Author: Wale Adebayo

Awww……….this is so adorble. The cute couple were born just a day apart; Chris Attoh – May 17 – Damilola Adegbite – May 18. The thespian couple who are expecting a baby celebrated their birthday together in Accra,Ghana. They exchanged beautiful messages via their Instagram pages prior to the party. See photos below and messages: – Damilola:“Happy birthday Sugar. You are my joy and pride. Chris:God is good indeed, help me say Happy birthday to my darling Lola, many more blessings and many more amazing years ahead. You complete me… Making sure you have a memorable year mami. See Photos…

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The stars came out to play for the 2014 Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday. As usual, Nicki Minaj dazzled in a black cut-out Alexander McQueen dress, while fellow rap diva Iggy Azalea stepped out with her NBA star boyfriend Nick Young. Jason Derulo and Jordin Sparks were an adorable pair as the posed together, but Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose took the award for most stylish couple. Icon Award recipient Jennifer Lopez wowed in a flowy red DKNY dress while posing for pics with her man Casper Smart. Kelly Rowland was not shy to…

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Special ED (left), Davido (Right) I bet you all know that big black guy that looks so much like Rick Ross; he is Davido’s Hypeman — Edward Chukuma-Jiah popularly known as Special Ed. Mugshot reveals that he was arrested for fraud in 2011, the same site where Sinzu’s mugshot was found. Special Ed was reportedly arrested on 28th of August 2011 and was released 2 days after 30th of August 2011 with $17,000 bond. He was charged with Financial Credit Card Theft, First Degree Forgery and Identity Fraud. Edward has since completed his community service and is a freeman.

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It is no longer news that the Five-Star music crew are balling hard enjoying the works of their labour. KCee’s elder brother — Emeka Okonkwo, popularly known as E-money owns this beautiful mansion; KCee unveiled the Five-Star mansion in Lagos. E-money had a royal dish with the Five-Star music artistes such as, KCee, Harrysong and others right inside the mansion today. See pictures below: –

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The Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN) has appealed against the judgment of a Federal High Court in Lagos which barred it from investigating the suspended governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. Recall that Justice John Tsoho had on May 12, 2014 slammed a restraining order against the council, which had commenced investigations into the activities of the suspended CBN governor. But in the notice of appeal filed before the Court of Appeal in Lagos, council averred that the trial court erred in law by assuming jurisdiction in the case contrary to Sections 28 and 66…

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MOHAMMED BUHARI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested one Mohammed Buhari, said to be an adopted son of a former military Head of State and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Mohammadu Buhari over an alleged N20m fraud. According to a report by Sahara Reporters, Buhari was arrested over a “transaction that has the trappings of voodoo investment scheme”. He allegedly obtained N20 million from one Mrs Florence Nwokocha, with the aim of investing in a lucrative oil and gas business with promises of mouth watery returns to the investor. According to the report, Buhari…

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An aide to Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, Mr John Akhigbe, said on Sunday that the governor had not picked a successor to take over from him in 2016. Akhigbe, a Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Protocol, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin. He was reacting to speculations that the crisis rocking the party was as a result of the governor’s overbearing influence in the running of the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) But Akhigbe said the governor was a democrat who believes that the choice of the next…

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said President Goodluck Jonathan’s aborted trip to Chibok, where 276 school girls were abudcted, is symptomatic of his administration’s policy flip-flop in the fight against the terror group Boko Haram, hence it did not come as a surprise to close watchers of the administration. In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, APC said just as the Jonathan-led administration has bungled the fight against the sect, it has also displayed sheer cluelessness in handling the abduction of the school girls. “With his utterances and actions…

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Gov. IDRIS WADA OF KOGI (L) IN A HANDSHAKE WITH THE EMIR OF ZAZZAU, Alhaji SHEHU IDRIS, AT THE PUBLIC PRESENTATION OF A BOOK TITLED “FASTING ACCORDING TO ISLAMIC LAW” IN Kaduna ON SUNDAY (18/5/14). WITH THEM IS Gov. MUKHTAR YERO OF Kaduna State. As Nigerians prepare to go to the polls in 2015 to elect leaders in the forthcoming general elections, former military head of state, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida yesterday warned politicians to desist from engaging in acts capable of setting the country on the path of anarchy. The former military president, who gave the warning in Kaduna…

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The Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) has declared the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of Saturday’s local government elections sweeping all the 44 local government chairmanship seats and 484 councillorship seats in the state. A two-paragraph press release signed by the chairman, KANSIEC, Dr Sani Lawal Malumfashi, and made available to journalists, stated that the commission had discharged its constitutional responsibilities of organising, supervising and conducting local government polls on May 17, 2014. The statement affirmed that the election was largely successful and peaceful. However, the state leader of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and former governor of the…

