MORE CONFESSION: Kidnapping children for battle, from Uganda to Nigeria

Armed militants take young children from their beds, as they sleep: Young recruits for extremist causes.

It happened this (last) week in Nigeria, when heavily armed Boko Haram Islamists kidnapped 200 girls from their boarding school.

And it has been happening in northern Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, and other neighbouring countries for decades – the work of Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army.

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour covered Kony’s sick work 16 years ago, for 60 Minutes, when she reported on the abduction of 139 girls from their school.
She spoke with their teacher, Sister Rachele Fassera, who begged for the children’s return.

“He (Kony) bent down and on the ground he wrote, ‘The girls are 139. I will give you 109.’ He wrote, ‘I keep 30,’ Sister Raquelle told Amanpour at the time.”

Simon Kolawole Joins online newspaper Business

A former Editor of ThisDay newspaper, Simon Kolawole, has concluded arrangements to float a world class media group.
Kolawole, in an email on Sunday morning, said this comes to him naturally having put in 22 years into journalism.
Kolawole, known more by a lot of his people as Simon Kolawole Live because of his incisive back page column in ThisDay on Sunday, said the process will begin with the launch of an online newspaper, TheCable.
Operating at www.thecable.ng, the online newspaper intends to “deliver knowledge-driven journalism in the pursuit of Nigeria’s progress”.

Abia First Lady Donates Materials Worth Millions of Naira To People Living with Disabilities.

Wife of the Abia state governor, Chief Mrs Mercy Odochi Orji has promised to use God given resources within her care to better lives of the less privileged people in the society.
She said this at a function to identify with the physically challenges, visual impaired person, cripple and other people with deformity in Umuahia, urged Nigerians to reach out to the disable in the bid to rid the nation off poverty and other notable social vices,
Mrs Orji who expressed disappointment in the ways and manners people with disability are being treated in the society, therefore called on the citizen to have a change of perception towards these special people in the nation.
She donated materials and equipment worth millions of naira to the group and promised to always identity with them to make the country a better place for all and sundry.

I love a man that respects a woman – Colette Orji

Colette Orji has fast become one of the hottest names in Nollywood and that has not come by chance or luck. The sexy light-skinned actress has talent going for her as well as the right passion to succeed. Since her first major role in a movie in 2004, Colette has not looked back and she has since moved up to the top of the reef as a sought after name in the industry.

Underneath her delicate beauty and subtle vulnerability lies a strong personage who has seen it all and  not afraid to share it with people. Telling me about what would attract her to a man, Colette sounded like any other woman looking for love and respect.

I Do Embarrass People Who get Randy With Me – Halima Abubakar

Curvaceous Nollywood actress, Halima Abubakar, has got what it takes to make many men get out of turn and get funny. But as they say, looks can be deceptive, and, instead of getting a load of welcoming smiles, you might just end up with either goose pimples or even a red eye because this sexy beau is all everything but vulnerable.

But even the stern Halima would agree that as much as those ‘stop’ signs seem to be oozing out of her eyes, some die-hard randy men still try their luck to see if they could get on easy street with her.  “Won’t I be lying if I say nobody has harassed me? I’m a lady. It’s totally untrue when people say they’ve never been harassed”, she said.

I Have Never Hobnobbed With any Government – Omotola

Nollywood’s leading lady and mother of four, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, is not known as a woman who takes things with a pinch of salt. She has a reputation of hitting back fast and hard whenever she is hit.

At the Nigerian Entertainment  Conference (NEC), which held last week, Omotola told the audience that people should count her out of  those who hobnobbed with government either for businesses or pleasure.

Secret of Wealth In Tribulations -Bishop Oyedepo

Bishop David Oyedepo says poverty is not of God.  He insists a child of God has no business being poor and declares: “There’s a proven covenant cure for poverty.”  If this were true and proven, all the world’s poor would have become rich Christians by now.

Let us juxtapose the bishop’s enticing words with the word of God and see whose report should be believed.  Jesus says: “You will always have the poor among you.” (John 12:8).  Moses says: “The poor will never cease from the land.” (Deuteronomy 15:11).  So where does that leave Bishop Oyedepo’s “proven covenant cure for poverty?”  It is a pie in the sky.

Wealth transfer

My Interest Was No Longer Protected In APC- Hon. Odedo

Hon. Charles Odedo, a member of House of Representatives representing Idemili Federal Constituency, Anambra State, in this interview, explains why he parted ways with his mentor, Senator Chris Ngige. He says he is returning to the PDP from where he joined the defunct ACNand contested election into parliament. Odedo also speaks on his chances in the 2015 polls which he aspires to contest.

Why did you dump APC?

Censors delay release of Nigeria civil war film

The release of the Nigerian civil war film “Half of a Yellow Sun”, which had been set to open in cinemas nationwide on Friday, has been postponed by the country’s censorship board.

The film based on the eponymous best-selling novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is about the 1967-1970 Biafra War which killed more than a million people, many from starvation.

A statement on the film’s website said the Nigeria release has been “postponed to May 2 due to delays in getting certification Nigeria Film and Video Censorship Board”.

Board spokesman Caesar Kagho told AFP there were “regulatory issues” with the release, but that the film had not been “officially banned”.

Breaking News: At Last, P-Square Reconciles!

Peter, Paul and Jude Okoye all tweeted their message of re-union almost at the same time in the early hours of Friday morning.

Anita Isama wife of Paul Okoye also joined in the celebratory  messages. She tweeted…