The Nigerian afro pop singer Yemi Eberechi Alade popularly known has Yemi Alade has brought her fans to the notice of her new song titled “woman of steel.
She made the song titled known on her instagram handle @yemi_alade by writing “yemialade woman of steel” with a pass mark in front of it.
The Nigerian artist is set to feature a well known Nigeria celebrity/actress Funke Akindele in the album.She will also be featuring Grammy award winner Angelina Kidjo and a great music star Duncan Mighty.
Yemi Alade has decided to make this known to her fans so as to set their minds in anticipation and expectations on the album “Woman of steel”.
The Yoruba-Igbo girl as she is being referred based on her father being a Yoruba man and her mother an Igbo woman,has won many multiples award in her musical career including ” best female artist at the WANAmusic award in 2018,
The 30yr old singer is one of the most successful artist in Nigeria and also one of the leading female artists in Africa.
Delectable Nollywood Actress, Nse Ikpe-Etim, 44, has revealed that she had to remove her womb to live a normal life.
The actress who stars in ‘Heaven’s Hell’ which was premiered in the cinemas on Friday, recently shared her story at an event tagged ‘Conversation with Nse.’
Nse also revealed that she was never going to be able to have a baby as she was diagnosed three years ago with Adenomyosis, a condition whereby the inner lining of the uterus breaks through the muscle wall of the uterus.
“I was told I couldn’t have kids,” she said to the now sombre audience.
“And so, I had to have a hysterectomy (removal of the uterus) to make me have a life again and to stop going through what I was going through. And I’m literarily telling women and men, it really doesn’t matter if you can’t bear children. What really matters is what you would do for the world, for the universe. Tears dropped and then my husband squeezed my hand. It was reassuring there was someone there and it was telling me that this is reality, my reality.”
The popularly known Nigeria male barbie Idris Okuneyen a.k.a Bobrisky has replied to people questioning him on where his manhood is.
The cross-dresser wrote on his instagram page that he has cut of his manhood. He said, “I have cut off my d-ck, what will a fine girl like me be doing with Gbola”.
He went further to say anyone who is not paying his listed bills and fee and want to have a say in his life, will be punish by God and use the F-word “Fuck You”
Bobrisky set the internet on fire some times last year when he put up the picture he took wearing a coloured wig, his skin bleached, his fans standing with him and his penis protruded in the trouser he was putting on, on his Instagram page.
The Nigeria barbie said he has finally done the real deal now of becoming a complete beautiful woman by cutting off his manhood. Therefore, nobody should question him on his action especially if they are not paying his bills.
Bianca Ojukwu, former Nigerian ambassador to Spain and governor of Anambra state, Willie Obiano have been removed from board of trustees of the All Progressives Grand Alliance.
The National Executive Council made the decision on Tuesday in Awka upon expiration of their tenure with the board.
The party thereafter decided on May 31 to hold its national National convention.
APGA also announced the Ward and Local Government Congresses of the party would hold on the 19th and 21st of May.
And a new study finds that people spend about 52 minutes per day, on average, talking to someone about someone else who is not present.
But here’s the surprise: Despite the assumption that most gossip is trash talk, the study finds that the vast majority of gossip is nonjudgmental chitchat.
“We actually found that the overwhelming majority of gossip was neutral,” says study author Megan Robbins, a psychologist at the University of California, Riverside, who studies how people’s social interactions are related to their health and well-being. “About three-quarters of the conversation we heard in our sampled conversations was neither positive nor negative,” Robbins says.
Robbins and her colleagues analyzed snippets of conversations from people who had agreed to wear a portable recording device for two to five days. The findings are published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.
People love to talk about other people. “We share tons and tons of social information,” says Jeremy Cone, a psychologist at Williams College. He was not involved in the study but says he’s intrigued by the findings, particularly the idea that so much of gossip is rather mundane.
Think about your own conversations with a family member or friend: You talk about everyday things that keep you connected. You share that your daughter got her driver’s license or your uncle has a kidney stone.
“Much of it is just documenting facts, sharing information,” Cone says.
The study has some other interesting findings: Women and men tend to gossip about the same amount. And extroverts are more likely to spend time gossiping than introverts.
And, of course, the study also finds that some gossip is negative or mean-spirited. About 15% of the snippets of gossip that the researchers analyzed included some type of negative judgement.
But even negative gossip can serve a purpose, as more research has found.
“I think gossiping can be a smart thing to do,” says Elena Martinescu, a postdoctoral researcher at King’s College London who has studied gossip in the workplace. “It allows people to keep track of what’s going on and form social alliances with other people,” Martinescu says.
Of course, gossip is a complicated phenomenon. Martinescu points out that at times, it can backfire and sometimes harm people. But some scholars say that from an evolutionary perspective, we’re wired to gossip since it can give us information that we use to protect ourselves.
