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ASUU Strike: Students Threaten Clamp down on Private Universities

Believing that the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), which has paralysed studies in public universities in the country is being sustained because the children of influential people in the country are ensconced in the private universities, some members of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) are already contemplating attack on the private universities as a way of compelling the federal government to take a more urgent action in resolving the stalemate between ASUU and the government.

The students, operating under the umbrella of the NANS also staged a peaceful protest in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, to register their displeasure over federal government's alleged insincerity.

Speaking at the gathering Thursday, Mr. Steven Adara, a student leader in Ekiti State University (EKSU), noted that those in government and some prominent Nigerians were not helping the matter, as they were in the habit of sending their sons and daughters to private schools and overseas.

Tottenham superstar, Emmanuel Adebayor dances to Davido’s Skelewu song [VIDEO]

Ever since Davido announced the Skelewu Dance Competition, youtube has been inundated with videos of fans dancing to the Skelewu track. Some of the videos are really funny, while others are just weird.

Not wanting to be left out, Tottenham Hotspur superstar, Emmanuel Adebayor has recorded a 15 seconds video of himself and friends dancing to the Skelewu song.

Check out his steps – Skelewu things!

Fame has favoured me in so many ways – Doris Simoen

Beautiful Nollywood actress, Doris Simeon isn’t a scandal-prone person but the issue of separation between her and her former husband, actor and director, Daniel Ademinokan got her name dragged around in a mesh-work of gossips and rumours that hasn’t really panned out.

Check out a recent interview she had with Vanguard.

Tell us about yourself?

My name is Doris Simeon. I’m from Edo State, Igbila to be precise. I’m from a family of five, though I am an orphan now.

New Music Video: Orezi – Rihanna

Finally, Orezi has released the visuals for the song ‘Rihanna’ – we told you earlier that the singer actually went shopping for a Rihanna look alike when efforts to get the American super diva failed.

Orezi’s, Sprisal Records label succeeded in finding a Mauritius lady, Kim to star as ‘Rihanna’ for the video shoot in South Africa – and news has it that the expenses on this video is around ₦7.3million.

Check out the video and see if it was worth the noise;

J Martins Hit the Studio with Ghanaian Rapper, Okyeame Kwame [PHOTOS]

Popular singer J. Martins was in Ghana to put a finishing touch to a new joint titled “Try Again” – the song is a collaborative effort between him and Ghanaian rapper Okyeame Kwame.

Martins left Ghana earlier this week having worked with award winning Producer Richie Mensah of Lynx Entertainment and rapper cum producer of BBnz Live, the producer of the song.

We expect nothing but the best from these two heavyweights – keeping our fingers crossed!

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Pornography makes our movies real – Benson Okonkwo

In a recent interview, Enugu based actor, Benson Okonkwo was reported to have said there is nothing wrong in Nollywood releasing films that embraces nudity – to him, such scene make viewers believe what they watch.

Here is how he puts it;

“My dear, it’s only a movie and make-believe, you know. We watch movies like that in Hollywood. Nigerians are hypocrites. I think pornography makes our movies more real. And for that reason I am in support of it. If you take a good look at Hollywood movies for example, you will notice that it is rampant and it means nothing to them.

Six-year-old rape victim ordered to wed rapist's 8-year-old son

A caste council in Rajasthan has ordered the parents of a six-year-old rape victim to get her married to the eight-year-old son of the man accused of the rape, police said on Thursday.

The incident occurred at Keshavpura in Kota, 250 km from Jaipur (Jaipur is the capital of the Indian state of Rajasthan).

The 40-year-old man, identified as Kailash, raped the girl who lives in his neighbourhood about a fortnight ago, police said.

"Kailash locked her in a room and raped her. Instead of registering a police complaint, elders belonging to the girl's caste called a panchayat (village council) meeting," a police official said.

“I’ve always had a crush on Pres. Jonathan” – Kenya’s BBA Rep, Alhuda Njoroge

While President Jonathan is en route to Kenya for a three day trip to boost bilateral and trade ties between the countries, 22-year-old model, Alhuda Njoroge has announced her readiness to bed the president.

Alhuda, popularly called ‘Huddah Monroe’ took to twitter to inquire when Jonathan’s aircraft would land because she has always had a crush on him.

“So when is Jonathan landing? I’ve always had a crush on him. Nigeria, prepare for a step mom,” the Kenyan Big Brother Africa contestant tweeted.

I think someone needs to advise Huddah that there is a Patience somewhere who is not patient with issues of this nature.

Anyway, that brings back a familiar question - ‘why are Kenyan ladies crazy about Nigerian men?’

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Leila Djansi Releases Trailer for new movie 'And Then There Was You'

Ghanaian/American film maker, Leila Djansi has released the trailer for her latest film  ‘And then There was You’ starring  Leon Robinson, Garcelle Beauvais, Lynn Whitfield, Brian White, Trilby Glover and Nollywood bad boy, Jim Iyke.  Garcelle Beauvais, who played the role of Natalie resorts to picking up the pieces of her life after her husband leaves her for the family he has outside. She falls in love with Darrell, but he has secrets of his own.

