Meet Rihanna's Lookalike Making Big Bucks From Endorsements

Meet Rihanna's look alike Andele Lara who is getting endorsements in place of Rihanna.

Rihanna(left), Andele Lara(Right)

This 22-year-old may look like Rihanna, but it’s actually Andele Lara, a student from Boston, Massachusetts. She’s frequently mistaken for the sexy pop star, but as a kid Lara wasn’t always so keen on her looks. “Growing up, I was a very shy girl,” Lara told the Daily Mail. “I was known as the skinny girl with the big forehead.” But after experimenting with her hair and swapping her school uniform for more trendy clothes, her classmates started noticing her likeness to the Barbadian singer with the hit song “Umbrella” on the radio. “The comments started in my sophomore year. My friend had a magazine with Rihanna on the cover. He held it up to my face and was like, ‘You look like her!’”

Myles Munroe, His wife and Daughter Dies in Bahamas Plane Crash Landing

Breaking News; Dr. Myles Munroe, internationally-known author, bible teacher, governmental consultant and leadership mentor, was one of nine passengers on a plane that crashed in Grand Bahama on Sunday afternoon, according to multiple news reports.

 

A Lear 36 executive jet left the Lynden Pindling International Airport (LPIA) for the Grand Bahama International Airport, the Department of Civil Aviation reports.

The plane departed at 4:07 p.m. and carried nine people. The vessel crashed while making its landing approach, the Department of Civil Aviation said.

News reports indicate his wife, Ruth, and daughter were also killed in the crash. Myles Munroe's ministry was not immediately available for comment as at the time this post was made.

Stay tuned to Amebo News for an update to this story.

And please keep his family in your prayers.

A Nigerian Drug Trafficker Left to Die Over Ebola fears

A Nigerian drug trafficker has died at a Spanish airport after cocaine bags inside his stomach split open and airport staff did not touch him over Ebola fears.

The man, who had arrived at Madrid-Barajas airport on a flight from the Turkish city of Istanbul on October 18, succumbed to the symptoms of a cocaine overdose and started shaking on the floor, Russia Today (RT) reported on Saturday.

However, nobody approached the man for at least 50 minutes as he was thought to be an Ebola patient.

 

Airport officials reportedly called medical specialists who found the man “unconscious with a weak pulse and suffering breathing difficulties.” Minutes later, it turned out that the man was not infected with the virus, and finally, he was taken to hospital. It was, however, too late and he died 25 minutes after arriving at hospital.

His wife said the Nigerian had not travelled to his homeland in the last four years. Ebola is a form of hemorrhagic fever whose symptoms are diarrhea, vomiting and bleeding. The virus spreads through direct contact with infected blood, feces or sweat.

It can also be spread through sexual contact or the unprotected handling of contaminated corpses. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the deadliest Ebola epidemic on record has infected 10,141 and claimed 4,922 lives so far.

Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia have taken the brunt of the spread of the disease, which is running amok in West Africa. The media hype over Ebola comes at a time when thousands of people in Africa and other parts of the world die every day from hunger and preventable diseases.

Mainstream Western media, however, pay very little attention to such issues

What a news!!!
 

South African Pastors Welcome T.B Joshua's Donation

According to a South African new source, Nigerian preacher TB Joshua's pledge to donate R50 000 to the families of the victims of his church's collapse is welcomed, the Mahikeng Ministers Fellowship (MMF) said on Saturday.

 

“Mahikeng Ministers Fellowship has welcomed the donation of over R4-million announced by the Synagogue Church of All Nations to assist families of victims of the church building collapse in Nigeria meet funeral expenses...,” chairman of MMF Zandisile Mpame said in a statement.

“The announcement of aid to the families that lost their loved ones during the tragic incident does not come as a surprise to those of us in the church who are familiar with Prophet TB Joshua's global humanitarian and philanthropic activities which have contributed over US200 million over the years towards various causes to alleviate the plight of those in need.”

On Friday Joshua's church released a statement saying a R50 000 donation would be paid towards funeral expenses of each family of the victims of the church building collapse.

The church's spokesman Kirsten Nematandani said they had done a full audit of each family's financial needs and assisted with various household expenses as many of the deceased were breadwinners. He said household expenses varied from rent money to school fees and groceries.

