Tinubu Threatens Legal Action, Wants To Become Buhari’s Running Mate

National leader of the All Progressives Congress and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has denied allegations raised by online journal, Sahara Reporters in its report titled: “Threat of perjury trial: How Jonathan Blackmailed Bola Tinubu before 2011 Presidential election”, threatening legal action if the publishers fail to issue a retraction.

According to Vanguard, Tinubu Media Organisation has also confirmed his interest in the Vice President slot of his party.

A human rights lawyer and activist, Olatunji Abayomi, has demanded a retraction arguing that the report is not only false, but defamatory.


“We demand a statement acknowledging your error of trying to damage our client’s reputation as well as a statement regretting the same.
“Please this matter must be attended to immediately otherwise you run the risk of multiple civil suits all over the world in defence of our client, “Abayomi wrote.

The lawyer said the report attempted to defame Tinubu’s reputation by spreading old, utterly false gossip in hope of wrongly destroying his prospects, adding that there was no charge at the Federal High Court numbered FHC/ABJ/CR/04/2011, nor was Tinubu tried or convicted.
Abayomi noted that the United States Embassy, in its February 4, 2003 response to an inquiry by the Inspector-General of Police, stated that there is “no criminal arrest, records, wants or warrants for Bola Ahmed Tinubu.”

“If you had checked readily available records, you would have found that he travels periodically to the United States. Had he been engaged in criminal wrongdoing, he would have been ineligible for entry into that country,” Abayomi wrote.

The said story generated reactions on the social media, as the Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on New Media, Reno Omokri, urged Tinubu to come clean on the issue.

In a related development, Senator Bola Tinubu has confirmed his interest in the vice presidential ticket of the APC, stating that governance had little to do with religion, region or rumour but more with vision and competence. This was disclosed in a statement by his media aide, Sunday Dare.
Mr. Dare rubbished objection to Tinubu involvement in the race based on his same religion with Buhari, his alleged involvement in drug-trafficking and alleged tainted academic achievements.

QPR’s Taarabt: ‘Everybody told me Balotelli was amazing’

QPR midfielder Adel Taarabt has spoken publicly about his thoughts on Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli.
 
The Morocco international played with the much talked about Italian attacker at AC Milan last season and

says he cannot see what all the fuss is about.

“Everybody told me he (Balotelli) was amazing,” Taarabt told Sky Sports.

“I played with him and I can confirm he’s good, but he didn’t seem like a world-class player to me.

“He has a strong shot but he doesn’t play for the team. Or if he does, then he doesn’t score which is the case now with Liverpool.

“He had a lot of chances, from Manchester City to Milan, and he threw them all away.”

Davido, Linda Ikeji, Stepehen Keshi Top 'Google Most Searched Term' List of 2014

Google has released the list for the most searched terms in Nigeria for the year 2014. For the most searches, blogger Linda Ikeji leads, while Whatsapp comes in second place. Davido is the most search most-searched Nigerian music artiste. Phyno, Tiwa Savage, Don Jazzy and Timaya completed the top five

However, Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi emerged the most-searched sports personality, ahead of Spain-based forward, Ikechukwu Uche.

Below is the list of the most-searched terms on Google in 2014..

Blogger Shirley Igwe Take Pose With Her Autombile

 

Chopping money blogger...she wrote: 

Sorry I've not Blogged since Sunday....sorry? Nah am not really sorry, I was busy getting my car ready for Xmas and I didn't have time for you people abeg...lol who will have time for readers with your kinda reading habit? You read and don't want to comment...I say this because I see that you read but then no comment from you people...it is well o there is God o. One day one day una go dey beg make I post your comment o una go see. Anyway, do you know I changed the color of my car from green to red? Just for Xmas? Absurd? Lol. 

More pic after the cut

Dr Sid, Toyin Aimakhu-Johnson et al at 2014 BenTV Awards held yesterday in Lagos

The maiden edition of the BEN TV Awards was held yesterday, December 11 at the Oriental Hotel in Lagos. The award was organised to honour Nigerian celebrities who have made the country proud in the entertainment industry.

