Friday 21 June 2013
Why I don’t wear my wedding ring— Desmond Elliot
Nollywood
hunky actor, Desmond Elliot, has evolved in no small way in his 14-year-old
career. From a ‘fine’, talented actor, Desmond went on to directing, which he
reveals he finds fulfilling while acting is rewarding for him. One of the
ambassadors of a leading telecommunication group, Globacom, the father of four
has carved a niche for himself which makes him one of the most sought-after by
movie producers. In this interview with MERCY MICHAEL, the actor speaks on his
staying power, marriage and fatherhood.
In spite of your relevance
and steady rise in the industry, you are among the few stars whose marriages
are intact. What do you do differently?
If
you love your home, that is where your heart will be. I’m yet to see anybody
who really loves his home and will want it to break. Do we have difficulties?
Of course! There is no home without its challenges, oh yes! There are times the
woman is tired. There are times the man is tired too, but most importantly it’s
understanding yourselves. One thing I have noticed in a marriage or home is you
must understand that a man is totally different from a woman.
The
way a man thinks is totally different from the way a woman thinks. What a man
considers his priority is almost 80 percent different from what a woman sees as
her priority. And the most difficult thing in this world is a man understanding
a woman. But if you understand a woman, the
Traders ‘arrest’ 6 suspected Boko Haram members in Borno
Traders
at Gamboru market in Maiduguri, Borno State, Wednesday, rounded up six
suspected Boko Haram gunmen and handed them over to soldiers of the Joint Task
Force, JTF, eyewitnesses said.
This
is even as suspected sect members, yesterday evening, detonated an Improvised
Explosive Devise, EID, in the metropolis, targeting the patrol vehicle of the
JTF, in spite of the emergency rule imposed on Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states,
and the total ban on the use of GSM and Thuraya Satellite cell phones in the
troubled states.
The
gunmen, according to eyewitnesses, entered the market and were spotted by a
trader that saw weapons hidden under their garments.
I am not corrupt, says Ezekwesili
Nigeria’s
former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has dismissed insinuations that
all Nigerians, especially those who have held or hold public offices, are
corrupt. Using herself as an example, the former Vice President of World Bank’s
Africa Division, who was a co-founder of the Berlin-based Transparency
International, declared that she was not corrupt.
Ezekwesili
said this Thursday in Abuja at the launch of Anti-Corruption Internet Database
(ACID), a new initiative in the fight against corruption brought about by West
Africa NGO Network (WANGONeT) and funded by Open Society Initiative for West
Africa (OSIWA).
“I
was in government. I was not corrupt. I can go anywhere with this statement”,
she declared while also refuting that corruption was embedded in the African
culture.
EFCC arrests 10 in Oyo N1.59b pension fraud
Officials
of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday arrested 10
persons accused of stealing N1.59 billion from the Oyo State Pensions Board.
The
accused persons are Alhaji Hakeem Muili, Alhaja Iyabo Giwa, Adeduntan Johnson,
Oguntayo Banji, Adesina Jimoh, Johnson Bosede, Adebiyi Olasumbo, Kareem
Rasheed, Muili Adedamola and Salewa Adedeji.
They
were arrested as they came out of the Magistrate’s Court, Iyaganku in Ibadan, the
state capital and taken away in the commission’s bus to Lagos.
Alhaja
Giwa, however, escaped arrest, even though she was on the court premises.
Kim Kardashian & Kanye West’s Baby’s Name Revealed, North West
Kim
Kardashian and Kanye West have named their baby daughter North West.
Sources
close to the couple confirmed the decision, which comes five days after Kim
welcomed her first child at a hospital in Los Angeles.
The
revelation ends the intense speculation over the child's name, with other
rumoured options said to include Kaidence Donda, in honour of Kanye's late
mother.
And
a source told UsWeekly that the couple have already given their daughter a
nickname - she will be 'Nori for short'.
They
added that the child has no middle name.
TMZ
witnessed a signed birth certificate with the name North West signed by Kim,
32, and Kanye, 36, at Cedars-Sinai hospital.
The
name North had previously been suggested as a possibility for the child,
although many Kardashian fans had dismissed the idea as a joke.
OAU explains controversy over undergraduate’s baby
In the past week, the news of the lady who gave birth in
the toilet at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife has been making waves.
Authorities have now come out to explain the situation saying that the girl was
not trying to flush her baby down the toilet. Rather, the girl did not know she
was giving birth and accidentally had the baby while using the toilet.
She raised the alarm as soon as it happened and called
out to her friend who in turn summoned the cleaner who helped them. Mother and
child are doing well.
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NEW VIDEO: Psquare – Personally
If Michael Jackson was alive, am sure he would have been
very proud of Africa’s biggest duo, P-Square.
Check out the video for Personally.
Terry G inspires my music – Samklef
Popular
producer and singer, Samklef, went down memory lane recently as he recalled how
he sang in the same church and produced with Terry G. Since then, he has been
inspired mostly by the singer. It might interest you to know that the showbiz boy, Samklef, who has churned out
hits after hits with Terry G, would be doing his first collaboration with Terry G in his video
titled, “Display” which will soon hit the market.
