It has now been confirmed that the aircraft with a total of 13 people on board crashed into the Lagos Lagoon as it made it way from Port-Harcourt into Lagos this Wednesday morning.
Thankfully, all 11 passengers, a cabin crew member and the pilot of the Bristow chopper that crashed this morning near Lagos have been rescued.
Adebayo Kehinde, public relations officer of Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), confirmed the incident.
There has been no official word from Bristow Group yet.
This crash comes six months after a Bristow helicopter crashed in Lagos, killing the 2 pilots and 4 of the 10 passengers.
Chocolate City Music presents the much awaited visuals of Africa’s foremost female disc jockey, DJ Lambo’s hit single ‘The Motion’featuring the fore-running Nigerian divas in Seyi Shay, Cynthia Morgan and Eva Alordiah.
The very classy video was directed by Clarence Peters on location in Lekki, Lagos and features cameos from Skales, Derenle Edun, DJ Caise, Jesse Jagz, Pryse, DJ Sose, TJan, Zeez, Loose Kaynon, Yung L, Beverly Osu and M.I Abaga.
This one is already termed by music pundits as the video of the year.”
The veteran actor is currently admitted at the University College Hospital, UCH, in Ibadan, Oyo State, where he is receiving treatment.
Recall in a chat with Encomium Magazine he revealed that even in his ill health which he has been battling with since 2013, it hasn’t stopped him from smoking, womanizing and drinking
A top Yoruba programme presenter, Jide Moronfolu, who recently visited the actor at his hospital bed, disclosed that Olumide Bakare has called on Nigerians to come to his aid.
“Olumide Bakare on his sick bed at UCH, Ibadan diagnosed of heart/Lungs disease, in his words to me “
“I am now helpless, kindly tell Nigerians to come to my rescue, especially with money and prayers,” the actor was quoted to have said. (“agbara mi o ka mo o, ba mi be a won Omo Nigeria mi won ran mi lowo pelu owo ati adura”).
Lately, Ghanaian actor, John Dumelo has been dishing out advice on relationships and marriages, and his latest piece is an advise to people not to rush into marriage. (Read Here)
Here’s an adorable picture of the Actor when he was quite young. Adorably handsome! He grew up to be a ladies man! No wonder he keeps dishing out relationship advise.
While entertaining President Buhari and other top dignitaries at the 40th Presidential Luncheon to mark Ogun state’s 40th anniversary in Abeokuta yesterday February 2nd, comedians Alibaba and Gbenga Adeyinka joked about the current Dasuki $2.1 billion arms deal probe.
“You know before now, when I perform, especially when Mr. President Obasanjo, found out how much I got paid for the event, he was livid. When they now asked me to come and perform for the new president considering that he’s asking money from everybody, he said, how much do you want to charge? I said anything you want to give me sir, there’s no need to tell him the amount, he’ll add me to that Dasuki’s list. Olorunmaje! ..and you know that man has not finished confessing” he said
Gbenga Adeyinka who was co-anchoring the event with Alibaba, said everything Alibaba was saying was his personal opinion because before leaving his house, his wife warned him to mind what he said at the event because she doesn’t want a situation where “they” will come and search her house.
He said Alibaba should continue with his joke at his own risk.
Wiz Khalifa and Kanye West went head-to-head of recent, but I guess all that has been resolved now.
On Tuesday afternoon, Kanye tweeted
“Me and Wiz spoke yesterday,” he shared on social media. “Great convo. All positive.” WHAT ELSE, KANYE?! but didn’t elaborate on how it went down.
Luckily, Wiz opened up a little more about what went down with ‘Ye during an interview with Angie Martinez for Power 105.1 yesterday.
She started off by asking:
“So were you surprised by Kanye’s reaction that he took it so crazy,”
“I think everybody was but it’s cool, everything’s cool, we spoke it’s all good,” Wiz explained, which prompted the radio host to ask if Kanye apologized for what he said “cause he went far with the kid thing.”
Khalifa reassured everyone that West did, in fact, apologize for what he said, and added, “I accept his apology.”
Speaking of making amends, Khalifa’s ex-wife Amber Rose also met up with Kim Kardashian to clear the air and whatever tension there was between them today, as well.
“Her and Kim spoke and they’re all good, too,” Khalifa told Martinez. “They spoke and it’s all good.”
Angie then said:
“That’s kind of amazing, Wiz,” the rapper responded with the perfect answer—”I’m like the Bob Marley of this.”