An initiative of the BEN TV founder, Dr Allistair Shoyode, which gives awards to deserving individuals in the music, movie and sports industry. It was hosted by AY the comedian.

If Na U Wetin You Go Do! Dollars Rained At The APC Party Convention?

 Bola Ilori, Special Adviser to Osun Governor on Environment, posted this on his Facebook page last night...please read:

Yes I Was A Victim Of Domestic Violence- Nollywood Actress, Monalisa Chinda Reveals

Beautiful Nollywood actress, Monalisa Chinda has squealed that she once suffered domestic violence but was lucky enough

to have the strength to fight through it.
The screen Diva took to her Twitter page to give a hint about her past;
‘I was once a victim of Domestic Violence but survived and even stronger, so, YES YOU CAN!’, ‘I say NO to Domestic Violence and you should as-well.’
The divorced mother of one, also revealed that she will be speaking at The Pearls Conference 2014 today, Friday, December 12, 2014 for a campaign bidding to stop domestic violence in the country, also revealed she would share her experience with the audience.
‘I will be speaking at the Pearls Conference in Abuja tomorrow (today), Friday and it’s an honour to share my experience with the world.’
Domestic violence is a pattern of behaviour which involves violence or other abuse by one person against another in a domestic context, such as in marriage or cohabitation. tweets after the jump

Big Brother Hotshot, Kacey Moore releases another audio poem, ‘Sex Music’

kacey mooreAward winning Songwriter/Poet and ex BigBrother Africa House mate, Kacey Moore will be releasing a new audio poem titled “SEX MUSIC” barely a week after he released “Electricity in My City” which went viral in just a few days. He performed the Poem “SEX MUSIC” while he was in the BigBrother Africa House and this caused a huge stir in the African music industry. www.hulkshare.com/kaceymooremusic/sex-music-by-kacey-moore-2014 Upon several requests from the viewers of the biggest reality TV show on the continent to have the poem on their phones and laptops, Kacey has finally decided to record and release the audio. Check it out

Kim Kardashian Offered $1million (N179 Million) Just to Spend an Evening with Saudi Arabian Prince

Wow, this is hard to believe. These Arabian princes ehn? Imagine a whooping 1 million dollars just to spend an evening with Kim Kardashian.

What’s going through my mind is – ‘What did Kanye West say about this, did he actually allow her to go, what would they be doing together?’ Read it below from Daily Mail Kim Kardashian is allegedly being paid $1million to spend an evening with a member of the Saudi royal family.
Mrs Kardashian-West is set to fly out to Saudi Arabia in January, as a special guest of the prince, according to reports. The 34-year-old’s rumoured visit follows a proposal made by a young Saudi prince on her Instagram, offering her ‘one million per night’.
A few weeks ago, a young man named Adel Al-Otaibi, posted the proposal in a comment on one of Mrs Kardashian-West’s many selfies. Mr Al-Otaibi, allegedly a member of the Saudi royal family, wrote: ‘I’m Saudi and I’ll pay you one million per night Mai’. Now, ‘urban website’ MediaTakeOut reports that the mother-of-one has accepted the offer, and will fly out to Saudi Arabia early next year. The mother-of-one has not confirmed the report, which has sparked discussion on Saudi Arabian online forums. Her trip to Bahrain in 2012 sparked demonstrations that required police to fire tear gas into the crowds.

Sam Smith, Beyonce and Pharrell Williams lead 2015 Grammys nominations

The nominations for the 2015 Grammy Awards are out and looking pretty on the top is Beyonce who also becomes the most nominated female artist in Grammy history, alongside favourite, Sam Smith and Pharrell Williams with 6 nominations each. Check full list below:
Album of the Year
Beck, Morning Phase
Beyonce, Beyonce
Ed Sheeran, x
Sam Smith, In the Lonely Hour
Pharrell Williams, Girl

Peace Hyde share cover of latest issue of Ovation magazine with Otumfuo

The talented media personality and actress, Peace Hyde graces the cover of this months Ovation International Magazine alongside the Asantehene, Nana Otumfuo Osei tutu 2nd and Nigerian billionaire family the Otedolas. The former college Chemistry and Biology teacher says that she is more than just sex appeal in her latest interview with Ovation International. In her candid bare it all interview she shares her dreams and aspirations and talks about the journey so far, her passion for children, education and what lies ahead for the future and clearly shows that her brain is her most valuable asset!

