Atiku Ready to Declare for Presidency, APC Plans for National Convention

 Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar

By Onyebuchi Ezigbo

       There are indications that former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar is set to make good his intention to seek the presidential ticket of his new party, All Progressives Congress (APC), ahead of the 2015 elections.

Atiku's plan to declare for the presidency is coming on the heels of moves by the leadership of the APC to commence consultations on the guidelines for the presidential primaries and preparatory to the party’s national convention scheduled for December.

The party, THISDAY gathered, might have slated its presidential primary election for November, ahead of the December national convention where the party's flag-bearer is expected to emerge.

The National Publicity Secretary of APC, Alhaji Lai Muhammed, while explaining APC’s plan of action at the weekend said that the party's leadership would soon meet to approve the guidelines for the party's presidential primaries.

THISDAY also learnt from reliable sources that baring any last minute hitches, the former vice-president is set to declare his intention to contest for the presidency in 2015.

Atiku has never hidden his desire to rule Nigeria and contested for the number one job on the platform of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in 2007. He however lost to the late President Umaru Yar’Adua.
He also sought the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2011, after his return to the party, but again lost to President Goodluck Jonathan.

If Atiku makes good his promise and declares for presidency for the third time, he will be squaring up against another formidable contender, former military Head of State, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari who has already started setting up his structures for the presidential campaign.

An informed source who spoke to a group of reporters at the weekend on Atiku's presidential ambition, confirmed that the frontline APC chieftain had embarked on extensive consultations with stakeholders at home and abroad.
THISDAY also learnt that Atiku, apart from relying on his extensive contacts, has developed an all-encompassing road map designed to tackle most of the sore challenges staring the country in the face, ranging from security, unity and equity to socio-economic development.

The former vice-president is said to be planning to embark on what has been tagged the “Atiku Peace Tour” that will take his delegation to key places and people nationwide.

“The former vice-president and his newly formed team shall be interfacing with diverse religious and professional bodies locally and in the international arena,” the source disclosed.

His mission, according to the source, would be to gauge the pulse of the people on the many troubles bedevilling the country with the aim of finding genuine and lasting solutions to them.

Atiku, who is believed to be a strong advocate of interfaith dialogue as a way of reducing tension in the land, may actually begin his campaign by taking messages of peaceful co-existence, true nationalism and an end to religious fanaticism and extremism that have led to violence.

The source further indicated that what the Turaki of Adamawa intends to achieve this time around, is the need to foster a harmonious working relationship between Christians, Muslims and traditional believers in order to have all hands on deck to rebuild Nigeria.

Another close aide of the former vice-president said his boss would be seeking to exploit his detribalised stance and unlimited networking contacts within and outside the country during the meet-the-people tour to rekindle their patriotic zeal, duty to country and responsibility to society.

“To make good his promise, Atiku was also said to have built a solid intellectual and people-based capacity and competence reservoir to be unveiled in the coming weeks,” the source said.
Atiku had promised recently that he would unfold his next political plan soon after the conclusion of the Muslim Ramadan fast.

Dr Dre: The first 'hip-hop billionaire'?

Is Dr Dre - born Andre Young - hip-hop's first billionaire?

"The Forbes list just changed."

That is the boast made by singer-songwriter Tyrese Gibson in a video posted on Facebook (and later removed), before he is pushed aside by Dr Dre, the co-founder of the Beats Electronics firm.
The list of the richest people on the planet, says Dre, the 49-year-old hip-hop star and entrepreneur, has changed "in a big way".
"The first billionaire in hip hop right here from the... West Coast, believe me," he said, before the video abruptly ends.
By most accounts, Apple's $3bn (£1.8bn) acquisition of the Beats headphone and music streaming service will increase Dre's net worth from an estimated $550m to almost $800m - making him, if not hip-hop's first billionaire, certainly hip-hop's wealthiest man.
So how did Dr Dre, born Andre Romelle Young in inner-city Los Angeles, build his fortune?

