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  Veteran actor, Jide Kosoko, last Friday morning, October 11th, 2013, confirmed to Nollywood Insider that he was actually assaulted and injured in the fracas involving members of the Video Rental Operators of Nigeria (VROAN) and some Yoruba movie makers and marketers. The ace thespian said, “I was injured in the debacle but I would not like to comment further on it on the telephone.” Meanwhile the President of VROAN, Kassim Olatunbosun aka Boe, has been declared wanted by his members and the police. He is accused of wanton embezzlement of public funds at his disposal. Kassim is said to have mismanaged the royalties for marketers and film producers that his members paid into the coffers of VROAN over the last two years. They also claimed that he refused to call for elections after staying in office for more than 10 years. According to information made known to NOLLYWOOD INSIDER, after a long meeting at the Cultural Center, Alausa, Ikeja, on Thursday Octo

  A very excited iyanya shared this picture with the caption "See who stop by my house I was so star struck that I asked for a picture!! Thanks boss Jay Jay Okocha."        #justSaying o..I think jay jay wants to be a musician too...Or What do you think??

  As gospel music styled secular singer, Yinka Ayefele arrived the country Tuesday, following a six-week musical tour of the United States, there are reports that some of his band boys might have disappeared during their tour of United States, thus affecting the emotion of the artiste, whose fulfilment of the concert was partially shattered by the disappearance of three of his band boys. The other members of the group arrived amidst cheers by fans, but one could tell that the leader of the band was worried; perhaps knowing the credibility question the defection by the boys could pose to his career. Reports say the ‘gospel tungba’ crooner, has written to the United States Homeland Security to track and deport the three guys who defected at the tail-end of the inter city concert. The band left the country on September 2, performing at Washington, Maryland, Baltimore, New York, Atlanta, Houston and Dallas. In a mail sent to the US agency, Ayefele urged th

  Tom Welling and wife Jamie White are divorcing after 10 years together, according to TMZ . Superman may be on the lookout for a new Lois Lane Tom Welling, the actor who played the Man of Steel on the CW show 'Smallville,' and Jamie White Welling, his wife of 10 years, are heading for a divorce, TMZ reports. The 'Smallville' actor and his estranged wife cited 'irreconcilable differences' as the reason for their split. The actor's wife filed divorce documents on Wednesdays, citing "irreconcilable differences" as the cause for the dissolution of the marriage. She is also asking for spousal support, according to the gossip site. The two separated in December last year.

  Tom Welling and wife Jamie White are divorcing after 10 years together, according to TMZ . Superman may be on the lookout for a new Lois Lane Tom Welling, the actor who played the Man of Steel on the CW show 'Smallville,' and Jamie White Welling, his wife of 10 years, are heading for a divorce, TMZ reports. The 'Smallville' actor and his estranged wife cited 'irreconcilable differences' as the reason for their split. The actor's wife filed divorce documents on Wednesdays, citing "irreconcilable differences" as the cause for the dissolution of the marriage. She is also asking for spousal support, according to the gossip site. The two separated in December last year.

  In a Kick Against Polio campaign, Funke Akindele rode a bicycle alongside members of the Rotary Club and other individuals to help kick against Polio. The members of Rotary Club have been campaigning against this for a while now with Funke as their public figure. 

  A 26-year-old woman studying to becoming a Catholic nun smothered her newborn son to death because she didn't want anyone to find out she had sex, police said today. DC Police say Sosefina Amoa gave birth to the boy on October 10 in her room at the Little Sisters of the Poor elderly care facility. Afraid the nuns would hear the newborn's cries and discover she lied about sexual activity, police say Amoa told investigators she smothered him. The hospital called police. A day later she and a nun took his body to a hospital in a small, black luggage bag. She allegedly told detectives she 'heard the child cry for two to three minutes' and then, worried that someone would hear, she covered the baby's mouth with a wool garment.  The Little Sisters of the Poor said: 'We all feel this is a very tragic situation. We are just praying for everyone involved. Now t

