Mr. Ibu reveals how his mother saved him from committing suicide

John Okafor aka Mr. Ibu in a new interview, has revealed that he would have taken his life since 1997 due to the hardship he faced in life.

According to him, at that point in his life, things were so hard that he could barely afford to feed himself. To make matters worse, the actor said he had no roof over his head and suicide seemed like the easiest option

He told Saturday Beats:

"Adebayor, Berbatov are very lazy players" - Brede Hangeland

Former Fulham defender, Brede Hangeland, says former Arsenal forward Emmanuel Adebayor and ex-Manchester United striker, Dimitar Berbatov are the laziest footballers he met in his career.

Hangeland, who retired in August, listed his two former teammates as laziest among other players he played alongside.

In a list which also has Crystal Palace’s Wilfried Zaha and Jimmy Bullard, Hangland revealed that Berbatov always spent more time getting massages than training.

Ghana’s only crude oil refinery shut after explosion

Tema Oil Refinery, Ghana’s only oil refinery, has been shut after an explosion at a newly installed €5.8-million crude oil heating unit, a senior union official told Reuters on Friday.

The blast at the crude distillation unit, which recorded no casualties, is the latest problem to hit the refinery, which has for decades performed below its capacity of 45,000 barrels per day.

“It was a damper failure. It failed to open to allow heat to escape through the chimney and that led to the explosion,” one source said.

Junaid Mohammed: Whoever says Boko Haram is dead is telling lies

Anyone who says Boko Haram has been defeated is “telling lies”, Junaid Mohammed, a former supporter-turned-fierce critic of President Muhammadu Buhari, has said.

President Buhari had in December 2016 declared that the stronghold of Boko Haram in Sambisa forest had fallen and the insurgents crushed.

“I want to use this opportunity to commend the determination, courage and resilience of troops of Operation Lafiya Dole at finally entering and crushing the remnants of the Boko Haram insurgents at ‘Camp Zero’, which is located deep within the heart of Sambisa forest,” Buhari had said.

Health Minister: Why Nigeria still battles with leprosy

The Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, has attributed the prevalence of leprosy in Nigeria, after the country achieved the WHO elimination target in 1998, to pockets of high endemicity in some states.

Mr. Adewole made the remark at a news conference in Umuahia to commemorate the 64th anniversary of the World Leprosy Day Celebration on Friday with the theme: “Zero disability among children affected by leprosy”.

According to him, of 2,892 leprosy cases reported in 2015, nine per cent was made up of children, while victims with “grade II disability” accounted for 15 percent.

Coach Oliseh Suffers 1st Defeat As Fortuna Sittard Lose To Almere

Former Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh lost his first league match as manager of Dutch Jupiler League side Fortuna Sittard who lost 2-0 away to Almere City on Friday night.

Oliseh led out a team comprising mainly new signings after four players left the club recently. They played with remarkable vigour in the first half, but failed to score from some chances they created.

Almere City captain, Tom Overtoom scored the first goal in the 61st minute. Their new signing, Arsenio Valpoort who replaced Silvester v.d Water in the 68th minute, sealed the win for the home side at the dot of 90th minute.

Comedian Bovi goes berserk on Nigerians calling him out for not speaking in favour of 2face-led protest

Comedian Bovi yesterday evening went berserk on Nigerians who called him out for keeping quiet on the widely publicized protest scheduled for the 5th of February, 2017.

Bovi revealed he isn’t interested in joining the protest and went all brutal.

Read tweets below:

Photos: Couple Who Wedded In Plain T-Shirts Get Offers For All Expense Paid Honeymoon

Everyone certainly amused after a couple held arguably Kenya’s simplest wedding – donning plain red t-shirts for their special day, the couple have now landed a huge surprise for themselves after their story went viral.

Several companies and individuals who fell in love with their humble wedding have come forward with offers of a fully paid luxury honeymoon and so much more.

Ann and Wilson Mutura had spent only KSh 100 for their nuptials officiated by a pastor going by the name Prince Jasper Ojwach on Facebook.

Adekunle Gold shares lovely photo to celebrate his 37th birthday

Award winning Nigeria Musicians, Adekunle Gold marks his birthday today with a photo and of course a message. 

He wrote:

Finally, Tonto Dikeh reacts to comments about her ripoff Jeans to Abuja Kids School

Tonto Dikeh Has finally reacted to those calling her out for wearing a ripped jeans to a kiddies school in Abuja.

In a response to one of the comments under the post, the actress and mother of one agreed that her choice of dressing was quite inappropriate.

