South Korean presenter ruins her looks with drastic jaw surgery to achieve ‘heart-shaped’ face

A South Korean woman has been accused of ‘ruining her face’ after ‘before’ and ‘after’ shots of her plastic surgery procedure spread online.
The unnamed woman, allegedly a reporter on a South Korean TV channel, has undergone jaw surgery in order to achieve the dainty heart-shaped face desired by many east Asian women.
The result of the procedure is an unusually pointed chin, and the reactions on a Japanese online forum did not hold back.
One used wrote: ‘Someone please tell me this was Photoshopped!’ while another quipped that ‘it looks like you could plow a field with that chin,’ RocketNews24 reports.
Another asked: ‘Is it really possible to taper someone’s chin that much?
‘She really doesn’t know what true beauty is.’
South Korea is the world’s largest market for plastic surgery, with one in five Seoul women having gone under the knife.

The most popular surgical procedures include double eyelid surgery – which reduces excess skin in the upper eyelid to make the eyes appear bigger, lipoplasty – which uses high-frequency sound waves to eliminate fat – and nose jobs.
While on the nonsurgical front, Botox and laser hair removal remain firm favourites, a 2012 report said.
It appears the woman in these pictures have undergone drastic jaw surgery, a high-risk operation which involves re-aligning the jaw and shaving off parts of the bone to create a ‘heart shape’.
It is usually a last resort solution to correct facial deformities where people have been unable to chew properly due to an excessive over or underbite, but has become popular in South Korea.
A small face with a ‘V-shaped’ chin and jawline is considered a mark of feminine beauty in much of East Asia, along with a high-bridged nose and big eyes.

2015: Ohanaeze bars Kalu, prominent Igbo from contesting for president

As part of its move to secure block votes for President Goodluck Jonathan, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo said it has begun consultations with prominent Igbo citizens to shed the ambition of contesting the 2015 presidential election.
The apex body said it was doing so in the interest of peace and unity, noting that a president of Igbo origin would emerge at the appropriate time.
Ohanaeze Ndigbo President Gary Nnachi Enwo-Igariwey yesterday visited a former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, to urge him to drop his presidential ambition. He said the move was strategic and it would enable the Igbo to speak with one voice on the 2015 presidential election.
Enwo-Igariwey, who said he started discussions with Kalu about seven months back, said he was in Abuja to urge him to comply with the Igbo cause by reconsidering his plan to run.
He said: “I was here about six months ago to actually discuss with him on issues concerning the Igbo nation. It was about rumours on presidential interest and I told him I will like to discuss that with him formally when he eventually decides on what to do. I have come in continuation of that discussion and to appeal to him to share my views with him. So, I have come here to rub minds with him and to tell him to join me in the discussions about Igbo unity so that we will speak with one voice.
“We no longer want a situation where we speak from different points and our agenda should be the same. I have talked to him about his views. I have appealed to him to shelve it in the interest of the Igbo nation. I have appealed to him to join hands with us and at the appropriate time when we make our statement, it will be with one voice as a people. That a great son like him should also join in that decision making and I have appealed to him to shelve that ambition in the interest of peace, until such decisions are made in Igbo land and he has given me his assurances that he will listen to Ohanaeze’s appeal so that we speak with one voice in the interest of the people.”
Asked if the decision would not jeopardise the rights of the average Igbo person to aspire to the highest post in the land, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo chief said other individuals should exercise their rights but the body has a target group and Kalu happened to be one of the prominent Igbo who should be persuaded to shelve their ambition.

Speaking on the threat by some Northern elders to sue former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen Azubuike Ihejirika, to the World Court, Enwo-Igariwey said the body condemned the statement, demanding its withdrawal. It is a known fact that there is bound to be some unfortunate casualties in the fight against terror by the authorities.
Responding to the request, an apparently unexcited Kalu said he would reconsider his decision to run for president.
“Mr. President (Enwo-Igariwey) was here and he advised that he would like the Igbo to speak with one voice. They said a tree cannot make a forest. If the apex organisation in Igboland wants to say, ‘well; we don’t want any of our sons to contest for election this time’, well, we will hold on and work with them to see what they will do. I will never be a scapegoat that will sacrifice my tribe. Whatever my tribe says is superior to what I will think. I believe they have their reasons and their reasons may be more superior to what I think. He was here six months ago and I told him we will discuss it between December and January and not only him, there are many of our Igbo elite who have been to me in Lagos, Abuja and in the diaspora and I don’t know who I am to say no to them.”

