FULL NAME: Oluṣẹgun Mathew Okikiọla Arẹmu Ọbasanjọ

DATE OF BIRTH: 5 March 1938

OCCUPATION: Politician(ex president), Writter.

MARITAL STATUS: Married.(Wife Deceased)








EARLY LIFE AND BACKGROUND

Ọbasanjọ was born in Ogun State; and grew up in Owu (Abeokuta). His first name, Olusegun, means "The Lord is victorious".

The Oloye Obasanjo's first wife, Mrs. Oluremi (Remi) Obasanjo, is the mother of his oldest children, the most well-known being Dr. Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, a former Senator of Ogun State.

In 1987, his second wife/ex-wife Lynda was ordered out of her car by armed men, but was fatally shot for failing to move quickly.

On 23 October 2005 the President lost his wife, Stella Obasanjo, First Lady of Nigeria the day after she had a abdominoplasty in Spain. In 2009 the doctor only known as 'AM' was sentenced to one year in jail for negligence in Spain and ordered to pay restitution to her son of about $176,000. Obasanjo has many children, who live throughout Nigeria, the United Kingdom and the United States.

As a young man of 21, he enlisted in the Nigerian Army in 1958. He trained at Aldershot, and was commissioned as an officer in the Nigerian Army. He was also trained in India at the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington and at the Indian Army School of Engineering.[9][10] He served at 1 Area Command in Kaduna. Promoted to Chief Army Engineer, he was made commander of 2 Area Command from July 1967, which was redesignated 2 Division Rear, and then the Ibadan Garrison Organisation.[11] He was also trained in DSSC, Wellington. During the Nigerian Civil War, he commanded the Army's 3 Marine Commando Division that took Owerri, effectively bringing an end to the civil war.

Although Brig. Ọbasanjọ did not participate in the military coup of 29 July 1975, led by Murtala Mohammed, he supported it and was named Murtala's deputy in the new government. As chief of staff of Supreme Headquarters, Obasanjo sought advice from Rogerlay of Akobi and gained support of the military. On 13 February 1976, coup plotters, led by Army Col. Dimka, marked him, Murtala and other senior military personnel for assassination. Murtala was killed during the attempted coup, but Obasanjo escaped death. The low profile security policy adopted by Murtala had allowed the plotters easy access to their targets. The coup was foiled because the plotters missed Obasanjo and General Theophilus Danjuma, chief of army staff and de facto number three man in the country. The plotters failed to monopolize communications, although they were able to take over the radio station to announce the coup attempt.

CAREER AND LIFE

Obasanjo and Danjuma established a chain of command and re-established security in Lagos, thereby regaining control. Obasanjo was appointed as head of state by the Supreme Military Council. Keeping the chain of command established by Murtala, Obasanjo pledged to continue the programme for the restoration of civilian government in 1979 and to carry forward the reform programme to improve the quality of public service.

With US President Jimmy Carter in Lagos, 1978
The second republican constitution, which was adopted in 1979, was modelled on the Constitution of the United States, with provision for a President, Senate, and House of Representatives. The country was prepared for local elections, to be followed by national elections, to return Nigeria to civilian rule.

The military regimes of Murtala and Obasanjo benefited from oil revenues that increased 350 percent between 1973 and 1974, when oil prices skyrocketed, to 1979, when the military stepped down. Increased revenues permitted government spending for infrastructure and improvements on a large scale; critics thought it was poorly planned and concentrated too much in urban areas. The oil boom was marred by a minor recession in 1978-79, but revenues rebounded until mid-1981.
The government planned to relocate the federal capital from Lagos to Abuja, a more central location in the interior of the country. It intended to encourage industrial development inland and relieve the congestion in the Lagos area. Abuja was chosen because it was not identified with any particular ethnic group.

Industrialisation, which had grown slowly after World War II through the civil war, boomed in the 1970s, despite many infrastructure constraints. Growth was particularly pronounced in the production and assembly of consumer goods, including vehicle assembly, and the manufacture of soap and detergents, soft drinks, pharmaceuticals, beer, paint, and building materials. The government invested strongly in infrastructure from 1975 to 1980, and the number of "parastatals"— jointly government- and privately owned companies — proliferated. The Nigerian Enterprises Promotion decrees of 1972 and 1977 further encouraged the growth of an indigenous middle class.

Heavy investment was planned in steel production. With Soviet assistance, a steel mill was developed at Ajaokuta in Kogi State, not far from Abuja. Agriculture and associated projects generally declined, although the government undertook large-scale irrigation projects in the states of Borno, Kano, Sokoto, and Bauchi with World Bank support.
Obasanjo and Jimmy Carter, US President
The oil boom revenues led to a rise in per capita income, especially for the urban middle class. Inflation, particularly in the price of food, promoted both industrialisation and the expansion of agricultural production. With the government encouraging food crops, the traditional export earners — peanuts, cotton, cocoa, and palm products — declined in significance and then ceased to be important at all. Nigeria's exports became dominated by oil.

Education also expanded rapidly. At the start of the civil war, there were only five universities, but by 1975 the number had increased to thirteen, with seven more established over the next several years. In 1975 there were 53,000 university students. Similar advances were made in the expansion in primary and secondary school education, particularly in those northern states that had lagged behind others. During Obasanjo's regime, universal Primary education was introduced nationwide.
Obasanjo was also accused of being responsible for political repression. In one particular instance, the compound of Nigerian musician and political activist Fela Kuti was raided and burned to the ground after a member of his commune was involved in an altercation with military personnel. Fela and his family were beaten and raped and his mother, political activist Funmilayo Ransome Kuti, was killed by being thrown from a window. Her coffin was carried to Obasanjo's barracks as a protest against political repression.

Obasanjo served until 1 October 1979, when he handed power to Shehu Shagari, a democratically elected civilian president-hence becoming the first Military Head of state to transfer power peacefully to a civilian regime in Nigeria . In late 1983, however, the military seized power again, Gen Buhari and Gen Tunde Idiagbon took over while Gen. Babangida seized power from them in 1985 as head of states. Obasanjo, being in retirement, did not participate in that coup.

During the dictatorship of Sani Abacha (1993–1998), Obasanjo spoke out against the human rights abuses of the regime, and was imprisoned. Imprisonment was for his participation in an aborted coup[citation needed]. He was released only after Abacha's sudden death on 8 June 1998. While in prison, Obasanjo became a born-again Christian.

In the 1999 elections, the first in sixteen years, he decided to run for the presidency as the candidate of the People's Democratic Party. Obasanjo won with 62.6% of the vote, sweeping the strongly Christian Southeast and the predominantly Muslim north, but decisively lost his home region, the Southwest, to his fellow-Yoruba and Christian, Olu Falae, the only other candidate. 29 May 1999, the day Obasanjo took office as the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule, is now commemorated as Democracy Day, a public holiday in Nigeria.

Obasanjo spent most of his first term travelling abroad. He succeeded in winning at least some Western support for strengthening Nigeria's nascent democracy. Britain and the United States, in particular, were glad to have an African ally who was openly critical of abuses committed in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe at a time when many other African nations (including South Africa) were taking a softer stance. Obasanjo also won international praise for Nigeria's role in crucial regional peacekeeping missions in Sierra Leone and Liberia. The international community was guided in its approach to Obasanjo in part by Nigeria's status as one of the world's 10 biggest oil exporters as well as by fears that, as the continent's most populous nation, Nigerian internal divisions risked negatively affecting the entire continent.
Some of the public officials like the National Assembly speaker and Senate president were involved in conflicts with the president, who had to battle many impeachment moves from both houses. Obasanjo managed to survive impeachment and got renomination.

Obasanjo was re-elected in 2003 in a tumultuous election that had violent ethnic and religious overtones, his main opponent (fellow former military ruler General Muhammadu Buhari) being a Muslim who drew his support mainly from the north. Capturing 61.8% of the vote, Obasanjo defeated Buhari by more than 11 million votes.
On June 12, 2006 he signed the Greentree Agreement with Cameroonian President Paul Biya which formally put an end to the Bakassi peninsula border dispute.[14] Despite the fact that the Nigerian Senate passed a resolution declaring that the withdrawal of Nigerian troops from the Bakassi Peninsula to be illegal Obasanjo gave the order for it to continue as planned.

Before Obasanjo's administration Nigeria's GDP growth had been painfully slow since 1987, and only managed 3 per cent between 1999/2000. However, under Obasanjo the growth rate doubled to 6 per cent until he left office, helped in part by higher oil prices. Nigeria's foreign reserves rose from $2 billion in 1999 to $43 billion on leaving office in 2007. He was able to secure debt pardons from the Paris and London club amounting to some $18 billion and paid another $18 Billion to be debt free. Most of these loans were secured and spent by past corrupt officials.

Obasanjo made frequent changes to his cabinet of Federal Ministers and Ministers of State during his two terms of office, and periodically split or combined ministries. He made a major cabinet reshuffle in June 2000, and in January 2001 dissolved his cabinet, appointing Mr Mike Umealo his speech writer- who turned down the offer in favour of accepting a place at Leeds University to pursue a Post Graduate study in Philosophy.[16] In December 2004 he named 12 new ministers. in June 2005 he made another major cabinet reshuffle.[18] In January 2007 a few months before leaving office he made yet another drastic overhaul.

Obasanjo was embroiled in controversy regarding his "Third Term Agenda," a plan to modify the constitution so he could serve a third, four-year term as President. This led to a political media uproar in Nigeria and the bill was not ratified by the National Assembly.[20][21] Consequently, President Obasanjo stepped down after the April 2007 general election. In an exclusive interview granted to Channels Television, Obasanjo denied involvement in what has been defined as "Third Term Agenda." He said that it was the National Assembly (Nigeria) that included tenure elongation amongst the other clauses of the Constitution of Nigeria that were to be amended. "I never toyed with the idea of a third term," Obasanjo said.

He has been condemned by some major political players during the Third Term Agenda saga. Senator Ken Nnamani, former President of the Nigerian Senate disagreed with. Nnamani claimed Obasanjo informed him about the agenda shortly after he became President of the Nigerian Senate. “Immediately, I became Senate President, he told me of his intentions and told me how he wanted to achieve it. I initially did not take him seriously until the events began to unfold,” Nnamani told Punch Newspaper in a report. He also insinuated that Eight Billion Naira was spent to bribe legislators to support the agenda. “How can someone talk like this that he didn’t know about it, yet money, both in local and foreign currencies, exchanged hands,” he asked. Femi Gbajabiamila corroborated Nnamani's account but put the figure differently, “The money totalled over N10bn. How could N10bn be taken out of the national treasury for a project when you were the sitting President, yet that project was not your idea? Where did the money come from?” In the following quotes, Nnamani said President George W. Bush warned Obasanjo to desist from his plan to contest presidential election for the third term: “If you want to be convinced that the man is only telling a lie, pick up a copy of the book written by Condoleza Rice, the former Secretary to the Government of the United States of America. It is actually an autobiography by Rice. On page 628 or page 638, she discussed about Obasanjo’s meeting with Bush, how he told the former American President that he wanted to see how he could amend the Constitution so that he could go for a third term. To his surprise, Bush told him not to try it. Bush told him to be patriotic and leave by May 29, 2007.”

He has become chairman of the board of trustees of the PDP, from which position he can control nominations for governmental positions and even policy and strategy. As one Western diplomat said, "He intends to sit in the passenger seat giving advice and ready to grab the wheel if Nigeria goes off course."
Obasanjo also a member of the Club de Madrid, a group of more than 80 former leaders of democratic states who are committed to strengthening democratic leadership and governance.

In March 2008, Obasanjo was indicted by a committee of the Nigerian parliament for awarding $2.2bn-worth of energy contracts during his eight-year rule, without due process. The report of this probe was never accepted by the whole Nigerian parliament due to manipulation of the entire process by the leadership of the power probe committee. It is not on any official record that Chief Obassanjo was indicted.[27]

Obasanjo is a member of the Africa Progress Panel (APP), a group of ten distinguished individuals who advocate at the highest levels for equitable and sustainable development in Africa. Every year, the Panel releases a report, the Africa Progress Report, that outlines an issue of immediate importance to the continent and suggests a set of associated policies. In 2012, the Africa Progress Report highlighted issues of Jobs, Justice, and Equity. The 2013 report will outline issues relating to oil, gas, and mining in Africa.

