Etisalat Nigeria has confirmed, and officially announced their name change to 9Mobile.
The announcement was made on their Twitter page, and they also sent out series of text messages to their customers.
There had been speculations that the brand was going to change its name to 9Mobile, after Etisalat International exited the country and gave them a 3-week deadline to change the brand name.
An insider had on Friday said the board had approved the name change, but had yet to make it official. The mobile network’s official Twitter account announced the change, unveiling the brand’s logo and its colours.
It said:
“Etisalat is now 9mobile. From 9ja let’s talk, to 0809ja for Life we remain committed to YOU. Here for you, Here for 9ja #9forlife #9mobile”
Doyin Okupe, the former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and former member of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has announced his switch to the Accord Party in Ogun state.
Doyin Okupe shockingly declared exit from PDP about three weeks ago on the reason of not been functional at the present dispensation.
Okupe revealed his new step in a Press statement posted in his Facebook page this evening.
Read the Press release:
“Following various consultations with political associates, family and friends I have decided to formally join the ACCORD Party.
My decision is based on deep reflection on who I am and what I want from politics.
To me politics does not begin and end with winning or losing elections. It’s not about big or small parties either. It’s also beyond personal relationships or endearing associations or friendships.
There exists in our communities several platforms on which such affiliations and sentiments can be sufficiently gratified.
To me, Politics is about, Service to the people, policies and ideologies that will serve the best interests of the greater majority of the society, Forthrightness and accountability, Honour and Integrity.
I am not desperate to be anything anymore. But I am desperate to find and work with other Nigerians especially our young and vibrant upcoming politicians, to establish a political incubator to breed a new generation of leaders who will do things right, maintain high ethical standards and abhor greed,avarice, selfishness and impunity.
Most of our national parties presently and in the past were put together with a false sense of national spread but majorly, irrespective of how they came to power, end up being inequitable and manifestly exists to serve the interests of a minority few and/or that of a tiny section of the country.
I want to belong to a political party that will be able to publicly state it’s position on troubling national issues like, requests for self determination by a section of the country, resource control, federalism and Restructuring, Religious intolerance, atrocities of fulani Herdsman, unequal standards in national university admission policy, and many more.
Any political party that does not have an openly stated position or Stand on these issues is a mere association of elites coming together only to feather their own nests or at best a deceptive political contraption put together by a few to seize power for a few and for the benefit of a few.
An official date of declaration by me and my numerous supporters in Ogun state will be announced shortly.
Accord Party is the political party formed by the former Governor of Oyo state, Chief Rashidi Ladoja at the verge of last Gubernatorial election in Oyo state.
Nigerian singer, Speed Darlington, who recently had a clash with popular cross-dresser, Bobrisky, has taken to his Instagram page to dedicate a song to his crush, Tonto Dikeh.
The singer who recently disclosed he wants to marry Tonto Dikeh whose marriage just ended, in a subtle way wrote:
“*Wink* *Wink* @tontolet I hope that video of you in a wedding gown is just for the movies.”
Wawu, Aunty Kemi is not tired yet and it seems we still have a very long week of social media fracas between Kemi Olunloyo and Seyi Law, as she’s still calling out Seyi Law’s daughter, Tiwaoluwa, again.
The controversial journalist who took to Instagram with the hashtag #Tiwagate to show what she’s eating, wrote;
“#LIVE from the “abroad” of #Nigeria. #portharcourt
My lunch is dedicated to @seyilaw1. Come and chop. Bring Tiwa along to the pool club. The shrimp mushroom chicken salad is low calorie. No getting fatter.
Fans>>What do you eat to get healthy?
S/O to all the healthy Instagram, Facebook and Twitter fans.
#hnnfood #hnnhealth #tiwagate #hnnkids
This post is monetized. I need 100 comments to make $200 so START COMMENTING! I need to pay for this meal. Lolz.”
A distraught father caught his 17-year-old teenage daughter having sex with her first cousin, who has been identified as Mustapha.
The angry father filmed the confession of the 21-year-old young man, and the video is currently trending online. In the video, the 21 year old confirmed the sex has been happening between them for a long time now.
The man also blasted his young daughter who was involved in the act, as she felt remorseful. He later asked his nephew to apologize to her for taking advantage and convincing the teenage girl to have sex with him.
