Early Gossips

- 14:25

Beverly Osu is in Sync with Nature in New Photos

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- 14:05

Simi is Artistic in Her Birthday Photos

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- 11:30

Simi Celebrates Her Birthday with a Video of Her Song “Gone For Good”

Singer Wande Coal who was allegedly accused by his baby mama of kidnapping their child has spoken up about the accusations.

A woman named Temitope who claimed to be the mother of Wandecoal’s 10 year old son came forward to say their son was abducted by the singer 8 years ago.

According to the report, she had dropped out of secondary school at 16 after being impregnated by a then 23-year-old Wande Coal.

Although he denied that the child was his, the report said, he later accepted him after a paternity test was done.

The mother, Temitope, said she’s been unable to see her child since then. She alleged that Wande Coal and his mother had abducted the child and refused her access to him.

Wande Coal has debunked Temitope’s account, telling his own side of the story.

Temitope was 20 when they met, he said. He added that the report about her being refused access to the child is a lie.

Read the full statement below:

I want to start by saying that the only truth that has been said so far, is that the child is my son. Everything else is a lie. I honestly do not want to say much because at the end of the day, this is family and Temitope is the mother of the child but I must clarify a few things that she has failed to mention to blogs and websites who have refused to fact-check this story. Things that she has used to attack my character and the reputation of my family.

Temitope has failed to mention to the public that she did not tell me she was pregnant with my son. I didn’t even know she was pregnant. She married another man and claimed that the child was his and she never told me. We (my family) only knew about the child after her husband and other people, including her aunty, found out the child looked like me. She was returned to her family with the child. The Child was taken to D’banj’s mother who then reached out to my mother and asked for a paternity test to be done. This is why the paternity test was done in 2010 and not 2008. The house the Mo’Hits Crew stayed in at the time was owned by Dbanj’s mother and as Mo’Hits grew, everyone moved to the Maryland house. I did not leave the neighbourhood. Everyone knew where we moved to.

After we confirmed that the child was mine, my mother visited Temitope and everyone agreed that the child needed a cleaner and better environment. My mother took the child, Temitope and her sister to our house for a week. After that week, Temitope left and has not returned since to check on the child. Not even on his birthdays. In 2011, my mother reached out to Temitope and told her that she was disappointed in her. Temitope promised to come visit the child. She never did.

Temitope was in a “fashion school” which she left for reasons best known to her. Not because of the baby as she was married to someone else. My mother paid for a full session in another fashion school to make sure she had something to support herself. Temitope stopped attending three months after she started. If my mother didn’t want to see her, or allow her near the child, why would she do that for her?

The claim that she was refused entry to the house is also a lie. My parents have not changed phone numbers, neither have they moved from the house since the child was given to us. Why hasn’t she taken her family to my parents’ house if she was refused entry? She has both my father and mother’s numbers.

I have read things that blogs have stated that my mother said and I can say confidently that my mother would never say such a thing. I must also clarify that when I knew Temitope, she was 20 years old and the name “Joseph” is not my son’s name. That was the name she and her husband named him.

My parents are respectable and God fearing people, and it is disrespectful for anyone to portray them as Temitope, or blogs and media platforms have portrayed them.

The only reason I will not press charges is because she is the mother of the child. Temitope, stop telling lies. You have a chance to correct this error. No one has stopped you from seeing the child. No one will. I am focused on my career and building a future for my family and if you truly care about the child as you claim, you and your family should reach out to my family.

I love my son and this is the kind of madness I work hard to protect him from. I have said enough as these issues are family matters and I want to keep the rest of it that way.

For the record, the woman in that picture is not my mother and I do not know who she is.

Thank you.

- 04:58

Wande Coal Releases Statement on Alleged Child Abduction

Singer Wande Coal who was allegedly accused by his baby mama of kidnapping their child has spoken up about the accusations. A woman named...

The mace stolen from the Nigerian Senate on Wednesday has been discovered under a flyover bridge in Abuja, The Cable reports.

Suspended senator Ovie Omo-Agege from Delta State had allegedly invaded the senate with thugs, carting away the mace.

The senator was taken into police custody, but was soon released.

The police, in a statement, said they were alerted by a passerby who found the mace under a bridge.

The statement read:

“Sequel to the invasion of the senate chambers of the national assembly, federal republic of Nigeria on the 18th April, 2018 by some suspected thugs who disrupted the senate plenary session and carted away the mace of the red chambers, the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim K. Idris, immediately instituted a high-powered police investigation and intelligence team coordinated by the IGP monitoring unit of the force and further directed a total lock-down of the FCT with intense surveillance patrol and thorough stop and search operations at various police check-points with a view to arresting perpetrators and possible recovery of the stolen mace.

The police teams engaged in massive raids of identified criminal spots/flashpoints, stop and search operations, visibility and confidence building patrols, intelligence gathering which forced the suspected miscreants to abandon the mace at a point under the flyover before the city gate, where a patriotic passer-by saw it and alerted the police.

While a discreet investigation into the incident is still ongoing to arrest and bring the perpetrators to justice, the Nigeria police force appreciates the spirited members of the public, most especially motorists within Abuja metropolis for their support, cooperation and timely information during the rigorous stop and search operations for the recovery of the mace.

