In 2018, Beyonce’s net worth was $355 million and Jay-Z earned $900 million!
Music’s first billionaire couple Jay-Z and Beyonce have set the bar and inspired so many other couples to invest in themselves, their children and their future.
Business Insider detailed some of the investments, income and endorsements the power couple obtained to achieve their billionaire status.
Beyonce raked in money from music, tours, Coachella, Netflix, fragrances, vegan meal delivery services, Ivy Park Clothing line. endorsements with Tommy Hilfiger American Express and Pepsi.
Jay-Z earned funds from Tidal, Live Nation, Roc Nation, Rocawear, Dusse, Ace of Spades, Uber, Marcy Venture Partners and his stake in the Brooklyn Nets.
They spend their millions on Real Estate, gold cribs, charity, scholarships for disadvantaged youth, and Beyonce even purchased a $40,000,000 private jet for Father’s Day.
Salute to the couple for being a wonderful example to so many people to achieve all they ever dream of.
Popular Nigerian comedian Akpororo has responded to controversial media personality, Daddy Freeze, for mocking him over the low turnout of people at his comedy show.
It was earlier reported that the comedian held a show at Okokomaiko and was forced to reduce his ticket price from N5000 to N2000, before eventually giving out the ticket for free.
Freeze used the opportunity to call out the comic act and asked him if paying his tithes was no longer working for him. He also made a reference to a time when Akpororo called him a wall gecko in a church programme over his stance on tithing.
Reacting to the OAP, Akpororo who made sure to call him a ‘wall gecko’ reiterated the fact that he still pays his tithes and it has been manifesting in positive ways in his life.
He asked Freeze to go and have a second look at the pictures from the event and he will find out that the show was a successful one.
On a final note, Akpororo expressed that the OAP is an elderly person and as such he should try to act accordingly.
Deputy National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Lawal Shuaibu, has called on the party’s National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole to resign from office.
Shuaibu made this demand in his letter dated May 27, 2019, which was delivered to Oshiomhole in Abuja on May 28.
The letter was titled “APC: IT’S FORTUNES Vs MISFORTUNES, TIME TO ACT!”
The former senator said he wrote the letter in his personal capacity and as the deputy national chairman of the party.
Part of the letter reads, “I write this letter to you with a very deep (sic) heart and high sense of responsibility.
“I write this letter thinking because I am a critical stakeholder in the APC project.
“I write this letter with my hands shaking, arising from realising my involvement in a project that is currently seen as failing, even before achieving the ambition of its founding fathers. I never found myself in any failed project.
“In advanced democracies, people who fail to add value or build over and above what they met on assumption of duty show some civilized examples, they honourably bow out.
“In that connection, therefore, I want to advise you to take the path of honour, to step aside and allow the Party to embark on the onerous task of reconstruction and rehabilitation in those States it was weakened by the effect of the last primary election exercises.
“Or even the task of recreating the party where it is on the path of extinction, arising from the loss of a sitting APC Government, for example in Zamfara State, where you directly personally created the problem leading to the painful complete loss of APC’s electoral fortunes. From up to down, all these are uncontestable facts.
“You cannot exonerate yourself from what happened to APC (in) Zamfara State, thereby destroying the hopes and aspirations of 534,541 APC members and supporters.”
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank on Tuesday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to take responsibility for what he termed a “colossal failure” to make any positive impact in the last four years.
Frank said the President should not blame his alleged incompetence on the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara.
In a statement, the former APC spokesperson wondered why Buhari chose to “lie during the Holy month of Ramadan”.
He called on Buhari to stop his blame-game, face reality for once and apologise to Nigerians for leading a calamitous regime of pain and penury.
According to Frank: “Blame your lethargy, flip-flops and incompetence for your failure, not Saraki and Dogara.
“It is you the people elected as President to exercise executive powers and not Saraki and Dogara whose duties are to supervise the passage of legislation.
“Any leader who completely abdicates responsibility for his action or inaction cannot by any stretch of imagination be said to be a good leader. If at the twilight of a four-year tenure Mr. President is shopping for new scapegoats, At what point would he realize that its was under his government that Nigeria became the poverty capital of the world?
“How many jobs has this administration created for our teeming unemployed youths. It is unfortunate that Nigerians got a man whose archaic policies and personal ineptitude led a once thriving economy into a tailspin and perpetual downward slide.