Obasanjo was recently appointed Special Envoy by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo. He has held separate meetings with DRC President Joseph Kabila and rebel leader Laurent Nkunda.
AU Observation Head - President General Olusegun Obasanjo visits President Robert Mugabe -Zimbabwe General Election 2013
During the Zimbabwean election of July 2013, Obasanjo headed a delegation of African Union election observers.

Since he's left throne Obasanjo have been considered one of the greatest and most influential politician in Nigeria..
In 2013 Obasanjo had to pathways with party member President Goodluck Jonathan for not heeding his advice which later caused some heavy feud between them both in which he later dumped the party PDP and went on neutral ground. ever since then the opposition party APC has been trying their very best to gain him on their side so as to win the coming presidential election for 2015 but he ignored and remained neutral.
In 2015 the need for his endorsement on each presidential candidate for each parties went so high that President Goodluck Jonathan pleaded a lot to get him back on his side but he resisted and didn't endorse him..

He wrote a book in 2014 exposing many secrets of co politicians like him featuring a lot of big politicians in the nation and how Nigeria was corrupted by her leaders.. The book was forced to be shutdown by the court of law after very much sales in the first week of release..
And ever since he left the throne Obasanjo has been staying in his hometown in Abeokuta at Hiltop.

AWARDS AND ENDORSEMENT
The 2014 - Centenary Awards Honoured By President Goodluck Jonathan
Won UN's Global Leadership Award 2012
And many more...

RUMORS AND SCANDALS
Obasanjo who was revealed he is a type who like women a lot was even said that he couldn't keep his hands off female ministers and more was said to have had sex with his son's wife Moji.
Was said to have sent The Nigerian army to kill an entire village for molesting a co-soldier secretly.
Was said to have failed Nigerians with his unfulfilled promises to Nigerians from 1999 to 2007.
And more...

POPULAR PICS:

OBJ as a military leader

obj in the U.S

Obasanjo  centenary award

SOURCES: Wikipedia.org,takemetonaija.com

Yesterday we publish a news post with regard to a UTME candidate that scored 399 .
It has been verified that the information on the result slip circulated online was actually doctored and hence fake.

The actual score of the candidate was 199. This we have verified.
The picture attached to this post bears the original and actual information that was on the result slip before it was Photoshopped.

Well, in the post we published yesterday, we told you we were yet to confirm, now we have confirmed and it is fake. Sorry for the wrong info.

FULL NAME:             Temitope Adekunle
DATE OF BIRTH:     {Unknown}
OCCUPATION:          Singer
MARITAL STATUS:  Not Married

INTRODUCTION
Small doctor is a Nigerian musician who sings in his native language "Yoruba" he came into limelight in 2012 after doing a couple mixtapes and freestyles, as of 2015 he already has huge fan base when to comes to the street in the southwestern part of Nigeria.In 2015 he announced he would start singing in Igbo language too.



 
EARLY LIFE&CAREER

Temitope Adekunle aka Small doctor, a native of Ese Odo, Ilaje LG of Ondo State was born in Kano.
The fuji pop artist attended Ain’t Orosan Nursery and Primary School, Oniwaya Secondary School, Capital road, Dopemu, Lagos. He later went to University of Lagos but didnt get to complete because of some personal issues but hope to get back to school.
He discovered his music talent Wen he was in SS1 and knew he had the instinct of composing good songs, this he did wen he composed “E ma kanra mo mi” in 2003, this song he plans to remix in the future.

The self- styles street ambassador crooner is known for saying “hain hain” when singing, this has been his signature since he did his first song.
The name Akeweje was given to him by Alhaji Alabi Pasuma.He came into limelight with his hit songs- gbagaun, anobi, mosquito killer which were all produced by Dre San (an upcoming producer).
He has worked with Side One, Dre Sans, TerryG, OrirseFemi and a host of others.

Well, T.I.N Magazine couldn't gather much on him, so we are going show you a popular interview he had with Djbaddo.com
Checkout The Interview Below:


CAN WE MEET YOU?
I am TEMITOPE ADEKUNLE by name aka SMALL DOCTOR (a name suggested by my elder brother due to my small stature and because i was addicted to a movie titled ‘DR WHO’. you know that movie nau….. and now its being accepted by the street. though i was formally called BIG DADDY. I attended AINA OROSAN nur/pri sch after which I continued my education at oniwaya sec sch capitol road dopemu. I was a science student. I attended UNILAG.

TELL US MORE ABOUT YOUR EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND.
As said earlier, I attended AINA OROSAN nur/pri sch, ONIWAYA sec sch capitol road dopemu 2004/2005. I was also a student of UNILAG but had to leave because of some issues best known to me and hoping to get back to school very soon.

WHEN DID YOU START MUSIC?
Ahhh no be today, e don tey ooo. Music has been part of me. i started music professionally in 2001. 


WHY MUSIC AND NOT SOMETHING ELSE?

Music runs in my blood even before I was given birth to. My mum is a musician and she sings well. I wasn’t forced to do music, I just love doing music…
IF NOT MUSIC WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE BEEN DOING PROFFESSIONALLY?
Aeronautic engineer, that is why I was a science student back then in school.

HOW WOULD YOU DEFINE YOUR MUSIC?
I do fuji pop……..i never immitated anyone… My style of music is different from the normal type of music others do and I bless God because it has paved way for me in the industry. so I call it AKEWEJE POP.

HOW MANY TRACKS HAVE YOU DONE AND HOW MANY ARTIST HAVE YOU WORKED WITH (locally &internationally)?

Omo cant realy say precisely how many tracks ooo because hmmm.. omo recorded tracks plenty. Have worked with the likes of SIDE ONE, DREYSAN, ORISTEFEMI, Terry G to mention few but presently working on a track with REMINISCE watch out for that…..

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THE CHALLENGES FACED BEFORE ATTAINING THIS POINT IN YOUR CAREER?
Ahhhh I go talk oo..i faced so many challenges..OLORUN…even then i had to ride motorcycle to get my music done. money happens to be the major challenges but thanks be to GOD..

ARE YOU SIGNED TO ANY RECORD LABEL?
No…Small doctor is not signed to any record label.

BUT ITS BEING INSITUATED THAT YOU ARE SIGNED TO PASUMA’S LABEL (WASBAR RECORDS) KINDLY SHED MORE LIGHT TO IT AND TELL US YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM.

Small doctor is not singed to WASBA RECORD. PASUMA is just like a father to me …We only have a father and son relationship. He’s been so supportive. I’m under a management ” REAL BEAT ENTERTAINMENT”

WHAT BRINGS ABOUT “AKEWEJE OGANLA” AS PART OF YOUR NAME?

AKEWEJE…sigh… its a name I got from ALH ALABI PASUMA. There was a time when baba came back from a trip,he called me to meet him at his residence, on getting to the street children started hailing small doctor then baba(pasuma) said to me ” Wa maa se AKEWEJE” ( come become one who brings kids together) and i honourally accepted it and since then, the name stands.

WHO ARE YOUR ROLE MODELS IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY?
Yeeba …I want to be like FELA ANIKULAPO, LUCKY DUBE, BEAUTIFUL NUBIA ,RASKY MONO.i must tell you these people i look forward to.

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF “HAIN HAIN” YOU DO SAY IN ALL YOUR SONG?
Its a slang i unconsciously found myself saying… it came up while recording my first track and since then it has been my music signature.

Some time in October this year 2015, there was this news all over the net that Small Doctor fell down from a very high stage and broke his right leg while he was performing in an event. Just few hour after the news broke , Adekunle Temitope a.k.a Small Doctor came out to debunk the news that no such thing occured . The singer said it was just a funny joke because he never fell from any stage .

Some of his popular songs below:
“Olowo “Riches World, Gbagaun featuring Pasuma, Street Bus, Mosquito Killer, Oyinbo” , “Arrest” and don’t also forget that he has worked with some hosts of singers that include Side One, Dre Sans, TerryG, OrirseFemi ,Chinko Ekun, CDQ just to mention a few

AWARDS AND ENDORSEMENTS 
No popular award yet.
He was nominated for the best street hop at the 2015 Headies

Small doctor in the studio

SOURCES:naijaquest.com,djbaddo.com.ng,takemetonaija.com

FULL NAME:          Emmanuel Bezhiwa Idakula

DATE OF BIRTH:   10 November 1983

OCCUPATION:       Musician, singer-songwriter

MARITAL STATUS:  Not Married







INTRODUCTION 
Bez is a popular Nigerian multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and composer who came into limelight in 2012, he calls his music gnere "alternative soul", a hybrid of soul, rock, jazz and R&B. The singer is said by many media outlets to be one of the most unique artists in Nigeria.


EARLY LIFE AND BACKGROUND 

Emmanuel Bez Idakula was born in 1983, in Jos in central Nigeria. He grew up in a musically inclined family, listening to gospel and country. As a child, he sang in choirs and began playing his father's guitar at the age of nine. His parents recorded duets, with his mother singing and his father playing the guitar, while Bez and his younger brother, Anyidakula Idakula, and his two sisters, Eunice Chiedu and Lydia Sobogun provided a sing along audience. Growing up Bez spent his time fixing things, and dabbling in painting and sketching.

Bez lost his father, who was a politician and Gubernatorial Candidate for Nasarawa State in Nigeria, at the age of twelve. His family's finances crashed as a result and he could hardly afford to pay the rest of his tuition for high school. An anonymous person paid for his High School education. In College, he received help paying his fees, as well.

Upon finishing Loyola Jesuit College, Bez attended and graduated from Covenant University in 2007 with a BSc in Information and communications technology He sang at open mic nights while at university. One of such open mic nights was called Taruwa ("gathering" in the Hausa language), where the platform encouraged artists to share their talent through music, poetry, the spoken word and art. Here Bez played every two weeks and met Praiz, who he later collaborated with on "That Stupid Song". Later, he read He-Motions by Bishop TD Jakes and other spiritual and self-help books, which led him to the view that his purpose in life is to add value to the world through his music.

Speaking in an interview on how his passion for music came up:
"I come from a musical family. My Dad used to play the guitar and my elder sister sang. My Dad used to do something interesting with my Mum; he would play the guitar and sing and she would duet or back up and they would record it on a tape recorder. As a kid, it was interesting hearing my parents singing on tape. Every Sunday, I remember we would come back from church and play loads of music. My Dad found out I had an interest in the guitar so when I was about nine years old, he taught me how to play and I just grew from there, honed my skills and played more and more. All through my Secondary School, I was in the choir."

Did you have any particular experience that influenced you to start thinking about taking music professionally?
The first gig I ever did was in my third year in the University with KUSH. Dr Frabz who was in the University with me just decided he was going to go into music and he left us behind in school and went to follow his dreams. He worked with KUSH and he said they needed a band for one of their concerts. So I played the guitar while he played the piano. After the show, I sang a song for Emem of KUSH and she asked “do you plan on going into music?”. I said “I’m not sure” and she said, “well I think you’re already into music”. I think that was the beginning for me. I started reading more on how to find my purpose. I wanted to be sure that if I did this, I wasn’t going to be shooting myself in the leg. It was a very hard decision to make because I was in school studying for a degree.


CAREER AND LIFE 

Bez's album Super Sun was released in 2011, and includes the single "That Stupid Song". The Boston Globe placed this song at number 3 in its top ten world music albums of 2011, calling Bez a "superb alternative-soul singer" Connect Nigeria called it "unusual and just a perfect blend for a debut album"
In an interview with Vanguard Nigeria, Bez stated "That Stupid Song" was created accidentally when someone entered the studio requesting "a stupid song". Bez's producer, the talented song writer and music producer, Cobhams Asuquo, thought to create a song that was a mixture of different songs they sang while growing up. They invited Praiz to do a collaboration with Bez and they recorded "That Stupid Song" the next day.

