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Recalls how his father died and reveals why their movies are full of rituals Nollywood star actor and comedian,John Okafor,popularly known as,Mr. Ibu, in this interview expresses his reservations on the efficacy of the current   anti-corruption war even as he revealed that Enugu State has abundant latent Nollywood potentials yet untapped. BY FRANCIS IGATA What do you foresee for the Nollywood industry in 2016? The picture I foresee for the Actors Guild of Nigeria,AGN,in 2016 is big. But,there is a clause. The clause there is that we should stop attacking each other. If we stop attacking each other by going to court and police every minute including washing our dirty leaning in the public, we will go far. AGN is one all over the world. Our own should not be an exception. Good administration has eluded us for so long now. We do not have people that can pilot the affairs of the AGN. We are fighting every minute. How do we succeed in life in that kind of atmosphere? Now,I sent a propo

Recalls how his father died and reveals why their movies are full of rituals Nollywood star actor and comedian,John Okafor,popularly known as,Mr. Ibu, in this interview expresses his reservations on the efficacy of the current   anti-corruption war even as he revealed that Enugu State has abundant latent Nollywood potentials yet untapped. BY FRANCIS IGATA What do you foresee for the Nollywood industry in 2016? The picture I foresee for the Actors Guild of Nigeria,AGN,in 2016 is big. But,there is a clause. The clause there is that we should stop attacking each other. If we stop attacking each other by going to court and police every minute including washing our dirty leaning in the public, we will go far. AGN is one all over the world. Our own should not be an exception. Good administration has eluded us for so long now. We do not have people that can pilot the affairs of the AGN. We are fighting every minute. How do we succeed in life in that kind of atmosphere? Now,I sent a propo

It is no longer news that David Adeleke, aka ‘Davido’, has been the talk of the town for sometime now. The HKN boss has taken his career a notch higher by signing a deal with Sony BMG Music. The 23-year-old millionaire announced this news himself on his twitter handle on Thursday. Davido He tweeted “to all those that doubted me, its a done deal! First African artist to sign a global record deal!! My story is just starting!! My mother is smiling in heaven right now!! Sony Music Entertainment!! Owo ti wole.” Davido sounds very elated about this new development in his musical career because the deal seems to be a promising one. On the other hand, reactions have begun to trail his announcement. Some people are happy for the young and enterprising artiste while some feel very pessimistic about this development. Sesan Adeniji, publisher of Mystreetz Magazine seems to be very pessimistic about this deal. Here is what he has to say about it “In this present moment, every news that is relat

Champagne’ used to be a really seductive word a few decades back. You didn’t have to say it in a sultry French accent for it to convey a word of sophistication, glamour and wealth. Jerry, my friend’s British husband really loves the stuff. According to him: “It sashays off the tongue like a yacht gliding into Monte Carlo harbour.” At least it used to. But something has gone seriously wrong. Nowadays, you’re more likely to hear the word yelled across various night clubs, demanded by casually dressed ‘celebs’, and celebs-wanabes looking more like  recalcitrant youths. Sadly to say, champagne “ain’t posh no more”. In certain circles, the doubt has been creeping in for some time. For old school snobs, the sophistication began to wane when supermarkets and ‘Oke-arin’ and Apongbon stalls began stock-pilling crates of the stuff next to locally brewed spirits and cut-price fizz drinks. Early last year, pictures emerged in most British tabloids when pictures emerged of race-goers at the Chelt

A motorist shot and killed a good Samaritan who stopped to help him after his car slid off an icy North Carolina highway on Friday evening, according to the Catawba County Sheriff's Office.  Around 5:20 p.m. Friday, a group of people stopped to help a motorist who slid off the road in Catawba. The group called the Sheriff's Office for help, and when the driver of the car heard them calling law enforcement, he began shooting, authorities say. The Samaritans ran, but one was shot. That's when, according to the Sheriff's Office, the driver, Marvin Lee (pictured above), approached and continued firing on the downed victim. According to the authorities Lee appeared to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol. The suspect returned to the vehicle and wouldn't exit. A tactical team responded with an armored vehicle. Lee was pepper-sprayed and taken into custody. The name of the victim has not yet been released.

A group of angry Nigerians gathered near the Arwyp hospital in Kempton Park, Johannesburg today to protest against police brutality after a policeman allegedly suffocated a Nigerian. But officials told reporters that the man died after swallowing what is thought to be drugs. Police officers rushed him to the health facility in an attempt to save his life. Details later...more photos after the cut...

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The ad was released before Chelsea officially sacked Jose Mourinho as its coach in December 2015.

