Nollywood actress and film maker, Genevieve Nnaji is celebrating two decades in the Nigerian film industry.
Nnaji, who recently premiered her directorial debut, ‘Lion Heart’, began acting at the age of 19 in 1998 with the movie, ‘Most Wanted’.
In her New Year post, she wrote, ‘as 2018 comes to an end, I mark 20 years in the art of film making. I’m grateful for my life, journey, and growth thus far. I’m happy I could celebrate with you through a product that embodied all of me, mentally and spiritually; for all of your pleasure. May 2019 be our best year yet’.
The Nigerian Army has declared wanted Dr. Perry Brimah, a Nigerian in Diaspora for allegedly launching a global fundraising scheme aimed at generating money to provide food for troops in the North East.
In a statement released this morning, the Army says the fundraising is fraudulent as the Nigerian soldiers sent to prosecute the war against Boko Haram in the North East, do not lack food nor logistics. The Army says it is working with INTERPOL to also declare him wanted.
The Army called on Nigerians to come forward with information on how to track Brimah. Read the statement below
The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to a fraudulent and criminal fund raising by one Doctor Perry Brimah, a Nigerian in diaspora, tagged “Global Campaign To Provide Food For Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram”. The criminal embarked on this fund raising venture ostensibly to defraud unsuspecting members of the public especially the international community to fund subversive activities and personal life style. The criminal is using the following contact points for the fund raising;
https://www.gofundme.com/feed-nigerian-soldiers/
info @ ENDS.ng
Tel: +1-929-427-5305; Whatsapp: +234-903-420-3031.
We wish to state that the Nigerian soldiers deployed in the North East or elsewhere, neither lack logistics nor food as the fraudster wants unsuspecting members of the public to believe. The Nigerian Army never faltered in providing necessary logistics to troops to the extent of providing extras especially during festive periods. Therefore, this move by Doctor Brimah is nothing but a scam as there is nowhere in the world where troops were fed through donations by members of the public.
We would like to further state that there has never been complaints of lack of food by soldiers talk-less of starvation. The so called Dr Perry Brimah or his agents do not represent the Nigerian Army or her soldiers. Whoever believes and falls victim to this criminal act does so at his or her own risk. In addition, the Nigerian Army in conjunction with the Interpol are working hard to declare him wanted and extradite the International fraudster to face justice. Therefore, we request the general public for any information on the whereabouts of this fraudster.
You are please requested to disseminate this information to the public through your medium.
On February 11th 2017, Nigerian gospel artiste, Eric Arubayi, died from complications arising from taking fake anti-malaria drugs. Emotions went high following his sudden demise as many believed he had a promising future.
In an interview with TVC this morning January 2nd, Chinonso, his wife and mother of his son, recounted how she felt when he passed away three years after their wedding. According to her, she felt betrayed by God.
My husband & I lived a faith based life. When he died, I lived in denial because I felt betrayed by God that my husband, a Gospel artiste, could die. I fell into depression, shaved my hair & wouldn’t accept inspirational messages from well wishers” she said
Chinonso also spoke on why she had to quickly pick up herself and forge on with life
”In order to pay my own bills, cater for my son and convince people to allow me make them up, I had to start looking good again. From there, I started my make up line and media hustle” she said
Embattled Nigerian lawmaker Senator Dino Melaye who has been tweeting from his hiding place, has said he is not hiding out of fear, but only applying wisdom.
Dino Melaye referenced a part of Bible where a certain Prophet Elijah had to run and hide from King Ahab despite being one of the most courageous prophets at the time.
He referred to himself as the Modern Elijah that needs to hide, not out of fear, but out of wisdom.
“The Bible record prophet Elijah to be among one of the strongest prophets that lived,but he went to mount Carmel to hide when king Ahab sought him to kill him cos of the way he boldly declared the truth. There is a difference with being scared and being wise” he said
The Bible record prophet Elijah to be among one of the strongest prophets that lived,but he went to mount Carmel to hide when king Ahab sought him to kill him cos of the way he boldly declared the truth. There is a difference with being scared and being wise.