After Lai Mohammed announced plans of the Federal Government to impose a ban on shooting music videos, movies outside Nigeria, it has of course generated a lot of negative buzz by entertainers.
In a long note, Veteran rapper, Ruggedman highlights reasons why the move is not only wrong but totally out of place.
Read;
Sir,
You can not privatise what you do not own or have control over.
Meet with real Nigerian entertainment stake holders and not people who have milked our entertainers with their platforms. Meet with the real stakeholders and discuss the way forward. Discuss how the Federal government can get involved with the Nigerian creative industry the right way.
It is wrong to try to bully your way into the Nigerian entertainment industry you did nothing to help build.
It is absurd to say you will ban entertainers from shooting music videos or movies abroad. Your reason being that we go there to enrich their economy with Nigerias money.
Not while government officials have their children schooling abroad.
Not while government officials all go abroad for medical treatment and vacations .
Not while government officials continue to import bullet proof cars that are not made in Nigeria.
All these amount to billions of Nigeria’s money being spent abroad.
IF YOU WANT ENTERTAINERS TO STOP GOING ABROAD TO SHOOT MUSIC VIDEOS AND MOVIES, THEN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS SHOULD STOP GOING ABROAD FOR HOSPITALS,VACATIONS AND SCHOOLS.
WE CAN USE ALL THOSE BILLIONS SPENT IN FUNDING FOREIGN ECONOMIES TO EQUIP OUR SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS AND OTHER PARASTATALS.
They are our leaders and so have to lead by example
Trying to ban private owned businesses (entertainers) from doing part of their business abroad will go against the democracy your party preaches.
THINGS YOU NEED TO DO:
1. First of all, shelve the talk of banning entertainers working abroad. It is not what the creative industry needs from the government and it is a terrible look for you. Nobody likes a bully.
2. NO STRUCTURE MEANS NO ALTERNATIVE:
Since we do not have a proper structure yet, put a hold on your $1m venture capital for the creative industry.
You say the money is seed money for young and talented Nigerians to set up businesses in the industry. How do you know the young and talented ones if you do not work with the registered Music and Movie bodies?
You will only be enriching a few and wasting money our country needs.
So you need to help the existing Music and Movie unions set up a proper structure that can be monitored before you talk about giving money out.
Money is needed, but a structure is needed more urgently.
3. PMAN AND AGN VISITED YOU
I for one know that The President of the Performing Musicians Employers Association of Nigeria (PMAN ) Mr Pretty Okafor and the President of the Actors Guild Of Nigeria ( AGN ) Mr Emeka Ike along with a few executives met with you in Abuja and discussed a beautiful plan to put a proper structure in place for Nigeria’s creative industry.
One of the plans that was discussed with you was a conference tagged “Creative Industry Summit” and I see you were involved in a similar event recently tagged “Creative Industry Financing conference”.
We are surprised that nobody from the movie or music industry was present to speak at a conference for the ‘’CREATIVE INDUSTRY’’.
Sir, the stakeholders who spoke ath the just concluded Creative Industry Financing conference are not Nigerian veteran musicians or Nigerian record label owners. Neither are they from the Nigerian movie industry.
4. DISCUSS WITH ENTERTAINMENT STAKEHOLDERS 1ST, BEFORE BUSINESS STAKEHOLDERS.
We did not see the likes of Kenny Ogungbe “Kennis Music” , Tade Ogidan, Obi Asika “Storm Records”, Tunde Kilani, or Eldee “Trybe Records”.
These are some of the people who suffered and played great parts in building our Nigerian music and movie industry.
But the men at the Creative Industry Financing conferenceare you were part of are individuals who schooled “abroad” and own platforms that have made and are still making money using Nigerian entertainment.
But most of the artists whose works they deal in do not have half the money these men have made with our interlectual properties.
Sir, these intelligent businessmen can be in an advisory board to help build a structure to enrich both the owners of the intellectual properties and the Nigerian economy.
4. Revisit the plans the new PMAN president Pretty Okafor discussed with you when he and some executives met with you in Abuja some months back. Plans which involve setting up a proper structure to encode and barcode all intellectual materials by Nigerians.
WE NEED POLICIES TO
5. GET RADIO AND TV STATIONS TO PAY ARTISTS ROYALTY:
For eons, Nigerian radio and television stations have amassed billions of Nigeria from using Nigerian artists hard work without paying the artists. This is where you can come in and set up a policy that will make sure they start paying artists whose work they use.
