American Supermode, Kendall Jenner has made Forbes’s list of the highest-paid models of 2018.
She reportedly earned $22.5 million between June 2017 and June 2018—a slight pay increase from the $22 million she raked in last year.
Other models who made the list include Karlie Kloss who came in second place with an estimated $13 million in earnings, Chrissy Teigen and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley who tied for third with $11.5 million in earnings, Gisele Bündchen earned $10 million, Cara Delevingne ($10 million), Gigi Hadid($9.5 million), Bella Hadid ($8.5 million), Joan Smalls ($8.5 million), and Doutzen Kroes ($8 million) rounded out the list.
In all, the women made a cumulative $113 million, much more that $109.5 million from last year.
The Unilag slay queen, Tobi Jacobs who featured in the recently leaked bedroom video with DMW, singer Peruzzi, has been spotted on Instagram after she was reported missing online.
Following the leakage of the video, Tobi was reported missing and the fear of a possible suicide attempt filled the hearts of so many not until recently was she spotted on Instagram living her best life.
Putting the missing and suicide reports to the side, Tobi shared a photo of herself as she enjoys with a glass of Irish Cream while clothed in a bath robe looking like she was in a five star hotel.
After users spotted her, reactions followed… Check em out below,
Linda Ikeji baby, Jayce Jeremi is a beautiful lad!
His Billionaire Mother, Linda has finally revealed his face to the world for the very first time ever, and he looks totally adorable!
Lind agave birth to a baby boy in September, and since then, she has kept his face private.
Sharing the photo she wrote;
Guess who this handsome boy is? ??.. The one who has brought me more joy than I thought was possible. Jayce is now nearly three months old and the last few months I’ve been home nurturing him has been the best months of my life.
If I tried to, I wouldn’t be able to explain what this little, beautiful human means to me. Half the time when I look at him, I have tears in my eyes. The joy is indescribable. How did I get so lucky? ?? #Thehandsomestboyintheworld #myson #mylife #myheir #myansweredprayer #myeverything
Swipe to see some photos of him I took over the past few weeks and a few from the day he was born and when he was a few days old. Y’all know I like to do collage..?
Thank you all for your kindness and well wishes. Truly appreciate it. ???
Linda also addressed her baby daddy brouhaha, where she revealed things are over between herself and her baby daddy, Sholaye. Read here.
Linda Ikeji in a long post on her Blog has revealed that her baby daddy is indeed Sholaye Jeremi.
Read her post below;
Two days before my 38th birthday on September 17th, I welcomed my first child, my son, Jayce. I look at him and I wonder why I waited so long to have a child. I’ve never known love like this. I literally have tears in my eyes every time I look at him. I can’t believe he came out of me. He is by far my greatest blessing and I’m looking forward to navigating him through life!
Now to the reason why you are reading this. I argued with myself for a long time whether to put this out or not…and finally decided it was a story I wanted to share. I’ve always been open about my life but I’m sharing details about my personal life mostly because of the girls who look up to me. The girls I have mentored, mentoring right now and plan to mentor in the future. I’m very particular about our young girls and I have personally tried over the years to be an example in some way; tried to teach these girls how to fight for their dreams, how to live right and do right and then I go and have a child out of wedlock and that must be a little confusing to some of them and especially with so many untruthful stuff out there about me. The most hilarious is that I had a child for a married man. Lol. Here’s my answer to that! The married man that I will sleep with has not yet been born. If he’s been born, he will die, be buried, rise and die again before he will lay with me. I don’t do married men. The father of my child is a single man and his name is Sholaye Jeremi. To be honest, at some point I thought he was my final bus stop but you know how life happens…lol. Unfortunately he and I are a completely closed chapter. Sadly for our son Jayce, it’s the kind of chapter that can’t ever be opened again.
One of the things many people have asked me is how I met this man because we don’t run in the same circle. Well, I met him 3 years ago at Wheatbaker Restaurant in Ikoyi in December 2015 shortly after I moved to my home in Banana Island, Ikoyi. It was a day after Christmas and I was having dinner with friends when he walked in. He saw me and the rest is history. He claimed at the time that he had never heard of me which was seriously a turn-on for me because up until then I’d only been meeting men who behaved like fans. At the time we met, I was 35 and he was 37 and I’d been single for nearly 4 years. I was definitely searching and I fell in love almost immediately and so we became an item.
At the time I met him he lived in a 3-bedroom flat at what used to be 5th roundabout in Lekki after Mobil. I used to drive for almost two hours in traffic from my house to go see him. Most of the time, I carried my laptop to his home to enable me to work and at the same time spend the whole day with him.
