In January 2011, popular Nollywood actor John Okafor's wife and 1 year
old son, Mandela Okafor (both pictured above), were kidnapped and held
in captivity for 10 days. Then exactly one year later, 2 year old
Mandela died in mysterious circumstances. John Okafor later revealed in
an interview that his son died from food poisoning.
Famous comic actor, John Okafor, otherwise known as Mr. Ibu, has
lamented that the Nigerian motion picture industry - globally known as
Nollywood - is currently being ravaged by a virus called
homosexuality. In this interview, the thespian discloses that some guys
had been after him, trying to harass him sexually.
He says: “One idiot came toasting me o! That is true, as funny as it would sound.
A three-year old girl identified as Imiefan Omokaro was on
Thursday afternoon found dead in the toilet of her school, known as
Kingdom Heritage Model School along Sapele road in Benin City.
She
was said to have fallen into a bucket half filled with water. A source
said a teacher who found the little girl at the toilet raised alarm and
the girl was taken to the Winners Chapel Church, owners of the school,
where pastors engaged in marathon prayers to revive the girl.
It
was learnt that when the mother of the child came to the school to pick
her daughter, the teacher said they
Contrary to the news making the rounds that the Boko Haram sect has nominated Former Head of States, General Muhammadu Buhari as
the mediator between them and the Federal Government of Nigeria in the
proposed peace talk, the retired Military General has denied knowledge
of his nomination.
According to the National Secretary of the Congress for Progressive
Change (CPC) Engr Buba Galadima, the national leader of the CPC is not
aware of the appointment: “As at 10pm yesterday (Thursday) when I
TOKYO (AFP) – A person who had a sex-change to become a man has
complained of discrimination after a Japanese court refused to register
him as the father of his wife’s child, according to reports Saturday.
The 30-year-old, who was born female, had sought to be registered as
the father after his wife delivered a boy in 2009 by way of artificial
insemination using donated sperm.
But the Tokyo Family Court ruled the child must be registered as if
he was born out of wedlock as the man is
MajelaZeZeDiamond (aka Queen of womanliness) is a typical internet
LovePeddler from YouTube who posts embarrassing videos of herself on the
internet. Most of her videos are about Being Intimate with her
womanliness. On her YouTube profile, she claims she is trying to get a
record deal, which we all know wont
One of the latest news making rounds about Banky W and fast rising music
star WizKid indicates that the two entertainers might part ways soon
except something is done to avert it,Global News magazine a Nigerian
tabloid reported this week. The reason is clearly as a result of some financial dealings that his
not going down well with both parties. Sources hinted that there is
serious entertainment politics going on within the four walls of EME as
their record label is known.As part of ways to secure more gains, WizKid
has already sacked
Dr. Charles Eugster, a 93-year-old British bodybuilder, did not begin
weightlifting six years ago as a way to stay in shape or to occupy his
time. No, Eugster had a more, shall we say, ambitious rationale.
"The idea is to turn the heads of the sexy young 70-year-old girls on the beach," Eugster told BBC News.
After an athletic youth in which he was a competitive rower, Eugster
lost his sturdy physique during 30 years as a dentist. In his late 80s,
he noticed the complexion of his body had changed, and he wasn't happy
about it. "I'm extremely vain," Eugster said. "I noticed I was getting fat." So for the past six years, Eugster's been
One minute you’re walking down an alleyway minding your own
business, and then you bump into a man who sneezes and his head falls
off, and then he tries to re-attach it to his body. What would you do? Scream? Run away? Bring out your camera phone and make a video/photo upload online?
That
is exactly what happened on Halloween when magician Rich Ferguson
performed his ‘head drop’ trick on the streets of his hometown.
Now,
his illusion, and the hilarious reactions of unsuspecting strangers,
has become a YouTube monster smash, with almost 4million hits, see the video below:
What is your impression about these 20 tuxedo-garbed
and dashingly good looking men who were displayed deft moves and choreography
to the delight of passers-by yesterday? The arresting sight and pure
spectacle of Daniel Craig’s legendary character was rolled up in a
synchronizing effect by these 20 men under the Heineken James Bond billboard
across select areas in Lagos. See more photos after the cut...
Multimillionaire Mark Cuban has offered Donald Trump $1 million to shave his head.
According to Fox 4 News, Cuban, owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks,
got the idea to proposition "The Donald" following the business
magnate's multimillion dollar offer to President Barack Obama last
month.
