Veteran Nollywood actress — Ini Edo has decided to diversify her talents into another money fetching venture. She announced the opening of her pastry business few minutes ago online. Congrats to her.
Author: Wale Adebayo
A lot of you haven’t the pretty face — Rita Ijeoma Onyemachi who beat 32 other contestants to emerge the winner of the 2014 Most Beautiful Face in Nigeria. The pageant held 2 nights ago May 25th at Eejnm Hotel, Uyo. See Photos below: –
In a move that I don’t still understand, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has appointed TV personality Dayo ‘D1‘ Adeneye and President of the Actors’ Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Ibinabo Fiberesima as celebrity ambassadors. The ambassadors were decorated on Thursday, May 22, 2014 at the Rennaissance Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos. Fiberesima expressed her happiness about the appointment, describing it as a pointer to her good works. ‘I feel good because God is just vindicating me everyday. Adding this ambassadorship to my responsibilities is not a worry for me because I want to keep doing good things,’ she said. Also decorated…
The ailing National President of Script Writers Guild of Nigeria (SWGN), Chike Bryan has gotten the full support he needs for his kidney transplant in India. Chike Bryan President Goodluck Jonathan through the office of National President of Actors’ Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Ibinabo Fiberesima, has reportedly contributed N10million for his treatment in India. Recall that Bryan had been diagnosed of chronic renal failure in July 2013 and he has been undergoing dialysis at Igando General Hospital, Lagos. He was referred to an India hospital for kidney transplant as both of his kidneys were said to be in bad shape.
The Federal Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Japanese Government for $85 million dollars (N1.38 billion) loan to facilitate polio eradication in the country. Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, explained during the ceremony on Monday that the loan would be used to purchase vaccines. “The signing of the MoU is an important milestone for the country. It will help us to ensure the availability of vaccines and timely delivery. “It is my hope that with the loan, polio will be interrupted this year,” Chukwu said. He said Nigeria would not be the last country to…
Former Governor of Kebbi State, Alhaji Adamu Aliero, has rejected the claims in some quarters that northern states governors and some politicians in the North were behind Boko Haram insurgents in the abduction of Chibok School girls. He also took a swipe at leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, NDPVF, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, over a statement credited to him that the girls’ abduction was a fiction,saying it was a wrong notion that should be widely condemned. He stressed that no responsible person could ever fathom and eventually encourage the killing and maiming of innocent Nigerians. Aliero, who was…
The Sultan of Sokoto and President of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar has condemned the Boko Haram Islamic sect over the wanton destruction of lives and properties by the sect. The Sultan, who spoke at the National Prayer for Peace and Security, organised by the council at the National Mosque, Abuja, in Abuja, Sunday described the group as unislamic, saying “terrorism has no place in Islam,” The Sultan called on the gathering of Islamic clerics, traditional rulers and political leaders from Northern Nigeria and other parts of the country as well as all well-meaning members…
There is something mysterious about how the past keeps recurring in the present and consequently locates itself in the future. The three distinct time periods are too connected to be separately detached. In most cases, the same things happen but in a different way. Evolution! Everything that happened then evolved into what is happening now. From buildings to automobiles to fashion, the list is endless, really. In this maiden edition of Blast from the past, I decided to take a look at a segment of fashion which portrays how our native attires was worn then and now. Funnily, you needed…
The crown of the ‘Most Beautiful Face in Nigeria 2014′ beauty pageant was given to 21-year-old Rita Ijeoma Onyemaechi. The pageant was held on 24th of May at Eejnm Hotel in Uyo and Rita Onyemaechi who represented Abuja saw off the competition of 32 other contestants to win the crown. Check out Rita Onyemaechi’s photos:
I trust Nigerians, if we had a chance, we would be present when the angels in heaven fought demons. Current Oyo State Governor’s daughter, Abisola Ajimobi- Daisi was live and present at the much talked about wedding between Kim and Kanye that held in Florence, Italy. Abisola was pictured with Malika and Lala Anthony, Khloe Kardashian and Kim Kardashian’s besties before Kim’s wedding rehearsals Friday night. This is not the first time Abisola will be spotted with Lala Anthony. See more fun pictures below: – With Serena Williams
Nollywood actress — Toyin Aimakhu Johnson is going to be a proud mum very soon; the pretty actress who got married sometime last year to Tinsel actor Niyi Johnson, nicely showing off her growing baby bump at a recent fashion event. I remember way back when she denied various speculation of pregnancy, now we have proof.
