P-Square Buries Mum August 2.

A signed statement made available from the publicist of P-Square, Square Image Associates, confirms that the remains of the mother of multiple award-winning singer, P-Square, Mrs Josephine Okoye, would be laid to rest on August 2, 2012.
Mrs Okoye, 62, who died on Wednesday, July 11, 2012, would be buried in her husband's house at Ifite-Dunu, Akwa Village, Anambra State on Thursday, 2 August, 2012.
Shortly before the burial, there will be a lying-in-state at her Umunachi, Umudioka Village, Anambra State and a church service at St. Gabriel Catholic Church, before the proper burial at Ifite-Dunu, which will also be the reception venue.
The one-day funeral will be anchored by M.I.C, leading undertakers in Nigeria and is expected to be attended by colleagues of P-Square in the entertainment industry and some state governors amid tight security.
Until her death, the late Mrs. Okoye was the General Overseer of Friends of Jesus Catholic Prayer Ministry, with its headquarters in Jos, Plateau State.
She is survived by her husband, Mr. Moses Okoye and eight children namely Christopher, Henry, Jude, Lilian, Tony, Peter, Paul and Mary.
She died five hours after a heart surgery in Apollo Hospital, India at about 11pm (3am Indian time).
The late Mrs. Okoye was first admitted at St. Nicholas hospital, Lagos, but when there was no assuring development on her health, she was transferred to the India hospital where she eventually died.
Mrs. Okoye, who was popularly known as a major pillar and source of inspiration to the singing twin brothers (P-Square), had been in and out of the hospital for about four months after being diagnosed of Diabetes.

EXPOSED: Funke Akindele’s Hubby, Almaroof Expects 6th Child From First Wife, Fadeke.

Reports reaching says that Funke Akindele’s husband, Almaroof Oloyede, who reportedly denied that he was married before meeting Funke, is expecting a sixth child from one of his wives, Fadeke.
According to a story published by a Lagos soft-sell magazine, E24-7, Fadeke was reported to be pregnant with her second child for Almaroof. 
She was also reported to have been the woman saddled with the responsibility of taking care of the Almarrof’s other four children from his earlier romances with other women.
This pregnancy is said to be the second from her marriage with Almaroof as she already has one for him. 
Explaining where the first wife, Fadeke was during Funke Akindele’s controversial wedding to her hubby on May 26, 2012, the magazine reported that Fadeke was not in Nigeria at that time. This was because she was advised to travel to London or Dubai when the news of her man getting married to another woman, Funke got to her as a huge shock,a source close to Fadeke who confirmed this story said. The source said that Almaroof humiliated Fadeke with the news of his wedding to Funke despite how she has been by his side.
For now, Funke and her husband, Almaroof are back in Nigeria and are said to be in their Lekki, Lagos home. The couple arrived Nigeria some days ago after being away in London shortly after their wedding.

This Day in Nigeria, 8th June 1998: Abacha Dies.

General Sani Abacha (20 September 1943 – 8 June 1998) was a Nigerian military dictator and politician. He was the de facto President of Nigeria from 1993 to 1998. His regime was tied to human rights violations and allegations of corruption
Abacha died in June 1998 while at the presidential villa in Abuja. He was buried on the same day, according to Muslim tradition, without an autopsy. This fueled speculation that foul-play was involved and that he may have been poisoned by political rivals via prostitutes. On the contrary, Nigerian military rulers cited his cause of death as a sudden heart attack.
It is known that he was in the company of six teenage Indian prostitutes imported from Dubai. It is thought that these prostitutes laced his drink with a poisonous substance, making Abacha feel unwell around 4:30am. He retired to his bed and was dead by 6:15am.

EXCLUSIVE: K-Solo Opens Up On Assault, Thievery Allegations By Wife, Kikelomo.

Following alleged physical assault levelled against top Nigerian music producer, Solomon Oyeniyi popularly known as K-Solo by his wife, Kikelomo, the producer cum singer has released a statement on the boiling issues.
In the statement exclusively sent  by one of his media representatives, K-Solo cleared the air on allegation of wife battery, thievery, and assault by his estranged wife.
Below is the official statement from K-Solo
"Over the past three days, I have been inundated with phone calls, text messages and emails from fans, friends, family members and well wishers from all over Nigeria and abroad over allegations of wife battery, assault and thievery by my wife, Mrs. Kikelomo Oyeniyi, as contained in an interview she granted City People Magazine.
I make bold to say that as much as no union is without its own trials and tribulations, I have never laid hands on my wife and will never because have got sisters and a mother.
I am a hardworking young man that has been in the music industry for over a decade and do not need any woman’s wealth to live. This is our own trying time and we would surmount it one way or the other.
Mistakes have been made and they would be redressed, God willing. Let no man be the judge of another man’s deeds or misdeeds, let God and law take their courses.
I hereby implore everybody to please appreciate and understand that this is a very difficult moment for me and my immediate family and would not wish to comment on this issue any further. God help us all."
K-Solo and Kike married in November 2011 after dating each other for some months. He is known for producing top stars like Timaya, 2Shotz and many others.

