Picture from Actress Faithia Williams birthday dinner party.

Nollywood actress, Faithia Williams who turned a year older yesterday, marked it by having a private dinner with her celebrity friends at
Oriental hotel, V.I Lagos.

Dayo Amusa, Femi Adebayo, Liz Da Silva, Muyiwa Ademola, Desmond Elliot, Iyabo Ojo, Ireti
Osayemi Bakare, Ronke Odusanya, Doris Ekere, Foluke Daramola and more were present.

Actress Omotola celebrated her 37th birthday with stunning photo.

Nollywood actress Omotola Jalade celebrated her 37th birthday in style yesterday.

She also took to Instagram to share this photo collage so as to mark her birthday.

She looks gorgeous.

Moment when Obasanjo prostrated before Ooni of Ife. ( photos)

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo in obeisance to cultural tradition and as a mark of respect prostrated before the new Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi during his visit on Friday to the palace of the royal father.

In line with Yoruba tradition, all subjects who appear before a monarch must prostrate as a sign of respect and the ex-President who is far more
older was no exception.

Obasanjo, 82, was paying a courtesy call on the 41 year old monarch at his expansive palace in Ile-Ife, Osun State.

See photos from the visit below…

Bristow Helicopter gone missing with 11 passenger

Report just reaching us indicate that a Bristow helicopter on Wednesday, February 3, has gone missing in Lagos.

According to Channels TV, the helicopter which was en route Lagos from Port Harcourt, had 9 passengers and 2 crew members on board.

The chopper disappeared from radar after it took off from the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, The Nation reports.

Saraki condemns President Buhari's Budget

The Senate president, Bukola Saraki, has described the 2016 budget as ambitious.

The Cable reports that Saraki, who entertained questions from senate correspondents after
commissioning the newly upgraded and refurbished senate press centre at the national assembly in Abuja, on Tuesday, February 2, described the budget as ambitious.

The Senate president explained that for the budget to be genuine and successful, the non-oil and independent revenue generating sectors should be made the crux.

He disclosed that the lawmakers would concentrate on the revenue generating sectors and
make sure all leakages are clogged. He expressed optimism that despite the fact that the budget proposal was ambitious, it could be accomplished if all that was necessary to make it work was put in place.

When the Senate president was asked if the 2016 budget is implementable considering the fall in crude oil price at the international market, he said: “I think this is one of the reasons why we are having the MDAs defend their proposals before the committees to be able to test some of the scenarios and some of the assumptions, particularly on the revenue side.

“If you look at the revenue, out of about N3.8trillion, N3trillion is coming from non-oil and independent revenue. The success of the budget, in my own view, is less on the benchmark. It is more on those two items, non-oil revenue and independent revenue, and
that is why we directed our Committee on Finance and other relevant Committees to really scrutinize the revenue side.

“Even the Senate leadership intends to also engage with the ministries as well to really check those two lines, because that is really where the questions come on whether it is achievable. Before we put our signature to it, we need to be sure that those funds
are there.

“I believe they are ambitious but it is a good sign, because it begins to make us less dependent on oil… because if N830billion is coming from oil revenue and it is only 23%, even if the price of oil goes down or up, we are not really so much vulnerable than the
time when oil revenue was accounting for 70 of our revenue. From that point of view, I believe that once we can do that, it is achievable.”

Saraki urged the executive arm of government to instill an appropriate strategy for implementing the budget since the National Assembly was working to pass it without much delay.

The Senate president further disclosed that the national assembly would soon amend the Public Procurement Act to expedite quick implementation of the budget.

“But also talking about being achievable or implementable, already, some of the things we are going to look at and which we are going to advise the executive on is that while we are working on the budget now, they too should also start making a plan on how to implement the budget because what tends to happen is that even after we have passed a budget, the administration or its bureaucracy sometimes makes the budget difficult to be
realisable.

“And two areas: one is looking at the procurement process and it is very likely that we will need to come out with an amendment bill as regards to certain areas of the procurement law. That is something that we are likely to come out with very soon. People are looking at that now to see again how we can assist the executive to see that the budget is implementable,” he said.