It was a whirlwind romance. He was the funniest and most romantic guy I’d met up until that point, so it was easy to fall in love and I truly believed the feeling was mutual. A few weeks after we met, it seemed like we were planning a future together. This man was already calling me Linda Ikeji Jeremi and making all these plans but then just like that, it was over between us. I went from waking up every morning to love text messages from him to no more calls. I was just thanking God for finally sending me my own man when all of a sudden we were no longer talking to each other. Later he would tell me what scared him off. My public life. He claims he’s a private business man and didn’t want the attention being with me would bring to him and I told him I understood and we went our separate ways. We tried to get back together in 2016 but it didn’t work out so much so we separated again but stayed in touch (mostly him to be honest), stayed friends and that was how our back and forth started.
By mid-2017, we were both still single and we started seeing each other again quietly. There were times it was very intense and we talked about a future together, and there were times that I couldn’t figure out what exactly I was doing with this guy. We were not suited for each other. Totally different lifestyles. And there was the problem of my fame. I walked away from this man a million times and he came after me a million and one times. No matter how much I pushed him away, he kept coming back and me, because I couldn’t find anyone else, I kept going back. Lol. So I was basically going back to my ex because I couldn’t find anyone else. *sigh*.
Then I fell pregnant. It wasn’t planned, it just happened; though we talked about having a child together just two months before I fell pregnant. He said something about putting a billionaire baby inside me and I remember jokingly telling him that I’m also a billionaire so our child was going to be a billionaire on both side…and we laughed. But after I fell pregnant, things became extremely weird between us. If I tried to explain what happened, I wouldn’t be able to because it was confusing to me. We went from talking about the pregnancy and being okay with it; he even suggested I go to Dubai for my pre-natals as he didn’t trust doctors in Nigeria, to literally not talking to each other anymore. Around when I was about three months pregnant, he did come to see my parents and actually became very cool with my dad. They were literally exchanging Whatsapp messages every day. He later agreed to a traditional wedding which he didn’t follow through and then he switched. He began to treat me with so much hate and aggression that I and my family had to cut him off completely.
To be honest if anybody had told me when we met three years ago, considering how deeply we cared for each other that I would fall pregnant two years later and he would completely turn his back on me for most part of my pregnancy, I never would have believed it but that’s what happened. I had to draw strength from myself, my family and close friends.
And Jayce…oh my son Jayce, he was my biggest strength. It was almost as if he knew his dad was acting up so he came through for his mum. He was gentle with me when I was carrying him. I had an extremely easy pregnancy. I pushed him out under 3 mins and was in the labour room for less than 30 minutes. And then my snapback was amazing. Three weeks later, it was almost as if I’d never been pregnant. Jayce was my soldier when his dad turned his back.
But still, I have absolutely no iota of regret meeting Sholaye. Gosh, have you seen Jayce? How can I regret that? God doesn’t make mistakes. If you believe that you’re always led by God like I believe then I have to believe that God led me to this man for whatever reasons best known to Him. I thought God sent him as my life partner but I guess He just used him as a vessel for my greatest blessing. Now his part in my story is over. I know when to put my hands up and surrender. That God brought someone significant into your life doesn’t mean they are supposed to follow you throughout your life’s journey. We should learn to know when people’s part in our story is over. Don’t fight for closure, don’t ask for explanations, don’t chase answers, just let them go and know that if God meant for you to have them in your life, He would have given them to you. Sometimes people just come to serve a purpose in your life and are not meant to stay and there’s no point holding on to them. This one is done and dusted. It’s just Jayce and I now moving forward and I know life will be beautiful for us.
Being a single mum wasn’t the dream I had for myself; I’d prayed for the kind of happy home my parents built for us (they’ve been together for 40 years). Nothing is more important to me than family. For years I’d hammered on how much I was looking forward to getting married, having children and building my own family and I believed God was going to come through for me on that one, but I have come to understand that we have no control over what life throws at us no matter how much we plan, pray, or work. And we also have no control over the actions of other people towards us. One of the things I have learnt in my life’s journey is that your idea of how life should go might be different from the way life actually goes. It’s called Life Happening. Sometimes it unfolds into something we never dreamed of but because we don’t recognize the route we find ourselves on our journey through life, doesn’t mean God won’t get us to our destination. Remember, an uncertain chapter doesn’t ruin the whole book. Life will happen whether we are ready or not. All we can do is keep our heads up and keep moving.
Family and close friends told me I owed no one any explanation about the circumstances that led to the birth of my son, but I knew without writing this, I could never stand in front of the young girls who look up to me and talk to them again. I could never go on my secondary school tour and speak with these girls again about living right and doing right. I would always feel like I have no moral right to do so. I went to 15 secondary schools in 2017 and talking to those young impressionable girls has been one of the highlights of my life. I cancelled this year’s tour because I was pregnant and I haven’t made any preparations for next year’s tour because I wanted to set things right first.