A three-man drug syndicate have been arrested by men of the Ikoyi Prison in Lagos for attempting to sell marijuana to inmates of the prison.
According to Punch, the suspects comprising of a 22-year-old man identified as Ikuomola Abolade; Sodeeq Yunusa, who is an inmate standing trial for alleged robbery, and an unidentified person, who is presently at large, were apprehended while trying to smuggle the banned substance into the prison on Sunday December 30th 2018.
It was gathered that the suspects were arrested through a 10-year-old boy, who is part of the Intelligence and Monitoring Committee comprising selected officials of the prison, their wives, the drug unit and the police, which was set up to monitor the activities of intruders in the prison facility.
The 10-year-old boy saw the suspects throwing the banned substances into the prison premises and alerted his parents, but before his father could alert his colleagues, the suspects had boarded a tricycle. The officials gave them a hot chase and caught up with them at Obalende, but the unidentified persons escaped.
However, the CCTV installed in the prison caught the face of the inmate, Yunusa, picking up the banned substance.
Abolade, according to a source, is presently in the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, pending completion of the investigation.
The Lagos State Controller of Prisons, Tunde Ladipo, who confirmed the incident, said the prison authorities would ensure that the suspects did not escape justice so as to serve as a deterrent to others.
Nigerian Singer, Simi has schooled a fan on twitter after the latter tried to compare her with another Talented female singer, Teni.
In a tweet, which has now been deleted, the fan identified as Micheal Ogundero wrote ;
Let’s start this year. Who do you prefer? Simi or Teni
Simi then quoted the tweet with her reply ;
Guys this is 2019. This needs to end. We all working, we can all shine. Harmless fun, but doing this all the time be like there’s only room for one or two women to prosper when there’s space for all of us. You can listen to all this amazing music at the same gaddem time
A man had to spend his New Year in police custody after he was arrested for stealing in Delta.
It was gathered that the suspect connived with two staff working at a fast food restaurant in Sapele area of the state, to steal chicken, turkey and chicken wings.
According to reports, the suspect stole almost two cartons of chicken, 12 turkeys and about 10 chicken wings before he was nabbed.
It was gathered that the suspect who reportedly works in the baking section of the fast food joint, stole the items in the morning on Monday, December 31, and allegedly hid the loots in Palm kernel.
He was arrested when he came back to the fast food joint to collect the stolen items later in the evening after the director told him to show him what he was carrying.
The suspect was immediately arrested and taken into custody by the police.
A man has taken to a popular Nigerian forum to seek help on how to divorce his wife after he saw a text where she hinted her ex of her tight vagina.
According to the man, he married a different woman entirely as she showed every sign of goodness while they were dating that he thought he had met the love of his life.
Everything changed in the 3rd week of marriage when they had a slight argument and she stabbed him with a kitchen knife.
Read his story in full below:
Met in 2014 November. Dated for 11 months. All these while she was so homely and accommodating.
She would call to let me know about her movements even when I did not ask for.
She would apologize at any slight opportunity.
It was all rosy.
The parents kept calling and advising me not to let other ladies win me over.
They would visit or call my parents at every given opportunity and I felt “this is it”.
We got married almost a year later.
The first 2 weeks of the honeymoon was smooth until the 3rd week and bam! there was disagreement about money.
She stabbed me with a knife though the cut wasn’t too deep. It took me months to catch up with reality as the lady I was dating was a total different person.
That was the journey of misery and then it was nagging, disrespect and stuffs until I caught her on the phone telling her ex that she misses him and sh1ts.
I was devastated. This lady refused to apologize. She won’t even listen to me whenever I asked to have a heart to heart talk with her.
I had to involve her parents and it was by force before she apologized.
She got pregnant and 9 months later she was delivered of our first son.
