Gorgeous RnB singer, Rihanna, looked alive and glittery in exotic Dior and diamonds as she attended her 2nd annual Diamond Ball; an event that raises money for charity.
The beauty stunned in her bogus gown and lovely diamond necklace.
SEE ALSO: Rihanna Reportedly Set To Launch Weed Line “Ma Rihanna”.
More photos:
Travails of former Chairman, DAAR Communications Plc, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, are far from over as his hopes of being granted bail by the Federal High Court, Abuja, dimmed on Thursday after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said it had opened a fresh probe into the payment of N8.4bn to the businessman by the Federal Government.
Punch reveals that the counsel for the EFCC, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs, said this while opposing Dokpesi’s application for bail as canvassed by his lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), during Dokpesi’s appearance in court in Abuja.
On Wednesday, Ozekhome had said his client had been in the EFCC custody for eight days, adding that the offences, for which the embattled businessman was standing trial, were bailable.
The EFCC charged Dokpesi and DIHL with fraudulent receipt of N2.1bn from the Office of the National Security Adviser between October 2014 and March 19, 2015.
Opposing the bail application, however, Jacobs urged the court to reject the application on the grounds that the Federal Government was investigating a fresh allegation of N8.4bn the accused collected for airing the FIFA Under-17 championship, which Nigeria hosted in January, 2012.
Jacobs added that the airing right was given to DAAR Communications by FIFA and the Federal Government was not a party to the contract for which he allegedly collected N8bn from the Nigerian government.
Jacobs said:
“Here is a man, who in 2012, collected over N8bn for the contract for airing of the Under-17 World Cup organised by FIFA. Nigeria was not part of the contract agreement with FIFA, yet, this applicant collected the huge sum from the treasury of this country.
“Again, let me say here that Nigeria is bleeding and it is the duty of everybody, including judges in court, to ensure that we fight and put an end to corrupt tendencies in this country.
Ozekhome also told the court that his client was scheduled to travel abroad for medical attention when he received a call, inviting him to the EFCC office in Abuja and that without hesitation, Dokpesi honoured the invitation as a law-abiding citizen.
The senior advocate added that Dokpesi’s son would wed on December 17 and 19 and that as a father, he (Dokpesi) had sent invites to highly-placed Nigerians and as such, he would be around at all times to stand trial.
Jacobs said Dokpesi might jump bail due to the possibility of being jailed for seven years upon conviction.
But after the hearing on Thursday, the judge said he needed time to study the arguments for and against the bail application before he could deliver his ruling.
He then fixed Monday for the ruling and ordered that Dokpesi be returned to the EFCC custody.
The ceasefire declared by the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, and the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to give room for a dialogue with the Federal Government seems to have hit a dead end.
This comes after reports that former governor of Akwa-Ibom State, Senator Goodswill Akpabio led a delegation accompanied by some northern elites on behalf of MASSOB to Federal Government to broker a peace treaty.
Consequently, they said they the only way they would be part of the dialogue is if detained IPOB leader and Director of Radio Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu is part of it.
This came as the Chief Ralph Uwazuruike-led Biafra Independent Movement, BIM, dissociated self from any negotiation and vowed to actualize the Republic of Biafra.
Meanwhile, a coalition of human rights groups in the South-East zone cautioned the Federal Government against allowing Nnamdi Kanu to be murdered in the captivity of the Department of State Service, DSS, the way deceased leader of Boko Haram sect, Yusuf Mohammed was killed in Police custody.
Speaking on the proposed dialogue, in Enugu, yesteday, MASSOB Director of Information, Edson Samuel, said:
“We are shocked that Akpabio, who disowned MASSOB at the inception of this demonstration, led some northern leaders to broker truce on our behalf. We do not know them, neither can we identify with them because any person moving to dialogue between us and Federal Government must first meet with us and know our demands.