I have so many plans for young girls next year and in the coming years with the Selfmade finance and mentorship projects with international collaborations, so this was important for me to do, to explain myself to the young girls who look up to me and feel disappointed that I got pregnant and had a baby out of wedlock. For years, I have preached decency, morality and uprightness and despite what happened to me, I mean it from the bottom of my heart. That should be the only way to live. That’s the only way I live. Don’t ever compromise your values. With this, I was led by my heart and my clock ticking and even though I have no regrets, I’m sorry if I let any of you ladies down by the decision I made, and I hope you learn from my experience. I hope you do better than I did. The ideal thing would be to find a man you love, who loves you back and gives you stability, get married, have kids and raise a family, not being a single mum or a baby mama. I was 37 years old at the time I conceived and if I want to be honest, my age played a role in me allowing myself to be pregnant out of wedlock. I don’t want to be having kids in my 40s or struggling with fertility later in life. This wasn’t the plan but like I said before, life happens. You just have to find a way to make the best of what life throws at you. And so for any young girl this means anything to, I am truly sorry. I am not sorry I had Jayce, I’m just sorry I didn’t go about it the right way.
But you know, despite this crazy love experience, I still believe in love and I believe in happy endings and I can’t wait to one day, God willing, have my fairy tale ending. The father of my child is the only man I’ve given a chance to in 6 years. Lol. I swear. I’m not really a relationship kind of girl. I’m more a career girl. I can go for years without a man. I’m one of those women who don’t need a man to validate their existence but biko, I’ve done the single life enough in the past…lol… going forward I’m looking forward to giving someone else a chance and try this love thing again. I was raised in a happy 2-parents’ home and that’s what I want for Jayce. So I hope I meet a great guy soon until then I’m enjoying motherhood. It rocks! Life has never been more beautiful!
I’d also like to address a few other issues. Number one is this celibacy issue. So many people have trolled me over it and I’d like to correct the misunderstanding. I have never ever in my life said people shouldn’t have sex before marriage. NEVER EVER have I said that. I have even argued with quite a few people that it is not feasible in this day and age. What I have always said and I maintain till today is; Do not ever sleep with men for money because any woman with a brain and determination can get her own money herself. And there’s nothing sweeter than your own money. I am 38 years old and I recently bought a N100million+ car; what the heck do you need to be sleeping with a man for? For designer bags, first class tickets and luxury holidays? GTFOH with sleeping with a man for rent money! You can give yourself all that and more if you apply yourself, fight for your dream and work your butt off. Men don’t have the exclusive right to create wealth; women can also create wealth. Money is not male. Wealth is not male. Success is not male. We women just need to believe in ourselves more and get off our butts and stop relying on our looks and charm instead of our brain, mind, will, and our God given talent/gift. We can be rich, we can be successful, we can break barriers, do what was formerly termed impossible, do what men can do, be CEOs of conglomerates and billionaires without ever having to lie on our backs. Please ladies, we are powerful beyond measure and can do anything and be anything we want to be.
The other thing I’ve always said is; do not sleep around with multiple men who just use your body for their pleasure; that is; too many one night stands, casual sex, many sex partners in a short period of time all in the name of relationships. Your body deserves better. I feel sex should only happen when you’re in a loving, committed relationship with someone you love. I was celibate for many years until I met my son’s father and fell in love. And instead of increasing my body count, I just went back to the same eggplant…lol. My mistake was I should have walked away when the relationship became a waste…lol… but then again, Jayce wouldn’t be here today if I had. So really, there’s nothing that I have preached that I didn’t practice. So you guys stop trolling me over this abeg! Lol.
Thank you for reading and thank you for your understanding.
A woman who disguises as a blind person to beg by the roadside with her child in Warri, Delta State, was arrested today after she was reported to the police by a concerned citizen.
According to the president of Nigerian Child Welfare Fund, Joshua Omorere, he had been warning the fake blind beggars who stay at Jakpa junction especially the arrested woman, to desist from deceiving the public with their trade.
Earlier today, he led a team of police officers who raided their spot and arrested the fake blind beggar who was with her daughter as others fled on sighting the security agents.
It was gathered that the police officers were convinced the woman was blind after she and her daughter broke down in tears while being arrested.
On getting to the police station, the officers threatened to put tear gas in her eyes, that was when the woman identified as Ada Nwachukwu admitted she is not blind and disclosed that she came all the way from Orlu in Imo state to Warri just to hustle.
According to report, the beggars make a minimum of five thousand naira daily and as at Mrs. Nwachukwu was arrested she had already made N3,270.
