Joseph Yobo Signs N1.6B Deal with Turkish Team

Super Eagles captain, Joseph Yobo has finally sealed a deal of 3 years with the Number 1 team in the Turkish League- Fenerbahce Fc of Turkey.

 

The deal would cost the Turkish team $10Million which is about N1.6 Billion in Nigerian currency. He will also be entitled to another $1m bonus yearly.

Policeman Gets Arrested For Allegedly Having Anal Sex With Children In Bauchi State

A policeman serving with the Bauchi State Police Command has been arrested for allegedly having anal sex with children between the ages of nine and twelve. The state’s Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Ladan, confirmed the incident while speaking with Daily Trust. “A division was investigating the matter, but I have directed them to transfer the case to the state’s Criminal Investigation Department (SCID).  The accused is in detention at the moment, and after investigation, we will make our discovery known to the public”, he said.

A source told Daily Trust that the policeman was accused to have slept with about eight children in Kandahar area of Bauchi metropolis. He said the policeman was arrested following reports by some parents. A senior staff at the Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, who doesn’t want his name in print told Daily Trust correspondent that about nine children were brought to the pediatric ward of the hospital by the policemen from the state’s Criminal Investigation Department for treatment.

3-year Old Girl Raped at Dolphin Estate, Lagos

A 3-year old girl was raped in Lagos yesterday afternoon at  Adeniji Adele, Dolphin Estate, Phase 2. The girl was said to run into a woman's shop crying for help, the woman asked her what happened to her but the little girl couldn't express herself, until a man came around telling her to follow him. The woman then asked the man who he was and why he was asking the girl to follow him, the man tried to run then the woman started screaming Ole Ole, which means thief.
 
The man kept saying he wasn't a thief. The people at the scene then pressure the girl to tell them what happened exactly, the girl said the man hurt him. Then they checked the little girl's panties and they discovered blood all over.

The youths in the are dealt with the man brutally with stick, stones, bottles, etc until the Police came to the scene to take the man.

-36lifestyle

Nicki Minaj Blasted By Fans For Photoshopping Beyonce's Photo

Nicki Minaj yesterday came under fire from Beyonce's fans after she changed her Twitter profile to a picture of her face photoshopped over that of Beyonce. She took the photo down a few hours later when the bashing became too much

Man Nearly Dies Due To Suffocation After Packing & Posting Himself As A Gift To His Girlfriend

A Chinese man, Hu Seng, decided to impress his girlfriend Li Wang, by packaging himself as a gift and posting it to his girlfriend as a surprise present. But the surprise went wrong when he almost lost his life in the box he packaged himself in when the delivery was delayed for 3hours. The delay was because the courier lost the delivery address.

Over 1500 Nigerian students face deportation in UK

Around 2,600 foreign students could be deported from Britain after their university was stripped of its ability to sponsor visas for pupils beyond the European Union, the government announced Thursday. The move provoked dismay from students and accusations that the move by the Conservative-led government, which is bent on reducing immigration, could damage Britain’s global reputation.

 

London Metropolitan University has lost its “highly trusted status” because a survey found significant problems with the qualifications of many of its foreign students, Immigration Minister Damian Green said.

In a “significant proportion” of cases, there was no documentation that students had a good standard of English, Green said, and there was no proof that half of those sampled were attending lectures. He said the sampling of the university’s foreign students indicated that more than a quarter did not have current permission to be in the country.

“Any one of those breaches would be serious,” Green told BBC radio. “We found all three of those breaches at London Metropolitan.”

A degree from a U.K. university is highly prized by many students abroad, and those from outside the European Union often pay higher fees than residents. The British government, which has cracked down on immigration in multiple ways, has pointed to student visas as a category ripe for abuse by those who may instead be looking for work.

London Metropolitan has 30,000 students, and 2,600 are affected by the government’s decision, said university spokesman Nick Hansen. Students from other European Union countries don’t need visas.
The affected students will have 60 days to find new sponsors once they are formally notified by the government, or they could be deported. A task force has been set up to help genuine students who otherwise qualify for visas, Universities Minister David Willetts said, but with the fall term imminent students have little time to find new sponsors and courses.

