Half Of A Yellow Sun out in Nigeria Cinemas from 1st August!

The film Half Of A Yellow Sun, written by Award winning writer Chimamanda  Ngozi Adichie, and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Genevieve Nnaji, Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose, Onyeka Onwenu, zack Orji, to mention a few.....

will be in every cinema in Nigeria from AUGUST 1.....



Don't miss it!

Boko Haram Working To Seize Kano, Kaduna, Niger, Kogi And Nasarawa States—Intelligence Source!

According to SaharaReporters, a high-level Nigerian security source has revealed that Nigeria’s intelligence agencies received “credible reports that Boko Haram has developed an ambitious plan to overwhelm and take over Kano, Kaduna, Niger, Kogi and Nasarawa states.”

The source said the Islamist terrorist group plans to carry out its design by intensifying its bombings and choosing locations that would yield high casualty figures.

The source said “Their move is to encircle [Nigeria’s capital city of] Abuja and increase the level of political instability in the country,”.

The high-level intelligence agent disclosed that the shape of the terror group’s plans have emerged from the confessions of some Boko Haram insurgents who were captured recently. “We have also acquired a lot of information about their [Boko Haram’s] plans through our interrogation of Aminu Sadiq Oguche.” 

Mr. Oguche, who was recently extradited to Nigeria from Sudan, is accused of masterminding some of the recent high-profile bomb blasts in Nigeria, including explosions at a bus station in Abuja that claimed more than 100 lives. 

In addition, security agents have gleaned “significant and useful intelligence” from interrogating one Mohammed Zakari, described as “the chief butcher” of Boko Haram. Mr. Zakari was recently arrested in Bauchi, capital of Bauchi State.

The source said that Nigeria’s security agencies are stepping up counter-insurgency measures to forestall Boko Haram’s plans to spread its tentacles to the states they are targeting.

“Apart from information we have gathered from interrogating suspects, we are also tracking critical conversations by the group’s hierarchy and examining sensitive documents recovered after recent raids on their bases in Bauchi, Jigawa and Borno states,” the source said.

The source added that President Goodluck Jonathan and a few other government officials had been briefed about the new threats by Boko Haram as well as the outline of the plans to counter the group’s ambitious push.

A senior Islamic scholar in Northern Nigeria, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said his group was cooperating with the government to defeat Boko Haram. “We discussed with President Jonathan when we met during the end of the Ramadan fast and told him that we are ready to help stop Boko Haram. But we also told him that this is something the government must take action on. We’re doing our own, but we have limitations,” he said.

Kelsey Grammer forgives man who killed his sister!

The Cheers star Kelsey Grammer forgave the man who raped and killed his sister, Karen Grammer, in 1975 while testifying at the parole board hearing for inmate Freddie Glenn via video conference on Tuesday.

Glenn, who was 18 at the time of the murders, was convicted of killing two men and Grammer's sister after kidnapping her from a Red Lobster restaurant in Colorado Springs where she worked, and is serving a life term at the Buena Vista Correctional Facility.

"I want to believe you have actually changed your life," an emotional Grammer said to Glenn. 

"Things you say, I accept a lot of it..I accept that you live with remorse," Grammer later continued. 

"But I live with tragedy every day."

At one point, Glenn interruped Grammer to apologize. "Thank you," Grammer said. 

"I accept your apology. I forgive you. However, I cannot give your release my endorsement. To give that a blessing would be a betrayal of my sister's life."

Glenn said at the hearing. "I thought I would die. I thought I would be killed," 

"I think I deserve a second chance."

He was initially sentenced to death, but his sentence was changed to a life term when Colorado's death penalty was overturned.

Alicia Keys Announces she expecting!

Alicia Keys announced on her forth wedding anniversary that she and hubby Swizz Beatz are expecting their second child together.



"Happy Anniversary to the love of my life @therealswizzz!! And to make it even sweeter we've been blessed with another angel on the way!! You make me happier than I have ever known! Here's to many Here's to many many more years of the best parts of life!".

How Awful...father put photo of his beaten baby on Facebook ‘for a laugh’!

French police have charged a father with child abuse after he allegedly shook and beat his month-old baby because he could not bear the infant’s crying – and then posted a photo of the baby’s bruised face on Facebook “for a laugh”.

Police in the town of Tergnier in the Aisne department in Picardy, northern France, were alerted on Monday by one of the couple’s friends who saw the child’s picture on the father’s Facebook account and was concerned at the baby’s “abnormal appearance” and bruised face.

Officers summoned the mother for questioning. When she arrived detectives noted the infant’s injuries were even worse than in the photograph and alerted the emergency services. The mother allegedly told detectives she was afraid to contact police for fear that her partner would leave her.

The father was arrested on Monday evening. Both parents have been formally put under investigation, the equivalent of being charged, for “violence against a minor causing permanent incapacity”.

The baby is believed to have suffered bleeding on the brain. Medics told Le Parisien they feared the child had suffered neurological damage though it was “too soon to say”.

In a case that has shocked France, the man reportedly admitted being violent towards the infant, who was taken to hospital where doctors diagnosed possible brain damage.

A Police officer told newsmen that the father had explained that he hit the child because he could not bear its crying and that he had published the photograph on Facebook “pour s’amuser” (for a laugh).

Both parents were described as young – in their early 20s – and unemployed. They were released on police bail. Their child remains in hospital. The identities of the parents and child have not been released.

Eastbourne Pier on fire!

A fire has ripped through part of Eastbourne Pier, completely destroying a section of the roof.

The blaze began in a part of the Victorian structure housing an amusement arcade. A section of the pier became engulfed in flames as the fire spread during the afternoon.

East Sussex Fire and Rescue said about 80 firefighters had been sent to the scene of the blaze. 

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) sent lifeboats from neighbouring towns.

Eyewitnesses said the fire, which started at the promenade end of the 144-year-old pier, appeared not to have affected the sea end of the Grade II listed structure.

I don't need a man to have a baby- Katy Perry!

29-year-old singer and actress Katy Perry wants to be a mom, with or without a man in her life.

“I don’t need a dude … It’s 2014!” she reportedly said in an interview with Rolling stone. 

“We are living in the future; we don’t need anything. I don’t think I’ll have to, but we’ll see. I’m not anti-men. I love men. But there is an option if someone doesn’t present himself.”

Although she  doesn’t intend to wait around for the right man, she is going to wait for the right moment to have a child.

“I want to be doing that in the right time,”  

“And that’s not in the next two years, you know? Maybe it’s in a five-year plan, but I need to really be able to focus 100 percent of my attention on it. I don’t really want to take the child on tour. Not until, like, birth through 5 is over.” she said

It makes sense that Perry isn’t going to hang her parenting hopes on finding the right man, as her dating luck has been anything but good.

In February, Perry and John Mayer called it quits for good after a tumultuous year-and-a-half relationship. And that started just as the pop star’s divorce from Russell Brand, whom she was married to for 14 months, was being finalized.

“It was emotionally traumatic for me,”  

“It was the death of a dream. I was in fairy-tale land, and the reality of it wasn’t so. But I don’t really like talking about it anymore, because it feels like a thousand lifetimes ago, and also it makes me look desperate, like I need it for attention.” she said.

Perry also touches on her difficulty in coping with her breakup with the comedian, who reportedly broke up with her via text message, in the interview.

She seems over that now, and has come to the realization that she can’t let a relationship determine whether she’s happy. But that hasn’t stopped her from having fun, the singer having most recently been linked to DJ Diplo.