“The Problems of Nigeria are Nigerians” - Sound Sultan

Music star Sound Sultan has blamed Nigerians for the many problems in Nigeria today.

He said this while granting  an interview with NET.

Nine Nigerian Students Kidnapped in Ukraine

A statement released by the representative of the National Security and Defence Council Information Centre Andriy Lysenko, has said nine Nigerian students have been kidnapped in Ukraine but negotiations are under way to free the students taken captive by rebels in the eastern city of Luhansk.

Ukrainian news agencies say the suspected militants abducted the Nigerian students on Monday and have been holding them as prisoners at an occupied government security building, close to the Russian border.

The Rebels seeking greater autonomy have been waging a bloody battle in eastern Ukraine against the government and by so doing kidnapped nine Nigerian students schooling in the country.

Oshiomhole Sacks Perm Secs Over Lateness

Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has sworn in 18 new permanent secretaries out of the 20 appointed into various ministries in the State and reversed the appointment of the remaining two Permanent Secretaries on the grounds that they came late to the swearing-in ceremony.

The appointees were expected to have been seated at 12 noon for the ceremony, which was billed for 1pm. The event however kicked off at 12:30pm after the Governor arrived the venue at 12:23pm, but only 18 would-be Permanent Secretaries were seated at the time.

The other two arrived during the ceremony but the governor refused to swear them in. All efforts and pleas made to the governor to swear them in fell on deaf ears, as the governor stood by his principle.

Buhari escapes bomb attack •As 39 die in Kaduna twin blasts •I was the target —Buhari

FORMER head of state, General Muhammadu Buhari, narrowly escaped death, on Wednesday, as a vehicle blaring siren tried to intercept his convoy near Kawo overhead, Kaduna, before it detonated a bomb in the area.
The development resulted in the death of about 14 persons.
About 27 adherents of the Darika Islamic sect were also feared dead in Kaduna, when another bomb hidden in a Volkswagen car exploded near the Murtala Square, in the state capital.
According to a close source, sensing that the strange vehicle could be dangerous, the last car in the convoy blocked the intruding car before it exploded, killing traders and other people nearby.
Buhari was on his way to Daura, Katsina State, ahead of the Sallah celebration scheduled for next week, but some of the security men on his convoy were seriously injured.
There was pandemonium after the blast, with aggrieved youths hurling stones at security personnel.
The development prompted the state government to impose a 24-hour curfew on the state capital.
The bomb attack on Buhari occurred after another bomb had exploded about two hours earlier at the Murtala Square.

Photos: Emir Of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Meets Jonathan

The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Lamido Sanusi, yesterday visited President Goodluck Jonathan for the first time, since he became the Emir of Kano.

Sanusi, was one of the northern traditional rulers, led by the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III to join the president at the Presidential Villa, for the breaking of Ramadan fast.  More photos after the cut.

FRSC to Enforce New Drivers Licence & Number Plate from August 1st amidst Conflicting Court Rulings

LAGOS (NAN) ― The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) on Tuesday said it would begin enforcement of the new drivers’ licence and number plate on August 1st.

The Lagos State Sector Commander, Chidi Nkwonta, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the decision followed the new court judgement.

“This new judgment made it very clear that as from Aug. 1, FRSC should impound.

“So, Nigerians must discountenance that first misleading judgment and take this one because we are going to continue enforcement as from Aug. 1, 2014.

“We never asked anybody to stop (processing licences). Anybody who stopped ab initio stopped at his own peril.

“Neither did the court ask anybody to stop, that judgement never said anybody should stop.

“So anybody who did so did it at his own risk and the deadline was supposed to be June 30.

“Now we have extended it to Aug. 1, because we needed to go on appeal on the other matter.

“But right now, there is another judgement which says we can go on.

“So, while we are still waiting for the appeal we are going to go on with this other judgement.”

Justice Peter Umeadi of a Federal High Court in Anambra on June 30, had ruled in a suit filed by Chief Ajefo Ekwo challenging FRSC’s powers to enforce new drivers’ licence and number plate.

Umeadi said that the respondent’s directive to change old drivers’ licence and number plates to new was legal, valid, subsisting and in conformity with the FRSC’s 2007 Act and the National Road Traffic Regulations of 2012.

Beverly Naya sizzles in bikini on the cover of Exquisite magazine

Actress Beverly Naya is steaming hot in a black bikini and silver chain body accessory on the cover of the July issue of Exquisite magazine. Hot! Hot! Hot!!!

Wole Soyinka's wife tells their love story!

Wife of Prof. Wole Soyinka, Folake Soyinka has just narrated her love story! 

