Kwara state First Lady, Mrs. Omolewa Ahmed, has organised a special prayer tagged, “Kwara mothers pray” for the release of the abducted Chibok school girls. The prayer, which held at the Government House, Ilorin, on Saturday, was a gathering of both women Islamic organisations and Christian faithful. Mrs Ahmed, who spoke with journalists said the prayer was to seek God’s intervention on the abducted girls, who are still being held by the Boko Haram, more than a month after their kidnap. “What we are doing today in Kwara is our way of showing our concern about what is going on…
Author: Wale Adebayo
Kogi State Chief Judge, Nasiru Ajanah has decried corruption in the judiciary, saying that bad eggs had contaminated the whole judicial system, overwhelmingly. Nairu said this while delivering a lecture titled, “Maintaining A Strong Judiciary: Corruption as an Albatross” at the 8th Justice J. Adesiyun Biennial Memorial Public Lecture. According to him, the growing menace portends danger for the country. “When the judiciary is corrupt, it facilitates corruption in other sectors of government and it transmits to the public that corruption is accepted,” he said. He stated that corruption could undermine the integrity and credibility of the entire legal system,…
With all the unfounded rumors that the two young millionaire singers are at each others throat, i guess this kind of ends it. This is the first time Davido and Wizkid have appeared in the same photo since the NEA awards over a year ago. Even though both of them have gone at different lengths to deny that they are beefing each other, the rumors still continue. The photo was taken in Benin last night, where Davido and Wizkid hd thrilling performances.
In a thrilling interview with The Sun Newspaper, the 53-year-old TV personality, socialite and Femi Kuti‘s sister speaks on a near r*pe encounter, her career, marriage and being “happy” with her man. Read excerpts below: – On s*xual harrasment “You know as women, some of us have tried one way or the other to outsmart men. I was a player as a young girl so I won’t say I have been sexually harassed because I was the one that tried to play men for their money you know. I have had men that have spoilt me silly with gifts and…
Hmmm……do you think Olamide has any right to call out gospel singer — Obiwon like this? Nigerian Rapper Olamide went on his Twitter page to tell Obiwon to drop music, and face another hustle. BADDO as he is fondly called took the photo/video sharing site to dish out the advice. Brief bio on Obiwon below + screen-grabs: – Obiwon stormed the Nigerian music scene years ago with hip-hop group the Thoroughbred, Obiwon surprised fans by subsequently switching to R&B, only to even further astonish everyone when he announced his switch to the gospel music genre. He is known for hit…
Superstar singer — KCee has been taking us up and down with this whole marriage issue. It was surprising when KCee told Toolz on Ndani TV’s The Juice that Cynthia Ijeoma Oduah who he wed in March 2010, is his sister. When images of the couple’s traditional and white wedding popped on the screen, he claimed “we were shooting a movie”. If you recall, KCee was recently romantically linked to actress Ebube Nwagbo, but she shut down rumours, responding with “he is a married man.”. Speaking to Punch, the singer through his manager Soso Soberekon ”clarified” the situation. He claims…
The Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Mr Mohammed Indabawa, on Saturday in Ibadan urged various communities in the country to engage in community policing. Indabawa, represented by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mrs Bisi Clet-Ilobanafor, said this during the 5th Anniversary Lecture on Road Accident Information and Rescue Organisation. The theme of the lecture is: “Developing an Effective National Security”. Indabawa said that community policing was the collaboration of the community members with the police to ensure that the society was free of crime. He said that the police could not achieve any meaningful success in crime prevention without the support…
Na wa ooh, ward are brewing all over the entertainment scene in Nigeria. Earlier this week, the AGN President Ibinabo Fiberesima wrote an open letter to veteran actress Clarion Chukwurah, who called her out for using the association for personal gains. Wee, it seems Clarion has fired back at Ibinabo. In an interview with Punch, she states why Fiberesima shouldn’t be the leader. Read below: – In response to the open letter, she says; “I am not on the same level with Ibinabo Fibresima professionally, educationally or in any other form. I find that she is deliberately misleading the public…
There have been rumors for weeks that all wasn’t rosy with Jim Iyke and Ghanaian sweetheart — Nadia Buari, and it seems the rumors are true. It’s no hidden knowledge that Nollywood’s bad boy Jim Iyke has temper issues, all that show you see in movies re just him being himself. Anyways, a lot of people were pessimistic about how long the relationship would last, and again they were right. According to reliable sources, even though the actress tried to cope and handle Jim Iyke’s temper, she felt like she cannot change Jim and there was no point in hanging…
Petite singer — Mo’cheddah vanished for a while off the music scene, studying in Cyprus, before we knew it she was engaged. The singer who became relevant again after she dropped her new single — Distinambari in a new interview with Leadership Newspaper has revealed that she does not know how to drive and she’s fully back to music. She also said she never took a break from music because she was engaged and expecting a baby. She revealed that she isn’t scared of any female musician because the sky is big enough for them all, and she only left…
The biggest music name and rapper in Ghana at the moment — Sarkodie dropped his new single Adonai days back and he has already started working on the video. The Adonai video is a remix on the original on his recently dropped album, he remixed the song with Castro and it was an instant hit song. Well, the two are in South Africa now shooting a video for it with Nana Kofi Asihene. Here are some of the Behind the Scenes photos from the set. South African Rapper, AKA was present too. See Photos below: –
Award-winning Nigerian broadcaster, journalist, columnist and blogger — Funmi Iyanda shared the above photo of herself and Goodluck Jonathan’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati. According to Funmi Iyanda, she claims she ran into Reuben Abati while window shopping in Paris, we all know that Goodluck Jonathan and his team were in Paris for the security forum. Nice picture sha……….
