Last night, Nigerian music legend 2face Idibia at the flag off ceremony to celebrate his 20th year on stage took out time to specially eulogize his wife, Annie Idibia.
In his words, 2face said ‘thank you for keeping my head straight. If i no marry this woman na different things una go dey hear, my head for don jogodo’.
See video below ;
On 2 May 2012, 2Baba and Annie Macaulay married in Lagos, Nigeria in a private ceremony.
Officers of the Delta State police command, on Thursday, rescued a lady from suspected kidnappers/ritualists in Adana.
The lady was said to be returning from Ogbegonogo market when she boarded their tricycle. Two other gang members later joined her from both sides, leaving her in the middle.
Trouble, however, started when the rider refused to stop at the victim’s destination, forcing her to raise an alarm that attracted some policemen who gave them a hot chase and eventually rescued the girl and arrested the suspects.
An eyewitness said one of them in a bid to disappear threw a ring suspected to be magic ring in his mouth and attempted to vanish but the Police diffused the charm. Irate youths who gathered at the scene made efforts to go on jungle justice but the police prevented them.
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Minimum Wage Repeal and Re-Enactment Act, 2019 into law.
The senior presidential aide on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, disclosed this to State House correspondents on Thursday in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
According to him, the Act makes it compulsory for all employers across the country to pay workers a minimum of N30,000.
Recall that the Senate in March approved the sum of N30,000 as national minimum wage for both the federal and state governments.
The approval followed the adoption of the report of the adhoc committee on the National Minimum Wage chaired Deputy Chief Whip Francis Alimekhena (APC, Edo).
The N30,000 approved by the Senate is N3,000 higher than the N27,000 proposal submitted by the Executive arm in January.
The Senate approval followed that of the House of Representatives, which equally approved N30,000 as national minimum wage in January.
Vivian Fowler Memorial College for Girls took to Twitter to issue a disclaimer which some users of the app have found to be in poor taste.
The disclaimer was in light of a certain lady who gave her name as Lizzy after being picked up by Freedom Foundation for rehabilitation – she told Pastor Tony Rapu’s team how she became addicted to cocaine after her ex-boyfriend began mixing it with her weed.
She spoke English fluently for an addict and said she attended Vivian Fowler college and also Caleb Nursery and Primary school.
After the video went viral, Vivian Fowler issued a statement on Twitter. In the statement, they denied that Lizzy ever attended their school but said they will work with Freedom Foundation to ensure Lizzy gets the help she needs.
However, some Twitter users did not approve of the disclaimer and said it was absolutely unnecessary since Lizzy didn’t say she became an addict while attending their institution.
A female Corps member, Magdalene Yohanna who was posted to Bauchi State for the mandatory one-year national service has been reported dead.
Reports have it that the late Corps member collapsed at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp in Wailo few days after she reported to camp, but later died few minutes after she was rushed to the Trauma Center of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH) Bauchi.
It was gathered that the unfortunate incident happened on the meditation ground, four days after the 2019 Batch “A” Corps members reported for the three weeks orientation course at the Wailo camp of the National Youth Service Corp, NYSC in Ganjuwa local government area of Bauchi State.
It was further gathered that on the fateful morning of April 1, late Miss Magdalene Yohanna had reportedly complained to the NYSC officials about her protracted asthmatic condition and she would not be fit to attend the ‘morning meditation’ but her complainants fell on deaf ears.
However, all efforts of the doctor to save her life proved abortive.
Akwa Ibom State Police Command under Zaki Ahmed has again proved its mettle as it has arrested notorious criminal elements from across the State.
They were paraded yesterday at the State Police Headquarters Ikot Akpan Abia. Confessing to his crimes, a 36 year old dreaded kidnapper and an ex- convict, one Edidiong Uduak alias Barrister said,
“I have led three kidnapped incident and in one particular case, I received N4.5 million ransom and after I settled my gang members, I took N2.5 million, dug my father compound and hid it but my father stole the money and fled. My father is yet to be seen two years after”.
Uduak, an indigene of Afaha Effiat, Etinan Local Government Area and Vikings cult leader who admitted that he got the N4,5 million from family of victim he kidnapped along new Uyo- Abak road, also admitted that he was sentenced to prison in 2014. A case that landed him again in police net is the kidnap of a pastor of Abundance Grace Chapel.
Also paraded was a 47 year old father, one Okon David Essien from Ibikpe Uruan, Uruan Local Government Area who conspired with wife to kill his 12 year old son, Joseph Okon David and buried him in a shallow grave in Iquita swamp, Oron Local Government Area.
