Nigerian film actor I.K Ogbonna took to Instagram to celebrate his rumoured lover Ini Edo’s 42nd birthdayIK Ogbonna pens sweet note to alleged lover, Ini Edo on 42nd birthday
The post he dedicated to her was a video collage of their fun moments together. From dancing with each other to visiting restaurants, and then going boat cruising, I.K Ogbonna made sure to include all those sweet memories.

In the caption of his post, I.K Ogbonna added;

“May the divine power of God shower you with tranquility. May this fresh phase of your journey unleash boundless abundance, bliss, and serendipity. May your name resonate unexpectedly in prestigious circles for all the right reasons. May those who dare to challenge your greatness be astounded by your magnificence. You are an extraordinary individual, and I beseech the heavens to perpetually bestow blessings upon you and your endeavors. Happy birthday, queen. the unparalleled brown sugar. HAPPY BIRTHDAY. @iniedo

It’s no news that I.K Ogbonna and Ini Edo have been rumoured to be an item. The rumours got more intense when Ini Edo celebrated I.K Ogbonna in a birthday post and called him her King. She used many other sweet words to express herself.

Responding, Ogbonna also called her his love, further fueling the speculations.

The speculations and curiosity got so intense that Ini Edo had to take down the post just hours after it was made.
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Tongues are currently wagging over BBNaija’s Liquorose’s notable body transformation

Liquorose shared a captivating video featuring her dancing alongside actor Deyemi Okanlawon.

Donned in an elegant white dress, Liquorose commands aura and confidence as she shows off her moves.

Moreover, what truly drew the attention of viewers was Liquorose’s body figure. Many netizens couldn’t help but observe the striking changes, particularly her flatter and trimmer waist, along with her massive hips.

The mixed reactions with remarks about Liquorose’s transformed physique with some hinting at the reality star undergoing surgery.

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The proud mum shared beautiful new photos of her daughter on her Instagram page writing;

”Daughter of Mercy @michelleio”

Kanye West has made some shocking comments about Michelle Obama as he revealed he wants to have segxwal intercourse with the ex President’s wife”

The controversial rapper is currently married to Bianca Censori, but it seems he wants to spice up their love life by involving the Former First Lady of the United States. Kanye made the admission during an interview with musician Justin Laboy on his show The Download.

The host asked Kanye who his dream woman would be to involve in a threesome with Bianca. “Michelle Obama,” the musician revealed before bursting into laughter. “Got to f**k the President’s wife,” he added.

Fans were left shocked by Kanye’s response and took to X to share their thoughts. “He’s a complete menace,” one person wrote.

Another said: “He was thinkin what’s the most outrageous thing i can say,” while a third person simply posted: “Diabolical.”

Nigerian singer, Fireboy DML, has reflected on his journey to musical growth, revealing that he once tried to copy the stage presence of Beyoncé, but failed woefullyI

In an interview with RollingStone, Fireboy recounted his experiences, admitting his challenges to imitate Beyoncé’s performances.

According to Fireboy, despite his trial, the level of excellence achieved by the multiple Grammy winner remained off reach for him.

Fireboy disclosed his determination to change and improve his craft.

He revealed how he transfered his aspirations of performing in front of massive audiences into his songwriting process, envisioning himself on stage even during the creation of his most heartfelt compositions.

Fireboy stressed the importance of personal growth and development as an artist.

In his words;

“Right from time, even when I used to write my saddest songs, I used to imagine myself playing them in front of millions of people. I always imagine myself on stage when I write my songs.

“So taking that energy from the studio to stage is really a piece of cake for me. What matters to me is making sure that I have fun. When I enjoyed myself, everyone else enjoyed themselves. Step by step, I learned from the greats, I studied; did artist development stuff like vocal training.

“There was a time I tried to copy Beyonce’s routine. But I didn’t last two days.”

Seun Kuti, a Nigerian artist, has claimed that he is the only musician in Nigeria that prevents fans from spraying him with cash notes while playing.

He further alleged that many performers, particularly fuji musicians, laud people in songs during their performances solely so they can be sprayed.

Kuti made the assertions in the context of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s (EFCC) crackdown on Naira abusers.

Speaking in a video message shared via his Instagram account, he said: “I don’t even like to be sprayed. I’m the only artist that stops people from spraying me. Even my dad, the legendary Fela didn’t prevent people from spraying him but he demanded the denominations he wanted to be sprayed.

