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Well, THIS is exciting. Nicholas Hoult and Jennifer Lawrence are rumoured to be engaged - after J-Law was spotted wearing a ring on her wedding finger.  Wenn Rumours about the pair being engaged have been floating around for a while - probably because pretty much everyone wants to see the cute celeb couple tie the knot.

Representatives for Jodie Foster have confirmed the actress has married Alexandra Hedison – her girlfriend of over one year. Oscar-winning actress Jodie began dating photographer Alexandra last summer, though the low-key pair have not revealed exactly when they started seeing each other. No details have been revealed about the ceremony, though according to reports the pair said their vows over the weekend. It's highly likely they tied the knot in California – where Jodie resides – one of the 17 states in America where gay marriage is legal. Alexandra, 44, is the former partner of chat show host and comedienne Ellen DeGeneres. They dated for three years before splitting in 2004 – reportedly because Ellen met Portia DeRossi, who she has since married.

Twitter is the king of real time news, but people’s eagerness to retweet juicy stories sometimes outweighs their willingness to verify the facts first, leading them to parrot misinformation. That’s why the most intersting thing about  Facebook’s partnership  with Storyful  to create a  Newswire  isn’t about refferal traffic or  helping journalists  find things to cover. It’s that putting Storyful’s news verification process in the spotlight could make the Internet more trustworthy. The fundamental problem is that people love being the first on their block to share a big news story. Whether it’s a natural disaster, celebrity death, geopolitical crisis, or a manhunt, we crave to be seen as having our fingers on the pulse of the world. The allure of hundreds of likes or retweets can cloud our bullshit detectors. And so we blindly share.

  Manager and elder brother of singing duo, P-square, Jude Okoye will be getting married soon.  He proposed to his girlfriend and 2012 contestant on Silverbird’s Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria, Ifeoma Michelle Umeokeke in the early hours of Friday. This was revealed on Twitter by Jude’s younger brother Ikechukwu Okoye. He wrote on Twitter: ‘Welcome to the family Ada Ada…smiling at last. She said yes. Congrats bro‘,

P-Square didn’t deny the break up rumors and the fact that they fought at some point due to hatred and disputes that existed between them. Finally, they have settled their differences and the whole family made this known by their tweets

Our girl Ci Ci is almost ready to welcome her little bundle of joy  into the world and we couldn’t be more excited for the wife-t0-be. We don’t know when Ci Ci will head to the delivery room (though we’re sure she has a Hermes bag packed by the door because she looks ready to pop) but we got a glimpse at her bare belly in this issue of  W magazine.

Oh boy. The rumor mill is buzzing about  the Kimye’s wedding , that will allegedly take place this Friday in Paris and according to the chatter, Jay Z and Beyonce have declined Kim and Ye’s wedding invite! We know, we know… scandalous . The  Kimye wedding will be filmed for “Keeping Up With The Kardashian”  and the Carters are allegedly opting out of being on-camera. That didn’t stop the couple from splurging on their wedding gift. They allegedly spent £100,000 on a yacht for the soon-to-be newlyweds. In addition to the luxury boat ride, Jay is planning a swank party at his 40/40 club in their honor. Despite all of the gossip, we don’t think Jay and Bey are shady enough to miss their friends wedding. We’ll just have to wait and see… In other Jay Z news… Hov’s former producer Chauncey Mahan was questioned by police Friday after planning to extort Ja Z for his collection of master recordings that went missing in 2002. According to reports, Mahan reached out to...

Lupita Nyong’o is having the best year ever . The  Academy Award winning actress  topped People Magazine’s “Most Beautiful” list  and there have been several reports of new projects coming her way. The latest report is that Nyong’o in negotiations to star in a the live-action/CG hybrid film adaptation of the Rudyard Kipling classic “The Jungle Book.” According to  The Hollywood Reporter , Nyongo’s character would be Raksha, the mother wolf that adopts the main character, a human boy, Mowgli. With  Idris Elba  already signed on to play  Shere Khan, the tiger who regards himself the king jungle,  and Scarlett Johansson  in talks to appear as  Kaa, the hypnotizing snake , “The Jungle Book” is certainly getting a modern twist.   Lupita is also rumored to be cast “Star Wars: Episode VII ” and a film adaptation of  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s award-winning  third   novel  “Americanah” ....

