Celebrity relationships are usually made public and we get to see so much PDA photos and this makes the fans believe these relationships might end up in marriage.
Several celebrity relationships have been publicized to the extent that we couldn’t help but feel like both parties were meant for each other. Today, we’ll be taking a look at some relationships we had high hopes for but didn’t meet our expectations and it ended when we thought it was a forever thing.
Here are some of the most publicized Nigerian celebrity relationships that failed;
1. GENEVIEVE NNAJI AND D’BANJ
D’banj is one of Nigeria’s biggest music stars, so when he announced that he was in love with popular actress, Genevieve Nnaji and he gave us a really big hint when he featured her in his ‘Fall in Love’ video, every fan of both celebrities took it as a stunt but with time it appeated that they both actually shared something special.
They were both superstars at the top of their individual careers and it was thought that who was better for D’banj than Genevieve Nnaji and vice-versa.
After being spotted outside several times, it appeared both called it quits quietly and we didn’t get to learn about that later until D’banj spilled some truth in an interview.
JJC in a recent interview even revealed that Genevieve Nnaji loved D’banj so much and they shared something special together.
If two celebrity pair would have made Nigeria’s biggest couple, it definitely would be D’banj and Genevieve Nnaji.
“December is the last month of the year I start every month thankful and for this month of December I am eternally grateful.
I am worthy of love, to give and receive. I have value and self-respect, no one has the ability to oppress, suppress or depress me. I am enough and complete in God. My today is better than yesterday.
I have come to a place of wholeness, strength and joy. God pulled me out of mess; I have a happy life free from abuse. No one can take the place of God; he is sovereign and reigns forever.
Man is mortal and his days on earth are numbered. When the end comes, it is a glorious thing to return to our maker, to dwell in His holiness and truth.
The end of the year brings a rebirth of another year. The death of something can be the rebirth of another thing. All is not lost.
Whatever happens in your life, no matter how distressing things might seem. When darkness appears endless, watch out for that tiny spark of light, when you can muster up the courage to thank God for closed doors.
In the process of counting your blessings, you find joy!”.
Anita and Chris Oyakhilome have been separated since last year.
Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has reduced its record fine on MTN From $5.2billion to $3.4 billion dollars shortly after President Muhammadu Buhari met with South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma.
Below is a statement MTN Sent to it’s staff.
“The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) reduces imposed fine to US$3.4 billion equivalent and further cautionary announcement.
Shareholders are advised that, after further engagements with the Nigerian Authorities, the NCC has reduced the imposed fine.
MTN has received a formal letter dated 2 December 2015 from the NCC informing the Company that, after considering the Company’s request, it has taken the decision to reduce the fine on the MTN Nigeria business from the original N1,040,000,000,000 (One Trillion, Forty Billion Naira) to N674 Billion Naira which has to be paid by 31 December 2015.
The fine relates to the late disconnecting of 5.1 million MTN Nigeria subscribers in August and September 2015. The Company is carefully considering the NCC’s reply, however the Executive Chairman Phuthuma Nhleko will immediately and urgently re-engage with the Nigerian Authorities before responding formally, as it is essential for the Company to follow due process to ensure the best outcome for the Company, its stakeholders and the Nigerian Authorities and accordingly all factors having a bearing on the situation will be thoroughly and carefully considered before the Company arrives at a final decision.
Shareholders are therefore advised to continue to exercise caution when dealing in the Company’s securities until a further announcement is made.”
As we committed to you previously, and in the spirit of our Vital Behaviour of Complete Candour, we will keep you updated as the matter unfolds. As we enter the busy year-end period in our business, I encourage you to continue focusing on our customers and strive to keep our promise to provide the bold, new Digital World to them.
Ho Thi Kieu Anh,11, from the central province of Quang Binh, Vietnam was diagnosed with a rare skin condition soon after consuming a bottle of soft drink, Tuoi Tre newspaper reports.
Anh was admitted to the hospital on November with the top layer of her skin peeling off. Her family said two hours after she took the soft drink, her skin became swollen as if she was being burnt.
She also suffered from breathing difficulties, fever and a sore mouth. Although she was diagnosed with Lyell’s syndrome, a rare, life-threatening skin condition that is usually caused by a reaction to drugs, doctors said the soft drink may be a factor that caused her condition.
On Tuesday, December 2, Hue Central Hospital said on Tuesday that the little girl has been discharged, and her health is now stable.
A homeless woman gave birth on the street as she cowered in a bus stop in full view of passersby, as her blood flowed on to the ground, her newborn baby fell to the ground without crying.
