Celebs: All the stars at Ali Baba's January 1st concert

A lot celebs including RMD, Rita Dominic, Teju Babyface and wife, AY, Kate Henshaw, OC Ukeje, Timi Dakolo, D1 and wife, Cobhams and wife, Akpororo and many more attended Ali Baba's January 1st concert which held Eko Hotel. See more pics after the cut...

NIGERIA: Stock broker jailed for 7 years in Lagos for fraudulent sale of shares

A stock broker identified as Tajudeen Folaji was today sentenced to seven years imprisonment by a Lagos state High Court sitting in Ikeja. Tajudeen was found guilty of a one-count charge of unauthorized sale of shares and stealing contrary to Section 390(8) (b) of the Criminal Code Law, Cap C17, Vol. 2 Laws of Laws of Lagos State 2003.


Delivering judgement on the case filed by the EFCC, the presiding judge, Justice Kudirat Jose, fined Folaji's company, First Alstate Securities Limited, where he served as managing director, N20 million. Folaji was arrested and arraigned following a petition from the Security and Exchange Commission in 2010 that he fraudulently sold the shares of Adesoye Holdings Limited in IPWA Plc.

Investigations showed that he sold 31,886,200 units of Adesoye Holdings Limited shares in IPWA Plc worth millions of naira without any authorization from the company. Aside the seven years imprisonment, Justice Jose also made an order that the EFCC should trace his properties and sell them and give the proceeds to Adesoye Holdings Limited.

Money: Nigerian University dropout becomes a stockbroker after using his student loan to start trading & now earns £30,000 on a bad month

Elijah Oyefeso, 21, trades on the stock market for just one hour a day to earn his income. Elijah, from Camberwell, south London, who likes to show his wealth on Instagram (inset) now lives in a £5,000 flat, buys expensive cars like the £150,000 Lamborghini he had sprayed gold (left), and likes to buy watches including a £21,000 Cartier watch that he's worn twice. Read full story after the cut...


From UK Daily Mail

He said: 'If you work hard you don't need to look at the price tag, you just get it.'

Elijah claims he bought his first Mercedes aged 18 but soon faced jealousy from his peers in the south London neighbourhood after his success.

He said: 'They've come from the same area and they're still in the same area and went to school in the same area.

'My mum came from west Africa and came with probably £100 in her pocket.'

Elijah went to the University of Buckingham to study business management but put his student loan to good use. 

He said: 'I used my student loan during university and I thought "I could actually do this".

Elijah dropped out of university and started investing in the stock market with the cash sum. Within nine months, he claimed he was making tens of thousands of pounds.

He claims his income on a 'bad month' will be between £20,000 and £30,000 but added: 'On a good month, I don't think I can tell you that.'

Elijah, who featured in Channel 4's Rich Kids Go Shopping on Channel 4, was filmed as he traded online, making £1,000 in just 15 minutes.

'I've been trading for three years, I know when to stop,' he said. 

The most he's lost in one go is nearly £10,000. 'When you lose it, you get back up. If you lose 12 times, you get back up 12 times.

'You want to leave a name when you're gone. Think about JP Morgan, the assets are worth 2.6 trillion. So that's a lot.'

Elijah, who listens to classical music while trading, said: 'There's a saying, you are who you chill with. I chill with people who have half a million in the bank.

'Earning £20 to £30,000 a month, in my world that's not good. It motivates you to do more.'

Elijah pays £5,000 a month on his flat in Kensington, a stone's throw from department store Harrods.

His main expense is cars and when he was aged 20, he made sure he, literally, had one of London's flashiest cars by paying £150,000 on a Lambourghini and painting it gold.

He said: 'When you're little you've got your ideal car, you've got your dream car. Some kids are like "I want to get a Bugatti, I want to get a Ferrari".

'Some people are like "yeah yeah." But I got it.' That was my dream, I worked for it, I got it.'

But Elijah made headlines in July when his Lamborghini crashed into his own £60,000 Bentley, with the repair work costing £55,000 on the Lamborghini.

He was left unfazed by it: 'But that's life, money comes and goes regardless.'

Elijah also has a collection of expensive watches, ranging from a Rolex to a Cartier watch costing £21,000 which he has only worn a couple of times.  

But he loves his watch collection, he said: 'You've got to treat them like princesses.'

He's even given them names, calling one watch Michelle and another Aaliyah after the singer.

Now that he is comfortably wealthy, Elijah has decided to do something for someone else - he's building a house in Africa for his mother.

He said: 'It's a surprise I haven't told her yet.'

