Gunmen attack lovers romancing inside car

Two suspected car snatchers, who were paraded by the Lagos State Police Command on Tuesday, said they snatched a Honda Accord while the owner was romancing a woman in the vehicle. PUNCH Metro gathered that the suspects ─ Babatunde Makinde and Faruk Lawal ─ were apprehended by the command’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Mushin, Lagos, on Monday, September 22. Our correspondent learnt that the two suspects were on their way to snatch N20m from a man who was to travel out of the country. The suspects were said to have snatched the Honda Accord on Morrocco Street, Somolu. The vehicle was used for their transportation. However, while they had yet to reach their destination, it was learnt that the police, who already got wind of their movement, swooped on them. According to the police, two locally-made double barrel and single barrel guns, 28 live cartridges and the snatched Honda Accord Saloon car were recovered from the gang after arrest. Speaking with PUNCH Metro, 33-year-old Makinde confessed that it was one Dayo, said to be the gang leader, who tipped them that a wealthy man was travelling abroad with about N20m. He said, “We were on our way to rob the man when we noticed the man in the vehicle. It was in the evening at about 7pm. We saw the man and a lady making out in the vehicle. The man was all over the lady while the door glasses of the vehicle were slightly wound down. We bust in on them, hit the man on the head and dragged both of them out. Then, we took the vehicle. “We did not want to go for our operation with a bike so that the police would not stop us. That was why we snatched the man’s vehicle.” Lawal, 38, added that the police, who were on their trail, apprehended them while they were just about to enter their would-be victim’s house . The Lagos State Police Commissioner, Cornelius Aderanti, said investigations were in progress to get other members of the gang.

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P-SQUARE: THEY MAKE A HOT PARTY IN THE "EJEAJO" MUSIC VIDEO! SEE VIDEO

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P-Square drops the VIDEO for their hot song EjeAjo featuring T.I. Watch the Video to P-Square’s party single titled Ejeajo featuring ATL’s favourite rapper. P Square’s EJEAJO video shot on location in Lagos Nigeria and Atlanta.

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JENNIFER LOPEZ AND IGGY AZALEA: THEY FINALLY RELEASE THEIR BOOTY SHAKE LESSON! WATCH VIDEO

After teasing us with a 30 seconds video, Jennifer Lopez releases the full “Booty” remix music video featuring Iggy Azalea.

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In this music video, the artist booties are honoured during more than 4 minutes. As we can guess, the bomba latina and the Australian rapper were decided rise the temperature. Initially recorded with Pitbull as a guest, we are not sorry that the remix was prefered to the original to film. To our delight, the two booty icons show us how to do sexy moves, heat hugging and hot dance.

Between "Anaconda" and "Booty", which video do you think won the Ass festival?

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Mexicans Are Generally Pissed About Miley Cyrus Flossing a Butt with Their Flag

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No one told Miley Cyrus that it's not only rude, but literally illegal, to floss a fake plastic booty with the Mexican flag in Mexico. So when Cyrus's back up dancer used said flag on said booty on Tuesday — which was also Mexican Independence Day — it didn't go down well.

The interior ministry is leaning towards fining the concert promoters Zignia Live for not monitoring the content of the show. In a statement, Zignia publicists argued that they couldn't interfere, but have asked Miley to be more careful from now on. FromMilenio:


"The artist brings his show and actually we can not as promoter interfere in what he does... the truth is that this issue in particular is talking to her to have a little more care and will not be repeated in other cities," said Dante Guillen, manager national press and promotion Zignia Live.

In recent years, several artists have been investigated and fined for doing much less to desecrate the flag. As La Prensa noted, actress and singer Thalia was almost fined for posing topless with the flag draped around her until she argued it happened in a different country. Another actress, Paulina Rubio, was fined 53,000 pesos ($4,000) for appearing on the cover of a Spanish magazine wearing only the flag. Both of these incidents are arguably less disrespectful than wiping a butt.

Mexicans are split over whether this was just another dumb Miley controversy or an affront to the dignity of their country. Everyone agrees that it's trashy, but no one's sure just how much attention it warrants. In other words, they're having the same Miley debate we've been having for the last year: at what point does tastelessness stop (or start) being newsworthy?

Several people were understandably outraged. Quién compiled a list of "celebrity" (mostly journalist) reactions. News anchor Paola Rojas wrote that she was "outraged by what happened in the Miley Cyrus show." Popular writer Fernanda Familiartweeted that the interior ministry deserved a standing ovation for considering sanctions over the controversy.

