Photos: Excitement as actress Omotola host widows & orphans

Star actress Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, her husband and some of their friends hosted some orphans and widows via her 'Give and Let Give' and OYEP foundation end of the year event. The actress brought gifts and other goodies for the widows and kids. See the photos after the cut..

 Photo credit: Daniel Sync

See the outfit Rita Ora wore to BBC interview that got 400 viewers complaining

Over 400 people have so far complained to The BBC after singer Rita Ora appeared on The One Show with her boobs on display in a low-cut white blazer. Rita was on the show to promote BBC's singing competition, Voice UK, where she's the newest judge. 

"I do not want to see her boobs hanging out on a family programme,' one viewer wrote on the BBC's Points of View message board. 

Over 400 others have so far complained forcing The BBC to issue an apology. They said; "If we had been consulted we would have requested she wore something more suitable for 7pm.'

Tecno Mobile Receives International Quality Crown Award in the Gold Category

Mobile technology giant, Tecno mobile was recently awarded the international Quality Crown Award in the Gold category; recognized for quality, leadership, technology and innovation at the BID Quality Convention in London. Surrounded by centuries of grandeur in a world where pushing the boundaries is an everyday occurrence, MrArif Chowdhury, the Vice president of Tecno Mobile, stood before business leaders present to receive the BID International Quality award from the president of BID Jose E. Prieto

Mobile technology giant, Tecno mobile was recently awarded the international Quality Crown Award in the Gold category; recognized for quality, leadership, technology and innovation at the BID Quality Convention in London. Surrounded by centuries of grandeur in a world where pushing the boundaries is an everyday occurrence, MrArifChowdhury, the Vice president of Tecno Mobile, stood before business leaders present to receive the BID International Quality award from the president of BID Jose E. Prieto

Tecno mobile was recognized not only for outstanding commitment to quality and excellence, but also for its dedication to continuous improvement and innovation.

Being considered for the award however requires full commitment to the criteria of the QC100 TQM model which ensures customer satisfaction, leadership, innovation and efficient processes at every level of the business.

In making customer satisfaction the highest measure of quality, Tecno has not only set the benchmark in the technology sector, but has also contributed immensely to the social and economic development of the countries where it does business.

Understanding that the continuous improvement of product image and brand value is very vital, not only to the survival of the a brand, but to its resounding success in the ever evolving mobile technology space and a highly competitive market, Tecno mobile continues to strive for positive change in delivering world class quality and yet making it accessible to everyone, no matter the age or class. This is clearly evident in the line of products and after sales service Tecno mobile offers to its massive customer base. Little wonder why Tecno mobile has received this global quality recognition award.

Nigerian becomes first African to win International Tennis player of the year award

26 year old Nigerian international tennis player, Quadri Aruna has won the 2014 International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) player of the year award, making him the first African to win the coveted prize. At an award ceremony held at the Armani Hotel in Dubai today Jan. 7th, Aruna beat Portugal's Marcos Freitas and Chinese pair Fan Zhendong and Xu Xin to land the coveted prize. He is ranked 30th best tennis player in the world. Big congrats to him.

Ghanaian socialite caught with drugs sentenced to 8yrs by London court

The popular Ghanaian socialite Nayele Ametefe also known as Ruby Adu-Gyamfi, who was arrested on November 10th 2014 at London's Heathrow Airport, with 12kg of cocaine worth about $5 million (read here), has been sentenced to 8 years in prison by a London court. She was sentenced yesterday January 6th after pleading guilty. Her other accomplices are currently on trial...

HIV positive Kenny Badmus comes out as gay on a Facebook post

Brand expert Kenny Badmus who took to his Facebook page to reveal he was HIV positive on Dec. 1st, this morning took to his wall again to reveal that he is. He wrote about how he got married and led a false life just to satisfy society and how he told his ex-wife before they got married that he's gay and how she didn't care hoping he would, with time, stop being gay.

He also talked about how she allegedly victimized him when he eventually got fed up and asked for a divorce 6 years after they got married and had a child together. Kenny said he decided to share his experience to mark the one year anniversary of the Anti gay law which was passed on Jan 7th 2014. Read what he wrote after the cut.




When I first told my ex-wife that I was gay, we were far from being married. I wanted her to find other men honorably, who had a thing for women. I never did. I ‘swear down.’ I was only obeying the popular demand of traditions. Now, this was my terrible mistake. No one should live their life based on dogmas and other people’s expectations. As far as I could remember, even though I was always dating girls, I had always preferred being with a man. I had fought it with every fiber of spirituality in me as a Pentecostal preacher boy (find details and journeys in my book ‘THE EXODUS.’) The more I fought my sexual preference for men, the more I became more miserable. Unfortunately, as erroneously believed, sex wasn’t the problem. I had been having sex with women as far back as a twelve-year-old. Sexuality is whom we are emotionally present with, not whom we are sleeping with. And oh boy, she really tried to make me a heterosexual. But I'm still not, sadly.

One of those pre-marriage days, while we were with our marriage counseling team, I brought up the issue again – that I had always had a preference for men. I wanted the Ministers to dissuade her from the marriage. I just couldn’t put a ring on a fat big lie. My father taught me one principle: DIE FOR YOUR OWN TRUTH, EVEN IF IT'S UNPOPULAR, BUT DON'T HARM OTHERS WITH IT. She was so happy to tell the ministers, as quickly as she could, that my feelings for men would all be gone, because she believed it was a childhood disorder. I guess she meant she was going to fuck my brains into heterosexuality. This is a mistake a lot of us make. We all want to change people to conform to our preferences. We find it easier to play god in the lives of people we did not make.
After six years together, I knew I was not getting any better. I STILL LOVED MEN. And one day, because I didn’t want to cheat on her, I humbly asked her that we should go our separate ways. That was when all hell broke loose. She suddenly forgot about how it all started. In court, she told the Judge how she suddenly found out that I was gay, and how it’s against the Law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. In other words, she wanted me sentenced to the new 14 years jail term served by the Nigerian government. Luckily, I was in a civil court. Sadly, that day, I had to duck my face in shame as the crowd jeered at me for being whom I had always been. 'You faggot' 'Oh what a shameful man!' 'homo!' 'Na wa o ' I still don’t know how I walked out of the court premises that day. ( this case is still ongoing) What about my business.? Tell any client in Nigeria that you are gay, and you lose their business. That’s exactly what happened. I lost friends, businesses, sponsorships and family members. I had to start my life all again. Applied for a new job. Get back to school. Although my ex-wife is one of the most faithful and beautiful women in Nigeria, she is a victim of institutionalized homophobia. Just like many people who are reading this.

It will be exactly a year today, when Nigeria instituted a law to jail people like me. What’s our offense? Because we are simply wired differently. There are only about 5 to 10% of homosexuals in every population as cited by popular findings and documents. Why is a 90% dominant population afraid of its 10%? Shouldn’t you care about us? Don’t you think it’s a lot easier to be seen as part of the 90%? And before you throw those religious verses on us for being wired differently, I want to leave you with my favorite Bible verses from Romans 8:Italics mine:
That Nothing Can Separate Us from ( the universal narrative of ) God’s Love
31 What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? 32 Since he did not spare even his own Son ( in the popular narratives according to the Christian Faith ) but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? 33 Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. 34 Who then will condemn us? No one...

38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[b] neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in ( in the narrative of ) Christ Jesus our Lord