SINGER ADELE WELCOMES BABY BOY

British singing sensation, Adele has given birth to a baby boy. The 24-year-old and her beau, Simon Koneckie, 38,  began dating  in January. This the couple's first child together. Big congrats to them.

GOLD FIST PROMOTIONS PREPARE FOR THE SECOND EDITION OF THE AMATEUR BOXING SERIES

Gold Fist Promotions presents the 2nd edition of the SUNDAY NIGHT FIGHTS Amateur Boxing Series on Sunday 28th of October 2012. The venue of the event is The Hall of Fame, Pinefield Schools Lekki, Christ Avenue, off Admiralty  Way, Lekki Phase 1.

Guys, this an event like we have never seen in Nigeria, it's very entertaining. There will be female fights also. Don't miss this month's event, its going to be a BLAST!!!!!

Continue to read a recap of the maiden edition...

2012 HEADIES AWARDS FULL WINNERS

Best RnB Singer - May D - Soundtrack
Best Pop Single - Iyanya - Kukere
Best Rap Single - Angeli -Vector ft 9ice
Best RnB/Pop Album - P Square
Best Street Hop - Chuddy K
Best RnB Pop Album - P-Square
Best Rap Album - Ice Prince - E.L.I
Best Vocal Performance (Male) - Wande Coal - Private Trips
Best Vocal Performance (Female) - Tiwa Savage - Love Me Love Me Love Me
Best Collaboration - Sound Sultan ft Excel and Flavour - Orobo
Revelation of the Year - Wizkid
Recording of the Year - Brymo - Ara
Best Label Head - Banky W
Producer of the Year - TY Mix - Super C Season (Naeto C)
Lyricist on the Roll - Vector - Angeli
Next Rated - Davido
African Artist of the Year - Sarkodie (Ghana) Azonto
Artiste of the Year - Wizkid
Album of the Year - Psquare - The Invasion
Best Music Video (Director) - Jude Okoye - Chop My Money
Song of the Year - D'banj - Oliver Twist
Headies Hall of Fame - Femi Kuti

DAILY MAIL U.K ACCUSSES BISHOP OYEDEPO OF EXPLOITING BRITISH WORSHIPPERS

According to reports published by Daily Mail UK this morning, Bishop david Oyedepo of Winners Chapel is being accussed of exploiting British worshipers by receiving £16.7 million in donations from followers who were told that God would give them riches in return. The caption of the report read "Laughing on his private jet - the £93m pastor accused of exploiting British worshippers". Read the report below; 

A church run by a controversial multi-millionaire African preacher has been accused of ‘cynical exploitation’ after its British branch received £16.7 million in donations from followers who were told that God would give them riches in return.  Followers are ferried in double-decker shuttle buses to the church, handed slips inviting them to make debit card payments, and are even told obeying the ministry’s teachings will make them immune from illness.

Today’s Mail on Sunday revelations about the Winners’ Chapel movement have prompted the Charity Commission to review the charitable status  of the church – one of the fastest-growing in the UK. Winners’ Chapel is part of a worldwide empire of evangelical ministries run by Nigeria’s wealthiest preacher David Oyedepo, who has an estimated £93 million fortune, a fleet of private jets and a Rolls-Royce Phantom.

GOVERNOR OKOROCHA PUNCHES ANAMBRA STATE GOVERNOR'S AIDE OVER SEAT

According to PUNCH, at the 80th birthday celebration of former vice president, Chief Alex Ekwueme, in Enugu yesterday, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State on punched a protocol officer who refused to allow him sit on a chair reserved for the Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi.

In retaliation, a police officer attached to the Bomb Disposal Unit in Anambra State, Mr. Felix Alumona, pushed Okorocha when he was removing the tag bearing Obi’s name from the seat. Okorocha’s Aide de Camp, Gabriel Onu, immediately pounced on Alumona, hitting and tearing his uniform, while other security details attached to the Imo governor joined in the scuffle. Sensing that the matter was beginning to attract people, Okorocha quickly intervened, saying, “Hey, please stop the fight! Let us not fight over an ordinary seat. I will share the seat with Peter Obi.”