The video which was shot by Samklef, brings out a side of
him which fans are not used to as everyone in the video catch the ‘display’
frenzy and dance it all off. Meanwhile, the singer is also doing finishing
touches on his single which will soon be out where he featured a female singer
whom he would not want to say her name for the mean time.
Thursday 20 June 2013
PHOTOS: Pastor Kumuyi’s Son John Kumuyi Marries His Heartthrob
John Kumuyi, the second son of Pastor William Kumuyi, took his heartthrob to the altar. The joyful ceremony was held on Saturday, 15 June at the Deeper Life Bible Church, after the traditional wedding.
John
Kumuyi married Miss Love Odih, who is said to be the daughter of the National
Overseer of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry in Jamaica and former State
Overseer of the church in Cross River State, Nigeria.
Pastor
Kumuyi, who wore an ash suit, attended the engagement and church wedding with
his wife Esther, who wore traditional attire. The bridegroom wore a grey suit,
while the bride was decked in flowing white gown with a veil to match.
John
sauntered out of the church with his now-wife after the cleric had taken them
through marital vows. A huge cake was cut during the wedding by the new couple.
Earlier
during the traditional wedding, the bride wore native while the groom was
simply decked in English wear.
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PHOTOS: Stampede Over David Beckham Injures Seven in Shanghai
Fans eager to see soccer superstar David Beckham stormed a police post Thursday in a stampede at a Shanghai university that injured seven people including five security personnel.
Three
police officers, two university security guards and two students — including a
Japanese student — were injured, Shanghai police said on its official
microblog.
Nearly
1,000 fans had gathered at a stadium in Shanghai Tongji University, where the
retired star was to meet members of the university team, according to the
state-run news site Xinmin Net.
Upon
Beckham's arrival, fans stormed through a gate and broke through a line formed
by police and guards, Xinmin said.
Beckham
is in China this week on a seven-day promotional tour for the Chinese Super
League, China's top league. He has been hired as an "image
ambassador" to promote the sport.
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FLIP
Ladies Protest Discrimination against Pregnant Employees
Young
women wore fake pregnant belly prosthetics and staged a protest in front of the
office of a well-known group purchasing website in Beijing on June 18, 2013, to
support the rights of a pregnant employee who was recently fired by the
company.
The
women distributed letters in front of the offices of Meituan.com, appealing to
pregnant employees to stand up for their own rights in response to the firing
of Meituan employee Bao Yating.
Bao
began working at Meituan.com in May 2011. In March this year, she became
pregnant and informed her boss. When she was asked to work overtime, she
applied to the company for permission not to work overtime in consideration of
her pregnancy, but the company refused. She went to the media in the hopes of
drawing the company’s attention to her problem. Instead, the company fired her
without compensation.
WYCLEF JEAN: I Am NOT CollaboratingWith Amanda Bynes
Amanda
Bynes won't be releasing an album with Wyclef Jean's help any time soon -- reps
for the former Fugees rapper told TMZ, Clef has NO intention to collaborate
with the wig-wearing tornado of confusion.
There
were reports Bynes and Wyclef would be joining forces for Amanda's upcoming
album on Chinga Chang records -- after the label's CEO Daniel Herman went on
the record saying he was bringing the two together for an explosive
collaboration.
But
Wyclef's management says it's just not gonna happen; Wyclef has no intention of
working with Amanda.
In
fact, Wyclef's people say he's never even spoken to Amanda.
Juju Scare: Ondo Assembly Suspends Female Lawmaker
The
Ondo State Assembly, on Wednesday, suspended the member representing Ose State
Constituency, Chief Fola Olasehinde, over her alleged possession of fetish
materials. The Deputy Speaker, Dare Emiola, who announced the indefinite
suspension on the floor of the House, said the decision was taken at the
parliamentary meeting of the assembly. He said the House had inaugurated a
five-member committee, led by Fatai Olotu, to investigate the allegation,
following the revelation that the lawmaker was in possession of fetish item.
Landlord of the lawmaker, Kolawole Ogunbadejo, had alleged that she was in
possession of fetish items, saying she had turned the house into a shrine.
Fetish objects allegedly found in the house included amulets, snail shells,
live snails, cow horns of different sizes wrapped in coloured
WONDER KID: 10-year-old Boy to enter Harvard this fall
He's
only 10-years old but thanks to an IQ similar to Albert Einstein's, Luis
Roberto Ramirez will begin the next school year studying applied quantum
physics at Harvard University.
"My
dream is to create a company and sell my inventions," the boy said on a
video aired by the Michoacan Radio and Television System.
Ramirez,
who lives in Zamora, Michoacan, taught himself English at 5 and is now learning
to speak French and Chinese.
He
was identified as highly gifted just two years ago when his parents began to
see he had problems relating to other children, and that his priorities and
tastes were unlike anything that might be expected of a child his age.
