Veteran Nollywood actress Clarion Chukwura has found love again.
The 51-year-old screen goddess appears to be enjoying being married again as she took to her Facebook page yesterday to show off her new husband.
The photo showed herself and her new beau all loved up in the U.S with the caption: History made, Destiny fulfilled…..me and hubby on River Street, Savannah, Georgia.
Clarion was previously married to Tunde Abiola, the younger brother of late politician MKO Abiola with whom she had two children.
One of the children, however, tragically passed away. She then got married to businessman Femi Oduneye in 2004 before the two parted ways.
Clarion is also the mother of prolific video producer Clarence Peters who she had with AfroJuju king, Shina Peters.
Tiwa Savage’s Hubby and Manager, Tunji TeeBillz Balogun appears to be enjoying being a dad.
Yesterday, Tiwa shared an heart-melting video of her husband having a father-son moment with on her Instagram page.
The video showed Tee Billz feeding baby Jamil and had the caption: Thank you for taking care of lil man, mummy will soon come #MyFavBoys ❤️.
Tee Billz , who has two kids from a previous relationship (it is not clear if he married the mother or not), appeared to be a pro as he fed his son in the video.
Ex bread seller turned model, Olajumoke Orisaguna looks gorgeous in an african prints choker dress as she modeled for Divine Endowments clothing store.
Thank you for all your effort at containing the corruption in Nigeria however unpopular. Nigerians elected you through serious acrimony , loosing several lives and facing deadly unrest but they chose you. Though you are from the North of OUR country you are president of all. How is it that violence and deaths still hold sway? My hope and prayer was that on your ascension you would deploy our military with fiat and alacrity armed to the teeth and silence or at least contain Boko Haram.
My prayer was that as a seasoned General you would not only flush out king pins and barons but retrieve the loot as you napped them one after the other but we see them working for you. Is this the change you promised us Mr President? Maybe I don’t fully understand how these things work but I know one truth “Women with babies on their back should not be slaughtered in their farms while out there striving to make ends meet”. They say you did not send a condolence message to comfort the families but rather you are requesting for cattle routes for the herds men? There is fighting in Lagos and vicinities? Kidnappers are even negotiating exchange rates, hiking ransoms and collecting change over the victims, little girls are being kidnapped from southern states and sold off in marriage to old men off north? Is it okay to encourage pedophilia in the name of tradition? My president, I am not only sorely pained, disappointed and ashamed, I am almost regretful of ever encouraging Nigerians to embrace you . Reason says do not jump to quick conclusions but be rational in thought. We, concerned citizens of the diaspora are watching and praying for a swift arrest of this drift. When the citizenry loose trust and believe that their government has their interest at heart , anarchy is unleashed and we mark the beginning of a sorry end. Mr President, where is the change you promised?
The 2016 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards held on Saturday, March 5, 2016, and Nigerian popular female singer, Yemi Alade stepped out for the AMVCA 2016 looking bold and beautiful dazzled in a sheer dress that made her look gorgeous.
She is definitely a woman of style and she continues to live up to the hype each time she steps out. What do you think about her outfit, share your thoughts
Lol, When you come in contact with a pastor and you innocently greet him with a handshake..Then he takes it to the next level by turning the handshake to a prayer point..
Recall, earlier last week, reports swirled that technology giant Samsung was reportedly meeting with Jay Z to buy his Tidal music streaming service.
Samsung has since come out and said it won’t be happening.
via Variety:
“The rumor of Samsung acquiring Tidal is not true,” said Samsung spokesperson, breaking the company’s silence on the matter. This comes after months of reports about conversations between the two companies.
Rumors about Samsung looking to acquire Tidal were first fueled by Tidal owner Jay Z stopping by Samsung’s campus to meet with the company’s executives last October. The New York Postreported last month that the two parties had picked up talks again.
Jay Z acquired Tidal for $56 million a little over a year ago. The streaming service has been struggling with management and marketing issues following the acquisition; it appointed its third CEO in nine months in December, and fired its COO and CFO earlier this month.
However, in recent months, Tidal has seen solid growth, thanks to a number of high-profile exclusives. Most recently, Kanye West released his new album “The Life of Pablo” exclusively on the service. And in January, Tidal released Rihanna’s “Anti” album days before other services,which led to 1 million users signing up for a trial of the service. Samsung participated in that promotion, leading many to suspect that bigger things were coming for the two companies.
