President Jonathan’s Aide Oronto Douglas Dies

Top presidential aide and confidant of President Goodluck Jonathan; Oronto Douglas is dead. Mr. Douglas died early this morning, April 9, 2015 at the State House Clinic, a close family source told Sahara Reporters.

The source stated that Mr. Douglas died from cancer-related complications.Mr. Douglas was an environmental activist on behalf of the oil-producing communities of the Niger Delta before he came to national and international prominence.

Source added that Mr. Douglas had been sick for several years. Even so, associates of President Jonathan said he continued to work over the last few weeks for Mr. Jonathan’s re-election.

Mr. Douglas is survived by a wife and children.

May his soul rest in perfect peace.....Amen!

I Have Not Seen My Kids - Mother Of 3 Boys Kidnapped By Househelp Cries Out

The distraught mum of the 3 kids who were kidnapped by the house help at Surulere  in Shagamu area of Lagos has dispelled the rumour that they have been found. She said that there is no word yet on her kids whereabouts.

She has four boys but the maid ran away with the youngest boys, Aderomola Orekoya, 11 months, Adedamola Orekoya, 4 years and Demola Orekoya, 6 yrs..

See the boys below..
                                  

OMG!!! Househelp Disappears With 3 Kids In Surulere (Photos)

A new house help who was just employed on Tuesday, April 7, has disappeared with 3 children under her care. She is said to have taken the kids out at about 8:00am that morning and never returned.

The incident happened in Surulere, Lagos. The children’s names are; Aderomola Orekoya, 11 months, Adedamola Orekoya, 4 years and Demola Orekoya, 6 years old. 

 

See photo of the househelp below;

Kindly call 08052062117, 09098097935 if you have any helpful information.

Bruce Jenner to Appear as a Woman in Diane Sawyer Interview

Here is what we know about the upcoming Bruce interview with Diane Sawyer:
 
It will air on Friday, April 24. It will be titled “Bruce Jenner: The Interview.” Oh, and now there's this:
It will give viewers their first look at Bruce Jenner as a woman.

According to TMZ insiders, Jenner will "present himself" publicly as a female at some point during the ABC special. What does that mean, exactly?

Not that we’ll learn his new name and now that he’ll actually dress differently. Instead, sources say jenner sees this sit-down as the most "significant" event associated with his sex change.
It will mark his coming out. To Bruce, it will be more important than any of the procedures associated with his gender transformation.

As for the actual content of the Q&A?
Look for Jenner to go all the way back to his life at the age of five, when he first identified himself as a woman. He’ll discuss the difficulties he has faced living like a man… but feeling like someone else.

Jenner will also go into detail about the impact his decision has had on KIM and all his loved ones.

The interview, which Bruce hopes will "free" himself and "educate" the public on transgender topics, is just the first step in this star's journey.

He is still booked to anchor a docuseries that will actually track his life as a woman.

Jenner has been trying to get out of the show, but we believe contracts are signed and E! still plans on airing the program. Because of course it does.

Sai Baba Indeed: You Need To See This Movie On Buhari!

Nollywood, una dey try wella.

OPC Warns Nigerians Against The Unbecoming Comments Directed At Oba Akiolu

 

Press statement from OPC;

The attention of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has been drawn to some unruly and unbecoming comments purportedly in reaction to alleged comments by the paramount ruler of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu and warn all those involved to desist from such unbecoming acts forthwith. 

The institution of the oba is one the Yoruba race hold in high esteem, and the OPC as irredentist defenders of Yoruba culture and heritage would therefore not tolerate anybody -irrespective of their places of birth of conviction- to denigrate what their hosts (Yorubas) hold sacred.