(AP)

Paralympics: Nigeria's Adesokan wins 1st gold, breaks World record

Yakubu Adesokan has won the first gold medal for Nigeria in the on-going Paralympic Games in London.

The 33 year-old did it in style by breaking the world record in the men's 48 category by lifting 178 kg, which is over three times his body weight! Go Yakubu!

culled from LIB

25 Year Old Man Caught Pants Down With His Grandma

Police in Kirinyaga are holding a 25 year old man who is alleged of raping his 75 year old grandmother at her home in Kiandieri village. The man was caught by his brothers and cousin who handed him to a group of an irate mob baying for his blood.

According to the area Chief Jeremiah Kabui, the man entered his granny’s home in the evening and found her in bed since she was sick and bed ridden. The man raped her forcing the woman to scream.

The man’s brothers and cousins who live at the same estate heard the elderly woman’s distress calls and went to the house but were astonished to find their brother pants down mounting on the sick woman.

A crowd of residents who had also heard the woman’s call for help rushed to the resident and wanted to kill him. They however only managed to give him some slaps and punches as the area chief stopped them and handed him over to authorities.

 Culled from Kenya Daily Post

Davido signs cousin to his music label

 

Davido earlier this week signed his cousin; Sina Rambo to his music label, HKN, which is being run by his older brother Adewale Adeleke.

Hmmmm... Family biz just like the Okoyes(Psquare).... Nice!!!

Cynthia's murder: Management sacks hotel staff for negligence

The management of the hotel where Cynthia Osokogu was murdered on July 22nd have sacked all the staff on duty on the day of the murder.

The management of Cosmilla Hotel, located at Lake View Estate, Amuwo Odofin in Lagos, said they sacked the staff because they breached security protocol of the hotel. Not only did Cynthia's murderers check in with fake IDs, the front desk didn't get Cynthia's details, making it difficult to identify her body after her attackers took away all items that could have helped to identify her. She was in the morgue for over 2 weeks before anyone knew who she was.

Cynthia will be buried September 7.

Source: LIB

Roman Abramovich Wins The Biggest Private Court Case In History at $6.5 Billion

The Chelsea FC owner, one of the richest and most private men in the world, was accused of black-mailing Boris Berezovsky into selling his interests in the oil company and aluminium conglomerate they founded together at a knock-down price.
Mr Abramovich in turn, accused Mr Berezovsky of extorting money from him for political influence and claimed he had paid him $1.3bn to buy his freedom when Mr Berezovsky fell out of favour with Russian president Vladimir Putin.

In a year-long case that became highly personal, one of Mr Abramovich’s associates even accused Mr Berezovsky of sending a threatening text message to a potential witness, signed “Dr Evil”, the pantomime villain from the James Bond spoof films, Austin Powers. The message was never produced.
Mr Abramovich’s lawyers also accused Mr Berezovsky of “truly prodigious powers of self-deception” and giving evidence coloured by his “vanity and his self-obsession.”
They claimed that Mr Berezovksy was an “angry and embittered man” of “remarkable vanity and self-importance” which was “aggravated by a highly personal resentment of Mr Abramovich.”

“Large parts of his evidence can only be described as mendacious and dishonest,” they said in submissions to the court.
“He believes that Mr Abramovich has supplanted him in a position which is rightfully his and that he has acquired a sort of political influence under President Putin which he once enjoyed under a very different regime of Boris Yeltsin.”
Mr Berezovsky was once a “classic power broker” and one of the most influential oligarchs in Russia but the relationship was founded on krysha - political protection – and “the activities of a krysha or protector are inherently corrupt,” Jonathan Sumption QC, for Mr Abramovich, said in a written statement.
Mr Berezovsky "thought he had personally created Mr Abramovich out of nothing and put him in a position where he had only to sit there for vast sums of money to flow into his lap,” he added.
Laurence Rabinowitz QC, for Mr Berezovsky, had told the court that the two men had worked together during the Russian privatisation sales in the mid-1990s that followed the fall of communism to acquire an asset that would make them “wealthy beyond the wildest dreams of most people.”
In the process they “became and remained good friends” he said, but they fell out when Mr Berezovsky, who had adopted a high political profile in Russia through his control of a television station called ORT, fell foul of the Kremlin and was forced to leave the country and seek asylum in Britain.


