X3m Music’s vocalist, Praiz comes with this caribbean influenced tune titled “Body Hot” which features Jesse Jagz and Ghanaian dancehall king, StoneBwoy.
According to Praiz, “It’s different and that’s why I love it. I’ve always experimented with different genres and this might just be my favourite”,
Nollywood actress, Mercy Johnson, is so in love with her three kids and definitely it is the bond that exist between the child and the mother as she ensures she spends most of her precious time with them.
Currently working to get her shape back and prepare for the fourth child, the actress has disclosed that she has just found out she is not a perfect human.
She stated that her perfection is only discovered when she stares at her children and she discovers they are the best gift life has to offer her.
In her words, “I am not perfect but when I look at my children, I know I got something in my life perfectly right.”
The Centre for Democracy and Development had claimed recently that President Muhammadu Buhari had only achieved one out of his 222 tracked electoral promises, representing 0.5 per cent of the promises.
The CDD had based its report on critical sectors such as security, the economy, fighting corruption, oil and gas, agriculture, and social and environmental sectors.
However, the presidency has risen to President Buhari’s defense saying he (Buhari) has achieved a lot in the area of fighting corruption in the seven months of his administration.
INFORMATION NIGERIA has put together the 3 points put forward by the presidency to support its claim…
– Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said in a statement on Wednesday said that the President has been able to tackle corruption in a country where impunity was once celebrated.
– The presidential spokesman said within seven months, Buhari had successfully blocked the leakages in the system.
– He added that Buhari is making good strides towards improving governance by tackling corruption. Till date, a good number of persons believed to have collectively stolen billions from taxpayers have been arrested and are facing the courts.
Speaking on the economy, he said it was wrong to blame the President for the falling oil prices in the world market because he inherrited the challenge and as part of measures to cushion the effect Buhari has laid emphasis on economic diversification.
President Barack Obama of the United States had inherited an economy in crisis in 2009 and was not judged in his first seven months in office, he added.
He also noted that it was mischievous to attribute to the President promises he did not make during the campaigns and hold him accountable for them.
Veteran Nollywood actress, Omotola Jalade-Ekehinde who will be 38 in a few days time, took to her instagram page to share a collage of new photos of herself.
The Delectable mothe of 4 looked all elegant as usual as she rocked a Unclad coloured top, black pants and a nude shoe matching her top, and she also had her BO16 extensions on.
President Muhammadu Buhari has begun a short vacation as from today, 5th of February, 2016.
A statement by Special Adviser to Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, says that while Buhari is away, the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo will perform the functions of the President.
The statement added that in compliance with Section 145 (1) of the Nigerian Constitution, President Buhari has dispatched a formal notice of his vacation to the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
PRESIDENT BUHARI BEGINS SHORT VACATION
President Muhammadu Buhari has begun a short vacation from today, February 5 to February 10, 2016.
While President Buhari is on vacation, the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo will perform the functions of the President.
In compliance with Section 145 (1) of the Nigerian Constitution, President Buhari has dispatched a formal notice of his vacation to the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Femi Adesina
Special Adviser to the President
(Media & Publicity)
February 5, 2016
Beautiful Singer, Niyola shared the above barefaced “No makeup” photo of herself on her instagram page earlier and a fan left a comment on the post. The fan told Niyola to be more flashy because she’s a star and stop being all natural all the time..
The fan said:
I am ur fan I love you but this whole idea of u looking natural most of the time is not a thing for stars ok I know u enjoy being natural but you are in the music business you are meant to stay fly almost all the time with your fans so please I’ll say be fly almost every time you are a star u have to behave the ways starts do because you are in that business.
Else u want to be something else your likes are low and since your are on Instagram it’s mostly pictures, set out your best for your fans you are not regular girl so don’t act like a regular girl on Instagram u are a star.
I ?? ya but u gotta change ur insta game.