Nigerian Mother Abandons Husband In Jail, Dumps Baby In Orphanage, Moves In With 4th Husband

Nigerian Mother Abandons Husband In Jail, Dumps Baby In Orphanage, Moves In With 4th Husband

A 28-year-old lady allegedly abandoned her husband’s home, dumped her 2-year-old daughter in an orphanage and moved in with her fourth husband in Abuja.

Right now, police officers are working on figuring out why she did that, after a 34-year-old jail returnee, Paul Jubril reported that his wife, Blessing Ochonogor killed their daughter Ifeoma and fled to live with another man.

Say What | Husband Brings Home “Lovers” So His Lazy Wife Can Watch And Learn BED Skills From Them

A heartbroken wife from Zimbabwe has come forth with a very displeasing situation she is going through at marital home. Her abusive husband, a 32 year Peter Sibanda, brings all sorts of girls in their house, to have sex in front of her, so that she can “watch live and learn” how other women do it on her bed.

Peter Sibanda, calls his wife, Grace Nyoni, “lazy” when it comes to sexual performance. He has said he was tired of “boring bedroom sessions”, so decided to bring girlfriends over, so that her wife could observe and “learn some skills.”

Unbelievable! Wife Gang Up With Boyfriend, Kill Her Husband, Chops His Body To Pieces (Photos)

A 61-year-old South African man was killed, chopped to pieces and buried in a shallow grave allegedly by his wife, as well as her boyfriend and a friend.

The chilling claims were made by the friend, who told police how he was duped into helping to bury Shelly Lekalakala by his wife and her boyfriend.

Shelly was reported missing by his 37-year-old wife on January 2017. By then he had already been dead for more than two weeks.

“I’m not your boyfriend’s mate” – Popular big boy, Obonky brags to Nigerian Ladies after spending N800k for clubbing

A popular Nigerian Big boy and Business man, obonky is bragging to all Nigerian ladies that care to listen.. He says he’s not your boyfriend mate.. After he spent a staggering N800,000 in a club.

Google Bans 200 Publishers As A Measure To Stop Spread Of Fake News

Google kicked 200 publishers off one of its ad networks in the fourth quarter, partly in response to the proliferation of fake news sites.

The company banned the publishers from its AdSense network, an ad placement service that automatically serves text and display ads on participating sites based on its audience. The ban was part of an update to an existing policy that prohibits sites that mislead users with their content. 

Google regularly weeds out advertisers for false or misleading claims, but impersonating news sites became an addition following the rapid rise of fake news, or propaganda sites. After the election, Google was blasted for placing a false story from a fake news site claiming Donald Trump had won the popular vote. (He had 2.8 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton.) 

Recession Hit Big Brother Naija, As Biggie Punishes Housemates For Wasting Food

Big Brother Naija is really bubbling and a lot of activities are going on. As a result of the consistent and uncontrollable eating of the housemates, Biggie has decided to punish them for such eating disorders.

Big Brother Naija housemates have been eating like gluttons and have shunned the in-thing which is getting enough “likes” that will help them avoid nomination.

WTH! Someone Has Already Made An Obituary Poster For Buhari! (Photo)

Nigerians play too much with serious issues. It so sad how far people will go especially with the advent of social media.

God bless our President Buhari with long live and wisdom to lead us right.

President Trump To Cut Off Funding To United Nations Agencies

A draft executive order from the Trump administration orders government to stop funding any United Nations(UN) agency that promotes “the performance of abortion or sterilisation as a method of family planning.” 

It’s one of a number of prohibitions in the order that sets up a process for reviewing all American contributions to the UN and automatically eliminating many others.

Also on the chopping block is “any United Nations affiliate or other international organisation that grants full membership to the Palestinian Authority or the Palestinian Liberation Organisation”; any organisation “substantially influenced by any state that sponsors terrorism”; and any group circumventing sanctions against North Korea or Iran. 

Kendall Jenner Flaunts Her Backside at Fashion Event

Keeping up wit the Kardashian Reality Star, Kendall Jenner shows off her backside at the Harper’s Bazaar event recently.

She looks hot in that high-slit gown!!!

Isaac Success Says ‘juju’ Is Not Responsible For My Injury

Nigerian and Watford forward, Isaac Success, has described his injury setback at the club as frustrating, adding that he does not believe ‘juju’ is playing a part in his niggling knocks.

The 21-year-old just returned to light training after a hamstring injury.

The former Nigeria Under-20 player’s first season in England has not been a successful one so far as he has featured in only seven league games, scoring once.

Actor Osita Iheme 'Pawpaw' Launches His Own Music Record Label, Unveil Two Artist

“After months of strategic planning, networking and intensive research, leading Nollywood star, Osita Iheme famously known as Pawpaw, has finally floated his long awaited Young Boss Records.”

