Gov. Fashola, Darey-Art Alade, Others Attend Olamide’s Son's Naming Ceremony

Baddo, Olamide today had the Naming Ceremony of his new son and the Rapper looked really happy to have welcomed the baby (:

Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, as well as colleagues of Olamide in the music industry like Darey Art-Alade were on ground to celebrate with Olamide on becoming a father.

The Name of his child is Batifeori Maximiliano Adedeji, Olamide revealed this on his instagram page when he broke the news.

Meanwhile, Olamide has changed his Instagram handle from 'King Baddo' to be ‘Daddy Milano’. 

Save your data; Checkout 10 quotes from the viral Ekiti audio

Considering the fact that many may not be able to listen to the entire recording, i bring you 10 salient quotes from the meeting. 

In the recording, Ayo Fayose, governor of Ekiti, Senator Iyiola Omisore, Musiliu Obanikoro and some Military top brass were having a heated operational discussion about the Ekiti elections of June 2014.

Others reportedly present at the meeting were a certain Honorable Abdulkareem; the Minister for Police Affairs Caleb Olubolade, and Brigadier General Aliyu Momoh

1. “Am not here for tea party, I’m on a special assignment by the President. Then that Daramola (APC Fayemi Campaign Manager) I want him picked up in the morning!”

2. “Look here, you can’t get promotion without me sitting on top of your military council. If I am a happy man tomorrow night, the sky is your limit.”

3. “The war is eminent. I was in my house, “chief of army staff” called me, and told me he has briefed him [General Momoh], and gave me his number because i never met him before. He told me, you are in safe hands; he would perform, and if you have any issues, call me.”

4. “I would just say that we don’t have to argue this much, we have seen some lapses yes, its just this evening. there is nothing happening now that we cannot contain before tomorrow morning, there is nothing.so ba mi so fun general, we can be together on this matter. Your boys can be overzealous and do things that are not sent.”

5. “We have strike force they just entered into the force. We can start arresting in the afternoon. There are about 6 special team. I have one strike force. I have almost forty soldiers after deployment. We have done a lot of arrest.”
6. “Am not talking to you anyhow to, don’t talk to me anyhow too; i won’t take it from you. Whom am are you talking to, am an honourable member of the national assembly, do you know you are insulting me too?”
7. “I dont like all this embarrassment, we all left our home to come here, we are here for the same thing. I don’t like the way the honourable is talking, I asked him to come here, if you are a member of the national assembly so, I was once a senator too. show some respect.”
8. “Another thing, General relax sit down. You are a soldier man, you are working for us. You have more shock absorber than we bloody civilian. Forget about that there are something’s that are not clear to us. One – that your boys are dis-arming even the police.”
9. “The idea of calling you, and not getting reactions we have to stop that now, you must bring that to an end. When we call you, within the next 5 – 10 minutes, we need to know what has been done about it, and we want to get the full feedback on what has been done.”
10. “If am working for you, if am working for you sir, i cannot be following you around sir. My people cannot be following you about. We don’t follow IG about, we don’t follow police about.

Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose has already rubbished  the recording, saying it's false. While Obanikoro has released a statement, threatening to sue SaharaReporters.

Alex Ebubo Writes A Touching Piece About Nigeria Of Old/Current Happenings(READ)

Nollywood Actor and model Alex Ekubo took to instagram to share a childhood photo of himself  together with a touching piece about the Nigeria of old and the current happenings. 

In the piece which he titled, “Have you seen my childhood?”, Alex talks about how he misses the peace he enjoyed as a child compared to the rising spate of insurgency that has almost brought Nigeria to its knees. 

Have you seen my Childhood? I Miss growing up,i miss the Good Old days & the things that made it the “Good Old days”. Simple things like the peace in my country. i’m from Abia born in Port Harcourt,bred in Lagos, schooled in Katsina,lived in Kano,Attended University in Calabar,i travelled the length & breadth of Nigeria without the fear of a Bomb Explosion or being Kidnapped, now i can’t even go &drink sweet natural palm wine & eat ugba in my village for fear of my Safety, i’m typing this with tears in my eyes wondering why my brothers who haven’t met me yet to know what a fun guy i am, want me Dead simply because i’m from a different ethnic group & because i worship the same God but under a different building. Growing up i watched on CNN the war in other countries & asked my dad “Daddy why are they killing each other” even as a boy, It didn’t make sense to me, not knowing thats years later a little white boy in America would watch my brothers & i display on tv & ask his dad the same question. To which his dad would dismiss with the wave of a hand or a shrug & continue pouring milk in his cereal, unperturbed, not knowing that btw when the question was asked & the last drop of milk hit the cereal bowl, i have lost a number of unmet family members in yet another senseless Bomb Explosion. Surely my “Father” the Great Nnamdi Azikwe & my Uncle Tafawa Balewa & Uncle Awolowo are rolling in their graves right now! For this is NOT the Nigeria they fought for. Every time we kill a Nigerian Child, we kill a future Inventor, World Leader & Movie/Music Star. Let us take a moment & remember the simple things that made us happy in the “Good old days” & restore our glory as the Pride & Giant of Africa. Any Man/Woman that gives me a gun this coming Election to go & kill my Brothers if he will not join me in arm or point to me his blood children in the battle front, then i will take the gun & shoot his left leg so he can crawl back to his fellow Elders & tell them My Brother & I have had Enough, we are Wiser!! When our past is looking brighter than our Future, i look up with tears in my eyes & ask HAVE YOU SEEN MY CHILDHOOD #EnoughIsEnough #BringBackMyChildhood #VoteNotFight !!

