“So many people have been waiting to see your face, I unveil it tonight. Put on your glasses and stare deep. I gat lots of pictures to flood your gallery. I love you Femi Ogundairo.
Family, friends and colleagues of late Ibidun Ajayi-Ighodalo converged Wednesday evening to sing hymns, psalms and light candles in her honor.
Ibidun, an event planner extraordinaire sadly passed away on Sunday, June 14th leaving behind her children, Zenan and Keke, and her spouse, Pastor Ituah Ighodalo.
Renowned gospel artistes like Tope Alabi, Efe Nathan, Sammie Okposo, Tosin Martins, Buchi, and others rendered powerful songs at the service.
An emotional moment in the service was when late Ibidun’s daughter, Zenan, also rendered a thanksgiving song at the service.
Ibidun will be laid to rest on Saturday, June 20th 2020.
Talented Nollywood actress and philanthropist, Tonto Dikeh has shared how she hated her late mum for years but later forgave her when she turned 28.
The actress made the surprising revelation in a recent episode of “Grub and Rub with king Tonto” on YouTube. The mother of one who lost her mum while she was very tender, said her hatred for her late mum started after she died.
According to Dikeh, she hated her late mother so much for dying and leaving her at a very tender age to suffer. She talked on how she is often scared of dying and leaving her own son behind just like her mother did.
Tonto said that she got professional help when she turned 28, and was able to let go of everything.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the list of the top 10 best candidates in the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Top on the list were two candidates from Anambra state with 365 and 363 scores respectively.
“They are 10 in number and if you notice, some of the candidates scored the same mark and they are (tied) on the same position,” the spokesperson of the board Fabian Benjamin said.
See the names of the candidates and their scores as released by JAMB below:
Controversial investigative journalist, Kemi Olunloyo has taken to her official social media page to pray for celebrity couple, Davido and Chioma.
Kemi Olunloyo prayed for the couple in a recent tweet she shared on her Twitter page earlier today, June 17. She asked God to bless the relationship of couple which seems to not be at its best moment currently.
While some followers applauded her for making peace with the couple cause she’s known to have called them out severally, some other users insist that her post was just a covert mockery of the celebrity couple.
She wrote on her page,
“God bless Davido and Chioma. May your relationship be SEALED with a wedding soon. May your marriage be blessed. So help you God! Chioma my lover will change to Chioma my wifey”
Popular Nollywood Actress and billionaire wife, Regina Daniels has complained bitterly over the likelihood that she won’t be able to give birth outside Nigeria due to the coronavirus induced flight restriction.
She expressed her displeasure via a pose she made on her instastory.
In her post, she wrote;
“Corona virus, you came at the wrong time in my life ????”
Two children have died after a storey-building collapsed in the Gafari Balogun area of Ogudu, Lagos State today June 17.
The Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, who confirmed the sad incident, said the building collapsed due to mudslide resulting from a downpour.
His words ;
“The LASEMA Response Team received a distress call at 12.40 pm about the collapse of a one-storey building at the Gafari Balogun Street in Ogudu.
On arrival at the scene, the agency’s responders observed that the building collapsed as a result of a mudslide at the rear of the building which was caused by heavy rainfall.
The agents were informed that two children, one male, and one female were trapped and immediately commenced a search and rescue operation. Unfortunately, they were found dead and their remains had been transported to the mortuary.
Integrity testing will be carried out on the remainder of the building which has now been cordoned off.” he said
Nigerians are dragging popular singer, Dbanj on social media following the ‘legal steps’ he took as regards to the rape allegation that was peddled against him by a lady.
Recall the award-winning singer recently demanded, through his legal team, a 100M Compensation and an apology from the lady due to the ‘lies from the pit of hell’ which he claimed was the case with the rape accusation.
However, in a new development, the singer has reportedly had the girl and her mother arrested and Nigerians on social media have frowned against that action and they are calling him out for abuse of power.
See some tweets below ;
Nigerian women are endangered and that's a fact @seyitannn_ accused @iamdbanj of Rape… Instead of going to court to sue, he chose to get her arrested and now @PoliceNG are denying her access to lawyers.. Its a familiar thing, Force her to recant on video.. Women Arise!…
Dbanj was accused of rape then proceeded to have the babe detained. now, if she’s forced to retract her statement, idiots will come and scream “false allegation”. I hate rubbish & I hate stupidity. ugh.
