Rihanna has felt the full force of her mum’s fury after semi-Unclad
images of the singer surfaced online. The snaps – featuring Rihanna
Unclad from the waist down and wearing only a bra – were taken by her
pal Melissa Forde, who subsequently posted them on Instagram.
Despite
frequently stripping off for the camera and smoking suspicious
cigarettes, these particular pics of Rihanna left her mum Monica
reeling.
And she vented her rage at her famous daughter recently when the pair caught up on the phone.
Rihanna told Elle magazine: “I'm not afraid of any person in this world, but my mother, I'm terrified of her.
“She
called me two days ago and reeled me in about two Unclad pictures
Melissa put up on Instagram – a
A sad mood engulfed a village after a 12-year-old boy committed suicide by hanging himself last night.
It
is said that the boy locked himself in his room after the parents
argued at their house. He had earlier on complained to his friends that
his dad always quarreled the mother and he was not happy about their
parents’ lifestyle.
According to Njoro OCPD
Peter Njeru, the body of the standard six pupil was discovered by his
mother, hanging from his room on Thursday night at 8pm.
Njeru
explained that the mother was concerned when the boy did not show up
for supper and when she went to call him she found his body dangling on a
rope.
The boy is said to have left a note
saying he had left his books with his class teacher but he did not offer
any
The Peoples Democratic Party has begun
desperate moves to prevent governors elected on its platform as well as
its members from carrying out their threat to defect to the newly
formed All Progressives Congress.
This follows
indications that no fewer than 12 PDP governors as well as many of the
party’s members in the national and state assemblies and its 36 state
chapters were being wooed by APC chieftains.
Some of the
governors had told PDP leaders last week that they would leave the fold
in protest at the disdain which President Goodluck Jonathan and the
party leadership had shown for them.
Saturday PUNCH learnt that
the PDP had moved to stop a mass defection by embarking on a sudden
reconciliation drive, to stop estranged members from defecting to the
APC.
The three major political parties that merged to form the
APC are the Action Congress of Nigeria, All Nigeria Peoples Party and
the Congress for Progressive Change.
Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, is also involved in APC.
Nigeria-based Islamist group Ansaru said on Saturday it had
killed seven foreign hostages it seized on February 7 from a
construction company in Nigeria, SITE Monitoring Service said.
The group issued a statement in Arabic and English on an affiliate of
the Sinam al-Islam network accompanied by screen shots of a video
purporting to show the dead hostages, SITE said. One screenshot showed a
man with gun standing above several prone figures lying on the ground,
reports Reuters.
Ansaru, which has kidnapped other foreigners in
the past, had blasted into the compound using explosives and abducted a
Briton, an Italian, a Greek and four Lebanese workers, the largest
number of foreigners kidnapped in the mostly Muslim north since an
insurgency by Islamist militants intensified two years ago.
The
group's full name is Jama'atu Ansarul Musilimina Fi Biladis Sudan, which
roughly translates as "vanguards for the protection of Muslims in Black
Africa".
"I have never fought over any man. Men are just too many. I cannot fight
over any man. Why will a girl fight me over a man? The kind of men I
have dated (they are not many though) don’t have eyes for other women
when they are with me. If you are in a relationship with me, you are
really in a relationship with me. There will be nothing like another
girl by the side. I have never been in such situation." - the actress
told Punch in an interview when asked if she's ever fought over a man.
Well, hmmmnnnn..........Halima, Halima, Halima...how many times did i call you? lol
24 year old fast rising singer, Chinenye Ruth Okorie, popularly known as
Ruthless Diva just released these hot bikini photos from her recent
photo shoot. Ruth is a graduate of International Relations from NOUN and
just recently dropped her new video.
Shortly after the departure of Mr. President from Maiduguri,
the Borno state capital, the Joint Task Force Operation Restore Order in
Borno state has in a latest operation in Maiduguri engages the Boko
Haram sect in gun battle where the JTF killed over 20 sect members,
arrests 25 while two JTF personnel were killed and three injured as arms
and amunations recovered.
