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Showing posts with label #Celebrity New. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #Celebrity New. Show all posts
Thursday, 26 June 2014
9 Tips for Girls Who Have a Stuffed Wardrobe but Have Nothing to Wear.
Wednesday, 28 May 2014
Sudanese Woman, Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Sentenced To Death For Marrying A Christain, Gives Birth To Baby Girl In Filthy Prison Cell.
Sudanese Woman, Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Sentenced To Death For Marrying A Christain, Gives Birth To Baby Girl In Filthy Prison Cell.

A doctor who is facing execution in Sudan for marrying a Christian gave birth to a baby girl in prison today. Meriam Ibrahim, who has spent the past four months shackled to the floor in a disease-ridden jail, gave birth five days early. The baby was born in the hospital wing at Omdurman Federal Women’s Prison in North Khartoum and is said to be healthy.
Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, her lawyer Mohaned Mustafa Elnour
said: 'This is some good news in what has been a terrible ordeal for
Meriam. 'I am planning to visit her with her husband Daniel later today.
I think they are going to call the baby Maya.’ Meriam, 27, was
sentenced to death by hanging earlier this month after being found
guilty of converting from Islam to Christianity and marrying a Christian
man, U.S. citizen Daniel Wani, who lives in Manchester, New Hampshire.
She will receive 100 lashes before she is executed - sometime in the
next two years.
Before the birth, Meriam made the defiant claim that she would rather
die than give up her faith. In a heart-wrenching conversation with her
husband during a rare prison visit, Meriam told him: 'If they want to
execute me then they should go ahead and do it because I’m not going to
change my faith.’ An Islamic Sharia judge said she could be spared the
death penalty if she publicly renounced her faith and becomes a Muslim
once more. Meriam insists she has always been a Christian and told her
husband she could not 'pretend to be a Muslim' just to spare her life.
She told him: 'I refuse to change. I am not giving up Christianity just
so that I can live. 'I know I could stay alive by becoming a Muslim and I
would be able to look after our family, but I need to be true to
myself.’ Daniel, a 27-year-old biochemist, revealed his wife’s defiant
stance during an exclusive interview with MailOnline at his modest home
in the dusty Sudanese capital city of Khartoum. Sitting beneath
glamorous photographs of his wife taken at their wedding in December
2011, he said: 'My wife is very, very strong. She is stronger than me.
'When they sentenced her to death I broke down and tears were streaming
down my eyes. Our lawyers were passing me tissues. But she stayed
strong. 'She did not flinch when she was sentenced. It was amazing to
see, particularly because she is the one facing the death penalty.’
Daniel was in Khartoum trying to arrange for Meriam and their
20-month-old son Martin to live with him in the US when his wife was
arrested in September. She was three weeks pregnant with their second
child. She has been held since February in Omdurman Federal Women’s
Prison, North Khartoum, with Martin.
The authorities will not release Martin into the care of his father
because they claim he is a Muslim too. She spends much of her time
shackled to the floor, is not receiving enough nutrition in her food to
cope with the rigours of a difficult pregnancy and is rarely allowed
outside. Both she and her bewildered son have contracted various
illnesses because of the poor sanitation at the jail.
A report by Human Rights Watch claims the prison is 'beset with
overcrowding’ and suffers from 'poor sanitation, disease and the deaths
of many children living with their mothers’. Daniel, who is originally
from South Sudan, but is now a naturalized American, was initially
refused permission to visit her.
Describing his first visit after she had been inside for two months , he
said: 'The first time I only had ten minutes and we never even had a
conversation with each other. 'I had to attend to my son first and once I
had done that I was told by the prison guards that my time was up. 'I
wanted to take Martin away with me, but I knew I couldn’t. It’s not good
place to be for a little boy to be. I am not allowed to spent time with
them because the Sudanese officials do not recognise them as my wife
and son.
'They say the marriage is void. Now, even my wife is no longer my wife.
