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Iconic star,Madonna celebrated her 59th birthday with her two biological and 4 adopted children.Beautiful family!

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The 11-year-old Bronx girl who suffered horrific burns on her face after a friend poured boiling water on her left the hospital Friday looking like her old self. “I’m so great,” Jamoneisha “Jamoni” Merritt gushed to the Daily News. Jamoni, after spending 11 days at Harlem Hospital, gobbled up a turkey and cheese sandwich upon returning home. “Now I’m dancing and listening to music,” she said. The middle-schooler will likely miss the start of her 7th grade classes and require home-schooling, her mother said. “Her arm is still raw it hasn’t healed yet ... [and she] can’t go outs... more »

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Office has arrested a suspected internet fraudster, Afolabi Ojo, who allegedly specialized in defrauding unsuspecting members of the public through phony online shopping. Ojo, a student of the Polytechnic of Iree (Iree-Poly), Osun State, was arrested following a petition alleging that sometimes in June, 2017, while window-shopping on Instagram, the petitioner came across some slippers and shoes on a page “Best Classic Store” purportedly owned by one Kemisola with WhatsApp number 08106802815 displayed on the page. A... more »

The Federal Government pleaded with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Tuesday to suspend their ongoing strike in the interest of the nation, and the students. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen Chris Ngige said ASUU should call off the strike because the government was already negotiating the issues in dispute with the Association through Babalakin Committee. In a statement signed by the Deputy Director, Press in the Ministry, Samuel Olowookere, the Minister said there was an on-going renegotiation of the 2009 agreement between the Federal Government and A... more »

Patients on admission and those who cater for them on Tuesday protest the incidents of robbery and attempted rape at the Edo Central Hospital located along Sapele road in Benin. The patients protested round the hospital appealed to the management to provide security for their safety. Some of the victims who spoke decried that the lack of security, especially at night, at the hospital. The patients alleged that those on admission had been robbed at gun point and disposed of their money and other valuables while they also alleged rape in the process. They said the recent incident ...more »

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, has finally reacted to the news of his marriage coming to an end. Dismissing the alleged crash of his 17-month-old marriage, Ooni in a chat with NAIJ.com, said he and his wife are still happily married. According to his media aide, “There is no truth to the news, it is unimaginable. We would issue a statement on the matter soon. The palace is not interested in this rumour as there are lots of positive activities happening every minute so we don't have time to respond to such noise being created by nonentities."

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Earlier today,Charly Boy and his group of 'Our mumu don do'protesters stormed WuseMarket,Abuja to ask traders to join their protests. However, they were attacked by ''Sai Baba' boys who smashed the vehicle Charly boy rode in,and injured a civilian,one protester , a journalist with the Sun and Cameraman with AIT. Sun journalist AIT Cameraman

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A woman in Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit against Chick-fil-A claiming a tiny rodent was baked into the bun of her chicken sandwich. Ellen Manfalouti said the incident happened when a coworker went to the fast food eatery on Lincoln Highway in Langhorne to buy them lunch. Manfalouti told Philly.com when she bit down on her chicken sandwich she noticed something strange was on the bottom of her bun, but thought the bread had just been burnt. I realized it was a small rodent of some sort," her coworker, Cara Phelan, said. "I could see the whiskers and the tail." Manfalouti's lawye... more »

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Usher will not settle with the people suing him for allegedly exposing them to the herpes virus ... sources close to the singer tell TMZ. The sources say there have been no settlement talks and Usher has no interest in making the claims go away in return for money. As reported, 4 people -- 3 women and a man -- are suing Usher, claiming they had sexual contact and he didn't inform them he allegedly had genital herpes. Usher hasn't addressed the herpes allegations. However, a source tells TMZ although settlement isn't on the table, as lawsuits progress there's always a cost/benefit an... more »

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Zimbabwe's first lady, Grace Mugabe, returned home on Tuesday from South Africa after failing to turn herself in to police in Johannesburg to face charges of assaulting a model in a hotel room. There was no immediate public comment on the case from Grace, 52, a possible successor to her husband President Robert Mugabe, 93, who has ruled Zimbabwe since 1980. But Zimbabwe government sources confirmed she had returned home. "Yes, she is back in the country. We don't know where this issue of assault charges is coming from," said a senior government official, who declined to be named ... more »