A Good Samaritan riding past on his bike raced to her aid.
Bike courier Esau Marquez ripped off his own shirt, scooped the naked baby off the floor and wrapped her up – a vital move which reportedly saved the baby’s life.
Mr Marquez, a dad-of-two himself, said he was delivering food when he saw the chaos unfolding.
He told Kron4 : “Everybody was so chaotic, screaming and shouting.
“I looked to the side, and I figure there was someone stabbing this poor woman because there was so much blood on the floor.”
But then he spotted the newborn boy lying on the ground.
“I was surprised to see that baby on the floor,” he said. “So I picked up the baby, I wrapped my sweater around the baby and some other woman said to pat him on the back because she was a nurse.
“So I did, and that’s when the baby started moving, and actually, the baby started crying and then started moving his hands.”
He added that the moment reminded him of when his own two children were born.
“What an awesome sound and noise it is to hear that newborn baby. “It was rather cool because it’s like, wow….I haven’t heard that in 20 something years.”
He believed anyone would have done the same, although no-one else did.
“I did not stop to think whether this is a homeless or rich person. “I believe that a human life is very precious.”
DJ Aaryon Comini who works at a club near to the bus stop, watched the drama unfold in San Francisco, USA.
He said: “When he saw what happened, he jumped off, grabbed the baby, he wrapped it up in his shirt.”
San Francisco Fire Department took the mother and child , who was born at 32 weeks, to hospital.
The woman has been discharged and the baby is doing well.
The fire department is looking to commend Mr Marquez for his selfless actions.
Mikel Obi’s Russian girlfriend, Olga shared the bath photo of their twin girls Mia & Ava.
Diyachenko and Mikel started dating in 2013 after reportedly meeting him in London where her millionaire father runs a chain of businesses.
Mikel is also a secret father of two children with different women.
According to the UK Sun, the Chelsea midfielder has a four-year-old son and a one-year-old daughter with two women he briefly dated.
Mikel, the report revealed, is very much involved in the lives of his son and daughter, splashing the whooping sum of N153m (£500,000) for a house in 2013 for the mother of his boy child
The prayer of every mother is to train her child and in turn the child trains her when she’s old. That was not to be my case as I watched my little Chineye who had just graduated a month ago dies in my arms owing to the negligence and wickedness of the Indian doctors of Fortis Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Chineye had just graduated from University of Abuja and was preparing for her NYSC but the family had decided that rather than just sit at home before her NYSC call-up, its best she corrects her right limb which was severely shortened after a fall in 2001.
Following the fall in which she broke her femur (thigh bone) she had a surgery which involved the insertation of k-nail (iron) to support the bone. The iron eventually broke into two and a surgery was necessitated to remove the 2 piece of broken iron and correct the short limb that was causing her a lot of pains. . Little did I know that the Indian doctors had planned to kill my dear Chineye or how else should I put it?
After the surgery in India, Chineye was upset, when I asked her why, she raised her fears over the surgery, Dr Gupta the senior consultant removed only one piece of the 2 pieces of previously broken iron in her limb as opposed to the earlier agreement that the two pieces will be removed before conducting the limb lengthening surgery.
When she complained, he assured her that everything will be fine. Shortly after she was discharged, she noticed that the lengthening screw was stiff and complained immediately to the doctors but they informed her that they were looking for the right size of iron for her height.
After 3 days she was forced to go to the hospital. She walked to the dressing room and two other doctors began to attend to her because Dr Gupta was not in the hospital. While they were changing the screw she gasped and suddenly lost consciousness on the dressing table; the doctors wheeled her into the emergency room. Less than an hour after she was wheeled into the dressing room, I was informed that my daughter was dead, I was shocked, I could not believe my ears,I felt the world had come to an end, even in my state of shock the best, the hospital could do was to demand for an additional payment from me as cost of trying to revive Chineye.
When I walked into the room where she laid, I discovered they had already stuffed near nostrils with cotton wool while her body was still very warm, I immediately begged and cried helplessly that they should try to revive her but they heartlessly told me that there was nothing they could do that she had died and had planned to convey her to the mortuary at the time.
Due to my insistence the transport to the hospital was delayed by another two hours during which they blatantly refused to administer any more procedure to revive her.
Dr Gupta latter arrived and told me she died of severe heart attack. Signs of negligence are evident in the preparedness of the surgery, as the first day she was wheeled into the theatre for the surgery it was cancelled and rescheduled because the iron was not the right size for her height even though she has done several physical consultations with Dr Gupta.
Secondly, a review of her medical records reveals that there was no blood thinning medication was prescribed which is necessary for this kind of surgery.
Thirdly, even after the surgery the doctors were still looking for the right size of iron. Fourthly, only one piece of the previously broken iron was removed. Finally, there was no willingness to revive her and they did not show any value for life in the urgency and recklessness with which they declared her dead and hurried her to the mortuary. Since her death Fortis Hospital New Delhi has issued several conflicting statements on the cause of her death which only confirms my fears that Chineye was murdered.
They have refused to release the autopsy result and they still claim to be investigating the cause of death. I have been crying since the 9th of October, 2015.
My heart bleeds and I know Chineye’s soul seeks for justice. I speak as a mother who deserves to know the cause of her daughter’s death. I need the support of every Nigerian in this fight against this murderous act, injustice, oppression and wickedness.
I am helpless but I believe that with God on my side and with the support of Nigerians and the international community by sharing this story until it gets to the relevant authorities, the killers of my daughter will not escape judgement. I have spoken to a couple of Nigerians that have also had unpalatable experiences in their search for medical aid in India.
Many have lost their loved ones and refused to share their story. I have decided to share this story to save more potential lives that will be lost due to medical negligence in Fortis Hospital and create awareness.
Fortis currently has a branch in Abuja, Nigeria. Fortis why did you kill Chineye?
Below is the Bill The Senate & Nigerian Government wants to use to jail social media users.
It’s “A Bill for an Act to Prohibit frivolous Petitions and other Matters Connected therewith, Sponsored by Senator Ibn Na’Allah, APC, Kebbi South.
“Where any person in order to circumvent this law makes any allegation and or publish any statement, petition in any paper, radio, or any medium of whatever description, with malicious intent to discredit or set the public against any person or group of persons, institutions of government, he shall be guilty of an offence and upon conviction, shall be liable to an imprisonment term of two years or a fine of N4,000,000.00” the bill specified.
On the social media, the bill read:
“Where any person through text message ,tweets, whatsApp or through any social media post any abusive statement knowing same to be false with intent to set the public against any person and group of persons, an institution of government or such other bodies established by law shall be guilty of an offence and upon conviction, shall be liable to an imprisonment for two years or a fine of N2,000,000.00 or both fine and imprisonment.”
The bill said it shall be an offence for any petition to be submitted without a sworn affidavit from the court of law.
Vigilant troops of 7 Division Garrison providing security at Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp, Dalori in Maiduguri Metropolitan Council, Borno State on Tuesday afternoon apprehended an 11-year-old boy, Master Usman Modu Tella, a potential suicide bomber.
He is suspect number 82 on the poster containing the photographs of 100 wanted suspected Boko Haram terrorists released by the Nigerian Army.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect was from Bama town and is among 4 other children trained for suicide bombing by the Boko Haram terrorists.
He further added that the 3 others have already carried out their missions at different locations. His job was to do same in the camp sometime in the future.
The boy also pointed out one other Boko Haram senior member, Alhaji Kerewu Abubakar at the camp. It will be recalled that due to the concerted efforts of the military quite a number of towns and villages hitherto held by the Boko Haram terrorists were liberated, this brought about an unprecedented influx of IDPs to the camp which the terrorists took advantage and infiltrate in order to wreck more havoc among the society.
The case of these suspects clearly indicated this point hence the need for proper screening of all IDPs with a view to ascertain their true identity.
The apprehension of the suspects is a boost to the fight against terrorism and insurgency in that they were assisting with investigation that would lead to the arrest of more suspected terrorists in the camp and elsewhere.
You are please requested to disseminate this information to the public through your medium. Thank you for your kind and usual cooperation.
Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman
Acting Director Army Public Relations
Women love gossip. They notice the smallest things that men do wrong and then discuss them with their girlfriends.
What about men? Do they notice ladies’mistakes?
Does an average guy whose occupation has nothing to do with fashion really understand anything about women’s outfit, perfume, or makeup? Some do.
Here are 10 things they find unattractive:
1) Intricate Hairstyle
An intricate hairstyle is alright for a carnival or an extravagant photo session in a studio. In all other situations natural-looking hair is preferred.
It’s far more pleasant to see and touch hair that is free of styling gels, sticky hair sprays and other hair products.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has assured Nigerians that the current fuel scarcity in the country will be over in a few days, following the approval of the subsidy payment by the National Assembly.
He said:
”We can confidently announce here today that the scarcity will end in a few days. Subsidy payment till the end of the year has been approved by the National Assembly. As you know we can’t spend money without approval,” the Minister said during a visit to the headquarters of the Daily Trust newspaper in Abuja on Wednesday.
He explained that the 521 billion Naira that has been approved by the National Assembly, as part of the passed supplementary budget of 574.4 billion Naira, would be enough to cover the fuel subsidy till the end of the year.
He also said fuel scarcity across the country would no longer be an occurrence:
“We can assure you that we won’t be caught in this kind of situation again.”
Mariah Carey was taken to a hospital in New York on Wednesday, due to a severe flu. The singer is reportedly currently hooked up to IVs that are filling her up with fluids and vitamins to fight off the symptoms.
She’s slated to perform a special concert on Saturday in New Jersey, but that remains up in the air right now.
Carey reportedly began feeling ill after an appearance at New York’s Pier One on Tuesday night. On Wednesday morning she suffered from extreme dehydration, Carey’s team rushed her to the hospital.
The singer is said to be making a steady recover, and is expected to be released sometime later in the day.
Wishing her a speedy recovery.
In December 2013, the Nigerian Senate reached an advanced stage of approval for a bill which proposed the following.
Section 13 subsection 3 of the bill stated that: “Anyone who intentionally propagates false information that could threaten the security of the country or that is capable of inciting the general public against the government through electronic message shall be guilty of an offence and upon conviction shall be sentenced to seven years imprisonment or N5 million (fine).”
Now, there’s a new Social Media bill making it’s way up to the Senate Approval chain.
The bill, tagged: “A Bill for an Act to Prohibit Frivolous Petitions and other Matters Connected therewith” is sponsored by Senator Ibn Na’Allah, APC, Kebbi South.
What is interesting about the bill is the potential for censorship of free speech including online and via apps such as Whatsapp.
Vanguard outlines the proposed Bill
What Does the Bill Propose?
The bill provides for an option of N4 million for persons convicted of false newspaper, radio and television statements and N2 million for offenders of false phone text messages or messages on Facebook, twitter, Instagram, or WhatsApp.
“Where any person in order to circumvent this law makes any allegation and or publish any statement, petition in any paper, radio, or any medium of whatever description, with malicious intent to discredit or set the public against any person or group of persons, institutions of government, he shall be guilty of an offence and upon conviction, shall be liable to an imprisonment term of two years or a fine of N4,000,000.00”,the bill specified.
On the social media, the bill read: “Where any person through text message, tweets, WhatsApp or through any social media post any abusive statement knowing same to be false with intent to set the public against any person and group of persons, an institution of government or such other bodies established by law shall be guilty of an offence and upon conviction, shall be liable to an imprisonment for two years or a fine of N2,000,000.00 or both fine and imprisonment.”
What Will be Done to Deter Abuse of the Bill
The bill said it shall be an offence for any petition to be submitted without a sworn affidavit from the law court.
“Not withstanding anything contained in any law, it shall be an unlawful to submit any petition, statement intended to report the conduct of any person for the purpose of an investigation, inquiry and or inquest without a duly sworn affidavit in the High Court of a state or the Federal High Court confirming the content to be true and correct and in accordance with the Oaths Act.
“Any petition and or complains not accompanied by a sworn affidavit shall be incompetent and shall not be used by any government institution, agency or bodies established by any law for the time being enforced in Nigeria.
“Any person who unlawfully uses, publish or cause to be published any petition, complaint not supported by a dully sworn affidavit shall be deemed to have committed an offence and upon conviction, shall be liable to an imprisonment for six months without an option of fine.
“Any person who acts, uses, or cause to be used any petition or complaints not accompanied by dully sworn affidavit shall be deemed to have committed an offence and upon conviction, shall be liable to an imprisonment for a term of two years or a fine of N200,000.00 or both, “the petition read.
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Handsome Nollywood Actor – Ramsey Nouah is opening up for the first time about the struggles he faced growing up and how that has helped shape him into the man he is today.
The 44-year-old husband and father of 3 shared how he used to live on the streets and sleep in a tiny store that could only take one mat with his mother.
He shared his story:
Those were the times when things got really bad for my mother and I and we had nothing. It was so bad that we didn’t have a home to live in. We had to stay in a store, one that could take only one mat. My mother and I squeezed ourselves in that mat. We didn’t even have a cup to drink water, talk more of a stove to cook on. My mother had to borrow, beg and stuff like that.
Those moments, those terrible moments we had nothing and we were living off people. People were just helping us out. There were times we didn’t have food to eat three or four days. You haven’t eaten and your stomach is rumbling but you don’t have any place to go. There was a time I lived on the streets, in shops. There was a time I slept under the bridge. It was unfortunate that there were no records so that we can have memories we could play back now. To me, I am so extremely grateful that I went through it. At that time, I hated everybody around me. In fact, I used to question why God was doing this to me. But I think God knew that I needed this for my future
These were moments when I was young. I didn’t realize the gravity of the poverty we were in. I couldn’t tell, but it was good orientation for me. Those were moments when I thank God for making me pass through, because they have sustained and helped me even as an actor. The ability to deliver all the roles they give me comes from having tasted both sides of the coin.
Celebrities do the strangest things, and that includes giving their children unusual names. Sometimes the names are a bit silly, and sometimes they are totally baffling.
NORTH WEST
When putting together a list of people who do ridiculous things, it is only a matter of time before hip-hop artist Kanye makes an appearance.
Calling your daughter “North” is not all that bad; but when your last name is West? Bad move, Kanye.
Pandemonium rocked the Tudun Wada area of Jos North, as the lion escaped at about 8am while it was being fed.
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Hours after the animal escaped from the wildlife park, it was killed by officials of the Operation Safe Haven.
Director of Press Affairs of Governor Simon Lalong, Emmanuel Nanle, confirmed the development, saying the lion was killed before it could harm anyone.
Nanle said, “Security men haunted the lion and killed it as soon as they were contacted. So people should go about their normal duties as there is no threat to their lives from the animal.”
Meanwhile, operators of the park disclosed that the lion was shot after it attempted to attack its rescuers.
A lion escaped from the Jos Wild Life Park on Wednesday according to John Doy, Acting General Manager, Plateau Tourism Corporation.
He said the lion escaped “at about 8 a.m. while it was being fed”.
Doy said that the lion, which had been caged since 1972, “slipped through the gate of the cage when it was opened for its routine feeding. The animal is still within the vicinity of the Park but our fear is that the Park is not fenced. We are struggling to recapture it, but we want members of the public to be vigilant,” he said.
The acting general manager said that he had already informed all security agencies to come to the Park’s assistance.
Naomi Cishak, Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), confirmed news of the escape, but said that the office had not been officially informed.
“We have not been officially informed, but we are aware of the incident; that is why we have not deployed our personnel there.”
When contacted, the Public Relations Officer, Plateau Police Command, Emmanuel Abuh, said: “We are somewhere, cannot talk to anyone”.
The authorities of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, have closed down the school after 48 hours of students unrest.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the institution was shut down on Tuesday after an emergency meeting of Senate.
The students started the protest on Monday over epileptic power supply, unavailability of portable water supply in their halls of residence and alleged poor funding of education in Nigeria.
The protest prevented free flow of traffic into and out of the campus.
The institution’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Biodun Olanrewaju, who confirmed the closure of the university in an interview wih NAN, said that the date of resumption would be announced as and when due.
He however said that the convocation slated for next week would still hold.
On Air Personality – Toke Makinwa shared a lengthy post on Instagram talking about religion and how there are several misinterpretations of the word of God.
Toke talks about how people should embrace success and wealth because that is how God wants it.
She wrote:
I don’t do religion, I think one of the major problems in the world today is religion. Wars have started in the name of religion, people are lost in certain doctrines, they don’t know who God is. God is not a poor God, God does not delight in poverty! Being a Child of God does not mean you shouldn’t desire the fine things of life.
The street of heaven is made of Gold. Stop buying the lies sold to you. God wants you to flourish, to dominate, to subdue the earth. You can dream big, it is your duty to carry the light of God.
Stop with the Vanity upon Vanity talk, every single person that worked with and for God was blessed. Soooo blessed at that. Those days it was in cattle, land and much more. If that doesn’t tell you that you should be blessed, I don’t know what will.
My last post inspired this. I just feel the need to encourage someone out there. Find God on your own and work out your own salvation. Your father owns the heavens and the earth, you should be at the top. Stop judging, not every successful person has sold their soul to the devil.
You don’t know their walk with God, Jesus met the lady at the well and asked her for a drink, she had been married many times and was living with a man that wasn’t her husband but Christ went there cos he knew she would come to draw water, do you think Jesus needed the water? You think he couldn’t command water to rise? he knew she needed salvation, he went there cos he knew she would come and he approached her not with judgement but with kindness.
100 Boko Haram members were recently killed in a “special clean-up operation” by Cameroon’s security force last week.
A statement by the Cameroonian Defence Minister Joseph Beti Assomo released today, says the special clean up operation took place along Cameroonian towns that were on the border with Nigeria from 26 to 28 November.
The statement added that the troops during the operations, released almost 900 hostages, seize a large stock of arms and munitions as well as black-and-white Islamic State flags”. The statement did not however reveal the identities of those freed.
