According to a very reliable source, about to wed actress Annie Macaulay is pregnant with R&B icon 2Face Idibia's baby. she is currently in Dubai shopping for her wedding.
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Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Annie Macaulay Pregnant With 2Face Idibia's Baby!
According to a very reliable source, about to wed actress Annie Macaulay is pregnant with R&B icon 2Face Idibia's baby. she is currently in Dubai shopping for her wedding.
Congratulations!!!
We’re merging to save Nigeria –ACN, CPC, ANPP
The
three leading opposition political parties, the Action Congress of
Nigeria, Congress for Progressive Change and the All Nigeria Peoples
Party, on Tuesday said their plan to merge was to save the country from
collapse.
Their leaders spoke in Abuja at the presentation of Manifesto of a Nigerian Opposition Politics, written by a civil rights activist, Mr. Salihu Lukman.
According to the ACN National Chairman, Chief Bisi
Akande, all progressives must unite in order to send the ruling Peoples
Democratic Party out of power in 2015.
Why I relocated to Calabar – Shan George
Nollywood
actress, Shan George, has relocated to her state, Cross River. But
contrary to reports, she says she has not gone in search of greener or
saner pastures.
According to the news making the rounds online,
George is said to have relocated because Calabar is more peaceful than
Lagos. She was quoted as saying, “Calabar is heaven on earth. My hilltop
Calabar home is as peaceful as a baby’s sigh.”
Hypertension, now killing young Nigerians – Experts
PUNCH NEWSPAPER: Medical
personnel have raised the alarm that young people in their 30s now die
daily of hypertension, a disease often described as a silent killer, BUKOLA ADEBAYO writes
Before now, hypertension usually
signposted by high blood pressure, was not too common among the young.
But physicians in the nation’s hospitals said that young Nigerians in
their 30s and 40s are now becoming the victims of the deadly disease.
This, they said, was due to ignorance and poor management of the
ailment.
To reduce deaths occasioned by
hypertension, experts have called for increased awareness on the
prevention and early detection of the disease. Experts claim about
250,000 lives would be saved yearly with early detection of hypertension
in Nigeria.
Virginity test: Governor to decide principal’s fate
Ogun
State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, will decide the fate of the
Principal, Ajuwon Senior High School, Rev. Olufunke Aladeojobi, and the
school nurse, Mrs. M.B. Afolabi, who allegedly conducted virginity tests
on pupils of the school.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the
three-man review panel of top civil servants set up by the state
government to appraise the recommendations made by the panel of inquiry
that investigated the incident has submitted its report.
Drama as Obasanjo declines to lay wreath
A
mild drama played out during the Armed Forces Remembrance Day
celebration in Abeokuta on Tuesday as a former President Olusegun
Obasanjo declined Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s request to lay a wreath at
the Arcade in Abeokuta.
Obasanjo vehemently resisted the governor’s persuasion to be part of the dignitaries to perform the ceremony.
Monday, 14 January 2013
Intervention funds: FG spends N2trn in two years
The
Federal Government, under the leadership of President Goodluck
Jonathan, has spent at least N1.732trn on intervention funds in
different sectors of the economy, SUNDAY PUNCH investigation has found.
The figure represents the
sum of the amounts approved by the Federal Government as intervention
funds between 2010, when Jonathan became President and December 2012.
Some of the intervention
funds include the N200bn Small and Medium Guarantee Scheme, N200bn
Restructuring and Refinancing Facility Scheme and the N300bn Power and
Airline Intervention Fund.
Others are the N75bn
Grooming Enterprise Leaders Business Intervention Fund, N32bn
Entertainment Intervention Fund and N10.71bn Commercial Agriculture
Credit Guarantee Scheme to six banks by the Central Bank of Nigeria.
Nigerian security worsened in 2012 –Shell
The
Chief Executive Officer, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Mr. Peter Voser, has
said that security situation worsened in Nigeria in 2012.
Voser, in a speech posted on the
company’s website on Sunday, said, “ the overall security situation in
2012 has worsened. The stealing and sabotage of crude oil intensified.
It’s a multi-billion-dollar business.
“ Shell alone cannot solve these issues.
It needs to be a multi-stakeholder approach, as we have been saying for
many, many years. SPDC is prepared to do their share, but it needs more
than just Shell’s support in Nigeria. It needs concerted government
action to reduce theft of crude.”