“Nobody wey Sunny Ade never sing for so he can be sprayed. Everybody name. KWAM 1 … eh eh. It is the politicians that made spraying a standard behaviour.”

Ric Hassani, a Nigerian singer and songwriter, has expressed his perspective on the Afrobeats genre.

According to him, the quality of Afrobeats music has declined significantly over the years.

He stated that previous hit songs were of high quality, however contemporary hit songs are “not very good music”.

Hassani appeared recently on Channels TV’s Rubbin’ Minds with Ebuka.

He said, “Afrobeats is Nigerian music. Our guys are top 10 and I feel like because of that the quality of music might stop dropping because more people want to get in. So the quality is really dropping.

“Back in the days, hit songs were serious music but now almost anybody is just coming in. Most of the hit songs in Nigeria now are not very good music. Back in the days it wasn’t like this. I feel like because we have been number one for so long, everybody is just dropping whatever they like and throwing money behind it.”

No fewer than 500 legal practitioners from across the country, yesterday, stormed the Supreme Court in protest against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC’s move to arrest the immediate past Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, over alleged fraud.

The lawyers described EFCC’s approach as illegal. In a statement signed by its co-convener, SK Alewu, the group lamented the EFCC’s attempt to arrest the former governor despite being served a valid court order that restrains them from doing so.

Alewu noted that not only has Bello’s fundamental rights been breached, he said the judiciary has become willing tools in the hands of enemies of our rule of law. The lawyers, therefore, urged the Nigerian Judicial Council (NJC) and President Bola Tinubu to call the EFCC to order to stop further abuse and disobedience of court orders.

The statement read in part:
In a related development, hearing in the appeal filed by the EFCC against the judgment of the Kogi State High Court, which barred the EFCC from arresting the former governor was stalled at the Court of Appeal yesterday.

The FCT Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), said it has intercepted 10 Ondo indigenes allegedly being sponsored abroad for illegal migration at Zuba motor park in Abuja.

The victims were intercepted at Zuba motor park, Abuja when coming back from Minna, where they had gone to process their International passports as directed by their sponsor.

”They also confessed to being promised migration abroad to undertake ready-made jobs, especially in North Africa and Canada by a yet-to-be-identified sponsor, who according to them, resides in Okitipupa, Ondo state”, Samuel Idoko, the NSCDC FCT Command Spokesperson, said in a statement.

He added that the rescued victims, aged between 24 and 34, comprised of one male and nine female, who all claimed to be indigenes of Ondo State.

NSCDC spokesperson added that on interrogation, it was discovered that the victims were being sponsored for illegal migration abroad.

”’The victims were accosted at Zuba motor park, Abuja, by officers of the command, following a tip off of their return from Minna, where they had gone to process their International passports as directed by their sponsor.

”The victims confessed to have paid N80, 000 to facilitate the procurement of the International passport.

”They also confessed to being promised migration abroad to undertake ready-made jobs, especially in North Africa and Canada by a yet to be identified sponsor, who according to them, resides in Okitipupa, Ondo state”, he said.

Idoko the victims had been handed over to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Person (NAPTIP) by the NSCDC Commandant, Olusola Odumosu.

“Be careful of the type of people that are promising you a better future abroad. Don’t be desperate because some of them might end up ruining your live; they deceive you and collect huge sums of money from you for ready-made jobs, whereas, you may end up in slavery or forced to be sex workers.

“If you must travel abroad, follow the right channel that will give you rest of mind, don’t allow somebody to seize your international passport abroad, and place you under an oath that you will regret,” Odumosu was quoted as saying.

No fewer than ten people have been confirmed dead after two navy helicopters collided in mid-air during a military training and rehearsal for a Royal Malaysian Navy parade.

According to BBC, one of the choppers clipped the rotor of the other before the two crashed down, leading to the death of at least ten persons.

Footage of the unfortunate incident which occurred on Monday night has been circulating on local media.

The choppers crashed in the Malaysian town of Lumut, which is home to a navy base.

“All victims were confirmed dead on site and the remains were sent to the [Lumut] Military Hospital for identification,” said the Royal Malaysian Navy.

One of the helicopters, a HOM M503-3 with seven people on board, was said to have crashed onto a running track.

While the other, a Fennec M502-6 conveying the other three victims, crashed into a nearby swimming pool.