Niyola Replied:
here’s what the issue is , you think you need to wear a while armour of clothes , make up , what have you to be fly . Maybe that’s you , but honey I am first human , then a woman before anything else and if I can’t be human then I don’t know what the world has come to. If I can post pictures when I am “fly” I can post pictures when I am not “so fly” after all it’s still me in the picture .Sorry if my being humane disappoints you so much ,but this is me sharing my life with you …I am not asking to be told how to live it . Good looking out though ??
Almost a year after she was rescued from Boko Haram captivity by the Nigerian army, Zara John, 16, is still in love with one of the fighters who abducted her and impregnated her, AlJazeera reports.
She was delighted to discover that she was pregnant with his child following a urine and blood test carried out by a doctor in the refugee camp to which she was taken after her rescue.
“I wanted to give birth to my child so that I could have someone to replace his father, since I cannot reconnect with him again,” said Zara, one of hundreds of girls kidnapped by Boko Haram during a seven-year insurgency in northeast Nigeria.
But any decision over the baby was taken out of her hands. Her father drowned during flooding in 2010 so her uncles intervened. Some were adamant that they did not want Boko Haram offspring in their family – and insisted on an abortion. Others felt the child should not be blamed for its father’s crimes. In the end, the majority carried the vote and Zara was allowed to keep her child, a son she named Usman who is now seven months old.
“Everybody in the family has embraced the child,” Zara in a telephone interview, asking that her location remain undisclosed. “My uncle just bought him tins of Cerelac [instant cereal] and milk.”
Zara was 14 when Boko Haram members fighting to establish an Islamic state raided her village of Izge, in northeast Nigeria, in February 2014.
They razed homes in the village, slaughtered men and loaded women, girls and children on to trucks.
Two of Zara’s brothers were out of town when the assailants struck in one of a wave of hit-and-run attacks on villages, as well as suicide bombings, on places of worship or markets.
Zara’s mother fell off one of the overloaded trucks but tried to chase after the vehicle that was ferrying away her only daughter and her four-year-old son, but was unable to keep up as it drove 22km to Bita.
At the time, Bita and other surrounding towns near the Sambisa forest were in Boko Haram control.
“As soon as we arrived, they told us that we were now their slaves,” Zara recalled
Her days were spent doing chores and learning the tenets of her new religion, Islam, until two months later when she was given away in marriage to Ali, a Boko Haram commander, and moved from a shared house to his accommodation.
“After I became a commander’s wife, I had freedom. I slept any time I wanted, I woke up any time I wanted,” she said.
He bought me food and clothes and gave me everything that a woman needs from a man.” She added that he also gave her a mobile phone with his number in it, and tattooed his name on her stomach to mark her as a Boko Haram wife.
Ali assured her the fight would soon be over and they would return to his hometown of Baga, where he intended his new wife to join his fishing business.
He told her he abandoned his trade and joined Boko Haram after his father and elder brother, both fishermen like himself, were killed by Nigerian soldiers.
In a June 2015 report based on years of research and analysis, Amnesty International said the Nigerian army was guilty of gross human rights abuse and extrajudicial killings of civilians in parts of northeast Nigeria, calling for an investigation into war crimes.
Ali was not at home when the Nigerian army stormed Bita in March 2015 and rescued Zara and scores of other women, taking them to a refugee camp in Yola in northeast Nigeria.
The raid came as international scrutiny on Nigeria increased after the high-profile abduction of 200 schoolgirls from Chibok in northern Nigeria in April 2014, which caused outrage internationally and sparked the global campaign #bringbackourgirls. The girls are yet to be found.
But Zara and Ali stayed in touch by phone until Nigerian soldiers realised some of the girls in the camp were still in touch with their abductors, seized their phones, and moved them to another camp until they were reunited with their families.
Zara now lives with her extended family and son in a town far away from Izge.
Her male relatives took over control of her life again, with requests for interviews fielded by them and all of her movements monitored by her family. But asked her opinion, she said she would rather be with her Boko Haram “husband”.
