PICTURES OF ACTRESS MONALISA CHINDA AT PHONE SWAP MOVIE PREMIERE

To actress Monalisa Chinda graced the premiere of Phone Swap, a film by Kunle Afolayan. The premiere took place at the Expo Hall of Eko Hotel and Suites last night (17 March 2012). Blessed with a flawless skin, the actress arrived alone in a black suit and pant.Gistmaster sighted the actress as she was being ushered into the VVIP section of the hall but not after she had gone through a retinue of photographs and interview session on the purple carpet.Personally, i think Monalisa

Wizkid (JUNE 3RD , 4TH AND 5TH) & Basketmouth (OLYMPICS) UK Tour 2012 Press Conference

                 All you need to know about Wizkid and Basket Mouth UK tour 2012.Watch video now

LOVE CHILD:SEGUN ARINZE IMPREGNANTED AND ABADONED ME-WOMAN ALLEGES

 Mr. Segun Arinze is allegedly in the middle of a love child controversy. Enquirer, a magazine publushed in Nigeria said  the actor is denying that he had anything to do with the mother and the baby.

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  The outgoing president of the Actors` Guild of Nigeria, AGN, Segun Arinze sure has a best kept secret he wouldn`t pray his wife knows about, and it is the story of his abandoned secret love child, a 10 years old daughter who`s a product of one night stand.

According to sources, this controversy has been on for so long a time between Segun and Amara, the mother of the innocent little girl, Mimi but because Segun is a celebrity, he`s been able to cow the quiet Igbo born lady whom he took advantage of during a movie set years back in a hotel in Enugu.

Though we learnt Segun has denied vehemently that he has never met Amara in his life, the saving grace is the fact that, some of the actor`s friends who were at the movie location could still vaguely remember Amara`s face and that’s not only the case, we don’t need a soothsayer to say the intelligent daughter is Segun`s. She`s his perfect replica, even

IBRU BROTHERS BATTLE OVER FEDERAL PALACE HOTEL

MORE  facts emerged yesterday on the last days of the late Mr Alex Uruemu Ibru, the frontline businessman and publisher of The Guardian, who died on November 28, last year.

The widow, Mrs Maiden Ibru, relived his last days in court where she has mounted a legal battle to wind up a company owned by her husband and his brother, Mr Goodie Ibru.

The matter came up at the Federal High Court, Lagos.

As Justice Okechukwu Okeke was about making his pronouncement on the submissions by the lawyers, he noticed that Mrs Ibru raised her hand, demanding to be allowed just two minutes to speak, a request the judge granted. At that point, the court went silent.

Mrs Ibru, who was accompanied by one of her children, Toke, told the court why she filed the suit.

“Six months before my husband died, the doctors told me that he was going to die. And for five months, he was out of circulation and nobody saw him and even his family members did not bother about him. 

“Two weeks before he died, he embarked on a hunger strike and when the family members heard about it, some of them came to see him, including Mr Goodie Ibru. When Goodie came, he (the deceased) said he did not even expect he could be talking. 

“Then my husband said he was going to fight him to the finish, dead or alive. That even when he dies, he was going to continue the fight, unless he (Goodie) resigned as the chairman of the company (Tourist Company Nigeria Plc).”

“He said out of all his brothers, the last person that he thought will betray him was Goodie. They had altered some of the company’s documents, diverted money and committed all sort of atrocities without the knowledge of my husband. I am a widow and have children to take care of,” she said.

Mrs Ibru said while entering the court, she saw her husband who, she claimed, encouraged her to proceed with her actions.

She alleged that her late husband was unhappy with Mr Goodie Ibru and had demanded that he (Goodie) quit his position in one of the companies they jointly owned.

Dressed in a black gown, Mrs Ibru spoke at the hearing of a winding-up petition her lawyer, Dr. Tunji Braithwaite, filed against Tourist Company of Nigeria Plc, jointly owned by her late husband and his brothers.

Mrs Ibru, who sued on behalf of Omamo Investments Corporation (a company owned by her late husband), is seeking to wind up Tourist Company, believed to own the Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos on ground of alleged indebtedness.

She stated in the winding-up petition that Omamo Investments, between 2003 and 2009, lent to the Tourist Company $7.1m, N610m, N381m and N19m, which the company has allegedly been unable to repay.

Mrs Ibru, who claimed to have made several demands on the respondent to no avail, prayed the court to wind up the company for allegedly being insolvent.

She stated that the respondent “has failed beyond resuscitation, has insufficient assets to meet its liabilities, does not have the capacity to meet the conditions for which it was incorporated and has suffered a total erosion of its capital base”.

“The respondent is both cash flow and balance sheet insolvent and has not been carrying on effectively, the business of hotelling and catering.” 

She averred that the whole substratum of the company is gone and it is impossible to carry on the essential purpose for which it was formed.

Mrs Ibru urged the court to wind up the Tourist Company under the provisions of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, CAP C20 LFN 2004 and appoint a provisional liquidator in the person of the President of the Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) or his nominee.