Saraki, while responding to question on the need for transparency and openness in the National Assembly budget, said: “On the issue of national assembly, I think I’ve kept on repeating this many times. If you remember, even during the time the leadership was constituted, one of the issues that came forward was that we will have an open and transparent eighth senate and I still want to be held to that. Also during this process, of course, national assembly budget too will also be debated and by the time the final document is out, I can assure you that we are going to move away from the time of one-line
item for the national assembly to a national assembly where there will be a break down
according to different sections of the institution.”

Recall that on Tuesday, January 12, reports filtered in that the 2016 budget had gone missing from the National Assembly. The shameful development was made public when lawmakers convened to deliberate on the budget implementation.

The Punch reported that as the news of the missing budget started stirring up bad blood among Nigerians, Saraki and President Muhammadu Buhari met at the presidential villa in Abuja, but the Senate president declined to make public the details of the meeting.

Meanwhile, the Senate committee on education onMonday, February 2,recorded huge success after it
discovered that about N9, 982, 258, 479 was hidden
in the 2016 budget of parastatals by the Federal
Ministry of Education. The discovery was made by
the committee at the commencement of its 2016
budget defence.
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Wande Coal poses with red Ferrari car in California, USA. (photo)

Top Nigerian male vocalist, Wande Coal took to his Instagram to share an image of himself  posing in a red Ferrari car which the captioned, “#Wanted Always On The Road #Monster iskaba!!!!!”

According tp Wande’s
location when he posted the above photo on Instagram,
revealed he was in Beverly Hills, California.

Olamide met President Buari at "Ogun at 40". (photos)

Nigerian rap star, Olamide met President Buhari today at the 40th anniversary celebration of Ogun state,tagged Ogun at 40.

Seated with the president is Ogun state governor, Ibikunle Amosun.

See another pics with

ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo below

Olamide met Ooni of Ife. (see pics)

In this age of social climbing, Nigerian rapper, Olamide did not miss a chance to hobnob with Ooni Adeyeye Ogunwusi of Ile Ife, Osun State at a recent event.

He seized the chance for a photo-op with the first class monarch when he met him at a recent event.

It was the first time that the singer would be meeting the royal father since his installation about two months ago.

In the photo, Olamide is sandwiched between two royalty Ooni of Ife, Enitan Ogunwusi and His Royal Majesty, Oba Saheed Ademola Elegushi.

Timaya met American rapper Pitbull. (Photo)

Timaya is currently in Trinidal and Tobago where he met American rap star Pitbull.

He shared the above photo on his Instagram page with caption, "its late night here in Trinidad with Pitbull"

Davido to give out 2 million naira to loyal fans

Newly Sony Global Music signed artiste, Davido is set to reward one of his fans.

Davido, who’s still in the USA, took to his Twitter page to reveal that a fan is going to be 2million naira richer.The largesse is part of the celebrations to mark his Sony Entertainment deal, when he returns to Nigeria. see tweet below:
             
Doin two signing parties in Nigeria when
I get home … I'm giving my most loyal
fan 2 MILLION NAIRA !!
— Davido (@iam_Davido) January 31,
2016

Boko Haram attack; 100 people feared dead

The Nigerian troops were battling suspected Boko
Haram terrorists as explosions and gunfire have
been heard in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital,
on January 30.

According to SaharaReporters, the insurgents have
been attacking Dailori and Walonri villages, about
four kilometres from Maiduguri, since 6pm.
Some students of the University of Maiduguri
residing at 202 Housing Estate were running for
their lives as the conflict raged.

Speaking with journalists, Hauwa Ba’na, a 300 level
of political science student, said: ”We are crying in
our hostel because the explosions are loud and
everyone is panicking.”

Confirming the attack, a civilian Joint Task Force
said: ”We are under attack by Boko Haram. There is
heavy fighting with military in Dalori and Wanori.”

In the morning of Sunday, January 31, some
shocking photos from the battleground were
released by SaharaReporters. View them below:

I made a mistake coming at Wizkid --Skales

When Baseline artist, Skales, made an
appearance on Multi TV’s ‘Let’s Talk
Entertainment‘ programme.

