Stunning making the cover of RB Magazine’s April/May 2014 issue is the handsome and charismatic multiple award winning actor and co-host of the MTN Project Fame reality show — Joseph Benjamin. Joseph Benjamin talks about his journey into greatness, fashion obsession, parenthood and many new things unheard of about him in an exclusive interview. The April/May edition features a 3 in 1 exclusive interview with Africa’s leading academia and professor emeritus, Prof. Nimi Briggs and Nigeria’s PR guru Egor Efiok. RB Magazine is a bi-monthly publication that features celebrity lifestyle, politics, education and sports.
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Controversial Nollywood actress and singer — Tonto Dikeh has dropped her own piece on the P-Square war. She warns about the negative consequences of the break-up, stated that wives must play an important role for resolving the situation: She says: – “When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It is like death. The love of twins is undisputed, Paul and Peter. You have been together for years, making great songs like Senorita, Do me, Story, More than a friend, Omoge mi, Busy body, Alingo, Personally, Testimony; the list is endless! Why break it up now? “Please learn. Two…
Chairman of the National Conference, Justice Idris Kutigi (rtd), yesterday denied the allegation that there is a grand plot to undermine the interest of Christians at the ongoing conference. Kutigi, who spoke through his Assistant Secretary (Media and Communications) Mr. Apandem James, described as misleading, the protest of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) over the composition of the conference’s committee on religion. CAN in a statement on Tuesday faulted the composition of the committee on religion, saying “We hereby express our reservations on the composition of the members of the National Conference Committee on Religion and without fear or…
An Upper Sharia Court sitting at Nomansland of Sabon Gari area in Kano State has sentenced Ubale Saudi Dutsa, a 63-year-old man, to death by stoning, following his involvement in the defilement of a 12-year-old girl, Shamsiyya. Delivering judgment on the matter, Justice Farouk Ahmad held that he relied on Sharia law guided by Quran to sentence the convict accordingly. Dutsa had pleaded guilty seven times before the sentence was handed down. The minor was said to have been medically examined at the state-owned Murtala Muhammad Hospital while it discovered that she was infected with HIV/AIDS as a result of the convict’s carnal knowledge…
Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed The Kwara State Government has described as a huge joke, the “quit notice” served on the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration in the state by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The newly elected state chairman of PDP, Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo, formerly of the APC, had called on PDP members to begin preparing for another election before the 2015 general elections, because APC was ruling the state on a stolen mandate. But the state government, in a reaction through the Special Adviser on Information, Prince Deji Oni, expressed concern that the statement credited to Oyedepo was similar to…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State has denied claims by the supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, that Governor Rotimi Amaechi is staging a comeback through the back door to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The party also denied being afraid of the PDP in next year’s governorship polls in the state. Amaechi dumped the PDP on whose platform he became governor for the APC last November, alongside four of his colleagues. Wike had while speaking at the ceremony to mark the first anniversary of the Felix Obuah-led Rivers PDP, claimed that Amaechi and his supporters were making…
Although the audience was made up mostly of academics, former Governor of Lagos State and national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, could not help but delve into politics, as he warned against any attempt to rig the forthcoming governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun States. The elections are slated for June 21 (Ekiti) and August 9 (Osun). Speaking at his investiture as the Chancellor of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, Ogbomoso, and award of honorary Doctor of Science in Management Science yesterday, Tinubu said “it will be rig and roast”. Apparently reacting to an…
The Akwa Ibom State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday zoned the 2015 governorship position to Eket Senatorial District. A communique issued at the end of the party’s State Executive Committee meeting held yesterday, in Uyo and endorsed by the state chairman of PDP, Obong Paul Ekpo and made available to newsmen, said the party had zoned the governorship position to Eket Senatorial District without prejudice to the right of any other aspirant from other senatorial districts to vie for the governorship position come 2015. According to the communique, the exco unanimously passed a vote of confidence on President Goodluck Jonathan…
President Goodluck Jonathan has commended former head of state, General Muhammadu Buhari for his very statesman-like views on terrorism and insecurity in Nigeria as expressed in his recent article which was widely published by the media. Buhari, who is a national leader of the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, had in a statement, in reaction to the bombing of a motor park in Nyanya, Abuja, said masterminds of the dastardly act had declared war on all that is decent and good. “They have declared war not against the state or even the government. They have declared war on Nigeria and all…
Coming on the heels of the abduction of about 234 female students at the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State women yesterday arose in unison to demand the unconditional release of the girls, more than a week after they were seized from their hostels and taken to unknown location. The concerned women in Borno – BAOBAB for Women Rights – demanded that the insurgents should unconditionally release the girls if they truly believe in God, on whose behalf they erroneously claim to be fighting for. Prof. Hauwa Biu, spokesperson for the group, while addressing a press conference in Maiduguri,…