One of Nigeria’s cutest celebrity couple — Tuface and Annie were caught in these rare photographs taken during the video shoot for ‘Green White Green’ – a new single from Tunde and Wunmi Obe, featuring 2Face Idibia. Annie and 2Face Idibia joined the Obes for fun photos. Annie said, “It was great to meet The Obes. They are an awesome and very close couple.” “It was fun having the Idibia’s around for the video” Wunmi Obe wrote on her Facebook.
Superstar singer — 2face Idibia was spotted wearing a customized gold encrusted Versace sneakers worth N1 million, during the video shoot of music giants, Tunde and Wunmi Obe on Tuesday May 20. Shot by the maverick Clarence Peters, the video is for T.W.O’s highly anticipated forthcoming advocacy single “Green White Green” clamoring for peace and unity in Nigeria. 2face, who is featured on the single, was seen in the company of his wife Annie Idibia. See photos below: –
The All Progressives Congress (APC) continues to contend with a ‘leadership tussle’ in the build- up to the 2015 general election. According to Nigerian Tribune sources, the forces of former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu and former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari are pitted against the progressive governors and the forces of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar who was actually wooed into being part of the build-up to the 2015 general elections. It was gathered that the last National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the party held on May 23 encouraged further division in the party as the camp…
Nigeria’s Niger Delta Sunday declared that it would settle for nothing less than a new constitution premised on Autonomy or confederalism. The President of United Niger Delta Energy Development Security Strategy [UNDEDSS], Prof Pat Utomi made the region’sposition known in a statement. “The Niger Delta will shortly commence a restoration agenda that will trigger parallel non-violent actions to make it clear that its resources all belong to it, though it is prepared to pay a tax [maybe, up to 50% to the Centre]’. The statement added that the restoration agenda will ‘reject all obnoxious extant laws, such as the National…
Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko, has said he would compel members of the state executive council to give out Zakkat and endowment to the less-privileged out of their God-given wealth. Wamakko stated this at the weekend in Gandi town, Rabah local government area of the state, during the distribution of Zakkat collected in the Gandi District. According to him, all members of the council, whose wealth qualified for the payment of Zakkat, would be made to give it out to the less privileged in the society. “I will give this directive to all the Commissioners, Special Advisers and the…
The Lagos State Government has described the strike embarked on by lecturers of the Lagos State University (LASU) as an unnecessary drawback for its spirited efforts to boost the academic standing and reputation of the institution. The government therefore appealed to the striking lecturers to embrace dialogue instead of continuing with their industrial action. In a statement made available to newsmen on Saturday, the state’s Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Lateef Ibirogba, said the striking members of the LASU branch of the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) appeared to be whipping up sentiments to justify a premeditated industrial…
Former Defence Minister, General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (rtd), on Saturday told a gathering at the 40th coronation anniversary of the Emir of Lafia, Alhaji Isa Mustafa Agwai 1, that Boko Haram’s friends and sympathisers were at the ceremony, stunning every one present. Danjuma, who made the declaration in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, shortly after he was honoured alongside his wife with traditional titles by the Emir, said if urgent actions were not taken to halt the activities of Boko Haram, such gatherings might not hold henceforth, particularly in the North East. He lamented that the abduction of over 200…
Plateau State Governor Jonah Jang has stated that the insecurity confronting Nigeria is the outcome of earlier threat by some prominent Nigerians to make the country ungovernable. He therefore called on President Goodluck Jonathan to take on such people. Jang stated this while speaking with newsmen shortly after inspecting the site of the recent bomb explosion in Jos. He expressed anger over the state of the nation, especially the insecurity ravaging the country, saying there should be nobody that should be above the law, especially on issues boardering on national security. “These people have talked and said they would make…
Islamic clerics resident in the United States have called for the immediate release of over 200 schoolgirls abducted in Chibok, Borno State, by outlawed Islamist sect Boko Haram. This was contained in a letter written to leader of the terror group, Abubakar Shekau, signed by the Supreme Council of Muslim Organisations Zaytuna College, Berkeley, Washington DC; Imam Sheikh Jamal Said; Imam Sheikh Kifah Mustapha; The Mosque Foundation, Bridgeview, IL Bridgeview; Dr. Hatem Bazian; American Muslims for Palestine; Council on American-Islamic Relations; Islamic Circle of North America; Khalil Meek W. Deen Mohammed II; Muslim Legal Fund of America The Mosque Cares,…