Former Governor of Imo State Ikedi Ohakim’s first son, Obia and his wife Oby are expecting their second child. The couple, who got married in 2013 already have a 2-year-old son. The expectant mother and lawyer showed off her growing baby bump in latest Instagram photos…
In a very emotional message to his son, Abdul-Sodeeq Temitopeoluwa Alao, who turns a year older today, singer, Small doctor, disclosed how he went to steal so that he and his son could eat but was caught and beaten serious. On his IG page, he wrote;
“Hapi Birthday SON@iam_littledoctor … Abdul-Sodeeq TemitopeOluwa Alao. Little Can The WORLD Know About You. Thank You For Making Me Strive More. GOD Bless You For Making Me Find Myself. This Boi At The Age Of Seven (7) Do Sleep Home Alone Back Then While I Engaged In A Whole Night Job For Close To Eleven (11) Months. Myself, Dis Boi And My Pet Slept In Buses Around Agege For A Very Long Period, We Kept Our Cloths In Condemned Fridge’s. I Remember When They Stole My Bikes In The Studio, Which Was Our Only Source Of Income, It Got To An Extent I Couldn’t Afford Your Feeding Talkless Of Paying Your School Fees, During Those Times You Stay Indoor During School Hours For People Not To Keep Asking Why You Are Not In School, You Also Pretend You Have Eaten All The Food Meant For The World Whereas You Have Not Tasted Anything, Just Because You Won’t Want Anybody Notice There Was Something Wrong. Thank GOD For That One Word You Said To Me The Day You Woke Up At Midnight Just To See Me Crying (i will neva forget). Star Boi I Wanna Confess Today Your Birthday And I Also Plead For Forgiveness For One Day I Lied To You. It Was The Day I Came Home At Night With Bruises And Wounds With My Cloths Torn, You Asked Me What Happened But I Lied To You That I Fell From Bike. Son It Wasn’t True.” The Fact Is I Went Stealing And I Got Caught”. I’m Sorry Boi. Once Again I Say Happy Birthday Son. I’m Sorry Star Boi…. PLEASE MAKE ME PROUD SON.. Go Into The WORLD And PROSPER… GOD BLESS YOU… iyanu MASHELE SOONEST ✍✅. @iam_littledoctor .
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A 44-year-old woman named Eyii and a resident of Kparekpare a suburb of Dambai, Krachi East constituency met her ultimate death after a snake bit her vagina.
According to the husband of the deceased, Aziagome Akuvi who’s a peasant farmer in the community, he and his wife were returning home from their farm when she asked him to wait as she attends to natures call in the bush.
He continued that while patiently waiting for his late wife who was squatting and easing herself, he heard her suddenly shouting for help only to rush to her aid to see her bitten by a snake at her vagina (c*litoris).
The troubled and confused husband sensing that the snake bit on his wife was a spiritual attack, in a bid to save the life of his dying wife, then put her on his bicycle and rushed her to a fetish priest for spiritual intervention and herbal treatment.
However she unfortunately didn’t survive the snake bite and later died at the fetish priest’s home.
Indigenous rapper, Wale Turner, recently sat down for an interview, where he talked about his music career.
Speaking with TheCable Lifestyle, the 19-year-old, who recently dropped a video for his viral single, ‘No’, shot by Director Q, said:
“From dropping Instagram freestyles to official videos is a very big thing for me. This is what every upcoming artist is always praying for”
“I’ve always dreamt of having my official video shot by one of the biggest directors in the industry. Director Q shot my video. I got used to doing my Instagram freestyles so on the day of my video it felt like I was doing my freestyles.”
On his new deal with Royce & Royce Entertainment, Turner spoke glowingly about the label, saying it’s where every upcoming act should want to be.
“My label is a family label. It’s the label every upcoming artist would crave for. Every upcoming artiste should just pray for a helper. If you find your helper trust me you will go a long way.”
“When you pray to God to give you a label everybody will just come – Mavin, YBNL – you will just run back”
“I got offers from all the big labels in Nigeria”
On getting several offers from top labels in the nation, he credited his multilingual ability and versatility as a pace setter.
“What I’m bringing to the table, you guys can’t handle it. I’m the hottest, even God knows”
“From day one I’ve always been rapping with Yoruba, English, and French. The kind of French I bring is like pidgin French so you get to relate to it. My kind of rap is very simple and easy to understand.
