LATOYA ADUKE EKEMODE: AN ICON PER EXCELLENCE

 Beautiful Latoya Aduke Ekemode, wife of one of the Nigeria’s finest musician is not new in Nigeria, Africa and the World in general when we are talking about music or dancing.

 Latoya, an Africa-American narrated hoe she met her hubby: ‘’ Destiny cannot be changed, even though it could be altered a little bit. God has his own way of doing things. We met at Pa. Ambrose Oladipo Campbell’s house. I met him when I was 17, shortly after the death of my father in Los Angeles, California. I would come to his house and he’d talk to me about music and Nigeria’’

 Aduke, who said that she drew her musical influences his my late father then, said she used to think she was Miriam Makeba, even though she was born in America

.’’ The first genre of music that I was exposed to was African music and I recall that we would tie ‘gele’, which we called turbans back then, and danced. I learnt music by listening. These were my influences. My mum supported me tremendously and when I started working with O.J, she said my late mum would be really proud of Me.’ she said.

Latoya who described herself as a dancer said  ’’ music also helps to keep our relationship aglow. We love each other. I could go on stage and dance and he can be rest assured that I am his woman, just doing my job as a dancer.’’

Latoya is a complete wife. a musician, a dancer, and probably one of the best professional dancer in Nigeria...we celebrate you.

PRESIDENT JONATHAN APPROVED THE APPOINTMENT OF GENERAL MARTIN LUTHER AGWAI AS SURE-P CHAIRMAN

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has approved the appointments of: General Martin Luther Agwai , as chairman of Subsidy Re-Investment Programme (SURE-P); Mrs Tanwa Olusi, deputy chairman of SURE-P; Mrs Fidelia Njeze, Special Adviser (NEPAD) and Senator Suleiman M. Ajadi, Special Adviser (NASS).

Mr Sola Omole was appointed Director-General (DG), Nigerian Television Authority (NTA); Alhaji Ladan Salihu, DG, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), while Mr Ima Niboro was appointed Managing Director, News Agency of Nigeria.

In a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati, in Abuja, on Thursday night, said the appointments were made in furtherance of efforts to continually strengthen the administration on all fronts. All the appointments are with immediate effect.

General Martin Luther Agwai , a career soldier,was born on November 8, 1948 in Kaduna, a city in Northern Nigeria. He hails from a Christian home and was the President of Fellowship of Christian Students at Government Secondary School, Zaria in 1967.

He graduated from the Nigerian Command and Staff College, British Army Staff College, Camberley and United States Army Armour School amongst others. He holds a Post Graduate diploma in Public Administration with distinctions from the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON) and National Defence University, Washington DC, where he obtained a Master of Science in National Resource Strategy. While at NDU, he won the Ambassadors Award for excellence in research and writing, making him the first foreigner to win the award.

General Martin Luther Agwai retired from the Nigerian Armed Forces in December 2009.

PEPPER SOUP POLITICS: NAVY, POLICE AT WAR IN WARRI

It will be recalled that there was free for all commotion last Thursday at the Kayriott Hoteland Suites, Effurun, near Warri, Delta State, when a team of naval personnel reportedly invaded the guesthouse, brutalized hotel officials, disarmed and abducted two policemen on guard duty in the hotel following a heated disagreement with a waitress, over supposed non payment for food and drinks enjoyed by a naval officer and his friends.

While narrating what happened, proprietor of the hotel,  Efe Afe,  in a petition to the Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Usman Jibril, dated February 3, said, “One Navy Lieutenant Akalezie Uche attached to the Nigerian Navy, NNS Delta in Warri, Delta State, in company of a female friend and another young man visited the aforementioned hotel and was attended to at the hotel’s pool bar by a waitress named Rachael Usen.” He went further to say that ”The waitress at the end of the stay of the above trio demanded payment of the sum of N8,500.00 (Eight thousand, five hundred naira) for the food, drinks and ice cream which the said lieutenant and his friends had ordered and consumed, but the lieutenant claimed that he had already paid for same to the consternation of the waitress who insisted that she had not been paid a dime.”

