Cool FM’s Freeze Talks About His Extensive Wristwatch Collection, Says Michael Kors Is For Poor People

During a recent interview with Saturday Punch , Cool FM OAP Ifedayo Olarinde a.k.a. Freeze, talked about his extensive watch collection, the fake lifestyle of Nigerian artistes, and why he would
never be caught wearing Michael Kors.
You can catch excerpts of the interview below.
When you say a collection, how many are you talking about?
Not like how many, like how much. I have maybe $200,000 in wristwatches. What I am
wearing now is a Rolex Daytona, I got it from Polo for Christmas. It cost about $30,000. Polo is Nigeria’s only authorised dealer, so I bought it from the company and I love it. I
love pens too. Sometimes I could just be like a woman. I love things that shine but not all the time. I like cufflinks, pens but I am not the
necklace or a bracelet kind of guy. Though I wear bracelets once in a while; so I like my cufflinks, pens and wristwatches, any attire that would show them off, I am good with it...
What wouldn’t you be caught wearing?
Michael Kors. I am sorry but I just think that brand is so razz. First their name, I think their name is so razz. Not exactly the name, it is
the brand, all you have for the logo is MK. Their products are loud, ugly and cheap. I see someone wearing a Michael Kors watch and I see it as they are trying so hard to wear Rolex
gold but can’t afford that so the next thing is to pick up Michael Kors. I would rather take equally priced designer but with a bit more class and less noise. I would never be caught wearing that. Designers I like are Tom Ford, Gucci, I love LV shoes that are not monogrammed. I like Hermes; I think that is a really brilliant designer. I like the fact that they play with orange a lot...
What is your take on celebrities posting photos of their expensive fashion items on their social media accounts?
First thing first, for all the entertainers putting up pictures of their accessories on Instagram, can they please tweet the receipt from an authorised dealer. Trust me, I have seen too many celebs wear fake stuffs. You can tell that they don’t know what they are wearing. Of course, there are a few brand names like D’banj, Don Jazzy, P-Square or Wizkid that would not wear fake. I have seen them wear
good watches. But there are some other people who I have seen wear funny looking pieces. There was one particular musician that i saw wearing a Rolex and the gold was
fading. Rolex never uses gold plates,they use pure gold. If you see anything gold on a Rolex, it is pure gold. When I saw that, I was disappointed at the musician especially because of the level of respect I had for the musician. There is no such thing like buying a Rolex with a credit card. You can’t buy a Rolex with a credit card; who are you? Diddy? For you to be able to walk away with a £20,000 watch, you would have a substantial amount of money in that card....
Buh this guy can form sha,,,,ma opinion though

Always wanted to become a Pilot but being an Actress changed it

Nollywood actress, Osas Otoide has
made her mark since she delved into the industry about a year ago. In a recent interview with vanguard she talked about many things about herself, especially how she paused having the dream of becoming a pilot.
The Benin born actress who has a B.Sc in Accounting from Igbinedion University Okada, resigned from one of the leading telecommunications
companies, Globacom in June 2012 because of lack of job satisfaction. Oses who never dreamt of becoming an actress started acting professionally in march 2013. Even though Oses looks professional in her acting, she says her dream of becoming a pilot is still very much alive...wishing her the best tho....

