Checkout Top 5 High Profile Nigerian Celebrity Divorces (See Photos)

Checkout Top 5 High Profile Nigerian Celebrity Divorces (See Photos)

 

There is this belief that everywhere you go marriages celebrities are involved in never last. Giving the divorce trend among celebrities over the years, who would blame people with this belief? As much as there are celebrity marriages that failed, there are a handful of celebrity marriages that have been great success. Here is a list of them

 

Stella Damascus and Emeka Nzeribe: Who else deserves to make this list if not the ever outspoken and sometimes controversial Nollywood actress and presenter, Stella Damasus. She has been in three different marriages. She’s in her third presently (controversially). Getting divorced from her second husband was the most dramatic as she decided to marry her third husband without properly divorcing the second one. And as a consequence her second husband Emeka Nzeribe wanted to sue her.

 

 

Toke Makinwa and Maje Ayida: The popular OAP and blogger, Toke Makinwa was the victim in this disastrous end to a relatively lowkey marriage which saw the husband cursed by people who have never met him while Toke was consoled by people who probably used to hate her or indifferent about her. The marriage collapsed after Maje’s secret relationship with his ex-girlfriend became public knowledge in the most bizarre manner; the news that he has impregnated her. When the news came out, everyone knew exactly what will become of the marriage.

 

 

Ini Edo and Phillip Ehiagwina: The Nollywood actress and her husband, Phillip finally called it quits after being married for about 6 years. The 6 years duration the marriage lasted actually beat many predictions. Rumours from both parties alleged the marriage split to be as a result of infidelity on Ini’s part and Phillip sponging off Ini’s finances. But last week, Ini came out to say the marriage collapsed because of her in-laws. At this point, it will be very interesting to hear what the ex-husband will say.

 

 

Funke Akindele and Kehinde Oloyede: The engagement between this two was pretty much seen as two lines which should never have met, hence the reason it lasted only a while. After only one year which was plagued by several unpalatable rumours, Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele popularly known as Jenifa admitted to the long insinuated break-up. Back then, her publicist, Ayo Ola-Muhammed released a statement saying “…We want to formally inform you that after due consultation and consideration, she’s now separated from Mr. Kehinde Oloyede as his wife,”.

 

 

Fathia Balogun and Saidi Balogun: This is arguably the most eventful/controversial divorce on Nigeria’s entertainment scene. These two have been separated for years yet did not become legally divorced until recently when a Lagos court gave the ruling. The whole divorce issue got even more controversial when Fathia said she won’t drop Balogun as her name.

 

I’m Not Behind Plot To Probe Lamorde – Bukola Saraki

I’m Not Behind Plot To Probe Lamorde – Bukola Saraki

 

 

Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki has denied allegation that he hired one George Uboh to smear the integrity of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, and its chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde.
He was reacting to a report by an online news medium that Uboh, who wrote a petition alleging that Lamorde diverted N1 trillion said to have been recovered from a former Governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha; and a former Inspector-General of Police, Tafa Balogun, was his associate.

Saraki, however, lamented that it is pertinent and with all sense of responsibility and commitment, to state unequivocally that the report is far from the truth and a fabricated story that cannot sell to dent his image.

In a statement issued by his Special Assistant Online Media, Bamikole Omisore, the Senate president explained that the general public is fully aware that the said online platform which published the false story has been an agent of media attack on his person adding that all allegations made by the medium against him have fallen flat on their face as bare lies, concocted with malicious intention.

The statement read in part; “To set the record straight, nobody can rightfully claim that Senator Saraki engaged the services of the petitioner or any other person for that matter. There are about four different petitions from individuals, groups and corporate organisations written against the EFCC and submitted to the Senate.

“Most of these petitions are dated 27/07/2015 and 31/07/2015 while some bothers on issues between 2013, 2014 and 2015. There are petitions that are directly written and received by the Senate while in some, the petition was written to the President and the Senate were copied.