Power outage has hit Gombe, Yola, and Jalingo residents.

The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, while confirming the development, said that vandals destroyed four towers along the Jos-Gombe transmission line.

Ndidi Mbah, the general manager of Public Affairs at TCN, disclosed this in a statement on Monday.

According to her, the towers were vandalized around 3:32 pm on Monday.

Consequently, the bulk power supply to Gombe, Yola, and Jalingo Substations has been disrupted, affecting the bulk power supply to parts of Yola and Jos Electricity Distribution Companies’ franchise areas.

the TCN spokesperson said.

Abuja was thrown into darkness in February over the vandalization of TCN towers.

Music producer Dr Roy says gospel music minister Mercy Chinwo was not aware the record label boss they once worked for treated him unfairly.

Dr Roy, a former producer with Eezee Concept Records owned by Ezekiel ThankGod aka EeZee Tee, made this known during an interview on streamed on Monday on The Honest Bunch Podcast with on-air-personality Nedu Ani and others.

Dr Roy accused EeZee Tee of maltreatment, saying the record label boss withheld his financial gains after he produced ‘Excess Love’ and other hit tracks of Mercy Chinwo who was signed by the record label some seven years ago.

“For the onset, Mercy did not know what was happening,” Dr Roy said. “I don’t know what made Mercy leave but I won’t be surprised if what happened to me also happened to Mercy Chinwo too.

“For Mercy’s sake, I don’t know how he (EeZee Tee) has painted me before her so I didn’t let her know the maltreatment.”

Dr Roy said some close to him “reached out to Mercy that my father had died. Mercy then called me, send me money, and send money to my mother. She said she did not know that my father was sick. She even did not know what I was facing under him (EeZee Tee).”

The music producer also released a video on his Instagram further clarifying what he said on the podcast. “I deeply respect her talent and character. My remarks were aimed at the record label owner I worked for. Mercy Chinwo helped me when my father had stroke, she helped me when he died,” he stated.

Dr Roy said it was not true that Mercy Chinwo refused to assist him at any point.

Dr Roy and Mercy Chinwo once worked under under Eezee Concept Records before the two of them left the record label over allegations of unfair treatment.

Five children between the ages of five and 13 years have suffocated to death after they were trapped in a car Gurara Albishir area of Minna, the capital of Niger State.

According to a source in the neighborhood, the children had mistakenly locked themselves in the car, which had been abandoned for more than two years by the owner.

He said that the parents later discovered their bodies in the car on Sunday evening after searching for them for hours in the vicinity.

The children- four females and a male, comprised of three siblings and the two others from different parents including the car owner’s child.

DSP Wasiu Abiodun, the spokesperson for Niger Police Command confirmed the death of five children by suffocation in a car on Sunday in Minna.

According to him, the Kpakungu Division Office of the Police Command received a report at about 6.30 p.m. on Sunday that five children between the ages five and 13 years were found trapped in a Honda Civic vehicle with registration No. GO 778 ABC at Gurara Albishir area of Minna.

Abiodun said that the children were found to have suffocated in the vehicle, while their bodies were later removed by the various parents, as police visited the scene.

The PPRO said that the owner of the vehicle had been invited for questioning and investigation was ongoing on the matter.

Police authorities in Kenya have  arrested Nadeem Anjarwalla, an executive of cryptocurrency platform, Binance, who fled Nigeria some weeks ago.

Anjarwalla had escaped from custody in Nigeria, following Federal government’s crackdown on the cryptocurrency platform in a bid to strengthen the naira.

While the government later traced Anjarwalla to the East African nation, multiple reports said the Binance executive was now in the custody of the Kenyan police.

According to the reports, government sources in Kenya confirmed that the Binance chief is now in the custody of the country’s police.

Since he escaped from Nigeria, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the International Criminal Police, the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, and the Kenyan Police Service have been in talks to extradite Anjarwalla.

In March, EFCC confirmed plans to extradite the Binance chief in the agency’s bulletin for the month.

The anti-graft agency’s chief, Ola Olukoyede, had said.

The takeover of the prosecution of Binance chiefs by the commission is no less a strong message in the direction of EFCC’s resolve to hedge in distortions and disruptions in the country’s forex market.

“Tax evasion, currency speculation, and money laundering to the tune of $35,400,000 and are at the foundation of the Commission’s five counts against Binance Holdings Limited, Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla, the company’s chief executives.