Source: The Nation

Russian woman changes gender to dodge debts

MOSCOW, January 28 (RIA Novosti) – Police in southern Russia are searching for a man who was previously a woman and is believed to have changed gender to avoid paying thousands of rubles in debts and unpaid fines, local bailiffs said Monday.
The bailiff service of the southern Astrakhan region said the 38-year-old, identified only as Natalya, had changed her sex and assumed the name of Andrian after accumulating debts of about 130,000 rubles ($3,800), including an unpaid court fine of 70,000 rubles for assaulting a police officer.
As a man, the suspect has accumulated six new debts in the form of unpaid taxes, said the bailiff service, which is responsible for making sure that Russian citizens pay their bills.
A spokesperson for the service told the Agence-France Presse news agency that changing gender and identification papers “would not cancel the debts Andrian acquired as a woman.”
“If a debtor thinks he can escape that way, he’s very much mistaken,” the AFP quoted the official as saying. The suspect’s last name has not been disclosed.

EFCC Files Fresh Money Laundering Charge against Fani-Kayode

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday filed an amended money laundering charge against a former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, at a Federal High Court in Lagos.

According the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), at the resumed hearing of the case, the prosecutor, Mr. Festus Keyamo, informed the court of the amended charge containing 40 counts and applied that the plea of the accused be taken.

After the first count was read to the accused, his counsel, Mr. Ifedayo Adedipe (SAN), raised an objection that the charge was invalid and his client could not plead to it.

Adedipe argued that the count stated that the accused “accepted cash payments of over N10 million”, without stating the donor of the said money.

He said it was alleged throughout the charge that the accused “accepted various sums of money,” without mentioning the names of the persons from whom they were received.
The counsel submitted that the charge was “invalid, persecutory and oppressive.”

Keyamo, in response, argued that the charge bordered on money laundering in which monies involved had no source as opposed to conversion or stealing where there was a particular source.
He submitted that he was prepared to file a written address on the issue.

Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, in a short ruling, said both parties were at liberty to either file written addresses or address the court orally on the issue.
She adjourned the case to February 3 for ruling.

Fani-Kayode was earlier re-arraigned on February 11, 2013 on an amended 47-count charge.
He had pleaded not guilty to the charge and was granted bail.
In the charge, the accused was alleged to have transacted with funds exceeding N500,000 without going through a financial institution.

The accused was also alleged to have accepted cash payments of about N100 million, while he served as Minister of Aviation and Minister of Culture and Tourism respectively.
The offences were said to contravene the provisions of Sections 15(1) (a) (b) (c) (d) and 15 (2) (a) (b) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2004.

Am not Fit to Govern Taraba State: Suntai

Recuperating Governor of Taraba State, DanBaba Suntai, has in an interview admitted that he is still not well enough to resume office as the governor of the state.
Appearing in a video recording, which was posted on YouTube, Suntai, who was surrounded by some of his aides in the two-minute, 20-second interview, was incoherent in his response to the questions posed to him.
For example, when asked whether he was fit enough to return to office as an executive   governor of Taraba State, Suntai in a shaking and low tone replied, “I can tell you that it is well with me to return to my office simply because I want you to support me. You know the truth, I am not well at all to return to office as I am now.”
The question and answer session with the ailing governor went thus:
Question: I am happy to see you; we thought the situation was worse than this. I am happy about the development. Good to see you.

Suntai: I am feeling fine to receive you to this state
Question: The process of your recuperation, I hope it is going on well and what is your message to Nigerians?

Suntai: It is going on well. It is an act of God that we have involved ourselves in… God does not like it or permit us to do it. It is unfortunate that I am involved in the drinking of these hot drinks. It is unfortunate that we decided to listen to the devil.
Question: Are you well enough to return to office as executive governor of Taraba State?
Suntai: I can tell you it is well with me to return to my office (clapping) simply because I want you to support me. You know the truth, I am not well at all to return to office as I am now.

Suntai, who was involved in an air mishap in October 2012, spent about a year in hospitals in Germany and United States of America, where he was treated for the injuries he sustained from the plane crash.
He was flown back to Nigeria last August with the intent of assuming the governance of Taraba State. But his state of fitness soon became a contentious issue leading to the confirmation of his deputy, Alhaji Umar Garba, as the acting governor, pending when Suntai is fit enough to resume full leadership of the state.

Source: This Day Live