Samsung itself has been struggling for some time to build a music offering that could compete with the likes of Apple Music and Spotify. Two years ago, Samsung launched a Pandora-like streaming service dubbed Milk Music exclusively to users of its devices. But now, all signs point to Milk Music being shuttered in the coming weeks, as Variety reported earlier Friday.
Khloe Kardashian has defended her brother-in-law Kanye West‘s recent Twitter outbursts.
In the past few weeks Kanye has claimed he has debts of $53 million, said he made Taylor Swift famous and hit out at music producer Bob Ezrin, Wiz Khalifa and Deadman5 – but Khloe has praised her brother-in-law for ‘owning who he is’.
She told NYLON magazine: ‘Is he like wild and out there? Yeah, but I respect him for that. I like anybody who owns who they are. And, just like no qualms about it. That’s what I love.’
However, Khloe hinted that her mother Kris Jenner doesn’t feel the same way, explaining: ‘I’m sure she’s probably like ‘Ugh, what the f**k going on?’ I’m sure she’d say the same thing about all of us like, ‘Shut the f**k up.’
Meanwhile, Khloe praised her sisters, Kim Kardashian West, Kourtney Kardashian and Kendall and Kylie Jenner, with keeping her grounded.
She said: ‘If one of us is maybe too full of ourselves that day,that’s what your family’s for, to bring you back down and to burst that bubble for you.’
And Khloe believes it is their close bonds which have kept the siblings from going off the rails like other celebrities such as Amanda Bynes.
She said: ‘Oh god, I don’t know how we would do it without our family.
‘I see there’s a lot of celebrities and, you know, people say they’re having a breakdown and this or that…
‘Like the Britney Spears’ of the world who that’s – well she had a sister but – like Amanda Bynes, who was one person, like that’s really hard, that amount of pressure and just scrutiny on one person where no one else really understands their journey.’
Davido who recently returned to Lagos and signed a new artiste – Mayokun , someone he met on instagram has fans coming around to get “favours” from him.
The singer shared a snap showing some young boys who seemed like they wanted money from him or probably wanted him to sign them. The singer said “oya sing like say I go sign you” in the snap he shared.
Few days after signing an endorsement deal with Techno Mobile, Fuji Music star, Sulaimon Alao Malaika has settled down in Toronto, Canada for his Canada Musical Tour.
The prolific musician, who left Nigeria on Thursday, kicked off his tour on Friday March 4, 2016 with a show which held at Jamaican Canadian, Banquet Hall, 995 Arrow Road, Toronto, Canada.
The tour, according to what we gathered, will see Malaika perform in several states in Canada before he returns to Nigeria.
It is not news that Nigerian celebrity travel a lot.
While most of them have a busy itinerary, some of them have a super busy one. 36NG takes a look at celebrities that have been to more countries than their counterpart, or better still, celebrities that are rarely in Nigeria.
1. DBanj
Name a country you have been to and D’Banj has probably been there.
The well traveled star has an international appear that most Nigerian celebrities can’t boast of. It is no surprise he was chosen as the host of Lip Sync Africa.
D’Banj is undoubtedly Nigeria’s most traveled celebrity.
Believe me, we do love it when we see our Nigerian Celebrities step out in style and sometimes rock style even more way better that their counterparts abroad.
Yesterday, the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, ended the days long activities marking the 74th birthday of Pastor Enoch Adeboye, a ceremony which also coincided with the church’s 30th anniversary.
At the ministers’ conference that preceded the celebrations, Pastor Adeboye surprised ambitious ministers who have long been waiting for him to step down so they can take over when he said “there is no death in my eyes at all.” The revered pastor then advised those who are impatient to kindly leave the church.
Some ministers had campaigned that he resign when he turned 70, Vanguard reports, adding that his food was once poisoned for this and a minister even used juju on the famous General Overseer. But at 74, Adeboye says he is not stepping down anytime soon.
“Anybody who wants to go in anger in future, is hereby advised to leave now because you may not like the one who would succeed me and if you wait till then to leave, it may adversely affect your destiny then,” Pastor Adeboye told the ministers.