Yesterday, Amber Rose and Kim Kardashian officially squashed their beef when they both posted a friendly selfie on their respective Instagram account.
The photo came as a surprise for many reasons, considering their complicated and ugly past connect the Kardashian family, Kanye West and Amber Rose.
TMZ also reported that Kim Kardashian called on Amber Rose for a secret meeting at her mum’s place to finally bury the hatchet. (click here to read if you missed it!)
Recall Kanye West and Wiz Khalifa went to war with each other on Twitter over Kanye’s album name change, with Kanye dissing Wiz’s ex, Amber and their 3-year-old son Sebastian.
Although Kanye apologized on social media for insulting the little boy,.
Now Kanye West in a tweet said He spoke with Wiz yesterday, and they all good.
A worker with Arik Air, Grace Utum, has gone missing after a visit to her lover, Ihuoma Amelogu, who lives in the Ojodu Berger area of Lagos State.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the 29-year-old Cross River State indigene had left her Ikeja office for her lover’s house on January 1, 2016.
However, her whereabouts had since been shrouded in mystery.
Grace, a graduate of Accounting, University of Calabar, was said to be working in the hospitality
department of Arik.
The case was reported at the Ojodu Police Division and Amelogu was reportedly arrested.
It was learnt that a mobile phone and a handbag belonging to the victim were found in his apartment on the day Grace went missing.
He was, however, released after police said there was nothing to connect him with the disappearance.
An uncle of the victim, Felix Omini, explained that the family became worried after her mother called one of her telephone lines and a stranger picked the call. He said:
“Her mother called her that night and discovered that it was a stranger that picked the call. The stranger said the phone was missing and its owner had called him and said she was coming for it in company with a man.
Grace’s mother called her boyfriend, Amelogu, thinking he was the man the stranger was referring to. But he said he had also been trying to reach her without success.”
Omini said he called 32-year-old Amelogu and together they went to report the matter at the police station.
The victim’s father, Obongha Utum, said Grace and Amelogu had been dating for three years and would have been married, but for a problem with their blood compatibility.
He said:
“The police said we should talk to the boyfriend because that was where she said she was going, but I don’t know what to think. They are church members and were supposed to have been married; but that became impossible after they discovered their genotypes were not compatible.
We have also gone to Agbado Crossing in Ogun State, where she lived with a friend. We didn’t meet anybody in the house; everywhere was deserted.”
When contacted, Amelogu said he last communicated with Grace around 3pm on January 1.
He explained that efforts to get across to her through her friends had been abortive.
He said:
“We were together on December 31, 2015; she slept at my place. She sometimes stayed at my place because her office in Ikeja is closer to my house in Ojodu Berger. She rented an apartment in Agbado Crossing, Ogun State.
Around 6am on January 1, she said she was going to the office. We always had a family reunion every New Year at my uncle’s place in Ajah, so we planned to meet there.
I spoke with her around 12 noon. Then around 3pm, when I was at my uncle’s place, we communicated again and I asked if she was still coming. She said she was rounding off at the office and would soon join me.”
The civil engineer said his girlfriend’s line, however, became unreachable around 5pm and despite calling till 7pm, he didn’t get through.
He said her mother called him from Port Harcourt around 10pm to ask if he had seen her daughter.
“Her mother said she called her and a stranger picked it and said the phone was missing. I was surprised because she (Grace) didn’t call me that she had misplaced her phone.
I decided to call the number myself, but it was unreachable. I kept calling till 2am, when it was switched off,”
he added.
It was gathered that Grace’s family contacted a telecommunication company to track her calls, but they were asked to get a court order.
Access to her bank accounts were also said to have been blocked.
The Arik Air spokesperson, Adebanji Ola, confirmed the incident, adding that the company was working with the family and the police to get to the roots of the case.
He said:
“Yes, she works with us. She has not reported for duty for some time now and we were told she was missing. The family and the police have been here and we are doing everything possible to support investigations.”
The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, also confirmed the incident, adding that the police arrested Amelogu and later released him.
She said:
“Necessary police procedure to be done in the case of the missing person has been done. The boyfriend, who was actually the complainant, was arrested and investigated, but there was nothing to link him with Grace’s disappearance, hence his release. But investigation is ongoing.”
Temi Otedola, the beautiful daughter of Nigerian Billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola has a thing for her fashion and she loves to give a glimpse of her luxurious lifestyle.