The television channel had run a number of stories criticising Mr Putin for the failure to rescue 118 Russian sailors from the sunken nuclear submarine, the Kursk.
That, he said left Mr Abramovich in a position where he was “in effect required to make a choice - to remain loyal to Mr Berezovsky, his friend and mentor and the person to whom he owed his newly acquired great fortune, or instead, as we submit, to betray Mr Berezovsky and to seek to profit from his difficulties.”
“It is our case that Mr Abramovich at that point demonstrated that he was a man to whom wealth and influence mattered more than friendship and loyalty and this has led him, finally, to go so far as to even deny that he and Mr Berezovsky were actually ever friends,” he added.
The case rested on a number of key meetings at the end of 2000 in which the two men and a third partner, Badri Patarkatsishvili, a Georgian businessman who died at his Surrey mansion three years ago from a heart attack, discussed transferring their assets to the West.
Security men working for Mr Patarkatsishvili secretly recorded the first meeting at Le Bourget airport near Paris and Mr Berezovsky later bought the tape for $50m.
At the second meeting, at Mr Berezovsky’s chateau near Cap D’Antibes in France, Berezovsky claimed that Mr Abramovich told him the Kremlin would remove his TV station from him if he did not sell it and prevent the release from jail of a close friend of Mr Berezovsky.
Mr Abramovich claimed there was no such meeting and the pair actually met at the French ski resort of Megeve a few weeks later and agreed to a $1.3bn pay-off.
In a last snub to Mr Berezovsky, Mr Abramovich allegedly sold his 25 per cent share of the company Rusal, the Aluminium conglomerate, for £1bn, to Oleg Deripaska, an oligarch with ties to both George Osborne, the shadow chancellor and Peter Mandelson, the former Labour spin doctor.
The sale meant Mr Deripaska owned 75 per cent of the company and Mr Berezovsky and his partner were forced to accept just £289m for the remaining 25 per cent.

-Telegraph

Boko Haram Leaks Personal Information Of SSS

Personnel records of former and current members of Nigeria's top domestic spy agency, including home addresses and names of immediate family members, has been leaked onto the Internet. They leaked in a threatening message that claimed to come from a radical Islamist sect that's killed hundreds of people this year alone.

The leak of personal data of more than 60 past and current employees of Nigeria's State Security Service remained easily accessible on the Internet for days and had details about the agency's director-general, including his mobile phone number, bank account particulars, and contact information for his son. Many of the agents listed who could be reached by the AP said they received no official warning from the spy agency that their information had been posted online nor been otherwise alerted.

The material has been deleted from the comment section of a website, but the security breach astonished veterans and calls into question whether Nigeria's intelligence community, whose agents already have released suspected terrorists out of religious and ethnic sympathies, are too compromised from within to stop the violence now plaguing Africa's most populous nation.

"This is a national embarrassment," said one Nigerian intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as information about the leak was not to have been made public.

Many agents for the typically secretive agency are preoccupied with concealing their identities, as most try to blend unnoticed into society.

The State Security Service, created in 1986 by then-military ruler Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, monitors domestic dissent in Nigeria, an oil-rich nation of more than 160 million people. Though geared toward stopping terrorism and destabilising coups, the agency routinely faces criticism for targeting government critics. In Abuja, Nigeria's capital, the agency operates out of cars made to look like the many green taxis that roam the streets. Plain-clothed agents of the service routinely question foreign journalists at airports, border crossings and on city streets if they see reporters conducting interviews.

Agents carrying assault rifles often guard major events in the country. Many agents for the typically secretive agency are preoccupied with concealing their identities, as most try to blend unnoticed into society. The information leak came in two postings earlier this month on a website that provides rewritten news on Nigeria.

The first posting threatened to kill agents of the State Security Service on behalf of Boko Haram, a radical Islamist sect responsible for more than 660 killings this year alone in Nigeria. The second posting simply offered a block of text containing biographical and other details about the agents.

 via - SABC

Trey Songz earns his first-ever No. 1 on the Billboard

Trey Songz earns his first-ever No. 1 on the Billboard 200 this week with Chapter V .
The R&B heartthrob's fifth album sold 135,000 copies in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. While it marks his best chart position to date, it wasn't enough to top the sales of his previous album Passion, Pain & Pleasure , which moved 240,000 units in September 2010.

