Ex-Governor Akpabio's credit card declined at London hotel

Former Akwa Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpabio, who is currently in the UK to get treatment after surviving a car crash in Abuja on August 31st, suffered embarrassment at Mandarin Oriental Hotel, a luxury five-star hotel in the Knightsbridge area of London after his credit card was declined while he attempted to check into the hotel.

According to Sahara reporters who released the photos, Akpabio was heard making a call to a banker in Lagos state eiquiring why his card was declined. When SR contacted him, Akpabio said his card was declined because he had used the card to check out of the Four Seasons luxury hotel earlier in the day. Akpabio stated that his credit card had maxed out of its daily spending limit, hence he could not make use of it.

Still looking for her ‘Johnny’, Yemi Alade wants 3 children

'Johnny' crooner, Yemi Alade, who has claimed in different interviews that she is yet to find her man, has disclosed the number of children she hopes to have when she is eventually married.

Yemi Alade, who wants to approach marriage with caution, said she is presently in no rush for living under the same roof with a man as wife.

The artiste said she would give marriage a thought at the right time.

Mercy Johnson replies her critics, ‘If I chose to have another baby, deal with it’

Talented actress Mercy Johnson who turned 30 recently and shows-off her child-number-3 baby bumps have replied fans who criticized her to think of child-spacing.

Mercy posted thus; “I know about child spacing so it is my life and choice to have another baby so soon. I am a married woman and if I chose to have another baby deal with it because the fourth one will be coming soon." 

Men should marry more than one wife to end prostitution, Kenyan Politician advises

A Kenyan politician has advised men to marry more than one wife as one way of combating prostitution. David Gikaria, a Nakuru, Kenya Member of Parliament said that if men married more than one wife then prostitution would end because all single women will get husbands.

Speaking on Monday, September 14 at a free medical camp he had organized in his constituency, Gikaria, who has three wives, said that prostitution is on the increase in Kenyan towns because women lack husbands.

 "There are so many women in our towns who don’t have husbands or men in their lives and this forces them to resort to prostitution and this thing can be solved if only men agree to marry more than one wife," he said. "Why should we allow these women to suffer cold at night when we can take care of them in our homes." he added. Gikaria gave his own example saying that he has three wives and called on men to learn from him. 

 

 "I think those people who have money especially MPs are well off should lead from the front by marrying many wives," said Gikaria.

Why I can't relocate abroad - Omotola

Nollywood actress, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, has explained why she has been reluctant to relocate abroad despite opportunities to do so.

According to the superstar actress, she is scared such move might destroy her family, which she does not want.

Even those with failed marriages castigate me - Toyin Aimakhu

Nollywood actress, Toyin Aimakhu, has poked some of those who criticize her over her troubled marriage.

 

It is no more news that her marriage to Niyi Johnson is not smooth and her husband ran to Instagram to confess sleeping with other women, vowing to turn over a new leaf.

KCee comes under attack hours after endorsement deal

After announcing on his Instagram page on Tuesday that he has sealed a deal with Air Peace, Five Star artiste, KCce has come under attack.

The singer had reportedly claimed that he was the first artiste to be named the brand ambassador for the airline, but his fans took him on it.

“Whoever said hard work doesn’t pay hasn’t tried hard enough! Air Peace just added another feather to my cap by making me their brand ambassador. Shouts out to all the other major brands I represent in Nigeria. First Nigerian artist to be endorsed by an airline,” he had claimed.

Throw back picture of Basketmouth, Mama G

 

 

Popular comedian, Bright Okpocha, better known by stage name Basketmouth, tagged yesterday, Wednesday, September 16, 2015, a ‘Throw back Wednesday’ on his Instagram account and posted pictures of him with popular Nollywood actress, Patience Ozonkwo, better known as Mama G.
He explained that the pictures were taken from his first trip out of Nigeria.

D'banj's video shoot disrupted by Area Boys in Lagos

This is not the best of times for the Koko Master, D’banj as he recently had a rough time with the area boys in Lagos.

It was gathered that trouble began for the singer last Saturday, at Tin Can Port, Lagos, when he showed up for a video shoot in a Toyota RAV 4 with registration number KJA6158BE.