Nollywood Actress, Ini Edo might be walking down the aisle again, years after her first marriage crash.
The beautiful actress, Ini Edo, has got brand new butterfly in her stomach!
She’s made it such a huge secret till the set wedding date is established. Baby girl Ini was recently found snicking into hotel room of a Three Star hotel with Le Boo somewhere in Lekki, Lagos State, where they inhale and exhale carbon and drink alcohol, very compatible duo.
Le Boo is an IJGB (I just got back) dude closely related to traditional rulers of the Land of Excellence. It’s great that Ini has found love again and this time in deep hot romance with the Lasgidi big boy.
We are all hoping she doesn’t get burnt in the process. Their love life is not new to keen observers as the love birds are overly excited and would do everything to keep this love affair secret till the wedding date, so she can sort out issues.
As a sharp baby girl, Ini is currently trying to part ways with any known Maga and take out any surviving stumbling block to a secret wedding, which is planned to take place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in a few weeks time.
Chioma Avril, the girlfriend (or wife if you like) of Nigerian musician, Davido has left her fans with something to cheer after releasing stunning new photos.
Chioma in the new photos could be seen wearing a native crop top and a matching skirt.
Davido’s Assurance is a beauty to behold and you already know we don’t lie. Check it out!
A racist Caucasian woman was filmed physically assaulting a Chinese woman on a train in New York City. It is not exactly clear what angered the White woman.
The White woman kicked the Asian woman, brought out an umbrella from her bag with which she hit her several times, and also hit her with a set of keys.
Other commuters tried to stop her but she wouldn’t budge. At some point, someone pointed out to her that the Asian woman wasn’t even fighting her back.
Passengers took it personally when the white woman uttered a racist word. She called the woman “Cheng” and passengers warned her.
Someone told her that her white privilege will not work today and warned her to desist from making racist utterances. Another can be heard saying that it’s clear she voted for Donald Trump, with her kind of behaviour. They warned her that they’ll call the police but the woman continued her attack on the Asian woman.
She was eventually detained by passengers and when they got to a stop, police arrived to arrest he
Nollywood Actress, Linda Osifo has replied a follower who felt her beachwear was too revealing.
The actress shared a photo of herself in white as she posed by the beach but a follower felt it was inappropriate and cautioned her with some damning word.
The follower even went as far as asking her to emulate fellow actress, Adesua Etomi.
The follower said ;
Look at small small boys that are not up to your younger ones age telling you they like your ‘kpomo’. It’s that the kind of compliment you intended to attract when you posted this pic??
SMH somebody’s future mother kpomo on Instagram. Dress how you want to be addressed!! Look up to the likes of Adesua Etomi! Madam be responsible
If you like block me, all i know is that i am speaking the truth.
Linda then replied ;
Block you? No Darling! Enjoy the post babe, and i don’t look up to anyone but myself
A Ghanaian man identified as Yaw Nuamah has irked many on social media after saying it is better for a man to sleep with his daughter than have a stranger rape her.
The young man was reacting to a post, when he said some parents have sex with their children as part of sex education.
Stating further that such act with help the child handle their sex life better in future.
When he was slammed by other users of the platform, he went further to ask a distasteful question that;
Which is worse: sleeping with your own daughter or a stranger raping her
Mr. Bankole Wellington, also known as Banky W, has charged the Nigerian youth to become active participants in the 2019 elections.
Banky W, who is running to represent Eti-Osa Constituency in the Federal House of Representatives, said this at The Convergence event in Abuja.
He said:
It’s a lot harder to try, and a lot easier to criticize. It is a lot easier to talk about it, than to do something about it. We only fail when we stop trying, and battles are only lost when you stop fighting. So, don’t just tweet and talk, walk the walk.
I am running for my unborn children, because when our generation is old and grey, and we hand the country over to them, and they asked what we did about the state of affairs, whether Nigeria ends up being great, or forever a shadow of what could have been, I want to be able to look my kids in the face and say you know what? I tried.
Babatunde Fashola, has denied claims that he once said the power problems in Nigeria can be fixed within six months.
According to Punch Nigeria, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, denied the claim at the Nextier Power Dialogue on Wednesday night in Abuja.
Fashola challenged participants at the dialogue and members of the public to produce any video evidence where he made such comment. He said;
“I have the video of what I said and where I said it and I think it was in 2014 in the run-off to the election and I was in Lekki, Lagos,”
He explained that the comment was made during the inauguration of the Lekki Independent Power Project when he was governor of Lagos State, adding that his statement had to do with the connection of residents of Lekki to the IPP within six months if the state government had received the approval to do so.
