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Olamide Aka "Baddo Sneh and front man of YBNL Nation together with members of the crew- Lil Kesh, Viktoh, Adekunle Gold and Pepe put up an enthralling performance before a mammoth crowd to wrap up an impressive 2015 at the second edition of his flagship concert, Olamide Live In Concert on 27 December 2015 at the Eko Convention Centre, Eko Hotels & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.

She's looking unusually light skinned in new photos she shared on instagram. May be it's the camera lighting? See more photos after the cut...

President Buhari received Women in Politics forum at the Presidential villa Abuja today January 1st. The group was led by the forum leader, Barr. Ebere Ifendu. Continue to see more photos

The couple tied the knot on December 31st 2009. Here is wishing them many more happy and prosperous years ahead.

  Vincent Obetta, the lawyer to the embattled Nnamdi Kanu, founder of Radio Biafra, has described the continued detention of the IPOB leader as illegal. Obetta said the action had taken Nigeria back to the military era. Speaking with Punch on Friday, Obetta said that the fact that a court order for Kanu’s unconditional release had been ignored by federal authorities brought back memories of a time when people were detained indefinitely.

President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has expressed confidence that the Super Eagles, will qualify for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations and the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Nigeria take on Egypt in a double-header in March 2016, to decide their qualifying group for the AFCON 2017, which will be staged in Gabon.

The Nigerian Army has warned Nigerians, especially residents of Maiduguri to be wary of suicide bombers who would disguise as beggars to cause mayhem. In a press statement issued by Colonel Mustapha Anka, the Media Coordinator of Operation LAFIYA DOLE, he said attention “has been drawn to terrorists intention to use beggars to cause mayhem, conceal explosive in bundles of firewood to be placed in crowded and strategic areas within Maiduguri and environs.

Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu on Thursday said he remains the governor of Abia State despite the ruling of the Court of Appeal, Owerri Division, nullifying his election and declaring Dr. Alex Otti as the validly elected candidate for the April 11, 2015 election. The Court of Appeal on Thursday said Ikpeazu of the Peoples Democratic Party was not validly elected and as such nullified his election. The Court said Otti, the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, won the larger number of votes from the election and as such declared him the winner.

Embattled former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd), has pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari to allow him enjoy the bail granted him by the Federal High Court in Abuja. He spoke a day after Buhari had in his first presidential media chat declared that Dasuki and Kanu could not be released because they would jump bail considering that the charges against them were serious. But reacting to the President’s remark, in an interview with Daily Sun, counsel to Dasuki, Alhaji Ahmed Raji SAN, said: “I would want to appeal to Mr. President to please allow my client to enjoy the bail that was granted to him. I want to beg him in the name of God. I cannot join words with the president. I have the greatest respect for him, both in his official and personal capacities. My appeal is just that I am begging him in the name of God to allow my client to enjoy his bail.”

  President Muhammadu Buhari has described 2016 as the year Nigerians will begin to witness the ‘change’ they voted for. This was contained in his new year message. He called for support from all Nigerians, assuring that his electoral promises would be fulfilled beginning from 2015.

Popular Nollywood actress cum producer, Mercy Aigbe is 37 years old today, January 1, 2016. The Edo State-born actress, who is as famous for her beauty as she is for her dexterity in acting, earned a degree in Theatre Arts from the University of Lagos in 2001, and joined the industry fully in 2006. A mother of two, she is married to a popular Lagos hotelier, Larry Gentry, MD/CEO Hotel La Veronique. Aside her dazzling skills on screens, she owns a well-stocked fashion outfit named ‘MAG DIVA’ situated at Omole Phase 1. Join us in wishing her happy birthday!

  There was jubilation across Taraba following the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Abuja which upheld the election of Gov Darius Ishaku in April. As the news filtered in that the governor won at the court, supporters in his home town, Takum and across other towns like Chanchanji, Wukari and Zing, took to the streets in celebration. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) observed that there was no celebration of any kind in Jalingo as the town was very calm with people going about their normal businesses.

The Lagos State House of Assembly yesterday passed into law the N662.588 billion Year 2016 Appropriation Bill presented by the State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on December 17, 2015. The Appropriation Bill, tagged “The Peoples Budget,” is the highest in the history of the State and it was an improvement on the N489.69bn appropriated for year 2014 and 2015 respectively. The House unanimously approved the budget after members deliberated on the report of House Committee on Budget which scrutinized the Bill as proposed by the Governor. The report was presented by Chairman of the House Committee on Budget, Hon. Rotimi Olowo on behalf of members of the Committee.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in Bayelsa State and former governor of the state, Chief Timipre Sylva, has told Bayelsa people and Nigerians generally, to see the New Year as an opportunity to make a new start in their individual and collective quests for development. Timipre Sylva Sylva, who stated this in a New Year message, yesterday, sued for peaceful coexistence among the people and urged them to eschew divisive tendencies.

  In Niger, Tafa Local Government, the life of all the residents of the local residents are at risk due to a huge refuse dump. The heap of dump is located behind the primary health centre and police station. If it is not removed soon it may very well be responsible for spreading of several diseases across the community. The locals are living in fear because of the imminent health hazard.

