Port Harcourt’s Very own – Duncan Mighty and his wife have welcomed their first child together.
The singer announced the birth of their child on Instagram this morning with the caption:
“God I praise your holy name for this blessing and honour added to me today. And to my wife am short of words chai nne. thanks u”
The child is however not Duncan Mighty’s first. The singer was recently dragged to court by his baby mama over their child’s welfare earlier this month.
Nigeria is one of the largest and most populated countries in Africa. It prides in not only having some of the richest men in Africa, but also the world.
While we believe there are several more Nigerians that would rank among the richest in the world today, we’ve discovered that just a few have made the Forbes list of richest people in the world, the reason being that companies like Forbes and Bloomberg estimates the wealth of individuals and usually rank them based on the value of shares they have in quoted companies (ie companies listed on the stock exchange).
In this article, Buzz Nigeria takes a look at Forbes list and have combined that with information from other sources such as Bloomberg and Ventures Africa to come up with a more comprehensive list of the richest men in Nigeria, these are billionaires and multi millionaires, all figures are in US dollars.
20. Oba Oteduko
Net Worth: $550 Million
Industry: Diversified
Obafoluke Otudeko’s net worth is estimated to be $550 million according to Forbes (estimated to be worth $1 billion by Ventures Africa).
He is a Chartered banker, Chartered accountant, and also a Chartered Secretary by profession. Dr. Oba Otedeko’s business interests spread both locally as well as internationally.
His wealth comes from investments and entrepreneurship, he sits or has sat on boards of prestigious firms that include Fan Milk Plc, Airtel Nigeria, Honeywell Group, First Bank of Nigeria, Eco Bank, Guinness Nigeria Plc.
Honeywell group where he serves as the Chairman of the board is a business conglomerate with operations stretching across oil and gas, flour milling, real estate and marine transportation.
Anchorage Leisures, a subsidiary of the Honeywell Group, owns Radisson Blu which is a prominent waterfront hotel in Victoria Island, Lagos. Oba also owns minority stakes in First Bank and Ecobank.
Whitenicious CEO, Dencia has proved her critics wrong by sharing an image of her bare hands. This comes after she was a subject of questions cause of her flair for jumpsuits and hand gloves.
Some of her fans speculate that she is probably hiding “Dark Knuckles“. The singer took to her Instagram page last night to dissolve the motion by sharing the photo of her bare hands.
She wrote:
Hi guys & Dolls,Dencia here ( every post from me will be signed Dencia) So I see comments all over the place about me never showing my hands (fingers) & I’m like wait I’m I supposed to take pictures with my hands up?everyone knows u almost never know what to do with your hands when taking pictures or the only option is to do the classic hand waist pose which I hate.Today on my way to the hospital I’m like ugh my nails are falling apart then I randomly take pictures of my skinny long fingers �� then I decide to post.The truth is the knuckles & joints struggle is real for everyone, a lot of people have hyper pigmentation on there from whites to black to every ethnicity.The hands get used & abused a lot and if u notice your left hand always looks better than the right hand that’s cuz the right Hand is the slave lol.I usually spend time ( like 10 times a day) putting lotion on my knuckles, infact I came up with a solution I have been testing which makes that easy, u see when u moisturizer ur whole hand,they all get equal moisturizer but the knuckles need more & need it often to keep a nice tone to match the rest of your hands.Until then when using our knuckles & knees cream,apply directly on the (3points & 2 points) until it clears up before using all over your hand (btw ladies filters make your knuckles look darker) Xo Dencia
World’s most popular social networking site, Facebook deleted a woman’s account because they ‘thought she was a terrorist’.
Isis Anchalee took to twitter to air out her displeasure of their action. When some users suggested she change the name and use her initials instead, she fired back saying she won’t change her birth name because Jihadists use it.
She said she even sent Facebook a copy of her passport to prove her account was genuine. Her story emerged after a friend asked her why an exchange of messages between the pair had been marked as ‘spam’.
Not less than 20 people lost their lives on Wednesday in a multiple accident at the Tollgate end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Ogun State.
Among the dead were a pregnant woman; a yam seller identified as Iya Nimota whose daughter would be having her wedding on Saturday; five bread sellers; two policemen and motorists.
A trailer reportedly rammed into four commercial buses, three private cars and a police patrol van.