Peace Hyde relocated back home to Ghana barely a year ago and since then the former education specialist has created such a strong impact
with her beauty and brains, that even America had to take notice!! She has been featured already on several of the biggest blog sites in America, Bossip.com and AtlNightspots.com and is tipped by many industry pundits to be the next big thing in entertainment across the continent. The stunning and eloquent media personality has graced the stage of all the major events this year including the first ever Hennessy Artistry concert in Ghana, which brought stars like Mafikizolo, 2 face and Wizkid to Accra as well as bringing a much needed air of excitement to this year’s MTN Hitmaker, along side her two hit talk shows The EFGH Show and Friday Night Live show on GH One!
Check out the amazing African Inspired photoshoot and grab your copies
of Ovation to read the full inspirational story:

Ovation Carol & Awards to hold in Accra, December 13

 
‘Ovation Carol & Awards’ takes place Saturday December 13, 2014 at the State House Banquet Hall under its theme, ‘It’s all about hope’. This 7^th Edition promises to be the biggest Pan-African event at Christmas.  Ovation ‘Red Carol’ was conceived in 2007 by Ovation International in Nigeria to promote African talent and give hope to our teeming youth.
Many of the big African acts have performed on the stage of Ovation Carol & Awards which has promoted unity and exposure among Africans.  This year we have a rich line up of artists and expert hosts Kofi Okyere Darko (KOD) and Sika Osei. Ovation international has been in the forefront of promoting and projecting the best of Africa.

See how Africa voted! Idris wins Big Brother Hotshots

 

No surprises there! Tanzania’s Idris emerged winner of the 9th season of Big Brother Africa on Saturday. As I have been hinting on social media,the finale woyld be down to regional votes and since Idris was the only one from Eastern Africa in the finals it out him ahead of the Southern and West Africa zones.  According to the final votes of the season, Idris received five country votes and these were from Kenya, Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The runner-up, Tayo received two country votes and these were from Nigeria and Mozambique.

The rest of the finalists received country votes as follows: Macky2 got two country votes from Zambia and Rest of Africa, Nhlanhla also got two country votes from South Africa and Botswana, JJ got one country vote from Zimbabwe, Sipe also got one country vote from Malawi and Butterphly received 0 country votes. M’am Bea got the Ghana vote also.  For the housemates who received the same number of country votes, the tie breaker rule came into effect for those housemates. Idris  charmed not only the women of the house, he charmed the entire continent of Africa. Idris is now USD300 000 richer.
 

Ceeleb Kemi Adetiba Rants On Twitter About Women Telling Her To Go Get Married

The music video director and filmmaker took to her twitter page this morning to slam all the people who are bugging her and other single women to go get married.

14 Signs that You’re a Terrible Girlfriend

We all know that men and women are not made equally. We all have our flaws and our setbacks. However, there are some women out there who really don’t fit the mold when it comes to being a good girlfriend. While some men will openly speak out about it, others will keep it to themselves, never revealing how much their relationship sucks from their point of view. In case your man is a part of the latter group, here are 14 signs that you’re the girlfriend from hell — and you’re making his life miserable.

Bolanle Olukanni, Zainab Balogun, Denola Adepetun and Zina Anumudu to host The Future Awards Africa 2014 red carpet

Africa’s biggest youth event, The Future Awards Africa (TFAA) 2014 has announced the red carpet hosts for its 2014 edition: they are Bolanle Olukanni, Zainab Balogun, Denola Adepetun and Zina Anumudu. Bolanle Olukanni and Zainab Balogun are currently Africa’s television darlings.
Olukanni, currently the co-host of internationally syndicated talk show, Moments with Mo; has seen her star in the entertainment industry rise this year; hosting the ELOY Awards recently.
Zainab Balogun, co-host and co-producer of widely popular lifestyle show, The Spot has enjoyed a memorable 2014, venturing into film and fashion.

