Meet The World's Oldest Woman Who Celebrated Her 116th Birthday [Photos]

Misao Okawa, the world's oldest person celebrated her 116th birthday on Wednesday, February 5.


Misao Okawa

She became the world's oldest person last June following the death of Jiroemon Kiruma, a Japanese man at 116 and she was presented with a certificate by the Guinness Book of Records officially recognising her as the world's oldest living woman.


Misao Okawa

According to her, her long life is as a result of eating sushi, getting eight hours' sleep a night and relaxing.

Misao, who lives in a nursing home in Osaka celebrated with a birthday cake and bunches of flowers, wearing a flower in her hair for the party.




Misao Okawa eating her birthday cake

Born in 1898, she married in 1919 but was widowed in 1931 when her husband died and is now a mother of three, grandma of four and great-grand mother of six.

Aisha Falode Buries her Only Son, Toba, Killed in Dubai.[PHOTO]

Aisha Falode Buries her Only Son, Toba, Killed in Dubai. Read her Touching Tribute to Him



Oloruntoba Oluwadamilola, the 19-year old son of ace broadcaster, Aisha Falode, who died on Saturday, 15 February 2014, was buried amidst tears two days ago, Monday, March 3 in Lagos.

The funeral service held at Trinity House, Victoria Island, while the internment took place at Ikoyi Vaults and Gardens in Lagos.

You recall the press had initially said Toba died in a car accident only for family sources to later reveal that Toba had actually been pushed off a 17 storey building by an Arab guy.

For his burial, to celebrate the life he lived, his grieving mum wrote this emotional tribute to him titled: You Are Me, I Am You. Please read below:I held you in my arms and my heart burst into a million pieces of joy.

It was an indescribable moment. You were adorable as I touched every bit of you. Giddy with joy, I counted your toes, your fingers, tiny and wriggly; a tough bundle of joy.

Your innocent gaze upon my face, those two adorable eyes, wide and searching as only a child’s would.

All the gems in Arabia would fade into insignificance at the emergence of your presence.

My son had come into the world, whole and complete you were.

I had looked forward to having my own son.

I carried you with pride and honour in my womb for 9 good months. Knowing that you will eventually be born made the discomforts of 9months seem like chewing a candy bar.

Here at last you were.

As you grew up into a most interesting young star, you were my joy.

In all of my trying moments, knowing that you trusted me and believed in me spurred me through even the roughest terrain.

Your childhood was joyful.

Your sister and you were my life. You still are my life. Nothing can erase your memory, not a thousand winds or a million rainfalls can replace those memories, not even a fearsome volcano can wipe you from me.

You are me, I am you.

I am devastated, I am pained, I am inconsolable, I am a mother shattered.

Who can console me but God? He knows best and did they not say those HE loves HE calls home early?

My son, the curtain fell too early for you, for us.

I am in the audience; I cannot jump on the stage where you are.

Even if I could, the curtain is drawn already. I cannot reach you.

I am tempted to say, why me, but why not me? God loves us.

HE took you my bundle of joy, even now I lean on HIM.

I can see you, stretching out those strong arms, I see you trying to console me, I see you

saying: “Mum, it was meant to be, it is not your fault”, I see you.

I see you everywhere.

Together, we walked for 19yrs, you brought me joy. You excelled in your academics, you made me a proud mother as you grew into a handsome, responsible, caring, humane, disciplined man.

I will forever remember you my son. Those fun times, the times you held me when I was down, like the man of the house, which you became so early in life…

I am consoled because I know for sure that you are in the bosom of the LORD.

I know for sure that we will meet again.You have not died, you are only asleep.

This thought will keep me going until I behold your delightful presence again.

I know you are here for I am you and you are me.

Naija Big Boys & Girls Groan As Acute Fuel Shortage Hits Nigeria [Photos]

Long queues of vehicles piled up at petrol stations across Nigeria on Monday while commuters were left stranded at bus stops as a fuel shortage hits hard.

Petrol marketers and tanker drivers blamed the shortfall on a delay in the approval of fuel import permits by the state-run oil firm — and warned that the situation could take weeks to resolve.

They called on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), accused recently by the former central bank governor of defrauding $20 billion in oil revenue, to make petrol reserves available.



In the meantime, motorists began panic buying and attendants were seen doing a brisk trade selling fuel in jerry-cans and plastic containers.