How we met:

"I knew he liked me from when I was in the University of Ife but I was young and he was so accomplished so I was kind of worried. After I left Ife and went to do my NYSC in Kaduna state, Dr Biodunjeyifo came to visit me and said Kongi (Prof Wole Soyinka) had been looking for me. After the service year, Dr Yomi Ogunbiyi who was at the Guardian got me a job there and one day, Wole stopped by. Our courtship was interesting"

 

Soji Taiwo (Omobanke) admits that Women are his Archilles' Heel

Not many people know that he has been in the movie industry for almost twenty years and that he was trained as a furniture maker. Yoruba actor, Soji Taiwo, otherwise known as Omobanke, is one actor that knows how to capture his audience’s mood any time he appears on the screen. In this interview with Glitz,  the Mushin-born actor speaks on his career and love for women.

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  It is hard to believe that you have spent almost twenty years of your life as an actor, how did you pull that? If I start to describe the picture of my life as an actor in the last twenty years, we won’t conclude this interview. It was not that somebody took me to a location. I’d been seeing theatre practitioners on stage since I was in the secondary school and I fell in love with acting since then. The rest is history today. I can tell you that if there is one thing that has helped my life till date, I will say it is consistency and hard work. Right from my childhood, I had been made to understand that life is not a bed of roses and even when things appear to be rosy, you have to be careful about how you handle certain things about yourself so that you won’t have yourself to blame in the long run. I also believe that when you are truthful and committed to a cause, you will be successful, though it may take a while.
Different reports have been written about your family and your affair with women but you have not been reacting to any of them, why?I don’t know which version to react to so I decided to keep quiet and allow people to continue to talk about it while I concentrate on what put food on my table.
How is your family taking all these? I am not going to talk about my family for obvious reasons, but then I will say that I have a family and I am happy about it. Is it possible for a man to keep having an affair with every woman that comes his way? That is how much the media have said about me. I like the fact that they write about me. It shows I am still relevant. Why didn’t they write about vulcanizers or battery chargers on the streets? My brother, let them continue to write.

Prophet Ajanaku’s wife writes him a very emotional tribute...

Last Thursday, Prophet Iretiola Elijah Ajanaku of Christ Revival Victory Chapel International was laid to rest 11 months after his death.

His widow Joy Ajanaku gave an emotional tribute at the burial which held in Ikota, Command Road, Lagos.  Read tribute below:

King Sunny Ade's daughter weds in style (photos)

Juju icon, King Sunny Ade has given out one of his daughters in a traditional marriage.
The private ceremony, held on Saturday, at the icon’s palatial country home in Ondo kingdom and was only captured in pictures.

The ceremony was graced by family members as well as associates of the couple.
KSA danced with joy all through the occasion and blessed his daughter from his heart.
See more photos below:

Houston Girl Attacks Tania Omotayo Over Wizkid On Twitter

I think y'll know dramas like this can never STOP, lol. 

We all know Wizkid’s girlfriend and they have always been expressing their love on social media. Well this afternoon, a certain young lady who lives in Houston came on twitter and attacked Tania, Wizkid's known girlfriend and even went ahead to say she's a good wifey but not a good 'fuxer'. She said a whole lot more and assured people she isn't in anyway trying to pull a Monica or Brandy - The Boy Is Mine Stunt! Allthesegirlstho. Her tweets after the cut.

Ex-Lawmaker Marries Two Friends As 3rd & 4th Wives In Lagos

Hon. Abdullateef Abdulkareem, a former member of Lagos House of Assembly and a former Special Adviser to Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola on Political and Legislative Powers, must be a devout Muslim, who believes in fulfilling all the tenets of the religion to its letters.

Hon. Abdulkareem, who is a lawyer and the Chief Imam of the Lagos House of Assembly since 2003, married his third wife on Wednesday, July 9, 2014 and he is planning to marry the fourth on Tuesday, October 28, 2014.

Ironically, his third and fourth wives are friends. His third wife, Hadizat, is a 23 year-old corper doing her primary assignment with Lagos House of Assembly. She graduated from Crescent University, Abeokuta, Ogun State.

Encomium Weekly gathered that it was Hadizat who pleaded with her husband, Hon. Abdulkareem to marry her and her friend, Rekihat together so that she will have a mate to play with.

She argued that the two senior wives are too old for her to play with and would be difficult for her to relate with and therefore, pleaded with him to marry her friend.

The man agreed with her and decided to marry the two friends.

14 year old Girl & Boyfriend Hang Themselves after Finding out She was Pregnant

A teenage Russian girl and her lover both hanged themselves from the same rope in a tree after they discovered that she was pregnant.

DailyMail reports that Irina Korovina, 14, and her lover Anatoly Maslov, 22, died and were found hanging from the same rope from the same branch. Their hands were still wrapped around each other, as tactile in death as they were in life.

