Sexual harassment made me abandon acting for a while — Sotayo Sobola

At first glance, Sotayo Sobola looks like one of those girls who have eight packs of cigarettes in their purse, ready to smoke and party from dusk till dawn, getting into all sorts of trouble. On getting closer to her, you realise that she’s just the regular girl NEXT door. Sotayo is beautiful, eloquent and ready to take Nollywood by storm, starring in both Yoruba and English movies. Her movie Corper Jide is getting a lot of positive response and she is set to release her latest movie titled Bella very soon. In this exclusive interview with Potpourri she talks about her life, career and more.

How many movies have you done so far?

I can’t trace them because when I STARTED initially, it was just minor roles I was doing. If you’re talking about self produced movies, I would say, three.  My first movie production was Arewa Onijogbon, produced in 2010 or thereabout, then I did Corper Jide and now I have Bella that is yet to be released

Resignation: Presidency lambasts Tinubu

ABUJA —THE presidency, yesterday, took a swipe at former Governor of Lagos State and leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, for seeking the resignation of President Goodluck Jonathan.

President Goodluck Jonathan

A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, said it was clear that Tinubu and other leaders in the APC who made the statement were merely seeking to enthrone anarchy in the country.

Senate backs Tambuwal, vows to protect legislature

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal

The Senate abruptly adjourned sitting on Wednesday without taking decision on any issue, including the bills before it.

Before the adjournment which was protested by the All Progressives Congress Senators, its President, David Mark, lamented the withdrawal of the security aides of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and vowed to protect the Legislature.

He said, “We are not to interfere in the internal affairs of each house. However, as the Chairman of the National Assembly, I cannot fold my arms or pretend that all is well about the current crisis.

“I am therefore going to do all I can to resolve the current impasse. Furthermore, the matter is already in a court of law, we cannot therefore discuss the issues here. I want to assure all of you that I will do the needful to protect and defend the legislature at all costs.”

Signs that the Senate might not have a smooth sitting however started when Mark   read the prayers and an announcement by the Senate leader, Sena

N2,000 palaver: Policeman crushes wife, kills baby

Lucky, Dupe and their baby

Like a scene from a horror movie, a police corporal, Lucky Ikharia, on October 30, allegedly used a bus to crush the legs of his wife, Dupe. Having left her for dead, Lucky went home where he allegedly stabbed his baby, David, to death, ripping out the toddler’s intestines.

Still in a rage, the policeman turned the knife on himself in an attempt to take his own life.

however, learnt that Lucky and his wife survived but both were in critical conditions.

We learnt that the incident occurred at the family’s rented apartment in Kale Close, Mafoluku, Oshodi last week.

Our correspondent gathered that four days prior to the incident, 34-year-old Lucky, who hails from Sabon Gida Ora, Edo State, had a quarrel with his wife, Dupe over N2,000, after which he reportedly sent her packing.

The policeman, who is attached to the Makinde Police Division, Oshodi, Lagos had also ‘seized’ their only child from Dupe as a means of ‘punishing’ her.

We learnt that around 8pm on the day of the attack, Dupe, a 30-year-old indigene of Abeokuta, Ogun State

Marrying more than one wife is no big deal — KWAM 1

Veteran Fuji musician, King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, popularly known as KWAM 1, has shown times without number that he is a dynamic force to reckon with. Just when people are set to put lid on Fuji music as a dead genre, the king is ever in the horizon to fuse some sort of concoction with his Fuji music to produce something new, yet appealing to both the old and the new generation.

The NEXT big thing on the table of the maestro is the K 1 Live Music concert featuring 2Face, Ali Baba, Olamide and others. In this short chat with Potpourri, KWAM 1 talks about the concert, politics, matrimony, Fuji music and his Collabo with Olamide:

You are always on the road for ONE show or the other; can we say this has been the reason for your inability to produce an album until recently when you came up with ‘State of the Nation’?

The opportunity to travel with my band to many countries has given me the chance to interact with international musicians and also to tap from their experiences. Music is a global phenomenon just like football that brings everyone together. I have performed and attended many world class musical concerts and seminars in NIGERIA and even outside the shores of Africa in a spectacular way but this has not affected me from producing good albums. It has only opened my understanding and I also have to stress that I do not need to produce albums at this level of my music career every year to remain relevant in the NIGERIA and global music industry. I am a brand to reckon with.

Your latest single ‘State of the Nation’ celebrated the Awujale of Ijebu’s 80th birthday; was this because you are from Ijebu Ode in Ogun state or does it have a political undertone?

