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Emmanuel Emenike has signed for top English club West Ham on loan from Fenerbahce till the end of the season. The footballer who retired from the Super Eagles last year agreed to join the club in the late hours of Sunday, 31st of January, barely 24hours till the end of the transfer window. The Nigeria international has been on loan at Qatari club Al Ain this season. "I'm very happy and very excited that I'm here," 28-year-old Emenike told the club's official website. "I have always known West Ham as a great club. I have known [manager Slaven] Bilic for years and thank God we are here together." he said Emenike, who has scored nine goals in 37 international appearances for Nigeria, is the club's second signing of the January transfer window.

Supermodel Cindy Crawford has announced that she is retiring from modelling when she turns 50 on February 20. The 49-year-old beauty is calling time on her legendary career - which has lasted for over 20 years - and stepping away from the camera because she doesn't want to keep 'proving' herself. Cindy - who quit full-time modelling in 2000 - told United Airlines' Rhapsody magazine: 'I'm sure I'll have my picture taken for 10 more years, but not as a model anymore.'  'And that's OK. I've done it. I've worked with all these incredible photographers,' she said. Cindy added: 'What else do I need to do? I can't keep reinventing myself. I shouldn't have to keep proving myself. I don't want to.' The runway star became a household name and a celebrity brand - as she rose to supermodel status in the eighties. Cindy touched on aging, revealing that: 'I see my daughter - you spend your teenage years wanting to...

A U.S. citizen has been arrested in Rome on suspicion of prolific child sex abuse after he was caught raping a 14-year-old boy, according to Italian newspaper reports. The man, said to be a 52-year-old former Boeing engineer from Chicago, has allegedly spent a month luring scores of young teenage boys to a rented apartment near the city's Termini station, which has become an epicenter for illegal immigrants, underage prostitutes, and criminal gangs. He paid the victims - mostly North African and Romanian migrants, some Italian - between €50 and €150 for sex, the Interior Ministry told Il Messaggero. His arrest concludes a two-week police investigation into reports that a foreign man was seen skulking around the station every night scouting young boys for sex, according to official statements. After placing hidden cameras around the station, police said, they identified the man - known locally as 'The English' - then burst into his apartment as he was sexually abu...

Rivers State Givernor, Wike Nyesom has directed security agencies in the State to arrest Biafra protesters who had threatened to resume protest by Monday, January 18 th , 2016 if their leader, Nnamdi Kanu was not released. In a statement signed by Dr. Austin Tam-George, the Commissioner for Information in the State, it had come to the attention of the Rivers State Government that some Biafran agitators had resorted to illegal processions, and had assaulted law abiding citizens and residents of the state. Governor Nyesom Wike strongly condemns the acts of criminality perpetrated by Biafran agitators by whatever name, in the Oyigbo area of the state, he said. He added “The government has directed all security agencies in the state to arrest and prosecute all Biafran agitators who flout the ban on illegal separatist processions and demonstrations in Rivers State.” He also urged all residents to be calm and law abiding

Celine Dion has suffered another family tragedy: Her brother Daniel Dion has died of cancer, days after her husband René Angélil succumbed to the same ailment. The Canadian pop singer's rep confirmed the news to E! News on Saturday, hours after it was revealed Daniel suffered from cancer of the throat, tongue and brain and did not have long to live. He was one of Celine's 13 siblings. Their sister Claudette had recently told Le Journal de Montréal that family members, including their mother, had flocked to his bedside. The newspaper quoted the family as saying that Daniel passed away at 5 a.m. on Saturday. "He was ready and he no longer suffers," Claudette told Le Journal de Montréal. "It was serene."

President Buhari will on Sunday, January 17th depart Nigeria for the United Arab Emirates on a three-day official visit. According to a statement by Presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina, President Buhari during his visit, will join the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan of Abu Dhabi and other participants as a special guest of honour at this year’s edition of the World Future Energy Summit. The Summit which is now in its ninth year of existence has developed into one of the world’s most influential events dedicated to advancing future energy, energy efficiency and clean technologies. President Buhari will also lead a team of his ministers to bilateral talks with the government of the UAE. After the talks, a number of agreements between both countries on economic, trade and bilateral relations are expected to be signed. From the visit, Nigeria also expects to get more support from the UAE for its war against terrorism an...