They already make a lot of money from adverts placed by companies.
Sir, this move will be a ground breaking one in the Nigerian entertainment industry and it will be to your credit.
6. STOP TELECOM COMPANIES TAKING 70% OF ARTISTS MONEY:
Sit quietly with REAL Nigerian entertainment stakeholders and discuss the way forward. Not with individuals who have milked entertainers through their platforms for their personal gains. Especially the TELCOS.
TELCOS sell our songs/ringtones and take 70% while the owner of the work gets to share 30% with a content provider. IF YOU ARE TO BAN ANYBODY, IT IS THE TELCOS WHO DO THIS.
6. CURB PIRACY:
Follow the guidelines to curb piracy that the PMAN President Pretty Okafor introduced to you. Which included, setting up a task force empowered to deal with people found dealing in pirated entertainment materials.
PMAN is the recognised parent body for Nigerian Music, just as The AGN is to the Nigerian movie industry.
Both Presidents are veterans in their fields and are also businessmen. So sir, they undertand both worlds.
I am an entertainer and I know a lot of what we lack and what we need. Placing a ban on Nigerian entertainers going abroad to shoot music videos and movies is the last thing we need from our government.
Helping our creative industry to build a much needed structure, thereby creating a conducive environment for both local and foreign investors to do business is what is needed.
Lets work together to further grow and capitalize on a Nigerian creative industry that has managed to boom without any government policy..
Let the government make policies that will protect and expand our creative industry to benefit the entertainers and the Nigerian economy.
But it can not be achieved by brute force.
Or sir, you do not want them to come to Nigeria to shoot parts of Furious 9?
Sincerely yours
Ruggedman
CHAIRMAN MEDIA PMAN
{ PERFORMING MUSICIANS EMPLOYERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA}
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state, who declared his intention to run for Presidential seat come 2019 has rekindled the interest of the Indigenous People of Biafrans for himself.
In a video uploaded by the Ekiti State Governor’s Special Assistant On Media and Publicity, Olalere Olayinka, the Governor was overwhelmingly cheered by the Biafrans chanting his name.
Alongside the video, Olalere Olayinka posted “Fayose everywhere you go” on his Facebook page.
Peter Okoye and Ruggedman has reacted after Collins Edwin, the APC youths National Secretary, described Peter Okoye as the “son of darkness”, and urged security agencies to arrest the PSquare brothers for Peter’s comments against the Federal Government.
The Statement signed by Collins Edwin reads;
“We read the scurrilous remarks credited to Mr Peter Okoye of the Psquare group against the Federal Government’s job-saving policy in the entertainment industry with great anger and vexation.
“Least of all persons to make scathing remark against the government is the Psquare group which the local content policy of the Federal Government dusted-up from the valley of obscurity.
“Where was Peter Okoye or Psquare brand in 1999 when foreign music dominated our airwaves? If not for the government policy which mandated all broadcast stations in Nigeria to pay attention to Nigerian music by playing 95 percent of Nigerian songs every day, would Peter Okoye or Psquare be known to anybody in Nigeria today?
“Or would they have competed with better American music which dominated our airwaves then?
“After the government have used its policy to brush them up from nothing to something; instead of giving opportunity to other people, they are taking Nigerian jobs to foreign countries through the shooting of music videos abroad.
“Now that government have intervened to raise great and better entertainers again, Peter Okoye has the gut to insult the entire Federal Government by calling our great leaders ‘Ndi Ala’ which means mad and stupid people. How dare you say that Psquare?
“We, therefore, urge the security agencies in the country to arrest Mr Peter Okoye for disrespecting our government and bringing it to a disrepute.
“If you cannot produce in Nigeria and hire Nigerians, then leave the industry. We must export Nigerian culture to the outside world through our music and videos.”
Well, Ruggedman has fired back at Collins, while Peter Okoye joined in the banter, mocking the National Secretary of APC Youths.
Peter said: “Abeg make him Oder Egusi,pounded yam and goat meat join for the arrest??? I knw those youth will start from 70 and above?? Onye ala?”
Read The Full tweets below;
The federal government did not order @PeterPsquare arrest, it's Mr. Collins Edwin, Nat Secretary, APCYouths dat's ordering d government to ?
