Real Madrid set to tempt Tottenham with £110m package for Gareth Bale

Real Madrid are putting together a stunning £110million package to capture Gareth Bale. The Spanish giants are preparing a £60m bid for Tottenham star Bale and will offer the Welshman a £10m-a-year, five-year contract.

She's back on Twitter, it's OK: Kim Kardashian says she's "resting" after her pregnancy drama

She was rushed to hospital after a dramatic collapse earlier this week, and now Kim Kardashian has spoken out for the first time to reassure us she's ok. "Thanks for all the well wishes, I'm doing fine! Just resting...have a good weekend. Love you guys," she posted on Twitter.

PHOTOS from Last Nigt's Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards #AMVCA

 The Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards #AMVCA Awards held last Night at the Eko Hotels and your favourite Nollywood artistes showed up in styl with different mind-blowing attires. See more pictures after the cut

Gov. Akpabio presents 2 Toyota SUVs to Tuface, wife; to sponsor 29 to couple’s Dubai wedding

Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State shocked guests at the traditional wedding of the Nigerian hip pop sensation on Friday when he announced a gift of two brand new Toyota Prado SUVs to the musician and his wife, Annie Macaulay. At the event in Eket, Mr. Akpabio also announced that the state would bankroll an all-expense paid trip for 29 delegates from the state to attend the white wedding of the couple fixed for Dubai, the United Arab Emirate on March 23.

A fan wanted me to sign on her bra — Mike Ezuruonye

I’m Mike Ezuruonye. I studied Accounting in the university, worked for a while in a bank before I started my acting career. I have been acting for a few years now but I consider myself a new actor for every new script that I get.

Journey into acting

I would say destiny and fate. I had been toying with the idea of becoming an actor when Ruke Amata introduced me to the job. I soon realised that it was the void in my life that God wanted me to fill.

One-way hell: Motorists groan under police, LASTMA extortion

Although there is a ‘no entry’ sign hung on a metallic pole at Coker Road in Ilupeju area of Lagos State, there are chances that drivers coming from Awoyokun Street may still drive through the one-way route and be arrested by lurking policemen and state traffic officers for breaking traffic rule. This is because there is a towering police traffic control shelter box, blocking the visibility of the sign.

Reject APC, Face Mass Action, Yerima Tells INEC

After he was detained in Kaduna State by the police yesterday for four hours, former governor of Zamfara State Ahmed Sani Yerima has insisted that he would not be cowed. He was arrested at the end of a two-hour Hausa radio programme entitled “Hannu Da Yawa” on the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) over his comment on the formation of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Controversy Trails Alleged Killing Of Seven Foreigners By Ansaru

The Jama’atu Ansarul Musilimina Fi Biladis Sudan also known as Ansaru has claimed killing seven foreign hostages it seized last month in Bauchi State. The expatriates were employees of SETRACO Construction Company. Ansaru in a statement issued yesterday, declared that the abducted workers were killed during an attempt by Nigerian and British forces to rescue them.

Governors’ Non-release Of Judiciary Funds Stirs Controversy

Judges and other senior officials of the judiciary are no longer comfortable by the refusal of some state governors to release funds to the third arm of government as provided in section 131(3) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended). The judicial officials, who accused most state governors of breaching the constitutional provision of first line charge in the funding of the judiciary at the state level, said the governors’ action was impeding the intended independence of the judiciary.

Nasarawa Tackles Youth Unemployment With Skills Acquisition

It is no longer news that the prevalence of unemployment in the country is at its peak and keeps rising in geometric proportion. Government at all levels cannot provide the needed employment for the teeming unemployed youths, especially the white-collar jobs for which the vacancies don’t exist.

UN Troops ‘Moved To Syria – Jordan Border’

JAMLA, Golan Heights - UN peacekeepers seized by Syrian rebels in the Golan Heights have been moved to the Jordanian border, accompanied by fighters, according to their abductors. According to a report by the Aljazeera, Saturday’s announcement came a day after a UN bid to retrieve the 21 Filipinos had been halted due to bombardment by the Syrian army in the area, the organisation said.

We killed 52 Boko Haram members — JTF

The Joint Task Force Operation on Saturday said its operatives killed 52 members of the violent sect, Boko Haram. It also said it had arrested 70 suspected terrorists in the last 10 days and recovered uniforms, arms, ammunition and other items from members of the sect.

‘Buhari wasn’t persuaded to drop presidential ambition’

Congress for Progressive Change has said its National Leader, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, was not persuaded by leaders of the All Progressives Congress or any other group to drop his 2015 presidential ambition. The National Publicity Secretary of the party, said reports that Buhari had been dissuaded from contesting the 2015 presidential election were false and originated from the Peoples Democratic Party.

We hope for an African Pope — Okoh

Following the recent resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, the Archbishop Metropolitan and Primate of the Anglican Church (Nigeria), Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, has thrown his weight behind the emergence of an African as the new Catholic Pontiff. Okoh said the likely emergence of an African as the Pope would be a sign of answered prayers.

We can’t investigate without petitions – ICPC

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, has said it cannot investigate private individuals, unless prompted by petitions. Reacting to a recent report, which quoted a former foreign affairs minister, Bolaji Akinyemi, as saying that most Nigerian billionaires were corrupt, the spokesman of the ICPC, Mr. Folu Olamiti, said mere verbal protests were not sufficient to send the anti-corruption agency after billionaires.

Terrorism: France places Nigerians under watch

France has placed its citizens with roots in Nigeria, Niger, Mali and Senegal under close watch for links to terrorist groups. A French judge, Marc Trevidic, said in a recent interview with the New York Times in Paris, that the security watch arose from fears that French citizens with roots in these countries could leave the European nation and travel to Mali to receive training from terrorists and return home to cause havoc.

Britain probes video, FG keeps mum

The British Foreign Office said it is “urgently investigating” reports that a British national was among the victims killed by JAMBS. An online newspaper, Daily Record, quoted a Foreign Office spokesman as saying, “We are aware of reports of the death of a British national in Nigeria and are urgently investigating. We urge the media not to speculate at this extremely sensitive time.”

Unending war against terrorism

The brutish murder of seven abducted Setraco workers by the Jama’atu Ansarul Musilimina Fi Biladis Sudanhas further shown that security agencies should go the extra-mile to contain the growing threat which the relatively new sect constitutes. JAMBS, an offshoot of the Boko Haram sect, had abducted the workers at their camp in Jama’are, in Bauchi State on February 18, 2013 and threatened to kill them if France did not stop its military operation against Islamic rebels in Mali.

APC woos aggrieved PDP governors

The All Progressives Congress has expressed its preparedness to receive the Peoples Democratic Party governors sympathetic to the embattled Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, into its fold following the governors’ threats to leave the PDP.