Ebola: See what Jim Iyke did...

Nollywood actor Jim Iyke’s quick exit from Liberia over his Ebola fears attracted the attention of UK newspaper and website, The Daily Mail. He posted an announcement about fleeing Liberia on his Instagram page, with a picture of himself wearing an Ebola mask and wrote ‘Monrovia, unfinished biz; Leavin tonite. Nt ashamed to admit tis ish scares the Jesus outta me. #Ebola!!!!’ The website reports that Iyke was spotted at the first class airport lounge wearing an Ebola mask. The actor is presently in an undisclosed location and seems to be doing fine. ‘Breakfast; somewhere serene. Glad to be away from all the madness. Thank u lord 4 everytime u hide me in ur pavilion #Ikchukwu‘he wrote on his Instagram page, a few hours ago along with a picture of a table with a variety of food....

One more for Naeto and Nicole

Naeto C's son just got a little kid sister on 25th July 2014, the mother Nicole put to bed in a UK hospital

The couple welcome their second child a baby girl in joy after their first male issue in March 2013 at Washington.

Naetochukwu Chikwe aka Naeto C and his wife Nicole are currently Parents of two...

Nigerian rapper Naetochukwu Chikwe aka Naeto C and wife Nicole have welcomed their second child – a baby girl. The couple welcomed their bundle of joy in a UK hospital on July 25, 2014. Mother and child are doing fine, a rep tells NET. Naeto and Nicole welcomed their first child, a boy, in March 2013 in Washington, DC, while the rapper was on tour....

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Dr Sid Marries Heartthrob

The pop Artiste Sidney Onoriode Esiri <Dr Sid> on 27th of July tied the knot with his heartthrob Simi Osomo at The Ark Event Centre Lekki.

In attendance was a host of Nigerian celebrities including Sid’s label mates Don Jazzy, D’Prince, Tiwa Savage, music colleagues Sound Sultan, DJ Caise, Banky W and many others.

earlier on July 2, 2014 Sid announced via his Instagram page that he was getting married. ‘On the 27th of July 2014 I say “I Do” to this beautiful woman #LoveMine my #LastBusStop’, he wrote.

The couple got engaged in Venice, Italy in August 2013. They held a family introduction three months later in Lagos, attended by celebrity friends Don Jazzy, Iyanya, Tiwa Savage and others. -Happy married life Dr Sid...

EBOLA: 59 contacts of the Dead Liberian in Lagos: 20 Screened and 39 others still in check

The Lagos State Government said on Monday that it had identified no fewer than 59 people who had contacts with Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian who died of Ebola Virus in the state.

Dr Jide Idris, the Commissioner for Health,  said at a news conference in Ikeja that the contact tracing became imperative to ascertain any possible transmission of the virus by the victim.

Idris said the identified contacts comprised 44 hospital and 15 airport contacts, including  the Nigerian Ambassador to Liberia.

He said 20  of the contacts had been screened and that none of them had so far been found to be infected with the virus.

The commissioner, however, said the contacts did not include those he might have been with on his flight to Nigeria on July 20, as the airline had yet to release the passenger manifest for investigation.

"The airline manifest has not been provided by the airline as at the time of this report and therefore, the precise number of passenger contacts is yet to be ascertained, especially as two flights were involved (Monrovia-Lome and Lome-Lagos)."

The commissioner urged Nigerians not to entertain fears about  Sawyer's case as the state and Federal Governments were doing everything possible to prevent any risk to the country.

Idris said that the deceased's body had been decontaminated, using 10 per cent sodium hypochlorite and cremated with the permission of the Government of Liberia.

"A cremation urn has been prepared for dispatch to the family. The vehicle containing the remains have also been decontaminated while the hospital in which he died on July 25 has been demobilised."

Idris said that the state Ministry of Health had designated an isolation ward at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba, for case management, adding three other centres were under way.

The commissioner urged residents to report people with abnormal cases of bleeding and fever to the appropriate  authorities for intervention, as high fever with bleeding from all body openings were symptoms of the disease.

Idris also urged residents to always keep their environments clean and maintain good personal hygiene as Ebola virus spreads easily in dirty environments.
Also speaking, Prof. Abdul-Salami Nasidi, the Director, National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) warned against the consumption of bats and monkeys as these animals had been established to be the original sources of  Ebola.

"This is time for those bat-eating and monkey-eating communities to be careful now. Ebola started from the eating of chimpazees. How the virus got to the monkey, nobody knows yet.