JTF in a statement in
Maiduguri said in the last ten days, a total of over 52 sect members has
been killed in exchange of fire, while 70 were arrested.
The
statement sign by Lt. Col. Sagir Musa explained that, the operation on
Friday between the hours of 3 and 8pm about an hour after the President
Jonathan left led to the recovery 3 anti aircraft guns, 10 rocket
propelled grenade tubes, 3 general purpose machine guns and 17 AK47
riffles.
Others
includes 1 pistol (Lama), 20 RGP chargers, 1*36 hand held grenade, 1
teargas riffle, 33 G3 magazines, 11,068 assorted amunations, 4 technical
vehicles with mounted anti aircraft stands, 1 box of
Although she died on Valentine’s Day, Goldie still apparently tweets from the great beyond!
This came to the fore when ‘Goldie’ on March 1 tweeted links to a song just released by actress and singer, Tonto Dikeh.
One
of the links leads to a page on http://www.nigerianmovietube.com/,
which has a video and review of Tonto’s latest song, Jeje.
‘Goldie’ also tweeted a link on the same website to ‘King’s Firstborn’, a movie starring Tonto and Chidi Mokeme.
Same day, ‘Goldie’ tweeted a link to a film titled Adam’s Desire, starring John Dumelo and Monalisa Chinda.
On March 5, ‘Goldie’ tweeted, “WATCH: Mr Ibu in London – Nigerian MovieTube.”
On
February 28, exactly 14 days after she died of a sudden headache and
hypertension, ‘Goldie’ invited her friends and fans to a candlelight
procession in her honour.
“Candlelight procession tomorrow Friday
1st March 2013 at 6pm. Converge at Parkview Estate Gate in
Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State shocked guests at
the traditional wedding of the Nigerian hip pop sensation on Friday when
he announced a gift of two brand new Toyota Prado SUVs to the musician
and his wife, Annie Macaulay. At the event in Eket, Mr. Akpabio also
announced that the state would bankroll an all-expense paid trip for 29
delegates from the state to attend the white wedding of the couple fixed
for Dubai, the United Arab Emirate on March 23.
“On
behalf of the government and good people of Akwa Ibom State, I have
decided to donate two brand new Toyota SUVs to the couple,” the governor
announced with glee. “Also 29 Akwa Ibom delegates will join the wedding
which is billed to come up in Dubai.”
He also promised to rehabilitate the Eket-Ibeno Road ahead of the child dedication of Tuface and Annie.
Moments
after the donations were made, some concerned indigenes of the state
telephoned PREMIUM TIMES, saying the governor had taken his wasteful
spending of the state’s meager resources too far.
Who will be next Pope?—Cardinals likely to succeed Pope Benedict XVI.
Top row from left: Argentine Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio; Mexican
Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera; Brazilian Joao Braz de Aviz;
Philippines’ Luis Antonio Tagle; Ghanaian Peter Turkson. Bottom row from
left: Italian Angelo Scola; Canadian Marc Ouellet; Nigerian Francis
Arinze; Nigerian John Onaiyekan, and USA’s Timothy Dolan. AFP PHOTO.
AS Catholic cardinals begin the process to elect a new Pope who will
succeed Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, a sex abuse victims’ network has
named a “Dirty Dozen” of cardinals who are contenders for the role of
next pope.
The list, compiled by Survivors’ Network of those Abused by Priests
(SNAP) and based on each individual’s actions and statements re-child
abuse and a Church cover-up in the church, includes some frontrunners
for the position.
The cardinals on the list have not responded to it. Vatican spokesman
Federico Lombardi said: “It is not up to SNAP to decide who comes to
conclave and who is chosen.” SNAP’s executive director, David Clohessy,
said the group had focused on candidates who had the best chances of
being nominated pope.
The following 12 papal candidates are the ones that we are most
worried about becoming the next pope. These 12 were chosen based
exclusively on their actions and/or public comments about child sex
abuse and cover up in the church. Sources include mainstream media
accounts, legal filings and victims’ experiences.