On Oct. 24, Trump announced that he would give $5 million to a charity of the president's choice
if -- and only if -- Obama revealed his college transcripts and
passport records by the end of October. The real estate mogul's "very,
very big" offer expired this week without comment from Obama or his campaign, the New York Daily News notes.
I really need some advice. My 8 year old boy is too sexually aware.
In
the last few months I've noticed him touching himself, rubbing himself
against anything he can find, and doing things that I'm too ashamed to
type here even though I am anonymous.
He is touching his younger
sister in ways that are not brotherly. He's fixated with breasts and
grabs any he sees. He also forcefully tries to kiss people, both male
and female.I've smacked him several times but it
Barcelona star Lionel Messi has become a father for the first time after his girlfriend, Antonella Roccuzzo, gave birth to a baby boy, Thiago.
The
25-year-old was given permission to leave training this morning to
accompany his partner to USP Dexeus, a hospital in the city, after she
went into labor.
Konvict Music boss Akon is once again in the news as he features in Davido’s monster hit single Da mi duro
but then, for the first time since Akon began churning up powerful
collabos with our own local artists, this one with Davido has come with
repercussions.
Akon is currently suffering a back lash from many critiques and eager
fans who have listened to the colabo and then thumbed it down. According to them, Akon who had virtually created magic in other
collabos
INDIA: A 14-year-old student in the Indian state of Tamil
Nadu sent the entire community into shock when he stabbed his Maths
teacher for reprimanding him for coming late to class.
The grade nine student simply took out a knife and stabbed the teacher in a private school.
As
the teacher collapsed, the tardy boy managed to run away from the
school campus even though some of
UK – Serial thug Amanda Lowe, 26, had
been drinking with Wesley Earls, father of her unborn child, and Daniel
Wray, her cousin, in Piccadilly Gardens in the centre of Manchester this
May when the attack took place, the city’s Crown Court heard.
The area was crowded with families enjoying the evening sunshine as Khuram Nisar walked through on his way home from work.
Without
provocation, Lowe shouted racist abuse at him and added: ‘You’re a
terrorist, don’t come near me,
Venus and Serena Williams on Thursday joined girls from the
Government Secondary School in Osborne, Ikoyi on the dance floor as they
thrilled spectators with their dance steps.
The
international tennis stars, who arrived in Lagos on Tuesday as part of
the African 'Breaking the Mould' tour partnered with Always, a feminine
hygiene brand of Procter & Gamble Nigeria for a joint girls
empowerment event at the secondary school.
During the visit, the
Williams sisters provided the school girls with a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity to not only
BRAZIL: A 23-year-old nurse allegedly made a fatal mistake
when she injected coffee and milk into the veins of an 80-year-old
patient at a clinic in Rio de Janeiro.
The elderly lady
died after the student nurse made the grave error, Medical Daily
reported. The nurse even defended her mistake in a television interview,
and said "anyone can get confused."
The nurse had only three days
worth of experience and was still under training when the incident
occurred.
In what may be shocking but true, the
Dangote Group has said that PhD and MBA Holders were among the over
13,000 applicants who applied for the recent Graduate Executive Truck
Driver vacancy.
The company said it was satisfied with
the quality and quantity of applications they have received, stating
that its plan was to empower its Graduate Executive Truck Drivers.
Chairman
of the company and Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote revealed
this on Thursday in Abuja
A man in Zimbabwe has committed the worst crime possible, not
once but twice. A resident of a village in Zimbabwe left his mother
pregnant with his child for the second time and absconded. The mother
also allegedly fled the village, according to reports in the British
media.
About four years ago, the mother and son were
fined by their village church after the council learnt that the woman
was left pregnant by her son. At that time, the woman had miscarried
when she was four months
Hundreds of customers of First Bank Plc in Benin City, Edo
State, yesterday went home disappointed as they could not access their
accounts, following the sealing of the bank’s branches by Edo State
Board of Internal Revenue, BIR, over alleged tax default.
Vanguard
gathered that virtually all branches of the bank in Benin metropolis
were affected as those at Ugbowo, Uselu, Ring Road, Akpakpava, Ikpoba
Slope, Ikpoba Hill and Agbor Road were all sealed off on the order of
the State Board of Internal Revenue.
A 35-year-old bricklayer, Mr Ugochukwu
Ekwuribe, from Amuzu-Olokoro, near Umuahia, was allegedly stabbed to
death over a N200 debt reportedly owed to his suspected killer.
