We Are Sick Of You, Russian Protesters Tell Putin

Hundreds of Russian opposition supporters turned out Saturday to protest against President Vladimir Putin’s expected candidacy in elections set for 2018, with police detaining dozens of activists in the second-largest city of Saint Petersburg.

Protests in several cities were called by the Open Russia movement founded by arch-Putin foe and former oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

They were held under the slogan “We’re sick of him” — referring to Putin.

About 30 to 50 protesters were hauled away by riot police in a crackdown in Saint Petersburg after around 200 people gathered for an unauthorised demonstration, an AFP journalist witnessed.

Open Russia put the figure of detentions at about 50 people, while OVD-Info, which monitors detentions of political activists, said more than 125 were detained. Police have not yet issued numbers.

“Putin is an usurper. He has to finally go. We’re sick of him,” said one of the protesters, 35-year-old Anton Danilov.

“Everything is bad. Education, health — everything has been destroyed. I want changes,” said Galina Abramova, 57.

A similarly sized protest in Moscow remained peaceful as activists gathered at the offices of Putin’s administration and handed in petitions against his expected candidacy in 2018.

“I don’t want Putin to stand in the next elections,” said Anna Bazarova, a 16-year-old student queuing up to hand in her petition.

“Our main problem is that we can’t change those in power,” she said.

She added that many of her friends had opted not to attend, fearing detention by the police.

Riot police stood guard as officers used loudspeakers to warn protesters: “Citizens, your action has not been agreed by the authorities.”

One of the organisers, Yakov Yermakov, handed out forms for people to fill out with complaints to Putin.

“Our president has already been in power 17 years. We think that’s too long. Our country isn’t developing,” he said.

The protests came after opposition leader Alexei Navalny organised the largest unauthorised rally of recent years in Moscow on March 26. Police detained around 1,000 people, including Navalny.

Navalny has announced his plan to stand for president in 2018 and has galvanised the splintered opposition movement with a powerful online campaign including videos exposing corrupt officials. He has called for another protest on June 12.

The main figurehead of Saturday’s protests, Khodorkovsky, remains a highly controversial figure in Russia. The former oligarch and founder of the Yukos oil company spent a decade in prison and now lives in Britain.

His Open Russia movement has been targeted by the authorities recently with police raiding its Moscow offices this week.

Bruises spotted on corpse of Delta Politician who died in Police custody

New details have emerged on the cause of the death of former Director of Direct Labour Agency, Chief Lucky Ayomanor who allegedly died of cardiac arrest while in Police custody in Sapele, Delta State.

Photos released revealed that the late politician, reportedly sustained bruises and also swollen eyes in the course of his arrest.

Though his autopsy result is yet to be made public, it was gathered that Chief Ayomanor was accosted and searched by the police, who were on a “stop” and “search” duty along
Gana road in Sapele. It was alleged that a fully loaded revolver and pump action, was discovered in the SUV of Chief Ayomanor after he was searched by the police. He was arrested when he failed to provide the licence for the guns.

The Community leader and a former Labour Party, Delta State House of Assembly Candidate in 2011 election, however allegedly fainted and was quickly rushed to the hospital by the police where he suddenly died.

Ciara & Russell Wilson Welcome Baby Girl

Ciara and husband, Russell Wilson are now proud parents of a baby girl. The singer took to Instagram to announce the good news. Ciara wrote:

"Dear Sienna Princess Wilson, No matter how big the wave, we will always be your calm in the storm. We Love You.

"Love, Mommy & Daddy. 7:03 pm. 7 lbs 13 oz. 4.28.2017. Photo By Daddy."

The pair announced they were expecting at the end of October and revealed shortly before Christmas that they had already chosen a name for her. Big congrats to them!

My Husband Was Murdered In Cold Blood – Widow of Shell contract staff cries

To Mrs. Peace Onyekweli, life has suddenly become a strange journey, where she would have to cater for the children alone without her hard working husband, Mr. Cletus Onyekweli, 49, whose sudden death is still a mystery to his family.

Cletus was said to have been murdered on the premises of Shell Industrial Area in Rumuamasi area of Port Harcourt, where he was a contract employee for about 14 years.

The deceased, who recently earned an award for himself for his dedication to work, was found dead in his office in a pool of his own blood, an incident that suggested to the widow that her husband was murdered.

The incident, which happened on Thursday, April 13, 2017 has left the deceased’s family, including his three children in shock.

Punch reports that Cletus had before leaving for work on the fateful day, promised to teach his 15-year-old daughter Chemistry after work. But Cletus never came back home.

Narrating how the news of her husband’s death came to her, his wife said she became worried when she put a call across to him and his two phones indicated that they were switched off. The widow explained that she kept calling her husband’s colleagues, to ascertain the whereabouts of Cletus, who hailed from Aboh, Ndokwa East area of Delta State.

“I waited till about 8pm for him to come back to no avail. So, I suspected he might have been stuck in traffic. I called him again at 9pm when he was not back. I called his office mobile line, the response indicated it was switched off; I called his own personal two lines, they were switched off.

“I repeated the calls at 11pm and at about 12 midnight. It was the same. When it was 12, I prayed till about 1am. When it was after 1am, I woke the children up and told them that daddy was not back. Then we all held hands together and prayed that wherever he was, God should bring him back home.

