Is AfroCandy broke?

 Controversial actress and film maker Afro Candy is presently in Nigeria from America to promote her movie, Destructive Instinct, and audition prospective actors for a new film.

The actress advertised on her Facebook audition forms for her upcoming movie which goes for N7000. 

The actress also defended the fee, claiming that it was for registration to become a member of her production company, and had nothing to do with the audition.

Wedding bells ring again for 9ice

Gongo Aso crooner, 9ice, will be working down the aisle soon with his pregnant girlfriend,  Olasunkanmi Ajala, reports Pulse.ng

Reports say  9ice is already living with Olasunkanmi, and that the Nikkai ceremony is the only thing holding them from making their union public.

9ice's separated from his wife  Toni Payne  some years ago, the marriage produced a son, Zion.

Sunny Neji adds some sexiness to new song

Highlife maestro Sunny Neji has dropped a new single titled Sexy thing

The single comes after the video of his collaboration with Chocolate City’s Ice Prince titled Whiskey hit television stations and the oline space. 

The song is produced by Sunny Neji, who produces most of his songs.

Listen to song HERE

Olamide freestyles for his goons

Rapper Olamide has released a new free style dedicated to his loyal fans and friends.

The track titled  Awon Goons Mi was officially released on Monday by Olamide on his Instagram page.

“By popular demand ... I posted a freestyle video on internet, and the fans been requesting for the full version Here it is #GoonsMi” he wrote on Instagram.

Listen to song HERE

'Originality will sell Nigerian musicians globally'

The Chief Executive Officer OF Gongbeat, a dance company, Isioma Williams, said on Monday that Nigerian music needed originality and local percussion instruments to make an impact worldwide.

"It is very vital for musicians and traditional dancers to sustain originality in their acts by using local drumming to beef up their music which will differentiate them,’’ he said.

Williams made the assertion in Lagos on the sidelines of a clinic he organised to teach musicians and traditional dancers how to beat various drums.

The clinic with the theme "My Music Notes” began on July 21 and will end on July 28 at the Artistes Village at the National Arts Theatre in Lagos.

"This will enable them to read musical notes and write their own music.It will further encourage the habit of documentation in the industry so that our creative works are preserved and not lost,” he said.

MTN Project Fame replaces Adaora Oleh

MTN Project Fame has replaced Adaora Oleh with UK born Nigerian Bolanle Olukanni, as co-host.

Adaora Oleh has been co-host to Joseph Benjamin for the past six season of the music reality TV show. 

Olukanni is currently a co-host on Moments with ‘Mo alongside Mo Abudu and Dolapo Oni. 

Benjamin announced her arrival on his Instagram page on Sunday with a  photo of himself and his new co-host  ‘#GalaShow backstage #MTNProjectFame7.0 with my lovely Co-Host Bolanle Olukanni‘, he wrote.

Replying Mr Ibu's Ignorance Is Not Worth It – Ibinabo Fiberesima

The confrontation between AGN president Ibinabo Fiberesima and actor John Okafor, aka Mr Ibu, has finally boiled over as the AGN chief has finally decided to respond to his criticisms.

John had queried her over her allocation of the body’s money, and in a recent interview she granted Punch, the engaged actress said:"Which money is he talking about? That is why I said he is detached from the realities on ground.

"When we went to visit the President, there was no money promised to anybody. We didn’t go there to beg for money as Mr. Ibu is used to doing; we didn’t do that.

"They push you to the extent that you say things that you don’t want to. I’m not about money, for once they should stop and think, see what my team and I have achieved in two years. Replying Mr. Ibu would be trading intelligence with ignorance and I don’t think I have that time.

"I’m sure you have followed everything we have done and we have not hidden anything. Rather, we have been open about everything we have done, so if he attacks me the way he did, it clearly shows that he is completely detached from the reality, because he complained about things that we have achieved long ago, which shows that he is not part of the Guild,” she said.

I Have Moved On From Empress - Timaya

Their love had been the talk of the town and they seemed inseparable from each other grasps, but when the inevitable breakup occurred, both went on each other’s jugulars.

Timaya was the first to put their business into public and said then he regretted associating himself with the actress, and immediately the actress fired back saying her mother would have been a very angry woman had she gone to the altar with the Bayelsa State-born music artiste.

That was now. A long time ago and it seemed both have moved on with Timaya getting married and saying his wife is the type of woman he always wanted.

