What: Chivas Top 100 Men in Nigeria. Where: Intercontinental Hotel, V.I, Lagos. When: July 4, 2013. Photos by Hycinth Iyereosa
Beat FM Presenter, Tolu ‘Toolz’ Oniru was the 2012 winner of The Future Award Prize for On Air Personality (Radio). In the video below she speaks on the upcoming awards and offers advice to upcoming On Air Personalities. Check the video out below:
After working hard to lose weight, Madelyn Sheaffer decided to wear a bikini while swimming at the Adventure Oasis Water Park in Independence. She says employees discriminated against her by asking her to cover up or leave. KSHB.COM Madelyn Sheaffer says she was kicked out of a water park in Independence, M.O. just because she... Read More
Brandy Hamilton and Alexandria Randle were on their way home from the beach when they got pulled over in Brazoria County and a female officer searched their privates for marijuana. Now they are slapping the Texas Department of Public Safety with a lawsuit. KVUE The women were searched after an officer claimed to smell marijuana... Read More
A newborn baby girl who was found horrifically buried alive in an Indian forest has died of her injuries. The baby was just one day old when she was found wrapped in a cloth and half buried under earth and gravel last week, in Mandleshwar forest, outside the city of Indore in the central state... Read More
America may be celebrating Independence Day today, but at the White House there is double cause for celebration as Malia Obama turns 15. The First Daughter, now as tall as her parents with a keen eye for style, is fast becoming a young lady who can hold her own with confidence in the public eye.... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu Etubom Ekpo Okon Abasi Otu has been dethroned as the Obong of Calabar after an Appeal Court sitting in Calabar, yesterday, confirmed a Calabar High Court ruling which, in October 2012, nullified the processes for his selection. The court subsequently ordered for another selection process to elect an Obong for the Efik. According to... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu It looks like Paul Okoye of PSquare might have sorted issues out with 19-year-old Elshama Benson Igbanoi who is said to be the mother of the child. In May, the ex Miss Plateau State gave birth at the Queen Charlotte and Chelsea Hospital on Du Cane Road in London but Okoye was with... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu Well if you were wondering how ace celebrity photographer turned recording artiste Toni Tones was coping on the other side of the lens, theses new hot photos should prove she’s doing just fine. Toni Tones been in the studio and on location shooting the much anticipated video for her single, ‘I Know... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu Music artistes, Burna Boy and Timaya looks like they are sharing a moment here. People should not freak-out though as its just good old fashioned ‘bromance’. Genevieve Magazine posted the photo earlier on Twitter and it has been trending. What do you think?
by Rachel Ogbu Nigerian music star, Davido shows off some serious bling in new pictures he’s put up on the web. He was spotted wearing a Jesus piece chain which has become a favourite among US rappers especially The Game, Big Sean Lion and Kanye West. [READ: All swagged-up! Artistes, Davido and Chidinma on... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu An investigating police officer, Corporal Alagbe Olumide has admitted in court that he was forced to arraign a murder suspect, Ayodimeji Alegbeleye, for the crime he never committed. The Ebute Meta Magistrate’s Court, Lagos was tensed as magistrate, M.O Tanimola, summoned the police to give an account of what led to the... Read More
Sixteen-year old Ooreoluwa was broken. Physically, she was exhausted. Spiritually, she felt drained. Financially, she had nothing. She was battered, bruised, worn out. Her body felt numb even though it racked with pain. Her eyes had run out of tears. She had had enough! Her biological parents had passed on in a gruesome car accident... Read More
Justin Clark is a man who will have to do a lot of queuing up outside his own bathroom for at least the next 18 years. He may have Toby the labrador and Sox the cat as male allies, but there’s no doubt the 43-year-old is well and truly outnumbered by women these days. And... Read More