PUNCH gathered that the policemen, from the Sango Police Division, had at about 11pm on Tuesday, stopped a bus conveying yams, and insisted on collecting N200 from the driver.
The illegal checkpoint reportedly created a traffic snarl.
The trailer, from the Lafarge Cement Company, Ewekoro, conveying hundreds of cement bags, had a brake failure, and ran over the line of vehicles, pushing three of them into a canal at the junction.
While the 20 casualties had been taken to the Ota General Hospital morgue, the others were said to be in a critical condition at the state hospital.
A survivor of the accident, Lateefat Olukogun, said they had encountered 10 police checkpoints on the road and bribed the policemen at each checkpoint.
She said when they got to the Oando area of Tollgate, they met another team of policemen, who flagged down their vehicle.
She said:
“All we were carrying in our truck were yams and sacks of garri. The police never allowed us to have breathing space as they kept stopping us on the road and collected N200 from us.
“I was the one paying them and I had spent everything I had. I had N100 left on me. I begged the policemen to take the money from us and allow us continue with our journey, but they insisted that we pay the N200.
“The driver then gave his boy N500 and asked him to go and look for change to give the policemen. The guy crossed to the other side of the road to look for change. Few minutes later, he returned and gave them the N200. He had barely paid the money than we heard a loud bang.”
Olukogun said she did not sustain severe injuries because she sat next to the driver
“Iya Nimota was sitting at the back. The trailer crushed her. The driver of the bus, however, got seriously injured and he is in the hospital,” she said.
A relative of Iya Nimota, Rasheedat Adenekan, told the publication that the deceased was preparing for her daughter’s wedding. While showing the victim’s scarf, which was still hanging on the crushed white van, she said the deceased was almost home when the accident happened.
“I can’t believe she is dead,” she wailed.
Another eyewitness, identified only as Sulaimon, said the trailer started crushing vehicles from the Dalemo bus stop, adding that no fewer than eight vehicles were affected.
He said:
“The road leading to the Tollgate area is a slope. This caused the trailer to move at a high speed when it lost control and hit v ehicles. Three cars fell into the canal instantly. We all mobilised to the scene to rescue the people.
“Four persons sitting at the back of a commercial bus were crushed instantly. Three people who were selling bread on the road were killed. The trailer broke their skulls. Three others lost their legs. Some people in the cars that plunged into the canal also died.
“There was commotion at that moment. Two of the policemen waiting to collect money from the driver were among the dead. We began to convey the injured persons into buses that would take them to a hospital around 2am.
“We appeal to the state government to put bumps on the slope to forestall a recurrence.”
An official of the Federal Road Safety Corps, who was part of the rescue team, told the publication about 12 people died in the accident.
He said:
“I was sleeping when we got the call that an accident had happened. We pulled out at least six people from the water, dead. But I am aware 12 people died in all.”
Meanwhile, there was a drama around 10am on Wednesday in the area after some soldiers descended on the policemen, including a Divisional Police Officer.
A witness said that the accident had caused a traffic jam on the road and as the soldiers were passing in their truck, they became stuck.
“One of them came down and started controlling the traffic. A policeman suddenly came to challenge him. The solider, who had been told that the police caused the accident, slapped the policeman.
“As some other policemen surrounded him and started to beat him, the soldier’s colleagues arrived and descended on the policemen. They beat up the policemen and slapped their DPO. The police had to run away from the place,” he said.
An aggrieved young mother has revealed how her twisted boyfriend made her hold their baby twins while he killed them.
22 year old Megan Hiatt, is recovering in a hospital after being hit by several bullets fired by lover Gawain Wilson who also killed her father before turning the gun on himself.
Megan mother Melissa Batch told what her daughter had told her from her hospital bed in Jacksonville, Florida.
She said:
“Mama, he killed them. He killed them in my arms. He made me hold them when he killed them. He made me watch.”
The two children were Hayden, nicknamed Chunky Monkey Reese, and Kayden, called Little Bit Rose.
Ms Batch thanked God her daughter survived and added:
“He gave Megan the strength to drag her body across the room. She had to crawl through her babies’ blood, then through the shooter’s blood, and to her dad to hear his last words.”
Miss Hiatt and Wilson’s relationship was troubled and it is understood he would regularly smash items around the home when he flew into a rage.