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The Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih, said on Sunday that President Goodluck Jonathan cannot step down over the abduction of 276 girls by Boko Haram in Chibok, Borno State. According to Anenih, no president could have performed better within the boundaries of the law than Jonathan had done in handling the insurgency in the Northeast. He added that there was no way the president could have picked up a rifle and go to Sambisa Forest in search of the abducted girls. The PDP BoT chairman, who made his position known in a…

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The Inspector-General of Police, IGP MD Abubakar has ordered the strengthening of security in all boarding schools in and around Makurdi, the Benue State capital. The directive is coming on the heels of recent threat letter purportedly issued by elements claiming to be Boko Haram members to two all-boys Secondary Schools – Government College, Makurdi, and Mount Saint Gabriel College Makurdi. According to a statement issued by the Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, CSP, the Benue State Police Command, working in partnership with the State Ministry of Education and the affected school authorities, have strengthened surveillance in the schools…

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The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has frowned at the presence of a large number of tourists, journalists and adventurers of diverse interests moving about in areas where security operations are currently ongoing especially in Adamawa and Borno States without the necessary security cover or clearance. In a statement signed Sunday by the Director of Defence Information (DDI), Maj-Gen. Chris Olukolade, the DHQ cautioned the affected persons against infiltrating security operation zones for their own safety. Olukolade said the trend constitutes unnecessary risk to the persons especially the foreigners involved, adding that it was also an undue obstruction to operations. According to…

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Former UK Prime Minister and UN Special Envoy on Education, Mr. Gordon Brown, has announced that one million people have now signed petitions, and a month from now, on June 16, the International Day of the African Child, there will be vigils in every continent of the world for the 200 plus schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram. “In 20 countries, young people will take over national parliaments to highlight the girls’ fate – and that of the 57 million other children who cannot go to school,” he said. In a statement issued at the weekend, Brown said the Nigerian government…

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Following the security summit hosted by France at the weekend to stem the activities of the terror group, Boko Haram, the United Kingdom (UK) will host a follow up meeting at the ministerial level to review the progress made on the action plan agreed to on Saturday by eight countries and the European Union (EU) to counter the terrorist organisation. This was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of the meeting, which was presided over by French President Francois Hollade, and had in attendance Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan, President Boni Yayi of Benin Republic, President Paul Biya of…

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No fewer than 40 villagers were killed and several others injured on Saturday evening in Dalwa-Masuba village of Damboa local of Borno state, security sources and witnesses said. The gunmen who reportedly attacked villagers in their large numbers also burnt down the entire village along side three pickup vans carrying fire woods from Damboa to Maiduguri, the state capital. A member of the security vigilante (Abbas Gava) who spoke to reporters on phone, said no security personnel had reached the attacked town at the time he was speaking. “We heard about the attack from some of the villagers who fled…

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A suspected car bomb ripped through a crowded entertainment spot in the north Nigerian city of Kano on Sunday, witnesses said. Four people were killed, including a young girl, in the suicide car bomb attack, the Kano State police commissioner said. “At about 2200 (2100 GMT), we heard an explosion and immediately mobilised to the scene where we discovered a suicide bomber…five people, including the bomber, were killed,” Adelere Shinaba told reporters, adding that the victims were “three men and a girl of about 12″. Shinaba said it was too early to say who was responsible for the attack, which…

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About ten persons were feared dead in the early hours of yesterday in a petrol fire explosion at a creek close to the NNPC jetty in Okrika, headquarters of Okrika local government area in Rivers state. Chairman of the local government, Mr Tamuno Williams who spoke to newsmen said scores of persons were also rushed to undisclosed hospitals for various degree of burns. He further blamed the ugly development on illegal siphoning of crude oil from NNPC facilities in the area by illegal oil bunkers. Continuing, the Chairman of the council, Mr Williams said it would be difficult to tie…

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Fire yesterday razed about 120 shops in the popular Daleko market in Mushin Local Government Area of Lagos State, destroying property worth millions of Naira. The fire started from the vegetable oil section of the market at about 1:50 a.m, hours after the traders had closed for the day, reports Vanguard. As the night guards saw the flames, they were said to have raised the alarm which further alerted residents who raced to the scene to help salvage whatever they could. Their efforts however proved abortive as products stocked in the shops were said to have increased the intensity of…

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A blast has hit the northern Nigerian city of Kano, in a street with many bars and night spots, police say. There is no word yet on casualties. Witnesses quoted by the AFP news agency that the explosion was caused by a suspected car bomb. The explosion took place in an area mostly inhabited by Christians from southern Nigeria, the Reuters news agency reports. The militant Islamist group Boko Haram has carried out attacks in Kano state. Witnesses quoted by AFP said that the blast could be heard from several miles away and happened on a busy road lined with…

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