Convener, All Ladies Affairs, Business and Career Forum, Dr.
Shade Toyin-Kehinde, speaks on challenges married women face in
balancing their homes and careers in this interview with Bosede Olusola-
Obasabosede
How true is the saying that it takes a tough woman to break even in the business world?
It takes an ordinary woman to achieve the unachievable in whatever industry.
But the difference between her and other ordinary women is that she
is one backed by God and her spouse. It actually takes vision to excel.
She is a focused woman, who brings business before pleasure. She is
shrewd and organised. She pays herself rather than touch her capital.
She lives within her means, she respects the core principles of business
excellence and above all, she is socially responsible to her immediate
environment and beyond. For instance, we give revolving loans to poor
widows for business and take them through skills acquisition. I
encourage women to go all out; there is no limitation at all.
But people say that women are the worst bosses to have?
That is a wrong notion. Women have this milk of kindness which comes
to play from time to time. Men who complain about female bosses are
perhaps those who want to take undue advantage of a prevailing
situation.
We have been alerting you since 1724 days ago, that JOHN PAUL II (who will be impersonated by a devil) will appear as the NEXT POPE and he will be the last pope. The SECOND COMING of our Master and Savior, Yahushua the Anointed, will then be very imminent. It is high time
that we submit our lives to our Redeemer's will. Here below is the
article you need to prayerfully read and study, to know why we are
nearer to the end of human probation that you think:
Next & Last Pope Will be a Devil Impersonating John Paul II
Through the study of Revelation chapter 17,
Yahuwah has led us to a most startling truth, confirming that we are
nearer to the end of all things than ever imagined. We are prompted by
our loving Eloah to share this prophecy, that none need be ensnared by
the global events soon to transpire which will engulf the world in the
grandest deception yet contrived by Satan.
World's Last Chance dares to declare this interpretation to the world
because we adhere only to sound Biblical interpretation. This means we
unlock Bible prophecy by using the Bible as its own interpreter. By
The ancient town of Eket, in Akwa-Ibom State lost its serenity Friday
when it played host to a mammoth crowd of Nigerian celebrities who
stormed the town to be part of the historic traditional marriage of
superstar, Tuface Idibia and his wife, Annie Macaulay.
The traditional marriage held at the Apostolic High School, Esit
Urua Community, Eket – Ibeno Road, in Uyo, the bride’s hometown,
climaxed the month-long speculation that preceded the wedding.
Among the celebrities that graced were Nollywood actress, Kate
Henshaw, Sound Sultan, HipHopWorld Magazine boss, Ayo Animashaun, Now
Muzik Chief, Efe Omorogbe, Iyanya and many others.
Most guests who arrived Uyo, the prevous night were lodged at the
Villa Marina hotel. The pre-wedding bash also held Thursday night, and
it was gathered that Akwa-Ibom State governor, Godswill Akpabio
sponsored the event.
2face and Annie have been engaged since last year after the former
popped the proposal with a sparkling diamond ring on Valentine’s day in
the presence of very close friends to a shocked Annie at former Club 10
LAGOS — The disagreements over N500 million property left behind by
late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu has taken another turn as Lotanna
Ojukwu told a Federal High Court in Lagos, that Chief Debe Ojukwu was
never a grandson to Sir Lious Ojukwu.
Latonna, in a 22 paragraph affidavit, countered the prayers of Chief
Debe Odimegwu Ojukwu, the purported first son of late Ojukwu, who is
seeking the leave of court to enforce his fundamental human rights.
“That the applicant to the best of my knowledge as well as to the
Ojukwu family is not and has never been a grandchild of the late Sir
L.P.O Ojukwu,” Latonna said, adding that all the respondents did know
him as the son of Emeka Ojukwu.
Debe had sued OTL asking the court to enforce his fundamental human rights.
