Actress Mercy Johnson and her husband, Prince Odi Okojie, todayApril 28th dedicated their 4 month old daughter, Purity Okojie. The dedication held at their church and reception at their home in Ajah.
"Michael Jackson's Ghost Haunts Childhood Home" La Toya Jackson, Michael Jackson's elder sister is convinced that her brother's spirit is haunting his childhood home.
The 56-year-old believes Jacko's spirit is looking over his children Prince, Paris and Blanket - who live there with his mum Katherine.
According to her, the late pop legend can be heard tap dancing in the mansion in Encino, California.
The former Celebrity apprentice star said: "You don't see anything but you feel a presence." La Toya has also been using a psychic to speak to her brother, who died of an overdose in 2009 aged 50. She said: "If Michael wants to tell me something, I want to know."
Empress Njamah said this in a recent interview with The Nation.
*. As one who is brilliant, beautiful and curvy, why are you still single?
I’m gonna say this alright; I don’t care how people take it, the days when marriages were sweet and all beautiful are no more. If you listen to how your parents got married and how those days it was sweet, it’s not like that anymore. I’ve escorted a lot of people into marriages, I won’t say I’ve escorted them out but I’ve witnessed them come out of it. So psychologically it’s not good for people and then being what we are, a lot of people think because she’s this, because she has that I don’t think I will be able to handle them. A lot of people can’t stand an industriouswoman especially if she’s doing well. It’s the mentality of the people. If a man looks at me, I’m a car freak alright. I have five carsand I’m not doing it because I’m trying to show off, a lot of peopletdon’t even know that they are myctars. But I’m trying to be honest with you and I’m always trying to say it the way it is, not minding whatever. If a man comes and says because of blablabla, he cannot handle me, then he shouldn’t bother. Every woman’s dream is to get married but it’s not just to get married but to getmarried to your friend. I want to marry my friend.
*. And have you met your friend?
I’m yet to meet my friend. If I meet my friend and I know that he is my friend, I don’t think that question should actually pop up because what am I doing if I’ve met my friend? If I’ve met my friend I will get married. And then, I’m this type of person that even if I meet my friend; I don’t want to have a fairy tale wedding
Jennifer Eliogu She is one of the pioneers of Nollywood, and has featured in hundreds of movies, always playing the role of a motivator-in-chief and crusader for moral values. In the early days of the industry, her face was ubiquitous– almost every movie director desired to have her as part of hiscast and she became a darling of millions of Nollywood lovers.
At the height of her popularity, when she could easily have been the most consequential Nollywood actress, cupid struck, and she gave up her flourishing acting career for love, relocating to Switzerland to join a man she had fortuitously met while answering a phone call at her friend’s home. Many were stunned, but that’s what love does for people. A few years after joining her husband in Europe, and feeling home sick, and the challenges of transitioning into a meaningful assignment in a foreign country where English is not the first language becoming daunting and desiring a job “she had a passion for” she returned to Nigeria, and to her first love – acting.
Since her return to Nigeria, actress Jennifer Eliogu has shunned acting, instead choosing to produce and direct. Last month, she was one of the top Nollywood actresses and actors who was honored at an award ceremony in North Carolina, and during a trip to New York to sign a marketing deal with Executive Image for thedistribution of her new movie “From Within” Jennifer and I sat down for what turned out to be a mind-blowing reflection on Nollywood and what needs to bedone to steer the industry back on the family-friendly track it wasonce known for.
Asked why she decided to become a director instead of continuing as an actress, she muttered, “I couldn’t return to acting under the prevailing circumstance. The industry I met when I came back was not the same industry I knew before I went to Switzerland. We had an industry where scripts had redeeming moral perspectives, where the craft was taken very seriously, and you had to impressthe directors that you could hold your own among the best.