The London based fashion and beauty blogger shared a photo of her closet and captioned with:
Mavin record’s First Lady and Mother of one – Tiwa Savage is one who doesn’t shy away from sharing her pregnancy and motherhood experiences.
This time, she shared a story about her hair loss after she gave birth to their son Jamil.
She wrote;
After I had Jamil my hair started breaking off and I actually got a bald patch, it was a little heart breaking because I wasn’t sure it would grow back but my superb hair stylist @dfalanaartistry started treating my hair at @lewa_studio hair salon and with intensive hair care and conditioning my hair is getting back to normal. I’m going to wear my natural hair for a couple of weeks so it can gain its strength back.
Thanks debs for protecting my hair even with the amount of styling and weaving I do due to the nature of my job. #ThingsTheyDontTellYouAfterHavingYourBaby #Momsknowbest #MyHairJourney #LongHair #TeamHairyGirls LOL
We saw what you did there Tiwa, we did…that’s an epic way to advertise!
There was a bomb blast at Zomi street in Upper Sakpoba Road in Benin City, Edo state at about 3pm today February 2nd.
The incident which occurred at about 3pm caused pandemonium in the City, as it was rumored that the dreaded Boko Haram sect may have been responsible for the blast. Vanguard Reports.
A police source who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said
“We learnt that the bungalow where the bomb was detonated was being used as a hide out by kidnappers some months ago.
But a combined unit of soldiers and the police invaded the house and arrested the suspects.
So recently, somebody hired the building and just this afternoon, decided to burn some papers in the compound. He set the papers on fire and went out to buy something.
But immediately he left the bomb exploded. He never knew that the kidnappers left some bombs in the house”.
Bomb Disposal experts from the Edo state police command have cordoned off the building and trying to ascertain if there are more explosives in the building.
Nollywood actor, Ik Ogbonna, has in recent times been trailed with cheating allegations and has finally taken time out to shut down the malicious rumours.
In a series of tweets, the actor said:
The internet says Ik OGBONNA is cheating on his wife … Maybe the Internet unlocked my pants a nd used my *P while I was asleep. Smh
This photo that has been going viral on social media is said to have happened in a town in Cameroon where this man got his girlfriend pregnant and decided to play a fast one on her and flee.
It was gathered that after she got knocked up by the man and she told him her status, the guy allegedly fled and was nowhere to be found, only to come back few months after he thought the case would have died down.
After lying in wait for him for many days when she heard he had sneaked into town, the lady trailed him to a drinking joint and held him, insisting he must follow her home to meet her parents as the man responsible for her pregnancy.
– Linda Ikeji says she is still single and searching.
– She refused to make comments on her banana island which is rumoured to be put up for sale.
Moments ago, we brought you report that top blogger Linda Ikeji is engaged and set to walk down the aisle this year with her mystery man.
According to Radar.ng, the blogger has been engaged since last year and is making plans for her traditional marriage in her home town sometime this year. She is also reported to have listed her N500 million Banana Island home for sale , with plans to re-invest the money after she gets married.
However, conflicting new reports have emerged as the Blogger has rubbished these reports to be untrue. She tweeted:
Lol. All these stories that I am engaged and getting married. Thanks for wishing me well. unfortunately, I'm still single &…searching! 🙂
Earlier, This Morning to be precise, Kim Kardashian and Amber Rose jointly nearly broke the net when they both posted pictures of a selfie they took together on their individual instagram pages. .and according to TMZ, It was Kim kardashian that invited Amber over to bury the hatchet.
Read Report From TMZ:
Kim Kardashian and Amber Rose had a secret meeting Monday to bury the hatchet in the Wiz/Amber/Kanye feud … TMZ has learned. Both Kim and Amber posted this pic on their respective social media accounts early Tuesday morning, showing their newly-formed alliance.
As we reported, the war started when Wiz called out Kanye over his new album and Kanye then went off denigrating Amber — calling her a stripper and even dragging her son into the beef.
Our Amber sources say Kim called her Monday afternoon and asked to meet at Kris Jenner’s house early that evening.
Amber accepted the invite, and the 2 hashed things out. We’re told after a long conversation they’re both good with each other.
Okay, So Chioma Chukwuka few days ago tweeted a picture of Uche Jumbo, Omoni Oboli, Emem Isong and Blessing Egbe with the caption: “Sometimes sisters aren’t really sisters #2016MindingMyownBusiness #Stayingonmylane #MovingOn and we all felt she was throwing jabs at her fellow colleagues.
