Bruno Ola: 11/20/15

Friday, 20 November 2015

How Odunlade Adekola, Femi Jacobs Became Taxi Drivers

Top Nigerian Nollywood actors Odunlade Adekola and Femi Jacobs star as taxi drivers in a soon-to-be released movie Taxi Driver (Oko Ashewo).

Movie Jacket

Taxi driver (Oko Ashewo) is an hilarious comedy drama about working in Lagos at night, as a taxi Driver. It tells the story of how Adigun (Femi Jacobs) copes with dealing with the multitude of odd characters he comes across from Delia (Ijeoma Grace Agu) the queen prostitute, to Kakanfo (Hafiz Oyetoro) the unseen vigilante,

Korede Bello Returns To School

Mavin Records artiste Korede Bello has returned back to school.

Korede Bello had his Matriculation today at the Nigeria Institute of Journalist (NIJ) which held at NIJ Premise in Ogba to study a Higher National Diploma in mass communication.

Revcently Korede won ‘The Song of the Year’ award at the 4th Annual Golden Icons Academy Movie Awards (GIAMA) that held last night in Houston, Texas. The event was hosted by Nigerian comedian and actor AY Makun.

Korede Bello released his follow up single,

Kenyan Girl Takes Selfie Inside Coffin

A Kenyan girl has taken a selfie in one of the most outrageous places ever.

The beautiful young lady in search of the perfect selfie decided to be real by taking it inside a coffin.

She posted the scary photo on her Instagram account and she seems to be very comfortable in it and is full of smiles.

A selfie is a self-portrait photograph,

Wiz Kid Talks About Awards, Ojuelegba And Falling In Love With Music

Wiz Kid is definitely on a trajectory with his music cutting across various boundaries of the world and there appears to be no end in sight to this.

Wiz Kid and erstwhile label boss Banky W.

He spoke to The Fader,

EXCLUSIVE: Kiss Daniels Releases New Single Good Time

Kiss Daniel’s new song Good Time is radio-ready, commercially viable and quite the right stuff for the African audience and listeners from around the world.

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Singer Kiss Daniel

Good Time is soothing and heavily influenced by the renowned afrobeats sound. It was produced by DJ Coublon.

The drums are thumping. The saxophones,

Laide Bakare Acquires Prado Jeep For Label Artists (PHOTOS)

Few months after celebrating her birthday and launching her foundation, Nollywood actress Laide Bakare bought a 2015 Prado SUV for her record label artists, B2L.

Laide Bakare posing with B2L artists

Laide Bakare kicked off her record label,

Groom Commits Suicide Few Days To Wedding

A groom-to-be from China has committed suicide barely two weeks to his wedding.

The man identified as Xiaolei from east China’s Anhui province reportedly killed himself due to excessive pressure from bride’s family to pay huge bride price.

According to reports,

Rapper AKA Ventures Into New Business

Rapper AKA has announced plans to launch his line of headphones and speakers.

South African rapper more popularly known as AKA

South African rapper Kiernan Jarryd Forbes more popularly known as AKA.

On Wednesday,

See Gold Casket Awolowo Will Be Buried In, Artists Performing

An array of top stars has been lined up to perform during the 11-day long burial of the matriarch of the Awolowo’s family.

King Sunny Ade

Musicians in the secular and gospel genres have been lined up to perform during the funeral of Mama Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo.
Topping the list of musicians to perform at different funeral points in Ikenne, include juju music maestros,

Prominent Nollywood Actor Has Been Robbed In Lagos

Another Nollywood actor has been robbed.

Elvis Chucks

Nollywood actor, movie producer and director, Elvis Chucks, was robbed at Ilupeju, Lagos on Tuesday, November 19.

According to him,

Top 10 Breathtaking Photos Of Abuja From Instagram

Naij.com gather the most interesting and astonishing photos of Abuja and its residents that were recently shared by tourists and locals on Instagram.

1. Refreshing morning in Abuja.

“Usually spend time outside at dawn, decided to do something different. Minus the influx of bugs,

Toyin Aimakhu Allegedly Beaten By New Lover

Celebrated Nollywood actress, Toyin Aimakhu is in the news again.

