Nollywood actor, Seun Ajayi has shared new photos of veteran actor and Tinsel star, Victor Olaotan showing his current state of health.
Recall the actor was involved in a motor accident in 2016. After spending all he had, his colleague came online to solicit financial help for him, and billionaire Femi Otedola promised to foot his entire medical bill. The medical bill was put at $100k and the billionaire made the payment. See here.
Now Seun is saying, Victor still needs more money. When questioned by a Nigerian what the money is meant for since Otedola already footed his bills, Seun replied saying Olaotan needs another $250k for recovery and after care.
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Davido has queried Naira Marley on the authenticity of his songs, saying he does jazz to promote his songs.
According to the DMW boss, all Naira Marley's songs are sweet prompting him to use the word -- jazz.
The soapy crooner had announced he would be releasing a new song today, 30th of January, which Davido reacted to. Naira was however fast to also reply him saying it will be a 30bg party, lol.
Davido's reaction: Una dey do Jazz j i swear, All songs sweet''.
The soccer star became the first person in the world to reach 200 million followers on Instagram and announced the milestone with a photo montage on Wednesday.
The Juventus forward beat out, well, everyone for the mark. He stands at around 200.2 million followers. The only account he trails is Instagram itself, which has 330.5 million as of Wednesday.
Singer Ariana Grande is third, per Brand Watch, and still has some ground to cover to reach Ronaldo. She has 173.1 million.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is the second-highest athlete with 170.1 million, though he doesn’t currently compete and could be considered an athlete/actor hybrid.
Lionel Messi of Barcelona ranks eighth with 141.8 million and Paris Saint-Germain striker Neymar is 10th at 132.6 million.
Ronaldo, a five-time Ballon d’or winner, makes an estimated $47.8 million per year, according Buzz Bingo. His soccer salary? It’s estimated at $34 million a year. Each paid post on his Instagram account makes nearly $1 million, Forbes reports.
Messi has the second-highest Instagram income at $23.3 million, per Forbes.
Ronaldo is also the most liked athlete on Facebook with around 122.3 million likes on the site and 124.4 million followers.
Happy days are back at last for former 'Love and Hip Hop: New York' star Mendeecees Harris.
The 'Love and Hip Hop: New York' alum has reportedly been released from prison after four years and is reunited with his wife Yandy Smith-Harris and kids. Yandy took to her Instagram account and uploaded a new video following Mendeecees' release. She captioned her video, "Never going back...@mendeecees." Her post was a video of the couple walking out of an SUV together
Mendeecees spent four years in prison on drug trafficking charges and now he is back home in the arms of his wife and children.
The 41-year-old star also took to his Instagram account and uploaded stories of them jamming in the car. They were jamming to 'Ballin' by Mustard and Roddy Rich.
Nigeria is to sign a tripartite agreement with the United States of America (USA) and the Island of Jersey to repatriate $321 million looted assets.
Disclosing this while briefing State House Correspondents after the first Federal Executive Council (FEC) of 2020, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, said the agreement is expected to be signed next week.
According to him, the funds expected to be repatriated through the agreement are those traced to the Abacha family; the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Maduake; Kola Aluko and former Delta Governor, Chief James Ibori.
According to Malami, the fund, when eventually repatriated, would be directed to fund critical projects like the Lagos -Ibadan Expressway, Abuja -Kano and the Second Niger Bridge.
The head-teacher of Wamagana Primary School in Tetu, Nyeri County,Kenya died on Wednesday afternoon in his office as he prepared to meet parents whose children study at the institution.
Stanley Muriungi is said to have collapsed before losing his life.
Teachers at the institution took Muriungi to the nearby Giakanja Dispensary, but he was transferred to the Nyeri County Referral Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The cause of the head-teacher’s death remains unclear.
Parents, who had already arrived at the school, but were unaware of Muriungi’s death, were heard complaining that the head-teacher was wasting their time by delaying the meeting.
However, Tetu Sub-County Director of Education, Gitonga Ndeke, informed them that the head-teacher had passed on after collapsing in his office, causing instant grief among the parents.
Gitonga said Muriungi’s death has come as a shocker, given he was lively earlier Wednesday, and even visited different classrooms to ensure the pupils were settled and ready for the day’s lessons.
The grieving wife of basketball legend Kobe Bryant has revealed that ‘there aren’t enough words to describe her family pain right now’ and she has been left ‘completely devastated’ by the death of her husband and their teenage daughter in a helicopter crash.