Only God saved me during students protest , says LASU VC

The Vice Chancellor of the Lagos State University, western Nigeria , Prof . John Obafunwa, on Friday told members of the state House of Assembly that he was only saved
from protesting students of the institution by the grace of God.
The students had embarked on a violent protest on Thursday in which they vandalised school property as well as some cars belonging the Vice Chancellor and other top staff of the institution . They were aggrieved that they were not allowed to write the second semester
examination with their colleagues for not completing their registration.
“If certain things had worked out , we would certainly have been talking about obituary by now because they said so many things that I would not want to repeat here”
But the President of the Students ’ Union Government of the institution , Mojirade Hassan, told the lawmakers, during her presentation ,
that the SUG had alerted the VC of an impending protest that could turn violent. She said the VC told her team that he was fully prepared for any of the students ’ protests.
The House had summoned the management of the institution , the Governing Council led by Bode Augusto, the state Commissioner for
Education, Olayinka Oladunjoye , and members of the institution ’ s SUG over the protest .                       Mr. Augusto and other members of
management told the House how the management beat its rules to open the portal for registration but that the students stubbornly refused to register.
A female management staff also said they were “in the valley of the shadows of death ” while the protest lasted adding that some of the
protesters were masked as they carried out the destruction. “They were masked and planned to kill , ” she said .
She said it became impossible to re - open the portal as the date of the examination approached since everything was digitalised and the lecturers needed to know how many
students they should plan for.
Miss Mojirade Hassan told the lawmakers that it was a peaceful protest when the action of the aggrieved students began , but that it was hijacked by outsiders who used the opportunity to steal people ’ s belongings. She said days before the protest , the aggrieved students complained about their inability to
register. Some said they had paid their tuition but that the portal failed as they tried to register. She blamed the institution ’ s management for
allowing students to continue paying their tuition when the same management had shut the portal , as according to her, this was a
primary reason for the protest .
Miss Hassan said she made concerted efforts to make the VC change his decision to no avail . “If the VC had listened to me and taken
my word and even my appeal. She said at a town hall meeting to iron out the issue, “the students were surprised to hear Mr. Bode Augusto telling them of the financial problems being encountered by the school and how the school generates its revenue .
“I told the VC that we want to meet with him and he told me that if it is about the re-opening of the portal, he would disappoint me.
“I begged the VC to re- open the portal for at least just two hours and I informed him that the affected students had threatened to protest
if the portal is not re- opened but he said ‘ they should go ahead, they will meet there ’ . ”
She said on Wednesday , the students had waited patiently with placards at the front of the senate building after learning that the VC
was meeting with other management staff. She said she was called and that , from a
distance, she saw the VC and the other management staff coming out of the senate building and that when the students saw him , they knelt down and were begging that the
portal be opened for even two hours , but that he called their bluff and walked away . She was however able to pacify the angry
students after informing them that the VC had promised to open it the next day.
But on Thursday, the students had thronged the institution only to discover they were deceived .
She said as the tension rose , she called the VC and said he was on top of the situation. “The VC later came, spoke with the Dean of Student Affairs and left, and this was what provoked the students . They had expected the VC to address them but he didn’ t . “The students then took to the streets and I
still called the VC to let him know that the issue had gone out of hand but he told me to pacify the students. I told him it has gone
beyond what I can handle . It was then he told me that he had invited the State Security Service, SSS . If the VC had addressed the students , the issue wouldn’ t have degenerated to violence, ” she said .
While some of the lawmakers berated the students , others blamed the management team for refusing to act on the SUG president ’ s
advice. They also blamed the management for allowing the students to pay their fees when
management had decided to close the portal.
The Speaker , Adeyemi Ikuforiji , who said leaders of the All Progressives Congress and
the state were watching to see how the issue was resolved , later adjourned for about one
hour.
The Speaker , on resumption, said the House had agreed that the management of the
institution carry out immediate assessment and repairs of the damaged school property for
the students to resume . He also said the SUG must write a letter of
apology on behalf of the students who protested. Apart from these, the House said each of the affected students must sign an undertaking to be of good behaviour .
He pleaded on behalf of the House that the portal be re- opened for two days while the lawmakers would pay an on- the -spot visit to
the institution .

Boko Haram forces 6,000 Nigerians to flee to Cameroon, Niger in last 10 days – UN

