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Veteran Nollywood actor  Jim Iyke  has in an interview with  Broadway TV  opened up on his relationship with fellow Nollywood actress  Rita Dominic . Asked why he did not marry the actress, Jim Iyke said their relationship began when he was just beginning to embrace fame – the comfort and distraction that come with it. He added that although what they shared was very deep, he doesn’t think Rita Dominic was looking for longevity. It was that time of his life when he was trying to understand what was happening to him, he said, adding that he was uncontrollable. “Another time and place, we could have started looking at it,” he said. Asked if she’s the kind of person he can marry now, Iyke said he doesn’t think so. “We come from the same circle,” he said, “she knows too much of what I know, and I think I know too much of what she knows.” Watch the interview below:

President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari  has assented to the  North East Development Commission (NEDC)  (Establishment) Bill, 2017. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate),  Ita Enang , made this known in a statement on Wednesday. According to him, the Act establishes the North East Development Commission. He noted that the commission had the mandate to receive and manage funds allocated by the Federal Government and international donor agencies for the resettlement, rehabilitation, integration and reconstruction of roads, houses and business premises of victims of insurgency. He added that the Act would also help in tackling the menace of poverty and environmental challenges in the North –East. “It provides for  offices of  Chairman, Managing Director, Executive Director (Administration and Finance), Executive Director (Humanitarian Affairs), Executive Director (Operations) and members representing the North

Photo Credit: New York Times You’re a teenager, barely lived life yet, barely seen anything, experienced anything, and then you’re captured by  Boko Haram  insurgents. Here are the stories of 18 girls, as told by the  New York Times , girls ages 13 – 20, captured by the terrorist group Boko Haram. 16-year-old  Hadiza  was captured by Boko Haram just this year, and after refusing to become the bride of one of the fighters in the camp, he told her “You’ll regret this.” When, a few days later, she was brought before a camp leader and told she would be going to the happiest place she could imagine, she genuinely believed she was going home. But what the leader meant was heaven. That night they came for her, strapped a suicide belt around her waist, and along with a 12-year-old, sent her on foot to detonate the bomb in a crowded area. “I knew I would die and kill other people, too. I didn’t want that,” Hadiza told the New York Times. While the Minister of Informatio

The Federal Government has revealed plans to turn the ancestral home of afrobeat legend and activist  Fela Anikulapo-Kuti  into a museum. The Minister of Information and Culture,  Lai Mohammed , said this while visiting the musician’s ancestral home in Ogun State, along with  Governor Ibikunle Amosun ,  Punch  reports. Mohammed said Fela will be immortalised by turning the house located on NEPA Road, Isabo, Abeokuta, into a museum. The museum will be inaugurated “very soon, probably next year,” he said, describing the plan as laudable and admirable. He said: It is laudable in the sense that this is one of the most positive steps to actually put our rhetorics into action. We have always said that one of the important assets we have is our cultural heritage, our history and this project, which is going to immortalise the Ransome-Kuti family, is laudable and admirable. The family, as you know, represent different things to different people, whether you talk about educati