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If you saw the most recent episode of  Real Housewives Of Atlanta , then you saw a lot happen toward the end of the show! There was a huge brawl that went down between the fellas at  NeNe ‘s “pillow talk” party and  Brandon  got molly-whopped as a result! It was a lot of confusion and chaos and we’re still not really sure how it escalated to the point that it did. But the wild part of it is, it ain’t even over yet! The next episode is going to pick up where that one left off!

Fresh and authentic news filtering in social circle indicates that a group of powerful politicians, who are prominent in the act of homosexuality, are the force behind the seemingly unpopular agitation against the anti-gay bill, which was recently signed into law by President Goodluck Jonathan. At the forefront of this group is a very powerful oligarchy, which has seen it all in the business circle having been on the board of many viable companies including a bank owned by a very powerful chief from the South West.

Shakira  has finally unveiled the full music video for her collaboration with  Rihanna , "Can't Remember to Forget You". The Joseph Kahn-directed clip gives glimpses at the two superstars singing while flaunting their enviable curves in body-baring outfits. At first, Shakira is featured writhing around and dancing  in a bed  placed in a big mansion. She later moves to a striped bed and takes a dip in a pool before  Rihanna  enters the house and walks around in all-black. Both Shakira and Rihanna smoke some cigars, cozy up to each other and do a steamy, synchronized dance on the walls. The coach of " The Voice " then transforms into a rocker, playing  the guitar  and the drums. "Can't Remember to Forget You" was co-produced by John Hill and Kid Harpoon. "This song 'Can't Remember to Forget You' combines both the reggae and the rock spirit, that's why I thought Rihanna was perfect. She was the other half of this," Shakira

E ver wondered why a bride wears a veil or how receiving knives as a wedding gift connotes bad luck for the newly weds? These wedding superstitions have been unconsciously guiding the minds of brides and grooms for many years, but are they really worth the fuss? Below are the common and surprising wedding superstitions and the reasons behind them:

He stated that the crisis bedeviling the party could be traced to the wanton disregard of the constitution in the past by the party’s leaders at the national level, but noted that the emergence of the new chairman offered the party a chance to redeem itself.

Demi Lovato  is not engaged to actor  Wilmer Valderrama  despite reports claiming otherwise. A representative has confirmed to E! News that there is no engagement. Another source additionally explained to Gossip Cop of the singer's ring, "It's not an engagement ring." The "Neon Lights" singer recently uploaded an Instagram photo which sparked the engagement rumor. In the photo, she can be seen wearing sunglasses and black outfit, holding a  coffee cup . Some fans, meanwhile, noticed that she wore a ring on her ring finger while the photo was taken. On Thursday, January 30, the former judge on " The X Factor (US) " posted a sweet photo  collage of  her and the actor on Instagram to wish him a happy birthday. "To the funniest, most inspiring, incredible man I know.. @WilmerValderrama - thank you for helping me get through my darkest moments.. You truly are a light to this world and to my life.. Happy Birthday!!!" she captioned

Rita Ora  has no  place to stay  after she was forced to leave her flat for making too much noise. The "R.I.P." singer revealed the news when she stopped by BBC Radio 1 on Thursday, January 30. According to the star, her neighbors could not stand noises coming from her place and asked her to leave. "Do you want to know something funny? I'm actually homeless right now. I had to leave my flat because the neighbors didn't like me that much. I'd been recording my album there, which is not a really good idea. Long story short, I now live in my sister's flat," she told host Nick Grimshaw, as quoted by  Mirror . Ora also said that she was at her sister's place less than a day when she decided to throw a party. "I moved in five hours before, I think it was enough for me to have a little get together," the 23-year-old singer/actress added. During the event, Ora additionally revealed that she worked with her boyfriend  Calvin Harris  for a son

He is a man who has regularly presented himself as a democrat.His love for the democratic process may be as a result of his long years of sowing the seed of bridge-building. He is, therefore, may be expecting to reap from where he has sown.  That should not be anyone’s problem. However, Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President and nemesis of Olusegun Obasanjo, M R. Vice President, which party do you  belong to? Which party?  Well, let me tell you a story. Immediately after our nomination after the Jos convention of our party, I arranged a meeting between the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, governors-elect and Olusegun Obasanjo where we solicited their support.  The then governor of Sokoto State, Attahiru Bafarawa, spoke on behalf of the ANPP governors and he said they would support him because I was involved and that they had had dealings with me in the past. Then we arranged another meeting with the Alliance for Democracy, AD, governors’elect and after the meeting they said the