The heartless father who confessed to committing the crime said that his deceased son was a wizard and the cause of death of his former wife and mother of the deceased. He said that he lured the innocent boy to the swamp on the pretext that he should help him cut bamboo sticks for making kitchen.
However, the second wife was ignorant of the entire plot and execution of the crime but arrested for not reporting the incident to the police when the step son got missing without explanation.
A Nigerian lady has taken to her social media page to narrate how a family member of hers, scammed her of N600,000.
In her narration, she explained that the relative called her to inform her of a plot of land available for sale, which she agreed to buy and then sent her the money.
After the family member received the money, it was one story to the other – and now other members of the family want the matter settled amicably.
The lady wrote,
I’ve just been scammed of 600k by a distant family member. Now all my uncles, mom and Dad are begging me on top my money?
She called me ending of January and told me that her co wife wants to “urgently” sell her 3plots of land in the village at a very cheap price, i asked her how Legit the stuff was and she told me VERY LEGIT. Said the woman’s son is critically ill and needs urgent money for treatment.
I said Ok i will send someone to check the land out. Which i did and everything checked out. 10th February, i paid the money to her and that was how story entered the matter. She then told me the woman already sold to someone else cos I wasn’t serious.
I said OK oya pay the money back naa she said I should wait that she have SEEN another land. I agreed o cos I wanted to buy another land, fence it and forget it for like 5-10years. Anyway, everyday she kept coming up with different excuses that the one
She saw, they are having family issues, another she saw the husband agreed but the wife said no. Another one she saw it’s deep in the forest. Only for me to get a call from my mom today telling me how She used some of the money to pay her kids’ waec/Jamb,medical
Bills then the rest she used it to pay off debtors, feed and start something for herself. I then asked my mom why didn’t she send the money back then ask for help? What nonsense? Hung up on my mom, called the woman back and told her if she doesn’t send the money by Month end
Both her, her husband and the kid writing WAEC will be arrested and transferred to a state Only i will know of. Next thing my parents and uncles are calling my phone and asking me to come back so we can settle it as a family? I told them if I’m traveling back it will be To get her and her family arrested. Now everyone is saying I’m OVERREACTING?
My anger is still boiling and I probably might do worse if I don’t see my money by month end. The most annoying part is that she HUNG UP on me when i was telling her i will get her arrested?
Lizzy, the young girl who was rescued by Pastor Tony Rapu from commercial sex and drug addiction, has been tagged a fraud by her supposed ex classmate, Perpetual.
Perpetual took to Instagram to call out the addict, saying she never attended Caleb Nursery and Primary School and Vivian Fowler Secondary School, and her name is Oluchi, not Lizzy.
She wrote this in reaction to the initial story of the rescued girl, who was reported to have attended both Caleb and Vivian Fowler.
In her statement while speaking with Pastor Tony Rapu, Lizzy had revealed that she attended the two schools.
See what Perpetual wrote below,
If I start dis girls story self una go tire. Her name is oluchi, nt Lizzy, we attended st peters nur & pry sch Alausa, later attended oregun high sch, oregun, her elder sister’s name is onyeka. Everything about her are lies.
In 2017 I was going out with my friend on getting to alausa U” turn by radio bus stop near Zenith bank in Alausa, I saw oluchi , I cm down from d car and called her by name oluchi she recognized me from secondary sch, I asked her wat happened to her why was she begging she SD her son is I’ll [sic] and he’s in d hospital (lasuth) suffering from naval infection I was surprised hearing her saying she has a son, we drove dwn to UBA oregun branch withdrew some money via ATM and gv her never knew its money for crack and Igbo we gv her.
I personally told her to remove her ijab cos of d smell I was perceiving we gv her d money and she entered keke and went. Her parents are late, her father was blind for a very long time b4 he died, not quite long too dia mum died lived In a room apartment with her family in Oregun, we practically grew up in d same are b4 dey moved out. B4 d drugs twas jumping from One guy to d other den in sch. Am nt trying to spoil her but its better u cm out plain and honest . and am hearing Vivian fowler and Caleb.
A 19-year-old aspiring actress, with the name, Shante Stephenson, committed suicide by hanging over the fear that she was ugly.
Shante, would often compare herself to friends online, was struggling with low self-esteem over her appearance and after recently losing her job.
Tragically, Walthamstow Coroners’ Court heard the teen had taken her life just a week after being assessed as “no longer in crisis” by the NHS.
The inquest also heard Shante was supposed to have medication delivered to her the day she died but it was delivered two days late.
Dr William Travers, at the time a consultant psychiatrist with the Impart home treatment team, said he had met the teen a week after one of her first suicide attempts.