.@iamdbanj Why have you had a woman who accused you of rape detained without access to her friends, family or legal representation? Threatening and silencing her does not acquit you.
Three Federal Road Safety Corps officials have died after they were reportedly struck by lightning in Ogun State.
The quite tragic incident occurred early on Wednesday, June 17, in the ancient town of Ilese, near Ijebu -Ode, in Ijebu North-East local government area of Ogun State.
The lightning struck at about 10:00am while the officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) were preparing for the early morning parade within the vicinity of their office located at the old toll gate.
According to Vanguard, a senior member of the Corps disclosed that there were about twelve officials in the same office when the lightning struck 3 of them.
Men of the state’s special security outfit code-named “OP MESA” have taken over security of the entire area, chasing onlookers away and preventing journalists from taking pictures.
Also, traditionalists worshipers otherwise known as Sango adherents have joined other FRSC officials at the scene of the incident in Ilese Ijebu in a bid to perform some traditional rites on the corpses before they are released to government officials for burial, the publication adds.
The funeral of ex-beauty queen and event planner extraordinaire, Ibidun Ajayi-Ighodalo, has been slated for Saturday, 20th June 2020.
The 39-year-old graceful spouse of popular Pastor Ighodalo of Trinity House Church passed away on Sunday, June 14 in Port Harcourt, Rivers state where she had gone to erect some COVID19 Isolation centers.
She will be buried in Lagos state. May her gentle soul rest in peace.
Disqualified Big Brother Naija 2019 housemate, Natacha Ekide has said that out of the 26 ‘Pepper Dem’ contestants, that she was the only one who didn’t gossip in the house.
During last night’s BBNaija reunion show, Ebuka asked who gossiped the most in the house, and Tacha replied saying everyone did except her.
In her words ;
“Everyone apart from me, I never talked about anybody. Anything I would say about you is something, anything I would say about you, you must have heard it before”.
However, Venita objected, recalling one time Tacha “gossiped” about her after the she was evicted from Big Brother’s house.
Tacha then refuted the accusation, claiming it was not gossip as she could tell Venita everything she said to her face.
New reports reaching us this moment is that Popular Nigerian-American broadcaster and former Idol series judge, Dan Foster is dead.
According to the reports, the versatile radio veteran is said to have died of the novel Covid-19 pandemic.
As at the time of filing this report, it still is not ascertained if his death was due to the novel Coronavirus but reports currently making the rounds claim he died of it.
Confirming the report of his demise is popular Nigerian OAP, Dotun who took to his Twitter page moments ago to mourn the death of the broadcaster.
I just got off the phone, my friend Oscar confirmed that Dan Foster has passed on. This is a very very dark year. How can I overcome this unending melancholy. Rest in Peace, dear Friend. ?????????????????????????????????????????????
A 300–level Mathematics Education female student of the Federal University of Oye Ekiti, Ekiti State, identified as one Faderera Oloyede has been discovered dead in an apartment belonging to her boyfriend, Ayo Maliki, in Osun State.
Faderera was found on Tuesday inside her boyfriend’s room at Koko, Iree, Osun State. She was said to have gone to her boyfriend’s place in company with her friend identified as one Kemisola Adewusi, a student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.
Faderera’s boyfriend, Maliki
According to reports surrounding her demise, her boyfriend had prepared rice for his visitors and while eating the food, the deceased suddenly developed stomach ache and started vomiting.
She, however, died shortly afterwards after efforts to save her life yielded no result. “They tried to save her life but she died after complaining of stomach ache,” one source said.
The Student Union Government President of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, Kehinde Raji, who confirmed the incident, disclosed that Maliki went into hiding immediately the incident occured.
He, however, disclosed that the police were invited and took the corpse of Faderera away. Spokesperson for the Osun State Police Command, Yemisi Opalola, Kemisola had been detained.
Nollywood actor and director, Ramsey Nouah, has asked that all the Twitter accounts impersonating him be blocked.
The 49-year-old made the request on Twitter on Wednesday after a graphic identified as Louisa Jilo, tagged one of the fake accounts when she called out Ramsey Nouah and the producers of the 2019 film, Living in Bondage: Breaking Free, for using her work without compensation.
“Block these accounts and every other account impersonating me. I apologise to all those who fell victims of these fraudster,” he captioned a screenshot of the fake accounts.
Block these accounts and every other account impersonating me. I apologise to all those who fell victims of these fraudster. pic.twitter.com/7jXdlV8yw2
There was a little bit of commotion earlier this morning in the Ojota area of Lagos when a lady plunged down the pedestrian bridge in an apparent attempt to commit suicide.
