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See Why I Acted As A Catholic Nun Though Being A Muslim- Funlola Aofiyebi Actress  Funlola Aofiyebi  Seeks Fan Vote As Her Movie Tatu’ Receives Nomination At 2018 AMVCA. Seasoned Nollywood actress  Funlola Aofiyebi  has revealed why she took the role she played in the drama blockbuster ‘Tatu’ – a role which landed her a nomination at the upcoming  African Magic Viewers Choice Award AMVCA 2018. The  AMVCA is scheduled to hold on the 1st of September, 2018. Nominated in the ‘Best Supporting Actress in a Movie/Series’ category, the actress took to social media (Twitter) to express her utmost joy over the nomination, thank her fans for their unyielding support over the years and reflect on more serious issues plaguing the country, such as religion. Speaking on why she took the role of Mother Superior; a Catholic nun in ‘Tatu’, Funlola wrote;  “Playing a Nun in Tatu appealed to me from the get go. I’m born and raised a Muslim...

The Worthy Legacy I  Leave Behind Will Speak  For Me – Fayose Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose has revealed that he his fulfilled as his legacy in Ekiti State would not be erased in history easily. The outgoing governor made this known as he prepare to leave office in two weeks time. He stated that the developmental initiatives and project would be his mouth piece when he is no longer in office. Fayose spoke on Tuesday at the grand finale of this year’s Udiroko Festival in Ado-Ekiti, which marks the beginning of a new year in the town’s traditional calendar. Fayose appreciated the people of the state for their support during his regime, adding that the many legacy project his administration embarked on were made possible because of the people support. Making allusion to the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the July 14 governorship election who is also his deputy, Prof. Kolapo Olusola. Fayose expressed optimism that “God...

~ BREAKING NEWS ~ Today Africa mourns the loss of a great son, a leader, and a visionary: Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary-general who won the Nobel Peace Pr ize for humanitarian work has died at the age of 80. Mr Annan is reported to have died in the early hours of Saturday in Switzerland. He was the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. He was founder and Chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation. A life well lived. A life worth celebrating.

Cross Dresser And Active Social Media Use Bobrisky r, Bobrisky  Warns Bloggers And  Journalist To Stop Taking Bad Shots Of Him. Popular cross dresser Bobrisky has threatened to beat up any Nigerian blogger and journalist who prey on him at events just to take unpleasant shots of him for their readers. The controversial social media enterprenuer, who entertains other users with his mixed status thinks the bloggers are deliberately out to make him look ugly when he is a beauty to behold. The cross dresser and bleaching advocate has said that henceforth, cameras are not allowed near him at events. According to him, he is employing the services of bodyguards and bouncers to wade off ‘unfiltered’ cameras. iMagazine Publication  reports that some very unflattering, uneven and ‘hairy’ shots of Bob made rounds on the social media after the cross dresser had posted the filtered and even version. This got on the nerves of Bob and predicated ...

Vice President Yemi Osibajo's,  Kiki is among those who were given awards of Excellence by the Abuja Summer Festival for their contributions to lifestyle and entertainment. According to the list released in Abuja by the festival’s Founder,  Chioma Onashakpor,   other awardees include  Afropop Alternative singer, Ric Hassani ‘Style Temple’ Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Ogugua Okonkwo, ‘The Solohan Company’ CEO, Omojo Wada, ‘Good Hair’ CEO, Chioma Ikokwu, humanitarian Dora Enwere and actor, Uzee Usman. Kiki, a fashion and beauty entrepreneur, was awarded for her innovation in creating affordable and healthy beauty products with the launch of her skincare line, ‘Konyin’. While  Ric Hassani  was awarded for his musical prowess and doggedness as an alternative Afropop music artist, despite the marketing hurdles faced by singers of the genre in Nigeria. Okonkwo  on his part was awarded for her contribution to female fashion in Abuja as her...