Our leaders need to understand that they are the people's servants, without this understanding and humility, pride will rip them apart.

EFCC ARRESTS FAAN OFFICIAL WITH $1.4M

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arrested an official of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, Mr. Akinyele Adetula, at the Murtala Airport, Lagos yesterday for trying to launder $1.4m (N218m). The suspect used his identity card to pass through Nigeria Customs Service and National Drug Law Enforcement Agency security checks without any suspicion.

But instead of proceeding to board his flight, he was seen making phone calls and was  accosted. The security officials noticed that his bag was heavy, searched him and saw the huge sum of money which he said did not belong to him and that he was only trying to telephone the owner, one Mr. Ifeanyi Urama, a bureau de change operator who also doubles as clearing and forwarding agent.

Urama, who was alleged to have given Adetula the money which belonged to a yet-to-be-identified person, was recently granted bail by the EFCC after he was arrested with $996,000 (N155m). Adetula was offered N10,000 to help the unknown person to get the money past security. The Head of Operations, EFCC, Mr. Iliyasu Kwarbai, said for the suspect  to pass the bag through the scanner without security agents raising any alarm  implied that officials at the airport were beginning to connive with criminals. He said within a period of three weeks, the commission had seized over $10.2m (N1.6bn) in Lagos alone.

The law states that anyone traveling with over $10,000 (N1.56m) cash must inform security agents at the airport and he/she must also be prepared to explain his/her source of livelihood.

MIMIKO WINS ONDO STATE GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION

The Ondo State governorship election ended yesterday with Governor Segun Mimiko  of the Labour Party emerging victorious with a total of 11,945 votes. Following behind was ACN with 9,061 votes and PDP 6,521 votes.

KANYE MAY PROPOSE TO KIM ON HER 32ND BIRTHDAY TOMORROW?

According to Ryan Seacrest, Executive Producer of 'Keeping up with the  Kardashians' , Kim's birthday gift from Kanye may be an engagement ring. The “American Idol” host hinted at the potential engagement while discussing rumors that Kardashian is “demanding” a ring from Kanye for her 32nd birthday tomorrow, 21st October.

"I think we could definitely see an update on this story on Monday," Ryan told his KIIS-FM radio co-host.

Being an executive producer of Kim’s show “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” Seacrest is in a position to know all the intimate details of the family. Kanye took Kim to Rome earlier in the week to celebrate ahead of her birthday tomorrow. If he proposes, it will be Kim's third marriage. Kim is, however, yet to divorce Chris Humphries, her second husband of 72 days.

SEE HOW NIGERIAN SOLDIERS TORTURE SUSPECTS

This is how soldiers torture suspects. Are they allowed to do that? Aren't suspects innocent until proven guilty in a court of law?  Isn't this illegal? If it is, then I hope someone who is in a position to prosecute the soldiers in this picture sees this and takes action against them.

WOMAN BOARD AUSTRIAN TRAIN NAKED

A woman boarded the subway rail network in Vienna, Austria wearing nothing but a pair of knee-high leather boots and a smile during snowfall and freezing temperatures.Passengers were stunned when the nude woman got on the train and stood in the middle of the carriage for several stops. Many of them reached for their cameras and started snapping away at the naked woman who didn't seem to be bothered by it. She got off the train a few stops later without saying a word. 

The Austrian media is trying to identify the woman and a publication has even offered to feature the woman in a photo shoot if she identifies herself and reveals her reasons for doing it. 

One minute madness or should I say desperate measure for 15 minutes of fame?

