No offence ooh, but I want you people to correct me if I’m wrong “Does it look like she succeeded in losing any weight” Anyways, the Nollywood star, Chioma Toplis says she has been working out and it has finally paid off. The mother of three shared series of photos in lingerie, casual and smart dresses on her Facebook page. She decided to respond to negative comments that trailed the photos. Below is what she wrote: – “Tnx guys, for all d pple who commended on my weight loss, my next level, my swag etc I love u guys like kilode.…
Author: Wale Adebayo
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed appeals filed by Chris Ngige of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Tony Nwoye of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, challenging Governor Willie Obiano’s election in Anambra. Mr. Obiano was the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in the November 16, 2013 governorship election. Mr. Ngige’s counsel, Emeka Ngige, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, had urged the courts to cancel the election and order a fresh one due to alleged irregularities. This was, however, challenged by Mr. Obiano through his counsel, Patrick Ikweato. Delivering judgments in the separate appeals filed by…
LEFT: IMMEDIATE PAST Rivers CP, AIG TUNDE OGUNSAKIN, Gov. ROTIMI Amaechi AND NEW RIVERS’ CP, DAN BATURE The Rivers State Government has expressed shock over a remark credited to the new Commissioner of Police in the state, Dan Bature that certain comments purportedly made by Governor Rotimi Amaechi were meant to provoke him (Bature). Mr. Bature, who was recently deployed to the state, was reported in the media as saying that Mr. Amaechi’s alleged comment that he was posted to the state on the orders of the President’s wife, Dame Patience Jonathan, to install the governor’s successor from the Peoples…
A non-governmental organization known as the League of Borno Professionals, has described the cash donation of N150 million by the former Governor of Borno State and alleged Boko Haram sponsor, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, to Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in the state as diversionary. The group made its position known in a statement signed by its President, Pindar Bitrus and Vice President, Aisami Habib, in Maiduguri. During a visit to the state last week Monday, the ex-governor had donated N30 million to each of the five IDPs camps within Maiduguri to be shared among victims of the insurgency attacks in…
The outgoing Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has assured workers in the state that their salaries for the month of August would be paid before the end of this week. Fayemi, who gave the assurance on Monday during the flag off of his ‘Thank You’ tour of the 35 councils in the state, also denied looting the treasury. He said public funds in the last four years had been judiciously spent even as his administration had not defaulted payment of salaries since it came on board in October 2010. The governor added that the state government used to…
The umbrella body of Muslims in the North, the Jama’atu Nasril Islam, on Monday in Kaduna, urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, to probe the controversial $9.3m impounded by the South African authorities about a fortnight ago. The said $9.3m was smuggled into Johannesburg, South Africa, by two Nigerians and an Israeli in a private jet the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, has admitted he has ‘residual interest’ in. The money was said to be meant for the procurement of arms for intelligence agencies in Nigeria. The money, valued at about R102m, was frozen…
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) yesterday debunked reports mostly on social media that Cameroonian troops killed the purported Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, in a cross border raid into Nigeria. Reports had quoted a Cameroonian military source as saying Shekau was killed during a cross border raid and aerial bombardment deep inside Nigeria by the Cameroonian military. But the DHQ in a tweet stated that: “There was no raid whatsoever in any part of Nigeria’s territory in pursuit of terrorists as claimed in some reports allegedly quoting Cameroon military authorities. “All operations ongoing in the environs of Konduga and all associated…
Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu of Niger State has asked the three aspirants presently serving in his government but angling for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship ticket for 2015 to reach a consensus among themselves. The governor, who stated this yesterday at the 1st Niger State Investment Climate Summit in Minna, the state capital, said two of the aspirants have already sent their letters of intent to him while the third one said he is still consulting. “In order to avoid unnecessary acrimony that will generate bad blood, I am asking all the aspirants to meet and peacefully pick one…
MUKHTARI SHAGARI Deputy Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Mukhtari Shagari, yesterday said he is in support of President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election because he has done much for the people of Sokoto State. Shagari, a former Minister of Water Resources during the Olusegun Obasanjo administration, said it amounts to ingratitude and total betrayal for leaders of the state to now turn their back against “the man who has shown love and respect to the people of the state on so many occasions”. He said President Jonathan gave him and Governor Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko all the support needed to win the 2011…
Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State has asked the opposition to fight its own war, saying he will fight his in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Lamido spoke yesterday when he hosted a delegation of the PDP on a performance assessment tour in Dutse, the state capital. His re-affirmation of faith in the ruling party should put to rest continued speculations that he might dump the PDP for the All Progressives Congress ahead of the 2015 general election. Affirming that he was aggrieved with the party at a stage, he knew how to fight his battle within the party, noting…