Kendrick Lamar Pushes Back Album Release

Kendrick Lamar fans will have to wait a little longer to get their hands on his album. The Compton rapper's highly-anticipated debut has been pushed back a few weeks.

Interscope Records has officially announced Monday, October 22, as the new release date for good kid, m.A.A.d city. It was previously slated for October 2nd.

Karen Igho to quit alcohol because of health issues

Karen Igho has decided to subside her alcohol intake, the  2011 winner of Big Brother Africa TV reality show has shown signs that she may be quitting alcohol soon.  She tweeted Tuesday Morning saying "Dr said no more drinking for me because of my ulcer."

She however went on to tweet afterwards saying "I love my life so health comes first."

We hope she can keep to her words and put a stop to Alcohol.

Mo'Cheddah goes hard on Twitter

Mo'Cheddah and a fan exchanged words on Twitter yesterday. The fan told Mo to get a breast transplant... Some people can like to look for trouble ehn... *lips sealed*

Alleged Shakira And Pique Sextape Being Put Up For Sale

Two former employees of Delectable Singer Shakira are shopping a video they claim shows the pop singer and her boyfriend having sex on a boat.

An unidentified Colombian couple, who worked for Shakira for 11 years, are trying to sell a 15-minute clip - purportedly of the recording artist and FC Barcelona football player Gerard Pique -- to the Spanish media for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The former employees allege they were unfairly dismissed after refusing to cook the singer a late-night meal, a claim Shakira's legal team has denied, Colombia Reports said.

"The video lasts about 15 minutes. I guess it's recorded with a mobile phone by an employee who was in the cockpit of the boat," a Barcelona agent to whom the video sellers showed the clip told the Spanish magazine Interviu. He said he can't tell for sure that it is Shakira. "I thought that it had been edited," he said.

Fashola gets verified on twitter

The Governor of Lagos, Babatunde Raji Fashola joins the twitter verification train!

54 Year Old Woman Commits Suicide In Ibadan

A 54 year old woman, Oluwabunmi Oluwafemi, in Ibadan, the Oyo State Capital, has committed

suicide. She was declared missing by her family over the weekend, however the body of the

mother of 4 was found hanging on a tree beside the popular Gada-Odo/Ona River on Monday. Ms. Oluwafemi who used to reside in Bembo, Apata area of Ibadan, was said to have gone to spend the weekend with her first child, Opeyemi Oluwafemi, in Olugbode, Odo-Ona area of the town before the calamity.

On Friday night, Mr. Oluwafemi attended a church vigil. At the break of dawn, he returned home and found that his mother was missing.

"I return home from vigil and discovered her absence at home, hence, a report of her missing was made known to the police, but three days later after a search party, we discovered her corpse hanging on the tree here," he said.

Mr. Oluwafemi and other members of his family immediately organized a search party and reported the missing case to the police. But on Monday, the woman was found dead having hung herself on a tree.

The deceased's son, Mr. Olufemi, said his mother never showed any sign that she will kill herself. Another relative, Caroline Ayodele, who wept profusely also expressed shock over the development, adding that there did not seem to

be a reason for late Ms. Oluwafemi to have committed suicide.

At the scene of the suicide, efforts were being made by some plain clothes policemen to bring down the corpse. Also many residents were seen trooping to the scene in order to catch a glimpse of the corpse.

Photo of the day: Reason Behind The N5000 Note Introduction?

Should this be the reason why the CBN plans on introducing the new naira note????

Ebonyi police arrest 7 men for killing 7-year-old girl

 

Officers of the Ebonyi State Police Command, on Tuesday, announced the arrest of seven suspects in connection with the murder of a 7-year-old girl, Ukamaka Ogboji.

The victim was allegedly killed for ritual purposes on Sunday at Agubia in Ikwo Local Government Area of the state. The suspects had earlier kidnapped Ogboji for monetary gains, and then dismembered her body parts before dumping same in a cassava farm.

 

The State Police Command spokesperson, Sylvester Igbo, while confirming the arrest of the suspects, commended the community youth organisation known as Ebonyi Youth Assembly for their assistance towards the arrest of the suspects.

