BRT Burning: Army explains why Soldiers went on rampage

The scene of the carnage

More facts are beginning to emerge on the the hell that was let loose on Friday morning on the Ikorodu Road axis of Lagos State following the death of a soldier that was knocked down by a moving bus on the fleet of the Lagos State Government run Bus Rapid Transport (BRT). It was precipitated by a failed attempt by the driver to pick the soldier’s corpse and speed off with it.

SHOWBIZPLUSng gathered from a motorist at the scene of the incident that angered by the death of their colleague, some soldiers who witnessed the incident allegedly resorted to violence by venting their pain on any BRT vehicle in sight.

CJ Names 7-man Panel…As Nyako’s impeachment plot thickens

Nyako

SHOWBIZPLUSng gathered that in response to the directive earlier in the week by the Adamawa State House of Assembly, the state’s Acting Chief Judge, Justice Ambrose D. Mammadi, on Friday named a 7-man panel to investigate allegations of gross misconduct leveled against the embattled governor, Murtala Nyako and his deputy, James Ngilari, by the lawmakers.

Photo News: Excitement as NBC flags off Digital Switch Over (DSO) in Jos!

L-R: Plateau State Governor, Dr. David Jonah Jang, Elizabeth Amkpa, General Manager, GOtv and Emeka Mba, Director General, National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) during the flag-Off of the Jos Pilot City Digital Switch-Over (DSO) held at Eliel Centre, Jos, Plateau State...recently

Shocker! Music star, Lynxxx opens up on why he’s begging and dying to date Chidinma

Lynxx and Chidinma

Pepsi ambassador and ‘Change Your Parade’ crooner, Lynxx, in this explosive chat monitored by SHOWBIZPLUSng, has opened up on the many reasons he’s crazy about Kedike star, Chidinma and seriously begging to date the petite beauty. Enjoy the handsome singer in his own words. 

Everybody knows Lynxx as a musician, who exactly is Lynxx?

I am Chukie Edozien but popularly called Lynxx. Though from Asaba in Delta State, I was born and raised in Lagos. I attended Corona Primary School, Kings College Lagos and Reading University/Hull University, both in the UK, from where I bagged a degree in Business, Economics and Marketing. Lynxx is a very reserved and easy-going person. There is nothing new under the sun that I have not seen. There is no amount of money that would make me become somebody else. There is no car I would drive that would make me feel better than the next person because at the end of the day, those things are trivial. I have seen artistes come and go. I have seen artistes who were there before me but who are irrelevant now.

Juvelin Aripal endorses Nollywood Mirror

Aripal

The second edition of NOLLYWOOD MIRROR, one of the most widely circulated publications on Nollywood and the Nigerian film industry was designed by Juvelin T. Aripal, from Quezon City, the most populous area in Philippines and part of Metro Manila, where English is one of the official languages.

Going-Going! Adamawa Assembly fast tracks Nyako, Ngilari impeachments bid

Nyako

It was another devastating blow for embattled Murtala Nyako and his deputy as the impeachment process initiated by aggrieved lawmakers revved faster on Wednesday with the state House of Assembly of Adamawa State asking the Acting Chief Judge of the State, Justice Ambrose Mammadi, to constitute a Seven- Man investigative panel to probe the allegations against Governor Nyako and his deputy, Mr. Bala James Ngilari. The Acting CJ was given seven days to constitute the panel.

The directive followed two documents signed and verified by the Speaker, and the 20 out of the 25 lawmakers that resolved that Nyako and Ngilari be investigated by the panel to be constituted by the Chief Judge of Adamawa State with immediate effect.

Terror Funding: Fears as US set to probe Nigerian banks

CBN head office

It has now been confirmed that BNP Paribas’ guilty plea and agreement to pay nearly $9 billion for violating U.S. sanctions is part of a larger U.S. Justice Department shift in strategy that is expected to snare more major banks and other firms across the financial food chain.
The latest admission of guilt by BNP Paribas may have triggered a fresh enthusiasm on the US Justice Department to also extend its investigations to Africa especially among big banks on the continent with strong international links.
Some Nigerian banks, according to US sources, are under the searchlight of the Department in the wake of growing terror insurgency in the country now rated the largest economy in Africa by GDP. Specifically, the banks are being investigated to establish their links, if any, with funding of the various terror cells across the continent particularly Boko Haram.

Photo of the day: Charly Boy Again...See the costume he wore to his dad's funeral mass

Charly Boy and his ladies  inside the church

Chidinma, Timaya, Mavin Crew, Oritse Femi, others wow Lagosians at Project Fame Concert

 

Oritse Femi thrilling at the concert

SHOWBIZPLUSng can authoritatively report that it was turbo-charged at the MTN Project Fame All Star Concert that took place at the LTV Blue Roof Arena, in Lagos, over the weekend.

