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When asked about her marriage plans in a new interview, Nollywood actress Eniola Badmus said she must date a guy for at least five years before she will consider marrying him. Eniola said:

Unlike other festivals suffering from lack of corporate sponsorship, the Osun Osogbo Festival continues to enjoy the patronage of some of Nigeria’s big companies.

THE West Africa Examination Council (WAEC), has threatened to impose penalties on candidates who failed to collect their certificates on or before December 31. This is contained in a statement signed by the Deputy Director, Public Affairs, Mr Yusuf Ari, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos. It stated that millions of certificates of candidates who sat for WAEC examinations since 1960 had long been signed but were not collected by candidates.

                                                                                                   The Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), has advocated multiplication and distribution of Kalahari Red (KR) goats to farmers for upgrading local breeds in order to maximise the advantage of the high yield of the breed.  

NO fewer than 42 suspected members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, have been arrested by men of the 81 Division of the Nigeria Army. The arrested suspects, said to have been dislodged in the North-Eastern states of Borno, Yobe and others, were, in the last few days, arrested in Lagos and Ogun states.

                    Ayo Adesanya is not a new face in Nollywood. She has acted alongside veterans like Regina Askia, Liz Benzon, Ucharia Anunobi and many others. The University of Ibadan graduate of Communications and Language Arts, like many of her peers, ventured into movie production. She spoke with AJIBADE ALABI recently on several issues in the industry.

AFP – Italian media reported today that Nigerian migrants were among several dozen people who drowned weekend off the coast of Libya, while attempting to cross into Italy. Thirty one migrants, including nine women, drowned off the coast of Libya during an attempted crossing to Italy according to survivors who managed to complete the journey, Italian media reported Sunday.

Cadbury Nigeria’s flagship brand – Cadbury Bournvita – has upsized its offering by introducing new 500-gram jars and refill packs, providing added vitality to consumers and offering even greater value for money.  The new Cadbury Bournvita 500-gram food-drinks jars and refill packs replace earlier 450g units, with the aim of serving valued consumers in a more economical way and with a more convenient option, while continuing to foster customer satisfaction with added vitality. The new unit-size was unveiled to partners earlier this month at Cadbury Nigeria’s Ikeja site in Lagos.

Abuja Deputy Bureau Chief, JACOB SEGUN-OLATUNJI, examines the recent move by the House of Representatives to simplify impeachment process of President through a proposed amendment of Section 143 of the 1999 Constitution as amended.

A 22-year-old man, identified as Giraima Umaru Suri, has been arrested by the men of the Ogun State Police Command, at Isheri Kara area of Ifo Local Government Area of the state, having confessed to being a member of the Boko Haram sect.

No, they don’t just want to thrust! Men crave lots of pre-sex teasing and tantalising too. It may take little more than a grope to prep your man for sex, but get this: If you spend time engaging in preplay, you’ll pave the way for more pleasure than ever. “When a man is turned on before sex in the right way, it not only feels good, but his body is also more receptive and his orgasm more intense,” says sex expert Gloria Brame, PhD. Here, five foreplay-for-him mavoeuvre that’ll tantalise your guy.

  Adore her or detest her, Iyabo Ojo is not an actress that you can easily ignore. She came into the industry about fifteen years ago with a lot of enthusiasm and has remained truthful to her dreams. Iyabo’s success did not come on a platter of gold. She has had to wade through testing scandals and controversies to last her a life time. In this interview with SEGUN ADEBAYO, the delectable actress cum producer opens up on different isssues.

                                                                        If you’ve ever been cheated on, you know how hard it can be both emotionally and mentally. You’re wrecked entirely, and the trust and faith you once had in your significant other is now gone. Cheating and infidelity are two of the most common relationship breakers, but their effects linger long after the relationship is gone. If you have been cheated on recently or in the past, here are some tips to start trusting again and finding a new and more fulfilling relationship. Allow yourself to be emotional After you’ve been betrayed in a relationship, you have...

Mercy Aigbe is a household name in Nollywood, especially in the Yoruba sector of the film industry. The Benin, Edo State-born actress has one of the sexiest shapes in the industry, despite having had two children. She has also managed to steer clear of scandals. AJIBADE ALABI met the University of Lagos graduate who won the Best Actress in Yoruba award at the City People Awards held last week in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, where she spoke extensively on many issues, including her acting career, love life and  family background, among others. How did it all begin, the acting? I actually had my background in theatre, because I studied Theater Arts at the University of Lagos; I graduated in 2003, and I worked a while before I joined the industry. But the film that brought me to limelight was Ara, produced by Wemimo Paul in Ibadan. It was something I really wanted to do; it was something I really have passion for. I just wanted to do it. As an actress, what do you look...

                                                                                             Despite the fact that there are medical, psychological, social and legal moral justifications, not to mention international outcry, against child marriage, the Nigerian Senate, last Monday, legalised child marriage, thereby increasing the risks of children developing sexual health complications and contravening the Child Rights Act. RUTH OLUROUNBI examines the medical, psychological and social implications of child marriage and how ...