Igbo revealed that two of the suspects had already confessed to the crime, adding that the police had commenced full investigation to ascertain the motive behind the brutal killing of the deceased.
“What we have observed at the scene made us to attribute the killing to ritual killing and not kidnapping, because the corpse of the deceased was without two legs, hands and eyes,” he said.

“From the act, it is a ritual killing. Through police investigation, we have been able to arrest seven suspects, among whom two have confessed to the crime. One of them confessed that his mother was the spiritual mother of the girl when she was baptised.”

Culled from Daily Times

Tunde and Wunmi Obey build N50million ultra modern studio

Showbiz couple, Tunde and Wunmi Obey, are building a N50 million ultra-modern audio-visual and rehearsal studio named TWO Studios which be unveiled before the end of the year.

Source: LIB

Solidstar donates N1m to cancer patient Debbie

It has just been confirmed that another singer has just donated to save Debbie.

The popular R&B singer, SolidStar and Achievas Entertainment have donated N1M to enable Debbie undergo required surgery for breast cancer.

The lab technician Idiagbonya Osarere Debbie who has been diagnosed with a non-malignant lump in her breast became bedridden due to her medical condition and she needs about N6M for surgical operation to remove a breast cancer eating her up fast and which is also affecting the other breast.

Davido, Halima Abubakar, Ruggedman and few others are some of the people who have contributed to save the lady’s life.

N4.5M has been realised and N1.5M is still needed to save her.

Doctors say she has less than 30 days left to treat the cancer.

-NET

Man sleeps with teenage daughter, impregnates her

One Mr. Tajudeen Sanni from Oyo state was today, yesterday, August 28, 2012 reprimanded in jail for allegedly having carnal knowledge of his 16-year-old daughter and getting her pregnant in Lagos.

The 54-year-old generator repairer was first charged to the Family court, Kakawa, Lagos where he confessed that he had slept with his daughter four times. But he denied impregnating her.

The abused girl (name withheld) is now in the care of the Lagos State Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation for proper rehabilitation.

Sanni who pleaded not guilty to the case was granted bail in the sum of N100, 000 with two sureties in like sum.

The case has been adjourned until September 3, 2012.

-NET

PHCN workers celebrate Nnaji's departure

The PHCN workers are celebrating the departure of the former Minister of Power. The workers have been at loggerheads with the former minister prior to his resignation.

The General Secretary of the Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies (SSSAEA), Abiodun Ogunsegha reacted to the resignation.


"God has eventually answered our prayers and made the government to listen to us. It is obvious that the government has noted his several misdeeds. We are all very happy. In fact, we thank God for answering our prayers. We hope the government will appoint a right person that will carry all stakeholders along, especially the union to give Nigeria a stable power supply,"

PHCN staffs in Surulere Lagos also heard a worship session this morning to celebrate his departure.

D’Banj to Sign HG2 as official Photographer & Graphic Designer of DB Records

D'Banj is set to sign HG2 as the official Photographer and Graphic Designer for DB Records... HG2 is one of the most popular grapics designing outfit in Nigeria. HG2 has worked with top Nigerian artistes such as Wizkid, El-Phlex, Davido, Iyanya e.t.c...

D'Banj recently signed Jay Sleek as DB Records official producer

-36lifestyle

Oprah still the highest paid celebrity in the world (Top 10 list inside)

One year after ending her phenomenal talk show, Oprah Winfrey is still the world's highest paid celebrity. She earned $165 million from June 2011 to June 2012 according to Forbes, which is actually a massive fall from the $290 million she made in 2010. The media mogul tops Forbes list of highest earning stars for a fourth consecutive time.

No. 2 is Transformers director Michael Bay - $160 million

No. 3 is Steven Spielberg - $130 million 

No. 4 is Pirates of the Caribbean director Jerry Bruckheimer - $115 million

No. 5 incredibly is rapper turned headphone mogul Dr Dre - $110 million.