Women rescued by Immigration officials from a ‘baby factory’ in Okitipupa, Ondo State ... on Wednesday | The Ondo State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Services has raided a house allegedly used as a baby factory in Ilutitun, Okitipupa Local Government Area, arresting 24 persons. The suspects included a 66-year-old man, Mr. Aliu Ojo, who claimed to be a retired Assistant Commissioner of Police and the alleged leader of the factory, Mrs. Happiness Ogundeji (aka Mama Pota) aged 45. They were paraded on Wednesday at the state headquarters of the service. Five ladies at different stages of pregnancy and eight men, some claiming to be husbands of the women, were also brought to the headquarters. Parading the suspects, the Comptroller of NIS, Ondo State, Mr.Musa Al-Hassan, said the raid on the house and the arrest of the suspects were sequel to a tip-off from the Comptroller General of the NIS, who directed the command to work on a circular that emanated from Calabar, Cro

Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal Members of the House of Representatives on Thursday rejected a proposal to simplify the process of removing the President and Vice-President from office. The proposal was contained in a bill seeking to amend Section 143 of the 1999 Constitution by deleting it and replacing with an entirely new section 143. The bill, which was sponsored by a lawmaker from Bauchi State, Yakubu Dogara, sought to remove the “ambiguity” in the procedure for impeaching the two highest political office holders with a notice of impeachment initiated by the House of Representatives and terminating in the Senate. However, the amendment proposal failed to secure the mandatory two-third majority support as members voted on it and 18 other proposed amendment clauses on Thursday Out of the 297 lawmakers, who registered to vote on the amendment, 172, supported it, 122 opposed it, while three abstained.

Former BPE Boss and the deputy National Secretary of APC, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has been described as a liar when he claimed Gen Ibrahim Babangida recently wrote President Goodluck Jonathan condemning his( Rufai) invitation  by the SSS. . El-Rufai claimed  that the former President  Babangida (IBB) wrote a letter to President Goodluck Jona than, condemning his arrest. Apparently, IBB did not write any letter ‘lecturing’ President Jonathan, as    El-Rufai made some to believe on his twitter and facebook pages.

Fenerbahce and Super Eagles striker, Emmanuel Emenike, is currently battling car dealers Coscharis, over a jeep he acquired for more than $100,000, but has since developed a fault. Emenike is not happy, after he sent back the BMW X6 to the company and has not gotten it back. The car developed a problem, just a year after he bought it and the powerful frontman has since splashed another N10m on a Sienna Cross Over in the interim.

Thousands of aggrieved Students of the Federal University  Otuoke in Ogbia Community, the country home of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, on Thursday shut down academic activities in the institution following the hike of fees by the management of the University. The aggrieved students took to the streets with placards chanting songs and barricaded roads leading to the Mr. President’s country home where the ivory tower is located

THE All Progressives Congress (APC) caucus in the House of Representatives, on Wednesday, said it would go ahead with the party’s directive on 2014 budget estimate consideration, saying all arsenal would be deployed to stop the passage of the budget estimates. The APC caucus in the House also picked holes in the budget estimates currently awaiting consideration as a budget that had no effect on Nigerians. The minority leader in the House, Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila, while briefing newsmen, said “we will not support a budget that does nothing for the people we represent.

ABUJA—Senators elected on both the PDP and APC platforms, yesterday, united against the Co-ordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, blaming her for the country’s economic woes. They specifically accused the minister of imposing the economic policies of the International Monetary Fund, IMF and the World Bank on Nigeria.

. . . Super Eagles’ Abdullahi Shehu ( R ) vies with Black Stars of Ghana’s Samuel Ainooson during their semi final match of the 2014 CHAN in South Africa Saturday’s final of the 3rd African Nations Championship at Cape Town Stadium in South Africa will be between Libya and Ghana, after the Black Stars eliminated the Super Eagles on penalties last night at the Free State Stadium, Mangaung.

BIGGEST GIM'S BLOGSPOT: IBB writes his own Open Letter: The Happenings In the Country Call for Worry – IBB to Jonathan

BIGGEST GIM'S BLOGSPOT: Toni Payne finally speaks on allegation that she cheated on 9ice

Four years after her 2010 separation from singer 9ice amidst cheating rumours, publicist and spoken word artist Toni Payne has finally addressed the rumours that has followed her for years. Toni & 9ice got married on July 17th 2008 and by January 2010, a year and a half later, the marriage was over. There were several reports at the time that she was caught cheating. 9ice actually started the cheating rumours by making a song where he said his woman cheated on him with a friend. People assumed he was referring to his wife and a rapper friend, who he later seriously quarreled with in the media

Ohanaeze Ndigbo, a socio-cultural organisation of the Igbo, has warned the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) to stop threatening the former Chief of Army staff, Lieutenant-General Azubuike Ihejirika, or face the wrath of Ndigbo. The President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo,  Anambra State chapter, Elder Chris Eluemunoh, stated this in reaction to the comment by NEF threatening to drag Ihejirika to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague for alleged extra-judicial killings.