On claims by some ministers that it was the church’s constitution for ministers to step down once they turn 70, the church denied this.
In his statement to the press, the Special Assistant to the General Overseer on Administration and Personnel, Pastor Johnson Odesola, said the critics were ignorant of the constitution.
“Whereas the constitution provided that the deputy and assistant general overseers are appointed to retire at 70 and enjoy their retirement benefits for life, there is no such provision for the general overseer,” Pastor Odesola said. “People have papers but they don’t read them. We have a compendium about the day to day running of the church but people just don’t read. The people who are agitating for the G.O.’s retirement because he is over 70 years are ignorant and the Bible says you don’t become foolish.”
The 2016 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards held on Saturday, March 5, 2016, and Ghanaian star Yvonne Nelson was noticeably missing as well as a number of her recent movies from the nominee list including “If Tomorrow Never Comes”.
The nominees for the AMVCAs this year were released based on submission from the actors, actresses, directors and cast of nominated movies as it was strictly a viewer’s choice scenario this year.
This attack on Toyin Aimakhus’ estranged husband Adeniyi Johnson is becoming incessant.
The Nollywood actor has been on the receiving sides of hoodlums. Under six months this will be the third time he will be attacked but this time around it is by enraged Hausa men.
Johnson who was on his way to the Redemption camp for the monthly Holy Ghost service from Ibadan on Friday, March 4 shared the news of his recent attack on his Instagram timeline.
He wrote that some Hausa guys attacked his car and other oncoming vehicles around Ogere axis of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
He was able to drive to safety but not with his car intact as the wind screen of his car was broken. Read his story below:
“That’s my windscreen mobbed on lagos-ibadan expressway around Ogere by some hausa guys putting big wood on the road and stoning cars with plastic and cans… if u ar plying that road pls be careful… Police please help restore sanity on the highway… However that can’t stop us from attending the monthly HolyGhost service at the Redeemed camp… last month was ARRESTING THE ARRESTERS…… this month’s theme is THE WINNING SIDE… leggoo… #Godblessourhustle #Godownsmylife #GODOVERALL…..”
The fourth edition of the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCA) is currently holding today, Saturday, March 5, 2016, at Eko Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria.
The award ceremony will be hosted by IK Osakioduwa and Minenhle ‘Minnie’ Dlamini.
See Photos of your favourite celebrity at the event:
President Muhammadu Buhari had on 11th November, 2015 assigned portfolios to 36 ministers who are expected to implement his ‘change’ agenda.
Presiding at the swearing in ceremony of the new ministers, Buhari said that the assigning of portfolios was done to put square pegs in square holes, adding that members of his team were carefully chosen and assigned portfolios to reflect their capacities.
More than 3 months after the ministers were assigned portfolios, some have refused to come out of their shell.
Top sources within some ministries have posited that most of Buhari’s ministers are technically unfit for some of the ministries they were posted to, and have continued to make blunders and have become stumbling blocks to the administrations ‘change’ agenda.
Post-Nigeria gathered that President Buhari is said to be under intense pressure from some ‘powerful’ forces, including his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, to “undertake a cleansing of the Federal Executive Council, FEC.”
As part of the impending restructuring, the following ministers have been seen to be doing nothing and many have recommended for their immediate disengagement before they lead the Buhari administration astray.
1. Geoffrey Onyeama – Minister of foreign affairs
Many had hoped that he would wield in his international expertise into Buhari’s agenda, however, more than 3 months after his appointment as the minister of foreign affairs, Nigeria as the giant of Africa still does not have a focused foreign policy agenda.
The failure to manage Buhari’s public and international perception has been traced to the lack of a foreign policy agenda.
If a nation’s foreign policy is understood as the expression of its national interests vis-à-vis other countries, it follows that foreign policy decisions need to be made and expressed and should not be left only with the so called Buhari’s ‘body language’.
2. Aisha Alhassan – Minister of women affairs
“Mama Taraba” was reported to have told the grieving chibok parents that they were not invited, during their visit to the villa. She was also reported to have told them that, the girls were not kidnapped under the current government, “so why are you harassing us?” As if the diatribe was not enough, Minister Alhassan reminded them: “You wanted schools, you wanted hospitals, you wanted this and that… you wanted so many things.”