Dangote Sugar Refinery Crashes Sugar Price by 25%
With the new price regime, Dangote crashed the price of its 50 kilogramme bag from N8,900 to N6,660.
Managing Director of the company, Mr. Abdullahi Sule, attributed the development to the recent reduction in the price of raw sugar at the international market.
Man Demands Sex From In-Laws After His Wife Left Him
Tawanda Gumede appeared at the Civil court where his former wife, Rufaro Lavendah Chinyama had arraigned him seeking a protection order against him. Rufaro complained that her former husband was in the habit of phoning her sisters demanding to have sex with them.
“I was forced to move out of the marriage because of continuous assault at his hands. He used to assault me on almost everyday until I decided to leave the marriage sometime in May last year. The problem is that he is now visiting me where I am currently staying demanding sex. On one incident, he entered into the yard and tried to force himself on me,” she said.
Rufaro also told the court that Tawanda is in the habit of phoning her sisters demanding sex from them. She said he even insults them.
Asked to comment on the allegations, Tawanda did not oppose to his former wife’s application. But he was anxious to know how he would recover his money from his former wife’s mother.
Source
PDP comes under fire over George’s BoT appointment
A Lagos High Court convicted George in 2009 for fraud after he served as Chairman of the Board of the Nigerian Ports Authority. He spent two years in prison.
Legal practitioners as well as civil rights groups, Anti-Corruption Network and Coalition against Corrupt Leaders, on Sunday, condemned the PDP’s action, saying the party had no respect for the public.
US University Honours Obasanjo
The institute, which was inaugurated on Saturday, would serve as a cultural exchange centre between it and Nigeria in particular and Africa at large.
It will also serve as an exchange and resource centre for professional studies of Nigerian/African commerce and culture among students, artists, writers, educators and politicians. .
Speaking at the ceremony, Obasanjo identified corruption, insecurity, and infrastructure decay as major problems confronting the Africa.
Prosecute Lawan, Otedola now, Falana tells Jonathan
Lawan allegedly received about $620,000 out of $3m bribe from Otedola, to delete the businessman’s companies from the list of firms indicted by the committee.
Secretary to the committee, Boniface Emeluno, was also said to have received part of the bribe.
Falana, in a statement on Sunday, rejected the duo’s excuse for their involvement in the scandal, insisting that there was sufficient evidence to prosecute them.
He said, “Having undertaken to make the fight against corruption part of its transformation agenda the Goodluck Jonathan Administration should direct the anti-graft agencies to bring to book all those who have been indicted in the various probes on the fuel subsidy. Let no one deceive Nigerians by saying that there is no evidence to try criminal suspects who have made confessional statements.”
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Van Vicker and Charles Okafor shine in Uche Jombo’s Misplaced
Popular actors, Charles Okafor and Van Vicker have teamed up with producer-actress, Uche Jombo-Rodriguez in her soon to be released movie, Misplaced.
The movie, written by Uduak Oguamanam and Rita Onwurah is produced by Uche Jombo Studios and directed by Tom Robson. It tells the story of Osas, a convict who was bailed out of jail by a supposed good samaritan, Timi, to help carry out an assignment.
The assignment is to steal an iPad belonging to Chief Odukoya, the latter’s boss.
In a twist of fate, that of Debbie (Odukoya’s wife) was stolen instead. Osas’ curious nature got the best of him and he browses through the iPad only to be faced with Debbie’s truest desires, something he thinks he alone is fit for…
Jombo will also be premiering her movie, My Life My Damage on Friday, March 1, 2012.
Source: NET
Enebeli Elebuwa finally laid to rest in Lagos
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| Enebeli Elebuwa laid to rest: The deceased’s family all dressed in white |
Enebeli Elebuwa laid to rest: The deceased’s family all dressed in white
The body of the late veteran Nollywood actor, Enebeli Elebuwa
was finally laid to rest today, the 11th of January, 2013 at the
Victoria Courts Cemetery, Ajah, Lagos. It was a very small gathering of
the family, former colleagues and members of the press.
The burial was officiated by Msgr. Gabriel Osu of the ST. Michael’s Catholic Church, Lafiaji, Lagos.
Immediate family members of the deceased
actor could not hold back the tears as the body of their father was
lowered into the grave.
The deceased was survived by his wife, a son, three daughters and a sister.
Present at the funeral were Monalisa Chinda and Chioma Chukwuka. Undertakers were provided by TOS caskets.
R.I.P. Uncle Enebeli Elebuwa.
Source: NET
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