Empress, on the other hand, seems to still be on the search for her Mr. Perfect but that is not stopping her from living an active life.

She is working as an actress and has been actively doing her charity work and also running her House of Empress business venture.

However, Timaya has recently told a Vanguard reporter that he is over Empress. He said: “I’m not missing anything about Empress. She’s my past and I have a beautiful family now. What is there to miss about her?"

When Empress was asked to respond to Timaya’s new revelations she said she doesn’t want to have any more public fights over little things. She said: “I am beyond all these small talks. I’m more concerned with charity walks now."

"My interest in life is putting smiles on the faces of the deprived, the sad ones and those who need a helping hand.”

Ms Sahhara Finally Makes Nigeria Proud, Wins Miss World transgender Competition

Nigerian transgender Queen, Ms Iris Sahhara Henson has gone to the World Transgender pageant, Eat Bulaga and came home with first position.

The pagaent was held at Philippines last night and featured contestants from all over the world.

Ms Iris Sahhara went online and happily declared her happiness, saying: "OMG! I won. I am still not sure it is a reality! Maybe I’ll wake-up from this amazing dream in a minute! My arm is turning red from me constantly pinching myself to wakeup from this beautiful dream! I am overwhelmed with love! Philippines is truly my home away from home.

Thank you to the Eat Bulaga show and production team for giving us the platform to exhibit our intelligence and creativity in positive ways on the longest daytime national television show in the world! Shock is an understatement to how I feel right now!",

Ms Sahhara has been insulting Nigerians after getting constantly abused by her fellow country men online.

Photos below of Miss Sahhara in Philippines

Miss Akwa Ibom Iheoma Nnadi Crowned MBGN 2014 Winner

19-year-old Iheoma Nnadi representing Akwa Ibom State at the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria (MBGN) beauty pageant, has been crowned winner of the 2014 edition which held on Friday 18th July 2014, in Bayelsa State.

Iheoma Nnadi MBGN 2014 winner.

Iheoma beat 29 other contestants to walk away with the coveted prize – a chance to represent Nigeria at the Miss World pageantry, a brand new car and a grand prize of N3million.

The judges of the night were actress Osas Ighodaro, ex MBGN Sylvia Nduka, and former Mr Nigeria Bryan Okwara.

IK Osakioduwa and Yvonne “Vixen” Ekwere were both hilarious and stylish, hosted the event.

No Matter What They Do To Me, I Will Not Stop Accusing Jonathan – Nyako

Recently Impeached Governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako has come out and told the President that even on his death bed he won’t take down his his controversial memo to the northern governors.

The critical memo which he is talking about is where he accused the Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan of committing genocide in the North with the excuse of fighting Terrorism.

Nyako was represented by his media aide, Ahmad Sajoh, who said that new information coming to them shows that Jonathan and PDP where the ones who orchestrated his removal from office.

Nyako who has not been seen since his impeachment on Tuesday might face charges of treason for the memo he sent to the northern governors on April 4th 2014.

In the Memo he said that Jonathan’s government was the ones killing the citizens of Norno and then blaming it on Boko Haram.

Nyako had written: “Cases of mass murders by its bloody minded killers and cut-throats are well known, but it attributes the killings to the so-called Boko-Haram.

EFCC sources had earlier today said they are seriously searching for Nyako after his impeachment and it seems that the Impeached Adamawa state governor could be jailed for life if convicted of such a serious crime.

Peter Okoye Fires Back At Fans Criticising Him For Missing Brother's Wedding

On the day of the event, Peter had posted photos of him ‘chilling’ with friends at home in Lagos.

His fans who were not pleased with his action, attacked him for paying his brother back for not attending his own wedding to Lola in November 2013.

Peter Okoye must have had enough of the hammering from fans as he took to twitter to fire back at them. Peter provided little insight into the situation via his of tweets and apparently his immediate family – wife and children are his priority.

Konami Cup hires Patoranking, Korede Bello as referees

Musicians Patoranking and Korede Bello will officiate the inter-orphanage homes football competition charity soccer fiesta called Konami 2014, reportsPulse.ng 

This edition hosts four orphanage homes playing soccer against each other. 

Patoranking recently left  Timaya’s Dem Mama Records, while Korede Bello is signed to Don Jazzy’s Mavin Records.

How Christy Essien Igbokwe’s husband kept her corpse in a room for months hoping she would wake up!

Edwin Igbokwe has disclosed how he kept his late wife’s corpse in a room for three months, hoping she will come to back to life.