And my son is not mine and my new daughter is not mine. They say I am a
stranger to them. 'I know my wife puts on a brave face but I can tell
that she is in quite a bit of pain. She doesn’t get to leave the room
for weeks. 'She has suffered medical complications while in jail, but no
one knows the full extent of what they are because she is in prison.
It’s a difficult time. To see her walking in chains is difficult.’
Daniel, who is wheelchair-bound because he suffers from muscular
dystrophy, cuts a forlorn figure as he wheels himself around his empty
house. His child’s bed lies unused, as does a child-sized toothbrush.
Daniel keeps himself busy by studying the regular barrage of paperwork
that his legal team send him. Like many in Sudan, both Daniel and his
wife’s childhood were blighted by civil war. Daniel managed to escape
the brutal conflict in 1998 when he travelled to America with his
brother Gabriel.
The biochemist returned to Sudan to marry Meriam at a Christian service
in a chapel which was attended by around 500 people in December 2011.
Most who were at the wedding ceremony could vouch for the pair being
committed Christians, defence lawyers say. But witnesses who were
willing to give evidence on her behalf were barred from testifying
because they were Christian. She even produced a marriage certificate
identifying herself as a Christian.
Despite this, the judge determined that because her father was a Muslim,
even though he abandoned the family while they were living in a refugee
camp in the South East of Sudan when she was six, she too was a Muslim
who had broken the law by leaving Islam. But her mother, who is now
dead, brought her up as Christian. Her mother was born in Ethiopia to
Christian parents, but fled to Sudan because of famine, and chose to
raise her daughter in the same religion. Meriam was arrested in
mid-September, three weeks after her second child was conceived.
At first the couple dismissed the allegations against them as trivial,
but when the case grew more serious Daniel went to the American Embassy
in Khartoum for help. 'I thought this would be the one place which would
help me, but they told me they didn’t have time to do anything,’ Daniel
said. 'I was upset because now that I am American citizen I thought
they would help me. 'I was threatened. They said “well your wife isn’t
American, so we can’t help”. I felt disgusted. My home is in America and
still they won’t help. It’s getting uglier and it’s not going in the
right direction.’
Mr Wani said the State Department asked him to provide DNA evidence
proving that Martin was his biological son. He added: 'I have provided
wedding documents and the baby’s birth certificate, but this is clearly
not enough. It’s very upsetting that they don’t believe me. 'They want
me to take a DNA sample in Khartoum, then send it to the US for testing.
It’s as if they don’t believe a word I say.’
The Sharia court has postponed her sentence, to give her time to recover
from childbirth and to wean the new baby. Her lawyer, Mohaned Mustafa
Elnour, a Muslim, has received death threats for defending her but has
already lodged an appeal. If he does not succeed at the Appeal Court, he
will take the case to Sudan’s Supreme Court. Speaking from his office
in a ramshackle building close to the River Nile, he said: 'Once this
case became public there was only one way that this case was going to
go.
'The clamour for a guilty verdict from the Sudanese press and from
government figures intensified and they got what they wanted. There is a
large section of the public here that want her to be hanged. 'But even
if Meriam was freed she would never be able to live in Sudan again. It
just wouldn’t be safe. 'There are many Muslims who are very angry with
this situation and they say that if the court doesn’t kill her then they
will when she is released.
'Muslim hardliners appear to hold sway with this case, although
international support and condemnation of the case might help. 'In fact,
the British Embassy here has been helpful – more so than the American
Embassy.’ Mr Elnour said the case hinges around the testimony of two men
who claim to be her brothers, and one woman who claims to be her
mother. In court they claimed that she had disappeared from the family
home in a small village in the east of Sudan and then discovered her
living in Khartoum, married to a Christian man. But the lawyer said all
three witnesses have proven to be liars because their evidence to the
court has been highly contradictory.
