According to the images flying around and also a Facebook source who shared the info, a firm which offers scholarships to bright and exceptional students wrote a letter to The West African Examination Council (WAEC) asking them to give them names of student who did exceptionally well in the 2014/2015 WAEC Exams so they could be offered scholarship.
The alleged reply from WAEC was something that shocked many.
It was alleged that the Examination Body demanded a sum of N1.8 million naira for processing fee..
Nigerians are already bashing the hell outta the Examination Council on Twitter.
Barbadian popular female singer, Rihanna has more than a birthday to celebrate this week. Her new single “Work” landed at the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 this week — making it her 14th song to top the charts.
With #14, she surpasses Michael Jackson as the third act in history with the most Hot 100 No. 1s.
20, The Beatles
18, Mariah Carey
14, Rihanna
13, Michael Jackson
12, Madonna
12, The Supremes
11, Whitney Houston
10, Janet Jackson
10, Stevie Wonder
via Billboard:
“Work” crowns Streaming Songs, roaring 4-1 with a 73 percent increase to 25.8 million streams, according to Nielsen Music, after its recent wide release on streaming services, including official and user-generated content on YouTube; with the song’s official video released today, any gains from the clip’s arrival will be reflected on next week’s Hot 100, to be released next Monday (Feb. 29). Rihanna earns her second Streaming Songs No. 1 (following her featured turn on Eminem’s “The Monster,” which led the Jan. 4, 2014 list), while Drake celebrates his first Streaming Songs leader.
“Work” concurrently holds at No. 2 on Digital Songs (119,000, up 5 percent), after debuting at No. 1 on the ranking three weeks ago, and lifts 13-10 on Radio Songs (76 million, up 21 percent). Rihanna posts her 24th top 10 on Radio Songs, passing Mariah Carey’s 23 for the most top 10s dating to the chart’s December 1990 inception. Drake tallies his 14th Radio Songs top 10. (The track wins dual top Streaming and Airplay Gainer honors on the Hot 100 for a second straight week.)
“Work” additionally tops the subscription services-based On-Demand Songs chart (15.1 million streams, up 16 percent) for a second week and paces Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for a third (nonconsecutive) week.
Also, with Rihanna and Drake assuming the Hot 100’s throne, the Barbados-born Rihanna (who celebrated her 28th birthday Saturday!) and Canadian Drake extend the record of non-U.S.-born acts leading the chart to 33 weeks. “Work” is additionally the ninth No. 1 Hot 100 in a row by non-Americans, breaking the record for the longest such streak; eight first reigned in succession in 1985).
Popular Yoruba actor, Femi Adebayo has joined the league of Nollywood actors and actresses who have ventured into politics.
Yesterday, The Jelili star took to his instagram page to announce that Kwara state governor Abdultafah Ahmed has appointed him as his Special Adviser on Arts, Culture and Tourism.
He wrote:
“Today i was appointed as Special Assistant (SA) to the Kwara State Governor, on Arts, Culture and Tourism ???. Thank God 4 an opportunity 2 transform my state into a foremost tourist state that will attract foriegn and domestic tourist .My fans i need ur support. Leave me not.??”
Mikel Obi’s partner Olga Diyachenko is fed up of critics and of course done taking criticisms from nosy Nigerians.
So yesterday, the mother of 2 called out those critics on her Instagram page.
“It’s not healthy to have so much hatred for someone you don’t know,” the mother of twin daughters captioned the meme on her page which says, “Bitch don’t worry about my life, it aint for you.”
Ever since the couple announced the birth of their daughters, Ava and Mia, the Russian businesswoman has been attacked on Instagram by people who have questioned her relationship with the Chelsea Mid Fielder and why they remain unmarried.
After the birth of their children, there were doubts from people who questioned her claim of being pregnant all because she did not post photos of herself pregnant. So, she was forced to shared the throwback photos.
Now, Olga is done being tolerant. read her full note:
“If my looks, marital status and my life are your priority, you find you can’t hold your opinion in and the urge to comment is so great you can’t help yourself, first of all unfollow, second of all get help, it’s not healthy to have so much hatred for someone you don’t know. Get well soon ✌?️?”