Amber Rose Says She’s Coming Back to Lagos in April

American diva, Amber Rose in a post on her Facebook Page has announced another visit to lagos in April 2015.

The beautiful mother of one has been in Lagos twice, with the most recent one where she headlines D’banj’s 10th year Anniversary Party which held days back.The star thanked those who came to the event to see her.

“Thank you Lagos! I had a great time as USUAL!!!! I had to get back home to Bash but can’t wait to come back in April. #SisterCode Muva.”

However she didnt say what she is coming back for in April

Obanikoro Threatens To Sue SaharaReporters Over Viral Audio Of Ekiti Election

Below, is a statement from the office of Musiliu Obaniko's office concerning the viral audio recording.

Our attention has been drawn to an audio recording released on Thursday by Sahara Reporters, an online news website. In the audio recording, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro is presented as having a conversation alongside current Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, Senator Iyiola Omisore amongst other names purportedly identified by Sahara Reporters as participants in the said meeting. 

But these are the facts:

1. That Senator Obanikoro wishes to state categorically and emphatically that you will never find him anywhere in the world talking about rigging an election in favour of anyone. The context of the conversation being reported by Sahara Reporters has been deliberately concocted, manipulated and misrepresented to achieve a predetermined narrative. Nowhere in the purported recording did Senator Obanikoro mention directly or indirectly a plan to rig the Ekiti State elections as the Sahara Reporters narrative suggests.

2. That Senator Obanikoro’s team was approached by an agent of Sahara Reporters to pay for the doctored recording. Senator Obanikoro’s refusal to be blackmailed led to Sahara Reporters going ahead to publish the said recording. 

3. That it is an open knowledge that Sahara Reporters is a paid mouthpiece of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) and as such cannot be taken seriously and credibly.

4. That the eventual timing of the release of the doctored audio coming on the eve of the ruling of the Osun State Election Petitions Tribunal makes it even more sinister. For all intents and purposes, it is a failed attempt to compromise the outcome of the Tribunal ruling and set the tone for public sympathy in the event of an unfavorable ruling.

5. Old habits die hard. The APC is known for its manipulative antics in the manufacturing of forged certificates, hacking, propaganda and now the doctoring of audio recordings. 

6. That Dr. Kayode Fayemi and the APC have failed to explain how their gross unpopularity led to the loss of their wards and local governments to PDP’s Ayodele Fayose.

7. That there was a Tribunal set up for the Ekiti Election. Why was this audio recording not presented to that Tribunal? Having lost an election woefully and at the Election Petitions Tribunal, this is nothing short of a lame after-thought and a futile attempt to pervert the minds of unsuspecting Nigerians against the PDP in the coming general elections.

8. That the role the Nigerian Army played in safeguarding the elections in Ekiti and Osun States remains commendable, to general acclaim, locally and internationally.

 9. The APC and their cronies are the ones known for anti-democratic tendencies. Where was Sahara Reporters when free and fair local government elections were annulled by the APC in Lagos State?

10. That beyond this statement, Senator Obanikoro will not dignify the immoral construct of the APC through its hired media platforms with any further response. Senator Obanikoro refuses to be distracted by the failed antics of the APC and is focusing on the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan.

11. That Senator Obanikoro is initiating legal action against Sahara Reporters in New York and Nigeria for defamation of character.

 Signed

Ohimai Godwin Amaize

Special Adviser on Media Strategy to Senator Musiliu Obanikoro

Lupita Nyong'o Stuns In Afro On The Cover Of Lucky Magazine

Oscar-winning actress, Lupita Nyong'o graced the March 2015 issue of Lucky Magazine. She looks graceful in a colorful two-piece from Balmain’s Spring/Summer 2015 collection. Photographed by Patrick Demarchelier, the black beauty rocks all natural look and Afro hair on the cover.

