Murder at the Synagogue: Joshua to appear before Collapsed Building Panel Nov. 5

The collapsed Synagogue building, inset, Joshua

The founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophet Temitope Joshua, will on Nov. 5 appear before a coroner’s inquest investigating the recent collapse of its guest house.
The Lagos State Coroner, Mr. Oyetade Komolafe, announced Joshua’s appearance on Friday at the resumption of the inquest at an Ikeja High Court.

Ronke Oshodi-Oke delves into music, features Oritse Femi, 9ice, Pasuma in debut album

Oshodi Oke

 It is no longer news that several Nollywood stars are fast experimenting with music.

What is perhaps news and trending is that popular Yoruba thespian, Ronke Oshodi-Oke has equally caught the music bug and is raring to go.
The busty entertainer is now ready to drop her debut single, after which the full album will be officially launched on November 16, 2014, amid glitz and grandeur.

Murder at the Synagogue: Death toll hits 80...TB Joshua reluctant to release names of victims

TB Joshua and the collapsed building

Six days after a five-storey building used as guest house by the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN collapsed, killing scores of persons and injuring several others, the church was yet to produce names of  lodgers in the building.
Although the South African government had Tuesday claimed that 67 of its citizens perished in the collapsed building but rescue operators are faced with the challenge of identifying the nationalities of the dead and survivors, owing to what they alleged as reluctance from SCOAN to produce the names.
Besides, indication emerged that some countries, among which is Australia, have been calling in to ascertain the plight of their citizens feared might be victims.
Death toll now 80
This is as the death toll rose to 80 yesterday with the recovery of additional 17 victims comprising 12 women and five men, with the number of survivors still 131.

Murder at the Synagogue: Entertainers condemn TB Joshua...Want government to shut down church

Joshua

Angry and disappointed entertainers have come out to openly condemn and berate Prophet TB Joshua following the recent tragedy that killed hundreds of people when a two storey building that was being raised to six storey collapsed at the Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) in Ikotun, Lagos State.

The building, which collapsed last week belongs to the embattled and controversial preacher from Ondo State. 

 They also castigated TB Joshua for the tragedy, which they said was avoidable. The mourning entertainers also called on the government to sanction the church and its leaders for negligence and waste of innocent lives by shutting it down indefinitely.

Below are their reactions:

$9.3m cash private jet scandal: Group calls for immediate arrest of Oritsejafor

Oritsejafor and his seized private jet

While joining millions of Nigerians in condemning the illegal operation and the suspicious handling of a purported arms purchase, the Buhari Vanguard, has called for the immediate arrest and subsequent prosecution of the president of Christians Association of Nigeria (CAN), pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, whose private jet was used to smuggle the sum of $9.3m cash into South Africa for an alleged arms buying deal. The group further alleged that the weaponry was to be purchased for use by terrorists, pirates, and other militants in the Niger Delta. The statement also charged that this move might be a political ploy to malign the 2015 presidential election, given the relationship between Pastor Oritsejafor and President Jonathan.

In a statement obtained by SHOWBIZPLUSng, the Chairman of The Buhari Vanguard, Jasper Azuatalam, demanded that Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor be arrested for his involvement in the South African arms smuggling operation that was foiled, when two Nigerians and an Israeli man were stopped in South African with close to $10million in cash.

Murder at the Synagogue: Zuma says 67 South Africans killed in TB Joshua’s church building collapse

Joshua

South Africa’s president announced Tuesday that 67 of his compatriots were among scores of worshippers killed in the collapse of embattled TB Joshua’s Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN).

Declaring his nation in grief, Jacob Zuma said he was “greatly saddened to announce that 67 South Africans died and scores of others sustained injuries,” when a church hostel building collapsed in Lagos on Friday.

The tally of South African dead exceeds the previous toll of 62 thought dead in the disaster, a grim signal that the number of fatalities is likely to rise.