“You may disagree with me, but I challenge anybody who has an alternative set of facts. We have the video here and we can play what I said and you can listen to it. If you have a different version, bring it out. I challenge you!” the minister declared.
The annual SoundCity MVP Awards Festival is just around the corner, hence the organizers of the awards ceremony have published the names of this year’s nominees.
A lot of top African artistes have deservingly made the list of those nominated, from Pop, to Hip-hop to Best Male MVP etc.
Noticeably on the list are Wizkid, Burna Boy, Olamide Davido who have the highest nominations across most categories.
Here are the SoundCity MVP Awards Festival Nominees full list.
BEST MALE MVP
BURNA BOY
NASTY C
MR EAZI
OLAMIDE
A.K.A
SHATTA WALE
HARMONIZE
DIAMOND PLATNUMZ
DAVIDO
WIZKID
BEST FEMALE MVP
BUSISWA
SIMI
NINIOLA
TIWA SAVAGE
YEMI ALADE
SHEKHINAH
EFYA
BECCA
LADY ZAMAR
MAUA SAMA
BEST HIP HOP
M.I ABAGA
KHALIGRAPH JONES
NASTY C
AKA
KWESI ARTHUR
PHYNO
SARKODIE
KWESTA
FALZ
MEDIKAL
BEST POP
KIZZ DANIEL
FALLY IPUPA
TIWA SAVAGE
YEMI ALADE
DAVIDO
DIAMOND PLATNUMZ
MAYORKUN
WIZKID
KUAMI EUGENE
MR EAZI
BEST COLLABORATION
MAKHE – DJ MAPHORISA, DJ SIMBA FT MOONCHILD SANELLY
SOCO – STARBOY FT WIZKID, TERRI, SPOTLESS & CEEZA MILLI
JIBEBE – DIAMOND PLATNUMZ, MBOSSO, LAVA LAVA
KATIKA – NAVY KENZO FT. DIAMOND PLATNUMZ
ISSA GOAL – NAIRA MARLEY, OLAMIDE, LIL KESH
SPIRIT – KWESTA FT WALE
FAKE LOVE – WIZKID AND DUNCAN MIGHTY
CLUB CONTROLLER – PRINCE KAYBEE FT LASOULMATES
SAID – NASTYC & RUNTOWN
AMAKA – 2FACE IDIBIA FT. PERRUZI
DIGITAL ARTISTE OF THE YEAR
DAVIDO
TIWA SAVAGE
MR EAZI
BURNA BOY
CASSPER NYOVEST
VANESSA MDEE
FALZ
WIZKID
DIAMOND PLATNUMZ
YEMI ALADE
VIDEO OF THE YEAR
GRINGO – SHATTA WALE
MIDNIGHT DRUM – A PASS, ROUGE, FIK FAMEICA
SHORT N’ SWEET – SAUTI SOL
YE – BURNA BOY
FEVER – WIZKID
SURRENDA – ADEKUNLE GOLD
SCIENCE STUDENT – OLAMIDE
KING – NASTY C FT A$AP FERG
HEAL THE WORLD – PATORANKING
KSAZOBALIT – CASSPER NYOVEST
BEST GROUP OR DUO
DISTRUCTION BOIZ
SAUTI SOL
NAVY KENZO
MICASA
MAFIKIZOLO
SHOW DEM CAMP
R2BEES
TOOFAN
GOLD FISH
REGGIE N’ BOLLIE
SONG OF THE YEAR
YE – BURNA BOY
SHORT & SWEET – SAUTI SOL FT NYASHINKI
AFRICAN BEAUTY – DIAMOND PLATNUMZ FT. OMARION
SOCO – STARBOY FT WIZKID, TERRI, SPOTLESS & CEEZA MILLI
KATIKA – NAVY KENZO FT. DIAMOND PLATNUMZ
MAKHE – DJ MAPHORISA, DJ SIMBA FT MOONCHILD SANELLY
SKELETON MOVES – MASTER KG
ASSURANCE – DAVIDO
AMAKA – TUFACE IDIBIA
KWANGWARU – HARMONIZE FT. DIAMOND PLATNUMZ
BEST NEW ARTISTE
KIDI
SHO MADJOZI
ODUNSI
PERUZZI
TENIOLA
KIDA KUDZ
SHANE EAGLE
KING PROMISE
KWESI ARTHUR
MBOSSO
VIEWERS CHOICE
YE – BURNA BOY
DROGBA – AFRO B
SOMISO – WANDE COAL
SCIENCE STUDENT – OLAMIDE
FEVER – WIZKID
SOCO – STARBOY FT WIZKID, TERRI, SPOTLESS & CEEZA MILLI
KUPE DANCE – A STAR
MAGUN (RMX) – NINIOLA FT. BUSISWA
AVAILABLE – PATORANKING
TIWA’S VIBE – TIWA SAVAGE
LISTENERS CHOICE
CLUB CONTROLLER – PRINCE KAYBEE FT LASOULMATES
KATIKA – NAVY KENZO FT. DIAMOND PLATNUMZ
SOCO – STARBOY
YE – BURNA BOY
WETIN WE GAIN – VICTOR AD
KWANGQARU – HARMONIZE FT DIAMOND PLATNUMZ
FAKE LOVE – WIZKID & DUNCAN MIGHTY
CONFUSION – KUAMI EUGENE
CCTV – KING PROMISE FT. MUGEEZ, SARKODIE
ASKAMAYA – TENI
AFRICAN PRODUCER OF THE YEAR
KILLERTUNES
JULZ
SARS
NAHREEL
NORTHBOI
DJ TIRA
PHANTOM
SPEROACHBEATZ
FRESH VDM
KEL P
AFRICAN ARTISTE OF THE YEAR
BURNA BOY
DAVIDO
SARKODIE
YEMI ALADE
A.K.A
TIWA SAVAGE
WIZKID
DIAMOD PLATNUMZ
NASTY C
OLAMIDE
AFRICAN DJ OF THE YEAR
BLACK COFFEE
DJ SPINALL
DJ MIC SMITH
DJ KAYWISE
DJ XCLUSIVE
DJ NEPTUNE
PRINCE KAYBE
DJ ARAFAT
DJ MAPHORISA
DJ VYRUSKY
A young man has taken to the social media to reveal how friends who recently visited him to watch football, breaked his television set.
According to him, out of anger, a young man who paid him a visit, allegedly shattered his TV for switching channel during a UEFA Champions League game.
