Looks like we are yet to hear the last of acclaimed, most brilliant kidnap kingpin Chukwudidumeme Onuamadike, aka Evans, following his starling revelation that some members of his strike team were serving security agents.
One of them, a serving personnel of the Nigerian Army, identified as Lance Corporal Victor Chukwunonso, pictured above, with Army No: 09/NA/64/6317, has reportedly been arrested.
Unsuspecting Lance Corporal Chukwunonso, who is attached to the Nigeria Army Band Corps, Abatti Barrack, in Surulere area of Lagos, was arrested at about 9pm on Friday, in Ojo area of the state, from where he was subsequently taken into police custody.
During investigation, Chukwunonso as reliably gathered, admitted to have only gone on three kidnap operations with Evans. He disclosed that he got a total of N6.5 million from the operations.
He revealed to policemen that all the operations were carried out in Festac area of Lagos. He claimed to have been given N3milion from the first operation, N2 million form the second and N1.5million from the third.
It’s apparent that the year is going quite well for Daddy Yo as he continues to rake in international awards – last night, the sweet love singer beat 7 other contenders, including west African hits, Davido, Mr. Eazi and Tekno, to win this year’s BET Best International Act: Africa Awards at a pre-BET Awards show in Los Angeles.
This new accolade follows just weeks after the star brought home three Billboard Music Awards plaques for his collaborative song, One Dance with Drake.
Shortly after he was announced the BET winner, he tweeted a hilarious yet narcissistic posts about how far he has come and how he won’t stop loving himself.
Nigerian music mogul, D’Banj, is not here to play with y’all millennials and be sure that if y’all need some spanking and some whooping, he’s ready to give you that discipline!
Yesterday, Mr Endowed took to his Twitter to share that he would be holding a BET pre-album listening party in Los Angeles – with some of his many fans having somethings to say, one troll felt he’d display premium foolishness by insulting the music icon.
See what he, who apparently is a Wizkid fan, said:
Respected artist buh disgraceful to hear and watch yo new song mate. Poor song. Wizkid would never hv dt kinda song even in his grave
But the Koko master would not have some kid speak to him that way, he schools him and even tells him that Wizkid himself would not say that kinda thing!
Dear Son… your opinion was never sought. My song, My page… Shut up and take several seats back. Even @wizkidayo won't say this trash! https://t.co/GBCuA5WeSs
And truthfully, Daddy Yo would not do such, prolly only if he’s high on Oshodi weed though – In April this year, the Come closer crooner flipped after TV station MTV Base compared him to D’banj in a disgraceful Twitter poll.
“So disappointed in y’all for bringing this up. After everything king Dbanj done in the game?!! Pls show respect!” Wizkid slammed the music station and the offensive comparison was immediately taken down.
Hope that troll has learnt his lesson not to disrespect his elders though…
We brought you reports yesterday, about the couple who were attacked at the Idioro area of Ogijo, Ikorodu town in Lagos, Badoo cult group.
Pictured below is the lifeless body of the couple killed by the notorious cult group.
This would be the umpteenth time the cult members have successfully carried out their attacks on residents in Ikorodu.
According to reports, the battered remains of the couple was found on Friday after a neighbor raised an alarm.
The said neighbor had given the couple her phone to charge in their home situated in an uncompleted building on Thursday June 22nd.
After calling repeatedly so that she could come to collect her phone and there was no answer, the neighbor decided to wait the next day to go to their house to pick it up. When she got there, she knocked for them to come out but there was no response.
After several calls and bangs, there door was forced open and there, the battered remains of the couple was found lying on the floor. Just by their remains, was a grinding stone, the trademark of any killing done by the cult members.
The remains of the coupe to deposited at a morgue in Sagamu while the grinding stone was taken to Ogijo Division for further investigations.
Residents of the area later took to the street to stage a protest over the recurring attacks carried out by the cult group members.
Popular Nollywood Actress, and mother of two, Mercy Johnson caused quite a stir of recent, when she twerked on stage while hosting a GLO Mega Concert in Anambra State, alongside Juliet Ibrahim.
The video of course, went viral and while many of her fans commended her dancing skills, some argued that she shouldn’t have done that considering her status as a married woman.
In a chat with Sunday Scoop, she defended her action saying;
“I was only having a good time on stage doing my job. I was the host of the show and we have been to different cities thrilling fans. Is it a crime for me to dance on stage because I’m a married woman? I wonder why people like to take things out of context. Anyway my husband is not complaining, so I don’t see why anybody else should be bothered about it.”
The Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in Ghana has disclosed that about 98 percent of women between the ages of 15 to 49 get pregnant by accident.
According to a representative of CRS, Kris Ozar, he said lack of inadequate support from husbands and also perceived fear of the side effects associated with the use of modern contraception had been some of the causes of the unplanned pregnancies.
He disclosed this during a recent dissemination workshop on Strengthening Marriages and Relationships through Planning and Communications (SMART) couple and Fertility Awareness Method (FAM) project in Tamale.
The event was organised by CRS and the Ghana Health Service.
Mr. Ozar stated that about 50 percent of girls from the Sub-Saharan Africa countries marry and start childbearing during their adolescent ages with least resources and no decision-making power in the household, which affect the family well-being.
The SMART project implemented in West Mamprusi in the Northern Region and the Nabdam District in the Upper East Region was to train couples on better ways to communicate and to adopt joint decision making on family planning.
