UK Government backs down on £3,000 visa bonds

Great news people of Nigeria! The UK government has announced plans to cancel the £3,000 cash bond that visitors from 'high risk' countries, including Nigeria, were to put up to enter Britain. Below is the latest update from The Sunday Times UK..

The government is to abandon a controversial plan to impose £3,000 immigration bonds on visitors from “high-risk” countries in Africa and Asia after Nick Clegg threatened to block the policy.

The move will be seen by Labour as a humiliating U-turn for Theresa May, the home secretary. It came after David Cameron backed off from a full-scale confrontation with the Liberal Democrat leader, who was blocking the scheme’s progress through cabinet.

A pilot project to target visitors from seven countries — including India, Pakistan and Nigeria — who would have had to pay a cash guarantee or deposit to deter immigration abuse was to have been introduced this month.

The plan was to make visitors forfeit £3,000 if they failed to return home by the time their visas had expired. But in an announcement this weekend the government said it was canceling the plans

Tiwa Savage is pregnant? Flaunts growing baby bump

Tiwa Savage was spotted at Annie Idibia's baby shower yesterday with her own bump. TeeBillz and Tiwa Savage will be getting married traditionally this month. Just check out her growing bump. See another pic when you continue...

PSquare at the presidential villa in Port-Harcourt

Peter Okoye posted pictures of himself and his brother at the presidential villa in Port-Harcourt on his instagram page, where they were hosted when they went for the burial ceremony of Patience Jonathan's mum's burial in Okrika Rivers State yesterday. #choppinglife! More photos after the cut...

Oge Okoye, Rita & Ebube Nwagbo's outfits to Nollywood at 20 event

Check out Rita Dominic, Ebube Nwagbo and Oge Okoye's sexy outfits to the Association Of Movie Practitioners (AMP) Nollywood At 20 event. The event is happened last night at Intercontinental Hotel in Lagos.

Annie Idibia'a baby shower (Photos)

The baby shower held yesterday at Annie's home. More photos after the cut...

Photos: Ethiopian nude fat men competes for "MR FAT"

Ethiopia's Bodi or Me'en people, bigger is always better. The tribe, which lives in a remote corner of Ethiopia's Omo Valley, is home to an unusual ritual which sees young men gorge on cow's blood and milk in a bid to be crowned the fattest man.
Six months after starting the regime, the men emerge to show off their newly engorged physiques and for a winner to be chosen. The champion fat man is then feted as a hero for the rest of his life.

Also their women use the ceremony to inspect potential future husbands because in the Bodi tribe, fat is considered extremely attractive. Haha! See more photos after the cut...

Photos from Cossy Orjiakor's birthday party

The actress and singer celebrated her birthday party on the 16th of Oct and the House of maflex hosted her at Troy club. See more photos after the cut...

Reno Omokri vs Atiku's former political adviser, Bashir Yusuf

Reno Omokri is special assistant to the president on new media while Mallam Bashir Yusuf is former VP Atiku Abubakar's political adviser and chairman of the Peoples Democratic Movement, PDM. The two men went at each other on Twitter last night over President Jonathan's Jerusalem Pilgrimage. See their tweets after the cut...

Photos from Prince's star studded 27th birthday party

Rapper Ice Prince turned 27 on October 30th and his management team and record label, Chocolate City, hosted him to a lavish party at Spice Bar in Victoria Island, Lagos. It was a star-studded party as his friends from the entertainment industry and media came out to celebrate with him.

Guests at the party included Audu Maikori, Iyanya, Lynxx, Naeto C, Dammy Krane, Chopstix, Loose Kaynon, DJ Sambo, Kid Konnect, DJ Spinall, DJ Obi, Grip Boiz, Toolz, Sexy Steel, Ubi Franklin, Emma Nyra and many others. See more photos from the event after the cut...

Seun Kuti on Aviation Minister's car scandal

Correct!

The heartbreaking poem a 14 year old girl wrote before she killed herself

Izzy Dix (pictured above), a gifted pupil who had ambitions to go to Oxford University, took her own life after complaining she could no longer cope with being bullied, both at school and online.

‘Izzy would come home and sob in my arms" Her mother Gabbi said "They called her “ugly”, “freak”, “frigid”. If she put her hands up in class, she’d be labelled a “swot” and they’d snigger at her, or make crude comments. They’d exclude her from events, tell her to go home, she wasn’t wanted. They’d turn their backs on her, literally. When she did come home, it didn’t stop, because it doesn’t, these days. They name-called her by text, then online. She’d log onto Facebook and get abuse. Then onto that awful site Ask.fm and be subjected to filth."

