The internet has been filled with various reactions since Christina Milian admitted to having a ‘very special relationship’ with Lil Wayne. Christiana who has been coy about the rapper since they first sparked dating rumors last July, admits he is her ideal man. The 33-year old singer said: – ‘The deal is he’s my man…crush. I think he’s awesome. He and I have a very special relationship and I think I’ve always been very careful with it publicly because when you have something special it’s like everybody picks apart words. They’ll pick apart a moment in a picture and take something that’s…
Author: Wale Adebayo
There is a current tug of war going on in the AGN — Actors Guild of Nigeria. Sources say that the AGN Board of Trustees have come out to say that veteran actor Emeka Ike can’t be their president and that Emeka has ceased to be a member of Guild since 2009. The Board of Trustees chairman, Prince Ifeanyi Dike said Emeka’s intention was made clear when they published a disclaimer on him in a Newspaper. According to Ifeanyi: – “We have decided to talk to the press concerning what have been dished out by Emeka Ike concerning his litigation…
The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, says Nigeria’s future will be decided on Saturday as Nigerians vote in the presidential election. “Saturday is going to be a very defining day for us as the outcome of the election will decide the future of this country,” Ekweremadu said this in Enugu on Thursday while rounding off his campaign. “There is a lot happening under the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan that we need to sustain,” he told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Ekweremadu expressed optimism that Nigerians would not be clouded by ethnic or religious sentiments, but would show sense…
A Lagos-based Public Relations and Media practitioner, Olusegun Sunday Fayose has dissociated himself from a story which first appeared in the Nation Newspapers of Monday 23rd March, 2015, in which his picture was used to illustrate an interview purportedly granted the newspaper by one Olusegun Fayose, identified in the report as the elder brother of Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose. Mr Fayose, lead consultant/MD of Hexagon Media and former head of corporate communication/PR manager of MultiChoice Nigeria, in a statement, clarified that he never granted any interview to The Nation or any other news medium within or outside the country,…
Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has not paid workers of his state for the past 3 – 5 months, but he has blamed it on President Goodluck Jonathan. According to him, “the economic strategy adopted by President Jonathan” has shrunk the monthly revenue of the state and had forced the state to take a loan of N12 billion from banks. “The reason for indicting the President was that when I assumed office in 2010, I met a state with an income of N2.1 billion and with a wage bill of N1.1 billion,” Aregbesola said yesterday at the 7th Annual Bola…
There’s a famous saying that says ‘No king rules forever,’ guess it applies to music too. In the Nigerian music industry, the biggest issue has always been consistency. A lot of artistes seem to be more lucky than others, while some others only reigned for a brief period, unable to produce another hit track. These are what we describe as ‘One Hit Wonders’ – not that they have only one song in their career, but because they have failed to come out with another hit that will go viral. See the list below: – ARTISTE TRACK YEAR OF RELEASE Soul…
As the nation prepares to vote for a new president on Saturday, March 28, the Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Council has alleged a “sinister and desperate plan by the Federal Government to deliberately engineer trouble in six Nigerian states in order to avert the imminent defeat on that day”. A statement on Wednesday by the Directorate of Media and Publicity of the APC presidential campaign signed by Garba Shehu said “credible information available to the campaign from deep inside the federal government have starkly put it to us that the PDP administration has hatched a plan by…
The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation, PDPPCO has lampooned Governor of Rivers State and Director-General of the opposition All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organization, APCPCO, Rotimi Amaechi, over his claims that he is a target for assassination. The Director of Media and Publicity of the PDPPCO, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, in a statement on Wednesday, described the Rivers governor as a pathological liar for alleging that President Goodluck Jonathan plans to assassinate him. Fani-Kayode said, “This is another example of the madness that has affected the minds of the All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders. Rotimi Amaechi is the worst of them. Not…
Frontline Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, on Wednesday faulted the decision of the Federal High Court, Lagos, which ruled that it was unconstitutional for the federal government to deploy soldiers to monitor the forthcoming elections at polling stations, saying that President Goodluck Jonathan must deploy military for the polls if the country’s unity must be preserved. Speaking yesterday at his Asokoro, Abuja residence shortly after he received Northern Youths from the 19 States and the Federal Capital Territory under the aegis of Northern Youth Stakeholders Forum, the Ijaw leader lambasted those kicking against the deployment of Soldiers as having a…
The Alhaji Abubakar Sokoto-led faction of the Unity Party of Nigeria has endorsed the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), for Saturday’s elections. The faction also dissociated the party from an earlier endorsement of President Goodluck Jonathan by the other faction led by Dr. Fredrick Fasheun. Speaking at a news conference in Abuja on Wednesday, the party chairman said Jonathan’s endorsement by Fasheun was a nullity because he has since been suspended from the party. Sokoto told reporters that genuine members of the UPN whom he was leading, have identified with the aspirations of…