As a minister of women affairs, many had expected that she would have been at the fore front of the chibok agenda. She has no doubt failed to carry the women folks along. Hence, there is an urgent need to find a suitable replacement.
3. Kayode Fayemi – Minister of solid minerals
The former governor of Ekiti state shocked many when he was assigned his portfolio as he was reported to have said that he would need time to learn in his ministry. An admission that nothing much should be expected from him as he did not envisage he would be posted to the ministry of solid minerals.
More than 3 months after he was assigned the portfolio, the former governor is yet to convince Nigerians that he is the right man for the job.
4. Lai Mohammed – Minister of Information and culture
He is a specialist in image laundering; he has refused to move on from the days of political campaigns. His public statements have done nothing, but dent the public image of the Buhari administration. He speaks on every issue, even though he does not have the right information, he would always speak.
He has continued to blame the previous government for the failures of the Buhari administration. He once said the 2016 budget was not padded, whereas the President admitted that his budget was padded. Many believe the former spokesperson of the APC would be more productive if he returns as the spokesperson of his party.
The current state of the economy is enough for the minister of finance to resign her position. The confusion within the economy especially on policy statements has been attributed to her inability to steer the ship of the Nigerian economy.
More than 3 months after she was handed the portfolio as the minister of finance, many Nigerians have become worst of, as poverty and hardship are now the order of the day.
5. Adebayo Shittu – Minister of Communications
The controversy surrounding the MTN fine has exposed the lack of managerial qualities of the Minister of Communications.
The hullabaloo trailing the role of the Ministry in the out-of-court settlement by MTN Nigeria, and its payment of N50 billion to the Federal Government still remains unaddressed. It is worthy to note that the telecommunications regulatory organ, the Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC, has been shielded away from the settlement process.
What other reason do we need to convince us that the minister of communications seems to be finding it difficult with his current portfolio.
6. Muhammadu Buhari – Minister of Petroleum Resources
He has been tagged the junketer-in-chief for his frequent foreign trips, which are still yet to yield benefits to many Nigerians. Many have forgotten that he is the current minister of petroleum resources and hence should be held responsible for the frequent fuel scarcity in the country.
The best decision Buhari must make is for him to relinquish his position as a minister, because his effect has not been felt, more than three months after.
7. Kemi Adeosun – Minister of finance
The current state of the economy is enough for the minister of finance to resign her position. The confusion within the economy especially on policy statements has been attributed to her inability to steer the ship of the Nigerian economy.
More than 3 months after she was handed the portfolio as the minister of finance, many Nigerians have become worst of, as poverty and hardship are now the order of the day.
American business mogul and front-line aspirant for the Republican party presidential ticket, Donald Trump early Friday(CAT) stunned the world with reassurances about the size of his member in response to thinly veiled attacks by opponent, Senator Marco Rubio.
Trump reassured the nation that the size of his alleged penis is adequate in response to provocative remarks made by Rubio earlier in the week.
“He hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands, I’ve never heard of this one. Look at those hands. Are they small hands?
“And, he referred to my hands — if they’re small, something else must be small. I guarantee you there’s no problem. I guarantee,” Trump said.
According to The Verge, Trump is only following the footsteps of some former American presidents who openly talked about their body parts. A story about former President Lyndon Johnson as told by The New York Review of Books in 2002 is shown to buttress the point:
“He early became fabled for a Rabelaisian earthiness, urinating in the parking lot of the House Office Building as the urge took him; if a colleague came into a Capitol bathroom as he was finishing at the urinal there, he would sometimes swing around still holding his member, which he liked to call “Jumbo,” hooting once, “Have you ever seen anything as big as this?,” and shaking it in almost a brandishing manner as he began discoursing about some pending legislation.”
Recently, Shop 2, the team member of popular singing group, Black Reverendz was violently beaten up by a yet to be identified military personnel. His crime; he was spotted wearing camouflage.
PULSE reports that the singer was accosted by the officer and accused of impersonating a military personnel. He was reportedly beaten up before being released.
The singer’s group Black Reverendz sprang into spotlight in 2000 with their remix of Busta Rhymes ‘Dangerous’, which they tittled Ayangba Dangerous.