Saraki to face false asset declaration charges on Friday

The Code of Conduct Bureau has filed a 13-count charge against the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, at the Code of Conduct Tribunal.

 

Saraki is said to have made false declaration of his assets,  the trial of the senate president will begin on Friday in Abuja.

The Deputy Director in the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation, M.S.Hassan, filed the charges against Saraki on September 11.

The Senior Special Assistant to the Senate President, Mr. Yusuf Olaniyonu, confirmed to one of our correspondents that Saraki had been served notice of the charges.

“Yes. We have been served,” Olaniyonu said.

The charges against Saraki include false declaration of assets, alleged acquisition of assets beyond his legitimate earnings and keeping foreign accounts while holding public office first as Kwara State governor in 2003 and later as a senator.

Election Tribunal: Akpabio’s witness goes 'blind'

A drama played out at the Akwa Ibom National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal on Wednesday in Abuja when suddenly one of the witness of embattled former governor Godswill Akpabio, Mr. Stanley Annah from Ikot Ekpene dramatically turned blind when given the card reader report to state the total number of accredited voters for Ikot Ekpene.

Mr Annah, who told the tribunal that elections held in all the polling units of the council, suddenly turned

Women are incomplete without marriage — Charly Boy

Maverick artiste, Charles Oputa, who is fondly called Charly Boy, has shared his opinion on the way women are viewed in Nigeria as incomplete when they are yet to get married.

 

Area Fada, as the former PMAN president is also called, stated that the society puts pressure on women of marriageable age to settle down with a man, not minding if it would eventually work or not.

Doctors discover tapeworm in woman's brain

A woman who had been suffering from severe headaches was horrified to discover they were due to tapeworm larvae sacs growing in her brain. Yadira Rostro first started to notice bad headaches nine months ago and finally sought medical help after they continued to get worse.

Mum kills child with Down's Syndrome with hand sanitiser

A mother, Erika Wigstrom, has pleaded guilty to killing her Down’s syndrome child, 17 month old, Lucas Ruiz by injecting hand sanitiser into his feeding tube. She was sentenced to 40 years in jail yesterday. The tragic 17-month-old was born with Down's syndrome and another condition that left him with holes in his heart.

Former Senate Leader, Ndoma-Egba, dumps PDP

After six months of speculation, former Senate leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN), formally resigned his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday.

In a resignation letter dated September 14 and personally signed and addressed to the PDP chairman in his Akparabong Ward in Ikom local government area of Cross River State, Ndoma-Egba cited factors which necessitated his exit from the party on which platform he contested election and was in the Senate for 12 years.

Mentally-challenged woman gives birth on Ebute Metta Street

Yesterday, September 16th, people heard the agonizing cries of a mentally challenged woman, begging people not to let her die.

She was on the streets and in labour. Good spirited Nigerians heard her cries and helped her deliver her baby on Ayodele street in Ebute Metta around 4 am before calling the Lagos State Emergency number, who came and carried her and the baby to Lagos State Island Maternity hospital where she and the bouncing baby boy are doing well.

Oscar Pistorius cannot afford another murder trial, say his lawyers

Lawyers to Oscar Pistorius say he cannot afford another murder trial. The athlete was found guilty of culpable homicide - a similar charge to manslaughter - by a judge and was sentenced to five years in prison last year for shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at his home on Val's Day 2013.

However, South African prosecutors have appealed the conviction  and say Pistorius should be jailed for murder. His lawyer Barry Roux filed fresh evidence to the Supreme Court of Appeal yesterday arguing the runner cannot afford a new trial - and he would be unable to get a fair hearing anyway.

Muslim boy arrested over clock that resembles bomb invited to White House

US President Barack Obama has issued a White House invitation to a Muslim schoolboy who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school.

Ninth-grade high school student Ahmed Mohamed from Irving, Texas, was arrested on Monday after his teachers reported him to the police for making a clock, which they said resembled a bomb.

The arrest prompted outrage with thousands expressing their anger at authorities for arresting a 14-year-old boy over his school project.