Herdsmen Sack Kogi Community, Police Records No Arrest

 Heavily armed and dangerous group of herdsmen attacked Miza community in Kupaland, Lokoja Local Government Area of Kogi State, destroying homes and properties according to local police and journalists.
As of the time of filing this report, there has been no mention of casualties, but a number of refugees have been reported in surrounding communities.

The locals claimed the Fulani herdsmen attacked after accusing the locals of stealing and killing their cows.

Witnesses told reporters that news of an impending attack got to Miza residents a few days after the herdsmen launched an initial assault on the area, prompting many residents to flee to neighbouring communities.

One Miza Indigene said that the recent attack occured just hours after the state Police command held a peace meeting between the leaders of Miza and Fulani communities.

He said: We are surprised at the recent attack on our community because it came hours after we had a meeting at the Police headquarters in Lokoja.
“The Police had appealed to representatives of Kupa and Fulani communities to stop all forms of hostilities and allow peace to prevail in the area. Hours after the peace meeting, the herdsmen struck and ravaged our community.”

According to the eyewitness acount about 1,000 armed Fulani herdsmen were heading towards Miza.

The people, not willing to engage the attackers, sought refuge in neighbouring community and watched the herdsmen set their homes on fire.
Earlier this week, some suspected herdsmen were said to have attacked the village but the local vigilante repelled the attack and killed five of the suspected herdsmen while the others fled.

One journalist said: “Earlier in the week, some Fulani herdsmen had attacked Miza but the vigilante in the community repelled and killed five of them”.
“However, one person from Miza and another from Gbeduma community lost their lives during the fighting.”

Meanwhile, the Kogi Commissioner for Information, Zainab Okino has confirmed the incident and said there has been no casualty recorded.
He said: “There was an attack this morning but there was no casualty recorded. There was an earlier incident where the Fulanis alleged that the Miza people killed their cows and they went and attacked them.

“There has been crisis in the area and we have been trying to resolve the situation. We held a meeting with them yesterday and today (Saturday) we did the same thing.”

Zeez latest brand new video as he celebrates birthday

HF Music recording artiste, Zeez celebrates his birthday today January 10 and as a gift for all his fans and supporters, he releases a Clarence Peters directed music video to “Ba Mi Jo”, one of the songs off his recently released EP, ‘Zeez – The EP’. 

Zeez who re-launched his music campaign with HF Music last year has since been one of the most active artistes releasing quite a number of singles including his 2014 mega-hit single ‘Atewo’ where he featured Olamide. Zeez has also released quite a number of music videos under HF Music.

With the music artillery Zeez has in stock along with a great HF Music team, the Bobbie FC, Fokasibe and Atewo crooner is set to be at the tip of everyone’s lips in short time to come.

TOTAL BLOODY: Boko Haram kills about 2,000 in latest attack

The Amnesty International has described the January 3 attack on Baga community in Borno State as the very deadliest in the history of Boko Haram’s over five-year reign of terror in Nigeria, saying about 2,000 people may have been killed during the by the heartless terrorists.

Amnesty, in a statement on Friday, said it had reports of the town being razed to the ground, leaving around 2,000 people dead in the process.

A researcher for Amnesty International in Nigeria, Daniel Eyre, said, “The attack on Baga and surrounding towns looks as if it could be Boko Haram’s deadliest act in a catalogue of increasingly heinous attacks carried out by the group. 

“If reports that the town was largely razed to the ground and that hundreds or even as many as two thousand civilians were killed are true, this marks a disturbing and bloody escalation of Boko Haram’s ongoing onslaught against the civilian population.”

“We are currently working to find out more details of what happened during the attack on Baga and the surrounding area. This attack reiterates the urgent need for Boko Haram to stop the senseless killing of civilians and for the Nigerian government to take measures to protect a population who live in constant fear of such attacks,” Eyre added.

Since 2009 when the sect began its deadly campaign, targeting civilians and military personnel through raids and bomb attacks, scores of lives have been lost. According to United States-based Council on Foreign Relations, more than 10,000 were killed by the group last year alone, many of them children and old people.

