Kidnapped Bayelsa traditional ruler regains freedom

AFTER spending nine days in captivity, the traditional ruler of Okordia Kingdom in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, King Richard Seiba, who was abducted by unknown gunmen, breathed the air of freedom on Tuesday after he was rescued from his kidnappers.  

NAFDAC Impounds 500 Cartons Of Fake Dry Gin In Rivers

The National Agency for Food  Administration, Drugs and Control (NAFDAC) has impounded over 500 cartons of fake and adulterated Chelsea Dry Gin andSquadron Dark Rum worth about N3million in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.

The agency also arrested four persons, including two females, suspected to be involved in the manufacturing and marketing of fake Chelsea Dry Gin and Squadron Dark Rum in the state capital.

Sales Operation Manager of International Distillers Limited, Mr. Isaac Oladele Agbana warned the public to beware of cheap Chelsea Dry Gin and Squadron Dark Rum products and always patronise genuine/accredited dealers. He disclosed that the company no longer produces small sized Chelsea in glass bottles but in pet or plastic bottles.

Photos + List Of Winners At The NEA

Finally after months of preparation and publicity blitz, the 7th Annual Nigeria Entertainment Awards held on Sunday, Sept. 2 in New York City and winners of the 2012 NEA were officially announced and presented with their plaques.

The event, which took place at the posh NYU Skyball Performing Arts Center, witnessed a large turn out of fans & guests that came out to support and show love to their favorite entertainers while at the same time anticipating a wonderful evening filled with top notch performances and rib cracking interludes.

Hosts: Funke Akindele-Almaroof And AY

Winner: Wiz Kid On Stage With Skales And US Based Singer, Rotimi, Receiving One Of His Awards Of The Night

Don Jazzy Accepting His Reward For Best Producer

Actress Of The Year: Funke Akindele With Her Award

The hosts Funke Akindele and comedian Ayo Makun popularly known as AY, lived upto billing as they kept the show moving smoothly while performances by Waje, Ice Prince, Vector and eLDee just to mention a few, kept the audience on their feet as they danced, cheered and sang along. Some of the awards announced during the show include Best Entertainment Personality – Uti Nwachukwu, Best Rap Act of the Year – Vector, Best Actress Film – Funke Akindele.

Major winners on the night were Wizkid and Davido who both carted home two awards; Best Album of the Year and Best POP/R&B Artist of the Year for Wizkid, and Hottest Single of the Year and Best New Act for Davido. eLDee, Gbenga Akinnagbe from the movie Lottery Ticket, Susan Peters, and Chigurl presented awards. Other entertainment personalities present in New York for the awards were Don Jazzy, D’Prince, Davido’s crew -HKN, Uche Jumbo, Julius Agwu, Seyi Law, Funny Bone, Annie Idibia, OAP Freeze of CoolFM, and a host of others.

The EME crew – Banky W, Wizkid and Skales – who were all in attendance, brought the show to a climax, withactor and singer Rotimi also joining them on stage to perform songs from their latest album. After the EME performance, and in living with the tradition of the NEA Awards, all actors, artists, industry executives etc. were brought on stage and given a standing ovation by the audience before dancing out to officially draw the curtains on this year’s edition of the NEA.

See list of winners below:

NIGERIA ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS

CATEGORY #1:
BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR
SUPERSTAR – Wiz Kid

CATEGORY #2:
HOTTEST SINGLE OF THE YEAR
DAMI DURO- DAVIDO

CATEGORY #3:
BEST NEW ACT OF THE YEAR
DAVIDO

CATEGORY #4:
GOSPEL ARTIST/GROUP OF THE YEAR
TIM GODFREY

CATEGORY #5:
BEST POP/R&B ARTIST OF THE YEAR
WIZKID

CATEGORY #6:
BEST RAP ACT OF THE YEAR
VECTOR

CATEGORY #7:
MUSIC PRODUCER OF THE YEAR
DON JAZZY

CATEGORY #8:
BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTIST
TINIE TEMPAH

CATEGORY #9:
BEST MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR
NAWTI- OLU MAINTAIN

CATEGORY #10:
MOST PROMISING ACT TO WATCH
EVA

CATEGORY #11:
PAN AFRICAN ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
VIVIAN NDOUR

CATEGORY #12:
BEST US BASED ARTIST OF THE YEAR
AWON BOYZ

CATEGORY #13:
BEST INDIGENOUS ARTIST/GROUP
FLAVOUR

CATEGORY #14:
BEST ACTOR (FILM)
WALE OJO (PHONE SWAP)

CATEGORY #15:
BEST ACTRESS (FILM)
FUNKE AKINDELE (TROJ))