He said,
“It seemed to have been triggered by an experience she had performing a role in a theatre show case, she didn’t think she performed it well, and she was dwelling on it, replaying it over and over in her mind.”
Dr Travers added the teen revealed how she had struggled with her weight and feelings of being inadequate. He said,
“She told me that since the age of 11 she was focused on not being good enough, with regard to her career ambitions and her physical appearance in particular. “She was continuously comparing herself to her peers and frequently looking at multiple social media sites.”
The young woman had been referred to an NHS crisis team but she was formally discharged on June 22 – five days before her death.
Nigerian celebrity stylist, Swanky Jerry’s in-law spent over a million dollars on his wife for her birthday, and the lady was obviously ecstatic about her birthday gift.
The in-law of the celebrity stylist and his wife are based in Dubai and are the CEO of real and Davis, a luxurious perfume brand.
His wife can be heard in a video totally surprised upon receiving the special birthday gift.
A Nigerian man, who has been identified as Onyeachonam Chinwuba reportedly doused his wife, Anurika, with acid after she demanded a divorce in Awka, Anambra State.
According to the State’s Commissioner for Women Affairs, Ndidi Mezue, the victim who had sought divorce, accusing her husband of living a questionable life, was with her husband in the Ministry, where their differences were thought to have been resolved.
It was after they left the Ministry that the husband reached for a bottle containing the acid and poured it on Anurika, causing serious burns on her face down to her body.
She was then rushed to the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, while the husband was arrested.
An eyewitness have the account of how a dead child was found in a carton beside a church.
According to the eyewitness, the child was found in the Awada Obosi Idemiri North L.G.A of Anambra – he further stated that the mother of the child allegedly killed it and placed it in a carton near a Church.
The eyewitness’s post reads,
A dead child found in awada obosi. beside ANGLICAN CHURCH OF, GOOD SHEPHERD NEPA ROAD By EZEIWEKA. AWADA OBOSI IDEMIRI NORTH L.G.A. ANAMBRA STATE. A mother killed her child put it inside a catorn came to the church field and dropped it..
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!
UMUNWANYI NA AJO OBI. God will never allow such a mother to go unpunish. what a heartless mother
A Bayelsa businessman, with the name, Engbi Ebideri killed a poisonous snake that crawled into his house while he was relaxing with his wife and child.
Taking to his Facebook page to testify of how none of his household was attacked by the reptile, he also shared photos after it was killed.
Engbi wrote,
“My God is bigger than everything. Poisonous Snake ran into my house. To God be the Glory no body was attacked before we finally killed it.”
A 100-level Student of the Kogi State University, Ayingba, Miss Rebecca Michael on Wednesday reportedly committed suicide shortly after her boyfriend broke up with her.
According to details, the girl recently gained admission into the department of Philosophy in the institution.
The deceased, who took her life in their 200 housing unit residence in Lokoja, according to sources, was within the age of 20.
It was reported that, the deceased drank sniper when her boy friend, who is a prominent DJ in Lokoja told her that he was no longer interested in the relationship.
After drinking the poisonous substance, she was rushed to the Federal Medical Centre were she gave up the ghost.
She was later buried on Wednesday at Lokongoma cemetery, Lokoja Kogi State.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) William Aya said that he was yet to get any report concerning the incident.
The PPRO promised to get back to our reporter when he get information from C Division office of the Nigeria Police Force Lokoja.
Tiny-Waist actress, Princess Shyngle has revealed that actresses and female entertainers are “recycling and dating the same men.”
According to her,
‘now I understand why the old actresses don’t like most of the new and upcoming actresses. Abeg I don’t want to be an actress anymore before they use voodoo finish my life. I want to be a lawyer now. Law school I’m on my way. not just actresses sef, all female entertainers y’all are not left out musicians, models, tv , radio hosts ,sexy Instagram models, we’re all dating the same men your boyfriend is also my bae’.
The Federal Government has declared Friday 19th and Monday 22nd April 2019, Public Holidays to mark this year’s Easter celebration.
Minister of Interior, Lieutenant Gen. Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau (Retd) who made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, enjoined all Christians to emulate the exemplary attributes of Jesus Christ amongst which are tolerance, love and peaceful co-existence.
This was conveyed in a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Barr. Georgina Ekeoma Ehuriah, and made available to newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday.
Dambazau, urged all Nigerians at home and abroad to use the occasion to pray for the peace,unity, and progress of Nigeria irrespective of diversity in religious beliefs. The Minister while wishing all Nigerians a happy and peaceful Easter celebration, further called on them to support the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari in its determination to take the country to the next level.
