From nothing to heroes

By Kehinde Ajose

Step away from the glamour and attention they garner whenever  they go, these crooners’ journey to stardom has been filled with bumps, detours , and tough times. Some of   them had to hawk on the streets to make ends meet, while others engaged in low paying jobs in order to sustain themselves.

Today, they are big, popular and living their dreams. Here are the stories of their pains, anguish, disappointments and triumphs:

DON JAZZY

Don Jazzy

 Micheal Collins Ajereh, the renowned  music producer and entrepreneur has had his own fair share of life’s hard knocks .According to him, when he began, his family moved to Ajegunle in Lagos where he sold akara and pap with his younger brother D’Prince.

In pursuit of his love for music, he found himself doing odd jobs in London in order to survive. He even got a job as a security man in one of the eateries there. The 31years old MARVIN boss is currently one of the most influential personalities in Nigeria’s entertainment sector and also a philanthropist  known for doling out gifts to his fans on the social media.

ICE PRINCE

Ice Prince

“Better cars, better clothes      on me. Better parties, better houses and better girls on me. See, I can take you there Champagne everywhere”. These are the opening lines of Ice Prince’s hit single, Superstar, where he raps about  his lifestyle as a superstar, saying cameras flash wherever he goes. But His life didn’t start out this way.

“I remember the first few months we got to Lagos. I used to sleep on the carpet and didn’t have a place to stay. It was Djinee who housed us. We came with him and it worked. The power to fight the fear of the unknown is what we had,” he declares.

MI

M.I

 Jude Abaga ,better known by his stage name, moniker. M.I has paid his dues when it comes to the pursuit of his passion for music and his determination to make something of his life.

Hear him: “I didn’t grow up as a rich kid and I wasn’t poor either. We weren’t middle class either. I think we were amongst the upper lower class. There were days we didn’t have

She (Adokiye) can never be a Virgin - OCHU JUACHI

AYO ONIKOYI of Showtime recently interviewed an Imo State Peace Ambassador and a Singer/Actress where she claimed to be a virgin and  how she is ready to give herself to the dreaded Boko Haram if they are ready to release the Chibok girls.

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AYO ONIKOYI

The way some people crave for attention these days is becoming so alarming. Everybody wants to be known, seen and heard by all means. If you know that you can’t remain in the corridor of fame, by impacting positively to the society and Nigeria at large then stop being famous.  These issues of Chiboks girl are now being used as a means of caricature by some people by using it to popularize themselves in the media. People who are virgins don’t go about announcing their virginity to whoever that cares to listen because it’s never a sermon. 

 

Adokiye

But now it seems Adokiye is ready to give her coveted virginity for free, to members of the dreaded

Boko Haram if they are ready to release the abducted Chibok girls in exchange. “ This is 11pm in the 

night and do you know what I am thinking about? Those little girls, where they are and what could

be happening to them. It is just unfair. They are too young. I wish I could offer myself in 

exchange,” she told Showtime.

When she was reminded that the girls could be making out time as sex slaves, the singer/actress 

retorted : “ They are between 12 and15 year old girls for Christ sake. I am older and more experienced.

Even if 10 to12 men have to take me every night, I don’t care. Just release these girls and let them go 

back to their parents.”

My question to this pop singer and Imo State Peace Ambassador Adokiye are: 

How can you be a virgin and yet be experienced?  How can you also handle about 10 to 12 men every night as a virgin? Where did she get her experience from? Who is fooling who? Is that the only way an ambassador of peace can preach peace to the society or is she trying to be more famous by her statements? Please, if you don’t have anything to offer us (Nigerians) as an ambassador of peace, just remain in your shell until you are ready to preach peace and tell us that you are truly am ambassador of peace as you were introduced. As far as am concern, you can never be a virgin.

Confab recommends death penalty for rapists of minors

*Others face life imprisonment

ABUA – THE National Conference has recommend death sentence to those found to have raped minors just as it recommended a life sentence to other rapists.

Delegates at Thursday’s plenary, while considering the report of the Conference Committee on Civil Society, Labour, Youths and Sports,chaired by Bola Ogunrinade,unanimously adopted the committee’s recommendation that death penalty be meted out to anyone found guilty of raping a minor.