However, it was discovered that when the mobile police that were on guard at the hotel  tried to apprehend the trio for non settlement of their bill, Lt. Akalezie, allegedly alerted colleagues from the NNS Delta naval base who stormed the hotel and the show of shame began.

In an attempt to defend one of their own, NNS Delta Public Relations Officer, Lt C.I.D Yohana, maintained that the policemen, indeed, manhandled the navy officer .

Mr. Aduba. Delta state Commissioner of Police, described the navy’s defence of the scandalous “feeble attempt”  by his naval counterpart to exonerate his men from the “show of shame”, which he said is a “height of falsehood,” Noting “the simple fact which is well corroborated by evidence of eye witnesses is that the two policemen on guard duty at the hotel, fully dressed in service uniform, were over-powered by the naval personnel who stormed the premises of the hotel in a commando-like manner; disarmed the police personnel, battered them to stupor, before abducting them together with some officials of the hotel to the Naval Base.’

“From the investigation so far conducted, the bone of contention behind this unholy act and a seemingly recurring decimal of occurrence between the navy and the police in the state is the payment of N9,000 for pepper soup and alcoholic beverages consumed by the man who was later identified as a naval officer and two of his friends at the hotel. An argument ensued between the said naval officer on civil outfit and the hotel receptionist over the non payment of the said N9,000 for services delivered, in the course of which the naval officer slapped the receptionist causing her ears to ooze blood.” The Police commissioner added.

In his words, Mr. Aduba, captioned the action of the Naval personnel as an act of lawlessness: “We want to state clearly that the Police Force still remains the symbol of government and no profession has the act of lawlessness as part of its ethics, hence we strongly submit that the act of carrying two Hilux load of naval personnel – not for the purpose of storming/fighting our common enemies – the criminals, but rather for the purpose of overpowering fellow uniformed security personnel on legitimate duty which has occurred several times in Delta State will certainly not augur well for the good governance of our country which is the primary purpose of government.”

Culled.

NB: It is high time that the Armed Forces in Nigeria call their personnel to order, in order to curb their lawlessness in the society.

PRETTY NOLLYWOOD ACTRESSES SETLLED FOR THE SECOND BEST BECAUSE SINGLE GUYS ARE JUST SCARCE

Nollywood isn’t exactly a haven populated by married women even though most of the women are the most beautiful that can be found anywhere in the country.
Most of the women are either single or divorced and plenty more still searching. Those that have been able to hold on to a marriage have come to accept their lots of being the second wife.

In a recent interview, Lola Alao must have spoken the minds of many of them when she cried out “where are the single guys?” after being  asked why many of her colleagues are going for other woman’s man and even made bold to claim that married men make better husbands.

Many of them who have toed this line have had their lives embroiled in hot waters of controversies, and yet survived while some are not so lucky. Even there are cases of those who rushed into the arms of the other woman’s man  only to rush out. Here are a few of them and their different tales of woes and triumphs.

Caroline Ekanem-Danjuma

The story of Nollywood s*xy actress, Caroline Ekanem-Dajunma is not hidden. She is a one-time glamorous screen diva who later became the second wife of billionaire Musa Danjuma. Since then, Mrs. Danjuma who gave up her career in acting for the marriage has enjoyed all that money can buy and good things of life. However, it appears something is disturbing the actress. She recently confessed on her Facebook page that being the second best and being in second place is not fun. It appears something is actually missing here.

Liz Dasilva

There hasn’t been any concrete evidence that this Togolese-Yoruba actress has married her baby’s father who she bore a bouncing baby boy some months ago. But the fact that the actress went ahead to convert from Christianity to Islam, changing her name from Elizabeth to Aishat, in a bid to please her supposed husband, Alhaji Olaoye, is a sign that something more than just mere man-woman relationship is in the equation.