UPDATE: Tambuwal’s security details withdrawn

 

The Acting Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, has redeployed the Police personnel attached to the Speaker, House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, for defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress.

The Force Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel Ojukwu, in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, hinged the withdrawal of Tambuwal’s security aides on Section 68(1)(g) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of NIGERIA as amended.

Statement reads, “In view of the recent defection by the Right Hon.  Aminu Waziri Tanbuwal, CFR, the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Federal Republic of NIGERIA, from the People Democratic Party to the All Progressive Congress and having regard to the clear provision of section 68(1)(g) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended, the Nigeria Police Force, has redeployed its personnel attached to his office.”

Ojukwu could not be reached to comment on why the same treatment was not APPLIED to Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State, who defected from the Labour Party to the Peoples Democratic Party a few weeks ago.

Lizzy Gold Onuwaje goes hairless, tattooed for movie role

There are many parts to the budding actress, Lizzy Gold Onuwaje, former Delta State beauty queen.

Just when you thought you have got an angle on her, there is always another part of her creeping up. She once declared to Potpourri that she would never marry a poor man or a struggling man. She also declared in the same interview that bank alerts turn her own. What a mean streak, you would want to say, but Lizzy has a heart of gold. Out of her earnings she sponsors some indigent students in the university. Now, how many Nigerians could do that fairly and squarely?

Unlike many of her peers, she doesn’t even have a tattoo. Even one that is being printed on her recently is mainly to pull off an act in her upcoming movie. “ Yeah I got this tattoo for a movie. It would be on my body for three months. It is a semi permanent tattoo” she said.

“It is my first tattoo. I have it to play a role in a movie. The movie is Golden House and I am playing the lead role. I also shaved my hair for the movie

Day everybody wanted to hug Cossy Orjiakor

If not many people would agree that Nollywood diva, Cossy Orjiakor is on top of her game, as an actress and a singer, not many also would disagree that she does cause commotion everywhere she goes.

She is a specimen many wives would not want within a glancing distance of their husbands

My boobs brought me to limelight—— Ronke Ojo

Ronke Ojo Anthony, whom everybody calls Oshodi Oke, due to her natural frontal endowment, is quite heavy. She is big in every ramification .If you want to be witty, naughty, smart or intelligent, Ronke is equal to the task and she is a good actress. The star actress, in this interview reveals intimate secrets about her life, career, marriage and future ambitions.

How did you come about acting?

The readers offer to pay abandoned children’s fees

The children.

Readers of Nigeria’s most widely read newspaper, on Thursday, offered to pay the school fees of the three children that were abandoned by their father, Mr. Segun Adepegba, at Solid Rock Model College in Abule-Iroko of Ogun State for eight years.

This is just as the Ogun State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development also indicated interest in the issue.

Since We exclusively reported the story of the three children, Seun, 14, Titilola 13, and Seyi, 10, several interested persons have indicated interest in helping the children.

On Our website, many readers expressed their sympathy for the children, promising to donate money to pay the accumulated debt of their school fees.

The father of the children, after reading the report, after being incommunicado for about eight

Why I abandoned my kids for eight years – Father

Adepegba, the children

Mr Segun Adepegba, the father of the three children abandoned in a boarding school for eight years in Abule-Iroko in Ado-Odo Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, on Wednesday, reached out to US.

Adepegba said hardship pushed him to the wall and that was why he could not take care of his children. He, however, promised to visit them before the end of the week.

The father of three, in a telephone interview with US, recounted his ordeal, saying, “life has been very tough for me.” He said he left the children because he was jobless and had no house to accommodate them.

WE had on Tuesday REPORTED that Adepegba’s children – Seun, 14, Titilola 13, and Seyi, 10, had been abandoned since 2007 at Solid Rock Model College in Abule-Iroko. The children, who had been eager to meet their parents, said the absence of their parents was affecting their studies.

Constitution review: Reps remove immunity for president, govs

Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal

members of the House of Representatives on Wednesday endorsed new amendments to the 1999 Constitution.

A major highlight of the endorsement was the removal of the immunity clause for the President, the Vice President, the governors and their deputies. By implication, occupiers of the offices can be tried for criminal offences while still in office.

A total of 252 lawmakers voted in Abuja to adopt 70 new clauses added to the constitution.

The clauses were compressed into a constitution amendment bill already harmonised by a conference committee of the Senate and the House.

The motion for the adoption of the conference report was moved by the Deputy Speaker of the House, Mr. Emeka Ihedioha.

Ihedioha doubles as the Chairman of the House Committee on Constitution Review.

Speaker Aminu Tambuwal presided over Wednesday’s session. A total of 261 members were present in the chambers when voting started.

