Celebrity Chef, Gbubemi Fregene is a year older today. And his actress wife, Lala Akindoju took to her instagram page to celebrate him with sweet words.
She wrote;
Excuse me sir, why are you so fresh like today’s bread? I need to toast you! Please step into my office....
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Writing this post to declare that your path will keep shining brighter and brighter, your dreams will manifest quicker this year and your joy will be full forever. The whole world is awaiting your manifestion...
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I want the world to know you are so kind, dedicated and loving to everyone that crosses your path. You look out for me in ways I could never have imagined, you literally carry my whole matter on your head- my community have become yours, and you’ve become my strongest backbones after the the Holy Spirit. .
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Thank you for being the best purpose partner.
Thank you for always buying me hot baffs.
Thank you for all my photo shoots- sometimes you show up at events just to take my pictures.
Thank you for cooking for me- you make the best asaro and palm oil stew 😋
Thank you for always bringing flowers to my plays- please don’t stop.
Thank you for always reminding me of God’s word.
Thank you for being my head of team.
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Happy birthday Mr A❤️
#DaddyWa
#àṣéwẹ́rẹ́niṣẹ́olúwa .
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You guys should help me celebrate the best chef in the world!
@chef_fregz
Adewale Adeleke, Davido’s elder brother, married his sweetheart Kani this February in a lovely white wedding held in Dubai, and a traditional ceremony in Calabar, where his wife is from.
The newlywed has now testified of triple blessings from God since he got married, attributing his success to the holy book in Proverbs 18:22. Read his message below, as they conclude their Dubai honeymoon:
He who finds a wife finds a good thing & obtains favor from the lord! Proverbs 18:22. The first time I saw this verse I must have been in high school & I never fully understood it until now. Since @kani41 has become my wife my blessings have tripled! I thank God for you every day! The honeymoon might be over but now we have the rest of our lives to build together. Love you forever❤️❤️❤️ #Adekani
Two-time world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury made his first social media post since his stunning victory over Deontay Wilder.
The British boxer, unlike other fighters, sent a quick recovery message to his Sunday morning opponent. Wilder was reportedly rushed to the hospital after the fight.
Fury brilliantly beat the American fighter Wilder to become the new WBC world heavyweight champion in a much-anticipated rematch. He floored Wilder twice in a stunning display before the towel was thrown in by the Wilder’s corner in the seventh round.
He posted a picture of himself kissing Wilder’s forehead and wrote; ‘Love and respect to the dance partner of the century, @bronzebomber #speedyrecovery’.
Nollywood actress Iyabo Ojo might have gotten married privately. The businesswoman showed off a wedding band in her latest photo, without stating if she remarried or not. This isn’t just a fancy ring but a wedding ring and so we hope she clarifies her status soon enough.
Thousands of people attended the Kobe Bryant memorial service at the Staples Center on Feb. 24, including a number of celebrities.
Of course, members of the Los Angeles Lakers — like LeBron James — were at the event, where they mourned the loss of the team legend. Tons of other NBA stars were there to pay their respects, as well.
The first celebrity to grace the stage was Beyonce, who kicked off the event with a powerful performance of “XO” and “Halo,” which had the crowd singing along, while many were already in tears.
Fellow Los Angeles Lakers legend, Magic Bryant, was also at the memorial, and he was photographed hugging Kobe’s mom, Pam Bryant, in the crowd. Kobe’s dad, Joe Bryant, was also seen in the crowd, and at one point, he conversed with another Lakers star, Derek Fisher.
Other celebrities in the crowd included Jennifer Lopez, Alex Rodriguez, Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Khloe Kardashian and Kris Jenner. Basketball players like Steph Curry, Michael Jordan and more were also in attendance.
Kobe was killed in a tragic helicopter crash alongside his daughter, Gianna Bryant, and seven other victims on Jan. 26. The memorial also featured tributes to the others who tragically lost their lives.
A new Speaker has been elected at the Kaduna State House of Assembly, barely an hour the former Speaker, Abdullahi Shagali resigned.
The new Speaker is. Yusuf Ibrahim Zailani. Zailani, who represents Igabi West Constituency in the Assembly, was the Deputy Speaker of the Assembly until his election to lead the House on Tuesday.
Zailani is a strong member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Also, Hon Mukhatar Isa Hazo, representing Bassawa Constituency has been elected as the new Deputy Speaker.
Both of them have been sworn-in by the Clark of the Assembly.