Abeg make him Oder Egusi,pounded yam and goat meat join for the arrest??? I knw those youth will start from 70 and above?? Onye ala? #Ndialahttps://t.co/kGW678XVmn
In a new interview on Emma Ugolee’s The Gist alongside Nigerian Musicians, African China and Sound Sultan, Veteran actor and TV host, Okey Bakassi, has raised concerns over the alarming rate of drug abuse and its consumption in Nigeria.
The stand-up comedian said a majority of illicit drugs consumers are Nigerian celebrities.
He said:
“Conservatively 70% of Nigerian Celebrities are on some sort of substance today. They have gone ballistic. You hear a lot of names- SK, Kush, Loud, etc. the names come everyday and you’re struggling to keep up with the nomenclature of it.”
However, He admitted that he also indulged in the act when he was younger, and noted that entertainers often take drugs to boost their creativity.
He said:
“I did some of it too. Creativity is part of it. [It enhances creativity] in the short term,”
According to a mental health expert who was also on the show,
He said:
“[Drugs and] alcohol [today] is the to-go guy and yet the most commonly abused substance.”
According to El Mundo, Portuguese Professional Footballer, Cristiano Ronaldo, has confirmed his girlfriend, Georgina Rodriguez’s pregnancy in their conversation with him.
The pregnancy rumours began swirling after the emergence of a series of pictures that revealed how her body was changing.
The 32-year-old Portuguese may be taking some time off the pitch ahead of the coming campaign, but that hasn’t stopped him making the headlines with news making the rounds that he’s expecting a fourth child!
This will be his fourth child as the Real Madrid superstar recently became a father to a set of twins – Eva and Mateo – who, like Cristiano Ronaldo Jr were delivered by a surrogate mother in the United States.
Read the chat between the Fooball Star and El Mundo:
El Mundo: How are your two babies like?
Cristiano: They are precious, I am delighted.
El Mundo: Do you change their diapers?
Cristiano: I’m not very good at it, but I try.
El Mundo: You look delighted.
Cristiano: Very, I’m really happy.
El Mundo: And are you happy with the one on the way?
Cristiano: Yes, very much.
According to 101GreatGoals, there are also rumours that the pair are planning to tie the knot as Georgina recently started following popular Spanish wedding dress accounts on social media.
Linda Ejiofor , a major actor (or actress) in The Meeting, had her birthday yesterday and the bestie, Adesua took to her Instagram page to celebrate her friend and colleague in the film industry.
In the video, the intimate friend picked on Adesua but the damsel seems not to be in the mood as the other.
A 55-year-old woman who killed her mother by giving her an overdose of drugs and smothering her with a pillow has been found guilty of causing her death.
Shirley D’Silva of Morland Road, Croydon pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey on Monday, 17 July to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. She will be sentenced at the same court on Tuesday, 18 July.
On 25 October 2016 at about 16:10hrs, D?Silva dialled 999 and told the operator that she had just killed her 77-year-old mother Martha Pereira at the home they shared.
When the operator asked what happened, she replied:
“Erm, nothing happened. I just decided to take her life.”
When the operator asked D?Silva “what made you do this today?” she replied:
”It’s the world we live around. We’ve been suffering too long. Nobody’s doing nothing about it. Somebody has to come forward and do something about it.”
She told the operator her mother had been unwell for a long time. Later on in the call when asked by the operator “did you do it because you don’t think you were getting the help you needed?”
she replied:
“No, no. It’s not, it’s not that. It’s about the world, the war around the world going on.’
D?Silva remained on the phone until officers arrived at the scene.
She remained calm at first and when asked what happened, D?Silva told officers:
“I have just killed my mother. I have given her an overdose of insulin and I have suffocated her with a pillow.”
Officers and paramedics from the London Ambulance Service carried out CPR on Mrs Pereira but she was pronounced dead a short time later at a south London hospital.
A post-mortem examination showed the cause of death was consistent with an insulin overdose and smothering.
D?Silva was arrested on suspicion of murder at 16:18hrs on 25 October. She was charged on 27 October.
When interviewed by officers D?Silva told them a man had told her to kill her mother, and he was now telling her to kill her husband and son.
Detective Sergeant Brendan Ward, the investigating officer from the Met?s Homicide and Major Crime Command, said:
“This is a very sad case and our thoughts and sympathies are with the family at this difficult time.”
