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Nollywood Actress, Iyabo Ojo is known to be one of the most popular actresses in the English movie genre before retracing her steps to the Yoruba genre, Iyabo Ojo started acting in 1977 when she was introduced to Keppy Ekpeyong by Bimbo Akintola. A graduate of Estate Management from the Lagos State Polytechnic and mother of two, In a recent interview she spoke about her NGO,  her movie ‘Arinzo’ and her views on lesbianism. Read Excerpt Who is Iyabo Ojo? I am from Ogun State, Itoko to be precise, an actress and I have two younger brothers. I am the only girl in my family. My father is late, while my mother Mrs. Olubunmi is still alive. My brothers are based in the United Kingdom while my mother stays here with me. I was born on December 21, 1977. I am a graduate of Estate Management from the Lagos State Polytechnic and married with two children; Festus and Pricilla. Your latest work Arinzo received a lot of kudos. What do you have to say to that? My latest work, ‘Arinso...

A former National President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), on Tuesday rejected the allowance set aside for delegates to the National Conference, which was inaugurated yesterday. It is believed that each delegate would be paid N4 million per month for the duration of the talks. Agbakoba, a former President of the Civil Liberties Organisation and one of the delegates representing Civil Society Organisations, based his decision on the fact that the conference “is a call to service and an opportunity to chart a new course for our country”. This was contained in his letter to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Pius Anyim, whose office serves as secretariat for the National Conference. The letter, entitled ‘Acceptance of nomination as delegate to the National conference’, read, “I write to accept my nomination as one of the 24 civil society delegates to the National Conference. “I believe the National Conference is a call to se...

The Rivers State Police Command yesterday arrested a 30-year old man for being in possession of a large quantity of explosives, including detonators and a cordless wire. The suspect, who gave his name as Ibrahim Aliyu, was nabbed in Ndele Town in Emohua Local Government Area of the state at about 2.30pm. The State Police Commissioner, Mr. Tunde Ogunsakin, told newsmen in Port Harcourt, the state capital that the suspect had confessed to being a member of a kidnap syndicate based in Ogbogoro Town in Rivers State. Aliyu, according to Ogunsakin, was also a member of a bank robbery syndicate that shuttles between Port Harcourt and Akwa Ibom State. The Rivers police chief disclosed that the suspect had confessed that though he (Aliyu) purchased the explosives in Port Harcourt, his aim was to take them to one ‘Alhaji’ in the troubled northeastern state of Yobe. “The Rivers State Police Command wished to inform the general public that in its bid to rid the state of undesirabl...

  Fear and panic gripped residents of Luk, a Togolese farming community near Bunkpurugu in Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo District of the Northern Region, after a man resurrected seven days after his burial. Konkper-Laar Samuel, 22 was said to have died after a brief illness and was buried at the family mausoleum with a stone and a piece of stick placed on his grave as a symbol of separation of the bond between the living and the dead. According to their tradition, the seventh day was supposed to be marked with a family gathering where issues regarding the deceased’s property and debts, if he had incurred any whilst alive, would be resolved. As members of the family gathered at about 8 o’clock that morning, they were shocked to find the deceased entering the house with the very clothes he was buried with. There was pandemonium as there was a shout of ‘Run for your life’ and everyone was running helter-skelter. Some ran to the grave side to see if it had been opened but ...