Former National Chairman of the APC, Bisi Akande says report of the missing 2016 budget from the Senate is a reflection of the indiscipline that produced the current leadership of the Senate. Akande stated this while speaking at his residence at a ceremony leading to his 77th birthday on January 23rd. “Nigeria’s budget is a huge document and one wonders how such document of that size could be missing in the senate. The development is fallout of indiscipline that brought the current leadership of the Senate into the position and as you know, that was not the choice of our party” he said

Mavin Records boss Donjazzy, Tiwa Savage, Aphrodija, Dr Sid, D'Prince,  Korede Bello, Reekado Banks, Baby Fresh Mavin, Altims Mavin and other members of the crew had a special night last night as they wined and dined together. More photos ........

Read the press statement from Ekiti state government below... Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has advised President Mohammadu Buhari on his order for 18 Military Generals to be probed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged involvement in the $2.1 billion arms deal. Governor Fayose, who reacted to the president order for the 18 serving and retired military chiefs to appear before the EFCC from Monday, through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said the military officers ought to have been probed in accordance with the armed forces rules of engagement. The governor, who reiterated his support for the fight against corruption, said "the $2.1 billion arms deal is a scam because all that they are just doing is to brandish figures to deceive Nigerians and demonized the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and those opposed to his dictatorship in the All Progressive Congress (APC). Till today, the amount they h...

Three teenagers of North African origin have been arrested in connection to the alleged assault of two transgender women in the German city of Dortmund. Named only by their first names as Yasmine and Elisa, the two victims said that they were verbally abused and threatened with stones by the men near the city's main train station last Monday. The attackers allegedly said they were going to stone the two women before a police officer intervened.  Elisa, 37, and Jasmin, 50, said that the men spoke to them in Arabic and said they needed to stone 'such people', according to the German media organisation Breitbart. 'Within seconds we were tossed around…and they took stones from a gravel bed on the corner and threw them at us,' said one of the alleged victims.  The two women said that their attackers tried to grab their hair and breasts during the confrontation. One of the girls claimed that the men picked up a handful of gravel and tried to throw it directly at the ...

The Lagos State Government  on Saturday  called on residents to remain calm over the outbreak of Lassa fever, just as it assured that it is doing everything possible to curtail the spread of the virus in the State. Addressing journalists at the Alausa Secretariat, on the first case of the disease recorded in the State, Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris said in line with international standards, 92 persons who had direct and indirect contact with the index case are currently being followed-up. Idris confirmed that the index case, a 25-year-old male undergraduate of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State, was reported to have fallen ill after arriving in Lagos and was taken to Ahmmadiyyah Hospital, Ojokoro on January 9 with complaint of fever, sore throats and difficulty in swallowing. He said the patient was subsequently placed on admission for six days and was thereafter referred by the said private hospital to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) o...

The football star shared the photo above and wrote "It all started at my party on Thursday at Quilox and settled here at my house @wizkidayo and@big_daddy_krane are cool ",

Agafya Lykova is the last remaining member of a Russian family that took to the woods after her father’s brother was shot by Stalinist soldiers in 1936. As members of a breakaway sect of the Russian Orthodox church, Lykova’s family was subject to harassment and persecution, and so decided to flee far from Stalin’s grasp. And they succeeded, so isolated were their lives in the wilderness that the family didn’t learn that World War II had occurred until their remote cabin was spotted in the 1970s by a group of geologists. Agafya, now 71, has continued to live in her isolated cabin despite offers of accommodations in more settled areas. According to the Siberian Times, the cabin is more than 150 meters up a remote mountainside and subject to brutal winters that even Lykova admits are “unbearable.” Her unusual life, free from almost all 21st- or even most 20th- century modernity has been a source of interest to many in the region, including the Governor of the Kemerovo region where ...