Drivers waited in line for fuel in the financial hub Lagos over the weekend as well as in the capital Abuja, the southern oil city of Port Harcourt and Kano, the biggest city in the north. In nearby towns of Ijebu-Ode and Epe, most fuel stations did not sell fuel on Sunday.

The few stations that have fuel were selling at between 100 and 150 naira (60-90 US cents, 43-65 euro cents) per litre — well above the official subsidised price of 97 naira, while it was heard that it was sold for N250/litre in some part of Lagos.

In Lagos, home to an estimated 20 million and notorious for traffic snarl-ups, long tail-backs outside petrol stations caused gridlock on roads, hitting even the shortest journeys.

“I have been in the queue since 4:00 am (0300 GMT) when I left home but it appears this petrol station will not sell,” motorist Sola Oke told a reporter at a filling station in the Abule-Egba district.

The shortage also had a knock-on effect on buses, which are widely used for commuting, forcing up fares by at least 50 percent and making those unable to pay the new prices to walk.

Businesses in Nigeria depend on petrol, not just to run company fleets but also back-up electricity generators given daily power outages on the country’s crumbling grid.

The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) claimed the shortage was caused by a delay in approving fuel imports in the first quarter of this year.

“The importers got their permits for the first quarter only last week and this has created a shortfall in supply,” said the head of NUPENG’s petrol truck drivers arm, Tokunbo Korodo.

Depots ran out of fuel supplies two weeks ago, prompting rationing of the little that remained to petrol stations across the country, he added.

“A depot that normally loads 200 trucks now loads 25. In such a situation, there will be scarcity in the market,” he added.

Korodo said the shortage may continue until tankers brought fresh supplies, but he warned that it takes about three weeks to ship in fuel from abroad and it would take “some time” before there was enough fuel available across the country.

“The NNPC should release petrol from its reserves to save the situation,” he added.

Sani Abacha's Daughter Lashes Out At Prof. Wole Soyinka Over His Statement

Gumsu Sani Abacha, one of the daughters of late Nigerian dictator Gen. Sani Abacha, has lashed out at Prof. Wole Soyinka following the Nobel laureate’s statement about her father.

Giving reasons for rejecting Centenary Award from the Federal Government, the Nobel laureate, on Saturday said sharing the award with the late military dictator was an insult.

He said it was because the late military dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha, was included in the list of awardees.



Gumsu took to her Facebook page and posted the following:


In a statement entitled, ‘The canonisation of terror,’ Soyinka said it was an insult for him to be listed alongside Abacha for the award, more so when killings of innocent citizens by the Boko Haram sect was ongoing in the North-East.

Soyinka recalled the state-sponsored assassinations and abuse of human rights that occurred during Abacha’s reign as military Head of State, and asked why the Federal Government had not changed the names of roads, hospitals and other public facilities that were named after Abacha.

He said, “Under that ruler, torture and other forms of barbarism were enthroned as the norm of governance. Nine Nigerian citizens, including the writer and environmentalist, Ken Saro-wiwa, were hanged after a trial that was stomach-churning even by the most primitive standards of judicial trial, and in defiance of the intervention of world leadership.

“We are speaking of a man who placed this nation under siege during an unrelenting reign of terror that is barely different from the current rampage of Boko Haram. It is this very psychopath that was recently canonised by the government of Goodluck Jonathan in commemoration of one hundred years of Nigerian trauma.”

Soyinka added that by honouring Abacha, President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration had ridiculed Nigeria in the presence of world leaders by glorifying “murderers and thieves.”

WOW! Photo Of Susan Peters Without Any Weave On

This is the sort of things that leaves me speechless

Bomb Found Inside First Bank as Customers Run for Their Life

Tragedy was averted on Tuesday as a security guard attached to a branch of First Bank Plc in Osogbo, Osun State discovered an explosive substance wrapped in a polythene bag right inside the banking hall.

Immediately the discovery was made, bank workers and customers all took to their heels, with many of them leaving their hard earned money behind. It was indeed a dramatic situation as Nigerians struggle to pass through the bank's security door, all at the same time.

As soon the information about the bomb spread, many shop owners in the area hurriedly closed their shops, to avoid long story, while some even left their shops wide open and ran for safety. No one wants to die!

Officials of Police Anti-Bomb Squad were immediately deployed in the bank...
They were able to detonate the bomb successfully and cordoned off Station Road, where the bank is located.