“If I come out today and I want to sing RnB, trust me. If I come and want to do Fuji, trust me. Even God knows. God gave me the talent.”
On artistes he would love to work with he mentioned the likes of Wande Coal and Olamide, referring to the latter as his godfather.
“I want to work with Wande Coal, I’ve always been his fan. Olamide too. Olamide is my godfather.”
On his goals:
“I just want to create something spectacular for my people and I just want my name to be out there. Wale Turner that came all the way from Ketu. ‘Ketu to the world’.
“I came all the way from Instagram videos on one small phone to official videos. I just want to go international but I want to hit the Nigerian market first.
Popular Nigerian singer, Esegine Allen, popularly known as Orezi has posed completely n**e.
This he did on the art cover of his new song titled ‘Call the police’. In the picture, the singer had just a table phone to cover up his m*****d.
About two weeks ago, the singer was in the news when he said he has not slept with more than four women all his life! The singer said this in a video he posted on his Instagram page saying lots of people are calling him a liar for saying he has not slept with more than four women in his life
See the photos below:-
This is amazing, a top African musician has surprised the mother of his child by gifting her an expensive mansion.
This may very well stun numerous individuals! A top Tanzanian musician has allegedly surprised his baby-mama by gifting her a mansion to celebrate her birthday.
According to reports, Diamond Platinumz claims that he has bought a house in South Africa for his woman, Zari to celebrate her birthday.
He made the announcement while sharing pictures of the house on his Instagram. While wishing her a happy birthday, he said they will celebrate in Zanzibar.
Diamond is one of the biggest singer in East Africa with many hit songs. His remix of Saida Karoli’s Salome added more to his popularity as the song was an instant hit.
He has a baby, Latifah Dangote with Zari.
A Kano Senior Magistrates’ court sitting in Rijiyar Zaki, yesterday, September 26, sentenced a man, identified as Rabiu sani, to 30 months imprisonment for stealing slippers.
The presiding Senior Magistrate, Aminu Fagge , sentenced the accused, Rabiu Sani (22) after he pleaded guilty to a one-count charge of theft.
Sani who is a resident of Aisami Quarters in Kano was sentenced without an option of fine.
According to the prosecutor, Yusuf Sale , one Surajo Umar of Kurna Quarters, Kano, reported the case at the Nasarawa Police Division, Kano, on September 16.
Sale revealed that the convict went to the business place of the complainant at Gidan Gashash Singer Market in Kano, on the same day.
Sani reportedly “used a razor blade and tore the sack where the complainant Umar, kept his goods and stole one roll of bathroom slippers containing 35 pairs valued N6, 000.”
The court heard that the convict was charged with theft at a Chief Magistrates Court and sentenced to three months imprisonment or a fine of N10, 000 on February 5, 2016 and that Sani was again sentenced to six months imprisonment or a fine of N20.
The African Development Bank is working on giving Nigeria loan facilities of $4.1bn between now and next year for critical sectors of the economy.
The loans include $1bn at a concessionary interest rate of 1.2 per cent for Nigeria to address the 2016 budget deficit and aid her economic recovery.
The President, AfDB, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, disclosed this to State House correspondents on Monday after a meeting with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and other members of the Economic Management Team at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
According to the AfDB president, the package includes; $1bn in budget support, $300m to create jobs for 185,000 youths, $250m towards infrastructure development in the North-East, $1m grant to deal with challenges of Internally Displaced Persons, $300m for infrastructure development around Abuja, and $200m for the Transmission Company of Nigeria to improve its facilities, among others.
Stressing that Nigeria was the largest shareholder in the bank, Adesina said that the bank was in the country to offer its support in the face of the current tough times.
He said, “I think the times are difficult but I want to commend the government for being bold in taking the right decisions. I think that the fact that the price of crude oil has gone down is a big challenge, because you have 98 per cent external forex revenue coming from the sector.
“So, it has created calibrations; I’m not going to go into the details of all the problems, but what is important is what we are going to do about it.
“I’m not here to lecture the Nigerian government. I’m here to support very strongly. We have said that we are going to support the Nigerian government with the budget support to be able to deal with some of the fiscal imbalances that they have. We are looking to consider for an award of $1bn to help to deal with that particular deficit.”
Adesina added that the bank would help to revive Nigeria’s economy, especially by deepening the level of diversification in critical sectors such as agriculture, solid minerals and manufacturing.
