I’m a very big fan of Oritse Femi Arogunmenite, the brother has been in the music industry for over almost a decade but recently just got his breakthrough. Oritse Femi has officially launched his Music Label, MSN Gang (pronounced as M-S-N Gang). Speaking on his new venture, MSN Gang Oritse Femi revealed that his passion for good music and the pain from seeing many talented music artistes struggle to realize their full potential in the Nigerian music industry contributed to his decision to the debut of MSN Gang. Now he flaunts the logo in his new video BODY & SOUL…
Author: Wale Adebayo
Superstar singer is one to act on impulses and we all know that. The recently free convict, Chris Brown definitely knows how to cause mayhem and get tongues wagging on social media. The 25 year-old pop star shared this photo of Karrueche’s behind via his Instagram page. A couple of fans have chastised him for disrespecting his girlfriend, but she seems to be okay with it.
The Niger State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC), has accused the state Governor, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu of wasting the state’s resources by appointing new Special Advisers that would not yield any economic value to the state, adding that he should instead concentrate on policies that would improve the lives of the people. The salvo from APC came on the heels of the admission by the governor recently, that some of his SAs have not offered him any advice since seven years running. The state Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr. Jonathan Vatsa, made the party’s position known on…
The national leadership of Peoples Democratic Party has said the All Progressives Congress and the Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, are now jittery over the plan by members of the ruling party in the state to join the opposition party (PDP). PDP noted that its soaring popularity in the South-South state was giving the governor and his party sleepless nights. The PDP said that this could be the reason why Gov. Oshiomhole and the APC had allegedly resorted to orchestrating a crisis in the state in a desperate attempt to halt the trend. The party accused Oshiomhole of “stirring…
Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has stated his resolve to confront those he referred to as Peoples Democratic Party forces in the August 9 governorship election, insisting that he will win the election by popular votes. Aregbesola, who is seeking re-election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, spoke in Osogbo, the state capital on Saturday. He warned the PDP against rigging the governorship election because the opposition party in the state does not have the support of the masses like him. Responding to a question on how his party would react if there was an attempt…
The Nigerian Army has alerted residents of communities in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State of a scheduled training programme for officers and soldiers, which will commence on Tuesday, July 8 and end on July 23, 2014. A statement from the Army Public Relations Unit of 3 Division, in Rukuba, near Jos, said the programme involves sporadic movement of personnel and equipment. The statement, which was signed by Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Texas Chukwu, said: “In line with Army Headquarters (AHQ) training directive towards excellent military professionalism, 3 Division headquarters of the Nigerian Army will be conducting…
Nigeria’s security forces have killed a suspected Boko Haram kingpin and his brother in an early morning raid on their hide-out in Kaduna State. Reports say soldiers traced the house of the suspect, identified as Usman, who had escaped from Borno, in Kinkinua GRA, Ungwan Mu’azu area of Kaduna metropolis. Residents say the security operatives, comprising plain cloth personnel and armed soldiers, broke through the wall to gain access into the house, got his family out, and engaged him in a gun battle that reportedly lasted for about three hours before he was killed while trying to escape. The district…
Security operatives at the presidential villa, Abuja, on Sunday, prevented the BringBackOur Girls group from entering Aso Rock, where the seat of power is located, as they barricaded the entrance. The BBOG is an advocacy group dedicated to drawing and sustaining attention on the fate of over 200 Chibok Schoolgirls abducted on April 14, 2014 by Boko Haram insurgents. The BBOG group had marched during an impromptu protest to the villa to further highlight the issue of the Chibok girls, who are still being held captive 82 days after their abduction. The group, which organised the protest in the middle…
The World Fashion Organisation (WFO) has named the proposed World Fashion University, which is to be located in Bayelsa State after President Goodluck Jonathan. The state governor, Seriake Dickson, who made the announcement in a statement signed on Sunday by his Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, said WFO took the decision in recognition of the president’s achievements despite the current security challenges. The organisation was said to have announced the development at the closing ceremony and Gala Night of the Africa Fashion Reception, held at the Banquet Hall of Government House in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa capital. The statement added that…
Friends of former head of state, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), under the aegis of Buhari Friends Organization Network, BFON, at the weekend urged the All Progressives Congress (APC) to adopt him (Buhari) as its presidential candidate for the 2015 election. They spoke in Abuja at the inaugural general meeting of the group. The group’s National Coordinator, Saint Athanasius Okon, noted that like Buhari, his friends also hate corruption, lawlessness, impunity and other vices. Okon said: “We have to take it upon ourselves as his good friends who hate corruption, indiscipline, lawlessness, impunity in government and insecurity, to first call on…
