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Undoubtedly one of the biggest Hiphop stars in Africa with amazing versatility, Ice Prince Zamani makes his debut African movie appearance in the new Ghanaian comedy film House of Gold. His hit single Aboki has been chosen by Media Ghana, producers of the movie as the official soundtrack for the yet-to-be-released movie House of Gold. The highly anticipated movie is an expression of award winning movie director, Pascal Amanfo, and has a rich conglomerate of top-flight African movie stars such as Yvonne Nelson, Majid Michel, Omawumi Megbele, funniest African actor, Francis Odega, Eddie Watson, entrepreneur and business mogul – Mr J. Kofi Bucknor and “Spirited actress” Luckie Lawson as lead actors. Talented new youngster Umar Krub, and Top model/fashion 101 TV host Sandra Ankobiah also played supporting roles in the movie. The movie, when released will be the second major production of Media Ghana after they debut the industry with a multiple award winning movie Single & Marr

Nigeria Rapper, Naeto C First Baby Boy - Congrats! Nigeria rapper, Naeto C and his wife Nicole has received their first bundle of joy. The couple welcomed their first child this week. According to reports, his wife Nicole gave birth to a baby boy on Tuesday, 26th of March in a United States hospital and the rapper has displayed his bundle of joy. The Kini Big Deal crooner posted a picture of himself and ‘Baby C’ on Instagram, giving a vote of thanks and also explaining that he is short of words. “Thanks 2 every1 for all the messages…words aren’t honestly enuff to express this moment…it’s ironic especially for some1 like myself who is used 2 putting words 2gether…maybe later…but right now I’m just Thanking God w/my Family and enjoying my son’s company! I wish u all similar moments at some point(s) in your lives!”, he wrote. They are currently in the US where Nicole delivered the baby boy. Naeto is expected to continue his North American tour in Winnipeg, Canada. Naeto

The Death Of Civil Defence Officers, Our Story - By Police The police authorities yesterday briefed the Presidency on the circumstances surrounding the death of two operatives of Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSDC) in Lagos on Wednesday. Both Messrs Adaji Gabriel and Innocent Akegbe, Assistant Inspector and Inspector of corps respectively were killed during a clash with policemen over policing of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipelines in Ikorodu area. The police delegation was led to the meeting by the DIG ‘A’, Suleiman Fakai. The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, is said to be currently out of the country. The President had earlier met with the leadership of the NSCDC on Wednesday evening. Other members of the police delegation were Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko; Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Anti-Vandalism, Friday Ibadin; and the Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, President Go

It was a moment of joy recently for the mother of a prison inmate that had been awaiting trial since 2005. Mrs. Maria Emmanuel danced and shouted with joy on the court premises of the Lagos High Court, sitting in Igbosere when Justice Deborah Oluwayemi released her son, Paul Samuel. Five other awaiting trial inmates were also released by the court. They included Fatai Amidu, Adebayo Owuade, Gabriel Samuel, Mike Ofoje and Lawal Karimu. Speaking with Daily Sun, Mrs. Samuel, a police corporal at Egbe Idimu Local Government Area (and whose husband is a retired soldier), said she had tried all efforts to cause her son to be released from prison – all to no avail. She noted that her son was not arraigned since he was arrested at Maryland, Lagos, in 2005 and had been awaiting advice from Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) since then. According to her, she pleaded with her colleagues at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti, Yaba where her son was first taken but

It emerged yesterday that the scion of the Awolowo family, Chief Oluwole Awolowo who passed on in London hospital on Wednesday evening had long predicted his death. Meanwhile, April 19 has been fixed for the funeral of the late publisher of the Nigerian Tribune. A relation of the deceased, Mr. Tolu Awobodu revealed the death predicted during a condolence visit to the Ikenne home of the Awolowos yesterday. Awobodu who was the thirteenth people to sign the condolence register which was opened early yesterday wrote: `’You told me and my children who are staying with you, Tutu and Toyin that when you are 70 years, you will die. Why? R.I.P.’’ A family member who pleaded anonymity confided in Daily Sun that the family had tentatively fixed Friday April 19 for the funeral which will hold in Ikenne. This is against the position of one of the children of the deceased , Yejide who was quoted as saying that her father would be buried next week. The Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Am

