Social media is currently abuzz with emotional picture as love rent as Kunle Remi, Nigeria’s foremost actor is set for his traditional wedding with his wife tiwi today.
Netizens could not hold their delight and congratulatory wishes to the actor and his wife to be.
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The Super Eagles of Nigeria have taken the lead in the Group A battle with fellow West African heavyweights Ivory Coast.
Defender William Troost-Ekong gave the Nigerian team a 1-0 lead from the penalty spot in the 55th minute after striker Victor Osimhen was bundled by Ivorian defenders in the penalty box.
Award-winning Nollywood actress, Toyin Abraham, has said she was hospitalised due to panic attacks resulting from the illegal circulation of her new movie, Malaika.
The high-budget movie was exclusively released to the cinema on December 15, 2023.
Abraham, who recounted how she stumbled on the movie on a social media platform, said she almost ran mad after she saw it.
Speaking to newsmen at the Federal Investigation Department of the Nigeria Police Force in Alagbon, Ikoyi, on Wednesday where some individuals arrested in connection with the illegal distribution of the movie were paraded, the actress lamented about shooting a movie close to N500m and seeing it leaked to the public.
She said, “If you look at me, you will know that I am actually not okay. I had to come from the hospital. I have been having panic attacks. It is not easy shooting a movie close to N500mi and you just see it out there.
“I saw my movie and another movie and I was like, am I dreaming? And they said, ‘No, you are not dreaming’. And the next thing, they put it on Telegram, telling people they are going to upload it by 12pm. I opened the link and I saw Malaika, I wanted to run mad, it was like my whole world was coming to an end in front of me.
“You know as a woman, I was crying and my manager said, ‘Don’t worry’, and he started making calls to my godparents, my husband and the Filmone team. So we started calling tech guys and how to get to Google. They had to call Telegram. So the next thing, they started breaking the links. Google started to send emails telling us that they had broken the links.”
Abraham recalled how she was desperate to the level where she had to start begging one of the culprits on Telegram.
She also claimed to have expressed surprise that “one of those guys had to tell me to send a mail to a particular email and I said, ‘On my film!’
“I don’t know what to do; this is my life, this is the only thing I do. That is why I decided to take it upon myself, upon manager and Filmone to fight piracy and this is not about me; not about Malaika, not about any movie in the cinema, not about tribe but about the creative industry. It is about the entertainment industry because this is the only thing we do.”
The actress further revealed that she had lost a lot of money due to the development, as people preferred to wait for the movie to be released for free online.
“I have lost a lot because even when you go on social media, you will see people saying, oh, we will not go to the cinema. We will wait for the movie to drop. Even fans abroad will say they are waiting for the meeting to drop and obviously, anyone who is waiting for such a particular thing will not watch the movie. But it is okay, I am doing well. It is not about the money now. It is about fighting a particular cause for the entertainment and creative industry which I am happy about,” she added.
Nigerian gospel singer, Nathaniel Bassey has advised singles to give love a chance this year.
He urged them to disregard the trendy slogan among the youths, ‘No gree for anybody’ when it comes to marriage.
LEADING REPORTERS recalls that ‘No gree for anybody” has become a popular slang that Nigerians use to showcase their resilience when dealing with any situation.
However, Bassey, in his advice to singles, countered that belief slogan, pleading with single people to allow another person to love them.
In a recent social media post, he wrote: “Gree for somebody, this year.”
Following recent claims by the late singer Mohbad’s father, Joseph Aloba, that his son left a will before his death, Mohbad’s management has issued a statement refuting the allegation.
In the statement shared on the late singer’s Instagram page on Monday, the management team termed Aloba’s claim as “false and misleading,” insisting that neither they nor Mohbad’s lawyer have communicated the existence of any such document to the family or the public.
The statement partly read: “No members of Mohbad’s management or his Lawyer have communicated the existence of a will or any such thumb-printed document (as has recently been FALSELY reported) to any member of the family or the public.
“We would like to state with certainty that if any such document did exist, it would have been duly registered with the Probate Registry. We therefore plead with everyone to refrain from sharing false and misleading statements like this.”
The management noted that “Al accounts owned and controlled by Imole during his lifetime were immediately put on a Post No Debit order on the 12th of September, 2023. This order remains valid till date.”
It added that the accounts “will be properly handed over to the family upon resolution of the internal dispute”.
Tragedy was averted as the plane carrying players of the Gambia national team, made a u-turn to Banjul moments after take off.
The flight was conveying the squad to the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast.
Sports Brief reports that the plane had to be delayed after losing oxygen.
A statement from the Gambia Football Federation on Thursday, read in part: “The Gambia Football Federation (GFF) regrets to inform the general public that the chartered flight carrying the Scorpions to the Africa Cup of Nations returned to Banjul due to technical problems.
“The flight was nine minutes long when the crew realised this and immediately requested a return to Banjul. Upon landing, preliminary investigations indicated that there had been a loss of cabin pressure and oxygen.”
A new departure time have been arranged for the players and officials.
The Scorpions are in Group C with defending champions, Senegal; five-time champions Cameroon, and Guinea.
Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh has filed a petition against popular social media influencer, VeryDarkMan, accusing him of cyberbullying and harassment.
The actress took to her Instagram account to post pictures with captions like “Let it begin”, suggesting the beginning of a legal tussle between the duo.
The photographs show the VeryDarkMan seated with another person who appears like his lawyer at a place that looks like a Police station.
She further posted: “When a child thinks he is grown enough to talk to elders, you never engage just act.”
Police have said they are looking into the petition by Nigerian singer and songwriter Tiwa Savage over alleged bullying and threat to her life by Grammy nominee David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido.
This was made known on Wednesday by the Command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin.
”I can confirm that we received the petition. We have began investigation,” he said.
Tiwa Savage had, in the petition dated January 9, addressed to the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Mr Adegoke Fayoade, accused Davido of uttering disrespectful words in reaction to a post which included herself and the singer’s baby mama, Sophia Momodu’s Instagram story.
She warned that Davido should be held responsible if anything untoward or harmful happened to her or any member of her family.
Three years after his death, the late founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, Temitope Balogun, TB Joshua, has been accused of raping and torturing some of his worshippers while alive.
An investigative report by the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, spanning over two years, said five Britons accused TB Joshua of rape and forced abortions in a secretive Lagos compound spanning almost 20 years.
Also, the late televangelist was accused of faking his “miracle healings,” which were broadcast to millions of people around the world.
One of the alleged victims, a British woman called Rae, was 21 years old when she abandoned her degree at Brighton University in 2002 and was recruited into the church. She spent the next 12 years as one of Joshua’s so-called “disciples” inside his maze-like concrete compound in Lagos.
“We all thought we were in heaven, but we were in hell, and in hell terrible things happen,” she told the BBC.
Rae said she was sexually assaulted by Joshua and subjected to a form of solitary confinement for two years. The abuse was so severe she said she attempted suicide multiple times inside the compound.
TB Joshua was the founder of SCOAN, which is situated in the Ikotun area of Lagos State.
He died a week before his 58th birthday, on June 5, 2021, after conducting a service.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has offered a free PMS voucher worth N200,000 to an X user, #_Debbie_OA, who was knocked for disclosing that she wakes up at 4.50a.m. daily to prepare food for her husband.
NNPCL disclosed this in a tweet shared on its official X handle on Saturday.
The tweet read, “Hello #_Debbie_OA, we love your amazing love story, and we would like to gift you a free ₦200,000 PMS voucher redeemable at any of our 900+ retail stations nationwide.