The singer admitted he made a big mistake for
coming at his former EME label mate, Wizkid.

Skales revealed that he now sees himself
growing in the eyes of the public and also some
other people look up to him as a role model.

“That’s one of the mistakes I made and I feel
like I’m growing in the eyes of the public so
definitely, I know that you can never benefit from
things like that. So I’ve become a better person
now, I’m more grown now, I’ve realized that I’m
a role model, a lot of people look up to me and
so there’s some mistakes I cannot do,” Skales
Said.

Meanwhile, with the ongoing allegations of song
theft in the country, Skales said that he is so
certain that nobody can steal his intellectual
property and if anyone does, he will not spare
the fellow.

Meanwhile Skales and Wizkid spotted together
at Toolz and Tunde Demuren’s wedding. See pics below

Fight is over.

See picture of Olamide and Wale

Olamide was pictured having a chat with Triple MG
rapper Wale who was present at Toolz’s wedding on
Saturday.

Olamide was not present at the wedding despite having
a close relationship with Toolz. The YBNL chief just
returned to Instagram after a 8 days exile. Looks like
his account was hacked or something.

Wale was spotted at Toolz and Tunde Demuren wedding yesterday

The Nigerian-born American rapper was one of the
celebrity guests spotted at the traditional wedding
ceremony between Nigerian OAP, Tolu ‘Toolz’ Oniru
and Captain Tunde Demuren which was held yesterday
at Landmark Event Centre, Oniru, Lagos.

See more pics below

Floyd Mayweather droped $3.5 million on unrealeased Bugatti super car

The retired ring king has apparently dropped
another $3.5 million on a 2017 Bugatti Chiron, just
three months after lavishing $3.5 million on a 2015
Bugatii Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse.

My new 4.8 Million dollar car. $4,800,000.00
Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita supercar
KOENIGSEGG Is An ULTRA Boutique
Automobile Manufacturer For The Super Rich.

KOENIGSEGG made only 2 TREVITA’S for the
World, and this is No.2 of 2. In addition it is
the only USA Spec TREVITA Built in the World.
The Origin of the car is Sweden. The word
TREVITA means “3 Whites”. It is beyond a
Super Car, and is classified as a ” Hyper Car”.

A photo posted by Floyd Mayweather (@floydma...
But while the automotive unicorn known as the
Chiron has yet to be glimpsed in public, we hear
that it will bear a strong resemblance to Bugatti’s
Vision Gran Turismo concept shown at the
Frankfurt Auto Show.

What, you like renderings better? From the looks of
these beauties, Floyd is in for one hell of a tricked-
out ride when his Chiron comes callin’.

Wale poses with Armed policemen as he arrives Lagos. (Photo)

Photo of US based Nigeria rapper as he arrived Lagos yesterday evening.
Welcome back home bro.

Mark Zuckerberg became world 6th richest man!!

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg surpassed Oracle
Chairman Larry Ellison to become the sixth richest
person in the world in after-hours trading on
Wednesday.
Zuckerberg’s net worth increased $4.85 billion to
$46.25 billion, as Facebook stock climbed 12% after
the markets closed in response to Facebook’s strong
quarterly earnings report. That puts Zuckerberg more
than $2.5 billion dollars ahead of Ellison, who has a net
worth of $43.6 billion.

At the age of 31, Zuckerberg is the youngest of the
world’s 10 wealthiest people. In September 2015, when
Forbes released its annual Forbes 400 List, Zuckerberg
became one of the 10 richest people in the United
States for the first time. He’s now the 4th richest in
the United States and 6th richest in the world.

Zuckerberg first appeared on Forbes’ ranking of the
400 richest people in America in September 2009 with
a net worth of $2 billion, more than two years before
Facebook’s IPO in May 2012.

In December 2015, Zuckerberg pledged to donate 99%
of his Facebook shares to the Chan Zuckerberg
Initiative during the course of his lifetime.

Finally Toolz and Tunde Demuren weds today

The a lot talked about wedding day of preferred
On-Air Individuality, Tola Oniru far better
acknowledged as Toolz, with her pilot fiancé,
Tunde Demuren, is eventually right here as the
wedding day will be using put nowadays January
30th.

