Wizkid’s Ex Girlfriend Takes Photos With Male Nigerian Artists

Wizkid is single again. The Nigerian superstar singer, has confirmed the speculations that he has broken up with his long-time girlfriend,Tania Omotayo.
 
Wizkid revealed this on the ‘Drive-Time With Gbemi’ show on the Beat 99.9 FM, where he featured as a star guest, promoting his soon-to-be-released album entitled ‘Ayo’. When show host Gbemi Olateru questioned him on his relationship with Tania, (who has been showing signs that on social media that their love is currently suffering some strain), Wizkid was hesitant. He kept quiet for some seconds, and laughed awkwardly.

“My friend is fine. We’re cool, we’re cool. But I’m single now you know. Yeah, I’m single now. But it’s all love. I got love for her. She’s like my best friend anyways.” He replied the question.

This is sure to cause a stir among his fan base, because many had hoped that their relationship will lead to the altar.




Well, isn’t that nice?

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Ajudua asks for fresh bail for $5.9m fraud

A one-time Lagos socialite, Fred Ajudua, on Tuesday filed a fresh bail application before Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye at an Ikeja High Court. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Ajudua is standing trial for allegedly defrauding a former Chief of Army Staff, retired Lt.-Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi, of $5.9m (about N1bn). He was arraigned on March 11 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on a 14 count of conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretences. During Tuesday’s proceedings, his counsel, Mr Olalekan Ojo, informed the court that the defendant’s bail application had been served on the EFCC. In the application, Ojo urged the court to grant Ajudua bail on liberal terms, adding that there was is overwhelming medical evidence that he was suffering from a life-threatening ailment. He said: “The defendant (Ajudua) is a kidney patient and his only surviving kidney is about to collapse. “The medical facility at the Kirikiri Maximum Prison, where his health is seriously failing, cannot adequately meet his medical needs.” According to him, because of the peculiar and complicated nature of Ajudua’s ailment, he requires a specialist with Hi-tech medical equipment to manage his health effectively. Ojo said the defendant would abide with the terms of the bail and would not tamper with the prosecution witnesses. He also told the court that the defendant had filed another application asking for the inclusion of his extra-judicial statement in the proof of evidence. Responding, the EFCC counsel, Mr Seidu Atteh, said he needed time to file replies to both applications, as they were served on the prosecution a few days ago. The judge granted his request and adjourned the matter till May 9, for hearing of the applications. NAN reports that Justice Kudirat Jose, also of an Ikeja High Court, had on March 31 dismissed Ajudua’s bail application. Ajudua is facing another $1.69m fraud charge before the judge.

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2015: INEC to begin voter registration in May

Kaduna – The Chairman,  Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega,  on Wednesday said the commission would commence its continuous voter registration in May ahead of the 2015 election.

Jega said this at the opening ceremony of INEC/State Independent Electoral Commissions (SIECs) Experience Sharing Conference, organised by United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) in Kaduna.

He said that more polling units would be created in the next year general election to decongest large polling units.

“The continuous registration exercise is to ensure those that have turned 18 years between 2011 and now are registered before the 2015 general elections.

“Also those that were 18 and above but were unable to register for one reason or the other would  be given opportunity to register.’’

The Chairman stressed the need for closer synergy between INEC and SIECs, adding that the conference was timely toward ensuring free, fair, peaceful and credible elections in the future.

He, therefore called on the state governments to ensure absolute independence of SIECs and credible elections at the grassroots.

According to him, there cannot be credible polls at national level when the foundation is faulty.

Jega further expressed optimism that the 2015 general elections would be the most credible in the history of Nigeria considering the INEC’s level of preparedness.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that participants at the conference, included INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioners from the 36 states and Abuja.

The others were Commissioners from INEC Headquarters and top management staff and SIECs Chairmen. (NAN)

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Gunmen from Boko Haram sect kill 13 people in fresh Borno attack

