DJ Cuppy on a mission: Financial Times luxury summit, Mexico City

Not too long ago Cuppy was officially dressed as a Tourism Ambassador for the Federal Republic's 'Fascinating Nigeria' campaign. In doing her country proud, the 21 year-old DJ attended the Financial Times Luxury Summit 2014 in Mexico to join some of the world's most influential people in discussing the next 15 emerging economies of which Nigeria is one of them.

This short footage allows us behind the scenes as Cuppy proudly flies the flag for Nigeria in Mexico, not without, of course, catching her behind the decks! Continue...

Photos: Scene of today's bomb blast in Maiduguri market

Here are some pics from the scene of today's early morning bombing that happened at a busy local market in Maiduguri, Borno state. Continue to see more photos...

Rihanna shades BET...lol

This girl is not serious o..lol. Who in the world didn't know that BET Awards was happening this past Sunday? Rihanna, that's who...or at least that's what she wants people to believe. But we see major shade here. Hehe.

So here's what happened. On the night of the awards, one of Rihanna's fans asked her if she was watching the show, and she replied 'it's today'? Yeah right, Rihanna!

She was nominated for 2 BET Awards this year, Best Female R&B/Pop Artist and the FANdemonium Award. She lost both to Beyonce.  

Half of a Yellow Sun now available for online streaming on PanaTV

Finally, the movie everyone has been waiting for is now available for online streaming on panatv.com - for US residents first. UK residents will have to wait till August 4th while the company works feverishly to make it available for streaming in Nigeria despite the ban by the Censor Board.

Half Of A Yellow Sun is the screenplay adaptation of the book of the same name, written by Orange prize winner, Chimamanda Adichie and directed by Biyi Bandele. Continue...

Abuja hotels to submit list of guests to DSS, police daily

Following recent attacks by Boko Haram men on the nation's capital, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed, yesterday issued a statement directing all hotels in Abuja to henceforth submit the list of guests in their hotels on a daily basis to the FCT Directorate of Department of State Security as well as the FCT Police command.

 

The statement which was signed by the Minister's special assistant, Media, Nosike Ogbuenyi, advised residents of Abuja to embark on operation 'know your neighbor' campaign for early identification of strange faces within their neighborhood.

The statement directed all traditional rulers in the FCT to conduct periodic meetings with all the communities within their domain so that they can take stock of the people in their area and report strange faces, if any, to the Police. Continue...

 

The statement also directed that trucks/ lorries bringing goods into the FCT must now offload their contents during the day and not at night anymore. The Minister in the statement said legal actions would be taken on owners of uncompleted buildings in Abuja whose buildings may have been converted to criminal hideouts.

Chris Brown jailed after being thrown out of rehab...

According to a TMZ report, Chris Brown was arrested in Malibu yesterday after getting kicked out of rehab for violating rules...

From TMZ,

Chris Brown is in jail right now, because he violated a judge's order by getting booted from the rehab facility where he's been living for nearly 4 months ... TMZ has learned.   The judge in the Rihanna beating case ordered Chris to live in the Malibu rehab facility for 90 days to get anger management therapy, and he completed the stint earlier this month.  But ... at the last court hearing, the judge modified things and ordered Chris to stay in the facility while the Washington D.C. assault case ran its course.The deal was this ... if Chris left rehab, he would go directly to jail.Sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ ... Brown was thrown out of the rehab facility this morning, for violating "internal rules."  We do not know precisely what Chris did, but we're told it did not involve violence or drugs.Sources tell TMZ ... Chris was caught having "an inappropriate relationship" with a female worker at the beginning of the month, but that is NOT why he was thrown out today.As you recall, Chris was previously thrown out of a different facility for throwing a rock at his mom's car window. Chris was picked up by L.A. County Sheriff's deputies this afternoon and is now in jail ...being held with no bail.

Ambassador Ralph Uwechue, one-time president of Ohaneze- Ndigbo, a pan-Igbo sociocultural body, has died. Chief Wechue died yesterday afternoon March 13th at an Abuja hospital.

Elected in November 2008 to head Ohaneze, Chief Uwechue was a envoy leader during the Obasanjo administration where he supervised conflict resolutions in Africa  and was also appointed to lead the ECOWAS Peace mission in Cote d’Ivoire.

An illustrious son of Ogwashi Ukwu Delta state, Chief Uwechue was aged 79. May his soul rest in peace...amen.