09:35:00

You would think if you did something like this, fans and the general public will find a way to punish you - by like not buying your music or not attending your concerts. But that's not what's happening in Solange's case, instead she's experiencing an increase in music sales.

According to Nielsen Soundscan, the week after video footage leaked of Solange punching, kicking and spitting on her sister's husband, Jay Z, her digital music sales jumped 233%!

The week prior to the fight footage becoming public, Solange's music sales hovered around 600 downloads but the week after the video leak, it surged to over 2000. Now it's nearing 3000 downloads

You know what they say, no publicity is bad publicity. Look at Kim K for instance, she became an international superstar after a leaked sex video.

09:29:00

The Igbo community in Jos, Plateau State, has confirmed that 36 Igbo men and women residing in Jos were killed in the twin bomb blast that rocked the city on Tuesday May 20th, with 42 others  injured and many others still missing.

The Eze Igbo II of Jos  Prof. Joseph Obilom stated this today Monday May 26th while addressing newsmen at his Palace in Jos.

    "Our people were worst hit by the blast. Most of our members are traders, who own shops at the terminus market. Goods worth millions of Naira of our members were destroyed. We are calling on the Federal and State government to come to our aid by sending relief materials to the injured and affected members." he said

09:27:00

Two of the sons of the founder of Kingsway International Christian Centre, KICC, Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo are getting married this year. According to their father, Tobi and Tomi Ashimolowo, who live abroad, will wed before the year runs, but he didn't disclose when exactly.

    "Let me use the opportunity of this interview to announce that my two boys will be getting married this year' Pastor Ashimolowo said in a recent interview "I don't want to put out the date yet, but they will be getting married in England.

The young men work in banks and also attend bible schools.

16:37:00

Spiritual head of One Love Family, Sat Guru Maharaj Ji says the best way to tackle the Boko Haram menace in the country is for us to go back to our traditions and culture. In an interview with City People this week, Maharaj Ji said the intervention of the international community was a welcomed idea and that it would make the fight against Boko Haram a lot easier because unlike Nigerians, the foreigners know that there is a Christ of this age, that is him (Maharaj Ji), walking on the planet and so carrying him along in the fight would bring a stop to acts of terrorism. Excepts from the interview;

16:34:00

On Friday May 23rd, Elliot Rodger the son of Hollywood movie director, Peter Rodger went on a crazed shooting spree for being rejected by girls and being a virgin at age 22. (read the story here).

All six of his victims have been named. They are (top row, from left to right) Katie Cooper, Chris Michael-Martinez, Veronica Weiss, (bottom row, from left to right) Weihan Wang, George Chen, and Cheng Yuan Hong, who shared same apartment with the killer. All were students at UCSB.

A friend of Rodger's two roommates, Wang and Yuan Hong, revealed that they had been planning to move out of the apartment at the end of the semester because they felt uncomfortable living with Elliot and found him 'so strange.'

All three were found with multiple stab wounds in Elliot's apartment in Isla Vista. After killing them, he took 3 handguns and went on a shooting spree, killing three more students before killing himself

16:31:00

Clarion Chukwura, who won Best Actress in a leading role at the 2014 AMAA awards which held on Saturday May 24th, is still attacking AGN president Ibinabo Fiberesima. In a new interview with Yes magazine, Clarion said her recent attacks on Ibinabo is not based on jealousy, because her brand is way bigger than Ibinabo's brand, but only trying to bring dignity back into the guild...
 "If Ibinabo recognized me as a senior colleague, she would have picked up her phone and  called me at one point or the other, before or during her leadership. She had never done so. That is one. Two, I was privileged, with the manner she spoke during the issue of the murder case for which she was convicted, and I didn't see that attitude as someone you should
dialogue with. Three at the Nollywood at 20 event, there was not that kind of rapport that okay, you are my senior colleague, at the helm of the leadership of the guild, if you have anything that can assist me in my position, you can please reach out to me. Ejike Asiegbu called on me and I assisted and played my role in every area he asked me to play my role. Zack Orji invited me at one point or the other to and we worked together" she said. Continue...