There were also calls to move on. Jesus Navarro, one of the members of the Mexican band Reik (they sound like The Backstreet Boys, in a good way) tweeted "Everyone who was offended by what Miley Cyrus did needs to dig a hole, get in there and never leave":

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Alibaba Is Overpriced and Overhyped—So What Else Is New?

Founder and Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group Jack Ma attends the company's initial price offering (IPO) at the New York Stock Exchange on September 19, 2014 in New York City.Andrew Burton—Getty Images
Alibaba may be a Chinese company, but this IPO is an all-American way for inside holders to get rich

Alibaba Raises $22 Billion in Record IPO
Meet Alibaba Founder Jack Ma
Jack Ma was lousy at math as a kid, and began his career as an English-language instructor in Hangzhou, China. He seems to have addressed that deficiency quite nicely. Ma, 50, is executive chairman of Alibaba, China’s biggest internet commerce company, which just launched an Initial Public Offering on the New York Stock Exchange that raised some $22 billion. It’s the biggest IPO on record. Alibaba’s shares were priced at $68—the high end of the range set by investment bankers—but when trading started the price jumped to $92.70. That values the company at about $232 billion, bigger than Facebook, IBM, Amazon and that tech fossil IBM. Ma’s shares are worth close to $18 billion, even after selling some $867 million in the IPO.


Alibaba does little retail business in the United States; it was originally designed to provide an online wholesale marketplace that connected Chinese companies with buyers all over the world. But the company now includes an e-Bay knockoff called Taobao that did indeed knock e-Bay out of the way in China; Tmall.com, a brands and retail platform, a cloud computing operation and other retail and wholesale businesses. “Alibaba is synonymous with e-commerce in China,” the company said in its filing statement.


And it is also synonymous with the frenetic tech IPO market in the U.S. The companied initially tried to list its shares on the Hong Kong Exchange, which would seem to be a friendly home. But its byzantine ownership structure, with Ma at the center of a web of interrelated companies tied to Alibaba, wasn’t deemed fairly structured enough to meet the Hong Kong exchange’s rules. Nor did Alibaba list with NASDAQ, always seen as friendlier to tech IPOs and to companies with multiple share classes. Instead, Alibaba listed with the old-school New York Stock Exchange. According to the NYSE, Alibaba is the 25th tech company to list its shares this year.

Except that you are not actually buying Alibaba’s shares directly, since China’s government won’t allow foreigners to control one of its most prized companies. Investors are buying shares in something called a variable interest entity that has a claim on the company’s earnings. The VIE is registered in the Cayman Islands—yes, the Cayman Islands!—that black hole of offshore money. And did I mention that Alibaba is in China. As global auto companies are learning, political risk is not unknown in that country, and even though Alibaba is a home team favorite, foreign holders are just that.

Ma is more than familiar with the way the investment cycle works, as well as the Chinese government. He was introduced to the Internet in 1995, in Seattle, and set out to become China’s web pioneer. He linked up with Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang for a $1 billion investment 2005 that will paying off enormously for the otherwisestruggling American firm. Throughout it all, he has done things his way. In this regard, Ma has a lot in common with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch. If you are a big fan of shareholder democracy, you might have the wrong outfit in Alibaba.

All of this should tell investors to tread very cautiously. Yeah, right. Even as talk of another tech bubble keeps bubbling up in Silicon Valley, investors have demonstrated over and over that they are not going to be dissuaded from taking the plunge in the red-hot IPO pool. There are some compelling things about Alibaba. Yes, China, for one. The company’s IPO cites data claims there are 500 million mobile internet users in China and 279 million active buyers. Better yet, only 8% of all shopping is currently done online in China. And the Chinese government is not only raising wages but wants consumer spending to become a greater force in its economy.

The potential is enormous, of course, and Alibaba is not a startup. It’s a company with $7.3 billion in sales that earns actual profits. But the question for investors is always about how much you want to pay for growth. And when it comes to tech, the answer is often: too much. Alibaba may be a Chinese company, but this IPO is an all-American way for inside holders to get rich, or in Ma’s case, dynastically rich.

Ma doesn't mind practicing Tai Chi in public. Here he and Hong Kong comedian Stephen Chow enjoy the ancient...

