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Saturday, 29 October 2016

Photos of Pres Buhari's daughter, Fatima, who just got married

Fatima who is president Buhari's second daughter,got married to her fiance, Malam Gimba Yau kumo(former MD Federal Mortgage Bank) at her father's home in Daura, Katsina state FRIday October 28th. More photos after the cut...

After weeks of anticipation, American singer and rapper T-Pain has arrived in Lagos, the entertainment capital of Africa, where he will host the Heineken ‘Live Your Music’ party this Saturday, October 29, 2016 at the Federal Palace Hotel in Lagos.

Just a few months after MTN dropped some of their celebrity ambassadors, telecoms giant Globacom has done the same. As of this evening, their ambassadors including Sammie Okposo, Burna Boy, Wande Coal and even P-Square, have been dropped. They have signed on Timaya and are negotiating to acquire FalzTheBahdGuy from MTN, Olamide from Etisalat, and 2face from Airtel.

LIB exclusively gathered that Glo is offering them huge sums to break their contracts with other telcos!

Rapper, Wale shows love to Meek Mill following long beef

Rapper Wale took to his IG page this evening to show love to his label mate and fellow rapper Meek Mill, posting a photo of Meek's upcoming album cover. Guess things are now good between the pair following their much publicized beef last year where Meek alleged Wale was a 'f**k' boy and envied him and Wale accused Meek of bringing a pencil to a gunfight during his beef with Drake.

Friday, 28 October 2016

Timaya joins Glo as brand ambassador

One of Nigeria’s most popular musicians, Timaya, has joined the exclusive list of brand ambassadors of the next generation network, Globacom. Globacom said in a statement that the singer, songwriter and producer, whose full name is Inetimi Alfred Odon, was signed on as the latest Glo brand ambassador last week.

A mother and daughter that are competing in Brazil's Miss Bumbum competition have disclosed how their obsession to win the coveted prize led to the mother's spouse of six years walking out on them.

The 35-year-old Bruna Ferraz, and her daughter Eduarda Morais, 19, both admitted they are desperate to be crowned the country's queen of shapely bottoms.

From the producer of multiple award winning movie 'Ayomi', comes another mind blowing musical drama series titled 'Beautiful Song'.

Written and produced by Bukunmi Oluwasina, and directed by Bogunbe Abiola Paul the series stars:

That's what Paper magazine is reporting. Paper magazine in the report said their conclusion of a possible date between the pair is as a result of a page six report that Drake spent a lot of time with Taylor Swift during his birthday bash last week. According to the report the only person Drake spent time with more than Taylor was his mum.

AY's Record Breaking Movie 'A Trip To Jamaica' now showing in Ghana cinemas

Nollywood highest grossing movie of 2016 'A Trip To Jamaica' now showing across all Ghana Cinemas from October. 28th...

In an interview during a morning radio show with 103.5 KTU's Cubby & Carolina Bermudez in New York, Bruno Mars said that British star singer Adele is diva to work with. According to Mars, he loved working with Adele on her 25 ballad "All I Ask" but she likes to have things done her way.

In another gut wrenching and bizarre revelation by the Child's Right And Rehabilitation Network(CRARN) a 40year old man, John Friday Akpan from Akwa Ibom State, resident in Calabar the Cross River State capital, is now explaining to the police how he heeded the advice of a herbalist, "Dr." Okokon and eventually tagged his two children, Elisha Friday Akpan and Esther Friday Akpan as witches and wizards.

Are you a fashionista, shopperholic, trendsetter, celebrity, fashion icon, stylist or none of these but you wear clothes?

Introducing the Lagos Fashion Fair 2016, the biggest ready to wear international fashion fair in this part of the world!

This event offers an opportunity for designers, fashion professionals, boutique owners, stylists, fashion retailers, models, trendsetters and consumers to interact, network and build business relationships with our Nigerian and European exhibitors.

Check out the cake made for FalzTheBad guy for his birthday yesterday. Nice cake.

Nigerian Surgeon Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye and his surgeon partner Dr. Darrell Cass of Texas Children's Hospital carried out an operation on a baby at 23 weeks. (Read here)

Lynlee Hope, who suffered from a tumour known as Sacrococcygeal Teratoma was removed from her mother's womb, operated on and returned back. She healed and continued to grow until she was born again at 36 weeks.

Donald Trump on Thursday joked during a rally at Ohio, a key state in the U.S elections, that he'd like the election to be cancelled and he be 'declared the winner' due to Hillary Clinton's bad policies.

