Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, on Friday got married to Ethiopian model, Lara Fortes.
The wedding ceremony was held at the Etsako West Local Government Council Marriage Registry, Auchi, Edo State, while the reception took place at Oshiomhole’s country home in Iyamho.
Oshiomhole’s lost his first wife Clara in December 2010 after a long fight with cancer. She was 54 years old.
"What's wrong with American Idol, Mommy? Where are you taking him?"
"Well, Timmy. Sometimes, the things you love get old. And they aren't the way you remember them. They can't run and jump and play or deliver memorable winners anymore. Remember the days of Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood and Adam Lambert?"
"Boy, do I!"
"Of course you do, son! But those days are long gone now. Idol is sick, and he needs to go to a better place. The great big television studio in the sky, where he can run around with his old buddies like Joe Millionaire and Temptation Island. Don't be sad. It's better this way."
Yeah, we just likened Fox canceling American Idol to a mother telling her son that they have to put the family pet down but, it's kind of the same thing. Except with pets, everyone is really sad and it's a hard experience for everyone, and with Idol, no one is sad because it really should have happened a long time ago. In fact, people are mostly celebrating the end of the reality competition show. Us? We're just really concerned about Ryan Seacrest. How will he manage to pay his bills without his Idol hosting gig?! Oh, he's got nine other jobs. Right.
Anyway, like we said, Twitter is not in mourning. They are in the opposite of mourning. They are in un-mourning. Everyone is treating Idol's cancelation like it's the best decision anyone has ever made in the history of anything ever. Or at least the best thing since chocolate and peanut butter decided to get together:
And then there are those who thought that American Idol was canceled years ago, so the fact that the show was a trending topic was very confusing to them:
Psst...no one tell them that Big Brother and Deal or No Deal are both still on the air.
But let's get real for a moment here. We all know why American Idol got canned. It's because the other host from season one, Brian Dunkleman (remember him?) left the show after the first year. It took 15 years, but eventually his departure took its toll, and now Fox is paying the price. Brian himself knows what's up:
Damn you, DUNKLEMANNNN!
Let's hope the once great American Idol goes out with a bang and not with a combined sad trombone-fart noise.
Klaus (Joseph Morgan) may have gone too far this time, and it's not something "always and forever" can fix.
Though it was revealed during the penultimate episode of The Originals season two that the Original hybrid wasn't actually working with Dahlia (Claudia Black) and giving her baby Hope, and it was actually all a ruse to find a way to defeat Dahlia once and for all, he ended up killing Elijah's (Daniel Gillies) girlfriend Gia (Nishi Munshi) right in front of Elijah's eyes. It was brutal. It was cruel. And it was totally avoidable.
"Klaus is going to make a very strong case that 'I had to do what I had to do to protect our family,'" executive producer Julie Plec tells E! News. "But Elijah's going to make a very strong case of, 'You didn't have to do it the way you did it.' I don't see those brothers coming to terms or any kind of agreement about Klaus' methods anytime soon. That's going to be one of Klaus' big problems, is he believes everything he did was justified but he has to admit that there was a bit of pettiness attached to it too. He was so betrayed that his family didn't stand by him when he asked them too, when he said, 'Trust me,' and they didn't believe his concerns about Freya [Riley Voelkel]."
She continues, "Now, it turns out he was wrong about Freya but he was also right about her because when all is said and done, Freya's singular goal was to free herself from Dahlia and she would have gone to great lengths to do so. Klaus is Klaus. Elijah is tormented by his codependency to his brother and we'll see how he chooses to handle this latest round of abuse at the hand of his brother. I'm rooting for him to hold strong and stay pissed for a while."
Series star Daniel Gillies agrees with Plec, adding that if he could choose, he'd make sure Elijah didn't forgive his brother for a very long time.
"One would hope not," Gillies tells E! News. "But if the past is any indication of the way they'll behave in the future, then all will probably be forgotten in a week. I appreciate you bringing that up, because people seem to forget about that great atrocity. Everyone seems to be focusing on what Eljiah will do now that Hayley's [Phoebe Tonkin] been turned into a wolf. But he did just watch his girlfriend go up in flames!"
Gillies reveals that Gia's murder is going to be the most important thing to Elijah right now.
