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Friday, January 26, 2018

Nigerian veteran rapper, Ruggedman who is part of the on-going reality show ‘Celebrity Housemates’, while chatting with Junior Popeand Funky Mallam, bragged about buying Chocolate City’s act, Ice Prince his first ticketto London back in 2010.

   Ruggedman said;

      ‘When I tell am say make we go London go shoot him video he shock. Na so I buy am ticket, I even leave am for London forone week before I go join am so tey he con dey fear’.

Recall that Chocolate City act, Ice Prince, who broke into the Nigerian music scene with “Oleku’, which he had ex-label mate, Brymo on, in a new Twitter exchange, admitted that he is back to being an upcoming act.

Oprah Winfrey Finally Breaks Her Silence On Running For US Presidency In 2020

Oprah Winfrey has revealed that she has no interest in contesting against Trump for the US presidency in 2020. The world-famous television personality and business mogul disclosed this in InStyle magazine’s March 2018 issue.

After her acclaimed speech at the Golden Globes awards ceremony, people urged Winfrey to run for the White House, but she’s not interested.

Some Democrats still reeling from Hillary Clinton’s shock loss to Donald Trump, have embraced the idea of having their own celebrity candidate the next time around.

Winfrey told In Style: “I’ve always felt very secure and confident with myself in knowingwhat I could do and what I could not. And so it’s not something that interests me

Real Madrid news: Zinedine Zidane threatens to QUIT after Mauro Icardi fee agreed - report

The Spanish giants are experiencing a season to forget by their standards and sit 19 points adrift of arch-rivals Barcelona in La Liga.

Their struggles were compounded this week when they were embarassingly knocked out of the Copa del Rey by cross-city minows Leganes.

Perez is determined to turnReal's fortunesaround by splashing the cash on new players this month.However, the latest reports from Spain indicate Perez has had to forget about bringing in Icardi due to Zidan

According toDiario Gol, Perez made a crisis call to Inter Milan and agreed to pay more than £88m (€100m) for Icardi.

However, Zidane apparently threatened to quit Real if a deal for the Argentine was pushed through.

Zidane's opposition to signing Icardi is centred on his backing of Karim Benzema to rediscover his best form.

The French gaffer is also concerned about Icardi's personality and how it would impact the rest of his squad.

News of Zidane's refusal to sanction Icardi's arrival will have come as a boost toCristiano Ronaldo and Sergio Ramos.


Ronaldo does not want Icardi to move to Real because he would challenge his status as top dog in Madrid.

Actress Mercy Aigbe hints she wants another baby

Despite being a two time divorcee and a mother of two children, Mercy Aigbe still has intentions of adding to her family.

It appears the beautiful actress may be suffering from a little bit of baby fever. She recently revealed on social media that she might just try to have another baby and a baby girl, to be precise.

This happened after a photo of a lovely little girl was shared on Instagram. The actress, moved by the sheer beauty of the adorable little girl, got in the comment section and wrote:"Oh my ovaries^^^^^^i might just try, for another baby girl^."

The actress had moved out of her second husband's house in 2017 due to alleged domestic violence. Despite their divorce case still being in court and a restraining order again Lanre Gentry,there were rumours that they were trying to make peace with each other as they reportedly started following each other on Instagram again.

With her recent urge to have another child, perhaps there is hope for her relationship with her estranged husband after all!

Trump sends warm greetings to African leaders

President Donald Trump on Friday, January 26, told the African Union chairman to send his "warmest regards" to other regional leaders at a summit this weekend after triggering rage with a reported derogatory remark on against Africans.

The US president congratulated Rwandan President Paul Kagame on taking over as chair of the African bloc, which Trump described as a "great honour", Channels News Asia reports.

African Union, chaired by Kagame asked for Donald Trump's apology to Africa.But Trump denied making the remark as reported by US lawmakers present at the meeting.

Breaking: 5 killed, 8 injured in alleged fresh clash in Plateau

An alleged fresh clash between suspected herdsmen and indigenes of Jebbu Miango village in Bassa local government area of Plateau state has left five persons dead while eight others are said to have sustained various degrees of injury.

