Chris Brown barred from leaving the Philippines after performing there

Chris Brown is currently stuck in the Philippines because he allegedly skipped out on a concert gig there last year. He performed last night in the country but when he tried to leave this morning for a show in Hong Kong, he was blocked from doing so by the Philippine Department of Justice. Read the full report from the Philippines Daily Inquirer after the cut...

American recording artist Chris Brown, who staged a concert on Tuesday night at SM Mall of Asia (MOA) Arena in Pasay City, was stopped on Wednesday afternoon from leaving the country for his Hong Kong concert.
The Grammy-winning R&B artist was advised by the show’s promoters not to leave his room at Nobu Hotel in City of Dreams because he had been put on the watch list of the Bureau of Immigration, a source with direct knowledge of the incident told the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
The reason for ordering Brown’s name to be on the BI watch list, said to have been signed by Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, remained unclear to this source. Brown’s concert promoters have proceeded to the DOJ to know the full story.
The source said that Brown had no warrant of arrest but could be detained at the airport for questioning.
Pending clearance from the DOJ, the promoters were hoping that Brown would be allowed to depart Manila by Monday, July 27, the source added.
Sources at the immigration bureau, however, said that Brown had become a subject of a Department of Justice (DOJ) lookout bulletin for an estafa complaint filed against him for failing to show up in a Dec. 31, 2014, Philippine Arena concert which he top-billed.
One source said that the lookout bulletin indicated that the criminal complaint had been for the foreign artist’s alleged “deceitful misrepresentations and swindling.”
Brown was supposed to leave at around 2 p.m., Wednesday, on a Gulfstream IV aircraft, parked at a private hangar in the Ninoy Aquino International Airport general aviation area near Terminal 4.

Meek Mill launched Twitter war against Drake because of affair with Nicki Minaj?

That's what a source is claiming. This morning Meek Mill fired at one of Nicki's closest allies in the music business, Drake, claiming that Drake doesn't write his own lyrics. A source claims that Meek came for Drake on Twitter after he found out that Nicki had dated Drake in the past.

"Meek is upset that Drake [allegedly dated] Nicki. I think Nicki is low key in love with Drake and Drake is low key in love with Nicki. You have to see how they are when they're around each other. If I was Meek, I might feel some type of way about it too."

MediaTakeOut claims the alleged relationship between Nicki and Drake occurred while she was Safaree . . . but when she was also creeping with Meek.

"Meek is very insecure, and he should be. He got Nicki on the rebound . . . she just came off a long-term relationship with [Safaree] and you know sh*t like that [rebound relationships] never really work.

"Real talk though - I think Nicki and Drake really will get married one of these days." the source told MTO

Meek Mill has since deleted most of Nicki's photos from his instagram page...

I Won’t Spare Any Corrupt Person in APC or PDP – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his government will not spare any member of the opposition of his own party, the All Progressives Congress who is found culpable of corruption.

“If any of my associates or party member is indicted of corruption, they cannot escape justice. There is not going to be any APC member or any close personality found guilty that would escape justice,” he said.

The President, who is on a four-day visit to the United States President, Barack Obama, said this during an interview with the CNN anchor, Christiane Amanpour, that the release of the Chibok girls is top on the agenda of his government.

“Our main objective as a government is to secure the release of those girls safe and sound, back to their schools and rehabilitate them to go back to their normal lives. So, if we are convinced the girls would be delivered safe and sound, we will negotiate.”

The President also said would send a formal invitation to the US President to visit Nigeria.

“I wouldn’t say I was disappointed that President Obama did not choose to visit Nigeria but I wish that he would change his mind and come to Nigeria. Well, I asked him to come and would send a formal invitation,” he said.

On whether or not his administration would negotiate with the Boko Haram sect, Buhari said, “I cannot be against it. I told you that our main objective as a government is to secure those girls safe and sound back to their schools and rehabilitate them to get back to normal life.

"So, if we are convinced that the leaders (of Boko Haram) can deliver those girls safe and sound, we wouldn’t fail to negotiate what they want.”