Lil Wayne Blasts Birdman, Says He Wants Off Cash Money

Rapper Lil Wayne and former best friend and record label boss Bryan “Birdman” Williams have obviously fallen out because Lil Wayne did not only put him on blast on twitter, he says he wants off Cash Money and wants nothing to do with Birdman and the label. See his tweets

Watch: Angelina Jolie Gets Mobbed By Fans While Signing Autographs Outside Of The Daily Show

Nothing will stop Angelina Jolie from making her fans happy

The Unbroken director stopped to sign autographs outside of The Daily Show in NYC on Dec. 4.
As the actress made her way through the crowd, fans outside of the barricade swarmed Brad Pitt’s wife. While security tried to hold the fans back, Angie didn’t seem phased by the mob, as she continued to sign as many autographs as possible!
Watch: Angelina Jolie Sign Autographs For Fans Outside a Screening of Unbroken
But that’s not all. When the By The Sea actress noticed a fan suffering from a panic attack because of the crowd, Angelina consoled the fan and even took a selfie with her.
The fan turned to Instagram to share her appreciation for the star’s kindness.

Watch: Angelina Jolie Takes Daughters Shiloh And Zahara Shopping For Art Supplies
Watch the video above to see Angie in action!

Fab Photos of The Oyedepo's........One of them is still single lol

 

Meet Love Ogah nee Oyedepo and her sister Joy Oyedepo, the beautiful daughters of Bishop David Olaniyi Oyedepo, the Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, Winners Chapel.

Love married a Living Faith worker, Stephen Ogah last year while Joy, the last child of Oyedepo is still single. She is a recent graduate of Oral Roberts University In Tulsa, OK.

See more photos of the Oyedepos below.

Great News! Tyler Perry finally becomes a father; Welcome Baby Boy at 45

                                                         Tyler  and Gelila

Movie producer and actor Tyler Perry welcomed his first child on December 2 with girlfriend Gelila Bekele, reports Mediatakeout. The site claims the baby news was leaked out on Twitter by Gelila's sister who accidentally posted: "Congratulations to them both!!! Now come on Tyler... give us some PICS!!!"

Well in the period where there are lots of bad news like Kelly Rowland losing her mom, Eric Garner's death goes unpunished, this looks like the best news we've heard in that last 48 hours! The "Why Did I Get Married" film producer announced he's expecting his first child back in September on his 45th birthday bash eventhough many fans were not so sure it wwas with his secret girlfriend and Ethopian model Gelila. Say Big Congrats to Tyler and Gelila
I love this guy.......I know a lot of Tb readers feel same about him. lol

All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) now set for December 27

 
The All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA, and the African Union Commission are set to bring 2014 to a close with a show-stopping awards ceremony scheduled to hold on Saturday, December 27, at the prestigious Grand Ballroom, Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos. In partnership with the African Union Commission, AUC, AFRIMA will be rewarding excellence in the continental music and media industry at the main awards ceremony.
Preceding the ceremony will be the African Music Summit themed “Reviving the Business of Music in Africa” slated for the morning of Saturday, December 27, at the Oriental Hotel. The Summit is a platform for African and global music industry stakeholders to network and deliberate on how the music industry can be nurtured and structured to be a major contributor to national and continental economies.
For the 2014 edition, the award project opened entry submission in 31 categories on May 15 and closed the submission of entries on July 21 in the process receiving a staggering total of 2,025 works for assessment submitted by African music industry artistes, professionals and journalists. The AFRIMA nominees list unveiling occurred in Lagos, Nigeria on Tuesday, September 23 amidst world media fanfare, with popular African music names jostling alongside emerging music forces for space on the list.
The Public and AFRIMA Academy voting began on the AFRIMA www.afrima.org on September 30 and expected to end on November 4. However, public voting was further extended by three weeks only ending on Tuesday, November 25, thereby allowing African music fans and followers more time to vote for their favourite artistes.
In the course of the invite-only award ceremony night, more than 30 of AFRIMA’s 23.9-carat gold-plated trophies will be received by music acts or groups in their respective categories. The trophy recipients will also include an AFRIMA Legend Awardee and the African Entertainment/Music Journalist of the year. To spice up the proceedings will be sizzling performances from some of Africa’s top performing artistes and bands.
“There is so much excitement in store for guests who attend the both the Africa Music Summit and AFRIMA main award ceremony. The Summit provides ample opportunity for robust and strategic deliberations on developing the African music industry to compete with the better developed industries around the globe”, stresses Delani Makhalima, AFRIMA Juror from Zimbabwe.
Mr. Makhalima also states: “When we are done with the vital intellectual aspect of the event calendar, all attention turns to the glamourous, star-studded, cultural concept award ceremony for a fitting finale to the last weekend in 2014. AFRIMA is eager to welcome our African music stars from within and outside the continent, officials of the African Union Commission, members of the
International Committee of AFRIMA and special guests”.
Although committed to delivering a world-class 2014 award event, the International Committee of AFRIMA, AFRIMA reveals that part of the ceremony’s programme will pay tribute to lives affected by the scourge of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in some West African states and terrorist insurgency in Northern Nigeria, Somalia and part of Kenya -both disturbing trends had necessitated the rescheduling of the award ceremony.
Source: ameyawdebrah