Joined in the suit are: Prof. Joseph Ojukwu, Engr. Emmanuel Ojukwu,
Lotanna, Bianca Ojukwu, Patricia Ojukwu, Mrs. Margaret Mogbo (nee
Ojukwu), Inspector General of Police, former Commissioner of Police,
Anambra State; Ibrahim Muktar and Mike Okoli, Deputy Commissioner of
Police, Anambra State.
NAIROBI (AFP) – Uhuru Kenyatta was elected Kenya’s new president
despite facing an international crimes against humanity trial,
provisional election commission figures showed Saturday.
Kenyatta took 50.03 percent of the vote, according to constituency
tallies released in the early hours of Saturday, to become the African
country’s new leader 50 years after his independence hero father,
Kenya’s founding president.
The 51-year-old outgoing deputy prime minister — charismatic, able to
appeal to all classes and one of Africa’s richest men — is the first
leader to take power whilst facing trial in The Hague-based
International Criminal Court (ICC).
Kenyatta, whose first name means “freedom” in Swahili, beat by over
800,000 votes his opponent Raila Odinga, the 68-year-old outgoing prime
minister who was on his third failed bid at the top job.
But Kenyatta, who won 6,173,433 votes out of a total 12,338,667
ballots cast, scraped through the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid a
second-round run off by just over 4,000 votes.
Odinga trailed in second place with 43.28 percent with a total of 5,340,546 votes.
You all know the drill, he is guilty until proven innocent...in my
books, that is! Hehe. Because really, his explanation of the events that
took place that early morning of February 14th makes absolutely no
sense to me. He aimed to kill..aimed being the imperative word here! If you shoot four times through a door at an intruder,
it's possible you will miss the shots because you can't see who you are
firing at. But in this case all the bullets hit Reeva, meaning he aimed
at her, so enough with the BS that it was an accident. He experienced a
few minutes of madness, killed and now regrets it. My opinion, he should be locked up.....lol
Embattled Super Eagles’ midfield player, Sunday Mba has begged
the two clubs fighting over him to let him pick the club he wants to
play for and continue enjoying his best football form since helping the
Super Eagles to win the last Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa.
Mba who scored the winner against Cote d’ Ivoire in the
quarter-finals of the 2013 Afcon as well as the lone goal that fetched
Nigeria her third Afcon in South Africa on Sunday, February 10th, 2013,
has been involved in a controversial transfer and ownership tussle
between the last club he played for which is the Warri Wolves and his
former club Rangers International which the Nigeria Federation has set
up a 4-Man Committee to look into.
Nationsport spoke to him at the
NFF Secretariat and the player confessed that the transfer saga has
really affected him and he wished the whole issue is quickly resolved so
that he can concentrate on his football.
“I am not happy that
this is happening to me at the time I’m supposed to make the maximum use
of the Afcon feat and glory in South Africa. By now I’m supposed to be
looking forward to a fulfilling career and a
There are indications that terrorist groups, Boko Haram and Ansaru, are
being funded by drugcartels in Latin America, a report has revealed. The
report entitled, "Terrorism in Northern Africa and the Sahel in 2012:
Global Reach and Implications," is an update on fiveearlier studies. Published
by the Director, Inter-University Centre for Terrorism Studies, USA,
Yonah Alexander, in February 2013, the report suggested that Al-Qaida in
IslamicMaghreb, had aligned with many other groups in order to expand
its sources of funding. Intelligence reports have in the past identified a strong link between AQIM and Boko Haram with the newly emerging Ansaru. In
December 2012, the Commander of the United States African Command, Gen.
Carter Ham, stated that there was an increasing collaboration between
AQIM and other terrorist groups in Africa, including Boko
President Goodluck Jonathan (l) with Gov Kashim Shettima of Borno State
during a meeting between the President and the State Executive Council
in Maiduguri on Friday
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday in Maiduguri, accused Borno
State Elders of playing to the gallary over the activities of Boko Haram
Islamic sect insurgency in the state, describing the situation as
unfortunate.