Speaking on the kind of music he does:
"These days, we are entering into a phase where, I think, genres would die. People won’t be able to place your music any more so you have to come up with new stuff. If you go on Yahoo Music and you check the list of genres, you’d see loads of names you’ve never heard of before. At the end of the day, I call my music Alternative Soul. Soul is the major genre and when you have Alternative coming before Soul, it gives you the liberty to play with a lot of sounds. You can have some Hip Hop beats, Jazz, R&B and merge all of that to create an eclectic sound."

In November 2013, Bez premiered the first single off his second album, My Baby also produced by Cobhams Asuquo, to be released in 2014. The title and release date are currently unknown. In the interview of April 2013 with Vanguard Nigeria, Bez stated that his next album will be a slight departure from the sound he is known for, stating he will be putting a more African sound in his music and rock while keeping the soul present in the music. This may make the music a bit more mainstream.

Speaking on how he get inspiration:
Bez's music video of "That Stupid Song", premiered on the renowned BET's 106 & Park, an American hip-hop and R&B music video show, in January 2012. He was the first African artist to world premiere his music video on BET and the first Nigerian artist to do a solo show at the iTunes store in Soho, New York. He also had a show at the iTunes store in Santa Monica, California for Black Music month in June 2012.

Bez enjoys being on stage: "Once I get on stage, it goes crazy from there. We perform with our hearts and just go in. It's great energy on stage and we try to keep it that way till the end." Recording in the studio also has many rewards. "Sometimes it may be down to business, other times and most of the time… it's just pure unadulterated fun!!"

Bez performed at many events in 2012: The New Africa Shrine in Harlem, New York; the Applause Africa Award ceremony honouring Angélique Kidjo in Manhattan, New York; Arts Alive Festival and Moshito Music Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa; Africa Utopia at Southbank Centre in London, UK; Africa Leadership Network Annual conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Nigeria House pre-Olympic concerts in London, UK. He also performed for Sol Village at SOBs in Manhattan, New York, and for the TML100 event in Nairobi, Kenya. He also performed in the "Spinlet All African Showcase, (the first of its kind), at SXSW in Austin, Texas; in March 2012. His Super Sun Concert in Nigeria, in December 2012, received raves.
In 2013, Bez made the American tour in March, and the European tour which was held later in the summer of the same year. He also played the Slide and Bounce Tour, sponsored by Globacom.

Bez married Bolatito Ladoja, daughter of former Oyo State Governor Rasheed Ladoja, in January 2014. Bolatito works as a banker at First City Monument Bank. She holds a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from Warwick University in the United Kingdom, with a Masters in Management from Imperial College in London.
Bez is currently based in Lagos.
Musically, his biggest influences are Amy Winehouse, the Beatles and '70s soul. In addition to guitar, he also plays piano and percussion.


Bez founded the Bez Idakula Foundation to help with educational needs for kids who can't afford it, and to try to help transform their lives in the same way his own life was affected and transformed.
Bez also sits on the board of an NGO, Ovie Brume Foundation, is a member of the African Leadership Network and is one of two Nigerian members of Sandbox, a global network of young entrepreneurs. He also endorses '’Friends Africa'’ and a Telecommunications brand in Africa, Globacom and has appeared in their commercials. In March 2012, Bez spoke at the Harvard Africa Business Conference on an entertainment panel.


AWARDS AND ENDORSEMENTS 

Bez received six nominations in the 2012 The Headies, the Nigerian Music Awards: Recording of the Year (single "The Stupid Song"), Best R 'N' B Single ("The Stupid Song"), Best R 'N' B/Pop Album (Super Sun), Best Collaboration (Stupid Song featuring Praiz), Best Vocal Performance, and Hip Hop World Revelation.

ENDORSEMENTS
He signed a multimillion naira endorsement deal with Glo in year 2013 and as of 2016 he is till an ambassador

Bez and Wife Bolatito

 SOURCES: wikipedia.org,allafrica.com,bellanaija.com,thenet.ng

Well, you know Nigeria at the moment is not in a good condition when it comes to economic aspect. Due to a high fall of Oil-price globally Nigeria is becoming week financially. As big and blessed as the country is, it is so sad that exportation is really low which is affecting the economy a lot. Well, this problem can be tackled if the fedral governmnt takes exploration of our natural resources more serious.


Nigeria has a rich land that are favourable to agricultural produce when well managed…
and their is more.
So we at  T.I.N Magazine will be showing Nigerians how much resources the country has got.
Below is the list of Mineral and Natural Resources in Nigeria and the States that they can be found.
Note this list does not consist of everything that can be found in each states.


ABUJA
– Marble, Clay
– Tentalite
– Cassiterite
– Gold (partially investigated)
– Lead /Zinc (Traces)
– Dolomite

ABIA STATE
– Gold
– Salt
– Linestone
– Lead/Zinc
-Crude Oil

ADAMAWA STATE
– Kaolin
– Bentonite
– Gypsium
– Magnesite

AKWA IBOM STATE
– Lead/Zinc
– Clay
– Limestone
– Uranium (Traced)
– Salt
– Lignite (Traced)

ANAMBRA STATE
– Lead/Zinck
– Clay
– Limestone
– Iron-Ore
– Lignite (Partially investigated)
– Salt
– Glass-Sand
– Phosphate
– Gypsium
-Crude Oil

BAYELSA STATE
– Clay
– Limestone
– Gypsium (partially investigated)
– Uranium (partially investigated)
– Manganese
– Lignite
– Lead/Zinc (Traces)

BAUCHI STATE
– Amethst (violet)
– Gypsium
– Lead/Zinc (Traces)
– Uranuin (partially investigated)

BENUE STATE
– Lead/Zinc
– Limestone
– Iron-Ore
– Coal
– Clay
– Marble
– Sakt
– Berytes (traces)
– Gem stones
– Gypsium
 
BORNO STATE
– Diatomite
– Clay
– Limestone
– Hydro-carbon (oil and gas)
Partially investigated) cool
– Gypsium
– Kaolin
– Bentonite

CROSS RIVER STATE
– Limestone
– Uranium
– Manganese
– Lignite
– Lead/Zinc
– Salt
-Crude Oil

DELTA STATE
– Marble
– Glass Sand
– Gypsium
– Lignite
– Iron-Ore
– Kaolin

EBONYI STATE
– Lead
– Gold shocked
– Salt

EDO STATE
– Marble
– Lignite
– Clay
– Limestone
– Iron Ore
– Gypsium
– Glass-sand
– Gold
– Dolomite Phosphate
– Bitumen
-Crude Oil

EKITI STATE
– Kaolin
– Feldsper
– Tatium
– Granite
– Syenite

ENUGU STATE
– Coal
– Linestone
– Lead/Zinc

GOMBE STATE
– Gemstone
– Gysium

IMO STATE
– Kead/Zinc
– Limestone
– Lignite
– Phosphate
– Marcasite
– Gypsium
– Salt
-Crude Oil


JIGAWAA STATE
– Butytes

KADUNA STATE
– Sapphire
– Kaoline
– Gold
– Clay
– Surpentinite
– Asbestos
– Amethyst
– Kyanite
– Graphite (partally investgated)
– Silhnite
– Mica (Traces)
– Aqua marine
– Ruby
– Rock Crystal
– Topaz
– Flosper
– Tourmaline
– Gemstone
– Tentalime

KANO STATE
– Prrochinre
– Cassiterite
– Copper
– Glass – Sand
– Gemstone
– Lead/Zinc
– Tantalite

KATSINA STATE
– Kaolin
– Marble
– Salt

KEBBI STATE
– Gold

KOGI STATE
– Iron-Ore
– Kaolin
– Gypsium
– Feldsper
– Goal
– Marble
– Dolomite
– Talc
– Tantalite

KWARA STATE
– Gold
– Marble
– Iron-Ore
– Cassiterite
– Colubite
– Tantalite
– Feldspar (Traces)
– Mica (Traces)

LAGOS STATE
– Glass-sand
– Clay
– Bitumen
-Lagos

NASARAWA STATE
– Beryl (emerald)
– Asquamirine and
– Haliodor)
– Dolomite/Marble
– Sapphire
– Tourmaline
– Quartz- Amethyst (Topaz, gamet)
– Zireon
– Tantalite
– Cassiterite
– Columbite
– Limenite
– Galena
– Iron-Ore
– Barytes
– Feldspar
– Limesstone
– Mica
– Cooking coal
– Talc
– Cay
– Salt
– Chalcopyrite

NIGER STATE
– Gold
– Talc
– Lead/Zinc

OGUN STATE
– Phosphate
– Clay
– Feldspar (traces)
– Kaolin
– Limestone
– Germstone
– Bitumen

ONDO STATE
– Bitumen
– Kaolin
– Gemstone
– Gypsium
– Feldspar
– Granite
– Clay
– Glass-sand
– Dimesion stones
– Limestone
– Coal
-Crude Oil

OSUN STATE
– Gikd
– Talc
– Toumaline
– Toumaline
– Colimbite
– Granite

OYO STATE
– Kaoline
– Marble
– Clay
– Sillimnote
– Talc
– Gold
– Cassiterite
– Aqua Marine
– Dolomite
– Gemstone
– Tantalite

PLATEAU STATE
– Emerald
– Tin
– Marble
– Granite
– Tantalite/columbit
– Lead/Zinc
– Barytes
– Irton-Ore
– Kaolin
– Belonite
– Cassiterrite
– Phrochlore
– Clay
– Coal
– Wolfam
– Salt
– Bismuth
– Fluoride
– Molybdenite
– Gemstone
– Bauxite

RIVER STATE
– Glass-sand
– Clay
– Marble
– Lignite (traces)
-Crude Oil

SOKOTO STATE
Kaolin
– Gold
= Limestone
– Phosphate
– Gpsium
– silica-sand
– Clay
– Laterrite
– Potash
– Flakes
– Granite
– Gold
– Salt

TARABA STATE
– Kaolin
– Lead/Zinc

YOBE STATE
– Tintomite
– Soda Ash (partially Investigated)

ZAMFARA STATE
– Goal
– Cotton
– Gold
 

Hello readers, Inside this post you will find trending important news in Nigeria today, you will find news that are of concern to Politics,Entertainment Economics,Locals and more...

As usual, the prolific writer Tony Ogunlowo sends in another article, shares his mind on what is actually happening in the country at the moment. You want to hear him out? Well, read the piece below.




Ritual Killings, Murder & Kidnapping : A Cloud of Darkness Looms over Nigeria by Tony Ogunlowo

Right now a big black ominous cloud hangs over Nigeria as its vast population of over 160 million is slowly being decimated by murders, ritual killings and spiritual enslavement of people’s souls.
Only a couple of weeks ago I was saddened to read the story of a 4 year old boy who had both his eyes plucked out, by ritualists, while he was still alive. And an uncle who beheaded his niece for a money-making ritual and not to talk of cultists killing themselves, openly, in broad light in Ikorudu, Benin and Ogba Egbema and other places on a daily basis.

What for ? To make money? And people will actually spend the ‘blood money’ obtained from these rituals? And they will give it to their own children, wives, friends and ‘spray’ it at parties? Cursed evil, blood money will now go from hand to hand and spread………
Never a day goes by that we don’t read about people being abducted and killed, their mutilated corpses discarded by the wayside or in shallow graves minus certain body parts.
Nobody seems to be immune from these ritualists kidnappers – children, chiefs, businessmen and even run-girls – who slaughter their fellow humans like cattle at an abattoir. And this is not counting the scores of people killed up North by the Boko Haram islamists, or the victims of armed robbers all over the place, or those who kill for the fun of it – or a grudge – or those who kill as an initiation to join cults.

Has a human life become so cheap to take that anyone can take one without fear of retribution?
Our various faiths teach us to respect Life as it is something we can’t create and therefore have no right to take.
“…..thou shall not kill…”
But we disregard this and kill. Alarmingly most people killed nowadays are for ritualistic purposes. People are prepared to kill their fellow human beings for money-making spells, or so they can win elections or prolong their earthly lives.
Our police force is overstretched and inexperienced to deal with this kind of crime and those we regard as Elders, in our communities, seem to turn a blind eye to these atrocities. We all seem to know who’s doing what. We all gossip behind their backs but do nothing to stop them. We very rarely report them to the authorities when we notice abnormalities in their lifestyles – buying brand new cars when we know they’re penniless, having exorbitant parties or building brand new houses when the source of their newly acquired wealth is questionable.