Deji Adeyanju last weekend narrated his experience on Twitter after visiting PDP National Publicity Secretary Olisa Metuh in Kuje prison (Read  here ). When he attempted to go visit Metuh again, he was allegedly denied access. See more of his tweets after the cut...

Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has reportedly banned star player Cristiano Ronaldo from traveling to Morocco to see best friend Badr Hari.According to a report by El Espanyol, transcribed by Spanish paper Sport, Perez banned Cristiano Ronaldo from his Morocco trips due to his poor form, weary that the player could lose form due to exhaustion and fatigue from his frequent travels. It is well known that Cristiano Ronaldo frequently flies to Morocco to spend time with his heavyweight kickboxer friend, Badr Hari. Some times he flies in with his private jet four times a week to Morocco with some media outlets suggesting a gay relationship between the pair. From Monday to Thursday, Ronaldo gets his £14m private jet at 3PM, after Madrid training finishes, to Marrakech before returning to Madrid at night. Whatever his reasons are for doing this, Perez wants it to stop as he believes it’s affecting Ronaldo’s contribution on the pitch, despite scoring 27 goals in all competitions s

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Technology giant Google is to pay £130 million ($185.4 million, 172 million euros) in back taxes to Britain following a government inquiry into its tax arrangements, a company spokeswoman said Friday. It follows a six-year probe by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs in response to controversy over low taxes paid by multinational corporations which operate in Britain but have headquarters elsewhere. “We have agreed with HMRC a new approach for our UK taxes and will pay £130 million, covering taxes since 2005,” a Google spokeswoman said. “The way multinational companies are taxed has been debated for many years and the international tax system is changing as a result. This settlement reflects that shift.” In future, Google will pay taxes in Britain according to revenue from advertisers based in Britain, something that “reflects the size and scope of our UK business”, the spokeswoman said. The BBC reported that Google would now register a greater proportion of its sales activity in B

Yesterday OAP and stand up comic Lolo1 slammed comedienne over her attitude and comedic act, calling it embarrassing. We all waited for Princess to react on social media but she didn't. When LIB reached out to her she said "I don't want to join issues with anyone. I don't want to comment on it because I don't want that to generate something else. Thanks for calling. "

This monkey adopted a lost puppy on the street of New Delhi, India and they have been living together ever since. According to local media reports, the monkey never lets the puppy stay out of his reach. They eat and play together and whenever other dogs try to mess with the little puppy, the monkey chases them away. This is amazing because monkeys and dogs don't generally get along. See more photos after the cut...

 Ace Nigerian music act, Sean Tizzle who is one of the many celebrities who have their bodies inked, took to his instagram page to share a bedroom selfie. The “Jalolo” crooner shared the photo of himself showing off his chest tattoo. We think the photo is cool, do you agree? 

The  Presbyterian Reverend of Ameke-Abam in Arochukwu, Titus Onwuchekwa who was paraded alongside five suspects for armed robbery at the Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja has revealed that a car dealer used the stolen car to sow a seed into his life. The other suspects who were paraded alongside Rev Titus included Opeyemi Aregbesola, 28; Bola Salami, 30; Osas Felix Bright, 32; Chibike Umeh, 22; and Ndibe Samuel, 31. •Cross section of the robbers paraded by the police. It was learnt that upon the arrest of two notorious armed robbery kingpins, Opeyemi Aregbesola and Bola Salami who had been on the wanted list of Special Anti-Robbery Squad for snatching exotic vehicles, the operatives recovered a Toyota Camry 2007 model with registration number MUS782DD. While parading the suspects, Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Fatai Owoseni, said that, “During interrogation, the duo confessed to have stolen a series of cars at gunpoint. Their confession led to the arrest of one Osas Felix B

A South African region on Friday said it had launched a new grant scheme for girls who remain virgins throughout the course of their university studies, triggering outrage among rights groups. The bursary offered in Uthukela,in the southeast of the country near Durban city, is the brainchild of  municipality’s female mayor Dudu Mazibujo. News of the grant scheme sent shockwaves among civil society groups, with one women’s association branding it unconstitutional. “The bursaries are for young girls who are still virgins,” municipality spokesman Jabulani Mkhonza told AFP. “It’s a new category which the mayor has introduced this year,” he said, adding that the goal is to encourage “young girls to keep themselves pure and inactive from sexual activity and focus on their studies.” Beneficiaries of the grant will be subjected to regular virginity tests, he added. “Those children who have been awarded bursaries will be checked whenever they come back for holidays. The bursary will be ta