Jonathan spoke during an interactive session with Borno State
stakeholders at the Multi-Purpose Hall, Government House Maiduguri, in
continuation of his two- day working visit to Borno and Yobe States, the
epicentres of Boko Haram.
He was responding to requests by the Elders for the Federal
Government to grant amnesty to the sect members as well as withdraw the
military Joint Task Force, JTF from Maiduguri and other areas in the
state during the second day of his working visit to Borno State..
President Jonathan lamented that none of the elders in the state had
publicly condemned the killings and bombings being carried out by the
sect members and advised them to put their ‘’house in order,’’ by
talking
Mom-to-be Karen McMartin doesn’t have to wait for a sonogram to get an idea of what her child is going to look like. The
pregnant woman can see an outline of her baby on her burgeoning belly.
She discovered the print on her tummy when she was just 25-weeks
pregnant and some colleagues at her hair salon were making jokes about
her protruding belly button. The British citizen explained to The Sun about her unique baby bump: “I
was in the staff room on a break. We were actually having a laugh at my
belly button sticking out and checking for baby movement. “Then
Karen who owns the salon came in and said, ‘Oh my God, I can see a
face.’ She took a picture and we’ve been showing it to folk ever since.” Twenty-five
year old McMartin, who already has a daughter Chloe, 2, with her
husband David, added: “No
Malik Obama, the 54-year-old half-brother of U.S. President,
Barack Obama, failed miserably in his effort to get elected as a
governor in Western Kenya as results on Friday showed that he received
just 1 per cent of the votes cast in his constituency. The Kenyan accountant, who ran as an independent, garnered just 694
votes in a race with over 55,000 ballots cast in Siaya County. The
winner was William Odhiambo Oduol, with 56 per cent of the vote.
The
two Obamas share the same father but have different mothers. Malik ran
on a campaign of “change,’’ echoing his younger brother’s slogans of
hope and change in the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
According
to Malik Obama, the last time he spoke to his brother was after the
U.S. elections, when the latter promised to visit Kenya if the elections
were fair and transparent.
Many Kenyans were disappointed that
Barack Obama did not visit during his first term. In 2009, Obama’s
Danielle Fishel seems to be getting hotter with age!
The former "Boy Meets World" star (soon-to-be "Girl Meets World"
bombshell) graces the cover of Maxim's April issue in lingerie and
opened up to the mag about her "BMW" heydays - including whether she and
co-star Ben Savage were ever an off-screen item.
"No! That [dating] rumor was entirely my fault because I once said,
on 'The Tyra Banks Show,' that Ben and I went on a date, and that turned
into 'Danielle and Ben dated,'" she explained. "We went on one date,
when I was about 15, and by the time the dinner was over we realized
mutually that we were more like family than lovers."
While Ben and Danielle were not a match, the 31-year-old beauty did
find her soulmate (she tutored him in math while pursuing her bachelor's
degree) and the two got engaged last year.
This question is as old and worn out
as time itself. Yet still, nobody seems to be able to come up with a
definite answer for it.
Really,Why do most Nigerian
students (including those from wealthy homes) either have sugar daddies
OR engage in prostitution? I took time out to ask some people around me
this question and here are some of their responses.
“its greed of
course! Greed, laziness, peer pressure, no ambition! Mutsheeeeew!!!”LOL
sounds like he has been a victim of these girls.
“Because their parents don’t give them all the cash they need”
“Money, peer pressure” hmmmm yet again
Yet
another person “MONEY! Peer pressure too.” I then replied “if that’s
the main reason, why can’t they ask their parents, guidance e.t.c or get
a decent job?” His response; “ooh! You’ll tell your parents you want
bold5 today, they would drop the money. Less than two months after that,
you want an iphone then later you
A suspected Mushin robbery gang leader, Shakiru Sanni, 31,
a.k.a. Osama bin Laden, has been arrested by the operatives at the
Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, FSARS, at Adeniji Adele Road, Lagos
Island, southwest Nigeria. According to the police, Sanni, who has been arraigned in court and
remanded in prison custody, has been on the run since 2009 after he
allegedly led others now in prison custody to rob and kill four persons.
