Nigerian comic actor, John Okafor aka Mr Ibu lost his aged mother on Saturday, April 18, 2015. In a recent chat with Daily Independent, Mr Ibu revealed how much he missed his mother; he says she’s every good thing he has and the one behind his successful career so far. He said, “I will miss everything about my mother because aside God, she is the source of every good thing that I have and I am. She died at age 90 but I wished she had lived for 50 more years.” He shared the last moments he had with mother before she…
Author: Wale Adebayo
We all know that Omotola Jalade Ekeinde has been a regular user of Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, where her accounts have been verified by the managements of the different social pages. However, I looked up on her and noticed that the actress has lesser individuals that she is following despite her huge followers on the social networks. On Instagram, the actress has a followership of 180, 273 individuals with just 433 posts. Interestingly, the curvaceous actress is following only 58 individuals with only 15 been Nigerian celebrities. The celebrities include Chidi Mokeme, Toolz Oniru, Chieneze Anyaene, Omowunmi Akinnifesi, Folake Coker,…
Mikel Obi is currently one of the most valuable players for the Nigerian Super Eagles, although a lot of fans and critics have lashed out at him for not improving his ability in years; Mikel has other things occupying his mind. The out of favour Chelsea star has continued to flaunt his romance with Russian girlfriend online, to the dislike of his numerous fans. Why are all of you hating tho? Free the man abeg……..
Burna Boy has done very well for himself since floating his own record label. The Dance-hall singer has opened up about how he feels after his absence at the Di Don Gorgon Concert that held on Friday night, April 24, 2015. Burna Boy has urged fans to get a refund saying he was ‘violated’ by the organisers. Billed to headline the Concert alongside South African rapper, AKA; Burna failed to show up at the concert, leaving fans and attendees to cry foul and demand for a refund. In an earlier report, Burna Boy and AKA had held an autograph signing session in the…
Veteran Nollywood actress, writer and producer, is soon to join the mothers club. Uche Jombo has shared new photos of herself and her husband. Another photo clearly shows her baby bump that is now very obvious and large. The photos were taken from her baby shower and we should be hearing the cry of a baby very soon *fingers crossed*
President-elect Muhammadu Buhari has short-listed 18 persons across Nigeria’s six geo-political zones, who will make up his transition committee ahead of the May 29 handover date. The committee will be headed by Mallam Ahmed Joda. It will be made up of three persons from each of the six geo-political zones. Sources told Thisday that the South-west has the highest representation (four persons). The sources also hinted that the shortlist was not decided by Buhari alone; party leader Bola Tinubu also had a major and significant input in the list. Thisday further quoted sources to have said that the committee will…
President Goodluck Jonathan today inaugurated the N300 million Jubilee Resort and Leadership Centre built by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Abuja. “I am indeed happy that today we are talking about the leadership centre,” he said at the ceremony, urging the association to ensure that it used the centre to train future Nigerian leaders with strong moral and fiscal discipline. “The greatest asset of any society is leadership – from the family to business; from the church to the national level. “I believe this centre will be used to model and mould leaders, especially those Christians, who are…
Five ad hoc officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Imo State were on Saturday arrested for thumb-printing ballot papers in the governorship rerun election in the state. The officials were arrested at Omuma Primary School in Oru East local government area following an order by Mr Mike Igini, one of the Resident Electoral commissioners deployed in Imo for the election. The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Imo, Dr Gabriel Ada, who confirmed the arrest, said the officials were already in police custody. Ada said the ad hoc workers connived with agents of a political party to thumb-print ballot papers…
Singer turned writer, Etcetera, is known for airing controversial opinion articles on various trending topics in the country. He is however back with a new one, but this time, its about Christians, Christianity and how the present day church is taking millions of Christians to hell fire. Read the intriguing piece below: As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore and repent. – Revelation 3:19. Much of the church today is living a lie. Many of you have been told continuously that you are saved and headed for heaven. Nothing could be farther from the truth.…
Former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, has denied rumours that he collapsed and died immediately the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari was declared winner of the March 28 Presidential election. Clark said this while addressing journalists in Abuja, yesterday. According to him, there was no reason for him to collapse and die because President Goodluck Jonathan lost the election, when he himself had conceded victory and congratulated Buhari who won at the polls. The elder statesman therefore urged Nigerians to stop engaging in false rumour. He also stressed the need for all to…
The Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta and Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Hon. Kingsley Kuku, has reassured beneficiaries of the programme that the Muhammadu Buhari administration, expected to commence from May 29, 2015 will not scrap the PAP because of its impact in ensuring peace and stability in the Niger Delta. In a press release by the Head, Media and Communications, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, Kuku gave the assurance in London yesterday during a meeting with over 600 undergraduate and post-graduate beneficiaries of the Special Scholarship Scheme in the United Kingdom, UK, in continuation of…
