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Nollywood actress, Yvonne Jegede who recently landed in a messy  chest surgery scandal  upon her return to the movie industry in a recent interview talks about her selling point, ideal man. Yvonne Jegede who featured in Tuface Idibia’s “African Queen” video made a stunning comeback to acting after several years of being away to study abroad in University in Cyprus. Her ideal man I don’t even know what it is any more. But I think people at different ages have different perspection in respect of what an ideal man is. He should be  more intelligent than myself. I need somebody I can learn from him. He should also be able to take care of himself.  That’s  an ideal man for me. He should not be ugly. On her selling point I think it is my brain. Talking about the physical things that attracts men to me, it depends. Some people say, it’s my eyes, others prefer  my lips and my b**bs. So, I do not know. When I love into the mirror, I love everything about ...

Sylvia Oluchy, a fast rising actress in an interview with BestofNollywood, was asked if there’s a limit to what she can do on set and if she could go nüde for a movie role and here is what the actress said; don’t have any boundaries because my body is my laptop. Others have their laptops and files, what I have is my body and voice, Even the concept of nüdity, I don’t have any problems what so ever, but it has to make sense, if it enriches the story and is done tastefully, I mean sometimes you can see nüdity been done for a good reason, like in the west, they could take off their clothes to protest. Like I said, I don’t have problem with nüdity, I just want it to make sense”.

The UN Security Council has adopted a unanimous but non-binding resolution, calling for humanitarian aid convoys to be allowed access across war-torn Syria, but diplomats immediately voiced doubt about its effectiveness. Syria’s staunch ally Russia, with support from China, has blocked three previous resolutions aimed at pressuring the Damascus regime since the crisis began in March 2011, with an estimated half of all Syrians urgently awaiting immediate help. But Moscow and Beijing, two of the five permanent Security Council members, did not do so this time, sending a strong message to President Bashar al-Assad, whose regime is accused of serious rights violations in attempting to hold on to power. The resolution does not threaten sanctions but it does express the council’s intention to take “further steps” if the resolution is not implemented. The government and rebels hold several areas in the country under siege, leaving tens of thousands of people suffering from lack of fo...

Mexican Marines have arrested the world’s most wanted drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. He was captured Saturday by and publicly hauled away in handcuffs, ending his blood-stained reign after a 13-year manhunt. Stemming from US-Mexican coordination, the arrest deals a blow to the Sinaloa cartel, Mexico’s biggest drug-trafficking organization, an empire that stretches along the Pacific coast and smuggles drugs to the United States, Europe and Asia. Guzman was captured at 6:40 am local time in the Pacific beach city of Mazatlan, Sinaloa state, along with an unidentified associate “without a single shot fired,” Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam said. “There was no damage and nobody was hurt,” Karam said in a brief news conference in a Mexico City navy base where Guzman was later paraded in front of television cameras. Guzman, most wanted drug lord arrested The 56-year-old Sinaloa cartel kingpin wore a white shirt and jeans and sported thick black hair and a mustach...

Allegations are circulating in the French media that Barack Obama and superstar singer Beyonce are having a serious affair  They emerged just as President Francois Hollande arrived in America on an official state visit without his former partner, Valérie Trierweiler. Rumors of the affair between Obama and Beyonce  – who is married – were first made on the radio station,  Europe 1,  this morning. It was also rumored that  The Washington Post  was about to break the story, but Kristine Coratti, director of communications for the newspaper, said: “I can tell you that it’s false,” adding “ The Washington Post  does not produce articles” of this kind. The existence of the alleged relationship was revealed by Pascal Rostain, the photographer who last month took photographs of President Hollande secretly visiting a Paris apartment on a moped and wearing a crash helmet. The allegations of an affair between Hollande and actress Julie Gayet were even...

The suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has faulted his suspension by President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday, saying it was “unconstitutional” because the presidency did not follow due process. Sanusi, who spoke in an exclusive interview with Channels Television on thursday, maintained that he would explore some form of legal intervention over his suspension. He queried the double standards employed in arriving at the conclusion that his leadership of the apex bank was characterized by financial recklessness saying that “just a little over a week ago, the petroleum minister and the GMD of NNPC, sat in front of the Senate on national television, actually saying they have paid billions of dollars on subsidy of kerosene without appropriation”. This, according to Sanusi was happening in flagrant disregard of an existing presidential directive to stop the payment of subsidy on the product since 2009, wondering why “no one has called thi...

Retired President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Mustapha Akanbi, yesterday added his voice to the debate surrounding the suspension of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, saying President Goodluck Jonathan’s action was pre-emptive and ill-advised. The respected jurist in his reaction to Thursday’s suspension of Sanusi said that, “All I know is that the point has been made that CBN’s governor cannot be removed from office without taking the matter to the Senate for two- third of the Senators’ vote. And there is no provision in the Constitution which I know of that allows the president to suspend him. “If the president wants him out of office he should follow due process and we cannot resist the temptation that apparently because Sanusi was complaining about what has happened at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), he is now made to face this situation. “I think it is not in the interest of the president or the country to go throug...

A student of University of Ibadan was raped and killed in on February 19th 2014 in a home she shares with her sister at Opeyemi street, Gbagi in Ibadan. 27-year-old Taiwo Omolara Shittu, a 500 level student of the Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries Management was found dead lying lifeless in a pool of blood at about 5:30 p. m that day. Her sister returned from work to meet her dead with her pants down to her ankle and machete wounds in her head. The murder weapon, a machete reportedly belonging to the man that cuts grass for them, was found in the room with blood stains. According to reports, the labourer, Alakia Adenubi has been arrested in connection with the crime. Adenubi has denied involvement with the murder of Shittu. The case has been transferred to the State CID.

A seven page letter written by Mr. Erastus  Akingbola alleging that Intercontinental Bank PLC was fraudulently acquired by Sanusi , Saraki and Lai Alabi.     You can download it here http://thewillnigeria.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/SANUSI-AND-BUKOLA-SARAKI.pdf

Members of the All Progressives Congress in the Senate have demanded the recall of the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, threatening to challenge the suspension which it described as violation of CBN Act in the court. In a statement by the Senate Minority Leader, Senator George Akume, the suspension was inimical to the process of good governance and rule of law. While admitting the prerogative of the President to hire and fire, Akume said such action must however, be guided by strict observance of laid down principles in the overriding national interest. He said if the president was prepared to restore confidence in the oil industry, “he should as well sack the Petroleum Resources Minister, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke as well as the top management of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. “The whistle blower who should know it all is being illegally and unconstitutionally suspended to safeguard and protect the perpetrators of corruption in the petroleu...

A pastor’s wife, Mrs Eunice Ajayi, 55, has been murdered in cold blood by a 25-year-old University drop-out identified as Jerry over her refusal to be r*ped. The suspected killer was said to have been rusticated from two institutions in Ondo State for being a member of a secret cult. The woman was hacked to death when she refused to be r*ped by the suspect who is now on the run. The deceased’s husband who rushed to the scene to save his dying wife was also macheted by the suspect. He is presently recuperating at the hospital. Eyewitnesses told Vanguard that the alleged killer visited the house of the Pastor located at Peace-land Road,along the Expressway in Akure metropolis and attempted to r*pe the deceased. Jerry who has been eyeing the woman reportedly came that day with the sole purpose of having his way but the Pastor’s wife resisted. This, according to report, infuriated the suspect who allegedly brought out a machete which he used to hack the deceased . Several ma...