“It is further regrettable that Buhari who claims to be a man of integrity has failed all integrity indicators in leadership and personal character of being true to self.
“Only last week, the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) alerted Nigerians that will soon resume its suspended strike following the refusal of the Buhari to honour agreement it reached with the union early this year.”
Frank said it is on record that under Buhari, all budgets were presented in late December and for the last four years budget performance has remained between a woeful 25 to 30 per cent while the appropriated amounts were brazenly stolen without consequence.
He said, “Only recently, Buhari’s wife, Aisha, cried out that the N500billion Social Intervention Programme was never implemented, even as there are no mosquito nets to show for a scandalous sum of N16billion set aside for that purpose. Is the SIP being implemented by Saraki and Dogara or the aides of the President?”
The activist maintained that rather than the 8th National Assembly being the problem, Buhari has been the real cog in the wheels of the nation’s progress and development.
He called on the President to immediately apologise to Nigerians for leading them with subterfuge and outright misinformation.
“It is on record that Buhari refuses to sign several bills passed by the 8th National Assembly like the Electoral Act, Proceeds of Crime Bill, Petroleum Industry Governance Bill, etc, that would have impacted positivity on the nation’s electoral system, the fight against corruption and the petroleum sector respectively.
“Why engage in blame game when you cannot discern quality minds nor fathom a brilliant and workable idea even if it were to come from perceived political opponents?
“It is clear that the achievements of Buhari in the last four years remain gargantuan propaganda, poverty, suicides and comatose economy for which he has not stopped to blame the 16 year rule of the opposition party.
“I also believe that Buhari has nothing in stock for Nigerians in the next four years, reason he has shifted his pastime of blame for failure to Saraki and Dogara.
“If anything, the unbridled corruption in Buhari’s administration and the thieving aides around him should be held responsible for his unabashed failures.
“Is it not laughable that “Baba Go Slow” has got people to blame for the snail speed of his government?
“A President whose district head was kidnapped and whose Emirate Council since has suspended the celebration of the this year’s Eid-el-Fitri as a result of insecurity is blaming Saraki and Dogara for his cluelessness,” Frank declared.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on social investment, Maryam Uwais, has defended the Federal Government’s Social Investment Programmes (SIP).
Uwais said Aisha Buhari, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari who criticised SIP, would have been able to find all beneficiaries of the project if she had access to available data.
Speaking on Channels Television, the presidential aide said about 290,000 beneficiaries from Adamawa, Aisha’s home state, were being paid under the initiative.
The Cable reports that Buhari’s wife had said the programme being coordinated by Uwais failed in the north.
But speaking during the live programme, Uwais said Aisha spoke without the knowledge of available records on SIP.
Uwais said, “I believe that if she (Aisha) were to listen to the information they have there, if she were to check our data, she would be able to find all the beneficiaries.
“Yes, she may not have met them. But we are in 12 local government areas for the cash transfer. We are also in 12 LGAs for loans. So, I think we have at least 290,000 beneficiaries directly that we are paying in Adamawa State.”
Uwais said the school feeding programme was also ongoing in over 1,000 public primary schools in Adamawa and that more could have been done with more funding.
“We have over 11,000 graduates recruited and working in her home state. We have non-graduates, 440; we started the school feeding programme in October 2018, we are in 1,054 public primary schools,” she said.
Sector Commander of Federal Road Safety Corps in Bauchi, Mr. Abdulrazak Najume, said road mishaps through head-on collision of vehicles could be reduced drastically if road users always swerve to the right while trying to avoid potholes.
In an interview with News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Bauchi, Najume observed that most head-on-collision of vehicles are caused by the grave error of ‘swerving to the left’ in attempting to avoid obstacles or potholes, thereby veering of into the path of incoming vehicles.
He described the mistake of veering off to the path of incoming vehicles as ‘most suicidal,’ noting that the collision of forces from opposite direction is often ‘ghastly’ and the chances of survival of occupants of vehicles involved ‘very slim.’
The Commander observed that most road users are in the habit of making this grave mistake, either out of ignorance, or due to sheer recklessness.
“Many drivers do dodge small potholes to their left hand side instead of entering it. If they must dodge potholes, they should dodge to their right hand side.
“It is suicide dodging potholes to the left hand side; but if you must go by the left, you must be sure that you are safe from vehicles that are coming from the opposite direction.
