Gista Naija : January 2014

Thursday, January 30, 2014

PHOTO: Former Pres. Obasanjo Strikes A Pose With D'Banj

They both arrived Addis Ababa yesterday for the AU summit which is to hold on the 30th of January. They kinda look alike. what do you think?

End-Time Pastor Nabbed for Raping 13-Yr-Old Girl Severally

The Police in Imo State have arrested the General Overseer and head of a popular church in Ikeduru council area of the state, for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl.

This followed a petition written to the Owerri Police Area Command by the lawyer to the father of the alleged rape victim, Mr Emperor Iwuala.

UPDATE: BREAKING: Twitter Is Down.. Service Restored

The microblogging site Twitter is down.. We don't know the particular cause yet, but the main website has been down for over 3 minutes now, which is huge downtime for a site of Twitter's magnitude

UPDATE: The service was restored after about 5 minutes.. Twitter is back online

The Nollywood actress in the middle of theft scandal, Yetunde Akilapa, narrates her side of the story in an interview with Encomium magazine. She says the whole incident on January 12 was a mystery to her but she has been delivered by God.

It's a long interview so I'll only type out where she talked about what really happened. Excepts below

Boko Haram members armed with guns and explosives reportedly killed 22 people at a busy church service in Waga Chakawa village in Adamawa state on Sunday morning, before burning houses and taking residents hostage during a four-hour siege, witnesses said.

The 22 people who were killed in the attack were buried today.

The mother of the two boys who died of hyperthermia has been arrested. Authorities say they found out she was having sex with her boyfriend while the kids were left alone for two hours with the heat on in the car. (The boys and their father pictured above) The story below...

Former FCT Minister Nasir El Rufai has been released on bail by the State Security Service hours after he reported to the security agency to answer some questions. (Pictured above with Amaechi)

According to reports, Mallam El-Rufai was released in the early hours of Tuesday morning after about 15 hours in SSS custody.

I noticed he hasn't tweeted anything about this interrogation since his release...which is unlike him. His bail conditions have not been made public.

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First Bank Employees Arrested For Allegedly Stealing N6.5 Million From Customer’s Account

Three bank employees and their two accomplices were on Monday arraigned before Chief Magistrate A.O. Awogboro over the theft of N6.5 million from a customer’s account.

They are facing a 12-count charge bordering on stealing, forgery and conspiracy. The men, Timothy Ibeh, 24; Samuel Dada, 27; Adeyinka Awojobi, 29; Obaseki Ojo, 26, and Simon Abu, 26, were docked at a Tinubu Magistrate Court, Lagos.

A cry for help from a desperate young man, who impregnated his girlfriend's mother, but actually didn't mean to do it.

"My name is Elvis. Pls I need you to look at this situation that I’ve found myself and tell me if I’m wrong: I got a house for my girlfriend out of my parent’s house just because I wanted us to have our privacy before we get married. I am always going there to spend the night most times and she did not tell me that her mother is very young and beautiful; a single woman.

Grammy Winner Macklemore says Kendrick Lamar Was robbed

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis were nominated for 7 Grammy Awards last night and won 4 - Best New Artist, Best Rap Song, Best Rap Performance and beat Jay Z, Kanye West, Drake & Kendrick Lamar for Best Rap Album.

Many people felt Kendrick should have won Best Rap Album at least and so did Macklemore. After the awards, he apologized to Kendrick for 'robbing' him. See his text to Kendrick after the cut

Former FCT minister Mallam Nasir El-Ruafi has finally honoured the invitation of the State Security Service, SSS, days after armed men from the security agency stormed his home in Abuja to pick him up to answer some questions in connection with a statement credited to him that there might be violence if the 2015 general elections were not free and fair. Find an update after the cut...

Jay Z and Beyonce put on a showstopping performance as they opened the 2014 Grammy Awards on Sunday night performing hit song, Drunk In Love. Beyonce wore a black thong, glittering bra and sheer bodysuit while Jay Z looked dapper in a suit. Definitely one of the best performances of the night. See more photos and video of their performance after the cut...

Someone just sent me this mess; a Professor "doing" a young girl who's old enough to be his daughter.