He pleaded guilty to strangulation in 2013 and attended a domestic violence programme.
Justice Lambo Akanbi, of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, has been retired compulsorily, by President Muhammadu Buhari.
This comes after the National Judicial Council found the judge guilty of violating the code of conduct for judicial officers.
In a statement, the acting Director of Information at the NJC, Mr. Soji Oye, said the NJC had at its 74th meeting which held earlier in the month considered various allegations levelled against the judge by Shell Petroleum Company Nigeria Limited.
The council had suspended Justice Akanbi from office before the president approved his compulsory retirement.
The allegations against Justice Akanbi in the Shell petition include:
• Unilaterally appointing Mr. Emeka Nkwo of CYN-JAC (NIG) LTD who was not proposed by any of the parties as referee or valuer in Suit Nos FHC/PH/CS/434/2012 and FHC/PH/CS/435/2012. He also appointed the same referee or valuer in Suit FHC/PH/CS/25/2003, which is another matter involving one of the parties in the first suit.
• Hearing and concluding the case without dealing with the Notice of Preliminary Objection on the Jurisdiction of his Court.
• Sitting on the case in the Federal High Court, Yenagoa in Suit FHC/YNG/CS/30/2013 after a new judge had been transferred to the State without a fiat from the Hon. Chief Judge of the Federal High Court.
• Delivering the ruling in Suit No FHC/PH/CS/07/2009 four months after final addresses were taken without any cogent reason, contrary to the constitutional provisions that judgment should be delivered within a period of 90 days.
• Dismissing the application to set aside the report prepared by the valuer, CYN – JAC (NIG) LTD, and later changing the ruling to judgement, which prevented the respondent from pursuing the application for stay of proceedings at the Court of Appeal.
• Failing to give a copy of his ruling, delivered on 12th June 2013, to the complainant until 28th June 2013.
Reality TV star, Khloe Kardashian reportedly cancelled her book tour on Wednesday after falling ill following a stressful time attending to Lamar Odom.
It has emerged that she contracted a serious staph infection during the weeks spent in hospital tending to her husband.
TMZ reports that she has a lesion on her leg which became painful and she later developed other symptoms including a high fever and swollen glands. Khloe has been given a course in antibiotics.
A source told the site:
‘It’s so scary. She’s so sick.’
Khloe took to Twitter on Wednesday to tell fans she was cancelling two public appearances to promote her book “Strong Looks Better Naked.
At the time, Khloe thought stress was to blame.
However her representative later confirmed her illness, telling Gossip Cop: ‘
She is getting treatment and will be OK,’ adding she ‘just needs to rest and get it treated.’
A toddler has been burned to death inside an oven after a game with three older siblings, aged three to five, ended in tragedy when they were left home alone.
The body of little J’zyra Thompson was found by the cooker and police say the pregnant mother left the tots when she went to work on Monday night, Daily News reports.
Officers in Houston, US, said it is thought the children started playing with the cooker at about midnight and shortly afterwards the police were called.
It is claimed the woman initially left the children in the care of her boyfriend but that they were alone when the accident happened.
The mother and her boyfriend were questioned yesterday and the children have been taken into protective custody.
J’zyra’s grandmother, Gina Dennis, said:
“She was a sweet baby. This is unexplainable. I have no words,”
World’s most fashionable toddler, North West, was out and about with her nanny wearing her hair loose as she rocked a ripped jeans and trendy little pink bag.
Look at her very adorable facial expressing… She’s as cute as can be!
So foreign Pop-Star, Rihanna, who is set to release her album, ANTI, is reportedly delving into professional weed production.
According to the website, Celeb Stoner, Rihanna will launch her very own line of weed called “MaRihanna“.
She reportedly made the announcement at the High Times Cannabis Cup in Negril, Jamaica, but there’s been no official confirmation from her camp as of yet.
Rihanna, allegedly said:
“MaRihanna by Rihanna is truly the first mainstream cannabis brand in the world and proud to be a pioneer. Marihanna is blazing a trail for the industry.”
These youthful posterity of spectacularly rich African folks are demonstrating so as to separate themselves the same resoluteness and danger taking that has made their guardians the best individuals on the landmass.
