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Following close to a month of peace, female hip-hop stars, Nicki Minaj and Cardi B‘s unending beef has sprung up again after the former threw a pronounced shade at the latter recently. Nicki Minaj dropped a video for her track “Good Form” featuring Lil Wayne off her “Queen” album and she chose to hire sisters/video vixens/strip club bartenders, Baddie Gi and Jade to star in it. The duo are currently preparing to sue Cardi, TMZ reports, after she allegedly ordered an attack on them in late August. Cardi accused Jade of sleeping with her husband, Migos’ Offset. Jade accused Cardi of hiring five people to jump her at Queens’ Angels Strip Club. They allegedly punched her, pulled her hair and hit her with an ashtray. Both women claim that hours after the attack, Cardi B entered the club and threw a bottle at the pair of them, and they suffered injuries in the assault. She has denied the allegations.

Update:: Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has finally been issued a visa to the United States. A family source disclosed this to TheCable on Saturday, adding that the former vice-president has left Nigeria for the UK, where he would spend some time before flying to the U. S. It was learnt that former President Olusegun Obasanjo played a “critical” role in getting the American government to issue the visa to his former deputy with whom he was estranged for almost 15 years. Scooper recalls that Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information on Thursday warned the US to be cautious in granting visa to the main opponent of President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 election. However, commenting on Atiku’s visa status on Friday, Rusell Brooks, spokesman of the US consulate in Lagos, said issuance of visa to Nigerians irrespective of their status is strictly a confidential matter. He said the U.S government will not discuss such confidentiality in ...

Update:: Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha has suspended the Accountant-General of the State, Mrs. Stella Udogwu over the non-payment of the November salary of Local Government Workers. The governor also ordered the arrest of the Branch Managers of Ecobank and Access Bank where the money for the payment was lodged, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Sam Onwuemeodo, stated in a release on Friday. The governor said that the suspension of the accountant-general would take immediate effect. He also directed that the Chief of Staff appoint an acting accountant-general pending the appointment of a new person to the office. Okorocha said Friday that before now he had directed that the October and November salaries of workers in the state be paid at the same time in October. He said he was dismayed that the directive was not carried out until he was informed at the 40th Anniversary ceremony of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees in Owerri on Friday. “I had rele...

Update:: The Federal Government of Nigeria has directed vice-chancellors of striking public universities across the country to enforce “no-work-no-pay” rule on the striking lecturers. It was gathered late Friday that the directive to implement the “no work, no pay” policy was communicated to the universities in a memo sent by the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) to university vice-chancellors. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) had on November 4 declared indefinite, nationwide strike over non-implementation of previous agreements by the federal government and demand for increased university funding. At least two meetings have been held between the lecturers and the government since the strike commenced. However, both parties are yet to reach an agreement. In the memo signed by NUC Director of Research, Information and Technology S.B Ramon-Yusuf, the university regulator stated that payment of salaries from any other sources but government funding will be viewed...

Update:: A student of the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic (RUGIPO), Owo, Ondo State has been shot dead by unknown cultist. It is unclear to the cause of the attack.

Iconic Bollywood star and India's highest-paid, most popular celebrity, Priyanka Chopra is now officially married. The superstar got married to prominent Texan singer, Nick Jonas before family and friends in Jodhpur's Umaid Bhavan Palace. It was gathered that the ceremony was officiated by Jonas's father Paul Kevin Jonas. The couple will have a traditional Hindu ceremony on Sunday. Jonas and Chopra became engaged four months ago after dating for a year. They both confirmed the wedding had taken place on their respective social media accounts. They said "one of the special things" about their relationship was the merging of their families, faiths and cultures "and so planning our wedding with an amalgamation of both was so so amazing". Jonas, 26, and Chopra, 36, are believed to have first started dating around the time of the Met Gala in May 2017. They got engaged in London just over a year later. Chopra won the Miss World pageant in 2000 and ...

Update:: Next week in Poland, a discreet delegation of American diplomats will settle in for two weeks of international climate negotiations along with their European, Chinese and other counterparts they've mixed with for years. The fact that Donald Trump announced in June 2017 that the US would withdraw from the Paris climate accord signed in 2015 by his predecessor, Barack Obama, has not ended US participation in continuing climate talks. The US pullout won't take effect until 2020. In the meantime, the Americans are not leaving their seats empty and remain heavily involved at the technical, rather than political, level. "Among developed countries, the US is hardly isolated on those issues," said Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, noting that the US has maintained a united front with Europe and other rich nations when it comes to technical subjects that are indispensable to the effective rollout of the Paris deal...