"He's got more to be concerned about right now than Hayley, even though of course he's going to do whatever he can to remove the curse from Hayley," Gillies says. "That's a given. We know he's devoted to her and loves her. But I don't know how Klaus and Elijah are going to proceed and the terrifying thing is they have to work together in terms of defeating Dahlia. They have to get over, at least in the short term, the atrocities Klaus has committed in the name of winning the war."
But rest assured, Elijah will not be handling Gia's death well in the finale.
"For the next episode at least, there's a degree of fallout and certainly anguish and a desire to force Niklaus to reconcile himself with what he did in the name of what he needed to do," Gillies says. "They both have an enormous mountain to climb, and how will that affect them in season three? Who knows. In a perfect world, this would be etched in stone for Elijah for the better part of next season. This would be the unforgivable act of treachery and betrayal, if it were up to me."
In fact, the biggest point of contention is the fact that if Klaus were really committed to fooling Dahlia into thinking he was truly on her side, he would have killed Cami (Leah Pipes) as well as Gia, instead of faking Cami's death.
"That's just how Klaus functions!" Gillies says with a laugh. "You want to commit to the ruse, but if you're really committing, you have to kill Cami in this moment. And yet he doesn't. It really speaks to the fact that he does what he wants. But the only mildly redemptive part of the whole situation is that he didn't kill Cami."
The First Lady of the U.S, Michelle Obama, is reportedly set to lead an American delegation coming for Nigeria’s presidential inauguration on May 29. Other senior White House officials on the delegation are said to be Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry.
According to Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States, Ade Adefuye, who confirmed to PM News that he has been in consultations with the U.S. State Department on the matter, adding that President Goodluck Jonathan had extended an invitation to the U.S. government for President-elect, Gen. Buhari’s inauguration.
“Nigeria’s profile has been on the rise since after the election, with the concession by Jonathan and the smooth transition that is going on.
I have been told that there would be an unusually large American delegation that will attend the presidential inauguration on May 29,” he said.
In apparent response to the statement made by the out-going minister of power, Professor Chinedu Nebo, on the need for the in-coming administration not to tamper with the privatization of the power sector, electricity workers in the country have demanded a thorough review of the privatization of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, alle-ging that the privatization project was fraught with irregularities.
The workers further alleged that the privatisation exercise had made electricity generation and consumption in the country ineffective.
The workers, under the aegis of National Union of Electricity Emplo-yees, NUEE, insisted that the payment of over N200 billion to the private sector by the government after the privatization exercise leaves much to be desired, and urged the incoming administration of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, rtd, to revisit the exercise.
The executive members of the union, led by the General Secretary and factional President of Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, Comrade Joe Ajaero, said this in Abuja, while conducting select journalists round the site of abandoned 60 containers of 52KVA electricity transformers, at Kubwa, in Abuja.
Speaking on behalf of the NUEE executive members, Ajaero argued that if after many months, privatization of electricity in the country had failed to bring positive impact to electricity consumers, then, there was the need for the Buhari-led presidency to revisit the programme.
Comrade Ajaero said: “We want to say, as a union that the sham called privatization should be revisited. If privatization, as we were told, was to bring us heaven-on-earth elderado, and it has not done that, why should we insist on it?.
“Of course, our position as NUEE, has been no to privatization, especially given that we are an underdeveloped economy. It is the function of the state to provide power.
“Even the so called privatization, you can see that even this year alone, between January and now, they have even given the so called private sector over N200 billion. So, why fund them if you say the electricity is in the hands of the private sector? That brings you to the point of the fraud on who owns them.
“Why would you sell your house to somebody and you still give him money to maintain it? So, it’s a fraud.”
Emphasizing on the minister’s comment that privatization of PHCN must stay, Ajaero added: “We want Buhari to ask questions first and foremost because it is wrong for a an out-going minister to be setting agenda for Buhari to reverse or not to reverse the privatization of PHCN.
“A minister who inherited about 4000 megawatts and is today, battling with just 2000 and something megawatts, doesn’t have the moral courage to advise incoming government on what to do.
Ajaero stressed: “If he Buhari asks questions for some months, he will now know the direction to move.”
On the abandoned containers, Ajaero said he was alerted on the abandoned equipments by concerned citizens who got wind of the development.
“With these transformers hidden here, you can now understand that while they were privatizing, certain properties were being hidden, “he alleged.