33-Year-Old Senegalese Woman Smuggled Drugs For Nigerian Lover A 33-year-old Senegalese woman has informed narcotic investigators that she smuggled drugs for the love she had for her Nigerian boyfriend. The suspect, Kamara Oumou, with Senegal international passport number 400680371, was found in possession of 680 grammes of narcotic that tested positive for heroin and cocaine. She was apprehended by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos while attempting to board an Arik flight to Dakar. NDLEA airport commander, Mr Hamza Umar, explained that the suspect used industrial tape in sticking three parcels of cocaine weighing 515 grammes on her waist while six wraps of heroin weighing 165 grammes were inserted in her private parts. In his words, “it was a carefully concealed method but not intelligent enough to escape our detection.” However, unlike most drug couriers that smuggle drugs for mon

Breastfeeding Babies Will Help Provide Enough Milk for them Many new mothers worry that their babies are not getting enough milk from breastfeeding. But new research suggests the problem, which can lead to dehydration and serious illness, is actually very rare. Now, the researchers behind the study are calling for better support for breastfeeding mothers to prevent them turning to bottle-feeding. Doctors in Bradford and Sheffield collected details of all of the cases of severe neonatal hypernatraemia – where babies lose weight and become dehydrated due to lack of milk - between May 2009 and June 2010. In that time, Dr Sam Oddie and his colleagues found that there were only 62 cases, The Guardian reported.  This equates to seven cases for every 100,000 live births. Anne Woods, deputy programme manager for Unicef’s Baby Friendly Initiative – a programme which encourages hospitals to train staff in providing breastfeeding support – told the paper that the number of babies wh

Achebe, Things Fall Apart Copies Distributed Free The King’s College, Lagos, will on Thursday distribute free copies of the novel, ''Things Fall Apart'', in tribute to the author, Prof. Chinua Achebe, who died on March 21. The Principal, Mr Oladele Olapeju, said on Tuesday that the college would give out more than 1,000 copies to its students at its Cultural Day celebration in Lagos. He said that the event would have the theme: “Our Culture, Our Pride”. “This year’s Cultural Day of the King’s College, Lagos, has been dedicated to the late Chinua Achebe, Africa’s literary genius. “We are not only proud of Prof. Achebe’s incomparable exploits, we are pre-eminently gratified that it was Nigeria that produced him for the world,” he said. He told NAN that the event would showcase Nigeria’s cultural heritage, to encourage students to be proud of their country. He expressed the hope that the distribution of the copies of the novel would promote reading cultur

2face And Annie Idibia's Wedding Vows, Read... Here are Annie Idibia’s wedding vows; she posted it on her Facebook page a day after their wedding. "I stand before you today as open as I can ever be, humbled by the light and love in your eyes. 13 years ago, I met the most amazing man on earth! I flew on the wings of that love, uncaring, unheeding! Believing firmly that you are and will always be the wind beneath my wings. Life happened, oh yes Life happened but through it all my heart beat only for you!My heartbreak became my greatest joy! My strength! My life! Day after day I am more in love with you! When people ask me what is love! I say Love is right here! This moment! This second! Today! Tomorrow! Love is you! Love is real! Love is my eternity with you Innocent Ujah Idibia. I give you all of me today knowing that in you and you only has this imperfect girl found perfection!!!I do 13 years ago when I met you, I do seven years ago, I do five years ago when we cre

2 Civil Defence Officers Killed In Lagos By Police An anti-vandal squad of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Lagos State Command, was yesterday ambushed by armed policemen attached to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) who opened fire on them, killing two officers, injuring several others and freeing the pipeline vandal they had arrested. Although authorities of the NSCDC refused to release the names of the two officers who were killed at about 3am along Ikorudu axis yesterday, family sources identified them as Gabriel Adaji, an assistant inspector of the corps (AIC), and Innocent Aigbe, an inspector of the corps (IC). While Adaji died on the spot, Aigbe was said to have given up the ghost at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) following fatal bullet wounds he received from the policemen. LEADERSHIP reliably gathered that a police identity card with number 120622, belonging to one Inspector Sunday Gabriel, a pistol and a