The late singer’s husband in an interview withPUNCH, opened up on his grief and denial following the death of his wife, Christy Essien Igbokwe, three years ago.

He further revealed how he wooed and married her, the health challenges she encountered before her death, the many visions prophets saw concerning them and why he remarried.

Read his touching but long narration below:

“Thirty five years ago, I married my soul mate and lifetime partner. She was Nigeria’s lady of songs, the late Christy Essien Igbokwe. I was a 26-year-old executive at The Punchwhile she was a 19-year-old songstress and actress that mesmerised Nigeria’s entertainment and theatre scenes with her young, affable innocence. Through those years, we celebrated togetherness and profound love, a love I felt the first time I blessed my eyes on her; a love that grew stronger each sunrise, until 9a.m, June 30, 2011. With each day’s sunset, our love blossomed, like flowers bloomed in spring. We stayed as one through the challenges of life. There were years of aches and pains, tears of joy and electrifying laughter. We stayed together and survived the rough and tumbles of life. We shared everything until it was time for her to go. She lived half a century.

“As I walked down Jebose Boulevard, I tried to accept and appreciate all that life privileged after her eternal transition. It is over three years since Christy died. The denials, the depressions, forward from her death are paths to healing. I missed and mourned her tenderly. Time and support from friends and family were therapies to a second chance at life, living and loving. No one understands the discomfort and trauma of losing a dear family member such as your siblings, your parents or wife, a dearest lifetime partner; (the cherished one you swore before God and the people to love till death do us part), until it happened to them: We are never the same when we lose those that we loved and admired. A part of us leaves with them. Every one of us would come to that place in our lifetime; what matters is how we handled our different circumstances and who would be there to comfort us as we grieved. The mourning season may never end. I can imagine days of guilt, days of tear drops on the pillows and silent wails for losing my dearest wife. The pain is part of passionate memories, of a privileged, shared moment in our lives. These walks with you, Jebose, ignited emotional past pains of losing my late wife and a closure of tragic and traumatic chapters of my life.

Christy was special and spectacular. She was a prophet. She revealed when she would die to the children and by extension, to me: she revealed to us that she had only half a century in this ‘wicked world;’ she told me that when death came, it would be middle of the year. She shared with close friends and members of the family, her end time. I always dismissed her because I was not ready to lose her. She told our children that she would live for 50 years and that any single day thereafter, they should be thanking God. She died June 30, 2011 at age 50.

During one of our affectionate conversations, she told me she would be sick for three days before her death. She said she would exit without burden to anyone or herself. I didn’t believe, until it happened: four days before her death, she complained of stomach ache. We went to the hospital for scanning and treatment: the hospital placed her on overnight admission and began treatment, but she wanted to go home. Her desire to go home was bolstered by hospital’s electric power interruption. The hospital’s generator was also broken down. She said rather weakly, that she wanted to go home since the hospital had no electricity. I honoured her request. We left the hospital for our home. Halfway into our street, the doctor called and informed me that the generator suddenly activated, surprisingly nothing was wrong with it, we could return to continue treatment; we were almost home, my wife said she didn’t want to go back to the hospital.

“The next day, the illness continued at home. She refused to go back to the hospital: the doctor came to the house and placed her on a drip. Even though she was weak, she was active and independent; she refused any assistance; not even a support on the staircase and into the car, as we set out for hospital again, having encouraged her to return to a different hospital for re-examination. I drove her into the waiting arms of doctors who further examined my late wife in a specialist hospital (Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja).

She was placed on admission. She was seeing things and in her own world, as she lay ill, she was concerned about the staff and other patients in the hospital. She was kept overnight because of the diagnosis. The second night, she requested prayer warriors to begin intense prayers, not for her but for us, the living, and for her peaceful transition. She encouraged nurses in the hospital to pray: she would whisper prayer points and choruses. She muttered some messages to our God-son, George, who was with me in the hospital. We went into frenzy shouting for joy when she mentioned that ‘we were victorious and it was all over.’ By 5.30am June 30, 2011, we witnessed deteriorating changes in her health. I phoned Obi, our first son, and he quickly arrived at the hospital to assist. I dashed out to seek a transfer for her to another (the intensive care) room in the hospital. I left Obi and George with pastors and prayer warriors who arrived to pray with us. Something happened while I was gone. The mood changed when I returned. I smelt sadness from the travelling breeze within. The mood was solemn. I saw the sad faces of hospital staff and my son: I felt strange.