“At 2am, I decided to call one of his subordinates and complained to him. Immediately I requested for one of his colleagues’ phone number and I gave him a call. The colleague told me they attended the training together and after a training programme, they held a meeting and he returned to his office. My husband’s colleague is in RA (Shell Residential Area) while my husband is in IA (Shell Industrial Area).

“He said he communicated with my husband with the office intercom at about 4pm and at about 6.30 to 7pm, he still communicated with him through their intercom, which suggested he was still in the office.

“My husband’s friend asked me to hold on and that he would speak with other colleagues to see what they could do to trace my husband’s whereabouts. At 3am, I called him again and he urged me to be patient and that they were already in Shell, but they had not been granted access into the place. I waited till about 6am and called him and he said no access yet,” Mrs. Onyekweli further narrated.

She expressed shock when she was later told that her husband was found dead in his office inside Shell Industrial Area, adding that the Division Police Officer at Elekahia Police Station told her that her husband’s corpse had been taken to a morgue in Shell Petroleum Development Company, Rivers State.

Insisting that justice must be allowed to prevail, Mrs. Onyekweli pointed out that her husband’s death has left a big vacuum, adding that her three children would not be able to cope with life without their father.

She said, “My husband was murdered in cold blood. From all understanding, I know there is nothing we can do to bring my husband back to life. But at the same time, I still want justice to prevail. It is like we are dealing with a masquerade now; we don’t really know who carried out the act. I don’t have the power to do that single-handedly. If government wants justice, let them go ahead; if the Old Boys want justice, let them also go ahead.

“My husband’s death has created a very big vacuum. I have to step in as a father and as a mother now. I am yet to comprehend how I am going to continue on this journey alone because it is now a journey of only one person. So, I just ask for God’s grace to carry on.

“As it stands now, I suspect everybody. I cannot hold concretely to one person that this is the person who murdered my husband, I suspect everybody.”

Late Cletus Onyekweli was before his demise, a member of the 1986 set of Immaculate Conception College, Benin, (Old Boys) and some members of the association are already crying foul over the death of their colleague.

One of the lawyers, who represent Mrs. Onyekweli and Old Boys of Immaculate Conception College, Port Harcourt Branch, Mr. William Arebamen, told our correspondent that they would not allow Shell Producing Development Company to sweep the matter under the carpet.

Arabamen said, “I coordinate a team of lawyers who represent Mrs. Peace Onyekweli, widow of late Engr Cletus Onyekweli, his family and Old Boys of Immaculate Conception College, Port Harcourt branch; of which the late Onyekweli was an active and committed member.

“He was discovered in a pool of blood, right in his office at SPDC industrial area, under circumstances that indicate that he was murdered.

“I and my team have been retained to represent his wife, family and association to unravel the mystery surrounding his death and we are committed to leave no stone unturned until we get justice for late Onyekweli and those he left behind.

“Letters have been written to SPDC and other stakeholders with respect to his unfortunate demise. The response received in the coming days shall decide our next line of action.”

Responding to Onyekweli’s death, SPDC spokesman, Mr. Joseph Obari, said, “A contract staff was found dead in his office at the industrial area of The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd in Port Harcourt on April 13.

“We are shocked and saddened at this incident and our thoughts are with the bereaved family. The family of the deceased has been informed, while the incident is being investigated.”

However, the Rivers State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. NnamdiOmoni, told our correspondent in a telephone interview that the police were making progress in an ongoing investigation on the matter.

“I am aware of the incident. Investigation is on and we are making significant progress; we are closing up on the perpetrators. It is not necessary for us to begin to disclose our findings on the pages of newspapers. We are doing our best and in no time, the perpetrators will be rounded up and charged to court,” Omoni added.

Security Guards Burgle Boss’ Home, Steal Cash, Electronics Worth N6m

Two security guards working at a house in Ikeja GRA, have been arrested after breaking into their boss’ house through a burglar-proof to steal hard currency and electronics.

The suspects, Abu Abubakar and Hadi Isiaka, indigenes of the same community in Kogi State, were employed through an agent, to work as day and night guards at the home of the GRA-based businessman, who frequently travels out of the country.

Isiaka, 30, had worked at the house for about two years before Abu was employed by their boss who did not know they were kinsmen.

24yrs old Abu, according to Punch, was sent packing from the house less than four months after he started work on suspicion of his criminal nature.

The police said the landlord of the house travelled abroad with his family in December 2016 only to come back and realised that $2,000 he kept in his bedroom was gone.

In addition to that, part of the bundles of N200 and N100 notes kept in the room were also taken.

But the case was not reported as the landlord decided he wanted to be sure of the actual thief before reporting to the police so the innocent ones out of his domestic staff would not suffer.

After trying in vain to determine how the house, which was locked up could have been accessed in his absence, he travelled again few months after with his family with the hope that the burglary was a one-off thing.

But this time, 2,000 Euro belonging to the landlady and the entire bundles of mint Nigerian notes which the family kept for social events were carted away.

Also stolen in the house were Apple Macbook, iPads and other valuables. Later, it was discovered that a hole barely enough for an adult’s head to pass through had been cut through the burglar-proof of one of the rooms in the house.

The police said the entire worth of mobile phones, perfumes and cash stolen on the two occasions amounted to N6m.

However, when Isiaka was questioned about how the house was burgled while he was working, he denied knowledge of it, but instead diverted suspicion to a former guard who was recalled to the house after Abu’s sack.

When asked if Abu could have perpetrated the burglary, Isiaka said he did not think so.