The perpetrators of these crimes seem to think they will get away with it. Many don’t believe in a Heaven and Hell, the laws of karma or the concept of an afterlife. Surprisingly there is something that happens to us when we die. After you die and become worm fodder your soul leaves your corpse and embarks upon a journey of its own. It goes back to where it came from. Call it Heaven, Paradise or Hell it goes back to answer for all it has done during its time on Earth. If one has taken a precious life unjustly the punishment can stretch down generations of the latters’ family not to talk of their own personal punishment on the other side. The same goes for all other evil doers especially those who employ dark evil spirits to cast spells and conduct rituals.

At the end of the day we will all suffer. For if someone is murdered, unjustly, the crime will hang over the locality, bringing bad luck to all present as their blood will be on every one’s head.
As many of our Elders and clergymen know, if someone meets an untimely death it will affect everybody in that neighbourhood – people will lose their jobs, homes, businesses, even lives – until the spirit of the departed one which will still roam around is appeased. So why take that life in the first place?
Even though my emphasis is on the taking of lives, the same goes for all other crimes we commit against each other; how many people have had their lives ruined by black magic? How many people have suffered as a result of fraud, robberies or politicians stealing public funds?
And we wonder why nothing seems to work in Nigeria when other African nations are progressing at a pace we can’t match. When there’s too much evil in the air it impedes things, the Land becomes cursed and nothing good will ever come out of the place or happen there.

When you have too many people in league with the Devil doing despicable and ghastly things to their fellow humans it creates an air of darkness which light can’t penetrate.
Try and imagine each evil practitioner as a black dot on the landscape. With so many people doing evil things these black dots grow and become a black blob that grows bigger and bigger in size until it covers a sizeable area, like a country. And when the Light can’t come through Darkness will fall upon the Land. No light means no Goodness. By the Law of Attraction you attract more of what is already around. So the more the evil in our midst the more of it we will attract.
It’s time for an overall spiritual clean-up. Time for us to go back to our churches, mosques or whatever else we pray to for deliverance from our ways. Time for us to expose the evil doers in our midst so their sins will not continue to taint our lives. Time to renounce all evil in our lives.

Its Monday and you know it is time for another historical flashback... This time around it is a life history of a man who caused quite a buzz during his time. This man impersonated Jesus and got many Nigerians to believe him... That's quite funny to you right? Well you should take a look at the piece below.
The article you will be reading below is totally written by: Abiyamo and culled from: Naijarchives.com





INTRODUCTION

He declared he would never die. He was flamboyant, colourful and very boisterous. Jesu Oyingbo. Nigeria is a land brimming with over 170 million religious souls. There is no time I write about the apotheosization of human beings in Africa that Nigeria does not come into focus. And that is partly because of the fact that since much of Africa is yet to be fully perfused with the latest advancements in science and technology, the deification of man becomes a commonplace. This is coupled with the fact that African syncretism has the humanification of gods as a major feature.

From Olumba Olumba Obu to Sat Guru Maharaji to the fat, loud, King-Sunny-Ade-music-loving woman named Malaika but worshipped as God by her adherents, these often-charismatic fellows draw crowds in their thousands, and in some cases, like that of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, in their millions. Today, we are zooming on a man who remians one of the most famous in Nigeria’s history, no one other than the late Immanuel Olufunmilayo Odumosu aka Jesu Oyingbo, a man who declared himself as the living reincarnation of Jesus Christ.

Oyingbo is a bustling municipality in mainland Lagos and apart from its being renowned for vast commercial activities, Jesu Oyingbo is one man whose tale shocked the entire nation and directed everyone’s attention to this ever-busy Lag neighbourhood. Popularly known as the God Father, Jesus of Oyingbo, Daddy, Odumosu 1, he still has a handful of followers today but his movement is no match for the titanic Pentecostal churches.


EARLY LIFE&BACKGROUND

Immanuel Olufunmilayo Odumosu was born in 1915. He was a descendant of Joseph Odumosu (1863-1911), both descendants of Odubela and Otubadejo of Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, southwestern Nigeria. Joseph Odumosu was a prominent official in Ijebu and Lagos and he is credited as being the first person to introduce printing to Ijebu Ode. His grandfather (who also wrote the classics Iwe Egbogi, The Book of Herbs in two volumes, Iwe Ala (The Book of Interpretation of Dreams) and Iwe Iwosan, The Book of Healing) was said to have been a renowned traditional doctor and healer, who was said to have passed some of his healing skills to Jesu Oyingbo. His books were so popular that they were widely used. It was the widespread belief that Pa Odumosu was killed by herbalists who were mad at the dude for revealing their trade secrets and methods.

CAREER&LIFE

Odumosu initially took up the job of a carpenter. Later in life, when his religious establishment picked up and gained prominence, he became a real estate developer.



While still working as a carpenter in the year 1951, nine years before Nigeria’s independence, Odumosu claimed to have received a revelation straight from the chambers of heaven that he was the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. He also believed he was imbued with supernatural powers. Fresh from the blaze of the fiery revelation from above, Odumosu set up a group (first held its activities on the first floor of the Jolly Food Center) headquartered in the Oyingbo suburb of Lagos State and in no time, he began to draw a crowd, many of whom were really interested in his supposed supernatural powers. At first, the man who called himself the ‘Second Coming’ gained dozens of followers who loyally trooped to his enclave. Members were reportedly commanded to abandon their families and move into the secluded commune. With time, the number increased and he later moved to Manor Street (later Immanuel Street, Maryland, Lagos) but by then, the name Jesu Oyingbo had already stuck.

BECOMING JESU OYINGBO AND THE FOLLOWERSHIP
                      
Moved by his belief in being the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, Jesu Oyingbo formed the Universal College of Regeneration, UCR (also called the Jesu Oyingbo Church) in the early 1950s. As the leader of the congregation, Jesu Oyingbo blended an ingenious method of entrepreneurship with his teachings, effectively introducing the concept of religion as a private business in Nigeria. This practice of monetizing religious activities with profit maximization would later spread to other parts of the country. In his enclave, over 500 followers devotedly served him as both members of his congregation and workers for his labour force. Right there within the confines of his building, Jesu Oyingbo had a barbing salon, bakery, printing press, construction company and a restaurant. Proceeds from these various businesses made Jesu Oyingbo wealthy and comfortable. One of his children, Olulaja Immanuel Odumosu described his late father as a ‘kind and generous’ man who provided all that they wanted. In fact, they had their own cars and drivers as children.

-Jesu Oyingbo had a dedicated followership and many of his members in their hundreds lived on Manor Street, Oyingbo, Lagos in beautifully-decorated and colourfully-named buildings. Some of the buildings had really grandiose, albeit fantastic, names. One building was called ‘Merciful and Mighty’ while another was named ‘Everlasting Father’ and another went by the name ‘Prince of Peace’. Some of the most catchy features of these houses were the various statues and effigies of Jesus Christ that were all over the surroundings. That was not all. There were also imposing tractors, sculptures of menacing lions and seductive mermaids with water squirting out of their mouths. It was really a majestic scene to behold.
Remnants of his residence.

Remnants of his residence.
                   
-In 1961, he thundered: ‘I am the Lord, the Great I AM. The Trinity-The Father –and he who believes in me will receive salvation….The first Jesus came to sacrifice and to suffer. He took care of all the necessary cross-carrying and crucifixion. The second Jesus comes to enjoy himself. I have come to enjoy life, my friend!’

-Although many know him as Jesu Oyingbo, he had other numerous names, and these included: The Lion of Judah, Immanuel the Christ, Adam, the Second Abraham. He demanded worship from his enchanted followers and they directed prayers at him while choruses of his praise rented the air.

-From his bakery, there was the Good Luck bread (na you sabi o! lol!) which was said to be cheaper and better in quality than other brands. The bread sold like hot cake in the neighbourhood. The bread was so popular that other Christians in the neighbourhood preferred to purchase it.

-Jesu Oyingbo made relentless efforts to convert others to his ways of teaching meeting with success in some cases and outright failure in some others.

-Olukayode Immanuel, his eldest child eventually left him but not after he had repeated that Jesu Oyingbo send the kids to school and that he cannot force religion on people.

-Upon his death, he was said to have left behind a sum of N376,000 in his room while he left behind an estate worth millions of naira. Remember, that was in 1988. And wait for this: while he was alive, he cruised around in a shiny Pontiac while his wardrobe was stuffed with the latest designer wears. As at 1961, he was already married to seven women.
His residence.

His residence.
                         
-When many of his disciples left their families to live in his commune, their outraged family relatives did not find it funny and dragged Jesu Oyingbo to court severally but he always managed to meander his way out.
-As at April 1991, a publication, News Enquiry, put the number of his children at 1,340.
-In a sprawling courtyard among the buildings, followers used to gather at night to watch movies. He showed the people movies using his projector, in a calculated attempt to make garner him more popularity and it worked.
-Jesu Oyingbo did not only call himself Jesus Christ, but he also declared himself immortal and stated that he would not die. His male members were believed to have surrendered not only their property but also their wives.
-Of his numerous wives, three of them were believed to be his own biological daughters. Incest was reported and procreation was said to be a major goal of the sect. For these and many more, he had various clashes with the authorities of the day.
                        
-According to the book, Yoruba Gurus: Indigenous Production of Knowledge, his powers were reportedly credited to the charms contained in the Iwe Egbogi (The Book of Herbs).
-His neighbours described him as a lively, nice and very humourous man who waved to everyone as he passed by.
-Jesu Oyingbo and his followers were accused of disturbing the entire neighbourhood with their noisy activities (the government has to really do something fast about this issue. Nothing can really be as ridiculous as noise pollution) because they woke up really early to commence their activities. Neighbours said they could not complain about the deafening noise but felt some degree of ease after his death.

-Odumosu was accused of promoting a questionable mix of Christianity, African traditional religions and profitmaking in driving his religious empire. He has been fingered as one of the individuals behind the rapid proliferation of independent churches all across Nigeria.
-An allegation levelled against the late Jesu Oyingbo was marrying a mother and impregnating her twin daughters.

FAMILY

Conservative estimates list the number of Odumosu’s wives as 34 while some others give numbers as outrageous as 80 (the communal form of living made it difficult to identify who was Odumosu’s wife and who was not). However, it was clear that he had the unquestioned sexual priviledges over any female member or the wives of his followers as part of his divine benefits for leading them from darkness to light, as he had preached. The number of children was put at least 40. Although some of his children believed his doctrine and followed his teachings, not all of them agreed to fall in line. His daughter, Bukola Immanuel Odumosu, who studied economics at the Lagos State University courtesy her mother, stated bluntly that she started having doubts after his death. She stated:

I do not take him as my Saviour. He is my biological father. I have only Jesus Christ as my Saviour. I think my father was ok but I do not know.His children were so sheltered and protected that while he was alive, many of them did not get formal education as they were not really allowed to go out. It is stated that for those that later schooled after his death, it was due to the influence and efforts of their mothers.

After his death, fight broke out over his wealth. At the end of the whole legal tussle, the court ruled in favour of his family (and 34 wives) for the recovery of the various properties that were held in the commune’s name in posh neighbourhood of Maryland, Lagos. That set the stage for World War II among the family members. Below are some of his children:

DEATH AND AFTERMATH

In 1988, at the age of 73, Jesu Oyingbo succumbed to the icy hands of death, throwing the entire commune into an unprecedented chaos and entropy of immense proportions. He died in a hospital outside the commune and many of his followers could not believe that the acclaimed Messiah was gone. Many of his followers gleaned from the iron grill of their windows to ask outsiders and confirm if the bad news was true. Jesu Oyingbo had told his followers that his commune was the ‘New Jerusalem’ where Jesus Christ himself would perform the final wonders.

