By JOSEPHINE IGBINOVIA Her name recalls her exploits in the Nigerian film industry, but today, Vista Woman is unveiling the other side of ace Nollywood star, Mrs. Gloria Anozie-Young. For years, Gloria Young has been a women’s rights activist, educating women all around her on how to identify and prevent gender-based violence. 

Basically, someone tried to get a ticket sometime in the past at the Galleria, and the ticket was not available, and so they had to go to Eko Hotel, battling with the traffic and it wasn’t there too. Imagine if there was a Kilonsele then, they wouldn’t have passed through all that, you know.

There were several mysteries surrounding my childhood; some of which I cannot explain till today. I was fasting for seven days when a man saw me and stopped me and said ‘you’re going to be a preacher, you are going to have eight children but two will die in a motor accident, you will go as far as building schools and you will cross all the continents of the world.’

Nollywood Confidential captures the footprints of an industry from poverty and analogue media to the age of success and digital technology. The book doesn’t hide anything about the Nigerian background and humble beginnings of a venture; instead it takes them and projects the images on very glossy pages.

By Emma Amaize WARRI—REPENTANT militant leader, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, on Wednesday shocked the people of Burutu local government area of Delta State with an unannounced visit to the area to inspect and find out whether the people were not getting the dividends of democracy from government, as alleged by a group.

Speaking in Lagos on his on-going sensitisation of prominent Edo citizens in the country, President of the group, Mr. Okharedia Ihimekpen, said the group decided to take this option as a last resort to save the state from total collapse.

By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA—The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal yesterday quashed the charge preferred against the former Minister of Health, Professor Adenike Grange over her alleged complicity in the criminal diversion of N300 million unspent budget of the health ministry for 2007. Professor Grange had since lost her job as health minister. But […]

IBADAN—A cold war is now brewing in the political camp of fomer governor of Oyo State, Senator Rasheed Ladoja as 17 out of the 33 local government chairmen elected in the twilight of his administration has stopped him from withdrawing the suit filed against their illegal sack. While Ladoja had written to the counsel representing […]

By Dayo Johnson AKURE—OVER $1.5bn was realized from the exportation of cocoa beans between 2005 and October this year, the Central Bank of Nigeria said yesterday. Its governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi said this in Akure, at the opening ceremony of a one-day zonal workshop on Development of Nigerian Cocoa for Export. Lamido said “the […]

*As witness alleges affliction By Gbenga Ariyibi ADO-EKITI—The  Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Ado Ekiti yesterday resumed hearing on the petition filed by the Action Congress (AC) gubernatorial candidate in the April 25  election re-run, with a witness telling the tribunal how he was afflicted with a disease which had made his signatures to be […]