According to him, the bank is going to provide in total $4.1bn to Nigeria between 2016 and 2017 for power, infrastructure, agriculture and for the private sector, including financing and lending to the Small and Medium-scale Enterprises.
He also said that he expected the AfDB portfolio in the country to grow to $10bn by 2019.
Adesina, a former Nigerian Minister of Agriculture, added, “We also recognise that power is perhaps the most important challenge that is driving inflation in the country. So, we expect in our portfolio this year to invest in a total of 1,400 megawatts of power to focus on the energy sector; and by 2017, we plan to add 1,387 megawatts to the sector.”
He said that the bank also discussed with Osinbajo and the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, on how to invest in areas of women and youth employment in the country as well as to look for opportunities to support access to finance by supporting the Development Bank of Nigeria with $500m, which will help to provide cheap financing for the real sector that the country wants to grow.
According to him, the bank is also providing $100m to the Bank of Industry to enable it to lend to small and medium-sized enterprises.
Adesina said, “Let me just say that Nigeria is experiencing tough times, but Nigeria is not falling apart; and when people talk about debt crisis, Nigeria is not in a debt crisis. If you look at the fiscal deficit of this country with regard to the GDP, it is about three or 3.5 per cent. It is still way below the five per cent recommended by the Fiscal Responsibility Act.
“If you look in terms of the debt to the GDP ratio for Nigeria, it is 15 per cent. So, there is no debt crisis in Nigeria; what you have is liquidity problem and we are trying for the country to be able to drive down inflation and to be able to make sure we are working with the government to be able to provide incentives for the private sector.
“Because to come out of recession you need more than the government, you need the private sector. So, incentives are very important. The Finance minister talked about a whole lot of incentives that they are going to give and I think that is the right way to go.
“Nigeria will come out of this as a better and more diversified economy than before it went into the recession.”
Also speaking, Adeosun said there was no need to fear over the new loan as it would be put into good use, adding that the government was not over-borrowing.
She added, “And as Dr. Adesina said, we are looking unto them with $1bn budget support; but beyond that, there are lots of loans and initiatives around agriculture, job creation for the youths, solid minerals, women empowerment and women’s access to finance, and access to finance by the SMEs.
Fresh admission controversy has hit the University of Lagos as some candidates are accusing the authorities of high-handedness, CHARLES ABAH writes
For no fewer than 57 candidates, who participated in the 2015/2016 Foundation programmes that would enable them to study Medicine and Surgery at the University of Lagos, this September seems to be the longest month that they have ever witnessed in life.
In fact, since September 9, these candidates have not known peace, considering what they called high-handedness of the authorities of the university.
According to them, having passed all the necessary qualifying examinations that would enable them to proceed to the medical school, having spent hundreds of naira in terms of tuition and other sundry fees – undergoing a foundation programme – the authorities of the university are now scheming to abort their dreams.
Already, they have written to the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Rahamon Bello, demanding that the authorities should urgently look into their case.
In the letter dated September 20, 2016, the candidates, under the auspices of 2015/2016 Foundation MBBS, noted that denying them admission to study medicine in the ivory tower would be akin to a miscarriage of justice.
They copied the registrar of the university, director, School of Foundation Studies, provost, College of Medicine, as well as the Joint University Preliminary Examination Board in the petition.
Parts of their letter read, “The School of Foundation Studies admitted over 800 students into its programme with a promise that those who scored AAA (16 points) in all their courses shall be admitted to 200 level to study Medicine. We were asked to pay a huge sum of money – about half a million naira.
“The university tested us with a curriculum and at the end of the exercise, 87 of us obtained the required A’s. As if the management was happy about the less than 10 per cent pass, it came out with another fresh directive, which seems to call a ball that went over the bar a goal. The university said that it could only admit 30 students.
“Are we now being told that the university is nothing but a business centre and the JUPEB programme is nothing but a fraud? We hereby demand justice. This is but a rape on the collective intelligence of Nigerian students and an attempt to reduce the citadel of learning to a mere business venture. No sane society will let this go unchallenged. The university should provide reasons why, despite the recession in the country, parents will be made to cough out such whopping sums on empty promises.”
Our correspondent gathered that each of the candidates paid non-refundable acceptance fees of N25,000; N350,000 tuition; N7,500 medical insurance; N25,000 for examinations; N700 for syllabus, and N850 for biometric identity card. Besides, the candidates made personal arrangements for their accommodation for the one year that the programme lasted.