"Just thinking to myself right now, we should just cancel the election and just give it to Trump,"

"Her policies are so bad. Boy, do we have a big difference,"

Trump also mocked Hillary saying she had 'low energy' even asking the crowd at his rally who they thought had a lower energy between Clinton and his republican party presidential nomination rival Jeb Bush.

U.S presidential candidate Donald Trump seemed to suggest that he'll carry out legal action against NBC for leaking a 2005 video of him making lewd comments about women to Washington Post.

Trump was asked by Fox Tv's Bill O'Reilly if there's any chance he could take legal action against NBC for the leak of the "Access Hollywood" tape, to which Trump answered: "You'll see, you'll see, you'll see after the election," Trump said.

According to a new poll by consultancy firm PWC, London has been named the best city in the world to live in defeating Paris of France and New York of USA in the process.

The survey by PWC was conducted on 5,200 well-educated adults with high net worth and they were described as “senior business decision makers or well-educated, high-income consumers who typically stay up to date with world events”.

PWC ensured that the pollers represented 16 countries around the world so as to make the poll results fair and just.

Burna Boy is set to electrify the atmosphere at A Lounge with amazing performances, thrilling fans to his numerous hits like Rizzla, Soke, Pree Me, Realest, and more. You don't want to miss out!

Venue: Stalad Gardens, 51/53 Progress College Road, New Oko Oba, Agege, Lagos
Date: Friday, 28th, October, 2016
Time: 10PM

ISIS fighters have executed 232 people and have used thousands of hostages as human shield in other to advance through Iraqi forces. This happened after Kurdish and Iraqi forces edged closer into the city to battle the Islamic fighters...who then began massive killings on civilians and former Iraqi Security Forces for refusing to join them.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Nigeria Police Force (NPF) have pledged to work more closely together to curb the attacks on oil and gas facilities across the country by militants and others.

The two agencies made this commitment this week when the Group Managing Director of NNPC, Dr Maikanti Baru, visited the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Ibrahim Idris, at the Force Headquarters in Abuja.

It has been 14 years of sports broadcast like no other! 88.9 Brila FM has continued to set new standards with its refreshing approach to sports and now they have something new for us all.

The radio station with 4 branches in Nigeria celebrated 14 years on the 1st of October 2016.

3 men die inside a well in Onitsha (graphic photos)

Three men tragically lost their lives inside a well at No. 1, Hanik Street, Trans Nkisi Federal Housing, 33, Onitsha, Anambra State. According to reports, the first man was hired to dig a well deeper in a bid to find water when he mistakenly slipped and fell on Monday.

His relative, Mr Usai, 32, jumped into the well in a bid to rescue him but also lost his life in the process. A third person tied a rope around his waist before jumping into the well to rescue them but quickly came out with bruises, claiming that there were forces inside the well that was 'slapping and boxing' him.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Syrian airstrikes hit a school in Northwestern killing 35 people, 11 children and 7 women inclusive on Wednesday night- and the death toll is expected to rise with many in critical condition.

UNICEF, the United Nation's agency for children, said that the strikes are a war crime.

On Wednesday, a lot of of people were surprised to see Dance entrepreneur, Kaffy, lash out at Davido and other artistes who allegedly disrespect dancers in Nigeria. In an explosive video lash out, Kaffy came for the music artiste, stating that it was disrespectful of him to dismiss contracted dancers at the very last minute. According to her, this happened at the One Africa Music Fest in the U.S in July and another similar issue also came up before the 3 thrones concert in Lagos over the weekend.

Parliament's cameras caught South African President Jacob Zuma sleeping an hour and 14 minutes into Finance Minister Pravin Gorhan's mid-term budget speech on Wednesday, October 26th. Watch after the cut...

Liverpool is set to sign 15 year old football whizkid, Emeka Obi dubbed the 'best schoolboy player in England' from Bury for a six figure sum after he impressed the club with his performances in the center of defence for Bury.

The club would have completed the signing of the Nigerian defender since Wednesday but it's been delayed as the club had to work out his Visa issues.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has assured the public of its fairness and readiness to attend to all issues referred to it without any delay.

This assurance was given on Thursday, October 27th, by the South-South Zonal Head of Public Affairs of the Commission, Mr. Oladele Oyewale while receiving some women protesters, who thronged EFCC office in Port Harcourt.

Women group in support of former First lady, Patience Jonathan, this morning staged a peaceful protest at the EFCC zonal office in Port Harcourt, Rivers state where they called on the anti-graft agency to unfreeze her $15 million seized from four company accounts linked to her. The women, numbering about 100, stormed the EFCC’s office chanting various songs and carrying different placards and banners with inscriptions bearing their grievances.