Following Odumosu’s death, everything scattered, the movement jagajaga-ed and the centre just fell apart. His children went for each others’ throats fighting dirty and nasty over the property of their late charismatic leader and father. Wives rose against themselves, mothers against their kids, fighting petty but really bitter wars while longtime members also joined in the melee, grabbing all the ‘grabbables’. It was so serious that the eldest son, Olukayode Immanuel Odumosu had to drag some long-term members to court. He won the case in 1997, evicted all the members but by then, the church had collapsed. Although he allowed his father’s children to stay on the premises, they still insulted him and labelled him a thief. He was even accused of using their father’s money to construct a textile factory while refusing to take care of them. Talk of Fuji House of Commotion. Then aged 56, Olukayode later left the church in search of ‘personal freedom’ while complaining that they showed him gross disrespect, against what obtains in Yoruba culture.

THE MOVEMENT TODAY

Far from its days of brightness and flamboyance, many of the buildings constructed and used by Jesu Oyingbo in his days have either been deserted, taken over by weeds or transformed into a hideout by petty criminals. There is a handful of his believers but the momentum is just no longer there. Following the demise of Jesu Oyingbo, his religious empire has not been able to experience a resurrection although his son said in 1998 that Nigeria survived and his father’s movement will also survive. Whether his movement will witness a ‘second coming’ or not, time remains the greatest teller.

SOURCES: naijarchives.com

FULL NAME:         Pete Edochie

DATE OF BIRTH:  March 7, 1947

OCCUPATION:      Actor

MARITAL STATUS: Married


INTRODUCTION 
Pete Edochie is a Nigerian actor. He got into the movie industry as far back as 1980. He's shown in over 200 Nollywood movies.
He is considered one of Africa’s most talented actors, by both Movie Awards and Movie Magic’s Africa Magic Cable network.






EARLY LIFE AND BACKGROUND 

Pete Edochie, an indigene of Anambra State Nigeria, was born on March 7, 1947 in Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria.
Pete Edochie had his primary and secondary Education in Zaria, Kaduna State of Nigeria. After his formal education, he worked with the Nigerian Railway Cooperation. Later, he went further to study a course in Journalism and Television in the School of Journalism and television in England.

He joined broadcasting at 20, and got married after two years. He got married during the biafran war.
He said; he had always wanted to be a broadcaster back then. There were three professions that have always fascinated him. They are journalism, broadcasting and acting. He revealed he has managed to  involve himself in those three professions. He did a course in journalism and television after he left left econdary school. That was before he joined his father in the Nigerian Railways. He wrote for some newspapers after that. He joined broadcasting after which he is now at the third phase which is acting. He beleieves he realized  doing these 3 professions. He was influenced by a few people who sang in those days, and he thought he could also join them and do some singing. In his words:"I’d sing, but not professionally."

He was in the Voice of Biafra program back then as a broadcaster. According to him they moving from place to place and whenever the war drew nearer, they moved away from the place. At a point, he had to go to the war front to perform some professional duties which he wouldn't disclose. He survived the war, he made his own contribution and he is happy about it, he says. I am always proud of my involvement in the war years. He was born and raised in the northern part of the country. But he was chased out of the region in 1966, and by 1967, the war began. He was a broadcaster then, and because he understood and spoke Hausa fluently he had to go to the war front.

SPEAKING MORE ABOUT HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE BIAFRAN WAR IN AN INTERVIEW:

Whenever you relive your Civil War experience, do you feel sad or happy? 

"No, I can’t be happy. I mean I couldn’t be happy. There was so much carnage and there was no justification for it. There was little provocation for the war. So, it was a programme intended to wipe us all out from the surface of the earth. Some of us were lucky to have survived. It is not what I would wish any enemy of mine. It’s an internecine experience, it’s not a good one. Everybody who experienced a war wouldn’t like a re-occurrence of such horrible experience. It’s a traumatic experience. You present a picture of tough-talking and aggressive Biafran soldier."

Do you somehow reflect your Biafran experience in the interpretation of your roles in movies?

"Pete-Edochie1 Curiously, I was not a Biafran solider. I went to the war for a specific assignment but not as a solider. I happened to be very strict by nature. I have five sons and eleven grand children. It is because I am strict and that’s why I was able to control those young men. If God gives you male children and you are soft, they will be wasted. I think it reflects in my movies because I am a very strict person. If I am playing the Igwe role, I am an Igwe through and through. My wife has a little to play when I am an Igwe. Ordinarily, in an Igbo culture your wife has little role to play in the Igwe’s affairs. The Igwe has his cabinet, he addresses them and they discuss issues affecting his Kingdom. The wife has little role to play, and when I am playing the role of an Igwe, my wife does not function one day. She can come in and bring kola nuts and greet my guests. That’s it. In that regard, I am not weak at all."


CAREER AND LIFE

He got into radio broadcasting in 1967 at the age of 20 as a junior programmes assistant after which he was elevated to the level of a Director. He was director of programmes, but doubling sometimes as Deputy Managing Director and occasionally acting as Managing Director. He quit ABS because the government decided to politise the affairs of their FM station, thereby resulting in the entire management being asked to move out, including him. He was to be the immediate successor to the MD but had to leave and enrol into the movie industry. Prior to that, he had featured in Things Fall Apart and had won an International Award. The BBC flew into Nigeria to interview him for his role in Things Fall Apart.

Pete Edochie came into limelight in the 1980s when he played the lead role of Okonkwo in the Nigerian Television Authority's adaptation of Chinua Achebe's all time best selling novel, "Things Fall Apart". Since then, Pete Edochie has featured in over 200 Nollywood movies and his prowess in the industry has won him many national and international awards.

In 2005 the Actors' Guild of Nigeria placed Pete Edochie and several other actors, including Genevieve Nnaji, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, Nkem Owoh, Ramsey Noah, Stella Damasus Aboderin, Chinwe Okeke and Richard Mofe Damijo on a one-year ban from filming after they were said to have been collecting huge fees from producers due to their A-list celebrity status. The ban placed on these actors was seen as doom in the Nigerian film business, but currently, the actors are back in filming.

On August 16, 2009 Nollywood actor, Pete Edochie was kidnapped. The veteran actor was kidnapped by one Mr. James Philip currently stationed in Afghanistan on his way to an event in Anambra State. He was kidnapped at Nkpor and was released on August 17, 2009.

IN A 2015 INTERVIEW WITH VANGAURD HE SPOKE ON HIS ROLE IN THE MOVIE THE BROUGHT HIM TO LIMELIGHT; THINGS FALL APART, READ BELOW:

In your movies, there is always a reflection of the Okonkwo character, the role you played in the NTA adaptation of Chinua Achebe’s classic, Things Fall Apart.

That’s what a lot of people say. When I did Things Fall Apart, I was 38 years of age. That was thirty years ago. I am 68 years now. People still call me “Ebube Dike” and before Chinua Achebe died he was calling me Ebube Dike. He never called me Pete, and we were very close. Each time people visited him in America, he would ask them about me. He created the character and because he thought I interpreted it perfectly, he named me after Okonkwo- Ebube Dike. So, a lot of people still see me and refer to me as a Ebube Dike and I answer them.


When you got the script to play the lead character, what was uppermost in your mind?

When the script was handed over to me, I said to myself. This is the opportunity for me to read the script since we didn’t read the book while I was in school. I was delighted to read it. Before then, I’ve not read the novel, Things Fall Apart. I knew nothing about it. Now, it was to be adapted into a screenplay. People were invited to come and audition for roles. Somebody who worked with me in the broadcasting House, Engr G.C Ugwu (now late) recommended me. He was the Zonal Director of NTA in Benin in those days. He had always watched me in the broadcasting house where I worked and the moment they decided to produce the play, the first name that came to his mind as Okonkwo was me. But there were other people that came for the general audition. I was invited to the audition and the venue was the main auditorium of he University of Nigeria, Enugu campus. The moment I walked into the auditorium, the white woman who was invited to handle costuming and other things saw me. She just looked at me as I was coming in, and screamed, saying: “if this man could act, that’s the man we want for the role.” She never met me before that day. I walked in, and was given the script. Other people were also given the script to read, and when I read mine, they shook hands with me and said, we are good to go. They said there was no point continuing with the audition; that the role is for me. As at that time, I didn’t know the implications of being in that production. We went ahead and produced the play and I won an international award. I am proud to say that BBC flew into the country to interview me and Chinua Achebe too. Nigerians were phoning and congratulating me. It was a moment of crowning glory for me. I think it was a defining moment in my professional career.

SPEAKING ABOUT HIS CHILDREN IN AN INTERVIEW
The veteran actor said to motivate each of his six children, he bought them all cars upon graduation from the university. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Photo:
"I Bought Cars For All Six Of My Children" - Actor Pete Edochie “I wanted to motivate them and keep them away from peer pressure. Parents must be able to motivate their children and set target for them. The minimum target for each of them was to graduate from higher institution; their reward upon graduation is a car. And where I come from, it is important to keep one’s word; I bought the car for each of them. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Photo: "I Bought Cars For All Six Of My Children" - Actor Pete Edochie Yul who is over 30 is the last born and he got his too.” Pete Edochie tells The Nollywood Reporter The celebrated actor who has been married for over 45 years said his marriage is about the longest in the industry and he never thought of taking a new wife. “I married early and have remained married since then. What am I looking for a second wife for? I married a woman who gave me six children, what could I possibly be looking for in another woman that I didn’t get from this woman? There is no reason for it”

Pete as a young actor

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FULL NAME:            Nkem Owoh

DATE OF BIRTH:     (unknown)

OCCUPATION:          Actor, Comedian, Musician

MARITAL STATUS:  Married








INTRODUCTION 
Nkem Owoh is a veteran Nollywood comic actor, he came into the movie industry as far back as 1987 and he's remained consistent ever since. Nkem is one of the most popular and controversial actors in Nigeria.

EARLY LIFE AND BACKGROUND 

Nkem Owoh had his Primary and Secondary Education at Nsukka. Nkem Owoh began his tertiary Education at the University of Ilorin and completed it at Institute of Management Technolgy(IMT), Enugu where he bagged a degree in Electrical Engineering.

Nkem Owoh began his acting career way back in his Primary and Secondary school days. He knew right from time that he had a talent in acting. Infact Nkem Owoh is one unique Nollywood actor that has a way of interpreting his roles. He is a born natural when it comes to acting.

Nkem Owoh worked with WACO Engineering after his youth service but was unfortunately laid off after a year. That became a blessing in disguise because it gave room for him to get involved with radio and television productions.

CAREER AND LIFE 

Owoh had his first major break in acting when he landed a role in the screen adaptation of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. The 1987 series had fifty episodes each spanning about 50 minutes and was aired on the Nigerian Television Authority. As Nollywood picked pace, he landed a supporting role in both Ukwa 1 and 2 in 1995 alongside other big names such as Sam Loco and Patience Ozokwor.

During his university studies, Owoh began acting in various television and film productions.
Owoh starred in the 2003 film Osuofia in London. He is also known for performing the song "I Go Chop Your Dollar" about advance fee fraud. The song was featured in the film The Master in which Owoh plays a scammer. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission banned the song.

In 2007 Owoh was arrested in Amsterdam, Netherlands (Bijlmermeer neighborhood in the Amsterdam Zuidoost borough) as the result of a 7-month investigation by the Dutch police dubbed "Operation Apollo".Owoh was arrested while performing a musical show when the police raided the event and arrested 111 people on suspicion of lottery fraud and immigration violations. Owoh was later released. In November 2009 Owoh was kidnapped in eastern Nigera. His kidnappers demanded a 15 million naira ransom. Owoh was released after his family members allegedly paid a ransom fee of 1.4 million naira.

Like any other big star, Nkem Owoh has been accused severally by producers of charging exorbitant appearance fees. The Association of Movie Makers and Producers banned him for making unreasonable demands in 2004. He was among a list of several Nigerian artists who were barred from acting in the country due to their high fees and difficult contract demands.

