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Friday, February 5, 2016

Nigerian contemporary artist, Ndidi Dike is set to stage her solo exhibition at National Museum

Nigerian contemporary artist set to stage exhibition at National Museum

Nigerian contemporary artist, Ndidi Dike is set to stage her solo exhibition titled “State of the Nation: New Works and Installations” at the National Museum Onikan, Lagos.

Lagos State Government Adopts 9 Year-Old Housemaid Tortured With Hot Water

Lagos State Government has taken into custody Precious Chinwedu, a nine-year-old housemaid, who was tortured by her boss for allegedly stealing crayfish

According to PUNCH, that the Office of the Public Defender had moved the primary three pupil, who hails from Orlu, Imo State, from Rem-Yems Hospital in the Agbado area of Lagos, where she had been on admission since December 28, 2015.

Entertainment Weekly’s latest issue has four gorgeous actresses on the cover –Kerry Washington, Reese Witherspoon, Elizabeth Banks and Eva Longoria – as they discuss issues they face every day in Hollywood.

See excerpts from their interview below:

A Ghanaian boy who is suffering from protracted cancer who was told there is nothing more that can be done to save him, has asked for one wish. The boy told nurses attending to him that his wish was to sit in an airplane before he dies, and they granted him that last wish.

He was driven to Kokota International Airport in an ambulance and was made to sit in an aircraft where flight crew served him and attended to him as if they were flying. He also took photographs with them before he was returned back to the hospital in the same ambulance.

Hillary Clinton has won the Iowa Democratic caucuses, according to final results from the Iowa Democratic Party. She just edges Bernie Sanders in the total of state delegate equivalents awarded Monday night.

Clinton earlier Tuesday told a crowd of cheering supporters that she was “thrilled” to be in New Hampshire “after winning Iowa.”

A patient diagnosed with the Zika virus in Texas became infected after having sexual contact with another sufferer, health experts said today. It marks the first case of sexual transmission of the virus in the US, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed. Dallas County health officials said the patient’s partner fell ill after visiting a country where Zika is rife.

An Indian pharmaceutical firm claimed on Wednesday, February 3, 2016 to have developed the world’s first vaccine against mosquito-borne Zika virus.

Dr Krishna Ella, Head of the Biotech International Limited, the company, based in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh’s capital Hyderabad, said at a news conference that it has already filed for a patent for the Zika vaccine.

Ever the eccentric, Jaden Smith showed off his new ride from the Elon Musk-run electric car company, This vehicle has been delayed for years due to engineering and manufacturing issues. Some buyers who put down a deposit years ago are still waiting. The Tesla Model X has falcon-wing doors and is priced at $80,000. It is fully electric and can go from zero to 60mph in just over 3 seconds.

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Barcelona and Brazil’s star striker Neymar has suffered a fresh legal blow. Brazilian prosecutors have filed a tax fraud and forgery case against him saying the striker and his family hid the real amount he was signed with, with his club. The 23-year-old and his family have denied any wrongdoing over alleged irregularities in his superstar signing for Barcelona in 2013.

But hours after he gave testimony in Spain in one case, a new front opened up as federal prosecutors in Brazil launched proceedings against him and his father.

Rapper Lil Wayne can’t catch a break. The 33-year-old New Orleans native appears in an Apartments.com ad that will air during the Super Bowl.

Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr., appears alongside character actor Jeff Goldblum (‘Jurassic Park’) and a man dressed up as George Washington.

Former governor of Delta State,James Onanefe Ibori has completed his prison terms in the United Kingdom. But he is yet to be a free man, as he was immediately re-arrested.
TheNEWS learnt that Ibori jailed in April 2012 by a Southwark Crown court in London was released by prison authorities on 22 January.
He was released from Her Majesty’s Prison in Bedford, outside of London, where he finished his prison term. He was also initially at the Long Lartin Prison in Worcestershire.

Kanye West remixes a song to diss Wendy Williams

Kanye has recorded a remixed version of Aerosmith’s, Dude (Looks Like a Lady), to get back at TV show host, Wendy Williams for dissing him on her show over the present squashed beef with Wiz Khalifa.

According to Daily Mail, he is also upset that the TV star has repeatedly talked on air about him being secretly gay and has called his marriage to Kim Kardashian ‘one of convenience.’

Wendy has referred to Kim as Kanye’s ‘beard’ a couple of times.

Kylie Jenner’s unstable boyfriend, Tyga appeared to have passed out after a long night of clubbing but Kylie is nowhere to be found. He seemed to have zoomed off immediately into dreamland while leaving West Hollywood hotspot 1OAK in the early hours of Wednesday morning.ober-looking Chris Brown also partied with him and was also seen leaving the same place. More photos after the cut… Sober-looking Chris Brown also partied with him and was also seen leaving the same place.
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Amber Rose was out to support Wiz Khalifa last night at his Khalifa album listening party which held in New York.

The used-to-be power couple had fun moments together, I wished this was every day for them.