Everyone from the doctors tried to find a way to tell me she had died… One of the midwives called me to the side and said I should brace up because my wife died few minutes then. That morning of her death, pastors and other prayer warriors ended morning prayer in her room; she whispered amen, and then slept off. It was exactly 9a.m. I felt dazed, shocked and awed when I was told I lost my ‘everything,’ my companion and the love of my life. Jebose, I caved into denial zone. We immediately moved her body to a room in our home, unknown to many. My late wife warned that her body must not be deposited in the mortuary. I had to respect her wishes. So we decorated a room in our house and laid her down. She was beautiful, peaceful in her sleep. The media and the enlarged burial committee members didn’t know where she was after her death. She lay in that room for almost three months. I was going crazy. I didn’t want to believe she would not wake up. She was smiling peacefully. I couldn’t believe it. I made sure I looked at her every day. I was confused, depressed, dejected and hopeless. The children began to monitor me. I was still in denial, hoping she was asleep… she would wake up. I kept reassuring myself. She never did.

“I finally accepted her death when the pallbearers came into that room and placed her in a coffin for the Commendation Service at Arch Bishop Vining Memorial Cathedral, Ikeja on September 9, 2011 and from there later through the Muritala Mohammed Airport, Ikeja to Akanu Ibiam, Enugu airport en route Awka, Anambra State for funeral service and burial the next day. I knew then, that my best friend, my partner, my soul mate, the mother of my beautiful children, was truly gone.

“After the burial, I was alone and lonely, I felt guilty for her death. I never expected to bury my wife. I always prayed that when my time was up, she, our children and grandchildren would bury me. I began to question God in these transitional periods: I was near complete depression because life was no longer interesting to me: I was lonely and mourning my wife. I was empty. I told everyone that I would never remarry because no woman could replace my late wife. I was suicidal.

After her burial, the pain continued as life began to settle into normalcy, I began to see her in my dreams, encouraging me to live my life. She said she knew if I had the privilege of spending more time with her, I would have corrected certain things in our lives. She said I must move on with my life. Throughout our 32 years, we shared everything: we never separated from the same bedroom. The only time we separated was when we kept her body in a separate room while planning her funeral. Counselling from well-wishers helped me to begin to accept a life without her.

“Her appearances in my dreams encouraged me to move on. In one of such appearances, she told me: “I came and I have fulfilled my destiny on earth. I wished I stayed longer but that was my destiny and God’s words must surely come to pass in our lives. I am not coming again. I am happy where I am. It is well with all of you! Please I want to be remembered always in happiness. Stop getting worried any longer because you do most times. You cry often for missing me and wished that I lived so that you make some amends. It is too late now. You should move on. Your focus should be how to live long for our kids. Advise them properly and correct them positively whenever they go wrong, for their own good. Take good care of them and their offsprings as long as you witness and always bless and not curse any of them. (She smiled…..) I never cursed any of them. I only tried to make them look forward to being independent as my last days on earth approached. Because you need to live long for the kids, you can remarry instead of running into some temptations that are building up. Pray hard. God will show you the right person. The person should not be very young. She must be older than our first kid. She must be able to stand in for the sake of the kids but she must not participate directly as one of the owners in any of our already established companies unless with express permission of all the kids. She will obey you. I must be respected. You know other things that would make the relationship to be soothing to me in death and useful to you in life unless if you want to continue to deceive yourself. You must not allow her do anything you know would not be pleasing. You are an intelligent man, I did say this often and I leave you to your conscience (she smiled…) till we meet to part no more. My love to all still existing and I want all to know this.”

“If she didn’t appear to me in my dreams, I wouldn’t have remarried. I remarried after three years of her death. Time reversed everything. I didn’t want a situation where I would be bringing different women to our home: After the dreams, I began to consider marriage again. Being alone may not be the problem, the problem is the temptations that loneliness and being alone ferment. That would be very disrespectful to her memory and our children. I remarried, with her blessings. I am no longer mourning but her memories are indelible.”

DJ Jimmy Jatt shoots first movie

DJ Jimmy Jatt will be premiering his first film titled Next Door a film written by rapper A-Q, reports HipHop Magazine.

The story for the film is based on how a 20 year old girl tried to save her mother from a suspected violent relationship.

 The cast for the film include musicians; Sound Sultan and Minjin  and Nollywood actress, Actress Lilian Esoro.