tpia.:

is it by force to marry outside your tribe?

ChinenyeN:

If they seriously want to be together, without fail, then let the guy get the girl pregnant. Rather than wasting so much time, enough time that someone has actually managed to post the situation here on NL. . . . . .

As for the parents threatening to kick the girl out. . . what exactly is the couple worrying about now? The girl will leave her parents anyway. Why this long saga? The guy should just do quick and get the girl pregnant. This is his opportunity. He should go ahead and put his foot in the door so that the girl's parents (dad more especially) will know that he's serious, and that they have no choice but to get to know him.

Felibaby:

@ winnergal

Has dakore paid you for publicity or wat is the marriage prayer about? ; >:

I love olumide ! He is handsome and rich!

Dakore, hands off!

On a more serious note, Dakore has got to be strong cos olumide has 3 sisters and his family is fucking rich.

There are worrying indications that Nigeria’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote is facing a financial tempest that has pushed the Forbes-listed billionaire on the brink of bankruptcy as his financial empire suffocates under the weight of crumbling debt and mismanagement. 
Forbes magazine reported that Aliko Dangote, whose net worth was estimated at $2.5 billion, is in debt to the tune of over $1.7 billion and facing insolvency as the global financial meltdown hits the Nigerian economy. To weather what appears to be the perfect storm, Huhuonline.com has learnt from close sources that the Dangote group of companies will undertake a massive down-sizing exercise that will involve as many as over 3000 lay-offs. 

It was unclear when or where the lay-offs will occur, but a senior employee at the Dangote group told Huhuonline.com that the “right-sizing” exercise will cut across the board of companies which include: Dan sugar, Dan salt, Dan Flour, Benue Cement, Chevron Texaco amongst others. The Nigerian cement king was among dozens of to business executives singled out by Nigeria's central bank, in its published list of recalcitrant debtors, who have been told to pay up or face arrest and possible assets seizure. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is also looking into recovering the loans. 

Loans related to Dangote-owned companies so far appear to have amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars and counting as Dangote continues to expand his cement operations with new plants in Nigeria as well as South Africa, Ethiopia, Senegal and Zambia. The Dangote group recently signed two agreements worth $228 million with the Chinese group Sinoma International Engineering.

The first contract involves its subsidiary Dangote Industries Senegal SA and covers construction of a new production plant near Dakar with capacity of 3,000 tonnes per day. The deal is worth $144 million. Under the second contract, for the same amount, Dangote Industries Zambia Ltd will build a similarly sized cement plant in Zambia. Along with the second project, roughly another $324 million will be invested in infrastructure, which will be handled by sub-contractors.

Nigerian Central Bank sources told Huhuonline.com that part of this expansion by the Dangote group has been funded with debt financing from Nigerian banks reportedly to the tune of $1 billion and some of these assets may potentially be in trouble. The Dangote group is also interested in mining ore: in particular it has positioned itself to obtain coal mining permits in Nigeria, according to sources. 

The unsettling revelations about Aliko Dangote’s financial meltdown was predictable after Huhuonline.com reported an unending wave of mass exodus of several top management staff who resigned their positions from the Dangote group amid speculations that Dangote’s black-box like financial empire will explode in a wave of financial mismanagement and accounting scandals.

Dangote has enjoyed cozy relations with powerful politicians and was closely linked to former president Olusegun Obasanjo. He sits on various government and quasi-government bodies, including the Nigeria Stock Exchange, (NSE) where he was unanimously elected president through a shoddy process of horse-trading and clunker philandering which also saw Erastus Akingbola, then Group Chief Executive of Intercontinental Bank, elected NSE   1st vice-president. 

Dangote has been at odds with Akingbola after Intercontinental Bank Plc, petitioned President Yar'adua asking for his intervention to help compel a "debt cabal" led by Dangote to re-pay the loans owed Intercontinental Bank. In the petition sent on its behalf by A.O.S Practice, a firm of legal practitioners, and dated August 5, 2009, Intercontinental described Dangote as a loan defaulter and “rabid debtor” who was being daily serenaded in the media as an affluent Nigerian. A look at the three Dangote companies indebted to Intercontinental Bank as contained in the said petition showed that their cumulative debt profile stood at about N35.8 billion. 