In a remark, Prof. Oyewale Tomori, the President of the Nigerian Academy of Science, also warned  Nigerians against the unsupervised burial of people who died from suspected Ebola case.

DAVIDO MADE HIS WAY THROUGH MANY TO WIN THE MUSIC MAGAZINE AWARDS

The young Hip pop Artiste, Davido has won African ‘Artiste of the Year‘ award and the ‘Best West African Artiste‘ award, at the recently held African Muzik Magazine Awards in the United States.

Davido beat  Wizkid, Flavour, Ghana’s Sarkodie, South Africa’s Mafikizolo and Tanzania’s Diamond to clinch the award.

Earlier this year, Davido won the same categories at the MTV Africa Music Awards and BET Awards.

He is really taking it to the top.

Kudos Davido.

SIX DEAD AS SUICIDE BOMBERS STORMS YOBE

Kano - Suicide bombers attacked two mosques in Yobe state late Tuesday killing at least six people and injuring several others.

The first explosion rocked an open air mosque belonging to a Shiite Muslim sect in the Dogo Tebo area of the town of Potiskum around 7:55 pm (1855 GMT) leaving four people dead.

The second blast five minutes later at a mosque within the compound of the chief imam in the town's Anguwar Bolawa area killed at least two worshipers.

"A suicide bomber we believe was from Boko Haram blew himself up at the open air mosque used by Shiites which they name Saqafa shortly after saying their evening prayers there," witness Balarabe Dahiru said."We took four dismembered bodies of the victims to the hospital along with five others who were injured," said Dahiru who was sitting outside his house when the blast happened.

The body of the suicide bomber was left untouched by residents in protest, he said.

Resident Awwal Maikusa who gave a similar account said a second blast occurred five minutes later.

"They are obviously the handiwork of Boko Haram," Maikusa said of the two attacks.

"We were trying to deal with the suicide blast in our neighboUrhood when a second explosion was heard which we later learnt was from the chief imam's compound," he said.

A suicide bomber went inside the mosque while Muslim faithful were saying their evening prayer, said Sheriff Abdullahi who lives in the area.

"There was a loud explosion moments after the suicide bomber entered the mosque," Abdullahi said.

"I saw two dead bodies whom I recognized being taken out of the mosque," he said.

The town was locked down by soldiers following the attacks, with residents ordered to remain indoors.

Potiskum, Yobe state's commercial hub, has been the scene of repeated deadly Boko Haram attacks in the last four years although they have become rarer in recent months.

60 MORE ABDUCTED GIRLS OUT

More than 60 women and girls abducted last month by suspected Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria have escaped their captors, sources said Sunday.
Local vigilante Abbas Gava said he had “received an alert from my colleagues … that about 63 of the abducted women and girls had made it back home” late Friday.
A high-level security source in the Borno state capital Maiduguri, who requested anonymity because he was not authorised to speak on the matter, confirmed the escape.
Gava, a senior official of the local vigilantes in Borno State who are working closely with security officials, told journalists the women escaped when their captors went out to fight.
“They took the bold step when their abductors moved out to carry out an operation,” he said.
Clashes took place between the Islamists and the army late Friday after an attack by the insurgents in the town of Damboa, where more than 50 of them were killed, the army had said.
Spokesmen for the armed forces or the government could not be reached Sunday for comment.
Activists of the Bring Back Our Girls movement meanwhile tried to march on the presidential palace in Abuja Sunday in another reminder of the fate of more than 200 girls kidnapped in Chibok, Borno state, on April 14, but were asked by security forces to turn back.
“It’s 83 days today that the girls have been abducted,” activist Aisha Yesufu told the press.
“We have been coming out for 68 days and nobody has really listened to us,” Yesufu told reporters after the march.
That is why the group “decided that we should just take the protest back to the President so that he will know that we are still out there after the 68 days that we have been coming out daily”.
Security experts say the overstretched and under-resourced military is incapable of fighting an effective counterinsurgency against the Boko Haram militants, who have killed thousands in their five-year campaign for an independent Islamic state in the north.

TONTO DIKEH NOW HAS +1

Yes its true Tonto Dikeh the Nollywood actress just got another Tattoo adding up to 58 tattoos  now
The Nollywood actress cum singer has gotten yet another one and this one might interest her fans – her new ink is an image of a rosary along with the inscription ‘Emmanuel‘....

she wrote on her Instagram as she posted the photo. Are you feeling Poko Lee’s new tattoo?... 

what message is she trying to send to her fans?