This issue of the magazine will be available to readers  on the 16th of February 2015 but the Editor, Eva Chen took to Instagram to share a sneak peek with fans.

More photos to come..... Keep refreshing!

Vector, Helen Paul, Essence, others attend Keffe’s post-humous album launch

Yesterday, Thursday, February 5, 2015, the first post-humous album of late singer, Kefee Obareki Don Momoh was launched at the Daystar Christian Centre in Ikeja, Lagos.

Yesterday was chosen for the launch of her new album. The new 12-track album is titled Blessed and the event witnessed a reasonable turn out of showbiz stars.

Present at the event were the likes of rappers, Vector, Essence, Artquake, Nikki Laoye, Yinka Davies, Helen Paul, MC Abbey and OAPSabina played the role of hosts of the event.

MC Abbe, Sabina, Nikki Laoye and others pose for the camera.

Nikki Laoye on the red carpet

Vector spoke at the event

The new album and some of late works of Kefee on display

An Audio recording of how PDP alleged rigged the governorship election in Ekiti state has gone viral on the internet.

The audio above implicates PDP in the rigging of Ekiti governorship election, last year.  

Well, see how SaharaReporters reported it after the cut...

SaharaReporters has received unimpeachable documents and audio recordings providing substantial evidence that major Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders planned and successfully rigged the gubernatorial elections in Ekiti State, and plotted a similar scenario in Osun in 2014.  

The audio recordings and affidavit were provided by Sagir Koli, a Captain in the 32nd Artillery Brigade stationed in Ekiti State, who has since fled the country for fear of retaliation. Capt. Koli recorded the conversation on 20th June 2014 when he was asked to accompany his Commanding Officer, Brigadier General Aliyu Momoh, to the meeting.  The venue was held at Spotless Hotel in Ado-Ekiti.

The audio recordings depict the meeting as being attended by the eventual “winner” of the election, Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti; Senator Iyiola Omisore; a man identified as Honorable Abdulkareem; the Minister for Police Affairs Caleb Olubolade; and Senator Musiliu Obanikoro who was at the time the Minister of State for Defence. Mr. Chris Uba came to Ekiti with huge stash cash and soldiers from the East to carry out the assignment. Read the rest onSaharareporters.com

Private sector advised to close early, as Lagos declares public holiday for collection of PVC

The Lagos State Government has declared Friday, February 6, as a work-free day for its workers.

This was disclosed in a statement by the state Head of Service, Oluseyi Williams.

The government also urged private sector employers to release their workers early to enable those of them who are yet to collect their Permanent Voter Cards to do so.

“We are enjoining private sector employers to release their workers early today for the same purpose, Governor Babatunde Fashola said the desired prosperity and the brighter rewarding future being sought after by the people, both for themselves and for their children, would be determined by their willingness to sacrifice time to key into the election process by collecting their Permanent Voter Cards for the elections,” the statement said.

The statement further urged the workers to take the opportunity of the holiday to collect their PVCs at their polling unit.

Nigerian woman keeps late brother’s decomposed body in wardrobe for 2 years (PICTURED)

A popular food vendor in Eke-Awka market, Anambra State, Ngozi Aloefuna, has been arrested for being in custody of the remains of her brother, Stephen Aloefuna, a former footballer with Rangers International Club in the 80s.

His body was hidden in the family house for the about 2 years.

Residents of Amikwo Village, Awka South Local Government Area, where the incident happened, even went as far as accusing Ngozi of mischievously harvesting her brother’s body parts to cook the food she sells to the public in the market

Sun news reports that the remains of the man had turned into a skeleton when it was discovered by one of his brothers, who pressed Ngozi to show him where the late Stephen was buried.

The man, stunned by the bizarre sight, raised the alarm that attracted neighbours to the room. The sight shocked the neighbours, as they never imagined that they had lived with a decomposing corpse for the past two years.

When Ngozi was asked whether she was guilty of cooking her brother’s body parts, she said:

"I am innocent. I did not kill my brother. Everybody knew he had a mental problem and was seriously sick before he died. Before he died, I was the only person that was taking care of him for years and nobody asked me how he was faring until he died. They said I killed him and used his body to prepare the food that I sell but only God knows the truth. I leave it for God to judge. I decided to cover him till he, one of our brothers, comes back because only I cannot bury him. After two years of his death, some of our family members came and asked of him and I told them he is dead and they said I should show them his grave. I opened his room and showed them where he died. Then I was arrested and taken to the police station" 

Ngozi denied embalming the corpse with native herbs to dry it and prevent any odour in the neighbourhood. One of the residents of the area told our reporter that a pungent smell pervaded the air within the area for many months in the past but no one could trace the source of the stinking odour. It was after the shocking discovery was made that residents felt disgusted of inhaling such odour from a decomposing corpse.

