CELEB GIST: Beyonce and Jay Z Named World's Highest-Paid Celebrity Couples

Forbes Magazine just named Jay and Beyonce the highest paid celebrity couple in the world. Together they made $78 million - from May 2011 to May 2012. Beyonce - $40m, Jay Z - $38m. And Beyonce took a break for most of the year. can you beat that!!

From Forbes Magazine,

Take Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z, for example. Last year’s runners-up on the list of The World’s Highest-Paid Celebrity Couples, the duo has now climbed one spot to top this year’s ranking. Knowles, who took a break from her hectic touring schedule in 2011 to give birth to daughter Blue Ivy Carter, still collects big paychecks from old hits. Besides, the singer’s new album went platinum in the U.S., not to mention her non-musical ventures and endorsement deals, which all helped to bring her total earnings between May 1, 2011 and May 1, 2012 to $40 million, according to data from the latest Celebrity 100 list.

And as the male half of music’s first couple, Jay-Z isn’t far behind his wife. The hip-hop mogul made millions from Watch the Throne, his musical collaboration with pal Kanye West, and even more from the tour that followed. Add to that a bevy of non-musical enterprises such as ad firm Translation and cosmetics company Carol’s Daughter and the result is a staggering $38 million that he has brought home in twelve months, putting the couple’s annual income at $78 million.

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Unbelievable! See How People In Government Are Crippling Nigeria

If only Nigerians have the guts to Occupy the country over more serious issues, this country would have been a better place by now. Some people, who said they are serving the masses, are earning tens and hundreds of millions monthly while ordinary Nigerians wallow in “practical” poverty.

Nigeria where millions go to bed hungry, see what people in government are collecting:

 

In the United States, while the minimum wage is $1,257 (N191, 667), a US lawmaker earns $15,080 (N2.3m) per month. In the United Kingdom, a lawmaker earns $8,686 (N1.3m) monthly while the gross national minimum wage is $1,883 (N283, 333) per month. Also, lawmaker in Sweden earns $7,707 (N1.2m), per month.

The President of the United States of America takes home an annual salary of $400,000 (N64.156,0m), including a $50,000 expense allowance making the president the highest paid public servant in the US. The $400,000 includes everything and $350,000 out of it is taxable.

SEE WHAT NIGERIAN SENATORS EARN
Basic Salary (BS) = N2,484,245.50
Hardship Allowance: 50% of Basic Salary = N1,242,122.75
Constituency allowance: 200% of BS = N4,968,509.00
Furniture Allowance: 300% of BS = N7,452,736.50
Newspaper allowance: 50% = N1,242,122.70
Wardrobe allowance: 25% = N621,061.37
Recess Allowance: 10% = N248,424.55
Accommodation: 200% = N4,968,509.00
Utilities: 30% = N828,081.83
Domestic Staff: 35% = N863,184.12
Entertainment: 30% = N828,081.83
Personal Assistance: 25% = N621,061.37
Vehicle Maintenance Allowance: 75% = N1,863,184.12
Leave Allowance : 10% = N248,424.55
One off payments (Severance gratuity): 300% = N7,452,736.50
Motor Vehicle Allowance: 400% of BS = N9,936,982.00
Total per month = N29, 479, 749.00
A Senator’s annual salary = N182 million plus

Multiply by 109 Senators (Don’t forget the House of Rep, Ministers, Ambassadors, …)

 

NOTE: In addition to the regular and legitimate salaries and allowances of over N17million ($113,333) and N14.99million ($99,933) which senators and reps were collecting yearly and the irregular allowance of estacodes, duty tours etc, they were also collecting over N192m ($1.28m) and N140m ($0.93m) respectively in illicit quarterly allocation which is not provided for by RMAFC.

Effectively, a Nigerian senator was taking home at least $1.40m ($1.28m quarterly allocations + $0.113m regular salaries and allowances) as against the $0.174m an American senator takes home. Hence a Nigeria senator earns at least 8 times as much as an American senator and more than 3 times the American president.

Whereas a Senator in the U.S earns N21,146,000, the same as a member of the House of Representatives; a UK Member of Parliament earns £64,766 (N14, 896,180)

In other words, a Federal Legislator in Nigeria is paid more than double what a Member of British Parliament earns per annum.

Senate President David Mark alone takes N250 million quarterly or N83.33 million per month. Senate Deputy President Ike Ekweremadu gets N150 million per quarter or N50 million a month.

Mark and Ekweremadu earns in 4 months, six times what the UK Prime Minister earns in a year. David Cameron goes home with £190,000 per anum (N43,700,000)

In a newspaper news article entitled ‘An Assembly for looting’ written by Musikilu Mojeed with Elor Nkereuwem, the authors rightly claimed that each of the 360 members of the House of Representatives were getting N35million in cash money in quarterly allocation while each of the 109 Senators pockets N48million each. These allocations have however been slashed by 20% to N27 million ($180,000) and N38million ($253,333) respectively due to the 20% reduction requested by the late president.

SEE WHAT PRESIDENTS OF RESPONSIBLE COUNTRIES EARN:
The prime minister of the United Kingdom….........…USD 226,627.00
French President………………………………….. USD 318,072.00
South African President……………………...……..USD 296,112.00
German Chancellor……………………………..….USD 296,112.00
The Prime Minister of Belgium……………......…....USD 174,804.00
President of the Republic of Korea………..........…..USD 136,669.00
President of Russia…………………………………USD 122,652.00
Prime Minister Portugal……………………….……USD 129,730.00
Prime Minister Namibia……………………………USD 115,155.00
President of Angola………………………………..USD 60,000.00
President Argentina………………………………..USD 55,139.00
Prime Minister Ukraine…………………………….USD 61,254.00
President Zimbabwe……………………………….USD 18,000.00
President of People’s republic of China…….......…..USD 10,633.00
President Liberia…………………………...………USD 90,000.00
Prime Minister Spain ………………………..……..USD 102,960.00
Prime Minister Namibia………………………...…..USD 115,155.00
President Namibia……………………….…………USD 164,506.00
President of Colombia ………………....…………..USD 120,685.00
Prime Minister of the Netherlands………........……..USD 190,740.00
Prime Minister Ireland……………………...………USD 264,000.00
Prime Minister Denmark………………....…………USD 264,533.00
President Mexico…………………………….…….USD 328,839.00
 President Austria…………………………….…….USD 422,231.00
President of the European Council………........…….USD 508,916.00

 

ANYONE SURPRISED WHY NIGERIA IS POOR BUT HER LEADERS ARE RICH?