Mr. Andrews Asamoah, the Project Manager for SMART Couples, said couples who adopted the new behaviours and communication techniques were better and able to plan to improve their health and well-being of their entire family.
He said the SMART Couples Project had helped the young couples and demonstrated the highest improvements in gender relations and dynamics, male involvement in child health, birth-spacing and joined in health decision-making.
Catholic Relief Services is a humanitarian aid organisation, which helps the poor and vulnerable by responding to major emergencies and also helps to fight hunger and disease.
Popular comedian, Francis Agoda, aka I Go Dye, was recently in the news when he announced that he had built a mansion for his mother.
The formal opening of the house was attended by personalities like former governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole; Deputy Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly, Rt Hon. Friday Ossai Osanebe; Apostle Johnson Suleiman, among others.
In an exclusive chat with Sunday Scoop, the rib-cracker spoke on the real reason he constructed the house, which he nicknamed the ‘Golden Eyes Mansion.’
“It had always been a longtime dream of mine because I feel that our mothers deserve so much from us, considering the hard times the African woman goes through for her children. I just felt that was my only way to encourage our mothers to keep investing in their children, irrespective of whatever circumstances they find themselves. The Golden Eyes is a gift of hope to all mothers that someday, they will smile for being there for their children,” he said.
On how long it took him to build the house, he said, “It took a while to build because I wanted it to be of good quality.”
Speaking on the recent African Child award he received alongside former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, he said,
“I really didn’t have an idea of the award till I was informed that I was nominated. I had to find out more about it and its standard. Then I discovered that it took a voting process to select the recipients and that allayed my worries about its credibility. It is wonderful to be acknowledged that one’s life and creativity has inspired many people to believe in their dreams, regardless of their parental background. I feel privileged to be bestowed with the Africa Child Prize award; it gives me more reasons to hope and pray that many young children out there on the street from poor backgrounds would enjoy this special grace that God has vested in me.”
The comedian revealed that as a young boy, he used to invent electrical components just to make sure that he did something worthwhile with his time and rise beyond his poor background then.
He also stated that apart from being a comedian, he has a construction and property development company.
Nigerian High-life singer, Flavour says he’s still searching for a God-fearing woman, even after he has 2 babymamas.
In a new chat with Punch, the singer who has two daughters with two different women, both former beauty queens, revealed what he’s searching for in a woman, subtly driving home the point that the mothers of his daughters did not meet that criteria.
See the excerpt of his interview with Punch:
On being perceived as a sex symbol, he said:
It feels great and it is a motivation for me to keep working hard on my music and also my body. I visit the gym three times in a week even with my busy schedule. Though it is not easy, it is what I have to do.
On his relationship with his babymamas and daughters, he said:
I have a wonderful relationship with my children and I love them so much. I am also on good terms with their mothers and everything is fine.”
On the kind of woman he is searching for, he said:
I love a woman who is not fake; she has to be natural at all times. She has to be someone who knows the difference between Flavour and Chinedu. To cap it all, she must be God-fearing.
On the downside of stardom, he said:
Stardom has robbed me of a lot of things but I believe that, in life, there is no gain without pain. Ordinarily, I love to lead a simple life but that’s not possible anymore. As human beings, there could also be times that I’m dealing with some personal issues but people wouldn’t want to know. They would expect you to be smiling all the time; and if you don’t, they would accuse you of being proud and snobbish. But the beautiful thing is that I am living my dream.
A senior police officer, who arrested kidnap kingpin, Chukwudi Onuamadike, aka Evans, and members of his gang in 2006, shares the encounter with Gbenga Adeniji
How did you meet Evans?
There was a time in 2006 that a gang of robbers attacked a commercial bank in Lagos and went somewhere around the National Arts Theatre, Iganmu, to share the loot. While sharing the loot, the robbers had a disagreement and shot one another. Seven members of the gang died instantly. The then Divisional Police Officer of Iponri Police Station, Yahaya Bello, now a deputy commissioner of police, said there was a serious incident involving some persons who shot at one another. He said about three of them had been arrested.
What happened thereafter?
One of the members of the gang arrested then was Chukwudi Onuamadike, popularly known as Evans. If you look at his chest, I cannot remember whether it is the right or left side, there is a scar. It was as a result of the gunshot from his gang members that day. He bled and there was no way he could run away before the police came. The case was transferred to the Lagos State Anti-Robbery Squad. We investigated and discovered that they were armed robbers. Evans led the team. We also went to Mbidi Police Station, Imo State, to carry out an investigation on them. We were able to arrest two other members of the gang. We then had five of them in police custody.
Were you able to prosecute him?
There was a policewoman at the Band Section of the Police College, Lagos. She was known as Tina, a Superintendent of Police. She insisted that we should drop the case and that Onuamadike (Evans) was her brother. But when she was unable to achieve her aim, she travelled to Imo State. Not long after, we got a message from the Imo State Police Command that they had been searching for Evans and asked us to transfer the case to them so they could continue from where we stopped. Since that time, we did not hear anything. We heard he was later released there.
How did you know that he was the notorious kidnap kingpin arrested by the police not long ago?
I saw his pictures. I know the man we arrested alongside members of his gang in 2006. But one thing was that he was not bearing the alias, Evans, at the time. We identified him only as Chukwudi. Some of the persons we worked together on the case also called me to draw my attention to the fact that he was the one arrested.
Do you know if he was married at the time he was arrested for robbery?
I cannot say. You know that many criminals would be unwilling to share that part except we investigate.
