Churches, Mosques should pay tax – Falana

Human Rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has canvassed that churches and mosques should begin to pay tax in the country.
Falana, who expressed worry about the role of religious bodies in the fight against corruption, spoke against the backdrop of the acquisition of a jet by the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, said to have been donated by the cleric’s church members.

Pictures from MTN Link Forum Abuja

MTN Link Forum held in Abuja on the 9th November 2012 was packed with different exciting features.  MTN Link Forum is a unique engagement platform that creates opportunities for young professionals and entrepreneurs to advance in a creative, engaging, informative, yet entertaining manner.

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Happy 45th birthday to Pasuma

 Fuji Musician, Wasiu Alabi Pasuma, turns 45 today, wishing in him more happy years ahead.

Actress Gloria Mba loses husband to make-up artiste, Thelma Ozy

                                  Gloria Mba and husband                                                  Thelma Ozy Nwosu

Story written by Stella Dimoko Korkus for Encomium Magazine. See it below...

This is another classic movie from Nollywood but this time the story and characters are real life and the story has branches. Sit back and enjoy the premiere of the movie entitled "Husband snatching na crime?"

Here it goes: Thelma is a pretty make-up artiste in Nollywood and the ex-girl friend of comedian and on-air radio personality, Steve Onu a.k.a Yaw.

A year ago, there was buzz online and in Nollywood that Thelma was dating A-list actor, Segun Arinze and almost crashed his marriage to Schlumberger lawyer Julie. Insiders confirmed it took prauerd and fasting to get Thelma off Segun's arms. This led to Yaw dumping Thelma. And as you read this, Yaw and Segun do not speak!

Oh naija!

Look at people hanging from a moving train around the Pen Cinema Agege area. Train coming from Agbado, crossing through Pen Cinema to Yaba, Iddo. Another photo after the cut...

Karrueche taunts Rihanna over Chris Brown photo

These two girls are still at it. Chris Brown must be really good in bed...cos I don't see why else they want to die there...hehe! Anyway, over the weekend Rihanna Tweeted a photo of Chris Brown lying in bed with no shirt on...and if Rihanna thought the picture would make Karrueche Tran jealous, Rihanna had another think coming...see what she did...

Gabriel Aubry was really battered! Gets restraining order

According to TMZ, Halle Berry's ex Gabriel Aubry has obtained a restraining order against her fiance Olivier Martinez, who busted his face during a brutal brawl on Thanksgiving ... and Gabriel's declaration (which includes graphic photos of his injuries) paints a radically different picture of what went down at Halle's on Thursday.

According to Gabriel's declaration, the day before Thanksgiving, Gabriel took Nahla to her school play.  Halle and Olivier showed up and Olivier walked up to Gabriel and whispered in his ear in French, "I wish I could beat the s**t out of you right now. You're lucky we're in a school right now. We're going to take Nahla right now and you're not going to follow us."

Davido set to launch clothing line - O.B.O

                                                           Good thing!

Meet Africa's Richest Woman - Mrs Folorunsho Alakija

Mrs Folorunsho Alakija used to be a designer back in the day, don't know if she still is. I modeled for her Rose of Sharon label for many years and she was such an incredibly pleasant woman to work with. Yes, I'm claiming...haha!

Anyway, she went into the oil business many years back; she has an oil bloc that pulls in N157 million a day. Yes, you read right! She is the Vice Chairman of Famfa Oil and Gas limited and has emerged the richest woman in Africa according to Forbes November 2012 edition, with a net worth of $600million, which is about N94 billion.

The 61 year old former FADAN president is married and has four boys.

"Uche Iwuji didn't use any love portion on me" - Juwon Lawal

There have been talks, you know, people just expressing their opinion, saying that the actress used some kind of love potion to get Juwon to marry her. I kinda find that ridiculous tho!

Anyway, Juwon says its a ridiculous notion...labeling those behind it as lazy and irresponsible.

"Our love is real and we're made for each other. I think I have told you this before. So, I don't know what could have informed this stupid rumour. I am too busy to be listening to such things. My concern is how to grow my business, not listening to such rubbish. Please forget about anything like that."

Uche Jombo reacts to plastic surgery rumours

                        Some people can be nosy sha!

Rihanna just can't keep her clothes on:-)

We all know Rihanna is a good girl gone bad, but sometimes the Barbadian beauty goes above and beyond her usual naughtiness. Do you think Rihanna's still red hot or has she completely burned out? From risque photo shoots to wearing nothing but body paint, check out the sexy singer's most Rated R moments ... Rihanna has nothing to hide! The sultry singer struck a sexy pose while standing topless in what appeared to be her London hotel room.This babe dey quarrel with clothes?

Miss Czech Republic Wins Miss Earth 2012

he 2012 Miss Earth pageant took place yesterday Saturday November 24 in Manila, Philippines. Miss Czech Republic (pictured above) won the pageant. She's gorgeous!

Actor Femi Brainard weds Top Radio presenter, Uche Nwokocha

Nollywood actor Femi Brainard wed his fiancee Uche Nwokocha, a producer and OAP with Top Radio (90.9 FM), last Saturday 24th of November 2012. The  traditional marriage took place in Imo state. Big congrats to them.More photos after the cut...