Asa and Yemi Alade lead performers at The Future Awards Africa 2014

Africa’s biggest youth event, The Future Awards Africa (TFAA) 2014 has announced the performers for its 2014 edition, and from Paris, one of Africa’s biggest exports to the world, Asa is leading the pack. Paris-based, Nigeria’s most successful music export of this decade, ASA and arguably the foremost breakout artiste of the year, Yemi Alade.

Described by CNN as ‘an African pop legend in the making’, Asa recently released her third album, ‘Bed of Stone’, which has arnered rave reviews across the world, will be performing songs from it exclusively at TFAA 2014.
She will be joined by multi-award winning singer, Iyanya and 2014’s breakout artiste, Yemi Alade, who debuted her album
‘King of Queens’ this year, with her music crossing borders through collaborations with the likes of Tanzania’s most successful artiste, Diamond Platnumz.
“Also on the stage at the awards will be pop culture icons including Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, Genevieve Nnaji, Banky W and Lanre Da Silva Ajayi,” said designer Ohimai Atafo, who is Chair of the Central Working Committee for the awards. “They will be driving the content of the awards through calls to action and award presentations.”
It will be recalled that, last week, the organisers announced the four anchors for the event: Nigeria’s Ice Prince, Iyanya and Osas Ighodaro alongside Ugandan Channel O VJ, Flavia Tuminise.
Hosting the red carpet will be Africa’s IT girls on television, Bolanle Olukanni and Zainab Balogun of EbonyLife TV. They will be joined by fashion bloggers, Denola Adepetun and Zina Anumudu of StyleVitae who have defined the culture for fashion over the past year.
The Future Awards Africa 2014 will be broadcast live, primetime, on perennially award-winning TV station, Channels Television – from 7.30 – 9.30pm.
The black-tie event holds on Sunday, 7 December at the Intercontinental Hotels in Lagos, Nigeria. It is strictly by invitation.
The Future Awards Africa 2014 is headlined by Vitafoam and presented in partnership with Microsoft, the Lagos Internal Revenue Service and the Tony Elumelu Foundation.
Official Media Partners are EbonyLife TV, AfricaMagic, Ventures Africa, and Y! Africa. Official Online Partners are MemeBurn, BellaNaija and 360nobs.

The official bloggers for 2014 are LindaIkeji, Omojuwa, LadunLiadi, Olorisupergal, Ameyaw, NigeriaNewsDesk and GidiTraffic. Country partners are RedBox Africa, The Trent, Information Nigeria, News Wire Nigeria, SabiNews and Pulse.ng. Buzz Partners are Style Vitae, StyleMeAfrica, Fashpa.com & FAP.

News & Photos: Davido Loses Out in All 5 Nominations At 2014 Channel O Awards Held Last Night In SA: Full Winners' List

Diamond and Cassper Nyovest took home the most plaques, by the time the 2014 edition of Channel O Music Video Awards ended last night, Saturday  November 29, 2014.

