Photos: Fayemi & wife spent N100m on their bedrooms – Fayose's aide claims

Photos: Fayemi & wife spent N100m on their bedrooms – Fayose's aide claims

New governor of Ekiti state Ayo Fayose has accused former governor Kayode Fayemi of spending a whooping N50million on beds in his and his wife's bedroom at the Ekiti State Govt House which they recently vacated. (one of the beds pictured above). The new governor claimed that between Fayemi and his wife, what was spent on their bedrooms, toilets and bathrooms will be in the region of N100m

Fayose made this accusation in a statement that was released yesterday October 20th by his Special Assistant Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka. The new governor described the newly built Government House in the state as a show of wickedness to Ekiti people, many of whom cannot afford to feed once a day. See photos of the Government House and an official statement sent to LIB after the cut...

Nigerian Law School students release statement, say their DA lied

Nigerian Law School students release statement, say their DA lied

Some students of the Nigerian Law School have responded to the statements made by the Director of Administration of the Law School yesterday (read here), calling it appalling, contradictory and a blatant lie. They have written to explain some facts that they say are easily evidenced by the law school records. Find the statement below...

The Nigerian Law School has issued a statement in the media claiming that the mass failure of the 2014 results is a lie. It is so unfortunate that an institution like the Nigerian Law School and its new acting DG cannot even stand by their actions and tell the truth. 

The Nigerian law school is meant to be an institution that breeds future legal practitioners and Judges of this great country. The mass failure of 5800 students is no joke and cannot be kept hidden.

Total's chairman/CEO Christophe de Margerie dies in plane crash

Total's chairman/CEO Christophe de Margerie dies in plane crash

Christophe de Margerie, the Chairman and CEO of giant oil company, Total, died in plane crash last night October 20th in Russia. He was 63.

According to a statement released by airport authorities early this morning, de Margerie's private plane collided with a snowplow on the runway of Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow as it was accelerating for takeoff just a few minutes before midnight. They also said in the statement that the driver of the snowplow was intoxicated. The business jet's three crew members also died.

The chief executive who was based in Paris, France had gone t to Russia to attend a meeting of corporate executives with Prime Minister Dmitri A. Medvedev and was returning to Paris when the accident occurred. He is survived by a wife and children. May his soul rest in peace...amen.

Newly married Dr Sid and wife exchange love messages on twitter

Newly married Dr Sid and wife exchange love messages on twitter

Dr Sid responded to the recent MTN Pulse competition where people are asked to say what makes them pulse. He chose his wife as what makes him pulse and then nominated Banky W and Davido to say theirs. His wife Simi responded with a loving message of her own. Too sweet!

Pics: Tiwa Savage, Don Jazzy meet Manchester University Students

Pics: Tiwa Savage, Don Jazzy meet Manchester University Students

Tiwa Savage, Don Jazzy, Dr Sid and other Mavin artists met with students of Salford and Manchester University yesterday October 20th ahead of their UK concert tonight at the Ritz in Manchester. See more pics after the cut...

Photo credit: Daniel Sync/Sync PR

Singer Harrysong poses next to a pile of cash

Singer Harrysong poses next to a pile of cash

He shared the pics on his instagram page and wrote "Me and best friend (money)"

Countdown to AY's '30 Days In Atlanta' premiere on Oct 31st begins

Countdown to AY's '30 Days In Atlanta' premiere on Oct 31st begins

The much anticipated AY’s All-Star Cast and BON Award winning Comedy Movie of the Year ‘30 Days In Atlanta’ is finally set premiere at Silverbird Cinemas with a release to other Cinemas across the nation on Friday October 31, 2014.

Photo: JJ Okocha and wife loved up as they celebrate her birthday

Photo: JJ Okocha and wife loved up as they celebrate her birthday

Today is Jay Jay Okocha's wife's birthday...and the ex-footballer invited close friends to their home this afternoon to celebrate with them. Jay Jay has been married to Nkechi Okocha for 17 years and they have two children together.

Fantasia's husband gets massive tattoo of her name on his chest

Fantasia's husband gets massive tattoo of her name on his chest

Some of you may not already know this but American Idol winner and popular US singer Fantasia secretly married a guy named Kendall Taylor a few weeks ago. To show his love for his new wife, Kendall tattooed her name across his heart. Hope they stay together forever...because that tattoo will be painful to remove if things don't work out.

Fantasia is currently in court with her first baby daddy, Brandel J. Shouse, who wants custody of their 13 year old daughter, Zion. She also has a son with former married boyfriend, Antwaun Cook.