No. 6. Tyler Perry, Actor and producer: $105 million 

No. 7. Howard Stern, Radio and TV personality: $95 million 
No. 8. James Patterson, Author: $94 million 
No. 9. George Lucas, Movie producer: $90 million 
No. 10. Simon Cowell,  Producer and TV personality:  $90 million

MAY-D's VIDEOS NO LONGER ON YOUTUBE

May D’s videos (Soundtrack & Ile Ijo) isn’t on the internet anymore.. In fact May D’s Iroking Youtube account got disabled  .
The Question is, did May D want the songs to be taken down or Square Records order the videos to be taken down??

KSB Advices Don Jazzy & Wande Coal On Nudity

 

 

KSB took to twitter to share her frustration on what she defined as "Rape Causing". She related nudity in music videos as a factor that increased rape in the society and faulted Don Jazzy and Wande Coal for the use of Nudity in Wande Coal's latest video, "Go Low".

Image Credit: LIB

15 Year Old Nigerian Girl Secures Admission to Study in Havard

 

15 year old Saheela Ibrahim (pictured above) was accepted into 13 schools, which included Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Columbia, Stanford, University of Chicago, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Cornell and 4 other Universities. She picked Harvard. She will be heading to the university this fall to study neurobiology or neuroscience. 

The high school senior at Wardlaw-Hartridge private school wasn't sure any university would want to admit a 15 year old, so she filled out applications to 14 schools with her grade point average (between a 96 and 97 on a 100-point scale) and her 2,340 SAT score (a perfect 800 on the math section, a 790 in writing and a 750 in reading). 13 schools accepted her, including six of the eight Ivy League schools.

Saheela will be among the youngest members of Harvard's freshman class.

Saheela wants to become a research scientist who studies how the brain works. She credits her parents with teaching her to love learning and work hard. Her father, Sarafa, an analyst and vice-president at a New York financial firm, would often study with her at night and home school her in subjects not taught at school. “I try my best in everything I do,” Saheela said. “Anyone who’s motivated can work wonders.”

 

-LIB

FULL NOMINATION LIST FOR THE 2012 HEADIES AWARDS

The Headies 2012 will hold on Sunday October 20, at the Eko Hotels in Lagos
Check out the full nomination list below…

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Best album (solo or group) in year under review, that meets judges' requirements of excellence (in every realms: songwriting,production, rendition and promotion) and acceptability (sales, popularity)
Everybody Loves Ice Prince – Ice Prince
The Invasion – P-Square
Superstar – Wizkid
Super C Season – Naeto C
 
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Most critically and commercially adjudged artiste in the year under review Overall most successful artiste for the year under review.
P-Square
Wizkid
Ice Prince
Naeto C
D'Banj

SONG OF THE YEAR
Most popular song from an album in year under review. Decided by voting
Chop My Money – P-Square ft. Akon & May-D
Dami Duro – Davido
Oliver Twist – D'Banj
Gaga Crazy- Chuddy K
Kukere – Iyanya

RECORDING OF THE YEAR
Best single recording (on-air only or released) by artiste or group in year under review. Originality and production very essential
Stupid Song – Bez
Private Trips – Wande Coal
Ara – Brymo
I Love You – Praiz

PRODUCER OF THE YEAR
The individual responsible for producing the most acclaimed songs/album in the year under review. His CV for the year includes top-notch tracks and production credits no one can fault.
Cobhams – Stupid Song (Bez)
Tee-Y Mix – Super C Season (Naeto C)
Shizzy – Dami Duro (Davido)
J Sleek – Private Trips (Wande Coal)
Jesse Jags – E.L.I (Ice Prince)

BEST MUSIC VIDEO (AWARD GOES TO DIRECTOR)
Best conceptualised, best edited, best picture, best directed and most exciting video in year under review as voted by fans and decided by the jury.
5 & 6 (Naeto C) – Clarence Peters
Chop My Money Remix (P-Square) – Jude Okoye
Ara (Brymo) – Ajeh
Kosorombe (Dipp ft. Da Grin) – Mex

BEST R 'N' B SINGLE
Best R&B single in year under review (by single individual or group)
Private Trips – Wande Coal
Stupid Song – Bez
Nawti – Olu Maintain
Soundtrack – May D
Love Me (3X) – Tiwa Savage

