Taraba plans big for Suntai’s return

Nine months after a close shave with death, indications emerged, yesterday, that injured Taraba State Governor, Danbaba Suntai, was set to return to Jalingo, the state capital.

We gathered from highly-placed family sources that Suntai, who had since been relocated from Germany to Washington for medical attention, following an air crash last October, had recovered considerably and could be released by his doctors any moment from now.

School proprietor caught having sex with 11-year-old pupil

Residents of Agric Olope area of Ado Ekiti have apprehended the proprietor of a private Nursery and Primary School, who was found in a bush allegedly having sex with a pupil of his school.

The incident happened on Monday after school hours.

Our correspondent gathered on Wednesday that the proprietor, identified as Mr. Tunde Ibitoye, picked the girl and another pupil of the same school and was taking them home in his car when he stopped at a deserted place and went into the bush pretending to be defecating.

Fatai Rolling Dollar dies at 85

Veteran highlife musician, Fatai Olanrewaju Olagunji, popularly known as Rolling Dollar, has passed on.

The artiste, who took ill about two weeks ago, was 85. Information from his associates indicated that he died on Wednesday in a Lagos hospital.
The sun set on a star of the Nigerian music scene on Wednesday as juju highlife maestro, Fatai Olagunju, popularly called Rolling Dollar, passed away.

He died at a Lagos hospital at the age of 86.

Nine-month-old baby dies in Lagos building collapse

Debris of a collapsed three-storey building at No. 353 Challenge Road, off Amu Street, in Mushin, Lagos ..

A nine-month-old baby died while three others sustained injuries after a three-storey building collapsed on Agege Motor Road, Mushin, Lagos State.

We learnt that the building, located on 353 Agege Motor Road, Challenge Bus Stop, collapsed around 3pm on Tuesday. The baby’s parents

UNILAG students protest high food prices, shut shops

                                          Protesting UNILAG students.

For the third day, students of the University of Lagos continued their protest on Tuesday over the high price of food items in the school, saying they must have their ways.

In the frenzy, the students had shut shops in some of the school halls of residence and others within the school, insisting on a drastic slash in prices of food items.

The protest had started on Sunday after one of the student leaders in Mariere Hall, named Seun Lari-Williams, refused to pay N110 for one

I Wasted Six Years of My Life With Jim Iyke – Ex fiancee, Kenturah Cries out

When the we met with Kenturah, Jim Iyke’s ex-fiancee, she was inconsolable, pained and emotionally devastated.

For over six years, she said she gave her all to be in a celebrated relationship with Jim Iyke, only to get her hopes dashed and squashed. She lamented:

“These days, I ask God: Why has thou forsaken me? How can a man with whom we had gone through the highs and the lows – a man who had professed so much undying love for me over the past six years just walk away like that? I don’t know what happened

Video – Tonto Dikeh Drunk On Stage at Iyanya’s Concert in London

Nollywood Actress Tonto Dikeh drunk and fell on stage at the London Kukere Concert… According to our source who was there live last night, “During her performance, The pako baby staggered many times and fell down. Watch the video here.....

How to port your phone number across any network (Etisalat, Glo, Airtel, MTN)

Migrating or switching from your current network operator to another (e.g from MTN to Glo, Glo to MTN, Etisalat to Airtel etc) is referred to as Mobile Number Portability (MNP). This service, MNP allows all Nigerians to migrate from their current network service to any other network of their choice within Nigeria, they can also migrate to their old network operator if they so desire. Migration from one network operator to another can only be done after 90 days of your last migration.

Saka Will Port Back To Etisalat After 90 Days – CEO Etisalat Nigeria

Steve Evans, the Chief Executive Officer of Etisalat, has spoken about former brand ambassador, Hafiz Oyetoro, who featured in the viral mobile number portability initiative advert by MTN Nigeria.

M.K.O., Rice and a deadly cup of tea

                                          Late MKO Abiola

Susan Rice was up until recently the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Her long-standing aspiration of becoming the US Secretary of State was dashed when the Republicans in the Senate started sharpening their knives in anticipation of her formal nomination for that position by President Barak Obama.

Sensing that her nomination would not scale through the Senate and that she would not be confirmed as Secretary of State due to the role she played in the cover-up of the Benghazi shooting in which the US envoy to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and three other American citizens were murdered by a group of Islamist terrorists, her nomination was withdrawn.

Mourinho: From ‘the Special One’ to ‘the Happy One’

LONDON (AFP) – A more cautious Jose Mourinho transformed himself into “the Happy One” on Monday as he faced the media for the first time since he began his second spell as manager of Premier League giants Chelsea.

Mourinho dazzled the British press when he first joined the club in 2004, earning himself the tag of “The Special One” after describing himself as a “special” manager in his introductory press conference.

Around 250 reporters, photographers and television cameramen squeezed into a suite at Stamford Bridge in west London to witness his return but the 50-year-old Portuguese was careful to adopt a more mellow tone.

Psychiatric patient commits suicide in Calabar

                                                  Federal Neuro Psychiatric Hospital, Calabar

A mentally unstable person, Joel Uduak, has committed suicide by hanging himself at the Federal Psychiatric Hospital in Calabar, Cross River State.

The incident, which happened around 2am on Sunday, allegedly took the medical staff by surprise as the hospital had ensured that its structures were built to make suicide impossible.

A source, who craved anonymity, said Uduak quietly left his room to commit suicide without suspicion from his roommates.

Fashola signs cremation bill into law

Following the passage of cremation bill by the state House of Assembly, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos state, Monday, signed cremation bill into law, which provides for voluntary burning of corpses and unclaimed corpses in the state.

The governor, also signed two other bills into law, they are; A law to establish the Ibile Oil and Gas Corporation and that of establishing the Lagos State Christian and Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board.

Cultists stab 19-year-old father to death

                                                  Osondu

Suspected cult members killed a 19-year-old boy, Obunneke Osondu, in Pedro, Bariga area of Lagos State.

We learnt that Obunneke was killed on Saturday by members of Eiye Confraternity, two hours after leaving his home in Ayinke Street.

The native of Owerri was said to have had an altercation with the assailants who accused him of being friends with members of a rival cult, Aiye Confraternity.

My fiance wiped away my shame – Tiwa Savage

                                                        Tiwa

Among the many words that can describe Tiwa Savage’s sojourn in the Nigerian music industry, the most apt is ‘meteoric’. The reason is not far-fetched. Just a few years back, Tiwa, amidst fear of the unknown, left the U.K where she already had everything going for her as a backup singer and songwritter for most UK’s high-flying artistes to build her music career in Nigeria.

Despite facing series of discouragements, she did not give up on her resolve to break new ground in the nation’s music industry. Today, she is one of the best things that ever happened to the industry. Come on board as she takes us on a journey into her life, her career and the man in her life.