IMPEACHMENT: AL-MAKURA SEEKS JONATHAN'S INTERVENTION

Following the impeachment notice served on the Nasarawa State governor, Umaru Tanko Al-Makura by the state Assembly, the embattled state chief executive hurriedly left Lafia, the state capital yesterday for Abuja in an effort to prevail on President Goodluck Jonathan to intervene in the matter.

LEADERSHIP reports that, Al-Makura before leaving the state capital at about 4p.m. had held series of meetings with his aides and party officials intent upon seeing how the impeachment impasse can be surmounted.

MARADONA: MESSI DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE NAMED BEST PLAYER

Diego Maradona

Argentine football legend Diego Maradona said compatriot Lionel Messi did not deserve to be named best player of the World Cup, arguing it should have gone to Colombia's James Rodriguez.

"I'd give Lio the sky, but when it's not deserved and it's just marketers who want to make him win something he didn't win, it's unfair," Maradona said Sunday after Argentina lost the World Cup final to Germany 1-0.

"Rodriguez was the best player of the World Cup," said Maradona on his TV program "De Zurda," which is broadcast by Venezuelan network Telesur and retransmitted in several Latin American countries.

MALALA PLEDGES WITH JONATHAN TO MEET WITH ABDUCTED SCHOOL GIRLS PARENTS



Malala with some abducted school girls

Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai on Monday urged President Goodluck Jonathan to meet with parents of the schoolgirls kidnapped three months ago by Boko Haram.

Malala, who survived a Taliban assassination attempt in 2012 and has become a champion for access to schooling, was in Abuja on her 17th birthday to mark three months since Boko Haram abducted 276 girls from a secondary school in Chibok, in the northeast.

At least 219 of the girls taken on 14 April are still missing. Malala on Sunday met with several girls who escaped Boko Haram captivity and parents of some of the hostages before her talks with Jonathan.

WOMAN SPENDS $30,000 JUST TO LOOK LIKE KIM

Claire(left) and Kim (right)

Claire Leeson has one goal in life: to look like Kim Kardashian. Actually, she might have other goals but for now, looking like Kim is her priority.

SELENA AND BEIBER WAGGING COLD WAR

Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez are desperate to make each other insanely jealous ... at least that's how it looks after they both flaunted their dinner dates with new people.

The first shot came from Selena on Wednesday night when she hit Tao in NYC with 26-year-old model Tanz Watson ... who wasted no time posting a sexy pic of Selena pressed up against him.

RIHANNA CELEBRATES WITH TEAM GERMANY

 

Rihanna was the German special guest of honor at the World Cup afterparty last night ... gettin' wild with the team and the golden trophy ... and of course, she documented the entire thing.

For some reason, Rihanna is a HUGE fan of Team Germany and was at the game when Gotze hit the winning shot.

MAKU: FESS ON DIGITAL TV TO BE PAID BY 2015

Over the weekend, the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, made the revelation at the opening of the Extra Ordinary Meeting of the National Council of Information in Abuja.

According to Maku, the planned content access fee, which would be paid by Nigerians seeking access to television content, was undergoing final adjustments which he hoped would get the nod of the Federal Executive Council before the migration.