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The X Factor judge is to spend Christmas away from her husband and three-year-old daughter Maddison MEL B's husband Stephen Belafonte is said to have once scared her eldest daughter Phoenix with a gun. According to US court papers filed during The X Factor judge's custody battle with Jimmy Gulzar, the 14 year old "hates" her stepfather. Mel B's daughter Phoenix reportedly hates her stepdad Stephen Belafonte according to court reports [Wenn] Mel's mum Andrea Brown made the allegations in 2009 and described her eldest grandchild's feelings towards the film maker. In the reports obtained by the Daily Star, she said: "Phoenix told me Stephen had a gun and that he had scared her with it. "While at Danielle’s, Phoenix said Stephen told her that when she was 16, he is going to throw her out of the house."

GMA gets "Happy" with a special live concert featuring Pharrell Williams on the roof and in the studioIda Mae Astute—ABC/Getty Images Lawyers demand removal of around 20,000 videos A representative for dozens of music superstars, including Pharrell Williams, is telling YouTube that it had better remove about 20,000 videos or face a $1 billion lawsuit . Music-business heavyweight Irving Azoff, who founded the new legal group Global Music Rights, has told the video juggernaut that it does not have performance rights to thousands of songs by about 40 of his clients, including the Eagles, Chris Cornell and John Lennon, the Hollywood Reporter says.

This is to inform the general public that the sale of online application forms for admission into the 3rd Regular Course of Degree Programmes of the Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil, Kano State, has commenced on 12th November, 2014 and will end on 31st March, 2015. Admission to the Academy is open to both male and female Nigerians of good character. Application/admission requirements and detailed information are available at the institution’s website: www.nigpoliceacademy.org Ag. CP EMMANUEL C. S. OJUKWU, psc FORCE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER, FORCE HEADQUARTERS, ABUJA.

It’s never too late to walk down the aisle, and Cameron Diaz knows this. The Sex Tape star is reportedly engaged to her boyfriend of just under a year, Benji Madden. Rumors of the engagement had been making rounds but Diaz, 42, seemed to confirm the rumors was she was spotted wearing an engagement ring alongside Madden at the JFK airport in New York. Congratulations!

The Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] on Monday labelled the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress [APC], Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), as a fake messiah. On its official Twitter handle, the ruling party stated that President Goodluck Jonathan’s leadership qualities were unique, also noting that Nigerians would always elect trusted leaders as it is done “all over the world,” it said, “The APC must realise that they are fighting a lost battle. We would like to assure them that their agenda has failed abysmally and woefully. “They are angry because their fake messianic posture and sinister agenda have come to light and Nigerians are no longer fooled by their antics.

You don’t always get what you want no matter your status whatsoever in the society. Same can be said of the Power couple, Jay Z and Beyonce. Earlier this week, Markus Persson, the creator of Minecraft, outbid them on the Beverly Hills mansion they’d been checking out and interested in for months. He purchased the property for $70 million, the most anyone has ever paid for a home in Beverly Hills. Though the mansion may have taken chunk out of Persson’s wallet, there’s definitely a lot more where that came from.

There have been deep rooted speculations over the nationality of the Gabonese president Ali Bongo, with many suggesting that he is of Nigerian heritage. At the moment there is crisis in the Central African country and part of the grievances is that they cannot have a foreigner (Nigerian) ruling them.

WENN Rihanna and her father, Ronald Fenty, have had a pretty volatile relationship over the years, and he says that has a lot to do with his drinking habits. The 61-year-old was estranged from his daughter not too long ago because of a drinking problem, but was able to mend things with his pop star daughter, who sent him to a pricey rehab in Malibu last year after a run-in with the law. But Fenty is speaking out to the Daily Mail now to say that things between them aren’t in a good place yet again, and it’s because he relapsed at her successful Diamond Ball earlier this month. Things got so bad that he was asked to leave before his daughter even arrived.

• Odegbami, Alam Hawkes mourn him The Nigeria football family has again been thrown into mourning following the death of former IICC Shooting Stars of Ibadan striker, Moses Otolorin who passed on yesterday morning. He reportedly died of renal failure in Ilorin where he had been living since his active playing days. His demise came less than a month after the death of former Stationery Stores of Lagos legend, Yomi Peters who was buried at the weekend. The Shooting Stars stocky and power-built centre forward’s death makes him the sixth member of the 1976 heroic IICC Shooting Stars squad to have died. He was noted for his powerful shots and long throw in and scored more than half of the 15 goals the Shooting Stars had in winning the African Winners Cup in 1976.

Enugu State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the weekend declared that the decision to choose a female as the running mate to its governorship candidate, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, is a deliberate attempt to show fairness in the distribution of political positions in the state. Chairman of the party in the state, Chief Ikeji Asogwa, who spoke during the end-of-year party of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Enugu State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), expressed regrets that the Anglican Church in Enugu requested that an Anglican be chosen to run with Ugwuanyi, who is a Catholic. Asogwa, who was answering a question on why the party ignored the request by the Anglican Church, said the request came after the party had chosen and submitted the name of the governorship running mate.

A commercial motorcycle operator has allegedly beaten a seven- month pregnant woman to coma along Lagos-Badagry expressway, near Oluti bus stop in Lagos State. According to reports, the woman was said to have paid the unknown rider a stipulated amount of money to convey her from Iyana Iba to First Gate bus stop, Maza Maza. An eyewitness, who identified herself simply as Mama Bola disclosed that the pregnant woman, Feyisara, when she regained consciousness in a private hospital, along Old Ojo Road, Agboju area, said the agreement was for the rider to move her to First Gate only for him to stop near Oluti, screaming at her to get off from the motorcycle. The source said Feyisara disclosed that an argument ensued and the rider wanted to move the bike but she held his clothes tight, preventing him from escaping.