A Twitter user identified as @Chivie_, has gone viral on the micro-blogging website after she advised married women to have extra-marital affairs.
The young lady advised married women to cheat on their husband with younger, finer men to make him step up his game. She also wished married men were often humiliated by their wives.
See her tweet below;
“I need married women to cheat more. With younger, finer men. And when their husbands try to complain, they point out his pot belly, Bald head, and 2mins sex. Make him step up his game and hit the gym. I wish more married men were humiliated by their cheating wives.”
Media personality, Toke Makinwa, has blasted those who accuse her of sleeping around with men for money.
According to a video she shared, the people behind such rumors are mostly women.
Toke Makinwa also added that if those behind ‘whore rumour’ get a bit of what she gets, they will do more.
She said:
World people be like…… I’m wilding on this week’s episode of Toke Moments, ???? all jokes aside though, I’m tired of the “she must be sleeping around to get ahead narrative, it’s getting boring now. Is it your sleep around? Is it ya body???? Her body count is high, is it ya high?????? Drink water and chill abeg ???? I told a friend of mine the other day “stunt on them cos if the tables were turned they will ball on you too”. Have a laugh today guys, don’t tight your chest too much, relax those muscles ????? life is short, keep giving them hell ?????? they will be alright.
Tinsel actors, Iyke Okey and Florence Okechukwu, popularly known for their roles in the soap as Chuks and Ene, are celebrating their 6th wedding anniversary today.
Iyke took to his Instagram page to share photos accompanied with lovely words, saying:
“my soul glorifies the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my saviour…” Baby it’s 6 years! Yes ooo!! 6 years of marital bliss with my best friend, @floxyokey my PFL, my ride or die chic! Fine geh! Ma Cherie! I love you pieces! On this day I pray that the good Lord who gave me you, continue to bless our union, now and always. I pray that we continue to “mar” “age” with love, happiness and peace. I love you truly, madly, deeply.
Florence also wrote on her page,
Happy anniversary baby, 6years and counting. Thank God for the years spent and more to come’.
In light of the recent increase in extrajudicial killings by his colleagues, ACP Abayomi Shogunle has advised Nigerians to henceforth stop speaking Queens English to police officers that accost them on duty.
Sharing a video of one of the Nigerian police chiefs addressing the force, Abayomi says if there were more chiefs like the one in the video, cautioning their men, then Lagos state will be calm.
Abayomi wrote,
For now, don’t go and be speaking Queen’s English with them on the road. For proper understanding talk to them in Pidgin, another way to avoid kasala.
Nice one ?. Lagos State will be calm if police chiefs in #Lagos do more of this. Source: RRS Lagos cc: @PoliceNG_CRU#YSGuide: For now, don't go and be speaking Queen's English with them on the road. For proper understanding talk to them in Pidgin, another way to avoid kasala. pic.twitter.com/9MgT7VNJn9
A Nigerian soldier was severely beaten by some street boys because he intervened to stop them from killing a trailer driver who accidentally killed one of them.
There was commotion at the Apapa boundary in Ajegunle, Lagos, on Tuesday, April 16 when a trailer driver crushed one of the street boys named Kola Mutiu, aka Black Jesus.
According to reports, Kola had gone after the trailer driver, trying to force him to pay one of the limitless dues they stand on the road to collect from drivers. While running after the driver to collect money from him, he was accidentally crushed to death by the trailer.
Kola was rushed to the hospital by other area boys and he was confirmed dead – the area boys then went after the driver with the aim of making him pay with his life. But a brave soldier stepped in to avert the jungle justice.
The louts ended up unleashing their rage on the soldier and beat him till he was bruised and swollen. They also destroyed a military van.
A clergyman and his members have been captured on camera doing the Zanku/legwork dance while worshiping in church.
In the video that has since gone viral online, the members of a white garment church can be seen dancing down the aisle while a minister sang “Gbese for Jesus.”
All the members were doing the popular Zanku dance and so was the man of God who was standing on the pulpit.
The video has caused a stir amongst social media users. While some say there’s no big deal in it, others have said it is wrong to do a secular dance in the church and to turn the lyrics of a secular song into a Christian song by adding “Jesus” to it.
“Game of Thrones” star, Sophie Turner has revealed that criticism of her role as Sansa Stark on the HBO hit series was one of the reasons that led to her depression
In an interview with Dr. Phil on his podcast “Phil in the Blanks,” she said started to become depressed around age 17. “The biggest challenge is just for me getting out of bed and getting out of the house and learning to love yourself I think is the biggest challenge,” said the now 23-year-old.
