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    Popular Fuji musician, Wasiu Alabi Pasuma has decided to open up on the news in town that he is fighting his godfather,K1 the Ultimate is having an amorous relationship with his Wasilat, his first daughter.    In a statement made available to gistmaster , Pasuma said Wasiu Ayinde did not sleep with his daughter. He also said that

  Professor Rahamon Adisa Bello of the department of Chemical Engineering has been appointed the new Vice Chancellor of University of Lagos. Bello was the acting vice chancellor  of the institution following the demise of Professor Adetokunbo Shofoluwe. Bello was the deputy VC (management services) durning the tenure of the former VC.

    Pastor Paul Goodness whose daughter was raped on Wednesday told the Karu Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, that he had forgiven Paul Fidelis, the 24-year-old accused of raping his daughter. The accused pleaded not guilty when the case was mentioned on Oct. 3.  Goodness told the court that “I have forgiven the alleged offender. As a pastor who preaches to people about forgiveness, I feel I should show good example. Fidelis’ family members have

The news fast making this headlines now is that Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has finally sacked the national security adviser, General Andrew Owoeye Azazi (retd).He has been replaced by Col. Sambo Dasuki, also a retired military man.Unlike Azazi who hails from the South-South, Dasuki's profile shows he is from the Sokoto caliphate.It is widely believed that he would use his influence in the northern part to solve the escalating rate of terror in the north. Also sacked alongside Mr.Azazi,according to reports are, minister of defense,Haliru Mohammed.We also heard that the Chief of Defense staff, Air Mashall Oluseyi Pentrin The security chiefs were relieved for obvious reasons-inability to find solutions to the escalating problems of Boko Haram bombings and violence in major parts of northern Nigeria

A very rich and notable lawyer, Mvuseni Ngubane lost his life last weekend after commiting suicide inside one of his luxury cars-A mercedes Benz car -after his family members left their mansion for a Sunday afternoon outing. Ngubane who is known to have handled many prominent cases is well known  in South Africa .Just last year, he was appointed as the secretary of the arms deal commission by President Jacob Zuma. Premiliminary investigation shows that Ngubane,55, kills himself by firing a fatal shot through his mouth.He was found in a pool of his blood by his wife and daughter when they arrived home. No one could say at this moment why the wealthy lawyer committed suicide because he has having it so good in his profession. The police have also seen the footage of close circuit cameras (ccv) in his residence but they are not saying anything at the moment for security reasons.

 Nigeria's President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is expected to reshuffle his cabinet very soon. According to report monitored on punchng.com , Mr. President wpuld be dropping three ministers due to poor performance.Sources told the Nigerian newspaper that this would be a prelude to June 2012 when another batch of ministers appointed into government would be sacked. Did i hear you say, this is long over due?

Baring any unforseen circumstances, the former governor of Delta State, Nigeria,Chief James Ibori, who is standing trial for corruption and money laundering charges in the United Kingdom would enter into a plea bargain deal with the London Metropolitan Police.  A plea bargain is a situation where the accused his made to forfeits his assets with minimal jail sentence (Just as the case wiith former governor of Edo State,Chief Lucky Igbinedion who forfeited assets and money to the EFCC . He was sentenced to just six months in jail )  Latest news from sources close to Chief Ibori shows that the deal might be finalised this week.  A court of law in UK had earlier sentenced Nkoyo , wife of the ex governor to to 5 years in jail on 22 November 2010. Just recently, a Nigerian businessman and lawyer, Chief Wale Babalakin was interrogated by the EFCC over suspicion in a case that involving Mr. Ibori     

  [caption id="attachment_6740" align="alignleft" width="314" caption="Ambassador Mattew Mbu"] [/caption] Chief Mattew Mbu, an elder statesman and retired diplomat is dead.The death has been confirmed by members of his immediate family through a press statement which was made available to the media  today. Ambassator Mbu died at the age of 82 in London.He would have been 83 on November 20 this year. The burial arrangement, according to the family, would be announced later. The late Ambassador Mbu's biography shows he was born in Cross River State.After his early education inhis home town, he proceeded to Middle Temple and University College, London where he bagged his LL.B and LLM degrees in Law between 1955 and 1959. gistmaster.com gathered that Mbu was Federal minister of labor in 1954. He was appointed Nigerian High Commissioner to Britain between 1955 and 1959.In 1966, he was designated Nigeria representative in Washington DC.He was also

