As of press time, Fela is leading the votes with 97851 Votes, while Tina Turner is following closing with 66902 Votes on the 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame fan voting official page.
The top five inductees are selected by public vote and the Fan Vote is now officially open.
From Wednesday through April 30, fans can vote for up to five nominees daily. The inductees will be announced in May.
Artistes become eligible for induction 25 years after the release of their first record. In order to be inducted, an artiste must be nominated by a committee that selects a number of candidates, the highest being 16 for the 2020 class.
Three doctors
and a nurse got the first does of the vaccine on Friday.
Plans are
being made to send the vaccine across the country and governors have promised
to take the dose on live television to encourage people to get vaccinated.
However, Governor
Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has said he would not take the vaccine because
he is healthy.
Bello, who
said Kogi has more serious issues to deal with, has repeatedly described COVID
as a ruse.
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo as “Nigeria’s most authentic living statesman whose life’s odyssey has become an invaluable source of history.”
Ikpeazu stated this in a warm birthday message to
Obasanjo on his 84th birthday on Friday, noting that the former president lived
for Nigeria and gave the best of his years to the sustenance of the unity and
democratic development of the country.
The governor described him as a man who had the very exceptional privilege of serving as both a military and democratically elected president of the country.
Ikpeazu, who spoke through his Chief Press
Secretary, Sir Onyebuchi Ememanka, said, “Both as military head of state
and a civilian president, Obasanjo’s belief in the supremacy of democracy
remained unshaken.
“Even in retirement, his voice continues to
reverberate on issues of national and global importance. President Obasanjo has
become a living legend. He stands tall in the hall of fame of the greatest
African leaders. His life has become a living encyclopedia of the history of
our country.
“He has become a strong voice both locally and
internationally on issues affecting the development of democracy and global
affairs. Without a shadow of a doubt, Obasanjo’s well-deserved place in history
is assured.”
A High Court sitting in
Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on February 18, 2021, ordered popular
broadcaster, Ifedayo Olarinde, aka Daddy Freeze, to pay the sum
of N5m for committing adultery with his lover, Benedicta Elechi.
Daddy Freeze was ordered to
pay the money to Paul Odekina, who was married to Elechi at the time the
adulterous act was committed.
In the court documents
obtained by one of our correspondents, with the suit no PHC/403MC/2012, Mrs
Benedicta Nkemdilim Odekina is the Petitioner/Cross Respondent, while Mr
Paul Odekina is 1st Respondent/Cross Petitioner and Ifedayo Olarinde
(Freeze) is the Co-Respondent to Petition/Cross Respondent.
The presiding Judge, Hon Justice Akpughunum, ruled that the OAP should pay the sum of N5m as “damages for depriving Odekina amiable consort of his wife”.
The document read in part,
“The sum of N5,000,000 is awarded against Ifedayo Olarinde as damages for
depriving the cross petitioner of the amiable consort of his wife and for
injury suffered as a result of his adultery with the petitioner/cross
respondent.
The judge then proceeded to
dissolve the marriage between Paul and Benedicta due to Benedicta’s adulterous
act with Daddy Freeze.
“An order of Decree Nisi is
hereby granted, dissolving the marriage contracted between Paul Ochenu Odekina
and Benedicta Nkemdilim Elechi-Agunabo on 26/1/2002 at the Chaplaincy of the
Holy Rosary CIWA at Port Harcourt on the ground that the marriage has been
broken down irretrievably by reason of the Petitioner/ Cross respondent having
committed adultery and intolerable behaviour of the petitioner/cross respondent
which the respondent cannot be expected to live with the petitioner/cross
respondent,” the document had it.
Paul was also granted
custody of the children produced in the marriage, while Benedicta was ordered
to hand over the children’s passports and birth certificates.
In a phone interview with
one of our correspondents, Daddy Freeze confirmed the development but noted
that he would release a statement on his Instagram page in due time.
“I will release a statement
on my Instagram handle in due time; not today, but in due time. There are
things that I want to ensure that I have proper information on before I release
my statement.
“Here is my take, watch my
Instagram handle. I will address this properly and release my statement but I
have to be guarded. I am just discussing with the appropriate quarters how best
to address this issue. Please, just watch my Instagram handle. Before the end
of next week, I will have a response,” he said.