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3 children belonging to different parents residing in the same house have been abducted by a woman who moved in four days before. The incident happened in Mowe, Ogun State. The kids abducted areJohn Segun, 5, Darasimi Ilesanmi, (two months old) and Fikayomi Bankole, 3. According to report, the said woman told their parents that she was going to a nearby shop in the neighborhood to buy them confectioneries. She however disappeared with them since then. The incident which happened last week Sunday was discovered after one of the parents got tired of waiting for her child's return. S...more »

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Nasarawa state Police command has arrested two persons in connections with a mob action that led to the death of a soldier, Lance Cpl. Ayuba Ali, on Monday in Akwanga, Nasarawa state. The command’s spokesman, DSP Kennedy Idirisu, confirmed the arrest to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lafia. Idirisu said that available information revealed the the victim, who was on pass from Maiduguri, allegedly hit a street hawker at Agwan Affi area of the town while riding on a motorbike. According to him, the victim, who was in mufti, tried to pacify the hawker and an altercatio... more »

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Police has arrested an 18-year old girl for murdering a 15-year-old boy. The boy, Jermaine Goupall was stabbed to death in Thornton Heath, South London, last Tuesday. Reports have it that Jermaine and his friends were accosted by three assailants wearing balaclavas and armed with knives and a machete. He died from a stab wound to his leg, making him the 17th teenager to be murdered in London this year. Detectives believe his murder may be linked to a clash involving several teenagers armed with sticks, and some on mopeds, wearing balaclavas, in the same area where Jermaine was a... more »

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Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday boasted that his record of fighting corruption was greater than that of President Muhammadu Buhari. This was in reaction to an allegation by the Director General of the Voice of Nigeria, Mr. Osita Okechukwu that Jonathan opened the loop holes for corruption . In a post signed by Reno Omokri on the former president official Facebbook page, Jonathan “It may surprise Mr. Okechukwu and his boss to know that the last time Nigeria made progress on Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perception Index was in 2014 under former Preside... more »

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19609ja: royal: Queen Elizabeth is preparing to abdicate the throne and make Prince Charles,63 the King, according to royal sources. Queen Elizabeth,...

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Nigeria’s Federal Government has spent N6.2 billion under the National Homegrown School Feeding Programme, one of its four ongoing Social Investment Programmes (SIP), with Ogun and Osun states having the most children covered. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity (Office of the Vice-President), Mr Laolu Akande, made this known in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday. He said the expenditure was in fulfilment of the Federal Government’s plan to ramp up the Social Investment Programmes this year. According to him, the Buhari administration is now cl... more »

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Queen Elizabeth is preparing to abdicate the throne and make Prince Charles,63 the King, according to royal sources. Queen Elizabeth, 92, is alleged to have told her inner circle of plans to hang up her crown at the age of 95.. "I have spoken to a number of high-ranking courtiers who made it clear that preparations for a transition are moving ahead at pace," royal commentator for the Daily Mail, Robert Jobson, said. "They have all confirmed that a Regency with Charles taking the lead is now, at the very least, a real possibility." The act would grant the Queen's eldest son full p... more »

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A few days after Karrueche complimented super star and her former rival,Rihanna's body, the budding actress has put her equally banging body on display.

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At least 30 children died on Thursday and into Friday at a hospital in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh after its supply of liquid oxygen was disrupted over an unpaid bill, officials said. A home ministry spokesman told the Press Trust of India, citing police reports, that 21 of the deaths were directly linked to a shortage of oxygen. Witnesses described a chaotic scene between 11pm and 2am as medical practitioners and relatives - the tanks running dry - handed out manual resuscitator bags to families in a desperate attempt to save the young patients. "We saw children d... more »

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has agreed to embark on an indefinite strike across the nation. The union's President, Biodun Ogunyemi, declared the strike after deliberations at its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held at the University of Abuja during the weekend. In a document titled: “Strike Bulletin No.1”, which was signed and issued by Ogunyemi, ASUU said the strike action was to be a total, comprehensive and indefinite action whereby no form of academic activities including teaching, attendance of any meeting, conduct and supervision of any examin... more »