“Most drivers do not know this and those who are aware don’t adhere to the rules; this is why most of them end up in head-on collision because nothing can stop a vehicle on speed.
“Most alarming is that some road users, not only swerve to the left while avoiding obstacles, but do so at sharp bends where they cannot see anything coming from the opposite direction.
“This is why we always educate them to always keep and maintain their lane,” he admonished
Najume also observed that most of the commercial vehicle drivers in motor parks are not qualified to drive, with some of them being users of hard drugs.
The Commander, however, reiterated that the FRSC would not relent in making sure that road users abide by all safety rules to ensure the protection of lives.
American rap star Chris Brown failed to appear at a hearing Tuesday in Paris where he had been summoned to a face-to-face meeting with a Frenchwoman who has accused him of rape, her lawyer said.
The woman, 24, says Brown along with his bodyguard and a friend of assaulted her in the luxury Mandarin Oriental hotel on the night of January 15.
Brown and his associates were released without charge in January after being held for questioning after the allegations of aggravated rape and a drug offence.
But the woman has stood by the accusations and police summoned Brown to a “confrontation” with his accuser.
Gloria Allred, the high-profile American women’s rights lawyer representing the accuser, said that Brown’s failure to show up was a “scandal”.
“Why did he fail to come today? Does he think that he is above the law in France? Does he think that the French criminal justice system is a joke?” she told reporters outside the court.
The woman, who has not been identified by name, told police she met Brown in a nightclub near the Champs-Elysees avenue with a group of other party-goers.
She then agreed to go back to the hotel, which is on the glitzy Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore.
Lawyers for the Grammy Award-winning singer have said he is innocent and they are considering a libel lawsuit.
Allred has taken on a string of high-profile cases representing women, including some who claim they were abused by R&B star R. Kelly.
She has also represented a woman who alleged she was sexually assaulted at Brown’s home during a drug- and alcohol-fuelled party in 2017.
“Did he learn that I was coming to Paris to support my client?” Allred said outside the court. “Was he afraid of me? And is that the reason that he chose not to show up?”
The singer, who according to Billboard has sold more than 100 million records, has been in the news more for his legal troubles than hit releases in recent years.
In 2009 he was convicted of beating fellow singer Rihanna, his girlfriend at the time, who missed the Grammy Awards because of her injuries.
Contacted by AFP, Brown’s French lawyer Raphael Chiche was not immediately available for comment.
Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode on Tuesday said all the decisions, plans, programmes and policies of his administration in the last four years were taken with the best interest of Lagos in mind and for the common good of all residents of the State.
Governor Ambode, in a farewell State broadcast to officially mark the end of his administration, said the driving force with respect to programmes executed was to lift more people out of poverty and make every part of the State economically viable and livable.
“For this administration, policies, programmes, and projects aimed at lifting more of our people out of poverty and making every part of the State safe, accessible and economically viable were always the priority; the driving force behind all our decisions and plans.
“A few of our policies might have been unpopular but these were decisions taken with the best interest of our State in mind. With the benefit of hindsight, maybe we could have done some things differently but our intention was always clear, for the good of Lagos,” Governor Ambode said.
He particularly commended the people for the constructive feedback to some of the policies of his administration which, according to him, helped to surmount challenges, saying it had been a remarkable journey to serve the State.
“With a heart full of gratitude, I address you today for the last time as your governor. It has been an honour and a privilege of a lifetime to serve you in the last four years.
“It has been a remarkable journey which has had a lasting impact in my life and I want to thank all Lagosians for the experience of these last four years.
“As, in the beginning when we visited every single corner of this state listening to you and asking for your votes, I have felt the power of your support, your collective energy and the endless goodwill that has propelled us to achieve many things,” he said.
Describing Lagos as a place where dreams come true and a home for everyone, Governor Ambode said it was the duty of all residents to continue to ensure that the State remained the true centre of opportunities and growth for all.
“From being just a commercial centre, our State has now become a prime destination for tourism, sports, entertainment, and culture. And the future is even brighter with more exciting prospects and possibilities. In the near future, with God on our side, Lagos will take its rightful place in the comity of major city-states of the world.
“Fellow Lagosians, it has been a remarkable journey. One in which we have pushed boundaries and moved our State to another level. A journey in which we have transformed many aspects of our State and set the ball rolling in other sectors. But there is still a lot more to be done.