Yesterday, actress Shan George took to her Instagram page to call out a Soundcity employee DRO Ameh for swindling her out of N100,000. She claimed she had given him the money to promote one of her videos on the music channel but the video was never played and she is yet to be refunded. (Click here to read if you missed it)
Here’s a response from the accused Soundcity Staff:
I had kept mute on this issue when she took to lie in the press in 2015 because the friend/colleague who introduced me to her said he’d handled it and later got to know he served her a legal/court injunction but being learned and a great mother, she has kept at her malicious act.
Hence, I am forced to response to issues I have seen raised in the press and deal with the defamation of character legally and privately – unless she again pulls a ‘nollywood’. Addressing the issues:
1. I run a digital PR and social media marketing company which I had slowed down with since being head of new media for CMA – company behind Soundcity et al.
Clients in the course of over 10 years doing this incl. a long number of A-list and fast rising Nigerian acts. I wouldn’t mar all that work and reputation for NGN100,000.
If I don’t have it, I know a client that would give me to refund but I do have it 🙂
2. Never at any point, even months after we had concluded the business did I get a text or call from Shan George complaining of what I did, let alone ask for a refund – which I would have gladly done.
3. Shan George sent me N100,000 (a hundred thousand naira) and never did we – agree – or – imply – or – ask – as payola for airplay but digital PR for the said video – which was uploaded to Youtube myself in the december of 2014. (Digital PR in this case meant speak to blogs to have the video – do a search and see if I delivered)
I need add that at no time did we speak in vernacular, let alone discuss even my job and her claim that i said: “Madam no be me say make u go shoot rubbish video for ur pikin. If u do pem, i go spoil ur pikin music career for this Nigeria o. bring 5oo thousand naira before i play the video or don’t call my fone again, we don’t get paid any salary in Soundcity so we have to do our own hustle to survive here.” I saw this in 2015, and shocked me to the core.
I have been in the industry for 12 years and work at CMA, parent company for Soundcity for 6 out of the 12 years in different capacity and I have never been owed salary, I get bonuses and I have had to account for cash 2/3/4 times that amount to the company.
I spoke to Shan three times, met his son – Jaga once and never at anything did we get so casual to speak in vernacular.
4. As I was shocked to my core when I read what she claimed I said, i did the logical thing. I called her number and sent countless text/SMS for her account details to make a refund even reaching out to a lady who was also introduced to me as her manager only to get a response that said: ‘If she had investment the money, it would have yielded returns (paraphrased),’ re-stating all I had was her 100,000 – we didn’t do ‘investment’ business and as i write this, I never got her bank details.
5. How I met/knew Shan George? As you might have read, A senior colleague – in fact he manages a sister channel and one time supervising producer for the Soundcity channel introduced us.
If it was ever airplay on Soundcity,the question is – why would such a colleague introduce me – head of new media when his position afforded him the authority in the matter.
This is in addition to the fact that the colleague introduced the video director Matt Max to Shan George to shoot the video. Again, never did Shan George pay me 100,000 for airplay on SoundcityTV. I understood they had a falling out
6. The Colleague introduced me for ‘PR,’ I made my pitch but she apparently didn’t know what it was or entitled so I stuck to ‘online’ and doing anything else I could do for her after she pleaded and went into details of things I didn’t need to know – her ill mother and how she was cleaning up after her but ‘really need to do this for her son.’
I fail to understand her plan but if it now, to get a refund from me? It is past that time! She would have to first prove in court that i defrauded her then the guilty party would definitely pay, i am sure now it would be more than NGN100,000.
7. Now, I am hoping this addresses everything for the press and friends who have called while I go about sorting this out the right way, legally. Sadly, would only be replying matters I deem fit of responding to via @dirtyhiphophead only.
It’s official people, the beef between Blogger Linda Ikeji and Wizkid is real.
Recall few days ago, Wizkid shared a link of an article that bashed Linda Ikeji accusing her of having a “Poverty mentality” and captioned it “Nice Read”, thus endorsing and agreeing with the article, then the starboy proceeded to his snapchat to endorse the article and mock the blogger.
Linda Ikeji then responded to the mockery yesterday through an article she wrote about rapper The Game and his baby mama.