The
suspect was arraigned before an Igbosere magistrate’s court on a
6-count charge of felony to wit, armed robbery, murder, terrorising
victims and unlawful possession of firearms.
Investigation by the
police revealed that the accused, who had been on the wanted list of the
police for the past three years, was arrested for allegedly killing
four persons and robbing others.
Some of the gang’s victims, the
police said, included a 9-year girl identified as Lateef Aminat who was
killed
Residents were shocked after a sheep belonging to one of the
residents bore a lamb with features that closely resembled those of a
human being. Speaking to the media, the sheep owner Rita Nabangala said she was
equally shocked after the incident. Rita explained that this was the
third time the sheep was giving birth but no such incident has ever been
witnessed.
It is said that the sheep took a
long time to deliver prompting villagers to come to its rescue only to
deliver the unique creature contrary to everyone’s expectation.
She
affiliated the occurrence to bestiality from evil people. It was noted
that there had been increased cases of people sleeping with animals, an
issue that the residents wanted the area chief to look into.
VATICAN CITY (AFP) – Cardinals from around the globe will hold a
conclave in the Sistine Chapel from next Tuesday to elect a new leader
of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, after “pope emeritus” Benedict
XVI’s historic resignation.
Cardinals will first celebrate a “Pro Eligendo Romano Pontifice” mass
in St Peter’s Basilica after which they will file into the chapel under
the famous frescoes of Michelangelo for a centuries-old ritual bound by
a vow of secrecy.
A pre-conclave meeting of cardinals on Friday “decided that the
conclave will begin on Tuesday, 12 March 2013,” the Vatican said in a
statement.
On the eve of the event, the 115 “cardinal electors” are expected to
move into a special residence within the walls of the Vatican, where
they will be cut off from the world.
Each cardinal has to swear not to reveal details of the conclave on
pain of excommunication. The cardinals will spend the weekend and Monday
in last-minute debates over who is the best candidate.
Bose Adebayo Died On Her Way To NYSC Orientation Camp.
This
Young Lady Who just Received her NYSC Call- Up Letter Died in a Fatal
Road Accident on Wed 6th of March 2013 on her way to NYSC
orientation camp in Imo state.
Bose we were told, attended OLCOM
High school in Akure, Ondo state and graduated from University of Ado
Ekiti(UNAD), Microbiology Department.
..May Bose’s soul rest in peace!
Director of Public Affairs of the commission, Tony Ojobo made this
disclosure during Channels Television’s flagship programme, Sunrise
Daily, today.
“There will be a launch by the end of this month, we are going to flag it off”
“So we are looking at the 26th of March or there about.”
Ojobo said the MNP will enable a consumer move from his service
provider to another without losing the number he already uses despite
the change in the SIM card of the consumer.
The service however will not be available to consumers who haven’t registered their SIM cards.
He further said service providers who try to woo consumers that have
submitted request forms to another service provider will be dealt with
by the commission.
The ability to choose or fire your GSM service provider is one whose
time has come in Nigeria, and will only
The traditional wedding ceremony of
African queen Crooner, 2face Idibia and his wife, Annie Macaulay is
currently ongoing in Uyo.
Several Celebs are presently in Uyo for the wedding ceremony.
See more photos below:
A small fishing town in Massachusetts is coming to terms with
the news that 17 teenage girls at the local high school are pregnant,
almost half of them having entered a pact to have babies and raise the
children collectively.
Officials in Gloucester have discovered
that the extraordinarily high number of pregnancies among the school's
15- and 16-year-olds - four or five times the average annual number - is
not a coincidence. The revelation of a pact among up to eight of the
girls has prompted heated debate locally about the approach to sex
education and contraception.
Teachers at the 1,200-student
Gloucester high school first noticed something strange last October when
several girls began visiting the school health clinic to request
pregnancy tests.
By March the number of pregnant girls in the
school had risen to 10 and officials were alarmed. By May, the health
clinic reported that an unusual number of girls were still asking for
pregnancy tests.