For all the negative headlines surrounding police officers and community policing these days, it’s seriously refreshing when a video like this comes along and allows us to restore a little bit of faith in humanity. Somebody in Gainesville, Florida wasted the time of the police by calling them for a noise complaint about kids playing basketball in the street recently, and the responding officer handled the call in the best way possible. The person who called in the complaint must have been quite distraught when the officer showed up and instead of shutting down the kids’ fun, joined in on the action, balling up with the them for about 10 minutes. In fact, even more kids came outside to play in the time that the cop was hanging around. Talk about your all-time backfires! Eventually, the cop bows out and heads back to his cruiser, but not before lowering the rim and throwing down a dunk on the neighborhood kids. As he’s leaving, he asks the kids if they’re going to be playing around

One of the three patients that have tested positive to the deadly viral disease, Lassa Fever, has died. The state commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris who made this known during a press briefing yesterday, said the deceased, a 51 year old who lived in Ilasan, Lekki, had returned from Edo where he attended a wedding ceremony on December 28, last year.He fell ill and was initially admitted at Divine Medical Centre in Ikoyi on January 12th and referred to Mainland Hospital Yaba early January 18th and later died at 2pm same day before the result of the laboratory test that confirmed him positive of Lassa Fever was received.“The dead victim will be buried today after due consultation with the family and has been kept in the morgue in leak proof body bag.”he saidDr. Idris revealed that 14 suspected cases of Lassa Fever has been recorded in the state as at January 21. Idris also disclosed that the Ministry has short listed 447 contacts of the confirmed cases and 438 (98 per cent) of the c

Recall days back, we reported that Blackface Naija, called Starboy boss, Wizkid out in his new song, ‘Killa,’ well today, he has finally explained the story behind the whole allegation. According to Blackface, who spoe with Saturday Beats, he said Wizkid stole the hit song, ‘Ojuelegba’ from him.   I never really wanted to talk about it all this while but after people started checking out my new song,  Killa,  many felt Blackface sounded like Wizkid, which I didn’t like. If you check properly, you would realise that Wizkid’s hit,  Ojuelegba,  sounds exactly the same as the track 13 on my dancehall album released as far back as 2010. You need to listen to that album to know what I am talking about. The song is so similar that I think it shouldn’t be that way. Well, in  Killa , I sang that they tried to copy my melody, and the bloggers got a hint of the gist and put their reports out. What I said is the truth and I am going to get to the root of this matter because I deser

An embarrassing misuse of a Lush product has left one girl pink in the face - and everywhere else. While Abi Shenton believed she was properly using a Lush oil in the bath, she was actually dyeing her skin a very bright pink. "The product used was called 'Razzle Dazzle' and it is not a bath bomb," Shenton told Pretty 52. "The correct procedure is that you are supposed to dilute it into water but I thought it was a soap and rubbed it all over my body and face... 3 days and several baths later I am no longer pink!" She was bright pink for three whole days. She tweeted about the ordeal to LUSH from a private account. According to  Cosmopolitan , her tweet said: "Hi! @lushcosmetics, just a quick question, are your products supposed to stain the human skin fluorescent pink?" LUSH responded back adorably with a "Yikes!" and a heart. Luckily, she finally was able to get some help to return back to her regular skin color. "A v

Fuji star, Wasiu Alabi Pasuma's daughter, Wasilat Ayinuola, turned 25 yesterday, January 22nd and to make the day special, he presented her with a brand new Toyota Matrix  Also, in a special birthday message to her on Instagram, Pasuma wrote, ‘Having you as my daughter is my greatest accomplishment and I didn’t even do a thing. You did it all, just by being you. I don’t know what I did in a previous life to deserve you as my daughter in this lifetime.Whatever it was, it must have been incredible’. ‘It had to be to end up with an incredible daughter like you. I’m not just grateful that you’re my daughter. I’m grateful for your love, kindness, hope, smarts, friendship, support and more than anything else, the privilege to give it all back to you. Happy birthday sweetheart’.