16:27:00

Tope Fadipe, the lady who was attacked with acid by a Nigerian Customs Officer in Badagry area has been discharged from the General Hospital in Badagry, Sahara Reporters reports. (Read here)

Tope was admitted at the hospital on May 9th following the attack by Chief Superintendent of Customs
F.C. Nwaeze, who accused her of failing to remit N50,000 in stock sales to his wife, an
allegation Tope denied but was still punished for it. The acid caused the victim grievous bodily harm.

Her attacker is currently being held at the Police State Criminal Investigation Department at Panti in Yaba, Lagos. Continue...

16:24:00

In February 2013, a 67 year old grandmother from Australia who traveled to South Africa to meet a Nigerian man she met online was found dead under suspicious circumstances in a Johannesburg guest house within days of meeting the man who called himself Jesse Orowo Omokoh. (Read story here)
Jesse is believed to have scammed the woman in excess of $90k. After the woman's death, Jesse, 28, disappeared. Well, after a year on the run, he has been arrested in Lagos. EFCC worked with West Australian fraud squad to find the man and all his accomplices. EFCC officials with policemen and 60minutes TV crew stormed the man's home in the outskirt of Lagos around 6am for the dramatic take down. See photos and the video of the arrest plus Jesse's interview after the cut...

10:02:00




Caleb University, one of the second generation private universities based in Imota, Lagos State, has imposed a record N150 million surcharge on all its students to offset the alleged damages done to the school’s property during a riot by some male students on May 13.

The male students allegedly protested against the school’s “very strict dress code and other strict code of conduct”.
All the students were subsequently ordered to vacate the campus on May 15 and await further directives.
But many parents were shocked when they received text messages on May 23 from the university, asking male students to pay N100,000 each and females to pay N50,000 each as surcharge for damages to the school’s property during the riot.



The surcharge must be paid before they would be allowed to resume on June 2.
The school, with a student population of about 1,500 students is expected to rake in about N150 million from the surcharge for damages, which sources put at barely N2 million.
A concerned parent remarked on Friday: "How can they force us to pay so much for damages.
"The university authorities have seen this riot as another opportunity to milk parents.
"They are so stupid, greedy, callous and heartless.
"Rather than fish out the culprits and punish them appropriately, they are scheming to make money from the crisis.

"What kind of repairs are they trying to do with about N150 million?
"Are they planning to build a new university by exploiting parents?
"The NUC (National Universities Commission) must step in to save parents from these exploiters at Caleb University.


The text message sent to parents by the university on May 23 reads:

"CUL parents and students are hereby notified that school resumes Mon, June 2. Exams start Mon, June 9. Male students are to pay N100,000 while the female would pay N50,000 by bank draft into Ecobank Account 1993000979 to offset damage to school property. Balance of school fees should be paid into Sterling Bank Acct. 0020022195.
“No student would be allowed into the university premises without evidence of payment of school fees and the surcharge. A guarantor must accompany each student with a letter of undertaking to be of good behaviour.”

09:46:00

On Friday May 23rd, the privileged 22 year old son of Hunger  Games assistant director Peter Rodger, Elliot Rodger took his own life  after killing 6 people and leaving 13 others wounded in Isla Vista near the University of California, Santa Barbara.

The Santa Barbara City College student, who was  angry at the world for still being a virgin at 22, posted a chilling  video hours before he went on rampage warning of ‘retribution’ because  girls rejected him.

The killer, who had Asperger’s syndrome and was in the care of  several therapists, started by stabbing three of his roommates to death  around 9.30pm on Friday then armed himself with three handguns and drove
to nearby Alpha Phi sorority. According to law enforcement agent,  Elliot knocked on the door but no one would let him in and that was when he spotted two women standing outside the sorority and fired shots at
them killing two of them, Katie Cooper, 22, and Veronika Weiss, 19.