Police said that with no suicide note they were still investigating the cause of death, but confirmed that the teenager was pregnant and, being under-age, the man would have faced an investigation if he
was the father of the child. Police spokesman Malik Shcherbakov said:

‘Looking at her social media postings it seems that at least up to shortly before her death she was happy, and one of the last postings was “Life is beautiful”.’

Funke Akindele has got it all rolling for her (photos)

Funke Akindele has got it all rolling for her!
Peradventure you've been wondering why she's been off the social scene for a while now, it's all because she's got a busy schedule.
She's been so busy attending to movie scripts and moving from one movie location to the other. Right now she's on a movie location with Ini Edo.
See more photos below:

Doris Simeon marks birthday with new photo shoot

Nollywood actress, producer is a year older today!
On turning a year older, Doris says “A brand new me has been born as I celebrate my birthday on Tuesday, July 22, 2014 and like it is written in the holy book, old things have passed away as new things are just by the corner.”

Speaking on her journey so far, the actress says “It’s been a long journey yet I’m thankful and grateful to God for keeping till now. It’s a wonderful feeling, adding a year in good health and a mind free and devoid of hate or pain, I can’t but thank God. Yes, we have some sad times, bad moments in life, which most times want to slow us down but like I always say, these moments and times help us and make us better people. I don’t regret anything because I’ve moved on to greater things and living brand new.”

Official Video: Waje Ft. Tiwa Savage – Onye

>>>>>>Onye is the 2nd track off Waje’s debut album W.A.J.E which features Tiwa Savage. The track was produced by Spellz and directed by Kemi Adetiba and had a special appearance by Bryan Okwara. Beautiful work!!

Photos: Stephanie Okereke Linus Features In Hollywood Movie

Stephanie announced few weeks ago that she will be featuring in a Hollywood movie. Check out some of the behind the scene photos she posted this morning after the cut.

THE GREATEST PHOTO BIKER IN NIGERIA MICHAEL IMOMOH INTERVIEW

 

Your name and little about yourself?

My name is Michael Imomoh, Aka the greatest photo biker. I majored in computer science in Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State, am from Edo State, I was bone in lagos am from family of Four and the only male child.

How do you venture into photography?

I think to me, photography has being part of me while growing up I always find myself buoying a Cathem after some timer my camera will be secede by my Aunt and these goes on for a long time, eventually I got into the university and I was always at the mission ground here they take pictures. Their was this photographer then I partner with but I was later advised to take the pictures my self the business idea with the gay just crumbled. After my university, I said to myself, Michael, what do you want to do, Do I want to be a photography then, I looked at photographer as school dropouts, and haven to finish at the university as a computer scientist.

I wasn’t really convinced to be an photographer thus I did some jobs and got some money. I got myself a camera I got to read and understand that photographer are well paid around the world and from their on I started my journey into photography. I meet people like judge Oshodi who thought me some tricks in photography.

If people ask me what I do, I always tell them am a graphics editor and a photographer. But today I tell them am a photographer, because am proud of what I do, happy to record history of events to me it’s being a life time journey.

Later the years Aunt brought out all the cameras she had ceased from me and I said Ho! But I could understand her angle, she wanted me to read, be educated and be somebody in life. Read more after the cut.....

AFRICA’S PERFORMANCE AT THE WORLD CUP

The five representatives of Africa at the just concluded world cup in brazil did their best to make the continent proud but only two could make it to the second round which is the first time two African teams played in the round of 16. After Ghana, Ivory Coast and Cameroon were sent parking from their respective groups. It was only Nigeria and Algeria that made some statement for the continent.

At the group state, Algeria’s were grouped with Belgium, South Korea and Russia. In their first match against Belgium they almost shocked the world but for the late comeback from the Belgium National team which saw them winning the game 2 – 1 after Algeria has lead for greater part of the match. The second game was against the South Korean team which recorded the most numbers of goals scored by an African team at the world cup.

In a single match, a 4 – 2 win boy Algeria needing just one point to qualify for the second round of 16 with the last game of the group against Russia. It was a memorable match which saw the North Africans getting needed result 1-1 draw.

Algeria made it through to the round of 16 stages for the first time in their history. Germany was their next opponent. The match can be said to be one of the best matches an African team played at the world cup.

It took the German machines an extra time effort to beat the Algerian national team 2 -1 after a goalless 90 minutes.

Nigeria made it to the round of 16 for the third time in their fifth. Appearance at the world cup making the Super Eagles the only African team to have played in the stage 3 times.

US tobacco giant told to pay wife of cancer victim $23.6 billion

US: A court in the United States has ordered Reynolds Tobacco Co., the country's second largest cigarette maker, to pay record punitive damages of $23.6 billion to the widow of a cigarette-smoking cancer victim.

