Brandy parties with Kelly Rowland, others at Dare Art Alade's concert

Singer Brandy, who is in town to perform at ClassicFM Valentine concert which will take place today at Eko Hotel, was spotted partying with Darey Art Alade, Kelly Rowland and others at the second edition of Love Like A Movie which held at the Eko Hotel & Suites on Saturday, February 15, 2014. See more photos after the cut...

Iyanya, D'banj, Waje Bag World Music Awards Nominations

Several Nigerian artistes including Waje, P-Sqaure, D'banj, Iyanya, Femi Kuti, Davido, Tiwa Savage, Dare Art Alade, Praiz, 2face Idibia and others bagged nominations in various categories in the 2014 World Music Awards. The World Music Awards rewards the best-selling music artistes from every continent. It is decided by votes. Iyanya leads the Nigerian nominees with 6 awards.
Waje was nominated in four categories including Album of the Year and Female Artist of the Year. The 'I wish' songbird is enjoying some international attention off of her debut album. She was also nominated as African artist of the year in the Black Canadian awards a few days ago beside South African star Lira and Kardinal Offishall.  See WMA Africa's nomination list after the cut...

20 yr. Old Boy Arrested For Having Sex With Goat In Jigawa

20 year old boy has been arrested by Jigawa state police command for allegedly having sexual intercourse with goat at baranda forest in Dutse local government. Information available to 247ureports.com indicates that the chief magistrate court sitting in Dutse remanded the boy – Malam kamisu baranda to 2weeks in prison.

Magistrate auwalu sani balago said the accused person did not confess that he committed the act but the court remanded the suspect in prison to allowed police to make further inquiries.

In talking with the suspect, malam kamisu, he admitted that the goat belonged to him – and that he had asked the goat to have sexual intercourse with him but he was arrested by the village head of the area and handed

Rapper Skales, Kicked Off The E.M.E Ship

Skales who was signed onto Banky W's EME record label in 2010 has parted ways with them. His contract with EME recently expired but the record label refused to renew it with him. According to a source, the label has spent so much on Skales, but are yet to see great returns. Though Skales is still with M.et.tal management, who manages some of the artistes under EME, he has got nothing to do with them legally. It will be recalled that, Skales and Wizkid were signed at the same time to EME.

Facebook To Buy WhatsApp for $16 Billion

Facebook said on Wednesday that it agreed to buy WhatsApp for about $16 billion to expand into the fast-growing mobile messaging market.

Facebook is paying $4 billion in cash and $12 billion in stock for WhatsApp, a service that has 450 million monthly users and is adding more than 1 million new users a day.

"WhatsApp is on a path to connect 1 billion people. The services that reach that milestone are all incredibly valuable," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement announcing the deal.

Chimamanda Adichie: 'Why Can’t He Just Be Like Everyone Else?'

I will call him Sochukwuma. A thin, smiling boy who liked to play with us girls at the university primary school in Nsukka. We were young. We knew he was different, we said, 'he's not like the other boys.' But his was a benign and unquestioned difference; it was simply what it was. We did not have a name for him. We did not know the word 'gay.' He was Sochukwuma and he was friendly and he played oga so well that his side always won.
In secondary school, some boys in his class tried to throw Sochukwuma off a second floor balcony. They were strapping teenagers who had learned to notice, and fear, difference. They had a name for him. Homo. They mocked him because his hips swayed when he walked and his hands fluttered when he spoke. He brushed away their taunts, silently, sometimes grinning an uncomfortable grin. He must have wished that he could be what they wanted him to be. I imagine now how helplessly lonely he must have felt. The boys often asked, "Why can't he just be like everyone else?"

Ailing Patience Jonathan secretly flown abroad - Sahara Reporters

Saw this report on SR yesterday but decided to wait and see if the presidential spokesmen we have online will dispute it but they didn't so it means there's some truth to it. According to Sahara Reporters, First Lady Patience Jonathan has been flown abroad again for treatment. The report below

Two reliable sources in Abuja have told SaharaReporters that First Lady Patience Jonathan was flown out to a German hospital for treatment.

One source stated that President Jonathan's wife was secretly moved out of Abuja almost a week ago. Earlier last year, SaharaReporters broke the story of Mrs. Jonathan's secret hospitalization in Germany for a series of serious health problems.

Red Carpet photos from BAFTAs 2014 + Full list of winners

The 2014 British Academy Film Awards, BAFTAs, held last night Sunday February 16th at London's Royal Opera House and Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt hit the red carpet in matching tailored suits. See more red carpet photos plus full list of winners after the cut...

PDP Chairman In Enugu, 15 Thugs Disrupt APC Registration

The Sullivan Chime administration in Enugu has continued to clampdown on opposition political parties in Enugu. Recently, governor Chime connived with the Enugu state electoral commission to disqualify all the opposition candidates in the local government area elections in the state (thus making PDP candidates from councilors to chairmen unopposed in the 17 Local government council.

The clamp down on opposition parties took another dimension in Enugu on Saturday as armed men suspected to be Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) thugs hijacked and burnt the All Progressives Congress, APC, membership register.

Drake calls Macklemore out for sending text to Kendrick Lamar after Grammy win

After Macklemore won Best Rap Album at the 2014 Grammy Awards, he texted Kendrick Lamar to offer his condolences telling the rapper that he should have won instead of him. Well, Drake isn't impressed. In the new issue of Rolling Stone, Drake makes it very clear he thought the message was unnecessary.