UN human rights experts on Friday urged Nigeria to increase its efforts to help women and children after they have been freed from captivity by Boko Haram in the country’s conflict-riven northeast. After a five-day visit to the region, three special rapporteurs said there was an “urgent and pressing need for effective measures to address stigma, ostracism and rejection of women and children” as a result of their captivity. Boko Haram has used the kidnap of women and young girls as well as the forced conscription of men and boys as a tactic throughout the conflict, which is now in its seventh year. The most high-profile abduction was of more than 200 girls from their school in the northeastern town of Chibok in April 2014, which caused global outrage. But human rights groups have said thousands of others have been seized in recent years, forced into marriage with Islamist fighters and subject to physical and psychological abuse. A Nigerian military fight-back throughout last year

Key facts Lassa fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic illness of 1-4 weeks duration that occurs in West Africa.The Lassa virus is transmitted to humans via contact with food or household items contaminated with rodent urine or faeces.Person-to-person infections and laboratory transmission can also occur, particularly in hospitals lacking adequate infection prevent and control measures.Lassa fever is known to be endemic in Benin (where it was diagnosed for the first time in November 2014), Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and parts of Nigeria, but probably exists in other West African countries as well.The overall case-fatality rate is 1%. Observed case-fatality rate among patients hospitalized with severe cases of Lassa fever is 15%.Early supportive care with rehydration and symptomatic treatment improves survival. Background Though first described in the 1950s, the virus causing Lassa disease was not identified until 1969. The virus is a single-stranded RNA virus belonging to the virus

T he  spokesperson to the Federal Government’s Amnesty Programme Office for Niger Delta former militants, Mr Owei Lakemfa, has said that there was no need for anybody to protest over  non-payment of stipends to the ex militants, as the payment was in progress. Reacting to news of protest by ex-militants over non-payment of their stipends, Lakemfa said, “The point is that their money has been paid and they are still being paid. The payment venue is Command Children School, GRA Port Harcourt, Rivers State. There is no basis for anyone to protest provided they are genuine beneficiaries of the annual programme. “Secondly, the payment of the stipend to the beneficiaries is going on simultaneously with a verification exercise. What is required of the beneficiaries is to come with identity cards for demobilisation or certificates given to them during orientation. “It is not impossible that those protesting do not have a means of identification.  Also, while a lot of people have been paid,

SKYE Bank Plc has concluded plans to raise fresh capital during the first quarter of 2016 to beef up its capital base and improve its working capital. The bank will this year shift its business focus to retail and commercial banking as it enters a new growth phase after the acquisition and seamless integration of the erstwhile Mainstreet Bank Limited. The Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Bank, Mr. Timothy Oguntayo, disclosed this yestetrday at an interactive session with top stockbrokers in Lagos. Oguntayo said the bank had entered into discussions with some of its key shareholders and strategic potential investors for fresh capital injection, expressing optimism that the exercise would be completed during the first quarter. Explaining further, the Skye Bank boss said its capital adequacy ratio of 15.87 per cent for the bank, out of which 12.4 per cent is covered by common equity, was already in compliance with Basel 11 provisions. In addition, Oguntayo said

A   Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has remanded an alleged fake codeine cough syrup producer, Mr. Kenneth Chiokwe, in prison custody following his arraignment by National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC. The suspect was arraigned before Justice Jude Kanyioh Dagat. Prosecuting counsel, Umar Shamaki told the court that the accused imported the fake product and that the accused committed the offence at Church Street, Idumota, Lagos State, within the jurisdiction of the court. Defence counsel, Chukwudi Nneke in his bail application, urged the court to admit the accused to bail because the offence was a bailable one. The prosecution did not oppose to the bail application but prayed the court to impose stringent conditions. Justice Dagat, in a short ruling, admitted the accused to bail in the sum of N1 million and two sureties in like sum. One of the sureties must be a relative of the accused and the second a landed property owner within the court’s jur

As the pressure on federal revenue mounts following steady decline in oil revenue, the Federal Government would be resorting to a Sukuk Bond for funding the widening budget deficit. Sukuk is a financial certificate, similar to the traditional government bond, but complies with Sharia, Islamic religious law. The Debt Management Office, DMO, and Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, are collaborating in an effort to issue the Nigerian sovereign Islamic bonds this year. Details of the expected revenue from the bond is not yet disclosed but officials said they expect significant bridging of the 2016 budget deficit which has exceeded the initial N2.2 trillion estimate. According to DMO “issuing a sovereign Sukuk will attract significant amounts of affordable capital from the Gulf countries and other established Islamic markets around the world into Nigeria.” Third country to issue Sukuk in W-Africa Though Nigeria would be the third West African country to issue Sukuk after Senegal

T HE  Centre for Peace and Environmental Justice, CEPEJ, has condemned the scrapping of the Nigerian Maritime University project in Okerenkoko, Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State. Minister of Transport, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, had said that the university which was said to have been proposed by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, would be scrapped while all money spent on the project returned to the Federal Government. Similarly, a leader at Okerenkoko, Warri South-West Local Council, Chief Michael Johnny, criticized the purported scrapping of the Maritime University in the riverside community. Chief Johnny  said: “I am urging the Minister of Transport to rescind his decision because it is not in the interest of Okerenkoko people of Gbaramatu Kingdom,  Delta  State and even the entire Niger Delta region.” Rotimi Amaechi Also,  the Ama-Okosu of Ogbe Ijoh, Warri Kingdom, His Royal Majesty Couple Oromoni, Monbene II, National Coordinator of