Was Evans the only one released or other members were also set free then?
He couldn’t have been the only person released. The request was that we should transfer the case to them. We sent him and two members of his gang to the command. There is a hotel in Okota area where they used to meet to share their loot. The owner of the hotel was their friend. There was a time they robbed three banks in Alaba International Market in 2005. They also looted shops there. One of the owners of the shop complained to the police and we carried out an investigation. We discovered that some of the items stolen in the man’s shop were digital cameras. We traced the cameras to the hotel and into the office of the hotel owner. It was then that ‘big men’ started calling from everywhere that we should drop the charges against them. The owner of the hotel was later killed by the robbers, following a disagreement. His body was dumped by the roadside in one of the states in the East sometime ago.
What potential threat do you think Evans can constitute to the society if he finds his way out again?
He can form a terrorist group being a hardened criminal. We are talking about a man that would not release his victims until his exact ransom was paid.
How best do you think his case can be handled?
The best way to handle his case is for the police to do their work. They should do a proper investigation. If it will take four months to investigate him, they should do so. He has links in South Africa, Ghana, etc. I know him. Bank robbery and hijacking of bullion vans is easy for him and his gang members. He didn’t hesitate to shoot any member of his gang suspected of foul play.
But in his reported pleas, he gave a picture of being non-violent?
Forget about that. It is expected. No criminal would say he ever killed anybody, except after a thorough investigation has nailed him or her.
Why do you think he embraced kidnapping since you noted that he probably started as an armed robber?
I really cannot say because I have not seen him since we took him and his other members to Imo State. I think he only tried to adopt another criminal act he believed would fetch him more money. It is all about greed. He wanted more and more. He kept amassing wealth because he wanted to show off.
Editor’s Note: The policeman’s identity is concealed to protect him from persecution.
A Nigerian Lady has been left embarrassed after she was caught stealing from a jewelry shop in Malaysia, and she was forced to pull off all to reveal the stolen items.
Facebook user, QueenGirl Nadia Francis, shared the shocking video which shows the embarrassing moment.. and It’s beyond shocking.
Queen captioned the post;
“Hahahahahaha…make una see slay queen when go thief jewelry for shop for Malaysia. Later them go come dey do slay queen, pepper them gang for facebook. Lol..thief.”
While we’re still at the ongoing saga of Tonto Dikeh’s marriage woes, her brother-in-law, Tokunbo has spoken his truth about his brother, Oladunni Churchill’s marriage to the controversial Nollywood actress.
The gentleman who took to his Instagram page to address the issue of a leaked text message which Poko is alleged to have sent to her mother-in-law, his mother, refers to her as a psychopath.
He described the actress and dedicated mother-of-one as a psychopath, saying that the text message never got to his mother.
Churchill’s brother claimed to have blocked Tonto on his mother’s phone since the first message she sent left his mum traumatised.
Read his comments in the post below:
He said that he had been trying his best to remain mum on the situation but seeing as Tonto has involved his mother, he would no longer sit by and take it.
Nollywood teen star actress, Regina Daniels, is nothing to close to stopping when it comes to slaying her looks – the beautiful teenager looks as exuberant as can be in these lovely new photos.
The 16 year old actress recently featured in a new shoot looking alluring as usual in gold dashiki and you can tell she’s such a cutie.
Though still in jail, Joy Ugwu Nnenne, reigning Asaigbo pageant queen, is still as influential as one with ‘royalty’ – the beauty queen has reportedly become a star among fellow inmates at the Kirikiri Prison, Lagos, where she has been remanded by a magistrate court over alleged fraud.
The prisoners refer to her as “Queen”, due to the large number of visitors she played host to daily, while other times she is called “MMM”, an allusion to the charge that brought her to prison.
Saturday Sun on June 17, 2017, reported the case of Joy, the current beauty queen of Asaigbo pageantry, who is on remand in Kirikiri prison for allegedly fleecing Jonathan Nwogu, Anita Oby and others of N7million.
She was alleged to have resorted to hide-and-seek tactics after failing to secure a visa for Nwogu, after the latter reportedly paid a million naira to her. She is also accused of defrauding Oby of N2 million through a ponzi scheme called “Me and You” purportedly floated by the former.
The incarcerated beauty queen gave her side of the story in an exclusive interview when Saturday Sun visited her inside the Kirikiri female prison on Wednesday June 21. Debunking the allegations against her as false, she claimed her traducers, counting on her propensity to protect her social image, were out to intimidate her to quietly pay them and settle the matter.
Affirming her innocence, she emphasised she also lost money to the ponzi scheme, and that is the reason she is emboldened to exercise her civil right in opting for the court after spending three days in the cell at the State Crime Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba.
“I didn’t create the ‘Me and You scheme’, I was just a participant like her (Oby),” she insisted. “Do I look like someone who can do so, when I have not finished studying my Accounting?”
She went on:
“When they told me to pay up, I was reluctant because I didn’t see any crime in the scheme. I can only be guilty if I created the scheme, which I didn’t. I told them that I could only pay back if they try to get the person I paid to, one Emmanuel Madu. I paid him two million naira. I showed them the transfer record, it is a recycled process.”
She pointed out the inconsistency in the charges against her at the court:
“When I got to court, I was arraigned for N2m while I was arrested for a charge of N7m. I intend to battle this when I regain my freedom.”