“While Gambaryan is currently in the commission’s net, the process of extraditing the fleeing Anjarwalla is revving in full swing.

”Involved in partnership with the EFCC to nick Anjarwalla in flight are the International Criminal Police Organisation, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, the governments of the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, and Kenya as the clock winds down to his arraignment in absentia alongside the company and Gambaryan.”

A lecturer with Babcock University, Ilisan-Remo in Ikenne Local Government Area of Ogun State, Professor Yinka Olowojobi, has been shot dead at a relaxation centre in Iperu.

The development was confirmed by the spokesperson, Ogun State Police Command, Omolola Odutola.

According to Odutola in a statement, Olowojobi was among three persons shot by gunmen, who invaded Ajadeh Event Centre on Sagamu Road, Iperu, about 9.20p.m., last Friday.

“The lecturer was taken to Babcock University Teaching Hospital, where he was pronounced dead,” she added.

According to her, no fewer that eight men dressed in black and armed with guns emerged from an unknown place stormed the relaxing lounge and opened fire indiscriminately.

Olowojobi was said to have been shot on the chest for refusing to go away with them, while a manager of a car stand, simply identified as Dare and another yet-to-be-identified person were abducted by the armed men.

Odutola said: “A suspicious coincidence led the police to arrest one Awada Ishaya of Plateau State, who was employed two weeks ago, when the event centre was launched as a security man for further interrogation.

“The lecturer was taken to Babcock University Teaching Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Efforts are on to apprehend the culprits and rescue the kidnapped victims. Further update will be provided as the situation develops.”

Meanwile, the university in a statement by Dr. Joshua Suleiman, its Director of Communication and Marketing, said:

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has so far confirmed eight deaths and over 208 suspected new cases following an outbreak of a strange illness in Sokoto state.

Manager of the centre, Dr. Ibrahim Usman, yesterday, at an interactive session with officials of the state Ministry of Health, said the incident happened at Sabon Birni and Isa Local Government Areas of the state.

Usman said prompt measures were taken by NCDC and the state government to control the spread of the yet-to-be identified disease as samples were taken to NCDC laboratories for analysis.

He stated the illness manifested with symptoms of abdominal disorder, feverish condition, vomiting and sudden weight loss.

Recently, the state Deputy Governor, Idris Gobir, told the visiting Minister of Health, Prof. Ali Pate, that the strange disease had killed many in Isa Local Government Area of the state.

Gobir urged the Federal Government to, as a matter of urgency, do the needful with a view to identify and curtail the continued spread of the disease to other areas of the state.

He said the state government had already dispatched a team of experts with medicaments to ascertain the situation and provide first aid to victims, who have contracted the disease. 

The NCDC has so far deployed a National Rapid Response Team, NRRT, to work with the Ministry of Health to further investigate the matter.

Disturbing allegations of bullying have surfaced at the prestigious Lead British International School, sparking outrage.

In this video, we dive deep into the accusations, explore the impact on the students, and ask the tough question: Is the Lead British International School a breeding ground for bullying?

as another video of a student been beaten up emerges the internet.

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The Yoruba Self-determination Movement, led by Banji Akintoye and Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has written an open letter to President Bola Tinubu, seeking a peaceful breakaway of the Yoruba people from Nigeria.

In the letter signed by Mr Akintoye, Mr Adeyemo and Ola Ademola, the trio urged the President to establish a negotiation team with the group within the next two months and have a dialogue with them.

This is coming days after suspected Yoruba nation agitators attempted an invasion of the Oyo State government secretariat.

Recall that both Igboho and Mr Akintoye had distanced themselves from the actions of the agitators.

The group, in the letter, alleged that the Fulani have been killing and destroying Yoruba communities since 2015 with an estimated 29,000 Yoruba people killed to date.

According to the group, the Fulani attacks and killings have led to instability and forced many farmers to abandon their farms, potentially leading to years of famine.

It added that it has no confidence in the proposed restructuring of Nigeria as it would not prevent the Fulani from continuing their attacks.

The group called for a peaceful negotiation to separate the Yoruba nation from Nigeria with the involvement of international observers from the United Nations, African Union and ECOWAS.

the letter read in part.

The group noted that in the Middle Belt, horrendous blood-letting was going on with many families forced into Internally Displaced People (IDP) camps while many of their villages were seized by the Fulani and renamed as Fulani villages.