Toyin Aimakhu and Seun Egbegbe

The once happily married actress who got married to Adeniyi Johnson and was always happy to flaunt their affairs on social media has since abandoned her matrimonial home over infidelity on the part of her husband.

Despite the husband going on same social media where they have celebrated their love to admit to the wrong doing and also apologized to her, Toyin still went ahead to abandon her matrimonial home.

Weeks back,

Nigeria: Ngige Lists Agenda of Buhari's Administration in Labour Sector

Abuja — Repositioning the Ministry of Labour and Employment to meet the challenges of unemployment and maintaining industrial harmony in the labour sector is a major agenda of President Muhammadu Buhari's administration.

This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Samuel Olowookere, Deputy Director, Press and made available to newsmen on Thursday in Abuja.

The statement said that Sen. Chris Ngige the Minster of Labour and Employment, made the statement when heads of departments in the ministry briefed him on their activities.

It said that the briefing which also had in attendance,

Buhari assures on privatisation as Peugeot returns to Nigeria

ABUJA – President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated the commitment of his administration to privatisation and commercialisation policy.

This was even as Peugeot Automobiles Nigeria Limited announced that it would return next year for full commercial operations.

President Buhari spoke when he gave audience to Peugeot’s Executive Vice President for Africa and the Middle-East,

Nigeria: Malabu - Dan Etete to Appeal Freezing of U.S.$85 Million in UK Court

Malabu, the firm owned by a former petroleum minister Dan Etete, will appear before a court in London on Monday for a three-day hearing appeal against the freezing of $85 million proceeds from the tainted Oil Prospecting Licence (OPL) 245 deal.

The 3-day hearing is expected to provide fresh insight into the United Kingdom prosecution case over contentious OPL 245 sale that will also apply to Shell and Eni as well as Etete and any other indicted officials,

Immediate past President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday at a forum in Washington DC, says his government never awarded any contract in the range of $2 billion dollars.

Jonathan made this disclosure while reacting to the arms procurement scandal involving the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.

The former President said,

Labour Rejects Governors’ Stance…Says We Will Shut Down Nigeria, If…

In their reaction, leaders of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, warned that if the governors wanted workers to shut down the nation because of the issue, workers would gladly do so, saying “the governors should not think the Nigerian workers do not have the capacity to retrench them.”

Factional President of NLC,

Nigeria: Peugeot plans to resume operations

LAGOS, Nigeria

Peugeot Automobile plans to resume vehicle assembly in the country, a top Peugeot official told President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday.

"In an audience with President Buhari today,

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Tobi Soniyi in Abuja

President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja Sunday for Tehran, Iran, where he will participate in the 3rd Gas Exporting Countries' Forum (GECF) opening in the Iranian capital on Monday, November 23, 2015.

A statement issued in Abuja on Friday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity,

Benin Republic Hoists Flag In 16 Nigerian Villages

Nigeria’s West African neighbor, Benin Republic, has hoisted her national flag on 16 villages in Okuta, a border town in Baruten Local Government Area (LGA) of Kwara State, raising fears in the affected communities.

The reportedly affected villages include Ogomne, Bwin, Gandasunon, Kpuru and Woru Wuren Kparu.

Others are Ajuba1, Ajuba 2, Saka Yeruman Kparu, Monta, Dotin Kparu, Halidun Kparu, Yakubun Kparu, Sonsi, Gunosani, Alhaji Kparu, Yodo Mankparu and Simen Kparu.

The development has been confirmed by the Emir of Okuta,

Nigeria: Celebrating 2015 World Toilet Day

November 19th is the date the United Nations (UN) water and sanitation department, UN Water in collaboration with other health non-governmental organizations, sets aside each year since 2013 to celebrate World Toilet Day and to create awareness about the problem and provide solutions to tackle it. The importance of this day was realized when statistics showed nearly 1 in every 3 people in the world do not have access to a toilet, and is worse in countries of Sub-saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. This figure corresponds to nearly 2billion of the world's population.