Nkem Speaking On Com­edy in Nige­ria In An Interview:
"Com­edy was intro­duced at the incep­tion of this branch of art as slap­stick. At that time, you would come across peo­ple putting on funny glasses, like the one I am putting on. I am the only per­son autho­rized to wear a sun­shade at night. You see peo­ple try­ing to whip up laugh­ter from dif­fer­ent sit­u­a­tions. But now we have grad­u­ated to a level that you can really make peo­ple laugh even if you are putting on suit. If God gives you a gift, it is not an easy thing. I talk, you laugh. I don’t know how I do it, some­times. I am embar­rassed.
A long time ago, I was asked to say the prayer at a func­tion and I said in Jesus name and peo­ple started laugh­ing. I take my prayers very seri­ously and I became very embar­rassed. You see there are good and bad sides to those things. Any­thing you say, you wouldn’t be taken seri­ous even when you are dis­cussing seri­ous issues. It hurts when such treat­ment is meted to you. But I think it is more on the pos­i­tive side."

Speaking On His The Hol­land Arrest Expe­ri­ence In An Interview
"I was not arrested in Hol­land last year. It was a kind of expe­ri­ence that left a bit­ter taste in my mouth. For a bonafide cit­i­zen of a rec­og­nized coun­try to enter another coun­try and peo­ple saw him as a sec­ond class cit­i­zen. I was there and their police came in their num­bers about one hun­dred of them. They came in their ambu­lance, on air, police dogs and all that. They told me to end the show. I told the man it’s unfair. I told them that if I was the per­son they were look­ing for, they should take me, but should not embar­rass the audi­ence. The man said no and that caused my anger. After that, we arranged and staged a demon­stra­tion to relate my own side of the story. If that was the option left to us, I don’t think we were wrong in fol­low­ing it. Nobody arrested me the way it was reported."


AWARDS AND ENDORSEMENTS
Has won multiple awards including:
The African Movie Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

ENDORSEMENTS
Signed a multimillion naira deal with MTN in 2012 and they've been renewing his contract since then.

Nkem Owoh poses with daughters

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=>Tinubu’s Daughter Leads Protest Against APC Government-Punch

The Iyaloja General of Nigeria, Chief Folasade Tinubu-Ojo, on Thursday, led market women to protest the non-inclusion of market women in President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress administration.
Tinubu-Ojo who is also the daughter of the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu led several women who converged at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja.
According to her, it was the opinion of market women of Nigeria that the present administration is not carrying them along even after they worked tirelessly to ensure the party emerged victorious during the 2015 election.

She lamented that “after the inauguration, most of us are not (being) carried along.”
Tinubu-Ojo said, “I am here this afternoon to represent market women and men of Nigeria. There has been agitations, not even agitation of allegation, the people believed that the government of the day is not carrying them along as it should be, that they worked round the clock for the party during the electioneering campaign, but after the inauguration most of us are not carried along.
“We only hear on the news that the First Lady is doing a programme this and that and we just see it on the news and they wouldn’t allow me be, all the complain come to my table morning and night and I say okay, enough is enough.

“We even heard that another FCT woman leader that is organising another market association and named it Association of Organised Market People in Abuja and most of these people are PDP, they were nowhere to be found when we are working for the party day and night, so now our people are not happy because they need to benefit from where they believe they have the right to and all we need, all we are crying for is for the government to give them sense of belonging and carrying them along properly.”

When asked whether her father, Asiwaju Tinubu in the know of her agitation, she said, “because I am the daughter of the National leader of APC doesn’t mean that I must not represent my people well, I have to represent my people’s opinion, I am a leader, and as a leader, my people are crying foul and I won’t fold my hands and keep quite because my father is a national leader, it is wrong, I am not mobilizing against the party, no, I am solidly behind the party, I have work for the party before and I will still work for the party tomorrow, but that does not stop me from saying the truth.”READ FULL NEWS


 =>Ranking of Yoruba Obas: Awujale blasts Alake - 'You are just a junior king in Yorubaland'-Nigerianeye


The Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, has berated the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, for categorising himself among the five top monarchs in Yorubaland.
At a fundraiser for a professorial chair instituted in his honour by the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, in Lagos on Thursday, the Awujale said the Alake was a junior oba in Yorubaland.
Reacting to a categorisation of monarchs by the Alake recently when the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, visited him (Alake), Oba Awujale said the Egba monarch was peddling falsehood and turning history upon its head.


The Awujale said, “The Alake, while receiving the Ooni in his palace, said Yoruba Obas (the ‘Big Five’ so to say) had been categorised with the Ooni in the first position followed by the Alaafin, the Oba of Benin, with the Alake coming fourth and the Awujale occupying the fifth spot in that order. He also went further to quote wrongly from a 1903 Gazette to support all the fallacies in his statement.”
He added that when he learnt about the comment, he contacted the Alake, who he added, vehemently denied saying so.
He added, “In a recent discussion between the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, and me, we also touched on the same issue and the Oba of Lagos told me that he too had asked Alake the same question, which he had again denied vehemently.

“Regrettably, however, when the said statement few days later was continuously credited to the Alake on the pages of newspapers, I expected him to deny it or issue a rebuttal, but he did not do so.
Therefore, I consider it necessary to debunk the falsehood and misrepresentation of facts from the Ake Palace so as to put the records straight.”

The Awujale argued that the 1903 Gazette referred to by the Alake was just a newspaper publication.
“The first question to Alake is: who categorised the Yoruba Obas and when? I challenge him to produce the document of the said categorisation. It is a known fact that Alake was a junior traditional ruler under the Alaafin at Orile Egba before he fled to Ibadan for refuge as a result of the war then ravaging the Yorubaland.
Sultry singer, Emma Nyra has joined the growing list of musicians venturing into acting.

With artistes like Davido, Falz, Sean Tizzle and many others making successful Nollywood debuts, the former Triple MG first lady has also acted in Moses Inwang’s upcoming comedy, ‘American Driver’.

Emma Nyra starred alongside comedian, AY, Nadia Buari, Nse Ikpe-Etim, Anita Chris, Jim Iyke and international actor, Evan King in the movie titled, ‘American Driver’.

Emma plays the role of a passenger who boards the lead character’s cab while on a journey.

The movie, which is expected to premiere soon, is however the third screen appearance for the ‘For my Matter’ singer.
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=> Jim Iyke, Nadia Buari star in comedy film-Naij.com

Nollywood director, Moses Inwang, has concluded work on a comedy film titled American Driver. The movie which premiers soon features movie stars such as Nse Ikpe-Etim and singer Emma Nyra as well as erstwhile lovers Nadia Buari and Jim Iyke who come together for the production of the movie. There are also appearances by comedian AY as well as Evan King and Anita Chris. READ ALSO: Who is to blame for recent building collapse in Lagos? The movie was also co-produced by Jim Iyke. It was shot in Texas, USA and promises a thrilling comedy performance. Describing the movie, via his Instagram account, the director Inwang said the movie was made to make the audience laugh till they drop.
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After weeks of research T.I.N Magazine finally comes up with the 2016 list of the ten most famous people in Nigeria.
Our research was done in different parts of Nigeria by asking people different questions about the nominees. All thanks to the T.I.N Magazine readers who volunteered themselves to help carry out this research in their states.


Criteria We Used:
=> The recognition of each nominees "Name"
=> The recognition of their "Face"
=> Their reputation
You will find notable mentions after the top ten, so relax and gently take a look at the:


     TEN MOST FAMOUS PEOPLE IN NIGERIA 2016


10] FUNKE AKINDELE

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Funke Akindele is definitely one of the most famous people in Nigeria at the moment; she was ranked 10th in last year's ranking.
OUR RESEARCH SHOWS:
Funke Akindele is still a well known entertainer in the country, her continuous appearances on billboards and TV adverts revealed she is one of the most popular faces in Nigeria. In our 2016 research we noted at least 80% Yoruba people know who Funke is. We discovered many Nigerians of other tribe know Funke Akindele either by name or facial recognition.
Funke is quite known by many Nigerian kids, youths and adults. She has managed to keep her no.10^th position in this year's ranking.


9] MERCY JOHNSON

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Mercy Johnson according to our research is the most famous actor in Nigeria. She was ranked no.8 in Nigeria in our 2015 ranking, but now she dropped.
OUR RESEARCH SHOWS:
Mercy is a very popular Nollywood actress who feature in a lot of movies which millions of Nigerians watch, Mercy is quite controversial both online and offline. Mercy's face is quite a very popular one as she also features in many TV&Billboard ads too. Her name sounds familiar to many Nigerians and so is her face. Our research revealed Mercy is quite known both in the South and Northern part of Nigeria.

8] PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE

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Known to be the G.O of the largest Christian ministry in Nigeria, pastor Adeboye was ranked no.5 in our last year's ranking, well; he dropped to no.8 this year.
OUR RESEARCH SHOWS
Half of Nigeria's population’s religion is Christianity and him heading the largest ministry in the country shows he is known by many Christians even ones that are not part of his ministry. We figured many Muslims know who Adeboye is too. The respected man of God is one of the most famous spiritual leaders in the country. Well, not known by many kids but known by many youths, adults and old ones.


7] T.B JOSHUA

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The very popular Nigerian prophet well known beyond the shores of Africa has been featured on this list to be the 7th most famous person in Nigeria as of 2016. He is the spiritual leader of the Synagogue church of all nations which is located in Lagos Nigeria.

OUR RESEARCH SHOWS:
The minister, televangelist and prophet is well known by Nigerians in every part of the country. He is known by both Christians and Muslims in the country because of his prophesies and miracles. Prophet Joshua is one of the most influential and controversial people in Nigeria. He is well known by people that are not even religious.
He is not well known by kids but known by many youths,adults, and old ones.


6] DAVIDO

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David Adeleke popularly known as Davido has been ranked to be the 6th person on this list, he is a well known musician even beyond the shores of Nigeria . Was ranked no.7 in last year's ranking.
OUR RESEARCH SHOWS:
The singer is one of the most famous music stars in the country at the moment. Mostly known by kids,youths and a few adults, the singer came into the music industry 5 years ago and he has managed to become one of the most famous people in Nigeria today. We discovered his music is being heard in every part of the country but majority in the southern part though. As of 2016 the singer is the most followed Nigerian person on social media. Davido's face is quite a popular one too due to his popular music videos, TV and Billboard ads also.


5] WIZKID

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The pop star Wizkid Ayo Balogun was the 6th on the list last year and he's moved up to be at the no.5 position in this year's ranking. Well, according to our research Wizkid is the most famous entertainer in Nigeria at the moment.
OUR RESEARCH SHOWS:
Wizkid keeps getting famous across the country, came into the spotlight in year 2010 and now he has managed to be one of the most famous people in the country through his music. Just like Davido Wizkid is mostly known by kids, youths and many adults too.
We discovered his name is quite a popular one, when we asked Nigerian that are not hip hop fans to mention hiphop singers they know his name comes first or second, in one other words we can say his name represents pop music in Nigeria. As of 2016, Wizkid is the most followed Nigerian person on Twitter.

4] OBASANJO

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Olusegun Obasanjo is a very influential politician in Nigeria. He was ranked no.4 last year and this year he's remained at the same position.
OUR RESEARCH SHOWS:
Obasanjo also known as OBJ is well known by many Nigerians, we figured Obasanjo is well known by Nigerians starting from age 13 and up, the famous politician is the only Nigerian who has lead the country for almost 12years, this made him very well known to many generations, we discovered Obasanjo is well known by many old ones, adults, and youths.


3] PRESIDENT BUHARI

Mr. President

Well, he is very well expected to be on this list. Muhammadu Buhari is the incumbent president of the federal republic of Nigeria and he's been ranked no.3 on this list.
OUR RESEARCH SHOWS:
As the president of Nigeria, Buhari is well known by many kids as they are being thought in their various schools. The president is well known by every Nigerian youth and adults but not well known by many old ones.
We figured the president's name is well known by many but his face not that much.