Kaduna based civil rights activist, Comrade Shehu Sani, has warned that there will be dire consequences, if the 2015 general elections are rigged. He spoke yesterday in Kaduna during a visit to People Living with Disability. He regretted that billions of naira meant for development were being stolen by politicians, resulting in poverty and insecurity. Sani, who is seeking the ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to contest the Kaduna Central Senatorial District election, described the deplorable condition of people living with disability as “worrisome”. The activist urged northern leaders to revive the agricultural sector and textile industries to…
The Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Suleiman Abba, has ordered a crackdown on illegal baby factories across the country. The Force Public Relations Officer, DCP Emmanuel Ojukwu, in a statement yesterday, said the order was aimed at checking the illicit booming trade in babies. Ojukwu said the IGP had directed all Assistant Inspectors-General of Police in charge of zonal commands, commissioners of police and other police field commanders to put measures in place to end the trend. “While reiterating that all the motherless babies’ homes and centres in their respective domains should be properly monitored so as to nip…
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Monday extended the Phase II of the Continuous Voter Registration for seven days in 12 states. The extension, according to the commission’s daily bulletin in Abuja, begins from September 28. It noted that the exercise was taking place at the local government areas of the affected states from 8 am to 4pm daily. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the affected states are – Anambra, Bauchi, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, FCT, Jigawa, Kwara, Ondo, Oyo, Sokoto and Yobe. “The extension of Phase II of the exercise is occasioned by the large turnout of…
FILE PHOTO The Akwa Ibom State Police Command said it had detonated two Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) found in the male hostel of the University of Uyo on Monday. Confirming the incident in Uyo, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Etim Dickson, told newsmen that the explosives were home-made. The police spokesman specifically said that the IEDs were likely produced by science students of the university and said investigations had commenced on the matter. Dickson assured the students on campus and parents not to entertain any fear about possible breakdown of law and order in the university…
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Senator Bala Mohammed, is ready to toe the path of his predecessor Mallam Nasir elRufai as he yesterday, threatened that his administration was prepared to step on toes in restoring the distorted Abuja master plan to its original plan as conceived by the founding fathers. Mohammed said Abuja will not be allowed to go the way of other older cities in the country, just as he set up a committee saddled with the responsibility of identifying all violations on the Abuja Master Plan, noting that the action would help the administration in…
These days, it isn’t anything surprising to see unclad photos of celebrities, especially the foreign ones; however, this is a first for Alicia Keys. The 33-year-old talented singer, organist and mother, Alicia Keys shared a unclad photo of her unclad and pregnant belly on Saturday, with only her hands covering her br**sts. Alicia Keys is soon due to deliver See the photo below: –
It would surprise you to know that the freedom of speech right in Nigeria’s democracy isn’t really free; also, be careful what you say on social media sites. Reports claim that the Governor of Katsina State, Ibrahim Shema, ordered that a student who criticized him on Facebook should be detained indefinitely. According to Premium Times, the student named Abdulmalik Sa’idu has been in jail for over 20 days now as a result of Shema’s orders. Sa’idu is said to have posted details of an alleged fertilizer scam in Katsina state on his Facebook page. Reports state that he received a phone…
Kano State Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso has described the endorsement of President Goodluck Jonathan as the sole Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the 2015 Presidential election as undemocratic. “Since the five governors decamped from PDP to (All Progressives Congress) APC, I told Nigerians that PDP will become a weaker party whose democratic value will erode. Now the stakeholders of the party have come out to say that they have chosen President Jonathan as their party’s sole presidential candidate without going for primaries,” said Kwankwaso, while receiving the report of a consultation committee on his Presidential ambition. “I am assuring you…
Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, says it has in the past one year compelled erring banks to refund the sum of N17 billion illegal deductions and other unauthorised transaction to customers. The Director, Consumer Protection Department of the CBN, Mallam Usman Dutse who stated this in Calabar yesterday at the commencement of a one week consumer public enlightenment and sensitization programme said since the upgrading of the Consumer protection Unit in the bank to a department in 2012, over 5,500 complaints have been lodged by customers which led to the directive by the CBN after investigation for the money to…
The Federal Government is to take over reconstruction and expansion of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway, the Minister of Works, Mr Mike Onolememen, said on Monday. The minister said this in Lagos during a slide presentation of work on the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway by Julius Berger Plc. The presentation took place at the company’s office complex in Ijora. Onolememen said that a new project design that involved five other ECOWAS member-countries was being undertaken. He gave the assurance that the project would soon be implemented. The minister said that a regional effort would be the best way to handle the road project. He…