[caption id="attachment_6654" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Tchidi Chikere"] [/caption]   Ace and celebrated multiple award winning movie director, writer, producer and actor has responded to those peddling the story currently circulating on the internet that he is in a 5 million naira debt as low life failures looking to achieve cheap publicity using his name. “ I would usually not even respond to such hogwash, but let me just say this, the story is false, baseless and the worst is I don’t even know where it is coming from! In this business of show biz, you sometimes hear things about yourself that make you wonder if there are two of you,  some things I hear and I wonder if I have been cloned while I slept, and  another Tchidi Chikere operating and doing things somewhere else. It all goes to show how the internet is being misused and it is very unfortunate. The cyberspace is free and you can write anything, any witch hunt piece against

Ghana’s ruling government has concluded plans to begin export of electric power to Nigeria and other West African countries by 2015. The country’s Vice President, Mr John Dramani Mahama, who unfolded the plan in Accra, on Tuesday, said the government has already embarked on extensive expansion of power infrastructure to enable them achieve the project. Mahama explained that a key motivation for the investment was that Ghana presently has competitive advantage in the area of power supply over other neighbouring countries, including Nigeria, which is still grappling with massive power deficit for its estimated 150 million citizens. The vice president, who spoke at a summit on Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Compact Two in Accra, said the country intends to consolidate on its existing energy infrastructures by exploring alternative sources of supply, including solar power and biomass resources, to ensure that the target of selling power to other West African countrie

A Saudi Arabian woman who claimed she can cure different kind of illness has been executed by the Saudi Arabia government.The woman whose name was not given as at the time of going to press was engaged sorcery and magic.She was over 60 years. She was arrested in 2009 after the religious police led by Abdullah al-Mohen diclosed that she was collecting about $800 a session from those who visited her for healing.

The news being spread around that international music act, Akon is dead has been described as nothing but a false news.Those close to Akon has classified the information which has it origin on twitter as a figment of some peoples imagination.Akon, according to the news item allegedly died of AIDS related ailment. Akon who was born in America to a senagalese father,he was taken back to Senegal where he spent his early childhood.The 38 year old Akon has made several million of dollars from album sales,concerts,royalities and endorsement deals.    Akon shot into limelight in 2004 after he was released from prison. He released his debut single 'Locked Up' from his debut album 'Trouble' He followed this up with another album known as 'Konvicted' He has performed in different parts of the world. www.niyitabiti.blogspot.com gathered from Forbes that Akon grossed $21 million in 2010 alone. The twitter death rumour also affected Missy Elliot another award winning musici

The remains of Titilayo,the banker who was allegedly killed some months ago by her jobless husband, Akolade Arowolo was buried today at Atan Cemetery, Yaba, Lagos. It was one of the fierce case of domestic violence recorded in Nigeria.    Gistmaster   gathered from those around that there was no way the husband would have been allowed to come for the burial. At the moment, he is in remand at the Kirikiri maximum prison. "Even if he was allowed an angry mob can descend on him"one of the sympathizers said.

Bayo Akinpelu, former Director at Chevron Nigeria, will moderate a conversation between Austin Avuru, Femi Aisida and Dayo Adegoke around the theme: The Book as The Key To The Knowledge Economy at the Freedom Park in Lagos on Saturday November 20, 2011. Mr Avuru is the Chief Executive of Seplat Petroleum, the Nigerian E&P company which produces 37,000Barrels of oil a day; Aisida oversees Energy and Mineral Resources(EMR) and Adegoke is Managing Director of Mosenergy.   Both companies are hydrocarbon consulting firms. The conversation involves reading, reviews and discussions around four books, including Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point, Niall Ferguson’s The Ascent Of Money: A  Financial History Of The World, and Tom Friedman’s The World Is Flat as well as Hot. Flat and Crowded. The discussions are taking place as part of the Lagos Book and Art Festival, a three day festival of the written word, now in its 12th year. The Festival involves drama skits, music, 10 panel sessions a

 Baba Suwe, the actor/comedian that was arrested some weeks back by the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency on suspicion of trafficking in hard drugs would be in court this morning.A Lagos High Court judge had ordered the appearance of the actor based on an application by his lawyer to enforce his fundamental human rights.   However, the NDLEA said that it is confident that what the scanning machine detected inside the actor was hard drugs and nothing else. When it is time, he will definitely excrete the drugs. Some people are already of the notion that Baba Suwe's stay in NDLEA custody is getting too long. It is either the agency get it to the roots of the matter fast or they let Baba Suwe go home.  Baba Suwe was arrested on his way to France.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan Reprieve seems to have the way of a Nigerian who was deported in February from the republic of Ireland. According to a recent High Court judgement,his case was unfairly treated.  As at the time  of the deportation, GISTMASTER gathered, the Irish wife of the Nigerian was already pregnant with their daughter.   Justice Gerald Hogan said that the decision of the minister of Justice to deport the Nigerian amounted to forcible permanent separation between husband and the family. The Nigerian arrived Ireland in 2009, his application for asylum and subsidiary protection was rejected in October 2010.He was arrested in January 2011 and deported in February 2011.   The man is likely to re-apply for Ireland so that he can be united with his wife and daughter who was born months after he was deported.

  Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab, the Nigerian terror suspect who was caught in failed attempt to blow up an international flight near Detroit Airport, USA has pleaded guilty to charges brought against him by the American Government.   When Addulmuttalab  was asked by the district Judge Nancy Edmunds, he pleaded guilty to the act of terrorism and attempted murder. Most people were shocked.This is Abdulmutallab's second day in court.He had earlier told FBI agents that he was sent by agents of Al-Qaida.He was influenced by Anwar Al-Awlaki the American born radical Muslim cleric killed in Yemen recently in a air strike conducted by the US.  Mutallab, whose father is a rich businessman and former Chairman of First Bank Nigeria Plc, faces prison sentence up to life imprisonment.  Abdulmuttallab was arrested inside a Northwest airlines flight 253 on christmas day in 2009 after the under wear bomb he targeted at all passengers of the flight and himself failed to worked.   

People were shocked to the marrows of their body as armed robbers invaded the General Hospital, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria on Sunday 9/11. The armed bandits who pretended to have nan emergency patients.Immediately,they were allowed into the hospital, they collected phones, money and other valuables at gun points.   No one could whether or not anyone was injured but Next newspapers reported that a 75 year old man who was a patient may have died as a result of shock.Aside robbing patients, the armed gang also took money and phones from hospital cashier, nurses and doctors were not spared too. They were forced to swallow the pills of shock that swept across the state. None of the bandits have been arrested as at the time of filing this report. - Gistmaster.com

  Bode Obolo, a former Special Assistant to ex-Ondo Governor, Chief Olusegun Agagu has been killed. He was shot dead on Thursday 18 August 2011 after men suspected to be hired assasins gained entry into his home in Iju Water works area, Lagos State. Gistmaster gathered that Obolo has been abroad for about two years but arrived to the country about less than a week ago. He was expected to travel to his home town of Okitipupa when the incident happened.Idowu Obolo, the younger brother of the deceased confirmed the unfortunate incident.

[caption id="attachment_6427" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="Karen Igho"] [/caption] The showdown and dash for the double prize to be won by two Big Brother Amplified contestants is hotting up as the reality TV show gears towards a climax next Sunday. ( See the updated story here- Karen Igho and Wendhall are the winners of Big Brother Amplified)   Today is the last eviction, and ardent viewers are anxiously waiting to see who of the seven nominated housemates bites the dust before the finale – as it seems six will fight it out for the two 200000 (R1,36m) first prizes. Ten contestants are in the house today. The nominated seven, the highest number since the show opened in May, are the house’s cassanova, handsome Lomwe of Malawi, Mzansi’s own cry baby, the erratic and unpredictable Luclay, Ethiopia’s unassuming, shy introvert Hanni, the house’s care-free man-eater Kim from Zambia, the big mouth Kenyan Millicent, the conceited Zimbabwe model