Wizkid, EME back in business

                                                        Wizkid

After a renegotiation of contracts, Wizkid and Empire Mates Entertainment (EME) are back together.
Wizkid has been seen with label mates, Shaydee and DJ Xclusive in Benin Republic where they all performed at a show early this month and then Banky W had been called on stage by Wizkid at a recently held Five Star Music Festival event put together by another Pop singer KCEE.

2Face to tour schools to inspire students

                                                        *2face
Lagos – A pop star, Innocent Idibia (a.k.a, 2Face), says he will do his best to influence the youth to be resourceful and self-reliant.

Idibia said in Lagos on Thursday that he would tour some tertiary institutions to inspire students to develop their talents.

Konga returns with “Star Lomo”

                                         *Konga
After his hit song ”Baby Konga” was banned in 2008, Lawal Olalekan Olumo a.k.a. Konga has struggled to reclaim that ‘star’ spot he once possessed. With a string of singles released to his credit including ‘As e dey hot’ Konga once again explodes on the scene with “Star Lomo”.
The single features SoundVille artist Liu T. Star Lomo is an up tempo track with a blend of R&B, pop, club beat and indigenous lyrics. Star Lomo was produced by LayLow and brought to you by Morgan Entertainment

Playing videogames slow, reverse ‘mental decay’ – study

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Playing videogames can prevent and even reverse deteriorating brain functions such as memory, reasoning and visual processing, according to a study released Wednesday.

The University of Iowa study of hundreds of people age 50 and older found that those who played a videogame were able to improve a range of cognitive skills, and reverse up to seven years of age-related declines.

“We know that we can stop this decline and actually restore cognitive processing speed to people,” said Fredric Wolinsky, a University of Iowa professor of public health and lead author of the paper published in the journal PLOS One.

“So, if we know that, shouldn’t we be helping

Breast implants may delay cancer diagnosis – study

PARIS – Breast implants may delay cancer diagnosis in women, said a study Wednesday that urged a thorough probe into the potential health risks of this type of cosmetic surgery.

In a review of 12 earlier studies of breast cancer patients, a team of epidemiologists from Canada found that women with implants had a 26 percent higher risk of being diagnosed at a later stage of the disease.

This was possibly because implants cast shadows on mammograms, blocking the view of breast tissue.

A separate review of five other studies showed that

Rapper Chris Kelly of Kriss Kross dies

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Rapper Chris Kelly, who shot to fame as part of the 1990s duo Kriss Kross, has been found dead at his home in Atlanta, reports said Thursday. He was 34.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on its website that Kelly’s death was being treated as a possible drug overdose.

The rapper — known by fans as “Mac Daddy” — was found unresponsive at his home on Wednesday and rushed to Atlanta Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. An autopsy has been scheduled for Thursday.

Kelly partnered with Chris “Daddy Mac” Smith to

Buy my N8,000 worth 'aso-ebi' and get an IV to my wedding - Princess

Comedienne Princess, has told her friends and family members that whoever does not buy her N8,000 worth 'aso-ebi' should not get an IV for her wedding. Princess is very serious about it. You either buy her aso-ebi which sells for N8,000 and N6000 or you forget about getting an IV for the wedding. The wedding is on the 8th of this month

Treason for MASSOB, amnesty for Boko Haram

“Besides the Jews, probably no other linguistic group has suffered so much persecution in history as the Igbo have been obliged to endure in Nigeria.”

—Nnamdi Azikiwe, 1964

Although the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War, which claimed the lives of more than one million Igbo ethnic group, ended more than four decades ago, it appears however, that our country has yet to learn any lesson from the devastating consequence of the war. Recent events have shown that the ruling elite are poised to reopen the wounds of our ugly past thereby perpetuating the injustices that triggered one of the worst chapters in our nation’s history.

All-German final as Bayern whip Barca 3-0

                                 Robben

Bayern Munich advanced to the Champions League final for the third time in four years, routing Barcelona on 7-0 aggregate and setting up the first all-German final against Borussia Dortmund.

Coasting from a 4-0 win in the first leg at home last week, Bayern beat Barcelona 3-0 Wednesday night in the second leg on goals by Arjen Robben in the 49th minute and Thomas Mueller in the 76th around Gerard Pique’s own goal in the 72nd.

The final at London’s Wembley Stadium on

Stop governors before they ruin Nigeria – Jubril Aminu

                                         Jubril Aminu

…says they want to swallow Jonathan ahead of 2015
Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Senator Jubril Aminu, yesterday, pleaded with the Presidency and patriotic Nigerians to restrain governors from ruining the country.

Aminu, who spoke in an exclusive interview with Sunday Vanguard, accused the governors of arrogating to themselves roles that were not in the Constitution thereby conferring illegal advantage on themselves to the detriment of majority of Nigerians.

The former minister pointed out that, apart from acting

FG orders sack of 20,000 PHCN workers

ABUJA — THE Federal Government has ordered the retrenchment of no fewer than 20,000 workers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, ahead of takeover by successful bidders of its assets.

Vanguard gathered that the Bureau for Public Enterprises, BPE, issued the directive to the Chief Executive Officers, CEOs, of the 18 successor companies to PHCN at a meeting in Abuja, to compile names and drastically reduce the 50,000 strong workforce before the new investors take over.

It was gathered that new investors demanded that the workforce must be pruned before government hands off.

Labour kicks, warns on danger of action

Satellite images show 2,275 burnt houses in Baga –HRW

An international rights crusader, Human Rights Watch, on Wednesday described as hogwash, military’s claim that the fires that razed thousands of buildings in Baga, Borno State were caused by rocket-propelled grenades fired by members of the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram.

HRW, in a statement on its website, said satellite images showed that soldiers may have set the fires that razed down “2,275 buildings and left 125 others” in the town severely damaged.

Calling on the Federal Government to impartially probe the incident, it said that the military was covering up something going by the fact that it had vehemently refused to

Genevieve Nnaji, Funke Akindele, Karen Igho: THE AWARD GOES TO.....

Genevieve Nnaji, Funke Akindele, Osas Ighodaro and Karen Igho
So who played the cleavage game best?

Take a closer look below before you decide…

Traffic law: Motorists accuse enforcement agents of extortion

                                 A section of Ikorodu Road.

Motorists, who usually ply the Ojota-Maryland end of Ikorodu Road, have accused officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority as well as the police of extortion.

The motorists alleged that the enforcement agents used the peculiarity of the terrain to unjustly arrest and extort money from them.

A motorist, Charles Udah, said LASTMA officials and policemen usually arrestmotorists attempting to divert to the service lane through the lane designated for the Bus Rapid Transit buses.

He said, “If you are coming from Ojota and heading

Polymer Currency: Waste, Deceit & Commonsense

The concept of moral hazard is defined as a situation where there is a tendency to take undue risk, because the costs are not borne by the party taking the risk.

Apart from the recent IMF advice to wind down AMCON because of the threat of moral hazard, the policies and strategies of government Ministries, Departments and Agencies, particularly those of the Central Bank of Nigeria are fraught with moral hazards. However, in this article, we will discuss the production and adoption of polymer currency notes and coins as an illustration of the odious implications of such decisions.

In an article titled “Polymer Currency: Waste, Deceit and Commonsense” in November 2009, we discussed issues relating to CBN’s misguided currency strategy; a summary of that article is as follows:

After a frustrating and fruitless attempt to