Popular Nigerian singer 9ice has opened up on marriage, love and family. The ‘Gongaso’ star in a chat with Funmi Iyanda on Ask Funmi Epistle disclosed he once considered not getting married. When asked for advice to a young man who didn’t want to get married he said, “I think at late 20’s he still doesn’t understand what life is all about, he’s still too young. I’m sure by the time he’s 30 he will change his mind. Biblically and Quranically you need to have a child. Where I’m from you dare not have a child, even if it’s one…
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After months of not acknowledging her husband, Chris Attoh, on all social media platforms, Damilola Adegbite is back with a beautiful post. In no ordinary way, the actress took to Instagram on May 17, 2017, in celebration of his birthday. Sharing her take on love and how it endures all, she shared the photo above writing, “Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Happy birthday Nii.. I love you.” Sharing her take on love and how it endures all, she shared the photo above writing, “Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all…
Nollywood actress Moji Olaiya, a star actress who has featured in several hit Yoruba movies, died in Canada. She was 42. Moji Olaiya is reported to have died of cardiac arrest. She gave birth to a baby girl in March in Canada. Born on February 27, 1975, she is the daughter of Nigerian highlife legend Sir Victor Olaiya She made her acting debut on TV, as a character in a season of Wale Adenuga’s ‘Super Story’ series titled ‘No Pain, No Gain’. The 32 episode long series helped introduce Moji Olaiya who played the role of Ireti to the Nigerian…
Several Nigerian celebrities have reacted to the death of Nollywood actress Moji Olaiya. The news of her untimely passing broke today, Thursday, May 18, 2017. It’s reported that the actress died of cardiac actress yesterday, Wednesday, May 17, 2017 in Canada. Star actress Iyabo Ojo is mourning the death of her friend. “I still can’t get over d shock, Just like that? death why? No!!!! this is just too much hummmmmmmm oku sunku oku, ki olorun je ki odun o jina sira ooooooo ok! Amin!!! RIP Moji Olaiya God why?” she wrote on her Instagram page. Mercy Aigbe who is…
Nollywood actress Empress Njamah has said that women are to be blamed for domestic violence in relationships and marriages. In an interview with Broadway Africa TV published on Wednesday, May 17, 2017, Empress Njamah stated that women cause domestic violence in relationships. “A man hits a woman is domestic violence. A woman hits a man what is it called?” asked the actress, “we are always all about domestic violence and its all about the woman. Do you know that there are men who are more beaten up mentally than the women they beat physically.” She further went on to say…
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu has reiterated Federal Government’s resolve to reduce importation of petroleum products from the present 95 per cent to 60 per cent by 2018. Kachikwu stated this at the Rainoil 20th Anniversary Lecture organised by the company in Lagos on Wednesday. The theme of the anniversary was: “The Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry: Opportunities, Challenges and Prospects of the Downstream Sector”. The minister of state said that with the proposed construction of modular refineries in the Niger Delta and more investments in the sector, the importation of refined products would be…
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday expressed readiness of the Federal Government to work with ECOWAS and West African leaders to pursue quick resolution of the crisis in Cote d’Ivoire. This is contained in a statement by the Vice President’s spokesman, Mr Laolu Akande, in Abuja. In the statement, the Federal Government decried recent developments in Cote d’Ivoire in which a small fraction of the country’s Armed Forces mutinied against the government. It stated that Osinbajo had been engaged in phone discussions with the Ivorien President and the President of Liberia, Mrs Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the current ECOWAS chairperson, seeking ways…
The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a Bill for an Act to establish the North-East Development Commission. This followed the adoption of 35 clauses contained in it for the setting up of the commission. The commission, when established, will be charged with the responsibility to resettle and rehabilitate victims of insurgency in the North-East. The commission is to receive and manage funds from the federation account and international donors for the purpose of reconstructing roads, houses and business premises of the victims. It will also be responsible for tackling poverty and illiteracy as well as environmental and developmental challenges…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said that the former Enugu state Governor, Sullivan Chime is still under investigation. The anti-graft agency is looking into allegations connecting Chime with an alleged N23bn fraud involving the former minister of petroleum, Dieziani Alison-Madueke. Reports say various allegations of misappropriation of funds levelled against him while he was Governor from 2007 to 2015 is also being investigated. Speaking to newsmen on Chime’s case, on Wednesday, May 17, 2017, the EFCC’s South-East operations head, Johnson Babalola said the anti-graft agency has not been compromised in any way. He said “Chime is still…
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria has shunned the House of Reps committee investigating the huge sum of money that was recently discovered in an apartment in Ikoyi. According to reports, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) discovered over $44m. Emefiele, in a letter, told the lawmakers that it will be a breach of the National Security Agencies Act to appear before them. The CBN Governor also told the lawmakers that he is not allowed by the Act to discuss security issues publicly. The chairman of the House Committee on National Security and Intelligence, Aminu Sani-Jaji said…