On the visa fraud charge, her accuser, Nwogu had told Saturday Sun:
“The girl duped me one million naira and the evidence is there…What baffled me was the way she took the matter. It was quite obvious that she defrauded me.”
Joy Ugwu rebutted this as outright lie. On the day I was arrested, I confronted him, asking if he knew me before, but he didn’t. So, how did we do visa business? They were all participants in the Ponzi scheme. He happened to be on the losing side. Oby had vowed that she was going to deal with me if I don’t pay up because she is connected to the high and mighty.”
She went further: “They said something about the money in my account. The money belongs to people and I have paid them back. I don’t have any money to pay anybody.”
Queen among inmates
Being incarcerated did not diminish her. She is still radiant and has even acquired some popularity among the inmates. To both wardress and inmates, she is “Queen”––due to the number of visitors she has daily–– or “MMM”, in reference to the circumstances that brought her into the prison. As she walked away from the reporter, a group of friends crowded around her demanding to know what news she brought from her visitation.
“She is a nice girl. I don’t think anybody has any complaint about her,” an anonymous inmate told Saturday Sun.
Why we won’t dethrone her
Saturday Sun also contacted Mike Akubueze, the organiser of Asaigbo pageantry, for his view on the development.
According to him, as long as she didn’t commit any crime in the name of the pageantry, Joy Nnenne Ugwu would still be paraded as their queen.
According to him:
“What she did was her personal business. She didn’t commit crime with Asaigbo. We are not involved with anything she does with her personal life. She is 18 years. We don’t monitor our queens.”
Also saying her accusers are capitalising on her social status to intimidate her, he said: “Joy didn’t commit any crime. Everybody did MMM, including even me. So, she is entitled to do a personal business.”
He reiterated: “We won’t dethrone her. Until the case is concluded, she is still Asaigbo queen. Even after that, we would undertake our own investigation.”
It is expected that Joy Ugwu will be freed soon since the delay of her bail was due to the absence of the magistrate in charge of her case, who went on a casual leave.
Reports reaching us is that of Nollywood veteran actress, Ireti Doyle’s marriage to Patrick Doyle being at not so good terms as it’s being alleged that the couple have separated.
After more than 20 years of marriage, a source close to Patrick and Ireti, have clued that they are no longer living together. According to some revelations by playground, the Tinsel actress has since moved into a new apartment in Anthony Village area of Lagos, living far away from her veteran broadcaster and actor husband and children.
The estranged couple who are yet to issue any statement are according to a source, taking respectful and loving space at this painful time. There’s also the claim that they’ve been in the rocks for a while and stopped having shared interests.
The couple have not been stepping out together, which has been strangely observed by many fans and media – when asked why they have not spotted together in recent time, Ireti, said:
“We are both busy people and you find that, in any one given weekend, we’ve both been invited to three or four different events where all three or four people are expecting to see us so we play it smart, we share it; if you’ve seen one you’ve seen the other.”
While the reason for their estranged is still kinda foggy a source has revealed to Playground that Patrick and Ireti ended their relationship after thoughtful consideration and chose to remain friends.
Model and ex-Supranational Nigeria Beauty queen, Adaeze Marian Obasi who represented the country at a world contest has been nominated as one of the sexiest women alive for 2016/17 across the 7 seas by reputable beauty organisation – Global Beauties.
The Imo state born was elected the sexiest woman alive in Africa following their assessment among international beauty queens across the world continent.
The nomination of the 7 sexiest women Alive is based on their natural sex appeal, intelligence, amazing looks and superb elegance. Queen Adaeze whose seductive body language is only comparable to Egyptian princesses in the court of Pharaoh makes history as the “Sexiest” Woman in Africa 2016/ 2017 as rated from Miss supranational world pageant.
The attractive Obasi who studied at Lagos Aviation School, further graduated from Ecotex Benin Republic University with a B.Sc in Mass communication also champions a charity NGO called “The 28th Foundation”
Reports reaching us is that of Nollywood veteran actress, Ireti Doyle’s marriage to Patrick Doyle being at not so good terms as it’s being alleged that the couple have separated.
After more than 20 years of marriage, a source close to Patrick and Ireti, have clued that they are no longer living together. According to some revelations by playground, the Tinsel actress has since moved into a new apartment in Anthony Village area of Lagos, living far away from her veteran broadcaster and actor husband and children.
The estranged couple who are yet to issue any statement are according to a source, taking respectful and loving space at this painful time. There’s also the claim that they’ve been in the rocks for a while and stopped having shared interests.
The couple have not been stepping out together, which has been strangely observed by many fans and media – when asked why they have not spotted together in recent time, Ireti, said:
“We are both busy people and you find that, in any one given weekend, we’ve both been invited to three or four different events where all three or four people are expecting to see us so we play it smart, we share it; if you’ve seen one you’ve seen the other.”
While the reason for their estranged is still kinda foggy a source has revealed to Playground that Patrick and Ireti ended their relationship after thoughtful consideration and chose to remain friends.
So after some serious investigation online, it’s been discovered that Mr Songz has presumably lied about the birth of his twins he announced few hours ago – he had earlier announced the birth of his twins he named Perez and Tarela.
Guess the names he gave to his kids (Perez and Tarela) may have sold him off but neh, maybe it’s the colour on the skin of the infants that did but hey, we can’t question Biology, it’s genetically possible to have that kinda situation.
Well, after some serious searching online, YBL discovered that the images the singer used as his are not actually his! One would definitely be skeptical after the seeing the quality of the images he shared though, durrh! ?? it’s your kids’ photos, so why are the images’s quality poor?!