While the vast majority of them are corporate stallions assembling their own legacies in organizations their guardians have set up, others are business visionaries who have chosen to strike out all alone and compose their own particular fates.
The following is a Forbes article that investigates the offspring of Africa’s wealthiest individuals and how they have likewise strived to be similar to their guardian.
1. Rajiv Ruparelia, Uganda
Chief at Ruparelia Group
Rajiv Ruparelia, 25, is the main child of Sudhir Ruparelia, Uganda’s wealthiest man. He holds a degree in Banking and Finance from Regents University London.
The more youthful Ruparelia now gives orders at the Ruparelia Group, the Ugandan combination his dad established, which has premiums in lodgings, managing an account, horticulture and instruction.
Sudhir Ruparelia made his child take in the ropes of business numerous years back by utilizing him first as a doorman, then as a development specialist, then as a bank employee, before moving him up the step and giving him administrative positions in the gathering. “I needed him to learn lowliness and to comprehend the different organizations at the most fundamental level,” Sudhir Ruparelia told this journalist.
Rajiv, a well known socialite in Kampala why should attempting shed his gathering kid picture, heads procedure at the Ruparelia Group and arranges vast ticket bargains for his dad’s benefit universally.
The friends with benefit relationship is one that is often met with caution and even fear.
While some people are comfortable with the idea, others believe it isn’t even possible to maintain such relationships. – I Think it is.
If you find yourself trapped somewhere between the friend-zone and being a couple, here are some rules to follow.
1. No cuddling after s*x
Cuddling has been scientifically proven to induce the hormone oxytocin. This hormone is also known as the ‘love’ hormone or the ‘bonding’ hormone.
It is also secreted by pregnant women to facilitate bonding with the unborn baby. If you do not plan to invest feelings in a relationship, DO NOT cuddle.
2. No extended texting
The human mind is a very complex entity because it is prone to imagination. The more we communicate with people, the more likely we are to assume things that might not necessarily be the case.
For example, we might assume someone likes us more than they do because they will stay up at night and chat to us.
As fans continue to anticipate “On a Spaceship” sophomore album by Nigeria’s talent act, Burna Boy which is set to drop in a week’s time. Burna Boy revealed the tracklists of the album and the album features top artistes like Wizkid, AKA, Da Les, Phyno, Wande Coal and many more….See The Tracklist below…1. Intro
2. Oluwa Burna
3. The Realest
4. Mine Tonight ft. Nyanda
5. Ring Ring
6. Single ft. Wizkid
7. Sampudi
8. As E Be (Skit)
9. Rizzla
10. Jealousy
11. Duro Ni Be ft. Phyno
12. Another One
13. Before ft. Flavour
14. Trance
15. On A Very Good Day ft. Wande Coal
16. Birthday ft. AKA, Kid X, And Da L.E.S
17. Gone
18. Mi O Ni Gba
19. If People Must Die (Dedicated To Gabriel “Gambo” Serunkuma)
On tuesday, Falz The Bahd Guy released his sophomore album “Stories That Touch” on iTunes and the album has made his way up to number one spot!!
Fans took to the streaming app to download the album, and by the end of yesterday, Stories That Touch made it to the no. 1 selling spot on iTunes in the region, beating Adele’s much-anticipated 25 and Justin Bieber’s Purpose which was released on November 13.
The video was shot in Lagos on November 17, 2015 by Clarence Peters with cameo appearance from superstars like Victoria Kimani, Koffi, Ty Mix, and others… See Pictures from the Video below…
Today is Paul & Peter Okoye’s(P Square) Birthday and fans and families all around the world has celebrated the Legend Celebrity Duos. Here are facts about them as they celebrate their 34th birthday…
They are originally from Dunukobia local government in Anambra state.
They attended St Mulumba secondary school in Jos.
They studied Business Administration at the University of Jos.
In 2001, they won the Benson and Hedges sponsored ‘Grab da mic’.
They have previously used names like Douple P, P & P, Da Pees before they eventually settled for Psquare.
Long before their brother, Jude Okoye started managing them, veteran entertainment promoter, Howie T was their first manager. Howie T is currently the CEO of Baseline where Skales is signed unto.
Peter is married to Lola Omotayo and together they have two kids (Cameron and Aliona).
Paul is also married to Anita Isama and they have a son, Andre.
