9ICE AGAIN

Popular singer, Abolore Akande Adigun popularly known as 9ice was on the comedian Teju Babyface’s show recently where he spoke on a sundry of issues including his failed marriage to showbiz impresario – Toni Payne, who also has a child for the singer.
Artist said: ‘No’ when asked by the Comedian if he would ever remarry. ”I am okay, I have gotten over it (marriage to Toni Payne). For me right now, I think it is a past thing. I have moved on and I am enjoying my life,” he added. Their headlining separation was announced by the artiste’s publicist in 2010.
Truly sad, we were looking forward to reunion.

MEET CHINEDU IKEDIEZE AND DAUGHTER

WHO WORE IT BETTER?

                                                
                                                          GENEVIEVE OR OMOTOLA

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THE BENEFITS OF VACATION

Health Benefits Taking time away from work and routine allows the body to replenish and repair itself, according to Karen Matthews of Mind Body Center at the University of Pittsburgh, quoted on npr.com. The center surveyed 1,399 participants recruited for studies on cardiovascular disease, breast cancer and other conditions, and found that leisure activities, including taking vacations, contributed to higher positive emotional levels and less depression among the participants. Other benefits include lower blood pressure and smaller waistlines, reports npr.com. Women especially seem to benefit from taking vacations, according to a 2005 study conducted by Marshfield Clinic in Wisconsin, published in the Wisconsin Medical Journal and reported on medicalnewstoday.com. Women who vacationed less often than once every two years were more likely to suffer from depression and increased stress than women who took vacations at least twice a year. Creativity and Innovation Benefits Robert Kriegel, author of "How to Succeed in Business Without Working So Damn Hard," says workers get many of their best ideas away from the job. Without the pressure to respond to each crisis that arises, workers have the opportunity to consider innovative approaches, Kriegel explains on money.cnn.com. "Vacation should be really defined as a time when we can really turn off those tech work savers and just relax and have fun," says Robert R. Butterworth, a Los Angeles psychologist with International Trauma Associates, quoted on abc.com.

MORE MONEY FOR FUNMI LAWAL

More respite has come the way of Funmi Lawal the UNILAG law graduate of 2011 who needed 4 million for cancer treatment. Don Jazzy gave her 2 million and now Tonto Dike and Halima Abubakar has also donated 1 million for her treatment. NIGERIAN CAMPUS PERSONALITY says thank you to you all who has rise up to this humanity call.

I AM NOT AFRAID

Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi, has declared that he is not afraid of being sacked. He made the declaration on Wednesday in Abuja while meeting with reporters ahead of their September 8 match against the Lone Star of Liberia.

It was an apparent response to the Minister of Sports Bolaji Abdullahi, who has insisted that the Eagles must qualify for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations holding in South Africa. Keshi and the other national football coaches have come under increased pressure to win their matches following the poor performance of Nigeria at the London 2012 Olympics. The game plan set out for Keshi’s team now is to gun for outright wins in the two-legged clash and build up on that to South Africa for the Nations Cup next year.

The country’s dismal performance in sports actually began with football when the Eagles lost out of the first round at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and capped it by failing to qualify for the 2012 Nations Cup. The other teams, especially the Falcons, followed suit by failing to qualify for the All Africa Games and the Olympics.

On Wednesday Keshi told reporters that if he got sacked as the Eagles’ handler, depending on the outcome of the match, it would not be the first time a coach would lose his job.

“I will not be the first coach in the world and I will not be the last if I am to be sacked. I qualified the Eagles with former coach Shaibu Amodu in 2002, but we did not go to the World Cup,’’ he told News Agency of Nigeria.

“Sacking is not a big thing in our job because you are hired today and tomorrow you are fired. So what is the big deal?

“You sack me today and tomorrow, I get a better job.”

The coach said that he was already under pressure on how to coordinate the team to qualify for the Nations and World Cup finals.

“I have pressure on how I am going to direct my players and how I am going to get the best out of them to beat Liberia; that’s already enough pressure,” he said.

Keshi, who has also coached Togo and Mali, stressed that qualifying the Eagles for the Nations Cup was more paramount to him than a directive from anybody.

“This game is crucial and as such the players need to feel the presence and support of everybody; this will boost their confidence, and the outcome will be a good result,” he said.