Davido missed out on all the 5 categories he was nominated for, but other Nigerian acts like Tiwa Savage, KCee and Olamide won.
Real Gobe!!!

The event was staged in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Even Don Baba J thought Davido'a Aye video should have won the best video award, read his tweet:

 

Here is the list of all the winners:

Brand New Audio: "You Are Worthy''- Ernieola

"You Are Worthy'' is a worship song expressed from a deep heart thought and it debuts today, Monday, December 01, 2014 (which is here and now)!!!

According to the singer, Ernieola: 

''"You are Worthy'' is a song that came to me while I was in a commercial bus coming from a meeting, I was just thinking about my life and family as a whole, and how God saved me severally from ghastly accidents and I  concluded in my heart that God is worthy and the inspiration of the song came right there and then in the bus.''

Eniola Olusoga aka "ERNIEOLA” is a Nigerian, a recording artist, a lead vocalist, a background singer, a fashion consultant and a civil engineering undergraduate. 
Born in Lagos and originally from Edo state Nigeria, Ernieola started by watching several talent shows and joining the choir at a young age.

So far she has been involved in building, supervising and leading church choirs, school choirs, groups and anything gospel.

She thanks God for coming out of a serious sickness last year with a praise concert and celebrated her birthday on the 19th of April with a new single, Fun Eni Ope which means Give God Thanks.

Ernieola has worked with artists and producers like Laolu Gbenjo, Mike Abdul, Big Bob, Monique, M.Y of Revelyte Records, Tosyne Scale et al.

She's currently working on her debut album to be released next year.

To download and/or listen to ''You are worthy'', click HERE.

December 2014 is Finally Here!!

Ain't you excited, dearies?! It's been a long, eventful year but God's name be praised, we made it again to a new month, the last of the year. Finally, the new year is now only a stone throw away.

It has not been easy but through it all, we made it. We surely have enough to be thankful for. May the joy that comes with ending this year stay with us all, guys. May God watch over us all and protect us. Let's not lose hope if we still have lots of unaccomplished goals. Nobody can go back now and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. This month will be the best of the year, with all our plans and hopes of ending it in style. *winks* So, watch out.


Happy first day of December, sweethearts. Happy New Month to all of us!!

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December 2014 is Finally Here!!

Ain't you excited, dearies?! It's been a long, eventful year but God's name be praised, we made it again to a new month, the last of the year. Finally, the new year is now only a stone throw away.

It has not been easy but through it all, we made it. We surely have enough to be thankful for. May the joy that comes with ending this year stay with us all, guys. May God watch over us all and protect us. Let's not lose hope if we still have lots of unaccomplished goals. Nobody can go back now and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. This month will be the best of the year, with all our plans and hopes of ending it in style. *winks* So, watch out.


Happy first day of December, sweethearts. Happy New Month to all of us!!

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December 2014 is Finally Here!!

Ain't you excited, dearies?! It's been a long, eventful year but God's name be praised, we made it again to a new month, the last of the year. Finally, the new year is now only a stone throw away.

It has not been easy but through it all, we made it. We surely have enough to be thankful for. May the joy that comes with ending this year stay with us all, guys. May God watch over us all and protect us. Let's not lose hope if we still have lots of unaccomplished goals. Nobody can go back now and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. This month will be the best of the year, with all our plans and hopes of ending it in style. *winks* So, watch out.


Happy first day of December, sweethearts. Happy New Month to all of us!!

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December 2014 is Finally Here!!

Ain't you excited, dearies?! It's been a long, eventful year but God's name be praised, we made it again to a new month, the last of the year. Finally, the new year is now only a stone throw away.

It has not been easy but through it all, we made it. We surely have enough to be thankful for. May the joy that comes with ending this year stay with us all, guys. May God watch over us all and protect us. Let's not lose hope if we still have lots of unaccomplished goals. Nobody can go back now and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. This month will be the best of the year, with all our plans and hopes of ending it in style. *winks* So, watch out.


Happy first day of December, sweethearts. Happy New Month to all of us!!

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