See where the images originated from and be thrilled:
Harrysong’s images:
Although, some are saying that he didn’t mention that the kids were his… give us a break! Have you seen the #itsnotalie hash tag?! Pfft!???
Actress Omotola and mother of 4, is back to Nollywood following a three-year hiatus.
The delectable actress is set to debut in a new movie, titled “Alter Ego”, alongside Wole Ojo and Jide Kosoko.
Speaking with PREMIUM TIMES, Omotola opens up about her career, marriage and playing a controversial character in Alter Ego.
PT: You went off the scene for three years. Was this deliberate?
Omotola: Yes it was. I knew I was going to embark on a break so I starred in a few movies, which have not been released. I shot Blood on the Lagoon with Teco Benson, and another one in London called Amina, which are yet to be released. I got to that point when I felt like nothing was challenging me anymore and I began to feel like my standard was dropping. I went through that period and I knew I needed to stay away and wait for Nollywood to catch up with some of our ideas.
PT: Your fans can’t stop talking about your sex scenes in Alter Ego. Was your husband comfortable with you playing the role?
Omotola: Some of the sex scenes in Alter Ego were downplayed because I’m married. But I won’t play the sex scenes if it wasn’t necessary to be included in the film. I know by starring in this movie that my fans would either hate me or love me forever. While shooting the film, I knew I was doing something quite risky.
There are several ways to shoot a sex scene tastefully. I’m all for playing a sex scene convincingly and my husband knows this. I tell my husband,
“You know what darling, you married an actor”; and secondly, he is my biggest fan. I tell him, “Do you want me to be great or do you just want me to be good?” He will say, “I want you to be great, sparklingly great”. Then I’ll say, “Ehen, we go love o” and he’s fine with it. He understands but just like every other human being and the professional that he is, he too wants to be convinced that I played a sex scene because it was necessary. I know when he watches movies sometimes he would say, “Did they have to kiss if they were not going to kiss well?”
PT: You got pretty raunchy with your co-stars in your latest movie, Alter Ego. Are you ready for viewer’s criticisms?
Omotola: When I wasn’t even confident, I starred in a movie called a prostitute, which was released 22 years ago. If I didn’t die then, is it now? I’m ready.
PT: Playing a believable sex scene would mean going extra lengths. Do you think Nigerians will embrace such films?
Omotola: You don’t even have to “chop” somebody’s mouth if you don’t want to. If the scene is not about you showing real mad crazy love then you can’t now be showing mouth to mouth kissing or removing of clothes.
In Nigerian movies, we have downplayed chemistry. I hope we can bring that back. Back in the day when I shot Mortal Inheritance in 1995, I had to spend time with my co-star, Fred Amata. He was already a renowned director and in those days, directors were revered. So imagine, my director who had directed me in a movie prior now acting as my lover.
I was really afraid but we broke the ice by spending time with each other. So, he demystified himself and we had chemistry and you could tell. So, I’m hoping all of this returns to Nigerian movies. So, as professionals, we need to ask ourselves if it is necessary for a movie to have a sex scene and when it is, it should be done well.
PT: With regards to Alter Ego, how were you able to build some on-screen chemistry with your co-star, Wole Ojo?
Omotola: I was working with Wole Ojo for the first time, so we had to spend time together and we played very rough. I understand the power of being friends with your love interest in a movie so we became like a couple.
We ate together and basically just broke down the walls to make sure we were both comfortable with each other and have each other’s backs and interest at heart. So, it spilled into the movie without you even noticing.
PT: Alter Ego appears to be the first Nollywood movie to truly address Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Do you think it would appeal to the Nigerian Nollywood audience?
Omotola: We don’t talk about PTS that much in Nigeria, so, when you see someone that is mentally traumatised, the first thing that comes to your mind is, “this person is crazy!”. We don’t talk about depression in Nigeria. We don’t talk about how it affects children, especially those that have been abused.
When you ask a lot of adults, you might find out that some people have been abused as children. And if we want to tell ourselves the truth, how many of us were actually able to tell our parents about this?
In Africa, it’s always a taboo to say, “uncle, somebody touched me”. They will practically ask you one million questions. “What did you say to him? How were you sitting? What were you wearing?” As if it’s your fault, you become the victim. Alter Ego sets out to address how sexual abuse affects victims as kids and as adults.
Sometimes, you see people as adults behave in a certain way, but because we have not diagnosed this problem – because in Africa, you are either just crazy and should go to Yaba Left; but we don’t think about the fact that people actually have psychological trauma and that PTSD actually affect Africans. We think it’s an Oyibo disease.
PT: Why were you drawn to Alter Ego?
Omotola: It’s the soul of the movie. It must come quickly in a movie and must also be underlining throughout the film. Some come naturally while some don’t. The movie got me on time because I switch very quickly; so if I read through the first 10 pages of a movie script and I don’t get the story, I get bored. I loved the film from the beginning but it was a diamond in the rough. I knew what was lacking in it. So, I called the director and told him we will have to tear the script apart and rebuild it and he gave me his nod. It takes a big mind to shoot Alter Ego.
Nigeria’s crime buster, & Detective, ACP Abba Kyari, who led the arrest of Notorious Kidnapper, Evans who he describes as one of the smartest criminal he’s every dealt with, has opened up on the arrest, and also reacted to Kate Henshaw’s criticisms.