While speaking in an exclusive interview with DailyTrust, the Senator representing Zamfara Central under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kabiru Garba Marafa, revealed that he is extremely rich because to him, richness is in the mind.
The lawmaker said;
“As far as I’m concerned, I’m richer than Aliko Dangote because the little I have is enough for me. I have never put myself in a very tight situation.
“This is my sixth year as a senator and I’m still living in a rented house. I don’t have a house in Abuja but I believe when the time comes I’ll have it.”
“People voted me into this office. So, I should not just come here to serve myself and my children.
“What I promised people was that I’m not going to be perfect but on every naira I get, I’m going to spend 60 kobo on them and the remaining 40 kobo on myself. This is the principle that I operate. “
In her conversation with The Cable, Malala has now revealed her reason for coming to Nigeria and basically with the meeting that started around 6pm yesterday.
She said:
“I met the acting president of Nigeria, and the goal of the meeting was to highlight that the government on the local level, on the state and on the national level must be united in the fight for education. It should be the top priority, so I asked him to declare a state of emergency for education. I had three specific asks, one was to increase spending by 300 percent; to triple the current spending.
The second was to make all the spending public, and then my third was to implement the child rights act in all states, so they should make sure it happens. These were my three asks from the acting president.”
Malala, who had once been in Nigeria in 2014, led a campaign to the then President Goodluck Jonathan for the release of the Boko Haram abducted Chibok girls. After her visit, the Federal Government necessitated the successful plans to recover more than 100 Chibok girls.
Ayex who now has four official singles in his portfolio is back with another single title “Not A Summer Jam” just few months after he did a cover for JHus’ song ‘Friendly’.
‘Not A Summer Jam’ is different from any other song he has released in the past. The song was produced by budding producer Loopy Beatz.
Download & Stream the song below and share your thoughts. Also, watch the lyrics video to the summer sound which actually claims is not a summer sound. Don’t forget to drop your reviews as comments.
Rapper Yung6ix has berated Lai Mohammed after he revealed about the proposed ban on Music Videos, Movies shot abroad.
Seems like Lai Mohammed has angered some people..
Since the news of the proposed ban on Music Video shoot, Movies abroad.. Folks have condemned the proposed ban, with many saying the Federal Government have gone too far.
Peter Okoye also reacted to this news, and he totally condemned the act. In a series of tweets, he wrote;
Even his Elder brother, Jude Okoye reacted to the development;
‘Smh. An industry they NEVER encouraged, supported or empowered is what they now want to control. Let all of you stop running to abroad when you are sick as na naija money una dey use patronize oyibo hospital dem. You people are the ones refusing to fix our health facilities so u travel out when mosquito bite una.
So why tell us where to record when u can’t provide uninterrupted power here in Nigeria. Sometime I wonder how we got it all wrong. Una children when dey sch for abroad na which money una dey use patronize them? Abeg stfu!’
Now, Rapper Yung6ix isn’t having any of it, and he’s taken to Twitter to air his thought.
Of late, cases of women raping men in Zimbabwe has become rampant. A father-of-four, kidnapped and raped by two women for days to the extent that his penis became bruised, has come out to tell his story and it’s really pathetic.
People have been sceptical about the stories being told of an increase in female rapists and this is because the victims prefer to be silent due to shame. However, the latest victim, a 48-year-old father agreed to speak to The Standard on the condition of anonymity.
The victim, Chivamba (not real name), is a teacher from Mashonaland East who lives in Chitungwiza. He said he never believed the stories about female rapists until it happened to him.
Chivamba had tears in his eyes as he recounted the incident, saying it left him “confused, traumatised and dejected.” He said he still relives the nightmare and hopes the women will get caught soon and be brought to justice.
?No man would ever want such an experience and as for me, I would give anything to avoid a repeat, even in a dream,? he said.
Recalling the sad incident, he said:
“My family stays here in Chitungwiza and I was on my way back to Macheke after a weekend visit when this tragedy happened.
I usually prefer to use buses when travelling but as fate would have it, that day I flagged down a private car, a BMW and it stopped. The driver told me that he was going to Mutare via Marondera and that was perfect for me.
There were three women already in the car, one sitting on the front passenger seat and the other two on the back seat. I got in and sat with the two women at the back and we took off.”
