*PHCN Levies Lagos Community 150K For Transformer Activation

*As Landlords’ Association Charges Residents 6k Per House To Raise Bribe

 

There is currently a culture of illegality rocking a Lagos community called Obadeyi within the Agbado/Ijaye axis of Lagos-Abeokuta expressway as agents of the inefficient Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) are compounding the woes of residents by levying them a huge sum of one hundred and fifty thousand naira to activate a transformer that was freely given by the state government to alleviate the perennial epileptic power supply being faced in some neighborhoods in the area.

According to some residents who spoke with Different Stroke Media under the banner of anonymity, the illegal collection of money by PHCN is being facilitated through the Landlords’ Association in the community for the Ijaye/Ojokoro District office of PHCN. And the landlords have consequently charged each building in the affected neighborhoods made up of six different streets a sum of six thousand naira to raise the bounty for the PHCN.

“We majorly depend on generator for power supply in our houses because the PHCN claimed they were shedding the light between us and some other neighborhoods using the same transformer and yet, they hardly gave us the light despite the so-called shedding of light. Hence, every individual in our neighborhood has a generator. But surprisingly, the PHCN would still bring us crazy bills at the end of every month. And now that the state government has given us an already connected transformer to stop the shedding of light, why should PHCN ask us to pay for its activation?” A resident queried.

Meanwhile, the residents have called on the ever-listening Lagos state government to wade into the situation and ensure the transformer is activated without further ado because the bribe-loving PHCN had refused to activate the transformer simply because some well-informed residents have said they were not paying a dime for what is supposed to be free.

Clash of the Lewd Singers, As Obesere Takes on St.Jane

In what promises to be a festival of unlimited lewd lyrics, the “back to the basics” progenitor of overflowing lewd music in Nigeria, Asiwaju Abass Akande Obesere is set to clash on the same stage with the undisputable queen of ex-rated music in the country, Janet Ajilore who is popularly known as St.Janet. The show put together by Soji Omotayo owned SOJ Productions in conjunction with Marblefield Hotel and Events Centre, for Friday, 26^th April, 2013, would also feature Obesere’s younger brother and star fuji artiste, Fatai Akanbi Valentine, Isa Alabi Mirinda, Segun Nabi, Dotun Future, Anogo and others. Tagged “Jafori E Nite” the show would hold in the premises of Marblefield Hotel, 35/39 Seinde Calisto crescent, Oshodi, Lagos and it would be anchored by the sui generis event compere, Soji Omotayo. And what does it cost to be part of the all night shindig? It is just a gate fee of two thousand naira that you need to part with to witness the all night erotic music that would kick-off from 7pm in an atmosphere of water-tight security. And you don’t need to be told who would spin the lewder lyrics between Obesere who recently returned to his forte and St. Janet who had been holding all the aces in the exclusive genre of music. Enquiries, call: 08033285858 or 07042153314. Let’s go there jooor…

Clash of the Lewd Singers, As Obesere Takes on St.Jane

In what promises to be a festival of unlimited lewd lyrics, the “back to the basics” progenitor of overflowing lewd music in Nigeria, Asiwaju Abass Akande Obesere is set to clash on the same stage with the undisputable queen of ex-rated music in the country, Janet Ajilore who is popularly known as St.Janet. The show put together by Soji Omotayo owned SOJ Productions in conjunction with Marblefield Hotel and Events Centre, for Friday, 26^th April, 2013, would also feature Obesere’s younger brother and star fuji artiste, Fatai Akanbi Valentine, Isa Alabi Mirinda, Segun Nabi, Dotun Future, Anogo and others. Tagged “Jafori E Nite” the show would hold in the premises of Marblefield Hotel, 35/39 Seinde Calisto crescent, Oshodi, Lagos and it would be anchored by the sui generis event compere, Soji Omotayo. And what does it cost to be part of the all night shindig? It is just a gate fee of two thousand naira that you need to part with to witness the all night erotic music that would kick-off from 7pm in an atmosphere of water-tight security. And you don’t need to be told who would spin the lewder lyrics between Obesere who recently returned to his forte and St. Janet who had been holding all the aces in the exclusive genre of music. Enquiries, call: 08033285858 or 07042153314. Let’s go there jooor…

*24 years after, Zenon Oil boss, Femi Otedola’s ex-lover, Yinka Odukoya re-unites with “taken away” daughter

Like a classic tragic-comedy, the story of Oluyinka Odukoya, an ex-lover to billionaire owner of Zenon oil, Femi Otedola that started on a melancholic note on this blog on December 12^th, 2012, has eventually come to what could be termed a happy denouement. Speaking on phone with this reporter few days back, the hitherto forlorn woman could not contain her joy (you can read her touching story as published on this blog in her exclusive interview). “Uncle Saheed, omo yin tide o” (Uncle Saheed my daughter is back!), she said euphorically on the phone.

Giving the details of her re-union with her 26 year old daughter over 24 years after the father’s family trickily took her away on the pretext that the little girl was going to start school at 2 year old after which they continually prevented the mum from seeing her baby, she said she owed all the gratitude to this blog, other bloggers that made the story go viral and indeed, some courageous terrestrial magazines that slammed it on their cover page while damning the consequence.

“I was in Idumota, Lagos, to buy some goods when I received an unexpected phone call from Femi’s mother in Iragunsin(on the outskirts of Lagos state) that my daughter was around that I should come and see her. But since I knew I could not make it to the place that day, I called my brothers to go on my behalf. And when they got there, they did not only allow them to see my daughter and interact freely with her, they also gave them a red carpet treatment. It was only unfortunate that my daughter was travelling back to London where she works the following day( the reason for which they could not meet in person) but she sent me both her Nigeria and London phone numbers with which I spoke to her and we had a very private mother to daughter discussion. But one thing she emphasized was that she read everything in the media about what happened.”

In the finally analysis, this achievement has come as a triumph of truthful journalism over “sweep it under the carpet” journalism that some people had bargained for in the course of redressing the woman’s agony in the media. A word is enough for the wise…