Recall, the actress blasted the Nigerian Police for taking pictures with Evans, an act she tagged as inappropriate.
On how he succeeded in arresting Evans, he said:
“I have been on his trail since the past five years. He really gave us a tough time. I think he is the smartest criminal I have ever seen in my entire life.
Among all the high-profile robbers and kidnappers we have nabbed, Evans stands to be the smartest. He really gave me headache because we couldn’t track him. That guy is very smart. He never thought he could ever be arrested.”
On Kate Henshaw’s criticism of the police for celebrating and snapping pictures with Evans, he said:
“Who is Kate Henshaw and what does she know? She must be out of her mind to criticize us.
Even in other developed countries, people celebrate the capture of criminals and I wonder why she is running her mouth criticizing us when she has never caught a fly in her entire life.”
AN OPEN LETTER TO Nnamdi Kanu …..BIAFRA A RESURGENCE OR ANTHER SELF CENTERED CALL……
Nnamdi Kanu born in 1970, the same year the Nigeria civil war ended. Truth be told how much of the war relic did he see or experienced……your guess is as good as mine. Many who witness the war and who are lucky to be alive now, has continually pray never to witness such war again.
In 1967, just seven years after we gain independence when the war broke out, Nigeria back then can still be describe as a nation still groping , our military institution were very much at it’s infancy, arms, ammunition’s, ballistic missiles and other war fare weapons were still in its dark age compare to the 21st century where we now have nuclear weapons, radioactive weapons and several others, yet the irony of it was that even in 1967 when the war began and in 1970 when the war end, the carnage as a result of the war was massive.
The Nigerian Civil War, better known as the Biafran War, (6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970), was a war fought between the government of Nigeria and the secessionist state of Biafra. Biafra represented nationalist aspirations of the Igbo people, whose leadership felt they could no longer coexist with the Northern-dominated federal government.
The conflict resulted from political, economic, ethnic, cultural and religious tensions which preceded Britain’s formal decolonization of Nigeria from 1960 to 1963. Immediate causes of the war in 1966 included a military coup, a counter-coup, and persecution of Igbo living in Northern Nigeria. Control over oil production in the Niger Delta played a vital strategic role.
Within a year, the Federal Military Government surrounded Biafra, capturing coastal oil facilities and the city of Port Harcourt. The blockade imposed during the ensuing stalemate led to severe famine—accomplished deliberately as a war strategy.
Over the two and half years of the war, there were about 100,000 overall military casualties, while between 500,000 and 2 million Biafran civilians died from starvation. .
Over a million were homeless, those who made it alive battle with one deformity or the other, is it the several rape, or the loss of a vital part of the body or famine in the land particularly in the eastern part of the country. Imagine if the war was to commenced today, imagine its impact, the implication from an economic or financial point of view to the human point of view, is better imagine than told given modern warfare compare to the like of 1967.
No one recall any of the then war lord, Sir Odumegwu Ojukwu or that of his lieutant Philip Effiong….losing their ward, children or any of their family member in the pogrom and massacre of their fellow ibo’s , as their wards were ferry out of the country before the war. Nigerian’s lost so much in terms of human, resources and the ill effect that the war brought upon us as a nation.
Once upon a time, The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) a secessionist movement in Nigeria, associated with Igbo nationalism, which supports the recreation of an independent state of Biafra, led by an Indian-trained lawyer Ralph Uwazuruike, with headquarters in Okwe, in the Okigwe district of Imo State came up calling for the liberation of the ibo/igbo people calling for an IBO nation, today the likes of Ralph Uwazuruike have gone like a candle in the wind, extinguish beyond recognition, not by federal might but rather because his ideas do not conform with realities of time.
We have had of rumours of war, of war and wars, the Somalia war the DR Congo war, the Gulf war, Cuban revolution, Vietnam war, Kosovo war, bay of pigs invasion, but in all cases unwarranted death, destruction to live and properties were the tell-tale signs, no one live to tell a good story of war and no one will live to say it…..always negative.
Nwannekaenyi “Nnamdi” Kenny Okwu Kanu a British-Nigerian political activist is a leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), today is a leading light in the campaign for a Biafra nation and in recent times says the November 18 governorship election in Anambra state will not hold unless the federal government conducts a referendum on Biafra.
He threatened that members of his group might also boycott the 2019 general election in Biafra land should the government refused to heed to the call for referendum, he said Biafrans were ready to go to prison if the federal government did not grant their request of having a republic.
Today the results are not farfetched, the Arewa youth has made her own pronunciation that the Ibo should live the Northern region, the Niger Delta has asked the Hausa/Fulani to live or face the consequences, something very similar to what happen in 1966 leading to the civil war we experienced as a nation.
Or is Nnamdi looking for cheap popularity, because today, I am sure his name is on google search engine, Wikipedia etc. Or is he just another Nigeria begging for attention and use his ibo men to rise to prominent.
Otherwise agitations comes in various forms, self-governance should start with self-righteousness, we have Ibo men as governors in all of the eastern region, yet I cannot as an average Nigeria point to one major achievement of this governors, Senators, Federal Rep member, state assemblies etc. It is still an everyday life of personal enrichment, poverty in the land, erosion is gradually taken over the eastern part of Nigeria, bad road, no good hospitals, poor infrastructure, the state of the school is appalling, education is not free, the land smell of rots.