UPDATE ON THE GENERAL DAUGHTER'S DEATH

You must all have seen or read (from news media NIGERIAN CAMPUS PERSONALITY INCLUDED) of the story of how Cynthia Udoka Osokogu was killed by her Facebook friends. First, the news went viral that she had been missing since late July 2012. Her body was later found in a morgue in Lagos. Here’s the full story of how she died, how her killers were caught and their account of what they did to her.

What Happened to Cynthia?

24 Year Old Cynthia Osokogu left Abuja in late July 2012 (according to reports published on the 22nd of July 2012). Like many enterprising young people, the post-graduate student of Nasarawa State University was a clothing retailer and had travelled to Lagos to purchase new stock. Cynthia had been chatting with some new “friends” on Facebook for a few months. In the course of their conversations, they developed a friendship and a level of trust. These young men were also university students, they seemed normal and promised to host Cynthia when she came to Lagos.

According to reports, these young men picked Cynthia up from the airport in Lagos and drove her to a hotel in Festac. At the hotel, they tied her up, robbed her of all the money she brought to shop for her business and strangled her to death.There is speculation that they paid for her plane ticket and promised to pay for her hotel as well. Only Cynthia knows if this is true. Whatever the truth is, Cynthia trusted her new friends and had no idea that they had sinister plans.

They then left the hotel and quickly deleted her from their Facebook friend list to remove any trace of their connection. The hotel found her body and since her ID cards and mobile phone had been stolen, they could not identify her or call friends and family. Her body was then deposited in a morgue in Lagos. All this time, her family and friends were praying for her safe return.

How the Killers Were Caught

At some point, one of the culprits accidentally answered Cynthia’s phone and the call was traced to Festac. Therefore, her missing person’s police report was submitted to the Area E Command in Festac. This enabled her family to find her body in the morgue and also led them to the hotel. With the help of CCTV footage from the hotel, the killers were identified.

According to reports, these two young men are university students who have now confessed that they killed Cynthia and that she is their sixth victim. The gang reportedly specializes in luring unsuspecting young women, robbing them of their possessions before killing them. Though there are speculations that their motive was ritualistic, it appears that it was greed and their main goal was to rob and kill. The pharmacist who supplied the drugs used on Cynthia and hotel staff have also been arrested. According to Police spokesperson Ngozi Braide, “Six people were arrested on Sunday over the incident and investigations are ongoing”.

The Killers Account of how Cynthia was killed

According to PM News, two murder suspects were paraded today by the Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja. Echezona Nwabufor (aged 33) and Ezekiel Nnechuwu Olisa Eloka (aged 23) narrated how they drugged the daughter of a retired General, Miss Cynthia Akuzogwu Udoka, 25, and strangled her in order to steal her money. One of the suspects, Eloka said they killed Cynthia because they thought she had a lot of money in her possession. But after the dastardly act, they did not find a reasonable amount of money on her. The suspects claimed they met her on the Facebook and on Blackberry. They then invited her to come to Lagos to buy goods at cheaper prices.

When she got to Lagos, we took her to a hotel in Festac. We thought she had a lot of money, but she said she didn’t have any money. We gave her Reflon tablet in her Ribena drink. After this, we slept with her for 12 hours in that hotel. We discovered that the tablet did not work quickly on her. We then attacked her, tied her up and used cellotape to cover her mouth. After that, we beat her to tell us where she kept the money. When we didn’t get any money from her, we tied her mouth and strangled her and then we abandoned her in the hotel and fled. 

The suspects and the retired General’s daughter became friends on Facebook and were exchanging messages and phone calls. She told them she was coming to Lagos. They met her at Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja from where they ushered her into a hotel in Festac town, Lagos. Briefing journalists on how policemen were able to arrest the suspects, Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar Abubakar Manko, said detectives made use of the close circuit television, CCTV, at the hotel where the crime was committed to identify them. The Area Commander, Area ‘E’ Police Command, ACP Okoro added that the suspects who are undergraduates of Nigerian universities were nabbed through the call logs of the telephone conversations they had with the late Cynthia who was a post graduate student of Nasarawa State University.