Ekwuribe’s
father, Mr Andrew Ogazi, a security man, told newsmen in Umuahia on
Thursday that the incident happened around 7.30 p.m. last Friday.
Ogazi
said that he learnt from several witnesses that his son bled to death
after he was stabbed with a bottle at a beer parlour located at
Itaja-Olokoro. Narrating the incident, he explained that he was in his house at Amuzu, when news came to him that
A former councillor of Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Area of
Lagos State, Onimole Babatunde, is currently being detained at the Area E
Police Command, Festac, Lagos for allegedly stabbing an 18-year-old
girl in the neck after she refused his advances at a night club.
PUNCH Metro learnt that on October 26, Mariam Abubakar went to Pearl
Habour Night Club in Rochester Garden Hotel, Festac to “catch weekend
fun.”
Her friend, who pleaded anonymity, said they only went
there “to hang out” when Babatunde, who was
A mother and father in Pakistan-administered Kashmir killed their 15-year-old daughter by dousing her with acid after seeing her talking to a young man, police said on Thursday.
Local
police officer Tahir Ayub told AFP the father, Mohammad Zafar, had had
suspicions about his daughter Anvu Sha and became enraged when he saw
her with a boy outside their home on Monday.
“Zafar beat her up
and then poured acid over her with the help of his wife. She was badly
burnt but they did
The expectation of most parents is that when they attain certain
ages that they can no longer fend for themselves, their children will
be there to provide the necessary support.
But for aged siblings- Ibijoke Apena and Janeth Eruwayo- who are
living in a dingy one-room apartment, their case is a different kettle
of fish. They have been abandoned by their children and relations.
At
8, Amusan Street, Rogo, along Iju-Ishaga Road, Lagos State, where they
live, the two sisters have become nuisance to other tenants.
Though they are from Jakpa in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State, they have spent more than 60
In July 2012, the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN)
announced that no foreign trained doctor will be allowed to practice in
Nigeria from October, 2012 except evidence is provided to prove that he
or she could have practised in their country of study. Keeping true to their words, the council recently organised
assessment tests for the doctors and out of 200 of them who sat for
A LIB reader who witnessed this incident yesterday sent in the report
and photos. According to her, the naked man in the picture is an Okada
man
who violated the new Lagos state traffic law. He was arrested at the
junction adjoining University road and St Finbarrs
college road Akoka by policemen in mufti, and before
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state has ordered the
immediate closure of nudity clubs in the state, describing their
existence as “strange and devilish”. Okorocha, who gave the order
in Owerri on Wednesday at the end of the meeting of the state Security
Council, said that the operation of nudity clubs debased Igbo culture.
He said that such clubs had compounded the eroding morality of the
youths and warned that the government would no longer condone their
destructive activities. Many nudity clubs are operating in the state capital.
MAIDUGURI— Leadership of Jama’atul Ahlis Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal
Jihad, also called Boko Haram, has named the former Head of State and
presidential candidate of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, General
Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), among six prominent northerners, to mediate
between the group and the Federal Government.
The Federal Government in a statement by Dr. Reuben Abati, Presidential Spokesman, Thursday, welcomed the move.
Boko Haram, however, said that for the group to observe ceasefire,
the Federal Government must heed its
Report of the Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force
We have pleasure in reporting the conclusion of the assignment given
to the Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force (PRSTF) in accordance with
its Terms of Reference as laid out at the inauguration of the Task
Force. We enclose our final report of work done together with our key
findings and recommendations.
Our overall approach has been prescriptive and consultative with
various stakeholder groups within the Petroleum Industry providing in
our estimation a unique opportunity to address some long standing issues
that
Members of Jama’atul Ahlis Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad also known as
Boko Haram have said they are now willing to cease fire and stop all
atrocities being perpetrated by their group and work against other
existing groups if the State and Federal Government will truly heed to
their demands.
The acclaimed spokesman of the group, Abu Mohammed Ibn Abdulazeez,
who doubles as the second-in-command (Amir) to their leader Imam
Abubakar Shekau revealed this in a tele-conference with journalists in
Maiduguri on Thursday stating that if the state and the federal
government want the group to seize fire
For many African-American celebrities, visiting Africa
satisfies a yearning to return to their distant ancestral homeland. Not
so for tennis player Serena Williams.
