Don’t offer your body for movie roles — Mr. Ibu

You’re a veteran in the industry, when did you start acting?
First of all, my name is John Okafor, Mr Ibu and I hail from Ezeokwe in Nkanu West Local Government, Enugu State. My first experience on camera was 1978 December 3. It was a soap opera in Benin City. A soap opera they called Hotel de Jordan. I was just a passerby and then they called me to be part of it, part of the crowd. My face wasn’t even showing but I was comfortable, I was contented being part of that big work.

How INEC tracked over four million ghost voters

The Advance Automatic Finger Identification System, AAFIS, is what the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is deploying to ensure that it gets a ‘CLEAN’ Voter Register, VR.   But the process is slow and painstaking. Yet, the Commission is going ahead because it remains its surest way of providing Nigerians with a Valid Voter Register, VVR.

I can go nude in my music video — Harmony

Not many people have heard about Emike Ekwe known by the stage name, Harmony, but the new music sensation, from Auchi, Delta State, seems to have so much up her sleeve.

Not just with her music, which is just beginning to get off the ground, the fair-skinned diva certainly has other tricks in her kitty, that may leave the likes of Adokiye and Niyola gaping in bewilderment.

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.

What is your stand on the Boko Haram sect?

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.