The head, Joseph Sullivan, told Time magazine
that some of the girls seemed upset when they received
All Progressives Congress, APC will
hold its National Convention in the coming weeks. This is as disclosed
by the National Publicity Secretary of the Action Congress of Nigeria,
ACN, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
Mohammed told DailyPost in
Abuja on Thursday that each of the three major parties – ACN, Congress
for Progressive Change, CPC and the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP
would cease to exist after the first APC National Convention in April.
The convention is expected to ratify the formation of the new party.
According
to Mohammed, the parties had ratified the draft of the APC’s logo,
manifesto and constitution as proposed by its NEC/legal compliance
committees, which were inaugurated a fortnight ago.
He said, the
logo, slogan and motto were unanimously adopted after Tuesday’s meeting
of the larger committee with the governors elected on the platform of
the parties.
He said there were no objections to the logo, slogan and motto of the APC when they were presented for
As the Nigerian economic condition
bites harder, many male citizens are now ready to sell their semen to
couples who need them for procreation, according to new findings.
Many
of the respondents to the vox pop conducted by PM News correspondent
said they would not hesitate to donate their sperm for cash as long as
it is not for ritual purposes but to help couples battling with
infertility have children.
Those who said they would not mind making their sperm available for sale included young as well as married men.
Donation
of sperm and female eggs to couples and fertility clinics, considered a
normal practice in most parts of the western world, had been a discrete
practice in Nigeria due to the country’s religious and cultural
beliefs.
Only four of the 25 male respondents said they would never engage in such an act with the excuse that it was
Many Nigerian celebrities have touched
down in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, for what has been tagged the “Showbiz
wedding of the year” as music star, Tuface Idibia and his long-time
love, Annie Macaulay, will be officially joined as man and wife today.
The
two will tie the nuptial knot during a traditional wedding ceremony
holding at the Apostolic High School, Esit Urua Community, Eket-Ibeno
Road, Uyo.
They have been engaged since Tuface popped the proposal
with a sparkling diamond ring on Valentine’s day last year in the
presence of very close friends to a shocked Annie at former Club 10 (now
Club PoP) in Victoria Island, Lagos.
Annie Macaulay has a four year old daughter, Isabella Eneh for him.
Explaining
his reason for settling down with Annie of all his ladies, 2face
confessed that it was a decision he made from the depth of his soul.
“Like any other thought about something important, you start feeling the
need to do something or go somewhere different from deep within.
Then
you just make your move one time; no shaking. The timing for marriage
should not be determined by
Ex-Nigeria star Nwankwo Kanu has lost N1.4 billion (about $104m) and a
top executive of his hotel has been arrested and charged to court.
Managing director of Hardley Suites Hotel in Lagos, Ayoola Gam Ikon,
49, has been arrested and charged to court for the alleged fraud.
Operatives of the Inspector General of
Police Monitoring Unit arrested Ikon, the managing director of Hardley
Suites Limited situated at Waziri Ibrahim Crescent, off Elsie Femi
Pearse Street, Victoria Island, Lagos southwest Nigeria, for allegedly
stealing the N1.4 billion belonging to the hotel owned by Kanu.
Also arrested along with him over the alleged fraud is a hotel staff, Oke Samuel.
They were arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate’s court on a
19-count charge of felony to wit, obtaining money under false pretence.
The police alleged in charge suit No. K/8/2013 that Ikon was arrested
following a complaint by the
Some stick-wielding Nigerians descended on the Nigerian
Embassy in Senegal for failing to help them get the body of a deceased
friend.
They attacked officials and destroyed embassy properties. The video was uploaded on YouTube on March 6.
A comedian who called Zinedine Zidane
"a billboard with three neurones" has been fined for insulting the
former France captain by a Paris court.
Christophe
Aleveque was ordered to pay €5,000 in damages to Zidane by the French
capital's Court of Appeal following the insults, which appeared in an
interview the comedian gave to Sport-Mag in January 2011. Aleveque had
also called the 1998 World Cup winner "a whore", and said he was "as
stupid as a dick".