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REVEALED: Stop Our Trial Or We'll Expose Everybody –Subsidy "Thieves" Warn Jonathan

As many Nigerians already suspected before the trial of the alleged fuel subsidy fraudsters commenced, sources gathered that the case is set to end up like many others before it. The Lagos High Court trying the case on Thursday granted bail to Mahmud Tukur, son of Bamanga Tukur, PDP chairman.

He was granted bail alongside Ochonogor Alex and Abdullahi Alao. The court then fixed November 13 for their trial, that is almost four months from today.


The court also granted bail to Mamman Nasir Ali, son of Ahmadu Ali, former national chairman of PDP, and Christian Taylor. These ones will return to court on October 30 for trial.

However, information going around is that these high profile individuals played significant financial roles in the election of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011 and have thus sent a strong warning to the President to stop their prosecution or face a full disclosure of how they funneled close to $1 billion towards his 2011 presidential campaign through the Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Allison-Madueke and the Minister of Niger Delta, Godsday Orubebe.

Sources say operators of Ontario Oil and Gas Limited whose MD, Adaoha Ugo-Ngadi, was docked along with 20 others, have sent a very incriminating information to President Jonathan.

It was learned that the accused Ontario Oil chieftains were shocked by the public humiliation brought upon them by the EFCC. The most powerful member of the Ontario clan, Mr. Walter Wagbatsoma, reportedly left Nigeria for Paris shortly before the commencement of prosecution by the EFCC.

Meanwhile, EFCC officials have confirmed that Mr. Wagbatsoma has not written any statement or appeared before the agency even though he was listed as one of those to be arraigned by the EFCC. He is believed to have the key to unlocking the involvement of Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke in the oil subsidy fraud.

Mr. Wagbatsoma is listed as the owner of several companies used to siphon funds from the oil industry, they include: Ontario Oil & Gas Ltd., Ontario Trading Ltd, Ontario Storage Terminals Ltd., Ontario Vessels Ltd., Ontario Drilling and Engineering Services.

A source in Abuja also said that Mr. Orubebe, the Minister of Niger Delta, is on the board of Ontario Oil, although he may not be publicly listed.

In Lagos On Thursday, his prosecution suffered another setback as the court adjourned again following the failure of Mr. Wagbatsoma to appear for his trial.

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NEW VIDEO: Davido's 4th Official Video for Overseas ft. Sinarambo!

Davido's 4th Official Video for Overseas ft. Sinarambo!

Enjoy

CELEB GIST: Genevieve Nnaji Officially First Nigerian To Own The New Range Rover Evoque SE

Genevieve in her new ride

And so it came to pass that after all said and reported it was time to officially seal the deal. Nollywood super actress Genevieve Nnaji was yesterday night unveiled as the ambassador for the new Range Rover Evoque in Nigeria by Land Rover and Coscharis Motors at an exclusive event which took place at the Ocean View, V.I Lagos.

The actress was looking as beautiful as always, as she put pen to paper and was handed the keys to a special edition Range Rover Evoque by the President of the Coscharis group Dr Cosmos Maduka as part of the deal. The diva could not hide her excitement as she said:


“Its truly an honor to be working with the Land Rover family on this exciting project. The Range Rover brand is the epitome of quality and luxury; the Evoque represents power, class and style. I cannot wait to drive it!”

Safe to safe Genevieve Nnaji will be the first Nigerian to own the special edition of the brand in the entire country.



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Genevieve Nnaji

Dr Cosmos Maduka and Genevieve Nnaji

Genevieve Nnaji at the event

Genevieve Nnaji, Land Rover and Coscharis officials sealing the deal

Genevieve Nnaji with the car keys

The New Range Rover Evoque

It may also interest you to know that the special edition Range Rover aka Posh Evoque was designed byVictoria Beckham, former Spice girl and wife of star England footballer, David Beckham.

I bet you wish you were her right now, lol!

GOSSIP: D'banj set to launch his own record label; calls it DKM Records

DKM stands for D'Koko Master Records and Kayswitch is the only artiste signed to the record label for now. Heard a few more artistes will be unveiled in the coming months.

D'Koko Master Records will be officially launched in Lagos at a concert that will feature D'banj, Kayswitch and other DKM artists.

And contrary to popular reports that Davido is signed to D'banj's label, It is authoritative that it is false. Davido is signed to his own record label, HKN Records. He's only doing some musical collaborations with D'banj.

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CELEB GOSSIP: 2Face Female Dancers Expose Their Wet Chests At Eko Hotel Show

Different strokes for different folks at the launch of 2Face`s album launch on April 30, 2012 for some guys who witnessed the show, DANCE IN THE RAIN track seemed to capture their interest most. Yes the track no doubt has good lyrics but I believe what captured the interest of the guys was the stage craft put together by 2Face`s female dancers.Picture below is 2Face performing one of his tracks at his album launch titled AWAY AND BEYOND which way held at Eko Hotel on April 30, 2012

My question however is - Does he need to embrace nudity to perform on stage?