The remains of the deceased were taken to the police station, while Ngozi was detained and interrogated for some days. She was later granted bail when some of her kindred intervened. The relatives also buried the remains of late Stephen in their family compound.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Uche Eze, confirmed the incident and said that investigations were ongoing.

Why Nollywood Can’t Afford To Lose 'Goodluck' Jonathan - By Charles Novia

Another interesting article written by Nollywood director/producer and social media critic, Charles Novia. 

Let us admit it – we have never seen any President so besotted with entertainment like Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, especially the movie-making sector. And this is not a satire.

Yes, his detractors may point at “weakness” for entertainment as a signpost of an unserious mind frittering the commonwealth on ‘joli-joli’ matters! Even the opposition may grumble loudly that the lively engagement with the Nollywood is essentially exploitative and window-dressing – to the detriment of more important and critical sectors of the national economy.

However, no one is in doubt that the life and essence the Creative wayfarers was initially ignited by Bayelsa governor, the much maligned Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, immediate boss of GEJ around year 2000. With dizzying state support and elaborate razzmatazz, the duo of Alams and GEJ wallowed in the sudden euphoria of showbiz and the attendant media opulence only comparable to IBB’s romance with PMAN’s ding-a-long of 1989 – 1992 when Tony Okoroji was the majordomo.

 It was no surprise GEJ flowed with the momentum when fortune made him supplant Alams as Gov. of Bayelsa in December 2005. Yet, for all his enthusiasm for professional revelries, the make-believe could not have believed their luck when good ol’ providence thrusted GEJ, again, into greater prominence.

In quick succession, he moved from Vice-President to Acting President and eventually President within two years! By 2011 when he assumed office, on his own stamina, the Nollywood romance had blown out of the creek waters. The two lovebirds were careering giddily on a thoroughfare peopled with great thespians, gifted producers, immaculate directors and of course a coterie of charlatans and ‘waka-pass’.

 With technocrats within the federal service and the movie industry, different modules of foundational interventions were crafted – and cash-backed like never before. Millions of naira were mentioned, which ballooned, to the consternation of nay-sayers, to billions of naira in creative “stimulus packages”.

In the past ten years of GEJ’s unstinted romance with a powerful sector of the entertainment community, it is very uncharitable (even for inveterate detractors) to say that Jonathan has not “performed”. You may quarrel with the impact or management of his interventions; you may yap him and his people for mystifying the process and access to the several GEJ interventions in the Artsworld.

You may claim he has lost similar interest or attention to details in other critical sectors of the Nigerian state. However, no one can simply dismiss his unprecedented regard, affinity and seeming devotion to the people, practice and promise of Nigeria’s movie-making community and allied sectors.

 In his six years as President, GEJ has arguably awarded more national honours to our artistes than all the past regimes rolled together!

So, when you hear and see leading lights of Nollywood rooting aggressively for GEJ; when you read famed voices shouting on the roof of their cyper-pages and declaring the ceaseless glory of GEJ; when you read otherwise quiet prima-donnas spit fire and engage in internet-‘gra-gra’ with many of their tele-fans…for the sake of their beloved Moses (Jonathan) – you really must understand and appreciate their position – enlightened self-interest (a completely natural instinct).

They are not ‘bought’, ‘turn-coats’ or ‘ass-licking’ – against their will or legacy. They simply are paying good back to the man who has brought them a load of luck – and thus enhancing their means of livelihood, and embellishing their relevance. No pun intended. 

 This 2015 presidential election is a watershed for Nollywood. They cannot see anything in the “Change”-troopers to indicate that their groovy-train will go on; GMB has not even for once coughed about any plans for Nollywood, one of the major revelations of the 2014 rebasing parameters! It does appear that GMB does not even know that Nollywood exists – beyond gyrations at campaign rallies!

So, stop yakking at Nollywooders if they have little or no sympathies for GMB – he is disconnected from them in the past decade, at least. And within that same period, GMB’s main opponent has been their God-sent.

Most assuredly I say to you: a good friend is difficult to find – and keep; Nollywood can’t afford to lose this Goodluck. God forbid!!

More Creepy, Provocative Pics From Kendall Jenner's Love Magazine Shoot

Here are more photos from Kendall Jenner's Love Magazine shoot.
In the feature, her body was digitally manipulated and she used prosthetic boobs and butt.

More pics after the cut...