Osun State government said it suspected foul play in the episode. A statement by the government said:
“We are compelled to call on the security agencies to get to the root of this strange discovery in Osogbo and tell the whole world how this device found its way into a banking hall.

“Usually impregnable fortification of banks through their various screening machines which detect metals. To be specific, we suspect a deliberate foul play in the antics of those who desire to create a sense of insecurity in this state.”

The government assured residents of their safety and urged everyone to go about their legitimate activities.

Christians Relocate To Wilderness To Avoid Sin Until Christ’s Coming [PIX/VID]

Pastor Daniel Neville of the Spoken Word Church has led a group of faithful learned professionals to pitch their camp in a bushy environment in Oyibi, on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana to avoid the sinful world until the second coming of Jesus.



Their women are not allowed to wear trousers or use jewelries. They wear long dresses and get new names.

The 37 Christians live in 12 tents in the wilderness, hopefully closer to their maker.

While they wait, they are into mushroom farming, snail farming, piggery for sale to the outside world, which they call Sodom and Gomorrah, claiming it is engulfed in lots of sin.

“I admire the things here a lot. I am here with my husband. We don’t have any problem here at all. I won’t go back. I will live here for the rest of my life,” one of them said.

“There is too much homosexually there [in town]. Too much sin there. In the end it is sodom,” Kattie Dey, a former lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Languages said.

BREAKING: Jonathan sacks Sports Minister Abdullahi; swears in 11 new ministers

A new Sports Minister was announced.

President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked the Sports Minister, Bolaji Abdullahi.

The sack was announced just before the commencement of Wednesday’s meeting of the Executive Council of the Federation, FEC.

The president also swore-in 11 new ministers and assigned them ministries.

Those sworn-in include: Musiliu Obanikoro (Lagos), Minister of State Defence;
Mohammed Wakil (Borno), Minister of State Power; Abduljelili Adesiyan (Osun), Minister of Police Affairs; Aminu Wali (Kano), Minister of Foreign Affairs; Akon Eyakenyi (Akwa Ibom), Minister of Land and Housing; Lawrencia Laraba(Kaduna State), Minister of Environment; Tamuno Danagogo (Rivers), Minister of Sports; Asabe Asmau Ahmed (Niger), Minister of State Agriculture; Aliyu Gusau (Zamfara), Minister of Defence; Boni Haruna (Adamawa), Minister of Youth Development; and Khaliru Alhassan (Sokoto State), Minister of State, Health.