He shared the photo of his TV which was destroyed by the angry young man, and wrote:
“A friend destroy our property last night due to anger problem. He came to watch liverpool vs napoli.
He came down to watch champions league with some of his friends and they decided to watch liverpool game but i own the apartment and im a barcelona fan, but i agreed they should go ahead and watch the game of their desire
83min liverpool was winning and barcelona playing tie with totteham and i decided to change the channel all of a sudden the guy stood up and started ranting, gave me blow and hit my tv.”
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) on Wednesday began an indefinite strike over non-implementation of the 2009 and 2017 agreement reached with the union by the federal government.
The polytechnic lecturers now join their university colleagues who have been on strike since November 4. The National President of ASUP, Usman Dutse, said the federal government had invited the union for dialogue on December 17 but the strike would continue till then.
Prior to the strike, the union had on October 2 issued a 21-day ultimatum to the government before it extended it to November. But even then, it did not commence the strike. Dutse said the strike had commenced, adding that there is total compliance by all chapters.
“We have zonal coordinators and a monitoring team, zone by zone, all over the country. Already from the report we are getting, we are satisfied with the level of compliance from all our zones but we are reviewing the day’s activity in a meeting now,” he said.
Dutse said the government has failed to implement and fulfill agreements it reached with the union as contained in the memorandum of understanding signed. The union went on strike over non-implementation of the NEEDS Assessment report of 2014, non-payment of salaries in state-owned institutions, non-payment of allowances, and the victimisation of union members, among others.
ASUP went on strike in November 2017, but when the federal government reached an agreement to implement the recommendations of the 2014 NEEDS assessment, the strike was suspended 15 days after. The agreement particularly highlighted the need for increased funding of polytechnics.
Rumour has it that a woman was apprehended while trying to behead her own daughter on Wednesday in Delta state.
According to Facebook user Isaac Omoyibo, the woman was allegedly caught in an uncompleted building while trying to behead her twelve years old daughter for reasons best known to her.
Pictures shared online show the young girl with blood all over her body and the supposed mother laying on the ground with blood stains after being allegedly nabbed while ‘trying to commit murder’.
The alleged incident was said to have happened yesterday evening at No Tension Street, Off Kpateghe Road, Oghara Ethiope West Local Government area of the state.
Migos rapper, Offset has revealed he wants to spend Christmas with his estranged family, Cardi B and Kulture.
Though the pair might be separated, he still wants some Christmas love.
Sources close to the couple told TMZ, Offset wants to spend the holidays with Cardi and their little girl specifically, Xmas Eve and day as well as a few days leading up to that.
Offset reportedly knows how important spending Kulture’s first Christmas with his daughter will be, and wants to be there.
Sources close to Cardi revealed the “Bodak Yellow” rapper hasn’t yet made up her mind if she’ll allow Offset to celebrate the holidays with her as a family and the plans haven’t been discussed.
Offset wants Cardi back, plain and simple. He feels like his haters are standing in his way but he’s determined to win back her heart.
