Tuface Idibia Suggests Pidgin English Should Be Introduced In Nigerian Schools

2face Idibia has suggested that pidgin English be introduced in Nigerian schools to aid communication and transfer knowledge to kids in rural areas who use pidgin English as their second language.

It's no surprise because, his lyrics is mostly in Pidgin English and  this style has set his career ablaze by placing him on top as one of the best in the Nigeria music industry.

The Afro-pop icon gave this opinion at the MTV Base #ChooseOrLose Roundtable set to premier soon.

“For me, they can gather some linguistics professors and let them package pidgin English properly,” he said, acknowledging that this may be the most effective way of tackling the education deficit in parts of the country with a language barrier.

Do you agree with him?

Pastor Adeboye changes Facebook profile picture, cover photo to Jonathan, Osinbajo’s images [PHOTO]

General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Adeboye Adejare Enoch, has updated his profile picture and cover photo of his official Facebook account.

His profile picture now shows a photo of him praying for President Goodluck Jonathan, presidential candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Similarly, Pastor Adeboye’s cover photo shows an image of him in a prayer session with some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress, APC, led by its Vice-Presidential candidate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, a senior pastor of the church.

President Jonathan and Prof Osibanjo were yesterday seen, exchanging pleasantries at February Holy Ghost Service which held at Redemption Camp. 

Photos: President Jonathan At Lord's Chosen Church Today

Pictured above, President Goodluck Jonathan addressing the congregation at The Lord's Chosen Charismatic Revival Ministry in Lagos, today. See more photos from his visit to the church after the cut....

Photos: Alaafin Of Oyo's Youngest Wife Gains Admission Into The University

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Adeyemi III youngest wife, pictured above in her matriculation gown with her husband and co-wives. 

She just gained admission into the University of Ibadan. See more pics after the cut....

FG Postpones February 14 Elections

Nigeria postpones February 14 Elections; This is According to a Breaking News Report by the Associated Press (AP). on Twitter

The February 14 Presidential and legislative elections is postponed for six weeks to give a new multinational force time to secure northeastern areas under the sway of Boko Haram.

Millions could be disenfranchised if the voting went ahead while the Islamic extremists hold a large swath of the northeast and commit mayhem that has driven 1.5 million people from their homes.

A postponement also will give electoral officials more time to deliver some 30 million voter cards.

The commission had said the non-delivery of cards to nearly half of the 68.8 million registered voters was not a good reason to delay the vote.

Source – AP

Photos: President Jonathan & Osibanjo At RCCG Holy Ghost Service

President Goodluck Jonathan was at The Redeemed Christian Church of God camp yesterday, for the church's monthly Holy Ghost Service, where he met APC vice-presidential candidate, Prof. Yemi Osibanjo who posed for pictures with him.

Continue to see more pics after the cut...

Why I leaked Ekiti election rigging tape – Nigerian Army Captian

Captain Sagir Koli who leaked the #EkitiGate audio recording which had Governor Ayo Fayose, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, Iyiola Omisore, Brigadier General Momoh and others planning how they will stifle and trample the opposition using the military and other security agencies said he did it for the unity of Nigeria and the military. 

In an affidavit titled: How the Nigerian Army personnel were used to rig Ekiti and Osun States Gubernatorial Elections 2014., Captain Sagir Koli gave details of all that transpired between himself, his Commanding officer, two Ministers and some politicians prior to the elections in the state. 

See the full text of his submission below:
Staff In Confidence How the Nigerian Army personal were used to Rig Ekiti and Osun States Gubernatorial Elections 2014. 

1.I was officially deployed as the 32, Artillery Brigade Intelligence Officer to provide credible Intelligence to the success of Ekiti State governorship election. At about 2030 hours on June 2014, a day to the election proper, the commander, Brigadier General AA Momoh told me to escort him to a place where the State Minister for Defence wanted to see him. Reaching the place (Spotless Hotel in Ado- Ekiti), which serves as coordinating campaign office for the PDP candidate Mr. Ayodele Fayose, we met the Minister himself, Mr of Police Affairs, Mr Fayose, My Iyiola Omisore, one Honoruable Abdulkareem and host of other top PDP chieftains.

The Outcome of what was discussed that gave the party victory during the election are as follows:

A. They told brigade commander that they are on presidential assignment and they cannot afford to fail. Also, they told him that they were there to remove any obstacles that would block their victory and the commander is the key; therefore, he has no option but to collaborate with them. They said, if the commander play(ed) with them, his promotion is in their hands and the president and the chief of army Staff would be very angry with him and he knows what that means.

B. They directed that soldiers on election duty must work hand in hand with the PDP agents and give them all the necessary support they needed without limitation. 

C. They ordered the arrest of selected APC stalwarts that could greatly assist the party during the election including the DG campaign organisation for Dr Fayemi Mr Bimbo Daramola. APC members in Ekiti State should be interviewed of what they went through. We were forced to do a dirty job for them with a threat of court martial.

D. They directed that soldiers must block APC members’ access to the electorates but all PDP supporters’ movement anywhere using a designated sticker with inscription, “National Security Task” it should be noted that some of these PDP agents were given NYSC uniforms because we were well briefed by the commander. 