  Tunji 'Tee Billz' Balogun , husband/manager of female pop star Tiwa Savage ushered in the new year with his baby son. Tee Billz shared a selfie of him relaxing with his son Jamil Balogun on his bed. He captioned the adorable selfie " 2016 chilling... #HappyNewYear. "

Recently, menswear in Nigeria has moved from taking a back seat to the forefront of the fashion industry.A number of menswear fashion designers have emerged with a transformation of the traditional Nigerian man into a more modern man with ties to his culture. Towing that line, T.I Nathan’s Soliloquy collection is a stand out collection. His collection features prominent colors of red, black and white. The cuts and silhouettes are also quite contemporary and modern with rich textures and patterns.

The times are changing people! Who says the leader of the free world can’t have fun too and look good while doing it. President Obama is at his annual family vacation in Hawaii, where he's engaging in fun activities like playing golf and not worrying about the issues of America.

  We show some love this New Year. Please, let us contribute to this thread, specifically meant for our brave soldiers who are out there in the Harmattan cold facing Boko Haram insurgents. Say something encouraging and heartwarming to these warriors and their families, to whom we owe the peace we enjoy in most parts of the country.

An aged woman was crushed to death while scores were injured as a trailer loaded with goods rammed into fleet of vehicles along Oke-Fi/ Ilobu road on Wednesday in Osogbo, Osun state. Eyewitnesses’ account revealed that the trailer driver had lost control of the vehicle owing to break failure while trying to descend the hilly part of the road at Old NEPA junction in the area before it rammed into other vehicles from behind.

A fire outbreak yesterday night razed a student hostel known as Malisia lodge at Gwalameji area, a suburb of Bauchi metropolis. Though no life was lost because many of the occupants of the lodge travelled for the Christmas festivities, they lost all their belongings to the fire. It was gathered that the fire which started around 2 am completely destroyed all the rooms in the hostel and it lasted for several hours before the arrival of the officials of Fire Service who came to put out the fire.

 The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,  Monday night, arrested a serving colonel in the Nigerian Army over his alleged involvement in the sharing of money from the office of the National Security Adviser under Colonel Sambo Dasuki . The arrest saw the anti graft agency deploying over two truckloads of  armed security personnel, who cordoned off the the residence of the colonel in the Apo district of the Federal Capital Territory where the operatives had to bring down the fence to gain entrance into the sprawling complex.

Two suspected vandals, Moshood Jibril and Joseph Friday, were yesterday arrested, by men of the Inspector General of Police Special Task Force on Pipeline Vandalism, in Lagos while a tanker truck with 33000 litres of stolen Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, commonly called petrol and a Toyota Corola saloon car were recovered.

Welcome to 2016, folks! 2015 was amazing...but 2016 will be even more amazing for all us. Here's my prayer for you in the new year. You will get in 2016, a kind of miracle you've never received before or even thought possible. You will succeed beyond your imagination in 2016. Your struggles have ended with 2015. Every miracle that God has planned and will do in your life will never be reversed. Your life is about to change with this new day, so get ready! You will be a testimony of God's greatness. God will use you to show that He is the I Am that I Am. This will be a year of breakthrough. No weapon fashioned against you will prosper. Your enemies will fall at your feet. God will keep you safe from all evil. No deaths will visit your family in 2016. Something great, miraculous, and breath-taking will happen in your life in 2016. God has promised you that and it will happen. May this year be the beginning of the best years of your life and may all you...

Nollywood Actor Charles Okocha, who was hit by stray bullet and rushed to an Emergency Room, is recovering and out of danger now. According to colleagues who visited him, the bullet(s) were removed successfully.

FORMER Minister of State for Education, Oloogun Kenneth Gbagi, has faulted the Federal Government’s proposal to borrow N1.8 trillion to fund the 2016 N6.08 trillion budget. President Muhammadu Buhari Fearing that the move could plunge the nation into avoidable doom, Gbagi, who urged immediate reversal of the move, said Nigeria did not need to borrow, if President Muhammadu Buhari recovers half of the country’s looted funds.

FORMER Minister of State for Education, Oloogun Kenneth Gbagi, has faulted the Federal Government’s proposal to borrow N1.8 trillion to fund the 2016 N6.08 trillion budget. President Muhammadu Buhari Fearing that the move could plunge the nation into avoidable doom, Gbagi, who urged immediate reversal of the move, said Nigeria did not need to borrow, if President Muhammadu Buhari recovers half of the country’s looted funds.

President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to the 2015 Supplementary Appropriation Act, just as he extended the 2015 financial year to March 31, 2016 The implication of the extension is that the 2015 budget would be effective till March 31, 2016, after which the implementation of the 2016 budget can begin. The Supplementary Appropriation Bill of N465.64 billion, which the president submitted to the National Assembly on November 8 for consideration, was passed by the legislature on Tuesday, December 22,  before it embarked on the on-going break.

M TN Nigeria has said it did not expect any service disruption on its network as deadline for payment of   N1.04 trillion fine, later reduced to N780 billion by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC,  expired yesterday. The fine, which according to NCC, was against the inability of MTN to disconnect about 5.1 million subscribers allegedly not properly registered on its network in August and September 2015, was meant to be paid on or before December 31, 2015.