When the suspected killers strangled Cynthia, they deposited her corpse at the mortuary of Isolo General Hospital in Lagos. ACP Okoro stated that many ATM cards, about 23 SIM cards, different identity cards were recovered from the suspects. Police sources said the two suspects will soon be arraigned in court to answer a charge of murder.

Lessons to be learnt

So many comments have been posted  online blaming Cynthia however, this could have happened to anyone. With social media, this false sense of comfort and trust can be very misleading. We know couples who met on Facebook or BBM groups that are still together. If you ask them if they took security measures to protect themselves when they first met, many will confess that they did not. We hear of friendships built on Twitter and BBM, where the first meeting was in the home of one of the friends. The truth is anything can happen. You have to be savvy and wise.

5 WAYS TO ENJOY YOUR EXERCISING:

 EXERCISING Is staying in shape always something that gets bumped to the bottom of your list? I know many people that complain about not having enough time to exercise. I think they are lying to themselves. The real problem is that they hate exercising, so it will never be a priority. I used to hate exercising too. Going to the gym, running and most forms of physical activity seemed dull and painful compared to most other ways I could spend my time. But by not giving up and looking for a way I could enjoy working out, I reversed this pattern. Now I exercise 5-6 times per week and I hate not being able to go. Here’s some tips to make exercise something you actually want to do:
1. Make it a Habit – Remove the thinking element. If you can make exercise a habit, then it becomes that much easier to go. Here’s some tips on making habits stick if you aren’t sure where to start.
2. Get a Partner – Get someone else to go to the gym with you. Pick someone who is committed to their health. Not only can you socialize with someone while you’re there, but you’ll have a backup in case your motivation alone isn’t enough to drag yourself out there.
3. Tune Your Challenge Level – Here are two bad ways to start exercising. Go out and run until your winded and dry-heaving into a ditch. Show up to the gym, walk around, don’t do anything strenuous and go back home. In one case you put the challenge level to high, the other wasn’t challenging at all. Your goal is to set a workout routine that is challenging, but not overwhelming. Challenge is key to enjoyment.
 4. Set Goals – Not weight-loss or muscle gain goals, but fitness goals. Set goals to beat your past records in distance ran, push-ups or chin- ups you can do, weight you can lift or degree you can stretch. Fitness goals make the gym a game where you strive to beat your previous high-score.
5. Get Past Your Comfort Zone – So what if you aren’t the most svelte or muscular person in the gym? Self-consciousness can be a big obstacle to enjoying your workout. The key is to get used to it. When you continue to show up, you’ll pay less attention to the people around you and more to your workout.

Goldie's Fiance?

The Big Brother Africa star game second runner up Prezzo says he will marry Goldie if she says yes to his request. The 32-year-old Kenyan who is currently visiting in Nigeria, says he did not just travel ‘all the way from Kenya to play in Nigeria’; but to come and express his feelings to a woman nature brought his way in the Big Brother  star game house. Prezzo, who apologised to Nigerians for the way he treated Goldie in the house, says he’s announcing his interest in Goldie publicly because they both met publicly in the Big Brother house; adding that he is ready to do whatever it takes to make her his Mrs. ‘I was not able to express all my feelings to Goldie in the house due to paranoia and I am ready to come and fight for a prize that worth it and that will make me a real winner…’No words from Goldie yet.

IF NOT FOR MUSIC. Chocolate City singer, Brymo has revealed football and zoology as his other interests apart from music. He said this in a recent interview with The Nation newspapers where he expressed his interest in football and animals, adding that music has however taken the centre stage, ‘I used to like football a lot; suddenly music took its place’, he added. Speaking on his album, he disclosed that plans are currently in place towards the release of his sophomore album which will be released soon. According to him, ‘I am working on my sophomore album called The son of a carpenter due to be out in the last quarter of the year, I just concluded the video for my second single titled Good Morning , so far, it’s been a fine year’. Brymo, 26, released his debut album Brymstone with Bujoc Records in 2007. He is mostly popular for hits including Ara, Oleku (with labelmate Ice Prince) and most recently, Good morning

General's Daughter Killed in Festac Town.