“This demonstration is strictly anchored by MASSOB, IPOB and Akpabio, working with his cohort, Dozie Ikedife, have shown hatred for Nnamdi Kanu. We make haste to disown them.
–VANGUARD
Stunning couple! Beautiful actress, Annie Idibia and her music mogul husband, 2Face Idibia look adorable as they both rocked matching traditional outfits.
The lovely couple were on their way to the wake-keeping of the Late Prof Wensley Vidal Mobolaji Fowler.
Beautiful people!
A charitable organization, “Goodwill” has tendered an apology for using rapper, Kanye West‘s facial expressions to demonstrate to staff on how not to behave to clients.
The organization had earlier used the photos and distributed it in a newsletter to its staff, telling them “the Kanye Resting Bitch Face” won’t be tolerated.
A Goodwill rep told TMZ,
they meant no disrespect when they used Kanye’s mug as a way of schooling supervisors on how to react to different scenarios in the workplace. Goodwill says it felt it was being “relatable” by using the rapper’s face, but in hindsight they realized it was wrong. The newsletters has now been pulled from all its stores and donation centers.
The rep says:
“We’d like to apologize to Kanye West, his fans and the community for the use of his image to illustrate an internal training message. It was unacceptable and Goodwill takes full responsibility for this action and meant no disrespect to Kanye.”
A young gruesome woman has shocked many after she was alleged guilty of murdering her illegitimate infant son because of his persistent crying.
According to People’s Daily Online, the 23-year-old woman, Wang had gotten pregnant out of wedlock for the second time with her long-term boyfriend, named only as Qiao.
Ms Wang is said to have stabbed her new baby repeatedly with a pair of scissors shortly after he was born in April, before Mr Qiao dumped the corpse the next morning in a bin near their flat in Haidian District, Beijing.
Ms Wang claimed to have had no knowledge of being pregnant until she went into labour on April 23 of this year and said that the child ‘cried all the time‘ after his birth.
She said that the baby was delivered without any medical assistance at the couple’s flat, and that she cut the umbillical chord herself, claiming she stabbed the boy ‘by accident‘ as she attempted the procedure.
Thinking she could be understood by the newborn despite having previously been to medical school, prosecutors found that Ms Wang threatened the infant by saying ‘I’ll poke you if you cry‘ before using the scissors to violently stab the baby’s chest and neck, causing acute hemorrhaging.
Ms Wang has been charged with intentional murder and Mr Qiao with destroying evidence by the public prosecutor in China, although their sentences have not yet been announced.
Mrs Wang and Mr Qiao, first met back in 2012 and subsequently entered into a long-term relationship.
Alhaji Orezi is ending his 2015 in a Grand Style. The hitmaker has just acquired a Massive Mansion.
The singer yesterday took to Instagram to share the great news with his many fans as well as encouraging them to double their hustle.
“ALAYE DOUBLE YOUR HUSTLE IF U WAN BE LIKE OREZI OOO !!! Blessings upon Blessings It’s been a good year,” he wrote.
Congrats to him
I am sure we all know him, for those of us that still fancy Yoruba Movies, his name is Muyideen Oladapo popularly known as Lala. You are surprised yeah? With the way he acts in movies you will think he is an illiterate but he is a fresh graduate from Great Ife, Obafemi Awolowo University.
The prolific actor cum producer was one of the wave-making Yoruba actors before he left the scene to study Dramatic Arts at the respected higher institution.
A native of Oshogbo, Lala had his primary education at Ansar-udeen Primary School and secondary school in Oshogbo.
In 1995, he relocated to Lagos and started his acting career after joining Dagunro Theater Group. He thereafter acted in many plays and movies, before deciding to add to his training and further his academic achievement.
Hollup? Barack Obama listens to Kendrick Lamar, not only that he is a Fan and he chose his song as his Song of the Year! This is like our President saying Eyan Mayweather by Olamide is his song of the year, LOL!!
We bet you never knew Barack Obama is a K-Dot, Kendrick Lamar’s fan.