Check it out:

Nigerian Lady arrested with drugs at the airport in Dar es Salaam [PHOTOS]

Anthonia Ojo, a Nigerian, was yesterday arrested at the Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) carrying 99 pellets of unknown drugs in her luggage.

Police detained the 25-year-old businesswoman from Abuja as she was about to board an Ethiopian Airlines flight destined for France.

From France, she had planned to travel to Italy where she was scheduled to take another flight to Abuja.

Airports police boss Renatus Chalya told journalists the suspect was arrested after a screening machine detected drug pellets in her luggage.

“We then searched her thoroughly and found that the suspect was carrying four tins stuffed with drugs,” Mr Chalya said.

He said the suspect had stuffed 15 pellets in each of two containers of body lotion while two baby powder bottles were filled with 35 and 34 pellets.

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MUSIC: Yung Roc replies Yung6ix with The 6ixth Verse

I won’t call this song a diss – it is an advice as Yung Roc puts it.

This is coming on the heels of Yung6ix’s twitter comment that ‘he is the best rapper in Nigeria’

Listen and download here:

Download Here: Yung Roc -The Sixth Verse (Yung6ix Diss) Original Version.mp3

Photos of D’Banj in Cognac –The home of Hennessy

D’Banj is apparently in France on the invitation of Hennessy. The Nigerian pop star is the sole headliner for this year’s Hennessy Artistry and he has already released the theme track for this year’s project.

He arrived France this morning from the US where he attended Davido’s sister’s wedding.

According to his people, he is already in Cognac (The home of Hennessy) where he’s staying at the Chateau De Bangolet.

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Africa's richest man, Dangote plans Nigeria's largest oil refinery

A company run by Africa's richest man received a loan toward a $9 billion project that will give Nigeria its largest oil refinery and petrochemical and fertilizer complex, reducing the country's reliance on international markets.

Aliko Dangote, president of Dangote Group, signed a loan worth $3.3 billion from 12 Nigerian and international banks toward the project which will be built in Nigeria's southwest.

"At the completion of these projects we expect Nigeria to become not only self-sufficient in fertilizer and refined petroleum products but indeed to become recognized as a leading exporter of these products," Dangote said at Wednesday's signing.

Finally, BBA8 winner, Dillish accepts her Kenyan father

According to reports, Dillish's mother, Selma Pashukeni yesterday confirmed to SDE that Kenyan ex-soldier Abdi Galgalo Guyo is Dillish Matthew's real biological father.

Now all eyes have shifted to Dillish who had so far not seemed very receptive to him. In the past couple of days her tweets have been anything but positive, with her insistence that her father is Somali and not Kenyan.

This morning however, her tweets seem to have taken a turn. She tweeted that she was proud to be a Borana girl and that the Lord has given her what she was begging for.

Her icing on the cake was when she tweeted, “I am a mommy and daddy’s girl”!

AMAZING: Nigerian conjoined twins separated after 13-hour surgery in India [PHOTOS]

Nigerian twins joined at the lower abdomen and hips were successfully operated upon and separated at the B.L. Kapur (BLK) super-speciality hospital after a 13-hour surgery.

The twin girls – Hussaina and Hassana Badaru shared their spinal cords, lower intestinal tract and genitourinary tracts. This meant that they had one common passage for fecal matter and another one for passing urine.

“The separation surgery took us 13 hours, with further surgery of five hours dedicated to reconstruction. The separation was a big challenge as they had unusual sharing of the alimentary canal and the nervous system,” said Prashant Jain, one of the experts performing the surgery.

“The girls were seven months old when they were brought to the BLK Hospital. They were suffering from ‘pygopagus’, a case in which the babies are joined at the sacral region and the hips. This is considered to be the rarest of rare case that occurs in 50,000 or 100,000 births,” said Praneet Kumar of BLK Hospital.

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Marijuana, safer than painkillers — STUDY

Believe it or not, but you could be safer ingesting marijuana - the most used illegal drug on Earth – than a prescription pain killer drug. Findings by a brand new first-of-its-kind global study conducted at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, USA, showed that prescription pain killers, though legal, could be the deadliest drug of all.

A publication in The Lancet, revealed that marijuana, though often preferred to other illicit drugs of addiction such as cocaine, heroin and amphetamines are responsible for killing fewer persons than addictive painkillers such as Oxycontin and Vicodinbe.

Of a total of 78,000 drug deaths, prescription pain pills accounted for more than half. The study does not mention why marijuana has become the most popular drug, controversy over the legalisation of cannabis in some US states rages on.

New Music Video: Wale ft Nicki Minaj & Juicy J – Clappers

Wale has dropped the video for ‘Clappers,’ taken off “The Gifted” album.

In the Benny Boom video, Nicki Minaj and a dozen of other sexy girls are seen ‘twerking’ like there's no tomorrow.

Check out the video here: 

Kerry Washington Covers Glamour Mag, Talks about her secret wedding to Nigerian Born NFL Player [PHOTOS]

Scandal and Django Unchained star Kerry Washington covers the October 2013 issue of Glamour Magazine. The movie star, who secretly tied the knot with Nigerian born NFL Player Nnamdi Asomugha, tells how she was able to pull off a wedding with no press around.