“Further to the above, EFCC is not the only government agency that has petition against it pending before the before the Senate. There are pending petitions against the CG Custom, FIRS and NPA, amongst others. Is it also Senator Saraki that hired or engaged people to do this? What evidence does Sahara Reporter have that links Senator Saraki to all these petitions before the Senate?

He added that: “The Senate President has no relationship whatsoever with Mr Uboh in any capacity or in the course of his emergence as Senate President. If anybody has any proof of a relationship between Senator Saraki and the said Mr. Uboh, let him or her say it now.

“Our Investigation showed that Uboh’s petition has been in public domain since 2013 and that the details has been reported in national newspapers as well as cited in court proceedings. The Senate president could not have said to have hired any one to write a petition for him as he has no issue to sort out with any individual, group of people or an organisation.

“Therefore, any insinuation that Senator Saraki is attempting to prevent EFCC from carrying out its constitutional responsibility is a hoax and an imagination of the writer.

“Let it be known that the idea of people using the media to intimidate or blackmail the Senate to prevent it from performing its constitutional and legislative duties will be resisted and as such, meet stiff opposition expressed through lawful means.

“Furthermore, Senator Saraki is not the same as the Senate or National Assembly as an institution. Imputing sentiment into the legitimate working of any government institution will not augur well for our development and democratic process”.

 

Revealed: Saudi Arabia Executes 175 People Yearly – Amnesty Int'l

Revealed: Saudi Arabia Executes 175 People Yearly – Amnesty Int'l

 

 

At least 175 people have been executed in Saudi Arabia in the past year after unfair trials lacking basic safeguards, Amnesty International says. A new report alleges the Gulf kingdom’s “faulty justice system facilitates judicial executions on a mass scale”. BBC reports:

 

In many cases, it adds, defendants are denied access to a lawyer and in some they are convicted on the basis of “confessions” obtained under torture. Those killed include juvenile offenders and people with mental disabilities.

Saudi Arabia adheres to a strict interpretation of Islamic law, or Sharia, and applies the death penalty to a number of crimes not considered the “most serious” under international norms. They include drug offences, apostasy, heresy and witchcraft.

Amnesty’s report says that between January 1985 and June 2015, at least 2,208 people were executed in Saudi Arabia. Almost half of those put to death were foreign nationals, many of whom the human rights group says were denied adequate translation assistance at trial and were made to sign documents – including confessions – which they did not understand

LWKM! Family Smash Into Tomb Of Girl Who Woke Up Screaming & Banging On Her Coffin…Only To Die Again! (Photos)

LWKM! Family Smash Into Tomb Of Girl Who Woke Up Screaming & Banging On Her Coffin…Only To Die Again! (Photos)

 

 

A ‘dead’ teenager woke up in her coffin and screamed for help one day after she was buried – but died again before desperate relatives could save her. Grieving family members pictured above breaking through the concrete tomb from where Neysi Perez, 16, had been heard ‘banging and screaming’.

 

Relatives who removed the girl’s corpse found that the glass viewing window on her coffin had been smashed and the tips of her fingers were bruised. But despite efforts to revive her medics found no signs of life and she was later returned to the cemetery and reburied in the same mausoleum.

 

 

 

Ms Perez, who was three months pregnant, reportedly fell unconscious after waking up in the night to use the outside toilet at her home in La Entrada, western Honduras.

 

It was believed she may have collapsed in an apparent panic attack after hearing a burst of gunfire.

But when the teenager started foaming at the mouth her religious parents called the local priest believing she had become possessed by an evil spirit. Relatives told how the priest tried to exorcise her, but she later became lifeless and was rushed to hospital, where three hours later doctors declared her dead.

 

Ms Perez was buried in the wedding dress she had recently used to get married.

A day after her funeral, her husband Rudy Gonzales was visiting her grave at the La Entrada General Cemetery when he heard banging and muffled screams from inside the concrete tomb and raised the alarm.