Miley Cyrus Tweets About Engagement Bliss, Proudly Flashes Sparkler to Pals.

Miley Cyrus is waxing poetic about her newly betrothed life!In case you haven't heard, the "Party in the U.S.A." songbird just got engaged to her hunky Hunger Games paramour, Liam Hemsworth.And now the 19-year-old pop star has taken to Twitter to rave about exactly how she feels about the ecstatic news..."I love you more today than yesterday but I love you less today than I will tomorrow," she wrote, adding, "life is beautiful."Shortly after, she also gave props to her fans: "thank you for all the love today :) I'm happy to share this news with you all. I feel like all my dreams are coming true. have a great day."Aw. She just might have scored some plum material for her next album right there!A source said that  Cyrus is heading to New Orleans this week to see her fiancé, and that for the past few days she's been proudly showing off her ring to friends.She thinks it's easier to be apart for work now, knowing they are together for good," the source says.The duo, who met while shooting The Last Song, have been dating for nearly three years, and the 22-year-old Hemsworth popped the question to her on May 31 with a 3.5-carat diamond ring.Can't wait to learn more deets about the happy couple's wedding plans!

Ray Bradbury, Author of Fahrenheit 451, Dead at 91.

Ray Bradbury was science fiction before science fiction was cool.

The legendary author of Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles and many more classics passed away Tuesday night, various sources were reporting. He was 91. 

His career spanned and, in fact, helped guide the rise of geek culture: His earliest stories were published in the 1930s, the most recent ones just a few years ago.

His tales were the basis for The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms and It Came From Outer Space, two 1950s films that became templates for Hollywood alien invasions to come. His stories were translated to the screen by everyone from French auteur François Truffaut (Fahrenneit 451) to Hollywood heartthrob Rock Hudson (The Martian Chronicles). His influence was everywhere.

SCANDAL:I Lost My Pregnancy Because K-Solo Beats Me**He Is An Internet Fraudster--Wife.

