Darey Duets With American Rapper, Chamillionaire

As R&B star, Darey gears up to release his double disc album in a matter of days, NET has exclusive news that the popular R&B singer-songwriter has collaborated with Nigerian-American rapper Chamillionaire to record a remix to one of his singles.


Sources say Darey, who’s enjoying massive on-air support for his singles ‘The way you are’, ‘Sisi eko’ and ‘Ba ni kdi’, has recorded a remix of ‘The way you are’, with the Grammy award-winning rapper Chamillionaire who even spiced up his lyrics with Yoruba language.

‘They hooked up on the internet’ an insider tells NET. And it is believed it was Cham that contacted Darey.

‘Okah threatened, abused Jonathan, ministers from jail’

Leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Henry Okah.

South African police authorities on Wednesday said it had proof that the detained leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Mr. Henry Okah, was constantly making phone calls from his cell to abuse and threaten President Goodluck Jonathan and other senior officials of government in Nigeria.

The police who raided Okah’s B-Max cell said they caught the detainee with eight phones from which they believed he was calling to verbally abuse and threaten the president with plans to further launch terror attacks in the country.

A map and other documents believed to constitute security threats were also found in Okah’s cell.

“In these phone calls, which we believe he made from the prepaid cell phones we seized, he is alleged to have verbally abused several senior Nigerian government officials, including the president.

“He is also believed to have told the president and his minister about further terror attacks MEND is believed to have been planning on carrying out,” Pretoria News quoted a senior official of the Department of Correctional Services to have said on Thursday.

Geny considering adoption?

A number of Nollywood actors spent the Eid-el- Malud holiday combing less privileged homes to share love and gifts.
One of such actors who not only visited one of such homes but also came home with ‘some thoughts’ is Genevieve.
She tweeted on Tuesday:
“Just leaving Heritage Homes orphanage and I saw the most beautiful baby in the world! Hmm… *seriously having some thoughts*. – Geny, Feb 15
Now what sort of thoughts go through people’s minds when they visit the less privileged?
Especially an orphanage where lots of beautiful yet abandoned babies reside and are being cared for by people who have devoted themselves to nurturing these special ones.
Apart from making frequent visits bearing gifts, wouldn’t a more lasting measure be adoption? Geny, am I pondering what you’re pondering?

Jonathan approves fresh allowance for ex-militants

President Goodluck Jonathan has approved a fresh fund called Re-insertion Safety Allowance for 20,192 ex-Niger Delta militants.

The approval followed a series of agitations by the ex-combatants who had clamoured for some allowances from the government.

The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, issued the information on Thursday during a pre-departure briefing at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, for 42 ex-militants departing for South Africa on a six-month vocational training.

Kuku, who did not disclose the amount, however, said the President had passed the matter to the National Assembly.

He said, “The President has approved a Re-insertion Safety Allowance for 20,192 ex-militants. This amount is for the first set of 20,192 ex-militants; the second set, consisting of 6,166 ex-militants, will be included in the supplementary budget.

Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Shut Down Over Student Activities

Just got the gist that students are protesting violently in Ife (Obafemi Awolowo University - OAU) and the university has been shut down indefinitely for now.

Will update you when I get more details:

The Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU was shut today by the school’s authorities following violent students’ protest.
GidiGlobe Nigeria

Oyo: Two killed, bulldozers burnt as police, NURTW clash

Two persons were killed and several others injured in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Thursday as the state government attempted to demolish the secretariat of the proscribed state council of the National Union of Road Transport Workers in Olomi/Academy area.

The dead victims, Nurudeen Azeez and Ismaila Agbojo, were members of a faction of the union loyal to the court-reinstated Chairman, Alhaji Lateef Akinsola (a.k.a Tokyo). They were killed in a gun battle between NURTW members and armed police escorts of officials of the state Ministry of Environment and Water Resources led by the Commissioner, Alhaji Mukaila Aborode.

Some of the injured were said to have been rushed to undisclosed hospitals for treatment.

UK court jails Nigerian for £1.3m scam

The Inner London Crown Court has sentenced a Nigerian immigrant, Olaide Taiwo, to eight-and-a-half years imprisonment for stealing the identities of 350 people to claim £1.3m in bogus tax credits.

In what was described as the largest benefit scam of its kind, Taiwo 35 was said to have hijacked the identities while working as a security guard for a number of large national companies, Daily Mail reported on Thursday.

He was then said to have used the names to claim tens of thousands in working tax credits.

The report said the sentence was the highest ever for tax credit fraud. Taiwo is understood to have arrived illegally in Britain in 2003 with his wife.

Although three applications to stay in the United Kingdom failed, in 2005 he was granted discretionary leave to remain.

It was during this period that the scam by the father of two began. He submitted more than 300 fraudulent tax credit claims between June 2004 and July 2008 worth over £1m.

Her Solo Debut! Project Fame West Africa III Winner Chidinma releases “Jankoliko” feat. Sound Sultan & “Carry You Go”

Project Fame West Africa III Winner, Chidinma Ekile is ready to “face the music”.
The young musician won the reality TV competition in 2010 and then released a compilation album along with other Project Fame West Africa III finalists.
Chidinma who is managed by the Goretti Company has just released two tracks from her forthcoming solo album.
The tracks are “Jankoliko” featuring Sound Sultan and “Carry You Go“.
Both songs were written and produced by Oscar Heman Ackah.
The videos for the songs will be filmed within the next few weeks.
Chidinma – “Jankoliko” feat. Sound Sultan

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your

Chidinma – “Carry You Go”

browser.

Jonathan vows to transform Nigeria’s economy

President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday pledged to transform the nation’s economy, if elected in the April presidential poll.

The President, who addressed his supporters in the Kogi State capital, Lokoja, during his caampaign in the state, noted that his efforts at improving the economy would make the lives of Nigerians more meaningful.

Jonathan said his administration would also strive to revive the Ajaokuta Steel Complex and the Itakpe Iron Ore Company.

Jonathan promised to explore the agricultural potential of the state to boost food security and assured the people that they would benefit from the new federal university in the state. The President said the state had over the years produced eminent and selfless personalities.

In his speech, Vice-President Namadi Sambo promised that the Jonathan administration would transform the country through the provision of qualitative education and stable power supply in the next four years.

Meanwhile, the Bukola Saraki Youth Vanguard, Oyun Chapter has promised to ensure a violence-free visit for the President on Tuesday (today).

Sanusi rejects IMF’s advice to weaken naira

THE Central Bank of Nigeria, on Monday, disagreed with the International Monetary Fund on the latter’s verdict that the naira was overvalued.

The CBN Governor, Mr. Lamido Sanusi, said that the apex bank would not devalue the naira as recommended by the IMF, noting that the recommendation was “internally inconsistent.”

Sanusi said in an interview with CNBC Africa, published on the CBN website, that the recommendation, if accepted, would trigger higher inflation in the economy.

He said, “I have had this debate with the IMF, the recommendations they made are internally inconsistent. If we devalue the currency or we depreciate the currency, it adds to inflation.

“If we have a volatile exchange rate, it affects inflationary expectations. The question is: can we sustain this rate? And in a time of rising oil prices and stable revenues, we think we can. In fact, the depletion of reserves has ended. We have had gradual accretion in the last three months.”

The IMF had said last week that the naira was overvalued and that more exchange rate flexibility would be needed to prevent the CBN from running down the foreign currency reserves.