“If I had my way, I would retrieve the phone number he gave me,” she said, regretting not committing his number to memory.
But Zara is realistic and knows the possibility of being reunited with Ali is slim.
Instead she wants to return to school when Usman stops breast-feeding, and maybe then run her own business.
“I want to do a business that is suitable for a woman, something that will not take me out of the house,” she said.
Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has stepped into the saddle as Acting-President as President Muhammadu Buhari begins a short vacation.
The vacation starts from today, February 5 to February 10, 2016.
According to a statement by Femi Adesina, special adviser on media and publicity to the president, Yemi Osinbajo, the vice president, will perform the functions of the president while Buhari’s vacations lasts.
In compliance with Section 145 (1) of the Nigerian Constitution, President Buhari has dispatched a formal notice of his vacation to the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Meanwhile, some days ago Sahara Reporters had reported that the President will be seeing his medical doctors in London for undisclosed medical check-ups.
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Valentines day is just around the corner and you probably have a girl you really fancy but have no clue or guts to actually ask her out.
Rather than wallow in defeat because you have no one to spend the day with, to give flowers to or to purchase a ridiculously expensive present for, read this tips on how to ask a girl you like out this Valentines Day and save you from loneliness.
– Buy her an oversized heart-sized cake and ice a sweet message on top, such as ‘Will you go out on a date with me this Valentines day’.
Forget the saying that Nigerian girls are materialistic, truth is deep down in their heart, there is always space for romance.
Catch her off guard with a Valentine’s Day delivery to her door step. Make sure it’s something really nice like a watch or clutch purse with a nice note asking her to dinner later.
She’d likely say yes, if she has no one on her neck.
Yeezy has opened up in a new interview about his online feud with Wiz Khalifa.
Kanye acknowledged it was was because he felt Kim was being disrespected. He also talked about the photo Kim took with Amber ..Speaking on Big Boy TV, he said
My brother Malik Yusef got us on the phone. He’s very close to Wiz, he’s also very close to me,”“We chopped it up, squashed it.
For people who felt a way about the kids comment, I didn’t mean it in a harmful way. I just saw my wife’s initial and reacted, cause that’s my family.
People be thinkin’… [Kim] is open season or something… that’s the mother of my kid! And I’m ‘Ye. I don’t want to act like I’m the toughest…I just wanna show that I’m a man at the end of the day.”
On Amber Rose and Kim’s photo, he said
Yes it is a real picture.. They were at Kris’ house.
Is Drake’s pool bigger than yours?Kanye simply replied
Reports from Information Nigeria indicates that a male Junior Secondary School (JSS) 2 Student in Osun State impregnated a female corper serving in his school.
It is however being speculated that the female corper must have been ‘jazzed’ by the student as the corp member couldn’t have let the student have his way with her with ‘clear eye’.
This is quite unfortunate giving the wide gap that exists between the corp member and the student.
A high school senior who passed away before receiving her yearbook received a heartfelt memorial from her classmates.
Laura Hillier, an 18-year-old from Burlington, Canada, had been battling acute myeloid leukemia for years when she died on Jan. 20. Although she never had the opportunity to graduate high school or receive her yearbook, her classmates came together to provide a touching yearbook-style tribute.
An image of Laura’s coffin was shared by one of her classmates on Imgur, which showed handwritten notes from friends similar to those traditionally written in yearbooks.
Laura had been waiting for years to receive a stem cell transplant as a cancer treatment. Finally, in July she learned that there were multiple donors available, but a hospital bed shortage placed Laura on a waiting list even though she had a donor match, CTV News reports.
Laura’s family attempted to find another hospital to complete her surgery, but found waitlists across Canada. An operation in the United States would have cost upwards of $250,000. In August 2015, Laura finally received her hospital bed and underwent surgery, only for her cancer to return in November.
Laura then ended up in intensive care but she was able to leave the unit on January 1. Her family was excited and hopeful for the future.