An Open Letter To Omotola By Okechukwu Ofili

The accidental entrepreneur is an
article I wanted to write several weeks
ago but never got around to writing,
mainly because I was watching Lupita
Nyong’o videos on youtube. The article
was going to be about entrepreneurs
who stumbled upon success
accidentally. Entrepreneurs who
started something like blogging,
singing, speaking and became suddenly
successful at it. When they started out
their original plan was not to start a
business or make money out of what
they did…but somehow they stumbled
upon success. I call these people
accidental entrepreneurs. Beware of
taking advice from such individuals…
because they will tell you do what your
passionate about and boom you will be
successful. (Ha please ignore him on
this; it is not true, lol). But before you
start singing “Ofili you don come
again.” Make una hear me out…
Because weirdly enough this article will
not be about entrepreneurship…but
rather relationships, particularly
Omotola’s article on gender equality or
inequality depending on your stance. In
her own words, no editing, she says:
“I don’t believe in gender equality. I do
not believe that God made man and
woman to be equal in any way. I believe
that in every organised institution,
there is always a head and an assistant.
It doesn’t mean that one should take
the other for granted, or disrespect
the other. I believe the husband is the
head of the home and the wife is an
assistant. My husband is a pilot, I have
flown with him several times and I
understood that here is a captain and a
co-pilot. They are both responsible for
the passengers’ lives. But when there is
a final decision to make, it is up to the
captain to make it. He is more
experienced and the one with the
responsibility.”
“When there is a quarrel, I usually
apologise first. He doesn’t say sorry.
Overtime, I have come to realise that
it is an ego problem. Even when he
knows he is wrong, he will rather do
every other thing or buy things for me
than say, ‘I’m sorry.’ Fortunately, the
‘sorrys’ are not too many. He is very
responsible and more hardworking than
me. By God’s grace, we have been able
to understand our routine.”
Similar to the accidental entrepreneur,
I term this situation the accidental
relationship…that is that girl or guy
that stumbles upon the perfect first
girlfriend or boyfriend. They
eventually get married and have a
successful marriage and instantly start
dishing advice and people start eating
up the advice… please don’t.
Because the advice they give you is one
dimensional. It is based on this belief
that whatever they did worked. So you
hear silly advice like “as a woman just
cry and your husband will hug you” or
“be submissive to your husband and he
will cherish you” or “just tithe every
Sunday and your relationship will be
fine” or “my Husband never apologizes…
that is a good thing!” like wtf!
The thing is that tantamount to the
accidental entrepreneur they
(especially Omotola) stumbled upon
their relationship. In Omotola’s case as
her husband states in the same
interview, there was no courtship, they
never dated, she was just 18 and had
never been in a relationship and yet it
worked out….but accidentally.
Accidental because her situation is an
exception and not the rule as marriages
with young couples and no courtship
have a higher chance of breeding
domestic violence. And this violence is
powered by the misconceived notion
that somehow men are more equal than
women especially in Nigeria!
Yet the advice pours out and people eat
it up, not realizing that the person
dishing out the advice may never have
met that abusive husband that hugged
choked his wife when she was crying or
that woman that tithed every Sunday
but yet her Husband molested her every
Monday or that submissive wife that
was so submissive even when her
Husband left her for another woman
she still hung around.
So when they (the accidentals) give
advice they tend to give it from a
disney world perspective where every
man is a Prince and every woman is a
Princess. They just have one view…the
fairy-tale view…it worked for me so it
should work for everyone. So when this
people talk I barely listen.
But do you know who gives the best
relationship advice? People that have
been divorced…then got remarried and
eventually found the right one. They
talk from a multi-dimensional
standpoint. They know what causes
marriages to fail and the real reason
why it succeeds. And do you know the
people who give the really good
entrepreneurial advice? The same
type…the entrepreneurs who have
failed…started again and then
succeeded. Those are the people that
you should listen to for business advice
because they won’t give you BS advice
like, bepassionate and you will succeed!
Now I am not saying that you cannot
ever receive good advice from the
accidental’s or that anything a failure-
now-turned-success tells you is going
to work for you. Rather what I am
pushing you to understand is that there
is not a one size fit all advice for
business or relationships…you will need
to get advice from multiple sources to
help you make an ultimate decision that
fits your unique situation.
So before you young girls and boy go
jumping on Omotola’s advice and start
thinking that a man is more equal than
a woman, I urge you to listen to Hilary
Clinton, Maya Angelou, Chimamanda
Adichie and many other strong women
out there, listen to their stories, their
struggles and their triumphs and use
their collective experiences to help
make a wise decision.
That’s my article for today and
although it is ironically accidental in
nature, I hope the message in it will
help someone somewhere. Be awesome
and be kind to someone today

Abacha's Son Expresses His Anger To Wole Soyinka Over His Comments

One of the late Military dictator, Sani Abacha's daughter, Gumsu Sani Abacha recently blasted Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka over his comments that sharing the Centenary Award with the late Abacha was an insult.

Apparently she's not the only child that is angry as one of the sons, Sadiq Sani Abacha also did not find the comment funny and did not hesitate to  express his anger in an open letter.



If you want to think, speak and act logically then you should know all three.
1. The law of identity
2. The law of excluded middle
3. The law of non contradiction.

Now let's look at each one of these and see what they mean in practice.
1.The law of identity
The law of identity means that things are what they are, which at first doesn't seem very illuminating, but wait; it implies also the following, that things are what they are, whether you like them or not, it implies that things are what they are whether you know them or not, it implies that things are what they are whether you agree with them or not.

However, if you don't like the facts as they are you are going to have to put up with them, because facts are what they are, if it's raining on your golf day, get used to it! Because the facts are what they are and are often not what you want them to be, like if the traffic lights turn red when you approach, stop complaining! The law of identity means that you must adapt yourself to the facts and start your work from there, it implies that the facts will not bend to meet your expectations. You must first adapt yourself to what life is and then get to work changing and improving things in your life, be brave to meet reality as it really is and not how you would wish it to be.