Actress, Mercy Aigbe posted the photo below of herself dressed up in a wedding dress with actor, Odunlade Adekola playing her groom its a nollywood movie that is yet to be launched.

For those men who love well endowed women, meet Vanity Wonder, author of book “Shots Girls” who herself spent over $15,000 on illegal butt and hip injections, opened up about her addiction to butt injections. Vanity, who nearly died after contracting an infection from a shot, became an internet sensation when she posted pics of her developing booty and all the hardships she faced. She revealed, ‘When I heard about butt injections I thought it sounded stupid but after a year in that environment as a dancer, everyone was doing it, it wasn’t such a foreign concept. I thought I might as well try it. ’Then it became a competition – not for men but against other women.  So many of us were doing it because we wanted to better than the other person.’ ‘It did become addictive but it got infected so I was left with lumps. So I had a choice, I could have a medium-sized lumpy butt or keep padding it with silicone to make it better. So it wasn’t my goal to get this ...

   A 50-year-old pastor of one of the pentecostal churches in Nigeria was yesterday arrested in a mobile police officer’s bedroom at Iyaba Umudim, Nnewi in Anambra State.  He was allegedly trying to make love to the policeman’s wife. Unknowing to the pastor, the policeman was lying in wait for him. The suspect, a father of four from Ngwa in Abia State was said to have been making love advances to the policeman’s wife as the two families lived in the same building and the woman had always rejected. It was gathered that the woman had always told the randy pastor to let her alone each time he tried to seduce her even though the pastor was said to have promised her N50, 000 for a start if she allowed him have an affair with her. Also, the woman always relayed the pastor’s advances to her husband who asked her to play along with the pastor. The pastor’s alleged sin caught up with him yesterday when he called the woman’s husband, serving with Mopol 29...

Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun  (born July 16, 1989) better known as  Wizkid ,  Star Boy , and the  Pop Prince of Africa , is a Nigerianrecording artist, songwriter, and performer. Wizkid rose to prominence with his hit song, Don’t Dull. Banky W discovered Wizkid and signed him to his record label, “Empire Mates Entertainment”. Wizkid’s most notable songs are: Don’t Dull, Love My Baby, Azonto,Pakurumo, Tease Me/Bad Guys, and Dance For Me. Early Life Wizkid was born on July 16, 1989 in Lagos, Nigeria. He comes from a large family and is the last of six children. In an interview with Tim Westwood, Wizkid stated that his father has three wives. He kicked off his singing career at the early age of  11  when he recorded his first song with one of  Nigeria’s  celebrated music icons,  OJB Jezreel . He went on to record a 7-track album, which he released in his c...

Prophet T.B. Joshua has responded to a controversial online article suggesting he was behind the release of Major Al-Mustapha. Online Nigerian media, Sahara Reporters had released an article titled ‘Pastor T.B. Joshua Revealed As Man Behind Al-Mustapha’s Release’ which quoted an anonymous source identifying Joshua as the person who told Goodluck Jonathan that his political fortune in 2015 rested with setting free Al Mustapha and also bringing James Ibori back to Nigeria. “This article is from the enemy,” the Nigerian cleric fumed via a statement on his official Facebook page. “They should not drag me into the issue of politics. If I ever want to go to Aso Rock, I would go publicly. I have already told you how I met Al-Mustapha. Don’t put words into my mouth.” After Al-Mustapha’s release last week, his first port of call was to Prophet T.B. Joshua whom Mustapha later described upon his triumphant arrival in Kano as an ‘old friend’. Joshua had immediately granted an interview ...

Nigeria's foremost human rights activists, Professor Wole Soyinka and Femi Falana (SAN), on Thursday came down heavily on President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Dame Patience; describing the first lady in particular as a "mere domestic appending of power" who should stop meddling in governance. Prof Soyinka and Falana lambasted President Jonathan for: Engineering the chaos rocking Rivers State House of Assembly. The professor particularly said it is obvious that Jonathan and his wife are using the security apparatus to intimidate Governor Rotimi Amaechi.  They also called on the police hierarchy to remove and prosecute the commissioner of police in Rivers state, Joseph Mbu for role in the saga. An infuriated Soyinka also asked the media to stop paying attention to the so-called newly elected speaker of Rivers state, Evans Bipi, describing the man as "a clown". Prof Soyinka and Falana addressed the Press on the show of shame in Rivers State o...

  The mother of Mrs. Jonathan was involved in a ghastly motor accident along Elele Road in Rivers State yesterday, while on her way to Bayelsa State when the accident happened - she DIED! Punch reports that her corpse was taken to Kpaiyama Mortuary by a team of policemen and a member representing Ogu Bolo State Constituency, Mr. Evans Bipi, who is a relative to the deceased. Bipi’s aide, Mr. Fred Itobo, told  The PUNCH  that the President’s wife’s mother was involved in the accident while she was on her way to Bayelsa State.  “Yes! She was involved in an accident and she died. Her body has been taken to a mortuary. Bipi was among those who took her body to the mortuary,” Itobo said. May her soul rest in peace!