The American president has chosen Kendrick Lamar’s ‘How Much a Dollar Cost’ as his favorite song of 2015.
In an interview with PEOPLE, Obama says that he can’t get enough of the powerful song, which appeared on Lamar’s Grammy-nominated album ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’
While her husband is bumping the Compton rapper, Michelle Obama is jamming ‘Uptown Funk’ by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars, which she chose as her favourite song of the year.
Earlier this year, he shared his summer playlist, which included tunes from Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, Frank Ocean, Erykah Badu, Mary J. Blige, and Mos Def. Apart from tackling country issues, Obama sure has an ear for good music.
All Hail King Harrysong!! Reggae Blues Crooner, Harrysong releases new photos wear he dressed as a King, he must be re-stating he is truly the king of Reggae Blues. He was dressed as the King in his native attire Niger Delta. His highly anticipated album,” Talent and Grace” is getting closer to being available for fans. See The Photos below…
It’s almost impossible for any Nigerian to dismiss the fact that they know Nigerian Television Authority, NTA Veteran broadcaster, Cyril Stober as he is always on their TV screens every night at 9:00pm for decades now.
Well, the highly respected newscaster, retired today from the service of the Nigerian Television Authority. With an outstanding career spanning over 3 decades, he is undoubtedly one of the most prominent and respected faces on Nigerian Television screens.
Following his retiring effect, Nigerian twitter reacted profusely making him a trending topic already.
See some tweets below:
Queen of Hip-Hop, Nicki Minaj‘s brother reportedly appeared in court on Wednesday for a preliminary hearing on rape charges.
37 year old Jelani Maraj, was accompanied by his mother, Carol and lawyer, Andrea Zellan for the hearing to set a schedule for his upcoming trial.
The 37 year old who recently got married, is accused of raping a 12-year-old on multiple occasions. Nicki was not present but she did post bail for her brother last week.
The 32-year-old rapper put up a $100,000 bond which was guaranteed by the two homes she owns in nearby Baldwin.
While we patiently wait for the release of his new single, “Powerful” which is set to drop this week, cool singer, Waconzy shared some dapper new promo photos on his instagram page.
The singer’s new track, Powerful, is said to be the first African song to be accepted and distributed by the worlds biggest radio pluggers, www.ipluggers.com.
The website even had his music on their homepage as one of their hottest tunes. He looks cool though.
More photos:
For real though, this media personality has one of the gorgeous body in the game as of 2015. Each time she takes a snap by her door post, she’s never flawed any look.
As we’re gradually getting to the end of the year, the beautiful Toke Makinwa has been more about showing off her curves and as usual, she’s slaying the look.
SEE ALSO: Checkout Toke Makinwa’s Beautiful Curves. (Photos)
The bae is short and sweet. You digging the photo above yeah? Of course… you do!
Former coach of the Super Eagles, Stephen Keshi has confirmed the sad and sudden death of his wife, Kate, in the United States. The deceased is said to have passed on on Wednesday.
Speaking to Completesportsnigeria.com, he revealed that his wife had been sick for a while but he never expected that the sickness would cause her to die.
She was ill for a while now and I’m still in shock of this great loss,”She is more like a sister to me and was the rock behind me and everything I do. My love for her was at first sight,” he said.
May the soul of the deceased rest in peace.
Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, have said they aren’t interested in suggestions being flown by some Northern elders to the effect that Ndigbo would be allowed to clinch the presidential seat in 2019.
Speaking to newsmen on Wednesday, spokesman of the IPOB, Emma Powerful said they are not interested in Nigeria’s affairs any longer.
The spokesman is quoted as saying:
“If politics of compensation was used to favour Obasanjo in place of June 12 annulment and was also used to favour Buhari in place insurgency, that is their own cup of tea.
But for us in IPOB, we are not interested in that politics of compensation whereby we are being told that an Igbo man will become Nigeria’s president in 2019 and we will begin to listen to them”.