 

Hip-hop's richest artists

1. Dr Dre / Andre Young - $800m (estimated)
2. Sean "Diddy" Combs - $700m
3. Jay-Z / Shawn Carter - $520m
4. Birdman / Bryan Williams - $160m
5. 50 Cent / Curtis Jackson III - $140m

Source: Forbes list

Borne of necessity

Dan Charnas, a former hip-hop record producer and author of The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop, says that Dr Dre's business acumen was shaped by the culture of hip-hop in the 1980s, which was by necessity more entrepreneurial.

"There's a long tradition of entrepreneurship for artists in the hip-hop business because there was no other way they were going to get out there," says Charnas, noting that in the 1980s, major record labels and radio stations were hesitant to invest in and promote hip-hop music.
"Russell Simmons [and Rick Rubin] had to start their own music company if people were going to hear these records," he adds, referring to Def Jam records, one of the first and most successful hip-hop labels.
"The hustle of that extended to everything."
Diversify Dr Dre was certainly part of that early, scrappy hip-hop milieu.

 

Dr Dre diversified his revenue stream by identifying and producing new music by artists like Eminem

Although he first found success as a musician with the World Class Wreckin' Cru and then with the seminal group N.W.A. - pioneers of gangsta rap - he was also a keen collaborator and producer, thus ensuring he had two revenue streams: one from performing, and another from producing.

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Why beg Adidas for an endorsement deal and make them all the money when you could put your own clothing out and do it yourself?”

Dan Charnas Former hip-hop producer

Just a year after he released his debut album, The Chronic, in 1992 - which sold three million copies and won a Grammy award - Dr Dre also helped produce Snoop Dogg's first album, Doggystyle, which sold an astonishing five million copies.

Like many hip-hop stars of the era, Dre also made sure that he earned a cut of his own sales as a producer - eventually becoming "the single most influential producer in hip-hop history", according to Rolling Stone magazine.
After a falling out with his label, Death Row Records, due to a contract dispute (among other concerns), Dre negotiated a deal with Interscope to start his own label, Aftermath Entertainment, in 1996.
He then signed and helped produce albums by young hip-hop artists, most notably Eminem, before selling his share of the label back to Interscope in 2001 for a reported $35m.
Brand power Although he rose to fame as a performer, Dr Dre has not released a solo album since 1999.

Successful music mogul Jimmy Iovine (left) suggested the idea of an audio line to Dr Dre

Instead, he has capitalised on a trend in hip-hop that sprang up during the 1990s, when the genre's biggest stars, like Jay-Z and Sean "Diddy" Combs - aka Puff Daddy and P Diddy - launched their own clothing labels and consumer products.
Jay-Z founded Rocawear and Combs founded Sean Jean. Both are worth many millions of dollars.

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“Start Quote

People look at you like you're crazy when you say you don't need any more money - who says that?”

Dr Dre

"Why beg Adidas for an endorsement deal and make them all the money when you could put your own clothing out and do it yourself?" says Mr Charnas of the entrepreneurial spirit which pervaded hip-hop at the time.

Dr Dre was similarly pushed into consumer branding, but he took a slightly different route.
As the possibly apocryphal story goes, Dre's lawyers had asked him to endorse sneakers.
He ran into then-Interscope chairman Jimmy Iovine on the beach, who said something along the lines of: "[Expletive] sneakers, let's sell speakers."
'The way I do' From there, the pair first partnered with Monster, a well-respected audio firm known mostly for their HDMI cables, to design and manufacture the Beats headphones. (In 2012, Monster and Beats announced the partnership had ended.)
"Monster had a good name in audio circles," says Mr Charnas of the early hype surrounding the headphones, which soon became known as accessories for the "true" music lover.

Most experts say the Beats success story is due in part to a canny marketing effort

The Monster reputation helped - but so did celebrity endorsements, which included Lady Gaga, as well as prominent placement within music videos.
"Beats is viewed as a triumph of marketing more than it is a fantastic product - there are a lot of people who feel there are better headphones to be bought in the market," says Mr Charnas.
Dr Dre used his reputation as a producer to market the product, saying: "Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do."
But the hip-hop artist has previously maintained that for him, it isn't all about the cash.
In an interview with Esquire last year, he talked about turning down potential investors by telling them he doesn't need any more money.
"That part is entertaining, because people look at you like you're crazy when you say you don't need any more money. Who says that?" he said.
Perhaps hip-hop's richest man did used to say that. At least until Apple came knocking.