E. Chief Chris Uba who also said he was from the presidency entered Ado- Ekiti a day to the election accompanied by 16 commissioned Army officers (Major and below) led by Major Ujung of 82 Base Ammunitions Depot from Nigeria Army 82 Division Enugu. Their major task was to effect arrest and move secret materials and money. This money was brought from CBN Umuahia.

 F. Chief Chris Uba was physically present with the soldiers and the commander at Forward Operational Base (FOB) close to government house in Ado- Ekiti. He personally supervised the movement of the strike force. This act of a civilian directing military operation is highly unprofessional and tarnishing of the military discipline and regimentation.

G. Chief Chris Uba entered Ado-Ekiti a day to the election accompanied by military/police escort with 2 black tinted Hilux Vans with “secret” materials according to him. Items inside the vans were 1000/500 Naria notes closed and cloned marked ballot papers.

 H. Chris Uba, Minster of police Affairs, Obanikoro and Co said this is just a test run that should not fail and its to be done in SS and SW states, moreover, Rivers State to make sure Rotimi Ameachi to the federal government.

2. Based on the aforementioned, they succeeded in rigging the Ekiti State election with victory in all the 16 LGAs. These really inspired them and they were with the euphoria that same would happen in Osun State. In preparation of the plans, they confirmed the posting of the commander and task him to prepare for Osun State election (remember that Osun State is not part of 32 Artillery Brigade Area of operations) but they ordered the Nigerian Army Construction Engineers Commander Brigadier General Adeyemi to proceed for 3 weeks compulsory leave until after the election just to pave way for General Momah to repeat the same dirty work that he has done to them in Ekiti State.

3. In build-up towards the Osun State elections, the commander directed me as his intelligence officer who has worked with him perfectly in Ekiti State to go ahead and recce (Army word for Spy or Survey ) the area as well as familiarize myself with all stake holders for the election. While I and my team were working for the operations, the commander was in Abuja re-strategizing how to use the military to rig the elections.

Feelers based on my discussion with him on phoneconfirmed to me beyond reasonable doubt that we were repeating the same compromise in Osun State. My heart got burnt and become disenchanted and in total disagreement with such being professional junior officer aspiring to become a General tomorrow.

4. However efforts to explain my grievances prove abortive due to the military dictatorial hierarchy in channel of communication vis a vis threat of court martial from the commander.

I resorted to alert the APC high level officials with the aim of stopping Army from partisan involvement during election. A week to the election, the commander came back from Abuja and he made revelations being their final arrangement on how the PDP was to become victorious in Osun state as follows: 

 A. After welcome address by the commander, he thanked all his staff officers, and said “you all know who we are working for, so you guys MUST follow my direction. I am working for the presidency and the ruling party as you all know, is no longer a hidden thing” for those of you who are moles among us, the presidency is watching you, be careful because the consequence will be sivere. 

I learnt that some of you went to Lagos and met with Tinubu without knowing that his line is already bugged at Abuja, then we are in trouble, but before somebody will kill me I have to kill him first” (referring to me). The commander asked how many of us were involved, that I should say the truth, he now held a secret talk with the operation officer and military police officer to tie and handcuff me to Army HQs, from there I know that my life was in danger.

B. The commander categorically told us that the soldiers were to work under PDP agents while their platoon commanders only supervise the soldiers conduct. He briefed the officers that were working the list of agents and those to be arrested at the SGF office in Abuja and once the list is out everybody must work with accordingly. 

C. The commander briefed us on the formation of a strike-force in conjunction with police, DSS and NSCDC and he would command the strike force directly. Their duty was to work directly with the PDP aspirant for arrest and intimidation of APC supporters in their strong hold.

D. Money was shared openly at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp Ede to the strike force to ensure compliance.

5. Having said all of the above, I must state before concluding that:

A, My brother Adamu Koli a 15yrs old school boy was under detention since on the 2nd August 2014. The boy stays with me at 32 Artillery Brigade Akure.

B. Brigadier General AM Dikko who they consulted initially for the scam insisted that the army must remain professional and apolitical, was disgracefully removed from his command which he served only for 7 months just to allow General Momoh to carry out the dirty work.

6. Last but not the least, to further substantiate my submission and how my dear-loving, hard-achieving noble calling was de-professionalized; here is the recorded voices of the Ministers, the aspirant and the Brigade Commander. Other officers present at the hotel were Major Aliyu and captain Adegoke who were also part of the officers that escorted commander to the venue where the compromise was made. Also conversation between the commander and Abuja could be traced via MTN, GLO, on the under listed phone numbers (between 20-21 June 2014). A. 08037033694 B. 08055832835

7,Lastly, in order to strengthen the unity and continue existence of Nigeria, I call on the federal Government to desist from using the military for partisan politics. This is to avoid the military from being divided along ethnic and regional lines which is dangerous to the defence of the nation. I remain a patriotic Nigerian and a loyal professional army officer.

 God bless you all

 Thank you for listening.

Captain Sagir Koli

Culled from PremiumTimes

Photos From Tiwa Savage's Birthday Party

Nigerian music diva Tiwa Savage turned 35 on Thursday, and had a mini party to mark the occasion at her residence. 

Tiwa looked happy with her growing baby bump, and had fun with guests who came, including Tuface.

More pics after the cut...

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!