ENTERTAINMENT : Actress Victoria Inyama tests positive for COVID-19

  

Nollywood actress, Victoria Inyama has tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19)

The actress, who presently resides in the UK, disclosed this on her Instagram page.

According to her, she has been down with the virus for three weeks and is still hospitalized.

Inyama posted a video from her
hospital bed showing her receiving treatment.

Her post read: ”Gratitude, thank you @borisjohnsonuk and @mayorofldn for the lockdown. l could not have been more careful with the kids going to school etc.”

She expressed gratitude that she was the one infected with the virus and not her children.

“What a Christmas and New Year…what a 2021. Covid is a terrible virus 

l cannot even explain, so exhausting, three weeks and still counting,” her post added.

ENTERTAINMENT : Nollywood actor, Jim Lawson Maduike is dead

 

A veteran Nollywood actor, Jim Lawson Maduike has passed away.

The thespian died on Saturday after complaining of body pains.

Maduike joined the Nigerian movie industry in the early 2000s and featured in several movies.

He acted in Chief Momoh, Royal Madness King, Save the Prince King, among others.

Maduike was also a writer and broadcast personality.

Nollywood has now lost three members in the last 15 days.

Renowned movie producer, Chico Ejiro gave up the ghost on Christmas Day.

This week, Yoruba actress, Folake Aremu, popularly known as Orisabunmi, also died.

ENTERTAINMENT : Why I dumped music – Eva Alordiah

 

Nigerian rapper, Eva Alordiah, has finally disclosed why she stopped making music.

Recall that the 32-year-old singer was one of the top Nigerian female rappers in the country.

Her first album ‘ 1960: The Album’ was released in September 2016.

However, she became a writer, entrepreneur and stopped making music.

It was reported she also moved to Ghana.

Affirming dumping music, Eva on Thursday took to her

 Instagram page disclosing her reasons for abandoning music.

A fan asked, “I still don’t know why you stopped making music,”

Eva, responding, wrote: “I stopped to get back to my core essence. I stopped for me.”

 

ENTERTAINMENT : Popular Nollywood actor, Omogoriola becomes Oba in Yoruba land

 

Nollywood actor and movie producer, Omogoriola Hassan, has been crowned as the Oba of Uba land, Imobi Kingdom.

The actor, who was previously installed as an Oba-elect of the land, was crowned after the oracle of the land confirmed him as the chosen one.

The actor took to his official Instagram handle to share the news alongside a video capturing the moment the King

 makers of the land made an Ifa consultation to ascertain if he was the chosen one.

“The office of an Ọba in Yoruba land is an hereditary office that is maintained by Royal families,” he wrote.

He went on to explain, “But in order to be the one that is confirmed as an Ọba the chief priest and the town elders would perform an IFA consultation to confirm if they have the right person because many use influence and money to attain this sacred office.”

NEWS : NIN registration to be suspended over large crowd

 

The Minister of State for Health, Dr. Olorunnimbe Mamora, has hinted that the ongoing 

National Identification Number (NIN) registration may be suspended over COVID-19 risks.

Mamora Stated this while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Monday.

He urged the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to go back to the drawing board and re-order the process to avoid large crowds at its centres nationwide.

Mamora who is also a member of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, said the government has a duty to ensure citizens are protected at all times.

“I don’t feel good-looking at the picture where people are gathered in multitude; it is like a superspreader event which we don’t like.

“But I’m also aware that the relevant ministry which is the communications and digital economy is looking at this.

“My understanding is that the whole process may be suspended, so as to reorder the whole process in terms of management of the crowd,” Mamora said.

Locate Eastern Security Network Officials, Camp In South-East – Police

 The Nigeria Police Force has described as propaganda the recently launched Eastern Security Network,

 saying its operatives have yet to locate any ESN official or camp in the South-East states.

However, the police added that it would not relent in monitoring and nipping in the bud crimes and suspected criminals in the region and nationwide.

A top police spokesperson, who did not want his name in print, stated this in an interview with SaharaReporters, noting that the police could not find any evidence at the moment.

"Has any of your reporters come across any ESN official on the road, or in the street or anywhere in the South-East? The police have not found anyone.

 It is all propaganda and publicising the propaganda will make them achieve their objective to seek popularity.

On Wednesday, the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra had posted photographs of food supplies that it would give to ESN operatives deployed to villages to flush out bandits and other criminals.

IPOB had stated that this gesture was carried out in about four local government areas of Ebonyi State.

"IPOB from four LGAs in Ebonyi North contributed (money) and bought these food items for our ESN operatives. The IPOB leaders noted that the food supplies would be utilised by the ESN operatives while defending the state against the Fulani bandits and terrorists," an ESN official had noted.

"The police are on the ground and are monitoring every development. But we have not found any ESN official or camp anywhere."

ad, last week, reported that the Nigerian Army's aircraft and soldiers were combing some forests in the South-East states where the ESN, recently launched by Nnamdi Kanu, is said to be camping.

From the drones and hidden cameras believed to be installed by the ESN, a video captured the Nigerian Army helicopters and their vehicles and soldiers searching for the camp of the ESN to make arrests.

Kanu, a leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, on December 12, launched the ESN, saying the regional security outfit, just like Amotekun in the South-West, would help to tackle insecurity in the region.

The Indigenous People of Biafra has asked Dave Umahi, to stop intimidating citizens

 

The Indigenous People of Biafra has asked the Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, to stop intimidating citizens of the state because he has allegedly been promised the position of vice-presidential in 2023.

This warning was contained in a statement signed by IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, on Tuesday.

The group alleged that the governor ordered the arrest of innocent locals that reportedly exposed the atrocities of terrorist herdsmen in Ebonyi communities.

The statement read in part, “We the Indigenous People of Biafra wish to warn Gov Umahi against the grave implications of his actions. Declaring law abiding citizens wanted simply because they exposed and confronted foreign terrorists in Ebonyi State is worse than terrorism itself.

“It only goes to show that Umahi and other eastern politicians know more about the incessant killings, rapes and other atrocities in Ebonyi communities by Fulani herdsmen and terrorists than they are willing to admit.

 “It is the height of foolery that Gov Dave Umahi will support foreign terrorist herdsmen against his own people that voted for him. Does Dave Umahi not know that our mothers for years now have been afraid of going to their farms for fear of being raped by Fulani terrorists and other evil activities of Miyetti Allah?”

I thought the mass killing , the daily raping of married women in the presence of their helpless husbands and the regular mass abduction of infants and adults were only limited to Southern Kaduna , plateau , the middle belt , The entire Northern Nigeria and the SOUTH-WEST until after i came across the following lines ; “We the Indigenous People of Biafra wish to warn Gov Umahi against the grave implications of his actions. Declaring law abiding citizens wanted simply because they exposed and confronted foreign terrorists in Ebonyi State !“It only goes to show that Umahi and other eastern politicians know more about the incessant killings, rapes and other atrocities in Ebonyi communities by Fulani herdsmen and terrorists than they are willing to admit.

“It is the height of foolery that Gov Dave Umahi will support foreign terrorist herdsmen against his own people that voted for him. Does Dave Umahi not know that our mothers for years now have been afraid of going to their farms for fear of being raped by Fulani terrorists and other evil activities of Miyetti Allah?”This warning was contained in a statement signed by IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, on Tuesday .