 While we accept that that institution should remain non-partisan, it must also be acknowledged that the Palace of the Oba of Lagos has already claimed that the royal father was misrepresented in the press and pleaded for understanding.
Be that as it may, the Yoruba’s accommodating and loving nature should not be misconstrued as timidity. As hosts, we have given all our visitors enough space and opportunity to bloom and flourish without molestations, and of all the tribes and visitors in Lagos, none has enjoyed the benevolence of Lagos and indeed all of Yorubaland as much as the Igboman and nation.
The evidence of the claim above can be found in the fact that Yorubaland as a whole is the most cosmopolitan area in Nigeria. We Yoruba have allowed other tribes to own businesses, properties and even contest and hold political positions on Yoruba soil in a manner unreciprocated anywhere else in Nigeria.
Using the same Lagos as an example, the fact that the likes of Pastor Ben. Akabueze and Joe Igbokwe have become an integral part of the political frame work of Lagos State for years now is proof enough that Lagos and indeed the Yoruba are excellent hosts. Akabueze has for the last ten years been directing and coordinating the economic direction of the state from his enviable position as the honorable commissioner for budget and planning while Igbokwe has held sways general manager at LASIMRA and head, UFRU.
Others such as Ngozi Nwosu the popular actress from Imo State who got N6million for overseas surgery, the late comrade Chima Ubani whose family got cash and a gift of 3bedroom accommodation at Marwa Gardens as well as First Consultant Hospital that got N50 million as compensation for involvement in the Ebola case are evidence that the Igbos are not despised in Lagos.
Nowhere in Nigeria -east of the Niger- is the Yoruba or any other tribe accorded the kind of gesture the Igbos have been enjoying in Lagos in the last 12 or so years since these bonafide Igbo men entered into the Lagos political scene. As for the likes of Bode George, Fani-Kayode, Musiliu Obanikoro and their party the PDP, their outcry is the reaction of a person or group without shame and critical thinking (arojinle).
Is it that they have a case of memory dysfunction or are they just plain mischievous. Have they so quickly forgotten that it is their party that started the politicization of the institution and monarchy with the president’s visit to the same Oba of Lagos earlier this January as the forerunner to visits to many other obas in Yorubaland. None of the PDP members complaining now saw any thing wrong with the attempts to involve our obas in partisan politics until it backfired against them and their party.
This brings us to the warning we issued earlier, when Gani Adams in his treacherous, sycophantic and reactionary move turned on the good people of Lagos unleashing violence and threat of violence against the perceived enemies of his paymasters. If Adams had not behaved like an omo ojuorolari, he should by now be defending the sacredness of the stool of the Oba of Lagos or any other one in Yorubaland for that matter. If Adams had not collected the billions he did, along with MASSOB and other ethnic groups, his co-travellers would now be degenerating and abusing our hospitality the way no one can replicate in their homelands.
In closing, we enjoin all members of the OPC and indeed the Yoruba nation to beware of the enemies within like Gani Adams and with one voice condemn all fifth columnist within our fold. And with the foregoing it is abundantly clear that Gani Adams who brought this odium upon us must quit the OPC. 

 

Culled from chi-chi nwa africa

Court Orders Multichoice to Suspend Increase in Dstv Subscription Fees

A justice of federal high Court sitting in Lagos,Justice C.J. Aneke, has granted an order of interim restraining Multichoice, operators of DStv, from implementing its new rates and increase in tariffs payable by its subscribers across the country.

 

Multichoice, owners of DStv and GOtv, had announced a 20 percent price increase for all its satellite pay TV bouquets in Nigeria to take effect from April 1, 2015.

According to them, the annual price increase, usually in-line with inflation, is necessary for it to continue offering the best in local and international entertainment to its subscribers.

The judge asked parties to maintain status quo in support of the motion ex parte with an affidavit of urgency sworn to by the plantiff. The order read in part: 

“That an order of interim injunction is hereby granted to the parties to maintain the status quo restraining the 1st defendant (Multichoice/DSTV) from giving effect or enforcing its planned increase in cost of the different classes of viewing or programmes bouquet, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.”

“That an order is hereby granted certifying the plaintiffs’ claim as a class action for themselves as individual subscribers, other corporate subscribers, distributors and retailers of the 1st defendants’ services.

“That an order is hereby granted restraining any other person whether individual or corporate from instituting any other action as may be related to the action against the defendant to prevent multiplicity of lawsuits pursuant to the appointment of the plaintiffs in the class action but may instead opt in or out of this action”. 