The Northern States Governors` Forum (NSGF) has called on Fulani associations to expose deviants in their midst who perpetrate evil in northern part of the country. The forum made the call at its meeting with the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association and other Fulani associations on Thursday night in Abuja. The meeting, which ended at 11:30 pm, was convened to deliberate among other issues, the incessant clashes between Fulani herdsmen and farmers in northern states. The clashes, according to the forum, are posing serious security challenges to the region and other parts of the country. Reading a communiqué of the meeting to newsmen, the forum Chairman, Gov. Babangida Aliyu of Niger, also called on members of Fulani associations in the region to encourage their wards in their educational pursuit. “We recognise that the nomadic education, as conceived, will not solve the purpose, so we welcome the idea of settling the Fulani’s so that they could enjoy the two world of educational p...

The Taraba state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) called for the removal of the Acting Governor, Alhaji Garba Umar, accusing him of responsibility in the ongoing killings in the state.  The association called on the State House of Assembly to, as a matter of urgency, impeach him and President Goodluck Jonathan to remove the Acting Governor for his alleged failure to protect human lives. According to the association, instead protecting human lives the acting governor "has become a murderer himself through the use of Islamic militants to shade innocent blood in the state." Briefing journalists in its secretariat in Abuja, the state Chairman of the association, Bishop Timothy Yahaya, said, “We are calling on the members of the State House of Assembly to reconsider their steps and be pro-active by initiating moves to immediately impeach the Acting Governor.” The association described the ongoing killings in the state as an “organized plots to exterminate Chr...

For Oscar-nominated British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, starring in a film about Nigeria's civil war was "incredibly personal", as the conflict both affected close relatives and determined the country where he was born. His own grandfather had lived through the nightmare played out in "Half of a Yellow Sun", which premiers in Nigeria on Friday, and spent long hours years later recounting the painful memories to Ejiofor. While the actor won his Academy Award nomination for "12 Years a Slave", 2014's Best Picture winner, he said he felt particular "connective tissue" with the lead character in the Nigerian war film. The movie -- now showing in Britain and Australia and opening soon in the US and other countries -- is based on the best-selling novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about the 1967-1970 Biafra War, which began after the eastern region tried to secede from newly independent Nigeria. "The Biafra War was a seminal part of ...

Africa’s wealthiest man Aliko Dangote and Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, Nigeria’s Finance Minister were on Wednesday named among the100 most influential persons on earth by the prestigious TIME Magazine. Bill Gate, Microsoft Founder and Co-Chair, Bill and Melinda Gate wrote a tribute in honour of Dangote in commemoration of his listing by the Time magazine. Gate dwelled extensively on the philanthropic gestures of the President of the Dangote Group in the areas of health especially polio eradication and job creation efforts. While Gate was lavish in his praises of timely response of Dangote to the need for an health alliance by the private sector, Bono a lead singer of U2 and a co-founder of One and (RED) wrote the tribute for Dr Iweala.

The all important security meeting convened by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan started without Governors Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State and Ibrahim Shema of Katsina State and Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State The three Governors arrived late without any explanations. President Jonathan had convened a security meeting considered as one of the biggest security meeting ever convened to address the issues of insecurity bedeviling the nation. Presidential sources told Pointblanknews.com that the President seized the opportunity of the meeting to brief leaders cut across all religious lines about the efforts of Government in taming the menace of terrorist groups in Nigeria. The recent bombing in Nyanya, a suburb in Abuja and the abduction of over one hundred female students from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State was one of the major reasons the President summoned the expanded security meeting, a source said.

Former Military Administrator of Lagos State, Gen. Buba Marwa has castigated Adamawa State Governor, Admiral Murtala Nyako over his open letter to Northern Governors alleging that President Goodluck Jonathan and his administration is behind the insurgency in Northern Nigeria. Marwa in a statement said the open letter written by Nyako was not only incoherent but shameful and and embarrassing to the military constituency. The former All Progressive Congress chieftain who recently defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP said the Adamawa State Governor should respect the office of the President and shut up.

An expanded National Security Council between President Goodluck Jonathan, Heads of military and Para-military organizations, state governors and some ministers Thursday unanimously condemned the memo written by the governor of Adamawa state, Murtala Nyako in which he accused president Goodluck Jonathan of carrying out genocide against the north. Addressing state House Correspondents after the meeting, the Minister of Defence , Gen. Aliyu Gusau who was  flanked by the governors of Niger, Abia, Borno and Ekiti states said the meeting enjoined all holders of Public offices to be wary of statements that are capable of exacerbating the already precarious security situation in the country.