Edeson Online News: 12/14/14

Sunday 14 December 2014

FASHION: Miss South Africa wins Miss World 2014 pageant

Miss South Africa Rolene Strauss has just won the Miss World 2014 pageant. Miss Hungary and Miss US were 2nd and third runners up respectively. Miss South Africa, Rolene Strauss, took home the title of Miss World 2014 on Dec. 14 and we couldn’t be happier! But who exactly is she? Find out everything you need to know about the 22-year-old beauty queen! Miss South Africa, Rolene Strauss, was crowned as Miss World 2014 at the competition’s grand final at the Excel London ICC Auditorium on Dec. 14. The 22-year-old beauty queen is a sight for sore eyes, but she’s also so much more!

Muma Gee, who recently dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the Labor Party (LP) has emerged as the party’s candidate for the Federal House of Representatives. She will be contesting to represent Constituency 1 of the Abua/Odual and Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State.

Chief Mrs Dupe Onitiri-Abiola, wife of the late politician and business mogul, Chief MKO Abiola, has emerged the Lagos State governorship candidate for the Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN, in the coming 2015 general elections.She clinched the ticket as a consensus candidate on Thursday at the UPN congress/primary held at the party’s secretariat.

Nonso Diobi says his mom is wondering why he is still single. Nollywood actor, Nonso Diobi has revealed the pressure he has had to deal with from his mother as far as the issue of marriage is concerned. Nonso stated that his mother is somewhat confused that he doesn’t seem to be inching closer to marriage despite being 38 years old already. Revealing the extent of the pressure that the elderly woman has mounted on him, he said: ‘My mum was going through my phone contacts this morning and she concentrated more on the female contacts wondering why I’m still single…. Lol.’

History beckons as the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries Football Club of Lagos battle Colombia this Sunday in the final of the Church World Cup in Goa, India. The Nigeria representatives are tipped to become the first church to lift the cup as they had defeated the South Americans 3-0 in the group stage. Match is 4 pm Nigerian time. The Church World Cup is the brain child of The John Paul II Foundation For Sports. The participants at this inaugural edition are the host India, Nigeria, Ghana, Egypt, Colombia, Portugal, Brazil and Uzbekistan.

The Abuja Catholic diocese is set to launch her TV station which will be called Catholic Television. The Abuja Catholic diocese on Friday, December 12 realised about N15m at a dinner organised for the formal take off of her new Television Channel which will be called Catholic Television. The church requires about N300 million to set a standard television studio. The Archbishop of the Abuja Metropolitan See, Cardinal John Oniayekun, said the new television station is intended to be used as a tool of evangelisation to deepen the faith of the Catholic faithful within and outside the country.