Author: Wale Adebayo

Famous veteran Nollywood actress and now producer made a complete 360 degree turn when she decided to jump back into the movie business. The actress turned civil servant then actress again dropped new photo just after her first movie after her return. The Nigerian actress who recently premiered her movie – The Voice in Lagos, rocks a sequined gold dress for some shots in the glam shoot. She assisted the shoot too with a sequined green dress too. See photos below: –

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The wahala brewing between Nigeria’s best youngest musical talents seem to only be escalating. At first it was just Wizkid up against Davido but it seems like the whole HKN gang have decided to join in. If you would recall, Wizkid replied Davido by telling him to go suck a d**k after he had a successful show. See his tweet below: – Wizkid Ayo Balogun ✔ @wizkidayo Follow I already killed NY!! London 26th Sept!! Manchester 28th sept!!! Big surprise!! Still proper shows!! proper venues!!! #f**kboysuckadick!! It’s barely 24hrs and Davido fired back at him, see below: – Davido ✔ @iam_Davido Follow Y pple…

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If you don’t him, Pastor Ituah Ighodalo is the Senior Pastor of Trinity House Church and he got a little more than he bargained for after he got attacked over a Facebook post on the “Solution to Ebola“. On Saturday 26th July 2014, Pastor Ighodalo posted this: – I just saw this and I think will help many believers. Solution to Ebola! Several years ago, Ebola virus erupted in Africa, killing thousands without restrain or cure. The medical world was perplexed. A great man of God by the name John G Lake came to the rescue. Laying hands on infected…

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Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caucus in Nasarawa State have vowed to resist any attempt to stop the impeachment process of Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura. They were reacting to reports that the presidency may have waded in to save Al-Makura following a meeting between principal officers of the Nasarawa House of Assembly, led by the Speaker and President Goodluck Jonathan last week in Abuja. The caucus, which met at the weekend, assured the state legislators of their support towards the impeachment proceedings against the governor. The PDP-dominated Assembly leveled 16 impeachable offences against Gov. Al-Makura and directed the…

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Deputy Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Abdulrahman Suleiman Kawu, has alleged that leader of the disbanded Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, Mujahid Asari Dokubo spoke the mind of President Goodluck Jonathan when he alleged that former head of state, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), masterminded the blasts in Kaduna last Wednesday. Kawu said Dokubo’s allegations portray him as a true enemy of peace, saying the former Niger Delta militant leader might have been tele-guided by the presidency on his “unguarded utterances in recent times”. Dokubo had last weekend alleged that Buhari, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC,…

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Ahead of the August 9 governorship election in Osun State, 29 domestic and international observers have been accredited by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to monitor the poll. This was disclosed by the chief press secretary to INEC chairman, Kayode Idowu, yesterday, who further stated that the European Union (EU) delegation in Nigeria will lead the pack of other international observers to monitor the governorship poll. Other foreign observers include the United States Mission to Nigeria, the High Commission of Canada, the British High Commission as well as the Embassies of Switzerland, Kingdom of Netherlands, Federal Republic of Germany…

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As more Nigerians continue to react to the death of Hamza el-Rufai, the son of former FCT Minister, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, former Kwara State Governor, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has commiserated with the All Progressives Congress chieftain. Hamza, a student of Rochester Institute of Technology, Dubai, died in a car crash along A.Y.A – Kubwa expressway, Abuja on Tuesday morning. He was aged 23. The unfortunate news of his demise was announced by the former minister on his Facebook page at about 8:00 am today. Saraki, who is Chairman, Senate Committee on Ecology and Environment, said: “I am deeply saddened to…

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Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State on Monday assured non-indigenes living in the state that their rights as Nigerian citizens would be protected. Mr. Lamido gave the assurance when he received the Emir of Dutse, Nuhu Sunusi, who paid the governor Sallah homage in Dutse. He explained that all non-indigenes living in the state were there as a matter of ‘right’ not ‘privilege’, hence would not be discriminated against. The governor said that Nigerians were free to live wherever they chose without any undue harassment by any individual or government. The governor said those asking Nigerians to register in their…

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Governor of Rivers State and Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi yesterday said that those who killed and maimed innocent people and destroy property during the holy month of Ramadan, are not Muslims and urged true adherents of Islam to unite and fight terrorism. He made the call yesterday in his address to the Muslim community in Port Harcourt as part of activities to celebrate the Eid-el-Fitri. The governor, who was represented by his deputy, Engr. Tele Ikuru, urged Muslims in the country to use the occasion to unite against terrorists and other extremists, who hide…

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SCENE OF MONDAY’S Bomb explosion AT NNPC MEGA STATION As part of on-going investigations into the various bombings that have rocked Kano State in recent times, police detectives have arrested five male suspects for their complicity in the attacks. Two were arrested in connection with the foiled bomb attack at Isyaku Rabiu Mosque, while three were arrested in connection with the bomb attack at St Charles Catholic Church on Sunday. All the suspects are currently undergoing interrogation at different Police facilities.