He said everyone was very friendly and the driver seemed to be in a romantic relationship with the woman sitting with him in the front.
“They were all drinking beer which was in a cooler box and when we got to Ziko shopping centre they stopped to refill. One of the ladies offered me a beer and I politely turned her down since I was not feeling well. I settled for a cascade which she handed over to me.”
Chivamba said as they approached the Dema toll gate the driver took the dust road which many other drivers used to avoid paying toll fees. At this time, he said he had finished his drink and was already feeling dizzy.
“I thought maybe it was the effects of the tablets that I had taken that day since I was having a running stomach. I fell asleep and the next moment I found myself in a small room with a small bed. I screamed but no one came to my rescue. My manhood felt itchy and when I looked down I realised I was bruised.
I felt weak and I was confused. Then the two women who I was sharing the back seat within the car entered the room. They appeared to be much younger than the one who was seated at the front. They began removing their clothes and told me that they wanted me to have sex with them. I refused but one of them who appeared very drunk produced a pistol and told me that she would not hesitate to kill me.
“They tied both my hands, and began caressing me like what happens in a porn movie. They would take turns to suck my manhood and forcibly having sex with me. I was made to take another drink and soon after I had an erection. They would not stop raping me despite my pleas for mercy. One of the women used a condom but the other one wanted unprotected sex.”
The next day the women, while masked with a woollen hat, brought food for him into the room where he was locked. Later that day, they bundled him into their car and they drove for some time before he was dumped along Wedza-Murambinda road.
“That was my first time to be in Wedza. I was assisted by some young men who directed me to Wedza centre where I reported the matter to the police. The police then took me to hospital where I was given treatment for the bruises on my manhood and also medication to prevent infection. I am grateful to the police and the staff at the hospital,” he said.
Chivamba sustained injuries on his manhood, suffered chest pains and was put on 30-day medication to prevent him from contracting the HIV virus, a medical report shows.
He now moves around with the aid of crutches, and each time he goes to pee, the scars on his manhood bring back the memories of how he suffered at the hands of the female rapists.
American-born Nigerian singer-songewriter, Emma Nyra, ha staken to her Instagram page to flaunt her boobs in beautiful birthday photos.
The 29-year-old who is celebrating her birthday today, 18th of July thanked God and everyone that have supported her and showed her love.
The Ex-MMMG artiste and NyraNation Boss wrote:
“Happy Birthday to me!!! I want to say thank you to baba God for every single experience and exposure that He has allowed me to grow from. Thank you to every single person I have ever met along this journey that has supported me and shown me love!!! I will forever be grateful to my family for loving me and accepting me as I am! @nyranation we rise!!!! *NEW MUSIC IN MY BIO* #JAMINA #emmanyra#nyranation”
According to an Interior Ministry’s Anti-Drug Department, the Cambodian authorities have arrested two Nigerian men for allegedly smuggling one kilo of cocaine into the country.
The suspects, identified as 28-year-old Okoro Chukwuka Boniface and 33-year-old Obiora Dozie Frank, were caught by anti-drug police officers on Thursday, 13th of July in Phnom Penh after they imported the illicit drug from Colombia.
According to reports, the suspects hid the drug in a box of fake jewelry and sent it to Cambodia via DHL shipping company.
A man, identified as Daniel Rotari, whose face was melted off by his ex with acid has said he believes his attacker will ‘burn in hell’ because she ‘doesn’t have a soul’.
The 31-year-old had 96 per cent pure sulphuric acid poured over him by Katy Leong while he slept in their Leicester home in July 2016, after she initially tested it on a sausage.
After being left severely disfigured, traumatised and suicidal, He is now rebuilding his life with his new girlfriend, support worker Anna Catanga.
According to Mailonline, in an interview on Good Morning Britain, presenter Piers Morgan asked him, ‘What do you feel about the person who did this to you – your former girlfriend?’
He said:
‘She is going to burn in hell, I think. She doesn’t have a soul’And I have no feelings for her.’
The All Progressives Congress, APC, youth renaissance group has reacted to Peter Okoye of P-square’s perceived ‘insult’ on the Federal government of Nigeria.
The brothers via their Instagram pages had questioned the federal government’s purported move to ban production of music videos abroad.