The suit, filed by Adebayo Osasuyi and Oluyinka Oyeniji, DSTV subscribers/customers, at the federal high court registry Ikoyi, Lagos was adjourned to the 16th April 2015 for hearing.

Photos: Woman gives birth on the road in Lagos

A woman gave birth to a baby on the streets of Lagos this morning April 7th. 

  

Eye witnesses said the woman was on her way to the market when her water broke. She started screaming for help and a few people gathered around her and when they saw the baby's head was already coming out, they helped her deliver the baby right there. The woman and her baby are said to be doing well. God is great! 

More photos after the cut...

Dollar Falls: Drops To N185

Bureau De Change operators in the country have attributed the fall in the dollar to release of the foreign currency by hoarders who had stored it pending the outcome of the nation’s general elections.

A dollar over the weekend sold for N185 against the usual N220-N240 which it sold for in the last few weeks. Some of them however said the Dollar crash could also be attributed to the fact that politicians have stopped campaigning for elections, which has made the demand for the currency drop.

Look Who is Covering Glamour This Month!

Kerry Washington, Sarah Jessica Parker and Michelle Obama are really feeling very Glamour-ous this month.

Literally!
The Scandal star, former Sex and the City actress and residing First Lady represent “Power Women,” according to the publication, as they opened up to Glamour about various aspects of life in the military.
 
Washington, for example, spoke out on how diminishing the stigma of mental health, telling the magazine:

"My brain and my heart are really important to me. I don’t know why I wouldn’t seek help to have those things be as healthy as my teeth. I go to the dentist. So why wouldn’t I go to a shrink?"

Parker then discussed the issues female veterans face:
"I feel like there’s a laundry list... Being a working mother, serving, returning from Iraq or Afghanistan - I almost don’t know where to begin…. And I feel intimidated by their service; I feel ashamed that I haven’t served."

And then Obama, who helped explain The Evolution of Mom Dancing on The Tonight Show last week, said she could never actually compare her lives to the lives of wives with husbands overseas.

However...
"I [try to] put myself in the place of some of these young women - maybe they’re in their twenties, they have their third kid, they’re not established in their careers, they’re miles away from their family - and imagine the stresses.

"So my advice is, ask for help. Keep asking. Because that’s the only way I survived. My women friends - how we get through is we reach out."

Cult Group Stabs a 14-Year-Old Boy To Death For Refusing To Become A Member

The 14-year-old boy identified as David Okon has been stabbed to death by members of a Cross Rivers state based cult group named Skylo after he refused to join the cult group. 

 

 

 

According to Mr Henry Fadairo, the state Police commissioner who spoke to the Sun, David was stabbed to death by one Ita in the group at T junction, Ikot Ekpo, 8 Miles in Calabar, the state capital on February 4th.  

 

Ita and some of his cult members had accosted David with the intent of luring him once again after they had tried for several months and his refusal caused them to stab him to death. The police investigations led to the arrest of some members of the cult group. They are Okon, 15-years old, Effiong, 18-years Etim, 18-years and Ekpo 15-years old.
While confessing to stabbing David to death, Ita said

“I am a member of “Skylo” group. We used to terrorize Calabar residents.When Okon was called to join the “Skylo” group, we started putting pressure on him to join. When he was adamant by refusing to join us, we have to murder him by stabbing him at the back,” he confessed.Other members of a different cult group called Scolumbo boys were arrested during Police investigations.

One of the members of the gang while he was interrogated, said asides cult activities, they were involved in Armed robbery

“We are members of “Scolumbo boys.” Apart from cultism, we robbed innocent people. We used to initiate our peer group to join our members. We have robbed several and initiated people as members.

The Commissioner said the suspects would soon be charged to court.

Nollywood Actor, Yul Edochie Exposes Man Who Is Sexually Harrassing Him (See Photo)

The first son of the veteran actor,Pete Edochie took to twitter to expose a man who he claims has been sexually harassing him. According to Yul, the man went as far as harassing his family because he refused his advances.