2. The law of excluded middle.
  The law of excluded middle means that you should give a straight yes or no answer always and there is no middle ground. The law means that there is no kinda yes and kinda no, there is no ‘sort of’ being married because you are either married or you are not, you are either a thief or you are not, you are either on time or not, you are either living in Nigeria or you are not. The law is the idea that you should not try to keep all of your options open by staying in the middle or hedging, when it suits you, like when you accepted an appointment during IBB's regime as chairman of FRSC. I bet that was a military regime you partook in. Please pick one wife and state your claim 100% to her, pick one idea and go for it 100%! Decide and commit Sir! There you might find great power and self satisfaction in the doctrine of decide and commit. No half way measures, no middle ground, exclude the middle! Here! The law of excluded middle Sir.

3. The law of non contradiction.
The law of non contradiction says don't contradict yourself simple. If you say you will be there then be there. If you say you will do it then do it. Don't say or fight for one thing and then do the opposite. Don't say one thing and then later deny that you said it. Don't say one thing and then later contradict it. Be consistent in your thoughts and actions. Observing someone who was a socialist in the morning but then became a capitalist in the evening is a textbook on contradiction, these are two polar opposites, such a person is clearly inconsistent and is therefore considered a flip flop, confused, easily led or misled or at best a lunatic who has no clear understanding of the basis of either doctrine.

Apply these three logics to others with consistency and then you can ask for the same or expect the same from others, and then you can also ask for others to deal with facts not fantasy, which is the law of identity. Ask others to make up their mind to decide and commit. The law of excluded middle.Then ask others to follow through on the things that they say they would do. The law of non contradiction.

Sir, I believe brilliance is not perfection. I have grown and watched you criticize regime after regime and at that young and naive age I was thinking why wouldn't this man just contest to be president so that Nigeria can be saved, I would have defiantly voted for Mr Soyinka if it would have brought an end to Nigeria's woes. To my utter surprise, I heard about your FRSC leadership and how funds were misused and a great deal of it unaccounted for. "Oh my God! In the end he turned out to be just the same as everybody else" were my next thoughts. My hopes for you, all ended up in great disappointment.
Here I find myself defending my father 15 years after his death because some of you have no one else to pounce on, or rather, you have chosen a dead person to keep pouncing on over and over again when you have more than an array of contestants.  A coward's act I believe.  "A common writer" is what I have heard you being referred to lately, and I believe a mature mind would now agree to such referrals. With all due respect, there is a great challenge that faces the country, we have to put our heads together, rather than clashing, our collective ships must sail in the same direction, let us leave the ghosts of past contention and face the future bravely as one, criticizing the past does not help the present or define a path to the future.

You are a learned man, you would have to undo all your learning to knowingly wish to undo all these achievements! I will be the first to proclaim that my fathers leadership was not pitch perfect or spot free, that does not exist, maybe in utopia but not here on this earth, so let us keep our discourse set in the sphere of reality please, he deserves the award, and he did not campaign for it, let it go, Sir...and allow Nigeria to at least bask in our survival and endurance in our growing prosperity and development in these trying times. I have been accused of being an optimist, hence, I am optimistic that you will come around and accept that we can all come together and face the future together, forgive each other our wrongs while celebrating our rights, I am still an admirer of your works after all, however, I cannot and will not attempt to answer your every charge, this is not the time or place, this is a time for solidarity, if only you were wise enough to grasp this.

I applaud the patience of President Goodluck Jonathan and his composure and restraint in not having a knee jerk reaction at such a pivotal moment in our nations history, but you would mar the occasion, Sir, in the future, please pick your battles, and do better to safeguard your relevance,  Enough Sir!

Sadiq Abacha.

Popular Fuji Musician, Obesere Arrested For Rape

The Fuji musician has been accused of rape by a lady know as Miss Olaiya. Olaiya said she was introduced to the musician so he could help her with her business. Long story short, she spent the night in his house after the musician advised it was too late for her to go back home that night.

Obesere later came to the room she was and allegedly pounced on her forcefully, and inserted a ring he wore on one of his figures in her private part after making love to her, which made her to start bleeding.

Now that’s one part of the story I don’t understand.

Why insert a ring in her private part? Below is how

Vanguard Newspaper is reporting the story.Popular Fuji musician, Alhaji Abass Akande, popularly known as Obesere, has been arrested by the Police in Lagos State for allegedly molesting a 29-year-old business woman, Miss Olanike Olaiya in his Okota residence, Lagos.

The victim, who took the matter to the Police, also narrated her ordeal in the hands of the musician whose shows generally fascinate society women.

According to Olaiya, a National Diploma graduate of business administration from Ibadan Polytechnic,

“I got to know Obesere through one of my friends, Mrs Bola Okoro.