A man identified as Okunmwendia Victor was also arraigned today before Justice P. I. Ajoku of the Federal High Court, Benin City on a three count charge bordering on fraud and obtaining by false pretense. Okunmwendia 29, a graduate of Delta State university is alleged to have presented himself as Sister Julia Imoke, founder and coordinator of Happy Home Orphanage in his attempt to extort money from unsuspecting persons.

The senate has amended the act establishing the Code of Conduct Tribunal. At the plenary presided by Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, the senators passed 14 amendments to the Act. According to The Cable, the senate amended section 3 of the Act thus:

Few days ago, there were media reports quoting comic actor, John Okafor aka Mr Ibu as saying he is in support of President Buhari on the recent arrest of some judges accused of corrupt practices. Ibu was quoted as saying;

“I will support Buhari for his action against Nigeria Judiciary. When issue of Buhari’s certificate came up, No judge was serious to prosecute Buhari, when IPOB members were killed, no judge talked about it, when Nnamdi Kanu was guiltless, no judge talked about it,

The Nigeria professional football league(NPFL) will start the 2017 football season in December 2016 LMC chairman,Alhaji Shehu Dikko has revealed as football enthusiasts have been in the dark about the kick off date for the new season following the successful conclusion of the last season.

"We are looking at December, 2016 to start the new season,"We have told the club sides to start getting prepared and I'm aware that some of them have been notifying their players to return to camp for training to commence.If we get the full cooperation of the clubs in the area of preseason formalities,the league will commence in December". Shehu Dikko said to CompleteSportsNigeria.

Fire has swept through Mansa Shoprite branch in Luapula Province of Zambia, destroying properties worth millions. The fire outbrake which happened yesterday, October 26, between 20:00 hours and 21:00 hours had reportedly given the Zambian fire service operatives’ tough time in putting out due to the unavailability of water, reports say.

According to reports, the cause of the fire emanated from the store room and the value of the property destroyed have not been established yet. Meanwhile investigations have been instituted in the matter to what brought about the fire out brake.

Justice Tukur Mu'azu of the Kaduna State High Court has convicted and sentenced the immediate past sole administrator of Kaura Local Government, Kaduna State, Ibrahim Akut Baba to seven years imprisonment for offences bordering on obtaining money by false pretence.

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has dismissed an application filed by Senate President, Bukola Saraki, challenging the jurisdiction of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) to entertain the charges of false asset declaration leveled against him by the Federal government.

Delivering judgment on Saraki's application today, Justice Abdul Aboki who led the five-man panel ruled that the appeal is unmeritorious and was then entirely dismissed. The judges unanimously ruled that the tribunal was constitutionally empowered to entertain and try him for the 16-charges of corruption and false asset declaration brought against him.

'If I were a Supreme Court judge, I would have ordered Amaechi's arrest' - Segun Oni says

In view of the recent arrest of some judges over allegations of corruption, former Ekiti state governor and Deputy National Chairman (South) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Segun Oni says if he was a supreme court judge, he would have arrested former Rivers state governor now Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi.

The senate today recommended 5 years imprisonment and N5 million penalty for anyone found guilty of sexual harrassment. The recommendation was made during the debate on the Sexual Harassment in Tertiary Education Institution Bill.

Photos: Despite public outcry, Bobrisky speaks at Abuja seminar

The bleaching expert is currently speaking as a panelist at the social media seminar currently holding in Abuja. There was a public outcry yesterday after Presidential media aide, Bashir Ahmad and an executive at Alder Consulting, Subomi Plumptre, pulled out as panelists because Bobrisky had been listed as a speaker as well.... see more photos after the cut...

Amara Kanu, of course, is the stunning wife of legendary Nigerian footballer, Kanu Nwankwo. She's been working on this project for a while. It's called Global African Students Education Summit (GASES). Amara is coming to the end of her Masters degree in Entrepreneurial Management in the European Business School London and noticed that all the Africans she's come in contact with are spread out in different directions and no common platform to build upon knowledge and share experience to make things better. Hence the idea of GASES!

An unsuspecting young woman on Wednesday, October 26th, became a victim of a conman and their trickery after being given a flyer along Uhuru Highway.

According to local media reports, she was stuck in traffic when a man approached her and started talking to her about the benefits of losing weight and then handed her a flyer before disappearing.

Moments later, she started feeling dizzy and decided to park her car on the side of the road to seek help from passers-by. It was then discovered that the flyer she was given had been laced with poison.

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