The group have 6 studio albums: Last Night (2003), Get Squared (2005), Game Over (2007), Danger (2009), The Invasion (2011) and Double Trouble (2014)
November 23rd is almost here!! I’m sure we are all anticipating the release of Olamide’s 5th album in 5 consecutive years which he titled “Eyan Mayweather” here are 8 things you need to know about the upcoming record…
It is Olamide’s 5th album in 5 years.
Surprisingly the album features no other act, yeah ‘zero features’ as described by Olamide.
The album will be released on Monday, November 23, 2015.
Olamide initially considered not releasing an album this year while contemplating on promoting his label acts especially Lil Kesh and Adekunle Gold.
Eyan Mayweather is the 4th album from Olamide’s YBNL. His debut was released under Id Cabasa’s Coded Tunes.
On ‘Eyan Mayweather,’ Olamide worked with 4 producers- Id Cabasa and Young John who produced a song each, B Banks who has 3 productions credits and the talented Pheels who is responsible for 16 songs out of the 21 tracks on the album.
Out of the 21 tracks that made the album, only 4 songs have been previously released. They are ‘Matters Arising’, ‘Bobo (Shakiti bobo)’, ‘Lagos Boys’ and ‘Melo Melo’
The cover photo of the upcoming album was photographed by YBNL’s official photographer, Coolio
The Prayer of every mother is to have successful children, I’m sure KCEE’s Mum sure had a blast on her birthday as her Singer Son gifted her with #11 Million Prado Jeep!! See Pictures of His Mum and the Jeep Below…
Floyd Mayweather who is said to have an Estimated net worth of $650 million acquired a Brand New Mercedes CLS For His 16 year old son, Koraun as he turns a year older.
The car is said to be worth around £30,000. Mayweather shared the photo on Instagram. “Happy birthday Amir Mayweather. Love you, Champ.” Lucky boy!
Uganda’s Commercial court has ordered MTN Uganda to pay a sum of Shs 2.3bn (about $662,000) which is about N190 million in damages to EzeeMoney Limited for sabotaging its business.
It all started when EzeeMoney, which runs an e-money business, obtained a contract from MTN for the provision of digital transmission [E1] and 30 fixed telephone lines to carry out its mobile money business.
After agreeing to the terms of the contract, EzeeMoney then contracted Yo! Uganda Limited (YUL) to implement the service after Uganda Communications Commission, the regulator, approved it on December 2012, to use the 7711 short code to enable its customers to subscribe for e-money services.
However in 2013, MTN after doing a review of the contract, canceled it, saying EzeeMoney was a direct competitor to its mobile money business.
Through AF Mpanga and company advocates, EzeeMoney went to court, saying MTN’s action “restricted and distorted competition.” EzeeMoney said MTN also damaged its ties with YUL and deprived it of services of other telecommunications operators.
It argued that MTN used its exclusivity agreements to stop its agents from working for any other firm with similar business, further limiting competition.
Delivering judgement in a suit filed by Ezeemoney limited on November 6th, the presiding judge, Justice Henry Peter Adonyo ordered MTN to stop acting in an unlawful and anti-competitive manner, which denies other businesses an opportunity to prosper. Justice Adonyo said MTN should pay Shs 800m to EzeeMoney in general damages for loss of business.
He also directed the telecommunications company to pay a penalty of Shs 1.5bn in punitive damages to deter not only MTN but also warn other companies against uncompetitive business tactics.
Two explosions, believed to be from improvised explosive devices, have gone off in Kano, a PREMIUM TIMES correspondent in the city is reporting.
“Explosions have gone off at Kano GSM market around farm centre,” reporter Mohammed Ahmad said. “I’m rushing to the scene.”
Details of the incident are still sketchy, our correspondent says.
“Many people are however feared dead, and several others injured,” he said.
A witness said the first explosion occurred at the market entrance while the second device exploded near a pavilion in the centre of the market.
He said two vans filled with victims were driven away from the scenes of the explosions.
Our reporter, on arriving the scene, later said a teenage suicide bomber is believed to be behind one of the explosions.
An elderly suicide bomber is believed to ferried the second device right into the centre of the market.
He reported seeing a detached human leg, believed to belong to the teenage suicide bomber, near the gate of the market, which was filled to capacity at the time of the incident.