Update:: Tiffany Trump has been privately dating Michael Boulos, the son of a multi-billion dollar family in Nigeria, Page Six reports. A source close to Tiffany tells the outlet that she and Boulos spent Thanksgiving together earlier this month and that he met most of her family. Tiffany and Boulos are assumed to have started dating over the summer when they met while on vacation in Mykonos. Boulos grew up in Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria—a country which Tiffany's father President Trump once referred to as a "shithole country." Back in January of this year, a source who works within the White House reported to CNN that President Trump had denounced immigrants by asking aides,"Why do we want all these people from shithole countries coming here?" Tiffany is happy she has so far been able to keep things with Michael under the radar," explains Page Six's source. "But she introduced him to her family at Thanksgiving, and he comes across as...

•Urhobo guaranteed of power in 2023 if Anioma gets second term •Why Clark’s position on Gov Okowa is incontrovertible •Speaks on Flash Flamingoes FC By Emma Amaeze THREE-TIME Senator, Chief Patrick Osakwe, has said that at the appropriate time, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State, will inform the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, who boasted some months ago that his party would take over the state in 2019, that the oil-rich state belongs to it (PDP). Senator, who spoke to Saturday Vanguard in an interview, asserted that with Delta state governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, from North senatorial district (Anioma), as PDP gubernatorial standard-bearer for the 2019 general election, the Central district (Urhobo) is sure of regaining power in 2023 once it supports Anioma’s second term bid under the power rotation arrangement Urhobo themselves kick started in the new political dispensation. Lawyers in Imo boycott court si...

Update:: According to the organisers, the conference is expected to finalise the rules for implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change under the Paris Agreement Work Programme (PAWP), the rulebook for implementation. During the summit, President Buhari will deliver a national statement highlighting Nigeria’s commitment to addressing climate change by implementing the goals set out in its National Determined Contributions and accentuate Nigeria’s willingness to work with international partners to reverse the negative effects of climate change in Africa and the world over, while expecting that developed nations scale up their emission reduction activities in order to limit the increase in average global temperatures to well below 2 degrees centigrade between now and 2020. The Leaders’ Summit is expected to adopt a ‘‘Declaration on Solidarity and Just Transition Silesia,’’ named after the region of Poland where this year’s climate conference is taking place. As a member ...

Update:: The Federal Government has pleaded with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to make a sacrifice and suspend its ongoing industrial action so that students won’t be used for political thuggery. The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Mrs Ibukun Odusote, who has been at the centre of the efforts to resolve the crisis, appealed to members of ASUU to make some sacrifices as parents to secure the future of Nigeria children. Odusote made the appeal while addressing the delegates of the African Students Union Parliament (ASUP), led by its Speaker, Kewul Abel, in Abuja on Tuesday. “I am appealing to ASUU members, who are also parents, that there are some sacrifices that some people have to make so that the future of our children can be secured. “If our children are sitting at home at a critical time like this, with the year coming to an end, and the nation preparing for a national election. The tendencies that they will start running into...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan says there is a sense of worry among Nigerians regarding the neutrality of government agencies that will take part in the conduct of the 2019 general elections. He also said he could not take responsibility for the April 14, 2014 abduction of Chibok schoolgirls in Borno State. Jonathan, however, said he had faith in the Independent National Electoral Commission, the Nigeria Police Force, the Nigerian Army and the Department of State Services to do well. The former President said this during an interview on BBC. He said, “We are a bit worried about the neutrality of the relevant agencies of government because with previous elections, I was not in the field. Of course, after every election, people will complain naturally but those are the areas people are getting worried but I believe the elections will come and go and those bodies- INEC, the police, the army and the DSS will be able to do well.” On the abduction of the over 200 schoolgirls in ...

Finally, the music video to the previously released smash hit audio for “My World” off the Greatness album by superstar DJ Neptune featuring UK star Maleek Berry has been released. The melodious chorus with catchy lyrics was produced by multiple award-winning platinum hit-making duo Legendury Beatz, alongside DJ Neptune with intentions of cutting across different genres of music with a blend of Afrobashment, Afrobeat and R “n” B. The music video was shot and directed in the U.K by ace director Nitin Lutch for Lutch Media.