Italy-Based Nigerian Artiste Accuses Harrysong Of Stealing His Song An Italy based Nigerian musician,  Timothy Ozemebhoya Asotie , better known as ‘TOA’ has accused popular Nigeria singer, Harrison Tare Okiri, aka  HarrySong of theft. In a recent interview with takeabreakng.com, TOA said HarrySong’s, ‘ Selense ’, is a copyright infringement on his own song titled ‘ Selese ’, which he released in 2016. “HarrySong copied my song because I know of a radio presenter in Edo State who is very close to HarrySong and has been playing my song on air since last year on Edo Radio Station. Even when I came to Nigeria last year, it was still on air. It was also on promotion at Alaba International but HarrySong just copied the song,” TOA alleged. He added, “ It was recently that I noticed he copied my song in his song ‘Selense’. So I decided to come out and complain because the song is covered by Italian copyright here in Italy. My song was released in February...

Just In: INEC Budgets  N6bn To Feed Policemen  During 2019 Elections Feeding Of Policemen To Gulp N6bn The on-going meeting between the  Independent National Electoral Commission  and the Electoral Committee members of the  House of Representatives  has revealed that a staggering N6bn has been budgeted to feed policemen during the 2019 general elections. The federal lawmakers have raised objection over the amount and have asked the the INEC chairman,  Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu , to defend the figures. This is part of news filtering out of the 2019 election budget defence by INEC before the House of Representatives. As earlier reported by  Naija News,  the INEC leadership and members of the House of Representatives are meeting over the 2019 election budget. For more updates or advert placement; like us on facebook, Follow us on twitter and Instagram @ iMagazine Publications. You can also contact us to pl...

A 25-year-old Bolivian woman hanged her three children after making them record goodbye  messages to their father on video, police reported Thursday. suicide  The woman hanged her one-year old baby, and her two other children aged four and seven, late Tuesday after a series of arguments with her husband, state prosecutor Oscar Vera told Los Tiempos newspaper. Police said the mother was being treated in hospital after taking poison.  Regional police chief Colonel Johnny Corrales said the woman had become distraught over her husband’s drinking, “which is why she decided to hang her children and then tried to commit suicide.” “We know that there is a video where the children say goodbye to their dad,” said Vera, a prosecutor in the central city of Cochabamba, where the tragedy unfolded.  A police forensic report said the children died of “mechanical strangulation.” The mother, who left a letter alleging mistreatment by her husband, was being treated in ...

ABEOKUTA- A 40-year-old woman , Monsurat Idowu reportedly died after alleged marathon sexual interourse with her 28-year-old lover Kelvin Micheal in Sango, Ogun State.  The Police Public Relations Officer in the State, Abimbola Oyeyemi in a statement said the suspect has been arrested by men of Police Command. Oyeyemi said “the arrest of the suspect was as a result of complaint by one Benjamin Okereke of the State hospital Ota who reported that the suspect brought the deceased to the hospital dead, and since he cannot explain the circumstance that surrounded the death of the deceased, he decided to notify the Police. “Upon the report, the DPO Onipanu Division, SP Sangobiyi Johnson led his men to the hospital where the man was promptly arrested. “On interrogation, the suspect claimed to have met the deceased last month in a bus at Ketu Lagos where they exchanged phone numbers, consequent upon which he invited her to the house of his friend in Ota where the deceased suddenly slumpe...

Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, is considering running against President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019.  Saraki, who had earlier hinted at running for the highest office in the land, told Bloomberg in an interview that he had been consulting widely. *Senate President Bukola Saraki and President Muhammadu Buhari In the last one week, the Senate president has visited ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo and former Military President, Ibrahim Babangida. Saraki said he would need to win the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to actualise his objective of leading the country.  The Senate president, who defected to PDP from All Progressives Congress, APC, two weeks ago, accused the APC of not managing its victory well, saying his new party could make a difference. He said:  “I am consulting and actively considering it… I believe I can make the change.   The PDP has learned its lesson from the loss in 2015, and I think unfortunately, the APC did not ...