Awolowo’s Son, Oluwole Died In London One of the children of the late Premier of the Old Western Region, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Oluwole, has passed on at an unknown hospital in the United Kingdom where he had gone for treatment few months ago. Confirming the incidence to LEADERSHIP in a telephone interview, one of the children of the deceased, Mr. Babajide Awolowo, said, “My father died in London few hours ago.” Family sources told our correspondent that the late Oluwole Awolowo had been bedridden for sometime now, owing to a ghastly motor accident he had sometime in 1992, which left him partially paralysed since then. The source said his health deteriorated in the last few months prompting the family to move him to the unknown hospital abroad for proper medical attention, where he finally gave up the ghost on Wednesday night. “Brother Wole had been in bed for sometime at his Ikenne home and he had been receiving treatment until the family realised that his health was fast

Music: HI (Official Video) - Tonto The most sensational nollywood actress turned artiste drops her hit banger video "HI". Poko brings another innovation into the Nigerian music industry with her "Techno" music. You really should get "Hi" to feel this one!

Waje Body Show Off Was A Strategy; Still Hunting For Husband It appears the whole drama of taking off her clothes during the shoot of her video is a gimmick to show the guys that she's still got 'hot body' despite being a single mother. Her relationship with the man who impregnated her didn't work out, so she is hunting for a new man.  Below is what Singer Waje said about the kind of man she wants:  "I want a man who fears God. A man who is confident and comfortable and would not be intimidated by things that come with what I do. I know what it is to be talking with a friend and somebody you don't know from Adam would come to excuse you and say 'I want to take a picture with you'. It keeps going on and on. So it's somebody who understands that can take this. Then that person must be handsome.  "As a single mother the natural question people must ask is about the relationship that produced the child and what happened? some things a

40-Year Old Man Defiled A 10-Month Old Girl...Parents Beware Please Parents be more careful with people they allow to 'play' with your babies: As you read this, Mr Kingsley Ndubisi, a 40-year old man, has been arrested and charged to court for defiling a 10-month old girl right inside a church. He was arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court on a one-count charge of felony to wit, defilement of a minor. The incident, according to the police, occurred at the True Tabernacle Church in Lagos. The police said Ndubisi was arrested following a complaint by the parents of the victim that the accused on 14 March, 2013 at the church defiled their 10-month old daughter by fingering her private part. This resulting in the little girl bleeding from her private part. During interrogation, Mr Ndubisi was said to have confessed to the crime. After investigation by a police team led by Corporal Raymond Udoeka at the division, the accused was charged to court for the offe

Police Discover Dead Bodies In Shallow Grave, Fulani/Tiv Crisis The renewed hostilities between the Fulani herdsmen and Tiv farmers in Naka town of Benue State yesterday took a terrible dimension as some dead bodies were found in a shallow grave at Angwuhagh village in the area. LEADERSHIP reports that a group of Fulani herdsmen had, last weekend, allegedly attacked Tiv farmers and killed three policemen and a driver and burnt down several houses. A police sergeant was also declared missing and is yet to be found. The state commissioner of police (CP), Mr Chris Kakwe Katso had on Monday paid a visit to the affected area where he had earlier drafted trucks-load of heavily armed police men to maintain peace. However, the police public relations officer (PPRO), DSP Daniel Ezeala who accompanied the CP to the scene told LEADERSHIP yesterday that some human bodies which were confirmed dead have been discovered in a grave in the bush path of the troubled village. According to E

Fresh Attack On 2 Riyom Villages In Plateau, 15 Killed No fewer than 15 people  were killed in two communities of  Da Jak and Attakar in Riyom local government area of Plateau State when unknown gunmen stormed the two villages  at the early hours of yesterday. A source who did not want his name in print told LEADERSHIP that the two communities have been sacked as the houses of the villagers  were burnt by the invaders. The source further said that the, “Two villages were over run in a midnight attack by people suspected to be hired Fulani militias”. Confirming the incident to LEADERSHIP the member representing Riyom state constituency and majority leader in the state House of Assembly, Hon Daniel Dem who spoke with our correspondent on phone said 15 people were killed while most of the houses in the two villages have been burnt to ashes even as the villagers have moved to Kaura local government area of  Kaduna State to seek refuge.