CATEGORY #16:
BEST FILM DIRECTOR
KUNLE AFOLAYAN (PHONE SWAP

CATEGORY #17:
BEST PICTURE
PHONE SWAP

CATEGORY #18:
BEST TV SHOW
BBA

CATEGORY #19:
PAN AFRICAN ACTOR
MAJID MICHEL (SOMEWHERE IN AFRICA)

CATEGORY #20:
PAN AFRICAN ACTRESS
YVONNE OKORO (SINGLE SIX)

CATEGORY #21:
WORLD DJ
DJ JIMMY JATT (NIGERIA)

CATEGORY #22:
BEST COMEDIAN
ALIBABA

CATEGORY #23:
BEST ENTERTAINMENT PERSONALITY
UTI

CATEGORY #24:
ENTERTAINMENT PROMOTER)
FLYTIME (NIGERIA)

CATEGORY #25:
MEDIA PERSONALITY
TOOLZ (BEAT FM 99.9 LAGOS)

CATEGORY #26:
ENTERTAINMENT EXECUTIVE
eLDee

CATEGORY #27:
BEST COLLABO OF THE YEAR
SAUCE KID FT DAVIDO (CAROLINA)

Credit: Information Nigeria

Police arrest man with Cynthia’s phone

The police have made another breakthrough in their investigation into the murder of Nasarawa State Graduate student Cynthia Osokogu.

Miss Osokogu, 25, was last month lured to Lagos by two men she met on a social media site, who lodge her in a hotel in Festac, where they allegedly murdered her.

Four men are in custody in connection with the murder.

Lagos State Police Commissioner Umar Manko said the late Miss Osokogu’s blackberry Bold 5 (9910 model) handset was recovered from Nonso Ezike in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

He said Ezike is a graduate of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Federal University of technology (FUTO), Owerri.

Manko said the development is due to the painstaking investigative effort of the Area Commander ‘E’, Mr. Dan Okoro, an Assistant Commissioner of Police.

Recounting how the phone was tracked, Okoro said: “We were having problems on how to get the late Cynthia’s phone. We met her father who gave us Cynthia’s pin number from there, we started chatting with the person using the phone and he told us he bought it from someone. We told him that we needed the phone and we pledged to pay him for it. But the buyer said the phone was giving him problems and he intended to send it back to the person who sold it to him.

“We traced the mast and discovered he was chatting from Port Harcourt. He told me he bought the phone from Lagos. A few days later, he called to say he had returned the phone to the actual person he bought it from. We urged him to ask the person to return the phone to our office in Area E Command, Festac. The person eventually came to our office with a lawyer to drop the phone and I asked my men to arrest him immediately. “Coincidentally, the man who came to drop the phone with us is a junior brother to the prime suspects who are being arraigned in court. He confessed to the police of having sold 3 telephones given to him by his brothers at several occassions. He also confessed that he sold Cynthia’s Blackberry telephone for N68, 000.00.

“The Commissioner of police gave us express instructions to ensure that no person who has a role in this dastardly act is left unpunished. The driver to the killers has also been arrested sequel to information given by the suspect in our custody”, Okoro narrated.

The driver was said to have been hired to convey them around anytime and anywhere they have a victim. He was also said to have been moving their loots to where they were sold.

Manko said the suspects would be charged to court.

Ekiti University Mourns Slain Lecturer

Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, on Tuesday wore a mournful look following the murder of  Mohammed Sani, a senior lecturer  in the Faculty of Law. Sani, who holds  the  Otunba chieftaincy title of Isinbode, a community in the state, was reportedly murdered by yet-to-be identified killers in Maiduguri, Bornu.

The spokesman of  the university, Mr Bunmi Ajibade, told news men that the university community received the news with shock.

He said immediately the university confirmed the incident, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Patrick Aina,  paid a condolence visit to the Dean of the Faculty of Law and the deceased’s  family.

 `Sani was a brilliant guy in the university and he always insisted that the school recruits brilliant brains to teach in the university.'

` It is unfortunate that the he died in such a gruesome way. We will miss him,’’ he said.

24-Year-Old Nigerian Builds Helicopter from Junk

A 24-year-old undergraduate from Nigeria has built a helicopter out of an old car and bike parts. Mubarak Muhammed Abdullahi, a physics student, spent eight months building the yellow model seen here. He used the money he made from repairing cell phones and computers to build this. He also sourced some of the parts to build the helicopter from a crashed 747 plane.

from Ladun Liadi

Woman Gives Birth to Quintuplets after Five Children

35-year-old Iyabo Oladunni, a mother of five girls who has now been blessed with a set of quadruplets at the University College Hospital (UCH) in Ibadan.

Iyabo and her husband wanted to have a male child and that was why she got pregnant again, before giving birth to three girls and a boy.

Her husband Olayemi Oladunni took to his heels after she delivered the babies. She is pleading with her state government to please come to her aid and well-meaning Nigerians. According to her she is a tailor and cannot take care of the nine children alone.