Whats App: The new billionaires behind it

 

 

 Jan Koum left Ukraine for the US when he was 16

Until 24 hours ago, WhatsApp founder Jan Koum and his business partner Brian Acton were relatively unknown outside Silicon Valley tech circles.

Now they are being discussed worldwide as California's latest billionaires.
The internet is alive with the news that Mr Koum, 37, and Mr Acton, 42, have sold WhatsApp to Facebook for $19bn (£11.4bn).
In fact, before founding WhatsApp, both men were actually turned down for jobs at Facebook.
This is an irony that has not been lost on internet commentators in light of the huge amount the social networking giant is laying out for WhatsApp.
So what do we know about the men behind WhatsApp?
'Appreciate communication' Ukrainian Mr Koum emigrated to the US at the age of 16 with his mother, to escape "the political and anti-Semitic environment", according to Forbes.
His childhood in the Ukraine was a seminal influence on the creation of WhatsApp, according to investor Jim Goetz. The service, with its emphasis on messaging privacy, was influenced by "growing up in a communist country with a secret police", Mr Goetz said in a blog post.
"Jan's childhood made him appreciate communication that was not bugged or taped," Mr Goetz wrote.
When he arrived in the US, Mr Koum and his mother lived on food stamps, Mr Goetz added.
Mr Koum has been shaped by his experiences, and appears to remain true to his roots, reportedly signing the Facebook deal that is set to make him a billionaire on the door of his old benefits office.
No ads Mr Koum met Mr Acton in 1997, and the two became friends while they were both working at Yahoo.

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Mr Acton's background was somewhat different from Mr Koum's - his adoptive father had attempted a career in golf, and his mother ran an air-freight business, according to Wired UK.
By 2007, both men had become disillusioned with their employer, and had developed an intense antipathy to advertising, a central plank of Yahoo's business model.
"No-one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no-one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow," Mr Koum said in a 2012 blog post.
They left Yahoo to unwind and follow other opportunities, leading to Mr Koum setting up WhatsApp in 2009.
Mr Acton joined the company in November of that year after a failed job hunt, which included rejections from both Twitter and Facebook.
But the California-based software engineer took the knockback from Twitter with good humour, tweeting: "Got denied by Twitter HQ. That's ok. Would have been a long commute."
And when he also failed to get a job with Facebook, he took it graciously, tweeting: "Facebook turned me down. It was a great opportunity to connect with some fantastic people. Looking forward to life's next adventure."
Silicon Valley maverick Despite WhatsApp's emphasis on social messaging, Mr Koum has been opposed to much of what makes Silicon Valley tick.
Rather than embracing self-promotion, marketing, an advertising-funded business model and an eye for a fast buck, Mr Koum has gone in the opposite direction.
"Next person to call me an entrepreneur is getting punched in the face by my bodyguard. Seriously," he tweeted in May 2012..
"People starting companies for a quick sale are a disgrace to the valley," he said in a later tweet.
Some might say that just five years after starting, 450 million users and 50 employees later, the deal with Facebook would constitute a "quick sale".
Just don't call Mr Koum an entrepreneur.

The 30-year-old health sector billionaire

Elizabeth Holmes is worth $4.5bn (£2.7bn)

Monitoring what's going on in your body has gripped California's Silicon Valley like a mania.

Enthusiasts wear two or three wrist bands to keep an eye on their blood pressure 24 hours a day.
They use sensors to tell them how many paces they have taken - the recommended daily rate is currently 10,000, I think. That's about five miles.
And up and down the valley, new companies are rushing to get a piece of the action. They are matching body measuring devices to the smartphone, to produce a torrent of data that may or may not be useful to doctors and specialists, if they have the time to deal with it. There are dozens of such entrepreneurial start-ups, maybe hundreds.
It is happening because only very recently have people become permanently connected to the internet in this always-on, display-rich way. Mobile technology is seemingly reordering our relationship with ourselves, as well as the outside world.
After you've liked or friended a person, you may as well include your own body in your digital network.
Self-made billionaire