After the shooting, Elliot Rodger returned to his black BMW and drove to IV Deli Mart in Golita where he shot dead 20-year-old UCSB sophomore Christopher Martinez, an unsuspecting bystander. Continue…

09:30:00
 
Rob Kardashian left LA for Paris with his mum on Tuesday to attend big sister Kim K's wedding to Kanye West but something must have happened because Rob skipped the wedding. The reality star was spotted alone at LAX airport California yesterday Saturday May 24th, same day Kim and Kanye got married.

The 27-year-old reportedly described Kim and Kanye's extravagant wedding as 'superficial bulls***' and left after having a fight with Kim prior to the pre-wedding lunch at designer Valentino's chatea

A source told X17: 'Rob said he was sickened by Kim and Kanye's display of wealth and clothes and beauty and called it 'superficial bulls***' but Kim was pissed that Rob hadn't made an effort to drop any weight over the past few months. Rob basically thinks Kim cares about him only for his appearance and he said he'd 'make life easier' for her and just leave.'

Rob not only skipped the wedding, he skipped everything else, including the rehearsal dinner. When paparazzi at LAX asked him why he skipped the wedding, Rob didn't answer. Yesterday was the second time the only Kardashian son would be spotted in public since January 2014 after he decided to stay out of public eye following his massive weight gain.


09:26:00

2Face was seen wearing a customized gold encrusted Versace sneakers worth N1million, during the video shoot of music giants, Tunde and Wunmi Obe on Tuesday May 20th.


Shot by the maverick Clarence Peters, the video is for T.W.O’s highly anticipated forthcoming advocacy single ‘Green White Green’ clamouring for peace and unity in Nigeria.


2face, who is featured on the single, was seen in the company of his wife Annie Idibia. Continue to see more photos...

09:23:00

Here are clearer pictures of Kim's wedding dress. Left while she was walking down the aisle with Bruce and her mum carrying North West and the other as the couple exchanged their vows. I hope this marriage lasts.
Meanwhile continue to see photo-booth pics from the wedding reception and what the only A-lister who attended the wedding said to Kim...

12:03:00

 
Jay Z allegedly said 'the circus goes to Paris' when asked about Kimye's wedding re; my title...:-).


The family stepped out for a luxurious wedding brunch thrown by famed designer Valentino at his/the famed castle - Château de Wideville today in Crespières/Davron, France. Kim and Kanye stepped out in Valentino Couture. See more photos after the cut...

11:19:00




 During her speech at the launch of her foundation, Pamela Anderson Foundation, at Cannes Film Festival last week, glamour model and actress Pamela Anderson revealed how she was molested from age 6 and gang-raped by her first boyfriend and his friends who decided it would be fun to rape her

    "I did not have an easy childhood. I was molested from age 6-10 by my female babysitter. I went to a friends boyfriends house while she was busy. The boyfriends older brother decided he would teach me backgammon which led into a back massage which led into rape- my first heterosexual experience. He was 25 yrs old, I was 12.

    My first boyfriend in grade 9 decided it would be fun to gang rape me (with 6 of his friends) Needless to say I had a hard time trusting humans. I just wanted off this earth. My parents tried to keep me safe but to me the world was not a safe place, my dad  an alcoholic, my mom worked two jobs waitressing. My mom was always crying. Dad didn't always come home leaving us in tremendous pain and worry. I couldn't bare to give her any more disruptive information. I couldn't break her heart any more than it was breaking. I kept these events to myself. Sometimes, when you smile, it's not because you are happy, it's because you are strong" she said

Keep a close eye on your young children and the people around them. Children are getting molested every day...sometimes by family members...and people you trust!

17:58:00

Nicki Minaj has responded to a Forbes article published on May 19th titled “Hip Hop Is Run By a White, Blonde, Australian Woman.”, describing rapper Izzy Azalea as the new princess of hip hop. The mag said while Minaj has been 'oddly quiet for months', Iggy's rise in the charts has been swift.

The comment made Nicki feel some type of way and when asked about it on Power 105′s The Breakfast Club yesterday, Nicki said;
“Listen. All Forbes needs to worry about is my finances and when I’m going to be selling Myx Fusions for $250 million. That’s all they need to worry about. We rely on hip-hop connoisseurs and blogs for that kind of information. So we appreciate it, but no thank you.”
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