“I was a Teenager When I Married Kanu Nwankwo” – Amara Kanu Spills it all

Not much is known about Kanu Nwankwo's wife, Amara, because the mother of three has successfully kept her life away from the media.

The architecture graduate has rarely granted interviews and for the first time, she is dishing on how marriage has been for her, keeping up with her husband's fame, leading a life outside social media, and her career plans.

Amara Kanu will be celebrating her 12 wedding anniversary to the football star, and it is interesting to see her open up to the public.

See the excerpts from the interview:

On motherhood

Motherhood is the best thing that has ever happened to me. In terms of motherhood, women empowerment and business sense, Beyonce inspires me. My children will always be my priority and I give God the most gratitude for blessing me with children. If I invest my time in them, they will give me more value at the end of the day.

On getting married as a teenager, at 18

Marriage is a growth process and I learn on a daily basis. I got married as a teenager. I was young. I think I jumped into the deep end and I simply went with it. It takes a lot of determination to keep things going because irrespective of your age, marriage throws a lot of curves at you. The main thing is being able to bounce back after being hit with a surprise or what you do not expect.

On her thoughts about marriage:

I wasn't scared; I felt it like it was the best thing that could have happened to me. I was in love, so there was no time for a negative feeling like fear to come up. I think the love I had and still have for my husband was all I needed to feel comfortable and good.

On being thrust to the spotlight due to marriage to a star:

When I was getting married, I was not ready to be thrust into the limelight. I didn't even know what I was getting into. I wasn't a football fan and I knew nothing about the Premiership. I didn't know I was getting married into that level of limelight as I was young, vibrant and in love. I am now a football fan.

On dealing with risks associated with her husband's job when he was active:

When I began to understand what it meant to lose a game, I had to learn to cheer him up. I also had to learn really fast that every game had a consequence, a price and a goal at the end of the day.

On managing media exposure:

If you notice, this interview is one of the very few I have granted in recent times. I try to keep my sanity, so that I can protect my family. I had to make a personal decision to stay private for a very long time in order to build what I have built for myself and my children. I understood this from a very young age.

On early marriage and if she would let her daughter go through with it

Having gone through it myself, I wouldn't say I would like her to do the same. I would like her to experience life slightly a bit more than I did. But it all depends on the circumstances and the persons involved. I had support from my mum, dad and siblings. In hindsight, I can say that they actually did a good job. In June, we would celebrate the 12th anniversary of our wedding.

On how she deals with criticism

I ignored critics and paid no attention to what people said. I overlooked Facebook and I only signed on to the platform in July 2011. That was shortly after I earned a degree in Architecture.

See the photos of her family:

Tiwa Savage set to leave Mavins?

According to reports reaching us, Mavins First Lady, Tiwa Savage, might be leaving the label owned by ace music producer, Don Jazzy, soon.

The 'Eminado' crooners, are reportedly not on good terms anymore, following the way her marital issues was carried and dissected by the media. Tiwa, is said to be the one bankrolling most of her recent projects

Manchester United sacks Louis Van Gaal

Louis van Gaal has been sacked as manager of Manchester United, with former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho set to be named as his replacement.

Van Gaal, 64, leaves after two years of a three-year contract and is currently discussing severance terms.

The former Netherlands boss is believed to earn around £6.4m a year.

Mourinho's appointment is expected to be confirmed after the 53-year-old Portuguese meets with senior United officials on Tuesday.

It is not yet certain what future Ryan Giggs, Van Gaal's assistant, has at Old Trafford or what will happen to the rest of the coaching team.

BBC Sport reported on Saturday that United's FA Cup win over Crystal Palace would be Van Gaal's last game in charge.

BBC sports editor Dan Roan reported on Saturday that Van Gaal's sacking would be confirmed on Monday

He took control of United after leading the Netherlands to the semi-finals of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

The Old Trafford club finished fourth in the Premier League in his first season in charge to qualify for the Champions League.

But they finished fifth this term and will play in the Europa League next season.

They only scored 49 league goals, too, their lowest total since 1989-90.

Saturday's FA Cup success at Wembley gave United a first trophy since Sir Alex Ferguson delivered the Premier League title in 2013 in his last season before retirement, but it was not enough to stop Van Gaal from losing his job.

Credit: BBC

Comedian AY shares before and After photos of himself

Comedian Ay shared this before and after photos of himself rocking a similar Jalamia outfit & slippers and captioned it on IG, 'Metamorphosis'.

Security Guard Left in Hot Tears After Comedian Seyi Law Gave Him Three Dirty Slaps

Comedian Seyi Law manhandled a security guard named Peter Ethan at the prestigious Eko Hotel and Suites.