Within just six weeks, the family of former Ooni of Ife, the late Sir Adesoji Aderemi, lost three women, all daughters of the revered former traditional ruler, reported to have wielded a lot of power and influence during his reign in the town now located in the State of Osun, western Nigeria. The three women, P.M.NEWS gathered, are Princess Tejumade Alakija, a former Head of Service in the old Western Region, Princess Teniade Areoye Adunni Omoworare and Princess Adeogun Lasekan. They all died in their old age. Princess Tejumade Alakija was the first to die on Friday, 23 August at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, after a brief illness. She was 88 years old. Until her death, Alakija, also a former Pro-Chancellor of the University of Benin, University of Nigeria, Nsukka and the University of Abuja, was the head of the Adesoji Aderemi and the popular Omisore families of Osun State. Survived by Folake St. Mathew Daniel and Toyin Komolafe, her fune

"Why i Wear Two Gold Wrist Watches" - D' banj Reveals..(MUST READ)   Recently on hipontv, Dbanj was asked why he is always seen putting on two wrist watches, here is his replied “No time to check time. Actually, it’s cos I’m too busy. You know, always on the move, you know one time is on Nigeria, the other is on New York.So that Kanye West is not calling me and I’m like ‘yo, who’s this?’, you know, I’m always on check!So I leave it at 2 time zones, that what’s up! They are gold anyway

20 October, 2013 Foreign v A mathematics teacher will be spending 8 to 15 years in jail after it was discovered she had illicit affairs with four teenage students. 36-year-old Jamila Love Williams was attacked in court on October 15 by the mothers of the victims who were between 15 and 16 years old at the time of the sex assaults. They had this to say to her: “You are a sick, sadistic child molester. You don’t deserve to be in society. You are a predator,” one mother said, according to Michigan Live. "You befriended all of us mothers while in the back of your head, you wanted [the boys] sexually." It was revealed that Williams had sex with the victims in a variety of locations: in a car, at a Golden Corral restaurant, in an alley, and in at least one boy's home. One mother claimed the teacher even had sex with her son in a locked classroom at Grand Rapids University Prep Academy, where Williams taught for six years. Williams is a mother of fo

20 October, 2013 Arts and Entertainment Actress and singer, Tonto Dikeh seems to be on a high right now. In a recent tweet, she talks about how good she is feeling and how she thinks something has change about her. Well, it's certainly good to know she's happy.

20 October, 2013 Local v President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday promised reasonably stable power supply in the country by the middle of 2014. The President made this promise while inaugurating the Phase II 500mw Omotosho National Integrated Power Project (NIPP) Plant in Ondo State. He added that the Federal Government was targeting 4,700mw from 10 NIPPs which he said would be completed before the end of the first quarter of 2014. According to him, the 10 NIPP projects will be handed over to the private sector next year after completion and inauguration. He expressed optimism that the private sector, which had invested $3 billion into the nation’s power sector, would do what it did in the banking and the telecommunication sectors. Mr. Jonathan implored workers of defunct PHCN, who had yet to receive their entitlements and severance package, to be patient, adding that they would be paid soon. The President enjoined them not to go on strike or do anything that c

20 October, 2013 Arts and Entertainment v From humble beginnings in Jos, Plateau State, Chocolate City’s wonder kid, Panshak Zamani popularly known as Ice Prince has grown to be one of the hottest and most respected rappers in the country. Thanks to his victory at the 2009 Hennessey Artistry where he came tops. And while it may all look rosy on the outside, Ice Prince has revealed that it’s not been easy after his dad passed away, adding that just like any street kid, he’s had his own fair share of ups and downs, and so fans should not be carried away by the glitz and glamour which has become his trade mark today. Though, born to upper middle class parents, the Oleku singer insists he was not born with a silver spoon, he and his siblings had all they desired until his dad died in 1999 and life took a dramatic turn! “I wasn’t born with a silver spoon,” Ice Prince told The Entertainer’s TONY OGAGA ERHARIEFE in an exclusive chat backstage during the 8th editio

Written by Adulrazaque Bello-Barkindo Your Excellency, I bring you good tidings. I want to thank you for this generous gesture of yours which has made it possible for me to breathe the air of freedom again, and to reunite with my family, especially my wife Hafsat, who had dwelt in her own prison throughout my incarceration. I decided to write you this letter the very first day I learnt that you had made up your mind to set me free. That was weeks before my eventual release. I know some of my words will sound unpalatable; but I am a soldier in whose squadron flattery is hardly a virtue. Obviously, this freedom makes me happy indeed but your motive, at least the perceived it, tore my heart to shreds. I heard it is all about 2015, and not that I was unfairly incarcerated or that a court of competent jurisdiction had acquitted me. However