2] DANGOTE

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Aliko Dangote Nigeria's richest person for a very longtime is the second most famous person in Nigeria. Ranked no.3 last year moved up to no.2 this year.
OUR RESEARCH SHOWS:
The name; "Dangote" as a brand and personality is well known by almost every living Nigerian due to the reputation of being the richest Nigerian living or dead. He is mostly known by kids as a brand due to his name written on every product belonging to the brand; "Dangote". We figured his face is not quite known to many but the name is. Dangote is well known by almost every Nigerian youth, adult and old ones.


1] GOODLUCK JONATHAN

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Ranked to be the no.1 last year, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is still the most famous Nigerian person as of 2016, the former president of Nigeria is still well known by every living Nigerian person on the planet.
OUR RESEARCH SHOWS:
The president's name and face remains very well known by many Nigerians. President Goodluck led the country for over 5years and in 5years he became one of the most famous Nigerian leaders ever.
We figured Jonathan’s name, face and reputation is very well known by many Nigerians kids, youths, adults and old ones. The ex-president has remained relevant and controversial even after leaving office in 2015.

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FULL NAME:           Ibinabo Fiberesima

DATE OF BIRTH:     13th of January 1973

OCCUPATION:        Actress, Entrepreneur,Singer

MARITAL STATUS:  Married

INTRODUCTION 
Ibinabo Fiberesima is a popular Nigerian entertainer, she is popularly known to be an actress and the president of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, she is an ex beauty queen and presently a pageant organizer, she is the organizer of one of the most popular beauty pageants in Nigeria "Miss Earth" and more outside Nigeria.





EARLY LIFE AND BACKGROUND 

Ibinabo Fiberesima is a Nigerian actress, ex-beauty queen and Events Manager. She is from Rivers State, Nigeria, and she is the child of Dr J.B Fiberesima and an Irish woman. Ibinabo attended the Y.M.C.A Play Centre, Port Hacourt and had her secondary education at the Federal Government Girls College [ F.G.G.C ], New Bussa, Niger State, Nigeria. She graduated from the University of Ibadan with B.A Degree in English Language and Literature.

When she was younger she did the Most beautiful girl in Nigeria, she was second runner up, she then did Miss Nigeria and she was first runner up and finally she did Miss Wonderland and emerged the queen.

She got into entertainment after winning the Miss Wonderland Beauty Pageant in 1997. She was the First Runner up at the Miss Nigeria 1991 beauty contest. Due to her love for music and the arts, Ibinabo went into Night Club Management in the 90's and she ran her club, Pyramid and Karaoke, [ A gift from a lover who was besotted with her ] for six years.


CAREER AND LIFE 

As the years rolled on, Ibinabo also started acting. I hope you've not forgotten her solid performance in 'Most Wanted' ( Nigeria's version of 'Set It Off'. An American movie featuring Queen Latifah in a Gangster role ). Besides acting in other movies, She has also produced a movie 'A Night In The Phillipines'. Till date she has featured in several Nollywood movies.

She also contributed positively to the Nigerian Music Industry by appearing in Music videos especially those of Edward Inyang, whose stage name is Blackky. Ibinabo is the National Director for Nigeria to the Miss Earth Beauty Pageant and Miss International Beauty Pageant [ RV is not sure if the named Paegants are still being organised these days ].

Speaking On Herself As Pageant Organizer In An Interview :
"I organize Beauty Pageants. I took the Miss Nigeria to Japan for the Miss International pageant and Miss Earth pageants in Manila also the Miss Intercontinental in China. My company holds all three licensees for Nigeria. Put it this way I am the National Director for these pageants in Nigeria."

Ibinabo has been in the spotlight in recent years after accidentally killing Dr Suraj Giwa in a car crash in 2005. She has been to court several times and has been handed a jail sentence. However, she avoided spending much time in jail after she was sentenced in 2009. It is not clear when her court battles with the Giwa family will end.

SPEAKING ON HER SHORT-TIME EXPERIENCE IN PRISON IN A 2010 INTERVIEW:

After your horrible prison experience, how is life treating you?
Life has been nice to me. I’m a more relaxed person now than before and I’m at peace with myself and you can notice it.
What would you say is the lesson that your recent experience taught you?
Life has taught me to be more careful; to look before I leap. In the past, I used to take a lot of things for granted, but now, I’m calmer. I also pray a lot these days.
Do you see yourself as a testimony of God’s mercy?
Yes, I’m a defined testimony of God’s mercy. The accident, the trial and the trauma I had to pass through, and finally my release from prison is worthy of a testimony.
I actually don’t remember the accident anymore and it’s amazing. I never believed I could get over the trauma.
While it lasted, I locked myself up in the darkness of my little world for several days without food. It was close to hell.
But I must tell you; the depression, the trauma and the pain were unbearable. I came out of Kirikiri prison, feeling dejected, and abandoned. People no longer wanted me around them any more . But like I said earlier, it’s a different world today.
In prison, the inmates showed me a lot of love, care and sympathy. They also gave me hope and the confidence to live. I was also treated as family in that peaceful environment
Surprisingly and in spite of my incarceration, I’m still celebrated and recognised as a celebrity in the country.
What went through your mind the moment you were ushered into the prison?
First, when I was ushered into the Black Maria, after the court verdict, I went into a shock. I cried out for help, but nobody heard my cry .
And when the Black Maria moved from the court to pick other inmates in other courts, it dawn on me that the game was up.
When we got to a particular court, I refused to climb down from the Black Maria.
There, a woman joined me with a child. I was dumfounded. As I summoned up courage to ask what she was doing with a child in a Black Maria, she said to me; “I don’t have anywhere to keep her, hence I’m going to prison with her.” I felt bad.
Eventually, that same baby was soon to become everybody’s baby in prison .
More drama was soon to unfold as the Black Maria approached the prison gate. I passed out.
I couldn’t believe it. That I, Ibinabo was going to make the prison my new home.
For three days, I was in a shock. And when I recovered, I started receiving inmates who called to sympathise with me.
Soon, life returned to normal and my interaction with other inmates became cordial. Life in the prison could be compared to life in a female hostel in high school.
And since I was a boarder in high school, I was quick to adjusted to the environment.
But what hurts most was knowing that some inmates had spent between five and seven years on awaiting trial. All of these will be contained in my prison notes which will be published soon.

How did I meet Christ, you may want to ask me?
In prison, there was a particular pastor that got me to reflect on what brought me to Kirikiri. I thought of so many things including how I begged the family of the man I knocked down. I also thought of my relationship with God and wondered if l was on a good stand with Him.
I wondered if that may have been responsible for my woes. As I pondered over these things, I got connected to my creator.
At that moment, he told me “this is the path you are going to follow from today if you must find peace in life”.
While the trial lasted, you were always covering your face. Was it done as a result of shame?
Yes. It wasn’t a picture I would want to see when I’m out of the prison. If I had allowed my frustration to be captured through the lens of the press guys, it would remain in my memory forever.
How did the warders treat you?
The warders were nice to me. I was amazed at the way the warders treated me .
Is it true you were drunk when the accident happened?
I was not drunk. I was going to pick up a friend’s daughter at school on Victoria Island. She’d gone to the saloon to make her hair. I was on my way home when she pleaded with me to stop over and pick up her daughter and another lady.
As the lady was not properly dressed, I was counseling her when a group of four guys in a red-car, smoking at random, for no reason trailed and tried to overtake our vehicle.
Sensing danger, I increased my speed, but the guys double theirs.
While trying to avoid hitting their car, I swerved to the other lane and unfortunately collided with two cars on motion. That’s exactly what happened.
When the accident happened, I passed out. And when I woke up, I found myself in the hospital.
As I speak with you, I am yet to set my eyes on that car. I don’t know where they kept the car. And each time I read stories concerning the accident I always feel very bad.

During the trial, did you at any point feel abandoned by relations and close friends?
Abandoned by my friends yes, but by family members, no. They stood by me, while the trial lasted.
A year before the accident in 2005, I had relocated to Port Harcourt. I was in Lagos for a meeting with management of the African Independent Televison (AIT) regarding my annual Miss Earth beauty pageant. They were to partner with my organisation for that year’s edition.
Since the incident happened, I have learnt how not to trust anybody anymore. I put my trust now in the Lord. And this is better explained in the new song I recorded. The music captures my story.
Emotionally, I have been drained and to some extent humiliated, even in public.
I recall a particular situation, where I was called a murderer at a friend’s wedding by a certain lady.
I had stopped to greet a friend when she asked my friend “is that not the murderer”.
I was furious as I confronted her, demanding that she differentiate between manslaughter by accident and murder.
But she later apologised to me, blaming her action on what she read in the national dailies about the accident.
I wasn’t happy that I was involved in that accident and I have said it over and over again that I’m deeply sorry that it ever happened. I don’t know how else to atone for the accident. (The tears started rolling down her cheeks).
I started begging my victim’s family from the very day, the accident happened. My family attended the funeral rites, service of songs and I even attended the 40 days prayer when I was strong enough to move about. I met with the mother and the wife of the deceased. There’s virtually nothing I didn’t do to plead with the deceased’s family to let me off the hook. I’m still pleading with them as I speak with you right now.

SPEAKING ON HER MARRIAGE ESCAPADES:
Have you ever been married?
No, I have not been married. My first son’s father died. We lost him and my second child’s father could not stay with me. Something happened along the line and we couldn’t be together.
When the media came after me, my guy thought I was the one giving out our personal information to them. I tried to explain things but he wouldn’t listen. So we went our separate ways.
Thereafter, I met my heartthrob, Fred Amata and again the press got involved. Fred was my friend first of all, before he became the father of my baby.
The press started writing that the mother never liked me, even as I speak with you, Fred’s mother and I are the best of friends. I talk with her almost every day.
I was accused of breaking Fred’s marriage. I met Fred, four years after he was separated from his wife. So how could I have caused his marriage to crash. If Fred decides to make peace with his wife, I wish them well. I have a relationship with Fred, he’s my baby’s father. I respect and love him. That does not take away the fact that I’m still single and searching. I want to marry and have a complete family. I know God will grant me my heart’s desire because I live a Christ- like life now. That’s all that is missing me, I want to be addressed as Mrs Ibinabo, I really want to settle down.

On 11th of March 2016 the appeal court sentenced her back to prison to complete her 5years sentence.
Embattled President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, Ibinabo Fiberesima is in the eye of the storm as she faces spending time in jail if the decision of a Lagos High Court imprisoning her is not quashed.

This is coming on the heels of her 10-year-old manslaughter case which is awaiting the judgment of the Appeal Court sitting in Lagos. The case involves the death of a Lagos doctor, Giwa Suraj which happened in February 2006 after Ibinabo hit him on the Lekki–Epe expressway.

The trial, which has been heard at various lower courts, has seen the actress, who was once fined N100,000 by a Magistrate Court, sentenced to a 5-year jail term by a High Court for dangerous and reckless driving.

The case came up again yesterday, January 28 at an Appeal Court sitting in Lagos as the actress filed a suit challenging the ruling of the Lagos High Court who handed her the 5-year sentence.

Ibinabo, who was absent at the trial, is asking that the decision of a Lagos High Court which sentenced her to 5 years imprisonment be quashed.

The appellate court presided over by Justice Ndukwe Anyanwu has however reserved judgment to a later date with the judge ordering that the actress be present on the day which would be communicated soon.

AWARDS
Has won several awards..
Won the African Woman Of Worth Award in 2014.

Pictograph

Ibinabo's wedding

Ibinabo with 3 of her kids

Ibinabo looking stunning

SOURCES: vibes-extra.blogspot.com.ng,nigeriafilms.com,nollywoodfotoblog.blogspot.com.ng,thenet.ng,

FULL NAME:        Agbani Asenite Darego

DATE OF BIRTH:  22 December 1983

OCCUPATION:      Model, Beauty Queen: Titles: Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria 2001,Miss World 2001
MARITAL STATUS:  Not Married

INTRODUCTION 
Agbani Darego,is a Nigerian model and beauty queen, she became famous all over Africa after she became the first native Sub-Saharan African to win Miss World in year 2001 when she was 18years old.







 
EARLY LIFE AND BACKGROUND 

Darego hails from a town called Abonnema in the Rivers State area of southern Nigeria. Her full name is Ibiagbanidokibubo Asenite Darego, and she was the sixth of eight children in her family.