LASU Professor caught LIVE in the act with a female student at a dingy hotel! Sadly, with all the sordid act, it is still obvious she won’t graduate with good grades as she can't sléép with every single man in the school.

Nearly 500 men have answered a call for 23 men to have s*x with a P0*n actress for her 23rd birthday, though the woman is expressing concerns about the production.
The orgy will be broadcast from a Montreal swingers’ club, according to social media postings from XXX AD4 Production.

Music's biggest night was held at the Los Angeles Staples Center in Hollywood, Calif. on Sunday, Jan. 26 with stars like Madonna, Lorde, Katy Perry, Beyoncé and Jay Z performing, it sure was an amazing show!

Hosted by LL Cool J for the third time, Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Pharrell and Justin Timberlake were among the big nominees for the night.

See all the winners from last night below

A loving wife who saved her husband's life by giving him one of her kidneys now wants it back after he dumped her. Andy Lamb was dying of renal kidney failure and was only being kept alive by weekly sessions of dialysis until his wife Samantha persuaded him to take one hers

The 41-year-old mother-of-one who got married to him in 2007 told theSunday People:

Is this some kind of African 'black magic' or someone is fooling us with 'photoshop'? Could this be real?

No fewer than 17 senators of the Peoples Democratic Party will this week defect to the All Progressives Congress, Chairman, Senate Committee on Ecology and Environment, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has said.

In an interview with journalists in Ilorin on Sunday, Saraki said the concerned senators had already consulted with their senatorial districts.

There were controversies on Sunday over a directive by the All Progressives Congress to its National Assembly members to block the passage of all legislative bills, including the 2014 budget estimates.

The party, after its Interim National Executive Council meeting in Abuja on Thursday, said its lawmakers needed to do so until constitutionalism was restored to Rivers State in particular and the nation in general.

The Central Bank of Nigeria has removed the $250,000 weekly foreign exchange sales limit placed on bureaux de change operators in the country, according to the latest information from the bank.

The development came one week after the Governor, CBN, Mr. Lamido Sanusi, vowed to address the widening gap between the naira-dollar exchange rates in the official market and parallel market.

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, may have killed his late uncle's entire family, including children, if reports from South Korea is to be believed. Kim Jong-un (right) executed his uncle, Jang Song Thaek (left), once regarded as the second most powerful person in North Korea, in December 2013 for allegedly 'trying to overthrow the Government'

Two brothers, Kunmi and Adeniyi Adetokun died within days of each late last year in Oyo state and family members say it was after they slept with their uncles' wives. The uncle, (pictured above) is accused of killing the brothers with a deadly anti-adultery charm commonly known as Magun. He was attacked and nearly killed by irate youths following the death of the second brother. He is lying critically ill in a hospital in Ibadan.

Tribune reports the full story. Find it below...

A Nigerian undergraduate student who used his tuition fee to buy hard drug has been arrested for drug trafficking, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency said in a statement on Saturday.

NDLEA said the suspect, Udiomeh Kufre Ita, a student of the faculty of Management Sciences at the Regent University in Ghana, was arrested at the weekend at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. He was caught with 1.745 kilogrammes of dried weeds that tested positive for cannabis popularly called hemp.

'I Have Regular Sex With Some Nigerian Politicians' - Gay Nigerian Man

Found this interesting interview on Sunnewsonline.com

Six years ago, Musa Ali (not his real name) was linked up with a rich businessman in Yola, who ‘initiated’ him into gay sex. Ali was told that being gay would make him bold and feared. Of course, he was also told that he would make a huge load of money. Now 36, Ali is somewhat filled with regrets and wishing it were possible to turn back the hands of the clock. Sitting in the serene evening of last Thursday in Bankin Kogi at the bank of River Benue in Yola after a Herculean arrangement to get him to talk, he shared his story with our correspondent. Ali revealed that the rich and the powerful, both in business and politics hit the hay with him. Excerpts…

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced February 14 2015 as the date for Nigeria's presidential election as well as those for the members of the National Assembly.

Governorship and State House of Assembly elections are scheduled for February 28, 2015.

This was contained in statement released last night & signed by the Commission's secretary, Augusta Ogakwu. The commission also announced that the Ekiti State governorship election will hold on June 21, 2014 while that of Osun State will hold on August 9, 2014. Continue...