No word on whether they’ll rekindle their relationship and stave off a divorce, but sources say that people close to both of them think there’s a reasonable shot they can work it out.
Super Eagles star Oghenekaro Etebo has quit bachelorhood after performing the traditional wedding rites of his better-half, Bethel Ebhota, in a quiet ceremony in Warri, Delta State.
According to reports, Etebo’s immediate family members, friends and well-wishers were all in attendance at the couple exchanged marital vows at the bride’s residence.
Speaking moments after the rites, Etebo, who currently plies his trade with Stoke City revealed why he decided to marry Bethel.
“She has been there for me and she’s the mother of my son. We barely had time to do this and I felt it was necessary to get the marital rites done with before the year ends” Etebo told Completesports.
Nollywood actor and politician, Yul Edochie has given his ‘two cents’ to recent viral videos and posts about the lack of genuine love in Nollywood.
In his reaction, Yul Edochie Tweeted :
‘they say there’s no love in Nollywood. I laugh. Brethren there’s no love anywhere, not only in Nollywood. The world is tough, it’s a jungle out here. My advice: Don’t wait for anyone to love you, love yourself, help yourself. Work hard, pray & do what’s right in the sight of God’.
A heartbroken man has taken to Facebook to write an epistle professing his love for his ex who is about to get married to someone else.
Akan Greatness Udom, a popular Facebook user narrated how he met Ufan, how their relationship blossomed, and his shock at being told that she will be getting married soon to someone else.
Akan
Yesterday, Akan professed his love for her one last time on Facebook as he poured out his heart. His epistle is quite interesting to read.
Read below ;
Tributes to the Only Love I Truly Had!
Ufan,
Putting this out has been one of the toughest decisions I have had to make in a recent time. I know many may have different reactions, it obvious I won’t care.
Tomorrow, you will traditionally be married to the man you have preferred chosen and accepted for a life union, and on Saturday, it will be sealed before God and men.
Let me first of all congratulate you on this next level of your life. Kindly expect my absence as I won’t be attending any of both events. Not that I have any bad feelings about your decision, I don’t think I am emotionally strong to behold “the only woman I could say I truly loved” officially given out to another man.
I wish I can, but just understand I can’t.
I can still remember when you first broke this news over a phone call, it was all like a joke. I laughed over it but you insisted you were serious. Well, tomorrow it will be a reality that I wish it never were.
We met on 2go in 2011. I can remember how your Status draw my attention to your account. I started hunting you day and night online, as reserved as you were, you hardly came online not respond to me, not until one night after blazing you for ignoring me, I woke up in the morning to see your apologies which came with your phone number. The next morning witnessed the beginning of a friendship that last more than 6 years even in the face of our many differences and clashes.
It took you more than 2 years before you voluntarily allowed me to see your face. (You just pitied me… Lol) You were beautiful, reserved and sensible. I just knew you were a friend for a keep.
I was in my level 300 in the University when we met, you were just fresh out of Secondary school seeking Admission into the Higher Institution. This was the major source of insecurity and concern we had to face. You never believed I was for real, and for the long years we spent together, you never really believed I truly loved you because you felt I was in a particular societal class you weren’t fit for. My social media engagements, the imaginary “fame and Uyo popularity” was also a regular concern. I tried my best to prove it, I didn’t seems to succeed.
No matter how we both tried to adjust, I was still me and you were you the “reserved, private and unsocial” person. Our incompatibilities were just too clear. We kept believing we could work out fine someday but this has proven we were never meant to be.
I had spent time reflecting on the many crazy things I have done because of you. I wish you had at least believed me the much I did loved you.
Before we met in 2013, I had travelled from my NYSC base to Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic on hearing that it was your matriculation day. You didn’t inform nor invite me, I just came believing I could run into you. That was crazy, let me save the details of what happened that day cos it was a big craziness.
After crying for the lost of my first love, no other lady has made me cry but you. You are the only one that will make me angry and I will still come back to apologize. The looks in your eyes alone were strong messages, it could make me comport and behave in the mist of my craziness.
You had so much hold on me like jazz. Those who knew us wondered what it were. But I know it was love indeed.
I couldn’t ask for a better friend than you if I have another opportunity. We are leaving each other better than we met in 2011. Aside from my Mum, you were always my first point of call in critical situations. Your sense of reasoning, counsels, peace loving dispositions and godly personality has kept me from load of problems in this city. I can’t forget your consistent advise “Ufan, let it go, better things are ahead of you”, “Is it worth your stress, life or security?” and your “What ifB” that will leave me giving a second thought to my actions.