He was later asked to contact Abu since it had been discovered that they were both kinsmen but he insisted that Abu had left for their village to bury his mother.

A police source who is familiar with the investigation, said that when Isiaka finally took them to where Abu lived, they met Abu’s mother but they did not reveal themselves as policemen.

On a second visit, Abu’s mother was said to have disguised as someone else with a hijab and told the police that Abu would not be home from work for some days.

“We realised she must have learnt that we were policemen. When we threatened to arrest her until the actual mother showed up, she removed her Hijab and said she was indeed Abu’s mother that we had met the first time,” the police source said.

Our correspondent learnt that the woman promptly took them to Abu’s house where he was arrested.

He later confessed that he indeed carried out the burglary. Isiaka on his part first admitted to getting a share of N50,000 from proceeds of the loot. Again he change his words and said his share was N175,000. Later, he denied he got anything at all.

The suspects were detained at the Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba, Lagos.

On Thursday, the police said the suspects had been arraigned before a Yaba Magistrate’s Court, Lagos.

They were charged on three counts of conspiracy, burglary and stealing punishable under sections 411, 287 (7) and 307 (2) of the Criminal Laws of Lagos, 2015.

The suspects were admitted to a N200,000 bail each by Magistrate R. N. Johnson, while the case was adjourned till June 21, 2017 for mention.

Machine Gun Kelly Postpones Tour As He Suffers Fractured Sternum

Machine Gun Kelly has a contusion and hairline fracture of the sternum. Last week paramedics were called to the 27-year-old rapper and actor's Florida gig after he suffered chest pains and had to leave the stage during his concert.

The star returned to the stage after being checked out by the paramedics.

However, TMZ  has confirmed that he did suffer substantially and, as a result, he has postponed the first three stops on his new tour.

Kelly wrote in a statement released on Twitter: 'As many of you know I sustained a pretty intense chest injury on a movie set last week.'

'Since then I've seen multiple doctors in attempt to speed up my recovery process. I was advised to take one month off to make sure I fully recovered but you know that's not how I rock.

Unfortunately, I do have to postpone these first three shows (Fargo, Clive & Tulsa) to the end of this run.

Footballer Turns Robber after Losing Out of Nigeria's Team

29yrs old James Udobong, an Akwa Ibom State indigene, had always nursed a dream all his entire life – becoming a footballer for Nigeria’s national team.

After training as hard as he could in 2003, Udobong found his way to Abuja, to participate in an Under-17 trial. His hopes were high, energy feverish, but he was dealt a soul-crushing blow.

Udobong was not picked. And so ended his hope of ever becoming a football star.

To survive, he was repairing phones at the popular Wuse Market but soon, he could no longer pay his shop rent, according to claims.

According to Punch, thus started Udobong’s journey to the criminal world of phone robbery.

He was one of many robbery, kidnapping and fraud suspects rounded up by the Abba Kyari-led Inspector-General of Police Response Team, recently in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, for terrorising the residents.

Udobong said after he could no longer make ends meet, a friend suggested that he followed him to Transcorp Hilton and other five star hotels in Abuja, where they could target customers who were drunk in order to steal their phones.

He said, “My friend also taught me how to place orders online for expensive mobile phones. We tell the dealers that we were buying the phones on behalf of a prominent politician lodged in any of the five-star hotels we choose to use.

“When the dealer makes delivery, we take him to a floor of the hotel and take the phones inside a door under the guise of delivering it to the politician but the dealer wouldn’t know that door leads through a staircase downstairs.

“Usually, after taking the phone, I jump inside a waiting taxi in the ground floor and leave the hotel. But in my last operation, I brought the dealer to Transcorp and asked him to wait outside the room in order to show the phone to my principal. I got into a lift and went to the ground floor. But I was arrested by waiting security men at the hotel.”

Udobong was handed over to the police who recovered all the phones he stole from the dealer – iPhone, Infinix Note, two tablets and two Samsung Galaxy phones. Heading to prison.

Drug lord El Chapo father In-Law sentenced to 10yrs in prison

                            
                             
Mexican judge has sentenced the father-in-law of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to more than a decade in prison, Mexican officials said Friday.
49yrs old Ines Coronel Barreras was accused of smuggling marijuana to the United States and was arrested in the town of Agua Prieta, which borders the US state of Arizona.
The judge condemned Coronel — the father of Guzman’s third wife, former beauty queen Emma Coronel — to 10 years, five months and nine days in prison, in addition to a fine equivalent to 15,930 pesos (847 dollars).
The US Treasury Department had designated Coronel as a “key operative” of Sinaloa drug cartel prior to his 2013 arrest.
He was detained alongside four other men, with police also seizing two vehicles, four rifles, one gun and 255 kilograms of marijuana.
El Chapo - the powerful Sinaloa cartel’s notorious leader accused of running one of the world’s biggest drug empires - is currently detained in Manhattan where he is awaiting trial.
The man who for years was the world’s most wanted drug trafficker has pleaded not guilty to a raft of firearms, drug trafficking and conspiracy charges.
He escaped from a Mexican prison in 2001, was re-arrested in 2014, then escaped a maximum security prison through a tunnel the following year.
He was recaptured in January 2016 and extradited to the United States a year later.

Checkout Steamy Photos Of Dbanj & American model, Bernice Burgos in Florida

The 'Emergency' crooner who is currently in the Bahamas was spotted with American entrepreneur & model, Bernice Burgos.
The ace singer who seems to be working on a new project that involves the Model shared the photos and in one penned

'It has been lovely working with this amazing team.
Also, special one to my amazing Kokolet @realberniceburgos was really nice having you around, welcome to the LEE Temple. See you soon as we start an amazing Summer with #Bewithyou.'