“But it is a job not for only the government; it is a responsibility for us all. In Lagos, every one counts and we all have a part to play,” he said.
While appreciating the people for the support given to successive administrations in the State, Governor Ambode also urged all stakeholders to support the incoming administration of Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, saying such would be in the best interest of all.
“By tomorrow, there will be a change of guard in our State. I will be stepping down and a new Governor will be sworn in. We will have a new Governor and a new administration with the same objective; achieving a better Lagos.
“Those who have had the privilege of serving our dear State in different capacities especially as Governors, owe their successes to your prayers, understanding, and support. The same courtesy and cooperation that you gave to my predecessors from the first elected Governor of the State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande to our national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) to my humble self, I urge you to extend same to the next administration of Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and ensure that he succeeds. It is in our best interest to do so,” he said.
Jurgen Klopp said Liverpool were feeling “pure excitement” ahead of the Champions League final against Tottenham but confirmed on Tuesday that Naby Keita will definitely miss out.
The German manager, who guided the Reds to last year’s final, which they lost to Real Madrid, saw his side narrowly lose out to Manchester City in the race for the Premier League title.
But Liverpool can ease the pain of last year’s defeat to Real and finish the season on a high by being crowned European champions for a sixth time in Madrid on Saturday.
“We are all very excited about having the chance again,” Klopp told reporters at Liverpool’s training centre.
“It’s about dealing with the situation and so far we have controlled our emotions,” added the Anfield boss, who also tasted defeat with Borussia Dortmund in the 2013 Champions League final, when his side lost to Bayern Munich in an all-German clash.
“It’s pure excitement and we are looking forward to it.”
Guinean midfielder Keita will not feature in the match as he recovers from a groin injury but there was better news for Brazilian forward Roberto Firmino, who is also grappling with a groin issue.
“There’s no chance for Naby, but he’s progressing well. Bobby was part of training last week and will be a part again tomorrow and he’s looking good so he will be part of the final, I’m sure.”
On recovering from two near misses as a Champions League manager to try and make it third time lucky this weekend, Klopp said: “I don’t like to blame my other team — I love them all — but I’ve never been part of a final with a better team, that’s true.
“Our boy’s mix potential with attitude in the best way I’ve ever seen.
“After Barcelona (the 4-0 semi-final comeback at Anfield), nobody believes more in this team than the team itself. We wanted it really badly.”
Klopp described the match against Mauricio Pochettino’s men as a “proper European final” even though it is an all-Premier League affair.
“It will be very tight, no doubt,” he said. “The quality of us and Spurs is very similar. We know a lot about Tottenham but we have had three weeks since our last game and in three weeks I would have known the name of the groundsman of Barcelona, for example.”
Klopp denied that reaching successive European Cup finals was a personal career highlight.
“The biggest moment of my career was in 2004 in getting Mainz promoted,” said the Stuttgart-born coach.
“Winning the Champions League final with Liverpool would be (the) new (one).”
Guru Maharaj Ji, the founder of the One Love Family, has said that for Nigeria to thrive economically, political appointments, especially in the ninth republic should be based on merit and not religious sentiments.
Maharaj Ji made this known to newsmen on Tuesday while speaking on the forthcoming 26th Anniversary of Highest Spiritual Centre of the Universe Declaration as the New Holy Land at his Iju Ishaga Temple in Lagos.
He said that the undue pressure by religious bodies on President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint their members was uncalled for and did not reflect the unity expected in Nigeria.
“Religious leaders should be fenced off decision-making on appointments and the appointments should be based on hard work, past records and merit.
“Appointments to high and sensitive government offices by quota is one of the several neo-colonial deity of backwardness in self-governing but pseudo-emancipated Nigeria.
“A competent person is fundamentally a human being, not a Christian, Muslim or religious person.
“As such, focus should be on setting standards that give proper access to competent Nigerians to run government agencies and institutions, irrespective of their religious and ethnic tilt,’’ he said.
Maharaj Ji said that the quest for a united and prosperous Nigeria is a patriotic strive that requires the hard work of patriots.
“Public officers appointed or elected on the premise of religious sentiment cannot but be loyal to the parochial and troublesome sentiments that got them the office they occupy.
“I urge President Buhari to ignore the effusion of religious leaders in midwifing the birth of the ninth republic, ” he said.