Leaders of the North East, North West, North Central, South South, South West and South East geopolitical zones meeting with Peter Obi at Chief E.K.Clark's Abuja residence, on how to restructure and re-engineer Nigeria. Present at the meeting are: Chief E.K.Clark, Prof Ango Abdullahi, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, Gen Zamani Lekwot,Chief Cornelius Adebayo,Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN,Engr Dr Tanko Abdullahi,Senator Bassey Henshaw,Col Lawan Gwadabe,Ambassador Godknows,Igali,Senator Stella Omu,Yinka Odumakin,Dr Bitrus Pogu,Chief Willy Bozimo,Chief Mrs Remi Kuku,Bashir Hadejia.

Meek Mill's CHAMPIONSHIPS album has some words for Kanye West. And, no, they don't come from the Philly rapper. Shortly after the project hit streaming services, fans began dissecting lines in the "What's Free" track featuring Rick Ross and JAY-Z. Hov can be heard spitting a number of lines that reference Kanye's recent support of Donald Trump and his affinity for the MAGA hat: "No red hat, don’t Michael and Prince me and Ye/They separate you when you got Michael and Prince’s DNA/I ain’t one of these house n***as you bought/My house like a resort, my house bigger than yours/My spo—c’mon, man—my route better of course" Though they were once considered a hip-hop power duo, JAY and Kanye's bromance has deteriorated over the past several years. There was hope that the two were on good terms after Ye posted a photo of the JAY and Beyoncé with the caption, "Famleeeeee." In the days leading up to CHAMPIONSHIPS release, Meek reiterated h...

Update:: 'Buhari Is Taking Worst Possible Military Advice'- S'African Mercenary Speaks On Boko Haram One of the reasons for the Nigeria’s unsolved Boko haram conundrum is the “worst possible military advice” President Muhammadu Buhari has been receiving for his advisors, Eeben Barlow, a South African mercenary who was involved with the training of Nigerian soldiers in the North-East, has said. According to Barlow, on becoming President, Buhari and his advisors resisted an ongoing three-phase campaign strategy to degrade and destroy Boko Haram in Borno State, but they were quite happy to allow the Armed Forces to receive both substandard training and the incorrect equipment provided by both foreign governments and their Private Military Companies (PMCs) — along with the worst possible ‘military advice’. Writing on his Facebook timeline, Barlow urged the public not to blame the Armed Forces when poor political decisions result in the deaths of people, saying:“North-east...

Update:: Atiku's American Visa Status Is A Confidential Matter – US Consulate Declares. Against the backdrop of the controversies trailing the US visa status of Nigeria’s former vice president who also doubles as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2019 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, the United States Consulate, Lagos on Friday said the issue remains a strictly confidential matter which the American government will not discuss publicly. The Public Affairs Officer (PAO), US Consulate, Lagos, Brussel Brooks, maintained that irrespective of the social standing or interest of the society in the matter, the US government will give the matter the strict confidentiality that it requires. The PAO who did not specifically mention any name, made the disclosure in an interview with journalists at the end of an education forum organised for 150 teachers and students drawn from various public schools in Oyo State. Dignitaries at the event include ...

Update:: The tag of ‘Most educated state’ in Nigeria is usually an emotional subject. Everybody with an iota of pride would want to claim that crown for their own state. This is one discussion that is never-ending. Many contend that a table listing the most educated states must consider all variables before making a final conclusion. According to this school of thought, basing your argument on say, the state with the highest number of professors would produce a different result with a ranking based on the number of tertiary institutions in a state. But given that records keeping in Nigeria are notoriously bad, the best criteria for this sort of ranking must be easily verifiable. And the raw stats must be accepted as it is. That is why this ranking is based on the senior secondary school examination, SSCE. The examination organized by the West African Examination Council, WAEC, is a national exam and the tests are standardized irrespective of state. The marking scheme too is st...

Update:: Covenant HOSAM Festival 2018 DON'T MISS THIS UPCOMING EVENT.... Hour of Salvation and Miracle ( HOSAM ) Date: 13-15 /12/2018 Time: 10:00pm Venue: The Gospel Faith Mission International Gospel City, Ogunmakin, Ogun State.