Her father was a customs official, while her mother, Inaewo, had a rice-trading business which necessitated frequent travel; on her trips Inaewo bought clothing and sold it in a clothing boutique where Darego spent many hours as a little girl, paging through foreign fashion magazines. But Darego was sent off to a boarding school when she was ten years old. Two years later, her mother died of breast cancer, and Darego later realized she had been sent away to shield her from her mother's condition. "I wasn't too happy at first, but it prepared me for my life now," she reflected about being away from home in an interview with Julia Llewellyn Smith of the Mail on Sunday."I learned to be on my own. It makes you independent."

During her teens, Darego dreamed of becoming a model, a career plan dismissed by her father. At six feet, she was unusually tall for a Nigerian—all in her family are of above-average height—and she was slimmer than the prevailing standard of beauty. "The way most women look in Nigeria is not the Western ideal," she explained to Garner in the Evening Standard interview. "In my country, short, curvy women are thought beautiful, not me." Such extra pounds are considered a sign of health and prosperity, and some brides-to-be in Nigeria even cloister themselves in what is known as a "fattening room" two weeks before the wedding in order to gain weight.

Darego had a back-up plan, to study computer science, and had won a place at a university. She deferred it, however, and began making the rounds of modeling agencies in Lagos, Nigeria's main city, and began entering pageants. In "The Face of Africa" modeling contest, she placed as a runner-up.

CAREER AND LIFE 

In January of 2001 she won the "Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria" contest, which made her eligible for the Miss World pageant later that year. The global-beauty event was held in Sun City, South Africa, and that year was hosted by American television personality Jerry Springer. Initially, Darego was a long shot to win, but that year's contest had a new feature: television viewers could phone in a vote for their favorite contestant. On that November evening, Darego became Miss World 2001, and failed to erupt in tears—the first time in recent memory that the winner had maintained her composure.

Contrary to popular belief, Darego did not replace Valerie Peterside after the latter was dethroned, as she had won Miss Nigeria. A few months later she was a contestant at Miss Universe, and became the first Nigerian to place among the top 10 semi-finalists, finishing seventh overall. She was the only one to wear a maillot as opposed to a bikini during the swimsuit competition.

Darego was the first Nigerian to win the Miss World crown, but more importantly was the first black woman from an African country to win it. Black women had won the title before, but they hailed from Caribbean lands. Three other women from African nations had taken the crown over the years, but two were white women from South Africa, and the other an Arabic contestant from Egypt in the 1950s. There were massive celebrations in Nigerian cities the same night that Darego was crowned, and when she returned to Nigeria for her first official visit she met with government ministers and took part in a four-day celebration. She was even made an honorary member of the Council of Chiefs in Lagos, an extraordinary honor for a woman as young as she was and one that made her the country's youngest chief.

Darego chose to become a patron of a breast-cancer awareness program and dedicated her crown to her mother. She also devoted time during her Miss World year to an anti-malaria campaign. "I had malaria as a child, but I was privileged to have hospital treatments," she explained in the Mail on Sunday interview with Smith. "So many others die because they can't get drugs." She spent much of the year traveling, but used London as her base, in a home she shared with her younger sister. All told, she walked the Great Wall of China, attended the Cannes Film Festival and England's Royal Ascot—where she wore a stunning fuchsia ensemble and requisite elaborate hat—and was photographed for American Vogue. She also invested some of her cash prize in a parcel of land back in Nigeria.

Darego's year as Miss World was a successful one, but blighted in its last weeks by a political and religious controversy that had little to do with her: she was set to relinquish her crown at the next Miss World pageant in Nigeria, which was slated to be held in her country as an honor to her, but at the time, another young woman from Nigeria, Amina Lawal, had been sentenced to death by stoning on charges of adultery. Women's-rights groups from around the world called attention to the spectacle of holding a beauty pageant in a country where a woman was about to be executed for such a transgression. Perhaps seeking to defuse some of the tension, a Nigerian newspaper journalist wrote that were the prophet Mohammed, founder of Islam, alive today he might have selected a wife from among the contestants.

Parts of Nigeria are predominantly Muslim, and the comments incited even more of a controversy. Widespread riots left 200 dead, and Darego and the new Miss World contestants were confined to their hotel for their personal safety. In the end, the pageant locale was hurriedly switched to London, and Darego crowned Miss Turkey as the new Miss World.
Darego landed a three-year contract with L'Oreal, the cosmetics giant, during her Miss World year. A born-again Christian, she does not drink or smoke, and had rarely even worn makeup prior to her Miss World year. She had ambitious plans for the rest of her career. "I'm not going to be a model for the rest of my life," she told the Evening Standard's Garner. "I want to be a successful businesswoman. I want to be good at everything."

Darego has judged numerous pageants, and fashion and modelling competitions including Miss World 2014, Miss England 2002, Mr. Scotland 2002, and Elite Model Look Nigeria 2012 and 2014 In 2010 she launched a style and fashion reality show Stylogenic on Nigerian television, and three years later announced her denim range, AD by Agbani Darego, which includes jeans, dresses, sunglasses and bags.

Due to her busy work schedule, Darego left the University of Port Harcourt, but after moving to New York where she was signed to Next Model Management and Ford Models she enrolled at New York University where she studied Psychology, graduating in May 2012.


AWARDS AND ENDORSEMENTS 
"The Face of Africa" modeling contest, runner-up, c. 1998; "Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria" beauty pageant winner, 2001; crowned Miss World, 2001; made honorary member of Nigeria's Council of Chiefs, 2001.

Tall Darego

Darego in 2001

SOURCES: biography.jrank.org,wikipedia.org

 FULL NAME:           Joke Silva

DATE OF BIRTH:      September 29, 1961

OCCUPATION:          Actress, Director

MARITAL STATUS:  Married

INTRODUCTION 
Joke Silva is a popular award winning Nigerian actress and movie director who started her acting career as far back as 1981. She acts in both English/Yoruba speaking films. She is an ambassador to many big brands and she's respected by many young actresses in the industry. She is married to co-actor Olu Jacobs.





EARLY LIFE AND BACKGROUND 

Joke was born in Lagos, Nigeria, the second child in a family of five children and she spent most of her early days in Lagos.
She attended Holy Child College in Lagos for her secondary school education after which she proceeded to study English at the University of Lagos. After her tertiary education in Lagos, she then moved to England where she attended Wentworth Milton, Mount Bournemouth to obtain her A levels and after that, she went ahead to study drama at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Speaking On How She  Started:

CAREER AND LIFE

Joke Silva started acting in 1981 and had her first appearance was in an English movie titled “Mind Bending” in 1990. In 1993, she featured in a Yoruba movie titled “Owurolojo” after that.
Silva has starred in several films and television series of both English and Yoruba languages, some which include Secret Laughter of Women, 30 Days, Letters to a Stranger, Widow's Cot, For Coloured Girls and the Africa Movie Academy Award-nominated films White Waters and The Amazing Grace. She also starred in two critically acclaimed movies that earned Africa Movie Academy Award-nominations, White Waters and Amazing Grace. During her days at the University of Lagos, she belonged to a cultural group which comprised of the likes of Bode Osanyin, Stella Monye and others.

Speaking On Her Journey So Far:
The journey has been gracious. It has been interesting because of the kind of beginning I had. I was so lucky with my start off because I started with the core professionals; the best hands in the movie industry. I am talking about the likes of Jide Ogungbade, John Chukwu, Segun Bankole, Bode Osanyin to mention a few. I went through professional training with these people. So you discover that with all these professionals as my trainers, I could have nothing but the best. I was very lucky. They helped me to achieve professionalism. I remember that I started out at the University of Lagos Cultural Group with Bode Osanyin, Stella Monye and others.
Mrs Joke Silva who hails from Isale-eko (Lagos Island), is married to veteran Nollywood actor Olu Jacobs and the union is blessed with 2 children. They have been married since 1985. Together, they both run the Lufodo Group, which houses Lufodo productions, Lufodo Academy of Performing Arts, Lufodo Consult, and Lufodo Distribution. She serves in the capacity of Director of Studies at the Academy.

She has received several awards and nominations for her work as an actress including the awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role at the 2nd Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2006 for the movie, Women’s Cot. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the movie ‘White Waters’ at the 4th Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2008. She has also received the EMOTAN Award by African Independent Television (AIT) and the SOLIDRA Award for Visual Art.
She has also curated  for the Bank of Industry (BOI) in Theatre, Film, Documentary and Poetry and also for the 2012 London Olympics.

SPEAKING ABOUT ACTING AND LIFE IN AN INTERVIEW:

Joke and Olu Jacobs

SOURCES:informationng.com,nollywoodonlinenews.com,wikipedia.org,9ja-gist.blogspot.com

So it is another Monday and T.I.N Magazine brings you an interesting history and this time it is about the very famous military head of state who many would say is a notorious man. Sani Abacha was a very controversial person when he was still alive, even after his death he remains controversial. Well, in the piece you are gonna be reading below you'll read all about his career,governance,human rights abuse,corruption and death.
Take your time and check it out...

Bet you didn’t know Nigeria is blessed with breathtaking waterfalls, springs and lakes that are not just used to power electricity to the country and game reserves but open to tourists as well.
Here’s a list of beautiful water falls found in Northern Nigeria. Explore the nearest one to you and share your experiences with us.

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1. Gurra Falls–Plateau State

This resulted from the activities of tin mining in the area. Kurra Falls is used by Nigerian Electricity Supply Company (NESCO) to generate electricity power for a large number of communities in the area

2. Kainji Lake – Niger State

Kainji Lake, in western Nigeria, is a reservoir on the Niger River, formed by the Kainji Dam. It was formed in 1968 and is a part of Niger State and Kebbi State. Kainji Lake National Park (KNLP), situated around the lake, is Nigeria’s oldest National Park, established in 1976.

3. Pandam Game Reserve and Lake – Plateau State

This provides sports fishing activities and relaxation center for the public.

4. Assop Water Falls – Plateau State

The site is an area of Guinea Savanna on the slopes and top of a mid-altitude ridge of the Jos Plateau, beside the Jos-Kagoro road, about 70 km from Jos. The vegetation comprises gallery forests surrounded by grasslands. The Assop River, which feeds the picturesque rapids and falls, drains part of the Jos Plateau.

5. Gurara Water Falls – Niger State

This wonderful waterfall is best described as Nigeria’s premier falls. The waterfall is simply amazing, small streams diverts from the main Gurara river running softly around rocks on top of the cliff, converging from score tributaries in the narrow rugged pass and dashing out from the cliff with a gushing power. The water shines under the sun as beautiful as fireworks.

6. Wikki Warm Spring – Bauchi State

A famous attraction in the Yankari national park. It is particularly prized for its warm water. It is available for both night and day for tourists who cherish swimming. Wikki Warm spring, which has a constant temperature of 31 call year round. The spring gushes water out from underneath a limestone escapement surrounded by vegetation that boosts the ecology of the warm spring. The standard of the Reserve is being upgraded to world-class status, comparable to other

7. Enemabia Warm Spring – Benue State 

One of the famous attractions in Benue State. It is particularly prized for its warm water. It is available for both night and day for tourists who cherish swimming.

8. Owu Water Fall – Kwara State (Western Nigeria)

This is one of the highest and most spectacular waterfalls in West Africa and is sometimes referred to as ‘WONDER IN THE WILDERNESS’. It cascades from a height of about 120 meters to form a pool of ice cold water at the base. The site has a beautiful landscape and offers visitors a refreshing atmosphere.

9. Hunki Ox-Bow Lake – Nasarawa State

The Lake is like an Ox-bow, shaped in two arms with each of them measuring 6-7 kilometers long and 70 kilometers wide

11. Eggon Warm Spring – Nasarawa State

12. Lamurde Warm Spring – Adamawa State

Lamurde hot spring is part on the world’s popular Sukur Cultural Landscape, which consists of a palace, villages, and the remains of an iron industry. The place was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1999 and has since become one of the top tourist destinations in Nigeria.