20 October, 2013 Foreign Nearly two dozen more women who say they were forced to strip in front of a videocamera at a Washington jail are speaking out, according to a local news station, bringing the total number of suspects claiming mistreatment by police to about three dozen. Most of the women were not even convicted inmates, but misdemeanor DUI suspects who were allegedly told by officers to change into jail scrubs, said James Egan, one of the attorneys handling a lawsuit against the Puyallup Police Department. In August, 11 women and one man who say they were filmed by a surveillance camera while undressing and using the toilet at the Puyallup city jail sued the police department. Since then, Egan says, nearly two dozen more have come forward. Many of the alleged victims were not aware they were being videotaped until Egan showed them the videos, which were obtained by a public records request. He says he first noticed something was str

20 October, 2013 Football v A World Cup berth appears unlikely after their home defeat to Nigeria but a growing legion of Ethiopian fans are taking to Twitter to lure overseas-based players eligible to represent the Walyas. Nigeria came from behind to snatch a last gasp 2-1 win over Ethiopia in the first leg of their playoff in Addis Ababa after two goals from Emmanuel Emenike helped them take a big step towards next year’s finals in Brazil. But Ethiopian fans have now found something to cheer about as their largely-domestic based Walyas – named after an endemic antelope – could be boosted by a small contingent of players plying their trade in Europe. After Arsenal’s 16-year old prodigy Gedion Zelalem – who is also eligible to play for Germany and the United States – tweeted “Still proud” following Sunday’s loss, Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom took on the task of luring the young Gunner. “Hi Gedion. Good to hear from you.We hope you will play for Ethio

20 October, 2013 Local v Nigerian soldiers who were recently deployed to Borno after partaking in an African mission in Mali have accused Nigerian military authorities of shortchanging them of their rightly earned allowance. Reporters was told that about 100 soldiers that returned from Mali and were immediately deployed to Maiduguri, Borno State, and were shortchanged of at least $2, 000 (N320, 000) each. Some of the soldiers, who could not bear the alleged flagrant theft of their hard earned allowances by their superiors, approached journalists in Maiduguri to narrate their ordeal. “When we were being deployed to Mali on the 17 January, this year, we were told that our monthly allowances approved by the UN would be $1, 028, which would have been equivalent to N164, 480 in our local currency. And for the 7 months we were in Mali, we expected to be paid a total of N1,151,360 which is the value of the total $7, 196 due to us,” said a sergeant who sought anonymi

20 October, 2013 Local v Each of the two armoured BMW 760 Li cars bought for the Minister for Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah, by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority is more expensive than the British Prime Minister, David Cameron’s car. While Oduah’s cars go for $800,000 (about N127.5m) each, Cameron’s armoured Jaguar XJ X351 car costs £200,000 (about N52m). The aviation minister’s media aide had said the cars, manufactured in Germany in 2008, were acquired “in response to the clear and imminent threat to her personal security and life.” It was reported that the NCAA paid about $1.6m (about N255m) for just two pieces, which was enough to buy eight pieces of same BMW model and spec elsewhere. Cameron’s Jaguar car, according to Daily Mail, “is specially modified for carrying Cameron and contains many features to stop a potential terrorist attack.” Even at the N52m-price, Cameron’s car reportedly has more sophisticated features, including special bullet and

20 October, 2013 Arts and Entertainment v Ghanaian artist Fuse ODG beat Wizkid, Ice Prince & Tiwa Savage from Nigeria, Spoek Mathambo, Mafikizolo and Liquid Deep from South Africa, and Bombino from Niger to win Best African Act at the 2013 MOBO awards which held yesterday at Glasgow's new Hydro Arena in Scotland. Congrats to all the nominees and winners. Continue to see the full list of winners... Full list of winners Best African Act –Fuse ODG Best Album– ‘Home’,Rudimental Best Female in association with Tresor Paris– Laura Mvula Best Gospel– Lurine Cato Best International Act– Kendrick Lamar Best Jazz – Sons of Kemet Best Male – Wiley Best Newcomer in association with HTC – Krept & Konan Best Reggae Act – Sean Paul Best RnB/Soul Act – Laura Mvula Best Song in association with PRSforMusic – ‘La La La’, Naughty Boy Best UK Hip Hop/Grime - Tinie Tempah Best Video in association with SBTV - ‘La La La’, Naughty Boy Be MOBO – Stephen Lawrence