But the respondent has denied Mrs. Ibru’s claim and asked the court to dismiss the suit on the ground of incompetence, adding that it discloses no reasonable cause of action and constitutes a gross abuse of the court process.

In a preliminary objection filed by  its lawyer, Onyebuchi Aniakor , the Tourist Company argued that  no grounds, as provided for by law, had been disclosed by the petitioner to justify the commencement of a winding-up proceeding against it.

It said the petitioner had not shown that the alleged indebtedness, the subject matter of the petition, was due for payment or payable by the respondent.

The respondent contended that as against the petitioner’s claim, no demand for payment on the alleged indebtedness had been made on it.

At yesterday’s proceedings, the presiding judge informed parties about a letter written to the court by Chief Edwin Clark and J.P Clark, two Delta State elder statesmen, praying the court to adjourn the case indefinitely for parties to explore amicable settlement options.

Part of the letter, read out by one of the court’s officials, reads: “As members of the family, the two parties are our relations. We will like the court to give us the opportunity to intervene and settle the matter amicably.”

Braithwaite urged the court to ignore the letter, arguing that the writers had nothing to do with the case and were not party to the petition.

Besides, he has written to the Chief Judge for the case to be transferred to another judge.

Aniakor, who agreed with Braithwaite that the writers of the letter were busybodies in the petition, said they were well-intentioned busybodies.

He said it was the duty of the court to promote amicable settlement of any dispute before it and that the recent development has provided the platform for such settlement in this case. 

Aniakor, however, left the final decision on the issue to the court.

Justice Okechukwu Okeke, after studying the court processes filed by the parties, noted that the case involved two brothers, an observation Braithwaite objected to, stressing that it was a commercial dispute between two companies.

 The court, at that point sought the opinion of a senior lawyer in court - Kola Awodein (SAN) - who told the court it has the

ENCOMIUM WHITE GIG IS HERE:GENEVIEVE,SIR SHINA PETERS, WIZKID OTHERS TO GRACE EVENT

The Encomium White Gig is finally here, and celebs from all walks of life are gearing up to be part of the one-of-its-kind annual event holding this Sunday.

Billed to be an evening of Cognac cocktails, beautiful ballads and unbelievable fun, the event aims to bring together the bright, the bold and the brave in an evening filled with enough fun to go round.

“We’ve invited everyone that matters and we are looking forward to hosting the brightest and boldest minds from all over the country” Kunle Bakare publisher of Encomium says.

Bakare tells us that guests will include distinguished musicians, actors, socialites, entrepreneurs, business leaders, Government, media titans, and ardent Encomium readers.

Tagged “Take the steps, Walk the Talk”, the high octane gig will hold at The Haven GRA, Ikeja on March 18, 2012.

“Many pillars and supporters are with us in this merriment, and we are more than ecstatic that our path is being smoothened in no small measures”

Regular guests of the gig include Funke Akindele, Bisi Olatilo, Jimmy JATT, Weird MC, Genevieve Nnaji, Omowunmi Akinnifesi, Julius Agwu, T.W.O, Princess, Sunny Neji, Dayo Adeneye and Keke Ogungbe. And we are told that a couple of them have already been confirmed for the annual event. 

The 6-hour event will kick off with an elaborate red carpet reception. The iconic DJ Jimmy JATT will guide guests through soft, smooth and at times wild music; and guests will have an opportunity to dance and prance from 4PM to 10PM.

In its fifth year, the White Gig started when Encomium marked her 10^th Anniversary in 2007.

 This year’s event is supported by LR Cognac, Kiss Events, JATT INC, Couture Cakes, BlackHouse Media, and Replica Digital. It will take place at The Haven from 4PM to 10PM on Sunday March 18, 2012.

Founded in May 1997, Encomium Weekly has gradually but steadily risen to become the celebrity journal to beat and copy. The magazine captures the triumphs and travails of celebrities, from all walks of life – from music to movies, politics to big business, and those who dominate the social circuit. It has developed from being a purely black and white magazine with only color covers to one parading many pages of color and the most respected magazine in its category

RITA DOMINIC:SMOKING HOT ON FAB MAGAZINE LATEST COVER

Rita Dominic is the cream chic on the latest edition of Fab magazine.Gistmaster.com gathered that the edition would be out on the newstand later this month.The Nollywood actress talks about her success,how she managed her stardom and the secrets of her steady relationships

IMADE OGBEWI: NIGERIA'S BUSIEST RUNWAY MODEL

From the relatively unknown University of Lagos undergraduate to Isis Models, Imade Ogbewi has proved that she has the winning power with her runway magic.

From Nigeria to South Africa Fashion, to winning the crown at the 2011 Nigeria Next Supermodel Contest, then off she went again to Gambia for the Fashion Week, weeks later, she was already on the plane to London Fashion Week, and two weeks after, Imade was on the runway at Arise Magazine Fashion Week in Lagos. After a remarkable outing, Imade was given the opportunity of a sponsored trip to Arise Fashion Week that would be taking place in New York come September 2012!

At the moment, Imade is considered one of the busiest models in Nigeria.

-By Niyi Tabiti

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