Cogent reasons have emerged as to why Ebonyi state government stopped popular Nigerian Highlife Musician Chinedu Okoli popularly known as Flavour from performing at a show in Abakaliki on Sunday.
The popular musician had been slated to perform at a show organised by a major beverage production company in the state on Sunday at the Ochudo park, Water Walks Road.
He was said to have entered the state on Saturday preceding the date of the event and prepared to thrill his teeming fans in the state capital of Abakaliki. But, around 9pm on the day, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Internal Security, Kenneth Ugballa, allegedly led a team of Police officers to the venue.
A source at the venue said Mr Ugbala asked the organisers to shut the show down. The Police also drove everybody out of the venue of the event obviously on the orders of Mr Ugbala. The situation incensed the youths and fans of the musician who took to social media to lambast the state government over the action. But in a reaction on Tuesday Mr Ugbala defended the actions of the government arguing that the shut down was to prevent the kind of nasty incidents that allegedly happened during a similar show held in Enugu recently.
The social media was buzzing last month with the allegations that over 20 ladies were raped in Mr Flavour’s show in Enugu while some left the show naked with their dresses torn by some criminals.
But the police in Enugu said no one was raped. It however confirmed a case of attempted rape and stealing of phones and other crimes. Mr Ugbala blamed the organisers of the Abakaliki show for not informing the Police or any other security agency in the state before staging the show to provide security.
“The security of the state is in our hands, I called the Commissioner of Police and he said he was not informed. They didn’t write to any of the other security agencies in the state, They said they got permission from the CP of Lagos to come and do a show in Ebonyi”.
“At the venue there was no security presence, what they had was only 6 bouncers to maintain security of over 10, 000 persons at the venue. And the whole area was already charged before we came. We have already gathered that about three persons were already robbed of their phones and they called to complain”.
“They held similar show in Enugu which was marred with several irregularities including stampede that allegedly led to some deaths and even allegations of rape. So we wanted to forestall a similar situation from happening here. In that Enugu event they wrote to government and security agencies which were present at the event and still there was stampede and allegations of rape. Then imagine what would have happened in this case which didn’t have security presence”, he said.
Khloe Kardashian and Tristan Thompson are taking their rekindled relationship to the next level ... with a daytime movie date.
The 2 were at a cinema a few miles outside Cleveland Tuesday afternoon, and looking very much like a couple again. Khloe and Tristan grabbed snacks together before the movie and were seen leaving in the same car afterward. No word on which flick they caught.
A ‘diva’ sun seeker stuck in three-hour tailbacks on the M62 stunned motorists when she took out her blanket and starting sunbathing in the outside lane.
Frustrated Lily Willetts was en route to Blackpool with her partner Sam Wadsworth on Saturday afternoon when they got stuck in a traffic jam between junction 21 and 22 after an oxygen tanker caught fire.
The couple were one of thousands on the westbound carriageway forced to sit in their car and endure soaring temperatures.
But after learning it would at least be a three-hour wait mum-of-two Lily decided to hop out and soak up some rays. The 27-year-old sun worshipper fished a blanket out of the back of their Citroën Dispatch, lay it out in the fast lane and stretched out on the tarmac to top up her tan – much to the amusement of bemused onlookers.
Lily from York, North Yorkshire, said: “As the weather was so good we decided to do something nice.
“My children were spending the weekend with their dad so it was just the two of us.
“We set out at 10.15am as we had a full day planned out, we were going to go to Blackpool Pleasure Beach and Madame Tussauds.
“We were driving down the M62 having just stopped at the services when we saw a big cloud of smoke, and all of sudden came to a standstill.
“The way the weather was I thought there might be people further down the motorway doing the same but I guess not given the number of people who commented on the picture I posted on social media.
“I’ve never done it before but at the time I just did what I needed to do.
“I sunned myself for about 20 minutes then there was talk that people were going to start moving so I jumped back in the van. I got a lovely tan.”
Starboy Record artiste, Oluwatosin Oluwole Ajibade a.k.a Mr. Eazi has taken to his IG to celebrate his mum who is a year older today.
I love my Mummy! She a Queen, She an Icon! She raised me proper, she prays for me, she is the greatest Woman Ever! She raised a KING! God bless my Mummy! Happy Birthday! Long live the QUEEN!! He wrote.
A 12 year-old boy, Friday Ezekiel, alleged to have been lured by his mates to a river in Majidun area of Lagos, has drowned.
The deceased, a Junior Secondary School 1 student of Ayobirin Secondary School, as gathered, left his widowed mother’s home, Monday evening in company of four of his friends. There were different accounts on how he drowned in the river. A version of the account had it that he had an altercation with one of his friends, who allegedly pushed him into the river in the process.
Another account had it that he was cajoled into joining his mates to swim in the river, unfortunately, his legs, as gathered, got stuck in the mud, as he could not swim. Rather than assist him, his mates were said to have left him to his fate and returned to their respective homes. One of them was said to have taken Ezekiel’s slippers home. Meanwhile, back home, his apprehensive mother had raised the alarm over his absence. A search party conducted round the community, yielded no luck, before a member of the community informed them that they saw a drowned person in the river.
A relative of the deceased, who simply gave her name as Kemi, said: “We rushed to the river and found his body there. We begged some local divers to help us bring it out but they demanded N40,000 which mama Friday could not afford. Some members of the community contributed N20,000 and handed over to the people before they brought out the body.