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The Area Fada, who was recently spotted with his ‘two virgins’, has shared fierce photos of himself and his ‘virgins’ together. Charly Boy is no stranger to controversy. Just recently during his late father, Justice Chukwudifu Oputa’s funeral service he caused quite a stir as he stepped out in a grey attire, looking like an Indian priest with his ‘two virgins’ tagging along with him even acting as a bodyguard at the Sa­cred Heart Catho­lic Church, Oguta, Imo State, where his late father’s memorial service took place. See more fresh photos below: Just last month, he trended on the social…

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A group yesterday called on Nigerians in Diaspora to prepare for a protest against President Goodluck Jonathan in Washington DC. The executive director, Gatekeepers Foundation, Blessing Agbomhere, made the call in a statement in Abuja. According to Agbomhere, the protest was necessitated by the current administration’s inability to secure life and property of Nigerians. He said the protest was meant to demand the immediate rescue of the over 200 Chibok girls in Boko Haram captivity since April and the recovery of the purported $20billion still unaccounted for by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). The statement, entitled “President Goodluck’s visit…

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A former Governor of Lagos State and chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has predicted that the end of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will be disgraceful. He also alleged that the impeachment of some APC governors was an attempt to turn Nigeria into a one-party state but vowed that the PDP’s joy over the impeachment would be short-lived. Tinubu’s media aide, Sunday Dare, made this known on his Facebook page in a note titled, “PDP, Jonathan are building on quicksand”, on Monday. He said it was unfortunate that the PDP-led Federal Government had trivialised the…

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In a display of statesmanship, President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday commiserated with a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and one of his fiercest critics, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, on the death of his son, Hamza. We earlier reported that Hamza died in a motor accident in Abuja on Tuesday morning. Reacting to news of the former FCT minister son’s death, President Jonathan, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, expressed the belief that the outpouring of support at this moment by his friends and associates would comfort El-Rufai. He also prayed for…

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Former Governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, has faulted the alleged plan by the state House of Assembly to impeach the incumbent governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, describing the move as wrong. Speaking with newsmen in Ibadan yesterday shortly after observing the Eid-el-Fitri prayer at the University of Ibadan Central Mosque, the leader of Accord Party, who distanced his party’s lawmakers from the impeachment plot, stressed that the timing was wrong if it is true at all, as it is capable of plunging the state into crisis and chaos. The former governor recalled his experience when he was impeached but…

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The mother of the young man accused by military authorities of masterminding last week’s suicide car blast in Kawo, Kaduna State, has cried out over her son’s innocence. The suspect, Mansir Yusuf, who was disguised as a woman, was reportedly arrested while leaving the scene of the deadly blast on Wednesday which targeted the convoy of former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari. The military later issued a statement accusing Yusuf of being behind the attack. But the suspect’s mother, Zubeida Yusuf, who resides in Mando, Kaduna, said the military mistook her son for a terrorist because he was found…

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Worried by the incessant killings and maiming of lives of innocent Nigerians by the Boko Haram sect, a group of former Niger-Delta militants under the Edo State Phase Three Ex-militant Group, has said that the sponsors of the terrorist group will soon be exposed. The leader of the group, “General” Godstime Ogidigba, lamented that the activities of the insurgents has continued due to the alleged financial backing and support of “some northern fundamentalists” who were determined to plunge the country into a full scare war. Ogidigba, while calling on the sect to immediately stop the “senseless killings or be prepared…

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The Emir of Kano, His Eminence, Muhammad Sanusi II, on Tuesday performed a traditional evening Sallah durbah (Hawan Daushe/ Hawan Babban Daki) in the ancient northern city; his first since becoming emir last month. The traditional Sallah durbah tagged ‘Hawan Daushe/Hawan Babban Daki/Hawan Yamma’ is one of the traditional durbah functions that commences on the second day of every eid. As has been the tradition, Sanusi II, yesterday observed the ‘Hawan Daushe’ in a vintage Rolls Royce convertible car. Emir Sanusi and his entourage yesterday observed the ‘Hawan Daushe’amid praises and greetings from the people who thronged either sides of…

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Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Nasir El-Rufai has lost his son to a car crash, the second child to die in three years. Hamza El-Rufai died on Tuesday morning in Abuja. The former minister broke the unfortunate news on his Facebook page at about 8am. The post read thus: “From Allah we came and to Him we shall return. Please join our family in praying for the repose of the soul of my son, Hamza El-Rufai who died this morning in a motor accident in Abuja”. The late Hamza will be buried today in line with…

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Three persons yesterday got electrocuted at Ifo market, Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State after a high-tension wire fell on them. The high-tension cable, it was gathered, suddenly snapped and fell on the victim who died on the spot. Several others were also said to have sustained injuries. Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi confirmed the incident, but said only two persons died, while the two others who sustained injuries have been admitted at the Ifo General Hospital.

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