I Have no Facebook, twitter accounts - Sanusi The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that its Governor, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has no account in the social media – Facebook, Twitter, 2go and so on. A statement from the bank, signed by the Director, Corporate Communications, Ugochukwu A. Okoroafor, made available to Daily Sun stated that the attention of the apex bank has been drawn to various postings on social media platforms purported to have been made by the CBN governor. The statement read in part: “We wish to state unequivocally as follows: that the Governor currently has neither a facebook nor Twitter account; that any such account, purported to belong to the Governor is fake; that in the last six months, there have been deliberate efforts by unknown elements to use the internet, with its social media extensions, to tarnish and malign the image and reputation of the CBN Governor.” The bank maintained that any such statement or post, purported to have been made b

What Do We Call This? Some Communities Still Sees Twin As Taboo It is 98 years ago that Mary Slessor, the Scottish missionary to Nigeria, died. She was reputed to have led crusades that stopped some societies from killing twin babies at birth. Such births were taboo and not tolerated. While her history remains alive, as her remains were interred in Nigeria, it seems some communities in Nigeria, even today, are out to rubbish and undo what Slessor did. It might shock you to hear that there is still a community that still sees twins or multiple birth as abomination. But it is more confounding to find that the communities are in the nation’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT). How awful that even within the world’s newest city, with all the trappings of modernity, the preponderance of religions and inclinations that abhor killing of human beings, twin kids are still sacrificed to the gods of tradition that don’t want them alive like the biblical story of the notions that passed the

Henry Okah Found Guilty Of Terrorism And Jailed For 24 Yrs Forty-five days after being found guilty of terrorism, Henry Okah, leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) was sentenced by a South African court yesterday to 24 years in jail. He was convicted of 13 terrorism charges over deadly twin bomb attacks in Abuja in 2010. One of them was the bombing of the United Nations (UN) building in the federal capital. Twelve people were killed in the attacks as Nigeria was celebrating its 50th independence anniversary. The court said that Okah showed little remorse during the trial, and that his intentions in the bombings were to “obtain maximum casualties. Effectively, the accused Okah is therefore, sentenced to 24 years imprisonment,” said Judge Neels Claassen at the Johannesburg court. MEND which in 2010 was a well-equipped armed group fighting for a greater share of the Niger Delta oil wealth, claimed responsibility for the attacks. Okah, who has perman

Heads may roll at the Abraka Police Division, following the rape of a female suspect, Mrs. Ese Isaiah in police cell, where she was detained. The woman was arrested and detained in the cell along with men, following a fight she had with a neighbour. Two men were said to have raped Mrs. Isaiah in turn, even as she reportedly cried for help with the policemen on duty turning deaf ears. Following the incident, the woman’s counsel, Ejomasuvwe Efe petitioned the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 5, Benin, Alhaji Hamisu Argungu, who promptly redeployed the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) and Divisional Crime Officer (DCO) of the Abraka Police Station, Chris Sorgbara and John Olise, respectively to his office, pending conclusion of investigation into the incident. Consequently, no fewer than 11 policemen, including the Investigating Police Officer (IPO) and Abraka Police Station cell guard, who had been in detention were expected to face Orderly Room trial today

Mother Of Four Raped In The Presence Of Children A commercial motorcyclist in Bauchi State identified simply as Auwalu, has allegedly raped a 30-year-old housewife, (names withheld) who was five months pregnant at the time. The victim who narrated her ordeal in an interview with Daily Sun, said she was rape in the presence of two of her children. She also lost her five month pregnancy and almost died following the incident. The Fulani woman said Auwalu carried her and two of her children aged six and five respectively on his motorcycle on the fateful day he raped her. The mother of four said Auwalu carried her and two of children to Bakala in Brugga, Tafalwa Balewa Local Government area of the state She said: “When we got into the bush, he diverted from the road and stopped the machine and said that he had a flat tyre and asked us to come down. “I came down with my children and he then told me that he wanted to have sex with me. I said no way, I can’t do it. I am a married woma