This report hasn’t been confirmed yet but the reporters at City People magazine say that music star, Jesse Abaga aka Jesse Jagz is currently dating Femi Kuti’s dancer known as called Sandra. Jesse, a father of a 10-year old girl (Jade), who was few months back rumored to be having an affair with a female rapper, singer and song writer, Tesh Delilah Carter is currently dating pretty Sandra and they are really exclusive, although no one can say specifically if the relationship would leads to anywhere. The alleged couple met early this year, and the relationship which started on a platonic…
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I didn’t want to run this report till I could confirm from the horse’s mouth that it was true, but here it is anywyas. This might be as a result of some sort of conflict, but Tiwa Savage and Tunji ‘Tee Billz’ Balogun are no longer business partners. Unconfirmed reports suggest that Tiwa has dropped her husband of barely 5 months from being her manager. Sources close the Mavin first lady revealed that it is so bad that Tee Billz is no longer in charge of her calls anymore and also stopped accompanying her to events. To underscore the incident, the source pointed at…
The Coalition of Civil Society Group (CSOs), has expressed support for the recently introduced online registration by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), saying the initiative was a step in the right direction. The group urged Nigerians to support the project and stop playing politics. “Having painstakingly investigated the circumstances surrounding the full computerisation of the NYSC mobilisation process and the cost associated with it, we hereby resolve that prospective corps members will benefit immensely more than they stand to lose from harnessing and fully maximising this on-line registration platform,” said Etuk Bassey Williams, CSOs president, while briefing newsmen in…
Access to potable water in Nigeria has increased from 58 percent to 67 percent within the last three years, Sarah Ochekpe, Minister of Water Resources has revealed. “Before the inception of this administration, access to potable water was at 58 per cent, now access is at 67 per cent, while sanitation moved from 32 per cent to 41 per cent under the recent national assessment,” said Ochekpe at the ministerial platform in Abuja. Speaking further on the activities of her ministry, Ochekpe said that the Federal government had approved the reorganisation of the River Basin Development Agencies (RBDAs) to make…
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday noted that it was possible to be poor and shun crime, but rather choose to live a life of honour and dignity. The president said this at the 2014 National Honours Award Investiture ceremony held at the International Conference Centre (ICC), Abuja. “You can see that those who take to criminality do not necessarily do so because of poverty; it is possible for people to be poor and live a life of honour and dignity,” said Jonathan. He noted that like several other Nigerian present at the event, he had passed through stress in life, “but…
Ekiti State Police Command is making progress in its investigation of the circumstances surrounding the murder of a former chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Chief Omolafe Aderiye last Thursday, as 19 suspects have now been arrested. “All the 19 are still with us as we are investigating their levels of culpability,” said Victor Babayemi, Public Relations Officer of the Command. He said the police would not make the identity of the suspects public just yet, but will do so at the appropriate time. Aderiye had been shot to death by unknown gunmen hours after he…
By 2019, the federal government will not be constructing its own roads; it will become the responsibility of the private sector. Minister of Information, Labaran Maku made this known in Abuja during a Ministerial press briefing organised by his ministry for the Works Ministry. “Everywhere in the world now, or major countries that are strong economic powers like Nigeria, people are not looking for Federal money or government money for road construction. People are returning to the private sector. India, Malaysia – several of those countries – attract billions of dollars for road construction from the private sector,” said Maku,,…
Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George believes that the presidency of Goodluck Jonathan is divine. George aired his belief in Lagos, at the grand finale of South-West PDP Women Empowerment Programme, organised by the Leader, House of Representatives, Mulikat Akande-Adeola, urging those against the endorsement given the president as PDP’s sole candidate for the 2015 presidential election to accept Jonathan has been chosen by God and stop antagonising him. “I want to appeal to my brothers, who are opposed to his endorsement by the party leadership for a second term, it is divine.…
The Ekiti State Governor-elect, Mr. Ayodele Fayose has urged the National Judicial Council to as a matter of urgency, investigate the allegation levelled against him that he was involved in last Monday’s beating of a serving judge in the state. The investigation, he said, would open a can of worms in the state judiciary. Fayose argued that it would be wrong for Nigerians to swallow hook, line and sinker the lies being spread on the issue by the All Progressives Congress, APC, which has already called for his arrest and prosecution over his alleged role in the crisis currently rocking…
Gov. ROTIMI AMAECHI PRESENTING A SOUVENIR TO President OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF OGONI TRADITIONAL RULERS, KING GODWIN GININWA The Ogoni Leadership Forum on Sunday called on political parties to zone the 2015 Rivers governorship slot to the area. The forum, comprising all groups, associations and politicians from the four Ogoni-speaking councils of Rivers, made the demand at a meeting in Port Harcourt. Walter Ollor, spokesman of the forum, told journalists that the people would support parties that field Ogonis as their candidates for the governorship election. He said since the return to civil rule in 1999, Ogoni people have not produced the governor of the state…