Today in history 6^th July, 1967_THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR STARTED

The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War, 6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970, was an ethnic and political conflict caused by the attempted secession of the southeastern provinces of Nigeria as the self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra. The conflict was the result of economic, ethnic, cultural and religious tensions mainly between the Hausas of north and the Igbo of the southeast of Nigeria. Over the two and half years of the war, 1 million civilians died from famine and fighting. The war became notorious for the starvation of some of the besieged regions during the war, and consequent claims of genocide by the largely Igbo people of the region.

As with many other African nations, Nigeria was a structure initiated by former colonial powers which had neglected to consider religious, linguistic, and ethnic differences. Nigeria, which gained independence from Britain in 1960, had at that time a population of 60 million people consisting of nearly 300 differing ethnic and cultural groups.

More than fifty years earlier, Great Britain had carved an area out of West Africa containing hundreds of different ethnic groups and unified it, calling it Nigeria. Although the area contained many different groups, the three predominant groups were the Igbo, which formed between 60–70% of the population in the southeast; the Hausa-Fulani, which formed about 65% of the peoples in the northern part of the territory; and the Yoruba, which formed about 75% of the population in the southwestern part.

The semi-feudal and Islamic Hausa-Fulani in the North were traditionally ruled by a feudal, conservative Islamic hierarchy consisting of Emirs who, in turn, owed their allegiance to a supreme Sultan. This Sultan was regarded as the source of all political power and religious authority.

The Yoruba political system in the southwest, like that of the Hausa-Fulani, also consisted of a series of monarchs, the Oba. The Yoruba monarchs, however, were less autocratic than those in the North, and the political and social system of the Yoruba accordingly allowed for greater upward mobility based on acquired rather than inherited wealth and title.

The Igbo in the southeast, in contrast to the two other groups, lived mostly in autonomous, democratically organised communities, although there were monarchs in many of these ancient cities such as the Kingdom of Nri. In its zenith the Kingdom controlled most of Igbo land, including influence on the Anioma people, Arochukwu(which controlled slavery in Igbo), and Onitsha land. Unlike the other two regions, decisions among the Igbo were made by a general assembly in which men could participate.

The differing political systems among these three peoples reflected and produced divergent customs and values. The Hausa-Fulani commoners, having contact with the political system only through a village head designated by the Emir or one of his subordinates, did not view political leaders as amenable to influence. Political decisions were to be submitted to. As with other highlyauthoritarian religious and political systems, leadership positions were taken by persons willing to be subservient and loyal to superiors. A chief function of this political system was to maintain Islamic and conservative values, which caused many Hausa-Fulani to view economic and social innovation as subversive or sacrilegious.

In contrast to the Hausa-Fulani, the Igbo often participated directly in the decisions which affected their lives. They had a lively awareness of the political system and regarded it as an instrument for achieving their own personal goals. Status was acquired through the ability to arbitrate disputes that might arise in the village, and through acquiring rather than inheriting wealth. With their emphasis upon social achievement and political participation, the Igbo adapted to and challenged colonial rule in innovative ways.

These tradition-derived differences were perpetuated and perhaps even enhanced by the British system of colonial rule in Nigeria. In the North, the British found it convenient to rule indirectly through the Emirs, thus perpetuating rather than changing the indigenous authoritarian political system. As a concomitant of this system, Christian missionaries were excluded from the North, and the area thus remained virtually closed to European cultural imperialism, in contrast to the Igbo, the richest of whom sent many of their sons to British universities. During the ensuing years, the Northern Emirs thus were able to maintain traditional political and religious institutions, while reinforcing their social structure. In this division, the North, at the time of independence in 1960, was by far the most underdeveloped area in Nigeria, with a literacy rate of 2% as compared to 19.2% in the East (literacy in Arabic script, learned in connection with religious education, was higher). The West enjoyed a much higher literacy level, being the first part of the country to have contact with western education in addition to the free primary education program of the pre-independence Western Regional Government^.

In the South, the missionaries rapidly introduced Western forms of education. Consequently, the Yoruba were the first group in Nigeria to adopt Western bureaucratic social norms and they provided the first African civil servants, doctors, lawyers, and other technicians and professionals.