According to Vanguard, SeyiLaw ferociously slapped Ethan across the face three times as he was trying to maneuver his way out of the hotel after the conclusion of Kiss Daniel's album concert in the early hours of Monday, May 16, 2016.

As guests and participants trooped out of the venue also driving out in his Porsche car, Seyi was accosted by the security guard, trying to inform him of an alternative route he could take to ease the vehicular movement and avoid traffic.

Suddenly, with the speed of light, the comedian angrily flew out of his car and dazed the security guard, Peter Ethan, with three hot resounding slaps that got him probably seeing stars and staggering for balance.

Lost for words as to why the comedian bullied him in such a rascally manner, Ethan burst into uncontrollable tears. On seeing their colleague in such an emotional state, Peter's fellow security guards rushed to the spot to inquire what transpired.

Immediately they got to the gist of what happened, they took sides with Peter, one of them even attempted to physically harass the comedian, but for the intervention of a few peacemakers and Seyi's quick escape instincts, he would have been lynched by an angry mob that began to build.

When asked about what actually happened, an emotional Peter told Potpourri, Vanguard that, "I was only trying to redirect him through an alternative route which my boss instructed us on, to avoid traffic jam as guests drive out. To my greatest surprise, Seyi Law just jumped out of his car and began to hurl abusive words at me. While trying to explain to him he just suddenly gave me three dirty slaps. This has never happened to me before, is it because I'm putting on a security uniform? I didn't expect this kind of attitude from Seyi Law"

I Never Collected Money From IK Uche When We Were Dating’- Actress Uche Jombo Reveals

Nollywood actress, Uche Jombo has refuted claims she was financially dependent on her ex boyfriend and footballer, Ikechukwu Uche.

In a recent interview with Kehinde Bankole of Broadway Africa, Uche said,

"It's always insulting to me, that line of thought, because even while I was in that relationship, I had members of his family think some of my cars were his…. and he has never given me money, which he knows. Never!",

She further clarified,

"I have been working since I was 14 years old. I personally saw myself through school, not just me, even my younger ones. So, I have always been my own person, I have never needed a man to define me and I have always known that whoever I ended up with is the lucky one.

'When I walked out of that relationship and said I was done, I wasn't interested in what anybody was saying. I was done. At a point I said to myself, I would rather invest this time in me and in my company."

Uche Jombo however had affectionate words to say about her hubby of four years.

"When I met Kenny and I saw the relationship he had with his mum, I totally knew he was husband material. The way you treat your mum tells a girl how you can treat her," she recalled.

"If you don't have respect for your mum, you're never ever going to have respect for your wife."

Mercy Aigbe Reveals Crush on Richard Mofe Damijo

Actress Mercy Aigbe revealed crush on veteran actor RMD in a collage photo of the actor, Mercy posted on her Instagram.

"Abeg is a married woman allowed to crush? ….RMD take ur time oh!…kini gbogbo eleyi gan " Mercy captioned the above photos of RMD.

Nollywood actresses, Omotola Jalade and Genevieve Nnaji have also once revealed their crush on the 54 year old actor.

Beyonce steps out in Ankara

Beyoncé and her Husband were spotted in Houston with Queen Bey wearing a beautiful Ankara dress. More photos after the cut..

Omawumi storms out of interview after being asked about alleged smoking & drinking habits

Singer Omawumi stormed off the set of HFtv Da Chat show after she was asked to address rumors about her smoking and drinking habit. A visibly angry Omawumi told the presenter, Zinnia;

"I will not honour you with a response. I feel like that is a taint to my character. Have you seen me smoking before?" When the presenter said no, Omawumi said "So why would you say that? You see me as an artist, I am contributing what I can. I make music the way that I should and I come here and honour your invitation and then you sit down and talk about my smoking & drinking to people that are listening. And you're supposed to mean me well when these people are supposed to be the ones that are buying my music. Now, when you say that sort of thing, do you mean me well? You can't ask me to kill a rumour that you are not sure about...as a rumour, you need to go and dig and get your facts right before you ask somebody something ...and that is the end of this interview" she then stormed out. Dramatic!

Vogue names Kim K & Kanye 'best dressed' at the 2016 Met Gala

Vogue's online website has praised Kim & Kanye's look to the 2016 MET Gala & dubbed them 'Met Gala's Best-Dressed Couple'. According to Vogue,

"It's not the first time that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have coordinated their style. You might say it's an art form that the pair has honed in their downtime, often subtly matching their off-duty looks with his-and-hers monochromatic ensembles, but little can compare to the stunning fashion moment they orchestrated on the Met Gala red carpet tonight.

