I Have No Regrets Writing to GEJ – Obasanjo

Ex- President Olusegun Obasanjo said he had never regretted writing his scathing letter to President Goodluck Jonathan in December 2013.

OBJ revealed this in an interview to BBC on February 13, 2014, Thursday.

He said that the letter was not meant to be confrontational, but was aimed at drawing the President's attention to national issues.

He said if Jonathan wanted any discussions on their relations, or on any other matter, affecting both of them, his doors would remain open for that.

"Since I wrote the letter, we spoke about six times," Obasanjo said, according to a news item on the BBC Hausa website.

Asked if he regretted writing the letter, Obasanjo said:

"Why should I regret? You only regret when you fail to do the right thing before it's too late. But writing a letter at the right moment, a letter that is the right letter to write, and you wrote it, you should not regret writing that."

It would be recalled that in his letter to Jonathan, Obasanjo accused the President of condoning corruption, parochialism, dishonesty and training a killer-squad. He said Jonathan had promised him previously to do only one presidential term.

But in his response, Jonathan accused Obasanjo of endangering the national security and making false, substantiated allegations.

Lil' Kim is expecting her first child

Lil' Kim is pregnant with her first child.

The rapper-actress' publicist CJ Carter confirmed the news on Thursday, a day after pictures of Kim's baby bump began to circulate via social media following her appearance at New York Fashion Week.

The 37-year-old Lady Marmalade singer's assistant Noel Perez says Kim is about five months along and due in May. No other details were available.

Lil' Kim, whose real name is Kim Jones, debuted her baby bump at The Blonds fashion show.

Mavin Records sign Di’Ja

The Mavin label have signed Di’ja an, unknown artist, after the exit of star performer Wande Coal, according to Pulse

Di’Ja  joins the trio of Tiwa Savage, D’prince and Dr Sid as artists on Mavin.

According to  Mavin records CEO, Don Jazzy , Di’Ja whose real name is Hadiza Blell has been nominated at  the Canadian Radio Music Awards  for Best Urban/R&B Single in 2009, she won the 2008 Best New Artiste award at the Beat Awards, and hopes to put her talents to best use in Nigeria.

Timi Dakolo's wife gets a newly completed house as her Val. gift

Wow, this is so cool.
So here's the gist, Timi Dakolo and his wife, Bukola had a bet on who would end up giving the perfect valentine gift today. She gave him her special gift in the early hours of today and just now, Timi unveiled his.  Of course Timi's wife didn't expect what she got, she was stunned.
See photo below:

Tiwa Savage bags Multimillion Naira Deal with FORTE OIL!

Superstar singer/songwriter/actress has just been named as the Face of Forte Oil PLC.
This was announced a while ago at a media briefing.
I hear the Oil & Gas endorsement deal is worth millions....congrats Tiwa!

Bamanga Tukurs wife joins APC.

The wife of former chairman of PDP Chairman, Bamanga Tukur, has joined the All Progressive Congress(APC),  reports The Leadership.

Asiya Mohammed Bello on Thursday registered for APC at Unguwan Rimi, Kaduna North Local Government area of Kaduna State.

The supervising officer for Kaduna North’s registration, Shaibu Lilly, said that Tukur’s wife had been issued a registration card.

Lionel Messi shows off cooking skills after losing a bet to his girlfriend

The Argentine footballer and Barcelona star, showed off his cooking skills to his teeming fans all over the world yesterday as he uploaded a video of him cooking dinner on his instagram page.
He captioned it thus, "Lost a bet… And I had to cook!."

Nigeria's finest female sport blogger, Loladeville says she's certain the bet was between him and girlfriend Antonella Roccuzzo cos they live together or probably his friend(s) who came around.

Aneke Twins sue MultiChoice for airing movie without permission!

Popular nollywood twins, Chidimma and Chidiebere Aneke have sued Multichoice for showing their movie without permission. The said movie, Compulsory Risk, was released in 2009.

The premium tv provider, Multichoice, was further sued for allegedly presenting fake documents while defending its actions.

The film was aired on November 5, 2010, which the Aneke twins reportedly recorded with their phones.

According to the twins, “we went for the copyright of ‘Compulsory Risk’ on 04/09/2009, and we were given the Acknowledgement of Copyright Notification on the 14/12/2009.

“We also censored the movie at the National Film and Video Censors Board, Onitsha, Anambra State, on 11/09/09, and we received the censorship approval on 05/10/2009. We Released ‘Compulsory Risk’ that Dec 2009″. They had claimed.

Terry G set to Wed baby mama

Information reaching us is that Gabriel Amanyi popularly known as Terry G the ‘Akpako Master’, is about to tie knots with his baby mama, Mimi Omoregbe.

Sources who are close to the singer gathered that, “Terry G has started making moves to settle down with his girlfriend of some years, Mimi Omoregbe. I can authoritatively tell you that very soon; he (Terry G) will announce his wedding plans to the media.”The source added that Terry G is likely to finalize the wedding plans in mid-2014.

Terry G and his UK based baby mama, Mimi have been dating for sometime and they both had a son in the UK.

kelly Rowland lands in Lagos

Kelly Rowland landed Lagos today for Dare Art Alade’s Love Like a Movie Concert which will hold on Saturday February 15th at Oceanview grounds, Eko Hotel, Lagos.