Meanwhile, shooting and heavy artillery fire were heard on the outskirts of Damaturu on Friday, Reuters reported. Credible sources told Seyi Paul's blog that the state is under serious terrorist attack.

Police arrest lorry with ballot boxes in Ibadan

With less than five weeks before the 2015 general elections, the Oyo State police command has announced that a lorry conveying ballot boxes was found in the Yemetu area of Ibadan on Wednesday, December 7, 2015.

According to Punch newspaper report online, the ballot boxes, which were later discovered to belong to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, were stored in a 40-feet container.

It was gathered that the trailer was arrested on the suspicion that it was carrying contraband items but was later discovered that its contents were ballot boxes meant for the next month election in Osun State.

The trailer and the consignment were later released after police investigation revealed that the boxes were being transported to Osun State by INEC, the report stated.

Photo of INEC trailer filled with ballot boxes.

It was however disclosed that the arrest created political tension as politicians made effort to know if the boxes were empty or stuffed with ballot papers.

A source informed that rumour spread in the city that a certain political party had connived with INEC to bring in thumb-printed ballot papers into Oyo State.

“A trailer carrying a 40-feet container with registration number FKJ 285 XN was actually impounded by the police but after a thorough check, it was cleared and released,” the source stated.

While conmenting on the development, the spokesman for the Oyo State Police Command, Mr. Kayode Ajisebutu, said he could not confirm the incident.

Ballot boxes.

He said he was outside the state and could not get through to the Commissioner of Police.

In a related development, the immediate past Resident Electoral Commissioner in Cross River State, Mr. Mike Igini, has said INEC will no longer be the tool for manipulation by some politicians but a national institution committed to the conduct of free, fair and credible elections.

Igini, who said this on Wednesday at the unveiling of INEC Conference Hall in Calabar, also decried the lack of internal democracy in political parties.

“This year’s election will be a watershed, a paradigm shift that would bring about the hope of integrity and reliability unequalled in our electoral history. At all times we strive to do what is right. The commission will no longer be the tool for manipulation by some politicians.

“Our commitment to do the right thing was initially misunderstood especially our emphasis on internal party democracy which is still a problem today, where parties do not even have a minimum requirement of credible register of delegates before conducting elections.

“It is inconsiderable that INEC would conduct elections that would be acceptable by the Nigerian people without having a register of voters published. The foundation of any good elections must start with the existence of a credible and reliable register of voters,” he said.

PDP Takes Over Lagos on Thursday, Flags Off

Tens of thousands of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members across the South West are to converge on the Tafawa Balewa Square grounds in Lagos for the flag-off of the South West re-election campaign of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan/Arch Namadi Sambo.

President Goodluck Jonathan

The two governors of the PDP in the South West, Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo and Ayo Fayose of Ekiti will be joined by party leaders from the zone to host the president and all other party leaders from other parts of the country. Governorship candidates of the party are also to be presented to the public at the campaign ground.
While the president is expected to seize the opportunity to apprise the people of the zone of the successes recorded by his government, he will also take the chance to woo the people of the region, reputed to be the most politically sophisticated in Nigeria.
GEJ sources said will remind the people of the region of how his government remodelled the General Aviation Terminal (GAT) in Ikeja, the Murtala Muhammed International Airport wing, and is reconstructing the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, which for the last decade or more has been left in a sorry state. He is also expected to speak about the steady and fast intervention in the rail sector with the return of railways with new train engines and luxury coaches, as well as the reconstruction of the Apapa/Oshodi Expressway, leading to the nation’s ports.
The choice of Tafawa Balewa Square as venue, PDP sources said was because it hosted the ceremonies of Nigeria’s independence as well as being in Lagos where the largest number of voters reside in the country. One PDP leader said it is also not going to be about politics alone as musicians and comedians are expected to grace the event.

WHERE IS BUHARI's WIFE?

The photograph of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari at the Lagos State interdenominational thanksgiving service standing with his running mate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo; the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, and Governor Babatunde Fashola on the front row says something about the APC flag-bearer.

