Photos: Tunde & Wunmi Obe host Kate Henshaw, Ras Kimono, Femi Kuti, others at their mansion

Celebrity couple, Tunde and Wunmi Obe played host to superstars Femi Kuti, Kate Henshaw, Dare Art Alade and DJ Jimmy Jatt at an exclusive event for their entertainment industry colleagues at their home. The celebrities gathered to celebrate with the couple on the launch of their latest album, T.W.O PLUS. Other Guests Include Essence, Funke Kuti, Gbemi Olateru Olagbegi, Kenny Saint Brown, Ras Kimono,Yeni Kuti, Tony Okoroji, Tosyn Bucknor and Yinka Davies.

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8 years old boy found in suit case at Spanish border

An 8-year-old boy from Ivory Coast was found locked up in a suitcase in a failed smuggling attempt into Spain.
CNN reports that he was bundled up tightly in a fetal position, in a pink, medium-sized polyester suitcase, that also contained a few personal belongings. He was locked up in the suitcase for several hours.

The boy, who is now in custody of Spanish police, was discovered Thursday in El Tarajal, a terrestrial point of entry at Spain’s border with Morocco.

According to the report, here is how the boy was discovered:

On Thursday, police officers in El Tarajal became suspicious when a 21-year-old woman, a Moroccan National, showed signs of nervousness as she attempted to cross the border wheeling the suitcase down the street.

“Our officers asked her if she needed help as the wheels began to give in,” a police spokesman said.

Suspecting a drug smuggling case, police brought the suitcase in for an x-ray. That is when they found the boy.

He was immediately taken to a state child custodian and awaits judicial process, the official said.

A man who is apparently his father, identified as A.O., was arrested a few hours after the boy was found. The man, who has permanent residency in Spain, awaits formal charges.

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Toni Payne Set For Baby No.2

 Toni Payne, the controversial ex-wife of one Nigerian singers 9ice, hinted via her Instagram page, plans to add a little princess to her growing family.
 

The single mum-of-one who has a 6-year-old son called Zion for 9ice, shared the above quote on her page, making it clear that she’s ready to have a baby girl – whom she intends to spoil rotten like a princess.

Her friends and followers who commented on her post, were literally egging her on to make the move and get pregnant.

Since her very messy public split from ex 9ice, Toni hasn’t been linked with any man.

Hilarious: Woman discovered her twins were of different father

Jersey only discovered that her twins have different fathers after she had DNA testing done to establish paternity when the children were 20 months old. This is not a photo of the twins in question. 

One New Jersey woman got the surprise of a lifetime when she discovered that her 2-year-old twins have two different fathers. 

The mother (identified as “T.M.” in court documents) got the news this winter, when she received the results of a paternity test mandated by family court as part of her application for public assistance, The New Jersey Law Journal reported on Thursday. The Passaic County Board of Social Services had required the mother to establish paternity of the twins — in order to make the toddlers’ father pay child support — because she revealed that she’d been intimate with another man during the same week in which she believed her children were conceived with her former partner. DNA test results revealed in November that T.M.’s partner was the father of only one of her children. 

Karl-Hans Wurzinger, the laboratory director of the Identity Testing Division at Laboratory Corporation of America where the DNA was tested, reportedly testified at the subsequent child-support hearing that, “The twins born to T.M. were born from two eggs that were fertilized from different fathers during the same menstrual cycle.” 

According to Passaic County Superior Court judge Sohail Mohammed’s ruling, “An article Wurzinger published in 1997 said approximately one in every 13,000 reported paternity cases involved twins with separate fathers,” reports the New Jersey Law Journal. (Wurzinger declined Yahoo Parenting’s request to comment on the case). 
 The phenomenon, known as “heteropaternal superfecundation” is so rare, a rep for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologistsconfirms to Yahoo Parenting that they don’t even have statistics on it, though a couple of instances have been chronicled in years past on the talk show Maury, previously called the The Maury Povich Show.

“This is definitely one of those, ‘Wow,” stories,” Shari Brasner, an obstetrician at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, tells Yahoo Parenting. But it may occur more often than we realize, she adds, because “paternity isn’t always contested so there are probably scenarios in which this has happened but nobody knows. You don’t blink an eye at fraternal twins looking different after all.” 

How it happens isn’t all that complicated actually. “Twins in general, especially fraternal twins, result from two different eggs being fertilized by two different sperm,” says Brasner. “But ovulation doesn’t necessarily happen in the same moment.” Sperm is viable for up to five days, says Brasner, so if a woman has sex with a man, ovulates, then has sex with another man within that five-day window, it could result in twins from two different men. “It’s not the most common thing I see in my practice,” she adds. “But I could see scenarios where that happens. It’s definitely possible.” 