See his tweets below;
 

Funke Akindele, Is This Really You? Check Out Her Lovely New Look

Delectable Nollywood Actress, Funke Akindele,  is really stunning in these new pictures of hers, she is one actress vamping up her sense of style and her fans are loving her for that.

From her careful choice of outfits, makeup looks and more these days, the star pulls a fashionable a really good one.

Funke who rocked a very simple outfit – a faux wrap top over a distressed denim, beautiful Louboutins and a stunning red bag looked really gorgeous for the ‘AY Live’ event over the weekend.

The makeover was perfect as the actress rocked a soft glowing look with gold highlights and bold red lips, she had her hair braided kinky complete with gold dangling ball earrings, her look was perfection.

She took a selfie with fellow actresses, Ebube Nwagbo and Oge Okoye.

More photos after the cut:
 

Toke Makinwa Talks Hate Speech and Threat to Igbos in Lagos

Popular OAP Toke Makinwa took to Instagram to speak her mind concerning the threat to Igbos.
She blamed our parents for practicing tribalism openly and not being corrected for doing the wrong things.
 
Read what she wrote below:

Kim Kardashian to Use Kourtney Kardashian as Surrogate?

If you watched Keeping Up With the Kardashians season 10 episode 4, then you know that Kim's struggles to conceive were (once again) a major topic of discussion.

This time, we learned that a complication during Kim's first pregnancy might prevent her from being able to carry another child.

It was sad news, but Kim always finds a way to get what she wants, and Kris Jenner is usually right alongside her, helping to hatch a plan.

In this case, that means finding a surrogate. And not just any surrogate, mind you, but one who isn't just a fame-hungry "lunatic" that will run off with the kid.

Fortunately, the Kardashians don't have to look very far to find a reliable uterus, and it took Kris about 30 seconds of contemplation before she volunteered Kourtney for the job.
 Technically, all Kris said was, "I bet Kourtney would do it," but since Kim and Kris basically run things in Kardashian Land, it's a pretty safe bet that Kourtney will announce that she's carrying Kim's baby some time in the near future (possibly in the KUWTK season finale).

There have been rumors that Kanye has a crush on Kourtney, so we're hoping that Yeezy will suggest that he and Kim saving some money by knocking up Kourt the old fashioned way.

It would be a tough sell, but all he would have to do is mention how lucrative the tape would be and Kim's eyes would turn into dollar signs.

Naija Sweet Die: Nigerian Twitter Users Respond To Oba Of Lagos With Hilarious Lagoon Tags And tweets

The trending Threat by oba of Lagos against the Igbos has now turn to a joke!

A lot of people had an opinion about the Oba's comments yesterday and some of them were hilarious.

Check out the tweets & memes used to show defiance, mockery to the threats made by the traditional head yesterday.

see below;
 

Kanye West Bible: Actually a Thing You Can Purchase!

Because the ego on Kanye West is clearly way too small at the moment...

An Etsy user is actually selling a bible for $20 in which every mention of God’s name has been replaced with Kanye or Yeezus because… well, actually. We have no idea why anyone would do this.
According to the website, the handmade hardcover book is "a novelty coffee-table book, celebrating the grandeur of mega-icon Kanye West. This is the Bible for the New Age."
 
The online description adds that "three entrepreneurial brothers" are responsible for honoring Mr. Kim Kardashian in this fashion because they possess "a special interest in mass-society and its effects on our worldview and imagination."

We really wish we were making this all up.
"What if the Bible, the most singularly significant publication in the ancient canon of Western tradition, were updated to reflect our modern society? What would it look like?" the users explain.

We can only imagine what Kanye say about this.

Concludes the outline on Etsy:
At it's simplest, it is the book of Genesis, modified to feature ‘Kanye' or ‘Yeezus' in the place of God or Y---A. 'In the beginning Kanye created the heaven and the earth...And Kanye said, Let there be light: and there was light.

In a sense, Kanye's awesome and orchestrated spectacle is truly a religious experience. In a foreword, we explore our consumerist, quick-fix, and information-culture, and celebrate Kanye and the outsized significance he plays in our lives. 

All of this, bound in a black, hard-cover gold-leaf imprinted book.