Dbanj drops music for farming!

D’banj might be a superstar, but he’s obviously not afraid to get his hands dirty if need be.

The star is in Ghana doing the farm thingy at the Asekume Cocoa farm rather than the usual studio, making good music for us.

He shared the above photo via Instagram and tagged it:

About to get to work,earlier today In Asekume cocoa Farm in ghana. Wait!!! Do u all know that 69% of the labour force in Africa are in the #AGRICULTURAL sector?

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Why I initially denied my son- Ice Prince.

Last week it was 9ice giving reasons why he denied his twin girls at first.Now it's Ice Prince. Recall Wizkid also denied his baby boy at first..Here is what he told Showbiz plus

 It was complicated back then, I didn’t really know what was happening and I wasn’t sure of certain things. So the best I had to do then was denying it and sort out things first. Now I know he is my child and I have done everything as a father ever since.

On his baby Mama

 I speak with her often and it is usually about the baby. That is all for now.

ASUU dares FG over sack.

Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities [ASUU], Calabar Zone, has reacted angrily to the order to return to the classrooms issued to them by the Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, saying that the action would worsen the strike action rather than solving the problem.

ASUU accused the minister of deceiving  President Jonathan on the crisis, alleging that Wike and some other unnamed officials of the Government did not want the lingering problem between the union and the Federal Government to be resolved.

According to the zonal coordinator of ASUU Calabar zone, Dr. Charles Ononuju, with such threat the crisis would linger far longer than expected.

In a statement in Umuahia,. Ononuju said that the union received with shock the pronouncement by the supervising minister, saying the crisis could not be resolved that way.

“We received with shock the pronouncement of by the Supervising Minister of Education, Wike, that lecturers should resume work or be sacked”, Ononuju said.

He said that the union had gone far with discussion on how to resolve the crisis and was waiting for President Goodluck Jonathan’s reply to their letter after their meeting when the minister came up with the “unfortunate” pronouncement.

“Sacking lecturers will not solve the problem but will compound it. Wike should resign and come to the university and teach. This is not the way to go if they go this way, the crisis will not be resolved in the next 100 years”, he warned.

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Boy Beats his mother openly, saying he hates her.

Is this how you are suppose to treat the Woman who brought you into this world, no matter her offence? He beats up his mother simply because she got arrested when he was young and needed her to be there!

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Boko Haram recruits children for attack.

According to reports from the Punch,

The Human Rights Watch has said that the Boko Haram sect now uses children as young as 12 years old in its attacks.

The group said in a statement released in Abuja on Friday that even though the sect has abducted scores of women and girls in the last four years, Nigerian security forces too have not been able to account for hundreds of young detainees.

This HRW’s comment is a result of a nine-day visit to Kano and Maiduguri in November 2013.

The group said, “The rise of an anti-Boko Haram ground allied with the Nigerian security forces – the so-called civilian joint task force – has added a worrisome dimension to the violence.

“Human Rights Watch interviewed more than 60 victims and witnesses, as well as medical personnel, members of local rights groups, civilian joint task force commanders and government officials.

“The commanders of the civilian joint task force said they had rescued 26 abducted women and girls from a Boko Haram stronghold in Maiduguri and later in Sambisa forest. Some of the women and girls were pregnant. Others had babies.

“Some witnesses said they saw children in the ranks of Boko Haram during attacks.

Human Rights Watch also observed children who appeared to be aged 15-17 manning checkpoints for the civilian joint task force in Maiduguri.”

The group said for a sect claiming to be religious, the Boko Haram tactics “are the most profane acts we can imagine.”

The group said it witnessed arbitrary detention by security forces during its visit.

It said arrests took place in markets, mosques and other locations where young men were known to gather.

“Family members and witnesses described how often after Boko Haram attacks, members of the security forces indiscriminately rounded up and arrested boys and young men in the vicinity,” HRW said.

Jude strikes a pose with his brothers at the ChannelO party in South Africa.

Well I guess it's about that time for Jude to maturely tell his fans that their family is inseparable and not even a woman can break that cord between them, as he struck a pose with the twins and Naeto C at the ongoing Channel O party in South Africa. See the awesome picture below...

PHOTO: Dan Foster falls off chair whilst judging Nigeria's got talent" show.