He suggested that the trio are making up their story in an attempt to
claim ownership of Meriam’s flourishing general store in a shopping mall
on the outskirts of Khartoum. Mr Elnour added: 'We can prove that
Meriam’s mother died in 2012 and that the two others are definite
fraudsters. But the court is not interested in our evidence.’ A petition
calling for her release had last week reached more than 650,000.
Culled from Daily Mail
Friday, 23 May 2014
Ebube Nwagbo Goes Red Hot!!
Ebube Nwagbo Goes Red Hot!!
Pretty Nollywood actress, Ebube Nwagbo, has changed her looks. She’s now wearing a red hair! Ebube can never go wrong in my eyes! Here’s another photo of her with her bestie, Oge Okoye..
I think it suits her….what do you think??
Jim Iyke Denies Breaking-Up With Nadia Buari.
Jim Iyke Denies Breaking-Up With Nadia Buari.
“I can assure you that whatever you may have heard regarding the ‘misunderstanding’ between Jim and Nadia is pure speculation. Nonetheless, it is normal for lovers to disagree with each other occasionally or they wouldn’t be human beings.We are aware of the false rumour about Jim and Nadia’s breakup. We have decided to ignore it because it is unfounded. Jim and Nadia have not broken up.”
Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde Stuns At The ASGA Awards In Cyprus.
Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde Stuns At The ASGA Awards In Cyprus.
Nollywood’s golden-girl, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde was a special guest and speaker at the Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) ,Northern Cyprus. Welcomed by the Rector, vice rector, academic staff and representing African students of the school, Omotola was taken around the school and the Island. As usually Omosexy represented us very well. She looked absolutely stunning in a blue dress at the awards ceremony.
She spoke on Motivation, career opportunities and personal achievement. She was also presented with an achievement and appreciation award at ASGA (African Students Grand Awards). See more photos below:
Funeral Plans For Nollywood Producer, Amaka Igwe.
Funeral Plans For Nollywood Producer, Amaka Igwe.
Nollywood producer and filmmaker, Amaka Igwe, will be buried on Friday, June 13th 2014 at Ndiuche, Arondizuogu in Imo State, her marital home. Amaka passed away on the 28th of April 2014. She is survived by her husband and 3 children.Various events have been lined up before the burial proper. They include; A tribute evening and Lagos Service of Songs at Haven Gardens G.R.A Ikeja on the 9th of June, and Enugu Service of Songs at Okpara Square, Enugu on the 12th of June, 2014.
May her soul rest in peace.
Karen Igho Is Engaged!
Karen Igho Is Engaged! Shows Of Her Engagement Ring!
Former BBA winner, Karen Igho, showed off a stunning engagement ring on instagram. The man she’s engaged still remains a mystery. She is currently in the UK studying Business Administration and Management.
Big Congrats to her!
Charlie Sheen Calls Rihanna A “Village Idiot”
Charlie Sheen Calls Rihanna A “Village Idiot” For Snubbing Him & His Fiancée.
Veteran Hollywood actor,Charlie Sheen took a swipe at Rihanna on twitter today after she allegedly snubbed him and his pornstar fiancée at a club last night. According to him, he and his fiancée(who is a big fan of Rihanna) were celebrating her birthday at a club when he found out Rihanna was at the same club. He sent a request to her table to meet with her but his request was denied because according to Rihanna- “there were too many paps outside”. Charlie, who was obviously irked by the incident, went of an twitter rant! Below is what he posted:So, I took my gal out to dinner last night with her best friends for her Bday. We heard Rihanna was present as well. I sent a request over to her table to introduce my fiancé Scotty to her, as she is a huge fan. (personally I couldn’t pick her out of a line-up at gunpoint)
Well, the word we received back was that there were too many paps outside and it just wasn’t possible at this time. At this time? At this time?
Lemme guess, we’re to reschedule another random 11 million to 1 encounter with her some other night…?
no biggie for me; it would have been 84 interminable seconds of chugging Draino and “please kill me now” that I’d never get back.
My Gal, however, was NOT OK with it.
