National Telecommunications operator and
Africa’s biggest supporter of football, Globacom Tuesday in Lagos
announced the appointment of Nigerian International and Liverpool
Football Club player, Victor Moses, as its newest brand ambassador.
Moses
was unveiled to the public at a press conference held at the Mike
Adenuga Towers headquarters of the company in Victoria Island, Lagos.
Mary J.Blige got paid the sum of $500,000 just for a night to perform at
the last Sisters With Soul concert held at Eko Hotel and Suites, an
insider revealed. The cheapest fee for entrance for the Etisalat
sponsored show was N15, 000.
Peter Okoye will officially wed his baby mama and fiancée, Lola Omotayo
on the 17th of November. According to Nigeriafilms, "Peter and Lola will
be having their traditional marriage on November 17, 2013 at Arc Events
Centre, Lagos while their white wedding will hold at a later date in
2014." The online portal also reported that "a representative of
P-Square confirmed this to us when contacted...with this development,
arrangements are already ongoing to make the day a memorable one."
You will recall that Peter Okoye only recently proposed to Lola Omotayo, with a brand new Range Rover SUV
ANKARA:
Turkey on Tuesday lifted a decades-old ban on headscarves in the civil
service as part of a package of reforms by the Islamic-rooted government
meant to improve democracy.
The measure was hailed by
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose wife wears a headscarf, as a
"step toward normalisation" and came into effect after it was published
in the Official Gazette.
"We have now abolished an
archaic provision which was against the spirit of the republic. It's a
step toward normalisation," Erdogan said in a parliamentary speech to
his ruling party lawmakers.
"A dark time eventually comes
to an end," he said. "Headscarf-wearing women are full members of the
republic, as well as those who do not wear it."
But critics accuse Erdogan of lifting the ban to force his Islamic values on the majority Muslim but staunchly secular nation.
When
plans to remove the ban were first announced last week, the main
opposition party labelled it "a serious blow to the secular republic"
created by modern Turkey's founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in
1923.
Erdogan last week unveiled a package of democratic
reforms mostly aimed at improving rights for minority Kurds, but he also
used the opportunity to take on the highly controversial headscarf ban.
Female
civil servants are now allowed to wear the veil while their male
counterparts can sport beards, both symbols of Muslim piety.
However, the ban remains in place for judges, prosecutors, police and military personnel.
Erdogan's
ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) pledged to remove the ban on
the wearing of headscarves in all domains when it came to power in
2002. It has already relaxed the ban at universities.
The
highly charged debate about headscarves lies at the heart of Turkey's
divisions between religious conservatives, who form the bulk of
Erdogan's AKP supporters, and more secular members of society.
In
1999, Turkish-American lawmaker Merve Kavakci arrived in parliament
wearing a headscarf for her swearing-in ceremony. She was booed out of
the house and had her Turkish citizenship revoked.
In stark contrast, a day after Erdogan's announcement of reforms, President Abdullah Gul's wife wore her headscarf to parliament