13 Nigerians nominated as Channel O releases movie video awards nominees

The nominees for the Channel O Music Video Awards, which will hold on November 19, in Kliptown, Johannesburg, South Africa, have been announced.

A total of 13 Nigerian artistes have been nominated in various categories of the awards, now in its ninth edition.

They include 2face, D’banj, Psquare, Wizkid, Wande Coal, Davido, Mo’Cheddah, Brymo, Orezi, Flavour, Tiwa Savage, Naeto C and Ice Prince.

D’banj and Brymo are however the only Nigerian acts to make the ‘Most Gifted Video of the Year’ category.

D’banj, Brmyo, Ice Prince and Davido were nominated in two separate categories.

Kenyan pop groups, Camp Mulla top the list with four nods – in the Most Gifted East African video of the Year, Most Gifted Newcomer video of the Year’, ‘Most Gifted Video of the Year, and Most Gifted Group/Duo category.

See the full nomination list below

Most Gifted South video of the Year

Cashtime Fam – Shut it down (Stundee)

HHP – Bosso

Shota ft Shana

Zeus – Dancing Shoes

Paul G ft Maezee – The Feeling

Shugasmakx ft Moneoa – Take it Easy

Most Gifted Hip-hop video of the Year

Khuli Chana feat Notshi – Tswa Daar

L-Tido – Smash

Ice Prince – Superstar

M.Anifest – Makaa Maka

K’NAAN feat Nas – Nothing to lose

Most Gifted West African video of the Year

D-Black ft Mo’Cheddah – Falling

Wizkid – Pakurumo

Sarkodie feat Obrafour – Saa Okodie No

Naeto C – I gentle

Wande Coal – Private trips

Most Gifted R&B music video of the Year

Lloyd Cele – Hero

Lizha James ft Perola – Leva Boy

Flavour feat Tiwa Savage – Oyi

2Face – Be there

Habida feat Cannibal – My Reason

Most Gifted East African video of the Year

Keko feat Madtraxx – Make You Dance

Camp Mulla – Party Don’t stop

AY feat Sauti Soul – I Don’t Want to Be Alone

K’Naan and Nas – Nothing to lose

Navio – One & Only

Most Gifted Dance video of the Year

DJ Zinhle feat Busiswa – My name is

DJ Cleo – Facebook

OS3 feat Tchoboly – Mokongo

Davido – Dami duro

Bucie – Get over it

Cpwaa – Hnmm

Most Gifted Newcomer video of the Year

Toya Delazy – Pump it on

Davido – Dami duro

E.L. – Turn the lights down

Camp Mulla ft – Party don’t stop

Donald – I deserve

Most Gifted Afro Pop video of the Year

Jozi – Ugologo

DJ Sbu ft Zahara -

Gal Level feat Toniks – Money

Brymo – Ara

Maurice Kirya – I don’t Want to Fight

Most Gifted Reggae video of the Year

HHP feat Lutan Fyah, Omar Retnu – Baheitane (remix)

Buffalo Souljah ft Cabo Snoop – Styra Inonyengesa

Ice Prince – Juju

Orezi – Booty Bounce

Wyre – Dancehall party

Most Gifted Kwaito video of the Year

Kabelo ft Professor: Amapantsula’Ajabulile

Spikiri ft Various Artists – Ngeke Balunge

Big Nuz – Serious

Ees feat Mandoza – Ayoba

The Dogg ft Brickz – Tromentos

Most Gifted Video of the Year

Dj Zinhle ft Busiswa – My name is

Khuli Chana ft Notshi – Tswa daar

Toya Delazy – Pump it on

Lizha James feat Perola – Leva boy

Big Nelo: Sente o beat

D’banj – Oliver twist

Brymo – Ara

Sarkodie feat Obrafour – Saa Okodie No

Camp Mulla – Fresh all day

AY feat Romeo, Lamyia – Speak with your body

Most Gifted Female Video of the Year

Zahara – Loliwe

Lizha James feat Perola – Leva body

Tiwa Savage – Love me love me love me

Mo’Cheddah feat Phenom – See me

Keko feat Madtraxx – Make you dance

Most Gifted Male Video of the Year

Khuli Chana ft Notshi – Tswa Daar

PRO – Makasana

Big Nelo – Sent

D’banj – Oliver twist

Ay feat Romeo and Lamyia – Speak with your body

Most Gifted Group/Duo

Mi Casa – Heavenly sent

Liquideep – Still

Camp Mulla – Fresh all day

Buffalosouljah ft Cabo Snoop – Styra Inonyengesa

Psquare feat Akon, May D – Chop my money

Cossy Orjiakor is at it again!

This was what see tweeted last night, 'Am bored and a little mischievous 2nite.' 

What do you think she meant?

Linda Ikeji on The Juice with Toolz

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