Cynthia Osokogu, the only daughetr of Major General Frank Osokogu (rtd) was reported missing on July 22/ 2012. Cynthia/ 24 is based in Nasarawa state. Nigerian campus personality gathered that she left Abuja  for lagos on a business trip and also to meet with some unknown businessmen. These unknown businessmen paid for her flight ticket to Lagos and recieved her at the airport.
the unknown businessmen and Cynthia drove to Cosmilla hotel in in Amuwo Odofin where she lodged. we also learnt that the syndicate whose specialty is luring young women to Lagos for evil purposes are tenants to one 'Otunba' in 6th Avenue, Festac town. The hotels i used to go to include Benny,Chelsea and Opera Mini, said one of the suspects
Cynthia was given overdose of a highly potent drug,Rohypnol, which led to her early grave.
Her corpse has since been taken to Lagos mortuary. one of the culprits, when interrogated by the police, admitted that cynthia was drugged,
Her parents got the news on saturday August 18, 2012. And through the help of CCTV footage, six people have been arrested and being interrogated.

MEET AKAPO YEMISI.......NIGERIAN CAMPUS PERSONALITY OF THE WEEK

NAME: AKAPO YEMISI

Yemisi Akapo

BEST MUSIC : AFRO POP, R&B, SOUL, HIP HOP
OCCUPATION: STUDENT, MODELLING
YEAR ACTIVE: MARCH 2011
MODELLING OUTFIT:MIC DONAMIS
PRIMARY EDUCATION: LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY STAFF SCHOOL
SECONDARY EDUCATION: BADAGRY GRAMMAR SCHOOL
TERTIARY EDUCATION: LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY
ROLE MODEL:WOLE SOYINKA
FAVOURITE COLOUR: GREEN
HOBBIES: COOKING AND GISTING
FAVOURITE FOOD: POUNDED YAM AND EGUSI SOUP
BEST COMEDIAN: AY
HEIGHT: 6''

AKAPO YEMISI is an upcoming model and a student of Lagos State University (LASU). She is aspairing to be a top model and a beauty queen and to represent Nigeria at the international level. She's the First Runner Up in the just concluded Miss LASU 2012, and with such an admirable feat one can say she is on her way to greatness. She said "my worst moment was the day the whole of my gown got torn at the back, in a club at lekki. I couldn't literally stand up and had to wait till everybody left before I asked the manager to give me a slack". She also dislikes pretence and lies- Don't we all?

NIGERIA: A COUNTRY OF SMOKERS?

An investigation has revealed that Nigerians cigarette sales have hit an estimated N200 billion Naira a year. Currently,a global monitoring agency, tobacco international estimated that Nigerians consumes 20.6 billion sticks of cigarette annually out of which an estimated 5.3billion sticks is imported. An average price of cigarette is at 10 Naira per stick and 200 billion is spent annually on this sticks in a year. do you think anything can prevent us from smoking so much?

US billionaire George Soros 'takes' Manchester United

 NEW YORK  (AFP) – US billionaire George Soros has bought a stake in Manchester United, the British football club that made its Wall Street debut earlier this month, according to a filing with US regulators on Monday. Soros’ investment firm bought approximately 3.1 million class A shares, or 7.85 percent of the total Class A shares, a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) revealed. That comprises 1.9 percent of Manchester United, when the powerful Class B shares held by members of the Glazer family, who control and direct the club, are taken into account. Class B shares enjoy 10 times the voting rights in the company as compared with Class A shares. After an underwhelming initial public offering on August 10, shares in the club finished Monday at $13.06, down 6.7 percent from the IPO price of $14. Still, the club earned $233 million from the IPO, which valued it at about $2.3 billion, making it the most valuable sports team in the world.

Keep our Finger Crossed

Stephanie Henshaw 

According to Encomium magazine, the man of God and head pastor of Household of God told Christian leaders who went to see him that he will reveal what his wife did to him to make him end their marriage, sometime next year. They said Pastor Okotie has refused to listen to admonitions and pleas by other pastors who have repeatedly called him or visited his church. He has refused to tell anyone what Stephanie Henshaw did to him; all he says is that he's not ready to give details now but will reveal all a year from now.