2 weeks later, my attention was drawn to constant beeping on her phone and when I checked, my supposed wife was discussing with another of her ex about how tight and intact her vagina was cos she gave birth through CS. And the guy used to be jealous cos he enjoyed the sex they had as she was always tight and shits.
I was devastated. I drew her attention to it and she denied feigning ignorance. It was when I showed her screenshots that she accepted and asked me to forget about it, that what has happened has happened.
She would never say sorry. So called her elder brother and he begged me and begged her to apologize, still she won’t.
I reported to the mother. This didn’t help matters. The aunts numbering about 4 had to beg on her behalf. I let it slide.
Things got worse and it came to a point where she would not cook. Even times when I return home from long journeys, I most times will have to go into the kitchen to sort myself.
Mum got sick and I asked that she come to us so that we can go to bigger hospital for proper check up and hell was let loose.
She stopped cooking and would only cook whenever she desires.
Time past and my life became almost miserable.
I would close from the office and won’t be able to go home. I would stroll into a beer parlour and while away time till maybe 10pm and would sneak out very early even before she wakes up.
Earlier in 2016, I had empowered her with 1.2 million to start a business and one dime I didn’t see as return on investment with her citing low patronage as the reason for the collapse of the business.
It was until the elder brother who was staying with us asked her for money and she refused that the dude disclosed that she made about 2.6 million from sales of items and services she rendered in the shop she denied making nothing from. She could not deny this fact but for my son I let it slide.
My wife would bring her female friend into the home and this lady even when she was engaged to a guy still go out to sleep with other guys. I asked her to stop been friends with her and she blatantly refused. She would go ahead to invite the lady into my home and rain insults on me because I don’t want them together.
This final one was the calls she was making with her ex most times when I was away in the office. I noticed and she couldn’t deny it. I later learnt that her cheat of a friend was the middle person that delivers messages to my wife whenever I was around.
I can’t take it anymore.
I don’t wanna die before my time.
I can’t eat in my house anymore as she threatened to poison me and nothing will happen. This was let out in a heat of a moment while we were exchanging words.
What’s the express way to divorce without complications?
NB: The dad has asked me to quit before I start to develop HBP.
31st of December 2018, will forever be a day to remember for Ace movie director, Charles Novia who lost his mother hours before the new year.
The bereaved director made the announcement via his social media page, where he made it clear on how close his mum was to him and how he will miss her so dearly.
He wrote:
She passed away in the early hours of the 31st of December 2018. Mummy. Mother. Friend. You were more than a mother. And a mother to all. Teacher. My rock. My world. Your memories will forever remain. And that glowing smile…. Clara Osayuware Uwaifo… Rest, My Mother. Rest.
The ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is likely to be called off soon.
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, gave the hint in Onitsha, Anambra State, while speaking to reporters.
Ngige revealed that funds had been provided to meet most of the demands of the union.
He said the Federal Government would make necessary efforts to ensure that the strike comes to an end this January.
According to Ngige, the issues that made ASUU to embark on strike were based on agreement which the union entered into with the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, which the administration failed to implement before President Muhammadu Buhari took over power.
According to the minister, the Buhari administration is labour-friendly and is always concerned about the welfare of the nation’s workforce.
Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka has endorsed president Muhammadu Buhari’s second term reelection bid.
This is as the priest also said he foresee the country facing more serious economic challenge this year.
Mbaka made the endorsement and prediction in his new year message in his annual 31st cross over night.
He said: “Among all the Presidential aspirants, Buhari stands in best position in winning the presidential election.”
He enumerated the achievements of President Buhari to include the of construction of Enugu-Onitsha expressway; the construction of second Niger bridge.
The prelate also applauded what he said was the agricultural revolution of the Buhari government, noting that “what happens in the ministry of agriculture such as massive production of rice is unprecedented in Nigeria agricultural history.