“I’d love to say I’m from Africa, but we’re from the United States
and we’re proud to be from there as well,” she told newsmen in Lagos on
Wednesday, after a Nigerian reporter asked if perhaps she was originally
from Nigeria.
“But my Mom named my sister (Venus) after an African name,” she hastily added.
The Williams sisters and their mother are in Nigeria this week to
promote women’s tennis and empowerment
A 45-year-old pastor, Peter Oladiti, on Wednesday,
appeared before an Ibadan Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing an
iPad and other sets of computer set valued at over N240, 000, Premium
Times reports.
According to the report, the prosecutor, Sikiru Opaleye told the
court that the accused also allegedly stole an HP laptop computer valued
at N85, 000 and a printing machine worth N8, 000, property of a
secondary
D’Prince is here! Omoba has chosen to bombard us with loads of new content at once. We finally have the video for “Take Banana”. Enjoy the video above.
Kim Kardashian is the star of a second sex tape, according to a
report. The beauty shot to fame in 2007 when an X-rated clip of herself
with then boyfriend Ray J was leaked on the internet.
But more footage is allegedly back to haunt her as Showbizspy says a new tape has emerged of the former couple.
The saucy video, which is reportedly on sale for £24million, is said to be even raunchier than the one that made her famous.
The principal of Etiwanda High School was arrested early Tuesday for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a student.
Brian
Garret Joseph, 38, and the student started the relationship when she
was a minor and attending the high school, according to San Bernardino
County sheriff's deputies.
Joseph resigned from his position at the Chaffey Joint Union High School District school on Tuesday after making bail.
Chaffey
Joint Union officials contacted sheriff's deputies at the Rancho
Cucamonga station to report that
Nigerian actor, Jim Iyke who is currently in Maryland on
Wednesday gave us a sneak-peak of his experience with super storm sandy,
a fierce hurricane currently battling some keys in the United States.
The Nollywood bad boy who described storm sandy as nature’s fury tweeted below:
A great-grandmother was mauled to death by a pack of dogs she was feeding as a favour for her daughter.
The five animals pounced on Gloria Knowles, 71, after she went into the garden to give them their evening meal.
The
widow was badly injured when the dogs – two 'giant' Bordeaux French
mastiffs, two American bulldogs and a small mongrel – suddenly turned on
her. Neighbours described hearing 'hysterical screaming and barking'
from the garden.
Mrs Knowles lived next door to her daughter, Beverley Mason, with her granddaughter, who has a baby of
At least four people were wounded
overnight in a shooting on the campus of the University of Southern
California, police said early Thursday.
An officer with
the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed there had been a shooting on
campus and said four people had been taken to hospital, but could not
immediately provide further details.
USC said on its website that a suspect was in custody following the shooting, which occurred at 11:30 pm
It’s been endless weeks of
production, traveling, screening and work nonstop for the Nigeria’s Got Talent
team. And as the show kicks into full gear, producers of the show at Rapid Blue
Format have announced that viewers should be ready for a new phase in the
Nigeria’s Got Talent experience.
Extremely sad news coming from the home of veteran actor, Pete Eneh.
Just heard from reliable sources that doctors at Parklane Hospital Enugu
had no choice but to amputate one of his legs in order to save his
life.
The veteran actor was said to have sustained some kind of injury last
year, and because he didn't take proper care of it, it led to serious
infection that became hard to treat. The injury was said to have
Wizkid has confessed in an exclusive interview with Toolz, how he had a huge crush on Nollywood star, Genevieve Nnaji.
“When I watched her movies, I said ‘O I love you’,” he said blushing. “Then I met her and said, ‘Good evening ma!’”
Peacefmonline.com is reliably informed that Ghanaian actor Eddy
Nartey has being allegedly stabbed by his girlfriend at his residence in
Accra. According to a close source Eddy Nartey who was
present with the said girlfriend at the premiere of the his new movie
“Testing the Waters” at Silver bird cinema on Friday October 27, 2012,
had some misunderstanding with his lover during the premiere so as a
result they both left the cinema to separate homes.
The Deputy Governor of Akwa-Ibom, Mr Nsima U Ekere, Wednesday tendered his resignation letter to the government of the state.
Mr
Nsima U Ekere in the letter, dated 31th of October 2012 and addressed
to the Governor, seek resignation from office with immediate effect.
The reality star was spotted at a car showroom in Miami checking out a rare sports car worth $2 million. According to the dealer, the exotic Pagani Huayra car Kim K was checking out is the first in the USA and