+Demands N100 Billion in damages Immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Onyeabo Azubuike Ihejirika has sued Australian hostage negotiator, Dr Stephen Davis for accusing him of sponsoring the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria. In a libel suit filed at the Abuja High Court, the former army chief is demanding N100 billion as aggravated damages for defamation. The suit was filed on behalf of the former army chief by Chief Nnoruka Udechukwu, Professor C.U. Ilegbune and Ben Anechebe -all Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN). Ihejirika told the court that “he has suffered ‎grievous wrong and he has been exposed to scandal, odium, ridicule, humiliation and his character, credit and reputation brought into disrepute, both in Nigeria and abroad” on account of the libelous comments.

Lagos—An expert in explosives and weapons, Mr Biedomo Iguniwei, yesterday, said the collapsed building of Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, was caused by a high energy infrasonic weapon. TB Joshua-Synagogue Church Iguniwei, former research scientist in weapons production with the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria, Kaduna, made the remark while testifying before the coroner’s court investigating the incident. One hundred and sixteen persons were killed in the collapse of the six-storey building on September 12.

Vice-Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has stated that the Presidential candidate of the party, Gen. Muhammed Buhari will wipe out the dreaded boko haram insurgents and create jobs in the country if elected in 2015. Prof. Osinbajo was responding to questions from some of his followers on the social media. He claimed that the Jonathan- administration is unable to tame boko haram because of the corruption around the defence funds which has created a situation where soldiers are not well equipped and motivated. “The current administration has politicised boko haram. The corruption around defence funds has created a situation where soldiers are not well equipped/motivated. GMB wiped out Maitatsine, another Islamic insurgency in his own administration by sincerely identifying the problem as a challenge to the authority of the state to maintain law and order. The administration took command and funded the military transparently and that’s what we n...

Ado-Ekiti—The All Progressives Congress, APC and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti State have disagreed over the implementation of the concept of stomach infrastructure by Governor Ayo Fayose. According to the state Publicity Secretary of APC, Taiwo Olatubosun, yesterday, the governor has turned Ekiti people to beggars by doling out to them chicken, rice and money, while the PDP condemned the APC for blindly copying the implementation of the programme which they earlier condemned. Ekiti State Governor, Mr Peter Ayodele Fayose distributing chicken, rice and money to the widow and aged in Ado Ekiti for the Christmas under the stomach infrastructure programme of his administration According to a statement by PDP state secretary, Dr. Tope Aluko in Ado Ekiti, yesterday, the APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has adopted the stomach infrastructure principle despite the vehement criticism by members of the APC.

A packed Nigerian court heard testimony on Monday that a 14-year-old girl admitted to killing her 35-year-old husband with rat poison, and signed a police confession with a thumbprint because she cannot write. Wasila Tasi’u, from a poor and deeply conservative Muslim family, has been charged with murdering her husband Umar Sani days after their marriage in northern Kano state. Because she did not understand English, homicide investigator Abdullahi Adamu translated her statement from the Hausa language dominant in the region and gave her the document to sign.

Mario Baotelli has struggled to make any kind of impact in the premiership since joining Liverpool for his second stint in England in the summer and Liverpool are set to cut their losses and move the Italian on. Napoli could be his next stop, surprisingly. According to sources in Italy, Rafa Benitez believes that with the right playing style, Balotelli could complement Higuain beautifully in the Napoli attack. And the Spanish coach is prepared to make Liverpool and offer for the Italian in January. Liverpool, who are desperate to let the former Manchester City man leave might not be able to resist the offer to hand Balotelli and his “demons” to another club to manage. Balotelli would command a fee of about 8 million euros by the estimation of Napoli’s board. Liverpool’s valuation of the former Inter and AC Milan man is yet to be public knowledge

Arsenal may have injury challenges this season but they have not suffered in attack with Giroud and Welbeck, available and Sanchez in the form of his life. Sadly that leaves players like Campbell and Sanogo out in the cold. Wenger has decided to let Yaya Sanogo out on loan in January so the player can gain first team experience outside the club. Wenger would prefer to loan him to a premier league club and Crystal Palace are rumored to be interested in the player. Sunderland also have a vested interest in the player and so do a few French teams Sanogo would benefit from the experience and he would definitely be an asset to any team he koins at this stage of the season

A woman named Katherine McKee has come out and has joined 20 other women who claim to have been sexually abused by comedian Bill Cosby. 65-year old McKee, who said she had a relationship with iconic American entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., claims Cosby assaulted her in a hotel room in Michigan in the early 1970s. “I remember I walked in the door, and he had a robe and cap on. He took the ribs from my hands and just grabbed me,” McKee alleged. “He spun me around, pulled my panties down, and just took it. We were still standing at the door when he attacked me… It was so fast and so shocking and so unbelievable.

50 Cent has expressed his disapproval over the recent killings of 2 police officers in New York. Fif posted a picture of Mahatma Gandhi with “”An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” The two policemen, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, were fatally shot dead by Ismaaiyi Brinsley, in revenge for police killing of blacks across the US in the past few months. The Smoke rapper captioned the photo “Condolences to the family of the 2 officers.RIP Mike Brown, RIP Eric Garner randomly shooting police officers is not the answer. Mayor De Blasio get your ass to work!!!!”