There have been murmurs about his donning a cap in church – that he is a Muslim disrespecting Christian tradition. For me, his forgetting to take off his cap shows he has yet to fully master the nuances and rituals of spaces he is treading for the sake of his political ambition. If I were a Christian, I would pardon him.

What is not so easily dismissable in the photo-op, however, is much more telling than his cap. In the picture, all the aforementioned men had their wives by their sides except Buhari...

For a man who preaches “change” and desires to rule a country made up of men and women in almost equal halves, I wonder why he finds the anomaly of an “invisible wife” wholesome. Interestingly, this is not the first time that Mrs Aisha Buhari would be left behind in her husband’s aspiration.

In 2003, she was not prominent when he lost to Olusegun Obasanjo’s “moonslide.” Four years later, not much had changed though one could argue that his biggest opponent, Umaru Yar’Adua, did not “use” his wife to campaign either. In 2011, when the presidential election was on, I asked one of Buhari’s closest aides where Mrs Buhari was and why she was practically unseen in her husband’s campaign efforts.

PHOTOS: Meet D'banj's New South African Girlfriend

Nigerian singer-songwriter, harmonica player, and businessman, Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo popularly known as D’banj is in a new relationship!

D’banj

The 34-year-old Zaraia born who has been romantically linked with top ladies in Nigeria including actress Genevieve Nnaji, Billionaire daughter Adama Ndimi and more has gotten himself a South African beauty as his new girlfriend.
D’banj who has won several music awards, including the awards for Best African Act at the MTV Europe Music Awards is so excited about his new girl as he uses every means possible to show her off. From beach photos to other photos, you will understand that this one might be for reeal.

D’banj and SA girlfriend loved up at the beach recently

This D’banj’s new South African girlfriend is called Bonang Matheba and from all findings, she is said to be some sort of goddess in South Africa. She is one of the most famous faces in South African media. She is also a style icon, popular TV and radio personality and brand ambassador for Revlon cosmetics. She is also known as Queen B.
Check out her photos below:

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Ini Edo husband speak up on having third wife

Phillip Ehiagwina, the ex-husband of Nollywood actress, Ini Edo has debunked report making rounds that he is about to remarry for the third time.

According to the report, Philip had moved on after his divorce to the actress and was set to marry a Nigerian lady based in Accra, Ghana.
The lady was said to be one of the major reasons that Philip abandoned Ini in Nigeria and relocated to Ghana to be with the lady and that before the first quarter of this year would be over, he would solemnize his union with her.

Ini Edo and ex-Hubby

Speaking to Nigerian gossip blogger, Stella Dimoko-Korkus, Philip said he has no such plans for now and claims not to know where such news came from.

‘‘I am not getting married and I dont know where that is coming from. I dont have a girlfriend and I am not dating anyone.
 I am not married anymore and I am free to date but I am not dating right now,” he responded.

The potential Danger as PDP gets desperate to win Presidency

Written by Joe Igbokwe
If what is going on now in the political landscape is anything to go by, Nigerians should guide their loins for the danger ahead as PDP leaders get desperate over next month Presidential elections. There is total disquiet and confusion in the House of PDP as events of 2015 draw near, and the centre can no longer hold in the house of a party that once described itself as the biggest party in Africa.

I have alerted Nigerians during the formative stages of APC that PDP will not go down without a fight, given the unparallel attacks and bombs thrown at the progenitors of APC in those days. A party that says it will rule Nigeria for 60 years is now gasping for breath and fighting for survival. How are the mighty fallen? More than 70 branded Hiace buses were to be moved from Kaduna to Kano for Jonathan's campaign but no driver volunteered to drive any of the vehicles for fear of the power of the people.

PDP was supposed to pick a powerful northerner to head President Jonathan's campaign organization but no serious person had the courage to pick the job. Open the pages of newspapers, you will see endorsements and endorsements for APC candidate Buhari. The house called PDP is giving way gradually, it is going down gradually, it is collapsing systematically and it is sinking slowly.

In Port Harcourt yesterday, during the flag-off of Buhari’s campaign, one person was feared dead and many others seriously injured when armed youths shot at vehicles moving supporters of the APC to the venue. 