If am blessed today by the prayers of two people, it’s my parents prayers and yours. Thanks for believing in me and pushing me out to go achieve my dreams. Thanks for standing by me in my most darkest moments.00xk
Thanks for always remembering me in your prayers. Thanks for drawing me closer to God. Which man won’t fight to have a rare treasure as you?
It was a long year of knowing each other. I wasn’t a perfect man, you had your own differences. We had ernestly tried to make it work but it never stayed smooth for too long. We are parting today not because we have stopped loving each other but because it wasn’t within God’s will for us. Maybe it’s a time for a deeper reflection for me.
I hoped and wished our beautiful love story would be told by us someday but God knows better. I’m not hurt, because we played very essential roles in the lives of each other and we just had to face the reality. I am a strong believer that it is not all friendship or relationship that must lead to marriage. Ours wasn’t meant to be, but we had the best of friendship and I will treasure such memories for my life time.
I love you still and wish you the best of martial bliss, fruitfulness and peace.
I still wish I can be there to witness it, but I can’t. I hope you really understand.
Thanks for being a friend indeed.
I will forever miss you and I doubt any women can take these memories of you away.
Happy married life Ufan mmi
You are a good woman, and he is just a lucky man
A Facebook user has said that it is totally wrong for a married woman to give out her money to anyone in her name, instead it should be done in their husband’s name.
Hasi Ibra took to Facebook to write:
As a married woman u’re not supposed to give money out to anyone, whether ur family member or outsider, in ur name but in ur husband’s name, even if it’s ur personal money…
Marriage is team work, and d husband is d head of the team…his name MUST b used for every giving, honour must b given to whom honour is due..
A video is trending on social media and it shows an unlucky burglar who got stuck in action while trying to break into a man’s house in an undisclosed area in South Africa.
The thief who got trapped in the window, was caught red-handed by the house owner who arrived shortly after. He was hit on the leg with a bottle as he consistently pleaded for mercy and cried for help.
A yet to be identified Evangelist who preached on the street, is about becoming a viral sensation as he was spotted in a video shouting that needs a car.
According to the Preacher, he needs a car to enable him preach better to the public.
The Evangelist revealed that his shoe has suffered due to the burden of trekking constantly, saying people have been asking where the God that called him is because he treks everyday to preach the Gospel as His servant.
He concluded his preaching by telling members of the public to get take down his phone number and address, so they can provide the car that will enable him preach the word of God at ease.
Morayo Afolabi-Brown’s husband, Femi Afolabi-Brown, has laid curses on a Pastor attacking and calling him a child-molester.
Morayo Afolabi-Brown’s husband who asked God to afflict him with ailments and also destroy his destiny if he is guilty of what the Pastor accused him of, asked God to do same to the Pastor identified as Jesse Joshua if he is innocent.
The Browns.
He wrote;
@rev.jesse_joshua If I am truly what you called me as shown above, let the Lord God of Elijah destroy my glory and destiny totally, let Him strike me with cancer of the brain and kidney failure and let me suffer in agony and perish on the bed of terminal illness in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. But if I am not, let Him do all these unto you and everyone else who speaks against me as you do in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
The police in Oyo state have arrested a driver identified as Solomon Okon, who stole his boss’ Honda CRV Sport Utility Vehicle in Ibadan and fled to Akwa Ibom state where he sold it to another criminal.
Okon was employed by his boss, Mrs Olufunke Obaba in September 2018 and by October, he had stolen her car.
Narrating how it happened, Mrs Olufunke Obaba said Okon had driven her in her car to the University Teaching Hospital in Ibadan for a checkup.
“We got there around 8.30am. He parked and I entered the hospital. About two and half hours later, I came back and my car wasn’t where it was parked. I called his numbers, none was going through. Then, I called my husband and told him to come and pick me. He came and took me back to the office.
“I thought he just drove the car out to enjoy himself and that he would bring it back. But between 3pm and 4pm, we felt we needed to report to the police. So, we went to the Yemetu Police Station in Ibadan, where we reported the disappearance of the driver and the car, and the police took it up from there.
“The following day, the station directed us to the office of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad at Dugbe, Ibadan, with a letter and a policeman. We got there and they started their job.”
The tracker that was installed on the car, helped detectives in location where Okon was. The tracker showed he was in Ijebu Ode and then in Igbokoda, Ondo State, before showing that that he had reached his home town which is in Akwa Ibom State where he was arrested after the detectives failed twice to arrest him.
Okon has since confessed to the crime and he would be arraigned in court soon.
DMW singer, Peruzzi has reacted to the video showing him in bed with an Eighteen year old Unilag student.
Recall, the video was leaked on social media, which shows the student, identified as Tobi,18, kissing the singer while he was asleep, probably after a few rounds of coitus.