Oscar 2016: Kerry Washington, Priyanka Chopra, announced as presenters

For the Oscars this year Indian actress, Priyanka Chopra, Kerry Washington, Quincy Jones have made the long list of presenters and performers at the awards. The award is just weeks away and the excitement is not too high.

South African President Jacob Zuma has finally succumbed to public and opposition party pressure to pay taxpayers back some of the 24 million US Dollars he used to refurbish his expansive estate Nkandla. He has been under pressure since 2014, when the office of the Public Protector (this is a dy in South Africa specially set up to investigate misconduct and complaints against public officers in all state affair.

Mom of 4, Amber Hughes went into labor at 30 weeks. She had been warned she would go into early labor by doctors after losing her mucus plug at 24 weeks. The young mum endured 36 hours of hard labor and when it became apparent the baby had an infection, they rushed her in to have a C-section.

It wasn’t long before Hughes knew something was very wrong. The doctors were moving about frantically and there was no crying heard for at least two minutes. Remarkably, Hughes was delivering her baby naturally at the exact moment the doctors were performing the C-section. All of a sudden, cries from baby Olly were heard, and he was found under the sheet.

He is nt a fool. He is only trying to make an observation though he’s an Unserious man,but d Lady earn the blame cos she is the ’cause’

Texas Zika case raises concerns that virus can be transmitted sexually

A case of the Zika virus being transmitted between sexual partners reported on Tuesday in Texas has raised new concerns about the transmission of the disease, which is typically spread by mosquitoes and can cause birth defects.
The patient, whose gender has not been released, was the first person confirmed to have been infected with the virus in the US.

Gorgeous! Shakira took to her social media account on Feb. 2 to tell her 16 million followers that its her birthday.
“Birthday bun / Una ducha y a celebrar mi cumple! Shak,” the 39-year-old captioned the photo showing her with her curly up.
In her image, the singer was makeup free, smiling and looking as beautiful as ever. It’s as authentic a photo as you’ll see of any international superstar.

The popular singer is still at it..She released photos to mark the end of January

Scientist Invents Anti-Rape Condoms With Teeth For Women (See Photos + Demo)

Rape-aXe condoms are designed to wear like tampons. The inner portion contains teeth. Once a pe nis enters into it, it gets stuck and only doctors can remove it.
Girls can get the time to escape.

Dr. Sonnet Ehlers who worked with rpe victims for four decades believes her product would discourage rapists

President Buhari arrived Strasbourg France ahead of his address at the Plenary Session of the European Union yesterday night Feb. 2nd. He was received by the Minister for Budget & National Planning Sen. Udoma Udo Udoma, Minister for Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Enyeama, Nigerian Ambassador to France Amb. H.O. Suleiman, Deputy Governor Al-Assas Region H.E. Mohamed Saadallah and Head Protocol European Union Monikka Strasser. More photos after the cut !

Veteran fuji musician, Sir Shina Peters whose wife recently survived cancer in an interview speaks on how women dealt with him at a young age by introducing him to early sex

According to the fuji star, he said: “my being a musician today all boils to my religious background. I’m from Cherubim and Seraphim and there is no way you’ll be C&S-born and you won’t have music in you. I think I got it from the church. At first I didn’t think I will do music but when I was about to go to the higher school then I had a dream. I heard a voice say ‘Choose one from your left or right hand’ and I opened my left one and I saw music.

Efe Omorogbe, 2baba’s manager has responded to the musician Blackface claims, confirming that Blackface did co-author songs with 2Baba, but he is given full credit and paid royalties.

Pope Francis is set to be the first pope to star in a feature film. The Bishop of Rome will appear as himself in the forthcoming movie Beyond the Sun.
The film will be a “family adventure,” with Pope Francis asking filmmakers to create a movie communicating Jesus’ message to children. All profits from the film will be donated to children’s charities in Argentina — the Pope’s home country.

Rihanna’s ‘ANTI’ Flops as Only 1,000 Copies Sold in the U.S . The news is bad for Rihanna and Jay Z. Despite their best efforts, RiRi’s eighth studio album, Anti (pronounced “Auntie”) is a spectacular flop.

Jay Z tried it when he leaked RiRi’s entire album on his Tidal music app. But she will sell only 1,000 copies when the final count is tallied. To add insult to injury, the album opened at #27 on the Billboard Top 100 Albums chart. An inside source told the NY Times that the actual sales figure (as of Monday) was 460 copies sold.

Veteran Yoruba actor, Taiwo Hassan popularly known as Ogogo has revealed that his fame is natural because he doesn’t believe in ritual. He further narrated that if it was to be ritual, his fame would have stonewashed especially when he was stormed by a strange illness and left the industry for years.

Help save Nollywood actor, Olumide Bakare who is currently in a bed-ridden state at the University Teaching Hospital. He is critically ill and his health is deteriorating as the days go by. He is currently pleading with the members of the public to assist him financially. Last week he was taken to the University Teaching Hospital, UCH, Ibadan for heart cum lung related disease and has accrued huge medical bills and his condition, daily, gets worsened. He presently needs about thirty thousand naira daily for diagnosis as at the time of going to press.

