President Buhari Appoints Nigerian Blogger as Special Assistant on Digital/New Media

A popular Nigerian blogger who is always vocal on social media, has today bagged an appointment from the presidency as he has been announced as the Special Assistant on Digital/New Media to President Buhari.

 

In a statement released this evening by the presidential Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Shehu Garba, President Muhammadu Buhari has today, February 18th, appointed popular journalist, social media commenter and blogger, Tolu Ogunlesi, as his Special Assistant on Digital/New Media. 

 

Below is the official statement below;

 

President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday appointed Mr. Tolu Ogunlesi as his Special Assistant on Digital/New Media. Ogunlesi, who is a renowned blogger and journalist, graduated from the University of Ibadan in 2004, and obtained an MA in Creative Writing from University of East Anglia, UK, in 2011. Before his appointment, Ogunlesi had worked as a Features Editor and Editorial Board member of NEXT Newspaper. 

 

He also worked as a West Africa Editor for The Africa Report magazine from 2014 to 2015. Ogunlesi is a two-time winner of the CNN Multichoice African Journalism Awards, and a 2015 New Media Fellow of the U.S. State Department's International Visitor Leadership Programme (IVLP). Ogunlesi will be assisted by Bashir Ahmad, who is a Personal Assistant to the President on New Media. 

 

Femi Adesina,

Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity) 

18th February, 2016.

Mark Zuckerberg 'Responds' to Kanye West's Twitter Plea for Money

Kanye West has gotten a subtle reply from CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg after he begged him to invest a whopping $1 billion in his ventures.

 

Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly issued a subtle response to Kanye West’s plea for money.

 

Kanye had over the weekend begged Zuckerberg to invest $1 billion in his art as he revealed he's $53 million in debt.

 

In a series of tweets, he wrote: "Mark Zuckerberg invest 1 billion dollars into Kanye West ideas ...after realizing he is the greatest living artist and greatest artist of all time.

"Mark Zuckerberg I know it's your bday but can you please call me by 2mrw... You love hip hop, you love my art... I am your favorite artist but you watch me barely breathe and still play my album in your house ... World, please tweet, FaceTime, Facebook, instagram, whatever you gotta do to get Mark to support me...(sic)”

 

Zuckerberg didn’t respond with a statement, but he did appear to like a Facebook user’s status about Kanye’s ambitious bid.

 

 

In a now-deleted post by a former Facebook software engineer named Steven Grim, he wrote: "Dear Kanye West: If you’re going to ask the CEO of Facebook for a billion dollars, maybe don’t do it on Twitter.”

In the rant, the rapper also claimed he is this generation's Disney who needs the resources to make the world a better place.

 

He continued: "I'm this generation's Disney... I want to bring dope s**t to the world.. I don't have enough resources to create what I really can...

"Mark, I am publicly asking you for help... one of the coolest things you could ever do is to help me in my time of need."

Policeman Arrests His Girlfriend After She Turns Down His Proposal in a Busy Shopping Mall (Photos)

A policeman proposed to his girlfriend in a busy shopping centre but she turned him down and then he does the unthinkable.

 

The man enters the shopping centre to meet his girlfriend

 

Shoppers were left astonished when a 'policeman' handcuffed a woman after she turned down his engagement proposal in a Valentine's Day stunt.

 

According to Daily Mail, the dramatic act was actually a prank filmed by Pranksters Trollstation at a shopping mall in Wood Green, north London, with the group of onlookers cheering and smiling at what appeared to start out as a wildly romantic gesture.

 

But their delight soon turned to disbelief when the actress declined the proposal and the pretend policeman handcuffed her for publicly humiliating him

 

In the video, which has now been viewed nearly 300,000 times on Facebook and YouTube, the fake policeman goes rushing over to his fellow actor, who is waiting beside a flower stall dressed in a red tartan dress and heels.

 

 

The actor, called Nathan Brown, picks her up and spins her round, saying: 'Baby, I'm so happy to see you today.'

 

Trying to get the attention of shoppers, he shouts: 'Look, sorry to bother everyone. I just want to make an announcement.'

 

He turns to his fellow actress, called Amina Maz, and says: 'I've loved you for so long.'

 

Attempting to interject, the woman says: 'But we're supposed to be working things out.'

 

The man replies: 'We are, we're perfect for each other. I want to have babies with you. You're the only one I love, I want to be with you.' 

 

As he then goes down on one knee and presents her with an engagement ring, the crowd starts cheering - but soon fall awkwardly silent when it becomes clear the man's feelings aren't reciprocated.

 

The woman says: 'We've been on five dates, I can't marry you. It's too much.'

 

Seemingly heartbroken, the man gets back up onto both feet and says: 'So now I look like an idiot in front of everyone."

 

As she appears to try to smooth things over, the man angrily replies: 'No, don't baby me. I thought you loved me'

 

A woman onlooker tells him to 'calm down', but the man's tirade continues. 'You've embarrassed me in front of every one. Listen yeah, I loved you,' he says.

 

 

He then demands that the woman turns around, and clamps handcuffs over her wrists as the shoppers look on in astonishment.

 

'Turn around, you've embarrassed me in front of everyone. That's it. You're going. You're under arrest.'

 

Addressing the ever-growing crowd around him, he shouts: 'If she loved me she wouldn't have done this to me.'

 

But a concerned onlooker says: 'But if you love someone, you can't do this to her.' 

 

He then leads her past the crowd of people while shouting at her, before the unwitting shoppers are later told they've been part of a prank.