In the Yoruba homeland, the group observed that people have been resisting somewhat better, but that the Fulani attacks, killings and kidnappings have been unrelenting and are coming daily, leading to horrific instability and forcing most farmers to abandon farming.

It lamented that the situation was dooming Yoruba people to years and years of famine.

“All these actions by the Fulani are to us Yoruba, a sufficient reason for our seeking to separate our Yoruba nation from Nigeria. Most of us, Yoruba, have no confidence in the ‘restructuring’ that some of our most respected Yoruba leaders, such as our fathers in our highly exalted Afenifere, are advocating.

“And our reason is that we know that restructuring cannot keep the Fulani marauders away from our homeland. Since, after restructuring, the Fulani would still be Nigerians like us, and would still have full citizens’ rights to come in large numbers, and with weapons and intent to kill and destroy and seize land…” the group stated.

It contended that the Fulani elite seemed determined to make Nigeria ungovernable for President Tinubu and that they would never accept any official action of his.

It urged the federal government to agree to its proposal to negotiate the Yoruba nation’s exit.

“We are acting for and on behalf of our 60 million Yoruba people of the Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, and Oyo State, respectively, plus the Yoruba Local Government Areas of Kogi and Kwara State, plus the Itsekiri homeland of Delta State, all together constituting the Yorubaland in Nigeria, hereby most humbly place our crowning request before Your Excellency as follows:

“That the Nigerian Federal Government shall, within the next two months, but not later than 15 June 2024, inform us Yoruba Self-determination Movement that the Nigerian Federal Government has graciously agreed to our proposal for negotiation and that they have set up a negotiation team that will meet and have a dialogue with our Yoruba nation’s negotiation team.

“That the Nigerian Federal Government shall invite the United Nations, African Union and the Economic Community of West African States to send observers to the negotiation meetings,” it said.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday denied disobeying any court order in trying to arrest former Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello.

The commission said it cleared the air against the backdrop of arguments and counter-arguments on whether it had disobeyed a court order concerning the botched arrest of  Bello.

In a Press Statement signed by the EFCC’s Acting Director, Public Affairs, Wilson Uwujaren, the Commission clearly pointed out that though Bello sought refuge in a fundamental rights enforcement action through an order granted by Justice Isa Jamil Abdulallahi of the Kogi State High Court, the order did not vitiate or nullify an order made by the Federal High Court for the arrest of the former governor for the purpose of his arraignment.

“The enrolled order of the Kogi State High Court only granted an order to enforce Bello’s right to personal liberty and freedom of movement, it didn’t preclude the Federal High Court ‘to make any Order as it may deem just in the determination of the rights of the Applicant and the Respondent as may be submitted to her for consideration and determination”, he said.

He further stressed that, “The Order made by the Federal High Court for the arrest of Mr. Yahaya Bello for the purpose of his arraignment is not in conflict with the Order of the Kogi State High Court. The case before the Federal High Court is a criminal charge which is different from the fundamental rights enforcement action that is the subject of an appeal.”

Uwujaren pointed out that the EFCC had a shining track record in the prosecution of politically exposed persons and would continue to exercise its mandate in the overall interest of the nation.

He admonished Bello to turn himself in and answer to the charges preferred against him by the Commission.

He called on all patriotic Nigerians to lend their voices in support of the Commission stressing that “the EFCC will not relent in its quest to wrestle corruption to the ground.”

A goalkeeper with one of Iran’s top football clubs has been suspended after he embraced a woman supporter during a championship match, sports daily Khabar Varzeshi reported on Monday.

Hossein Hosseini, 31, who plays for Tehran team Esteghlal, was suspended after the incident on April 12.

The Esteghlal fan rushed onto the pitch where stadium security attempted to detain her. Hosseini approached the woman while security staff were trying to hold her back and briefly took her into his arms.

The newspaper said Iran’s football federation fined the goalkeeper the equivalent of $4,700 and gave him a one-match suspension for “bad behaviour towards security agents at the game”.

Women were generally barred from attending football matches following the 1979 Islamic revolution, but in August 2022 they were allowed into a championship match for the first time in more than 40 years.

Hosseini has spent most of his footballing career at Esteghlal, one of the most popular clubs in the country.

He played for Iran in a 2022 World Cup match against England after the first-choice goalkeeper was injured.

Esteghlal, known as “The Blues”, are currently top of the Iranian league with just six matches to go.