They said the federal government was trying to control what it never supported, adding that one day, a law would surface that will monitor how they sleep with their wives. (Read the full story Here)
Reacting in a statement signed by the APC youths national secretary, Collins Edwin and made available to PoliticsNGR, the group described Peter Okoye as a “son of darkness” and urged security agencies to arrest the musician for comments alleged slander and defamation of character.
Read the full statement below:
“We read the scurrilous remarks credited to Mr Peter Okoye of the Psquare group against the Federal Government’s job-saving policy in the entertainment industry with great anger and vexation.
“Least of all persons to make scathing remark against the government is the Psquare group which the local content policy of the Federal Government dusted-up from the valley of obscurity.
“Where was Peter Okoye or Psquare brand in 1999 when foreign music dominated our airwaves? If not for the government policy which mandated all broadcast stations in Nigeria to pay attention to Nigerian music by playing 95 percent of Nigerian songs every day, would Peter Okoye or Psquare be known to anybody in Nigeria today?
“Or would they have competed with better American music which dominated our airwaves then?
“After the government have used its policy to brush them up from nothing to something; instead of giving opportunity to other people, they are taking Nigerian jobs to foreign countries through the shooting of music videos abroad.
“Now that government have intervened to raise great and better entertainers again, Peter Okoye has the gut to insult the entire Federal Government by calling our great leaders ‘Ndi Ala’ which means mad and stupid people. How dare you say that Psquare?
“We, therefore, urge the security agencies in the country to arrest Mr Peter Okoye for disrespecting our government and bringing it to a disrepute.
“If you cannot produce in Nigeria and hire Nigerians, then leave the industry. We must export Nigerian culture to the outside world through our music and videos.”
Starboy, Wizkid, turned a year older on the 16th of July, and it was a day of celebration for him, as thousands of his followers celebrated him worldwide.
Tekno, Despite their recent feud on Social Media wished Wizkid a Happy Birthday on Twitter..
Recall it all started when Davido and Wizkid came for each other, then Tekno Decided to join in.. The whole feud which originally started from Davido and wizkid, then shifted to Wiz and Tekno.
Now, Tekno has decided to set their “differences” aside to wish the young lad a happy birthday.
Tekno wrote on Twitter; “Happy birthday wizzy? volume up”
In a video clip that has gone viral on social media, an Indian woman was viciously beaten by her in-laws for giving birth to a girl amid a dowry dispute.
The disturbing clip, taken from the top of a flight of stairs, shows the woman screaming as she is lashed with hockey sticks from the front and back by two men, her brother in law and one of his friends.
According to Local reports, The victim, identified as Meena Kashyap, was beaten last week after her husband’s family heard she had made a previous violence complaint in April.
The 35-year-old from Patiala, Punjab, gave birth to a girl whom her husband’s family refused to accept and a number of beatings followed.
The pair were also involved in a dispute over 700,000 rupees (£8,300) that was given by the bride’s parents to her new husband’s family at their wedding.
A dowry was traditionally given to a bride going to live with her new husband as a means of supporting herself with her new family and in lieu of regular inheritance.
Today the system is mainly used as a means of income for the husband’s family, with additional demands being made even after a wedding, and often around the birth of a child according to the Daily Beast.
Dowries are technically illegal, as thousands of women are killed and abused over the payments each year by their in-laws, but are still widely practiced.
Charges are being brought against her husband Daljit Singh, his brother Kamaljeet and friend known as Gaurav for a number of crimes such as ‘trespassing’ and for ‘voluntarily causing hurt’.
The victim’s father told local news outlets:
‘We had complained about the issue last year itself but nothing was being done regarding that.
‘They have been married for the past two years now and have a girl child. Their family asked for 700,000 rupees for dowry.’
The incident was brought to the public’s attention when the video went viral on social media platforms across the country.
The issue of dowry, which has long been a controversial issue in rural India, has also become a hot topic since the video surfaced.
An ex-Arsenal youth player, Christian Toonga, has been reportedly jailed for two and a half years for selling heroin and cocaine for a gang of dealers.
The 19 year old midfielder was forced to work for the Custom House gang when he was arrested at a property in Sherborne, Wiltshire, last year.
THE SUN reports that, he helped the gang to move into the home of a woman who felt powerless to resist them.
The police raided the property and he was found with three wraps of cocaine, 29 wraps of heroin, £700 and mobile phones with text messages.
Toonga admitted to possessing with intent to supply class A drugs on 7 February, and he was also charged with failing to surrender to police after he was bailed.