Michael Johnson Sr. smoked the company’s Kool brand menthol cigarettes for over 20 years before dying of lung cancer in 1996 at the age of 36.

His widow, Cynthia Robinson, took action against Reynolds in 2008, seeking compensation for her husband's death. She argued the conspired to conceal the health hazards associated with its menthol cigarettes.

On Friday, the jury in northwestern Florida first awarded $17 million in compensatory damages and then emerged at 10 p.m. with a $23.6 billion punitive judgment. “When they first read the verdict, I know I heard ‘million,’ and I got so excited,” Robinson said in a phone interview with the New York Times on Saturday. “Then the attorney informed me that was a ‘B’ — billion. It was just unbelievable.”

In a statement on Saturday, a Reynolds official said the court's verdict was unfair and unreasonable.

“The damages awarded in this case are grossly excessive and impermissible under state and constitutional law,” said J. Jeffery Raborn, vice president and assistant general counsel for R. J. Reynolds.

“This verdict goes far beyond the realm of reasonableness and fairness and is completely inconsistent with the evidence presented.

Have you met the Nigerian Bonnie and Clyde yet?

Have you met the Nigerian Bonnie and Clyde yet -Danladi Wushishi and Ojuolape Wushishi.

The Nigerian couple, the Wushishis were arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly duping people of more than N20 million in fake auction sales in Lagos.

Ojuolape was arrested on Wednesday 18th June 2014, while Danladi was later arrested at Allen Avenue on Friday 25th June 2014.

The pair were apprehended after one of the victims Chinyere Uzorchukwu sent a petition to the Commissioner of Police Umar Manko. She was allegedly duped by the couple of N5million.

According to reports, the Wushishis collected money from unsuspecting victims under the false pretext that they had a container of goods meant for customs auction sales at a terminal in Lagos.

Danladi and Ojuolape also took victims to a fake customs warehouse in Ikorodu, Lagos, and showed them containers which were sealed. After making the huge payments, the victims waited for their goods which were never delivered.

Police also revealed that apart from the woman who sent the petition, they duped another woman of N3.5 milliom and a man of N14million in the fake auction deals.

Ojuolape says her husband dragged her into the fraud mess, while Danladi confessed to collecting money from the victims.

'Mad' Woman caught with 5-year old dead baby in Lagos, speaks (photos)

A middle-aged woman believed to be insane, was caught in possession of a dead child at Mile-Two, along Oshodi/Apapa expressway, Lagos on Sunday.

She was caught by a Police officer with the corpse of a young boy on the Mile 2 bridge close to Festac, Lagos.
According to reports, the officer who suspected the woman was asked to empty her “Ghana-Must-Go” bag. A lot of fetish materials were found as well as a corpse of a young boy.
Though the woman, who gave her name as Florence, claimed that the dead child was hers, but an angry mob said she could have kidnapped and killed the child for money ritual.
Though news making the round earlier had it that the child’s eyes were plucked, but Vanguard reports that the eyeballs were only popped.
Read how she was caught and what she said after being caught below:

Former Petroleum Minister Dies

A former Minister of Petroleum, Rilwanu Lukman is dead. The former minister who was in office under the regime of Late Yar’Adua died this morning in Austria at the age of 76. The cause of his death has not been disclosed.

UPDATE 3-Angry Australia PM says Ukraine crash probe resembles 'garden clean-up'

SYDNEY, July 21 - Australia's prime minister voiced deep concern on Monday that Russian-backed rebels remained in control of the crash site of a Malaysian airliner shot down over  Ukraine, saying the site looked more like a "garden clean-up" than a forensic investigation.
At least 27 Australian passengers were among the 298 people aboard Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17, shot down over eastern Ukraine in an attack the West has blamed on separatist rebels armed by Russia. Prime Minister Tony Abbott, speaking on a breakfast radio show, said he had spoken "overnight" to Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time about the disaster, amid mounting horror over the treatment of victims' remains.
"He said all the right things and now we need him to be as good as his word," Abbott told 2GB radio, declining to comment in detail about his discussion with Putin.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday demanded Moscow take responsibility for the actions of pro-Russian rebels whom Washington suspects of downing the jet with a missile. He expressed disgust at their "grotesque" mishandling of the bodies.
Moscow denies any involvement in the disaster and has blamed the Ukrainian military.
Television images of the rebel-controlled crash scene, where the remains of victims had lain decomposing in fields among their personal belongings, have turned initial shock and sorrow after Thursday's disaster into anger. The bodies had been removed from much of the crash site by Sunday, with many placed in refrigerated train wagons.
"Given the almost certain culpability of the Russian-backed rebels in the downing of the aircraft, having those people in control of the site is a little like leaving criminals in control of a crime scene," Abbott later told reporters.