The actress later came on to clear the air, and claimed she was misquoted.. Read Here.
Fast forward to today, See What She Posted Today on Instagram:
She’s Talking about 5 people….and If you hang with them you’d be the sixth..
The pic she tweeted the other day that caused a stir contained 5 of her colleagues…., and she wasn’t in the picture, if she was…She’d have been the sixth.
Petite Nollywood actress, Moyo Lawal, has narrated how she almost passed out in the hospital, after which some armed robbers attacked her family home.
The bulgy-eyed thespian took to her Twitter handle @moyolawal, to narrate her ordeal, adding that January wasn’t fair to her.
She tweeted, “So a couple of weeks ago, I got so sick. I had to be hospitalised . The whole nine yards was wrong with me. I literally was so weak. My drips had to be rushed until I got stabilized. Energy was a luxury and I only used the little I had to communicate with family and the doctors (apologies to work and friends ,I left incommunicado).
“However, after a really bad night of stooling and vomiting bile, I had enough of the hospital especially because the nurse on duty that night was lazy (if not for my sister,I wonder what my story would have been) Anyways I couldn’t sleep and immediately I saw my sister move, I asked her to call my dad(who literally left everything to just come sit with me everyday) to come take me home, alas all his numbers and my stepmums phones were off,” the Royal Gamble actress added.
Moyo quoted a popular adage as saying, ” the only way to get over a really bad pain is to feel something worse (true ). The energy I got that morning was amazing . Discharged myself despite the doctors’ refusal.”
“I have never knew the worse had happened until I got home, loo and behold, we were attacked by dare devil robbers.
“Guess what? Armed robbers (emphasis on the armed), just left my dads place with all the phones, iPads, laptops etc. They also left with two jeeps, all my step-mum’s gold (they hit gold literally) all the gold my mum left for me and money; nobody was harmed.
“Thank goodness. These robbers stripped me naked. Its been a really low couple of weeks.
“Oh yes, after I left the hospital. I got whew. But that’s a story for another post . This is way too long sef who gonna read it ..what a January grateful for life.. p.s this is not a movie before you people start on that,” the curvy actress penned down.
Ex beauty queen, Dabota Lawson has finally called it quit as she files for divorce from Billionaire husband Prince Aku.
According to reports from sources close to the couple, they disclosed that the marriage took a turn for the worse after the cheating scandal involving Dabota Lawson erupted last August.
The source futher stated that Dabota was feeling caged in the marriage and has lost her personal freedom and identity. It was alleged that Dabota’s movement was also heavily monitored after the cheating scandal.
In the divorce papers, The Ex beauty queen sited irreconcilable differences as reason for divorce. In a suit filed at the Lagos high court, Dabota stated that Prince Sunny Aku was married legally to a certain Mrs Chioma Aku and that she was not privy to the marriage.
Another source close to the couple said Sunny Aku told friends that the whole marriage thing was a sham Dabota orchestrated to get money from him to start her beauty business.
Meanwhile friends of the beauty queen claim she was really in love but was tired of being caged. Their divorce case is now in court.
Toyin Aimakhu is one actress who is loved by many, talk about her acting skills, her fashion sense and of course her flawless makeover.
Despite been in a recent scandal about her relationship with Segun Egbegbe shortly after her marriage break-up, the actress isn’t bothered by critics and negative comments.
Though some fans lashed out at her over her new relationship, she didn’t take it to heart, she took it as a normal thing that should be expected following the circumstances.
Toyin in her own way to give back to her fans decided to offer free adverts on her instagram page to budding entrepreneurs.
So far, the actress has posted about 7 free adverts to her over 300,000 followers on instagram including ours of course (She gave us a shoutout *adjusts collar* ;)).
So, if you’re an entrepreneur, or you’ve got services/products for sale online, Go Follow Toyin Aimakhu on instagram: @aimakhutoyin, send her a DM. .and Pray.
She also noted she’s received a lot of messages from people wanting to give her ‘something in return’…
She wrote: ‘‘please for heaven sake pity me, please I beg you please read. I got a lot of messages from people asking me what I want s as to help them do adverts, please I don’t want anything in return, I am just doing it because you people deserve more, it’s not like you will carry my page away after the advert, so please your love and support is enough for me. (But if you insist I will collect it) I have decided to be doing this every month and would be deleted every 24 hours.’’