While reports of insurgents surrendering from Nigeria to Cameroon raised hope the country was winning the war against terrorism, recent attacks by Islamist sect Boko Haram on Kubi and Watu villages of Michika local government area of Adamawa state shows there is much more to be done to end insurgency in Nigeria. At least 500 houses were destroyed in the two communities as the terrorists are in full control of Michika and Madagali local governments of Adamawa state, reports say. “Since the complete take-over of Michika and Madagali by the insurgents on the 7th of September 2014, no single soldier is…
FILE PHOTO The Mass Movement for Goodluck (MMG), a President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election support group, has described him as the most-friendly president with the South-East geo-political zone. The group’s Director-General, Dr Kenneth Ibe-Kalu, made the assertion on Sunday at Afikpo, Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi, while inaugurating the council’s branch of the group. Ibe-Kalu, who was represented by his associate, Mr Hillary Egwu, said Jonathan was the only president who placed the Igbos in the political and social limelight after several years of deprivation. “Jonathan is the only president among all, who has ruled Nigeria to appoint Igbo…
Governor of Rivers State and Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has called on people of the state to choose a credible leader that will succeed him on May 29, 2015. Amaechi made this call on Sunday during an Inter-Denominational Church Service marking the 54th Independence Day Anniversary held at St. Cyprians Anglican Church in Port Harcourt. He stated that the era of imposition of candidates on the people was over and advised the people to choose wisely and participate actively in the electoral process. According to him, “Rivers people have a right to choose who will lead…
The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties has condemned the assault on Justice John Adeyeye of the Ekiti State High Court in Ado-Ekiti on Sept. 25 during the inaugural sitting of the state Election Tribunal. The condemnation was contained in a letter by the conference to the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mariam Aloma Mukhtar, signed by Mr Osita Okechukwu, CNPP National Publicity Secretary in Abuja on Sunday. The conference, in the statement, condemned the “tragic assault on the temple of justice” in Ekiti State. It called on the CJN and Chairman of the Nigeria Judicial Council to, as a matter…
78-year-old designer of the Nigerian flag, Pa Taiwo Akinkunmi, has been placed on a salary equivalent to that of a Special Assistant for life by President Goodluck Jonathan. Nigeria adopted the flag, Akinkunmi’s entry in a competition held in 1959, ahead of the 1960 independence day. He was a 23-year-old student studying at Norwich Technical College in England. “I won a prize of a hundred pounds. The presentation was carried out at the Nigerian embassy in London. And it has been in use since then,” he told Thisday in an interview last year. He said at the time that 54…
Tonto Dikeh Has been off the radar for a while but she had sprung up again. The controversial Nollywood actress and singer –Tonto Dike who has a great influence on social media platforms has somethings to say about fraudsters. We recently have witnessed a high influx of impersonators in the last couple of years. People opening fake accounts with names of popular celebrities to defraud their unsuspecting fans. Tonto Dikeh also seems to have received several complaints from her fans about the existence of fake social media accounts in her name and she took to her Instagram page this morning…
President Goodluck Jonathan has assured that Nigeria will overcome its current challenges through unity and cooperation of Nigerians. He spoke during the 54th Independent Anniversary Interdenominational Church Service at the National Christian Centre, Abuja, themed: ‘Be Still’. Jonathan pointed out that the unity and cooperation of all Nigerians played a major role in the success recorded in the fight against the Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria. He said: “God know that we have challenges and even before these challenges came, God knew that we were going to have them. There is nothing that he does not know, because whatever he does,…
Ekiti State Governor-Elect, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has slammed the National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Lai Mohammed over his comment that he should be arrested over the political tension in Ekiti State. Fayose, who spoke in Ado-Ekiti through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, said Mohammed was fed with lies about the situation of things in Ekiti State and instead of him to make findings; he exposed himself by commenting ignorantly. “We Yoruba people have a saying that ‘inu a bimo ku ki idun (somebody who gave birth and lost the child would not be…
FILE PHOTO The Nigerian Air Force last night disclosed that it is still trying to locate the whereabouts of the fighter jet, which went missing about two weeks ago. “We are still searching for the aircraft. The search team is still at work. Every information received so far has not given us a clue about its location”, the spokesman of the NAF, Air Commodore Dele Alonge, said. It would be recalled that on September 14, the Defence Headquarters, through its spokesman, Major-General Chris Olukolade, had announced that an Air Force Alpha jet involved in counter-insurgency operations in North-East Nigeria, was…
DR. TOPE KAYODE The Nigerian Medical Association, Lagos State Chapter, on Sunday appealed to the Lagos State Government to release the withheld emoluments of doctors in its work force. The Chairman of the association, Dr Tope Ojo, made the appeal at a news briefing in Lagos. Ojo expressed worries that Lagos State Government withheld the emoluments of its doctors for the month of August and September 2014 as a result of the July 1 NMA nationwide strike. He said that all the states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory had complied with the general agreement that led to…