Beyond the fees, the narratives by some of the affected candidates and their guardians are the type some people will describe as touching.
“I have a B.Sc in Nursing from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State. I graduated in 2009. No fewer than 800 of us enrolled for this programme last year and only 87 of us obtained the required three A’s to study medicine. With this, admission to the college of medicine would ordinarily be automatic but the authorities are changing the rules mid way into the game. This is not so in other universities.
“To study medicine in many other universities, one requires only 13 points, but here we all obtained 16 points. Yet, the authorities of UNILAG say they do not have space for us. I know how I struggled to make these grades. I know the psychological stress that I passed through to enable me to achieve this success. This programme nearly cost me my marriage as I struggled daily to cater to my husband and two teenage children.
“Why would I suffer the consequences of lack of space when they admitted so many candidates in the first place? The Federal Government needs to intervene in this matter; otherwise, we shall spend another year at home due to no fault of ours. Today, the authorities are asking us to go for such courses as fishery, botany, cell biology, psychology. Please, when has it become a crime to pass an examination? After having a degree in nursing, they expect me to start another course in fishery,” the candidate, who craved anonymity for fear of victimisation, said.
For another candidate, Adesewa, the decision of the university management will cut short her dream of becoming a medical doctor. The young lady, who said she obtained her WASSCE in 2013, noted that she had forfeited other admission placements just for her to study medicine.
She said, “I abandoned the admission I got to study Bio-Chemistry at the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State in 2013 just to study medicine. In 2014, I sat for another UTME and obtained 68.75 aggregate marks. The cut off that year at UNILAG was 70 marks. In 2015, I enrolled for this foundation programme. Now, see the frustration I am facing again.”
But the Director, School of Foundation Studies, Prof. Oluwole Familoni, said the university did not promise any candidate automatic admission for medicine. According to him, both the candidates and their parents knew ab initio that the university had limited spaces for medical students.
He added, “There was no assurance of automatic admission for any candidate. Of course, we could not have done that because the regulators, the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, would not allow us to admit more than 100 students.
“Agreed, the 87 candidates did well, they cannot force the authorities to admit them all to the College of Medicine and that is why we have given them the option to enrol for other programmes.”
On why the institution enrolled hundreds of candidates for the programme knowing that it had limited spaces, Familoni said it was a competition thrown open for all interested candidates.
He noted, “We could not have enrolled only 30 candidates for the foundation courses because we have only 30 spaces for them. It is akin to seeking employment in an organisation. Every firm has the right to select from the millions of applicants, those it considers suitable.
“We did not force them to purchase the forms. It’s a pity that they want to destroy the image of the university. They can go to court if they feel so aggrieved. Some persons tried it recently and they lost the case in the court. You cannot force any university to offer you admission.”
But a retiree, Mr. Joseph Taiwo, who said that he sold some of his personal effects, including his car, to ensure that his son sail through the foundation programme, noted that his family had not been in lively spirits since the news got to them.
He added, “When we initially received a report that he was among the few that obtained three straight A’s, we went for thanksgiving in our church. But that bubbling situation has died down in my home. We have all been wearing a mournful look since September 9 when news filtered that only 30 of them would be offered admission. Ordinarily, I would have sent him overseas to pursue the same course but I do not have the wherewithal.”
Appraising the development, the Coordinator, Education Rights Campaign, Mr. Taiwo Hassan, said the handling of the situation by the university was wrong.
“What UNILAG has done is very wrong and unacceptable. It amounts to changing the rules in the middle of the game. What the university has done is a violation of the rights of the students and I urge the affected foundation students not to take this lying low. They should stand up and organise themselves to challenge this injustice legally and politically. No one should accept that nothing could be done about this.
“As far as the ERC is concerned, we believe that this routine violation of students’ rights by UNILAG is one too many. Early in the year, about 102 undergraduates, who came into the university through the UTME for Medicine and Surgery were treated in the same way. Now is the time to say enough is enough to the impunity of the authorities,” the ERC helmsman said.
Veteran Yoruba Nollywood actress, Toyin Afolayan popularly known as Lola Idije celebrated her 57th birthday yesterday.
The actress known for her dexterity and commitment on screen had several of her colleagues present at the ceremony.
Among those present include veteran actor, Adebayo Salami, popularly known as Oga Bello.
See photos from the event below:
