Monday, 5 October 2015

‘He has sex with me up to six times in a day’

Mrs. Bola Bamigbola has prayed an Igando Customary Court to dissolve her 10-year marriage over frequent demand for sex, and rape by her husband Bola said that Taiwo, her husband, beat her up anytime she refused to have sex with him, adding that after the pounding, he would still have his way against her consent. “My husband can sleep with me up to six times in a day; he does this everyday but anytime I tell him that I am tired, he will beat and...

‘My husband is out to ruin me’

 • I gave him my ATM cards, so it enabled him to withdraw my money at will. I was so blindly in love that I could not see that he was a gold digger and that he was out to ruin me completely —Wife  • It is true, she assisted me in my business and I paid her by showing true love to her, but she is just too hard for my liking. —Husband  “I married my husband when he had nothing. I fed him, clothed him. I bought two buses for...

Cohabitation: Dangerous trend displacing responsible union

For Gimba Emen and Jessica Ibrahim, his girlfriend, this may not be the best of times as love which welded their hearts in the past, when they ate, danced, drank and watched films joyfully, seems to have expired and like a candle light that is extinguished. Right now, Emen, a 28-year-old student, is cooling his heels at the Keffi Prison for allegedly jilting Ibrahim, who he put in the family way in the course of some swell months of exciting union....

‘ Style means simplicity’

What is style to you? It means simplicity, creativity and everything that is natural and beautiful. It is having a great and an uncommon sense of dressing yourself and others up. Where do you get your inspiration from? God is my main source of inspiration and He has never let me down. I also get inspired by things in my environment, the people around me and happenings. What do you have to say about your choice of design? I chose ready-to-wear...

Nonny: An ‘apostrophic’ appeal

Nonny’s “Ire” which means goodness is one that has diversified what is usually the conventional Nigerian Hip-hop otherwise known as “Club beat”. The artist in “Ire” chose the reggae music genre for his lyrical expression. This is good as Nigerian musicians need diversification badly. It is easy to identify Nigerian songs due to their resemblance to each other in terms of beats. “Ire” is a typical reggae song but unlike most reggae songsters like...

20 years in Nollywood memorable for me –Lancelot Imasuen

Why is today very necessary to you? I recognise the fact that the media has been there for me all through these years. They have been nice to my career, which was why I decided that it would be nice to have them around. The truth is that the media has been with me right from when I started with the small budget films to now that I am associated with bigger jobs like Invasion 1897 which is still travelling round the world and has been getting...

Nollywood’s super single mums

 Franca Brown  She is perhaps the latest on this list, having been delivered of a bouncing baby girl last week. Franca, a lawyer by profession, started her acting career in Jos, Behind the Bukka, before the plum role as Mama Nosa, in Behind the Clouds, which put her on the limelight. With the popularity therein, it became quite difficult for Franca to get hooked, as men started seeing her through the spectacle of her roles. She once...

My advice for entertainers in Abuja –Gabriel Oyibode

The Miss Ambassador for Peace Agency recently hosted the fourth edition of its pageantry and Peace Achievers Awards, how do you feel regarding the huge success of the event?  When you have a child and you see the child growing you will be very happy. It is a great pleasure seeing peace ambassador agency growing, not just growing, affecting lives very positively in the right direction. I believe it was a success because of the crème of personalities...

Oritse Femi, Kiss Daniel bag award as MAFP Queen emergeswork

 The Peace Ambassador Agency made history delivering a well packaged event during its fourth edition of Miss Ambassador for peace and achievers award this year at the Sheraton hotels Abuja. Capturing some big wigs in the entertainment industry and different sectors of society, a combined three ballrooms of the Sheraton hotel which was filled to an overflow, came alive with excitement when Kiss Daniel, Eucharia Anunobi, MC Shakara, Alex Ekubo, Mr. Nigeria Emmanuel Ikubese, Okeke Zandas, AIT, John Fashanu and so many others received awards...

Urhobo, Isoko unions back cultural show

 The Urhobo Progress Union [UPU] and Isoko Development Union [IDU], both umbrella bodies for the twin tribes of Urhobo and Isoko speaking people in Delta State respectively have pledged their support for the oncoming Urhobo/Isoko Cultural and Comedy All Stars Show. At a separate meeting with the leadership of the UPU at the country home of its President General, Joe Omene at Mosogar in Ethiope West Local Council and the President General...