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Bahd Guy Records’ rapper and actor, Folarin Falana, a.k.a Falz The Bahd Guy, and Nollywood actress, Adesua Etomi, will jointly host the 11th edition of The Headies, Nigeria’s foremost music awards at Eko Hotel and suites. The pair, chosen for their prowess and rare creativity, embody the theme of this year’s event “create, think, recreate”. Both known for being unusually multi-talented, this year’s hosts combine acting with music, two essential talents for success on the prestigious Headies stage. Falz and Adesua Etomi, will go on to join past celebrity pairs like D’banj and Tana Adelana in 2007, Basketmouth and Dakore Egbuson in 2008, Banky W and Kemi Adetiba in 2009, Rita Dominic and Eldee in 2011, MI Abaga and Omawumi in 2012, Tiwa Savage and Dr Sid in 2013, and Basket Mouth and Toke Makinwa in 2013, who have had the honour of hosting The Headies since inception. On the announcement, an elated Adesua Etomi said, “Having to host Nigeria’s biggest music award sh...

A lost four year-old who made the perilous boat journey from Northern Africa to Italy alone will be reunited with her mother from Ivory Coast thanks to an extraordinary coincidence. Oumoh, who had been taken from her father's family by her mother under the threat of female genital mutilation, was rescued at sea and brought to the Italian island of Lampedusa on November 5, along with around 15 other refugees. But not one of the other passengers -- mostly women and children -- seemed to know who she was, according to police inspector Maria Volpe, who is charged with looking after refugee minors arriving in Sicily. "Mamma Maria", as she is known, went to the island off the coast of Africa to retrieve the youngster and on November 9 Oumoh was entrusted to a children's community in Palermo. "She had arrived a few days earlier, she seemed quite calm," Volpe, who has 20 years' experience with child refugees, told AFP. Fate then inter...

The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal yesterday declared Eyitayo Jegede of the Ahmed Makarfi-led faction as the rightful candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the governorship election billed to hold on Saturday in Ondo State. In a unanimous judgment, the Justice Ibrahim Saulawa-led three-member panel vacated the June 29 judgement of Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja, which directed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognise Jimoh Ibrahim of the Modu Sheriff-led faction as the PDP candidate for the election. The decision of the appeal court has changed the narrative for the Markafi-led faction of the PDP and the Clement Faboyede state executive committee of the party in Ondo State as well as its candidate, Jegede. The decision means that the name of their candidate will now be restored by the electoral body as they go for the election on Saturday. The judgment also raises some vital issues about the role of...

The Ondo State Governorship election is scheduled to hold on the 26 th of November, 2016. To this end the Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris NPM mni has directed that a robust and elaborate security arrangement be implemented in Ondo State to ensure peaceful, credible, free and fair elections. A Deputy Inspector General of Police has been deployed to the State and will be assisted by an Assistant Inspector General of Police and three (3) Commissioners of Police (for each Senatorial district) to coordinate the security operations and supervise the deployment of security personnel for the elections throughout the 3009 polling units, 203 wards and 18 LGA of the State. To ensure adequate security and safety of life and property before, during and after the elections, the IGP has graciously approved deployment of additional twenty six thousand (26,000) conventional Police personnel (5 Policemen per polling unit), two thousand (2,000) Mobile Police Forc...

The actress posted on her twitter handle @AdesuaEtomi saying     "It's About time You Fall Out Of Love With All Those 'Maybe's' In Your Life". https://twitter.com/AdesuaEtomi/status/783046361222619136 Well, if you think so, you guess is as good as mine.