Update:: Alleged $3.5bn diversion: National Assembly unfair to NNPC, says Baru...... The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Maikanti Baru, on Thursday said that the National Assembly was unfair to the NNPC regarding the lawmakers’ position that the oil firm violated processes while subsidising Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol. Baru spoke on the sidelines of the 2018/2019 bid opening for NNPC insurance contractors at the headquarters of the corporation in Abuja. The NNPC boss, who disclosed that over 600 brokers submitted bids for the corporation’s insurance contract, argued that the oil firm was transparent, as against the popular belief in the public. He said, “At the time that we had no fuel, the National Assembly was on our neck and they said they gave us two weeks to clear fuel queues. We did what was right, cleared the fuel queues. Now that they are in the comfort of driving and feeling comfortable, they now say that we viol...

Update:: Jennifer Lopez Is Not Marrying Alex Rodriguez Anytime Soon... Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez have been together for a few years at this point and they've faced engagement rumors for months. When JLo was spotted rocking some major bling on her ring finger, people assumed that her baseball boyfriend had popped the question. While neither of them has confirmed whether or not they're actually getting married, Ellen DeGeneres seems to have the inside scoop. "He said that y'all are gonna be married," revealed the talk show host. She was joking about getting a text message from A-Rod and while it was all in jest, it brought up the conversation seamlessly. Ellen asked the singer if she was planning on tying the knot anytime soon, to which she wouldn't give a concrete answer. However, her facial expressions tell the full story. She uncomfortably shrugs while brushing off the question, a reaction she's probably given a thousand times to the same qu...

Update:: Check Out Kanye West's New Yeezy Shoe Called The Yeezy Salt 500. Kanye West and Adidas are slowly but surely rolling out more colorways of the Yeezy 500, including the "Utility Black" joint that dropped during the Summer and several other pastel colorways that 'Ye unveiled earlier this year on twitter. Additionally, Adidas has confirmed that the "Salt" Yeezy 500 will be arriving later this week. Similar to the "Super Moon Yellow," "Blush," and the "Utility Black" Yeezy 500s, the "Salt" version is built on a monochromatic colorway that encompasses the suede, mesh and sole. The kicks will release in-store and online this Friday, November 30 for the standard Yeezy 500 retail price of $200.

Update:: Olamide Announces Release Date For YBNL Mafia Album. Olamide has announced an official date for the release of the debut YBNL Mafia family album. Ahead of the fifth edition of his Olamide Live In Concert [#OLIC5] holding before the close of the year, the YBNL label will be releasing their debut collaborative project under the YBNL Mafia Family imprint on Wednesday, December 7th. The album is set to feature Olamide's recent signings, Picazo Rhap and Yomi Blaze alongside the likes of Limerick, Davolee, Temmie Ovwasa, Lyta and producers Pheelz, Young Jonn and BBanks. This was shared by the YBNL boss on his social media pages in the early hours of Tuesday, November 26th with the caption, ''YBNL MAFIA FAMILY !!!! Out next week. December 7th'' Who's looking forward to this album?

Update:: Stakeholders worried about multiplicity of agencies in oil sector. ERA/FOEN decries alleged tardiness in Ogoniland cleanup Except the Federal Government faithfully addresses the lapses in the oil and gas sector and multiplicity of agencies, the environmental degradation in the Niger Delta might not abate, stakeholders have warned. At a validation workshop organised by the Institute for Oil, Gas, Energy, Environment and Suitability (OGEES), Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti in Abuja yesterday, the experts maintained that the overlapping statutory responsibilities of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) and National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) were unacceptable. The Executive Director of OGEES, Prof. Damilola Olawuyi, called for the merger of the regulators for effective tackling of the nation’s growing environmental challenges. He and others harped on a comprehensiv...