People have been wondering why Mavin Boss — Don Jazzy hasn’t openly come out to support the #BringBackOurGirls campaign; well now he has. The business mogul and ace producer, lent his own voice too to the ongoing campaign with the above photo and this caption below: –
Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi has explained why his administration has embarked on massive road construction, noting that good road network is of great importance to rapid socio-economic development. Ajimobi made this known, weekend, while addressing traders at the popular Bodija Market when he visited traders. Ajimobi, while responding to the request of financial support by the traders, assured them that his administration would initiate a cooperative loan that would be of immense benefit to the traders. The governor also assured the traders that a befitting hospital would be provided for them to complement the one earlier constructed by Hon.…
Lagos Lawyer and rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) has described President Goodluck Jonathan’s cancelled visit to Chibok, where over 200 school girls were abducted by the Boko Haram sect, as an expression of his fear for the soldiers in Borno State. Falana, who made this known in a telephone interview with SUNDAY PUNCH said the president shelved his visit to the area not because he was afraid of the heavy presence of insurgents in the state but because he was uncertain of the action of the soldiers stationed there in view of their unruly behavior on Wednesday when they…
The Niger State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has described last week’s cabinet reshuffle by the state governor, Dr. Babangida Aliyu, as an outright display of insensitivity to the plight of the people by the Peoples Democratic Party-led government. Recall that Governor Aliyu had changed the former Head of Service, Abass Bello to become Commissioner of Science and Technology and appointed Alhaji Hamid Khadi Kuta as his replacement while the erstwhile Chief of Staff, Dr Joshua Bawa, was appointed as Commissioner of Special Duties and Umar Nasko appointed as the new Chief of Staff. But APC in a statement…
Amid the controversy over the over-bloated cost of governance in Nigeria, Gombe State Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Dankwambo has appointed additional 1,086 aides. The news of their appointment was contained in a statement signed by Alhaji Umar Alkali, Special Assistant to the Governor on Media and Publicity and made available to journalists in Gombe on Saturday. The statement noted that the appointment cuts across the 11 local government areas of the state. Those appointed included one senior special assistant, 85 special assistants and 1,000 personal assistants (grade I, II and III). According to the statement, the appointment was with immediate effect.
The National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Chief Dan Nwanyanwu, has sympathized with President Goodluck Jonathan over the current security challenges the country is currently passing through, saying he is the most troubled leader the nation has ever had. He, therefore, pleaded with Nigerians to pray for Jonathan, saying “he has lost so much weight over Nigeria lately”. The LP chairman, who made this known in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Saturday, said President Jonathan has never known peace since he was elected in 2011. He lamented that he is shedding “much weight over security” challenges bedeviling the…
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday, urged Nigerian journalists to be factual in their news reporting and not to be sentimental in their judgment. The President made this call at the Triennial Delegates Conference 2014 of the National Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) held at Badagry, Lagos State. Jonathan, represented by Registrar of Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria, Alhaji Garuba Kakarfi, said “it is embarrassing when journalists dish out and celebrate statistics of casualties which turn out to be far from reality. “Rather than retract and apologise for previous goofs, they carry on in subsequent editions with some other contradictory figures…
The local government election holding in Kano State recorded low turnout of women in parts of the state, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. Areas affected include Unguwar Gano and Unguwar Fulani in Tarauni Local Government Area and some parts of Na’ibawa in Kumbotso Local Government. Some of the residents, who spoke in some of the polling centres, said they did not allow their wives to come out to vote for fear of violence during the election. One of them, Saminu Bala, however, said he would “monitor the situation” before allowing his wives to come out to vote. The situation…