Alhaji Olaoye is said to have many other wives and Liz or Aishat is just one of many in his harem. But it appears Liz has no qualms in marriage as she is reportedly having a ball even if she has to accept her fate of seeing Alhaji every now and then

Mercy Aigbe

Nollywood actress Mercy Aigbe is surely having the fun of her life in her polygamous marriage. She was nick-named a husband snatcher by a fellow actress few months ago when she got married to Bimbo Akinsanya‘s husband, Lanre Gentry.

Ini Edo

In November 2008 she got married to Philip Ehiagwina, a businessman.  Edo had a second wedding in February 2009 in America, in Houston, Texas, where her husband is based. Their relationship had been in the newspapers: not just because Edo is one of those people that newspapers like to write things about, true and untrue, but also because Ehiagwina had already been married, to Ruth Okoro, a Nigerian-American model and actress. Okoro made his leaving her for Edo ugly and public, both of them saying terrible things about each other.

Mosun Filani

Popular Yoruba Actress, Mosunmola Filani  secretly got married to Simeon Oduoye in Ibadan not too long ago.

The light-skinned Yoruba actress, as we were told by an industry source, was full of surprise getting married to Simeon, who is believed to be a woman’s guy.

Information gathered revealed that Mosun secured the love of Simeon at the expense of Yemisi, Simeon’s wife at the time.

Mosun, who once had hot romance with Odunlade Adekola and Muyiwa Ademola, was said to have hijacked Simeon to herself, thereby making him pay less attention to his wife, Yemisi, who has two kids for him.

Mosun has gone on to bear the man a baby girl and their marriage seems to be in ship-shape with no detectable cracks of any discord.

Bose Arowosegbe

If you have been wondering why Nigerian actresses prefer marrying other people’s husbands, wonder no more, because Nollywood Yoruba actress, Bose Arowosegbe, has come out to support the trend of actresses going after married men. Just like some of her colleagues have done in the past, Bose is a second wife and she is proud of that. Her reasons are that single men are immature, childish, poor and do not have what it takes to give the actresses the kind of life they deserve.

Here is what she said: “I am married to a married man. I have not told anyone this before. Why actresses go for married men is that most single men out there are not mature enough to handle the fact that actresses are normal women.

Mercy Johnson

Most talented and sought after actress in the  English sector of Nollywood, Mercy Ozioma Johnson  got married to Prince Odianosen Okojie, who is married to a Canada-based lady named Lovely with two  kids, a boy and a girl.

The whole drama got messier, when Lovely came out of the blues claiming that she is the legally married wife of Prince Odianose, who Mercy was planning to get married to and that she can’t get abandoned like that because she is still legally married to her husband, Prince Okojie.

culled.

EMBATTLED CP JOSEPH MBU HAS BEEN MOVED TO ABUJA

The Rivers Commissioner of Police, Mr.Joseph Mbu ,has been redeployed  to Abuja, from Rivers State with immediate effect.

This was contained in a communiqué issued by the Police Service Commission on Thursday. The press release read thus: POLICE SERVICE COMMISSION

PRESS RELEASE

REDEPLOYMENT OF COMMISSIONERS OF POLICE

The Police Service Commission has approved the recommendations of the Inspector General of Police for the redeployment of thirteen (13) Commissioners of Police to various Commands nationwide:

s/n	Rank	Name	Present Posting	Posted To
1.	CP	AMBROSE AISABO, mni	PAP LAS	CP KWS
2.	CP	FELIX O. UYANYA, mni	COMDT PCO	CP EKS
3.	CP	JOHNSON OGUNSAKI	CP SFU	CP RVS
4.	CP	ABDULMAJID ALI	CP EOD	CP IMS
5.	CP	BENJAMIN U. ONWUKA	D/COMDT STAFFPOL JOS	CP KBS
6.	CP	IBRAHIM MAISHANU	FHQ	CP OSS
7.	CP	ADAMU IBRAHIM	DFS	CP ABS
8.	CP	ADERENLE SHINABA	FHQ	CP KNS
9.	CP	MBU JOSEPH MBU	CP RVS	CP FCT
10.	CP	UMARU U. SHEHU	CP NAS	CP KDS
11.	CP	A.J. ABAKASANGA, mni	CP INFO-TECH	CP ADS
12.	CP	KALAFITE H. ADEYEMI	FHQ ABJ	CP TRS
13.	CP	IBRAHIM IDRIS	FHQ ABJ	CP NAS