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The beginning was what I could do to make a change in the world”

Elizabeth Holmes

Meanwhile, on a corner of the Stanford University campus where Facebook once had its office, Elizabeth Holmes is working away at a health monitoring project that has already taken up 11 years of her life.
Her company Theranos is the antithesis of the digital healthcare gold rush, though it is not unconnected with it.
She is only 30, but she has been nursing this company all through her 20s. Only now is it breaking cover and making itself known.
Elizabeth Holmes has that unshakeable surety of purpose that is one of the hallmarks of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur.
She dresses in black like the late Steve Jobs of Apple. Like him, too, she generates a kind of force field of attention and self-confidence.

Unlike some rivals, Theranos' technology only requires a drop of blood

And she seems to have had it since at least the age of 19, when she dropped out of her engineering studies at Stanford University to found her corporation.
Theranos is as yet little known, but private investors have taken stakes that value it at an extraordinary $9bn (£5.4bn).
Ms Holmes still owns half the business, making her on paper (according to the magazine Forbes) the youngest woman ever to become a self-made billionaire.
And Theranos has attracted some striking believers. On one of the most star-studded boards of directors in the USA sit two former secretaries of state - Henry Kissinger and George Shultz - and a former defence secretary.
Theranos has what is on the face of it a straightforward purpose - to make blood tests simple, timely, unalarming, and cheap.
Elizabeth Holmes is convinced that she is on a big mission: "The beginning was what I could do to make a change in the world.
"To affect people's lives in a meaningful way."
'Difference to the world' A huge number of medical diagnoses are based on blood tests - billions of tests a year in the US alone, costing tens of billions of dollars. Yet for many people they are unaffordable and invasive. There's a widespread fear of needles and testing.

Theranos has some powerful shareholders

As a result, Ms Holmes says that in the US, nearly half the people do not get the tests that their doctors order for them.
Theranos has a upfront price list for more than 200 specified blood tests, seemingly far cheaper than established test companies, where the bill comes in after the tests.
Much smaller blood samples are used to do tests - little more than a drop. And then the blood is analysed fast in company facilities - automated labs shrouded in proprietary secrecy.
"We are handling such small amounts of blood that we needed to redevelop the chemistries and the analytical systems on which to run them," she says.
Interesting yes, but is affordable blood testing really a revolution in healthcare?
Elizabeth Holmes says it's about access to information: "We believe that when someone you love gets really, really sick, by the time you find out about it is usually too late to do something about it... a very painful experience."

A growing number of us use mobile phone apps to monitor different aspects of our health

"If we could build a system that would help to change that, then we would make a difference in the world."
To that end, Theranos has recently launched an alliance with the largest drugstore chain in the USA.
Walgreen's has more than 8,500 stores all over the country, within five miles of a huge swathe of the US population. The stores have just started installing what are called Theranos Wellness Centers.
I dropped in on one a mile or so from the company's HQ in University Avenue, Palo Alto.
The experience was certainly straightforward - a welcoming staffer put a soothing warm wrapper on my finger, a pin prick which I hardly felt, and then a small phial of blood filled in a second.
The results were emailed back in 24 hours.
'Saving money' To change the trajectory of early detection of illnesses, says Elizabeth Holmes, it is very important to be close to where people live.
For some years before this retail drug store rollout, Theranos has been making money by selling its services to big pharmaceutical companies.
For them, large-scale testing of drugs in development is an expensive, time-consuming and cumbersome process. It's the stage where costs soar in the development of a new drug.
Speeding up tests gets more information about the efficacy of a new drug back to base faster. Easy, frequent blood testing may enable drug companies to see the impact of adjusted drug dosage on their trial patients much faster.
Theranos has Europe in its sights too. The cost to patients of blood testing may be a hidden issue when a health service pays, but there is - says Elizabeth Holmes - the chance to save "an incredible amount of money".
And when people start taking a much closer interest in their health by having blood tests more frequently, then illnesses will be spotted earlier, she thinks.
Blood testing is a market worth billions in the US alone, dominated by big corporations such as Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp. The established companies are unlikely to let a newcomer such as Theranos gain market share by waiting to be undercut, if it can roll out its services as it intends.
Theranos is a highly ambitious company with a strikingly ambitious founder and a lot still to prove.
But healthcare is only just beginning to wake up to the implications of personalised medicine. And diagnosis - including blood tests - will be at the heart of some great big changes in the way we think about our health.

