves.

New human settlements keep devouring nature by the day, mostly on the hills, as the flat surfaces are mostly occupied or unaffordable.

To kids here airplanes are an attraction, as they fly over one every minute in the afternoons; so is to look at the city’s historic center to identify some of its many landmarks, typically monuments, office towers and Chapultepec Park, the largest green spot inside the concrete jungle.

But going to see the city’s zoo at Chapultepec is a luxury families living here can rarely afford.

It takes about two hours on public transportation to reach the city’s center, and about half of a daily minimum wage for one person to go down there.

Before taking the first collective taxi to the nearest train station people need to walk on the dirt, which during the rainy season becomes sticky mud.

With no water or sewage the only service that works sometimes is electricity coming on a fragile makeshift system with non-professional wiring. This is an informal settlement arranged by a political group which occupies land then pressures the government to provide services, a process that usually takes several years.

Shanties share the hill with corn fields and a few remaining tall trees.

It is a hard life, says Moises Vazquez, who works as a security guard in the city. But better to struggle for a few years living on something you own, rather than to continue paying rent to somebody else’s property under not better conditions in one of the nearby settlements.

Living in Ixtapaluca has a few benefits: The air is cleaner, the view is amazing. Vazquez mother in-law, who lives with him, her two daughters and seven children in two shanties, is proud she can cook a delicious meal for everyone with the cactus she cuts right there on the side of her home.

“Life is good sometimes when we all seat together to have food,” she says.

Brig. Gen. Chris Olukolade comes for a twitter follower

Brigadier General Chris Olukolade is the Director, Defence Information. So the twitter user said to him "another money making venture in the name of fighting insurgency, SMH". And the military spokesman man responded 'Be warned. Am I you father's mate'. lol. On twitter, nobody has respect.

Russia: Aid convoy reaches Ukraine's war-torn city of Luhansk

Lorries, part of a Russian humanitarian convoy, cross the Ukrainian border on September 13, 2014.

- A convoy of more than 200 trucks that Russia says is carrying humanitarian aid has crossed the border into Ukraine without permission, a senior Ukrainian Border Service official said Saturday.

Col. Serhiy Astahov, assistant to the Ukrainian Border Service chief, told CNN that 217 trucks have crossed the Ukrainian border.

Ukrainian border guards and customs officer did not have access to them to check what they were carrying, he said.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, which has monitors in Ukraine, said that in total 220 vehicles -- 193 cargo trucks and 27 support vehicles -- had crossed the border overnight and into the morning.

"The first group of 40 trucks were quickly checked by the Russian border guard and customs services," an OSCE statement said.

"The 180 other vehicles were not inspected. All vehicles crossed into Ukraine without being inspected by Ukrainian border guard and customs officers or the International Committee of the Red Cross."

Russian state-run news agency Itar-Tass said the convoy had been cleared by Russian customs control staff, citing the press service of the Russian Southern Customs Department.

The news agency said 250 trucks in total are due to arrive in the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk by the end of Saturday. It reported that the first trucks were greeted by residents waving and even crying.

The city has been severely impacted by months of fighting between pro-Russia rebels and Ukrainian forces.

Russian Deputy Emergencies Minister Vladimir Stepanov said the convoy was carrying 2,000 tons of supplies, including food, water purifying equipment and power generators.

A previous convoy sent from Russia last month, also without permission from Ukraine, delivered aid to Luhansk too. Ukrainian authorities raised concerns that it might be used to resupply rebel fighters.

Donetsk airport 'under fire'

A fragile ceasefire agreed to just over a week ago is in place in eastern Ukraine.

But Donetsk International Airport came under artillery fire on Saturday morning, the Ukrainian counterterrorism press office told CNN.

This prompted the Ukrainian military to exchange fire with the rebel forces, it said.

National Defense and Security Council spokesman Col. Andriy Lysenko said in a televised Kiev news briefing that a GRAD missile system was used in the attack on the airport, from three different points in the area.

Donetsk City Council reported that two homes in the area were hit.

Sanctions target Russia

A new round of EU sanctions against Russia over its actions in Ukraine came into effect Friday, targeting six companies and a number of Russian officials and separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine.

This was a day after U.S. President Barack Obama announced that, in coordination with the European Union, "we will intensify our coordinated sanctions on Russia in response to its illegal actions in Ukraine."

Russia in return accused the United States of once again escalating the crisis -- undermining the chances for peace there as well as the greater quest for "global stability."

Kiev and the West accuse Russian President Vladimir Putin of arming and supporting the pro-Russia rebels, and of sending Russian troops into Ukraine.

A NATO military officer said Thursday that Russia has about 1,000 troops inside eastern Ukraine, down from a significantly higher number in recent weeks.

NATO also sees 20,000 more Russian troops aligned along the border, according to the NATO officer, who was not named according to standard practice in the organization.

Yatsenyuk: Values outweigh tanks

Speaking at Ukraine's biggest annual political forum, the YES Forum, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that the latest round of sanctions are "the real threat" to the Russian economy.

"Putin's idea was to split the unity among EU member states and to split the unity between the U.S. and the EU. And at a certain period of time I was thinking even that he succeed. But no, he failed," he said.

"Values, EU values, and values of freedom and democracy are much stronger than Russian tanks and artillery and his autocratic regime."

Yatsenyuk claimed that Putin's ultimate goal was "not to just take Donetsk and Luhansk, his goal is to take the entire Ukraine.

"He cannot cope with an idea that Ukraine would be a part of the big EU family. He wants to restore the Soviet Union."

A day earlier, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told the same forum that the latest sanctions against Russia demonstrate Europe's unity and solidarity with Ukraine.

"It shows how close Ukraine is for every leader, every European country," said Poroshenko.

Braless Nicki Minaj shows off some serious under-boob

The sexy rapper showed off some serious under-boob in a crop top and matching skin-tight leggings as she partied away at a night club in Paris on Friday night after performing on stage with Beyonce.

Armed robbers write letter to streets in Palmgroove; say they are coming to raid

Residents in some streets in the Palmgroove area of Lagos are currently living in fear after receiving a letter from armed robbers who said they are coming soon to raid them. (copy of the purported letter above). The letter which was sent to five different streets on Saturday September 6th, reads in part;

"Beware of the coming! Be on the look out in this area. Property owners are coming anytime from now. The gate men you have are not our problem. Our problem is how many resources do you have for us? August visitor must visit whether you like it or not. So expect August visitor when you did not expect. Surely August visitor shall visit just like the second coming of Jesus. It is turn by turn."

In the last line of the letter which is not clear, the armed robbers listed names of the street they plan to attack. They are Oseni street, Nkanna street, Odogbolu street, Ibiwoye Oba and Bode Thomas street.

Some residents in the area immediately contacted police and they sent some of their men to guard the streets for a few hours yesterday. The residents say they are so scared.