“What a relief, my friend!” “What are you relieved about?” “It is this David Adeleke and Sophia Momodu soap opera”. “I tell you. It is a perfect subject for a good home video. But what is your own?” “No. Nothing. I am just relieved that the parties involved have agreed to let peace reign” “This will be about the third time I would hear of that matter being resolved.” “Well, I think the Momodus and th ...

Pop star, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, was today visited quizzed by officials of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), over alleged child abduction allegation filed against the 23-year-old artiste by his baby mama, Sophia Momodu. Sources at the Lagos office of NAPTIP revealed that Davido arrived at the agency at 11:07am local time today to face interrogatio ...

It appears the dramatic face-off involving 23-year-old pop artiste, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido and 28-year-old Sophia Momodu, the niece of popular Ovation magazine publisher, Dele Momodu, will not end soon. In what looks like an indirect response to the allegation by Davido on Sunday that Sophia infected their daughter, Imade with Cannabis; Dele Momodu threatened today that Nigerians will soon ...

In September 2015, I got a call from Dr Adedeji Adeleke, a long time family friend, telling me his son had fathered a baby girl with my cousin, Sophia Momodu. I rejoiced with him as any reasonable soul would do. He apologised that he had not called all along because he wasn’t sure if Sophie’s baby was going to turn out a fake one like that of two others who had turned up at his doorstep. But mercifully, acc ...

The ancient town of ile Ife, Osun State, went into a frenzy today as their 40-year-old Ooni-elect, Prince Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi began made a triumphal royal entry into the town preparatory to his installation as the 51st Ooni. He is expected to under go necessary traditional rites before he could be crowned as the Ooni. The Oba-elect from the Giesi Ruling House rode into the acclaimed ancestral home of th ...

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State today attracted eminent Nigerian personalities to his Iyamho countryhome where he exchanged marital vows with his heartthrob and model, Miss Iara Fortes. Though the governor and his bride signed the marriage register at a marriage registry attended only by family and a few friends at his Iyamho residence after which top dignitaries in the country, were led by the Presi ...

  Barely a month to the sixth anniversary her marriage, Nollywood actress, Ini Edo has confirmed she has filed a suit seeking divorce from her US-based husband, Phillip Ehiagwina. Confirming the sad development on her twitter handle on Thursday, Ini declared that contrary to rumours flying around, she denied ever cheating on her husband, adding that the marriage has collapsed due to “irreconcilable dif ...

This news of your death came to me a bit late. I have been traveling across the continents and was off the internet a little bit and we have not called each other for several weeks. The plan was to meet in Washington DC for a project you invited me to join on sometime in March. I had told my wife about this and she was expecting me back in the US around that Calendar. Then, she had called me to ask where I ...

Although these are the most award-winning and popular actresses in Africa, are they regarded as the best in the eyes of the general public? This is the question being asked by the mass opinion, on-line platform TheRanking.com, which true to its democratic standards is choosing the users’ favourite by means of a survey in which nearly 1,500 people have taken part. The Ghanaian, Jackie Appiah and the Nigerian ...

After about a week of battling old age sickness in a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States of America, 82 year old Africa’s foremost novelist and author, Prof Chinua Achebe succumbed to the cold hands of death yesternight. His health had deteriorated over a week ago after which he was rushed to the hospital but just as there was hope that the literary icon may survive it, things fell apart ...