 

It was the latest in a long line of stunts and 'social experiments' by Trollstation, which has garnered some 170,000,000 views of their antics in total.

Homosexuality! Two Male Secondary School Students Caught Kissing Publicly in Lekki, Lagos (Photo)

Two yet to be identified Secondary school students were caught on camera in a hot state of romance in an open space in broad daylight.

The gay students in the illict romance

 

The identities of these Secondary school students engaging in an act of homosexuality can't be ascertained but a pictorial evidence may put them in danger.

 

Social media reports have it that the two boys were photographed from a distance by an eagle-eyed person while the duo were kissing along Lekki expressway publicly.

 

It should be noted that homosexuality in Nigeria attracts a lengthy sentence of 14 years.

Wike Sacks Member of State University for Defecting to APC

Reports have it that Rivers state governor has victimized one Ndubuisi Nwankwo for decamping to the ruling party during his court travails that threatened his gubernatorial position.

Nyesom Wike

  

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has sacked Ndubuisi Nwankwo, an engineer, as a Member of the Governing Council of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (IAUOE) for defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to All Progressives Congress, APC ,according to P.M News.

Nwankwo was a member of the Governorship Inauguration Committee set-up to usher in the administration of Governor Wike anchored on ‘New Rivers Vision’.

He was later appointed a member of the Governing Council of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education.

Wike felt betrayed by Nwankwo for defecting from the PDP to the APC, thinking that the Supreme Court will nullify the April 11 governorship election in Rivers State as the election tribunal and appeal court had earlier sacked Wike.

However, Wike’s mandate was affirmed by the Supreme Court which has led to the sacking of Nwankwo.

Pro-Biafra Militants Free Hijacked Ship, Hold 5 Crew Members Hostage

Reports reaching us reveal some unidentified sympathizers of the Biafran separatist movement who hijacked a vessel has freed it taking 5 key officials hostage.

  

The navy of Benin is guarding a Greek-owned oil tanker hijacked by Nigerian militants who are holding five crew members hostage in Nigeria, a Nigerian agency that issues government statements and a shipping security expert said Wednesday, according to Today News.

The Liberian-flagged MT Leon Dias is anchored off Cotonou, Benin’s commercial capital, PR Nigeria agency reported. It gave no other details and no news of the crew and hijackers.

The hijackers disembarked from the vessel on Sunday and took five hostages with them - the captain, chief engineer, third engineer, the electrician and a fitter, said Dirk Steffen, maritime security director of Denmark-based Risk Intelligence. The ship then sailed to Cotonou, he told The Associated Press.

Owner Leon Shipping and Trading in Athens did not answer requests for comment.

Earlier Nigerian officers said the vessel was hijacked Friday by separatists threatening to blow it up with its crew unless officials release Nnamdi Kanu, the director of the banned Radio Biafra who is accused of terrorism.

Makers of Mindblowing S*x Robot with Virtual V*gina Swamped with Orders (Photo)

A adult virtual game company planning to release world's first interactive adult virtual game which provides mind-blowing pleasure to players have been forced to pull out of the market after it was swamped by too many orders.

Screenshot of the game visuals

 

The manufacturers of a pioneering video game controller that doubles as a virtual reality male sex toy have pulled it off the market after being swamped by demands.

 

VirtuaDolls is a system which allows hi-tech heavy breathers to strap on a VR helmet, sleep with simulated women and be pleasured by a device which responds to on-screen eroticism.

 

This could, for instance, allow gamers to watch a cyber-siren twerking whilst the silicon sex toy pulsates in time with her every gyration. So many men rushed to pre-order this device on the crowdfunding site Indiegogo that its designers were forced to "put the project on hold". In a series of tweets, the firm behind Virtuadolls admitted demand for their virtual vagina had been enormous.

 

Designed by the American company Eos, the VirtualDolls device is a "controller" which looks like a creepy silicon simulation of a woman's safe space.

 

It invites "players" to get involved in sex games, where they carry out missions and are rewarded with a ending which is best described as "happy".

 

VirtuaDolls ships with a title called Girls of Arcadia (pictured below) in which gamers have to save a damsel in distress.

 

If players can't be bothered rescuing the woman, they can just jump to "sim mode" in which they simply choose a woman and sex begins before the first date is even mooted, let alone completed.

 

William Spracklin, Eos founder, said the gizmo was an"adult game controller where touch and feedback are taken to the next level".

 

His Indiegogo campaign raised $7,000 out of its $20,000 goal in just five days. In a promotional video backed by Beverly Hills Cop-style synth-pop music, the firm responsible for VirtuaDolls said it would "take adult gaming to the next level".

 

It is designed to have "several innovative features which create a mindblowing experience". These include a "programmable pressure gripper", which can vary the tightness of its squeeze and a "stroke motion" with variable speed.

 

It uses sensors to detect the power of a man's thrusts, which can then be used to control the onscreen action. The device can be used along with VR helmets including the Oculus Rift.

 

However, it his promo video, Spracklin hinted that he didn't currently have the right members of staff to "help create an amazing experience", which could be why the product's crowdfunding campaign has been postponed.

 

On Reddit, one user had the following warning for anyone who was considering buying a VirtuaDoll.

 

"Sometime in the future some teen is going to be using this thing in conjunction with headphones and a VR headset," he predicted.

"His mother is going to walk into the room and he's going to have no idea she's even there.

"She might not interrupt and he might be coming down for dinner none the wiser."