The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has vowed that no amount of intimidation, provocation or arrest of its members would stop it from pursuing and actualizing its objective of a sovereign state of Biafra, no matter how long it takes. Leader of the movement, Chief Ralph Uwazurike, who made this known in an interview with Channels Television in Imo State, while reacting to the recent arrest of 26 members of the group in Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo State by the Army, said that for over 16 years, the MASSOB had remained a…
More than 60 women and girls abducted last month by suspected Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria have escaped their captors, sources said Sunday. Local vigilante Abbas Gava said he had “received an alert from my colleagues … that about 63 of the abducted women and girls had made it back home” late Friday. A high-level security source in the RBorno state capital Maiduguri, who requested anonymity because he was not authorised to speak on the matter, confirmed the escape. Gava, a senior official of the local vigilantes in Borno State who are working closely with security officials, told journalists…
Popular Ghanaian Hiplife musician, Castro (a.k.a Theophilus Tagoe) reportedly drowned yesterday in the Aqua safari beach while trying to rescue his girlfriend yesterday, according to Ghana web. Reports say Castro, his girlfriend and a close friend (who is also a footballer for the Black Stars), Asamoah Gyan, had gone to Ada on a weekend rendezvous. The trio went jet-skiing and the unfortunate incident happened – Castro’s girlfriend fell into the river. In a bid to save her, Castro dived into the ocean but ended up drowning with her at Aqua safari beach. Castro’s body and his girlfriend’s are yet to…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised the alarm over the delay in distributing the permanent voters cards (PVCs) to registered voters in Osun State ahead of the August 9, 2014, governorship election in the state. “INEC has been painfully slow in processing the permanent voters cards, and one can only hope that the electoral body is not doing this deliberately to disenfranchise voters, especially in opposition strongholds”, APC said in a statement issued in Lagos yesterday by its national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. “The slow processing of the permanent voters cards has in particular hit the central senatorial…
The Speaker, Adamawa State House of Assembly, Hon. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, has raised the alarm over the importation of mercenaries into the state, whose job he alleged, was to either kill or kidnap members of the legislature following the impeachment move against Governor Murtala Nyako and his deputy, Barrister Bala Ngilari. The speaker raised the alarm in a statement signed by his chief press secretary, Solomon Kumanga, yesterday in Yola, the state capital. Kumangar said as a result of threats against members of the House of Assembly, each member was attached a security detail. “Some people who are not happy…
In what appears to be a deft political move by the Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako, to throw spanner in the works of the impeachment moves against him by the state House of Assembly, the state government has declared Monday and Tuesday work-free days. In a statement sent via short message service (SMS) by the director of press, Mallam Ahmad Sajoh, the state government said it deemed it fit to declare the two working-days work-free to enable people of the state reflect on the current happenings in the country as well as use the period to offer special prayers for…
As the National Conference winds-down, a major crisis that might bring all the progress achieved so far to naught is brewing as the North is threatening to pull out. The northern delegates have reportedly made their position known to the conference chairman, Justice Idris Kutigi (rtd) and his deputy, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi. The North is demanding a nullification of all resolutions so far taken through voice vote, which they said did not reflect the views of delegates. Their latest position is coming on the heels of the conference’s adoption of the recommendation of an additional state for the South-East zone…
The Nigerian military is acquiring new equipment and undergoing more training to face Boko Haram and other terrorist groups in the country, the head of the army said Sunday. The Chief of Army Staff, Kenneth Minimah, assured that the military will put an end to terrorism in Nigeria, and canvassed collective support for the fight. He spoke Sunday at the Inter-Denominational Church Service held at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic Church, Mogadishu Cantonment in Abuja. The service which was to mark the 2014 Nigerian Army Day Celebration, NADCEL, had the “Combating Current National Security Challenges through Collective Effort”. “We…
FILE PHOTO No fewer than 50,000 persons, mainly women, children and the aged, have been displaced from their homes in various parts of Taraba following the recent crisis in the area, the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has said. Zainab Umar, NEMA’s Operations Officer in Gombe State office, said this on Sunday in Bali, Taraba State, while distributing relief materials at one of the camps occupied by victims of the recent communal conflict. She explained that NEMA had donated 20 trucks of relief materials and had commenced distribution of assorted materials comprising food, non-food items and medical supplies to the…
The federal government has commenced a crackdown on Islamic scholars, Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) alleged on Sunday as it raised the alarm over the abduction of an Islamic scholar, Ustadh Abdul Ganiy. The Ogun State cleric and his wife, Shakirah were allegedly whisked away by suspected government agents at gun point while at their home located on Fagbemi Street, Off Ntabo Bus Stop, Ijoko, near Sango in Ado Odo Ota Local Government of Ogun State. MURIC alleged that the abduction, which occurred at about 3.00a.m. on Saturday was carried out by soldiers, who reportedly arrived in three vehicles, dressed in…