Kcee & Davido collaborate on new song, see pics of them in trad attire

Kcee & Davido collaborate on new song, see pics of them in trad attire

Kcee and Davido have worked on a new song titled 'Ogaranya' and have already shot the video for the song. More on their collaboration will be revealed this week. For now see behind the scenes photos from their music video shoot. Continue for more photos...

Nigerian Pastor Organises Ebola ‘Cure’ Crusade

                Nigerian Pastor Organises Ebola ‘Cure’ Crusade

A Nigerian pastor of the Divine Power Pentecostal Chapel appears to be cashing in on the widespread fear generated by the Ebola scourge. 

Rev. Emmanuel Sampson, whose church is located in the Isolo area of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital and the only part of the country with a confirmed case of Ebola, is asking people to come for his crusade with ‘cocked bottles’ (sic). Given the antics of faith healers, what the bottles are for is left to anyone’s imagination.

The reverend’s crusade and language does go contrary to the appeal from the Lagos state government for religious leaders not to promise healing to Ebola patients. This appeal was to mitigate against movement of infected people in search of a cure to churches or mosques.

6 Yr-Old Bolutito Shodipe, Knocked Down And Killed By Her Nigerian Mother As She Tried To Park Her Car In London

6 Yr-Old Bolutito Shodipe, Knocked Down And Killed By Her Nigerian Mother As She Tried To Park Her Car In London

A mother has knocked down and killed her own daughter while trying to park her car.

Bolutito Shodipe was run over outside Hounslow West tube station in south-west London yesterday morning.

The six-year-old's devastated family are 'coming to terms with this terrible accident' as British Transport Police investigates what happened.

Bolutito's mother was attempting to park her car outside the station at around 9.40am when she struck her child.

Police and London Ambulance Service paramedics tried to resuscitate Bolutito at the scene but she was later pronounced dead at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington.

A family statement released by police said: 'Bolutito was our eldest daughter and no-one could have asked for a better daughter.

'She was a beautiful, well behaved, girl who loved ballet and who will be sorely missed by all of us.

'This is an extremely upsetting time for us and we ask that we be given the respect and space to grieve and to come to terms with this terrible accident.'

DCI Iain Miller of British Transport Police said detectives are working to determine how the incident occurred.

 

He said: 'Our officers attended, alongside colleagues from the Metropolitan Police Service and London Ambulance Service, and discovered a child - a six-year-old girl - had sustained fatal injuries having been struck by a car being driven by her mother.

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Incident: Police and paramedics treated the six-year-old outside Hounslow West Station yesterday morning

'It is clear that both mother and child arrived together in the car park and the accident occurred during a parking manoeuvre.

'Specialist officers are now providing full support to the girl's family whilst detectives are working to determine exactly how the incident occurred.'

How Arab Playboys Fly Their Supercars Into London on Chartered Cargo Jets (for the trifling sum of £20,000 per vehicle)

How Arab Playboys Fly Their Supercars Into London on Chartered Cargo Jets (for the trifling sum of £20,000 per vehicle)

With its wheels firmly held in place, a Mercedes-Benz prepares for transport aboard a cargo plane. 

In similar fashion, supercars ranging from Ferraris to Lamborghinis take to the skies each year as rich Arab playboys bring their vehicles from the Middle East to London, usually for just a few weeks over summer.

The car owners, many of them from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait, will happily pay a small fortune - in excess of £20,000 for a return journey - for their metal marvels to be flown around 3,000 miles, and often leave them parked up on the streets of Knightsbridge. 

Qatar Airways is one such airline that ships the luxury cars from Doha to Heathrow. Secured to the floor of one of their Airbus A330s, the precious cargo can either be accommodated in a single row or in a side-by-side configuration.

Using their main and lower deck, the airline offers 31 positions on each flight.