"It's a battle we've won by putting in all our
energy and our passion, I'm emotional and happy," Carlo Alberto Brusa,
Zidane's lawyer, said after the hearing, adding that he believed the
insults were "humiliating and damaged the dignity" of his client.
Aleveque
had initially been cleared of any wrongdoing when Zidane first took him
to court, claiming €75,000 in damages. The former Real Madrid star
reduced his claim to a symbolic, single euro on appeal.
Barely one week after Damino Damoche,
the final year student of the Lagos State University, Ojo, was killed by
suspected cultists in front of the institution’s gate, another student
was Thursday, murdered by suspected cultists on reprisal attack.
Although
the deceased identified as Karim Abiodun, was reportedly not a student
of LASU, but he was alleged to be a member of Buccaneer confraternity,
whose members were said to be at war with members of the Eiye
confraternity.
Report said the cultists stormed Karim’s home
located on Afolabi street around PPL in Okokomaiko area at about 4a.m
yesterday, from where he was chased to Peoples bus-stop around Ajagbandi
and shot dead.
The late Karim, a second year student of Economic
Education at the Lagos State College of Education, LACOED, would be the
second person to be killed during reprisal attacks by warring cultists
since the death of Damoche.
The first person shot dead, was
identified simply as Kabiru. He was reportedly killed in the presence of
his
18 year-old girl, Miss Ladi Okoro who
works at Mararaba, a suburb of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory,
must have heard tales of how people fall victims of ritualists, yet she
had not experienced one until Wednesday, 6th March, 2013 when some
ritualists picked her and 2 others from Mopol Junction in Mararaba,
after the young girl had closed from work.
Ladi
who narrated her experience in the hands of the ritualists to DailyPost
said she could only remember when the driver of the red taxi that
picked them from the junction stopped for them to get into the car.
According
to Ladi, it was like a movie scene as she only realized she was in
trouble when she woke up midnight to discover that she was not in the
house but in the midst of some strange faces.
"All I remembered
at that point was when I got into that car. After then, we all slept
off, and the driver of the red taxi took us far into the bush. I woke up
midnight to realize that I was in a strange place. We met 5 other
victims, but they were all ‘dead’ asleep".
Ladi said the moment
she realized that she was at the wrong place, she began to pray
alongside one of the
Football’s world governing body Fifa has written to the
Nigerian Football Association over claims lesbians are now banned from
playing football there. Dilichukwu Onyedinma, chair of the Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL), was quoted as making the statement.
“Any player associated with it will be disqualified,” she is quoted as saying.
While contravening Fifa’s anti-discrimination policies, the
situation is made more complicated because homosexuality is illegal in
Nigeria.
Currently, a Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Bill that specifically
outlaws same-sex unions is awaiting a signature from president Goodluck
Jonathan to go in to law.
If that occurs, gatherings of homosexuals or any other support for
gay clubs, organisations, unions – whether in secret or in public -will
be banned, with same-sex couples facing up to 14 years in prison.
In a speech at the NWFL’s recent annual general assembly, Onyedinma
is reported to have said that lesbian
Hiphop artiste and OnAir Personality N6 has released the video for his
new single, Get Wild, featuring Iyanya with cameo appearances from Dr.
Sid, Banky W, Iyanya, Emma Nyra, Tee-y Mix, Spellz, Dj Atte, etc. N6 is
working on an album aptly titled #BiznessB4Pleasure and he is frequently
known to drop freestyles online, so expect his second official single
soon.
Is
too much exercise bad for pregnant women? I ask because pregnant Kim
Kardashian was rushed to the hospital on Tuesday night after she felt
ill. She thought she was having a
miscarriage.
She was discharged a few hours later with her doctor supposedly telling her to slow down with the amount of exercise she's doing.
Kim is believed to be
working out seven days a week and working with two different trainers in a bid to keep the pregnancy weight gain
under control.