“All we want or are interested in is to release our leader, Kanu and then allow Biafra to be and not Igbo presidency”, he stated.
Everything you do as a celebrity is noticed by the general public and the Fans. Everything you wear is noticed, repetition of cloth is not really allowed! You have to slay in all.
One of a Nigeria’s most beautiful actress in the Industry Ini Edo is known for always slaying in whatever she wear and her splufik shoe game which is totally on point.
The Nollywood actress recently showed off her ‘impressive’ shoe collection on Instagram – and judging from the look of things, it’s obvious Ini Edo is a huge fan of foot wears… See Picture of her shoe collections below…
Check below for more pictures on her splufik shoe game…
Super Star South African Athlete – Caster Semenya held her traditional wedding ceremony over the weekend with her long-time girlfriend, Violet Raseboya.
The even held in Ga-Dikgale in the Capricorn District of Limpopo.
According to reports, Semenya and Raseboya got engaged in May last year.
Social media posted numerous pictures of the happy couple on Monday.
2015 has almost come to a close and a lot of the people in the Entertainment industry are already looking to another year come 2016.
While the curtain for this year is about to come to a close, in our usual tradition, we love to take a look at top stories that really came as a shock or really got the fans talking the most this year.
Take a glass of wine and come along with us as we check on the top celebrity stories of 2015 as Culled From 36NG
1. 2Face Idibia Photographed Kissing One Of His Baby Mama, Pero Adeniyi
Nigerian music star, 2Face Idibia who is married to his beautiful wife and mother of 2 of his beautiful children, Annie Idibia definitely did shock us in the beginning of this year.
Photos of the music star kissing one of his baby mama, Pero Adeniyi who has kids for the music legend.
Annie Idibia and her husband were able to settle their differences amicably and Annie even released a press statement to address the issue in the most mature way ever.
Click on the next page to continue with the rest of this interesting list..
Could this be a pre-wedding photoshoot? Looking at the photos from ‘The Duke and The Duchess’ inspired shoot, one can be forgiven for thinking it’s a ‘pre-wedding’ shoot.
About a month ago, it seemed as though Rick Ross and Lira Galore/Mercer’s relationship was over, as rumours circulated that Rozay had called off their engagement.
Whatever went down there, it seems they’re back on track to get married. The Maybach Music Group boss is all loved up with fiancé Lira Mercer popularly known as Lira Galore. To further cement their relationship, the couple appear in the new cover of Paper magazine. The two take part in a luxurious spread, photographed at Ricky Rozay’s Atlanta estate…. See Photos from the photoshoot below… They are so cute together
MTV Base has revealed the list of Top Ten Hottest Artiste for 2015 and the hottest in the game is Olamide, no contest, Baddo has really been hot this year, starting from his massive hit singles, his album “Eyan Mayweather” and the legendary dance he infused “Shakiti Bobo” that we are all scattering the dance floor with. He is no doubt the Hottest Artiste in the Game for this year and remember his Team #YBNL is doing great things with artistes like Lil Kesh, Adekunle Gold, Viktoh to mention a few.
On the panel that ranked ten of the hottest artists in Nigeria for the year 2015 were, OAPs Omalicha, Do2dtun and Sade Ladipo. Joining the trio were showbiz entrepreneur Olisa Adibua, entertainment journalist Osagie Alonge, DJ Spinall and VJ Ehiz.
Olamide was named the hottest, Making a surprise appearance at number 2 on the list was Wizkid who had a big year in 2015 with his single ‘Ojuelegba‘ getting remixed by superstar grime artist Skepta and American rapper, Drake.
Davido sneaked in at number 3 ahead of Patoranking after a year that saw him tour extensively and release a hit collaboration with Meek Mill.
The show ranks the year’s ten biggest performing artists in Nigeria using a list of six criteria namely: Style, Impact, Sales/Success, Buzz, Music and Intangibles.