The theme of this year's event is "We Can't Wait" which means advocates for easy access to clean and safe toilets cannot wait any longer for those that are supposed to provide the facilities,

Nigeria: Presidency Sets Conditions for Privatisation

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday said greater consideration would henceforth be given to the technical and managerial competence of prospective buyers of government-owned companies.

He said a higher premium would be placed on the technical competence and financial clout of bidders in future privatisation exercises to avoid the running aground of privatised companies by ill-equipped and incapable investors.

Buhari was speaking at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja,

Sultan Tasks Nigerian Leaders On Justice, Good Governance, As Fayose Decries Siege On Ex-NSA Dasuki

The Sultan of Sokoto and President, Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs , Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, has charged political office holders to see their respective positions as trust and not to pursue any selective agenda.
The Muslim leader said this became imperative to achieve and egalitarian society .

Alhaji Sa’ad charged Fayose to continue to carry the people along in
his leadership role and treat all ethnic nationalities and religious
organizations as equal entities, for the State and Nigeria to move to
a higher pedestal in all spheres.
“As leaders,

INTERVIEW-Nigeria hopes to reach rice mill deal with China by year-end

By Alexis Akwagyiram and Felix Onuah

ABUJA Nov 20 (Reuters) - Nigeria hopes to reach a deal with China within weeks to set up 40 rice mills, its new agriculture minister said, as part of plans to eliminate the need for any imports of the grain within two years.

Audu Ogbeh said in his first interview since taking office last week that Africa's top oil exporter wants to boost production of tomatoes, soy beans, nuts and plant two million cocoa trees to reduce an annual food import bill of $20 billion and create jobs for its impoverished youth.

President Muhammadu Buhari,

Nigeria hopes to reach rice mill deal with China by year-end

By Alexis Akwagyiram and Felix Onuah

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria hopes to reach a deal with China within weeks to set up 40 rice mills, its new agriculture minister said, as part of plans to eliminate the need for any imports of the grain within two years.

President Muhammadu Buhari,

Nigeria’s economic policy focuses on ordinary citizens: president

LAGOS, (Xinhua) -- The focus of Nigeria’s economic policy was to elevate the ordinary man through empowerment and poverty alleviation, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Tuesday.

He said this on Tuesday in Ibadan at the University of Ibadan’s 67^th Foundation Day and Award of Doctorate (PhD) degrees.

Buhari said the nation needed creativity and thinking to forestall the imminent collapse of her economy.

“In Nigeria,

Polokwane - A lingering mistrust between Home Affairs and the Nigerian embassy emerged behind the dock at the Polokwane Magistrate’s court on Friday.

A home affairs department official told the court,

Prof. Bola Akinterinwa, Director General, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, on Thursday noted that the 2015 general election was a critical period in the history of Nigeria.

Akinterinwa, who was Chief Returning Officer,

The Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room observing the governorship election in Kogi State has expressed concerns over the welfare of security personnel deployed for the election.

It also feared that the huge security deployment could become a state-motivated instrument for voter intimidation in Saturday’s election.

In its preliminary statement on the election on Friday,

CD condemns Igbos criticizing Biafra protest, calls on youths to shun Fr Mbaka Ministry

By Chimaobi Nwaiwu, Nnewi

As the tension caused by the activities of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB and Indigenous People Of Biafra, IPOB, refuse to die down in the South East part of Nigeria, the campaign for Democracy CD, has lashed out on some selfish Igbo elements who are crucifying the group for their peaceful approach to the demand for the actualization of Sovereign state of Biafra, to shut their mouth, if they do not know what to say.

CD through their South East Chairman,

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It is still not the best of times for Nigerian women, as over 40 of them die from breast cancer in the country daily. Martins Ifijeh writes on the anguish of breast cancer patients and what the government, stakeholders and citizens must do to stem the ravaging scourge

Adeolu squeezed herself into the long chair where her husband sat,

President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria

President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja Sunday for Tehran where he will participate in the 3rd Gas Exporting Countries’ Forum (GECF) opening in the Iranian capital on Monday, November 23, 2015.

President Buhari and the leaders of Iran,