She told me that Obesere would assist me in my business.

“I deal in office equipment and when I contacted Obesere, he asked me to meet him in his family house at Okota.

When I met him, I introduced my business to him and he promised to connect me to some of his friends in Dubai who would sell goods to me on credit.

“After the discussion, he started demanding for s*x and I refused and when I wanted to leave, he insisted I should sleep over in his house because it was late and he claimed that it was dangerous to go out late in the night in his area.

“I thought he was a responsible man and I decided to sleep over, but at the dead of the night, he came into the room where I slept and pounced on me.

“He molested me and afterwards inserted a ring he wore into my private part and I started bleeding. He hurriedly left me in the room saying he had an appointment to fulfil.

“I could not bear the trauma and the bleeding and I reported the matter to the police.”

Vanguard gathered that Obesere was first arrested last Wednesday by the Police at Isolo Police Division, where Olaiya reported the matter.

He was subsequently released on administrative bail.

He was later re-arrested on Monday, when medical examination conducted on Olaiya revealed that she was actually molested and the Divisional Police Officer, Isolo, Adamu Ibrahim, was said to have ordered the transfer of the matter to State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Panti, Yaba, for further investigation.

Sources disclosed that Obesere’s arrest was made possible through a warrant of arrest issued by the Chief Magistrate of Isolo Magistrate Court, Mrs Kike Bukola Ayeye, as he had declined to honour several police invitations sent to his house at Johnson Famiye Street, Canal Estate, Ago, Okota.

We are lovers — Obesere Police sources also said Obesere in his statement denied ever molesting Olaiya, rather he claimed she was his lover and they made love when she visited him.

The source added that Obesere claimed he asked her to go to a private hospital for treatment when she complained that she was bleeding, but he was surprised when she reported to the police that she was molested.

OMG!!! Ngozi Ezeonu & Chiwetalu Agu Goes Back To School

We have seen a number of actors and actresses go back to school for movies; Ini Edo being the latest in Nollywood movie 'Ekaette Goes To School'. But, I never thought I would see the day when Nollywood veterans, Ngozi Ezeonu and Chiwetalu Agu dress up for school. 

Can't wait to see this movie LOL.

Poly student, others die in auto accident

The wrecked car and Alade
The life of a 23-year-old student of the Federal Polytechnic in Offa, Kwara State, Oladotun Alade, has been cut short by an accident involving a truck and a Volkswagen saloon car in Okuku, Osun State.
One of the eyewitnesses toldPUNCH Metrothat the accident occurred when the plank-carrying truck was overtaking the five-seater car.
“As the truck was trying to overtake the car, the planks got detached from it and fell on the car. The three passengers sitting at the back of the car died instantly,” the eyewitness said.
It was learnt that Alade, who was an ND 1 Civil Engineering student, was among the passengers sitting at the back.
PUNCH Metrolearnt that the driver and the passenger sitting in the front survived the accident.
Alade’s relative, Adeyemi Oyeleke, said, “He was travelling to the school to submit an assignment since the polytechnic has resumed. His friends had earlier informed him that lectures had commenced. He had planned to travel next week Monday, but his mates called him that one of their lecturers demanded that an assignment he gave them be submitted.
“He was a friendly guy and always smiling. He was the only son and the second child of the family.”
Our correspondent, who also visited theFacebookpage of the deceased, observed that tributes had been pouring in for the undergraduate.
One of his friends, Temitope Dada, wrote, “Still seems like a dream, Alade Matthew Oladotun. You left without a farewell message. It’s so saddening to hear the demise of a rare gem, friend and brother. I love you, but God loves you more. Sleep well.”
Tope Olayemi, who shares the same birthday with the deceased, wrote, “It was very painful when I heard you’re gone, my birthday mate. RIP.”
Another friend, Abey Oyejide, wrote, “Dotun, you were joking with me on Sunday, but you did not tell me you would leave us soon. We will always remember your impact in this world. Rest in Peace.”
A source close to the family said that the deceased had  been buried on Wednesday.
When our correspondent contacted the Osun Police Public Relations Officer, Sade Odoro, she said she had not heard of the accident, but promised to call the DPO of the Okuku Division.
However, our correspondent did not get any feedback from her as of the time of going to press.

JUST IN: Boko Haram Attack Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako

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According to information reaching us, the convoy of the governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako was attacked by gunmen believed to be Boko Haram insurgents earlier today, The Herald reports.