ISIS STRIKES AGAIN: Last post of female Syrian journalist who was executed by ISIS on charges of spying.

"Go ahead and cut off the internet. Our messenger pigeons won't complain" Activists in Raqqa has confirmed that this was the last post of Syrian Journalist Ruqia Hassan who was murdered by the Islamic State after she was accused of being a spy. Ruqia Hassan often posted information about the daily lives of residents living under ISIS in its Syrian stronghold of Raqqa.

Writing under the pen name Nissan Ibrahim, Ms Hassan's posts described how the city was targeted by coalition airstrikes on a regular basis. It is not clear when the young journalist was first arrested by ISIS militants but her last Twitter post was on July 21 last year. Her family were only informed of her death three days ago and were told she was found guilty of carrying out counts of espionage.

Source:lindaikeji

Brazilian Butt!!!!!!! Photos: Woman has her own fat pumped into butt to get Kim Kardashian curves

Kim Kardashian wannabe spent £7,000 on a Brazilian butt-lift to look like her idol, Daily Star reports. Marlene Chinea decided to go under the knife after 300-squats-a-day failed to give her the booty of her dreams. The 36-year-old spent thousands of hours in the gym working on her behind, but when nothing worked she resorted to having four pounds of fat injected into her bum to make it curvier.

 Source:lindaikeji

"BIAFRAN": Nnamdi Kanu and wife welcome baby boy

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra and the director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu and his wife, welcomed a baby boy. The announcement was made today.

NIGERIA: Muslim women stage "Free El-Zakzaky" protest in Kaduna

 

Some Muslim women held a protest and press conference in Kadun earlier today where they called for the immediate release of the leader of the Shiite movement in Nigeria Sheik Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. He was arrested after his group had a clash with the Nigerian Army on Saturday December 12th. See more photos after the cut...

SOURCE:LINDAIKEJI

IMF And NIGERIA: I am not in Nigeria to negotiate any loan- Lagarde says

Visiting MD of the International Monetary Fund, IMF, Christine Lagarde says she is not in Nigeria to push for a loan to be made available to the country as Nigeria does not need any of their interventions

"I am not here to negotiate loan with conditionalities because Nigeria does not need a new IMF programme.”

She told state house correspondents after her meeting with Buhari.

lindaikeji

U.N. Security Council condemns Iranian attacks on the Saudi Arabian embassy

The United Nations Security Council has condemned Iranian attacks on the SaudiArabian embassy after Saudi Arabia angered the Iranian government by executing a Shiite cleric some days back.
Demonstrators in Iran descended upon the Saudi embassy in Tehran and the consulate in Mashhad.  and set it on fire after Riyadh executed 47 men including Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr.

This resulted in the Saudis cutting diplomatic relations with Iran, suspending all flights to and from Iran. Several countries like the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait and Sudan have withdrawn diplomatic relations from Iran as a sign of support to Saudi Arabia.

The statement by the 15-member U.N Security council, which called on Iran to protect diplomatic personnel and property, made no mention of the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.

The statement read in part:

“The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the attacks against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Tehran, and its Consulate General in Mashhad in the Islamic Republic of Iran, which resulted in intrusions into the diplomatic and consular premises, causing serious damage,” said the council statement.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry reached out to both the Saudi and Iranian foreign ministers to calm tensions.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest echoed those sentiments.

"We are urging all sides to show some restraint and to not further inflame tensions that are on quite vivid display in the region," he said Monday in a briefing with reporters.

SOURCE:LINDAIKEJI 

Meanwhile In NIGERIA: Cross River State Governor Locks Late Commissioners Outside

Cross Rivers state governor, Ben Ayade paid an unscheduled visit to four ministries in the state today where he met only one of the commissioners on duty at after 8 this morning. He immediately ordered that the absentee commissioners be locked out of their offices.



Among the ministries he visited include the Ministries of Agriculture, Water Resources, Women Affairs and Sustainable Development. Only the Commissioner for Women Affairs, Stella Odey was on sit to receive him when he arrived. The commissioners for Agriculture Prof. Egrinya Eneji, Water Resources Gabe Odu Orji and Sustainable Development Oliver Orok were all absent when he visited.

A very disappointed governor Ayade, while commending Odey, said he will not tolerate any act of lateness from any commissioner

“I am saddened by what I have seen this morning. It is shocking that it is already past 8:00am, yet commissioners cannot be found on their seats. I will not take kindly to this culture of lateness to work and I am going to do something about it. I must, however, commend you for your exceptional conduct. Please do keep it up.”he said.

Source:lindaikeji