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Update:: Hollywood actress, Gabrielle Union took to Twitter yesterday, December 10 to share a touching video that gives her fans an inside look into her journey in becoming a mom. The video which features Union and her husband, Dwyane Wade sitting side by side also includes the moment of birth of her one-month-old daughter Kaavia. This is coming after the couple welcomed their daughter via surrogate.  Union and Wade in the video sat down to talk about their baby’s entrance into the world and their feelings about becoming parents. “Every family is unique. How each family is created & comes together is special. Kaavia James Union Wade journey into our arms was long & at times brutal. And then came @KaaviaJames. This is our birth journey. Thank you all for the love ,” Union captioned the tweet containing the sweet video. The video touches upon Gabrielle’s struggles with getting holding a baby to term (she had up to 8 or 9 miscarriages) and her diagnosis of adenomyo...

On December 10, 2005, Nigerians all over the world were shocked at the news of Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 plane crash. The accident led to the death of 107 passengers, including female preacher, pastor Bimbo Odukoya as well as some students going on a school trip. The ill-fated plane left only two survivors, one of whom is 29-year-old Kechi Okwuchi. She happened to be one of the school students on the flight and she was 16 at the time. Kechi has become an icon for many people as her life story has inspired a number of people. Recently, she took to her Twitter handle to remember her friends that she lost on the flight 13 years ago. She tweeted: “To the dearly departed of Dec 10 2005, to the 60 angels, many of whom were dear friends, I want you to know I am doing my very best to keep my promise to you all, to live this gift of life in a way that will best honor your memories & honor the Lord. ❤️.” Life as she knew it, changed for Kechi 13 years ago, but she has managed ...

The Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, says he never complained about content of campaign billboards erected by the All Progressives Congress in the state - The Kwara State Signage and Advertising Agency had claimed that it received a complaint from the Emir about the campaign advertisements of the APC - The Emir says he is neither a card-carrying member of any political party nor staff of any advertising agency The Emir of Ilorin and chairman of Kwara State Traditional Council, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, has denied complaining about the content of campaign billboards erected by the All Progressives Congress in the state. Punch reports that on Monday, December 10, the traditional ruler said there was no truth in the claim, which was made by the Kwara State Signage and Advertising Agency. The statement read: “KWASAA in a letter dated November 6, 2018 claimed that it received a complaint from the palace of the Emir of Ilorin on the campaign advertisements of the APC causing ...

Update:: Oil fell on Monday, in line with further declines in global stock markets , erasing the gains made last week when producer group OPEC and other key exporters agreed to cut their crude output from January. Brent crude oil futures fell $1.02 on the day to $60.65 a barrel by 1045 GMT, while U.S. futures lost 98 cents to trade at $51.63 a barrel. Prices rose 3 percent on Friday after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and some non-OPEC producers including heavyweight Russia said they would cut oil supply by 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd). “They had one thing in common – none of them wanted to see inventories rise further. They could disagree on prices and upon the size of the cuts, but to really see inventories moving higher? No one wanted that,” SEB commodities strategist Bjarne Schieldrop said. “Firstly, we’ll get some (price) stability, even if oil is weighed down by bearish equities. That really took the glow off oil,” he said. OPEC h...

Update:: A 15-year-old Russian has died after being electrocuted in her bath when her mobile phone fell in the water while she was charging it. Irina Rybnikova, a martial arts champion, was bathing in the Siberian industrial city of Bratsk with her iPhone charging close to the bath. The iPhone then fell into the bath and electrocuted her. She later was found dead in the bath. Irina was a champion fighter in pankration. She won the all-Russian championship two months ago and had been selected for her country’s national team. Friends say she was dreaming of becoming a world champion.  Her sister Tatiana, 25, told Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper: In August she became the godmother to my little daughter. My child adored her and called her ‘nanny’. And now she is not with us anymore… Our hearts are broken. It is so quiet and feels empty at home without her. She has been described as a "beautiful girl" with "many friends". A friend s...