Guinness 'Fly With The Eagles' Media Launch

 Guinness Foreign Extra Stout has unveiled the ‘Fly with the Eagles’ campaign. It was a spectacular evening of fun, high emotions and re-enactment of fond, good football memories in Nigeria on Thursday at Eko Hotels and Suites. The hall came alive as football icons like J.J. Okocha, Kanu Nwakwo, Taribo West, Victor Ikpeba, Segun Odegbami, Stephen Amokachi, NFF vice president, Mike Umeh, Lagos State Commissioner for Sports, Enitan Oshodi and loads of other football lovers stormed the venue to join Guinness FES in building up support for the Eagles. It turned out to be a thrilling football themed evening.

Who is Nigeria's Most Stylish Actor?

Ramsey Noah, Joseph Benjamin, Mike Ezuruonye, Gideon Okeke? They were all nominated at this year's FAB awards. Who do you think should win?

Photos from Journey to Self movie premiere in Lagos

 The premiere held on Wednesday 21 November at the Silverbird Galleria in Lagos.More photos after the cut...

14 year old Favour Lucky wins Nigeria's Next Super Model 2012

The teenager beat 22 other contestants to emerge the winner of the 2012 Nigeria's Next Super Model contest which held yesterday Saturday 24th November at Oriental Hotel, Lagos. Not only did Favour get a mouth watering modeling contract, she also got a brand new Kia Rio. NNSM is organized yearly by Mrs Joan Okorodudu, owner of Isis Models.

Owning a private jet is a necessity, not a luxury" - Pastor Oritsejafor

Oritsejafor and wife

In this interview with Vanguard, CAN president Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor tells the story of how his Canadian-made Bombardier jet was acquired.

"I’m not ashamed to own a plane, I think it is a necessity and not a luxury for some of us deeply involved in the work of God to own planes.

See the full interview after the cut...

2face, Dbanj, DJ Jimmy Jatt and Neptune for Top10Mics this Friday

It will be an unusual atmosphere at the exquisite Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos this Friday, November 30, 2012 as an unusual music concert which has been tagged the mother of all shows, TOP10MICS takes place in style. 

Produced by entertainment powerhouse, Koga, the concert has been on the front burner these past few weeks as the organisers have been sharing with the public what to expect this Friday as African Queen Crooner, Tuface Idibia, Kokomaster, Dbanj, Afrobeat Icon, Femi Kuti, Juju Star, Sir Shina Peters, Ace Humorist, BasketMouth, popular OAP, Yaw, DJs Jimmy Jatt and Neptune get set to thrill the fans.

Chris Brown deletes Twitter account after battle with female writer

After an epic Twitter fight with comedy writer, Jenny Johnson, Chris Brown two days ago deleted his Twitter page.

It all started after Chris Brown Tweeted a picture of himself with the caption "I look old as f**k! I'm only 23...", Jenny replied to Chris' Tweet with, 

"I know! Being a worthless piece of s**t can really age a person."

What happened next was not pretty. See it after the cut...

"I never said I married my wife out of pity" - Joseph Benjamin

The actor said in an interview with Bella Naija a few days back that he married his wife after she got pregnant because he didn't want to have children out of wedlock...but people are interpreting that to to mean he married her out of pity. The actor is not happy about the latest insinuations. Read his tweets from down up...

See the rest of his Tweets and what he really said in the BN interview after the cut...

Cynthia Osokogu’s murder: court releases pharmacists

The two pharmacists arrested in connection with the July 22nd murder of Cynthia Osokogu have been released unconditionally by a court in Lagos. Maduakor Chukwunonso and Orji Osita (pictured above) who are pharmacists at Oxpharm Pharmacy where the drugs used in sedating Cynthia was bought, were released based on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution.

The Lagos High court ruled that “there was no evidence where the pharmacists had an agreement with the first and second defendants to kill the late Ms Osokogu."

Nigerian lady sentenced to 80 years in prison over deaths of toddlers in her care

 24 year old Nigerian/American woman, Jessica Tata, was sentenced to 80 years in prison on Monday November 20th after being found guilty of the death of one of four children killed in a fire at her home day care in Houston.

16-month-old Elias Castillo and three other toddlers died after Tata left them unsupervised at her home while she went to a nearby store. Prosecutors say she left a pan of oil cooking atop a stovetop burner and that this ignited the February 2011 blaze. There were 7 children when the fire started, four died, three survived.

Tata still faces three more counts of felony murder in relation to the other children who died, and three counts of abandoning a child and two counts of reckless injury to a child in relation to three who were hurt. So she will be getting more years added to the 80 as other cases come up.

Meet Mr World 2012

 Francisco Javier Escobar Parra from Colombia is the newly crowned Mr World 2012. The male pageant took place on Saturday 24th of November in Kent , United Kingdom. Hot or not? Another photo after the cut...

N5trillion Stolen Under President Jonathan - Punch Investigation

Over N5trillion in government funds have been stolen through fraud, embezzlement and theft since President Goodluck Jonathan assumed office on May 6, 2010, a SUNDAY PUNCH investigation has found.

Our correspondents arrived at the stolen sum after poring over the reports of the various committees set up by the President to probe some sectors of the economy, particularly oil and gas. SUNDAY PUNCH also relied on disclosures by some senior government officials.

Ouch, see what Olivier Martinez' fist did to Gabriel Aubry's face

  Halle Berry's current boo and her ex fought at her home a few days back. Both Gabriel and Olivier were treated for injuries in the emergency room and Gabriel was arrested for initiating the fight.Oliver has got a big fist, careful Gabriel you might not be this lucky next time, though i won't say this is luck.