See the full list below:-
15 Artistes That Disappointed Us In 2015
The year is more or less over now and the entertainment industry players are looking forward to the busy schedule that comes with the festive period.
While they look forward to those exciting times, some of them will be doing a yearly review to see if things went as they planned last year December or this year January.
We on our own part had high or exciting expectations for some of our favorite artistes thereby anticipating a great 2015 from them.
Some of the acts we expected great things from surpassed our expectation, some met it while the others didn’t do enough.We takes a look at the artistes that didn’t impress us as we would have loved this term…
Chidinma
With Tiwa Savage on a mandatory maternity leave after announcing she is pregnant on January 1st, 2015, we had high hopes that Chidinma will be the biggest winner from her absence.
The 24 year old music sensation instead didn’t do enough to become the force we expected her to be after winning the Project Fame more than half a decade ago.
Chidinma has dropped only one single in 2015, that says a lot about her intentions.
Continued in next pages
The panel on the MTV Base TV special #BaseNaijaHottestArtist have named rapper, Olamide Baddo as Hottest artiste in Nigeria for the year 2015 after two days of intense debate.
2015 has seen Olamide release several singles that topped the MTV Base Official Naija Top Ten for many weeks, in addition to his successful promotion of protégé, Lil Kesh, and the recent surprise release of his fifth studio album, ‘Eyan Mayweather’ which has been topping charts.
On the panel that ranked ten of the hottest artists in Nigeria for the year 2015 were, OAPs Omalicha, Do2dtun and Sade Ladipo.
Joining the trio were showbiz entrepreneur Olisa Adibua, entertainment journalist Osagie Alonge, DJ Spinall and VJ Ehiz.
Newly acclaimed MTV Base hottest artiste, Olamide commented on the announcement, he said
‘It’s a great feeling to know that my work has made so much impact on Nigerians and i’m humbled by this announcement. Thank you MTV Base’
Empire character, Cookie Lyon has just been named the ‘Most Influential Fictional Character of 2015′ by TIMES Magazine.
The 16 people list was released today, and Taraji P. Henson came top of the list.
Cookie Lyon’s fierce character in ‘Empire’ was one that quicly got admiration from lots of fans across the world from the first day the show aired.
The magazine lists 16 characters from Glenn Rhee of ‘The Walking Dead’ to Christian Grey of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ and Jon Snow of ‘Game of Thrones’.
Explaining why Cookie Lyon tops the list, TIME says:
“With her high-drama scheming and higher-drama wardrobe, the Lyon family matriarch (played by Taraji P. Henson) was the biggest draw on TV’s most popular new show, Empire, luring more than 13 million viewers a week. In addition to spawning countless memes and catchphrases, she also helped inspire a clothing line at Saks Fifth Avenue. As Cookie herself said, “That’s my name. Take a bite.”
Mother of seriously popular celebrities, Kris Jenner has spoken up on her daughter, Kim Kardashian‘s new baby Saint West, saying Kim was a little cranky but was strong through out.
Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, she says:
‘She was amazing,’I mean, she’s a really strong girl – a little cranky when she gets uncomfortable – but other than that, she’s amazing.’
SEE ALSO: “He’s So Cute!” – Khloe Kardashian Gushes About Saint West.
On Saint West:
‘He’s amazing. We’ve only known him a few days, so we’ll see if he’s calm or, you know, anxious,’ ‘You know, we’ll see what kind of kid he is!”We definitely went [to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center] quite a few times to visit him.
Now he’s home, so we’re happy that everyone’s safe and sound and all tucked in, so it’s good.He looks like North’s twin, like a little tiny North.’
World’s most famous transgender, Caitlyn Jenner, who made TIME‘s top 100 most influential persons in 2015, is tired of shying away from the spotlight, because she does not want to steal it from her famous daughters.