The Federal Government said yesterday security agencies are still conducting searches to rescue the female students abducted by suspected Boko Haram gunmen from Government Girls Secondary Schol, Chibok, Borno State. Senate President David Mark described the abduction of the girls as “embarrassing and sacrilegeous”. Speaking with State House Correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday, Minister of Information, Labaran Maku said: “The abduction of the girls, that itself is a national tragedy that young girls of school age could be abducted in our country in 2014. It is unimaginable, nobody even in our wildest imagination that a…
Amid speculations that the Lagos State government is no longer interested in following up on the murder trial of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former chief security officer (CSO) to the late dictator, General Sani Abacha, the Lagos State government yesterday said it will pursue the case to a logical conclusion at the Supreme Court. The Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Ade Ipaye made the State government’s position known while addressing journalists during the 2014 Ministerial Press Briefing held at the Lagos State Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja. Mr. Ipaye added that the process of appeal had been instituted at the Appeal Court and had…
chairman, House Committee on Diaspora Affairs, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, yesterday, asked President Goodluck Jonathan to apologise to families of victims of Nyanya bomb blast and parents of the 234 students abducted at Government Girls College in Borno State by Boko Haram insurgents. She also urged the Federal Government to seek internal and external help in efforts to checkmate the acitivites of the Boko Haram sect. Dabiri-Erewa, while speaking im Lagos, at a “Girls in ICT Day” workshop, said the apology became necessary because the President chose to engage in political rally in Kano State in the face of these incidents.…
Boko Haram recruits members, not just from Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad, it also gets recruits from Niger Republic who it pays N500,000. However, their pay is raised should their bombs kill more people in Nigeria, the BBC has said. The teens, when they are enlisted, are given Tramol [an opiate drug], marijuana and alcohol. They break into houses for cash; sometimes beat people for money, and steal their animals for food. They gather again for their opium and drinks. Though the recruits, barely in their teens, do not like the sect and its activities, they said they took to violence…
Senate President, David Mark, has described the abduction of the secondary school girls by members of Islamist sect Bokoo Haram, as sacrilegious, just as unconfirmed reports say members of the sect, have threatened to kill the abducted students, should the search to recover them continue. The Senate President, Senator David Mark has described as sacrilegious the abduction of the female students and called for their release. In a statement by his Press Secretary, Paul Mumeh, in Abuja, yesterday, Mark said the abduction was embarrassing and that no nation that had the desire to develop would indulge in such dastardly act.…
one of the students who escaped from Boko Haram [L] A coalition of women’s rights in Borno yesterday expressed their readiness to mobilise thousands of women to embark on a voluntary search and rescue mission into the notorious Sambisa forest, to ensure the release of the abducted students. The Borno women, under the auspices of BAOBAB Women’s Right, have said they were ready to storm the major hide out of the insurgents in Sambisa forest, where the abducted girls were believed to be held. Spokesperson for the group, Professor Hauwa Biu, told newsmen that they resolved to embark on the…
Professor Wole Soyinka, yesterday, called on the Federal Government to ensure the release of 230 students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, who were abducted by members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram. Professor Soyinka, who gave the keynote address in Port Harcourt at the opening ceremony of declaration of Port Harcourt as UNESCO World Book Capital 2014, said the focus of the event was for the Federal Government to ensure the safe release of the students. He said he had expected President Goodluck Jonathan to convene an emergency security meeting over the ugly development in the school…
One of Nigeria’s leading stylist, Lilian Unachukwu, has launched a reality web show- ‘Fashion Adventures with Lilian Unachuwku’. She has styled celebs like Sean Tizzle, MI, Funke Akindele and Naeto C. Unachukwu, who is the founder of Liam Fashion Agency, said the reality web show will capture her life as a celebrity stylist. According to her, the show will also comprised her personal experience, ranging from travelling the world as a fashion buyer to fashion consulting sessions with celebrities, styling them for events as well as photo shoots. Watch Premier Episode Video Below:
Late Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s son, Seun Kuti, is gradually following in his father’s footsteps. With the current spate of terrorism and the recent killings of innocent souls in the country, Seun Kuti has taken it upon himself to lead a protest against the sects. The father of one who is currently on tour in Europe upon his return is set to lead a protest tagged “Stolen Dreams” on May 1st, 2014 in Lagos to fight against Boko Haram terrorists. Seun’s manager, Oloye who confirmed the protest gave the reason as: “we want to protest and fight against the…
The P-Square Family made up of Jude Okoye, Peter and Paul Okoye with wives Lola Omotayo, Anita Isamah and children – Andre, Aliona and Cameron are presently going through trying times As the on-going controversy in the P-Square camp e]continues, fans across the globe remain worried as to what the future holds for the eccentric twin duo. The more reserved twin brother has however broken the silence, reaching out to his many fans on social media Facebook, saying a little prayer for his family. ‘After the storm comes the calm. Hoping for better days ahead as one family. God’s intervention‘,…