Oh dear! Check out Blac Chyna's outfit to Amber Rose birthday party

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Oh dear! Check out Blac Chyna's outfit to Amber Rose birthday party

Amber Rose celebrated her 31st birthday last night and threw a costume party at a mansion in LA which was attended by a lot of her friends including Chris Brown, Karrueche Tran, and Blac Chyna. And that's the costume Blac Chyna, who recently split from rapper, Tyga, chose. A sheer nun's outfit. Choi! See more photos from the fancy dress party after the cut...

Friday, October 17, 2014 Entertainers are going into politics for money – Clarion Chukwurah

9ice, Desmond Elliot, Kate Henshaw, Kenneth Okonkwo are a few of Nigerian entertainers who have gone into politics and actress Clarion Chukwurah thinks its because of money. Speaking exclusively to Punch, Clarion said a lot of these entertainers want to go into politics because they are not making that much money from their vocations.

"The motive of those who are embracing partisan politics is purely monetary. Let us call a spade a spade. If you tell me that you want to go into politics to serve the people, I would want to look at your record first. I want to see what you have done to better the lives of the people in your immediate community. How many boreholes have you sunk in the community? How many hours of community service have you given for free over the last four or five years? How well are you known as somebody who yearns for improvement in social development?”

Clarion also criticized the leadership of the AGN. Ibinabo Fiberesima was re-elected AGN president yesterday

“I said earlier that I wanted to take charge of the AGN because I saw that those who were running the body lacked the experience necessary to turn it around and to change the face of the film industry. It was clear that those in charge had not real agenda for the guild and they didn’t know what to do to turn it around.

“Also, I observed that some people already felt that being in charge was the same thing as being in a position to hobnob with top politicians in the corridors of power and to get money from various interest groups in the country. And there was so much desperation on the part of the leadership of the guild to hold on to power because they see their position as a platform to make money.”

Friday, October 17, 2014 Nigerian campuses to enjoy lowest data, call & SMS rates as MTN relaunches iPulse

With the increasing desire among youth, especially students in Nigeria tertiary institutions, to have access to faster and affordable connectivity, through voice and data services, MTN has repackaged its iPulse offering to match the popular yearnings among the population. This is seen as an improvement of the Pulse introduced a couple of years ago as it gives special priority to ‘iPulse Zones’, in other words, all campuses in Nigeria. 

According to Bayo Adekanmbi, the Chief Marketing Officer of the telecommunications and ICT company, “through the iPulse, MTN has now made it easier for students in the tertiary institutions to access data and call services at the most affordable price ever on any network in the country”.

“At 11kobo per second to any network in Nigeria, after the first minute, and N2 SMS rate in addition to free megabytes and access to social networking apps including Facebook, students will be able to derive maximum satisfaction from every recharge within the campus environment”, he added.

Consequently, university campuses in all regions in the country will now be optimised on the network coverage to give students increased access to better connectivity which will support academic and social activities within the school environment.

The MTN iPulse offering was introduced three years ago to facilitate seamless connectivity among the youth community. It has now been repackaged to meet current trends, especially the demand for easy-on-the-pocket data connectivity to surf the internet and keep pace with global advancement in technology and maintain relevance on the social media. To make it easier for the students, the subscription code still remains the same. By dialing *406#, any student can access the most affordable call and data service ever on the campus

Friday, October 17, 2014 Gov Rotimi Amaechi insults Nollywood practitioners to their faces, says they are products of circumstances

This would have been funny if it wasn't pathetic. According to a few Nollywood practitioners who were present at the Best of Nollywood Awards, which held last night in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, the governor of the state Rotimi Amaechi practically insulted Nollywood practitioners to their faces.

According to a source who reached out to LIB, during his speech at the award after he gave veteran actress Liz Benson a Lifetime Achievement Award, Governor Rotimi said that people in Nollywood are products of circumstances/necessity. He said that the only reason they are in Nollywood is because they couldn't find other jobs, that if they had, they won't be actors. Rotimi said these actors studied sciences, law, medicine etc but because they couldn't find jobs, they embraced Nollywood.


Present when he said this were Nollywood veterans including Liz Benson, Kenneth Okonkwo, Shola Sobowale, Desmond Elliot, Moses Inwang, Dickson Iroegbu, Bob-manuel Udokwu, Patience Ozokwor, Elvis Chuks, AY, Iyabo Ojo, Emem Isong and many others.

Governor Rotimi also put two veteran actresses on blast. He told the crowd that he gives Joke Silva and Kate Henshaw bags of money whenever they come to Rivers state. And then claimed he was the one who encouraged Kate Henshaw to go into politics.

Like that wasn't enough, Governor Amaechi then said he went into politics for money.

Some of the Nollywood practitioners are angry about what the governor said and have asked the AGN to make sure it doesn't happen again.