The Chairman of the Commission, Sir Mike Mbama Okiro, equally admonished the newly redeployed officers to put in their best in their various Commands’ operations, so as to provide a secure environment for business and life to thrive.

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Meanwhile, Johnson Tunde Ogunsakin, who was formerly in charge of the Special Fraud Investigations Unit in Lagos has been appointed to take his place in the crisis-ridden state..

ASARI DOKUBO INVITED FOR QUESTIONING BY SSS

The State Security Service , finally invited Asari Dokubu , for questioning on Thursday for his ‘mouth diarrheal ‘ It will be recalled that in September 2013, Asari Dokubo  told Channels Television, while speaking on Politics Today, that “2015 is already a settled matter; Goodluck Jonathan will be president in 2015. Whether they contest or they don’t contest, Goodluck Jonathan will be president and that he would be ready for violence if needed. if Jonathan loses 2015 election.

"In less than one hour, the way we would strike, the world will be shocked. If anybody does anything against Jonathan, we will retaliate. What we will do will shock the whole world. We will cripple the economy of the country not only in the creeks, but also on the nation’s territorial waters, no vessel will be allowed to enter Nigeria’s territorial waters."He added.

FORMER DEPUTY-GOVERNOR OF LAGOS STATE SINATU OJIKUTU ARRESTED ON FRAUD CHARGE

The 67-year-old, former Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu.

who was declared wanted by the SFU on June 19, 2013, for allegedly obtaining N130m from one Cajethan Okekearu, under the guise of selling a plot of land at Admiralty Way, Lekki, Lagos, was arrested on Tuesday ,at her Lagos Island residence by the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria Police.

According to the statement by the SFU Commissioner of Police, Mr.Tunde Ogunsakin, Ojikutu was said to have allegedly connived with her son, Samson Ojikutu Jnr, currently in the United States, to commit the fraud.

 The statement reads in part, “The suspect and her son were parties to the sale of the land and both signed the agreement given to Okekerau and obtained the sum of N130m from him.

“She admitted the crime, but claimed that it was a genuine mistake of plot identification. After refunding N50m to Okekearu, she promised to refund the balance as soon as she disposed her two properties she put up for sale.

 “She equally made an undertaking and payment plan which was drawn from September, 2012 and was to terminate by November 2012, but she defaulted.”

However, It was learnt that Okekearu became aware of the fraud after he commenced development on the land. He was said to be on the verge of completing the building when the bonafide owner of the land surfaced.

It was later discovered that the land which the ex-deputy governor sold did not belong to her.  She actually sold Plot 23 Block 4, said to belong to one Mr. Afolabi, while her plot, 24 Block 4, already had a property on it.

It was also discovered that the plot belonged to late Samson Ojikutu Snr, the suspect’s husband who died in 2008. The plot was sold by him in 1995, while the suspect appended her signature to the sale of the land.

The statement added, “It will be recalled that the suspect sued the Inspector-General of Police, the Commissioner of Police, SFU and the complainants in the State High Court at Igbosere, Lagos, with Suit No. M/581/2013, praying the court to restrain the police from further investigation into the matter and violation of fundamental human right.

“The ruling by Justice Obadina on December 17, 2013, dismissed the suit for lack of merit, saying the Nigeria Police has the power to prosecute the applicants, Sinatu and her son, Samson, since the police investigation revealed that there is prima-facie case of obtaining by false pretences against them and added that the court would not interfere or restrain the police from carrying out their statutory function.”

Culled.