by Joe Igbokwe Please, let somebody tell President Goodluck Jonathan to use his left hand to throw away Salisu Buhari from the University of Nigeria’s Governing Council before we get annoyed. I may not know the current situation now but the University of Nigeria I left in 1985 was a citadel of learning where the... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu A proposed three-year jail term for anyone guilty of engaging in forcible occupation of landed properties in Lagos has second reading as one of the provisions of the state’s Properties Protection Bill, 2013. In a statement by the Lagos State House of Assembly on Thursday, the bill was meant to hinder the... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu A 28-year-old man has received a six months jail sentence for stealing a Nokia phone worth N6,000. Lucky Matthew received the verdict at the Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, after he plead guilty to three-count charge of conspiracy, burglary and stealing. Presiding magistrate, Olufunke Hamzat, sentenced Matthew saying: “You are hereby sentenced to... Read More
by SK Johnson A while ago Yvonne Nelson sat down for an interview with Toolz on her Ndani TV show, The Juice. The interview focused on Yvonne’s life and career in general, and was as pleasant as you can imagine, considering how pretty both ladies are; Ms. Nelson in particular. Seriously, she’s so beautiful that she... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu The pan-Yoruba group, Oodua People’s Congress has been accused of torturing a man to death after he was arrested for stealing a BlackBerry phone and an undisclosed amount of money in Ijora Badia, Lagos. Mother of 27-year-old Sulaimon Jimoh claimed to have witnessed the incident. She reportedly said the OPC men tortured... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu A 22-year-old man arrested for pickpocketing has revealed that he made about N10, 000 daily from his art before he was arrested in Lagos. Terry Umuokoro who said he works alone was arrested last week at a hotel along Ojo Road, Ajegunle, Lagos. “I pick pockets for a living, I am not... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu A 68-year-old man has been arrested in Lagos for shooting his 22-year-old son. Anthony Oyeniji was said to have used a pump action rifle to shoot his son, Taiwo Oyeniji, in the hand at their home in Akowonjo though the man added that it was in self defense as his son had... Read More
by Natalie Gontcharova, Amanda Green When you’re in a relationship, you’re constantly showing your child how to communicate, how to fight fair and how to express your feelings for another person. It’s hard for kids to watch their divorced parents date new people. Even harder: tagging along on their parents’ romantic getaway. In the new movie The Way, Way Back,... Read More
50 Cent insists he is innocent of domestic violence and vandalism charges. The Candy Shop hitmaker, 37 – whose real name is Curtis Jackson – has been accused of kicking an unnamed ex-girlfriend, who police say has a child with him, and destroying some of her things during a dispute at her condo in Toluca... Read More
Victim who was stripped by Akan Ido A woman was stripped naked by a mob in Kenya after getting accused of wearing a provocative dress. Reports say the woman was spotted walking on the street in Kitengela, a town in Kenya. They allegedly ripped her dress open claiming it was better for her to go naked... Read More
Henry Liebman knew the 39.08-pound, 40-inch fish he reeled in was abnormally big. What he didn’t realize was that the beast is older than the state of Alaska itself. JAMES POULSON/AP Sport fisherman Henry Liebman, from Seattle, holds his record-breaking rockfish at the Alaska Department of Fish & Game Office. Catch of the century? An... Read More
by Akan Ido Who goes to an event on horseback? Well, artiste, Prince Tillaman did. Making a graceful entry to the Industry Nite which took place recently in Lagos. As usual, it was a music-filled night as Tillaman, his band, Vector, JJC, Tunde Ednut and others serenade the audience. Also in attendance were DJ Xclusive,... Read More
An Orile-Agege Customary Court in Lagos, yesterday, dissolved the 20-year-old marriage of a pastor, who had accused his wife of infidelity and threat to his life. Pastor Sunday Owonikoko, 51, had filed a petition at the court on May 27, saying he could no longer continue with his wife, Bolajoko, 47. Ruling in the case,... Read More
by Kemi Ogunniyi Something new and exciting has just happened in the world of books. It happened in Africa. The rest of the publishing world would soon notice. And it will affect the way the world – especially Africans – read, forever. Yes, I am going to talk about digital books (e-books), and yes, you... Read More
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