Intercontinental said: "To proceed to sue these institutions as ordinary legal dictates would suggest, is to get bogged down with the legal technicalities and slow pace of the adversarial practice of our judicial system, which these cabal would engage to wear us down.” 

Recall that Erastus Akingbola was among the five managers of Nigeria's largest banks -Intercontinental, Oceanic, Afribank, Finbank and Union - who were sacked by CBN Governor Lamido Sanusi, and government bailout funds extended to their banks to keep them solvent .

While Erastus Akingbola remains on “health exile” in London, all the bank managers have been arrested and face prosecution for corporate governance malpractices, lax credit administration processes and the absence or non-adherence to credit risk management practices.  Only time will tell whether Aliko Dangote will weather the storm and rescue his financial empire from total collapse.

Source:
http://www.huhuonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=659:aliko-dangote-neck-deep-in-debt-feared-broke-plan-massive-lay-offs&catid=103:more-news&Itemid=333

Aloy~Emeka:


You are a fool. How can somebody be more superior in complexion? . Black people and their inferiority complex over skin colour don tire me.

redsky1:

LMAO

I'm fair so really that is not the issue. I just think that she is not all that - is it a crime to have a different opinion from everybody else na wah o! my main issue with her is her mouth - that is all. i'm sure to many she is finer than beyonce but IMHO she is not.

gosh people can't have a difference of opinion anymore

Redsky1 wrote:
Am i the only one that thinks that Rita Dominic looks extremly local. If not for her complexion would anyone give this women the time of day.

Trust me its not bad belle but i just don't see what is fine about her apart from the fact she is light skinned.

i just saw a picture of her on gist master and her teeth are not it and she just looks local to me.

azeeza:

cant wait 2 watch it.but can doing a movie 2gether make dem friends again?

dayokanu:

Any gal over 6ft or 5ft 11 here?

Source:
http://allafrica.com/stories/200910161111.html

Few months after her clergy man took her to the altar, remarried Nollywood legend, Elizabeth Benson, may have signalled her strong desire to return to her first love, acting.

HVP reliably gathered that Liz is warming up to return to Nollywood as soon as possible.

An insider source confirmed to HVP that the screen idol has already started making contacts in order to return to the industry, which she reportedly abandoned some years back.
Liz Benson got married again in an intimate court ceremony in Abuja a few months ago. In July, she and her man, Bishop Great Emeya, celebrated their love by walking down the aisle at the Rainbow Christian Assembly in Warri, Delta State. The couple are both deeply involved in Christian ministry.

Liz is an evangelist while Bishop Great is a pastor of one of the largest ministries in Warri. They also have overcome tragic circumstances as Liz is a widow while Bishop Great is a widower. Their wedding marked a turning point in the lives of the couple.

Reports had it that the 49 year-old man allegedly met Liz in the course of doing God's work. Their relationship however moved from friendship to the altar, now husband and wife.

A recipient of the movie awards, THEMA, and the Reel Awards at different times, Liz Benson is one of the pioneer actresses in Nigeria who brought glamour and respect to the acting profession.
She has also been honoured outside Nigeria at several times. Liz was a past recipient of the Afro-Hollywood Awards in the United States of America. Her great performances in the past have been regularly acknowledged and rewarded by both industry practitioners and watchers .

The deluge of awards and accolades with which she has been showered and continues to receive is vivid testimony to the high esteem in which she is held by all.

As she returns to Nollywood, expectations are high as questions are being asked, regarding what role she will be assigned to, given the fact that many of her contemporaries are presently not in the picture, with the emergence of vibrant looking, yet pretty young faces. Good luck our Lizzy!

SOURCE:
http://allafrica.com/stories/200910090822.html

When, mid this year, Chief Charles Nwangwa called for a press conference to unearth some cankerworms about on-goings at the Omole residence of the pop group, P-Square, real names, Peter and Paul Okoye, not many spared the boys, especially since they refused to comment on the allegations.