Jennifer Lopez, 50, attended the public memorial for Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Feb. 24, when she chose to pay homage to the father and daughter through a heartfelt manicure.
JLo’s nails, done by manicurist, Tom Bachik, were painted white with gold flecks in them while one index finger was painted with a gold number two, Gianna’s basketball number, and the other was painted a gold 24, Kobe’s number.
Gianna wore the number two on her jersey when she played for the Mamba Academy basketball team while Kobe wore number 24 when he played for the Los Angeles Lakers.
JLo wasn’t the only one in attendance paying tribute to the Bryant’s with a sentimental manicure. Beyonce, 38, also rocked a tribute on her nails which was shown during her beautiful opening performance at the memorial.
Bey painted her long nails purple, as a tribute to the Lakers, and had the name Gigi written across all of her fingers in silver sparkles on her left hand, while Kobe’s name was written out on her right hand. She also chose to wear a gold suit, which was another tribute to the Lakers.
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has announced his resignation but was asked to stay on as interim leader by the country's monarch.
Mahathir said in a two-line statement that he had informed the country's king of his resignation at on Monday.
Mahathir also reportedly resigned from his own party, Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia, according to Reuters news agency, citing three sources. Mahathir's party also announced that it was quitting the ruling government coalition, Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope), casting doubt on the future of the partnership.
Mahathir's decision follows a weekend of political wrangling, after it was reported on Sunday night that his party was planning to form a new government that would exclude his anointed successor, Anwar Ibrahim.
The king accepted Mahathir's resignation after meeting with him later on Monday, Chief Secretary Mohd Zuki Ali said in a statement.
"However, His Highness has given his assent to appoint Mahathir Mohamad as interim prime minister, while waiting for the appointment of the new prime minister. Hence until then, (Mahathir) will manage the country's affairs until a new prime minister and cabinet are appointed," Mohd Zuki said.
The woman killed in a suspected murder-suicide attempt in a tiny Somerset village has been named as Princess Anne's dog trainer.
A wounded 67-year-old man has been arrested after a woman was shot and killed at a property in the remote Somerset village of Winsford.
Avon and Somerset Police said officers fought to save the life of the woman found seriously wounded at the home deep in Exmoor National Park.
However she died at the scene.
The victim has been named in media reports as 56-year-old Debbie Zurick, who was said to have trained Princess Anne's dog, Sparkle alongside her husband.
According to the reports, the pair lived on the Prime Minister's family's Nethercote estate.
The Kogi State Police Command has confirmed the release of all the five Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) staffs kidnapped along the Obajana-Kabba road, over a week ago.
Also, all the five personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) that were kidnapped around Ajegwu, along the Ayingba road have secured their freedom.
The police command, in a statement today, stated that all the Kidnapped victims were hale and hearty and have reunited with their families. It however did not disclose if any ransom was paid to secure their freedom.
The freed JAMB workers were said to have been from the examination body’s head office in Abuja and were headed for Kogi West, ahead of the mock UTME which held last Tuesday while the NSCDC operatives were abducted on their way for a promotion examination in neighbouring Benue State.
The Federal High Court in Abuja has found Mr Olisa Metuh guilty of money laundering in the sum of N400 million.
The trial judge, Justice Okon Abang, found the former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) guilty on Tuesday while delivering judgement in the suit instituted against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The anti-graft agency charged Metuh, who is standing trial alongside his company, Destra investment, with seven counts bordering on criminal diversion of the money received from the office of the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd).
Delivering judgement in the case, Justice Abang convicted the former PDP spokesman of count one of the charges.
“It is my view that Metuh took possession of the N400 million from the office of the NSA without contractual agreement; he is guilty of money laundering and is hereby convicted on count one.”
Shortly after he was convicted, the trial judged suspended reading the judgment to allow the former PDP spokesman use the gents.
Upon his return to the courtroom, Justice Abang proceeded with his judgement on the second count of the charges which bordered on the criminal conversion of N400 million.
According to him, the evidence before him shows that the money was used to fund activities of the PDP.
The judge added that Metuh also used the money to acquire a property at Banana Island in Lagos.
He explained that this was contrary to the e-payment mandate which stated that the money was meant for security services, whereas Dextra Investment was not a registered security outfit.
Justice Abang insisted that the evidence pointed to the fact that the money was deliberately laundered to brighten the chances of the PDP during the general elections in 2015.