In Lagos, PDP has been training thugs in the name of FERMA, importing arms, and arming them for the task ahead. In the Niger Delta, Alhaji Asari Dokubo, Tompolo, Chief Edwin Clark, and others are importing huge arms—also with stolen money—for the showdown if President Jonathan fails to make it on February 14. Across the country, stories of arms build-up and training of thugs are filtering in.

Buhari of 2003, 2007, and 2011 is no longer the same as Buhari in 2015. Buhari in 2015 has become dynamite, explosive, a game changer, a fortress, a smoking gun, an avatar, the numero uno, the political bulldozer, the caterpillar. Machine gun, a hurricane and a colossus. To ignore the movement now is to play to the gallery, to dismiss his build-up now is to lie to yourself, and to set aside his potential now is to be economical with the truth. Calculations, equations, and permutations have changed and they are turning almost 360 degrees. It is a complete turn around. The momentum is there. The speed is there, the dynamism is there and the force is there also.

As things stand APC needs to wake up to devise ways to protect its members and teaming supporters. The potentially dangerous elements in PDP and their agents have nothing to give Nigeria now except agonies, tears and blood. Having decimated and desecrated a promising country PDP is now ready to give Nigerians serpents instead of fishes, stones instead of bread and urine instead of water. A Punch Newspaper editorial of December 23, 2014 captured it explicitly: “It is sad to note that there is an instinctive conclusion among the Nigerian public that the Jonathan government is the most financially corrupt, fiscally irresponsible, politically insensitive and socially disconnected in Nigerian history. It is all evident that President has failed badly to build a credible, honest and minimally effective government for almost half a decade that he has been president. This is regrettable indeed.”

Big Girl caught smuggling Drugs sentenced to 8years in Prison

Popular Ghanaian socialite, Nayele Ametefe, also known as Ruby Adu-Gyamfi, who was arrested on November 10th 2014 at London’s Heathrow Airport, with 12kg of cocaine worth about $5million, has been tried and consequently sentenced to 8 years in prison by a London court.

The big girl, who has been living large and thus making others around her look like they are lazy or don't know how to hustle, was sentenced on January 6th after pleading guilty to the crime.

If not that she pleaded guilty, the judge would have handed her a longer jail term. Other fake babes, learn!

Nine govs shun Jonathan campaign launch

President Goodluck Jonathan

Nine governors of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday shunned the inauguration of the Presidential Campaign Organisation of the party in Abuja.

The organisation, headed by a former National Chairman of the party, Senator Amadu Ali, is saddled with the responsibility of selling the candidature of President Goodluck Jonathan and his deputy, Alhaji Namadi Sambo, to Nigerians for the February 14 presidential election.

But only a handful of the governors were in attendance.

Among the governors at the event were Emmanuel Uduaghan (Delta), Gabriel Suswam (Benue), Isa Yuguda (Bauchi), James Ngilari (Adamawa), Babangida Aliyu (Niger) and Ibrahim Dankwambo (Gombe State).

However, governors Theodore Orji (Abia), Dr. Olusegun Mimiko(Ondo), Sullivan Chime (Enugu), Seriake Dickson (Bayelsa), Martin Elechi (Enugu) were absent from the inauguration.

Also absent at the inauguration were governors Idris Wada (Kogi), Ibrahim Shema (Katsina), Sule Lamido (Jigawa) and Jonah Jang (Plateau).

One of our correspondents saw many of the party bigwigs discussing the development, especially when some of the absentee governors were put in charge of the campaign in their zones.

Lamido is saddled with the responsibility of coordinating the presidential campaign in the North-West, Mimiko is in charge of the South-West while Orji is to head the South-East zone.

No reason was given for the absence of the governors.

However, the President later met behind closed doors with the PDP governors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The meeting, which was also attended by ministers from states where the PDP was not in charge was meant to strategise ahead of the presidential campaign.

The parley was held immediately the President and the governors returned from the Legacy House, Abuja where his campaign organisation was inaugurated.

Some governors such as Chime and Elechi who were not at the PCO inauguration, also attended the meeting.

The Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State, later told State House correspondents that the President had made the governors the coordinators of his campaign in their respective states.

Akpabio boasted that despite the noise from the opposition, the PDP would win at all levels.

While saying that the PDP would not rig the forthcoming elections, the governor claimed that it was the All Progressives Congress that could attempt to rig the election.

“There cannot be failure. The PDP will surely win this election at all levels. PDP does not rig. We can only be afraid that the APC, the way they are going, will be the ones that will attempt to rig us out,” he said.

Meanwhile, members of the president’s campaign organisation led by Ali, swung into action as they held their inaugural meeting at the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

See how badly this girl is dressing

Young ladies, those of you who love wearing tight pants, always make sure you do something about your Camel Toe first to avoid embarrassing yourself on camera like this lady. Sadly, her pics is now trending just because of that center area. *covers face*

Photo: Flavour Sings For His Dogs

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Stella Damasus Dazzles In New Photos

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Photo: APC Members shot on their way to campaign for Buhari

Political gun men on Tuesday morning shot several members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, who were en route to the garden city of Port Harcourt to attend the flag off of the APC presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari's 2015 campaign in Rivers State.

The critically-injured APC members were from ward six of Khana Local Government Area in Rivers State. The situation was so serious that the injured had to be rushed to the hospital for treatment.

Pockets of attacks against APC members from other parts of Rivers State have been reported. The security agencies in the state are yet to react t the ugly development as at the time of posting.

Lessons in Prayer for the year

I haven’t posted a blog entry in a few months – forever in my book! That isn’t because I haven’t been writing, I’ve just been working on some theologically weighty topics on and off that need more time (sigh!). Anyway, I will get it together, but, in the meantime, today while I was cleaning up my kitchen after an afternoon of making gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches with my teen girls small group (love my girls!) and doing our latest lesson from The Circle Maker by Mark Batterson, God really impressed on me to put my next planned activity for the afternoon on hold and blog about a few lessons in prayer that I’ve been reflecting on. These likely are not new, but are ones that God has reminded me of over the last few months and, in some cases, years. I’m going to attempt to make these short and snappy, but we will see how that goes! 

For the last several months, God has really been growing my prayer life. One obvious way He’s done this is through increased time in prayer. Another way, among others, has been through reading The Circle Maker, which I first did last spring. It’s a book on prayer that I think can be summed up with one of the mantras repeated in the book: “God honors bold prayers because bold prayers honor God.” It focuses on the concepts of dreaming big, praying hard and thinking long (multi-generationally) – all in prayer. This isn’t a book review, so you can check Circle Maker out in more detail here. It really brought together lessons I have learned in prayer and packaged them neatly for reflection and implementation in my prayer life now. A few months after reading Circle Maker it was recommended as an option for my teen group study, and I almost picked the student edition immediately. Although I see the girls benefiting from the study, I really believe God had me choose it for me too! Every chapter I have reread so far has directly addressed situations I am currently facing and dovetail into other lessons God has impressed on me though other media. Some principles in the book are peppered below. I also recommend checking it out!

Prayer is part of God’s sanctification process for His children. 

Sanctification can be a theologically deep concept, but here I will sum it up as the process of God making believers in Christ more like Him here on earth. At times in prayer we can become focused on “unloading” to God, petitioning Him for our personal needs or praying for others. While those are all good things, at times, consciously or unconsciously, we can see getting an answer to our requests as the end. While God loves to provide for our needs and answer our prayers in various ways, He also uses our time in prayer to grow our dependence on Him and conform us to His likeness. We find that as He transforms us in prayer, an answer to a prayer is the natural – but secondary – response to pursuing Him. Today we read a chapter in Circle Maker that I think has an appropriate section: “you shouldn’t seek answers as much as you should seek God…If you go looking for answers, you won’t find them, but if you seek God, answers will just naturally find you.” p. 56 (see section for other context). Our prayers are part of the process of God changing us, and His work in sanctification continues until we get to heaven and are perfected. 