A woman and her son, who allegedly assaulted their neighbour, one Folashade Akinola, by biting off part of her right ear, on Wednesday appeared before an Ikeja Senior Magistrates’ Court, Lagos. Bose Oladunjoye, 44, and Tobi Oladunjoye, 20, both residents of No. 45 Olota St., Abule Egba, Ikeja, are standing trial on a two-count charge of conspiracy and unlawful assault. The Prosecutor, Insp. Uche Simon, told the court that the accused persons committed the offences on Jan. 12 at the same address. Simon said that the accused person unlawfully assaulted Akinola by beating her to a pulp and also biting off part of her right ear. He said that the complainant had heard Oladunjoye’s daughter accusing another tenant of stealing her money. “Akinola decided to confront Oladunjoye’s daughter on the matter and when she got to their apartment she told the mother what her daughter had done. “Oladunjoye and her son instead of listening to the complainant assaulted her by beating her up and biting o

The Founder-President of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA), Mrs. Toyin Saraki, has called for stillbirths to be taken out of the shadows of healthcare – removing the cultural stigmas that have made it an invisible death and an invisible grief for mothers suffering the devastating loss of their children. She disclosed this during the global launch of the Lancet ‘Ending Preventable Stillbirths’ Series that took place at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on Tuesday, While research has indicated that stillbirths account for almost 2.6 million deaths annually worldwide, 75% of these deaths take place in sub-Saharan African and South Asia. Currently, Nigeria has the world’s second highest estimated stillbirth rate, with 42.9 stillbirths per 1,000 total births. Moreover, with a 1.3% annual rate of progress in reducing stillbirths between years 2000 and 2015, Nigeria ranks 123rd of 159 in the world for progress on stillbirths reduction. Given these dire statistics, it is

GABORONE, Botswana, January 20, 2016– The African Innovation Foundation (AIF) in a joint collaborative effort with the Government of Botswana (GoB) represented by the Ministry of Infrastructure, Science and Technology and the Botswana Innovation Hub (BIH) today announced that the next Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) (http://www.InnovationPrizeforAfrica.org) event will be held in Gaborone, Botswana in June 2016. The decision to host IPA in Botswana received the highest endorsement from H.E. President Lieutenant General Seretse Khama Ian Khama, the President of Botswana. IPA is a landmark program of the AIF, whose purpose is to increase the prosperity of Africans by catalyzing the innovation spirit in Africa. IPA celebrates its 5 year milestone in helping to shape the innovation landscape in Africa. To date, IPA has attracted more than 6 000 innovators from 50 African countries, making it a truly Pan-African initiative. This year’s event with its “Made in Africa” theme promises to be

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Wednesday, said it had shut two refineries in the southern city of Port Harcourt and Kaduna in the north because sabotage to crude pipelines. The plants were shut on Sunday because of “breaches” to the Bonny-Okrika supply line to Port Harcourt and the Escravos-Warri pipeline to Kaduna, the company said in an emailed statement. Nigeria’s minister of power Babatunde Fashola said on Tuesday the country was losing some $2.3 million (2.1 million euros) a day to attacks on gas facilities and lost electricity production. The military said separately it would no longer tolerate the sabotage and blamed it on “criminal elements who are bent on destroying the nation’s strategic assets”. Supporters of former Niger Delta militant Government Ekpemupolo, also known as “Tompolo”, are believed to have been behind a series of strikes on pipelines in Delta state at the weekend. A court in Lagos last Thursday ordered his arrest on theft and money laund

IT  became official, January 5, 2016, that the last Nigerian Code Division Multiple Access, CDMA operator standing, Visafone, has finally succumbed to the terrible distress in that genre of telecommunications operation and allowed itself to be swallowed by a GSM counterpart, MTN Nigeria. However, when  Vanguard  carried the news eight months earlier that the CDMA operator may soon melt into another, it was quickly and unofficially, dismissed as a rumour by both players. But today, MTN has admitted that  the acquisition falls in line with the company’s determination to improve the quality of broadband services for its subscribers. According to MTN Executive, Amina Oyagbola, the acquisition is also a reflective of MTN’s concerted efforts to deepen the growth and rollout of broadband services across the country in support of the National Broadband Plan for the benefit of Nigerians. Visafone is one of the leading CDMA operators in Nigeria offering a number of services including voice, h