The incident, according to the New Telegraph, happened very late on Thursday, January 25.The report also said the incident was confirmed by the police spokesperson in the state, DSP Mathias Terna, on Friday, January 26 in Jos.

Terna reportedly said three people were killed and burnt by the armed men. He gavetheir identities as Danlami Gomaster, male, of Kwall district; Emmanuel Audu, male, of Jebbu-Miango and said the last person is yet to be identified.

“Eight other persons sustained various degrees of gunshot injuries and were takento Enos Hospital in Bassa for medical treatment. Twenty housing units were also set ablaze.

“Investigation is on to unravel the remote and immediate causes of these attacks.

”“Yesterday at about 1900hrs, the police division in Bassa Local Government Area received a distress call that Jebbu-Miango in Bassa was under attack.


Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino refuses to rule out Real Madrid job... but would rather work on a farm than manage Arsenal or Barcelona

Mauricio Pochettino is refusing to shut down rumours of a move toReal Madrid- but says he would rather work on a farm than manage Arsenal or Barcelona.

Zinedine Zidane is under pressure at Real andSports mail revealed in November that Tottenham boss Pochettino would be the No 1 target if Zidane is sacked.

Pochettino is focused on Spurs but said: 'You never know what will happen in football.

The Argentine, who is the son of a farm labourer, said there are only three clubs he would rule out joining.

He said: 'I am never going to be manager of Barcelona or Arsenal because I am so identified with Tottenham and Espanyol. I grew up with Newell's Old Boys and will nevermanage (their rivals) Rosario Central.

'That is my decision. I prefer to work on my farm in Argentina than in some places.'

Alexis Sanchez in drug storm as Manchester United's new star 'missed a doping test' while at Arsenal

Alexis Sanchez is at the centre of an alleged doping storm after it was claimed he missed adrugs test at Arsenal's training ground on Monday.

It is unclear who was at fault and whether it is Sanchez,Manchester United's new £600,000-a-week superstar striker, or Arsenal who could be facing a possible sanction. Indeed, there is even confusion about whether doping control officers attended Arsenal's London Colney base.

Initial reports in Spain said testers from UEFAhad arrived and requested a sample from Sanchez only to discover he was not there, but UEFA on Thursday night denied any involvement. More likely is the possibility that Sanchez has fallen foul of 'whereabouts' rules,having travelled north to complete his move to United when his where abouts details still showed him in London.

How Drake Cut Out Burna Boy Who Wrote 5 Songs In His ‘More Life’ Album

Burna Boy who is one of the most celebrated artistes and song writers in Nigeria has opened up on how he wrote 5 songs for Drake in one of his albums.

Burna Boy made this revelation during the listening party for his forth coming album titled “Outside.” which held on Sunday January 21st, 2017 at the We´re´ House in Lagos.

Burna Boy spoke on how he met with Drake in London and how their meeting led to themworking on the project Drake was working on at the time, which turned out to be an album titled “More Life.

”He also added that he worked so hard to enure that he only delivered quality materials for the projects.

He said:“I worked on 5 new songs for the project, and submitted them all.”

Burna Boy revealed that he got confirmation from Drake and his team that one of the songs he wrote named “More Life” would make it to the project but it came out in a different form on the album and it even went on to be the title of the entire album.

Sadly, the like to party crooner did not get the deserved credit for writing the song that went on to become so huge that it made the top of the Billboard Hot 200 album chart and broke streaming charts.

Burna Boy was hoever featured on the outro of the album ‘Get It Together’, which was a remake of South African DJ, Black Coffee, and Bucie’s 2010 single Superman.T

he new version had UK singer Jorja Smith, singing about fixing a strained relationship. Burna Boy’s More Life was reworked and sampled at the outro of the record and it wasentirely different from the version that he had written.

“They told me they had picked it, but when the song came out it was…chopped.” Burna Boy said.

Burna Boy however said he has moved on from that episode and stated that the originalversion of the More Life song he wrote would be on his forthcoming album “Outside,” which is set for release on January26th, 2018.