More photos after the cut

'Why I’m still single' – Actress Rita Dominic

Nollywood actress, Rita Dominic has revealed why she is yet unmarried.

Rita, a veteran Nigerian actress was speaking in an interview with a lifestyle and fashion magazine, Schick, where she said that she could have been married a long time ago, but things didn’t work out.
The multiple award-winning actress, however, is hopeful that God will present the right man to her at the right time.

She said, “I believe that God is in charge of my life and will present the right man to me at the right time.”

When asked whether social pressure don’t get to her, Rita replied, “I am a human being and I would be lying to say that it doesn’t sometimes.

“More so because it’s something I sincerely want to do but the feeling passes when I remember that society will not live with the person.

“I will live with the man, so it is very important that I do it because I want to, not because society wants it for me.”

On the myth that sex, for women, gets better with age, Rita opined that sex at 40 is what you make of it.

“If you ordinarily don’t enjoy it, age won’t make a difference.

“I find that when a woman embraces her sexuality, many Nigerians equate it to being Ashewo, as if we should act like sex is not pleasurable.”

Rita described dating, as a nightmare, “especially in these days of social media where with one click you are all over the internet.”

Though she admitted that “I do date when someone special comes around.

“I love being totally drawn to someone and doing all those loving things couples do, but I am also wary of liars and bullies.‎”..(DailyPost)

APC Lawmaker Mohammed Gololo Attacked By Mob, House Ransacked

About one week after protesters attacked lawmakers and other public officials at a political event in Katsina, another lawmaker has been attacked.

Protesters disrupted a political gathering convened House of Reps member, Mohammed Gololo (APC-Bauchi), in his ancestral Gololo village of Gamawa area of Bauchi State.

Mr. Gololo, who is the representative for the Gamawa federal constituency, was on Sunday pelted with stones at the event he organized to distribute empowerment materials to his supporters.

His vehicle was damaged in the process as security operatives whisked him away, witnesses said.

A witness told PT that the windscreen of the car of the lawmaker was smashed by the angry youth who reportedly marched from the scene to his house to continue the attack.
Luckily for Gololo, he and his family had fled the house before the arrival of the mob.

Alleged Sterling Bank Whistle Blower Arraigned With Blogger Friend

The Nigeria Police Force has arraigned a self-acclaimed whistleblower, Dennis Ukpabi, and a blogger, Fejiro Oliver, for cyber stalking.

It was learnt that Ukpabi, who is a former employee of Sterling Bank Plc, was arrested for publishing a book titled, ‘The Whistleblower’, in which he accused some employees of the bank – Adekanla Desalu, Eguru Nyenke, Janet Akpan and Kojusola Ajao – of fraud.

Ukpabi also alleged that after exposing the fraud in the bank, one of his colleagues involved in the fraud was promoted because she was dating an executive director at the bank.


Ukpabi and Oliver were arraigned before a Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday on five charges bordering on alleged acts of ‘cyber stalking’, which are said to be punishable under the provisions of Section 24 of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition and Prevention etc) Act, 2015.

The first charge read, “That you Dennis Ukpabi and Tega Oghenero between 1st – 13th February, 2017 in Lagos within the jurisdiction of Federal High Court, conspired together to commit felonies, namely, knowingly and intentionally sending intimidated, hatred, insulting and needless anxiety messages and thereby committing an offence punishable under section 27 (1) (b) of Cybercrime (prohibition, prevention etc Act 2015).”

Another charge read that the accused sent offensive messages to Desalu, Busola Awosile, Nyenke and Adeyemi Odubiyi, which are said to be ‘’punishable under section 24 (1) (b) of Cybercrime (prohibition, prevention etc Act 2015.’’

The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The prosecution counsel, who is also a Superintendent of Police, Mr. J. Oloruntoba, asked the court to remand the defendants in prison custody. Frantic efforts were made by lawyers representing the two defendants; Mrs. Kitan and Mr. Inibehe Effiong, to persuade the court to admit them to bail.

Effiong, who is a human rights lawyer, informed the court that the defendants were accosted by the police and arraigned surreptitiously without proper and adequate notice.

The trial judge, Justice Mohammed Idris, asked the defendants’ counsel to bring a formal application for bail and promised to hear it expeditiously.

The judge remanded them in Ikoyi Prisons.

Father Cries Out Over Baby Born With Exposed Intestine

                                 

A 32-year-old man, Mr. Kingsley Igbenije, has cried out over the neglect of his newly born baby by members of staff of some government-owned hospitals in Lagos.
The Delta State native, who expressed frustration at the situation during a chat with our correspondent on Friday, said that since the premature delivery of the baby on Monday, he had endured several sleepless nights in an attempt to keep the infant alive.
He said that apart from developing complications leading to the exposure of the intestine shortly after being delivered at the Ifako General Hospital, the baby had been placed on oxygen and kept inside an incubator ever since.