It is believed 85 people from South Africa were among those killed when a multi-storey guesthouse attached to the church, run by Joshua, collapsed in Lagos on September 12.

On Thursday, Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe announced that DNA samples of the 116 victims had arrived at a laboratory in South Africa for analysis.

The DNA process was in the hands of the Nigerian authorities, who had appointed a laboratory in Stellenbosch, Western Cape, to do the analysis.

Nematandani said the church had travelled to all provinces in the past few weeks to visit, counsel and assess families' financial needs and assist where possible.

What is your view on this?

 

Do You Think Churches and Other NGOs Should Be Taxed?

For some time now it has been all over the news, that churches and other NGOs should be taxed because of the rate of income these Non-Governmental Organisations make from their activities.

 

 

Some days back, it was on air and some Nigerians called to speak their minds on this issue. Some called to say that Churches, Mosques and other NGOs should be taxed because some of these organisations make hell of money from church offerings and donations, which are neither used to better the lives of members of the organisation nor the members of the society.

Some also called to say these NGOs should not be taxed, except in cases where these NGOs are engaged in extra activities such as running Educational Institutions, Cyber Cafe and other money making activities that that brings in extra income.

 

Others said that these institutions should be left alone and should not be judged by whether their leaders make money or not from their activities, it should be between them and their Creator.

Now as we all can see this case is a sensitive one which can hardly lead to a conclusion.

What is your own take concerning this issue of taxing these NGOs, Should they be taxed or not?

Let us hear the Voxpop!!!

Baby Born With a Qur’an In His Hand, Ibadan Mother Claims

An Islamic preacher in Ibadan, Oyo State, Dr Dawood Amoo, has described the birth of a baby boy holding a pocket-size Qur’an in his hand.

Amoo told journalists that the boy was unique, because mini Qur’an contained all the 114 chapters in the holy book. The baby’s mother went to deliver him at a church because she feared of hospital bills.

 

The woman who took the boy saw the ‘strange’ object and threw it away as something devilish, but soon the baby became restless and continued to clutch and empty fist.


The child’s parents who were not practicing any religion before, now say they will revert to Islam as this was a sign directly from Allah.

The baby, who was named Ismael, attracted huge crowd when the news filtered around town that he was born with a holy book.

The residence of the baby’s parents has become something like a mecca as Ibadan people go there to have a glimpse of the little boy.

 

Nigerians react in different ways to such ‘wonder’. Some of them believe that wonders shall not end.

 

Really, Wonders shall not end!

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NYSC Members to Get Increment in Allowances- House of Reps

The House of Representatives on Thursday in Abuja passed for second reading a bill seeking an improved welfare package for members of the National Youth Service Corps.

  

The bill seeks to amend the NYSC Act No 51 of 1993 by making provisions to enhance the welfare of corps members, encourage acquisition of special business and commercial skills at the end of the annual service year.


Moshood Mustapha (All Progressives Congress – Kwara), who sponsored the bill, expressed regrets over unemployment and poverty rate bedeviling the country.

He said the proposed amendment would encourage self-employment.

Section 7(3) of the proposed amendment seeks to increase state governments annual subvention from N500,000 to N50m, to enable NYSC to cater adequately for the welfare and skill acquisition needs of corps members.

It said such minimum subvention shall be provided before the commencement of the service year, for which it was intended. Section 18 (2) also seeks to increase minimum accommodation allowance from N250 per month to N5,000 while transport allowance might be increased from N150 per month to N5,000.

The sponsor added, “The bill seeks to amend the NYSC Decree 51 of 1993 to provide for the training of corps members to acquire skills and business. “It would enable them to seek other means of sustainable livelihood and fend for themselves other than the white collar jobs that are in acute shortage.” 

If you are a corps member or a potential corps member or you have someone who is serving or is about to serve, what is you take on this new changes?

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Power Surge Causes Fire Outbreak at Lagos International Airport

Fire on Thursday took over the second floor of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMA) terminal but was quickly put off before a major damage was done.

  

THISDAY gathered that the fire started in the commercial department of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) on the second floor of the terminal.

Passengers and other airport users at the departure hall started running helter-skelter when they saw smoke wafting from the floor above in the building but it was quickly put off.

THISDAY learnt the fire was ignited by power surge during a heavy but brief rainfall. The General Manager, Corporate Communications of FAAN, Yakubu Dati, explained: “There was a minor smoke incident at the departures hall of the international terminal of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at about 11:45 a.m. today."


