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                       The music industry in Nigeria has for so long been dominated by the male singers who call the shots. But not anymore, as more and more female singers are beginning to find their voices and giving the men a run for their money. Kimberly Osakwe popularly called Kim Wonder is a sensational singer, songwriter, and entertainer with brilliant vocals and a beautiful and unique musical style. She started her musical career in England and is now making waves both locally and internationally. She is no stranger to the music charts with her current singles, ‘How You Dey, ‘Kilo Kilo’,There was a boy and ‘Work, Rock & Dance’ dominating music charts across Africa

                                 Nollywood actress Chiamaka Nwokeukwu isn’t exactly a Nollywood household name but the fair beauty is very much on her way as she is having the best run of good streak of her career. In a couple of months, Chinelo, the Shy Virgin star has been nominated in two awards; the Choice Awards and the AFRIFIMO Awa. Chiamaka who has featured in other films like Love and Lust, Innocent Devil, Play Girls, Between Two Worlds, Kurekere Babies to name a few, met with one of our reporters on location of her recent film The Perfect Snake in Lagos and a conversation capturing her short but illustrious acting career ensued.  Continue...

                                Benue State Police Command has launched a manhunt for gunmen, who killed a policeman, Sergeant Bawa Ekoja, attached to ‘Operation Dzenda’ in Makurdi, the state capital. The command’s image-maker, Daniel Ezeala (SP), in a telephone chat with Daily Sun, said Ekoja was going back home after closing from night duty at a hotel located in Ankpa Quarters, Makurdi, when the assailants in an ash Toyota Camry car shot him in his back. Ezeala, explained that the deceased policeman was on his motorcycle when the gunmen shot him and he died immediately, adding that his corpse had been deposited at the morgue of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Makurdi. Continue...

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                                    The discovery of a baby placenta in the residence of a man, identified simply as Alfa Gani, is causing confusion in the Laduba community, Ogidi area of Ilorin, Kwara State. Our correspondent gathered on Thursday that the discovery was made when some volunteers went round the Laduba community to appeal for financial contributions from residents for the repair of a faulty transformer in the area. It was said that the volunteers perceived offensive odour at Gani’s residence, which they later reported to other members of the community. Continue...

                         President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday named an Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, as the acting Inspector-General of Police. Abba, who until his appointment was the AIG in charge of Zone 7, takes over from Muhammed Abubakar, who proceeded on statutory retirement on Thursday. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, who confirmed the change of guard in the police top echelons in a statement, said Abba’s appointment would take effect from Friday (today). Continue...

                           Ebola virus may have crept into Anambra state emerged Thursday following the discovery of the corpse of a citizen of the state brought in a cargo from Liberia and deposited in the morgue of one Apex hospital in Nkwelle Ezunaka, Oyi council Area of the state. The corpse it was gathered was deposited in the hospital morgue at the weekend by relatives of the deceased who were said to be making arrangement for his burial ceremony. Continue...

                                 Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Salvation Force (NDPSF), Mujajid Dokubo Asari, has called on the Director General of the State Security Service (SSS) to investigate allegation that he procured suicide bombers to kill former Head of State Major-General Muhammdu Buhari (rtd). In a letter written to the Director General of SSS by his lawyer, Mr. Festus Keyamo, Dokubo said an online media, Rescue News, had published a news item that he was behind the bomb blasts that exploded last week Wednesday in Kaduna State that killed about eighty-five people and which was allegedly targeted at Buhari and an Islamic cleric, Sheik Dahiru Bauchi. Dokubo-Asari said he found the allegations too weighty and grave to be ignored or disregarded and that his life as well the lives of his family, close associates and kinsmen had come under threat because of the publication. Continue... ...

                         RETIREMENT... At day-rise each day billions of people go to work, however, everyone still looks forward to retiring from active duty someday. As it is a well-acknowledged fact that retirement is not redundancy, hence the need for a concise retirement plan cannot be over emphasized. Across the world very few people have vivid ideas about how they are going to spend their retirement. It is a fact that retirement planning is rare; hardly do most think about that period of their lives. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, just 14% of adults are very confident they will live comfortably after quitting from work and 60% have less than a N100, 000 in savings at the time of retirement. Worse still, a new study has revealed that one-third of parents’ today plan to raid their retirement accounts to offset their children’s fees. So, how do you secure your retirement? How do you insure a secure...