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Imo state police command has arrested a 26-year-old student of Imo State Polytechnic, Umuagwo, Johnbosco Ashiegbu, and 34-year-old Chinonso Ewurum, for allegedly stealing two vehicles. According to police, the vehicles stolen by Ashiegbu and Ewurum included a N19m Hilux van which belongs to the Oguta LGA of Imo State, adding that the suspects sold the vehicle to one Nnamdi Ejinkeonye in Onitsha for N300,000. . Punchng also reports that the other vehicle, a Toyota Camry, the police said, was stolen by the suspects in the Imo Housing Estate axis of Owerri, where it was parked by its ...more »

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A 17-year-old male SAPELE—A 17-year-old male inmate, Silas Anidi, who slit the throat of an 11-year-old girl in 2015, is among 23 inmates that escaped from the Ministry of Women Affairs and Development Remand Home in Sapele. Though the incident was carefully kept away from the public, investigation by Vanguard revealed that the inmates within the age bracket of 14 and 17 years escaped from custody on July 30th and August 2nd in what a staff of the home described as a careful orchestrated escape plot. “The escaped inmates are being held for various capital offences ranging from r... more »

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The Nigeria Police Force says it has detained and tried two of its personnel in an orderly room for alleged reckless shooting in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that a video in circulation on the social media showed the two policemen shooting into the air on the street while in a moving vehicle in Lagos. The Head of Public Complaints Rapid Response Unit (PCRRU), ACP Abayomi Shogunle, said the Commissioner of Police in charge of the Police Mobile Force at the Force Headquarters, identified the men following a directive of the Inspector-General of Police. Shogunle said t... more »

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Real Madrid and Portugal football star, Cristiano Ronaldo has responded to tax evasion allegations, telling a Spanish judge Monday that he has “never tried to avoid taxes.” Ronaldo was questioned to determine whether he committed tax fraud worth almost 15 million euros ($17.5 million) and spent more than 90 minutes answering the questions of investigating judge Monica Gomez. “I have never hidden anything, and never tried to avoid taxes,” the 32 year-old mega football star said. “Spain’s Tax Office knows all the details about my sources of income because we have reported them,” R... more »

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One of the victims of the horrific fuel tanker fire has been identified as Barr. Ngozi Nmadu. The accident involving a fuel tanker and an 18-seater commercial bus ,occurred last Friday at Felele on the Abuja-Lokoja Highway. Late Nmadu was on her way to Abuja on official duty,died in the incident which claimed at least 25 lives. Until her demise, Ngozi was the Chief Executive Officer and Legal Secretary of Quick Africa, Asaba. and the first daughter of Hon. Emeka Nmadu from Okanam, Delta State. Friends and colleagues took to Facebook to pay tribute to her.

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A woman, who lost four of her children in a kerosene explosion at her residence in Rumukwucha community, was seen yesterday around GRA Junction half-naked and appealing to passers-by to help rescue her children from the inferno. Vanguard gathered that the woman, identified as Iya Samson, lost her four children last Friday night in an explosion that resulted from the adulterated kerosene she poured into her cooking stove. A resident in the neighbourhood, who gave his name as Uche, said the lady was cooking when the stove suddenly went up in flames, consuming her four children and ot... more »

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The freed six pupils of the Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, Epe, have commenced therapeutic treatment ,to relieve them of the trauma of their captivity. The children were debriefed for about four hours on Monday at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja. Their parents were not allowed access to the session reportedly organised by a team of psychologists and other medical experts. The children were dropped at a creek in Ondo State around 12pm on Friday after kidnappers collected fresh N5m. They were reunited with their parents in Lagos later in the day and taken... more »

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A transgender man living in Portland, Oregon, has given birth to a boy .Trystan Reese and his partner of seven years, Biff Chaplow,welcomed their son, Leo Murray Chaplow. Trystan Reese, 34, was born a girl, but despite beginning hormone therapy a decade ago, he has kept his ‘original parts’, enabling him to get pregnant. The couple's story went viral in June