“We had story lines that were family friendly, where nudity or sexually explicit scenes and language were not tolerated.But alas! – the industry I met when I came back was one where young starlets are given roles, based on glamour, on beauty and where the main motivation is not to add value, but to use their celebrity to advance other interests. Most of these starlets lack talents but would parade their looks at auditions while wearing very skimpy dresses thatleave nothing to the imagination.’
When you dress in such a provocative manner, you are essentially tempting the director – you are advertising your sexual attributes over your talents and you are exposing yourself to other things.”
Eliogu who recently veered into music said “ she decided to produce and direct her movie, one that families could sit at the dinner table and watch. Jennifer Eliogu is one of the growing numbers of Nollywood stars who are engaged in inter-continental marriages. “As I told you – my husband is based in Switzerland, and after some years there, we reached the painful but practical decision thatI should move back to Nigeria to continue my career in acting. I donot have problems with an inter-continental marriage, but in my own case, I did not want to be a full time house wife.
“My husband is very comfortable with my decision, and it has not affected our marriage in any way. Yes, as with most marriages, we have had our fair share of challenges, but overall, my husband is the best man I could ever aspire to have and seven years after we got married,the flame of passion remains the same.”
On the rumour that her marriagehas crashed, she looked bewildered and replied,“It is not true. We are still married, but I have already told you we have challenges and we are working around those challenges.”
Only 520,000 would be admitted into tertiary institutions this year, according to the examination body, out ofthe grand total of 1,735,720 candidates, leaving over 1.2 million without admission.
Speaking in Abuja yesterday, JAMB Registrar, Prof ‘Dibu Ojerinde, said at a press briefing that the 520,000 was an improvement in the carrying capacity of tertiary institutions in thecountry, compared to what it was two years ago.
“The carrying capacity of all tertiary institutions, including Colleges of Education, is 520,000. It is, indeed, an improvement from the 450,000 we had two years back.”
“Of the grand total of 1,735,720 candidates writing the UTME from Saturday, April 27, 2013, 1,629,107 candidates applied for the PPT, 15,008 for the DBT and 91,610 CBT for the exam. “The Paper Pencil Test (PPT) and the Dual Based test (DBT) is scheduled tohold on Saturday, April 27, 2013, while the CBT will commence from Saturday, May 18, 2013, and end on Saturday, June 1, 2013.
“Consequently, the board has concluded all arrangements for the smooth conduct of the 2013 UTME using the three testing modes. “Also 196 inmates who applied from Lagos and Kaduna respectively are also sitting for this Saturday UTME, while 145visually impaired candidates will sit for thesame exam as provisionshave been made for bailey questions and answers.”
Prof Ojerinde said the board had provided questions and answers in braille for the visually impaired with an extra time of 15 for each an hour paper He advised visually impaired candidates to report at their respective centres on the day of the examination, as adequate arrangements had been made to take care of them at the examination centres.
Some of the visually impaired candidates whohad applied for the DBT and CBT have been reverted to PPT as there is no provision for visually impaired candidates to write CBT and DBT. The board said it had also created additional 167 centres in order to accommodate all the candidates that registered for the UTME.
CBS Studios International announced that they have given Nigerian supermodel Oluchi’s production company, LuLu Productions the African format rights for hit reality TV show competition, ‘America’s Next Top Model’.
The Reality show competition series, which will be shot primarily on location in South Africa, is slated to hit screens this 2013.
And will air on the M-NET Africa Magic channels with Oluchi Orlandi serving as the show’s host and executive producer.Here’s what Oluchi had to say:
“I am excited to be hosting Africa’s Next Top Model and it is great to be part of the successful America’s Next Top Model franchise that Tyra Banks createdand has hosted for an impressive 20 cycles thus far in the U.S.
The African version of the franchise is long overdue and I expect the show to be a smashing success across the continent. My company, LuLu Productions, will be partnering with Never Machine productions with Gavin Wratten as co-executive producer and also one of the giant media houses to help makethis show a big success.”
