See How Celebrities Stun At Glo-CAF Awards 2015 (Photos)

Juliet Ibrahim

The annual football award ceremony which was hosted by Nigeria’s telecommunication giant Globacom (GLO), was created in order to honor the African continent in the past calendar year.

Poor quality of music is due to pressure from fans – Sound Sultan

Nigerian pop artiste, Sound Sultan, has said the poor quality of music most Nigerian artists produce is usually due to pressure from fans who are not interested in professionalism.
In a chat with newsmen in Lagos on Friday, the musician said the society should benefit immensely from the type of music they hear as music should rather be an important tool for societal growth.

According to him, the quality of work by modern artistes’ ought to attract the right level of patronage from the listeners. He noted that the current trend of music had regrettably become a bad influence on most musicians.

Nollywood in 2015: Year of more marriages and less scandals

Unlike the previous years where the industry was plunged into controversies, the year 2015 was a different story.
The industry did not only break new grounds on the international scene, it also witnessed a couple of marriages that have continued to be the talk of the town.

Tonto Dikeh and hubby

From Lizzy Anjorin who tied the knots with her long standing lover, Jibo Morgan, in the month of June, to Nollywood hunk, IK Ogbonna, who also exchanged marital vows with his girl friend, Sonia Morales, few days after they welcomed their first child in far away Columbia, Nollywood was at its best in 2015.
Controversial actress Tonto Dikeh’s marriage to her hubby, Churchill Oladunni, remains one marriage that shocked many industry watchers and one which they would not stop talking about.

Davido, baby-mama drama: Who takes custody of the baby?

BY ADERONKE ADEYERI and KEHINDE AJOSE
Nigerian pop star, Davido and his baby-mama, Sophie are presently involved in a feud over the custody of their child, Imade.

The story has taken various shapes, starting from the airport incident to the petition written against Davido by Sophie to Davido’s lengthy open letter.
The issue is on everyone’s lips and we sought out entertainers and stakeholders on who should take custody of the child.

Davido and Sophia

Davido’s family took custody of the baby following allegation that Imade had been infected by marijuana which was said to have been passed to the seven month old baby through breast-feeding. Sophie is claiming that Davido’s family abducted the baby and planned taking her abroad but Immigration officials helped her stop the trip.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is erratic? crazy like a fox, perhaps

Kim Jong Un has always been a puzzle to outside analysts.

SEOUL: The young leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, has often been dismissed as inexperienced, erratic and even clueless. But with the North's test of a nuclear bomb this week, Kim appears to have mastered a strategy that has served his reclusive country well: playing one big power against another.

The nuclear test quickly increased tensions between the United States and China. In a strong rebuke on Thursday, secretary of state John Kerry called China's approach to North Korea a failure, saying that something had to change in its handling of the isolated country it has supported for six decades. On Friday, China suggested that it was the Americans, not the Chinese, who were largely to blame for the North's nuclear program.

Two suspected IS terrorists shot dead after attack on tourists in Egyptian hotel

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Cleaners try to clean blood stains near the entrance to Bella Vista Hotel in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada, Egypt, January 9, 2016. Two armed assailants attacked a hotel in the Egyptian Red Sea resort town of Hurghada on Friday, wounding three foreign tourists, Egyptian officials said

Three European tourists who were stabbed at a Red Sea resort in Egypt were only lightly wounded and are in stable condition, hospital officials said.

Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' captured, sent back to prison he escaped from

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted by soldiers during a presentation at the hangar belonging to the office of the Attorney General in Mexico City, Mexico January 8, 2016.

Mexico recaptured the world's top drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in a pre-dawn shootout and chase through drains on Friday, returning him to the same prison he escaped from six months ago, in a boost for the beleaguered government.

The head of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel was captured in a car wearing a filthy vest after fleeing through tunnels and drains from a raid on a safe house in the city of Los Mochis, in his native northwestern state of Sinaloa.

Another robbery in Ekiti 12 hours after driver’s death

Barely 12 hours after robbers struck on the Aramoko-Igede Highway in Ekiti State, another robbery has been reported.

The second robbery, which occurred late on Wednesday, happened at a spot not far from the place where a driver, Toyin Kajiko, was killed.

Sources told The Nation yesterday in Ado-Ekiti that a bus conveying 14 passengers was attacked at 8pm but nobody was killed.

The bus was said to be heading to Ado-Ekiti.

The robberies have struck fear in the minds of residents, motorists and commuters.

Police Recover Arms, Ballot Papers In Ex-militant’s Home

Not less than 35 people have been arrested at the residence of Soboma Jackrich, a former militant leader, popularly known as Egberipapa, at Buguma community, Asari Toru local government area of Rivers state.

File photo of arms

According to New Telegraph, the raid was conducted by policemen attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), anti-cultism unit, 19 Police Mobile Force (PMF) and 56 PMF in Rivers state.
The raid was said to have been carried out around 4am on Thursday, January 7, by policemen, who stormed a notorious criminal’s hideout in Buguma.

Biafran struggle: Ohanaeze rejects Kanu’s approach

Nnamdi Kanu

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The Secretary General of the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Dr. Joe Nwaorgu, says the approach of the founder of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to the perceived marginalisation of the Igbo is unacceptable.

Nwaorgu said Kanu’s strategies to correct the alleged imbalance were at variance with that of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo which believed that the problems could be resolved within the country and not through violence.

Speaking in an interview with our correspondent on Thursday, Nwaorgu, however, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to consider releasing Kanu unconditionally.

FG begins direct payment of ex-militants’ stipends

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Chukwudi Akasike

THE Federal Government said it had started the direct payment of three months arrears of stipends owed former Niger Delta militants.

The Chief of Staff to the Office of the Special Adviser to the President and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Col. Dedis Abel (retd.), who disclosed this on Thursday, promised that the Federal Government would henceforth be paying the former agitators directly.

23 die of starvation in Syrian town

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Twenty-three people have died of starvation in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya since December 1, Doctors Without Borders said Friday, as the United Nations prepared an aid delivery to the area.

The UN said there were 40,000 people, half of them children, who needed immediate lifesaving assistance in Madaya, where access has been restricted by pro-regime forces.

Damascus on Thursday gave permission for UN agencies to send relief to the town, following reports of starvation deaths among civilians, many of whom have been displaced from the neighbouring rebel stronghold of Zabadani.

Kenya crackdown on sex talk and preacher shows

Kenya has published new broadcast regulations, which will place strict limits on sexual content and ban preachers from soliciting money on air.

Explicit content will only be allowed on the airwaves between 22:00 and 05:00 in order to protect children, Kenya's Communications Authority says.

Has Iyanya Part Ways With Freda Francis?

Iyanya and Freda Francis

From the look of things, it seems the center can no longer hold between Iyanya and his new girlfriend Freda Francis. As it seems he has broken up with the Abuja based beautician as Iyanya has unfollow Francis on Instagram and also deleted all her pictures on his wall.
The two lovebirds flaunt their relationship especially in the latter part of 2015 attending events together and taking pictures as a couple.

2016 People's Choice Awards: Winners from the TV category

The 2016 People's Choice Awards aired on January 06 on FOX, and it was a star-studded affair, as is essentially the point with such a program.

The Awards celebrate the fan-voted favorites in everything music, movies, TV, and so on. There are dozens of categories, though of course not all of them are presented on TV.