‘Ayangba’ has also been remixed my YBNL team, Olamide and Lil Kesh.
A corps member, Dr Kelechi Ogboji, has died while treating a Lassa fever patient in Kaduna State. Punch reports that the NYSC member, who hails from Ebonyi State, was serving at the St. Louis Hospital Zonkwa in Zango Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
Confirming his death, the Director of Corps Welfare and Inspectorate, Mr Michael Ahile, described Ogboji as “an exceptional corps member who was fully dedicated to his duties and in the process paid the supreme sacrifice”, and said he will be missed by the NYSC family.
Also, the NYSC DG advised corps members serving in hospitals and other health institutions to always apply ‘standard precautionary measures while discharging their duties’.
Following the reports of the rescuing of Esu Oruru and Patience Paul,the parents of yet another girl Ifeoma, now Aisha, are crying out.
Ifeoma is the daughter of Mr. Ndubuisi Nichodemus. She was living with her parents, in the midst of the Hausa community in Zaria, Kaduna State, until May, 2014.
According to a report by the Saturday Sun, on that fateful evening, Ifeoma had left the house in protest against the authority of her mother to question her for returning late to the house on the day.
She simply walked out of her parents’ compound into a neighbour’s house, and since 21 months ago to be precise, the family is yet to set their eyes on her.
Ifeoma, now 16, Saturday Sun learnt, might have been converted to Islam, even as her mother disclosed that she gathered reliably that her daughter had been married off. This was the story, told to our reporter in November last year.
Since then, nothing happened. But by last week Wednesday, apparently following the public outcry over the abduction of Bayelsa-born Ese, Mr. Nichodemus was sighted at the Police Command headquarters, in Kaduna.
However, neither the Police nor Mr. Nichodemus, was forthcoming on what transpired last Wednesday.
The only thing he told Saturday Sun when pressed further was that
“the situation remains the same. Nothing has changed, as my daughter is not back. The Sharia Court handling the matter keeps adjourning the case and as a result, we are still where we were last year”
Speaking during an interview then, Ndubuisi Nichodemus, resident of Sabon-Gari, Zaria, Kaduna State, who appealed to the authorities concerned, to help rescue his daughter, allegedly in the custody of another man since 2014, said her daughter had come home late on that fateful day and felt, as responsible parents, she should be scolded. They did, and the girl ran into a neighbour’s house.
Thereafter, he said the girl claimed she had renounced Christianity for Islam as her preferred religion, which made one of the neighbours simply identified as Abdullahi to take the girl to one Alhaji Shehu Khalil, who train new converts into Islam.
This is even as Ifeoma’s biological mother disclosed that she heard reliably that her daughter has been given out in marriage without her knowledge and consent.
According to Nudubuisi:
“it all started in May (2014) when she came home late and her mother talked to her. She then left the compound to our neighbour’s place. We lived in the midst of Hausa who are majorly Muslims.
So, we learnt that Abdullahi has taken her to Mallam, Khalil who work with Ahmadu Bello University, at Energy Research here in Samaru. The next thing we heard was the conversion of our daughter to Islam.
“So after we approached him for the release of our daughter, he told us she had traveled to Sokoto. When we reported the case to the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Zaria, and they wrote to Commissioner of Police Kaduna State, Directorate of State Security (DSS) for assistance, the Police Commissioner, Shehu Umar, sent some of his men to Zaria, that the girl should be handed over to her biological parents.
“But on getting to Zaria, the man has gone to Sharia Court in Zaria to collect a court order, granting him the custody of the girl. This was granted without consulting her biological father.
“So, we were told that our daughter had been moved from Zaria to one school called Da-rul Islam in Kaduna where new converts are usually taken to. This attitude is capable of igniting religion crisis in the State. We have been in Zaria for more than three decades without having any issue with anybody.
“Now when we approached the school in Kaduna alongside the CAN representative, the school told us to go and get a written clarification to that effect because there was a written order from court before she was admitted. The school later appealed to us to come and take our girl because she was given them problem. But we need court order to do that.
“Even with the intervention of the Commissioner of Police that the girl should be released to us, the court refused to release her and instead transferred the case to upper Sharia court in Zaria.