Vanessa who finally broke her silence as she replaced her profile picture on Instagram with a picture of her husband and daughter, Gianna, has penned down an emotional tribute to them.
Mrs Bryant said she and the couple’s other daughters, Natalia, 17, Bianka, three, and Capri, seven months, were thankful for the outpouring of love in the wake of the tragedy.
“Thank you for all the prayers. We definitely need them. We are completely devastated by the sudden loss of my adoring husband, Kobe – the amazing father of our children; and my beautiful, sweet Gianna – a loving, thoughtful, and wonderful daughter, and amazing sister to Natalia, Bianka, and Capri,” she said.
She continued: “There aren’t enough words to describe our pain right now. I take comfort in knowing that Kobe and Gigi both knew that they were so deeply loved. We were so incredibly blessed to have them in our lives. I wish they were here with us forever. They were our beautiful blessings taken from us too soon.”
She further asked that everyone respect her family’s privacy at this time.
“I’m not sure what our lives hold beyond today, and it’s impossible to imagine life without them. But we wake up each day, trying to keep pushing because Kobe, and our baby girl, Gigi, are shining on us to light the way. Our love for them is endless — and that’s to say, immeasurable. I just wish I could hug them, kiss them and bless them. Have them here with us, forever,” she added.
The remains of the Sikorsky S-76B that crashed into a foggy hillside, killing Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others, have been removed from the scene of the disaster.
The last of the victims’ bodies also were recovered Tuesday in suburban Calabasas, near Los Angeles, where the chopper went down Sunday.
Investigators airlifted the helicopter’s wreckage onto trucks, which then transported it to a secure location for further examination.
LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva earlier this week warned that it would be a “misdemeanor for anyone to unlawfully access the crash site,” as deputies patrolled the debris-strewn ground to ward off anyone wishing to pick up remnants from the tragic flight.
Meanwhile, medical examiners have formally identified the bodies of Bryant, 41, pilot Ara Zobayan, 50, John Altobelli, 56, and Sarah Chester, 45, using fingerprints, officials said.
Also killed, but not formally identified, were Bryant’s daughter Gianna, 13; Chester’s daughter, Payton, 13; Altobelli’s wife, Keri, and daughter Alyssa; and Christina Mauser, 38, a girls’ basketball coach at a Southern California elementary school.
“We are done on the site,” Jennifer Homendy, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, said Tuesday in announcing that the feds handed the scene, spanning an area larger than a football field of “about 500 and 600 feet,” over to local authorities.
An iPad, cellphone and maintenance records were recovered among the wreckage, along with “everything we would expect would be on the aircraft,” she said.
She added that the probable cause for the accident may not be confirmed for 12 to 18 months, when a final report will be issued. A preliminary, fact-based report is expected in about 10 days.
A Kenyan female bus conductor who has a beard has shared how she was stripped naked in a police cell to confirm her gender.
Theresia Mumbi told BBC Swahili that traffic police in the capital, Nairobi, arrested her and held in a cell with other women.
“Two officers came and told me to take off my clothes. They then examined me. I’m not sure what they saw but they told me to return to my cell,” she said.
She says that the July 2018 arrest over identification documents is still fresh in her mind. She presented her documents and was let go.
Ms Mumbi’s experience made her an advocate for women with unusual features and now she tells her story to create awareness and encourage others to speak out when harassed.
Ms Mumbi was diagnosed with a hormonal imbalance that resulted to her having a beard.
As a young woman she had to shave her beard often until her skin got irritated by the frequent shaving.
“Some years back I had to suspend shaving at some point because my skin was becoming irritable and the stubborn sores were a problem,” she said.
The beard grew and she started hiding from people opting to shop at night.
Pushed by the hard economic times she became a bus conductor to earn a living.
While at work she meets women with unique conditions and encourages them.
She is part of an association of bearded women in Kenya and during their meetings she speaks to the younger women.
Kobe Bryant’s wife Vanessa has made her Instagram account public for the first time since the LA Lakers star’s tragic death alongside their daughter Gianna.
The NBA legend died on Sunday (26 January) aged 41 in a helicopter crash that also killed 13-year-old Gianna and seven other people in Calabasas, California.
Vanessa, 37, has yet to address her heartbreaking loss publicly, but she appears to have acknowledged the deaths by changing her profile picture to one of Kobe and Gianna together.
In the sweet image, Kobe is seen smiling down at Gianna who has her arms flung around the basketball star. It was taken at the NBA All-Star Game in Toronto, Canada back in 2016.