Eye-witness reports confirmed that Timaya posted one of his best performances so far; Chidinma Ekile dazzled the audience, Banky. W rocked, Oritse Femi tickled, Praiz elated; The Mavins made their presence felt, Kcee mesmerised and Olawale Ojo, winner of Project Fame 6, thrilled his fans. The crowd stood up for great showmanship and applauded the extraordinary giftedness of the artistes that graced the All-Stars stage.

Crashed marriage update: Angry father in-law lambasts Uche Ogbodo, calls her pathological liar without a conscience

Uche Ogbodo

More dirty facts are currently unfurling in the messy and inglorious fight involving controversial actress Uche Ogbodo and her estranged hubby, Ato.

SHOWBIZPLUSng can authoritatively report that this is coming few days after the shocking news of the sudden collapse of Ogbodo’s 10 months old marriage.

The angry and disappointed family of her estranged hubby has come out in the open to accuse the heavily pregnant actress of telling lies and crying wolf where none existed.

Her father-in-law, Pastor Ato recently came out in rescue of his ailing son and described Ogbodo as a liar without remorse and conscience.

DStv unveils July highlights

Below are the bumper highlights for the month of July as unveiled by DStv in a press statement sent to SHOWBIZPLUSng

Police arrest French President

Sarkozy

 Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday became the first former French president to be taken into formal custody as he was detained for questioning in an influence-peddling probe.

Sarkozy turned himself in, arriving at a police station in the western Paris suburb of Nanterre around 8:00 am (0600 GMT) in a black saloon car with tinted windows.

He can be held for questioning for a first period of up to 24 hours, with a possible extension of another day. He must then be brought before a judge to be charged or be released.

The detention of Sarkozy, a right-winger who led France from 2007 to 2012, comes a day after investigators took his longtime lawyer Thierry Herzog and two magistrates into custody.

It is the latest in a long line of legal woes for the 59-year-old since he left office following his defeat by President Francois Hollande in the 2012 presidential vote.

Umaru Dikko dies at 78

Dikko

Former controversial Minister of Transportation during the Second Republic, Umaru Dikko, is dead.

He died in the early hours of Tuesday in a London Hospital at the age of 78.

Dikko, until his death, was the Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party.

He, however, did not function well in the position as a result of his ill health.

Jos agog as Emeka Mba-led NBC flags off Digital Switch Over (DSO)

From Left: Mba, Gov Jang and Maku during the flag off of the DSO, which was performed by Jang

From Left: Mba, Gov. Jang, Maku listening with rapt attention on how the DSO works from an official of NBC

Dignitaries on the high table, including Mba and Maku, (R), on the high table

History was recently made when the nation’s apex broadcast regulator, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), under the visionary and cerebral leadership of Mr. Emeka Mba flagged off the pilot scheme of the much-talked about Digital Switch Over (DSO) from analogue to digital terrestrial television transmission in line with global best practices.

The classy, colourful and high-octane ceremony, which held at the upscale Eliel Centre, Gold and Base, Jos, Plateau State, on June 30, 2014, was specially graced by eminent Nigerians alongside the who is who in the nation’s broadcast industry, this SHOWBIZPLUSng can authoritatively report.

In his keynote address, history-making Mba, who was hugely hailed by all the dignitaries that spoke at the epoch making event, thanked the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government for approving the process of the switch over and equally setting a deadline of January 1, 2015, as the switch off date.

On why Jos, the capital of Plateau was chosen as the city for the pilot flag off, Mba said it was because of its compactness and accessibility.

Jubilation as Army arrests Ya’ari, B’Haram leader who led abduction of Chibok School Girls…Female armourer also nabbed

Ya'ari and some of the abducted girls

A leading member of the popular Civilian JTF in Borno State and undercover agent for Boko Haram, Babuji Ya’ari, has fallen into the net of the Nigerian troops amid jubilations by indigenes.

Director of Defence Information, Maj-Gen. Chris Olukolade, said in a statement obtained by SHOWBIZPLUSng on Monday that Ya’ari was a top member of the terrorists’ intelligence cell.

 He said Ya’ari, who is also a businessman, participated actively in the abduction of School Girls in Chibok.

He also said Ya’ari had been using his membership of the Civilian JTF as cover while remaining an active terrorist, also spearheaded the murder of the Emir of Gwoza.  “His main role in the group is to spy and gather information for the terrorists group,” he added.