According to reports, the initial attempts by a passersby to stop her from jumping proved abortive as she freed herself from the grip of a man who was holding her back before she took a leap.
It’s gathered that the Lagos Neighbourhood officers later helped her to a safe place to avoid been hit by oncoming vehicles. The DPO Alausa Police Station later came to the scene to take the lady away.
Nigerian entertainers, Falz and Adekunle Gold have been trolling each other on their respective Instagram pages with quite hilarious throwbacks photos of each other.
Each celeb are having a field day with each other’s throwbacks. Major throwbacks of each of them before they became who they are today.
While Falz shared photos of Adekunle Gold which AG might have felt were really peng at the time, as he posed gracefully for them, AG shared rather hilarious photos of Falz from when he was much younger with an unrecognizable skin tone.
Their fans and followers are having a good time laughing hysterical at their throwbacks, more particularly at Falz’ because of his swag, skin tone and confidence in the oversized suits he donned.
In one of the photos AG shared of Falz, he wrote,
Nothing serious, Just a bop daddy in my dad’s coat.
A Nigerian lady identified Louisa on Twitter earlier called popular Nollywood Actor and Director, Ramsey Nouah for using her designs in his movie without paying for it.
The lady who admitted there was no paperwork done when she was contacted for the job in 2018, claimed she only requested a down payment but was also not given because the media director for the movie told her then that the budget had not been approved.
I just accepted the job and started working straight away. The only thing I remember requesting was a down payment. But the then media director pleaded that the budget was yet to be approved but I shouldn't worry. As soon as it is. He will avail me some funds towards my charge.
@Louisajilo stated that in spite of using her designs which they told her wasn’t good enough, Ramsey Noah has continously ignored after she contacted him.
Upon seeing the tweet, Kate Henshaw reacted and promised to contact Ramsey ; she did and Ramsey Nouah immediately contacted the lady and duly compensated her for her work.
The lady then proceeded to serve an update after her post went viral on social media.
In her new tweet, the graphic designer stated that she was not in direct contact with Ramsey Nouah or the crew which made her to use social media to address the issue.
Louisa went on to reveal that she has been compensated and she also thanked Kate Henshaw for making sure her case was heard.
Music sensation and record label executive, David Adeleke better known as Davido, is really going through some serious cleansing as he’d earlier announced.
The father of “four” who used to follow over 5,000 accounts on his Instagram page, had initially reduced the number to over 200 accounts, but as of this moment, has now unfollowed everyone on his page.
A check on his Instagram bio shows the music maestro with over 17 million followers follows no one on the platform including his alleged estranged fiancee, Chioma Rowland with whom he has a son, Ifeanyi.
Davido, unfollowing everyone comes not long after Chioma addressed rumours of domestic abuse in their relationship. Reacting to Davido’s move, some netizens of the singer said it was only a plot by the singer to unfollow Chioma on a low-key.
Controversial Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh has taken to Instagram to celebrate her plastic surgeon on his birthday.
The beautiful actress and mother of one, while appreciating the surgeon, thanked him for her giving her a curvaceous bum and hips.
“Happy birthday doctor, thanks for my bum and hips”, she wrote.
Checkout her birthday message to her plastic surgeon below;
Recall during an interview with BBC, the actress revealed she has had a number of surgical procedures done to achieve her ‘perfect’ look because she didn’t like her initial figure.
When asked how many times she has gone under the knife, the singer-cum humanitarian said;
“I don’t know, I can’t tell you how many. Maybe I’ll be going for my third one. I want to do my breasts and touch up my belly as well.”
Nollywood actress, Toyin Abraham has taken a moment to reflect about life generally as she says that “Life is so vain”.
The actress took to her official Instagram page moments ago to share her thoughts with her followers, telling them to live a purposeful life because even though people make plans for the future, it’s only God who can actually grant the future.
She wrote,
The past few days have got me rethinking and reflecting on life in a totally new dimension. I looked at myself, looked at life and everything and it hits me so hard that life is so vain. No wonder it is so easy for us to exist in another day as if yesterday didn’t happen. Lóòótọ́, everybody knows that ayé ó lọ bí ọ̀pá ìbọn, ìgbà ó lọ bí òréré, bíntí láyé, but how often do we remember these words and act accordingly every waking day?