Chief among the allegations levelled against the artistes, was the illegal conversion of the boys’ quarters into a studio, for which they pulled down the dividing wall between the two rooms to achieve. The landlord had therefore requested that the twins vacate his property.

Last week was more revealing on this episode. In a final move to evict the Okoyes, Chief Nwangwa called for another press conference where he distributed a 5-page document chronicling the beginning and development of his interactions with the famous group.

The document didn’t say anything new other than that Ikeja Regional Development Agency had on last 29th June sealed up the building while the ‘boys broke it into with impunity’. He equally alleged that he had been beaten up by the ‘Okoye’s thugs led by one Wande’ when he went to the property to personally serve them a ‘mandatory quit notice’.

In a swift reaction, the twins, via their publicist, called for an urgent press brief the next day, Wednesday. And for the first time, they spoke through their manager and brother, Jude Okoye on the matter.

According to Jude, at their first interaction with Chief Nwangwa in 2006, the Chief had told him the house was for sale, for N45million, and that Zain, then called Celtel, was bidding for the building too. Jude, who said he’s been in the forefront of dealings with Nwangwa, said their initial payment of N5.6m was supposed to be part payment of the initial purchase.

Jude said there was a verbal agreement between them that if he was able to come up with the balance in two weeks, (when their N50m bank fixed deposit would be ready for withdrawal) the house would become theirs, otherwise the money paid would be converted to 3-years rent for the property.

A hand- written receipt was issued by the Chief for the N5.6m received, on the premise that a further payment which would translate into the Okoyes ownership of the house would still follow. The duo moved into the house and, Jude said, ‘after two weeks, I got my fixed deposit and called him to the house for his balance.

I asked him the name I should put in the N39.4m balance draft and he said, no that his house was for N45m.’ Can you imagine?’, Jude asked.

More than a month after, the angry brothers, rather than get stuck with a 3-year rent, decided to buy up the house all the same.

He went on, ‘After one month, I called him on the phone and he said the price for the house had gone up to N80m. We refused to buy it and decided to stay. It was obvious he wanted us trapped from the beginning’, Jude explained.

On the broken wall, the brothers explained that they had pulled it down ‘just as we came in because we thought we had agreed that the house belonged to us.’

The landlord, they claimed, had been to the studio several times without complain, until they fell out. Jude, who blamed himself for not having a written agreement on the house also claimed that the lady called Gift, whom Chief Nwangwa had publicised as their guarantor was an artiste he (Chief Nwangwa) brought to him (Jude) to produce and which he refused.

The lady, he said, was introduced to them as an interior decorator and artiste and she it was who made their living room curtains.

‘Later, he brought his son who had just returned from America and asked me to produce for him, but I refused and reminded him that I work for only P-Square.

Then he told me about a show in Dubai and I told him our fee was $100, 000 per show and he said even Akon had not charged that much money. He got angry and took it personal and left.’

The last of disagreements the group had with Chief Nwangwa, Jude said, was based on Jude’s refusal to let Chief get involved with the P-Square brand. According to Jude, Nwangwa had asked to market P-Square’s works.

‘He said he (landlord) was coming over to take up the marketing of the album; that the man (P-square’s marketer) was not doing a good job.’ Jude had refused. Afterwards, Nwangwa is alleged to have demanded for a certain percentage as commission off P-square’s income since the residential studio had been used in recording songs released for commercial purposes.

Amidst several allegations raised by the boys, indicting Chief Nwangwa, Jude enthused that Nwangwa was never manhandled by P-square nor by his assistants. Instead, the chief, at various times, brought strangers to their house, requesting that the twins signed autographs.

The only time he was refused was when he came with journalists and a policeman and was refused access through the gates by Wande, Jude’s assistant. The boys have resolved to quit the building in four months’ time, when their Omole building, presently under construction, will be ready.

The Okoye brothers are said to be working on a 6-bedroom twin duplex, not very far away from their present abode.

The property, which they took press men to see, includes a swimming pool and a basement which will serve as studio exclusively for the P-Square brand. They said they intend to put back the studio wall and vacate their present residence before their rent expires in March, 2010.

Kobojunkie:

WOw!! Someone actually read the article??