Why I Denied My Twin Daughters - Nigerian Singer, 9ice

In this interview with Punch , the 'Gongo Aso' crooner talks about why he has been missing from the music scene and why he denied his twin daughters earlier. Read excerpt from the interview below. Read the full interview Here: Why did you deny you had twins when they were born? I did say I didn’t have twins then because I believe it was personal. If I have N1m, I think it is only my account’s officer that should know how much I have. In fact, he wouldn’t even have the right to check my account unless I ask him to do that. He couldn’t just cull up my account details and start checking how much I have. This is not a car we are talking about, these are human beings. But when they grow up, do you think they will forgive you when they read that you once denied them? I will tell them the reason I did that. It was the same way my father gave me his own reasons. I didn’t know him until I was 22. I got to know my mother when I was 18. They gave me their reasons for doing what they did. I asked my father where he was all the time I was growing up and he told me where and how and when he was a part of my life. If my kids grow up to ask me why I did what I did, I would certainly explain to them. I didn’t say I didn’t have kids just because I wanted to lie, No. I had my reasons. I had my life to live. You are in showbiz, so you shouldn’t expect to have a private life… But there are still some elements that are personal. I didn’t fight anybody when the stories came out. I just didn’t say anything because I wasn’t ready to talk about it. I wasn’t ready to share the story. When I got ready, I even shared the pictures of the twins. Who knows, I could have even used their pictures to make money and sell to a publication that wanted them. But I just released the pictures. Do we see you getting married to their mother soon? I will get married soon. But it might not be tomorrow. It might not be as early as people expect. It might even be earlier than people expect. So, will you be getting married to the mother of the twins? It is very possible. But is she the one you are with at the moment? I am not saying anything on that. No comment. What of your first son? He is very fine. He is in America at the moment with his mum. Education is good in Nigeria but we wanted him to grasp a higher quality of education. His mum decided to go back to America so he had to go with her.

ASUU Does Not Comment on Outcome of Friday’s NEC Meeting in Kano

As reported previously, some of the ASUU’s NEC officials were spotted near Bayero University gathering for a meeting. The NEC meeting attracted ‘fair representation’ from over 50 universities. Then the delegates were relocated to a secret venue, where they had talks till late Friday night, or even more (information on precise time intervals is not clear). The details are still rather sketchy, but, according to the source of DailyTrust, the meeting went well and was principally convened to ratify the resolutions of the local branches of the union on the offer of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan on the controversial ASUU/ FG’s agreement. “We still have 40 – 60 percent situations here after the meeting; the resolution from the north favours the call off while their peers from the South strongly support the continuation of the strike”. “However, we were able to take a middle course that would be pleasant to Nigerians, but that will not be discussed now at the public domain until we meet Mr. President in line with our last discussion,” a source of another national media, VANGUARD, added.

Good news: ASUU set to suspend nationwide strike Posted by FEATURESEDITOR

Academic activities may pick up next week in the nation’s public universities as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) would this weekend hold its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting to take a position on the on-going five- month-old strike. Saturday Sun source revealed that national officers and branch chairmen of ASUU have arrived at the venue of the crucial meeting to deliberate on the industrial action. The industrial action, which enters 144 days today, took off on July 1, 2013 and has crippled academic activities in federal and state universities. Ahead of the NEC meeting, some members of ASUU in two universities, Enugu State University (ESUT) and University of Agricultural Abeokuta (UNAAB) had announced that their institutions would open for academic activities. Also, the authorities of the University of Lagos despite the on-going strike have started the screening/registration for new students offered admission for the 2013/2014 academic session. The source told our Correspondent that ASUU is aware of public concern about the situation in the universities and that NEC would do the needful after deliberating on reports from the outcome of the various congress. According to the source, having mourned and honoured late Professor Festus Iyayi, who died while on his way to Bayero University Kano (BUK) for a NEC meeting by suspending the meeting, ASUU leadership felt it was ripe to hold the crucial meeting. He refused to give insight to the outcome of the NEC meeting but stressed that the decision would be fair based on the various congress resolutions of the meeting its leaders held with President Goodluck Jonathan. Expectations were high before the postponed ASUU NEC meeting because of the death of its former national President that the industrial action would be suspended after the Federal Government shifted ground on the demands of the university lecturers. Recalled that President Jonathan had to intervene after the Vice President, Namadi Sambo and the chairman, Implementation and Monitoring Committee led by the Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswam failed to produce positive results. At the crucial November 5 meeting with ASUU leaders in Aso Rock, the government agreed to provide N220billion yearly for the next five years and improve on the amount to be released for the contentious Earned Allowance.

Controversy Trails Iheanacho’s Europe Switch, the Youngster’s Father Say’s Son is Missing.

