The Oba of Benin Kingdom is dead

Reports from DAILY POST have it that the Oba of Benin, Omo n'Oba Erediauwa Akpolokpolo I, is dead.

The monarch's death was announced few minutes ago by the Iyase of Benin Kingdom, Chief Sam Igbe.

Prior to his death, the traditional ruler of Benin Kingdom in Edo State was reported to have been battling with an unknown illness, which started since last year.

"My Children are having heat rashes" - Fashola on Nigeria's Power Problem

Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, says his children are also facing the effects of the poor electricity supply presently being experienced in the country. He said they suffer from heat rashes, sweat a lot and also wonder what exactly he, as the minister in charge of power, is doing about the electricity challenge.

Fashola said this while speaking on Channels TV yesterday...

EFCC seize Former Petroleum Minister houses, wrist watch worth £600,000 and other diamond jewelry

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commissions (EFCC) has seized properties belonging to former Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke according to the Nation report.

EFCC confiscated houses and a very expensive wrist watch worth £600, 000 as well as other gold and diamond jewelry from the former minister who is being prosecuted at the Westminster Magistrate’s Court in London for money laundering and bribery allegations, along with her accomplice Jide Omokore

According to the source:

Mercy Aigbe and Chidinma rocks strips dress like sisters

When you are not sisters but you rock the same dress. Mother of 2, Mercy Aigbe and very single Chidinma looks like twins in new photos.

Aigbe shared the snap, which of course has garnered over 9,000 likes and captioned it:

Monochrome Saturday! ….Twining with @chidinmaekile , like we planned it 

Unilag Student Declared Missing After Partying at a Nightclub in Lagos

This picture of a University of Lagos student has been declared missing since Thursday after he went out a night of enjoyment and hasn’t returned.

A student of the University of Lagos identified as Oreoluwa Sokan has been declared missing by the police after family members hinted that he has not returned home since Thursday with his whereabouts unknown.

It was gathered that the student went missing after partying at a night club on Thursday. Anybody with useful information as to his whereabouts can contact the nearest police station.

Teacher Caught Having Sex with a Student in School Toilet

An Umlazi High School teacher in South Africa has been suspended pending investigations after a video of him engaged in sex with a matric student went viral on social media according to iMzansi reports.

The randy teacher who they say is married was secretly filmed by a student as he had sex with the female student in the school toilet.

The 2 minute long clip shows the teacher sitting on the toilet seat with the grade 12 student on top enjoying.

VIDEO: Drake Performs ‘One Dance’ at Rihanna’s ‘Anti World Tour’

Drake and Rihanna have really bonding very well. Drake surprised the Toronto audience of Rihanna’s ‘Anti World Tour’ by joining Riri on stage to perform their 8-week-running Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 “Work.”

Not only that, but Drake treated fans to the first live performance of his new single “One Dance” and a bit of “Jumpman.”

While on stage, he gave Rihanna a super duper sweet shoutout, calling her “the greatest woman he’s ever known.”

Blac Chyna doesn't want anything to do with the Kardashian Brand

Blac Chyna distance herself from engaging with the Kardashians brand manage by their mom, Kris Jenner and will not be participating in anything under her control after getting married to their son Rob Kardashian.

via TMZ:

PHOTOs: "Empire" Movie Star tie the Knot

Who hasn't see the series movie ‘Empire’? Well it's actually one of my favorite at the moment. Two of the stars Grace Gealey and Trai Byers (Lucious first son and his long time girlfriend in the movie Yeah that's them) tied the knot this past weekend in an intimate island ceremony after a year engagement.

via TMZ:

Rapper Jay Z to manage Manchester United wonder Kid, Marcus Rashford

Rapper and Business mogul, Jay Z‘s sport agency Roc Nation Sports is looking to represent Manchester United starlet, Marcus Rashford.

via The Sun.

The newspaper reports that the company established by the Hip-Hop mogul in 2013, has approached Rashford’s family about a potential representation of the attacker.

The 18-year-old who only has a year remaining on his existing deal with United, is currently represented by his family.

PHOTO: Pregnant woman delivers cocaine at Lagos airport

Drama at the Murtala Muhammad International Airport, Lagos yesterday as a ‘pregnant’ woman was delivered of a white powdery substance suspected to be cocaine by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.

In a statement signed by Mitchell Ofoyeju, NDLEA spokesperson, the woman, a 41-year-old mother of 3, Dorothy Onyekas pretended to be pregnant but was instead carrying 86 pellets of white powdery substance that tested positive for cocaine.