TIWA SAVAGE, DON JAZZY, DR SID, GENEVIEVE ON REACH OUT INITIATIVE IN DELTA STATE

Genevieve Nnaji, and the MAVIN Crew, Don Jazzy, Dr. Sid, and Tiwa Savage and Genevieve Nnaji organized visited the refugee camps located in Asaba, Delta State with relief supplies in order to show both physical and moral support to the victims displaced by the flood as well as to raise awareness to the ongoing disaster.

The flood, currently ravaging through the nation has displaced over 100,000 families, leaving a lot of people homeless and without any business to keep them afloat. The stars themselves started the Reach Out Initiative as a means of getting more people involved, both within and outside the country in donating help, either through relief supplies or financial donations.

Genevieve: “This is just the beginning, as our country has never experienced anything like this. The government is doing the best they can, but we as citizens, can also partake in helping the situation in the best way we can. The plan is to get more people involved, and visit more relief camps in the affected states.” 

This deserves emulation. More celebrities and well meaning Nigerians should follow in their steps.  

For more information, please contact the following:

REACH OUT - reachoutflood2012@gmail.com

More pics after the cut...

GIRLFRIEND BATHES LOVER'S GROIN IN ACID IN A JEALOUS RAGE

A lady out of jealousy poured acid on her boyfriend's private area. She suspected that he was cheating on her and went on to check her boyfriend's phone, without his knowledge. She however discovered text messages indicating that he was cheating on her. Upon this discovery,  she purchased acid, and convinced him to engage in foreplay with her, and in the process tied him to the bed so as to interrogate him before pouring the acid on him.

After bathing his private area with acid, the poor man's piercing screams attracted the attention of neighbors who rushed in to rescue the man. He unfortunately sustained serious injuries to his groin. See the uncensored picture of him receiving treatment in the hospital after the cut...

*warning* viewer discretion advised.

KWAM 1 ON HIS MARRIAGE TO EX-WIFE'S NIECE

Kwam 1 and Titi Masha

There's been a lot of talk since it was revealed that Fuji musician K 1 The Ultimate had married the  his ex-wife Salewa’s niece, socialite Titi Masha and is expecting a child with her. K1 has come out to address those rumours saying there is every possibility that Titi and Salewa might not even know each other because they belong to a very ‘big family’.  He told reporters;

‘Salewa who is being spoken about here remarried some 20 years ago and she is still married so to claim that i married cousins , yes they might be on the long run but anyone knows that the Masha Eshilokun family is such a large family in Lagos tha i know many of them do not even know themselves‘, K1 told journalists at his Ijebu mansion.

He also addressed the rumours of him snatching Titi from another man – the socialite called Gbenga ‘Islander’ Akinbobola, who’s also his good friend. Read after the cut...

YINKA AYEFELE SET TO OPEN NEW HOTEL IN IBADAN

 Gospel singer, Yinka Ayefele who is currently battling with the Oyo State government to save one of his properties in Ibadan from being demolished, will today commission his new hotel ‘Down Town Hotel’. The hotel is also located in his hometown Ibadan.

Congrats and let's hope this one is safe from the threat of demolition.

UNIPORT STUDENT,NYSC MEMBER AND 1 OTHER KILLED IN PORTHARCOURT

Around 9.30pm on Thursday, a National Youth Service Corps member who  passed out from the program that same day and  an undergraduate of the University of Port Harcourt together with an unidentified young woman were shot dead by unknown gunmen at Rumuotakara, near UNIPORT campus in the Choba area in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

The graduating Corper was celebrating with his friends and were apparently drunk when the car conveying them suddenly skidded off the road and ran into a shop. No life was lost in the accident but their was an argument between the owner of the shop and the occupants of the car. It was at that point that unknown gunmen appeared in an SUV and shot the Corper and his two other companions. "The gunmen immediately drove away without any challenge," an eyewitness said

The State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ben Ugwuegbulam, said security agencies had begun investigations into the matter.

When will all this senseless killing stop? The police should put more efforts into finding criminals and prosecuting them thereby serving as a deterrent to other criminals to be. This happens so often because the criminals know they will get away with.