14 yr old Izzy committed suicide on September 17th. Her mother explained what happened that night

"When she came home from school that night, she seemed tired and a bit cranky. We had words because I wanted to watch The Great British Bake Off and she didn’t. But there was nothing to suggest she was going to do what she did. I remember she painted her nails - she was so meticulous about how she looked - then went up to her room and did her homework, had a shower, got her bag ready for school, laid out her uniform. I popped in and we had another chat about how the bullying was getting on top of her. It was nothing we hadn’t done 100 times before, and I’d always give her the talk about how she was stronger than the bullies.

 ‘Then I went downstairs while she got ready for bed. I had a cup of tea and a cigarette — she hates me smoking so I did it outside. I was gone 15 minutes, tops. In that 15 minutes my life was destroyed.’

Nollwood Marketers ban Mercy Johnson for being too expensive

Nollwood marketers have banned actress Mercy Johnson Okojie for being too expensive. Doesn't make sense does it? If someone's fees is too high, the sensible thing to do would be to boycott them and use less expensive actresses. Leave her to those who can afford her, abi?

Mercy Johnson is currently the highest paid actress in Nollywood. She charges between N1.8million to N2m to feature in a movie. The others, like Ini and Funke charge between N700k to N1.2million.

Actress Bimbo Thomas says she regrets sending nude pics to ex-lover

Bimbo Thomas granted an interview recently to The Nollywood Reporter, where she admitted sending nude photos to a married ex-lover. Bimbo says it's one the big mistakes of her life.

“Yes, I have been in love before and I have been involved in relationships I thought was love but wasn’t.. There was this relationship I thought would lead to the altar. I was committed to it and the guy was committed too but it still didn’t work out. We are still friends though. When I came out of that relationship, I didn’t want to date again. I just wanted to be left alone but you know women and love; I found another guy, he was the kind of guy one will call a gentleman. I fell in love with him; I could do anything for him. I even made a mistake that still tugs at my conscience till date; I sent him my nude photos.

Looking back now, it was one mistake too many especially when I realized the guy was deceiving me as he was married with children. I cried and cried! I almost gave up on everything thing but God kept me.”

3 men gang rape 15 year old girl in Lagos

Three men have allegedly gang-raped a 15-year old girl at the Ikorodu area of Lagos, as the police are alleged to be threatening the victim’s parents to settle the matter out of court.

The state government had earlier blamed the police for frustrating rape cases by threatening victims and their families to withdraw their cases. Two of the men have been arraigned at one of the newly established Family Courts in Ikeja for allegedly raping the girl.

The suspects are being tried by the Lagos State Office of the Public Defender, OPD, while the third suspect is still at large. It was learnt that the victim was lured to No 23, Fola Mustapha Street, in Ajegunle area of Ikorodu by her classmate (name withheld), a 16-year old girl, on the pretext that she wanted to return a text book which she had earlier borrowed from the victim.

Beverly Osu and her best friend Charity Owoh fall out over BBA Bimp

Beverly Osu and her best friend Charity Owoh are no longer friends. Heard they are currently sworn enemies...and it all has to do with one gorgeous man, Big Brother Africa contestant Bimp Habesh from Ethiopia. Beverly and Charity fell out after Charity began to pursue Bimp who has been staying more in Nigeria since the reality show ended a few more months ago. Charity went as far as introducing Bimp to her mum and let everyone know she was interested in him. Then came Beverly, who also started showing interest in Bimp. Remember she confessed her feelings to Bimp in the Big Brother house but Bimp told her he had a girlfriend and Bev subsequently turned to Angelo.

The two friends first fell out after Charity allegedly told Angelo (when he was in Nigeria) that Beverly still had a thing for Bimp, and after Angelo left, things became really heated between the former BFFs. Beverly felt betrayed that her best friend not only ratted her out but also went after Bimp knowing how she felt about him. Heard that one of them even went as far as opening a twitter account to attack the other, and the other one got so depressed about the situation (because all their friends supported the other) that she 'contemplated' suicide.

Bimp is currently not dating any of the girls. He might not even know that they are fighting over him.

Kim and Kanye West suing Youtube co-founder over engagement leak

Days after Kanye West staged his elaborate proposal to Kim at San Francisco's AT&T Park in front of family and friends on her 33rd birthday, video footage of the event surfaced online. Kim & Kanye are now suing the person who leaked the video.

According to reports, Kim and Kanye have filed a copyright lawsuit against the co-founder of Youtube, Chad Hurley, claiming he crashed their party uninvited and taped and released footage of the proposal after signing an agreement promising not to after he was allowed to stay and witness the proposal. The are seeking unspecified damages. You can watch the engagement video after the cut..