Nyako was ambushed at Shuwari area of the State on his way returning from a condolence visit to victims who were attacked by the Boko Haram set two days ago.

According to the source, the governor and his convoy escaped the attack unhurt.

Kidnappers Demand N500m Ransom To Free President Jonathan's Uncle

Abductors of Inengite Nitabai, the 70-year old uncle of President Goodluck Jonathan, have demanded a N500m ransom, Sahara Reporters report.

A security source said that the abductors threatened to kill him if the family fails to produce the money. The source also said the family had constituted a committee to evaluate the demand, establish negotiations with the abductors and facilitate his release.

He said the kidnappers had also warned against the involvement of security operatives in the matter.
"The kidnappers contacted the family four days after and demanded a whopping sum of N500m. It is believed that the family of the victim has begun negotiations with the hoodlums," he said.

Tension and panic set in when the kidnappers failed to establish any contact with the family of their victim three days after he was abducted.

That development was said to have rattled the Presidency, which reportedly ordered a massive deployment of security in Otuoke, the hometown of the Jonathans, and the Niger Delta creeks.
The gunmen abducted Nitabai on Sunday after collecting about N400,000 from his wife.

Waje Rocks Jovani And Valentino At Centenary Celebrations

Waje performed ‘Great Nation’ with Timi Dakolo at the just concluded Nigerian Centenary celebrations at the state house in Abuja.



For her amazing performance she wore a peplum red lace dress by Jovani and Valentino shoes. She accessorised with a red ring and carried her braids up and sideways.



For her second look, she kicked back with a white Esta line white jacket with black piping. Brown shirt and black pants and shoes completed the look

Wow! Nadia Buari Wins Best African Actress At African Achievers Awards 2014

Ghanaian actress Nadia Buari has been awarded the Best African Actress At the African Achievers Awards 2014. Below are photos when the beautiful actress was receiving the award at the event held on Friday, February 28 2024 at the Presidential Banquet Hall in Accra. OMG!Ghana.com congratulates her for winning this award as the best African actress.





Congrat!

"I Tried To Negotiate With God" -Lupita Nyong’o Opens Up On Her Prayer For Light

On Thursday, Essence Magazine honored 12 Years a Slave actress Lupita Nyong’o at their Black Women in Hollywood luncheon. The stunning actress accepted the Essence’s Best Breakthrough Performance Award, and managed to move the audience to tears with her speech about her self-esteem.

“I remember a time when I too felt unbeautiful. I put on the TV and only saw pale skin, I got teased and taunted about my night-shaded skin. And my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned.



I tried to negotiate with God, I told him I would stop stealing sugar cubes at night if he gave me what I wanted, I would listen to my mother’s every word and never lose my school sweater again if he just made me a little lighter. But I guess God was unimpressed with my bargaining chips because He never listened.” Nyong’o continued to unveil how her mother and  images of Sudanese supermodel, Alek Wek helped increased her confidence.



“Alek Wek. A celebrated model, she was dark as night, she was on all of the runways and in every magazine and everyone was talking about how beautiful she was. Even Oprah called her beautiful and that made it a fact. I couldn’t believe that people were embracing a woman who looked so much like me, as beautiful. My complexion had always been an obstacle to overcome and all of a sudden Oprah was telling me it wasn’t. It was perplexing and I wanted to reject it because I had begun to enjoy the seduction of inadequacy.



But a flower couldn’t help but bloom inside of me, when I saw Alek I inadvertently saw a reflection of myself that I could not deny. Now, I had a spring in my step because I felt more seen, more appreciated by the far away gatekeepers of beauty. But around me the preference for my skin prevailed, to the courters that I thought mattered I was still unbeautiful. And my mother again would say to me you can’t eat beauty, it doesn’t feed you and these words plagued and bothered me; I didn’t really understand them until finally I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume.”



Nyong’o's speech was dedicated to a fan who wrote to her about not feeling comfortable in her skin. The fan told Lupita she had wanted to purchase Nigerian/ Cameroonian singer Dencia skin bleaching product, Whitenicious but opted out due to Lupita overnight popularity. In the letter, the woman wrote: “Dear Lupita, I think you’re really lucky to be this Black but yet this successful in Hollywood overnight. I was just about to buy Dencia’s Whitenicious cream to lighten my skin when you appeared on the world map and saved me.” Thank God for good press and Lupita opening more doors for women of color.