Celine Dion's older brother Daniel is dying of cancer, the family has announced just days after the singer's husband, Rene Angelil died from a long battle with cancer. Claudette Dion, one of the 14 siblings, said that Daniel, 59, did not have a long time left on earth and that it was the third time he had been diagnosed with cancer. "It looks a lot like René, he had cancer of the throat, tongue and brain," said Claudette. "Our family is very experienced." she said to the journal of Montreal. "He is 59 years old,very young to be the end of life. We are with Daniel, day and night," she said. Daniel is surrounded by family, including their 89-year-old mother.

The first lady of the Supreme Mavin Dynasty Tiwa Savage and the YBNL general Olamide team up on Standing Ovation, the second single from Tiwa Savage’s RED Album

University of Jos (UNIJOS) has been named as one of the best among second generation Universities in the country in 2015 ranking of the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC). The University was ranked the best after Ilorin. A statement signed by Abdullahi Abdullahi, Principal Officer Assistant Registrar, Information and Publication of the university, noted that: “The second generation Universities are the 12 universities established between 1970 and 1985 to meet the increasing need for university education in Nigeria especially in the area of Science and Technology.” Abduallhi said: “University of Jos was however ranked 7th in the overall ranking of all Federal, State and Private Universities in Nigeria.” NUC named the University of Ibadan in overall first position while Covenant University was rated as the best private University in Nigeria. Similarly, a student of UNIJOS bagged First Class among his peers in the November 2015 Bar Final Examination of Nigerian Law School, Bwari, Abuj...

Former Niger Delta warlord, Government Ekpemupolo also known as Tompolo, has distanced himself from the attack on oil installations by yet to be identified militants in some parts of Delta state in the early hours of today January 15th. In an interview with The Nation, Tompolo who spoke through his spokesperson, Paul Bebenimibo, said; “I am not responsible for the attack and I condemn it as a dastardly act. I am aware that some persons might want to destroy oil installations and link it with me that was why I said before time that I have nothing to do with it. I could not have gone ahead to carry out such action knowing that every finger will be pointed at me because of my case with the Federal Government,” he said

Steve Harvey's wife-Marjorie Bridges-Woods surprised him with a Bentley for his 59th birthday which is actually tomorrow Jan 17th. He shared the photo on twitter and wrote:

Remarks by former pres. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Atlanta, on Thursday 14th, January, 2016. He said: "I thank the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, for inviting and honoring me today, and especially so, as this invitation comes right about the period when the world stands still in recognition of the selfless sacrifice of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. When we think of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), it is virtually impossible to separate this worthy body from its founder, the late great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, or from epoch making landmark events of the American Civil Rights movement. I am pleased to know that the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is not just one of the great American institutions, it is also one of her more potent vehicles for the advancement of liberty and freedom for all God’s people. For that, I also commend Charles Steele for his leadership and commitment to peac...

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike on Friday, January 15, swore in Justice Adama Iye Iyayi -Lamikanra as the Acting Chief Judge of Rivers State.  Justice Adama Iye Iyayi-Lamikanra hails is an indigene of Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State while her late husband hailed from Rivers State and the present husband is Yoruba. Governor Wike insisted that the rule of law and respect for the laid down succession be followed in the appointment. This is the first it is happening in the country.  Speaking during the swearing-in of the Rivers State reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to continue to accord women their rightful positions in government, no matter the circumstances. The governor said that women will continue to enjoy more than 35 percent of appointments in his administration; noting that women occupy about 70 percent in different positions "Nobody should talk about twenty five percent or thirty percent, the women appointed since my a...

Jurgen Klopp has revealed he was once approached to become Manchester United manager, but did not want to leave Borussia Dortmund at the time. The 48-year-old will coach Liverpool against its fierce rival for the first time on Sunday after replacing Brendan Rodgers at the helm in October. Klopp received multiple offers after leaving Germany but was also in demand while still in charge at Dortmund, and admitted that United was one of the clubs who had expressed an interest "in April" - likely of 2013, when Sir Alex Ferguson was due to retire. “We spoke," he told reporters. "We spoke not a lot but, for me, it was a lot. It was a big honor, the whole talk, to be honest. "There was a time [when United was interested] but I could not leave Dortmund. That is it. You are in April and you are in the middle of the planning for next season. I did not hear about a real offer but, if there was, I could not have done it. I first had to finish the jo...