Kano State Born Nollywood actress, Halima Abubakar, who is reportedly suffering from Fibroid Complications, has taken to her Instagram page to celebrate her colleague and friend, Uche Elendu, and to reveal the positivity on her health.
The 32-year-old actress in the birthday shout out said that she is going no where, and that the devil is a liar.
She wrote:
With all my strength I say happy belated birthday my love.You are a wonderful friend whom I don’t regret meeting ???Thank you for showing me love and constantly checking up on me??Don’t worry boo,devil is a liar and am going nowhere ????Wish you greatness @ucheelendu and peace of mind.love you
Although, earlier in the year she had undergone a major surgery in India to remove some huge fibroids from her body. The actress returned to the country with a shaved head and a hopeful heart.
Eddie Bekom, The national vice president of Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), South-South zone, who was involved in a died domestic gas explosion died on Sunday at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki.
He was a staff of the Cross River Broadcasting Service, Ikom.
His wife and one of their sons also died from injuries they also sustained in the explosion following the gas explosion which occurred at the home of his neighbour in Ikom some weeks ago and affected his entire household and a neighbour.
The family members had been under intensive care at the hospital, with three of the children still on admission.
One of the three remaining children is still in critical condition at the hospital.
In a statement signed by its Ebonyi chairman, Chukwuemeka Opara, SWAN expressed regret that all efforts made to save Mr. Bekom’s life, after the death of two of his family members, failed.
He said:
“In this moment of utmost grief, we commiserate with the entire SWAN family and pray that God gives us all and the entire Bekom family the fortitude to bear these irreparable losses.
“We use this opportunity to thank the Ebonyi state government for pledging to offset the entire bills of treating the Bekom family, the management and staff of FETHA, SWAN members, other journalists among others who through prayers and financial contribution.”
Mrs Omotayo Salawudeen, a 39-year-old housewife based in Osogbo, Osun State told the police and newsmen yesterday that she had sex with Alhaji Hakeem Salawudeen, her husband before killing him, using her hired killer.
Her words: “My husband of 17 years was a good man who took care my needs and that of our three children”.
“He didn’t offend me, I was just mad at him and after having sex with him, I took a pillow and covered his month and Oladapo Dolapo, the guy I hired for the job stabbed him to death”, she lamented.
Olafimihan Adeoye, Osun state police commissioner, while parading the suspects said the incident occurred on May 27, 2017.
But, the woman said the deceased did nothing to her to warrant the killing, saying that though she regretted her action, it was just her desire to kill the husband.
Dolapo, the 24-year-old suspected killer also explained that the woman enticed him with promises of a befitting accommodation and other largesse to punish her husband by killing him.
The Osun police chief further explained that one Engr. Salawudeen Adesina Jimoh of No 3, Engr. Adesina Salawu Street, Osogbo reported the incident on May 12, 2017 to the police.
“Engr Jimoh told the police that on that fateful day at about 3:00am, two unknown persons entered his brother’s house at No 11, Adeniran Street, Alleluyah Estate, Osogbo and stabbed him to death with knife and nothing was carted away”.
Based on the report, police directives and other officers on patrol visited the scene of the incident where inscriptions: “No Price No Pay, Aye Axe And Forgiveness Is A Sin” were found on the wall of the house of the deceased.
Adeoye said the police arrested Dolapo first and when quizzed confessed that he was hired by the wife of the deceased to kill the husband with promises of a better life.
However, investigations by the police revealed that Omotayo participated actively in the killing of her husband, even as the police chief assured that the case could be charged to court, soon.
Meanwhile, one Friday Augustine (28), Ojo Tifase (19) and Augustine Adepegba (60), suspected to be robbers were also paraded yesterday before newsmen.
Two unregistered Bajaj motorcycles, one single cut to size barrel, damaged local made pistol, four empty sell of AK 47 ammunition and one cutlass were some of the items recovered from the suspects.
An art exhibition in Los Angeles was partially destroyed earlier this month when a woman was trying to take a selfie a bit too close to the fragile row of plinths housing art by Simon Birch
The unlucky woman bent closer to the last row, the entire row of art toppled , which resulted in $200,000 of damage.
Three of the sculptures on display at The 14th Factory were “permanently damaged”.
CCTV captured the moment and it is not known what happened thereafter.