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) says nearly 6,000 people have fled the northern parts of Nigeria due to the activities of Boko Haram to
neighbouring Cameroon and Niger in the past 10 days.
UNHCR in its reports made available at the UN Headquarters in New York on Friday, reported that several people had been killed, their villages
bombed and at least two villages burned to the ground. “We continue to urge states in the region to keep
their borders open for Nigerians who are fleeing their country and may need international protection.
“We are also advising against any forced returns,’’ the report quoted the UNHCR spokesperson, Adrian Edwards, as saying. States of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe have been under state-of-emergency since May 2013 as the army fights Boko Haram insurgents. “Of the more than 4,000, who fled to Cameroon since mid-January, most are in the Logone-et-Chari area of Far North Region.
“With this new influx, there are now 12,428 Nigerian refugees in Cameroon, according to local
Cameroonian authorities. Of that number 2,183 have so far been moved to a UNHCR camp at Minawao, 130 kilometres further inland.
“Together with partner agencies we are providing refugees with shelter, health, sanitation, education, food, and other help,’’ UNHCR said.
The agency noted that its team in Cameroon’s far North region had spoken with refugees from the
area around Banki, a town just across the border in Nigeria’s Borno State.
“The refugees said their villages were bombed, that several people had been killed, and that at least two villages were burned to the ground,” it said.
According to UNHCR, in Niger, 1,500 new refugees, mostly women and children, arrived in the Diffa region of south-east Niger. It added that the refugees said that they fled because of January16 attack of a mosque in the village of Gashagar, just across the border. Seven people were reportedly killed during the attack, and seven cars and 60 shops were
burned. Attacks by Boko Haram insurgents on Borno border communities and satellite villages to Maiduguri have increased since the beginning of the year.
The most recent occurred on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning in farming communities
around Maiduguri. Residents said they buried 18 of their neighbours on Wednesday after gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram
attacked their communities. Many other people were injured and several houses were burnt in the attack. A resident of Njaba Village, Wadai Mutah, who vame to the hospital to attend to five of his
relatives that sustained bullet wounds in the attack, narrated how the attack occurred.
“Our village was attacked by Boko Haram members on Tuesday and they killed 10 people and set the whole village on fire before leaving,”
he said. Mr. Mutah also said a neigbouring village was attacked the next day.
“At the neighbouring Kaya Village, which was attacked on Wednesday, eight people were killed when the Boko Haram attacked, shooting our
people and burning their houses.
“Mude and Kwaljiri villages were also attacked and totally destroyed on the same day but the villagers escaped unhurt and ran to Njaba as they did not know that we had been attacked the day before,” he said.
One of the survivors of the Njaba attack at the State Specialists’ Hospital, Pogu Wovi, narrated how he survived the attack.
“It was after the late evening meals and we were sitting outside when we heard gunshots from various directions,” Mr. Wovi told PREMIUM
TIMES in Hausa. “There was confusion, with women and children crying for help. I hurt my leg while trying to escape in the dark night but I had to drag myself to the bush and remained there till morning”. Mr. Wovi, who said he is about 45-years-old, said soldiers arrived much later after the attackers had
left to give first aid treatment to injured victims in the attacked villages.
“It was when we were receiving first aid treatment that I was told that 10 people had been killed in the attack. On Wednesday, when Mude, Kwaljiri and Kaya villages were attacked people from there told us that 8 people had been killed in Kaya while Mude and Kwaljiri villages were
completely burnt; but all the villagers escaped,” he said.

Woman duped of $500,000 on a Christian site

This dating scam didn't just break
hearts, it broke the bank, too: A San Jose woman, 66, was conned out of $500,000 on ChristianMingle.com after a Nigerian man, pretending to be UK citizen "David Holmes befriended her on the site. After several phone calls, texts, and even a bouquet of flowers, the woman agreed to give "David" a $300,000 loan for his supposed oil business. She refinanced her home and dug into her retirement account to fork
over the funds—but it wasn't enough. He asked for $200,000 more, which the woman wired to a
bank in Turkey, before she caught on and alerted authorities, CBS News reports. When a Nigerian associate of the man turned up to withdraw the money—he'd entered Turkey
using a fake passport, the San Fransisco Chronicle reports—he was arrested on suspicion of committing fraud, and the woman got her
$200,000 back. The rest of her money is "just impossible to track down," the deputy district attorney says. The man behind the scam remains free, but his Skype account and email address were traced to Nigeria, which is "a hot bed of online scams," she notes. As for the man's profile picture? It was a snapshot of a male model he'd picked up on the web. "You get the love drug in you and you end up getting duped," the deputy district attorney adds.

Our skit wasn't to hurt Jim Iyke

As it's no longer news that actor,
Jim Iyke was delivered’ at the
Synagogue Church of All Nations, Lagos, the old gist is yet to die down, especially after comedian AY turned it to a skit. The controversial actor had now commented
on the skit which also featured Helen Paul, saying, “People cross the lines sometimes for relevance. It disappoints if it comes from people you deemed to have self respect.Classless.”
  But reacting to the actor’s comments, Helen said the skit was just a joke and not necessarily meant to hurt Jim Iyke even as the video has now gone viral. "It is just a joke. I am an actress and a
senior colleague called me for a job. I was given the script and I acted my part. We did not mean to hurt Jim Iyke. In the skit, I was portrayed as a prostitute but
that is not what Helen Paul is about,” she said. She also added that the alleged ‘deliverance’ was something that was talked about a lot and that was probably why he was mentioned in the skit. She stressed
that the skit was purely for humour
purpose and not malicious in any way.
  However, ace comedian, AY said he
would not comment on the issue as he and Iyke are friends. It has also been reported that when the video went viral and the news broke early in the week, the comedian known for his hilarious skit contemplated on a response but later said that he and the actor were friends and would settle their differences like friends do.
  Meanwhile, online commentators who found the joke funny were quick to lash insults back at Jim Iyke as they made it known that it was just a comedy skit and nothing serious.The video had thousands of views on YouTube and Jim Iyke’s comment came a few weeks after the comedian’s channel was ranked as the number one most watched channel in Africa.