Update: Murder at the Synagogue: Anger, condemnation as death toll now 60, 131 alive

Joshua

 The death toll from the building collapse at the Synagogue Church of all Nations has been put at 60, even as anger and condemnation continued to trail the avoidable deaths of innocent Nigerians.

This figure was made available this morning by the spokesperson of the National Emergency Management Agency, Ibrahim Farinloye, this SHOWBIZPLUSng can authoritatively report.

Dimgba Igwe: New Lagos CP says killer won’t escape justice

Igwe

With family, friends, associates, colleagues and Nigerians still mourning, the new Lagos State Commissioner of Police (CP), Kayode Aderanti, has vowed that the hit-and-run driver, who killed the Associate Publisher of Entertainment Express and Sunday Express Newspapers, Pastor Dimgba Igwe, will be brought to justice.

80th Birthday: Jonathan hails Igbinedion’s accomplishments

Jonathan and Igbinedion

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has commended Chief Gabriel Igbinedion’s life of uncommon accomplishments.

In a congratulatory letter addressed to the Esama of Benin Kingdom on the occasion of his 80^th birthday anniversary, tomorrow, President Jonathan, in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati and sent to SHOWBIZPLUSng, also praised his trail-blazing achievements in several fields of human endeavour.

“Come the 11^th of September 2014, you will be marking your landmark 80^th birthday anniversary of a life of uncommon accomplishments and enduring fulfillment.

MDA 8: 10 families enter academy

Uzodinma family

After an intense battle laden with excitement and suspense, 10 out of the 13 families that were selected from different regions to take part in the grand auditions have been admitted into the famed Maltina Dance All (MDA) Academy. SHOWBIZPLUSng learnt that these 10 families face the prospect of going home with a whopping 10 million naira grand prize as well as the highly coveted title of Nigeria’s number one dancing family. The first and second runners-up will take home N3million and N1million respectively.

Dimgba Igwe: Adenuga pays tribute, says Nigeria has lost a gem

Dimgba Igwe

Globacom chairman, Dr Mike Adenuga Jnr (GCON) has described the sudden demise of the associate publisher of Entertainment Express and Sunday Express Newspapers, Pastor Dimgba Igwe as a tragic and colossal loss, not only to journalism, but the entire nation.

In a condolence message, Dr Adenuga said the nation had lost a gem with the death of Pastor Igwe.

Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) mourns Dimgba Igwe

Igwe

The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) the apex body of Nigerian senior journalists, has joined the family of the late Dimgba Igwe and other sympathetic Nigerians to mourn the passage
of the frontline journalist, who died in Lagos on Saturday, September 6.
 Mr. Igwe, 58, a renowned journalist, author,
Fellow of the Guild and Associate Publisher of Entertainment Express and Sunday Express Newspapers, reportedly died of wounds he suffered when
knocked down by a careless and cowardly hit-and-run driver.
 A peaceable gentleman, Mr. Igwe was said to be jogging
near his Okota home at about 10 A.M to keep fit, when the fatal
incident occurred. He later gave up the ghost at the Lagos State
University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) where he was rushed to for medical
attention.

President Jonathan mourns Dimgba Igwe, calls him a dependable professional

Pastor Dimgba Igwe

 President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan said he has received with shock, the sad news of the untimely death of Mr. Dimgba Igwe, Vice Chairman of the Sun Newspapers and Associate Publisher of Entertainment Express and Sunday Express Newspapers.

 Jonathan on behalf of himself, family and the Federal Government of Nigeria, President Jonathan extended his  heartfelt commiserations to the publishers of the Sun newspapers, the Nigerian Guild of Editors, and all friends and associates of Mr. Igwe, for whom his unexpected death must be exceedingly painful.

 A statement signed by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati and sent to SHOWBIZPLUSng, said President Jonathan believes that the late Mr. Igwe will always be remembered as a hardworking and dependable professional, who, through his various writings as columnist, author and public speaker, demonstrated a special ability to convey the truth and his convictions in lucid, compelling prose, and in a style that was shorn of cant and foppery.