Given their longstanding friendship with Olivier Rousteing—he created the extravagant designs for the Kardashian-Jenner family to wear at the Yeezy show, after all—it only makes sense that the pair show up in Rousteing's signature embellished aesthetic for Balmain. In Mrs. West's case, this translated into a modern day take on a suit of armor. Her long-sleeve mirrored form-fitting dress featured an exposed corset and an alluring Angelina Jolie-esque slit. Not to be outdone Mr. West elevated his casual dad T-shirt-'n'-jeans uniform, and his crystal-encrusted denim jacket was the ideal foil to his shredded Fear of God jeans—even if the blue contacts had a daring ghoulish vibe. Still, together the Kimye effect was nothing short of dazzling."

Pepsi Confirms Tiwa Savage’s Ambassador Deal is still On

Due to reports that singer, Tiwa Savage has been dropped as Pepsi ambassador over her marital issue, CEO and Managing Director of Seven Up Bottling Co Plc, Sunil Sawhney has denied the rumors in a tweet..See the tweets below:

Social Media Destroyed My Plans of Getting Married Last Year – Denrele

Denerele Edun has said social media destroyed his plans of getting married last year.

Denrele who last year revealed he was on the verge of getting married, said the plans were altered after he made the announcement.

While many assumed it was just a ploy for him to trend online, Denrele who is widely presumed to be gay and stuck in the closet, has said his marital plans are real.

Speaking in a recent interview, he said:

"I will still get married, honestly, I was supposed to get married last year and I did not plan to publicise the whole affair. I intended to tell people few days to the day of the wedding so that they would come and find out who I was getting married to. But somehow, the news leaked and there was too much media hype around it.

"At a point, it began to look as if I fabricated the story to be in the news but it was the real deal for me. I am trying to pursue the matter but I am not going to say when it would happen. When it is time, people would get the invite but I would not blab. I am going to get married in Nigeria because I have realised over time that I am loved by all. I would not do a strictly VIP crowd because I would invite everybody who is interested in coming, they should come and watch me get married."

Denrele who is not linked to any woman refused to revealed the identity of his Fiancee but disclosed she used to be in the entertainment industry.

Wizkid Says Collaboration With Chris Brown Is On The Way

Starboy Wizkid is ready to release his much anticipated single featuring American singer, Chris Brown.

Wizzy confirmed via Twitter that the single featuring himself and Brezzy is already in the final mix and is set to drop this summer.

View his tweet below:

Afeni Shakur, mother of hip-hop legend Tupac, dies at 69

Afeni Shakur, the mother of rapper Tupac Shakur, died on MondayMay 2nd in Northern California. She was aged 69.

The Marin County Sheriff's Department confirmed her death via Twitter, adding that deputies responded to a possible cardiac arrest situation at her Sausalito home yesterday and transported her to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. 

Born Alice Faye Williams in 1947, she was a member of the Black Panthers and served 11 months in prison, during which time she was pregnant with Tupac. She served as her own defence attorney and was acquitted of multiple counts. She was released from prison shortly before her son's birth in June 1971.

How Tee Billz Dated Older Women Before Marrying Tiwa & Fathered A Love Child With A 50+year-old Woman

TheCapitalNG is reporting that Tee Billz was a "gigolo" before he weddedTiwa Savage. According to them, he was the toast of 'big aunties' and older women including a popular US-based doctor whom he fathered a child with. The site also reports that Banky W's mother ordered him to throw TeeBillz out of his house after she watched Tiwa's interview.

 

Read the report below.

Tunji Balogun, estranged music diva, Tiwa Savage's husband, certainly understands the principle of applying democracy to love. Like the proverbial farmer of wild oats, the music entrepreneur tended a fruitful path seeding and harvesting offsprings from different women – then he met his latest and estranged wife, Tiwa Savage.

But while the social media and entertainment news audience obsesses about the two children he allegedly sired outside wedlock before he met Tiwa, hardly anyone knows that he has a third child, Ona, by a highly placed society woman in Nigeria. Her name is Dr. Vivian Oputa. The latter, a medical practitioner and specialist in aesthetic medicine, surgery and dermatology, is the medical director of DermaCare Medical Ltd. and Clinical Director of the Clover Medical Company Beverly Hills, United States of America (USA).

The 50 something years old plastic surgeon is the mother of Tunji a.k.a TeeBillz's third child and as you read, this is the first time news of their affair and lovechild would make it into the public sphere. All along they had been struggling to conceal it. Dr. Vivian is well known and loved in high society circuits.