On Wednesday, Toolz and Tunde Demuren ended
up hosted by buddies to a pre-wedding day
evening meal.

The conventional relationship which will keep in
Lekki, will welcome distinguished personalities
from the amusement industry and the corporate
globe.

Toolz, an OAP with Conquer FM in Lagos, has been
relationship Tunde for a even though right until
they created announcement about their
engagement past calendar year.

Nnamdi Kanu was denied bail yesterday

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of
Biafra (IPOB) and director of Radio Biafra, bail was
denied bail by Justice John Tsoho of the Federal
High Court on Friday.

Kanu alongside Benjamin Madubugwu and David
Nwawuisi is facing a six-count charge of
treasonable felony.

The judge ruled that Kanu was a threat to national
security, and as a result would not be granted bail.
He held that if released Kanu might commit the
same offence again, and that there was a
probability that he might jump bail because he
possessed dual citizenship.

He therefore ruled that Kanu be remanded in prison
custody, and ordered an accelerated hearing of the
case. Tsoho had fixed Friday for ruling on Kanu’s
bail application which was argued on Monday.

Chocolate ciy and EbonyLifeTV created a new TV show to search for the next Africa biggest music star

Chocolate City and EbonyLife TV have announced a
strategic partnership called ‘Chocolate City Unsigned’ , a
genuine homegrown reality TV show created to search
for the next Africa’s biggest music star, spearheaded
by Chocolate City, one of Africa’s biggest indigenous
record labels, and EbonyLife TV, Africa’s first Global
Black Entertainment and Lifestyle network and
production powerhouse.

This project was announced at a press conference
which held on January 28, 2016, and which had in
attendance the Executive Chairman and CEO of
EbonyLife TV, Mo Abudu; President of Chocolate City
Group, Audu Makori; CEO of Chocolate City, Jude
Abaga (M.I), as well as Victoria Kimani, and other key
Chocolate City talents.

Chocolate City Unsigned is set to be the first ever
indigenous pan-African talent hunt show created with
the sole aim of discovering, developing and supporting
fresh artistes, giving them a platform to showcase their
skills,launching them into a professional career of
instant music sensation, stardom and celebrity status.

The EbonyLife TV and Chocolate City partnership
recognizes Africa as home to the highest
concentration of a rapidly growing, vibrant and young
class of people who have an amazing penchant for the
most passionate and most fervent music culture in the
world; a rising creative generation to watch and the
next wave of stars poised to take the African music
industry by storm.

In view of this, Chocolate City Unsigned is a great
opportunity for brands that not only wish to gain a
foothold with Africa’s teeming new audiences, but who
also understand just how important music is to these
young target demographic, and who therefore wish to
form stronger connections with them while introducing
their brands to them through the new and innovative
music talent hunt property. Sponsors for the show will
be unveiled by the end of March, 2016.

Registration for the Chocolate City Unsigned competition
will be opened to all interested participants across
Africa on March 21, 2016 while the competition proper
is billed to commence in Lagos, Nigeria, in May 2016.
Chocolate City Unsigned will be televised on EbonyLife
TV and other select TV channels.

According to Audu Maikori, “ Chocolate City Unsigned” is
set to bring in something that no music reality TV has
ever had – artist discovery, developments and support
from a team that has done so with some of Nigerians
biggest artistes. The competition is the first indigenous
music reality Television show in Nigeria to discover
new talents across the African landscape.”

For Mo Abudu, “Africa is brimming with thousands of
yet-to-be-discovered singing talents and this
partnership of globally recognized brands, EbonyLife TV
and Chocolate City, through Chocolate City Unsigned , is
poised to create a truly indigenous platform that
guarantees youths jobs for life from a record label that
understands the African music scene more than anyone
else; one that knows how to create stars and make
them relevant to the African market. We are greatly
excited about this platform, not only for the African
youth, but also for brands that appreciate the power of
an amazing music property to connect with the drivers
of arguably the most vital segment of the economy.”