According to what what City People Magazine reported, top music producer K-Solo married Kikelomo Akinkunmi in November 2011. By May 2012, the marriage was over. 
The wife told City People in an exclusive interview that the marriage ended because K-Solo was in it for money and also because he assaulted her so much she lost the pregnancy she was carrying when they got married.
K-Solo and I met on Facebook in April 2011 and continued our friendship on Blackberry. We eventually met face to face at a show in Eko Hotel in Lagos. 
I am not really based in Lagos. I am always in Warri, Port Harcourt, South Africa or Cameroon. I am always travelling because of my business. But because of K-Solo.
I started coming to Lagos frequently after we started dating.
By August of 2011 we started having issues. He was actually scamming one girl. One Leilani Ifeoma in Houston, Texas. 
Apparently they have not met physically, they met on the internet and she was also into entertainment so K-Solo started scamming her, collecting money from her and promising her marriage.
The day I got to know I was in his house. He left his phone and stepped out, so I picked the call and I told her I am K-Solo’s wife and the lady said it wasn’t possible because they were planning to get married. 
When I asked him about her, he said please don’t mind her, and later said he was sorry. But when I continued to demand for answers, he started beating me despite the fact that I was pregnant. 
He carried a lamp and threw at me. Before then, when I met him, he told me he wanted to shoot a video for his song ‘Ni Igboro; and said he didn’t have money for it. I gave him N515, 000 for the video shoot. 
I gave him another N100, 000 some weeks before the video shoot. All through this I didn’t know he had a girlfriend that he had been living with for seven years. 
Each time I go to the studio, I see her there with a K-Solo tattoo on her arm. When I asked him who she was, he said she was his sister’s daughter. 
I later found out that when I gave him the money for the video shoot, he used half of it to celebrate a birthday for Bimbo.
A few weeks later, the lady in the US, Ify, called his phone and I picked it up. When I told him I’d picked his call, he got angry and went outside the house to go talk with the lady. 
He was begging the girl and lying that I was his sister. He even asked her if she was ready to sponsor their wedding. After listening in on the conservation, I told him then and there that the relationship was over, that I wanted my N515, 000 back. 
Not just that, I’d spent a lot of money on him. He started begging and crying. A few days later, I traveled to South Africa.
While in South Africa, he kept calling and begging and I eventually forgave him because I was pregnant and he convinced me he was a changed man. He actually told me he had gone for deliverance. 
That was when we decided to get married. The only money K-Solo spent on the wedding was N15, 000 for wedding invites. 
I took care of everything. The cloth K-Solo was wearing, my own, his pilot suits, clothes, shoes, bag his mum wore, the feeding and drinks. I did everything. I spend over N3.5 million.
On the night of the wedding, K-Solo woke me up around 3am and said now that he’s my husband, when am I going to make him a signatory to my company’s account, and when am I going to change all my property to his name. 
I got scared and first thing in the morning I called my brother and told him what happened. He advised me to move all my documents, chequebooks out of the house, which I did. 
Whenever I asked for money for feeding or upkeep, he would shout at me and say ‘What’s the meaning of that? Don’t you have more money than me? What did I marry you for?
K-Solo started beating me up after the
wedding and I lost the baby I was carrying when we got married on the 26th of November.
The marriage finally crashed in February 2012 when he called me and told me that Timaya just bought a Nigerian used Range Rover sport, that he wants me to buy him a brand new Range Rover worth 7.5 million and also put N10million in his account. 
I told him that even if I had the money, I won’t do it because I expect him to talk about how to invest money in productive business and not buying Range Rover.
Moreover, I gave K-Solo N2million to pay for house rent for our 4-bedroom home at Ogba Medium estate, but he only gave the agent N1million and squandered the remaining money to buy Hublot wrist watches, Blackberry phones expensive shoes and designer wears.
When I pointed this out to him, he told me that he will make the marriage miserable for me.
On February 14th, after a misunderstanding, K-Solo packed a few of his things and moved to his mother’s house. I left our home too but was advised to go back since our marriage was still young. 
Because I wanted to make it work, I took my brother to K-Solo’s mother’s house to apologise to him and his mum. He later returned home. But immediately he returned, he asked me if I was ready to buy him the Range Rover and I told him it wasn’t going to happen.
So in March we went to Shoprite and he wanted me to buy two wine glasses that cost N2, 500 each. 
I suggested that we should open our wedding gifts that there definitely will be wine glasses somewhere, and he just slapped me right there in Shoprite, and as he was coming close to me I ran into the car park, he ran after me, removed his belt and started beating me.
People started taking pictures of us and some guys tried to drag him away, by then, my right eye started bleeding. 
While they were trying to calm him down, he ran away from them and went to carry a stone and threw it at me, and I just passed out. 
I woke up in the hospital and what he told my family was that I fell. he started begging me and crying that it was the devil’s work. 
After that beating, I stopped doing everything I used to do financially in our home and he became very frustrated and aggressive. But the marriage finally packed on a particular night I came back home late from going to buy fruits for the house.
Immediately I entered the house, he got up and started shouting at me. He started coming close, and I tried to leave the room, but he dragged me back, locked the door and threw the key in the drawer. 
He started beating me, slapping me and broke a coke bottle on my forehead. I stood up and ran to the bathroom, he followed me, took the mopping stick, broke it and started hitting my stomach that the pregnancy must come out.
By then I was pregnant again. I was bleeding on my forehead, and he picked up the washing machine in the bathroom and threw it at me. 
I was just there bleeding and lifeless, so finally I some of his boys were able to break the door and they started holding him back. The guys tried to stop the bleeding on my forehead but couldn’t stop the one underneath.
They tried to take me to the hospital but K-Solo prevented them. So I was bleeding from 11pm to 7am the following morning when they finally took me to the hospital. 
By the time I returned from the hospital, he had moved his things from the house. That was when I discovered that my trinket box with gold over N2.5million was missing and this was not the first time he’s stealing from me. 
I wrote a petition to the commissioner of
police and on May 29th, the police went to pick him up. The case is with the police and I told them all I want is my trinkets back and for him to sign an undertaken that he will never touch me again and threaten to kill me.
He has said he’s not the owner of the pregnancy, which is fine with me. I don’t want him to come close to the child and the child will not bear his name.

Story culled from City People Magazine