Gianna was Kobe and Vanessa’s second child, as they also share daughters Natalia, 17, Bianka, three, and seven-month-old Capri.
Vanessa’s return to Instagram comes after a source revealed she is ‘trying to be the strong one’ for her daughters while grieving the tragic deaths. An insider told People: ‘It’s an extremely difficult and devastating time for Vanessa and the whole family.
WWE twins, Nikki and Brie Bella are both pregnant - and due less than two weeks apart.
The twins, who are expecting with Dancing With The Stars ace Artem Chigvintsev and WWE star Daniel Bryan respectively, insisted they never 'planned' to be expecting at the same time.
After admitting to being 'shocked' that they will be going through the experience alongside one another, Brie - who already has two-year-old daughter Birdie with husband Daniel - said: 'Wait, twins being pregnant at the same time?...
'People are going to think that's a joke. We both are shocked. People are going to think we planned it, but you can't really plan pregnancy!'
And Nikki - who recently got engaged to Artem Chingvintsev - added to People magazine: '[It was] a total surprise. It took even me a good week to come to terms with like, 'Oh my gosh, I'm pregnant.' I'm not ready for it.'
Edo state governor, Godwin Obaseki has threatened to expel the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) if he (Oshiomhole) continues to “disrupt activities” in the state and in the Edo APC.
Obaseki handed down the threat when he attended a meeting of the 18 APC local government Chairmen in the state where he also directed the party chairmen to seriously deal with any persons or group carrying out activities outside what the party hierarchy has agreed to do.
This threat is on the heels of a rally held last weekend in Auchi, Etsako West local government area where thousands of people from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) defected to the APC.
But the governor through one of the aides, Osaigbovo Iyoha declared the rally as illegal saying there is a ban on political rallies in the state.
Police are looking for a youthful woman suspected of killing her 78-year-old German lover in a hotel room in Malindi, Kilifi County, Kenya on Monday night.
The deceased has been identified as Detering Herman, a tourist of passport number C3K6FV281.
Herman booked himself into a room at Moriema Cottages in Malindi in the company of his alleged girlfriend identified only as Mary, a Kenyan citizen, on Monday night.
Kelly Kazungu, a receptionist at the accommodation facility, told police that he grew suspicious when Herman failed to wake up the whole day.
At 7:30pm Tuesday, Kazungu went to Herman’s room — 177 — and peeped through the window and saw Herman lying on a bed, whose sheets were stained with blood.
Kazungu said upon opening the door to Herman’s room, he found him dead with cuts and scratch marks in the face, back and neck. It is suspected that Mary strangled Herman after getting into a fight with him.
The scratch marks, authorities suspect, were inflicted by Mary using her nails.
Police were called to the scene and took Herman’s body to Malindi Sub-County Hospital morgue, where an autopsy is set to be conducted to ascertain Herman’s cause of death.
Kobe Bryant’s wife, Vanessa, is struggling to “keep it together” and “can’t finish a sentence without crying,” family friends say.
The pals told People magazine that the NBA legend’s 37-year-old widow is surrounded by “a good support system” — but “you can never be prepared for this.”
“Despite their ups and downs, [the couple] were soulmates. She thought of him as her partner for life,” a source said of Vanessa and Kobe, who was killed along with their 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others in a helicopter crash near Calabasas, California, on Sunday morning.
Vanessa is “devastated. She can hardly keep it together,’’ the source said. “She can’t finish a sentence without crying. But she is working very hard to pull it together for the other girls. She now has to be the strong one.”
Vanessa has three surviving daughters with Kobe: Natalia, 17, Bianka, 3, and Capri, 7 months.
Kobe’s wife “is surrounded by people who love her and love Kobe,” the source added. “She has a good support system. She is relying on her faith. She is not alone.
“But she will be grieving this for a very long time.”
A family friend added, “It’s an extremely difficult and devastating time for Vanessa and the whole family.”
Kobe’s surviving daughters are reeling, too, the sources said.
“He had a special bond with each of them,’’ another friend said of Kobe and his kids.
He was “so proud to see [them] take after not only him and Vanessa but also grow into their own.”
The former LA Lakers star said in a November interview that “being a father is the thing I am most proud of in this world; it’s my greatest accomplishment.”
“I’ve learned so much, but perhaps the most profound thing has been the fierce, unconditional love you have for your children when you become a parent,” he said.
Kobe and Vanessa married in 2001, when she was just 18 and he was 22.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has pardoned a dual US-Israeli national who was arrested on charges of drug trafficking last year.