A mild controversy is brewing over the signing of the 2017 Budget and whether assent will be given by President Muhammadu Buhari or acting president, Yemi Osinbajo. Buhari left the country on May 7, 2017, for an indefinite medical vacation and handed over authority to Osinbajo. Senior Special Assistant to Buhari on National Assembly Matters, Ita Enang, on Wednesday, May 17, said the budget would be signed by Buhari. “The 2017 budget will be transmitted to Mr. President and the President will assent to the budget. The acting President is in office and when the budget is transmitted, it will…
Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford is delighted to receive the backing of Jose Mourinho and says he has worked hard to get in the manager’s good books. The 19-year-old is United’s second-highest goalscorer with 11 in all competitions and Mourinho has lauded the England international’s work ethic, saying he was one of his most trusted players at the club. “It’s a massive thing when a manager like him says that,” Rashford told Premier League Productions. “The best thing about it is that you’ve earned it. He didn’t just come in and say ‘there you go – play every game’. He’s…
Manchester United’s squad has been stretched to the breaking point by the demands placed on the club by an extended run in Europe’s second-tier club competition, according to manager Jose Mourinho. United, who are destined to finish outside the top four in the Premier League this season, have reached the final of the Europa League, where beating Ajax Amsterdam on May 24 will grant them qualification for next season’s Champions League. Mourinho said he would try to rest players for United’s last two Premier League games starting with Wednesday’s trip to Southampton – but added that the current fixture congestion…
Spanish prosecutors said on Tuesday they had filed lawsuits against Colombian striker Radamel Falcao and Portuguese defender Fabio Coentrao for allegedly hiding millions of euros in income from the tax office. AS Monaco’s Falcao is suspected of failing to correctly declare €5.6 million of income earned from image rights between 2012 and 2013 while he was at Atletico Madrid, Madrid’s regional prosecutor said in a statement. Coentrao, who plays for Real Madrid, is accused of hiding nearly €1.3 million in income earned from his image rights between 2012 and 2014, it added. The two players are suspected of using a…
Jose Mourinho says the Premier League’s unwillingness to help Manchester United prepare for their Europa League final will force him to pick youth players against Crystal Palace on Sunday. United finish their league campaign against Palace at Old Tafford before facing Ajax in the Europa League final in Stockholm next Wednesday, a game they must win to qualify for next season’s Champions League. With nothing riding on Sunday’s game for either United or Palace, who are assured of avoiding relegation, Mourinho believes it should have been moved forward a day. “In any country in the world, the match would be…
Real Madrid moved to within one point of winning La Liga as Cristiano Ronaldo struck twice to beat Celta Vigo 4-1 on Wednesday. The European champions lead Barcelona by three points at the top of the table and now need to just avoid defeat at Malaga on Sunday to secure their first league title in five years. “We will go there to win the game,” insisted Ronaldo. “We are Real Madrid, we are the best and we want to be champions.” Once again Ronaldo made the difference as he took his tally to 13 goals in his last eight games…
Midifelder Marouane Fellaini is doubtful for Manchester United’s last league game and next week’s Europa League final after sustaining an injury in Wednesday’s goalless draw at Southampton. Belgian international Fellaini was substituted in the 75th minute and had a brief talk with manager Jose Mourinho before walking straight down the tunnel with what appeared to be a muscle problem. “Fellaini, on top of his experience, he says it’s not a tear,” Mourinho told the club’s website (www.manutd.com). “He says it was a minimal thing but minimal can be a big thing. Let’s wait for tomorrow but he needed to play.”…
Manchester United are currently pursuing other targets despite being offered the chance to sign Real Madrid midfielder James Rodriguez, sources have said. Colombia international Rodriguez, 25, is expected to leave Madrid this summer after failing to secure regular football under head coach Zinedine Zidane, who declined to comment on his player’s future earlier on Tuesday. United have been made aware that the former Monaco playmaker, who cost Real £63 million in August 2014, is available for a fee in the region of £50m, but manager Jose Mourinho has yet to sanction any move for the player. Rodriguez appeared to wave…
Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has reiterated Federal Government’s plan to support small businesses, noting that inauguration of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Clinics is to facilitate easy interactions between small businesses and regulatory agencies. Osinbajo stated this, in Katsina, at a gathering of small scale businesses, industry and stakeholders across the public and private sectors involved in developing micro, small and medium scale enterprises at the launching of the Katsina State’s MSMES Clinic. According to him, the MSMEs Clinics that is now going round major cities in the country was designed to give small businesses the opportunity “to meet…
THE Senate has given Acting President Yemi Osinbajo a two-week ultimatum to direct all government agencies that have failed to submit their 2017 budget proposals to the National Assembly in line with extant laws for consideration and approval, to do so or the affected agencies would be made to face the full wrath of the law. The Senate also promised that once it gets the budget, it will make it public, work on it diligently as well as turn it around as quickly as possible. Similarly, the senate has summoned the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, Central Bank of Nigeria,…