The renewed commitment of the Nigeria police force to guarantee protection of lives and property, peace and stability and sustain democracy in the country remains unequivocal and unwavering.

- 03:53

Stolen Mace found by Passerby under Bridge – Police

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- 03:48

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- 14:53

Nollywood Actress Kiki Omeili is Gorgeous in New Photos

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Despite enormous efforts over more than 30 years, Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) researchers have yet to develop either a vaccine or cure for the disease. But they have made progress in monkey experiments, and two studies reported this week at the largest annual United States (U.S.) HIV/AIDS conference created serious buzz.

Several AIDS vaccines have had some success in monkey models, which typically use Simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIV), a simian cousin of HIV that causes AIDS in rhesus macaques. But one vaccine has long stood out from the pack. Designed by Louis Picker and colleagues at Oregon Health & Science University’s Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute in Beaverton, the vaccine stitches SIV genes into a harmless Trojan horse, cytomegalovirus.

Picker’s team has given the vaccine to more than 200 monkeys and then “challenged” them with injections of a particularly nasty strain of SIV. All told, 55 per cent of the animals became temporarily infected and then completely controlled the virus for years or even cleared it. Two stubborn questions remain, however: Picker and co-workers have yet to nail down the immune responses that explain the vaccine’s success, and they also can’t explain why it frequently fails.

At the meeting this week—the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections—immunologist Michael Gale Jr. of the University of Washington in Seattle described how his group explored these questions by taking a big picture view of active genes in the protected and unprotected animals. Specifically, the researchers identified and compared clusters of genes in the two groups of animals that were turned on high or tamped down low. These clusters control the production of various interleukins (biochemicals that communicate messages between immune cells), cell growth, and inflammation. They drilled down to 234 genes that had different expression levels in the two groups at day three and found that by looking at these alone, they could predict with 91 per cent accuracy whether the vaccine injection would protect an animal. “This is the most interesting talk at the whole meeting,” says Mario Clerici, an immunologist at the University of Milan in Italy who long has focused on why some humans handle the virus better than others.

Picker says these findings offer him new ways to tweak his vaccine. “Obviously the vaccine is tickling something, and maybe the critical issue is tickling a certain pathway a little bit stronger,” he says. As an example, he points to the genes that collectively control interleukin-10 production, which were turned on much higher in protected animals. “If that signal turns out to be critical, I can manipulate it,” he says. Picker has co-founded a company, Vir Biotechnology in San Francisco, California, that plans to start testing the vaccine in humans next year.

On the cure front, immunologist Dan Barouch, who directs the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center–Harvard Medical School in Boston, threw the kitchen sink at the virus. His team first infected 44 monkeys with a hybrid of SIV and HIV called SHIV. One week later, the scientists began treating all the animals with antiretrovirals (ARVs) and continued for two years. In all 44 monkeys, the virus dropped to undetectable levels on standard blood tests. The researchers then divided the animals into four groups that received either nothing (the controls), a potent HIV antibody, a drug that binds to toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) that studs innate immune system cells, or the antibody plus the TLR7 drug. Sixteen weeks later, they stopped all ARVs.

In humans who control HIV with ARVs to the point that researchers cannot find the virus in their blood or tissues, the virus always comes screaming back, usually within a few weeks, once they stop taking drugs. That’s precisely what happened in all 11 control animals. In the monkeys given the TLR7 drug or the antibody, 20 of 22 no longer could suppress the SHIV. But in the group that received the antibody plus the TLR drug, five of 11 animals did not see the SHIV return after 6 months (the experiment is ongoing) and the others have low levels of the virus. “We’re very encouraged by this preliminary proof of concept study,” Barouch says.

A key obstacle to curing an HIV infection is that even when people have undetectable levels of virus, a reservoir remains of cells that hold chromosomes laced with “latent” viral DNA, which doesn’t produce progeny and thus lies under the radar of the immune system—but can suddenly kick into gear and cause mayhem. Earlier monkey studies showed that the TLR7 drug can “shock” lately infected cells to produce the virus, setting them up for elimination. Many groups have attempted “shock-and-kill” experiments in monkeys and humans. “This is the first evidence that shock-and-kill works,” Picker says.

Picker and others stress several important caveats. It’s possible that the virus will return in these five monkeys—humans presumed to be cured have had HIV show up more than two years after stopping ARVs. And in this experiment, ARV treatment was started a week after infection; it rarely happens that soon in people. SHIV is also easier for monkeys to naturally control than the SIV used in Picker’s studies. With all that in mind, Jeffrey Lifson, who does SIV studies at the U.S. National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Maryland, says the findings are “interesting, provocative, and potentially important.”

Steven Deeks, a clinician who does cure trials at the University of California, San Francisco, says he soon plans to test a similar combination of a TLR drug and a potent antibody in patients who have been fully suppressed for several years. “There’s no clear mechanism here, but as a clinician, I don’t really care,” he says. “It’s all a big black box: You have something that goes in and something that goes out. What comes out here is no virus.” – Guardian