The statement said “The drug was intercepted during the inward screening of passengers on an Emirates flight from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The substance has a total weight of 1.720 kilogrammes with an estimated street value of N20.6 million.”

Lol, someone please Help caption this ...

Lol, when that selfie addict try to take a photo and the little guy is lust with her booty

Nigeria Footballer Obafemi Martins display his Mercedes sports car

Obafemi Martins took to his Instagram page to share a pictures of his Mercedes Sport Car which he caption "My Baby"

It must be pretty expensive for him to caption it that. What could this car worth? Anyone with an idea, drop your comment

Interest Rates Will Go Up - CBN Governor

Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria has revealed that the country’s monetary policy rate would still have to go up.

He said based on rising inflation rates, the monetary policy rate (MPR) would have to rise.

He was speaking on Saturday at the International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington.

“Truly, Nigerians really expect that if they want to access finance, they should do so under a low interest regime,” he said.

Presidency: "No loan deal during Buhari’s visit to China"

The Presidency has said President Muhammadu Buhari did not sign any loan agreement with the Peoples Republic of China during his one-week working visit to the Asian country.

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, revealed to Punch Newspapers on Saturday, that “there was no loan deal during the President’s visit to China. All that is coming are investments into Nigeria.”

Rather, the presidential spokesperson said Buhari’s trip yielded over $6bn additional investments for Nigeria.

Harrysong set to Release New Album titled "Spontaneous"

Five Star Music Artist, Harrysong has disclosed his plans to release new album soon. 

The "Reggae Blues" crooner disclose this to Channels Television lately. Mr Songz said; ‘we are working on the new album titled ‘Spontaneous’ and I have a lot of my friends on it. The album is basically going to be about Harrysong all the way, from where I started to where I am right now to where I am going.’

The Five Star Music act also unvieled names of notable artiste who featured on “Spontaneous,” they include; Patoranking, Duncan Mighty, MI Abaga, Kcee, Yemi Alade, Seyi Shay and others.

Wizkid sends shout out to his real G Davido

In the past few weeks it seems everything has been going the right way between Africa biggest star, Wizkid and Davido. Both has been hanging out together. The pics above is one of such hangout in a private jet.

And to tie the knot more, Davido was signed to Pepsi which Wizkid has been a brand ambassador for the past 2 years. To recognize this, Wizkid took to his Instagram page to send his shout out to his homeboy Davido. See post below:

Rihanna launch ‘Fenty Beauty’ Makeup Line

"Work" singer and work hitmaker, Rihanna’s empire is expanding to include a complete makeup collection. The line, called ‘Fenty Beauty by Rihanna,’ comes in collaboration with the Kendo division of LVMH and is set to arrive Fall 2017.

It’s estimated that LVMH paid as much as $10 million to make the deal.

via WWD:

50 Cent to Pay $23 Million to Settle Bankruptcy Debts

Curtis Jackson aka 50 Cent may be ‘bankrupt,’ but the rapper has offered to pay $23 million to help settle some of his debt.

via TMZ:

50 and his lawyers submitted their plan to a bankruptcy judge, and according to the docs … he will pay the $23 mil over the next 5 years.

Jennifer Lopez stuns on cover of W Magazine, talks about her past relationship

Jennifer Lopez in a recent interview with W Magazine for its May 2016 cover story, opened up about the resentment and failure she grappled with following her 2011 split from her third ex-husband, Marc Anthony. The superstar whose famous exes also include Sean "Diddy" Combs and Ben Affleck seemingly threw shade at her musician ex and his skills in the sack in the no-holds-barred piece.

via US Magazine:

Khloe Kardashian Shares Emotional Instagram Post About Lamar Odom

Khloe Kardashian broke her silence regarding her complicated relationship with not-so-estranged husband Lamar Odom.

After pausing her life to help rehabilitate Lamar back to health, the complicated couple is said to be on the rocks after Lamar was spotted drinking at a bar despite his issues with substance and alcohol abuse.

Khloe took to Instagram this morning to write a not-so-cryptic post about her situation.

She wrote:

Blac Chyna and Rob Kardashian have been Offered Millions for TV Telecast of their Wedding

Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna have been offered massive amounts of money to televise their wedding, Yes a huge millions of dollars but there is just one thing that is sealing a deal and her name is Kris Jenner.

via TMZ:

Several big-time TV producers tell us pitchmen are putting together offers for Rob and Chyna. We’re told the most lucrative path would be an episodic docusoap leading up to the big day. They’re looking at $150k-$200k each per episode, plus another $500k each for the finale.

