Download: Video Première: M.I – Chairman

PULLING OUT ALL THE STOPS! MI IS ON THE THRONE WITH BANGING NEW VIDEO , CHAIRMAN
Africa’s number one rapper and Glo ambassador MI Abaga premiered this video exclusively to fans at the Silverbird Galleria on Sunday. Today everyone gets to see the highly anticipated video on Youtube!

Hollywood to turn Messi’s life into ‘Rocky-style’ biopic

Lionel Messi's life story is to get the Hollywood treatment in the form of a 'Rocky-style' biopic movie.
The little Argentine has cemented his reputation as the world's greatest footballer by winning the last four Ballon D'Or awards and has scored 46 goals from 32 appearances in La Liga this season to help Barcelona to the title.

Lagos sacks 157 LASTMA officials for gross misconduct

Lagos State Government has sacked about 157 officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA for gross misconduct. It was gathered that 57 of the officials had been earlier sacked prior to the publication of about 100 LASTMA officials’ names in the April edition of the state newsletter, Alausa Alert. This has brought the number of those sacked in the last one month to 157.

78-yr-old woman missing since 2003 found in son’s cupboard

The police in Imo have arrested one Chimezie Osuigwe, a retired vice-principal, for the alleged murder of his 78-year-old mother in 2003. Osuigwe was arrested after the embalmed body of the septuagenarian was discovered in a cupboard at his house by a family member.

We’re responsible for Baga, Bama attacks —Boko Haram

THE purported head of Nigerian Islamist group, Boko Haram, has claimed responsibility of the two recent attacks in the North-Eastern region of the country.

In a video obtained by AFP on Monday, which also depicted women and children apparently being held hostage, Abubakar Shekau, seated on a rug with a kalashnikov resting behind his right shoulder, said in Hausa language that “we are the ones that carried out the Bama attack,” referring to the May 7 assault that killed 55 people, mostly soldiers and police.

Is Beyonce expecting a second baby?

According to the NY Post, she could be. Below is how they are reporting it...

Music insiders are chattering about Beyoncé expecting her second child with husband Jay-Z. Multiple sources told us after the Met Gala last week that the singer, who is currently in the middle of a world tour, is pregnant. Bey wore a Givenchy gown with a high, belted waist that carefully camouflaged her midsection, but pictures have emerged on blogs of what looks like a baby bump from recent tour dates.Spot the supposed baby bump on the right photo. It could just be a lot of food tho :-)

Private jets used to smuggle cash, fugitives - FG

According to a Punch report, the Federal Government believe that private jets in Nigeria are being used not only to smuggle money out of the country, but also to smuggle wanted criminals out of the country. See the report below.

Chris Brown upsets his L.A. neighbors with painting on his wall

Chris Brown has drawn criticism from his neighbors over the murals he had painted on a curbside wall at his home in the Hollywood Hills.

The Los Angeles Times reports that local residents are complaining that the images in the street art-style murals are too scary. "There are lots of babies, lots of children, and they're literally frightened," Hollywood Dell Civic Association president Patti Negri told the paper. "It's like devils on the wall - big scary eyes and big scary teeth, and just the whole vibe is not what we're used to."

45 killed in fresh communal clash in Benue •Jonathan, security chiefs meet in Abuja

THE crisis between Fulani herdsmen and Agatu farmers in Benue State assumed another dimension on Sunday, when suspected Fulani herdsmen were said to have launched an attack on the people at Ekwo Okpachenyi council area while at a burial site, killing about 45 people.

Insecurity posing threat to existence of Nigeria —Coomasie, former IGP

WORRIED by the current security challenges facing Nigeria, a former Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie, has said the security challenges are posing a threat to the corporate existence of the country.