                                                                                               According to E247mag, Funke Akindele, really went through hell in her marriage to Kehinde that, when the centre could no longer hold, it just had to give way.   Their marriage which suffered many hiccups shortly before it became known to the public, continually overwhelmed The Return of Jenifa star due to shocking and disturbing tales of extra-marital relationships that have led to not less than 10 love children traced to Kehinde.  The spate at which the estranged hubby’s sexcapades played out nearly turned the hitherto adored actress to an object of ridicule and the topic of rile discussion among professional colleagues and fans. It worse...

Former Shooting Stars goalkeeper Abiodun Baruwa believes Vincent Enyeama  can be the Super Eagles first choice shot-stopper for the next five  to  10 years. Enyeama, who will be 31 next month, has played for Nigeria since he took over from Ike Shorunmu after the 2002 Korea/ Japan World Cup.  The former Enyimba star  was in goal for Nigeria at  the Tunisia  2004, Egypt 2006 and  South Africa 2013  Africa Cup of Nations. His heroics prevented  Argentina’s  attack led by Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi from  scoring a hatful of goals in the South American powerhouse’s 1-0 defeat  of Nigeria at  the 2010 World Cup  in South Africa. And Baruwa, who  was a member of Nigeria’s France ’98 World Cup squad, insists Enyeama is still the man to man the posts for the Eagles for a long time. “Enyeama is not only Nigeria’s best keeper he is the best in Africa,” the former  Sturm Graz keeper told our corres...

A 30-year old Olumayowa Fadeyi the CEO of May’s Mirabilis Events. He says everyone has a talent that must be discovered, packaged well. He spoke with  Motunrayo Joel How did it all begin?  It all began from school. Back then at the University of Ado-Ekiti, I realised I had a flair for planning events. Without paying attention to it really, I helped to plan birthday parties and other social gatherings for friends and others and people came back with testimonies of how my ideas, suggestions helped their events.  With such testimonies, I started consciously planning events for people around me, and they always turned out successful. Seeing that planning events was something I succeeded in naturally, and with the encouragement from people around me, I decided to make a business out of the skill.  The business really commenced during my service year under the National Youth Service. That was when I came up with the first name, got my complimentary cards produced ...

Fairview resident Sonny Campbell crossed an item off his bucket list Sunday by taking part in a three-generation skydive with his daughter and granddaughter. Almost a month after his 80th birthday, Campbell signed out the requisite forms, participated in about an hour of training, and strapped himself to a man intent on back flipping from an airplane at 10,000 feet. “You have an option,” said Hank Schraeder, owner of Skydive Tandem Greenville, as they prepared for the jump. “I climb all the way out on the steps with my students and we do a backflip. We can do one, two or three backflips, but you have to tell me how many before we leave. Pick a number.” As a much younger man, Campbell had jumped from a plane five times to qualify as a paratrooper while attending officer candidate school in the Army National Guard. The last jump took place July 10, 1954 at Fort Benning, Georgia. “I’ve always said when I turned 80, that’s my bucket list,” Campbell said while filling out forms for...

Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi  has accused President Goodluck Jonathan of turning the Peoples Democratic Party into a “one-man show” and of condoning “impunity and authoritarianism” in an effort to ensure re-election in 2015. Amaechi, in an interview he granted the Financial Times  of London, added that the President and his wife, Patience, were bent on removing him from office. He traced his travails to a perceived fear in the Presidency  that whoever  was in charge of  the Nigeria Governor’s Forum had the capacity to influence  the presidential election in 2015. The embattled governor said, “There is this fear in the Presidential Villa that whoever chairs the governors’ forum will influence the presidential election,” Amaechi  told  FT  in Port Harcourt on Tuesday. In a report posted by  FT  on Sunday, he alleged that  “what has happened has been engineered to the point where the President and his wife are try...

          The gang-up by  some Peoples Democratic Party  governors against President Goodluck Jonathan’s second term ambition is  believed to be unsettling the President The PUNCH  gathered on Sunday that the reality that he might not win the PDP  ticket for the 2015 poll made him to  raise  a team of three governors to meet with former President Olusegun Obasanjo  in Abuja on Thursday. The governors, who met with Obasanjo, are  Governor Godwill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom Sate; Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan (Delta State) and Liyel Imoke (Cross River State). The meeting, which was held at the Hilton Hotel, first had the duo of Uduaghan and Imoke in attendance. Both of them were with the former President for about one and half hours before they left. It was after  then  that Akpabio, who also chairs the PDP Governors’ Forum, came and also had  a discussion with  Obasanjo. Jonathan, it was g...