Laura was supposed to go to City of Hope, a hospital in California for additional treatment on Jan. 18, but was unable to travel due to medical complications the day prior. She died later that week and her funeral service was held on Jan. 30.
Nollywood Actess, Ini Edo has joined the list of Nollywood stars who have been given political appointments.
The screen goddess is now the Special Adviser on Tourism to Akwa Ibom State Governor, Emmanuel Udoh. She received her appointment letter last week. Congrats to her!
Evangelist Mike Bamiloye, founder of Mount Zion, a popular Christian drama ministry with such blockbusters as ‘Agbara Nla’, took to Facebook earlier to celebrate his wife, Gloria on her birthday yesterday, February 4, 2016 with a beautiful and heartfelt letter.
He gave us an account of the marriage proposal and the astonishing way she accepted it.
See the letter below:
I write to Celebrate my Dear “Sister Gloria” today…
The day I went to propose to her, I never beat about the bush or rehearsed any Love persuasive Poem. I never said anything like, “…the Lord sent me” or ” I felt the Lord is leading me…” Or ” I dreamed and saw…” Or “I heard a voice from Heaven that…” I had said some of those things before to some sisters whom I thought the Lord was leading me to, and I was wrong. This time around, I went to this new sister, after my usual “Much Prayers and Waiting”. I was not even sure if the Lord was leading me or not again….My computers have been crashed and the memory virused by the previous disappointments I had met from the sisters I had thought were the will of God.
So I had arrived the campus and the brethren were happy to see me. I usually came at evening time, for Drama rehearsals or if there were drama outreaches, I would come to go with them or lead them to the programs. But this time, I came during the day, at lecture time and many of the brethren were coming to me to know why or what information I had brought for the Fellowship Drama Unit members. I simply said I came to see “Sister Shola”. And that was unusual of me. I don’t come asking for sisters in the fellowship. I had no business with sisters, but with Fellowship heads and with Drama Unit Co-Ordinator in particular or with the Fellowship President.
So, some brethren spread out to look for “Sister Shola”. And one sister found her in the school Library and grabbed her hand: “Bro. Mike is around. He is looking for you.” Prior to that time, I had no business with Sister Shola, we were not close. We had only acted together on stage presentations before. She was not among the sisters who were closer to me at Fellowship. She carried her books and both sisters were rushing down to see ” Bro. Mike” who had come to the campus at unusual time. The sister brought her and left.
Sister Shola stood before me smiling, and waiting for the instructions, probably to the Drama Unit, or information of a her being cast into a new Drama Unit presentation. I greeted her. She replied with a smile. I told her bluntly, that the Holy Spirit had not sent me, neither did I see any vision.
Then, I asked her: WILL YOU MARRY ME?”
She stood before me speechless for some minutes, looking at me with some astonishment and confusion. She was never never expecting to hear such question from “Bro. Mike” of all people! She was lost for words, because it was the last thing she would expect to hear from me.
I got my answer after one month of waiting. It was on a Sunday Morning. I had travelled to ILESHA and decided to worship in her church. I was in the congregation while I watch her standing tall and slender above the rest choir as they sang the special song for the morning. I never knew she saw me too. I had been praying for the whole month that the Lord would confirm this one this time. I could not imagine how I would feel if the Lord said this one was not the will of God again.
After the church service, I went to wait for her at the front of her house. I just wanted to greet her again and look at her again, and maybe the Lord would answer my prayers this time. She came not so long and ushered me into the house quietly. She was quiet. She was not showing any excitement, which got me more worried again. I sat down on a chair while she was writing something on the table. Then, she finished writing, and she turned to me with a small piece of paper containing ONE SINGLE LINE OF SENTENCE:
“I WILL MARRY YOU”
Silence. Grave Silence came down in the room. At last. That was the first time in my life, a lady would agree to marry me. All the once I thought were the will of God for me had, unfortunately, been engaged before I got there. Oh! The Dilemma of a Single Searching Brother! And one of the Sisters even kept me waiting for three years, without giving me a “Yes” or a “No”. Until I was delivered from the shackles. At last…!