Update:: Atiku To Presidency: Address Issue Of Whether Buhari Is Cloned Or Not. Atiku Abubakar, former Vice- President and presidential flgabearer of the Peoples Democratic Party has told the presidency and the Federal Government to leave him alone and focus their attention on addressing the concerns over the identity of President Muhammadu Buhari. Speaking in a chat with Daily Independent, Atiku who spoke through Segun Sowunmi, spokesman of his campaign organisation said the nations of the world are at liberty to give or refuse visas to anyone they deem fit and do not need the federal government’s opinion on the issue. "The countries of the world are free and are at liberty to give visa or not to. We are advising them that should go and concern themselves with the allegations of duplicity and multiple personality sitting in Aso Villa," he said. Recall reports that a group of Nigerian millionaires have secretly contacted the US FBI to investigate if the sitting pre...

Update:: Over 1000 WhatsApp Groups As Her Phone Number Leaks Online Rita Dominic has revealed that she is now a member of over a thousand groups on Whatsapp since her phone number got leaked. The movie star made this known via her Twitter page on Monday, November 26, 2018. Rita in her tweets made fun of the situation as fans wanted to find out how she was handling it. "I told my Mum these morning that I have Rita Dominic number, she hissed and said she as it also, that a friend of hers added Rita Dominic to one of there Group Chat @ritaUdominic," a fan had tweeted. "I am a member of over 1000 groups now. Good morning everyone," Rita replied. "So everybody is calling at the same time and I can't talk to anybody. It's an I belong to everybody but nobody kind of day," she tweeted again. Rita Dominic's tweets came on the same day Nina of BBNaija fame recovered her hacked Instagram account from the same person who leaked her phone number...

Update:: Uche Nwosu Defection: Akpabio, Ganduje storm Imo, meet with Okorocha Former Governor of Akwa-Ibom and Chieftain of the ruling All progressives Congress, APC, Godswill Akpabio alongside the Governor of kano state, Umar Ganduje on Thursday stormed Imo state to hold a peace meeting with Governor Rochas Okorocha. It will be recalled that Okorocha and the leadership of the APC have been at loggerheads over his plot to have his in-law, Uche Nwosu succeed him as Governor of the state. Okorocha was hell bent on making his in-law the Gubernatorial aspirant of the APC, a plan that was put to rest after the party submitted the name of Senator Hope Uzodinma as its Flag bearer. This meeting is coming a day after Nwosu and aides of Okorocha dumped the APC for DPP. See photos Below;

Facts & History: 5 Fun Interesting Facts About Nigeria....... When you think of Nigeria, what comes first to your mind? Let me guess, corruption, bad roads, lack of electricity, unemployment, boko haram, the list is sadly endless. The negatives of the country has a way of beclouding the positives albeit few. But then the positives are there and if we hound the international community to ALWAYS portray us in a positive light, we should do so ourselves. Nigeria is a country in West Africa and the most populous country in Africa with over 170 million people. What this means is that one in every 7 Africans is a Nigerian! Scooper brings you the most interesting and fun facts about Nigeria. More than 250 Ethnic groups- Nigeria has more than 250 ethnic groups, however there are three dominant tribes; Igbo, Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba which make up 18%, 29% and 21% respectively. West Africa's largest river- The River Niger is the longest and largest river in West Africa. It spans abo...

Update::BREAKING: Fight In Anambra Assembly As Factional Speakers Struggle To Take Seat The struggle by factions of the Anambra State House of Assembly to take possession of the seat of the Speaker is currently causing a fight in the hallowed chambers. Both factions of the House, led by their separate Speakers had arrived the State Assembly complex at about 10 a.m. in the morning, but could not sit for plenary because of the tussle over which of the two Speakers should preside over the meeting. About 22 out of the 30 members of the House had three weeks ago impeached Speaker Rita Maduagwu, replacing her with Hon. Ikem Uzoezie. But Maduagwu had quickly denied being impeached, while the Uzoezie faction insisted she remained impeached. This had led to the sealing of the House by police authorities to forestall any breach of peace. But at about 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday, police unsealed the complex ahead of Thursday sitting, but, both factions went inside to administer the House. Madua...

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Update::The man who swims to work Benjamin David was fed up with the stress of commuting on busy city roads. So he now packs his laptop, suit and shoes into a waterproof bag, straps it to his back and swims 2km to work along the Isar River in Munich, Germany. Depending on the season, he wears swimming trunks or a long wetsuit – as well as rubber sandals to protect his feet from glass or the occasional bicycle laying in the river. His commute sometimes invites laughs from bystanders on the bridges above, but he says it’s faster and more relaxing than sitting in traffic.