Known as Gastroschisis in medical parlance, the condition is a birth defect in which an infant’s intestines are outside of the body because of a hole in the abdominal wall.
According to him, efforts to have a surgery performed on the child by doctors at Lagos University Teaching Hospital, and the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital respectively, had been unsuccessful as a result of the lack of functional incubator at both facilities.
Igbenije, who disclosed that he had spent more than N80, 000 since Monday to keep the infant and his wife alive, is calling on the government and all well-meaning Nigerians to come to his aid.
He said, “My wife was rushed to Ifako General Hospital on Monday after falling into premature labour. We soon realised that the baby had a swelling on the stomach. The swelling later burst open, exposing the intestine of the child since that time.
“The hospital referred us to LUTH and LASUTH for further attention but on getting there we were told that there was no functional incubator to put the baby inside even though they had the facility to carry out the surgery. We have gone back there several times but they keep telling us the same thing while the child is in a precarious situation.
“I have spent all my entire savings since Monday buying one thing or another to keep my wife and the baby alive. I lost my job last year and since that period, it has not been easy taking care of my family.
“I am calling on the Lagos State Government and all well-meaning Nigerians to come to our rescue and save the life of this child. She is our only child and hope for tomorrow, please help us.”

“I am so happy for Tekno and his success and I am not surprised"-Iyanya

Nigerian singer and winner of the first season of Project Fame West Africa, Iyanya Onoyom Mbuk, known by his mononym Iyanya, has insisted he is not jealous of Tekno’s success and says he is not surprised at how his career has risen.

In an interview with Saturday Beats, When asked if he is envious of Tekno’s success, the singer simply smiled and said he had always believed Tekno whom he dubbed ‘Golden boy’ would succeed in life.
He said,

“I am so happy for Tekno and his success and I am not surprised. At a point, we were all together and this is a young guy that works very hard. He worked every night and when we woke up in the morning, he would still be working.  

So, I am not surprised that he has finally made it. I believe this is just the beginning and there are many more things to come his way. When he came to Triple MG, he sprayed his hair gold and anytime I wanted to call him, I referred to him as golden boy. I am very happy he is doing great things.'

 How would I be envious of somebody that Ubi Franklin and I raised from our platform? We used our platform to promote him and I cannot be envious of him; there is no need for that. People would always try to say negative things but we are very fine.”

Iyanya is known for his signature dance moves especially which include whining his waist seductively, a gesture that endears him to women. When the singer was asked whether he has stopped, he simply said that he still does that.

“I have not reduced the way I whine my waist. If you watch my shows and my new video you would realise that I have not reduced the way I whine my waist. I still entertain people especially the ladies with my sexy dance moves,” he said.

Ile Ife Ethnic Clash: Traditional Ruler, Others Remanded In Prison

Six persons including a traditional ruler have been remanded in prison, following their arraignment at the Osun State High Court Osogbo.

Security was heightened as the Lawarikan of Apoje land, Oba Ademola Ademiluyi and five others were arraigned before Justice Kudirat Akano.

They all pleaded not guilty to the 14 count charge bordering on murder, conspiracy to commit murder and armed robbery, arson and possession of grievous weapons brought before ‎them.

Fourteen suspects were to appear in court but only six are being arraigned because others are said to be at large.


The suspects were arrested last month after the March 8 communal clash in Sabo area of the state, between Ile Ife indigenes and Arewa community.

Many lives were lost in the clash as properties worth millions of naira were also destroyed.

However, the accused persons were not granted bail as requested by the defence counsel but the presiding judge ordered for the formal bail application on the next adjournment date. ‎.

‎Justice Akano ordered that the accused persons be remanded and adjourned the case to the 14th, 15th and 16th of June 2017 for hearing.

Nigerian Wole Oni becomes first to get Yamaha endorsement in Africa

Nigerian artiste, Wole Oni has been endorsed by Yamaha Corporation Yamaha Gulf FZE as the brand's first artist signed in the whole of Africa.

Wole Oni is a multi-award winning music producer. He is the founder of Instinct Productions.

The Ondo State born producer, music writer and arranger has worked in many countries including Rwanda, South Africa, United Kingdom and the United States of America.

He's known for writing and producing music for artists’ album projects, as well as scoring various radios, television and film projects.
His first hit was producing “E wa fun mi ni visa” for Bembe Aladisa, but his first big break was producing the smash hit song “Kosobabire” which gained massive air play all over the world and earned a KORA award for Gospel songstress Folake Umosen.
One of the pecks Oni got from his new deal is the new age customized machine "Montage 8".
The artiste said Yamaha has been looking out for him for more than 10 years.
Some of the songs he also produced include, Midnight crew’s Igwe, Lara George’s Ijoba Orun, and Kefee’s Thank you my God.

Adamawa Speaker Beats Up Police Sergeant Attached To Him

The Speaker of Adamawa State House of Assembly, Rt Hon. Kabiru Mijinyawa has beaten the hell out of a police Sergeant attached to him for complaining over nonpayment of duty and food allowance, Leadership Newspaper claims.

They claim, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Othman Abubakar, confirmed the development to newsmen in Yola on Thursday.

He said that the Area Commander in charge of Yola Area Command was handling the matter,saying he had no details yet over the incident.

An eye witness who pleaded anonymity however said the sergeant, who was among the policemen attached to the speaker, complained over nonpayment of duty and food allowance.


He said, angered by the complaint, the speaker descended on the policeman, a development which took the intervention of his civil defence counterpart to rescue the uniformed man.

“The dazed sergeant was rescued by a civil defence man who had to remind the speaker that he was beating up a policeman,” the eye witness, who preferred anonymity said.

“You know, the speaker is a hot tempered person and one needs to know how to approach him on sensitive matters like this.”