The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, said on Wednesday that Nigerians would enjoy more dividends of democracy if President Goodluck Jonathan is re-elected on Saturday. She said this at the Liberty Stadium in Ibadan at a presidential rally organised by the Women for Change Initiative, a pet programme of the First Lady. Jonathan said that Nigerians would benefit from free education programmes among other people-friendly programmes. She commended the president for reviving rail transport and ascribed the completion of the Ibadan-Ilorin dual carriage way to his dedication to developing the country. Earlier in his goodwill message, Sen. Teslim Folarin, the PDP governorship candidate in the…
The Nigeria Immigration Service has said it will adopt the Computer-Based Test for its recruitment examination. The Public Relations Officer of the service, Chukwuemeka Obua, said this in an interview in Abuja on Wednesday. Mr. Obua said this was to prevent a re-occurrence of the 2014 recruitment where a stampede was recorded at various centres across the country due to large crowd of applicants. He said the CBT would also be used to conduct the examination in order to test the computer literacy level of applicants. Mr. Obua said this was a basic requirement for employment into the service. “This…
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has directed all Muslim clerics to preach about, and pray for peaceful general elections, starting Saturday. The pan-northern Muslim organization, Jama’atu Nasril Islam, JNI, headed by Sultan Abubakar, on Wednesday urged Muslims in Nigeria to pray fervently for a hitch-free general elections. The JNI, in a statement signed by its Secretary-General, Khalid Aliyu, urged Muslims to use Thursday’s voluntary fasting to seek divine intervention in the elections. The statement enjoined all Imams to focus on the need for peaceful polls in their sermons on Friday – a day before the elections –…
The Independent National Electoral Commission in Abia has advised residents who were unable to locate their Permanent Voters Cards to wait until after the elections to continue the search. The INEC Public Relations Officer in the state, Edwin Enabor, said this in Umuahia on Wednesday. He said nothing could be done at this time as the time set for PVC collection had expired. Some residents had complained that they could not find their PVCs where they had registered or where they had been directed to go and search for them. Some of the residents who spoke in Aba, the state…
Playspread Media Analytics has released a sentiment report on public perception of the present presidential candidates of the coming elections. Data was extracted from news articles and user comments from 923 sites, millions of tweets, facebook feeds and TV and radio political activity and adverts The period covered was from March 3-20 2015. Another report is bound to be released on the eve of the elections as trends tend to change very fast. ABOUT PLAYSPREADPlayspread uses propreitary algorithms to scan the web, TV and radio to discover what people are saying about brands, products and people. The solution extracts sentimentality…
After spending five days in the hands of his abductors, the Emir of Bukkuyum in Zamafara State, Alhaji Muhammadu Usman, was in the wee hours of Wednesday rescued by men of the Nigerian Police. The Emir, who has been on the throne for 14 years, was reportedly kidnapped by unknown gunmen around 8pm last Friday while he was praying inside a mosque opposite his house. Confirming the development to a ChannelsTV correspondent, the Zamfara State Police Commissioner, Mr. Femi Ogunbayode, said the 60-year-old emir was rescued by the police at Gajazema Village, a border town between Zamfara and Kebbi States…
In his usual fashion, the amebo controversial singer and writer, Etcetera has taken shots at Tonto Dikeh and her former BFF, Halima Abubakar. Etcetera said Tonto and Halima ended their relationship because of a juju priest. Read what he wrote below: – “Our nollywood sources tell us, that Halimah Abubakar and Tonto Dikeh who used to be good friends, fell out because of a juju priest — It is said that Halimah, took Tonto to sample the powers of her juju priest who got encharmed by her looks and preferred working for her instead of his usual customer, Halimah.” “Halimah…
Ok, this is hilarious. I guess this proves that freestyling is an art on its own and isn’t meant for everyone. Davido did a freestyle for Westwood TV a year ago, but it has recently resurfaced and Twitter is running amok. Some of the lines he dropped on the beat: “G-Wagon I burst all my tires.Next day I buy new tires.” “When I enter the stage,All the girlstheir bra and their pant them dey throway” “All these ni**as want a feature.Well, look at that line.” A play on his popular jam, Aye,“I buy her designer,She no want Ferrari.I take her…
This isn’t good!! From all indications, veteran Nollywood actress has been pissed off by one of the political heavy weights. Nollywood actress, Uche Jumbo calls out Buhari’s wife, Aisha Buhari, for calling Edo women prostitues. Aisha recently held a campaign rally for her husband in Edo State where she described the women of Edo State, as “prostitutes” . In her statement, she said her husband’s administration will stop the prostitution by Edo women abroad. Uche took to her official Facebook page to address the statement. Here is what she wrote: – “Please NOTE this is not about APC / PDP or…
National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday, said Federal Government was planning to arrest leaders of his party ahead of Saturday’s election. However, he said he was ready for arrest. Speaking at the 7th Annual Bola Tinubu Colloquium in Lagos to mark his 63rd birthday, the former governor of Lagos State said the plot will not silence him. He insisted that the APC had a better ticket in Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) and Professor Yemi Osinbajo than the President Goodluck Jonathan and Vice President Namadi Sambo’s team of Peoples…