The footage shows desperate family members breaking through the concrete block tomb with a sledgehammer, before bringing out and opening up Ms Perez’s coffin to try to revive her.

 

 

 

 

Mr Gozales told local TV news Primer Impacto: ‘I was heartbroken because my sweetheart had been taken so suddenly from me. I wanted to be near to her.

 

‘As I put my hand on her grave I could hear noises inside. I heard banging, then I heard her voice. She was screaming for help.

‘It had already been a day since we buried her. I couldn’t believe it. I was ecstatic, full of hope.’

Cemetery worker Jesus Villanueva said he had also heard noises coming from the grave.

 

He said: ‘I convinced myself that the screams were coming from somewhere else. I never imagined that there was someone alive in there.

‘That afternoon the girl’s husband came to me begging me to get her out because she was alive.

‘He was hysterical. The family were soon here and started breaking through the tomb, shouting her name.’

Ms Perez was taken by truck to the nearest hospital in San Pedro Sula, where she was carried in still inside her coffin.

 

But although medics tried to revive her, all the tests they carried out showed that she was clinically dead.

Doctor Claudia Lopez recalled: ‘The whole family rushed in, almost breaking the door down, carrying the girl in her casket.

 

‘I told them to take her out and put her on the bed. Everybody was claiming she was alive so I went through all the necessary procedures.

‘We evaluated and tried everything but the girl was dead. They put her back in the coffin and took her away again, back to the cemetery.’

 

Doctors believe Ms Perez may have suffered a severe panic attack which could have temporarily stopped her heart activity.

 

Another hypothesis is that the teenager had a cataplexy attack, an abrupt temporary loss of voluntary muscle function typically triggered by a strong emotional stimulus such as stress or fear, during which the victim maintains full conscious awareness.

 

She may then have died from lack of oxygen after waking up inside the closed coffin.

Her cousin, Carolina Perez, said: ‘Once we had taken her out of the tomb I put my hand on her body. She was still warm, and I felt a faint heart beat.

 

‘She had scratches on her forehead and bruises on her fingers. It looked like she had tried desperately to get out of the casket and hurt herself.

Ms Perez’s mother Maria Gutierrez firmly believes her daughter was buried alive and blames medics for being too quick to sign her death certificate.

 

She said: ‘The doctors declared her dead but everybody else around me kept telling me she wasn’t. She didn’t look like she had died.

‘Even after a day in the tomb the colour of her body was normal, her corpse didn’t smell, she just looked like she was in a deep sleep.

 

‘There was no rigamortis, her body was still flexible, it was impossible that she had been dead for so many hours.

‘We were all so happy. After being declared dead for such a long time, everybody was saying that she had come back to life.

‘We were all so happy. I thought I was going to get my daughter back.’

 

Source: UK Daily Mail

Tribunal Upholds Kwankwaso’s Election As Senator

Tribunal Upholds Kwankwaso’s Election As Senator

 

 

States and National Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Kano, Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by Alhaji Bashir Garba Lado of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), challenging the election of Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the All Progressives Congress as Senator representing Kano Central Senatorial District.

Dismissing the petition, the presiding judge, Justice

Cornelius Akintayo said the petitioner had failed to establish a prima facie evidence against the respondent, hence the decision to dismiss the case over lack of merit.

He said the request of the petitioner for the tribunal to nullify the election based on the substitution of the name of Abba Yusuf with that of the respondent was untenable.
He said the tribunal has no evidence to declare the election null and void, and therefore, considers the result of the election credible.

Mr. Akintayo said the petitioner had failed to provide genuine evidence to prove that the results of the election did not reflect the conduct of the polls.
The tribunal’s verdict was greeted with jubilation by supporters of the former governor who had thronged the venue for the long awaited judgment.