She said she felt alone after her friends and brothers moved away for college, while she was working on “Game of Thrones” and living with her parents. Social media became a “catalyst” for her depression, she said. “It only started to kind of go downhill I think when I started to hit puberty, and really puberty, though, at like 17,” she said.
“My metabolism was like slowing down massively, and I was gaining weight. And then there was the social media scrutiny and everything, and that was when it kind of hit me.” Turner said, at the time, she was more sensitive about what people would say about her on social media.
She said she would read comments talking about her weight and skin as well as criticism about her acting. “I would just believe it,” she said. “I would just say, ‘Yeah, I am spotty. Yeah I am fat. I am a bad actress.’ And I just believed it.” She said now she feels much better since seeking therapy and treatment.
“I love myself now, or more than I used to, I think. I don’t think I love myself at all, but I’m now with someone that makes me realize, you know, that I do have some redeeming qualities I suppose,” she said, referencing her fiancé Joe Jonas. “When someone tells you they love you every day, it makes you really think about why that is, and I think it makes you love yourself a little bit more, so, yeah, I love myself.”
A former member of the Anambra state House of Assembly, Frank-Anthony Igboka, was assassinated at the Oye Nimo village market square in the Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State.
A press release by the spokesperson of the command, SP Haruna Mohammed reads ;
“At about 8:18 pm of 16/4/2019 there was a sporadic gunshots around nimo market in Jjikoka LGA of Anambra State. Police patrol team attached to nimo division rushed to the scene and discovered one Chief Frank Anthony Igboka on the drivers seat of his chevrolet SUV vehicle laying unconscious in the pool of his blood and his body was riddled with bullet wounds.
“Victim was rushed to Beke Hospital, Nimo where he was confirmed dead by the medical doctor and corpse deposited at the hospital morgue for autopsy.
“Preliminary investigation revealed that victim was shot at close range by four armed men who escaped in a pickup van towards Abacha Eziowelle road. 25 expended ammunition of 7.62 mm ammunition were recovered at the scene.
“The commissioner of police CP Mustapha Dandaura has visited the scene and ordered for a full scale investigation to ascertain circumstances surrounding the incident and bring perpetrators to justice.”
Nigerian media personality, Toke Makinwa has dished out a message to her haters.
The author shared a teaser of her popular blog series, Toke Moments, coming hard on those who invalidate her success by saying she is making money from men.
She also addressed those who say she is all over the place. Sharing the video, she wrote,
World people be like…… I’m wilding on this week’s episode of Toke Moments, ???? all jokes aside though, I’m tired of the “she must be sleeping around to get ahead narrative, it’s getting boring now. Is it your sleep around? Is it ya body???? Her body count is high, is it ya high?????? Drink water and chill abeg ???? I told a friend of mine the other day “stunt on them cos if the tables were turned they will ball on you too”. Have a laugh today guys, don’t tight your chest too much, relax those muscles ????? life is short, keep giving them hell ?????? they will be alright.
Popular Nigerian producer, Kiddominant has been credited on international star, Beyonce’s soon to be released album, B7 which drops tomorrow, April 18.
Kiddominant who produced several hits including Davido’s hit song, Fall, is listed as a producer on a song “Nerfetti” which features Rihanna.
He shares the producer credits with Swizz Beats, Beyonce, Boi-Ida, Sean Garrett, and Mike Will Made it.
Excited for him, Davido took to his page to celebrate him, he wrote,
Omg @kiddominant !! Made it on Beyoncé Album! Jesus!!
Teenage actress, Regina Daniels is showing that she’s not slowing down on her extravagant lifestyle anytime soon.
The thespian who has been under fire for a while now – after it was alleged that she’s married to a Nigerian billionaire – served her haters the fvck you sign as she posed inside a White Lamborghini whip.
In a video shared on her page, the actress takes the ride for a spin at night and it’s obvious now that she really is unto something.
A corps member has reportedly lost his life after he fell off a commercial bus in Lagos. Akhigbe Nuel Odiase, a recent law graduate, was in a bus plying the LASU-Isheri road when he fell from the moving vehicle at about 9:45pm on the night of April 15, 2019.
Nuel sustained a severe head injury from the accident and was rushed to the nearby Alimosho General Hospital, Igando, where he was given first aid treatment.
He was then transferred to LASUTH where he died later that night from his wounds.
Friends and colleague have taken to Facebook to mourn the Ambrose Alli University law graduate.
Boaz Kelvin Olumba wrote:
The efforts And love you put into Law, into life.. You strived to be better, even though you didnt get the first class you aimed at LS you made a clear 2.1.. You emerged so beautifully…
I dont want to believe its all vanity.. You cannot die in that khaki.. Please i hear miracles happen and its never too late