It
was then he was determined to have an IQ of between 152 and 160, around
Einstein's level.
"It
makes us very proud but it's also a big responsibility," his father,
Roberto Ramirez, said.
VIDEO: Rihanna Grabbed At UK Gig, Hits Person With Microphone
Rihanna
has been caught on camera hitting a concertgoer with her microphone after they
refused to let her go as she walked through the crowd.
The
incident occurred during one of RiRi's UK Diamonds world tour dates in Birmingham
as the Bajan babe sung her smash hit single We Found Love when walking among
her fans.
Footage
of the episode has since emerged on YouTube, where the unidentified person
appeared to get a firm grip on Rihanna's arm - resulting in the Stay hitmaker
lashing out with her microphone in a bid to free herself.
A
member of the audience later took to Twitter to write: "[Rihanna] just hit
someone with her mic on accident haha oops."
However, RiRi was keen to reveal that she
acted in self-defence, replying: "Purpose! That b*tch won't let me
go."
NEW VIDEO: eLDee feat. Sojay - WE MADE IT
eLDee
chronicles his ups & downs in an autobiographical video for the song
"We Made It". With Trybe Records' soulful crooner, Sojay, belting out
the heartfelt hook, eLDee takes us back chronologically; from his childhood
aspirations of being a rapper, to his Trybesmen days, and finally to the
successful launch of his Trybe 2.0 label.
Wednesday 19 June 2013
Pastor Asks Church For over ₦12 million To Repaint Luxury Jet, Says Jet “Belongs To God”
According
to reports from Pimppreacher.com, a Midland, Michigan Pastor has requested that
his members foot the repair bill on one of his luxury toys. Dr Mark T. Barclay
last month sent out a letter asking members to cover the $79,000 price tag to
re-paint his Citation III jet.
In
the newsletter, Dr. Barclay, who is the founder of Mark Barclay Ministries makes
an appeal to his parishioners, claiming the luxury jet “belongs to God”; using Mathew
6:19-21 to justify the church paying for the paint job.
Check
out the newsletter below;
Two Nigerian students in Canada spend one year in Churches while their colleagues graduates
Victoria
Ordu has one wish for her 22nd birthday on June 28 - to be granted permission
to continue her studies at the University of Regina.
She
and fellow Nigerian student Ihuoma Amadi have been in sanctuary for one year
today; compelled into hiding after they were ordered to leave Canada for unknowingly
breaking their study permits by working for two weeks off-campus.
The
Leader-Post told their story last September, but after spending 12 months in
the sanctuary of a Regina church, they look years wearier than they did then.
Kay
Adebogun, a Regina immigration consultant who took on their case pro bono,
speaks about keeping the faith and remaining strong.
As
he does so, Amadi scrunches her hands into fists and puts them over her eyes,
her head hanging down.
Unlike
September, neither of the girls cries; it seems almost as though they've shed
the tears they have.
"It's
emotionally draining," admits Ordu.
"We
can only hope for the best and pray (immigration minister) Jason Kenney makes a
decision that will help us."
She
looks at her feet, playing with her flip-flops.
Charly Boy’s wife, Lady Diane pen a romantic note for hubby’s birthday
The
Areafada himself Charles Oputa, fondly called Charly Boy turns 62 today.
Below
is a birthday message from his wife of over 30 years, Lady Diane Oputa
My
dear Charles, you have been in our lives for many- many seasons, and I have
chosen to lay my heart out for that reason. This is for the best Husband,
Father and Son that I know. The one who is dedicated to his family and works
hard for us. My Husband and Friend, our love shall never end, even when it goes
through the fire, because you and only you are my true heart desire.
The
children and I will always pray for you, the man who has inspired millions
because you never gave up on your dream. I will always provide a home of love
and emotional purity, and when life places pain in your heart, may I always
fill it with love. Thanks for being there for us,
The first set of Kimye's baby photos could be worth 7 to 8 figures - Howard Bragman
The
birth of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's daughter on Saturday caused a frenzy
that is getting even hotter. Because the race is on to see just what this baby
looks like, and when it comes to getting the first glimpse, this tiny tot means
big business.
At
press time, details about the baby and the birth were unavailable, with
Kardashian's sister Khloe tweeting on Sunday: "More info will come when
the time is right!"
But
we do know that baby Kimye was born "with a price on her head," says
Howard Bragman, vice chairman of Reputation.com. "Can you imagine being a
paparazzi and snapping a photo of this baby? There's probably incredible
security at the hospital right now." Because you can bet that the Kardashians,
a family who have branded themselves into a multimillion-dollar empire, are
keeping that baby's face under close watch.
NEW VIDEO: Chris Brown ft. Aaliyah - Don’t Think They Know
Chris
Brown makes a plea for love and unity with his new track featuring the late
Aaliyah, Don’t Think They Know. Sampling a portion of Jon B’s They Don’t Know;
you can also see clips of Aaliyah dancing in the background (via her video, Try
Again).
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