“The sergeant needed to have followed due process in forwarding any complaint to the speaker.”

Efforts to get the side of the speaker proved abortive as the calls and text message made to his handsetwere by Leadership Newspaper were not replied.

OAP Freeze secures bail of arrested mother of 3, pays one year rent

An arrested mother of 3, whose kids were left to fend for themselves after she was jailed for one month by her landlady over rent, has been freed by Cool FM OAP, Daddy Freeze, who secured her bail.

Daddy Freeze, also paid the lady's one year rent, after she was whisked down to Olosan Police station in Mushin, where she spent over a month, because she couldn't afford the bail of N50,000. The Cool FM OAP and his team, are also trying so hard to reunite the lady, who is also a widow with her kids, as they were taken into government custody.

Here's what he wrote;

"This is Lateefa, a mother of 3. She was imprisoned for over a month wrongfully, by her landlady. -
The #FreeTheSheeple movement freed her from prison through our wonderful Barrister BUKKY, got the case against her thrown out of court. We went on to contribute towards her rent and paid for 1 year. Now we are uniting her with her children, who were taken into government custody.

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This is what we do.... All the blogs report about us is negative. But while you are busy criticizing us, we are touching lives and freeing sheeple from yahoo boy pastors.-

P.S the widow we contributed money for was so excited, she said the last time she saw the type of money we gave her was 10yrs ago. Her husband died leaving her with nothing 10 years ago... her 8yr son died a few months ago.. Don't just comment on the internet, touch a life, it's what we do! ~FRZ

#FreeTheSheeple 🙏" .

Delta Politician Dies In Police Custody

A prominent politician and former Director-General of the state Direct Labour Agency, Chief Lucky Ayomanor, has died while in the custody of the police in Sapele.

The Punch learnt that Chief Ayomanor reportedly slumped and died at the hands of police operatives after he was allegedly beaten and maltreated over an allegation of being in possession of a loaded firearm on Wednesday.

It was gathered that the late politician was arrested at 9pm around the popular Gana area of Sapele while driving to pay his elder brother a visit at his home.


Chief Ayomanor was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party having recently decamped from the All Progressives Party.

He contested the Sapele House of Assembly seat under the Labour Party in 2011 but lost to PDP.

Nigerian twins recreate childhood photo from 20 years ago

Twin sister and brother, Kehinde and Taiwo Adeyemi were 8 years old when this childhood photo of them below was first taken.

Two decades later, they recreated it and Kehinde, who is now married with a child shared them on social media saying:

"8yrs old vrs 29 Same set of sofa we couldn't fit into the previous one loool. All hail African carpenters mehn 20yrs and the sofas are still intact!!! #tbt @taiwoadeyemi"

It seems Hushpuppi is one of Bobrisky's baes

Nigerian Crossdresser, Bobrisky, took to Snapchat to gush about one of Nigeria's 'biggest boy', Hushpuppi, who he was pictured with few months back. According to Bobrisky, Hushpuppi loves him for who he is, even with his bad skin.

He also went further to share a photo, where his hand with a huge ring on it, placed
on probably Hushpuppi's lap. This has led everyone into believing, that something might be going on between this two.

Checkout The 2 Revealing Outfit J-Lopez Wore To Billboard Latin Music Awards

Jennifer Lopez dared to bare Thursday in two revealing dresses at the Billboard Latin Music Awards in Florida.

The 47-year-old singer put her stunning figure on display in the long black dress that featured a plunging neckline and cut-out panels along her ribs and hips for the first number of the night.

J-Lo revealed even more legs with a high thigh slit as she arrived at the Watsco Center in Coral Gables, Florida for the awards ceremony.

She completed her outfit with black open-toed stiletto heels. Jenifer had her long dark brown hair parted down the middle and gathered in a ponytail.

She accessorized with dangling earrings and several rings. The On The Floor singer also carried a black clutch.

I saw some people mourning Desmond Elliot - Nigerian pastor reveals

A Nigerian pastor, Celestian Michael has raised alarm after according to him, he fell into a trance and saw people mourning Nollywood actor, and Lagos state house of Assembly member, Desmond Elliot.
He also asked people to join him in praying against it.
He wrote;

Lai Mohammed Cautions Lying Journalists And Bloggers

Speech by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, at the Annual National Conference and General Meeting of the NIPR in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Thursday, 27 April 2017.

I am most honoured to be here today to attend the annual national conference and general meeting of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR).

 Let me say that my presence here today is a measure of the importance I attach to this conference. Due to competing assignments and tough logistics, I virtually had to jump through hoops to be here. Without equivocating, however, I will say that I am glad to be among you all.

 There is no better occasion that this to examine the increasingly tough, and almost impossible, job of a public relations practitioner.

 Tougher still is the task of the Government Perception Manager, whether he or she is the Minister of Information, Commissioner for Information, Spokespersons for the President or Governor or for any government agency.

 The challenges faced daily by the perception managers have been exacerbated by the Social Media. Today, the challenges have defied everything the practitioner may have been taught about perception management, public relations and all.

 Therefore, the government spokesperson, in order to succeed, must be a Cicero, a Socrates, an Albert Einstein and a Machiavelli all rolled into one.

 The perception manager today is engaged in an unending war with an opposition that is amorphously defined, an opposition who never sleeps, an opposition that has no rules of engagement, an opposition that has power without responsibility or control, one whose objective is not to inform, educate or provide constructive criticism but to set their own agenda from their own ethnic, religious, ideological and economic perspective, irrespective of what the challenges of government are.