No fewer than 20 out of the 125 mass marriages contracted and sponsored by the Sokoto State Government in January, 2014, have collapsed, an official has disclosed. The Chairman of the state’s Sunnah Marriage Mediation Council, the organiser of the marriage, Alhaji Aliyu Kofar-Rini, disclosed this in Sokoto on Saturday while commenting on the current state of the marriages. He told newsmen that the state government had in January, 2014 spent over N30m in sponsoring the mass marriages of 125 couples. “The state government paid the dowries and provided all the wedding clothes and materials for both the 125 grooms and 125…
A N2 billion mansion overlooking the Presidential Villa is currently giving the country’s security apparatus sleepless nights as a result of its security implications for the seat of power. The mansion, according to THE NATION, was just completed by an unnamed outgoing governor from the North. It is said to be built at an elevated point within the precincts of the Villa, making the president’s official residence prone to possible “espionage” from the outgoing governor’s comfort zone. It was not clear if the governor would be asked to remodel the new residence, be subjected to an undertaking or be placed…
Registered voters on Saturday turned out en-mass for accreditation in the rerun election for governorship in Taraba State. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission were spotted at 8am at Turaki polling unit in Jalingo and Lankaviri in Yorro council areas, where election would hold. Accreditation is also holding smoothly in Karim, Wukari, Takum and other areas that the rerun is expected to take place. NAN reports that the rerun will take place in 218 polling units across 10 Local Government Areas of Taraba State. Security has been beefed up across the state, especially…
A supporter of President-elect Muhammadu Buhari, identified as Abubakar Duduwale, has set for a walk from Yola in Adamawa State to Abuja. He told newsmen in Yola on Saturday at the ouset of the walk that the adventure was to express his joy over the emergence of Buhari as president-elect. Duduwale, from Yola North Local Government Area of Adamawa State and Chamba by tribe, reportedly began the journey at Yola Gate on Yola-Numan highway at about 6.30am. He said he had wanted to start the journey a day after the Independent National Electoral Commission announced Buhari as the winner of the…
Buoyed by the overwhelming success of the All Progressives Congress in the just concluded general elections, a former Commissioner of Finance, Bayelsa State, Hon. Stephen Ogullah, has declared the party’s readiness to rescue Bayelsans from the misrule of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state. The Bayelsa governorship polls will take place later this year. Ogullah, a commissioner who served under the administration of former Governor Timipre Sylva, made the statement during an interview with journalists in Abuja at the weekend. According to the APC chieftain, the people in the state were yearning for change as they groan under the…
The House of Representatives has said that a provision of N100 billion was made for subsidy on premium motor spirit (PMS) also known as petrol in the 2015 budget that was passed on Thursday. The House was reacting to a statement by its Chairman, Committee on Legislative Budget and Research, Opeyemi Bamidele that subsidy had been removed by the outgoing administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. Mr. Bamidele had described the move as a “booby trap” for the incoming government led by Muhammadu Buhari. However, in a statement yesterday, Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Afam Ogene (APC,…
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, has shot down speculations that PDP will go into an alliance with the incoming administration of the opposition All Progressives Congress. He said that instead of being friendly with the incoming government of Muhammadu Buhari, the APC will know that he, as the PDP chairman, is an attack dog. Mu’azu, who made this known while fielding questions from journalists in Umuahia, the Abia State capital after his visit to Governor Theodore Orji on Thursday night, said PDP would rather provide strong opposition to the APC from May 29 after…
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday charged Nigeria’s past and current leaders to emulate the exemplary lifestyles of a former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd.); and the former Head of the Interim National Government, Chief Ernest Shonekan. The President spoke at the fifth presidential prayer breakfast meeting held inside the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Jonathan said the two former leaders had always made their presence felt at programmes organized inside the Villa throughout the tenure of his administration. President Jonathan, who will be handing over to Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) on May 29, 2015 described…
Hundreds of soldiers have been reportedly forced to flee Marte, a border town along the shores of Lake Chad, as Boko Haram insurgents struck in the area, a local official and witnesses said Friday. “The terrorists, numbering over 2,000, appeared from various directions on Thursday and engaged the soldiers in Kirenowa town and adjoining communities in Marte”, said Imamu Habeeb, a local community leader. “They fought with soldiers over the night and the fight continued today (Friday), forcing hundreds of soldiers to flee”, Habeeb added from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. A local vigilante, Shehu Dan Baiwa, said that more…