“The smoke was quickly traced to the electric panel room on the second floor of the terminal by a combined team of FAAN’s electrical engineers and fire officers. “Preliminary investigation reveals that the incident was caused by a short circuit at the panel room which was quickly arrested by the engineers on duty. 

“The authority wish to assure the travelling public and other airport users that there was no immediate danger to anyone as a result of the incident neither did it affect flight operations at the terminal. 

“The authority has directed the Directorate of Engineering and Maintenance to commence immediate investigation into the immediate and remote causes of the said short-circuiting of the cables,” he said.

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FG to Now Pay N500 Daily Feeding Allowance to Corps Memebers

As I was going through Kemi Filani's Blog I saw this wonderful story and decided to share it with you on Amebo House.


The federal government has allocated N500 as daily feeding allowance for members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). This was disclosed yesterday by the Director General of the NYSC, Brigadier-General Johnson Bamidele Olawumi.

 

He made the disclosure at a House of Representatives Committee on Public Petition investigative public hearing on the N4,000 online registration fee imposed on prospective corps members by the corps...but the question now is, "was there no feeding allowance before? If there was, how much was it? will this lead to an increase in the monthly allowee which is currently N19,800?"

What is you view on this new improvement?

 

11-Year-Old Girl Raped By Gun Men In Imo State

Uneasy calm has enveloped the sleepy, rural Ehume autonomous community in Obowo Local Government Area of Imo State, following the gang-rape of an 11-year-old girl. Vanguard gathered that the girl (names withheld), who hails from Amaiyi, Ihitte Uboma Local Government Area, but resides at Ehume with her parents, was raped when her parents sent her to the popular Onuimo Rescue Market, Umungwa, Obowo.




Vanguard was told that the girl decided to take a commercial motorcycle to and from the market. “That was how she boarded the motorcycle piloted by 35-year-old Onyekachi Nwankwo, a native of Umunachi, Obowo,” the girl’s father told Vanguard.

The obviously angry father also said soon after the suspect picked Ngozi at the entrance to the market, he told her that he intended to pick his friend, Chike Njoku, who was waiting for him at Ekeja Market in Ehume, Obowo. he said: “My daughter innocently agreed.

The story suddenly changed when Onyekachi picked his friend, veered off the road into a track leading to the boundary river between Umunachi and Umuagu communities at Obowo.” Explaining her experience in the hands of the rapists, the girl said: “When I saw all the weapons they were holding, I had no option than to follow them.


"They parked the motorcycle inside the bush, pulled off my dress and had sex with me, one after the other and left me to my fate thereafter.” Efforts made to get a confirmation of the incident from the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr. Andrew Enwerem, proved abortive as his mobile line could not be reached at press time. What do you think about this sad story? Place your comment below....

Police Grabbed a 35-Year-Old Man For Stealing LAWMA Uniform

The Police have nabbed a 35-year-old man, Ali Jaafaar for allegedly stealing Lagos State Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, uniform and an international passport belonging to one Ibrahim Alhassan at Idi Araba, Lagos.

The Police also arrested a 20-year-old gateman, Abdullahi Usman, for allegedly stealing properties of his employer at 20, Alhaji Azeez Street Ago-Okota in Lagos. It was learnt that after the close of work, the victim parked his Kia truck with, registration number, DF352APP in front of his residence at 13 Haruna Street.

Vanguard learned that when he woke up in the morning, ready to go to work, he discovered that his LAWMA uniform, MP3 and international passport he left inside his truck had been stolen.


SOURCE: VANGUARD

Conversation Time: Why Do Most Parents Refuse to Accept Being Wrong?

Yes! I heard couple of youths complaining that their parents offend them most of the time and yet these same parents put the blame on them. So they had an opportunity to talk with a married man, who was willing to listen to their plights. They asked the man several questions that got him smiling but their was this certain lady who quoted this verse of the Bible saying:




Ephesians 6:4 " And ye Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in nurture and admonition of the Lord".....

 

 So why do parents most times accuse us wrongly and when we tell them they refuse to hear our point of view. Parents always feel they right at all times.

They tend to always try to be perfect than God most times. Is it that they fear that their children will look at them with an eye of Lack of Trust, or they don't just want their children to know that they did anything wrong in the past What is your take on this?