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Psquare  have revealed that their earlier fight which threatened to split their partnership was due to the passion they had for the fans and for music. A couple of months ago, media reports had revealed that the Peter and Paul Okoye were involved in a bitter quarrel which degenerated into physical combat. The quarrel was widely reported and analysed on social media, with many taking sides and blaming either brother and their wives. But the brothers have revealed to Olisa Adibua, on talk show; The Truth, that their arguments and fight was due to a proposed shift in musical structure and operations between them. “ It wasn't about money, it wasn't about women, it's just a normal thing. The way you argue or quarrel with your siblings, it's normal.”  Peter Okoye revealed. He continued,  “The only sad thing about this is that it got out. When it was happening, we were still performing in shows. So people took our private lives, to our business, which I don...

Former Nigerian military dictator, Ibrahim Babamosi Babangida is hospitalized in Germany. Sources told Saharareporters that the former army general popularly referred to as "IBB" was rushed to Germany 10 days ago from his hilltop mansion in Minna, Niger State. President Goodluck Jonathan, who departed Nigeria for the annual United Nations General Assembly, will pay a visit to the ailing general in Germany later today.  In a press statement released from the President's office earlier today, Mr. Jonathan’s handlers   claimed he plans to spend one day for a private visit in London. However, Saharareporters learnt the private trip was being planned to pay a secret visit to Babangida in Germany. Mr. Babangida’s ailment relates to a chronic back ailment for which he earlier had surgery in Germany. Our source disclosed that Babangida is severely ill.  A friend of the former dictator downplayed the severity of the ailment saying he is "getting better....

On behalf of Gist Arena readers, I congratulate the most noble, a great achiever, a goal getter, in the person of Ambassador Utchay Odims for the winner of the award, The Youth Icon Personality Of The Year, which was bestowed on him at the YOU INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVERS AWARD. About Him Ambassador Utchay Odims a renouned motivational speaker and a life coach with a lot of success  story in the area of youth empowerment in Nigeria and Africa . Ambassador Utchay is a united nations youth ambassador to Africa he is the project director to National youth summit (The largest youth gathering in africa with over 127,000 people in attendance)  Ambassador Utchay has made a lot of impact in various sectors in our society like the most beautiful girl in Nigeria sylvia nduka (mbgn 2011) worked with his foundation  to make a lot of impact in the educational sector and also the most beautiful girl in Nigeria 2013 Anna banner was discovered by Ambassador Utchay in one of...

From a person who seems to have an insight into the operations of Boko Haram came chilling accounts of girls taken captive by the terror group. “Girls tell how they were raped every day, week after week. One girl was raped every day, sometimes several times a day by groups of men. Some did not survive the ordeal,” Stephen Davis, an Australian negotiator, who visited Nigeria to mediate the release of the Chibok girls captured by the Islamist group, recounted in an article contributed to Sunday Vanguard, titled, ‘When I met Asari and agreed a peace deal.’ The negotiator spoke on a day it emerged that Boko Haram and government representatives held talks on swapping the group’s members in prison with the kidnapped schoolgirls. At the talks, government reportedly rejected Boko Haram’s demand to exchange 30 of its commanders in prison with 30 of the Chibok girls. Davis was responding to a newspaper interview by a former Niger-Delta militant leader, Alhaji Asari-Dokubo, in which h...

Nigeria's popular Prophet T.B. Joshua has declared in his church service today that he will be going to meet the people of South Africa once in a month ‘in memory of the martyrs of faith’ for ministration. Prophet Joshua made this declaration in his church service on Sunday 21st September 2014. "Those who are affected in one way or another and those who passed onto glory, their greatest desire is to see that the work of salvation they died and suffered for continues and reaches unreachable places.” Referring to the biblical principle in Ecclesiastes 3, TB Joshua continued, “There is a time to give and a time to receive. There is a time to laugh and a time to cry. There is a time to be born and a time to die. Thank you for understanding the time that I am in.” “For that, what they are coming here for should be taken to meet them in their country,” he stated. “Once in a month, I will be travelling to South Africa to meet people...