 Today’s perception manager, especially at the government level, can be likened to one who has signed a contract, the terms of which he or she is not aware of. As I said earlier, the opponents are not clearly defined.

 They could be friends today and opponents tomorrow. They are not interested in the vision of the government nor the welfare of the people.

They insist on being heard and seen, and the privacy, reputation or integrity of the public official are of no consequence to them.

 As far as they are concerned, government and its leadership must be annihilated. It is not about logic, reason, intellectual discourse or professionalism.

 It is about viciousness and bitterness that are hard to fathom. Today, anyone with a phone and data is a journalist, a blogger, owner of an online publication, an opinion molder, etc.

 They invent stories and even spend money to push such phantom stories. Their mantra is to lie, misinform, malign and confuse.

And they do all this simply because they can. No regulations, no sanctions. The spokesperson is at their mercy. Regrettably, they have a fanatic followership in the largely uninformed masses, whose experience over the years has primed them not to trust government and public office holders.

 The masses are daily served incredible menu and unbelievable tales which they swallow hook, line and sinker.

 How else can you explain that people will believe and circulate a fake report that the Minister of Information and Culture, that is yours truly, has 1.2 billion dollars in his imaginary bank account? Let’s examine this for a moment. 1.2 billion dollars is about 400 billion Naira.

 The entire yearly budget of the Ministry of Information and Culture, where I preside, is under 15 billion Naira, and these include salaries, overhead and capital projects.

 Assuming, without conceding, that the Minister somehow manages to transfer the entire budget into his personal account, it will take 25 years for him to amass 400 billion Naira. Yet, this disinformation was lapped up by the public. Similar imaginary huge sums of money have been credited to other Ministers.

 This is not a surprise, because the more vicious and irreverent a blog or website is, the more the followership. The more the naysayers can invent stories or malign government officials, the more their ratings.

 They do not wait for the weekly Federal Executive Council to end before they put out their version of what transpired there. Only yesterday, even after I had briefed the State House Correspondents on the outcome of the day’s meeting, my views were still misrepresented.

I had said President Muhammadu Buhari chose to rest and work from home for that day, hence he has asked the VP to preside over the day’s FEC meeting. By the time this was reported, a section of the press simply quoted me as saying the President will henceforth be working from home. Even when they are corrected, they are neither sorry nor remorseful.

 They just move on, to do something worse the day after! One may be tempted to ask: Why do these naysayers do what they do? It is partly to distract government, to force the government perception spokespersons to be fighting bush fires and then lose focus.

 It is therefore imperative for government perception managers to be keenly aware of this, so as not to fall prey. As spokespersons for the government, you must not allow yourselves to be distracted. You must be proactive rather than defensive.

You must refuse to allow them to set your agenda for you. You must not allow them to turn you to a fire brigade, fighting bush fires all over. You must stay true to your calling to inform and educate, and to telegraph the achievements of your principal and the intentions of government.

You must neither be intimidated, cowed nor be overwhelmed by the cynics. You must set your own agenda and daily review such, with a view to improving on them. You must never lose touch with your traditional constituents.

 You must understand the tactics of the opposition, which is ambush and irrational. For example, when we inform them of the rot we met in government and the unimaginable body blows that the economy has endured, blows that would have shaken even the strongest economy in the world, they shrug it away, saying cynically ‘we know that, and that’s why we voted you into office’.

 When we tell them how we created 200,000 jobs in one fell swoop, they pretend not to hear. When we inform that our gallant military has captured Ground Zero of the Sambisa Forest, they are not interested.

When 21 Chibok Girls were released, they say it’s a lie. When our Euro-bond was oversubscribed eight times over, they do not consider that news good enough. When we recorded a month-on-month reduction in inflation, they sneer at us.

 When we said we have saved over 9 billion Naira from travels and estacodes in one year, they feign ignorance and when we said the government is taking unprecedented steps to fight corruption, they accuse us of being selective.

The government information managers must not allow themselves to be discouraged by this. They must continue to trumpet the achievements of their governments and the challenges they face in delivering the dividends of democracy to the people, because this is their role, to inform, educate and to polish the image of government.

Today’s government information manager, whether he is Minister or Commissioner in charge of Information, must equip himself with qualities such as integrity, courage, abnormal capacity for hard work, ingenuity, resourcefulness, ability to think out of the box, encyclopedic knowledge of all things under the stars, incorruptibility and, above all, passion about the job.

Tough times require tough people, and tough challenges require hard work. In the end, success is guaranteed, irrespective of the antics of the naysayers. I wish you a successful deliberation, and I thank you for your kind attention.

Student Sentenced To 15 Years Imprisonment

A Jos High Court on Thursday sentenced a 23-year-old man, Mathias Joseph, to 15 years in prison for attempting to rob a woman, Mrs Christabel Tongman of her car at gunpoint.

Justice A. I. Ashom, sentenced Joseph after he pleaded guilty to the crime and begged the court for leniency.

Ashom, in a 16-paged judgment, pronounced the convict guilty of a three-count charge of attempted robbery, house trespass and illegal possession of a firearm.

The offences contravened Sections 2 (1and2) of the Robbery and Firearms ACT, CAP R11, 350 of the Penal Code of Northern Nigeria and 3 (1) of the Robbery and Firearms ACT, respectively.