He added that Metuh failed to explain the transfer of N50 million from the N400 million to the joint account of himself and his wife
“It is, therefore, manifestly clear that the defendant converted the money for PDP campaign activities and I find him guilty and is hereby convicted accordingly,” the judge declared.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos has said that if the national leader of the party, Bola Tinubu, declares to run for the 2023 presidential election, it will not be out of place owing to his political record.
Disclosing this at a briefing in Lagos on Monday, the party’s state secretary, Lanre Ogunyemi, said Tinubu has all it takes to lead the country and has every fundamental right as a Nigerian to become the next president.
“Tinubu has all it takes to lead this country and he has every fundamental right as a Nigerian to aspire; it is now left for Nigerians to accept or not, it is now left for the party to decide who flags their ship as a presidential candidate come 2023.
“Whether he has briefed us or expressed any body language, whether people are against it or not, we are sure he has everything to lead this nation,” he stated.
He added that the APC national leader has contributed to modern Nigeria and is regarded as the Moses of this generation.
“This is a man who has contributed tremendously to what we call modern Nigeria; he is a man whom we see as the Moses of our time that has a lot of resourcefulness.
“Whichever way it goes, let us decide if it goes to the South; let us decide whether it goes to the Southwest or Southeast and what we look at is merit; who can take us to the place that Nigeria ought to be.
“If we find that in Bola Tinubu, why not, he doesn’t have to brief us, let’s keep watching the body language and see what will manifest in 2023.
“We are standing absolutely on his mandate,” he maintained.
Pastor Bunmi Salami of the Transformers International Christian Centre, Gbagada has spoken about how she battled an 18-month pregnancy.
She spoke about her battles with City People publisher, Seye Kehinde.
In the interview she explained how God saw her through, and the 'vow' she made. Read....
My first assignment actually began in the Ministry the year I had my girl. My girl is now 19 years. That was when I actually had my 1st assignment. That was the 1st church we floated and I had to go on assignment. That was in Bariga area before we came to Gbagada here. And that was when I had my 1st assignment, though I have had other assignments before like you have people given to you to grow them in 6 months. So, I was growing people. My G.O. will give you like 60 people and you are to turn it into 100. So, we would train them and work on them. After growing them, they will give me another group, until one day when he said he wants me to go and work outside. And funnily enough, I was sent on assignment for the 1st time in my life as a Pastor with a complicated issue of pregnancy.
Maybe that was why I came up with the Basket. I carried my baby for 18 months and then when my G.O said I should go for an assignment I just said you know about my case, sir. He said the Lord knows about it. So, I entered the Ministry with a very big problem but I told the Lord. I will not stay in my house for one day. I will be preaching the Gospel until I have this child. I remember I preached every day for 18 months and then I had the child. They called the kind of pregnancy I had Ectopic Pregnancy. When it got to the time, we didn’t go to the clinic. We didn’t go and see anybody about it. We just prayed and Doctor said you don’t survive Ectopic, you will bleed to death. I said I will survive it. And I survived.
How did that experience of carrying 18-month pregnancy make you feel?
It shaped me a lot. In the 1st place, it made me stronger in the Lord, because of that experience I fast every day of my life. No 2, I came away with the feeling that God is mighty. When I went to do the scan, the lady doing the scan was crying. She said you can’t survive. You have a big mass outside your uterus, you are going to bleed to death. She said, two, even if there is a Surgery or Caesarian Section you are not going to survive. I said, me, I will survive it. And I did survive. Then, I became a Pastor. I was pastoring in church. I was active. I never missed any programme. I had no car. I will move from Abule Egba to Gbagada every day, 4 times a week and I will get home around 11 pm or midnight and I became stronger in the Lord. I was preaching all along and I told the Lord, I have a Covenant with you. As far as you can let me have my baby alive, I will tell the whole world how powerful you are. If made me stronger. And I remember that when I was praying for the child, there was a day I was praying and I had a revelation I saw that the baby girl I was going to have will be tall, dark-skinned girl. And that was what happened. The girl today is a tall girl. Wow. That is my 4th born. Then we had a boy as the 5th. The birth of that one was a Miracle. We didn’t see the pregnancy at all. And we had him. That encounter made me know that God is mighty, powerful.