Photos: Patience Jonathan's foster mother's funeral service

Patience Jonathan's foster mum was buried today in Okrika in Rivers State. President Jonathan, VP Namadi Sambo, Governor Goodswill Akpabio, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, Governor Theodore Orji and several prominent Nigerians were at the burial. See more photos when you continue...

Rochas Okorocha appoints singer Adokiye Youth Ambassador in Imo

This governor Rochas and female entertainers sha...hehe. Months after appointing actress and model Shirley Igwe as his Principal Protocol, he has appointed another female entertainment. Singer and architect Adokiye Kyrian was recently made a youth ambassador in Imo State. The 'Back Up' crooner is also the project co-ordinator of 'The Youth Decides". Adokiye and her team flew government private jet during their visit to the Imo state government. More photos after the cut...

Toke Makinwa says she & Maje Ayida are engaged but they are too busy to plan a wedding

On The Genevieve Magazine Show on Igroove radio, OAP personality Toke Makinwa talks about being engaged to her man of eight years, Maje Ayida and says the reason they are yet to get married is because of their busy schedule. Toke said:

"We've been together on/off for about eight years. We got engaged this year. And we were supposed to get married this year as well but I think it's the scheduling. Our schedules gotten so busy. Everyone says to me, just do it already. We map out some time to plan and then we get carried away..

She also talks about her accent and shares her opinion on bleaching. Watch the video after the cut...

Photos: Iyanya's star studded 27th birthday party

Don Jazzy, Dr Sid, Jude Okoye, Timaya, May D, Naeto C, Kay Switch, Teebillz, Freeze of Cool FM and many other stars attended the 27th birthday party of Iyanya which held last night in Lekki Phase 1. Oh, and if you shine your eyes very well, you will see HER in the pics. See more pics after cut...

Check out photos of Joseph Benjamin working out

Check out Joseph Benjamin getting all sweaty and stuff during work out! Hmmm....

New Music: Sean Tizzle - Komole

New music from fast rising music star, Sean Tizzle. This one is called Komole. Listen below...

Nicki Minaj posts semi-nude pics on instagram

Ours celebs and nudity sha! Una see where Maheeda dey learn bad bad thing? But the body on Nicki tho...See more photos after the cut...

Nollywood celebs at Patience Jonathan's mum's Service of Songs

The First Lady's foster mum's service of songs held yesterday in Okrika Rivers State and quite a number of our Nollywood celebs including Nkem Owoh, Patience Ozokwor, Jennifer Eliogu, Onyeka Onwenu, Chinedu Ikedieze, and Ebube Nwagbo, attended. Ebube shared some pics on her Twitter page. See more photos after the cut...

Stella Oduah faces House Committee hearing over car scandal (Photos)

Embattled Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah today faced House Committee Hearing over the BMW car scandal. More photos and read a transcript of what was said at the hearing after the cut...

Iyanya gets $25k Rolex watch from his manager, and world's most expensive perfume from girlfriend

Singer Iyanya today got a $25, 000 Rolex watch from his manager and partner, Ubi Franklin as a birthday present. He also got one of the world's most expensive perfumes from his current girlfriend. See the photos after the cut...

MBGN Universe Stephanie Okwu stuns in white bikini

First runner-up Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria Stephanie Okwu is currently in Russia for the Miss Universe pageant. You can go here to vote for her

Check out Iyanya's x-rated birthday cake

OMG! That's one super hot cake! Iyanya got this 'explicit' birthday cake from his manager Ubi Franklin and the entire Made Men Music Group team. This is the sexiest cake I've ever seen. Hehe!

A woman caught with dead day old baby in sack in Lagos

A 40-year old widow named Mujidat was caught yesterday Wednesday October 30th with a dead day old baby she hid inside a sack around her residence at at the Iba area of Lagos, PM News reports.

It was gathered that a member of the community, High Chief Babatunde Balogun caught the mother of seven when she was trying to dispose the baby at about 5 p.m. on Wednesday. When questioned on the content of the sack, she claimed she was coming from the market where she bought some household items.

However, on a closer look, Balogun discovered that the sack contained a dead day old baby the woman allegedly had just delivered. He then called the attention of the other residents. Neighbours told P.M News that after Mujidat’s husband known as Baba Mushin died about three years ago, they have seen men visiting her residence, the house built by her late husband.

Photos: Iyanya spends birthday at Ikoyi prisons, performs with inmates

 

Superstar Iyanya celebrated his birthday today with a visit to Ikoyi Prisons. The singer who just turned 27 was welcomed warmly by the DCP Bamidele and the community; he proceeded into the correctional facility where he spoke with the inmates.

Highlights of the visit included his performance with the talented intimates. Iyanya also pledged to build a recording studio in the establishment for the musically inclined inmates. See more photos after the cut...