2Face, Oritsefemi, Niyola, others thrill fans at NMVA

By Juliet Ebirim
This year’s edition of the Nigeria Music Video Awards (NMVA) held on Wednesday night with titillating performances by 2Face, Oritsefemi, Mr Songs, Joe-el, Skales, Niyola and Mc Galaxy.

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Joe-el, MC Galaxy received their first awards for the Best Video by a New Act and Best Use of Dance in a Music Video respectively. Gbade Adetisola also received the award for the Best Use Of Visual Effects. Kemi Adetiba won the award for the Best Director, Niyola couldn’t help but cry when her name was called as the winner of the Best R&B Video. Sammy Okposo went home with the Best Gospel Video Award.
Kid Singer, Mya K was so excited to win the Best video by Minor as she showered thanks on her fans, parents and organisers of the show for the award, which happens to be the first for the 13-year old.
Oritsefemi dished out Double Wahala as soon as he was announced the Best Afro Beat video winner. Mc Galaxy got every attendee to their feet doing the “Sekem dance’ immediately he received the award for the Best use of Dance in a Music Video,
5Star Records bagged four awards for Best Contemporary Afro Video by Mr Songz (Kolombo), Best High-Life Video by Kcee (Ogadinma), Best Pop Extra Video by Mr Songs (My Story), Best Producer (5 Star), this got Mr Songz dancing ‘Kolombo’ right from his seat to the stage to receive the awards.
The event also enjoyed scintillating performances from Zaina, Niyola and Skales.
The tempo of the performance was increased when Okey Bakassi came in with Osita Iheme to present the award for the Best High Live Video as he thrilled the crowd with rib-cracking jokes. The night came to a climax when 2Face mounted the stage and wowed the crowd with some of his hit songs; ‘No be Small thing o’ ‘One Love’, ‘African Queen’, ‘Implication’ and ‘Ife heme’. It was a mind blowing performance which got everyone present on their feet.

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How police smashed kidnap gang in Lagos

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Kayode Aderantin, yesterday, said the 33-year-old leader of a notorious gang of kidnappers terrorizing Ajah and Epe areas of the state has been arrested.
Aderanti, who made this known at the eight edition of the Security Town Hall meeting organized by the Lagos State Security Trust Fund, said two AK-47 rifles were recovered from an unregistered Volkswagen Passat Saloon car belonging to the gang.
Vanguard gathered that the suspect, identified as Anthony Adidi, masterminded the kidnap of Ladi Ene Garba, staff of Keystone Bank, at Eleko area of Lagos and one Patrick, last June at Eleko area of Ajah, as they drove to their houses.
Police sources disclosed that Adidi and his gang, who relocated to Lagos from Delta State, demanded a ransom of N100 million for the release of the victims, but later reduced it to N6 million.
However, operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, rescued the victims six days later in a bush at Elemoro, Ajah.
A member of the gang, who posed as a bricklayer in the bush, was arrested and he provided information that aided SARS operatives in its pursuit of other members of the gang.
A police source, who pleaded anonymity, said Adidi was arrested in August but escaped when SARS attempted to use him to arrest two other members of his gang.
The source said: “An exchange of gunfire ensued between the police and the kidnappers, who Adidi had lured out.
“They opened fire the moment they saw the officers and Adidi took advantage of the situation to escape.”
Vanguard further gathered that Adidi finally met his Waterloo on October 26, when SARS operatives tracked him down to his hideout at Ekenwan area in Benin, Edo State, and arrested.

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davido buy's car for his manager & producer

 Music star and HKN gang boss,
 Davido (David Adedeji Adeleke) reportedly spent over N35m on brand new cars for both his manager, Kamal Ajiboye and his producer, Sheyi Akerele (Shizzi).
Davido bought a brand new black Mercedes 450 GL which cost N12m for his manager while that of his producer, is a brand new black Porsche Cayenne which cost N24m.

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Archbishop condemns Reps for jumping over NASS gate

The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Alfred Martins, on Monday expressed disgust at the behaviour of some members of the House of Representatives for jumping over the gate of the National Assembly Complex.
Martins said in Lagos that the lawmakers ought to have restrained themselves from throwing decorum to the wind, no matter the level of provocation.
“It gives us a lot of concern that the officials of the National Assembly have to climb the fence in order to arrive at what is supposed to be a hallowed chamber.
“It’s, indeed, a disgrace to the whole nation; it’s  a real disgrace to the whole process of governance as represented in the legislative arm of government.
“And I think that whatever it is that lead to it should not have happened at all because it doesn’t give us confidence that the security forces are going to get right the whole process of elections that are forthcoming next year.
“Legislators should recognise their dignity as legislators, and therefore whatever it is that is disagreement among them should not go to such an extent.
“They are representing the whole nation as well as individual citizens within Nigeria.
“And herefore, whatever their disagreements are they should not in any way let it go to this kind of extent that we saw. I think that, that portends a lot of danger  for the nation.”

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Sierra Leone: Ebola burial team dumps bodies

Workers employed by Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health to bury Ebola victims took drastic action this week in a dispute over pay, abandoning the bodies of 15 people in the street.
Some were paraded at the entrance to a hospital Monday to stop people from entering. Another body was placed outside the entrance to a hospital administrative building.
The workers have gone on strike because they say they are owed seven weeks of their "hazard" pay of $100 a week.
Burying Ebola victims is a dangerous task, since the deadly virus is spread through contact with bodily fluids.
The bodies were all cleared as of Tuesday after burial teams working for the Red Cross, rather than the state, were called in.
The National Ebola Response Center has announced the sacking of all involved in the strike, said Sidi Yahyah Tunis, a spokesman for the center.
Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea are the three West African countries at the heart of the current Ebola outbreak.
The vast majority of more than 15,000 Ebola cases and more than 5,000 deaths caused by the virus in recent months have occurred in those three nations, according to a World Health Organization report out Friday.

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