“In fact, for more than a year now, we have not set our eyes on our own daughter when we are still alive. We are against this impunity that our child will be in custody of another man when we the parents are alive.
“The whole episode had even forced us out of the former house where it all started. We are hereby calling on concerned authorities including the State government to come to our rescue.
They have aborted her schooling. She has also been kept incommunicado as we are no longer hearing from her. She remains a Christian and not a Muslim as they claim. She is just a 15-year-old girl and that makes her a minor in this case. I want my daughter back so she can continue with her education.”
But Ifeoma’s mother, Angnes Nichodemus’ view was completely different form her husband’s. She alleged that her daughter was said to have been married out to a Hausa Muslim without the consent of her parents.
According to her,
“I was told that one Hausa boy has been given my daughter, a minor, as wife without our input as parents. I was made to realise that the boy is working inside ABU here in Zaria, though I don’t know whether as a staff of the school or not. This is rather modern oppression and slavery.
“We have been doing everything we could legally. But from the way it has been, it shows we are not one Nigeria. You can imagine how you will feel as a mother when your child is missing. But my daughter’s case is different because for more than a year now she is being in custody of another man. No contact, no phone call. This is rather unfortunate.”
When contacted through his mobile telephone, the man at the centre of the allegation, Alhaji Shehu Khalil, was not ready to give much details on the issues raised.
Instead, he just said
“How did you manage to get my number? Who said he has his daughter in my custody? Well, I don’t know anything. You can come to Zaria I don’t know anything because I cannot talk to you on phone.”
Investigators met with him Friday night, Patience was seen with his other children and family members. He claimed he adopted the girl because he didn’t want to let her be with the hisbah.
He, however, allowed her to be attending both Islamic and government junior secondary school for her education.
A police source told TheCable that when interviewed, Patience claimed she was afraid of returning home because of possible reprisal from her siblings.
The alarm Paul Isaac Adaji, father of the teenager, had raised the alarm about her daughter’s disappearance, but it did not gain traction until the case of Oruru started playing out. Adaji, an Idoma from Benue state, said his daughter was forcefully abducted by hisbah in Gidan Kukah, Runjin Sambo area Sokoto, on August 12, 2015.
Tambuwal, in a statement issued by his spokesman, Imam Imam, directed that the matter be investigated. The inspector general of police then took up the matter.
Yeah, you can say she’s his super-duper die hard fan! Rocking his clothing line and his lyrics, she’s definitely gotta win the No 1 fan award from Kanye.
Mother of two, Kim Kardashian, stepped out in her husband’s entire Yeezy 3 outfit. Sharing the photos, she quoted his lyrics.
Recall that the rap star was condemned for calling Taylor Swift a bitch but he claimed the word is a form of endearment in hiphop.
Many didn’t give in to his explanation. However, Kim has been using the word of recent.
Stunning reality TV star, Khloe Kardashian has revealed she’s all in for cosmetic surgery but says it shouldn’t be done because of a man.
Speaking to Cosmopolitan.com.
She says:
“There’s this misconception that I’m not into plastic surgery, but I’m into it and I don’t care if you have it,”
“I think plastic surgery should be viewed almost like makeup, because we’re all putting on a fucking mask basically every day anyway,”When you dye your hair, you’re changing who you are, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.
I think people should get plastic surgery or fillers or lasers or whatever if they want it — that should be your own personal decision.
I just don’t like when someone else is like, ‘Man, I only want to date a girl if they have big tits,’ and then a girl’s like, ‘I gotta get double-Ds.’ If you want them, great. If you’re doing that for your man, that’s when it bothers me.”
“I just have a lot of friends that just go to get liposuction when not once have they tried to go to the gym or tried to change their diet, so they’re literally eating a box of pizza the day before, and then going to get lipo,”
She told Cosmopolitan.com.
“That I disagree with. But if you’re working out, and you have a trouble area, and it’s still bothering you, then go fix it if you want.
I think that’s where people misconstrue when I say I’m not into plastic surgery. I definitely am a fan of plastic surgery, I just think you need to go through the proper channels first.”
Few days after signing an endorsement deal with Techno Mobile, Fuji Music star, Sulaimon Alao Malaika has settled down in Toronto, Canada for his Canada Musical Tour.
