Anthony Joshua beats Wladimir Klitschko in Wembley thriller

#AnthonyJoshua has beaten #WladimirKlitschko with an 11th round stoppage in a thrilling heavyweight title fight at Wembley.

Both fighters were on the brink of defeat at various stages, with Joshua recovering from a knockdown that subdued him in the middle rounds to steady the ship and stop the Ukrainian.

Klitschko, 41, defied many who believed he would be steamrollered in the early rounds by his younger opponent, and held off the Briton behind his jab.

Wladimir Klitschko confounded predictions of an early defeatJoshua found his mark with a ferocious flurry in the fifth that sent Klitschko to the canvas, but the experienced former champion held on to the bell.

Remarkably, he came back with a right hook of his own in the sixth to knock down the British fighter, who then himself appeared seconds from defeat.

A difficult few rounds followed for the 2012 Olympic champion as he threw little back and looked to be seconds from an against-the-odds defeat.

The sordid tale of alleged infidelity that crashed Mercy Aigbe’s marriage

With each passing scandal, it becomes apparent that either by design or fate, Nollywood cannot sustain a marriage.
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The carcasses of failed marriages that dote the entertainment landscape is as varied as it is bewildering.
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Latest in the long list of marriages that have ended as a result of either party’s involvement in the movie industry is that of 38-year-old starlet, Mercy Aigbe and her 50-year-old husband, Lanre Gentry.
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On Friday, April 28, she published a cryptic post on her Instagram page, calling for Nigerians to ‘say no’ to domestic violence.
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Observers wondered if she was suffering the same fate as millions of Nigerian women who were stuck in abusive marriages.
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About the same time, her hotelier husband, shared a now deleted post that said ‘Say no to promiscuous women.’ It didn’t take long for fans to deduce that something was wrong. By the end of the day, two photos of the actress badly bruised and battered surfaced online.
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NET can reveal that the Aigbe-Gentry marriage was a toxic mix of mutual infidelity, lies, and pretence that was eventually broken by a financial crisis that worsened an already bad situation.
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A source close to the family (who chose not to be named for obvious reasons) disclosed details of the tempestuous marriage to us.
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‘The marriage was destined to break’, the source told this writer. ‘Mercy Aigbe has been promiscuous all through the marriage and this has caused a strain between them since the beginning. ..
‘Some of us have always  known that this would happen someday. A married woman cannot be sleeping about like that. A lot of people thought that after she remarried, she would have calmed down.’
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The source further disclosed that Mercy Aigbe has always maintained amorous relationships with other men for financial favours while she was married to Gentry.
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‘Where do you think she gets all her money from, movies? How much do Nigerian actresses make for their movie roles? If you compare it with their luxurious lifestyle, you’ll see that it doesn’t add up.’
Via: theNETng.

Osi Suave of Beat FM going through another bout of depression?

Osi Suave, OAP at the Beat FM Lagos posted some really ominous tweets yesterday evening…

He has battled with depression in and out and has tweeted about contemplating suicide in the past… Going by his tweets tonight, it seems he’s at a really bad state presently…

Anyone who knows him personally should please reach out to him before he hurts himself… Stay strong Osi. Whatever it is will pass… 👌🏾🙏🏾👌🏾
#OsiSuave #BeatFM #Depression #Twitter #scribblesng #scribblesurban

Blackberry is back with the KEYone phone

Revealed at Mobile World Congress in February, the BlackBerry KEYone has today gone on sale in London, with wider distribution in the UK, Europe and the US to follow.

It’s a slick, aluminum-framed handset with a 4.5in HD screen, fingerprint sensor buried in the physical keyboard’s space bar and the biggest battery yet in a BlackBerry. But will it be enough to put the company back in play?

Like Nokia with its new-old 3310 handset, BlackBerry is a brand which scores big in terms of cosy nostalgia. Many of us remember our first BlackBerry handset with its basic display, below-average web surfing and odd shape. Its phenomenally speedy push-email delivery and superbly usable physical QWERTY made up for all its shortcomings & more.

But the world of mobile changed & BlackBerry didn’t keep up. So business customers who loved the brilliant security but not the phone’s design, persuaded their IT directors to let them have a cool-looking iPhone.

Teenagers who loved the free BlackBerry Messenger app & had learnt – get this – how to touch-text without looking, the BlackBerry under their desks during lessons, grew up to prefer Android phones with access to games & free, platform agnostic WhatsApp.
Which left BlackBerry out in the cold, they just couldn’t keep up.
Most of all, though, it was the absence of apps that sunk BlackBerry, just as the same issue caused problems for Microsoft’s Windows Phone.

More recently, BlackBerry flirted with Android, skinning the Google operating system with DTEK, a security overlay which analysed what apps were doing and alerted you accordingly (A flashlight app? Wants to use location settings? Really?).

Today’s launch is the fullest expression of the Android BlackBerry system, promising the latest OS (Nougat 7.1) and a display which, executives pointed out at the launch, offers more usable space than most touchscreen phones once their touch keyboards block part of the screen. This phone is built by TCL Communications, a Chinese multi-national company.

We will be reviewing the phone in detail soon but first impressions are strong. Gareth Hurn, Global Head of Device Portfolio, said the new phone is built to be unlike any other, to suit “professional consumers looking for something different. It keeps them safe and secure and helps them get the maximum of their day.” Hurn says this phone will appeal to those “who were seduced by another product with a bigger screen or more applications – but those differences are over.” He described it as the world’s most secure Android phone.
The battery, he says, will last for 26 hours in mixed use and can regain a 50 per cent charge in 30 minutes.
Key among the innovations, and a clear signifier of the KEYone name is the fact that the keyboard works like a touchpad as well. If one of the three words suggested as you type turns out to be one you want, just flick upwards underneath the word to see it appear onscreen. Swipe left and right on the space bar to scroll forward or back between web pages. And you can custom-set each of the 26 keys to perform a function, two each, actually. A short press on W can launch WhatsApp, a long press invoke the Weather app. Or assign a contact or your home address in Google Maps and so on.
The BlackBerry execs were certainly bullish, espousing that “Tens of millions of customers are going to come back because they have different priorities.”
Time will tell, but it certainly looks more promising than some of its more recent attempts.