Following relentless onslaught by troops, many members of the Boko Haram terrorists group are beginning to surrender voluntarily. Some of them submitted themselves and their weapons to the leadership of the troops in Konduga during a further campaign at the weekend. The Defence Headquarters has tweeted that "as the heat on the terrorists continues, five terrorists surrendered on Saturday (September 20, 2014) with all their weapons to troops at Konduga, pleading for mercy." Other captured terrorists who refused to surrender have also been giving useful information on the subsequent plans of the group in an apparent offer to cooperate. In the last few days there have been several attempts by terrorists desperate to gain entry to Konduga, which the Nigerian troops, have continued to foil. The PRNigeria gathered that the terrorists’ move was aimed at recovering the bodies of their prominent fighters who had died in the previous encounters in the area. Meanwhile...

Former royal press officer Dickie Arbiter reveals how an angry Princess Diana exacted revenge upon then husband Prince Charles in front of the world's media. Read the report below from UK Mirror The ‘truth’ behind the infamous moment Princess Diana snubbed Prince Charles as he leaned in to kiss her has been revealed by a Palace insider. Dickie Arbiter, former press officer for the royal couple, has told how a fuming Diana exacted humiliating revenge on Charles at a Valentine’s Day polo match in India The couple were on a tour of India in 1992 but had different schedules that kept them apart for much of the visit. Rumours were rife the pair’s relationship was at breaking point, and Diana was left to visit the Taj Mahal on her own while Charles attended business meetings many miles away. In his new book ‘On Duty With The Queen: My Time As A Buckingham Palace Press Officer’, Mr Arbiter revealed that just days after she was snapped on her own at the famous location, Di...

The Lagos state or federal government is currently repairing the Eko Bridge which cracked recently. Now it's time for them to pay attention to the Carter Pedestrian Bridge. It needs urgent attention as the bridge is deteriorating. There are fears that it might collapse as there are many cracks on it. Biko let's do something about it...

The police road blocks in Lagos is so annoying. And according to this press release signed by the Force Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel Ojukwu, the ban on the road blocks is still in force. Guess the police officers we see on the roads didn't get the memo. Find the press release below.. T he Inspector-General of Police, Acting IGP Suleiman Abba,  has stated unequivocally that the order banning the setting up of Police road-blocks nationwide is still strictly in force. In a directive issued to all Commands and Formations of the Force, the IGP warned that all semblances of Police road-blocks and permanent check-points reportedly re-emerging in some parts of the country, especially in the South-East, South-South and South-West geo-political zones of Nigeria should immediately be dismantled. The IGP who described the trend as a serious violation of subsisting order on road-blocks warned that severe sanctions await any Police Commands, Formations and personnel who v...

In the early hours of  Sunday  morning, Mavin Records CEO  Don   Jazzy  shared his thoughts on Nigeria and the ongoing series of negative messages that are gradually defining the modern Nigerian perception, through a new song titled "Arise". Arise is an up-tempo song about belief and pride in the Nigerian heritage and potential. Released as  Don   Jazzy 's contribution to the International Peace Day, the song also features vocals from Reekado Banks and Di'Ja. Listen to it below

Here are pics from the white wedding of Florence Ita-Giwa's daughter Koko Florence Mayen to her heartthrob, Chimaobi Shawcross. The glamourous wedding held yesterday Saturday September 20th at Eko Hotel. See plenty more photos below  

While the rest of us are begging for leniency, some retired senior military officers say the 12 soldiers sentenced to death last week for attacking their GOC at their barracks in Maiduguri, deserve to die. Speaking with Sunday  Punch , the ex-generals said it's necessary for the military to maintain its age-long rules on discipline, hailed the judgement and said it must be carried out. A former Commandant of the Nigerian Army School of Infantry, Brig.-Gen. Williams Obene (retd.), said, “I commend the boldness of the Army authorities to follow the terms and conditions of service – the extant laws that established the armed forces, particularly the Army– and for trying to uphold discipline at the highest level. When politicians and highly influential Nigerians interfere in the daily administration of the military, things become difficult. That situation is very prevalent under democracy.” A former Adjutant-General of the Nigerian Army, Major General David Jemibe...