For CEO of Chocolate City, M.I (Jude Abaga), “In
summary, Chocolate City Unsigned is about creating
stars. I’m a living proof of this exciting reality and I and
the team are now ready to take others on this amazing
journey to stardom. Chocolate City have the recipe for
making music stars and EbonyLife TV have the recipe
for making TV stars. It’s a partnership like none other.

We both create stars because we understand the local
nuances of making stars; we find raw talent from
nowhere and take them right to the top. Chocolate City
Unsigned will do nothing less.”

Buhari rejects devaluation of Naira

President Muhammadu Buhari declared late Wednesday in
Nairobi, Kenya, that he was yet to be convinced that Nigeria and
its people will derive any tangible benefit from an official
devaluation of the Naira.

Speaking at an interactive meeting with Nigerians living in
Kenya, President Buhari maintained that while export-
driven economies could benefit from devaluation of their
currencies, devaluation will only result in further inflation and
hardship for the poor and middle classes in Nigeria’s
import-dependent economy.

The president added that he had no intention of bringing further
hardship on the country’s poor who, he said, have suffered
enough already.

Likening devaluing the Naira to having it “killed”, President
Buhari said that proponents of devaluation will have to work
much harder to convince him that ordinary Nigerians will
gain anything from it.

The president also rejected suggestions that the Central
Bank of Nigeria should resume the sale of foreign exchange to
Bureaux de Change (BDCs), saying that the Bureau de
Change business had become a scam and a drain on the
economy.

“We had just 74 of the bureaux in 2005, now they have grown
to about 2,800,” President Buhari noted.

He alleged that some bank and government officials used
surrogates to run the BDCs and prosper at public expense by
obtaining foreign exchange from government at official
rates and selling it at much higher rates.

“We will use our foreign exchange for industry, spare parts and the development
of needed infrastructure.
“We don’t have the Dollars to give to the BDCs. Let them go and get it from wherever they can, other than the Central Bank,” President Buhari told the gathering.

The president reaffirmed his conviction that about a third of petroleum subsidy
payments under the previous
administration was bogus.

“They just stamped papers and collected our
foreign exchange,” he said.

The president appealed to Nigerians studying abroad to bear with his
administration as it strives to address the challenges they are facing as a result of new
foreign exchange measures.

He said that he was optimistic that the Nigerian economy will stabilize soon with
the efficient implementation of measures and policies that have been introduced by
his administration.

See the letters sent by Armed robbers to resident at new Nyanya, Karu in Abuja. (photo)

As seen sent to resident at new Nyanya, Karu in Abuja by so called Big Boys.

Nigeria Army commenced training for 600 soldiers

In order to ensure that soldiers live a comfortable
life after serving their father’s land, the Nigerian
Armed Forces Resettlement Centre (NAFRC),
Oshodi, has commenced training for over 600
soldiers.

The Nation reports that Commandant NAFRC, Air
Vice Marshal Mike Iloenyosi, on Thursday, January
28 told newsmen that the training was to ensure
retired military personnel have decent and
sustainable livelihood.

Iloenyosi, inaugurated the soldiers into the six
months pre-retirement course, disclosed that about
80% of the trainees were from the Nigerian Army,
adding that the vocational training institution was
set up to ensure smooth transition for retiring
military personnel.

He said the trainees will be equipped with skills
and trades that would enable them live a good life
after retirement. He noted that the centre does not
prepare officers for re-engagement in the military
after retirement, reiterating that the lectures the
trainees will receive are meant for profitable, self-
sustainability and easy integration into the civil
society.

“The training they get here is not to be redrafted for
active service. The essence of this course is to give
them vocational skills and entrepreneurial knowledge
to be able to manage their resources more efficiently,
as well as easily adapt to post – service life.

“These gallant soldiers have been in service for an
average of 35 years and so, redrafting them into
active or combat service is not the essence, rather, it
is for them to be adequately prepared to manage
their resources and package, so that if some of them
have cottage industry, for instance, they will be able
to run same well.

“You must call to mind that their capital base is
minimal and so, we are interested in their being able
to harness it through low capital budget ventures,”
he said.