Naama Issachar, 26, was detained in Moscow in April 2019 after more than nine grams of marijuana were found in her luggage.
She was later sentenced to more than seven years in prison.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked his "friend" Mr Putin for the decision to pardon Issachar.
President Reuven Rivlin also expressed his gratitude to the Russian leader "for the wisdom and mercy of the decision".
Israeli media have reported that the Israeli government was willing to relinquish ownership of a complex in Jerusalem - symbolic to the Russian Orthodox Church - as a goodwill gesture ahead of Issachar's release.
Ownership of the Alexander Courtyard, which lies in Jerusalem's Old City near the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, has been disputed for decades, but an Israeli court recently ruled in Russia's favour.
Naama Issachar was returning from a trip to India when she was detained.
Her case gained widespread attention in Israel, with local media accusing Moscow of using it to pressure Israel over a jailed Russian hacker, whose extradition was requested by both the US and Russian governments.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office, on Wednesday prosecuted one Ebenezer Tobiloba Okunlola on a three-count charge bordering on false pretence, impersonation, possession of scam documents and obtaining money by false pretence.
Okunlola, who claimed to be a 300 level student of the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN, was arraigned before Justice Peter Odo Lifu of the Federal High Court 2, sitting in Osogbo, Osun State.
One of the charges reads, “That you Okunlola Tobiloba Ebenezer, “M” alias Ryan Antley sometime in 2019, in Osogbo, Osun State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court with intent to defraud, obtained lTunes gift cards worth of $750 from one Kimmy Antley, an American citizen when you falsely represented yourself that you are a white man with the name Ryan Dudely the pretext you knew to be false”.
The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges when read to him.
In view of his not-guilty plea, Prosecution Counsel Murtala Usman prayed the court for a trial date and an order to remand the accused in the correctional custody.
But the Defense Counsel, M. O Ademola, made an oral bail application, praying the court to admit his client to bail pending the determination of the charges filed against him.
The presiding judge granted the prayer as he granted him bail in the sum of N10 million and one surety in like sum.
The surety, the judge held, must be a civil servant, a land owner residing within the jurisdiction of the court and must be related by blood to the defendant.
He also ordered that the accused be remanded in the Nigeria correctional service’s custody pending the time he meets his bail condition.
The matter has been adjourned to February 6, 2020.
Nikki and Brie Bella are both pregnant - and due less than two weeks apart.
The twins, who are expecting with Dancing With The Stars ace Artem Chigvintsev and WWE star Daniel Bryan respectively, insisted they never 'planned' to be expecting at the same time.
After admitting to being 'shocked' that they will be going through the experience alongside one another, Brie - who already has two-year-old daughter Birdie with husband Daniel - said: 'Wait, twins being pregnant at the same time?...
'People are going to think that's a joke. We both are shocked. People are going to think we planned it, but you can't really plan pregnancy!'
And Nikki - who recently got engaged to Artem Chingvintsev - added to People magazine: '[It was] a total surprise. It took even me a good week to come to terms with like, 'Oh my gosh, I'm pregnant.' I'm not ready for it.'
Kobe Bryant’s wife Vanessa has made her Instagram account public for the first time since the LA Lakers star’s tragic death alongside their daughter Gianna.
The NBA legend died on Sunday (26 January) aged 41 in a helicopter crash that also killed 13-year-old Gianna and seven other people in Calabasas, California.
Vanessa, 37, has yet to address her heartbreaking loss publicly, but she appears to have acknowledged the deaths by changing her profile picture to one of Kobe and Gianna together.
In the sweet image, Kobe is seen smiling down at Gianna who has her arms flung around the basketball star. It was taken at the NBA All-Star Game in Toronto, Canada back in 2016.
Gianna was Kobe and Vanessa’s second child, as they also share daughters Natalia, 17, Bianka, three, and seven-month-old Capri.
Vanessa’s return to Instagram comes after a source revealed she is ‘trying to be the strong one’ for her daughters while grieving the tragic deaths. An insider told People: ‘It’s an extremely difficult and devastating time for Vanessa and the whole family.
Nollywood actress Foluke Daramola has allegedly lost another pregnancy due to psychology trauma she suffered from the fake news that her marriage has crashed.
Her husband, Olukayode Salako sent out a press release debunking viral reports of their alleged failed marriage and revealed that his wife has lost her 2 months old pregnancy after she cried all through the night because of the fake news.