Associate Publisher, Entertainment Express and Sunday Express, Dimgba Igwe is dead

Pastor Dimgba Igwe

It is with heavy hearts that the management and staff of Express Multimedia Limited, publishers of Entertainment Express and Sunday Express newspapers announce the sad and painful passage of our Associate Publisher, Pastor Dimgba Igwe. He was aged 58.

 According to a press statement issued by the Editor of Entertainment Express and Sunday Express, Mr. Azuh Amatus, on behalf of the Publisher, Mr. Mike Awoyinfa, Mr. Igwe passed on today around 10 a.m. at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) of injuries suffered from a hit-and-run driver, as he jogged in his Okota, Lagos, neighborhood.

Adultery mess: Embattled Chris Oyakhilome finally speaks! Admits being in UK court with wife … Threatens media

Chris and Anita, when the going was good

After days of subdued silence, the embattled founder of Christ Embassy church, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has finally spoken on the adultery allegation tearing his marriage to embitter Anita apart.

He also admitted being in a UK court with his estranged wife, who recently filed for divorce on the grounds of unreasonable behavior and adultery.

Speaking through his lawyer, Kemi Pinheiro, SAN, in a paid advertorial published in some national newspapers and obtained by SHOWBIZPLUSng, the advertorial said:

N5.2 billion old debt: Union Bank fights dirty with Dangote + Why his accounts in 20 banks were frozen

Aliko Dangote

It is no longer news that a Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered 20 commercial banks in Nigeria to dishonour all withdrawal cheques from Mr. Sani Dangote, younger brother to Alhaji Aliko Dangote, and his companies, Dansa Foods Limited and Bulk Pack Services Limited.

SHOWBIZPLUSng gathered that what is perhaps news and trending globally is the shame and dishonour this messy fight involving Sani and management of Union Bank, has brought on the image and integrity of Africa’s richest man and the wealthiest black person in the world – Aliko Dangote.

Adultery mess latest: More trouble for Chris Oyakhilome and Christ Embassy as Anita vows no going back on divorce

Chris and Anita Oyakhilome when the going was good

A new twist has been added to the ongoing messy matrimonial war between the embattled founder of Chris Embassy Church, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome and his wife, Anita, as the latter has declared and vowed never to go back on her decision to quit their tumultuous union, this SHOWBIZPLUSng can authoritatively report

N2 billion fraud: TY Danjuma, aide fight dirty…Police, court wade in

Danjuma

This is definitely not the best of time for one of Nigeria's most revered  retired generals, TY Danjuma. 
SHOWBIZPLUSng gathered that the Special Fraud Unit (SFU) of the Lagos State Police command recently charged a special assistant of Danjuma, Manasseh Zorto, before a Federal High Court in Lagos for allegedly defrauding the former minister and reputed businessman of about N2 billion.

But the planned arraignment could not take place because Zorto was said to be on the run.

Exclusive Interview: How the man I love broke my heart- Toolz opens up

L-R: Toolz with current lover, Demuren

Voluptuous radio girl, Tolu Oniru, famously known as Toolz in this enchanting chat monitored by SHOWBIZPLUSng reveals how her heart was broken by a man she truly loved, how she coped afterwards among other interesting disclosures.

Finally: Keshi dumps Eagles

Keshi

Former Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Keshi has ended his romance with the team following the failure of the crisis ridden Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to improve on his first contract.

Keshi’s contract expired after the team sojourn at the FIFA World Cup in Brazil ended with a 2-0 loss to France in the second round.

After the tournament, Keshi and the NFF are yet to reach an agreement for him to continue coaching the Super Eagles.

The coach disclosed on Brilafm recently that there was no way he would accept the offer the football house offered him.

According to him, NFF’s failure to improve on his first contract was an indication that they don’t want him any more.