Below is an excerpt of the interview;

GM: OK, so relationships. In interview after interview, you always use the same phrase: “I don’t talk about my personal life.” I’m curious about the discipline that it requires to be so tight-lipped.

KW: I learned through experience that it doesn’t work for me to talk about my personal life. I’ve had earlier times in my career when I did talk about it. I was on the cover of a bridal magazine [InStyle Weddings, in 2005, when Washington was engaged to actor David Moscow]. But I couldn’t just turn around and say, “I only want to talk about the good stuff, but not the bad stuff.” So I just thought, OK, no more.

Woman dies after drinking shaving powder in Ogun

NAN: A 25 year-old housewife, Sakirat Abdullai, allegedly committed suicide in Ijebu-Ode, after taking a meal of pap, mixed with shaving powder belonging to her husband.

Sakirat, who is mother of a five-year-old boy, was said to have taken the mixture while having dinner on Sunday at No 33, Ereko St. Ijebu-Ode in Ogun State.

Ahmed Abdullai, her husband, a driver and member of the Epe Unit of the National Union of Road Transport Workers was said to be away when the woman took the action.

A friend of the deceased, Isiaka Abdul, alleged that the woman had been vomiting in a bucket found by her side after taking the poisonous substance.

Abdul, who was in tears while speaking to newsmen, accused the neighbours of not coming to the aid of the deceased while she was groaning.

He berated the neighbours for not coming to assist the lady, although her room was wide open.

Tiwa Savage, Seun Kuti, Ice Prince and WizKid Nominated for ‘Best African Act’ at the 2013 MOBO Awards

The nominees for this year's MOBO Awards have been announced.

Four Nigerian artistes (Tiwa Savage, Seun Kuti, Ice Prince and WizKid) would be contending with six other African music sensations for the prestigious ‘Best African Act’.

The winners of all the categories will be announced on 19 October at Glasgow's SSE Hydro venue as Mobo celebrates its 18th anniversary.

Check out the full list:

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Daley

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Jacob Banks

Jahmene Douglas

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‘I am her father’: Man Claims to Be BBA Winner, Dillish’s Long Lost Dad

Like they say ‘success has many friends’

A little more than a week after she won the jackpot at the just concluded BBA (The Chase), Namibian beauty Dillish is faced with a dilemma.

Apparently, she revealed during an interview that she didn’t know her biological father and that she’d like to meet him. It is rumoured that a Kenyan man has responded to that revelation by claiming to be her father.

The man supposedly alleged that he was involved in conceiving Dillish during a peacekeeping mission in Namibia.

See the photo of the man below;

Check out 2013 Channel O ‘Africa Music Video Awards’ Nominees

Nominations for the 10th Annual Channel O Africa Music Awards were announced yesterday, revealing an open field in the race to claim Africa’s most prestigious music awards.

Here is a run down of the nominees:

MOST GIFTED DUO/GROUP FEATURING VIDEO

TEAR GAS – Wake Up

XTATIC/AKA & PRIDDY UGLY -Hit Em Up

MI CASA – Can’t Get Enough

EME – Baddest Boy

NAETO C FT D’BANJ – Tony Montana (Bad Pass) Remix

"Marrying Ayo Adesanya was like boarding a 'one-chance' vehicle” ex-husband says

When asked what lessons he learnt from his relationship with his ex-wife, Movie producer cum actor Omogoriola Hassan told Encomium magazine that marrying actress Ayo Adesanya was like boarding a 'one-chance' vehicle.

Here is his comment un-edited.

"The biggest lesson I learnt was not to trust anyone. The person you trust may eventually disappoint. Then I was the greatest fool but today I am the wisest and happiest. Marrying Ayo then was like boarding a 'one-chance' vehicle. It was like I could never come across a woman I can love like that not knowing I was just being foolish. If not that she had a baby for me, I would have revealed a lot about her. Will just keep them to myself in the interest of our son. But I was agitated when I read that she wants to remove the tattoo on her hand bearing our logo - No Fear. She is free to do but what about the one on her ass where my name was written bold, Omogoriola Hassan? How is she going to remove that? That is stupid of her. If at all you don't like someone again, that doesn't mean you need to go to that extent. But believe me she's still thinking about me because if she's not she wouldn't be thinking about removing my tattoos on her body.”

Kim Kardashian Ready to Strip Down For Playboy Again

Kim Kardashian may be a mum but it appears her new role hasn't put her off from wanting to strip off again for a magazine shoot.

In a preview of a new episode of Keeping Up with The Kardashians, Kim who was still pregnant when the scenes were filmed earlier this year can be heard sharing her thoughts on posing again for Playboy.

She said: "As soon as I pop this thing out, I want to do Playboy or some nude shoot."

Kim - who posed for the magazine in 2007 - previously blasted the publication for posting the photographs online in 2010, once she became famous.

However, she has also claimed her decision to appear in Playboy was to cement her "independence".