The American rapper bought two bags for his baby mama and his daughter, and the happy mum shared the photo of the bags on her page. But a critic hopped on the post to say unkind kinds, prompting The Game to come to his baby mama’s defence.
In her publication Linda praised The Game for that chivalry but shaded Wizkid by saying “unlike a deadbeat father who hasn’t started to carter for his child.”
The Game and Tiffney Cambridge have been together on/off for years and have 2 children together. Here’s what happened. Tiffney shared a photo on Instagram, of two designer handbags owned by her & her daughter with The Game. A random Internet Troll took to the comments section to slam her for trying to act like she purchased the bags by herself. The Game swiftly responded (unlike a deadbeat father who hasn’t started to carter for his child) and dragged the Troll.
Upset by that shade, Wizkid went all-out to war with her on his Snapchat. He shared her old photo and captioned it, “Almost 40, lonely and bitter! Prayers up for you.”
Well, Ms Ikeji, perhaps seeing the Snapchat story, has amended her post by removing the Wizkid diss. See below:
Have been dating this girl for five years now, and we both love each other. People do call us Romeo and Juliet because of the way we show our love openly.
I love her so much that when we have misunderstanding I find it difficult to breath because I feel she’s my life. She’s very supportive both financially and mentally, and I love her for that.
I told myself that I’ll date no other girl apart from her and when am ready for marriage, I’ll propose to her. But few days back I called and sat her down, I asked her to swear she’ll tell me the truth which she did.
I asked her if she has another boyfriend elsewhere and she said “YES” that they have been dating for two years now. I felt like I was going mad, when I asked her she said a friend of hers introduce the guy to her and she fell for him.
The problem now is that she claim she still loves me despite she has a second guy, she said I shouldn’t let our relationship end because of a guy who is in ogun state while we are in lagos.
I told her I can’t continue because if she loved me she wouldn’t have taken a second boyfriend. She’s still insisting and I don’t think I can cope with the heartbreak. Please advice me on what to do.
Something unusual happened at the GET Arena last night when Guinness unveiled a new brand, TheSpecialOne.
Olamide was one of the artistes that performed, and while performing, it was alleged than fans started cheering and suddenly, they started throwing water and drinks at him.
The act shocked many, as it’s hard to understand why such was been done. Olamide has always been an artiste loved by many.
Could it be they were not enjoying his performance, which triggered such act, even though they weren’t, was such barbaric act the best reaction? However, the singer politely talked to them to stop and they did.
In his words: “Eyin Temi, we are all here to have funs abi? Some dudes are throwing water/drinks at me, please and please stop it…if not I will tell my goons to chop you’’
Just days after the tragic death of popular Igodo actor Michael Odiachi, Nollywood has experienced another great loss.
Nollywood has been thrown into a deep state of mourning following the demise of a veteran Nollywood actor, Festus Aguebor known for his white beards and starring in major thrilling movies.
Earlier today, ace producer, Fidelis Duker announced on Facebook the passing away of the actor who was popular for his roles in movies such as The King and I, Family Contract, Rituals and A Kiss from a Rose.
He was also popular for his role as the grandpa in family series, Household.
Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and North West stepped out to go shopping with John Legend and Chrissy Teigen, that was before the reality star shared photos of her family passed out at the store.
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend
John and Chrissy who are expecting their baby anytime soon, seem to have invited the family to spend sometime helping them shop before the baby comes.
Kanye and North West go shoppin
Kim shared a photo showing Kanye and North passed out on couches in the store that obviously sold furnitures.
The mother-of-two shared the photo, commenting:
North and Kanye West passed out in the middle of shopping
“So today we went baby shopping with @johnlegend & @chrissyteigen Kanye & North were a little too quiet. We found them passed out in the middle of the store ������ #TheRealLifeOfPablo.”
A Nigerian student and two other African students of Manchester University, UK, died and a fourth injured when a van driven by a man who authorities say was intoxicated struck them on Sunday, February 21.
Deangelo R. Evans is facing charges in connection with the crash. The 26-year-old from Chicago, was charged with three counts of operating while intoxicated causing death, one count of OWI resulting in serious bodily injury, and three counts of reckless homicide.