I still don't understand why Oga Dan fell off a chair O! was it that the performance he was watching was so poor or so fantastic and the chair had to throw him off, or wasn't he given the right size of chair to carry his weight? Any ways, please see the picture of Oga Dan "yakata" on the ground below...

Peter Okoye reacts to family issues rumour.

Peter Okoye in a new interview with Encomium has denied the stories that his family members were not in support of his marriage to wife Lola.

Or that that was the reason his elder brother Jude didn’t attend his wedding.

In the chat, Peter said:

• Is there any iota of truth in the tale that your family didn’t support the wedding?

That is very far from being the truth. I saw some of those reports and was full of laughter. Everybody is just laughing because the reports are like comedy to us. Honestly,
there is no iota of truth in the rumour. But it’s one of the prices you pay as a celebrity, so I remain focused.

• How would you describe your wife?

Honestly, she is a wonderful woman. She has virtually all the qualities that every man would want in his ideal woman. She’s caring, loving, God-fearing, hard working – just name it, that’s my wife for you.

• What are the sterling qualities that endeared her to your heart?

I just said that now. No man will not want to spend the rest of his life with a woman that possesses the qualities I mentioned.

• Why was the wedding delayed till now despite you having all it takes to be a husband?

The truth is that we have always known that the wedding will come up. We just didn’t want to rush things unnecessarily. We waited for the right time.

• Entertainers are not used to keeping one woman, how is your own case going to be different?

Entertainers don’t keep one woman? I don’t think so.

Wale explains why he had never visited Nigeria till now

In a radio chat with Toolz on Beatfm yesterday, Wale said the reason he’s never been to Nigeria until now was because his parents, who are both from Ondo state, were so poor they couldn’t afford a bring him home.

“I grew up poor. We lived in DC, in the projects. Getting a ticket to Nigeria on $20, 000 income yearly, to my family that wasn’t really… you know…like I was a 15 year old with a decent job, I’m not going to save up to go to Nigeria. That wasn’t what I was thinking when I was that age. And then I was in college and the money tight right then. And then I get this record deal when I dropped out of school, you’re running around so much you don’t even have time to see your own parents”.

Run down of ASUU strike developments.

Just in case you missed any part of the ASUU strike developments, here's a run down for your perusal...

 

July 1, 2013: ASUU began a nationwide strike over alleged Federal Government’s refusal to implement the agreement between it and the union over unpaid entitlements.

August 6: The Federal Government team led by Benue State Governor, Dr. Gabriel Suswam had a failed meeting with ASUU officials at the office of the SGF as the teachers insisted on the implementation of the 2009 ASUU/FGN agreement.

August 18: Meeting between striking university lecturers and the Federal Government ended without a resolution of the crisis.

August 20: Jonathan met with the Federal Government’s officials engaged in the negotiation with ASUU at the Presidential Villa, decided to lead another negotiation with the leadership of the union.

August 20: FG approves N400 billion for infrastructural development in Nigerian universities.

Aug 20: ASUU threatened to pull out from the Presidential Committee on the Implementation of the Committee of Needs Assessment of Nigeria public Universities, CNANU.

August 23: The  Federal Government reached agreement with ASUU to deploy N100 billion for the provision of infrastructure on campuses of 61 universities covered in the needs assessment .

August 28: National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) issued a one-week ultimatum to the Federal Government and the union’s leadership to resolve their differences or face serious consequences.

October 24: Senate mandated its leadership to wade into ASUU strike by meeting the Federal Government and the ASUU executives

November 4: Senate President, Senator David Mark met with the leadership of ASUU, but no resolution to end strike.

November 5: President Goodluck Jonathan in 13-hour  marathon meeting with the leadership of ASUU in conjunction with representatives of the NLC and TUC.

November 12: Prof. Festus Iyayi, former ASUU President died on his way for ASUU meeting in Kano.

November 23:  ASUU NEC members agreed that before calling off its strike government should pay the four-month salary arrears being owed varsity lecturers.

November 26: Management of Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki resolved to reopen the school after ASUU fails to call off strike.

November 26: Committee of Pro-Chancellors of Federal Universities  called for the immediate re-opening of all shut down universities across the country.

November 28: Federal Government gives ASUU ultimatum to call off strike in one week or face expulsion.

Culled from the Vanguard.

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