And with the use of reproductive technology on the rise, it may happen more often in years to come. “Fertility drugs are designed to stimulate ovaries to produce more than one egg in ovulation cycles,” says Brasner, noting that there are also instances in which another man’s sperm is deliberately added to the mix. “Combining donor and spouse sperm improves the chances of conceiving in general,” she says, “and that creates yet another scenario that could result in twins from two different men.” 

I party with fans and friends after my election loss says Funke Adesiyan

Popular Yoruba actress, Funke Adesiyan, didn’t go home to sulk after losing in the last election. The reverse is just the case for her.

Funke, who fought for a legislative seat in Oyo State under the Peoples Democratic Party, said she is not feeling bad at all.

“I threw a party immediately after the election. Didn’t you hear about it? Ah! I don’t feel bad at all. I threw a big bash where I invited my fans and friends to come and celebrate with me. There was no need for me to feel bad in any way,” she said.

The actress said she is going back to her acting career and nothing is going to dampen her mood.

 

Court to decides Kashamu’s extradition suit May 27

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has fixed May 27, 2015 to decide on a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by the senator-elect for Ogun East Senatorial District, Mr. Buruji Kashamu, seeking protection against the alleged plot to extradite him to the United States.

Kashamu, in the said suit, accused the Inspector-General of Police and 11 others of plotting to abduct and forcibly transport him to the US to face trial on alleged drug-related offences.

He alleged that he had uncovered plans by the defendants doing the bidding of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to arrest him during his swearing in as a senator and to transport him to the US in a private plane to face trial before Judge Norgle.

He therefore prayed the court to declare the alleged abduction and extradition plot as an infringement on his fundamental human right to liberty, freedom of association and freedom of movement as provided by sections 35, 40 and 41 of the Constitution.

Moving the application on Friday, Kashamu’s lawyer, Dr. Alex Izinyon, said his client had rushed to court to seek protection because “when you see a danger coming, you don’t have to wait until it takes place.”

He said the law allowed an applicant to seek the court’s protection when he sees that a danger “has been, is being or is likely to be” unleashed on him, adding that Kashamu fell within the perimeter of “likely to be.”

Besides, Izinyon argued that none of the 12 respondents sued had controverted the alleged plot to abduct his client.

But counsel to the Inspector-General of Police and the Interpol National Central Bureau, Mr. David Igbodo, said Kashamu failed to show any proof of the alleged move to abduct and extradite him.

Igbodo, who described Kashamu’s action as speculative, urged the court to dismiss the suit.

“My Lord, what the 1st and 5th respondents are simply saying is that this application is speculative. The 1st and 5th respondents have not made, are not making and are not likely to make any attempt to abduct the applicant as alleged by the applicant.”

Igbodo added that abduction is a criminal offence, which the IGP, as the foremost law enforcement agent in the country, would never engage in.

The other respondents who, through their counsel, urged the court to dismiss Kashamu’s suit were the Chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission; Director General, Department of State Service; and the Attorney General of the Federation.

Others were the Clerk of the National Assembly; the National Security Adviser to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission; Nigeria Customs Services; the Nigeria Immigration Service; and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.

Earlier, Justice Okon Abang refused an application by the counsel for the Clerk of the National Assembly, Mr. Joshua Okah, to join Obasanjo as a respondent in the suit.

Okah said, “My Lord, we have perused the affidavit in support of the applicant’s originating summons and we observed that Chief Olusegun Obasanjo featured prominently and serious allegations were levelled against him; we have brought this application that he should be joined as a necessary respondent for the complete and effective determination of this matter.”

But Izinyon, who described the application as an abuse of court processes, said it was an aberration for a respondent in a suit to seek to join another respondent.

Ruling on the arguments, Abang upheld Izinyon’s argument and dismissed the application to join Obasanjo as a respondent in Kashamu’s suit.

Kashamu is seeking, among other reliefs, an order of the court directing the IGP to “provide a security detail of at least six armed police officers to protect the applicant at all times of the day and to prevent (him from) any attack or abduction.”

He also prayed for an order directing the Clerk of the National Assembly “to accord the applicant every facility, right and privileges due to a senator-elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria until he takes his oath of office and thereafter as is due to a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

He prayed the court to restrain all the respondents and their agents from preventing him from entering the National Assembly hall.

Four Nigerians win in UK election

In one of the most keenly contested general elections in British history, four Nigerians won seats to the revered parliament, making it the first time such feat would be recorded

Against all odds, David Cameron has won his re-election bid in one of the fiercest polls in British history.

Cameron, Prime Minister of Britain, led the Conservatives to almost a landslide victory against the Labour Party – a development that forced arch-rival – Ed Miliband to step down as head of the opposition.