Now, the septuagenarian says she doesn’t want to stay in the shadows no more. Speaking in an interview with Time, she said:
SEE ALSO: ‘You’re an Insult to Trans people’- Caitlyn Jenner Confronted by angry Protesters
‘Do you know how many boring photos I’ve taken in my life? ‘Just stand in the background. Don’t get in the girls’ way. Stand waaaay in the back. Not anymore.’ ‘I want to make a positive impact on this community and on the world. This happens all over the world, and it’s something almost nobody understands …’ There are so many issues for trans people. There’s a lot of work to be done. I am so excited about the future, and hopefully I can have an impact in opening up this conversation.’
Nothing less than 53 churches with mosques and hotels are reported to have been shut down by the Lagos State Government over noise pollution and other environmental offences.
The General Manager of the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, LASEPA, Adebola Shabi, disclosed that the agency had received persistent complaints from residents and neighbours of the shut facilities.
He also stated that some of the sealed worship centres were converted from residential apartments to places of worship, constituting nuisance to other residents.
The General is quoted as saying:
“In recent times, most of the petitions kept coming to us. It was as if we are not working at all. That was why we shut the facilities.
“You cannot have makeshift structures and say you want to be conducting services or vigils there. Definitely, you will be disturbing your neighbours. So, the government won’t allow the use of makeshift structures as a church or mosque.
“Nobody is allowed to make a noise above 55 decibel during the day in residential areas and only 45 decibel is allowed in such areas at night.
In industrial areas, 90 decibel of noise level is allowed during the day, while the noise rate must not exceed 80 decibel at night.”
Danagog has shot the visuals to his next single – titled “Hookah”, produced by the highly rated Ghanaian Mix Masta Garzy & co-produced by Kiddominant.
The video for “Hookah” was shot by Director Q on locations in Lagos City; and would be out in no time.
Speaking on the video; Danagog said “Working with Davido has always been a pleasure, im quite excited about this project and i cant wait to share the final cut with everyone out there… I want to thank everyone who made this possible.. We are edging closer”.
The highly rated afro-pop act best known for his 2015 collaboration with ‘Lil Kesh – KOBA’ amongst other bubbling tunes is definitely not disappointing with the visuals to his unreleased single – “Hookah”
“Hookah” is a follow up to his last single and video for ‘Pelemo’ which featured Lola Rae, His 2015 street hop single – ‘KOBA’ which featured Lil Kesh was recently nominated for Best Afro-pop video at the 2015 NMVAs.
Danagog has also readied his 8-track EP set for release in the first quarter 2016.Sit back and digest the ‘behind the scene’ footage as we all anticipate the official cut coming through in a few days…
An excited Nicki Minaj, who was a year older yesterday, took to her Social media to share what her boyfriend got for her as a birthday gift.
SEE ALSO: Nicki Minaj Denies Shading Jennifer Lopez At AMAs. Watch!
The curvy Hip-Hop queen got a huge diamond ring from her boyfriend, Meek Mill and she couldn’t help but gush about it. Sharing the photos on social media, she wrote:
Delectable actress, Susan Peters and her Dutch husband, Koen Croon have tied the knots for three months today.
The beauty took to social media to celebrate it with strong words of prayer.
She wrote:
Today marks our third month anniversary. Today i speak over my household, Gods mercy over us is sure,his promises are true. His words will never fall on the ground, whatever he has promised to do he will perfect it IJN Amen.
No harm shall come near me and my household and loved ones. Because he shed The Blood on The Cross and paid the price. It is finished He said.
As decreed by the watchers we shall live to testify to his goodness in the land of the living. Wherever our prayers cannot reach The Blood Of Jesus Will Fight For Us IJN Amen.I soak me and my household with the blood and wherever we have wronged you Lord Have Mercy.
Holy Mary Mother Of God Interceed for your children IJN. Let every evil eyes or intent be blinded forever IJN Amen. What God has joined let no man seperate Amen.
Those who worship God in truth and spirit can stand in the presence of kings.