“In all this, we urge Nigerians to vote President Buhari in order to complete his eight years tenure and after which he will hand over to younger candidate.”
He said that three years cannot be equated with 16 years in measuring governance.
On Enugu state government, Fr Mbaka praised Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for his good work in Enugu state, saying that since the inception of democracy Enugu State had not got a good leader like Ugwuanyi.
On the area of security, Mbaka said that Enugu state has been the pace setter of peace, and admonished the people of the state to vote for him in other to finish his good work.
Mbaka also told the governorship candidate of All Progressive Congress, APC, in Enugu state, Senator Ayogu Eze to forget his governorship ambition so that governor Ugwuanyi will finish his second tenure.
On Tuesday, January 1st, Augustina, the wife of Nollywood actor, Daniel K Daniel, turned a year older.
In a birthday post she shared on her social media page, Tina revealed that she has a twin brother who is an ordained priest. She went on to disclose that she and her twin brother were born minutes apart in separate years.
Her post reads ;
Still our birthday, A lot of you don’t know this but I am actually a TWIN and that’s my Twin brother, he was recently ordained a priest and he officiated my wedding
So funny story, yes we are twins but we were actually born on different days, in fact different years, lol. He was born 31st of December just a few minutes before midnight, and I was born on the 1st of January, few minutes after midnight. Our birth certificates carry different dates and years but that doesn’t change anything.
Although he celebrates his birthdays 31st December, he still gets birthday wishes on the 1st I celebrate mine on the 1st and 1st alone, I would always feel cheated growing up, but we are adults and he is now a Catholic priest and special so I guess it’s okay
Thank you for sharing mummy’s tummy with me brother, and eating all the food but you also decided to come out first to make sure it was safe for me to follow, it might be for selfish reasons but I chose to believe otherwise
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TWINNIE I Love you, remain blessed Rev
The General Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries Worldwide, Dr Daniel Olukoya, in his own prophesies described 2019 as a year of many strange happenings.
Olukoya said many people trying to get rich through satanic means would be destroyed, while sexual perverts would receive a “death blow” from “sanitising agents”.
The cleric, according to a statement, said these on Monday night, during the church’s cross-over vigil service at the Prayer City along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
Olukoya said to survive 2019, Christians would require many strange prayers, which many around them might not be comfortable with.
He told the congregation that sacrificial giving was key to their success in 2019, saying “any teaching telling you not to give to God is from the pit of hell, because the apostles gave and God blessed them abundantly.”
He also told them “to pray seriously against the rage of the waters” in 2019.
Nigerian Musician Gabriel Oche Amanyi, popularly known by his stage name Terry G, has said he didn’t enjoy fame due to controversies.
Terry Genius, in a recent interview, claimed that the decision to have a change of name was due to his desire to rebrand and a need to have a better focus as an artiste.
He waved aside the rumour that threats from unknown ‘religious fanatics’ had compelled him to dump the idea of adopting ‘Gzuz’ as his pseudonym.
“I did not receive any death threat for initially changing my stage name to Terry Gzuz. Sometimes people call me Terry Gzuz when they chat with me online.
When they spell Gzuz as Jesus, I try to correct them immediately.
“Now that I have rebranded, when the same people call me Gzuz I tell them that I have changed it to Genius. Nobody has kicked against this yet. I think they like it. They even praise me for it. Like I said earlier, I have not been issued any death threat for changing my stage name. I just want to focus on being positive,”the artiste said.
The singer, who for one reason or another always managed to be in the news, said it was natural for the new crop of artistes to grab all the attention.
He said :
“The new kids on the block must always be more conspicuous than those of us who have been in this business for a long time.
It does not mean that we are no longer relevant. Nevertheless, I have faced a lot of controversy in the course of my career, especially in the beginning. I did not enjoy stardom or fame because of that. I spent most of the time wading through problems and controversies.