In another sad development, TeeBillz was sent packing with his few personal effects from the home of R&B music star, Bankole Wellington a.k.a Banky W. It would be recalled that Banky W offered TeeBillz refuge soon after he allegedly rescued him from committing suicide on the Lekki-Ikoyi bridge. TeeBillz, allegedly attempted suicide on the afternoon of the day he accused his wife, Tiwa, of sleeping around with male entertainers, Don Jazzy, Tu Face Idibia and Dr. Sid.

However, in a radical twist to the unfolding saga, Banky W's mother allegedly called her son and ordered him to eject TeeBillz from his apartment soon after watching his estranged wife, Tiwa Savage's interview.

We gathered that Banky W's mother told her son pointblank that he should ask TeeBillz to leave his apartment after the woman watched Tiwa's teary revelations about her marriage with him in an interview. Tunji vacated the apartment immediately with his paraphernalia flung after him.

Tiwa Savage Pictured On Set Of New Music Video Days After Her Emotional Interview Surfaced (Photo)

Tiwa Savage is back at work! The singer who emotional interview about her marriage woes surfaced online some days ago, is back on set shooting a new music video with her dancers at a bar in Ikoyi this evening.

Tiwa is seen in blue and flanked by her dancers.

MC Galaxy celebrates birthday at Motherless babies home with friends, drops 2 new singles

 MC Galaxy a.ka. the king of New Dance in Africa who turned a year older yesterday spent it at the Motherless babies home in Lekki with a few of his friends. He also dropped 2 Hot Singles, Turn by Turn and Bounce it Ft Seyi Shay. He also recently released Sekem Remix with Swizz beatz. Photos and videos after the cut...
 

SAN threatened to file a lawsuit against Tiwa Savage on behalf of TeeBlizz for destroying his reputation- Freeze

According to OAP Freeze, a man called him yesterday and introduced himself as a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN) who had the intention of filing a lawsuit against Tiwa on Behalf of TBillz, for character assassination. He also wrote that the man was going to demand a scary amount of money in punitive damages. Read what he wrote below...

Dear Social Media Users,

The Internet has been buzzing with the Tiwa & T Billz saga since Thursday, and opinions are divided into two schools. There is #TeamTiwa where the supporters are of the mindset that Tiwa was cheated and abused by Billz who is the devil, while the devotees of #TeamTbillzare clamoring that Tiwa went overboard with her interview and the damage to T Billz was excessive. I'm sorry to say this, but what we have here is not an Arsenal vs Man-U match, where one team wins. In fact, to be entirely logical, none of them can win.

Sir Isaac Newton's third law of motion, states that "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction" and if used as a reference, we will end up with a constant chain of action-reaction scenarios, which is the perfect formula for a lose-lose situation.

If you really love Tiwa, you won't want the father of her first son to be dragged in the mud, so stop celebrating his pain. I read today, that Banky's mum kicking Billz out of Banky's flat, as an aftermath of Tiwas interview. If you think Tiwa holds the Aces now, think again, because a gentleman called me earlier today, introducing himself as a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), and that he want to file a lawsuit against Tiwa on Behalf of TBillz, sighting character assassination and demanding a scary amount of money in punitive damages. He went on to say that the destruction to Billz reputation is irreparable. He went on to inform me that legally, the onus would be on Tiwa to prove that he actually used the drugs which won't be an easy task. 

I had to plead with him for almost an hour before he could change his mind. In the same vein, if you are a die hard Billz fan damaging Tiwa's reputation won't help him as she remains the mother of his son Jamil. Tiwa is also an important factor in the determination of Jamil's moral upbringing, as he would be in her custody till he attains majority. 
Whether we accept it or not, Tiwa and TBillz are both victims here. Therefore, the ONLY winning team is #TeamJamil and for this team to win, both his parents have to be respected and prayed for.

Leicester City wins 2015/216 Premier League

Following Chelsea and Tottenham 2-2 draw tonight, Leicester City is now the winner of the 2015/2016 English Premier League with 77 points. History made in Premier League. Congrats to them.

photos: Tottenham player Moussa Dembele gouges Chelsea's Diego Costa's eye in EPL match tonight

Violent scenes emerged in tonight's Chelsea vs Tottenham match as Tottenham midfielder Moussa Dembele appeared to jab his finger into the eyes of Chelsea striker Diego Costa during the closing stage of the game.

Chelsea and Tottenham players came together after a spat between Tottenham full-back Danny Rose and Chelsea's Willian. Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino had to jump in to separate the pair.

In the heat of the moment, Belgian star Dembele got into a heated discussion with Costa and appeared to jab a finger into the Spaniard's eye. Dembele should expect to get into trouble with the FA after such display of violence tonight.