One would have expect that for KANU charity should begin at home, called a referendum, bring your people together, show them how the ibo should live collectively, start a message, a message of hope, a message of unity a message of togetherness in that way, you can win a war against the oppress ibo man, the armed and pen robbers, the kidnappers and above all to win the most important of them all, making your leaders a call to service, a call to serve the interest of the ibo land.
Nigeria has the largest population in Africa, but certainly not in the world, take a look at China, a look at India, a look at USA, very diverse, multi religious, multi race yet in their diversity lies their common strength, in brotherhood they stand and brotherhood has kept them collectively together.
Kanu, in my opinion the enemy of Ndigbo is Ndigbo itself. Recall Jonathan regime, how many minister do we have from the South South and South East, choice position, what do they do, they were busy looting our common wealth, diverting billions of naira into their accounts home and abroad, today someone is calling for a Biafra nation. Who is to blame? Who is marginalizing the igbos? If you Kanu becomes Nigeria president tomorrow, will there be any difference I am sure your own people will be further marginalized.
I have a different opinion though, I have followed you for a while, your press conference, the interview sessions and I am not convinced that your agenda is truly for a Biafra interest. Otherwise you won’t make a clarion call asking your own people not to exercise their right to vote or be voted for, you can go about this in a different way altogether, we saw the one day sit at home and it was a huge success, but how sustainable is it, given that your people must eat, must buy and sell and must go to schools………
If you are sincere, call your people together first, the young and the old, here what they collectively want, seek the opinions of the traditional ruler in your kingdom, seek the opinion of the elites, the scholars, the artisans the market women, seek opinion from all works of life, let your own people decide what they want for themselves and not from your selfish point that can plunge this nation into another civil war, wanton destruction of life and properties. Never again must we allow this to ever happen again, if Nigeria will break, it will be a collective decisions by all regions in this country and of course we are sure that this country will not break, it will go forward and make progress in the committee of nations.
God bless our country Nigeria……..and all its inhabitant.
The advice of singer and actor Falz to his fellow artistes about glorifying fraudsters and ‘Yahoo’ boys in their songs has generated a lot of conflict and controversy since the interview was released.
Singer 9ice has responded to Falz’s statements denying ever praising or glorifying fraudulent acts or the perpetrators in any of his songs especially his latest release ‘Living Things’.
9ice in his response said he was not praising or mentioning fraudsters rather he was praising hard working socialites.
The advice of singer and actor Falz to his fellow artistes about glorifying fraudsters and ‘Yahoo’ boys in their songs has generated a lot of conflict and controversy since the interview was released.
Singer 9ice in an interview with NaijaLoaded TV, has responded to Falz’s statements denying ever praising or glorifying fraudulent acts or the perpetrators in any of his songs especially his latest release ‘Living Things’.
9ice in his response said he was not praising or mentioning fraudsters rather he was praising hard working socialites.
Nollywood actor, Yomi Fash-Lanso has in a recent interview with Saturday Beats, called out Nigerian pastors, questioning their need for arms as a form of protection.
According to the actor, if they are so-called men of God – who are to be harmless – as they proclaim, then why do they need arms for protection if they aren’t going to harm anyone.
The actor is quoted in the interview as saying:
“Our pastors go about with armed personnel and I ask myself a question, who wants to kill or kidnap a pastor? Is he not a man of God?
They know that what they are doing is not good, if not they would not move about with armed personnel. If you are truthful to God’s calling, who would want to kidnap you?
If you don’t have the notion to harm anyone, then you do not need armed personnel. I was conferred as a deacon in my church a few years back but it would not stop me from talking.
If they go around with armed personnel because of the wealth they seem to have, how did they come about the wealth? Is it not from our tithe and offering? They cannot try it in America.
A pastor in South Africa is rotting in jail because he molested underage girls. I am sure that if it was in Nigeria, we would not hear anything. Nothing would happen because we have built our society around people and not laws. It is wrong.
Nathan in the bible went to King David to convey God’s message without any fear or compromise but our pastors can’t do so. We are in this mess in Nigeria because our pastors are not talking.
If we are going to count the true men of God in Nigeria, they would not be up to two among the thousands that we have. Only a few of them can look in the eye of corrupt men in government and speak the truth because they would not want to lose their worldly possession.
They know all the rogues we have in government, the people that are putting us in total blackness. These people attend their churches but they are not talking to them which means that these pastors are thieves and rogues as well.
Until we start speaking the truth from the church, we are not going to make any head way in Nigeria.”
A Catholic priest identified as Rev Father Matthew Oguleru, from Ijebu Ode diocese, was reportedly kidnapped in the early hours of Wednesday, June 21, 2017, when on his way to morning mass. He was abducted along Ilado, Ibefun-Ikorodu road.
The kidnappers are currently demanding for N80million. His family members are asking Nigerians to join them in prayers for his safe release.
Yesterday, the notorious Badoo cult group struck again in Idioro area of Ogijo, Ikorodu area of Lagos state – killing a husband and his wife. The couple were reportedly found dead on their matrimonial bed with a grinding stone was found on them.
The couple’s assailants were suspected to have gained entrance through one of the open windows though the net was neatly removed and later fixed after the operation.
According to Young Gideon Ope, though nobody could state categorically what led to the strange death but neighbours suspected they were hacked to death by the notorious group, Badoo as a grinding stone was found on them.
Pictured are the residents of Escobar, Harmony and Irewole communities in Ogijo, Ogun State, which shares boundary with Ikorodu, Lagos State on a protest to the king’s Palace over incessant killings and attacks by the notorious cult group.