They also unanimously agreed that any government official found guilty of embezzling public funds or monies meant for settling Pensioners be given  life imprisonment.

The conference also proposed 50 years imprisonment for any judicial officer found guilty of corruption or abuse of office and to be stripped of all official entitlements.

Abacha set to contest Kano governorship come 2015

By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor & Muhammad AbdulSalam

Mohammed Abacha

Kano— The Presidency may have finally cleared the coast for Mohammed Abacha, the son of late General Sani Abacha, to join forces with pro Jonathan supporters and win back Kano State for Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, next year.

Competent sources told Vanguard that Wednesday’s withdrawal of the N446.3 billion money laundering charge against Abacha was aimed at giving him a clean bill to be able to run as PDP gubernatorial candidate in the next election.

A close associate of the family admitted, yesterday, that the Abachas were very excited about the withdrawal of the case against Mohammed by the Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed Adoke, and that he would likely proceed with his gubernatorial campaign programme.

Some well wishers were also said to have stopped by on Wednesday and yesterday to congratulate Abacha and sympathise with him over his lingering trial by the government.

A top source in Kano explained, yesterday, that the......

Beverly Osu goes blonde, flaunts her bikini body on June cover of HOM

BBA 2013 contestant, actress and video vixen Beverly Osu looking like a bombshell on the June cover of House of Maliq magazine. The stunning beauty shows off her flawless physique in images shot by Aham Ibeleme. Continue to see pictures after the cut..... 

Military arrests 486 suspected Boko Haram members in Abia

 

Members of the suspected Boko Haram

According to a report by Guardian, not less than 486 suspected Boko Haram members including eight women were arrested by the military personnel of the 144 battalion of the Nigerian Army with base at Asa in Ukwa West council of Abia State. Full report below...

Abia State Information Commissioner, Chief Eze Chikamnayo, who took some reporters to the military camp yesterday to see the suspects said they were arrested around 3:00 a.m. on Sunday along Enugu-Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway at Arongwa area called Imo Gate, which is a boundary between Abia and Rivers states.

He said that the suspects whose ages were from 15 years were traveling on 35 buses from undisclosed northern states to the South South.  He said that they claimed to be going to search for jobs, adding that two of the buses later escaped. Continue...

The commissioner spoke in the presence of the Battalion Commander, Lt. Colonel Rasheed Omolori, whose only comment was that the report had already been sent to his headquarter.

It was also disclosed that somebody whose name was not made known, had come to secure the release of the suspects but was arrested and detained.

Reacting to the incident, the state Police Public Relations Officer ( PPRO),  Mr. Geoffery Ogbonna,  said  that  the matter was a military one and had not been reported to the police command. He said that when he contacted the Army Public Relations Officer in the state whose name he did not mention, he told him (PPRO)  that he was not yet aware of  the matter.

And following the bomb found on the premises and inside the Living Faith Church (a.k.a Winners Chapel), Port Harcourt Road, Owerri, capital city of Imo State, the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha,  in conjunction with security chiefs yesterday launched what he called “Operation Know Your Neighbour.”

The occasion was attended by a cross section of stakeholders in the state amid heavy security.

The meeting resolved as follows:
“. Hotels in the state should install security cameras and on daily basis always forward the list of their guests to the Director of SSS.
 “. Trailers bringing food items from the North would no longer be allowed to come into the state at night but only in the day, and the food items would be off-loaded at a designated place off the state capital.
 “. Residents in the state must also be careful with broken bottles, cans, leather bags, parked tankers and vehicles around their homes, public places and public buildings.
“.  Traditional rulers in the state were directed to summon emergency meetings of their various communities to take stock of strange faces living with them.
 “. Uncompleted buildings in the cities in the state and environs without security guards will be taken over by the government because criminals use them as hideouts.
“. Lands left fallow for several years and not used for any economic or gainful purpose but taken over by criminals will be seized by the government
“. Smoking of Indian hemp was also banned.
“.  A meeting of all non-indigenes in the state has also been fixed.”