The crash happened shortly before 5:30 a.m. in the northbound lanes near mile marker 253. According to the Grant County Sheriff’s Department, it appears that the students’ van was stopped in the median with a flat tire.
Seven people were standing outside when another van that was headed north on I-69 left the road and went into the median, striking four of the students.
The victims, all international students have been identified as Nerad Grace Mangai from Jos, Nigeria, (find her photos above) Brook M. Dagnew and Kirubel Alemayehu Hailu, from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Israel Solomon Tamire was taken by helicopter to Parkview Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne and is listed in critical condition.
Nebiyu Shiferaw Alemu, Amanuel Atsbha Gebreyohannes and Dagmawi Meseret Tadesse were not seriously hurt and have returned to campus.
University officials say the students had been to Ball State and Taylor University prior to the accident.
“We have an intercultural center and our students have begun to gather there. We have counselors there, staff and friends there. It’s going to be a long process.
We anticipate having services on campus for the students. We’ve notified parents and it’s a matter of those students being able to be together and to support one another,” said David McFadden, President, Manchester University.
A gathering was planned for Sunday night in Petersime Chapel at Manchester University for students, faculty and staff.
This funny story of fake love was shared by Alexander.
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My friend Marcos has been in a relationship for almost a year with Stella, and according to Marcos, Stella loves him to bits, he does too.
He met Stella when he went for his cousin’s matriculation in one of the S/S Universities. Now, Marcos’ cousin has a mutual friend with Stella, so along the line, they both became friends too.
Marcos will always talk about how decent Stella is and
how proud she is to have him, and he will always point to her social media handles as attestation to this.
Stella changes her WhatsApp profile pix about 3 times daily, with Marcos’ picture or a picmix picture of them together, with status like ‘no one like you’, ‘with you its always different’, ‘you add meaning to my life’. Same as her facebook account where she always uploads Marcos’ picture with captions like the ones above.
In fact on his birthday, she almost wrote a documentary on Marcos detailing how he is the sweetest thing God ever made and uploaded it on facebook, Marcos was gushing. Dare to say, Marcos was feeling serenaded, thinking that a lady that can tell the world about you, and plaster your pictures everywhere is actually the one for you.
Just like most of us, Stella has an Etisalat and MTN line, the Etisalat she uses for browsing, the MTN for calls. Two weeks ago, Marcos’ cousin called him with a certain Airtel line after which he asked her who the owner of the line was, she said its Stella’s. Marcos never knew Stella has an Airtel line, he now proceeded to add this Airtel line on Whatsapp, and lo and behold the profile pix was that of Stella and a strange guy picmix, with the status ‘i miss you baby’…(Stella Bella)
Instinctively, he proceeded to facebook to search for StellaBella, to his utmost surprise, it was her authentic facebook account different from the one he knows which is Stenz Stelle with pictures of the strange guy everywhere, with some of them dating as far back as 2013…
Last week he visited her in school without informing her, in her room he saw a small Tecno phone which turned out to be the one with the Etisalat line, to his further surprise, he found out that he was the only contact on the phone and whatsapp too, of course, while she uses her strange Airtel line for other people, on this strange Airtel line whatsapp, she also has the other guy as her profile pics.
Reality started creeping in, it now dawned on Marcos that his “angel” is a cruel manipulator. She intelligently created the FB and Whatsapp account for Marcos, using the DPs as illusion, without him knowing that he was the only one seeing those pictures; he was her only contact on both accounts.
Marcos is a very intelligent guy, so we keep wondering how he was played so ruthlessly, and i ask myself why ladies will take such stress upon themselves just to deceive a sincere guy? #FakeLove
If reports reaching us are anything to go by, the Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi is set to take a new wife as his first marriage to Adebukunola Ogunwusi has allegedly crashed due to irreconcilable differences.
The reported new wife is named Wuraola Otiti Obanor.
Reports are that the marriage between the Ooni and Adebukunola Ogunwusi crashed a while ago, thus she never resumed her position as Olori when Ogunwusi was crowned last year.
The wedding of the Ooni and Adebukunola years back..
She reportedly only made an appearance at the Ooni’s coronation and left Ile-Ife as soon as the ceremony was over.