T he  Special Adviser to the President on Political Affairs, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak has challenged the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, and the media community to focus on critical issues that will determine the agenda for the 2015 general elections rather than concentrate on bashing President Goodluck Jonathan and threatening mayhem, if the election results did not favour them. Gulak said the mass media was making itself a willing tool in the hands of the political opportunists in APC, whose stock in trade was to abuse the office and person of Mr. President because they had nothing to offer Nigeria. In a telephone interview in Lagos, yesterday, Gulak said: “I hold the media in highest esteem and I expect them to be guided by the ethics of their profession, to be fair to all sides.”

The rank of the APC in the Senate swelled Wednesday with the defection of 11 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, senators to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Among the senators that defected are Bukola Saraki, Mohammed Ndume, Danjuma Goje and Abdullahi Adamu. The senators communicated their decision to decamp to the APC in a letter addressed to the Senate President, David Mark. There are reports that some more senators could decamp in the coming weeks.

Hundreds of supporters and well-wishers of former governor of Kano state, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau gathered at his Mundubawa residence on Wednesday where he denounced his membership of the All Progressive Congress (APC) with a verdict that the party lacked leadership structure and internal democracy. He declared his membership and loyalty to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He regretted that six months after its registration, APC leadership has refused to conduct elections into the national, state, local government and ward executives, adding that no single member of the party has been duly registered.

Coordinator of the Northern Emancipation Network, Malam Abdul-Azeez Suleiman has cautioned that President Goodluck Jonathan’s chances in 2015 in the North could only be guaranteed if he drops his Vice, Namadi Sambo and runs with a more valuable mate.

Stephen Currie was lost for 28 days.  Stephen Currie, who endured daily temperatures of almost 40C, was found shirtless, shoeless and 15kg lighter by locals on a remote track about 10km outside the former mining town of Chillagoe on Wednesday afternoon.

When you’ve got it, you’ve got it and Brad Pitt still has it — “it” being that desirable movie star combination of looks, charm, intrigue and not to mention, talent, that keeps movie goers in theater seats. Pitt will hit the big 5 Oh on December 18, 2013 and of course, all the celeb gossip rags and big magazines want to know how he feels about it. Brad Pitt insists that, at least so far, the idea of turning 50 years old doesn’t faze him at all because he’s at a good place in his life, now engaged to Angelina Jolie, and raising their six kids together.

Before going public with their relationship, Selena Gomez, 21, referred to Justin Bieber, 19, as her little brother. Following their breakup,  there's been rumors  that she's dating singer Austin Mahone, who's 17, but  they've been debunked.

Heidi Klum, bodyguard breakup Heidi Klum is back on the market. The model/TV personality's relationship with her bodyguard, Martin Kirsten, ended a few weeks ago,  Heidi Klum  is single again.  After  dating for a year and a half , the supermodel and her  bodyguard boyfriend   Martin Kirsten separated a few weeks ago,

We thought Miley Cyrus' MTV VMAs drama felt familiar. The 21-year-old singer has recruited Madonna for her "MTV Unplugged" special, and the star admits that she takes some inspirational cues from Madonna. "I grew up listening to Madonna, and a lot of what she represented for me is what I try to represent to girls now, not being afraid of sexuality and being who you want to be and doing what you want to do,"  C yrus told MTV, which will air her "Unplugged" special tonight at 9 p.m. ET/PT. During Cyrus' set, the two pop stars collaborate on a mashup of Madge's "Don't Tell Me" and Cyrus' No. 1 hit, "We Can't Stop." According to MTV, we can expect plenty of Madonna-on-Miley grinding - which, given her reason for having Madonna on in the first place, makes sense. "'Don't Tell Me' is basically the same message that I'm telling my fans with 'We Can't Stop,'" Cyrus sai

Justin Bieber was charged Wednesday with assaulting a limousine driver in Toronto a month ago, police said. Bieber arrived at a Toronto police station for booking Wednesday evening amid a chaotic scene as determined photographers, reporters, screaming fans and the curious converged around his SUV. About a dozen Toronto police officers shoved their way through the crowd to escort Bieber, getting him through the door only after a struggle.

  A newly surfaced letter written by Jesse Ryan Loskarn gives details on why the former U.S. Senate aide killed himself after getting arrested last month for possessing child pornography. Loskarn, who was found dead Thursday,  wrote in the letter  that he identified with the images he purchased because he had been sexually abused, himself, as a child.

