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Current high life king Flavour released a new album on November 14th, without any hype or promo, and he's already sold 1 million copies. According to the guys at Obaino Music, who are marketing the 21-track album titled Thankful, by yesterday November 19th...they had sold out the first one million copies, and they said by Flavour's standard, that's not even much! They started selling from the East where Flavour is incredible popular, a source told LIB. The new album features M.I, Phyno, Wande Coal and Chidinma. Heard the album? Like it?

All is fine in the home of Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness. After a report had suggested that the couple had marital issues because the X-Men star was spending so much time away from home, and hardly noticed Furness when he was. A rep for Jackman told Gossip Cop that the story was BS, and that the 20-year marriage was still going strong. Furness works as a film producer and director, and clearly understands that being away on film locations is a part of their business.

The collapse of the SCOAN building that claimed over 100 lives was not an accident but a controlled demolition, according to the Homicide department of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti. The head, Homicide Investigation and Crime Scene Management at Panti, DSP Olusola Agoyi, made this known at the sitting of the coroner, Magistrate O.A. Komolafe. Agoyi, in his testimony, said the speed and the rate at which the Synagogue building caved in, coupled with some dust-like smoke that followed were peculiar elements seen only in a building felled by controlled demolition.

You may call him Nikolai Kryaglyachenko, or you may just call him Magneto. Nikolai, 12, was walking home from school one day when he stopped to lean against a lamppost. Unfortunately for Nikolai, the lamppost had a faulty wire and the schoolboy was blasted across the street by a jolt of electricity. “When I came round, I felt groggy, but managed to get home and told my mum what had happened. When I woke up the next day and got out of bed, I found some coins that had been lying on the mattress had stuck to my body. Then when I was having breakfast and dropped my spoon, it stuck to my chest,” Nikolai revealed.

Mats Hummels could become the most expensive defender in the premier league if Dortmund accept Manchester United’s bumper bid for him. Manchester United’s reported first official bid is €45 million and so far, Dortmund have yet to respond to the offer by the Old Trafford club. Dortmund would be unable to resist at least negotiating the deal as they would not want to lose as they did in Lewandoski’s departure. Hummels on his part might not want to quit Dortmund just yet even though their chances of Champions league football next season are worse than Manchester United’s at the moment. If the deal goes through at the current price, Hummels would become the most expesnive defender to come to the premiership eclipsing Mangala’s €40 million move to Manchester City

Tighter, shinier and altogether much more risqué, you need a killer body, a dash of courage and plenty of talcum powder to attempt this look Kim Kardashian can’t get enough of it - she’s stepped out wearing it three times in the past few months, and now supermodel Kate Moss has got in on the act. Latex is the new leather and is turning into a firm celebrity favourite. But this look is not for the faint hearted. Tighter, shinier and altogether much more risqué than it’s predecessor, you need a killer body, a dash of courage and plenty of talcum powder to attempt this look. Reality TV star Kim clearly has all of these and has been spotted wearing an array of latex designs by cult label Atsuko Kudo.

Nigeria is not the only highly ranked African county that failed to make it to Equatorial Guinea for the African Cup of Nation next year. Egypt, the most successful team in AFCON history would also not be at the tournament. Egypt needed to win by two clear goals in order to make it to the tournament as best losers an looked in a good position to advance when they leas Tunisia 1-0 in the first half. Tunisia however came back to win the game 2-1 and end up as group winners. Tunisia qualified as winners of group G while Senegal came in second in the group.

The Qualifying matches for the African Cup Of Nations 2015 have been completed and sixteen teams that would battle out for the most important trophy in African football at Equatorial Guinea have emerged, there were some shock qualifiers as some African heavyweights are set to sit out 2015’s AFCON. Some other heavyweights however made short work of their qualifying groups. Cameroun had qualified a before the final round of matches as well as South Africa, Congo joined South Africa from group A ensuring that the Super Eagles of Nigeria relinquished their crown even before the tournament starts. Egypt also failed to make it to the tournament at the expense of Tunisia and Senegal

The US embassy in Abuja has ruined the planned honeymoon of Nigerian Athlete Blessing Okagbare after they refused to grant her new husband, Igho Otegheri, visa to travel to the US with her. The couple had planned to travel to LA where the sprint queen is based but the US embassy refused to grant visa to Igho, leaving Blessing distraught. Blessing tells Vanguard "I feel so bad that America Embassy would turn down the visa request by my husband to travel with me to Los Angeles. I have resumed training for the season and I have to go back to my base with my husband so that I can concentrate. “I have sent copies of my documents, including my Resident Permit in Los Angeles to them so as to facilitate my husband’s traveling with me to the States, but they refused.

I'm sure some of you have seen these recharge cards bearing logos and names of political parties and contestants of next year's elections. MTN Nigeria has dissociated itself from recharge cards. Below is a statement they released... "As a corporate organisation MTN is non-political and non-partisan. MTN Nigeria does not have any arrangement with any political party to produce specially branded recharge cards or merchandise. We also do not have any affiliation with any political party or organisation, either in Nigeria or in any of the 22 countries where MTN operates across Africa and the Middle East. " Continue...

The Fame Monster star wanted to mark the five-year “birthday” of the release of The Fame Monster with a new bit of body art Body art: Lady Gaga When Lady Gaga wants a new tattoo, she doesn’t just go to a tattoo parlour. That would be too simple. No, she flies her favourite tattoo artist from the US to the UK to ink her. Of course she does. The singer, 28, who is in Manchester on a break from her Artpop tour, wanted to mark the five-year “birthday” of the release of The Fame Monster, the reissue of her debut studio album The Fame.

MBGN 2013 Miss Charismatic and Miss Ogun 2013, Rukayat Arewa took to her instagram page to talk about how she survived a ghastly motor accident on Monday November 17th. Find what she wrote 

Here are some pictures and a statement by the Nigerian Defence Headquarters on the military action that reclaimed three towns in Adamawa state from Boko Haram on Monday November 16th. See the statement and more photos after the cut... The pictures here are from the military operations in Gombi, Pelia and Hong in Adamawa State, where the Nigerian troops mercilessly dealt with the terrorists with the recovery of the towns as well as their destroyed vehicles, hideouts, weapons and ammunitions. While some of the terrorists have been captured alive others were killed in the operation. The Nigerian troops too could be seen in action.

Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has decried accusations levelled on President Goodluck Jonathan of being partisan in the issue of the Delta Gas City project, Ogidigben, saying, the President means well for Nigerians. He also, strongly condemned the recent kidnap of fourteen journalists in some parts of Delta State, stating that the President was worried as a result of the incident and has charged security operatives to unravel what happened. Dr Uduaghan who was speaking at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Press Week of the Delta State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, at Asaba, emphasized that the Gas City Project was sited in Delta State despite several interests because of the love President Jonathan has for the state.