BEST POP SINGLE
Best pop single in year under review (by single individual or group)
Dami Duro – Davido
Oliver Twist – D'Banj
Gaga Crazy – Chuddy K
Chop My Money – P-Square
Kukere – Iyanya

BEST R 'N' B/ POP ALBUM
Best R&B or pop album in year under review (by single individual or group)
Superstar – Wizkid
Super Sun – Bez
Versus – 9ice
The Invasion – P-Square

BEST RAP SINGLE
Best single released on-air recording of a rap song
Too Much Money – Iceberg Slim
Shutdown – Phyno
Angeli – Vector ft. 9ice
Oh My Gosh – Yung6ix
Young Erikina – Olamide

BEST RAP ALBUM
Best album by a rap artiste or group in year under review
E.L.I – Ice Prince
The Dreamer Project – Show Dem Camp
Rapsodi – Olamide
Super C Season – Naeto C

LYRICIST ON THE ROLL
Rap Artist with best lyrical depth and performance on a single song or album
Vector – Angeli
Yung6ix – Oh My Gosh
Iceberg Slim – Too Much Money
Phyno – Shutdown
Erigga – Mo Street Gan

BEST COLLABO
Best R&B, Pop or hip hop collaborative track (including cameos) in year under review
Chop My Money remix – P-Square ft. Akon & May-D
Angeli – Vector Ft. 9ice
Carolina – Sauce Kid Ft. Davido
Stupid Song – Bez Ft. Praiz
Orobo – Sound Sultan Ft. Excel & Flavour

BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE (MALE)
Single male artiste with most outstanding vocal performance on asingle song or album
Wande Coal – Private trips
Banky W – Low Key
Praiz – I Love You
Brymo – Ara
Bez – Stupid Song

BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE (FEMALE)
Single female act with most outstanding vocal performance on a single song or album
Tiwa Savage – Love Me, Love, Love Me
Chidinma – Kedike
Chidinma – Kedike
Ijeoma – Oloomi
Waje – Na The Way

AFRICAN ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Non Nigerian category
Sarkodie (Ghana) – Azonto
Camp Mulla (Kenya) – Feel No Pain
D-Black (Ghana) – Get On The Dancefloor
Zahara (South Africa) – Loliwe

BEST STREET HOP
The most popular street-hop single in year under review
Kako Bi Chicken – Reminisce
Gaga Crazy – Chuddy K
Akpako – Terry G
Roll – Rayce
Mo Street Gan – Erigga

NEXT RATED
Most promising upcoming officially unreleased act in the year under review
Davido
Eva (Alordiah)
Praiz
Chuddy K

HIP HOP WORLD REVELATION OF THE YEAR
Best New artiste in the year under review
Wizkid
Ice Prince
Bez
Timi Dakolo
Olamide

HEADIES HALL OF FAME
Special recognition for excellence and outstanding impact to the entertainment industry
Femi Kuti

Minister of Power, Bart Nnaji, Resigns

The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria yesterday accepted the resignation of Barth Nnaji, the hitherto Minister of Power.

The resignation is reportedly connected to the revelations first premiered by Business Day which linked the former cabinet member to an underground bid for Afam Power Station.

Nnaji revealed to the National Council on Privatiation last Friday that his company, Geometrics, was a shareholder in a company that bid for the Afam Power Station.

Afam Power Station has an installed capacity of 775 Megawatts which is 18% of the country's current total power generation.

The revelation came as a surprise, although many Nigerians werealready aware that the privatiation of PHCN was simply an unbundling of the country's power assets to the cabal.

However the undoing of Mr. Nnaji may have come about as a result of the dispute between himself as minister and PHCN employees.

The PHCN employees were embittered by Nnaji's refusal to pay them adequate terminal benefits running into hundreds of billionsof Naira. The conflict-of-interest being he would not want an assethe was planning to acquire to be hugely indebted to the soon-to-be disengaged PHCN staff.

Faces Of Cynthia's Murderers Plus Updated Information Concerning The Case

It was a trag--carnival like mood at a Yaba Chief Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, which was filled to capacity on Monday as the police arraigned four suspects over the murder of Cynthia Osokogu, daughter of Maj-Gen Frank Osukogu (retd.), on July 22, 2012.