Boko Haram amnesty panel lied, says Kabiru Sokoto

IT was a jolty twist Monday to efforts to broker a truce between Boko Haram insurgents and the Federal Government. The suspected mastermind of the Christmas Day bombing of St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, Madalla, Niger State, Kabiru Umar (a.k.a Kabiru Sokoto), Monday told the court where he is being tried that he never met with members of the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in the North, also known as Amnesty Committee.

162! Suspected cultists arrested in Lagos Island following raid

Security agents have arrested 162 people in Lagos Island during a joint aimed at curbing activities of cultists and hoodlums in the area. policemen from divisions under the Area ‘A’ command, Lion Building, those from the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja, Police Mobile Squad 20, Directorate of State Security, DSS, the Military and members of Neighbourhood Watch raided surrounded the area on Sunday between 9 p.m., and 10.30 p.m.

Edo police silent on rescue of justice’s kidnapped family

FOR security reasons and safety of the victims, the Edo State Police Command said yesterday that it would not make public its strategies to rescue the wife, daughter and driver of Justice of the Supreme Court, Bode Rhodes-Vivour. They were kidnapped on Friday on their way to Benin City for a wedding by unknown gunmen suspected to be kidnappers.

Nigerian court convicts Iranian of illegal arms shipment

A Nigerian court on Monday sentenced an alleged member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and his Nigerian accomplice to five years in jail each over an illegal arms shipment. Azim Aghajani and Nigerian Ali Abbas Jega were detained in 2010 when authorities at a Lagos port discovered 13 containers of weapons that had been declared as construction materials.

Pirates Attack 10 Boats In Southern Nigeria

Gunmen suspected to be pirates on Monday attacked 10 passenger boats off Nigeria's Niger Delta Bayelsa State, Xinhua news agency reported. The victims were dispossessed of their valuables by the gunmen along the Sagbatoru-Igweta-Iwoama waterways in the southern state's Nembe Local Government Area.

BREAKING: Wife, daughter and driver of Supreme Court Justice Rhodes-Vivour kidnapped in Edo

Gunmen, on Friday night took hostage of the wife, daughter and driver of a Supreme Court Justice, Bode Rhodes-Vivour in Benin, the Edo State capital. All three were forcefully whisked away at gunpoint, while they were en route Benin, in preparation for Justice Vivour daughter’s wedding.

Full text of ACN’s speech at the ANPP National Convention delivered by Mallam Nuhu Ribadu

I am happy to be with you today at this moment of your National Convention. Once again, Nigeria is at the cusp of change. We stand at the threshold of history, willing and determined to keep the promise of building a new nation. I am thus happy to be with you today at this momentous occasion of your National Convention.

A similar momentous event is taking place in Abuja about now. That the ANPP and CPC are holding their National Conventions the same day though in different locations to, among other things, endorse the on-going merger process barely three weeks after the Action Congress of Nigeria had done its own in Lagos, underscores the unquestionable commitments of the Progressive Nigerian leaders to re-direct and reposition Politics and Governance in this country.

Photo: Chris Brown and Karrueche Tran back together?

This is probably the reason he and Rihanna can't seem to make it work. He can't seem to stay away from his ex, Karrueche Tran. The ex lovers were spotted together backstage on Thursday May 9 after Chris performed at a show in San Fransico. The following day he sub-tweeted Rihanna. Catch it after the cut...

2015: I’m yet to decide if I will contest for president – Governor Aliyu

Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu has on Saturday declared that he was yet to decide if he would run for the 2015 presidential election. Aliyu, while addressing newsmen on Saturday, in Kaduna at a one-day North Central Zonal Security Awareness Workshop in Minna, dissociated himself from the posters depicting him to be seeking the Peoples Democratic Party presidential ticket for the 2015 election.

God has rejected our President: Femi Fani-Kayode speaks on opposition merger

Former minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has released a statement congratulating the three major opposition parties on their various conventions and merger arrangements. Fani-Kayode described their progress as one that “provides hope for Nigeria and it represents the only vehicle and platform that can deliver our nation from the hands of the PDP and the Jonathan administration.”