BadGal Riri wore this stunning lemon yellow dress with plunging neckline and thigh high slit to the pre-Grammy Gala that held yesterday at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. You like?

Rihanna is nominated in two categories at the Grammys; Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for Stay with Mikky Ekko and Best Urban Contemporary Album for her album 'Unapologetic'. The Grammys will hold tomorrow January 26th in LA. More pics when you continue...

Eromo Egbejule investigates why black is no longer beautiful

Perhaps because manuals are too mainstream, Jamaican dancehall superstar, Vybz Kartel’s 2011 hit Cake Soap, comes complete with skin lightening instructions and blurbs for lyrics. The song, which glorifies the popular laundry detergent in the Caribbean country, is one of his promotional antics for the practice more commonly known as bleaching.

Tonto and AY are good friends. She's even done a few skits for AY comedy shows but last night the two friends went for each other, well more like Tonto went for AY.

Trouble started after the comedian re-posted a link to a story on his blog which was an earlier post about Tonto's look at the Calabar Carnival in December 2013. Tonto felt he was making fun of her and went for the jugular. See more tweets after the cut..

Chinese nationals have been banned from boarding Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space flights – in case they steal the rocket technology. Tycoons from China have been told they cannot be among the space tourists because of anti-espionage regulations in the US, from where the British firm’s first commercial flights are due to take off later this year.

IT has been more than two years since the capture and death of Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan dictator whose reign subjected an impoverished people to four decades of murder and terror.

When the bedraggled former leader was hauled out of a drainpipe and shot in October 2011, his death ended the bloody Nato-led civil war that had ravaged the country since the start of that year.

The full horror of his brutality has been slow to emerge, with many Libyans still fearing retaliation by those who continue to be loyal to their late leader. But it can now be revealed that the most heartbreaking of Gaddafi’s victims include hundreds, possibly thousands of teenage girls who, throughout his 42-year reign, were beaten, raped and forced to become his sex slaves.

Across big cities in Nigeria, they cruise around in flashy cars and own good businesses but in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), many Nigerian ladies engage in prostitution to keep their businesses afloat.

Flashy cars. Blinking bank accounts. Good businesses. They have it all. The good things of all fall on their laps. Like the queens that many see them to be outside, they live large.

Ghanaian actress, Nadia Buari and mom seem to be enjoying their mother and daughter time, as Nadia has shared another set of photos.

Nadia had some days ago shared photos of her and her beautiful mom having so much fun.

What some people are doing with money! Cash Money Records co-founder & Hip Hop tycoon Bryan Williams, aka Birdman showed off his solid gold toilet on his instagram page yesterday.

According to reports, the toilet is gold-plated, but the seat and the cover is solid gold and it cost $1m.

TMZ reports that Miami police claim that Justin Bieber was drag racing and driving under the influence when he was arrested on Thursday morning doesn't hold water. TMZ report below...

Miami Beach cops claim Justin Bieber was drag racing at the time of his arrest Thursday ... but the facts seem to show the allegation is made up ... because we've learned they were actually under the speed limit in the middle of the so-called drag race.

The drug menace in Mombasa has escalated in its proportions. Drugs and their uptake have become rife and are visibly affecting lives of the residents in Mombasa.

Nigeria's former Minister of State for Interior,Humphrey Abah and his wife of 23 years, Mrs Mary Abah welcomed a baby recently 23 years after they got married.

49 year old Mary, who is a lawyer and banker, shared her experience with Punch on the challenges of being married for so long without a child and the support she got from her husband.

"When they told me I was pregnant, I screamed and cried in the hospital and everyone present rose up and gave thanks to the Lord. Since then, the story has been one testimony after another. But that was not all, when I was to put to bed, I was told there might be complications as a result of all the operations I had done.

Hollywood actress and activist Goldie Hawn met President Jonathan on January 22nd at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, took a pic with him, shared it on twitter and described the president as 'wonderful president of Nigeria'.

Thing is, Goldie Hawn is a staunch supporter of gay rights and when some fans lashed out at her for taking a pic with an anti-gay president and praising him, Goldie said she had no idea and was appalled. She immediately deleted the pic with the president and apologized to her twitter followers. Continue.

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