John Boyega’s secret past as stock photo model years before 'Star Wars' fame discovered in University of Nebraska ad

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Years before he was cast as a lead in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," John Boyega (right) was featured in a stock photo series called Further Education.

The British born Nigerian actor John Boyega is now the star of the biggest movie in the galaxy, a long time ago he was a student looking to make a couple extra bucks by appearing in stock photographs, according to Daily News.

The "Star Wars" sensation was photographed in an undated series for Getty Images, and said that he used the pocket money to buy a new pair of sneakers.

Boyega’s turn as a sweatered student in a collection called “Further Education” was noticed on an advertisement for career services at University of Nebraska - Lincoln, which the London native never attended.

His transformation into a Cornhusker in a land far, far away was shared by puzzled fans and made the jump to lightspeed virality on Friday.

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The photos were highlighted by Internet users on Friday after one user saw Boyega in a photo (right) used as an ad for University of Nebraska's career services.

Twenty-three-year-old Boyega then confirmed his secret past as a smiling stock photo model in the surreal snapshot.

He said on Twitter that he used the money to buy Air Force 1s that lasted three years while he was going through drama school.

“The force is strong with this one,” photographer Chris Schmit said of Boyega, at that time just a padawan in the entertainment business.

He would later be paid $450,000 for his role as Finn in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," according to the Mail on Sunday.

The figure could buy an entire star fleet of Air Force 1s, though it pales in comparison to "The Force Awakens" box office, which broke "Avatar"’s previous domestic record of $760.5 million in only 20 days.

University of Nebraska's Steve Smith told the Omaha World Herald that the ad is at least five years old.

He said the school commonly used stock photos but "didn't know at the time that one of those smiling faces would eventually become a "big deal" in the Resistance.

Lamar Odom leaves hospital, moves to private rehab facility

 Former basketball star Lamar Odom left an L.A. hospital Wednesday and was moved to a private rehab facility set up by his estranged wife Khloe Kardashian, according to Daily news report.

Odom had been receiving treatment at the Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles since shortly after he was found unconscious in a Nevada brothel on Oct. 13.

Lamar Odom was moved to a private rehab facility set up by his estranged wife Khloe Kardashian.


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The 36-year-old retired Lakers forward was moved to a private facility near Kardashian’s home, Us Weekly reported Thursday. The secret move was made without notifying even Odom’s family in order to keep it under wraps.

The 6’ 10” Queens native fell into a coma after after reportedly using cocaine and herbal viagra during a four-day bender at the Love Ranch, about 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas in Oct.

He has struggled to regain basic motor functions, but his condition has improved and he has reportedly taken several steps with the help of a walker.

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And Kardashian has remained by his side throughout his ordeal.
Odom’s teenage son, Lamar Odom Jr., posted a selfie on Instagram earlier this month with him and his sister, Destiny Odom.

“Christmas with my pops,” Lamar Jr. wrote in the post. “Here’s to 2016. Blessed.”

JaNean Mercer, Odom’s aunt and family spokeswoman released a statement about the move.

“It is with extreme gratitude and appreciation to all of you around the world, who have prayed without ceasing for Lamar, that we announce his transition to the next stage of his miraculous recovery at a new facility,” Mercer said. “Lamar continues to make remarkable strides and we are asking that you continue to respect our privacy. Again we thank all of you greatly, your support has been paramount in helping to uplift us during these past few difficult months.”

Mexico recaptures notorious druglord 'El Chapo'

Mexican druglord Joaquin Guzman Loera - alias ''El Chapo'' - after his February 2014 arrest [Mario Guzman/EPA]

The Mexican druglord who made a brazen prison break through a hole in his cell and through underground tunnels has been recaptured, the president announced on twitter.

“Mission accomplished, e have him,”President Enrique Pena Nieto tweeted on Friday.

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the boss of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, was Mexico’s most-wanted fugitive.

Guzman was apprehended after a shootout with Mexican marines in Los Mochis, a seaside city in Guzman’s home state of Sinaloa, a federal official who spoke on condition of anonymity told the Associated Press news agency.

He said Guzman was taken alive and was not wounded. Five people were killed and one Mexican marines injured in the clash at a house.

The Mexican navy said marines seized two armoured vehicles, eight rifles, a handgun, and a grenade launcher in the raid that recaptured the fugitive.

“Afew weeks ago there was a close call in his home state of Sinaloa, this morning not so lucky,” Aljazeera’s Natasha Ghoneim, reporting from Ahuisculco in Mexico, said.

"The Mexican government is saying that this morning military responded to a building in Sinaloa after someone compliant that armed men were holding up inside a building," she said.

"The capture of Joaquin 'Chapo' Guzman-Loera is a victory for the rule of law and the Mexican people and government," the US Drug Enforcement Agency said in a statement.

"It is further evidence of our two countries' resolve to ensure justice is served for families who have been plagued by Guzman-Loera's ruthless acts of violence."

His July prison escape was the second for Guzman in 15 years - and a major embarrassment for Mexico's president.

The notorious narcotics kingpin was first captured in 1993 in Guatemala, but he escaped from a prison in western Mexico in 2001 by hiding in a laundry cart.

In July 2015, Guzman fled a maximum-security prison near Mexico City just 17 months after authorities captured him following a 13-year manhunt.

He escaped through a 1.5-kilometre tunnel with a redesigned motorcycle on special tracks, emerging in a house outside the prison.

Nieto had refused to hand Guzman over to the United States, but Mexican authorities are now likely to extradite him there.

‘Metuh Never Received N1.4 billion Or N4 million Monthly from ONSA’ – PDP Publicity

The office of the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has noted certain apparently sponsored reports in some section of the media dropping figures and falsely claiming that Chief Olisa Metuh got the sum of N1.4 billion in addition to receiving N4 million monthly stipend from the Office of the former National Security Adviser, according to Mr. Richard Ihediwa

Special Assistant To PDP National Publicity Secretary.

He said the reports are completely false, mischievous and fabricated to mislead the public and derail the course of proper investigation on issues relating to Chief Metuh.

For the avoidance of doubt, neither Chief Metuh nor his office received the figures being bandied. We therefore challenge the EFCC to substantiate that Chief Metuh received the said N1.4 billion figure as well as make public any evidence that he ever received N4 million monthly stipend from the Office of the National Security Adviser.

This office is deeply worried at the turnout of events since Tuesday when Chief Metuh was arrested and detained while fictitious figures continue to be bandied against him in the media.

Chief Metuh, as a well-known citizen and a public figure had always stated his readiness to honor any invitation by the EFCC or any agency of government for that matter on any issue regarding any allegations against him.

He therefore persuaded that the continued detention of Chief Metuh is ostensibly part of the plot by the APC to silence or keep the opposition spokesperson out of circulation for obvious reasons of clipping the wings of the opposition PDP.

Music Critic ‘Osage Alonge’ Thinks MI ABAGA Isn’t Man Enough

Osagie Alonge who is the editor in chief Pulse Ng ‘ a fast rising online media platform ‘ has called out Nigerian Rapper M.I for not having the courage to openly tackle  his fellow Rapper Olamide the self acclaimed King of the streets, according to Nigerianmusicblog. 
Osagz as he is popularly called in his recently episode of Facts Only where he analyzed the just concluded Headies Awards mentioned that its obvious that M.I has been trying to throw shades at the indigenous emcee Olamide but doesn’t have the audacity  to call his name .