Veteran actress Mulikat Adegbola is dead

Veteran actress, Mulikat Adegbola, popularly known as Ashabi Iya Adinni is reportedly dead. She was said to have died after a brief illness.

Top Nollywood actor, Muyiwa Ademola, confirmed her death.

He said, “This is quite sad but who are we to question the Almighty? Sleep on Iya Adinni. May the Almighty forgive your sins.”

I wish all my children came from one woman –9ice

Popular singer, 9ice, is one of the few artistes in Nigeria whose love life has endured a lot of public scrutiny. In a chat with Saturday Beats, the singer who has four children from three women said that he wished he had all his children from one woman.

But then, he quickly added he has no regrets.

“I wish I had all my children from one woman because it is a good thing and it makes you connect easily with your children. For example, I have to go to Abuja, Lagos and America to visit my children. Imagine if all my children were from one woman. However, I have no regrets because it has been ordained, people are just complaining but God has already ordained that these things would happen,” he said.

And even as his love life has been trailed with so many controversies, the Gongo Aso crooner said he doesn’t mind the controversies as they actually fuel his creativity.

He said, “I think people would never understand me because it is not their life but mine. Everybody has the way they want to live their life and we all have factors and elements that work for us. I know the factors that work for me, I am living my life and I am enjoying it. I think it is for people to enjoy my songs and like it. As for my love life, it is mine, if I live my love life the way people want me to, I would be suffering while they would be enjoying. They should leave my love life for me because I think I deserve some happiness and an enjoyable love life. I have some factors and tactics that work for me and it is not in my position to explain it to people. Without the negative criticisms I receive when it comes to my love life, I would not be doing music again because what would I sing about. What would I put in my music? I love all the controversies surrounding my love life.”

9ice seized the opportunity to talk about his recently released album, ID Cabassa, and reiterated the fact that all proceeds from the album sales would go to his long-time producer, ID Cabassa.

He said, “This is my way of saying thank you to ID Cabassa for all he has done for me. Cabassa is not broke, nothing is wrong with him. I understand that in Nigeria, we only support people when they are down or dead. I am just doing my own; the idea has been there for a while and I felt it was the right time for me to make it a reality.”

Why Buhari must borrow $30bn – Odigie-Oyegun

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is left with no option than to borrow to revive Nigeria’s ailing economy.
Buhari’s plan to borrow an estimated US$29.9bn from foreign lenders has been rejected by the Senate and leading Nigerian economists.
Odigie-Oyegun however said Nigeria needed to borrow in order to invest in infrastructure and grow the economy.  

The party chairman was quoted to have said this after receiving a lifetime achievement award from the Warri Choral Society at the Muson Center in Lagos.
This was contained in a statement from his office, in Abuja, on Monday
Odigie-Oyegun said, “If you read the newspapers, you hear the President being advised to pump money into the economy.
“So, the question is, where is the money coming from? Simple, it has to come from somewhere including borrowing – both internal and external.
“To get this country going again, you have to pay contractors. Some contractors have not been paid for 4, 5, 6, 10 years.
“So long as the borrowing is done not to pay salaries which the President Buhari administration will not do, but invested to create opportunities, solve our problems of power and things like that.”
On the anti-graft war, Odigie-Oyegun described the war as a task that must be accomplished because corruption is at the core of the nation’s problems.
He described corrupt people as “immoral and lacking in ethics” according to him, Nigeria must rid itself of corruption and its attendant consequences in order to make progress.
Edo state governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki in his remarks at the event said, “Tonight we celebrate our National Chairman who we are very proud of, a man who has by the divine intervention of God changed the face of politics in our country.”