God also just loves for us to spend time with Him and experience the benefits of doing so! Psalm 16:11 says, “You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore” (ESV). The joy we can experience in God’s presence – no matter what our circumstances – is a wonderful respite from life’s challenges and, even better, does not compare to what believers will experience in heaven!

God’s plans and thoughts toward us are infinitely greater than our own.

I love this truth! In a nutshell, it’s that whatever I may go to God thinking I want, what God is thinking toward me is so much bigger than anything I can even conceive. I love to illustrate this principle with kids by asking them to think about the grandest thing they could ever imagine. Then it follows to say, “whatever God is thinking is infinitely bigger than that!” Isn’t that verse amazing!?!?!??? Now, what God is thinking may have nothing to do with what we’re thinking is “best,” and it may even involve pain, but His Word says that His plans are mind-blowing, beyond what we can imagine! Two scriptures that God has impressed on me in prayer for things I desire have really given me rest and helped me encourage others: the popular Jeremiah 29:11 and I Corinthians 2: 9. 

Jeremiah 29:11 says:

11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (NIV)

11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. (NKJV)

First Corinthians 2: 9 says,

Ini Edo: Actress' estranged husband set to remarry

Rumours are flying that actress Ini Edo's estranged husband, Philip Ehiagwina, is set to marry again

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Few months after their marriage hit the rocks like a badly arranged pack of cards, Nollywood actress, Ini Edo's estranged husband, Philip Ehiagwina, is set to marry a Nigerian lady based in Accra, Ghana, finally putting an end to any hopes of the couple reconciling.

According to insiders, the lady who is based in the west coast country may have been the reason Philip abandoned Ini in Nigeria and moved to the country and is reportedly making moves to make the union legal, which would make it his third marriage in the past few years.

Though the man in the eye of the storm has been shielding the real truth from the public, those close to him say he is deeply in love with the lady and his excuse that he decided to move to Ghana to set up his business is just a ruse to be close to her.

Recall that the marriage of the star actress to the Ed State born business man broke down irretrievably in September of 2014 after six years, with accusations flowing from both camps. While Philip's camp accused Ini of cheating on her husband, her camp claimed that the man was actually a gold digger who was out to get whatever he could from her and their problems arose when she would not include his name in the deed of some of her properties.

The marriage was actually turbulent from the inception when a certain Nigerian actress based in USA, Ruth Okoro, cried out that Philip was actually her husband and that Ini Edo snatched him from her.

Joseph Benjamin speaks on actress, Lisa Omorodion and First Cut

Popular actor and model, Joseph Benjamin has commended Nigeria’s up and coming Nollywood actress cum producer, Lisa Omorodion over the outcome of her first movie production, ‘First Cut’.

Joseph Benjamin who played a lead role in the movie said no better words other than ‘biggest miss of the year’ could be used to describe the experience of anyone who misses out on the thrilling and educative movie which is scheduled to hit the cinemas come January 23, 2015.

The popular actor said “First Cut is a great movie. I could not believe it is Omorodion’s first attempt at production; the outcome is a great product. So much work was put into it and having Chico Ejiro direct it, and people like Bobby Obodo makes it a great mix’.

First Cut is a theatrical blend of morals, fashion, education, information and professionalism in film-making and production directed by Chico Ejiro; featuring plots with collections of suspense, emotions, neglect, sex, insecurity, parenting, abuse, trauma and other psychological elements.

The movie narrates the story of KC Morgan, the central character, played by the producer herself, Lisa Omorodion; a character respected by many yet suppressed by trauma. Her own painful secret which threatens to shatter the new life she has created for herself; the central character’s woes were multiplied by her loved ones who continue to inflict pains on her.

First Cut embodies Nollywood stars of exemplified competence, mastery, class and real professionalism like Monalisa Chinda and Bobby Obodo.

Joseph Benjamin, said ‘We need good movies like First Cut to give us reality check. There are many deeper things to talk about other than love; yes, we need love but our being isn’t just about love’.

Actress Ruth Kadiri flaunts her cute assets in new photos

Ruth Kadiri is not just beautiful but also hardworking. Anyway, her beautiful side is catching our fancy as she just released some inviting photos for you guys. See more below: