Former Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan‘s adopted daughter Inebharapu Paul welcomed her first child with husband Simeon Onyemaechi on Jan. 11th at Memorial Hospital West, In Pembroke pines Miami, Florida.
Goodluck Jonathan left Nigeria to join the new mother and her husband yesterday in Miami Florida.
More photos below;
Their son has been named Kachiside Onyemachi, meaning “The way God has written it”.
Nollywood actress and producer, Toyin Aimakhu stepped out for a meeting today in a lovely custard yellow shirt paired with black wide-legged trousers and a lovely pair of black shoes.
The nominations for the 88th Academy Awards (Oscars 2016) have been announced today, Thursday 14th of January, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The 2016 Oscars will be held on Feb. 28 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
See the complete list of nominees below.
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“The Big Short”
“Bridge of Spies”
“Brooklyn”
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
“The Martian”
“The Revenant”
“Room”
“Spotlight”
Actress
Cate Blanchett, “Carol”
Brie Larson, “Room”
Jennifer Lawrence, “Joy”
Charlotte Rampling, “45 Years”
Saoirse Ronan, “Brooklyn”
Actor
Bryan Cranston, “Trumbo”
Matt Damon, “The Martian”
Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Revenant”
Michael Fassbender, “Steve Jobs”
Eddie Redmayne, “The Danish Girl”
Supporting actress
Jennifer Jason Leigh, “The Hateful Eight”
Rooney Mara, “Carol”
Rachel McAdams, “Spotlight”
Alicia Vikander, “The Danish Girl”
Kate Winslet, “Steve Jobs”
Supporting actor
Christian Bale, “The Big Short”
Tom Hardy, “The Revenant”
Mark Ruffalo, “Spotlight”
Mark Rylance, “Bridge of Spies”
Sylvester Stallone, “Creed”
Director
Adam McKay, “The Big Short”
George Miller, “Mad Max: Fury Road”
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, “The Revenant”
Lenny Abrahamson, “Room”
Tom McCarthy, “Spotlight”
Animated feature film
“Anomalisa”
“The Boy and the World”
“Inside Out”
“Shaun the Sheep Movie”
“When Marnie Was There”
Foreign language film
“Embrace of the Serpent” (Colombia)
“A War” (Denmark)
“Mustang” (France)
“Son Of Saul” (Hungary)
“Theeb” (Jordan)
Animated short film
“Bear Story”
“Prologue”
“Sanjay’s Super Team”
“We Can’t Live without Cosmos”
“World of Tomorrow”
Live action short
“Ave Maria”
“Day One”
“Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)”
“Shok”
“Stutterer”
Documentary feature
“Amy”
“Cartel Land”
“The Look of Silence”
“What Happened, Miss Simone?”
“Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom”
Documentary short
“A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness”
“Body Team 12”
“Chau, Beyond the Lines”
“Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah”
“Last Day of Freedom”
Cinematography
“Carol
“The Hateful Eight”
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
“The Revenant”
“Sicario”
Visual effects
“Ex Machina”
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
“The Martian”
“The Revenant”
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”
Makeup and hairstyling
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
“The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared”
“The Revenant”
Film editing
“The Big Short”
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
“The Revenant”
“Spotlight”
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”
Costume Design
“Carol”
“Cinderella”
“The Danish Girl”
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
“The Revenant”
Original song
“Earned It” from “50 Shades of Grey”
“Manta Ray” from “Racing Extinction”
“Simple Song #3” from Youth
“Til It Happens To You” from “The Hunting Ground”
“Writing’s On The Wall” from Spectre
Sound editing
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
“The Martian”
“The Revenant”
“Sicario”
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”
Sound mixing
“Bridge of Spies”
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
“The Martian”
“The Revenant”
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”
Adapted screenplay
“The Big Short”
“Brooklyn”
“Carol”
“The Martian”
“Room”
Production design
“Bridge of Spies”
“The Danish Girl”
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
“The Martian”
“The Revenant”
Original score
“Bridge of Spies”
“Carol”
“The Hateful Eight”
“Sicario”
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”
41-year-old Simon Watson has been the into sperm donation business for 16 years, and has fathered 800 children.
He however said he wont rest until they are 1000. With a donation once a week, the unlicensed sperm donor has been in the profession for 16 good years.
‘The number of women using donated sperm to get pregnant is rising, but many find the cost of treatment at private clinics prohibitive. This has led some women to use unlicensed donors – but are they putting their health at risk?
During a BBC interview, he said: “Usually one [baby] a week pops out. I reckon I’ve got about 800 so far, so within four years I’d like to crack 1,000. I’ve got kids all the way from Spain to Taiwan, so many countries. I’d like to get the world record ever, make sure no-one’s going to break it, get as many as possible.”
According to research, very few women are eligible for artificial insemination on the National Health Scheme (NHS) as the criteria are very strict.
Private licensed clinics cost between £500 and £1,000 for each cycle of treatment. Men are allowed to father no more than 10 children. Watson charges £50 for his services – the“magic potion pot” – and most of his clients find him on Facebook.
When they contact him on Facebook, most of the clients ask him if he has any hereditary diseases. After which they meet with him and either book a room in the hotel or use the public toilets. Watson’s son manages his Facebook account for him.
Civil servants in Brazil say they have discovered the world’s oldest man – a 131-year-old dad-of-three living with a wife 69 years his junior.
The Guinness Book of Records recognises 112-year-old Yasutaro Koide from Japan as the oldest person alive.
And Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, who died aged 122 in 1997, holds the record for the world’s longest living person.
Social security workers in Acre in the north of Brazil today caused furore by publishing photos of OAP Joao Coelho de Souza alongside a birth certificate dated March 10 1884.
The document showed he was born in the city of Meruoca in Ceara nearly 2,000 miles to the east of Acre.
A colleague of a civil servant who made a routine visit to confirm he was still alive and therefore eligible for his pension posted the information on his Facebook .
He called on the state government to confirm the find and register Joao for the Guinness Book of Records.
Brazilian papers today said he lived with a wife aged 62 and a granddaughter aged 16 in a village called Estirao do Alcantara, a 30-minute boat ride away from Sena Madureira, a municipality in the centre of the state of Acre.
His daughter Cirlene Souza, aged only 30 which would mean if his age was right that Joao was 101 when she was born, told one paper: “He has days when he is lucid but others when he doesn’t even recognise his children.
“He was very small when he came to work in Acre extracting rubber. “He has been with my mum for more than 40 years and depends on others for everything.”
Responding to doubts about her dad’s age, she added:
“You hear everything, people that criticise and say it’s a lie and others that admire the fact someone can live so long.
“It’s sometimes offends me because everything is documented and the documents have already been examined by experts at to see if they’d been falsified and nothing abnormal was found.”
Cirlene said Joao suffered a stroke six years ago but continued to eat three times a day.
His favourite dishes are rice, fish and meat and the only thing he turns his nose up at is a local bean-based dish called feijao.
Kennedy Afonso is the social security worker who posted photos of Joao and his birth certificate taken by a colleague on his Facebook on January 11.
He said:
“I’ve asked one of his children if anyone’s interviewed him and to my astonishment no-one has yet. “The question ‘where are our historians’ immediately springs to mind. “According to a son he is still quite lucid and has a great story to tell.
“I present to you Jose Coelho de Souza, who came to Acre when he was 11.
“I appeal to the state government and the local government in Sena Madureira to determine with the competent bodies whether this is true so they can claim a place in the Guinness Book of Records for the oldest man on the Earth. And he’s from our region.”
President Muhammadu Buhari is currently meeting with the parents of the missing Chibok girls at the Banquet hall in Aso villa.
According to members of the Bring Back Our Girls group, all recording gadgets have been switched off.
The parents who marched to the state house today , had insisted they will only talk to president Buhari and after waiting, he showed up for the meeting, flanked by the Minister of Defense and the National Security Adviser.
It’s obvious that truly, the beef between Olamide and Don Jazzy has been buried and forgotten as the two Music Champions are doing a collaboration at the moment.
Tiwa Savage who is Mavin’s First Lady and YBNL boss, Olamide is currently working on a video collaboration.
The exciting news was let out by Don Jazzy, as he took to Instagram page to share a screen grab photo of Tiwa Savage and Olamide together taken from the video for her new single “Standing Ovation”.
The Don was announcing the upcoming video of their joint single which is taken of Tiwa’s sophomore album – RED!
This is really a welcomed progress by the fans of the two music groups.
Official video for #StandingOvation loading….. @tiwasavage ft @baddosneh (produced by @Donjazzy. Video directed by @clarenceshotit
Hapi Music has officially released the video to the rave song “I Am A Winner” by Lamboginny & Mr Clayy Ft. Mz Kedike “Chidinma”.
The video is directed by the multiple awards winning cinematographer @directormattmax somewhere in the Sub-saharan Africa and it is by far the best of visuals in the industry this year. It is very crispy, action packed, and exciting. It is the winner song with a winning visual! so #LetsGetWinning
Nutcase Records’s Tunde Ednut drops the visual for “Kosowo”. The video showcases the very best of Tunde Ednut as we have yet to see. Kosowo is his way of starting this year on a rather high-end note.
DREW teams up with R&B Maestro SOJAY of Reminisce’s LRR Records and capital hill’s indigenous rap Queen Mz KISS in churning out a classic, feel good joint titled “CRUISE” off the BLOOD DRIVE MIXTAPE VOL.2 which is set to drop in February.. Produced by Mic Davi.
2015 was arguably one of the most productive years for the entertainment industry.
Hopefully, 2016 will triple last year’s successes and continue to portray the Nigerian musical industry as one of the best in the world.
Adenike writes on a few artistes that Nigerians and the world should keep an eye on as this new year unfolds.
Mavins Crew ( Di’ja, Korede Bello and Reekado Banks )
The crooners of the anthem, Dorobucci, especially new entrees to the group, Di’ja, Korede Bello and Reekado Banks, are brands to watch out for in 2016.
Hadiza Blell is known as Di’ja, who is half Nigerian, half Sierra Leonean. in 2015, she became Glo Brand amassador. she has a hit single, Awww. Awww sensational and has received reasonable airplay.
Korede Bello ‘Wink Master’ has been in music since he was 7 years old; apart from his cute baby like face, he has an amazing voice.
In December 2014, he became the first to get an endorsement amongst the three new acts of Mavins. His deal was with fashion clothing line, Woodin and he’s also an Africa Peace Youth Ambassador.
In 2015, He became Glo Brand amassador and also first Nigeria Police amassador.
The 18-year-old guitarist has a Hit single titled GOWIN.
Reekado Banks’ single, Katapot, received fair airplay and acceptance and his lyrics in Dorobucci, Adaobi, Chop am and Katapot show he have a lot to offer in 2016.
His freestyle together with Di’ja and Korede on the MTV Base Africa Top 10 chart show was a hit, and the social media audience couldn’t stop making remarks about him. In 2015, He became Glo Brand amassador and also won The Headies 2015 Next Rated.
Born Solomon Ayoleyi Hanniel, Reekado is a Graduate of University of Lagos and expresses that his style varies from dancehall to afropop. Reekado is a singer and a songwriter.
Almost 6 years after the death of one of the best rappers Nigeria has ever provided, Dagrin following a car accident, one of his closest associates, YQ has finally spoken on how the death affected him.
In a recent chat with NET, the singer, whose claim to fame was the song, ‘Efimile’ which featured the late rapper, disclosed that Dagrin’s death had a negative effect on him.
‘Dagrin’s death really had an effect on me, it really did but the effect on my career was just a bit. We had a project we were supposed to do together, we also had shared moments together which are very special. Dagrin inspired me and gave me hope which was really encouraging’, YQ said.
Triple MG lead act, Iyanya is set to thrill some of his Asian fans as his tour hits China this weekend.
The ‘Kukere’ hitmaker will be performing in Guangzhou and the capital, Beijing on Friday, January 15 and Saturday January 16, 2016 respectively.
Iyanya is currently working on a joint album with his former music producer, D’Tunes. The album is titled ‘Unfinished Business’ and it is scheduled to drop this year.
Celebrated music producer and Mavin record boss, Don Jazzy has done a pretty good job in shielding his family and private life from the prying eyes of the public, since the inception of his career, which has brought him fame, affluent and wealth.
Before now, very little is known about his family members excepts for his famous sibling, D Prince.
Don Jazzy shares a striking resemblance with his mum, who is a princess from a royal family.
The chocolate skinned mother of four lives in Dublin, Ireland.
She helds from Umuahia, Abia State. She met and married the music producer’s father, an Isoko born Delta State who was also a big force in the music industry back in the days.
The union is blessed with three sons and a daughter.
Don Jazzy only sister is happily married with four kids. She lives abroad with her family.
34-year-old Emmy winner, Christina Milian awkwardly locked lips with her grinning 27-year-old model gal pal Karrueche Tran while greeting her inside the club.
Christina Milan was rocking a blue denim jumpsuit, which she paired with a matching envelope clutch and snakeskin lace-up heels.
The special adviser to President Buhari on media and publicity, Femi Adesina has revealed how Buhari gets his typical day going.
In a recent interview with Radio Continental 102.3 fm, the presidential aide was asked how the president’s typical day is always like and Adesina said:
“He gets to the office in the morning about 9 a.m, the first thing he has required us to do is get the highlights of newspapers ready for him, and so before he comes in, we have reviewed the newspapers, we have done all the highlights and that is the first thing he looks at.
Then he begins to attend to all the other things lined out for him. Across all the sectors, ministers and directors of agencies are meeting with him. He is a hard worker and at 73, I wonder how he does it.
“He does that till early evening, when he then retires home to have a late lunch and a rest, and then in the early evening he takes on people that have been scheduled to meet him, if there are. One thing about this President is that as much as possible, you don’t get to his house and see a market.
I was told that in the last dispensation the place would still be a beehive of activities as late as 2 a.m. But this man is methodical, he plans his days and in the process he is able to attend to much more. All the sectors are receiving attention, I can assure you.”
There’s no level of insanity beyond this—and the fact that certain credulous Christians will continue to allow this so called man of God to treat them with such contempt, he will keep doing it.
It’s sad and somewhat amazing that a rational woman will sit down and allow another person to stamp his foot in her stomach; all because she believes this man has been directed by an invisible celestial father to do that to her—the only way she can conceive.
If this is not absurdity; then what else should we call it?
Religion is capable of making the most respectable person in the room become the lamest: it glorifies gross stupidity and spreads falsehood as truth while impeding free inquiry.
Interestingly, right from the paleolithic era to our 21st century, women continue to suffer in the hands of religion—yet they remain the pillars on which religion relies to flourish.
What would make another person honestly come to the conclusion that, the only way God would give her a baby is to allow a pastor to stamp his foot in her stomach, causing her pains and discomfort?
And as usual, no Christian Council or anybody will rebuke this Obinim. He will continue with his fraud and maltreatment of his desperate congregants.
This is the second time Bishop Daniel Obinim has proudly done this on tape; the first was in 2014.
Obviously, everything this man is saying is pure nonsense but why people in their large numbers believe and follow him is the workings of the God hypothesis, well grounded in faith (believing without evidence).
For this reason, we must promote reason and evidence: the only way we can weed out such diabolical conducts, freely being executed in the name of an invisible God.
If this is what Jesus Christ directs, then he’s equally a maniac as Bishop Obinim. He has his own TV channel to freely propagate and air his community-endorsed odious acts.
There's no level of insanity beyond this—and the fact that certain credulous Christians will continue to allow this so called man of God to treat them with such contempt, he will keep doing it.
It's sad and somewhat amazing that a rational woman will sit down and allow another person to stamp his foot in her stomach; all because she believes this man has been directed by an invisible celestial father to do that to her—the only way she can conceive.
If this is not absurdity; then what else should we call it?
Religion is capable of making the most respectable person in the room become the lamest: it glorifies gross stupidity and spreads falsehood as truth while impeding free inquiry.
Interestingly, right from the paleolithic era to our 21st century, women continue to suffer in the hands of religion—yet they remain the pillars on which religion relies to flourish.
What would make another person honestly come to the conclusion that, the only way God would give her a baby is to allow a pastor to stamp his foot in her stomach, causing her pains and discomfort?
And as usual, no Christian Council or anybody will rebuke this Obinim. He will continue with his fraud and maltreatment of his desperate congregants.
This is the second time Bishop Daniel Obinim has proudly done this on tape; the first was in 2014.
Obviously, everything this man is saying is pure nonsense but why people in their large numbers believe and follow him is the workings of the God hypothesis, well grounded in faith (believing without evidence).
For this reason, we must promote reason and evidence: the only way we can weed out such diabolical conducts, freely being executed in the name of an invisible God.
If this is what Jesus Christ directs, then he's equally a maniac as Bishop Obinim. He has his own TV channel to freely propagate and air his community-endorsed odious acts.
Is Jackie Appiah trying to pass a message across with her T-Shirt?
Since her divorce from the father of her son, Jackie Appiah has been rumoured to be dating a Nigerian actor which she has never confirmed.
That’s literally been it—we’ve not really had much to say about her love life and now, she seems to be excitedly telling us that ‘No Boyfriend…No Problem.”
Let’s hope she has not given up on men; because she is still young and she has a long way ahead of her—she could surely spend the rest of her life with a worthy man.
We all know the feeling when you sometime begin to feel like men are not worth the headache, especially the ‘annoying’ boyfriends.
Is 2016 the year the famous Nollywood actress Genevieve Nnaji walks down the aisle?
Ghana’S Famous Celebrity Webiste, GhanaCelebrities.com is reporting that the 38-year old actress is set to marry 29-year old “Alhaji” Ishaya Bako, the director of her latest movie Road to Yesterday before the end of 2016.
The website claims that the pair became friends after the actress moved to Abuja from Lagos about two years ago.
However, a spokesperson of Bako, who is also known for his Africa Movie Academy Awards movie, Braids on a Bald Head, and the 2012 documentary Fueling Poverty, on Tuesday denied the report.
“We have been laughing since we read it,” Bako’s spokesperson said. “But what can you do? It is not true.”
On Saturday, December 12, the former finance minister Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s son, Uzodinma Iweala, did a mock-proposal to Genevieve Nnaji on the red carpet for the premiere of his movie Beasts of No Nation, but it was all in jest.
Nollywood actress, Mercy Aigbe, who is currently on set a movie, has began the year in a good note as she was recently unveiled as a brand ambassador of Dubai Afrika Sickle Cell Project.
The project is aimed curbing the increase of Sickle Cell patients in the country as well provide them with basic amenities for their daily survival.
While making the announcement, the actress revealed that she had lost her elder sister to the sickness and she sure knows how it feels to lose a loved one without being able to help.
According to her, “Am glad to be doing this with dubaiafrika. I lost my elder sister to Sickle cell and you don’t know what it was like watching her helpless going through all those crisis hmmmmmm! Joy Aigbe continue to R.I.P.”
She warned lovers who are about to settle down to know their genotype before saying “I do” to each other as to avoid unforeseen circumstance.
“They say love conquers all, but not in this case. We encourage you to Know your genotype before saying I do. Save the future. If you truly love each other; don’t get married or make babies if genotypes don’t tally,” she wrote.