Nice impression you left behind, Bday or not.
Sorry we’re not KOOL enough to warrant a blessing from the Princess.
(or in this case the Village idiot)
you see THIS is the reason that I ALWAYS take the time.
THIS is why I’m in this thing 31 awesome years.
Good will and common courtesy, carefully established over time to exist radically in concert with a code of gratitude!
I guess “Talk That Talk” was just a big ol lie from a big ol liar.
oh and Riahnna, Halloween isn’t for a while. but good on you for testing out your costume in public. it’s close; a more muted pink might be the answer, as in: none.
See ya on the way down, (we always do) and actually, it was a pleasure NOT meeting you.
clearly we have NOTHING in common when it comes to respect for those who’ve gone before you.
I’m guessing you needed those precious 84 seconds to situate that bad wig before you left the restaurant.
Here’s a tip from a real vet of this terrain; If ya don’t wanna get bothered DONT LEAVE YOUR HOUSE!
and if this “Prison of Fame” is soooooooo unnerving and difficult, then QUIT, junior!
#Hamateur
Kim Kardashian Celebrates Bachelorette Party at Eiffel Tower:
Kim Kardashian Celebrates Bachelorette Party at Eiffel Tower:
Girls only! Kim Kardashian
was joined by her closest girlfriends for dinner and a bachelorette
party on Thursday, May 22. The reality star was joined by siblings Khloe, Kendall and Kylie as well as friends LaLa Anthony, Joyce Bonelli, Monica Rose, Brittny Gastineau, and more.
Earlier in the evening, the 33-year-old received a personal delivery of "15 bottles of Veuve Clicquot champagne" to her room at the Four Seasons Hotel George V before heading out to an all girls dinner.
Kim appeared to be "having a great time" and looked "happy" while she hopped into an awaiting car en route to Hotel Costes for dinner. Kim, who stunned in a sparkly Balmain dress, "made a grand entrance into Costes with Kylie," a source tells Us.
The gal pals then dined on "light dishes" while sipping "mineral
water and a bit of wine to drink," a member of the staff revealed,
adding, "they clearly all had a lot to talk about -- all were in a very
good mood."
Kim took to her Instagram page, sharing a pic surrounded by all her girls at the dinner, with the caption: "I'm so lucky! I have the best friends in the whole wide world! #ParisNights #LastSupper."
Friend and Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis was first to send the girls off for the fun-filled evening, teasing them as they departed the hotel earlier: "You girls be good tonight!"
The party kicked off with the friends taking a party van, another source tells Us, where they "drove around taking a tour of the Trocadero and other sights in Paris."
Kim and her group took in sights like the Louvre, posing for pics and laughing with one another. The group then ended up at a private bash inside the Eiffel Tower.
Kim is set to wed Kanye West in Florence, Italy on Saturday, May 24.
Earlier in the evening, the 33-year-old received a personal delivery of "15 bottles of Veuve Clicquot champagne" to her room at the Four Seasons Hotel George V before heading out to an all girls dinner.
Kim appeared to be "having a great time" and looked "happy" while she hopped into an awaiting car en route to Hotel Costes for dinner. Kim, who stunned in a sparkly Balmain dress, "made a grand entrance into Costes with Kylie," a source tells Us.
Kim took to her Instagram page, sharing a pic surrounded by all her girls at the dinner, with the caption: "I'm so lucky! I have the best friends in the whole wide world! #ParisNights #LastSupper."
Friend and Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis was first to send the girls off for the fun-filled evening, teasing them as they departed the hotel earlier: "You girls be good tonight!"
The party kicked off with the friends taking a party van, another source tells Us, where they "drove around taking a tour of the Trocadero and other sights in Paris."
Kim and her group took in sights like the Louvre, posing for pics and laughing with one another. The group then ended up at a private bash inside the Eiffel Tower.
Kim is set to wed Kanye West in Florence, Italy on Saturday, May 24.
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