Research has shown that gossip can help build group cohesion and cooperation.
“When you gossip, you can keep track of who is contributing to the group and who’s being selfish,” Martinescu explains. “And by sharing this information, you can exclude those group members who are social loafers.”
In one of Martinescu’s studies, published this year in Frontiers in Psychology, she and her colleagues surveyed people about their experiences with gossip in the workplace. In the study, participants were asked to “describe a specific situation in which a co-worker said something either positive or negative about their work performance behind their back to another co-worker.”
Then, they were asked about their reactions to these events. Turns out, people felt hurt and angry, but being gossiped about also led them to self-reflection — and in some cases motivated them to improve.
“We found that negative gossip makes people likely to repair the aspects of their behavior that they were criticized for,” Martinescu says.
So, say, for instance, you were criticized for always arriving at work late. Hearing that gossip about yourself may motivate you to want to be on time.
“And that might trigger a change in your behavior for the better,” Martinescu says.
Of course, this isn’t a license to be a loose lips or to repeat baseless claims that can damage someone’s reputation unfairly. But confiding in your friends and colleagues and sharing impressions about another person — even when they’re negative — may be helpful.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says there is no reason why any Nigerian should give bribe to law enforcement agents whether for obtaining drivers licenses, passports or to clear goods at the ports.
Mr Osinbajo spoke on Tuesday in Abuja while declaring open the anti-corruption conference tagged “Collaborative Approach to Eradicating the Evils of Corruption in Nigeria.’’
The conference was organised by the Office of the Vice President and the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC).
Quoting PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mr Osinbajo said Nigeria’s 2030 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) could be up to 534 billion dollars higher if it reduced corruption.
He said it did not matter how much revenue a country made or how transformative its plans were; corruption would ensure that the majority of the people did not benefit from it or simply truncate the plan.
According to him, in spite the highest oil revenues in Nigeria’s history, debt doubled and poverty figures rose as a result of corruption.
He said that the administration was not slightly deluded into thinking that it had won the battle against corruption as it was tackling grand corruption first.
“By that we mean the stealing of huge public resources directly from the treasury; usually at the highest levels of executive authority; and the stealing of budgeted funds through various schemes,” he said.
He said the enforcement of Treasury Single Account (TSA), the Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit, and even ensuring that most civil servants were on the IPPIS electronic platform had helped greatly to control official theft of public funds.
The vice president said that the judiciary also moved the needle in recent times.
“The Supreme Court in a lead judgment of Akaahs JSC, recently held that forfeiture under Section 17 of the Advanced Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act is a civil process which neither requires the criminal conviction of the property owner nor his innocence .
“This opens the door for forfeiture of assets that the purported owner cannot explain, whether or not an allegation of corruption is made.
“We are now poised to deal with the wider problem of systemic corruption; especially where the average person interacts with government.
“Corruption in the issuance of contracts, licenses and other government approvals; there is no reason why any Nigerian should have to give bribe to law enforcement agents for obtaining drivers licenses or passports, or to clear goods at our ports.
“All the relevant government agencies have shown a serious commitment to eradicating these forms of corruption; our next level is to create the environment for collaboration between our agencies, civil society and other stake holders.’’
The vice president said that it was in recognition of the enormity of corruption that President Muhammadu Buhari set up PACAC in 2015.
Mr Osinbajo said that PACAC deserved commendation not just for its sterling, innovative contributions to the fight against corruption, but for regularly setting the agenda for important conversations on the subject.
On his part, PACAC’s Chairman, Itse Sagay, said information and intelligence sharing among anti-corruption and security agencies was critical in the fight against corruption.
He said that the Sept. 11 attack in New York and the recent attack in Sri Lanka were all blamed on security agencies who failed to act on or share intelligence.
On June 1, 2016, PACAC organised a roundtable on corruption information and intelligence sharing protocol.
He said that the justification for that roundtable was contained in the summary of the outcome of the roundtable.
Mr Sagay said that it was observed that information at the disposal of various intelligence units in the country was not shared in a systematic and pragmatic manner to assist the fight against corruption and other related national security threats.
He said the gaps were identified as setback in the fight against corruption.
“Against the above background, PACAC developed a protocol on information and intelligence sharing for anti-corruption and law enforcement agencies and intelligence community.
“The recommendations of that roundtable were not only apt, but were imperative for the successful collaboration and information sharing among the anti-corruption and security agencies.
“Let us use the opportunity this morning to reaffirm the determination of the ant-corruption and security agencies to work together in the interest of Nigeria in order to clear the cobweb of corruption that has almost covered the face of Nigeria,” he said.
Heads of various anti-corruption agencies whose operations are affected by corruption attended the event.
The federal government will on Tuesday in Abuja inaugurate the N30,000 new national minimum wage implementation committee, almost one month after President Muhammadu Buhari signed the bill into law.
Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, said this while fielding questions on television concerning the time for payment of the new wage.
Mr Ngige did not state when the government would start payment but said that arrears would be paid anytime implementation of the new wage begins.
He said there were still processes and procedures the new wage would undergo before the commencement of its implementation, even though it had been passed and signed into law.
“It is a whole process and the salary and wages commission will do its job before implementation,” the minister said.
He said that the committee was made of seven ministers with the Head of Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita as chairperson.
The minister said those at the lowest cadre of employment whether in the public or private sector would earn N30,000 as the law provides.
He said however for the cadre of workers already earning above the minimum wage, there would be consequential adjustment from the top.
Mr Ngige added that the relevant agency of government would soon issue a circular on the expected adjustments.
Meanwhile, Ayuba Wabba, the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has expressed worry over the delay in the commencement of the implementation of the new wage.
A spyware traced to an Israeli intelligence firm has injected vulnerabilities into WhatsApp’s phone call function on iPhone and Android devices.
Attackers used the malicious agent to transmit private user data by calling the user and infecting the call whether or not the call was picked-up, according to the Financial Times which broke the news on Monday night.
Oftentimes, the spyware would erase incoming calls register, making it more difficult for users to detect.
WhatsApp, owned by Facebook and used by more than 1.5 billion people, has advised users to immediately upgrade to its latest version which contains a new patch that fixed the vulnerability. An additional update was published on Monday.
The company first detected the problem last week and quickly addressed it with its internal infrastructure. It also notified the United States Department of Justice of the breach, Financial Times reported.
As part of urgent measures to contain the breach and prevent further theft of user data, a ‘CVE’ advisory was also released for cybersecurity experts on Monday, informing them about the devices that were worse hit.
WhatsApp did not immediately disclose the extent of damage already caused by the spyware.
“The attack has all the hallmarks of a private company reportedly that works with governments to deliver spyware that takes over the functions of mobile phone operating systems,” WhatsApp said in a statement. “We have briefed a number of human rights organisations to share the information we can and to work with them to notify civil society.”
The Israeli-based NSO, which Financial Times identified as responsible for the attach, denied the allegations in a statement on Monday, saying it was investigating the matter.
“NSO would not, or could not, use its technology in its own right to target any person or organisation, including this individual,” it said to the Financial Times. The organisation often limits sales of its spyware, Pegasus, to state intelligence agencies.
The spyware’s capabilities are widely deemed virulent by experts. It could extract all of the data already on any targeted device, including text messages, contacts, GPS location, email, browser history.
WhatsApp has been widely popular across the world for its easy-to-use interface and and end-to-end encryption. Journalists, activists and dissidents have become comfortable with the application’s communication guarantees, and WhatsApp said the Israeli spyware did not affect the encryption functionality.
Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, on Tuesday declared that the fresh investigation of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, was not a witch-hunt.
Magu said the commission does not witch-hunt any government official irrespective of their political background.
Addressing journalists at the EFCC’s headquarters in Abuja, Magu disclosed that the Commission only investigates people it suspects of being involved in corrupt practices.
Magu also stated that the investigation of Saraki was not based on personal motive.
When asked why the EFCC was reopening investigations into old cases against Saraki, Magu said: ”No it is not personal, we are not after anybody. His case is not different from other individuals that are being investigated.
“The EFCC does not pursue people who do not have corruption cases. If you are not corrupt, we do not invite you. If you are not a 419 or internet fraudster, we would never invite you.
”We do our homework very well. Sometimes we conduct our investigations for up to six months, we have been investigating people for more than five years.
”Corruption is a national disaster, every Nigerian should fight corruption, whether you are in Nigeria or outside the country. You remove corruption, you eradicate disaster. All these banditries and Boko Haram, the root is corruption.”
The US Embassy on Tuesday announced the indefinite suspension of interview waivers for renewals, otherwise known as the “Dropbox” process.
A statement on its website noted that visa applications will no longer be accepted by DHL in Nigeria.
“Those who have already submitted their passports via “Dropbox” to DHL for processing either at the U.S. Embassy in Abuja or the Consulate General in Lagos, will not be impacted by this change”, it read.
“All applicants in Nigeria seeking a nonimmigrant visa to the United States must apply online and will be required to appear in person at the U.S. Embassy in Abuja or U.S. Consulate General in Lagos to submit their application for review. Applicants must appear at the location they specified when applying for the visa renewal.
“Processing of diplomatic and official (A, G, and NATO class) visa applications will continue unchanged.”
The statement added that Nigeria’s processing procedures are regularly reviewed in order to assess our ability to quickly, efficiently, and securely process visa applications.
“The U.S. Mission is taking this step to provide more efficient customer service and promote legitimate travel, and will continue to facilitate applications of established travelers to the best of its ability”, it concluded.