I had to withdraw into my shell at a point so as to get peace of mind. Right now, I have been able to stay away from a lot of the madness and misunderstanding in the industry, even though I was the one that started it,”
English Premier League forwards Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang have been shortlisted for the Confederation of African Football (CAF) player of the year award.
This is the second year running the trio who are from Egypt, Senegal and Gabon respectively have battled for the prestigious award. Egyptian striker Salah who plays for Liverpool alongside Mane won the award last year and could land the award again due to his impressive performance so far.
If he wins the award, he will become the fourth player to win back-to-back titles after Senegal forward El Hadji Diouf, Cameroon striker Samuel Eto’o and Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure.
The winner for 2018 will be announced in Dakar on January 8.
Rapper and fashion line pioneer, Kanye West is starting the new year on a controversial note, which obviously means he didn’t leave his controversy behind in the last year.
The rapper who took a lot of heat in 2018 for supporting Donald Trump, has declared that he still stands with the president. He said it’s racism to tell him not to support Trump because he is black.
This past Christmas, some Igbo big boys stormed their village with exotic cars – the Rolls Royce, Benz and the likes – and people have things to say about it!
First, it can’t go unnoticed that the exotic cars don’t commensurate the road they’re being plied on and this has caused a lot of people to be disgusted as they wonder why a lot can go into exotic cars and nothing into basic amenities. Some dub it as “insanity”.
A Twitter user shared a video that shows the handful of exotic whips that stormed the village – that’s speculated to be in the South Eastern part of the country – and since then, people can’t keep calm over it.
Sharing the video, the user wrote,
“Igbo boys took their toys to the village last Christmas. ego dị mma ndị ọgaranya na-na-na ano ndị ogbenye na-na-daa ogbenye”
Watch the video below,
Igbo boys took their toys to the village last Christmas. ego dị mma ndị ọgaranya na-na-na ano ndị ogbenye na-na-daa ogbenye ?? pic.twitter.com/MVkiN67cpV
Bizzle Osikoya, a co-owner of the company that manages Nigerian singer, Davido has accused Wizkid’s fans of being abusive as he reacted to a tweet about insults.
According to Bizzle Osikoya, Wizkid’s fans cannot praise him ‘without insulting anybody’ and so after a Twitter user, @Girlishlava wrote about people praising other people without having to insult others while at it…
Do you know that you can make your point without insulting another person?
… Bizzle Osikoya reacted to this, as he wrote,
God bless you. This message is for wizkids fans most especially. Praise him without insulting anybody
United States President, Donald Trump is starting the new year with a lil bit of savagery on his side. He sent a shout out to his haters whom he says are suffering from ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’.
In a recent tweet, where he wishes everyone most especially his haters and fake media, a happy new year… the President wrote,
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE, INCLUDING THE HATERS AND THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA! 2019 WILL BE A FANTASTIC YEAR FOR THOSE NOT SUFFERING FROM TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME. JUST CALM DOWN AND ENJOY THE RIDE, GREAT THINGS ARE HAPPENING FOR OUR COUNTRY!
Solidstar opens the year 2019 with a bubbly dancehall single he calls ‘Wicked‘. In the tune singer appreciates the physical endowment of his woman and he gets drawn to it.
The Shaba Entertainment boss hopes to find a place in the hearts of music lovers early on in the year with this record.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB has issued a warning to candidates to disregard advertisements in the social media, announcing sales of registration documents with some illegal centres and subject combinations.
The board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, gave the warning in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos.
He said:
“It has come to the notice of the board that some fraudsters have listed out centres for the examination and in the process, inserted some illegal ones.
“Let me state here that all the processes concerning the board can only be done by approved Computer Based Centres (CBT).”
According to Benjamin, over 700 centres have so far been accredited for the conduct of the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) scheduled to commence on March 16.
He said JAMB would soon publish the list of all approved centres in all its state offices nationwide to guide prospective candidates in choosing centres nearest to them.
He announced that the sales of registration documents for the examination would commence on Jan. 10.