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Car owners from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait will happily pay a small fortune - in excess of £20,000 for a return journey - for their metal marvels to be flown around 3,000 miles, and often leave them parked up on the streets of London. At this week's Dubai Airshow, the Qatar Airways Cargo A330-200F freighter showed off its cargo-loading capabilities

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Qatar Airways provided a demonstration using the latest from the Mercedes-Benz AMG product line of luxury automobiles

Daniel Hallworth, managing director of Dan Car Logistics, which specialises in air freight, told MailOnline: 'The Arabs often use agents to arrange their cars to be flown to the UK - and some of these guys can have two or three cars that they bring over for just one month.

'Once here, they can legally drive it for up to two months.

 

'A lot of them tour - so they may come to London for a bit and then truck their vehicle to much sunnier places like Marbella to extend their fun.' 

Mr Hallworth, whose company is based in Manchester, said that a car such as a Ferrari or McLaren can cost up to £5,000 to transport each way, while a Bugatti Veyron would be about £6,000 per journey.

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Once secured to the floor of their Airbus A330, Qatar Airways' precious cargo can either be accommodated in a single row or in a side-by-side configuration

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Using their main and lower deck, the airline can offer 31 positions on each flight

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Daniel Hallworth, director of Dan Car Logistics, which specialises in air freight, told MailOnline: 'The Arabs often use agents to arrange their cars to be flown to the UK - and some of these guys can have two or three cars that they bring over for just one month.' Above, a Lamborghini seen last night in south-west London

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A Lamborghini Aventador, valued at £280,000, sits on one of Dan Car Logistics' pallets, as it prepares to be transported

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A £150,000-plus blue Ferrari 458 Italia which had been given a customised spider-web wrap by its Qatari owner. It was seen last night in Sloane Street, south-west London

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This gold-plated Range Rover drew admiring glances from other drivers as it made its way through London

Larger cars, including a Rolls-Royce Phantom or 4x4s, cost from £7,000 to £12,000 return. 

A fleet of some such supercars have descended on south-west London - many owned by sons of sheikhs to escape the Middle East's baking mid-summer months.

Among the outrageous wheels parked on Sloane Street were a £150,000-plus blue Ferrari 458 Italia which had been given a customised spider-web wrap by its Qatari owner and an orange McLaren - yours for around £165,000.

The vehicles spotted in central London over the past few weeks - following the end of Ramadan - often attract the attention of tourists and car enthusiasts, who are intrigued by the tailor-made versions of famous models from car manufacturers including Lamborghini and Bentley. 

Once they arrive, some of the over-the-top autos attract the attention of the police too - due to incorrect registration plates and insurance or parking regulation breaches.

Residents in affluent Knightsbridge have complained that some drivers are allegedly behaving in an anti-social manner, revving the cars and treating the exclusive area as their personal racetrack - although there is no suggestion any of the cars pictured are being investigated by the police.  

More Arab cars hit the streets of wealthy West London

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Many of the cars seen here are owned by rich Arab playboys who have brought them over to Britain for just a few weeks to escape the Middle East's baking mid-summer months. Above, a McLaren supercar, worth around £160,000 

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'A lot of them tour - so they may come to London for a bit and then truck their vehicle to much sunnier places like Marbella to extend their fun,' said Mr Hallworth. Above, a Rolls-Royce parked opposite Versace (naturally)

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A white Lamborghini Aventador was among the supercars spotted in London last night - and they often attract the attention of tourists and car enthusiasts

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The vehicles spotted in central London over the past few weeks - following the end of Ramadan - often attract the attention of tourists

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Onlookers gawp at two supercars in south-west London. The car owners are usually here for about one month

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A fellow traveller marvels at a neighbouring white Ferrari. The unusual vehicles can prove quite a distraction

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There are car doors... and then there are car doors, as this McLaren shows

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Two supercars have a 'face off' on the streets of London as they both bid to attract attention

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Once they arrive, some of the over-the-top autos attract the attention of the police too - due to incorrect registration plates and insurance or parking regulation breaches

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Wherever they go these flashy autos attract attention for their owners as these photos show

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A bright yellow supercar attracts attention outside London's Harrods which is often a major draw for wealthy foreign visitors

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A pair of supercars park up next to each other outside a designer clothing store