Lagos to join oil producing states in 2015

Lagos State is set to join the league of oil producing states in the country come next year as the joint venture partners on the Aje Field offshore Lagos have taken the final investment decision on the exploration of the field.

A group led by Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum Company Limited took the FID to develop the first phase of the Aje shallow water oil field for $220m.

The aim of the first phase is to produce 10,000 barrels per day of oil from two target wells in the Oil Mining Lease 113 area. A re-entry of Aje-4 will form the first producer, while drilling of Aje-5 is expected to be the second.

The plans include the use of Rubicon’s Front Puffin floating production, storage and offloading vessel, which produced oil from the Puffin field in the Timor Sea. The vessel will be brought up to specification soon, while the procurement of subsea equipment and the contracting of a drilling rig are progressing.

Chewing gum before surgery safe — Report

It’s safe to chew gum while fasting before surgery, researchers report.

Patients are usually told not to eat or drink before surgery to prevent complications while they’re under anesthesia, but it wasn’t clear if the same was true for chewing gum.

This new study included 67 patients who underwent gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures. About half the patients were allowed to chew gum until just before the start of the procedure, with no limit on the amount or type of gum, or duration of chewing.

The other patients did not chew gum.

Infections can cause bed wetting in children

Parenting is hard enough, but it becomes more complicated when a toddler who should be able to use the bathroom without any assistance keeps bedwetting. Wetting the bed can be an embarrassing issue among kids, but it’s actually very common.

According to a survey by the National Health Institute, United States, 15 per cent of children still wet the bed by age five. It quickly adds that less than five per cent of those kids do so by ages eight to 11.

Bedwetting, also known as bladder incontinence, has medical, emotional and psychological implications on the self esteem of the child if not handled properly. For instance, a child with bladder incontinence would likely be the butt of jokes from his/her siblings, friends and peers in school and at home.

Skipping sex in marriage can wreck mental health

A sexless marriage is one in which little or no sexual activity occurs between the couple. The United States National Health and Social Life survey in 1994 found that two per cent of married respondents reported no sexual intimacy in the past year.

The definition is often broadened to include those where sexual intimacy occurs less than 10 times per year, which constitutes 20 per cent of the couples interviewed. Newsweek magazine estimates that 15 to 20 per cent of couples are in a sexless relationship. Studies show that 10 per cent or less of the married population below age 50 have not had sex in the past year.

Dignitaries storm Ekiti as Fayose takes over today

Ado-Ekiti—Arrangements were in top gear yesterday for the    inauguration of the governor-elect, Mr Peter Ayodele Fayose, which is expected to take place at the Oluyemi Kayode Stadium, in the state capital, Ado-Ekiti.

Dignitaries from all walks of life were moving into the state capital in their hundreds for the success of today’s inauguration ceremony.

Already, all the guest houses and hotels in the town were already booked, while arrangements for the entertainment of guests were in top gear.

Fayose

The governor-elect was said to have assured all the groups and associations, public servants and the party supporters of adequate care and entertainment.

Individuals and groups were seen trooping into the Campaign Office of the governor-elect to procure clothing materials with Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, inscription for today’s inauguration ceremony.

Vanguard, however,

Agbaje denies being Tinubu’s mole

Jimi Agbaje

Lagos State governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, has refuted speculations that he is a mole planted by the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, within the PDP.

He also said he had no intention of leaving the PDP whether or not he wins the party’s ticket at the forthcoming governorship primary.

Agbaje said this at the Protea Hotel, Ikeja, at the weekend during an interactive session with PDP youths and women leaders representing the 57 councils of the state.

He said, “People say I am a mole; impossible. I have not benefitted from Tinubu. I even supported his campaign financially.

Nollywood actor, Clems Onyeka killed by stray bullets

Nollywood Actor Clems Onyeka was killed by stray bullets in Asaba this afternoon. According to our source he ran into armed robbers and was shot dead.

His body has been deposited in the mortuary this evening.

Late Clems Onyeka

Clems career has just beginning to pick up when he was cut down in his prime by the robbers bullet. The actor only weeks ago won an award as the Best Upcoming Actor.

Ironically, after winning the award, Clems called Vanguard’s entertainment editor to do a story on it but wasn’t so forthcoming on the details.

He even joked ” when will you write something about me, is it when I am dead? Sadly, fate has a way of playing pranks and this has been a most painful one for his family and the industry that is just beginning to feel his genius.

Mercy Johnson delivers baby NO 2 in US

Nollywood star actress has delivered her second child, this time, a bouncing baby boy after baby Purity, her first child a couple of years ago.

The curvy actress gave birth today