Barack Obama pays homage to ‘divine’ Aretha Franklin ON AUGUST 16, 20185:44 PMIN MUSIC  NEWS0 COMMENTS Barack Obama on Thursday paid tribute to the late “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin, praising her “unmatched musicianship” that he said “helped define the American experience.” Aretha Franklin “Every time she sang, we were all graced with a glimpse of the divine,” the former US president said in a statement. “In her voice, we could feel our history, all of it and in every shade — our power and our pain, our darkness and our light, our quest for redemption and our hard-won respect. She helped us feel more connected to each other, more hopeful, more human.” “And sometimes she helped us just forget about everything else and dance.”  For more updates or advert placement; like us on facebook, Follow us on twitter and Instagram @ iMagazine Publications. You can also contact us to place advert on our monthly print magazine .  Tel: +2348032755727

Breaking: Security Chiefs, govs in closed-door meeting with Osinbajo   ABUJA—-Acting President Yemi Osinbajo is currently presiding over the National Economic Council (NEC) comprising state governors and relevant ministries of government and the Central Bank of Nigeria. Osinbajo Also to brief the NEC are the Security Heads who are also around for the meeting.  It was gathered that the meeting may discuss the security situation in the country as well as the threat of possible government shut down as a result of the crisis between the executive and the legislature which has affected the governmentthat borrowing plan and President Muhammadu Buhari’s virement requirement. Recall that the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Ita Enang had recently raised the alarm of possible shut down of government over the inability of the National Assembly to reconvene and consider the President’s request.  Available in...

Hackers break into bank’s database, siphon millions of naira from customers’ accounts  UMUAHIA—THERE was pandemonium yesterday at two branches of a commercial bank in Umuahia, the Abia State capital when many customers besieged the bank over withdrawals running into millions of naira made from their accounts at midnight. As early as 8.00am, many customers of the bank have crowded the two branches of the bank located along Bank Road in Umuahia, with  lamentations over debit alerts, amounting to millions of naira which they received between 1am and 3am yesterday.  The customers, who stated that the unusual withdrawal occurred very early in the morning yesterday while they were asleep, expressed shock that they woke up to see that the money in their accounts have been withdrawn.  A senior staff of one of the affected branches, who spoke on anonymity  blamed the incident on “international hackers.” Mrs Nnenna Ukachi could not contr...

A former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, has condemned the siege by operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) on the National Assembly. The SSS officials blocked the entrance of the assembly on Tuesday morning, initially barring anyone from going in. They later allowed lawmakers into the assembly. Journalists and other staff of the assembly were barred from the entering as at the time of this report. The security siege is believed to be related to the move to remove Bukola Saraki as senate president. Read Atiku Abubakar’s reaction, as contained in a statement by his office, below. The attention of former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has been drawn to an illegal and undemocratic attempt by fascist forces to break into the National Assembly for the purpose of furthering the agenda to force a change in the Nigerian Senate’s leadership. Atiku Abubakar completely condemns this atrocity and calls on all those involved to put Nigeria first and abandon th...

Wizkid How Starboy revived Duncan Mighty's career after initially ending it Duncan Mighty is the rave of the moment following the success of the song, 'Fake Love' with Wizkid, but perhaps the Starboy also had a hand in his initial stumble. play Wizkid (Instagram/Wizkid) Since the release of the song, 'Fake Love' which features Wizkid alongside Duncan Mighty, the Port Harcourt’s first son has seen his career witness a renaissance of sort. Music producer,  K Solo  in a recent interview on Wazobia Max highlighted the role that Wizkid has played in reviving Duncan Mighty's music. According to him,  ''Thank God for Wizkid that just woke every artist up to Duncan Mighty, like he is just one new upcoming artist in Lagos,''  he says. This is a view shared not just by K Solo but by a number of music observers. Following the success of  'Fake Love' , Duncan Mighty has become the hottest property on the scene with many...