None of the boys opened up until some people said they saw them going towards the river. Vanguard gathered that the late Friday was buried, yesterday, after some rituals were performed. When contacted, Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Chike Oti, said he was not aware of the incident
The Tin-can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has impounded two containers loaded with Tramadol Hydrochloride (225 milligrams).
The drugs that were loaded in a 1×20 and 1×40 feet containers, were imported from India with a total Duty Paid Value, DPV of N124 million.
This is just as the Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, yesterday, described the closure of three pharmaceutical companies involved in the illegal codeine sales as short term measure, saying, “only implementation of proper prescription record and rights for doctors will stop the abuse among the populace.
” Disclosing the seizure in Lagos yesterday, the Customs Area Controller, Mohammed Abdullahi Musa, said that agent of one of the consignments whose identity he did not disclose, had been detained.
Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu has declared that he will ensure that the incumbent governor of Oyo state, Abiola Ajimobi is jailed when he, Shittu, eventually becomes the governor in 2019.
Speaking journalists Tuesday evening in Abuja after a closed door meeting with the APC national chairman Chief John Odigie Oyegun, Shittu also about last Saturdays ward congresses in the state.
“He (Ajimobi) has failed in so many things including human relations and others I cannot say openly in the media. Why is he afraid of going to jail if another Buhari like me comes to power in Oyo state?
Why is he afraid of primaries? For seven years, he has been running the Local Governments alone without elected officers. What it means is that the LGA funds come directly into his pocket.
He committed so many atrocities and that is why he is afraid of a Buhari coming to power in Oyo state.
“I want to say that if anybody is desperate in the Oyo political firmament, it should be Gov. Ajimobi who believes that if Barr. Shittu succeeds him, he will be in jail.
That is what he is reported to have always told people who mentioned me to him. “He thinks that I am too principled, firm, unbendable and uncompromising when it comes to issues of morality. It is he who is desperate to stop me not me being desperate to become governor.
Drake has sensationally unfollowed ex-Rihanna on Instagram. The social media snubs comes after the Man Down singer revealed they “don’t have a friendship" anymore.
Fans noticed Drake had left the army of 62.4 million people who follow her online.
The superstar pair have been the subject of on-off romance rumours since 2009, when they were spotted snogging at a New York bowling alley.
They have since traded barbs in interviews, come back together for numerous guest spots on each others' tracks and seemingly had a huge blow out at the 2012 MTV VMAs, when Rihanna refused to clap when Drake won.
When she was handed the prestigious Vanguard award at the MTV VMAs recently, Drake took out a billboard to congratulate her before confessing his undying love for Ri-Ri live on television.
But they have since told interviewers they are just friends. And now, no longer friends.
Timaya lives in a new house now, and dude has been trying to spend time in there after rolling out millions of naira for the abode. In this new photo, he showed us a glimpse of his walk-in-closet.
Danfo drivers are not happy at all that younger singer, Tekno went ahead to do a remix of their song without informing them. According to the singers, Tekno is owing them cash and if they get hold of him, they will deal with him. Watch the video below...
Nigeria's leading record label Mavin Records is SIX! Mavin record was created shortly after D'banj and Don Jazzy parted ways. It has Tiwa Savage, Da Prince, Dr Sid, Korede Bello, Reekado Banks, Di'ja and a host of other non-singers under it. We say happy anniversary to them! It's not easy!!
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, yesterday led other leaders and members of the House to visit Senator Dino Melaye at the National Hospital Abuja. They were received by former Speaker of the House Patricia Etteh, and the Chief Medical Director of the hospital Dr Jaf Momoh
The Nigerian police said they have smashed two gun running and arms dealing ring and a gang of robbers and kidnappers in the Benue-Taraba axis, making 11 arrests.
Among the suspects arrested was one Miracle Emmanuel, a 27 year-old gun dealer from Anambra, based in Takum, Taraba state. With his three-man gang, the police found five Ak-47 rifles, along with other ammunitions.
Police said they recovered in total 10 AK 47 rifles and two Beretta pistols from the 11 suspects paraded today at the Benue police headquarters in Makurdi and claimed the arrests were a major breakthrough in stopping the incessant killing of innocent people in the Middle Belt states of Benue, Taraba and Nasarawa.
In Benue state, Morris Ashwe, 36 years old from Mbajima Village Katsina Ala LGA, was the sole armourer arrested. He was accused of supplying arms to the wanted criminal kingpin, Terwase Akwaza a.k.a Ghana.
According to Jimoh Moshood, Ashwe was found in possession of five AK 47 rifles, 238 AK47 bullets, 40 Smoke Grenade Canisters and 79 LAR Rifle bullets.
The busted gun dealing gang in Taraba state comprised Takum-based Kabiru Idris, 43, Miracle Emmanuel from Anambra state, said to be a principal suspect and gang leader. Also arrested was Husseini Safiyanu, also from Taraba.
Police said they found five AK47 Rifles with the Taraba gang, along with 13 AK 47 magazines and 83 bullets.
The Police spokesman also said a seven-man robbery and kidnapping gang was arrested in Benue, along with two Beretta pistols. The gang was on its way to kidnap a prominent person in Makurdi, the state capital.
Members of the gang were identified as Emmanuel Ushehemba Kwembe, 28, Achir Gabriel, 30, all from Ushongo LGA, Sekad Uver, 28, from Koshisha LGA Benue State and Ordure Fada, 22, from Kwande LGA.
Others arrested were Stephen Jirgba 18, from Vande kya LGA, Peter Lorham, 24, from Kinshisha LGA and Lorhemen Akwambe 35, who hails from Guma LGA.