Following the much talked about stance of Nigerian rapper, Falz, on celebrities promoting fraudsters and all, during this past week, controversial media personality, Daddy Freeze has seconded the rapper’s motion.
Daddy Freeze says it is glorification of fraud that birthed people like Evans. He shared on his page:
“I stand with @falzthebahdguy!
Its the glorification of Fraudsters that birthed the likes of Evans, and gave rise to the herds of moronic herbivores seeking his release!
Songs seemingly promoting fraud aren’t 9ice…….
~FRZ”
A near middle-aged woman has become an internet sensation and it’s all thanks to her youthful looks – Lure Hsu will soon celebrate her 42nd birthday and has shared her major secrets of her youthful look.
She told Friday Magazine:
“Moisturizing is so important – in fact, ageing, fine lines and other skin problems moisturising can reduce.”
In addition, to keep skin healthy the sun is also very important, but not excessive exposure to it – especially in the summer.”
Although the sun is not always hot, you should still use sunscreen as sunned skin is drier and make small spots and small fine lines easier to appear.”Think everything is simply moisturizing well and not over-exposing yourself to sun.”
Lure also reveals that consuming eating less meat and more fibre, plus high protein foods and exercise are also parts of her routine.
She tells fans to drink a cup of black coffee every morning, have as few sugary drinks as possible and eat less greasy food.
Most importantly, she suggests to eat more fruit and vegetables.
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor E.A Adeboye has caused a subtle stir online over a tweet he made about his pastors – according to the man of God, any of his subordinates in the church, who is not humble, is not ordinated by him.
His tweet has caused quite the stir as some followers have come out to say his tweet itself depicts pride and who is he to think he can’t be wrong… See some reactions from Nigerians below:
A glamour model who spent £30,000 transforming herself into a ‘human sex doll’ appears to have had more work done.
Victoria Wild, 30, urged married men to ditch their wives and worship her instead as she posted a new selfie. “Leave your wife, worship me!” she wrote
The busty Latvian, who claims to have some of the biggest breasts in Europe, appears to have had more work done on her already full lips.
The self-proclaimed “real-life Barbie doll” has splashed £25,000 on three breast augmentations – taking her up to a huge 32G cup size. Daily Mirror reports.
When she was 25, she met her boyfriend, who she named only as Simon, an Italian businessman, who encouraged her dreams of looking like a sex doll.
Wild added:
“Simon is a successful businessman and he loves the bombshell, plastic look too. He offered to help me financially with the surgery and motivated me to achieve my goal.
“Simon loves my sex doll look. I’m a bombshell now. People look at me in the street and men absolutely adore me. Simon’s so proud of the attention I get.”
“Who wouldn’t want to be treated like a bimbo doll? It’s such a sexy look. People stare at me in the street and I love the way I stand out.
Charles Harry, John James and Frank Anyaegbulem, reported to be armed robbery suspects have given policemen in Rivers state a hard time as they vowed that they were ready to be shot dead than allow themselves to be paraded before newsmen.
Punchng reports that the suspects were arrested on Thursday behind a bar located at Mbaka Town in Rumuolumeni, where they were engaged in drinking and smoking of Indian hemp.
On searching a hidden apartment behind the bar, the policemen, recovered various arms and ammunition. Efforts made by the policemen to parade them were not successful as the suspects insisted that they were ready to be shot dead than to be paraded.
One of the suspects said,
“I did not commit any crime. I will not allow myself to be paraded. I’m ready to be shot dead here than allow myself to stand at that place (paraded).”
The suspects also refused to speak with newsmen, who wanted to get their own part of the story and why they were involved in armed robbery.
However the police disclosed that they recovered 25 rounds of live ammunition, 7.62mm loaded in a magazine, local revolver pistol with 9mm live ammunition and 32 pieces of live ammunition for AK-47 rifles.
Other items recovered are one pair of Mobile Police combat trousers, three face masks, three refrigerators, three television sets, two DVD players and one pack of gunpowder, bag of Indian hemp, sachet of hard drugs and one generator.
Speaking on the fight against crime in the state, Mr. Nnamdi Omoni, the State Police Public Relations Officer, warned criminals to stay away from Rivers or be ready to face the wrath of the law whenever they were caught.
Omoni pointed out that the State Police Command would not go back on its charge in ensuring that crime was fought to a standstill.
“Criminals should repent or stay away from the state before being caught,” he warned
Big Brother Naija’s controversial housemate and Instagram slay queen, Eriata Ese, has in a new post on her Snapchat, warned people to stop asking her for money because she doesn’t have as she herself is a hustler.
This comes after a fan of hers requested that she help with the sum of 200k to commensurate with the one the fan has for rent and school fees.
The fan had sent the chat which reads:
Good day miss Eriata
I seldomly do this buut I can’t help it
I really need your help of 200k to add to what I have to pay my rent and school fee next section
Then the slay queen shared a screenshot of the chat and wrote:
I never tot I would do this but this is so funny … 200k? Do I even 200k in my acc? Abeg let me just use this medium to say this. Pls stop asking me for money because i nor get, me sef dey hustle, i cannot give what i don’t have.
Also, Eriata who loves to carry her followers along on her day to day life has shared the kinda wedding she wants with her future husband – she says she doesn’t want the extravaganza kinda wedding that is the craze now, not bridal shower and what not.
She says she wants her wedding simple and rather than waste money on elaborate ceremonies, she’d rather start a business or buy a car with the money…