Former Nigerian Head of State, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida today released a statement through his media aide, Kassim Afegbua more or less advising the President to see things a bit differently especially beyond what his aides tell him.

*Shekarau By AbduSalam Muhammed Former Kano State governor and chieftain of tha All Progressives Congress, APC, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Shekarau along with thousands of his supporters, today, joined the PDP at an elaborate ceremony in Kano. Details later.

Yola—The death toll arising from the two separate attacks on a Church in Chakawa village, Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State and  Kawuri village in Konduga, in Borno State has now risen to 138. Armed men Armed men suspected to be members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect attacked Chakawa village in Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State as well as the Kawuri village in Konduga, Bornro State killing innocent people.

E NUGU —  Deputy Governor of Enugu State, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi, yesterday, described the evacuation of his poultry from his official residence at Government House by officials of the Enugu Capital Territory Development Authority, ECTDA, and Ministry of Environment as a wicked act. He said the action of the official which was shocking to him, was intended to humiliate him and show how “politically impotent” he was.

l agos —Lagos State government, yesterday, said the proposed Fourth Mainland Bridge may not be realisable soon because; “With the current plan, 318 buildings will need to be demolished for the bridge to take-off.”

Boko Haram Victims The Gombe State Government Wednesday  expressed concern over the influx of people from neighboring states who are fleeing from the ongoing violent confrontation between the security forces and members of the  Boko Haram    sect in the North East states of Bornu, Yobe and Adamawa.

The recent pronouncement of N14 billion grants for dry season farming by federal government, undoubtedly, is a welcome development, considering that such special grant was unprecedented, especially, when it is targeted at boosting the chances of Nigeria in achieving food sufficiency, particularly in rice production as planed by the federal government. But how far this grant will go remains unclear, given that the Presidency is still withholding the bio-safety bill passed by the National Assembly, which is expected to arm Nigerians farmers with the latest technological tools and inputs to compete favourably with the food producing majors across the globe. By Emmanuel Elebeke The bill is one of the bills passed by the National Assembly that have been gathering dust on the desk of President Jonathan.

Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu •  We’ll look into issue of automatic tickets, says PDP chair Muhammad Bello             The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, along with 12 governors of the party and their colleagues in the Labour Party (LP) and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) from Ondo and Anambra States, were yesterday guests of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal and his deputy, Emeka Ihedioha, at a caucus meeting with 173 members of the House.

Nigeria and Ghana have a long history of rivalry, particularly when it comes to football. From the days of Independence Games in the early 1960s when the two countries were pitched against each other in the annual event to the modern times, every match involving them is sold out.

PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN (4TH-L); GOV. MURTALA NYAKO OF ADAMAWA (M); SUPERVISING MINISTER OF DEFENCE, MR LABARAN MAKU (4TH-R); ACTING GOVERNOR OF TARABA, ALHAJI GARBA UMAR (3RD-R); SERVICE CHIEFS AND OTHER DIGNITARIES IN A GROUP PHOTOGRAPH WITH STUDENTS OF AIR FORCE COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL, AT THE INAUGURATION OF THE SCHOOL IN YOLA ON TUESDAY NAN YOLA—President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, said that he sacked the immediate past service chiefs because of unhealthy competition which made it possible for Boko Haram insurgents to attack the Air Force operational base in Maiduguri.

LAGOS — Twelve people suffered burns of varying degrees, yesterday, when an 18-seater bus somersaulted and caught  fire on the Third Mainland Bridge. The victims were passengers of the Toyota Hiace commercial bus which was travelling towards Iyana-Oworo area.

Akerele and Dumor With the incidents of sudden deaths becoming common in the country, experts urge Nigerians to take their health more seriously,  When the people of Ondo State received the news that one of their own, a politician and former Commissioner for Information, Mr. Ranti Akerele, died in his sleep this month, many of them must have particularly felt disturbed. In fact, it is not surprising that they felt this way, considering that not too long ago, another native and former governor, Olusegun Agagu, collapsed and died after a meeting in his Lagos residence.

Bello and Olowu Gunmen on Monday night stormed Amodu Street, off Akala Street, Mushin, Lagos State, killing an eight-month pregnant woman, Musili Bello, and her 12-year-old daughter, Suliat Olowu. A commercial motorcycle rider, identified simply as Baba Monday, was also shot to death in the operation which was said to have lasted for about 20 minutes. Our correspondent, who visited the scene on Tuesday, observed that the thugs riddled several houses with bullets and also vandalised some vehicles. The slain woman’s father, Tajudeen Odusanwo, said his daughter was shot in the stomach and in the face, while his granddaughter was shot in the head.