Another witness told our reporter that he was part of those that prevented the teenage bomber from entering the market, forcing her to detonate her device at the gate.
Traders were seen carrying corpses and injured people to hospitals in cars owned by good Samaritans.
The Kano state police commissioner, Muhammadu Katsina, confirmed the incident.
He told journalists the two explosive devices were detonated by two female suicide bombers.
Mr. Katsina said only three people died in the incident. But our reporter said he saw a far higher number of victims taken away from the scene.
The incident came less than 24 hours after a similar explosion in a crowded park in Yola, the Adamawa state capital, left at least 34 people dead and 80 injured.
Today’s blast is the first attack on Kano since July 6 when a female suicide bomber struck near a Mosque in the city, killing herself.
The teenage bomber had detonated the explosive at 9:30 p.m that day after she was prevented from accessing the Umar Bin Khatab mosque along Zaria Road.
The incident happened just as faithful were dispersing after observing the late night (Tarawih) prayer.
More to come…
“Nigeria’s most loved songbird Simi has released a brand new single to close what has been a fantastic year for her and Nigerian music.
The song titled ‘Open and Close’ is a polished blend of Pop and Fuji music and will definitely keep people dancing from start to finish.
‘This song is for all the party lovers this Season, we’ve got a lot to be thankful for this year’, the X3M Music act says.
The video for the song which was shot by MEX is a comical story which sees Simi and her ‘gang’ end up schooling a bunch of ‘prim and proper’ party guests on how to properly turn up, Naija style!”
Earlier this year, popular Ghanaian actor, Majid Michel renewed his wedding vows with his stunning wife of 10 years. In a new interview with Encomium magazine, the actor opened up on the secret of his successful marriage and why he credits his wife as the reason he is Majid Michel..
On the secret of his marriage
When you go everywhere, people talk about principles of organizational development, and how to keep it going, but no one talks about character. Character comes from the word statue, a statue is something that has been fixed, it doesn’t change, and it is stable. If you see the image of Kwame Nkrumah at the museum, his statue is standing in one position, doing forward ever, backward never.
When it’s raining, or there is hurricane, it is always in the same position, doing the same thing, it is stable. It doesn’t change, that is what you call character. That is what builds character. What am I doing in the night is it the same thing I am doing in the afternoon? When there is no one watching, what are you doing? That is character, those are the kind of leaders we need. I mean, in the morning, if someone brings a bribe will you accept it? Are you unchangeable? Are you unstable? Or you are fixed. That is character, so we try as much as possible to build our characters. You don’t trade character, you don’t buy it, and you don’t sell it. You are not unclean with it. Character over the years is temptations over the years. Temptation basically, means testing for weakness.
So, if over the years you’ve gone through a lot of temptations and you were able to withstand them, you’ve built your character which builds your value system, your morals, your ethics, which becomes you at the end of the day. So, we try not to run away from temptation but to overcome it day in day out and that is what builds our character as we grow up, and that is what defines us.
If you have to say something special to your wife, what will you say to her?
My wife is the only reason I am Majid Michel. My wife is responsible for me being Majid Michel. She is the reason I’m Majid Michel. I mean, apart from God, second to God physically, if she never supported me or never understood my job, there’s no way I could have made it.
Today is popular duo, P-Square‘s birthday and as they celebrate, Lola Omotayo Okoye, the wife of Peter Okoye, rained beautiful words on her husband.
She wrote:
To my boo of life, the king of my dreams, my hot chocolate, my love, my delight, the father of my beautiful children I celebrate your life today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY my darling husband. May you always fly high in life and touch all your dreams. May God bless you with happiness, joy, continued success, wisdom and peace. Gold, platinum or diamonds are not enough to express your worth. May God continue to protect you for us. Your best years are still ahead IJN. I am proud of the man that you have become and I LOVE YOU plenty my sweetheart. Have a fantastic day today @peterpsquare
Incredible RnB singer, Adele just might have dealt with the internet with her latest record breaking single, “Hello“, after it’s video recorded a smashing 27.7 million views in just one day.
However, the beautiful singer admits that she “did a Kim” after the video debuted online earlier this month. The 27 year old said that if she had replicated Kim‘s shoot then her own derriere “would’ve actually broken the internet”.
