Wizkid bags two awards in New York

EME’s Ayo Balogun popularly known as Wizkid on Monday took home two plaques at the Nigerian Entertainment Awards (NEA), which was held in New York.
The singer beats off competition from other nominees, to walk away with the awards for Artist of the Year and Best Album of the Year.
The event was anchored by AY and
Funke Akindele.
The Nigerian Entertainment Awards (NEA) Night 2012 started on Friday the 31th of August and ended Sunday the 2nd of Sept 2012.

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Below is the full list of winners:

 Best Album of the Year Superstar – Wizkid

Best picture – Phone Swap (category)

Best tv Show – BBA (category)

Hottest single of the year – Dami Duro- Davido

Best new act of the year -Davido

 Gospel artist/group of the year -Tim Godfrey

Best pop/r&b artist of the year -Wizkid

 Best rap act of the year -Vector

Music producer of the year -Don Jazzy

Best international artist -Tinie Tempah

 Best music video of the year- Nawti- Olu Maintain

 Most promising act to watch – Eva

 Pan African artist or group of the year – Vivian Ndour

 Best US based artist of the year – Awon Boyz

Best indigenous artist/group -Flavour

Best actor (film) -Wale Ojo (Phone Swap)

 Best actress (film)- Funke Akindele (Troj)

Best film director – Kunle Afolayan (phone swap)

Best picture – Phone Swap (category)

Pan African actor – Majid Michel (Somewhere in Africa)

Pan African actress -Yvonne Okoro (Single Six)

World DJ– Jimmy Jatt (Nigeria)

Best comedian – Ali baba

Best entertainment personality – Uti Nwachukwu

Entertainment promoter) – Flytime

Media personality -Toolz (Beat FM 99.9 Lagos)

Best collabo of the year- Sauce Kid ft Davido (Carolina)

Entertainment executive – Eldee the Don

News flash - Terrorists kill 4, set ablaze MTN office

Terrorists have set ablaze MTN office, 9 telecommunication masts , slaughters four in Maidugur.

Staff of the telecoms company  it was learnt ,that the  State Security Service (SSS) had actually warned the management of the company earlier that there was going to be an attack, but no one knew where and when it would occur.

More details soon.

No life lost as Danfo Bus full of passengers catches fire at CMS

Eye witnesses said Lastma officials got to the scene like 3 minutes after the occurrence and they maintained free flow of traffic and contacted the fire service immediately. But till the bus burned out, no fire service was seen.

This aweful incident occurred at CMS, 8am, no life lost.

Tinsel's Angela (Matilda Obaseki) has given birth to a baby boy

                                                            Congratulations!

Jonathan angry over leakage of Patience’s illness

Investigations by Punch Newspapers in Abuja on Tuesday indicated that the President and those closed to him had planned to keep Mrs. Jonathan’s trip “a top secret.”

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Mrs. Jonathan is presently in Germany, where she was said to have undergone surgery for ruptured appendicitis. But the Presidency had denied that the President’s wife was ill, saying that she was only resting abroad.

Her spokesman, Mr. Ayo Osinlu, said the President’s wife travelled out of the country to take a “moment’s rest.”

It was learnt that the President had thought that his wife whereabouts would be kept under wraps by those considered to be his close associates of Patience aids and few security officials, who it was gathered, knew about her movement. Investigations further showed that in order to avoid leakage of information on her trip, only those considered to be “very trusted” aides knew about it. However, when the story was published by a online medium, Saharareporters, the President was said to be angry that there were moles among those considered to be trusted aides.

A Presidency source said, “The President is angry that the story could still leak when a very few staff of the President and security men knew about the travelling. “He had thought that the movement could be kept secret as planned, but was astonished when news started filtering on the Internet about the sickness that made her to travel. “At some point, he felt bad that despite the overhaul of the security system in the Villa, the movement of his wife would still not be kept secret.”

 It was learnt that the entire security system in the Presidential Villa had been overhauled more than three times since the President assumed office. Before now, the President’s aides were said to have thought that some foreign media houses working at the Presidential Villa were responsible for the leakage of information in the Presidency. However, the postage of some photographs on the Internet and online medium were said to have changed the thought.

It was learnt that though the President had not ordered any probe, but “is likely going to order the overhauling of security in the Villa.” Presidency sources said the President felt that some “elements who took the photographs of a son of late President Umaru Yar’Adua in the Villa with Ak47 and some new naira notes of one thousand denominations might still be in the Villa.”

The President, it was further gathered, might direct that some aides of his aides and that of his wife be either transferred or removed.