He tells Rolling Stone

Governor Adams Oshiomole splashes N14million on seven widow

Governor Adams Oshiomole of Edo state today donated N14million (N2million each) to seven police officer's widows who died in the line of duty. Addressing the women, the women said he was moved by their plight as well as the great service their husbands gave to the state. He also announced that N500,000 would be given to each of the children of the seven police officers.

The Governor said he hoped this act would help spur other police officers who are still in active force to be more dedicated to their duties so that posterity would remember them for good.

Sanusi Insists $20b Is Missing, Okonjo-Iweala Unable To Prove How $10.8b Was Spent

Central Bank of Nigeria's Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

 

 

Day Two of the investigative hearing of the Senate Committee on Finance into the alleged missing $20 billion oil money has concluded in Abuja, with the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, insisting the money is missing according to a live blogging of the hearing by Premium Times of Nigeria.
Speaking to the committee, he said that despite the explanation tendered by Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, there is an outstanding $20 billion between what NNPC oil shipments and what it paid to government.
Mr. Sanusi insists the outstanding $6 billion given by NNPC to the NPDC should have gone to the federal government, but that it disappeared into private hands from there, and offered to bring in lawyers to defend that claim on the basis of three advisory opinions the CBN has already received.

Goodluck Jonathan Sacks Aviation Minister, Oduah, Three Others

President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday has finally sacked the embattled Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah.

Others affected were Caleb Olubolade (Police Affairs); Godsday Orubebe (Niger Delta); and Yerima Ngama (State, Finance).

Oduah’s approval for the purchase of two bullet-proof cars for N255m caused public outrage in the country with many Nigerians calling for her removal and prosecution.

PDP reclaims majority in House of Reps, as 5 APC lawmakers defect to PDP

Five All Progressives Congress, (APC) legislators Tuesday, defected to Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The five lawmakers are from Kano, Zamfara and Sokoto States.

The lawmakers that defected are Reps Lawal Shehu Bichi ,Kano, Abdulsalam Adamu ,Kano, Sani Umar ,Zamfara, Ibrahim Shehu Gusau ,Zamfara, and Umar Bature ,Sokoto.

But reports that Bature was one of the 37 PDP lawmakers who defected to the APC on December 18 last year, but he decided to rejoin the PDP along with the other four lawmakers.

However, a PDP lawmaker from Kaduna State Rep Isa Mohammed Ashiru moved to the APC.

2 Corps Members In Ibadan Get Arraigned For Engaging In Homosexual Acts With A Student!

Two National Youth Service Corps members, O’tega Daniel, 27, and Sulaimon Abari, 26, serving in Ibadan were on Monday, arraigned in an Ibadan Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting at Iyaganku for engaging in homosexual acts with a student.
Abari, a graduate of the Lagos State University, Ojo, and O’tega were serving at St. Louis Secondary School 2, Molete, Ibadan.

How Abuja NGO arrest innocent women and label them prostitutes

Grace Adogo, daughter of Nigeria’s Senate president, the Director of SAP-CLN

Here's an interesting report I found on Premium Times, detailing how an Abuja-based NGO in collaboration with the Abuja Environmental Protection Board are trying to rid the city of prostitutes, but are allegedly arresting innocent women. Find the investigative report below...

Photos from Tiwa Savage's birthday party

Tiwa Savage celebrated her 34th birthday on Thursday February 6th at Pravada lounge in Victoria Island. Wizkid, Sound Sultan, Waje, Dr Sid, Iyanya, Davido were all there. See more pics after the cut

APC Extends Membership Registration Till February 12

All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday in Lagos said it had extended the period for its ongoing nationwide membership registration till Feb. 12.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the membership registration which began on Wednesday was scheduled to end on Monday.

In a statement signed by the Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the extension was to accommodate many Nigerians who had turned out to register but could not do so.

DStv Swindles Two of its Promo Winners

MultiChoice is enmeshed in controversy following the inability of the handlers of its DStv brand to fulfil the promise made to customers that won the star prize to attend the 2014 Grammy Awards in the United States.
Emmanuel Igoche, a customer of DStv, a leading pay television in the stable of MultiChoice, was like a bride on October 11, 2013, when he was celebrated for winning the star prize of MultiChoice Nigeria 20th anniversary promo. But for what later happened, the victory would have afforded him and his wife the golden opportunity of witnessing the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, USA.
On October 7, the name of the Abuja- based customer and another subscriber, Baban Mallam Mohammed Kamilu had been announced on the programme Monday Night Football, on Super Sport 3 Nigeria, as winners of an all-expense paid return trip for the event. The award was held on January 26, 2014.
Managing Director, MultiChoice Nigeria, Mr. John Ugbe, had said at the event that the company was about

GT Bank Acquires 70% of FINA Bank

Guaranty Trust Bank Plc (GTB) says it has concluded the acquisition of 70 per cent stake in Fina Bank Group, after securing the required regulatory approvals in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda as well as in Nigeria.

GTB had acquired he stake through a combination of capital injection and as the acquisition of shares from its current shareholders for a total cash consideration of 8.6 billion Kenyan Shillings what is naira equivalent?

Speaking on the acquisition, GTB's Group managing director Segun Agbaje said, "This acquisition makes strategic sense for our combined customers and shareholders. Fina Bank has over the years built an enviable banking institution in East Africa, our combined strengths will help us build an attractive portfolio of leading products, services and marketing capabilities.