Ciara Looks Absolutely Stunning on the Cover of ESSENCE Magazine

Ciara features on two two covers of the May issue of ESSENCE magazine and the singer who was recently in Nigeria for Darey's Concept look stunning.

In the mag, she talks about how she was ready for a family when she and ex-Future planned to have baby Future but their breakup wasn’t quite how she saw things going.

“I’d always wanted to have my own family,” she said. “And my pregnancy was planned when I was at a point in my life when I was finally ready to take on the responsibility.”

“That wasn’t necessarily part of my vision. But the moment I realized I was going to be a single mother, I had to reflect and reorganize my thoughts. I decided to trust that God had a plan for me, and move forward one day at a time.”

Veteran US Radio and TV Personality Doug Banks Dies

Veteran radio show host and TV personality, Doug Banks, has died. He was in his late 50s.

Doug hosted radio shows at stations in L.A., San Francisco, Las Vegas, Detroit and finally Chicago’s V103 according to his website before signing on to do a nationally syndicated show.

Oh Dear! Ciara Refuses to mention Future’s Name During ‘Billboard Music Awards’ Nominations (VIDEO)

Oh dear, Ciara just show to the world how much she doesn't want to associate with her baby father, Future anymore. Ciara who appeared with Ludacris on ‘Good Morning America’ yesterday to announce the Billboard Music Awards nominations.

When it came time to announce the nominations for Best Rap Artist, Ciara couldn’t help but skip over her ex Future’s name leaving Ludacris to fill-in the blank.

Watch below:

PHOTO: Woman set apartment ablaze after finding out her boyfriend is gay

A woman accused of setting her apartment on fire after she discovered her boyfriend was gay and cheating on her says it was a complete accident.

According to NJ.com, Lakishette Williams, 25, appeared for a bail reconsideration hearing Friday four months after she was charged with aggravated arson for the incident.

Police said at the time that they pulled Williams from her apartment on North Gouverneur Avenue and found that she had started fires in two rooms. 

Prosecutors said Friday that police found evidence of the first fire on a stovetop in the kitchen where they discovered remnants of charred paper on a burner.

More Sanctions For Suspended Lawmakers in Nasarawa

The Nasarawa State House of Assembly has relieved two of the suspended lawmakers of their principal offices and also dismissed them from their various committees.

The decision is coming days after their suspension and other issues led to a crisis that resulted in fisticuffs.

During a sitting of the House members, the Speaker, Abdullahi Balarabe, made it clear that their dismissal was a decision of the All Progressives Congress’ caucus of the House which is the majority in the house. All suspended lawmakers are members of the party.

He said that two lawmakers had been appointed to occupy the principal offices and some others to chair their various committees.

135 Indian hemp dealers nab by NDLEA in Delta

No fewer than 135 Indian hemp sellers have been arrested by the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, Delta State command. The suspects were caught on Monday with 160 bags of Indian hemp.

Mr. Frank Hannachor, the state commander of the agency, confirmed that operatives of the agency acted on a tip-off in Obiaruku and Kwale community where Indian hemp smoking and cultivation have been beehive of activities in the past three years and arrested the suspects, adding that the suspects were handed over to the police for prosecution.

Kanye West’s ‘The Life of Pablo’ make its way to No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart

Kanye West’s ‘The Life of Pablo’ may have landed an unconventional release, but Kanye West still earned his 7th No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 94,000 equivalent albums sold.

Of that 94,000 albums, 28,000 of those were pure album sales. The rest were in streaming equivalent albums.

via Billboard:

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new April 23-dated chart (where The Life of Pablo is No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, April 12.

Governor Fayose: "FG imposing more hardships on Nigeria with VAT increment:

See press statement from the Ekiti State Governor ...

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said that the Federal Government was planning to impose more hardships on Nigerians by increasing Value Added Tax (VAT) from the current five per cent to 10 per cent, describing the move as insensitive to the plight of Nigerians who are suffering from the bad economic policies of the President Mohammadu Buhari led All Progressives Congress (APC) government. 

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had said on Thursday, in Lagos that the current five per cent VAT rate in the country was very low, and went on to add that the Federal Government would increase the taxpayer base this year. Reacting through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said any increment in VAT or any other tax being paid by Nigerians at this time will further make life unbearable for the people.