Suspected members of the outlawed Boko Haram sect on Friday attacked a police station, barracks and commercial bank in Damboa, around 100 km south of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, killing 13 persons.
Reuters reports that the attackers used explosives and assault rifles in the incident, in which eight civilians and five policemen died.
The attackers detonated explosives and opened fire on the divisional police headquarters in Damboa.
Police Commissioner, Borno State Command, Mohammed Jinjiri Abubakar, blamed Boko Haram, whose members have been blamed for almost daily killings in recent months, including frequent attacks on policemen, soldiers and local leaders.
”Police and military personnel have mounted a massive manhunt to arrest the more than 70 Boko Haram members believed to be involved in the attacks,” Abubakar told Reuters.
Police Deputy Superintendent Abba Lawan Kirawa confirmed the death of the 13 persons.
Members of the sect launched an uprising in 2009, attacking government buildings and leading to days of gun battles with the security forces in which as many as 800 people were killed.
The persistent insecurity in the region near Nigeria‘s northeastern borders with Cameroon, Chad and Niger on the southern edge of the Sahara risks becoming President Goodluck Jonathan‘s biggest security headache, Reuters reports.
The group was blamed for a series of explosions at police stations last week and security in the capital Abuja has already been tightened ahead of Jonathan‘s inauguration on Sunday.
Gunmen in the state capital had on Thursday shot dead a prison guard. In a separate incident in the same city, sodliers were involved in a gun battle with suspected Islamists.
Motorcycle-riding gunmen shot and killed the prison guard as he was waiting to pick his boss‘ children outside a school, Lawal Abdullahi, spokesman for the state police command, told Agence France Press on the phone from Maiduguri.
”The prison warden was at the wheel outside the private school his superior‘s children attend, waiting to take them home when he was shot and killed by the attackers we suspect to be members of Boko Haram, who then burnt him along with the car,” Lawal said.

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Gunmen kill two watching Champions League in Nigeria

KANO, April 10, 2014 (AFP) – Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram Islamists stormed a packed viewing centre in Nigeria’s restive northeast and shot dead two people watching Champions League matches, police said Thursday.

The centre was showing the two quarter-final matches between defending champions Bayern Munich and Manchester United, and Atletico Madrid-Barcelona, on Wednesday when it was attacked.
“The gunmen came in a car and opened fire outside the viewing centre and sped off,” Yobe State police commissioner Sanusi Rufa’i told AFP of the incident in Potiskum, a hotbed of the insurgency.

“One person died on the spot while another died later at the hospital. Several other people were injured, some critically,” he added.

Residents said the centre was full at the time, with those who could not get a space inside hanging around the windows to watch the second-leg games, which saw Bayern and Atletico reach the last four.
Rufa’i did not directly blame Boko Haram for the attack but the hardline group has been known for preaching against football as part of its agenda to impose strict Islamic law in northern Nigeria.

In several video clips, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has described football and music as a Western ploy to distract Muslims from their religion.

In April 2012, gunmen killed two men at a viewing centre in Potiskum, days after Boko Haram warned people in leaflets to stay away from such centres and calling for such places to be closed.

Football is Nigeria’s national sport and the country’s national team, the Super Eagles, are the reigning African champions.

English Premier League football is wildly popular, with many Nigerians supporting top clubs such as Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United and Liverpool, whose matches are shown live on television.

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Pastor of Christ Citizen Glorious Assembly arraigned for allegedly defrauding church member

The Pastor of Christ Citizen Glorious Assembly, Okota, Lagos, Pastor Ikechukwu Ezeiru, has been charged with fraud at an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate’s Court. He was arraigned on Tuesday for allegedly defrauding a church member, Ifeanyi Ohazurume, of N7m. The police said Ezeiru collected the money to help the defendant purchase auction goods from the Nigerian Customs Service. He allegedly didn’t return the money or the goods. It was learnt that the pastor claimed to have given the money to his wife, who equally claimed to have passed it to someone else. He was arraigned on three counts of obtaining under false pretences and stealing. The charge reads in part, “That you, Pastor Ikechukwu Ezeiru, and others at large, sometime in the month of February, 2012, at about 10.00hours at First Bank Plc, Okota branch, Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did conspire to commit felony to wit: obtaining property by false pretences and stealing. “That you on the same date, time and place in the aforesaid magisterial district, did obtain the sum of N7m from one Ifeanyi Ohazurume, under the pretext that you are in position to help him buy auction goods from Nigerian Customs Service, a representation you knew to be false.” The police prosecutor, George Nwosu, who represented the resident prosecutor, DSP Etim Ekankuk, said the offences were punishable under sections 409 and 312 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011. The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge and elected summary trial. The defence counsel, Razak Adeyemi, applied for his bail in liberal terms. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Demi Ajayi, admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N500,000 with two sureties in like sum. The matter was adjourned till April 16, 2014

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Cossy Orjiakor claims she was robbed and sustained minor injuries

Apparently this supposedly happened 2 days ago in the Orile area of Lagos. Don't like driving around that area, especially at night! Those guys will come and knock on your car window like they own it. First they gently ask you to wind down, when you refuse, they smash it..with other cars around sef.

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