Finally, Toke Makinwa and Maje Ayide wed secretly

Like seriously, nobody saw this coming. After over ten years
together with many break ups and
reconciliations, Toke Makinwa and Maje Ayida are now married. Yep, you read right. The longtime
lovers got married quietly on Wednesday January 15th in Lagos, with only a few family members and friends in attendance. Should be able to bring you all the
details and more photos later(pics of the them at the registry). Big congrats to Toke and Maje tho. What an amazing love story!

Wale to release 'I am from' documentary

The MMG rap artiste and DMV representative, Wale, makes his return . The rap artiste returns to give us an inside look into the man
that is Wale. He’s been working hard and now putting it all on film, which will lead up to his documentary called 'I Am From'.
  Today we get a first look at the documentary, as we get a short, yet effective trailer for the project.
  The clip finds Wale hitting radio shows, studios, stages, and more, opening up and showing the
fans what he’s all about outside of the negative headlines. Check out the informative clip after the
jump and stay tuned for the full documentary. Coming soon.

Winner of the balloon d'or 2013 goes to...

And d winner of the ballon d'or goes to Cristiano Ronaldo again. He won the ballon d'or for the second time after winning it five years ago in 2008. Ronaldo has always been in the shadow of d mesmerizing Messi, and this time he overcame Ribery and Messi to second and third. Really was an emotional day for him as tears rolled down, bringing his son unto the stage to recieve the award with him. So happy for Ronaldo....Congratulations to CR7....

Again! Nollywood actress beaten and arrested for theft

Nollywood actress, Yetunde Akilapa was arrested on sunday for house burglary at magodo estate in Lagos. The yoruba actress as soon bring released on bail today after her lawyer and family members interfered on the issue.
  A close colleague have said that Yetunde's matter is more spiritual than physical, as this is not the first time she's been involved in something like this. He also called for prayers on her behalf.
  It has already been reported that yetunde's family members have already decided to take her to a spiritualist or probably TB Joshua's church for deliverance.
  It can also be recalled that yetunde recently regained freedom in November 2013 for kind of the same offence.

Beckhams pay 31.5million Pounds for their new home

David and Victoria Beckham just got a new home for themselves and paid a whooping 31.5million pounds for it. The residence which has eight
bedrooms, seven bathrooms and a 30m (100ft)
Oriental garden is still intended to be revamped within the next few weeks before the Beckhams move in....this people get moni sha,,lol. Wishing them all the best tho.

Rihanna with a new tatoo

The music star has just added another tattoo to the multiples on her body alredy. Rihanna was spotted entering her favourite tatoo parlour on Friday night and didn't leave until the next morning. Her tattoo artist later revealed d new tattoo, which was a cross on her wrist that ties right into the ones she already has her hand. Rihanna and tattoos sha.....d pix below

Meet new Airtel ambassador - Mike Ezuruonye

Just last year, Mike Ezuruonye ended his endorsement deal with Globacom, Now popular actor Mike Ezuruonye has started this year on a brighter note, signing for another telecom giant Airtel. He's just been featured in Airtel's new thematic campaign 'Come Alive'. Mike pictured above at the unveiling of the 'Come Alive' TVC in Lagos on Wednesday January 8th. Guess this looks better than his previous with smiles round his face...lol,,,Congrats to him tho.

Kanye like a sweet uncle to 'blue ivy'

Kanye West has written a lullaby for Jay Z and Beyoncé's daughter Blue Ivy.
The Bound 2 hitmaker presented the track to the tiny tot - who celebrated her second birthday on 7 January - as he wanted to do "something personal" for his rap star pal's child.

A source told the daily star newspaper: "Kanye wanted to do something personal for his best friend's baby.

"So he decided he would write and record a lullaby especially for her. It won't be released, it's just for Blue. He hopes it'll help send her off to sleep at night."

Kanye has seven-month-old baby North, who is nicknamed Nori - with reality star fiancé Kim Kardashian - and hopes she'll become friends with Blue.

The lullaby is about how doting dads Kanye - who dropped out of Chicago State University much to the initial displeasure of his mother Donda West when he was 20 - and Jay Z - who grew up in Brooklyn, New York City, in the tough Marcy Houses housing project - will make sure their daughters don't have to face the same struggles they did.

The source added: "It's really catchy and slow. Rather than the usual sweet dreams-themed lullaby songs, Kanye raps about how Blue Ivy and Nori will be mega powerful when they're older. It also mentions how him and Jay Z will work hard to make sure their girls have an easier path than they did....wish to hear the song ooo...