EMMANUEL ADEBAYOR BACK "HOME" IN LONDON

EMMANUEL ADEBAYOR BACK "HOME" LONDON (AFP) – Tottenham Hotspur on Tuesday announced that Togolese striker Emmanuel Adebayor has returned to the club on a permanent basis after signing from Manchester City. Adebayor, 28, spent last season on loan at White Hart Lane from City and scored 18 goals in 37 appearances to finish the campaign as the London club’s leading scorer. Spurs did not reveal how much they had paid to secure Adebayor’s services but reports in the British media claimed the transfer fee was £5 million ($7.9 million, 6.3 million euros). “I am pleased to be signing for Spurs on a permanent basis after finally agreeing my departure with Manchester City,” Adebayor told the club website. “It may have taken longer than expected but I am delighted to be back at Tottenham Hotspur. I really enjoyed my time here last season and I am hoping we can achieve great things together again.” Adebayor is new Tottenham coach Andre Villas-Boas’ third summer signing after Icelandic midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson joined from German club Hoffenheim and Belgian centre-back Jan Vertonghen arrived from Dutch giants Ajax. Beaten 2-1 at Newcastle United in their opening game of the new Premier League campaign, Spurs had started the 2012-13 season with Jermain Defoe as their only recognised senior striker. Russian international Roman Pavlyuchenko left to join Lokomotiv Moscow in January, while experienced Frenchman Louis Saha was released in June and has subsequently joined Sunderland. Adebayor arrived in England in 2006, joining Spurs’ arch rivals Arsenal from Monaco and spending two and a half years with the club before moving to City in 2009. He also spent time on loan at Real Madrid in the second half of the 2010-11 season.

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Shell Spends Millions Of Dollars On Security In The Niger Delta Region

BASKET MOUTH TURNS WRESTLER AT OWN HANG-OUT

One of the foremost comedians in Nigeria, Bright Okpocha popularly known as Basket Mouth recently threw caution and decorum to the wind when he engaged one of the patrons of his club-Embassy in a fisticuffs. The fight which many tagged unnecessary started when a client went to him as the owner to lodge a complaint about the maltreatment he got from the bouncers.
According to our source who was there that Friday night, the patron went to the club, Embassy Lounge on University of Lagos Road to unwind. A little time into the merriment, he went out with a lady and when he was through, he wanted to go into the club but was prevented by the bouncers. After much explanation that they were many that came together, the young man was allowed in.
Eventually when he got in, he decided to lodge a complaint with Basket mouth. However, the mood of Basket mouth that night was not too good that instead of pacifying the young man, he stood up and head butted the guy. Shocked by what he got after the complaint, he had no option than to retaliate. our source further stated that the ace comedian was ‘high’ as at the time of the fight invited the bouncers to teach the man a lesson of his life. This we are told they did by dragging the victim outside beating him to a state of coma.
It would have been a different story if his other friends had not found out what was happening to the guy. He was rescued by the friend who quickly rushed him to a hospital before he was revived.- GLOBAL EXCELLENCE. Bros small small o.only you no go fit catch fun if people no come around you.

MANDELA'S RUMBLE

 Mandela’s Grandson Send Wife Out Of His House after DNA Test Shows Baby Belongs to His Brother Nelson Mandela’s grandson, ANC MP Mandla Mandela released a press statement a few hours ago and here are excerpts from the statement. “The Mandela families have sent my wife, Nkosikazi Nobubele Mandela, back to her home after it was discovered that she had been having an affair with one of my brothers. I can confirm that this affair resulted in a son that Nkosikazi Nobubele gave birth to in 2011…The revelation of this affair has come as a shock to me and the rest of my family…It has been made more painful because it is my own brother who is at the centre of the crisis.” “Freddy Pilusa of FNP Communications said that he had released it on behalf of Mandela and verified its authenticity”. The story has also been picked up by the international press including the UK Telegraph, Daily Mail and Independent.www.Nigeriancampus.blogspot.com
 Here is the background story – 38 year old Mandla Mandela married Anais Grimaud in 2010. Their relationship created controversy because he was still married to his first wife, Tanda Mabunu-Mandela. After their wedding, Anais who is from the French Overseas Territory Island – Reunion changed her name to Nkosikazi Nobubele Mandela. Their son Qheya was born in 2011. His first wife, Tanda fought the marriage in court and it was annulled but the couple stayed together. Tanda and Mandla are currently going through a formal divorce. In late 2011, rumours swirled that Mandla had also married Swazi princess, Nodiyala Mbali Makhathini. Anais has reportedly moved back to her home island, Reunion.