My understanding of life has hit differently during this short period. Ah! Ó má da kí ènìyàn l’àròjinlẹ̀ o. If one is thoughtful, one will see the irony of life so glaringly. Life is a such a temporary space, but we keep chasing after things that are here today, but gone tomorrow hoping we can make them permanent. Who are we? ènìyàn lásán who cannot even predict what will happen today talk more of tomorrow?
We plan six months as if tomorrow is promised. My dears, ayé ni àdììtú tí Olódùmarè fi ju ẹ̀dá lọ. We make plans but only God can bring it to pass. So, I asked myself, Oluwatoyin, why are you chasing shadows when God is the one that holds your life?
This is one thing I’ve come to realise, not everything that glitters is gold and there is no forever in affluence because the truth is, kò sì ẹni tó lè ra ayé gbé. I have found my peace in knowing that whatever God has destined to be mine will be mine ‘cos at the end of the day, only God truly has the control.
Dear #ToyinTitans, life is so ordinary, it is how we live that makes it extraordinary. Live purposefully.
Music executive, Jude Okoye has asked Police to release the young man who issued death threats to him over Cynthia Morgan’s career saga.
He revealed in a tweet this morning, June 17, that he asked the police to release the young man after he made statements, wrote an undertaking, and also apologized to him over the threatening messages he sent to him via DM on Instagram.
He wrote: ‘UPDATE! He has made statements, written an undertaking and also apologized. I have asked that he be released.’
UPDATE! He has made statements, written an undertaking and also apologized. I have asked that he be released.
A Nigerian man, Tony Ejinduaka took to his Facebook page to mourn his friend, Obinna Anumba, who just died of COVID-19 in Port Harcourt, Rivers state.
According to Tony, he and late Obinna were classmates. He said until his death, Obinna was a banker in Port Harcourt.
Read his post below
”#Covid19, you are wicked!
It is with great pain but with gratitude to the will of the Almighty God that the Excos and entire members of Ogssian class of 89 announce the untimely death of one of us, Obinna Anumba due to covid-19.Prior to his death, he was a staff of a Bank in Onne, PH River State. He was married with children.
May his soul rest in peace…in the name of Jesus Christ.
Covid 19 has taken a dear Brother!
Covid19 is real, #People Stay Safe!”
Nollywood actress, Mercy Aigbe, recently took a trip down memory lane on social media.
The Actress-cum-entrepreneur shared a throwback photo from her graduation day at the University of Lagos.
The thespian graduated from the Creative Arts department of the University of Lagos in 2002.
The dotting mother of two shared the photo on her Instagram page with the caption; “class of 2002! University of Lagos, creative arts department. Greatest akokites”.
A 32-year-old driver Mayowa Adeyemo has been remanded in Ilesha Correctional Centre, for reportedly torturing his 18-month-old son with burning cigarettes.
The suspect who was arraigned in court sitting in Osun State on Tuesday June 16 on two counts bothering on assault and exploitation, was accused of beating the child with a stick and burning him with a cigarette by the Police prosecutor Abiodun Fagboyinbo.
The suspect pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Adeyemo told the court ;
“I have five children from five different mothers. Several pastors I consulted told me that my mother was the one bewitching me. I am a taxi driver but things have not been fine for me. The son I assaulted with sticks is the son that my fourth wife bore for me.
“When his mother got pregnant, we got separated due to the insistence of her family that she should not marry me.”
Chief Magistrate Modupe Awodele adjourned the case to July 14, after remanding Adeyemo in Ilesha Correctional Centre.
The tenth episode of the BBNaija: Pepper Dem Reunion show kicked off with the show’s anchor, Ebuka delving into former housemate, Esther’s love triangle with ex-housemates, Nelson and Frodd.
Esther’s colleagues, Diane and Mercy laid receipts which incriminates her in a ring of manipulative behaviour while she was still in the Big Brother’s house.
The close friends who admitted to being former friends with Esther touched on Esther’s transfer of emotions from Nelson to Frodd despite knowing Diane had a thing for Nelson — a move they deemed as an act of betrayal.
Venita, talking on “Esther and Frodd’s” kiss said she felt the kiss was heaven sent but just before she continued, Esther cut in to set the record straight about the whole kiss drama.
She adamantly denied kissing Frodd and claim it was a group agreement — she says Frodd kissed her and it was not the other way round.
But in a brief preview of the kiss, Esther is seen plunging her lips into Frodd’s. Watch the video below,