“Already the list of over 700 accredited centres for this examination has been uploaded on our website.
“But we have not published any advert concerning all the processes, we are hoping to do so soon.
“Precisely before the commencement of the sales of the forms just as we will paste the list of all the accredited CBT centres at all our state offices nationwide.
“This is to guide the candidates towards the examination processes in order not to fall prey to these fraudsters who are bent on finding ways of causing pains to innocent Nigerians,” Benjamin said.
He added that candidates can also go to the “playstore app” on their mobile phones and download “jambibass” to get authentic information especially as regards subject and course combinations among others.
A young Nigerian pilot, Captain Arinze may not be a billionaire yet, but he definitely has a very sound business sense.
The pilot according to a post he made on twitter, revealed that he lost his sunglasses some weeks back (which definitely would be an original and expensive brand).
He then decided to get one off the traffic for a meagre N1,000 (of course, it is just a replica of the original one).
Now his co-pilot is offering $50 for the replica, which of course he feels it would be an original just because a pilot is wearing it.
He wrote:
I lost my sun shade last week. 2 days ago, I bought this one in traffic for 1k naira. Today, I attempted to sell it to my copilot for $50. If I’m wearing it, then it must be original, he thought. There is alot of life/business lessons to learn from this.
A part of Bishop David Oyedepo 2019 prophecy has revealed that peace will continue to reign in Nigeria and the citizens of the country will not experience any form of war in the new year.
Oyedepo, in his New Year message at the Church’s Headquarters in Ota, Ogun state said nothing will tamper with the peace of Nigeria in 2019.
According to him, the story of this country will be changing for the better.
He said Nigeria shall not see any more bloodshed and there shall not be no war.
The cleric said:
“The prince of peace will continue to Dominate in Nigeria and Africa, we shall not see set-back anymore.
“Because of the saints of God in this country, Nigeria shall remain safe.
“The year 2019 shall be a year of humbling testimonies.”
Ghanaian Prophet Emmanuel Badu Kobi in his prophesies predicts doom for Nigeria’s elections, says Buhari will rig 2019 election.
The Spiritual leader of the Glorious Wave Chapel International, reportedly made the prediction in his prophecies for 2019 during the 31st December Crossover Service in his church in Sakumono, Ghana.
who claimed that he foresees an attack on the electoral commissioner of Nigeria, added that President Buhari is hatching plans to rig the upcoming presidential election.
“Nigeria’s election may be put on hold or disaster after the elections. Either they’ll put it on hold or they’ll let the elections go on but after the election, the results will bring trouble because Buhari has decided to steal the election,” he said.
This is coming after Apostle Johnson Suleman in his 2019 prophecies concerning Nigeria, claimed that the election will be hundred per cent rigged.
Baba De Baba who shared a photo of a domestic violence victim on Instagram, stated that ‘Ladies must accept to be submissive to men that bought them’.
According to the comedian who was under fire few months ago over his rape skit, the only time a lady is free to misbehave and go free is if she’s cohabiting with a man that has not paid her dowry. Baba De Baba further disclosed that he will be will be the ‘first to give out his daughter without giving the guy dowry list, so that he will know that they are equal’.
He wrote;
HE DID THIS TO HER TWO DAYS AFTER THEIR ENGAGEMENT, HEAR ME NOW. I have been fighting against spending so much to buy a wife , sorry I meant to marry a wife.
So many men steal, borrow and beg for money just to marry a woman and women don’t still want to admit that we buy them with money. U can’t be claiming to be equal to a man that spent so much to buy u, sorry marry u.. Ladies must accept to be submissive to a men that bought them. The only time a lady is free to misbehave and go free is if she’s cohabiting with a man that has not paid her dowry.
HEAR THIS: I will be the first to give out my daughter without giving the guy dowry list so that he will know that they are equal and he would respect her because he didn’t inconvenience anybody in order to raise money to marry her.