Following his superlative performance at the just- concluded FIFA under-17 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kelechi, has been in the books of top European clubs. But, Kelechi’s father, James, has been left bemused, concerning the destination of his 17-year-old son, who reportedly is on his way to Portuguese club FC Porto. The player’s father believes football agents have taken him away without his own consent. “I don’t know the whereabouts of my son. I have not seen him for the past three days,” James said on Hot FM Owerri on Friday. According to an MTNFootball.com unconfirmed reports, two Golden Eaglets officials and a Portugal- based agent simply known as Graham may have taken the younger Iheanacho to Abuja to complete his move to Europe. Early in the week, Eaglets assistant coach Emmanuel Amuneke was reported to have slapped a FIFA agent, Henry Gallliano, in Owerri in the earliest controversy stemming up from the player’s move to Europe. But the former Nigeria international has now denied the reports and insists he never slapped the American. “I neither assaulted nor slapped Galliano,” Amuneke told supersport.com. “”We had a heated argument over the future of Iheanacho and that was it. He (Galliano) was insulting my nation, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and our philosophies in Nigeria and I told him that.” “He was insulting me so I went up to him, pushed him away and told him to stop harassing me.” It is believed that the rift between Amuneke and Galliano was generated over Iheanacho’s choice of agent, after which the former Super Eagles forward extricated himself of blame. “I have no business with whoever Kelechi picks as his agent. It’s not my job. I am a coach,” he added. “If he (Kelechi) wants my advise on how to shape his career, I will be here as a father to help him but that is where it ends.” Meanwhile Graham, which Iheanacho has possibly traveled with to Abuja alongside the two Eaglets officials, was behind the summer transfer of Nigeria U-20 midfielder Chidi Osuchukwu to another Portuguese outfit, Sporting Braga.

Attention for Nwada Igbo contestants

Form close 24th Nov. 2013 Submission is before 28th Nov Audition is 29 - 30 Nov Venue is Okpara square Time 10am. This audition is a mini competition so give the best u can... Bring your original teller... Best luck all.

1. When a man is stung by a bee, he does not destroy all beehives (Kenya) 2. The man who marries a beautiful woman and the farmer who grows corn by the roadside have the same problem (Ethiopia) 3. A short man is not a boy (Nigeria) 4. No matter how hot your anger is, it cannot cook yams (Nigeria) 5. It requires a lot of carefullness to kill the fly that perches on the scrotum (Ghana) 6. If the throat can grant passage to a knife, the anus should wonder how to expel it (Seychelles) 7. The frown on the face of the goat will not stop it from being taken to the market (Nigeria) 8. An old lady feels uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb (Ghana) 9. The same sun that melts the wax, hardens the clay (Niger) 10. If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there (Uganda) 11. There is no virgin in a maternity ward (Cameroon) 12. A child can play with its mother’s breasts, but not its father’s testicles (Guinea) 13. He who goes to sleep with an itching anus wakes up with smelly fingers (Nigeria)

INEC to conduct Anambra supplementary poll November 30

Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Chairman Professor Attahiru Jega, Friday, said that INEC will conduct the supplementary election that will conclude the Anambra gubernatorial poll on 30th, November.

‘Suspend ASUU Strike For Iyayi’s Sake’ – Pro- Chancellor Of UNIBEN Begs Union

As the Academic Staff Union of Universities’ NEC meeting gets underway, the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Board of the University of Benin, Senator Bob Effiong, has appealed to the striking lecturers to go back to classrooms as a last respect to the late Professor Festus Iyayi who lost his life while struggling for the course of the Union. Iyayi, a former Head of Business Administration Department of the University of Benin and former National President of ASUU was killed in an auto crash while on his way to attend ASUU National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in Kano. Effiong had expressed that the death of Iyayi was painful as he was unable to see to the end of what he was struggling to resolve; a strike he said had lasted for more than four months. The Chairman had equally, in a condolence visit to Iyayi’s family yesterday called on the Union to institute an academic foundation in honour of Iyayi for his immeasurable contribution to the nation’s education sector. “…it is expedient at this point for both the federal government and ASUU to come to an understanding in honour of this great patriot,” Effiong said. The condolence message reads thus: “When we take into cognizance his immense contributions to ASUU in its quest to reposition Nigerian universities in the world and his role as a teacher and scholar, we know that the academia has lost a rare gem that would be difficult to replace. “However, we want to console you to bear the loss with fortitude, resting in the knowledge that Professor Iyayi gave his life in the struggle to ensure a better and brighter future for the Nigerian child in terms of sound education.”

AAUA ASUU Dissociates Self From Resumption Order By Varsity Authorities

Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko chapter, Ondo State and the university authorities are on a collision course over a directive that the students should resume for lectures, as the strike by the union continues after four months. In a statement in Akure, Ondo State capital, Registrar of the state-owned university, R. B. Olotu had directed the students to resume on Monday, November 25 for the second semester 2012/2013 session. In his statement entitled: ‘Resumption for the 2nd semester 2012/2013 session’, Olotu said, “All the students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, are hereby informed that academic activities of the second semester of 2012/2013 session truncated as a result of the ASUU national strike are to resume on Monday, 25th November, 2013 with the continuation of registration on the University portal (http://portal.aaua.edu.ng). “Lectures are to start on Monday, 2nd December, 2013.” The ASUU Chapter of the university, however, dissociated itself from the purported resumption of academic activities in the university. The Chapter’s chairperson, Busuyi Mekusi in a statement asked members to disregard the directive. “ASUU Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko Branch, wishes to dissociate itself from the purported resumption of academic activities in the university, as its members are still part of the ongoing national strike by the union. “Members should, therefore, disregard any pull to abandon the struggle, and be steadfast until the present position is reviewed by NEC. “The union also wants to make it abundantly clear that it would resist every tyrannical propensity to intimidate and harass its members,” Mekusi said.