In Igbo areas, missionaries were introduced at a later date because of British difficulty in establishing firm control over the highly autonomous Igbo communities. However, the Igbo people took to Western education actively, and they overwhelmingly came to adopt Christianity. Population pressure in the Igbo homeland combined with aspirations for monetary wages drove thousands of Igbo to other parts of Nigeria in search of work. By the 1960s, Igbo political culture was more unified and the region relatively prosperous, with tradesmen and literate elites active not just in the traditionally Igbo South, but throughout Nigeria. The British colonial ideology that divided Nigeria into three regions—North, West and East—exacerbated the already well-developed economic, political, and social differences among Nigeria's different ethnic groups. The country was divided in such a way that the North had a slightly higher population than the other two regions combined. On this basis the Northern Region was allocated a majority of the seats in the Federal Legislature established by the colonial authorities. Within each of the three regions the dominant ethnic groups, the Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba, and Igbo, respectively formed political parties that were largely regional and based on ethnic allegiances: the Northern People's Congress (NPC) in the North; the Action Group in the West (AG); and the National Conference of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) in the East. These parties were not exclusively homogeneous in terms of their ethnic or regional make-up; the disintegration of Nigeria resulted largely from the fact that these parties were primarily based in one region and one tribe. To simplify matters, we will refer to them here as the Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo-based; or Northern, Western and Eastern parties.

During the 1940s and 1950s the Igbo and Yoruba parties were in the forefront of the fight for independence from Britain. They also wanted an independent Nigeria to be organised into several small states so that the conservative North could not dominate the country. Northern leaders, however, fearful that independence would mean political and economic domination by the more Westernized elites in the South, preferred the perpetuation of British rule. As a condition for accepting independence, they demanded that the country continue to be divided into three regions with the North having a clear majority. Igbo and Yoruba leaders, anxious to obtain an independent country at all costs, accepted the Northern demands

IS YEMI ALADE IGBO OR YORUBA? _ FIND OUT

If you love 9ja music industry so much you wouldn’t deny that she is one of your favorite musician

The Diva Yemi Alade (yoruba-ibo girl.) a typical Nigerian with parents form the East and Western part of the country as the name suggested he father is a Yoruba man who married an Igbo woman here is the full bio of Miss Yemi Alade;

Yemi Eberechi Alade was born on March 13th, 1989, in Abia State, Nigeria, to Helen Alade (nee Uzoma), a business woman, and James Alade, a retired Police Commissioner . Her mother, a native of south-eastern Nigeria and her father is of south western Nigerian descent, thus earning her the moniker, that yoruba-ibo girl.

The fifth of seven siblings, Yemi, has four brothers and two sisters. Yemi grew up listening to popular music of the late eighties and early nineties, and began singing in her church choir at the age of twelve and was known to have made melodies from everyday conversations. In her words I have practically lived my life on stage, Yemi was exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child. She grew up in several Nigerian cities owing to her father’s job description. Yemi was educated at Saint Saviours British Primary School, Lagos and then Victory Grammar School, Lagos, before proceeding to the University of Lagos where she majored and graduated with a BSc in Geography in 2010.

Yemi began making music professionally in 2005, then, under the supervision of Bayo Omisore, she went on to win the maiden edition of the Peak Talent Show in 2009.

Her debut single Fimisile featuring eLDee peaked commendably with over ten thousand hits on YouTube in barely a month.

In July 2012 Yemi Alade released GHENGHENLOVE ,produced by the Legendry OJB , which is now a monster Hit and also has a video for the track directed by Gambit Pictures , with the executive director Taiye Aliyu(CEO effyzzie music Group), also in 2013 Bamboo shot by Director Frames . Currently on Youtube in less than one month, Yemi Alade's GhenGhenLove video has 20,000 views and counting. She has also released songs like birthday song and My head O!! Produced by Shadybizniz,  Uche Face featuring L.O.S and produced by EL-MCEE, also Bamboo produced by Fliptyce , Faaji Produced by T-Flava, GhenGhenloveRemix Ft Iceprince and Sasha P produced by OJB and Show Me produced by OJB again.

Currently at work on her yet to be titled debut album, she has made the rounds in the industry; performing on over one hundred stages across Nigeria, featuring on tracks with major acts such as Dipp,  IcePrince, ELDee, M.I, Sauce Kid, Shank, Sir Shina Peters, Waje, Wizkid, Yemi Sax, to mention a few, plus working with big and budding music producers; OJB Jezreel, ELDee, E. Kelly, IBK, MajorOne, SizzlePro, DJ Klem, Bigfoot, Shadybizniz, Dtunes, Nomoreloss World renowned South African producer; Garth, and Flip Tyce.

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