“Going by the totality of evidence before this court from the prosecution, there was an attempted robbery and that the accused was involved in the attempt and was armed with a pistol.

“There was a motive by the accused to rob the victim and forcefully extract money and perhaps, other valuables from her.

“The fact that the said pistol was not tendered in evidence does not erase the evidence that a pistol was involved.

“The victim stated she saw the accused with one and the accused stated he had one, which was collected upon his arrest.

“From the totality of the foregoing, I am left in no doubt that the prosecution has discharged the burden of the law placed on it.

“The issue for determination is, therefore, resolved in the affirmative; the accused person is accordingly, hereby, convicted as charged.

“Considering the absence of no previous criminal records on you (convict), I am incline not to invoke the maximum punishment by law, you are, therefore, sentenced to serve 5 years for each offence and it shall run concurrently,” he said.

Joseph was arraigned in January 2016 to answer a three-count charge of attempted robbery, trespass and illegal possession of firearm.

He was said to have committed the crime on Nov. 29, 2015 at Tudun Wada, Jos, when he attempted to rob a woman of her car.

The prosecutor, Mr E. O Ochai, had told the court that the convict, armed with a pistol in company of one Alias Doctor, now at large.

They forcefully gained entrance into the house of Tongman.

Ochai said that the duo assaulted the victim and attempted to snatch her car, but was apprehended by neighbours when she let out a loud scream.

The victim, who stood as a witness during trial, told the court that while driving into her house on the said date, she noticed the convict and two others lurking around her gate.

She said, unaware of any danger, she alighted from her car and tried to lock her gate when she was accosted by Joseph and his gang.

Tongman further told the court that Joseph and his gang started to beat her, adding that when she started screaming for help, the convict shot into the air to scare away neighbours.

The convict was, however, apprehended during the robbery while his gang absconded.

Seven people died In Calabar Viewing Centre not 30 - FG

The Federal Government has disputed reports that 30 persons had died, when a high-tension cable fell on a football viewing centre in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, on April 20.
The Minister of Interior, Lt-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd), said Thursday that investigations carried out on the incident, showed that seven persons lost their lives.
The Minister, in a statement signed by the Director, Press and Public Relations, Mr. Willie Bassey, said 15 other victims of the tragedy, had sustained varying degrees of injuries, out of which five have since been discharged. According to Bassey, the official figure was a product of fact-finding visits a “high-powered delegation” Dambazau constituted in the wake of incident, had undertaken to community leaders, as well as interaction with the State’s Commissioner for Information, Mrs. Rosemary Archibong.....

2 Die As Building Collapses Off Admirality Way, Lekki

Two people have died as a two-storey building under construction in Lekki area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria partially collapsed.

The workers were mixing concrete on the site when part of the building collapsed, with people trapped under the debris. The building is located at NICON Town Estate off Admirality Way, Lekki.

Officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, and other rescue responders are on site trying to rescue those trapped in the debris. Two people are said to be dead.

How N3,000 led to Juliana ‘Toyo Baby’ Olayode being removed from Funke Akindele’s ‘Jenifa’s Diary’

Funke Akindele and Juliana Olayode on the set of ‘Jenifa’s Diary’

It is confirmed that Funke Akindele and Juliana Olayode, who plays Toyo Baby on Jenifa’s Diary, have parted ways.
According to TNS sources, Funke Akindele removed Toyo Baby from the series over what the latter termed ‘bad pay’.

The source revealed that Toyo Baby was cut off from the popular TV series for requesting an increment in pay which didn’t go well with Funke Akindele who feels she’s an ingrate being that Olayode rose to stardom through her appearances on the show.
Sources close to SceneOneProductions, producers of Jenifa’s Diary, further revealed to TNS that the producer of the show, Funke Akinkele via her production manager and younger sister – Abimbola – pays actors between N3,000 and N150,000 (per episode/season of the show) depending on the role.

Juliana Olayode aka Toyo Baby (Instagram).

An actress, who spoke to TNS under the condition of anonymity via text message, narrated how she was paid what she termed ‘peanuts’ by Akindele’s team after being part of an all-night party scene on Jenifa’s Diary.

‘I got a text message from Sceneone Productions that I had been selected to act on Jenifa’s Diary and I will be part of a party scene. I was so excited that I told my entire family about it.
‘Mind you, it wasn’t my 1^st time acting but the feeling of being on Jenifa’s diary was a big deal for me. I was asked to come with five different party costumes.
‘Location was Amen Estate, Eleko. After filming with over 30 girls the whole night, Funke came to address us and advice that money shouldn’t be our priorities at this stage; that was when it occurred to me that something  awkward was about to happen….just then, the Production Manager, Mr Osmond whispered something to Funke’s sister, Abimbola and she started paying us each 3K. Can u imagine? 3K for all night shoot!…on Jenifa’s Diary!…
‘I was so mad, some of us had to turn down the money shaa….couldn’t face my mom to explain to her what happened the next morning.’

Juliana Olayode was visibly absent in a recent photoshoot held for the upcoming season.

According to our findings, actors Lota Chukwu, Omotunde Lolo 1, Falz (who has also left the show) and Olayode are the highest paid actors who take home N150,000 per season. The rest take home much lesser money.
Stars like Tiwa Savage, Toke Makinwa and others who have had cameo appearances on the show reportedly got between N100,000 and N300,000 for ‘showing face’.

Funke, Juliana & Tiwa Savage on the set of ‘Jenifa’s Diary’