During that time was when I went to Reinhard Bonkee Crusade. I remember, on the last day of Reinhard Bonkee Crusade, I was lying on the couch in the church. I lived in the church then. My G.O was like Olubunmi, why are you here? I said sir, I can’t even stand up. He said go and finish your job, jare. Go and do your work. I said I am bleeding. He said does God know you are bleeding? Go. My team led 5,000 people to that crusade. I went. Nobody in my team knew I was bleeding. I went and came back and I continued my job. Suddenly I felt movement inside me and I went back to the clinic and they told me that there is a baby there. The doctor said the baby that was outside the Uterus is no longer outside, it is now inside the womb. I said wow! And I had the baby.
One afternoon, when the doctor was not even around, it was a nurse that was on duty. And the baby came out with a chord all around her neck. And myself and husband said, give us a scissor, we would help you to cut it. And we did. When the doctor came, he said it in Yoruba, omo ti on dodge. The baby that was dodging. We didn’t see you for months but we knew the baby was there. I had her in a miraculously simple way. I had her, stood up & left. There was no surgery done. No CS done. No bleeding. And there is no baby I have had that I did not go to church the next day. So, that baby came. She came on a Friday, and I went back to church on Sunday. The other one, Miracle, came on Sunday and I preached that Sunday. I feel that encounter of 18 months pregnancy gave me the Grace to serve God the more.
Lol, I know this is wrong, but who else loves Pretty Mike? Lmaooo dud is blunt as fck... damn! Damn!!
So Pretty Mike is helping people burst their bubbles and saying what looks like a relaity today. The scoial media star, took to his instagram page (a page he usualy start his troubles from) and said, men need to understand a pretty woman is not meant for only one man. Hear him,
''I don’t know who needs to hear this but... A Beautiful lady isn’t meant for only one man, so to keep one to yourself in this Lagos,You must be Capable of doing what Eleven men can do 🙊🙆🏾♂️🙈.. let’s be Guided ''
They have been married for 20 years and share one of the most high-profile celebrity love stories.
And Victoria Beckham shared an adorable glimpse at the early years of her romance with David with her Instagram followers on Monday.
The former Spice Girls, 45, singer was sporting a raven pixie crop as she hugged bandana-clad David, 44, in the grainy footage, which is likely to be from around 1999.
The mother-of- four captioned the throwback video: 'So sweet! I love u @davidbeckham x'
Victoria began the clip by asking the footballer: 'When did you were realise you were really famous?'
To which he replied, 'straight away', causing laughter from the room.
Victoria then leaned over and playfully tapped him with her clipboard, before turning to the camera and saying with a smile: 'It was when he started going out with me I think, actually.'
The woman behind the camera asked David what made him fall in love with the fashion designer.
The former England player replied: 'I couldn't put my finger on one thing. It was the whole package I fell in love with it.'
Victoria was semi-jokingly horrified with him referring to her as an 'it'.
He saved the situation by reassuring her he loved everything about her before announcing 'it's time to go, I think'.
The pair ended up in a sweet embrace and Victoria then said to the camera: 'He's very sexy.'
Fans were quick to take to the comment section to share their love for the adorable video.
One said: 'OMG I remember this - you tried to interview him but had to stop every minute to laugh.'
Another added: 'I watched this vid thousand times back when it first aired.'
While one fan sweetly commented: 'This is completely adorable.'
The couple married in 1999 and now share four children Brooklyn, 20, Romeo, 17, Cruz, 15, and Harper, eight.
Justin Bieber was among hundreds devoted to celebrating Christ at Kanye West's Sunday Service.
While attending the religious gathering, the 25-year-old Yummy singer made a surprise performance of Marvin Sapp's gospel hit Never Would Have Made It to a roaring crowd.
'Never could have made it, without you,' Bieber sang, while wearing a red hoodie after a moving performance of Every Hour by West and his chorus in a video shared on Kim Kardashian's Instagram Story.
The audience grew more vocal, as he passionately sang: 'I'm stronger, I'm wiser/ I'm better, much better/When I look back over all you brought me through.'
During his performance Bieber beamed, as one attendee pointed to the sky and others clapped enthusiastically.
As Bieber closed his emotional performance, asking to be 'set free,' he jumped off the stage to give the 42-year-old Follow God singer a sweet embrace.
Wife of billionaire businessman Ned Nwoko and actress Regina Daniels has launched a magazine with her name. The luncheon which held in Abuja last weekend had Nollywood stars in attendance as well as other guests.
Regina took to her timeline to announce the good news and shared pictures from the event with her husband who was also present. More photos below...