(NAN)

Checkout these 11 Signs to show you’re a WIFE Material (According To Men)

Checkout these 11 Signs to show you’re a WIFE Material (According To Men)

 

 

 In the 1950s, what constituted “wife material” was pretty basic compared to how it is now. “Perfect” wives were women who stayed home to take care of the kids, keep the house in order, and have dinner ready promptly at 6PM when her husband walked through the door. Women’s aspirations became second to fulfilling their “wifely duties.” It sounds terribly depressing, to be honest.

But, being that it’s 2015, so much has changed since then. What makes a woman a wife isn’t about being docile, submissive, and letting the man run the show. Thanks to the Women’s Movement, there is an equality that makes both men want to find their partner and not their, well, maid.

We talked to 11 men about what makes a woman “wife material.” This is what they had to tell us.

1. You love in equal measure.

“It just boils down to love and attraction. I don’t mean any kind of romantic ideal, but like, proper love, where you love them so much that even when you’re mid-argument and super angry you still make sure they take an umbrella to work because it might rain. Any person who loves you that much in equal measure, and doesn’t mind risking a s*x-related hip fracture when you’re both in your 70s is definitely marriage material.”

2. You have insatiable intellectual curiosity.

“Basically, I need someone who will both challenge and complete me. I don’t want a fan or sycophant, nor do I want an adversary. The ideal woman will have an understanding of my strengths and weaknesses and exploit them not to injure me, but to make me better. She would also have an insatiable intellectual curiosity and big b**bs. But in all seriousness, I don’t know that we need to have the perfect woman to qualify as marriage material. I know I don’t. All I need is that person who makes the concept of being with anyone else an exercise in idiocy.”

3. You accept without reservation.

“Total acceptance for who you are both the good and bad.”

4. You laugh.

“A sense of humor. That’s the most important thing a woman a can have if I were to want to marry her. Of course I’d want her to be kind, genuine, adventurous and someone with whom I’d like to share my life but above all is sense of humor. Laughing and loving together is what makes a long-lasting relationship.”

5. You can cook.

“I know this is going to come off sexist, but it isn’t. I swear. That being said, wife material for me is a woman who can cook and cook well, like French pastry type well. Not because I want her in the kitchen but because I can’t cook to save my life but eating is a passion of mine. If her passion is to cook and mine is to eat then we can’t lose. I’d like to say once again that this isn’t me giving into gender stereotypes. Cooking and eating together is sexy. I guess I’m a regular old George Costanza.”

6. You challenge him.

“She has to challenge me to be my best self. That’s my main qualification. Also, I can’t marry someone who isn’t funny.”

7. You’re affectionate.

“Looking at my parents’ marriage there wasn’t as much emotional support as I think my mother needed from my dad. They fought too often and I never saw them, not once, show any sort of affection toward each other. Because of that, a woman who is affectionate and loving is someone with whom I want to grow old with. I don’t ever want my kids to wonder why mom and dad never hugged, kissed, or cuddled, like I always wondered. I want them to know we love each other and they were born from that love.”

8. You have your own life.

“In my mind, a woman with her own life is probably the coolest one to marry. And by ‘her own life’ I mean: her own career, her own set of friends, her own independent streak, her own dreams, and her own bunch of at least 15-20 vinyl records. This would certainly be a fair thing for a woman to want in a potential husband too, by the way.”

9. You don’t publicly embarrass.

“She doesn’t punk you in public in general but particularly in front of your friends. Bust chops? Okay. Disagree? Sure. Argue? Maybe. But if she’s wife material she’ll keep anything demeaning or embarrassing private.”

10. You love your past mistakes.

“I know this is cliché, but wife material for me is someone who loves the worst in me and is OK with all my screw-ups. I’ve made a lot of mistakes along the way and have my fair share of regrets, so if she can love that stuff and not hold it against me, then I’d call that wife material.”

11. You are considerate.

“‘Wife material’ indicators can range from doing the wallet dance (thanks, but we’ll pay) or something sweet like making our bed after a sleepover. It’s so simple, but speaks to a level of consideration you don’t always get in some people who might feel a little too entitled to your chivalry.”

source: yourtango.com