'Why We Arrested Harrysong' - Five Star Music Releases Official Statement

Singer Harrysong was yesterday arrested by Five Star Music over charges of fraud and breach of contract.

Five Star Music label has now issued a statement on why they are taking legal actions against Harrysong. The label also advised the general public to tread with caution and desist from transacting any business with Mr. Harry Tare Okri, as same is both illegal and a total breach of his existing contract with Five Star Music Label. 

Read below.

#AUSOpen: Serena Williams beats Venus Williams to win the Australian Open

Serena became the first player to win the Australian Open without dropping a set since Maria Sharapova in 2008 after defeating her Sister Venus Williams.

A 6-4, 6-4 victory over Venus gave Serena Williams her seventh Australian Open title and a record open-era haul of 23 grand slam titles

Originality Brings About Longevity – J Martins Reveals In Recent Interview

In this interview with ANTHONY ADA ABRAHAM, Martins Okechukwu Joshua Kalu aka J. Martins, one of the best Nigerian musicians, singer, songwriter and producer has continued to churn out hit songs to Nigerians.  The artiste, who just released a new song titled ‘Ring the bell’, is best known for his song “Oyoyo” “Jupa” and “Good Or Bad.” J. Martins is also known to have featured in the song by P-Square, “E No Easy”. He has also featured Phyno, YCEE, Fally Ipupa, DJ Arafat, Koffi Olomide, Timaya. 

Who is J Martins?

Runtown’s ‘mad Over You’ Most Played Song In Nigeria

For a third week running, Runtown holds down the number one spot on the charts with Wizkid’s ‘Daddy yo’ at number two. Runtown’s ‘Mad over you’ continues to run the  charts at number one position according to Playdata charts. 

Wizkid’s  ‘Daddy yo’ keeps up at number two spot as Seyi Shay’s ‘Yolo Yolo’ remains at number 3 position on the chart.

Ex YBNL Singer, Xino Apologises To Olamide, YBNL Team

Former YBNL artiste, Benjamin Chinedu Ahamefula, aka Xino, seems to have returned from a journey of sober reflections as he now seeks to reconcile with his former label boss, Olamide, whom he dumped in 2016 following allegations of abandonment by the management of YBNL. 

Recall that after dropping two Pheelz produced singles, ‘Nakam’ and ‘TTYL’, the Plateau State born afro-beat singer, took shots at Olamide after exiting the label, accusing the ‘Konkobility’ rapper, Olamide, of treating him like he had nothing to offer the label. He accused Olamide of insensitivity; concluding that he could not be loyal anymore. 

President Trump Says Singer Madonna Is Disgusting

Lol, if you ever thought Donald Trump would filter his words after he step into the white house then you must wake up … Trump really doesn’t give a f*ck of what you think about his choice of words. He prove that recently when he blasted Singer Madonna calling her “disgusting” for her comments about 'blowing up the White House' at the Women's March. 

During an interview with Fox's Sean Hannity, which aired on Thursday, Trump said

EFCC Boss, Ibrahim Magu Says Men Are More Corrupt Than Women

Mr Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has said that corrupt tendencies were more pronounced among males than females.

“Looking at the number of people that have been apprehended by the commission, the number of men involved outnumber the women,” Magu said on Friday, in Abuja,

Magu made the statement when the executive committee of the National Council of Women Society (NCWS), paid him a courtesy visit.

UNICEF Report Shows Nigeria Has 2nd Highest Prevalence Of Child Deaths Globally

In a recent United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF’s report, it was revealed that every single day, Nigeria loses about 2300 under five-year olds and 145 women of childbearing age. This makes the country the second largest contributor to the under-five and maternal mortality rate in the world. 

Also UNICEF says that deaths of newborn babies in Nigeria represent a quarter of the total number of deaths of children under-five majority of these occur within the first week of life, mainly due to complications during pregnancy and delivery reflecting the intimate link between newborn survival and the quality of maternal care. Main causes of neonatal deaths are birth asphyxia severe infection including tetanus and premature birth. 

Two Nigerians Arrested For $1.2 Million UK Bank Fraud

The Police Special Fraud Unit, Ikoyi, has arrested two men, Oladapo Oyeniyi and Kunle Ayotoye, for allegedly defrauding a United Kingdom (UK)-based bank of 1,200,000 US dollars under false pretences.

The police said Oyeniyi, 48, and Ayotoye, 45, stole the money between December 2012 and January 2013, during their employment at a firm at No. 3, Oje Imsisnvan Street, Oregun, Ikeja, Lagos.

The duo, of unknown addresses, were arraigned yesterday before Chief Magistrate A. O. Awogboro of an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court.