Chris Brown gets armed guards at his house, who are prepared to shoot

Following the robbery at his home last week, Chris Brown is upping his security. According to TMZ, he has hired armed guards who are prepared to shoot if necessary 

Sources close to Chris tell TMZ ... he will soon have 24 hour security at his home ... with one guard inside and another in a vehicle outside. We're told the guards have their marching orders ... open fire if necessary. According to sources, Chris has taken advice from professionals in his life - as well as his mother - and agreed to significantly limit the number of people he invites to his home.

Chris & the LAPD believe some of his friends were in on the break-in earlier this month.

President Buhari rejects gay marriage

Pres. Buhari rejected the issue of gay marriage during one of his discussions in the US yesterday ...

Musician Flavour Enjoying Himself With Another Lady

I guess this is what some ladies deserve. If you are doing true love with them, most will take you for granted, especially the ones whose parents are not united in love and can't train them well. Guy enjoy!

FG receives $2.1bn credit from World Bank to rebuild North East Nigeria

The Federal government has received a 2.1 billion credit facility from World Bank which will be used to rebuild the troubled North East zone in Nigeria. This was announced in a statement released by the Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, The statement below.

The World Bank has unfolded a package which would see it spending up to $2.1 billion in rebuilding the badly devastated North-eastern part of Nigeria, ravaged for the past six years by the Boko Haram insurgency.

At a meeting in Washington today with representatives of the World Bank, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the World Health Organization (WHO), President Buhari said apart from rebuilding the region in terms of infrastructure, priority must also be given to the resettlement of internally displaced persons (IDPs), who now number over one million.

He urged the World Bank to send a team, which would work in concert with a team from the Federal Government, so that a proper assessment of needs could be done.
The World Bank will spend the 2.1 billion dollars through its IDA (International Development Agency), which gives low interest rates loans to government. The first 10 years will be interest free, while an additional 30 years will be at lower than capital market rate.

The World Bank is eager to move in quickly, give out the loans, and give succour to the people of North-east, long at the mercy of an insurgency that has claimed over 20,000 souls.
WHO is also to invest 300 million dollars on immunization against malaria in Nigeria, while the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will collaborate with Dangote Foundation to ensure that the country maintains its zero polio case record of the past one year. If the effort is sustained for another two years, Nigeria will be declared fully free of polio.

FEMI ADESINA
SPECIAL ADVISER, MEDIA AND PUBLICITY
JULY 21, 2015

The Criteria For Buhari’s Ministers

President Muhammadu Buhari’s two-month-long delay in presenting his list of ministers to the Senate for screening and confirmation has generated concern in many quarters over the direction of his administration as well as its workability. However, the recent report that 33 of 36 ministerial nominees failed the integrity test conducted by various organs of government adds a new twist to the circumstances of the forthcoming cabinet.

According to the report, routine background checks on the nominees by security agencies like the Nigeria Police, the Department of State Services (DSS), the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) revealed instances of past involvement in fraudulent activities, including misappropriation of public funds among other sins. This development is remarkable in many respects.

For the first time, at least since the return to civil rule in 1999, Nigerians can see a departure from the usual screening of nominees for political office that always returned them with a clean bill of health. Usually, any nominee scheduled for such security screening automatically came clean, his or her past sins notwithstanding. 

The situation was so graphic that even individuals that were known in the public domain as persons with questionable character were cleared by the security agencies involved.

The merit of the present development manifests in at least two dimensions. First, it demonstrates the extent of the collapse of values in our society and the associated rot in public service whereby many of the leading lights are actually villains who should be in jail.

Given the tradition through which ministerial nominees emerge, the failed nominees must have been persons of significant social standing with the much vaunted electoral value, but whose bases were actually built on questionable premises. Also, the development has sent a signal that nomination to public office, at least during the Buhari era, is not going to be business as usual.

With the emerging drama, however, the government should carefully identify and engage worthy Nigerians with the requisite criteria to occupy ministerial and other offices in the administration in order for the country to make progress. At least, they are available within and outside the country.
Besides, the development should serve, for the administration and the country, as a wake-up call for launching the clean-up of the socio-political system in pursuit of the change in the conduct of government business which we all desire for our nation. 

In the interest of equity, the treasury looters so identified by default should not go scot-free, but serve as the starting point of the cleansing programme of the administration.

by Leadership Editors

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