Right there I knelt down in Prayers and she knelt down in my front with her eyes closed. There, I told the Lord, as I held her hands in prayer, that, “Today, Lord, our Ministry have started. Today, Lord, we shall serve you together with all our life and with all our heart.” We prayed further for His help and Mercy upon us. That was day and time, our ministry, Mount Zion began.
Veteran Nigerian cinematographer turned filmmaker, Tade Ogidan‘s account of Kunle Afolayan’s current film project, The CEO, has indicated that another blockbuster movie is about to come out of Nigeria.
Conveying his impression via a private message sent to the younger award-winning filmmaker on Thursday, Tade Ogidan said:
‘I woke up quite excited about the storytelling strength and the creative and technical qualities in the CEO movie. You have done your dad proud with each new project. You have done your family proud. You have done your industry proud. You have done your fore bearers in the film industry proud. You will do your nation and the rest of Africa proud, especially with this new project, CEO. I am sincerely proud of you.’
OGD as he is fondly called inked his excitement, after seeing a rough cut of the pan-African film at Afolayan’s studio on Bayo Kuku street, Ikeja, Lagos, praising the courage of the filmmaker in the face of the challenges confronting the Nigerian film industry.
He said:
‘You are now like a bull that has charged into a chinaware shop of film obstacles. You demolish all the myths, fears and filmmaking challenges with insane dare, grit and unstoppable determination. Now, that is good. God will always make all good things doable for you.’
Ogidan expressed similar love to Afolayan when the latter signed a deal with Air France as the airline’s Brand Ambassador. OGD was so excited for Kunle, that he didn’t just call to congratulate the young filmmaker, but staged a surprised soiree in his Surulere home, inviting other celebrities to a cake cutting, as they toasted to the feat recorded by his younger colleague.
Today marks the 36th birthday of Nigeria’s top female act, Tiwa Savage.
Here are 13 quick facts about her.
She was born Tiwatope Savage on February 5, 1980.
She hails from Isale Eko in Lagos Island.
She studied Business Administration from the University of Kent.
Before embracing her musical talent, Tiwa Savage once worked for The Royal Bank of Scotland.
She also attended the Berklee College of Music where she earned a professional degree in Music.
In 2006 while attending music school, she was a participant in the UK edition of The X-Factor where she only managed to make it into the final 24.
She has written songs for international musicians like Babyface, Kat Deluna, Monica and Fantasia.
Before joining Mavin, she co-founded 323 Entertainment with her manager whom she is now married to, Tunji ‘Teeblillz’ Balogun.
She has two albums to her credit. ‘Once Upon a Time’ (2013) and R.E.D (2015). She was also a part of Mavin’s compilation album, ‘Solar Plexus’.
She got married to Teebillz on April 26, 2014 at a grand ceremony in Dubai.
She welcomed her first child on July 22, 2015 at a London hospital.
As an actress, she played the role of a club owner in popular television series, Shuga and acted alongside Joke Silva, Dolapo Oni and Ireti Doyle in the stage play, ‘For Coloured Girls’.
Tiwa Savage is a brand ambassador for MTN, Pepsi, Forte Oil and Pampers.
Deena Abdulaziz Al-Saud is the princess of Saudi Arabia. However, unlike the ordinary female country residents, she wears neither hijab nor burqa.
The princess owns a boutique of exclusive clothes.
And of course, she’s married…. She met Prince Abdulaziz Bin Nasser Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, son of Prince Nasser bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, in 1996 and eventually wedded the prince. Now she’s got three children and a princess title.
LOL, This is Funny. Mark Angel and Emmanuella All The Way.
So, Emmanuella came home one day crying and complained to her uncle, Mark, she said three “MEN” beat her up! When Mark stood up to go confront the Three Men. .What happened next is hilarious.