Relationships don’t work for me — Evia Simon

Fast-rising Nollywood actress, Evia Simon, has said men go crazy over her figure. That was her first encounter with Potpourri and the Abuja-based actress was everything but shy in telling us that men have embarrassed her more times than she cares to remember.

She recounted an experience where a guy left his car by the road side and followed her all the way home on bike just to get her attention.

I’m blind to women — Solo Urete

Isoko gospel music artiste,  Evangelist Solo Urete, who has been mistaken for Gordons, the comedian at several instances , is a man who knows his business. After 13 albums to his name and still counting,  God Over do crooner, is looking beyond his Isoko, Delta State domain to conquer the world of gospel music.

No big deal in directors sleeping with actresses — Aniedi Noba

Aniedi Awah Noba isn’t a name that would cause a stir because it is a face that works behind the cameras. But the man, like most directors are the ones who pull the strings and oftentimes dictate the tunes to which the actors must dance.

For Aniedi, he doesn’t believe the sexual harassment issue is a big deal. To him, it is a question of two adults, meeting up and making up their minds to make out.

Uri Geller spoon gorilla statue unveiled

A huge gorilla statue made entirely of spoons for entertainer Uri Geller has been unveiled by Prince Michael of Kent.
The 12ft-high (3.6m) statue features about 40,000 spoons and has taken almost five months to build at the British Ironworks Centre in Oswestry.
The spoons have been donated from across the world, as well as local schoolchildren.
It is due to be transported to Mr Geller's home in Berkshire on 28 May.

Boko Haram: The negotiated settlement, resolution we need, by Lai Mohammed

In an encounter, the Interim Publicity Secretary of All Progressive Congress, APC,  Alhaji Lai Mohammed, blamed the Federal Government for engaging  in  blame game  on Boko Haram and called  for a security stakeholders meeting in order to curtail  insurgency in  the North-east.

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Shekau strikes again: Kills 16, abducts five policemen, 10 Chinese workers

Boko Haram terror, at the weekend, raged in Borno State where 16 persons were feared killed in a fresh attack.

In  two other attacks, five policemen were reportedly abducted with their armoured personnel carrier (APC) while a Chinese was killed and 10 others kidnapped during an overnight attack in Kuseri Village between Gamboru Ngala  council and Cameroun.

12,000 lives lost to Boko Haram— Jonathan

French P.M confirms Sunday Vanguard exclusives on Al-Qaeda’s support for Boko Haram

Jide Ajani, Ben Agande in Paris, France, Tony Nwankwo and Abiodun Alade

The havoc visited on the nation by Boko Haram was laid bare by President Goodluck Jonathan who, yesterday, claimed that the Islamist group’s insurgency in Nigeria had claimed over 12,000 lives.

Jonathan spoke in Paris, the French capital, at a summit with his counterparts from Benin Republic, Chad, Cameroun and Niger, where an action plan designed to counter the terror activities of Boko Haram in West Africa was approved.

'Biggest dinosaur ever' discovered

Fossilised bones of a dinosaur believed to be the largest creature ever to walk the Earth have been unearthed in Argentina, palaeontologists say.

Based on its huge thigh bones, it was 40m (130ft) long and 20m (65ft) tall.

Weighing in at 77 tonnes, it was as heavy as 14 African elephants, and seven tonnes heavier than the previous record holder, Argentinosaurus.

Scientists believe it is a new species of titanosaur - an enormous herbivore dating from the Late Cretaceous period.

Another 850 People Receive Empowerment Packages From Abia State Governor's Wife

Against the negative impressions perceived to have  being created to discredit the performance of the Abia state governor, Chief Theodore A. Orji and his wife, Chief Mrs. Odochi Orji, the fact on ground did show that these duo are doing more to better the lives of the less privileged in the society but refuse to involve intense media wake to the admiration of the world to see.

Ritualist Dies While Scouting For Human Skull

Despite the increase in cases of jungle justice being meted out to suspected kidnappers and ritualists lately, most especially in Oyo, Ogun, Osun and other states, some desperate ritualists are still not deterred by these horrible deaths, as an unidentified young man in Ilobu community, in the Irepodun Local Government Area of Osun State, met his Waterloo in the early hours of Wednesday while attempting to cut off the head of a corpse, buried in Tonto compound in the area.