A worker with the Lagos State Waste Management Agency, Oluwaseun Thomas, is currently on admission at a private hospital on the Lagos Island, after hoodlums stabbed him in the eye for allegedly reporting their activities to the police.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, on Tuesday called for collaboration between all relevant agencies of the Federal Government for the war against corruption and other related crimes to succeed. Justice Mohammed spoke at a workshop on ‘combating financial fraud, cyber and cross-border crimes’ in Abuja on Tuesday.

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, who also spoke at the event, said he was currently working with the judiciary to ensure the success of government’s efforts to end impunity in the land.

It has come to our notice that Troops of the Central Naval Command, with headquarters in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, have arrested a barge laden with 800 tonnes of Automotive Gas Oil (diesel).

The Flag Officer Commanding, CNC, Rear Admiral Apochi Suleiman, made this known in a statement by the command’s spokesman, Lt. Commander Edward Yeibo, on Tuesday.

The executive secretary of the United Nation’s Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Carlos Lopez has insinuated that the 3^rd biggest movie industry in the world, Nollywood, could move up to second in 2030, when the demand for African expands as a result of the opportunities that abound on the internet and universal television channels. In a recent interview with Mail & Guardian Africa’s Editor Charles Onyango-Obbo, Lopez spoke on several interesting topics, including Nollywood and its potential in a few years’ time.
Speaking on how big Nollywood will be in 2030, he said;

Harry Styles dropped his One Direction management team ahead of the band’s hiatus and has now signed with CAA management’s Jeffrey Azoff, fuelling speculation he is trying to launch a solo career in the US.

Modest Management, who guided the 1D boys throughout their career, confirmed the news the 21-year-old heartthrob was now being represented by the top Hollywood agency in a statement.

‘We wish Harry the very best. It has been a real pleasure working with him…Harry is a total gentleman, and we know our good friend Jeffrey Azoff will look after him.

‘We look forward to sharing some great wine with them next time we are in L.A,’ Modest executives said in a statement to Billboard.

Our source has contacted CAA for comment.

It was reported earlier this month by The Sun that Harry had dropped his management to move on with a top U.S. agent as The X Factor-founded crooners go their separate way for a lengthy break.

Long haired Lothario Harry could leave fans devastated if rumours he is attempting to distance himself from his bandmates Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne are to be believed.

A music industry insider told the publication: ‘Harry is done with One Direction. He wants to completely disassociate with the band and that includes any professional connection.

‘His new team will be about launching him as a solo superstar by around this time next year so the work is starting now.’

A spokesperson for Harry declined to comment when approached by our source.

Source: DailyMail

Cameroonian President Approves Use Of Witchcraft To Fight Boko Haram

According to a twitter user ChiefBisong Etahoben(@ChiefBisongEta1 who is an international investigative journalist and newspaper Editor/Publisher, some Cameroonian Governors and local chiefs approached President Paul Biya to give them permission to fight Boko Haram using witchcraft.

Caitlyn Jenner shared opened up on a new secret on Tuesday.

The Keeping Up With The Kardashians vet revealed in an interview that was shared with the Today show that she had grown breasts around 1990 going up to a size 36B. But they didn’t last.

‘I actually had my boobs removed. I never told anyone that,’ said the former Olympian, 66, during the pre-taped interview aired during the 2016 MAKERS Conference.

Widow of the late Ikemba of Nnewi, Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, Bianca, on Monday told a High Court sitting in Igbosere, Lagos, that she is the only woman that was legally married to Ojukwu.

She declared this before Justice Abdulfattah Lawal, in the ongoing legal battle between her children and the deceased’s brothers over the family estate.
She admitted that Ojukwu has eight children, including the claimants, Afamefuna and Nwachukwu, but that being the only one Ojukwu wedded in court, church and according to traditional marriage rites, she is the only one legally married to him.

Blac Chyna decide to put her troubles behind her by enjoying a girls’ night out with her close pal Amber Rose on Monday, partying up a storm as they visited Ace of Diamonds strip club in West Hollywood.

The 27-year-old model and fierce feminist Amber – herself a former stripper – were in their element as they watched a scantily-clad dancer writhe around on the podium.

Lady Gaga is set to perform a tribute to the late David Bowie at this year’s Grammy Awards.

At the star-studded ceremony, the Poker Face hitmaker will stage a touching homage to the singer, who passed away after a secret battle with cancer last month.

The 29-year-old stunner has long-voiced her admiration for the Let’s Dance hitmaker, so is a natural choice to host the ‘experimental tribute’ at the ceremony on the 15th of this month

Executive producer of the Grammys, Ken Ehrlich confirmed news of the segment of the show to JustJared.

The 29th Annual Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards nominations have been revealed and it’s definitely going to be a star-studded event.

Celebs including Jennifer Lawrence, Justin Bieber and Adele are among the famous faces who’ve made this year’s list. What’s more, wildly popular flicks such as Star Wars: The Force Awakens,Jurassic World and Pitch Perfect 2 are also vying for votes.

Check out the complete list of nominees below:

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