With the victory, Cameron returns to the iconic Number 10 Downing Street, the official residence of British Prime Ministers to continue with his work of massive reforms and making Britain greater.

But it is not only Cameron that has been left smiling following the announcement of winners – four politicians of Nigerian descent also tasted victory during the general elections in the Queen’s land.

Before Thursday’s keenly contested polls in Britain, not many within and outside it were familiar with Chuka Umunna, Helen Grant, Chi Onwurah and Kate Osamor. But by mid-day Friday, the four have almost become celebrities of sort after an elaborate media focus on them.

The four Nigerians won seats into the British parliament, making it the first time such would be happening in the highly conservative United Kingdom. While Umunna, a Labour Party politician who has served Streatham as Member of Parliament since 2010 and has enjoyed a meteoric political rise in recent years is a relatively known face outside Britain, the profile of the other three was largely unknown until Friday, a day after the keenly contested elections, even though Grant and Onwurah had been Members of Parliament over the last five years.

Umunna

Born on October 17, 1978 to a Nigerian father – Bennett and British mother – Patricia, Umunna began his education at Hitherfield Primary School in Streatham, South London, and the Christ Church Primary School in Brixton Hill. He later moved to St. Dunstan’s College, Catford, Southeast London where he played the cello and became a respected prefect in the school.

Pursuing higher education, the eloquent Umunna bagged an upper second class in English and French Law from the University of Manchester before going to study for one term at the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France. He would later pick up an MA at the Nottingham Law School.

Umunna did not just get to the top all of a sudden – he slowly but vigorously climbed his way to the centerpiece of British politics. In 2002, after graduating from the university, the 37-year-old began working as a solicitor for Herbert Smith, a law firm based in the heart of London. Four years later he joined Rochman Landau, specialising in Employment Law.

However, he soon began writing and providing commentary on the Labour Party, as well as broader social and economic issues, usually in his capacity as a member of the Management Committee of the Labour-aligned Compass pressure group. He also wrote articles for the Financial Times, Tribune, The Voice, The Guardian and the New Statesman, and began to appear on various radio and television programmes as a commentator. Umunna would later go on to establish and edited an online political magazine, The Multicultural Politic.

In early April 2013, his law firm was linked to favourable updates made on his Wikipedia page in 2007, which included a reference to him being tipped as the “British Barack Obama”. Earlier in June 2010, he was elected a member of the Treasury Select Committee while in October of that year, he was appointed to serve as a Parliamentary Private Secretary and, in May 2011 rose to the position of Shadow Minister for Small Business and Enterprise until his promotion to the Shadow Cabinet.

Grant

Grant, born on September 28, 1961, is a Conservative Party politician and solicitor who was first elected into the British parliament in 2010. By that feat, she became the first black woman to be selected to defend a Tory seat and the Conservatives’ first female black parliamentarian. She has served as Minister for Sport, Tourism and Equalities.

In September 2012, Grant received her first government appointment when she earned the dual roles of Under-Secretary of State for Justice and Under-Secretary for Women and Equalities. She was born in Willesden, North London to an English mother and Nigerian father but grew up with her mother’s family after her parents separated. She lived with her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.

Onwurah

Onwurah, born on April 12, 1965, is a Labour Party politician, who was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne Central. Onwurah is Newcastle’s first black MP.

During the depression of the 1930s, her maternal grandfather was a sheet metal worker in Tyneside shipyards. Her mother grew up in poverty in Garth Heads on Newcastle’s quayside. Her father, from Nigeria, was working as a dentist while he studied at Newcastle Medical School when they met and married in the 1950s.

After Chi’s arrival in 1965, her family moved to Anambra State when she was still a baby, only two years before the Nigerian Civil War. The situation forced her mother to take the children back to England while her father stayed back to fight for the Biafran army. She had been a strong voice in the parliament and her victory this time around only goes to confirm her rising reputation in British politics.

Osamor

Osamor, a National Health Service manager, would be representing Edmonton constituency in London on the platform of the Labour Party. A respected trade union activist and women’s charity trustee, she made funding the NHS and standing up to government cuts the main theme of her campaign.

Emerging one of the Labour Party’s shining lights during a generally poor election outing, Osamor was declared winner in the North London seat with 25,388 votes. Her closest rival, Gonul Daniels of the Conservative Party ended up with 9,969 votes, making it an overwhelming victory for her.

The triumph of the four parliamentarians is seen as a major boost to Nigeria’s international image especially at a time when leadership has also changed hands at the centre in the oil-rich country. The victory is also viewed as cheering news for Nigerians resident in the United Kingdom who are often the subject of racism and segregation in the highly conservative region.