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Jack Ma really likes performing on stage, and the more outlandish the clothing, the better. Here, Ma performs 

He's apparently a fan of the Terminator franchise. In 2010 he met then-California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger,

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Yes, Ma really does love to sing. His onstage attire was a little less flamboyant by the time this 2013 photo was taken

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YOU ARE THE FATHER! DNA TEST PROVES MATHEW KNOWLES FATHERED REAL ESTATE AGENT’S 4-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER

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Back in July, we told you about a 30-year-old real estate agent by the name of TaQoya Branscomb, who filed a lawsuit against Mathew Knowles alleging that he is the father of her 4-year-old daughter, Koi. As previously reported, Branscomb alleged that she and Mathew conceived her daughter back in 2010 and was requesting a DNA test, child support and money to cover her attorney’s fees.

Well, the results from that DNA test are in and it looks like Solange and Beyoncé have a 4-year-old sister. TMZ recently recovered a copy of the court ordered paternity test and there’s a 99.998% certainty that Knowles is the father of the toddler.

                                   

                              






Of course, Branscomb is now expected to go after him for child support, which should be interesting since his child support obligations to his son’s mother, AlexSandra Wright, were slashed due to the fact that he’s struggling financially since being fired as Beyoncé’s manager.

As you may recall, shortly after news of TaQoya’s paternity suit broke, there were reports that she was actually a friend of Solange after a throwback photo of the two of them together surfaced. The “Losing You” singer however, eventually had a rep come forward to deny those claims.

We can only imagine what’s going through the minds of Bey and Solo right now…SMH.

                                    

                                       

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Ryan Gosling And Eva Mendes Have Baby Girl

News of the birth of the Hollywood couple's first child emerges after nearly a week of secrecy, US media reports.

Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling with fellow actor Bradley Cooper (far left)

Actors Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling have become parents for the first time, but kept the birth secret for almost a week.

Mendes gave birth to the baby girl on Friday September 12, according to US media.

The couple had also kept the news of Mendes' pregnancy to themselves for a long time, with the first reports emerging in July when she was already seven months pregnant.

The 40-year-old has not been seen on the red carpet since February and had brushed off pregnancy rumours earlier this year.

At the time she said: "It's so ridiculous.

"It all started because I didn't want to go through the scanners at the airport. You know those X-ray scanners which are really creepy? They basically see you naked, right?

"And, not only that, but there's a radiation aspect to it so I always opt out."

Mendes, who made her name in the 2001 blockbuster Training Day, has been dating The Notebook star Gosling, 33, for three years.

Both played parents in the film The Place Beyond The Pines last year.

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Apple’s HealthKit catches a bug just before iOS 8 software goes live

Health and fitness-tracking app updates pulled, with cure expected by the end of September

Apple’s new Health app is part of iOS 8, but third-party HealthKit apps are missing for now. Photograph: PR

Apple may have launched its iOS 8 software update for iOS devices, but one of its key features ran into last-minute problems forcing developers to pull their apps.

HealthKit is Apple’s new platform for health and fitness apps to share people’s data between themselves, as well as with the new Health app that’s part of iOS 8.

A number of apps were expected to launch HealthKit-compatible updates as iOS 8 rolled out, but they are now unlikely to go live until the end of September.

“We discovered a bug that prevents us from making HealthKit apps available on iOS 8 today,” Apple spokesperson Trudy Muller told CNET, in a statement.

“We’re working quickly to have the bug fixed in a software update and have HealthKit apps available by the end of the month.”

Having its ambitious new fitness system derailed by a surprise bug is a setback for Apple, which has been working with a number of developers and medical institutions on its move into personal health.

MyFitnessPal, WebMD and Carrot Fit are among the apps affected by the last-minute delay. Carrot Fit developer Brian Mueller told Cult of Mac that he was informed of the problems in a call from Apple.

“The rep couldn’t clarify what was wrong, though users of the app who had already downloaded the update were able to use the HealthKit features without any issue.”

Although apps using HealthKit were removed from Apple’s App Store, most are expected to revert to previous versions in the coming days, while Apple works on a fix for the bug.

HealthKit, along with Apple’s soon-to-launch Apple Pay payment system, is under particular scrutiny since the recent mass-leak of celebrities’ private photos, many of which were stolen by “brute-force” attacks on their iCloud accounts.

There is currently no indication that the HealthKit bug is related to security, but with Apple aiming to make iOS users feel comfortable tracking and storing their personal health data on its devices, launching HealthKit with any major bug could spark unease.

HealthKit is also a key part of the upcoming Apple Watch product, but if the company meets its goal of fixing the problem by the end of September, the bug is unlikely to have an impact on the wearable device’s launch in early 2015.

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