According to sources who confided in SDK, the handsome Ooni’s relationship with his wife was already so strained that both were no longer in talking terms as at when the Ooni ascended the throne, and this explains the reason why during his official coronation on the 7th of December 2015 there was a distance between him and his wife.
The source added that Adebukunola never assumed the role of an Olori and never moved to the palace. They say she left Ile-ife town as soon as the coronation was over and has not been back there.
Perhaps this can explain the very noticeable absence of Olori Adebukunola in most of the Ooni’s officlal functions and engagement.
From what has been gathered, the alleged new Olori is from the Royal Brass Casters guide family -Ine n’ Igun and her forefather Ezhoe is from Oluyare compound, Ile Ife, but is a native of Benin.
It is claimed that Wuraola is relocating from her base abroad to take on her role as wife and new Olori to the Ooni of Ife.
Last month there were rumours making the rounds that one Princess Ronke Ademiluyi was romantically linked to the Ooni, but that rumour was shot down by palace sources who said the Ooni “was too focused for such”.
Nollywood actress Chika Ike is now the proud owner of yet another property in Lekki.
Earlier today, Chika’s manager Serah Donald shared a picture of the property on Instagram, accompanied with a congratulatory message.
Congratulations to my bae@chikaike on your new Real Estate business venture.After successfully completing another home in lekki. four units of a fully furnished three bedroom flat. You are one determined lady who has a finishing and investment spirit. You have proved to everyone that anything is possible if you set your heart to achieve it. You never back down on any challenge.Your drive is rare….. I can go on and on .Beauty and brains. No be beans o .God bless you and more to come.
This will be the second property purchased by the African Diva reality show visioneer.
Chika Ike Herself also took to her instagram to post the below message:
“I told myself 5 years ago that I’ll start my real estate company and I stand today to say I’ve been able to achieve most of my set goals, I say this without pride but to encourage young women out there.
I’m a hard worker ,I’ve worked for virtually everything I have today with also the grace of God on my side. People are going to say all sorts,call you names to make themselves feel better ,but hey , don’t listen ,just stay focus on your set goals. It’s not going to be easy ,but trust me ,it will be worth it.
I like what I like, I love the designer shoes ,bags ,dresses and splurging on vacation when I want to and that isn’t bad if you can but also set aside money for investments and helping the needy because life is full of hills and Valleys . Peace.
Media Personality, Toke Makinwa, shared the below story this afternoon of how herex boyfriend ended their relationship because she was from a poorer background.
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“On this journey to success, it is important to inspire and motivate others so that on the days you feel less motivated, you too can find inspiration in another persons success story.
Today I remembered something deep. I used to like this one guy and he didn’t like me back like I liked him. He was into me but something was off.
One day after he was breaking up with me yet again I asked him why he didn’t think we would work out? He responded with “we are from different worlds”, he said his family had high expectations of him to bring home someone of a similar background to his and he couldn’t take us further cos basically to him my daddy was a nobody.
I cried to bed that night but even in my tears, I developed a hunger for success.
I never wanted to feel that way again so I vowed to make a name for myself. To make something out of my life. I got my shit together and started working hard cos I already know what it feels like to be a “nobody”, I wanted to become more. I work hard to be more, to inspire and to leave my name in the stars. I’m not quite there yet but I’m on a journey and I feel so blessed to love what I do.
Radio/Tv/Vlogging and basically monetizing my life. My career makes me dream and Prayer helps me key into my dreams. With faith I see that God rewards diligence. Today I’m still building, brick by brick, stone after stone, I will get there and you too can” – she wrote
Kim Kardashian-West has finally released a photo of her baby boy Saint West. Kim, who shared the photo on her website, said she did it in honor of her late father Robert Kardashian whose post-humous birthday is today, February 22.
In December last year, Kim and Kanye welcomed their second child three weeks before Kim’s due date and the world has been dying to see what the power couple’s son looks like since then.
Now that we have finally seen his face, we know that Saint is an adorable child just like his big sister Nori!
Kim shared the above photo of Saint as he slept peacefully all dressed in white on her monetized app moments ago. She wrote: “Today is my dad’s birthday. I know there’s nothing more in the world he would have wanted than to meet his grandchildren. So I wanted to share this pic of Saint with you all.”