Rochas Sacks Commissioner For Physical Assault

Imo State Governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, has suspended the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs. Nma Onyechere, "with immediate effect".

Confirming the development in a telephone interview, the Governor's Senior Special Assistant, SSA, Media, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo, explained that the suspension followed the unwarranted physical assault the woman unleashed on a serving Commissioner in the Local Government Service Commission, Chief Emeka Okoronkwo.

"Governor received a complaint that the suspended Commissioner physically assaulted a serving Commissioner in the Local Government Service Commission, Chief Emeka Okoronkwo".

According to Mr. Onwuemeodo, it was the considered opinion of the Governor that such a public figure of the rank of a commissioner should properly manage her temper, no matter the level of provocation.

"The reported incident brought bad image to the administration and the Governor strongly felt that such a public figure of the rank of a commissioner should learn to properly manage her temper very well, no matter the level of provocation", Onwuemeodo said.

It was also gathered that the Commissioner had been directed to immediately hand over all government properties in her possession to the Permanent Secretary in her Ministry.

Meanwhile, the state government has equally announced the sacking the Transition Committee Chairman of Oguta local government area, Mr. Henry Igbomezie, from office.

It was gathered that Ignomezie was removed for allegedly failing to respect a top government official from the local council area.

Julia Roberts and family fear they will be banned from half-sister's funeral

Julia Roberts is reportedly worried she will be banned from her half-sister's funeral.

The August: Osage County star, who tried to get Nancy Motes to go to rehab in the months before she was found dead in a bathtub from an apparent drug overdose on Sunday, and other family members are afraid to speak out about the Oscar-nominee's "complex" relationship with Nancy, for fear of being prevented from paying their respects at the private service.

Nancy also allegedly claimed the actress "drove her" to suicide in a five-page note.

A source close to the family told RadarOnline.com: "There's plenty of people in the family who want to talk right now, but with the feud between Julia and Nancy being so public, everyone is scared to say anything.

"If they speak, they'll surely be banned from attending the funeral. Above all, the family just wants to be there to pay respects to Nancy."

An insider previously admitted that Julia's troubled relationship with Nancy was made worse by the former production worker's addiction.

Nancy, 37, regularly launched public attacks on her famous relative on Twitter but friends insisted they were often triggered by the actress' pleas for her to seek help in rehab.

The source added: "Julia is taking the death very hard. It's extremely difficult for her because it didn't have to happen."

Ice Prince opens up on Clarence Peters controversial video

In a recent television interview rapper Ice Prince says he asked Clarence Peters to use the concepts from US rap group Slaughterhouse  “My Life” to shoot his  “VIP” music video, according to Nigerian Entertainment Today.

Ice Prince said that Clarence Peters did not do anything wrong, he added that he was the one that suggested the idea of using footage from the American group’s video for his own.

The “Aboki” rapper said that he was satisfied with what Clarence Peters did with the video.

Fuji legend, K1 to feature Olamide on new project

Legendary Fuji musician King Wasiu Ayinde (K1 The Ultimate) will feature, rap sensation Olamide in his upcoming music project.

This comes after Olamide had sampled KWAM 1’s voice in his most recent album, "Baddest Guy Ever Liveth"

A picture of their studio recording was on Olamide’s instagram page on Wednesday.

ANTI-GAY LAW: We’ll Pressure Nigeria To Reverse The Law – United States

The US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said this during a live-web chat with journalists in Washington. Our correspondent monitored the web chat in Abuja.

Thomas-Greenfield also said that America was not bothered that Chinese companies were fast taking over the African market from their US counterparts.

President Goodluck Jonathan had on January 7, 2014 assented to the Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Bill 2013 which criminalises homosexuality in the country.

On January 14 when it became public that the President had signed the bill into law, the US, Canada and the European Union openly expressed reservations over the law.

Thomas-Greenfield, who said the US had adopted the protection of the rights of same-sex people as part of its foreign policies, vowed that Washington would continue to mount and sustain pressure on Nigeria and other countries to reverse their laws against the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender community.

She said, "As a government, it is one of the highest priorities and strongest values that discrimination against anyone based on their sexual orientation and gender identity is wrong. We believe human rights should be available to everybody.

"As a policy, we will continue to press the government of Nigeria as well as other governments who have provided legislation that discriminate against the LGBT community."

Thomas-Greenfiled, who did not agree that pressuring Nigeria to reverse the anti-gay law amounted to interference, said the country and Uganda had the hardest legislation on the gay community.

She said, "This is very much a work in progress, but I think you will agree with me that the law in Nigeria really went far in discriminating against this community but also people who associate with them.

"So we will continue to press the government, to press the legislature to change these laws and provide human rights for all Nigerian people regardless of their sexual orientation."

She, however, did not disclose if the US would impose sanctions on the countries with anti-gay laws to achieve its objectives.

Thomas-Greenfield was optimistic that the U.S would win the fight to protect the LGBT community.

She said, "With what is happening in the US, you can determine how far we are willing to go. We strongly believe human rights for all people and we are particularly opposed to legislation that actually targets the gay community for discrimination. So we are prepared to push this as a policy not just in Africa but across the world."