The accused persons were also charged with robbing the deceased of her artificial sex toy vibrator, shoes, hand bag, BlackBerry phone, passport, driving licence, three wristwatches, four rings, three pairs of earrings and other properties.

The accused persons – Okwumo Nwabufo (33), Ezike Olisaeloka (23), Orji Osita (32) and Maduakor Chukwunonso (25) – were charged with eight offences.

Nwabufo and Olisaeloka are students while Osita and Chukwunonso are pharmacists.

Some of the charges levelled against the accused were murder, rape, robbery, administering an obnoxious substance to the deceased without her consent.

The Magistrate, Mr Olalekan Aka-Bashorun, said the accused persons should be remanded in prison custody pending the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The case was then adjourned till October 3, 2012.

A mini-drama however unfolded outside the court room as journalists and members of the public scrambled to take pictures of the accused persons.

“The pharmacists are not killers. Their charges were only mixed up with those of the other two suspects (Nwabufo and Olisaeloka),” their lawyer said.

Meanwhile, the Osokogu family has said Cynthia would be buried on September 7, 2012 at Bebe, Ovia Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State.

Mrs. Joy Osokogu, said her daughter was “very industrious, hardworking and a respectful child.” She advised youths to be very cautious of making friends with people that they do not know.

She said, “Youths should be very careful, especially when they are making friends on the social media. Like we have seen in the case of my daughter, such friends may have ulterior motives.”


-36lifestyle

Davido donates N1m to cancer patient Debbie

Less than 48 hours after a campaign was raised for cancer patient Debbie Idiagbonya Osarere, the 28-year-old has reason to smile as pop star Davido has donated the sum of 1Nm.

Debbie who has been diagnosed with a non-malignant lump in her breast is currently hospitalized at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). Davido a few hours ago paid her a visit.

The 28-year old, who had two surgeries in 2011, needs N6m for a final operation.

Friends say Debbie needs a double mastectomy, where both breasts will be removed completely, another surgery for arrangement of spinal cord and a breast reconstruction surgery

Donations can be made at Access Bank to: Idiagbonya Osarere, Acct no 0000216933.

Quote of the day - 2Face

“I have been through a lot and I have learnt my lessons. Now, I am wiser than some old men. Honestly, at the peak of my trials, life almost ceased to mean anything to me. The negative publicity would have killed me and my music career. But it made me stronger, wiser, and a better person,”  - TuFace

Davido Denied Visa To London

Can you remember Davido's "No Visa" track ? No? Well its a track on the O.B.O album. Davido claimed he doesn't need a Visa application to travel around the world on that song, but he has wrong.
Davido was expected to perform alongside D'Banj in London tonight but was denied VISA. He issued a statement yesterday via his official Twitter page (@iam_Davido) on what went wrong.



See statement below;

"TO ALL MY FANS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (UK), WHO I VERY MUCH APPRECIATE,

I regret to let you know that I will not be performing along side my most respected big brother and friend D’BANJ at the scheduled show of August 27, 2012 in London.

I am both a Nigerian citizen, as well as an American citizen, I carry both the Nigerian and the American passports. As an American citizen, I do not require a visa to enter the United Kingdom, however I require a work permit in the UK for any paid performance such as the scheduled August 27, 2012 in London, that is the law in the United Kingdom. I applied for a work permit at the British Embassy in Abuja/Lagos but unfortunately up till the close of business on Friday August 24, 2012 I was unable to obtain a work permit, as a result I have to cancel my performance and my trip to the United Kingdom altogether. I apologize for the inconvenience and the disappointment, but be rest assured that I will make it up to you all on a future date. You will agree with me that it is better to be law abiding at all times and in every jurisdictions. Finally, please go out en mass to support the Koko Master (D’BANJ) and have a wonderful night on August 27, 2012."

Source: 36lifestyle

Photos: Comedian 'I Go Die' Acquires New Escalade Hybrid 2012 + Range Rover Evoque For His Girlfriend

Comedian "I Go Die" is surely splashing his cash this month. The comedian who also has real estate investments got himself an Escalade Hybrid 2012 and also got his girlfriend/manager a Range Rover sport to celebrate his 18years on stage. I Go Die is also building a new house for his mother

Photo Credit- Bella Naija/36lifestyle