The Lagos State Police Command on Friday, February 19 paraded three members of the gang that allegedly robbed the Festac branch of popular online retailer, Jumia on October 29, 2015. The gang looted N1.2 million in cash, phones, laptops and clothes.
The gang was smashed following a tip-off received by the Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) that a member of the gang identified as Ogaga Pemu had arranged with someone to service his operational German pistol and also provide magazines for the weapon, The Nations reports.
According to Pemu, who was arrested at Joe Baddy Hotel in Mende, Maryland, Yohanna who worked for JUMIA provided his gang information on the company in exchange for N200,000.
“We were six that participated in the robbery. Myself, Daniel the store keeper and his older brother, Hosea. Don Domie, Chris and another guy. We got N1.2million. I gave Hosea N400,000 for him and his brother. Their share was N200,000 each. I took N250,000, gave Don and Chris N200,000 each and gave the other guy who was a new person N150,000. That operation was my fourth. I was arrested first and then I told the police how to get them and they were also arrested. But the other members have fled.”
Lagos State Police Commissioner, Fatai Owoseni who paraded the suspects said two locally made pistols, two cartridges, a locally-made magazine with two .9mm live ammunition and a laptop were recovered from the gang, adding that investigation was ongoing to arrest the absconded members.
Harrysong has been crowned the Most Creative Man of the Year at the 13th edition of Sun Awards ceremony.
The event was held at the Eko Convention Centre on Saturday, November 20, 2016 with top dignitaries like Oba of Lagos,Rilwanu Akiolu, Bola Tinubu, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce, Nuhu Ribadu and many others in attendance.
Harrysong’s award was presented by the Chairman of Sun Newspapers who is also a former Governor of Abia state, Orji Uzor Kalu.
The elated singer took to Instagram to express his excitement. He wrote ‘ About last nite..the sun awards..won the most creative man of the year..brothers..sisters..followers..fans ..lovers..just want u’ll to know that it’s been God all the way..don’t stop working..don’t stop praying..@fivestarmusicng #AKAGUM is a sin ??
Recently we reported that, Obi Chukwuka Noah Akaeze I, 17, (pictured above), was recently Installed as the king of Ubulu-Uku Kingdom in Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State following the death of his father, Obi Akaeze Edward Ofulue III who was kidnapped and subsequently murdered last month by unknown gunmen.
Actress, Mercy Aigbe-Gentry met with child comedian, Emmanuella at a show over the weekend.
The savvy actress took to Instagram and shared a photo with the up and coming child star with the words,
‘Emmanuella killed the show! Raw talent, I was WOWED! U remember her? “this is not my real face oh” May God take u to greater heights IJN…..@officialemanuella’
On seeing these videos, Seun Egbegbe stormed Toyin’s movie location, reportedly took her away and seized her phones, then started posting his own pictures.
Now the actress has gotten hold of her phones back. Upon her return, Toyin has deleted all his photos.
However, fans say she should go back to her ex-husband, Adeniyi Johnson(See Screenshot Below). Also recall she left him after he allegedly cheated on her. He even confessed she caught him flirting.
Veteran Nollywood Actress, Shan George moments ago took to her Instagram page to expose a Soundcity staff who she claimed swindled her of N100,000.
According to the 45 year old actress, she had met with a certain Andrew Ameh Ujah known as DRO and also made a deal with him to help in the promotion of her music video by airing the video on Urban Music Channel, Soundcity. The said Andrew demanded a sum of N100,000 before the video could be aired on their TV Station.
However, Shan says even after she made the payment the video has not been played.
When she contacted him to find out what the problem was, Ameh had stated that the music video titled Summer Rose and directed by MattMax, was rubbish and couldn’t be played.
But according to Ms. George, who shared an evidence of payment, Ameh had previewed the video and approved before she paid him.
She also stated that he has refused to refund her money despite the fact that he didn’t keep his end of their agreement.
Mavin Record Artiste and Mother of 1, Tiwa Savage is currently in London for the London Fashion week which she apparently attended yesterday, February 21st.
The singer shared photos from her first day at the event yesterday. Photos Below:
