Gulder Ultimate Search season 10: Meet the contestants

12 contestants from different parts of Nigeria have made it to the top 12 participating in Gulder Ultimate Search season 10 edition tagged The 10th Symbol.

12 contestants from different parts of Nigeria have made it to the top 12 participating in Gulder Ultimate Search season 10 edition tagged The 10th Symbol.
This year's edition of the GUS, hosted by Nollywood actor, Chidi Mokeme, takes place in the Utaka forest, Obot Akara local government area of Akwa Ibom state.
The contestants include:
Etido Ema Ebong:

'Flytime and I have a fantastic relationship', Seyi Shay opens up to NET

Seyi Shayopens up to NETabout her relationship with Flytime, saying 'Flytime and I have a fantastic relationship'.

Following NET's exclusive report on Seyi Shay's separation from Cecil Hammond, the Pop singer has reached out to NET explaining she's still in good terms with the Fyltime boss even though she's left.
'I can tell you that Flytime and Seyi Shay have a fantastic relationship', the Pop singer wrote us before going on to confirm she's indeed left his management company.
'I can confirm that I am NOT under Flytime management or music label but Flytime will still be involved in my promotion', Seyi added.

R2BEES: Better and Better

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The advent of hiplife, Ghana’s youth-friendly urban music genre in the late nineties brought with it a wealth of young and exceptionally gifted musicians.

Hiplife managed to subdue the popularity highlife had enjoyed prior to it taking off in part because it sold itself as a youthful genre, the target market highlife music failed to appeal to.
All the pioneers of hiplife needed to stay relevant was to feed off the rich rhythmic sounds of highlife, and blend it with American hiphop. It gave birth to many musicians.
Award-winning duo R2Bees fall under the hiplife umbrella, responsible for sustaining Ghana’s music scene over the last decade and half.
Made up of Paedae and Mugeez, the group is one of the oldest in the genre’s history. Two skilled individuals with unique singing and rapping abilities, they’ve persisted and become a tight unit that has gone from good to better. They’ve also gone from parading the corridors of studios in search of hits to become instant hit makers. The R2Bees brand is one most followers of hiplife respect, given how well they’ve done for themselves

"Fear should not be your excuse to come to a standstill. It should be the stimulus to step up and succeed. Fear is a darkroom where negatives are developed. Therefore, do not let your tormenting fears choose your destiny. Start a huge, foolish project like Noah and be a record breaker at the day of coronation because you cannot live your life at the mercy of chance. It is your time to take Charge

5 women arraigned in court over alleged prostitution, remanded in prison

Five suspected commercial sex workers were remanded  in Ikoyi prisons by an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court in Lagos, after pleading guilty to loitering and soliciting for the purpose of prostitution.
Pending a review of the facts and sentencing, they were remanded in prison by Magistrate Ikubeinje.
The accused are Olaide Oshilaja, 25; Vivian Osagie, 26; Regina Dickson, 27; Doris Okoh, 23; and Rose Alome, 29.
Vanguard Newspapers reports:

Opinion: Fashola’s apology, the media and South East development

The governor asked rhetorically at the Aka Ikenga event: “Has this exodus, which includes quite a number of indigent people with no talents, to do with an awful lack of human resources in the area? Has it to do with the absence of natural resources in their place?

The most celebrated news item published about the silver jubilee celebration of Aka Ikenga, the respected think tank of the Igbo community in Lagos, is the unreserved public apology to the Igbo people by Lagos State governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola for the relocation of some people of Igbo origin from Lagos to Anambra State last July on the grounds that they were beggars abandoned in the streets of Lagos. The relocation generated a serious public relations challenge to the governor who had hitherto been the darling of all sections of our huge and heavily divided nation for his transformative achievements. The apology would have nipped in the bud all the divisive controversy if it had been rendered early enough.
All the same, like all Igbo, I accept the apology wholeheartedly.
However, I have noticed that most Igbo seem just satisfied that the governor has just apologized for the action of his government, a very rare thing for Nigerian rulers to do. Can we imagine what General Ibrahim Babangida would have gained as a person—and where Nigeria would have been today—if he had apologized for the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election? Well, this is a matter for another day.

Why we will not go violent over entitlements of ex-Biafra soldiers – Colonel Ossa

Forty-three years after the Nigerian civil war, respite is yet to come the way of soldiers who fought on the side of Biafra.
The soldiers told DailyPost that they were still licking their wounds, as they are left in the cold without their benefits released to them, stressing that in spite of the “No Victor, No Vanquished” policy of the Federal Government after the war, they were neither integrated into the Nigerian Army nor paid their pensions.
Worried by this development, some of the ex-soldiers led by one Victor Onah, met in Enugu recently, where they resolved to embark on a street protest in Abuja if the Federal Government refused to release their entitlements.
“We are dying every day of hunger, poverty, disease, frustration and abandonment and we have resolved and refused to accept the government’s further abuse of our human rights, abandonment and non-payment of our entitlements”, the group had stated.
However, speaking to DailyPost in Enugu on Tuesday, the National Coordinator of the War Veterans Social Welfare Association, WVSWA, Colonel Emmanuel Osita Ossai, said the association would continue to maintain its non-violent stand on the matter.
He maintained that although they were aggrieved by the neglect of the ex-soldiers by the Federal Government, his leadership was not in support of the planned protest in Abuja over the non-payment of the entitlements.