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Today is Ghollywood star Yvonne Nelson‘s birthday and to wish her a happy birthday Iyanya reposted an old video from her Instagram page of her on a movie set, doing a scene where she was sprinkling water on a man while chanting ‘Iyanya…Kukere’. Continue....

Barbara Walters has been making her list of ‘10 Most fascinating people’ since 1993 and as 2014 wraps up the American broadcast journalist, author, and television personality is sharing her list for this year. So far a number of people have been unveiled including Taylor Swift, Oprah Winfrey, Neil Patrick Harris, Scarlett Johansson and Chelsea Handler. Babara Walters always saves the best for last and this year the remaining five spots will be revealed next month on the Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2014 special, airing on December 14.

                                       President/Chief Executive, Dangote Industries Ltd, Aliko Dangote has been ranked among the World’s most powerful 72 people by Forbes Magazine. Find out more below! Continue...

Finally, President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, declared his intention to contest the 2015 presidential election. And with that, the presidential race has assumed a new momentum as there are at least 10 presidential aspirants in the race now. In a speech that was preceded by the observation of one-minute silence in honour of the over 47 school pupils killed in a suicide attack on Monday by suspected Boko Haram terrorists in a secondary school in Potiskum, Yobe State, President Jonathan said his decision to accept the call of many Nigerians was informed by his desire to ensure a brighter future for generations yet unborn. President Jonathan’s declaration, instantly elicited caustic reactions from the main opposition All According to the President, his decision to seek re-election was informed by many factors, adding that though the country under his watch has done well, there is still more room for improvement. “So many things have inspired me in the journey to this moment...

A 34-year-old man, Mr. Shola Balogun, has narrated how he was allegedly kidnapped, but narrowly escaped in the Abule Egba area of Lagos. Balogun, who digs boreholes for a living, told Punch that he was allegedly kidnapped last week Friday, November 7, by a customer he had never met before, identified simply as Babatunde. Balogun further claimed that Babatunde lured him into an apartment on Jola Osho Street in Abule Egba, where it dawned on him that he had been kidnapped. A customer, identified simply as Sunday, had earlier called Balogun on the telephone, and had urged him to speak with Babatunde, who reportedly wanted to sink a borehole in his house. He alleged that Babatunde, who is said to be about 60 years old, lured him into one of the rooms and locked him up. He said, “I had not met the man before. It was Sunday who linked me up with him and said he wanted to dig a borehole. So, the man took me to the house on Friday. Continue...

A Malian nurse has died of Ebola, the second confirmed death from the disease in the country. Officials say the nurse had treated a man who arrived from Guinea at the Pasteur Clinic in Bamako, and the clinic was now in quarantine. The latest case is unrelated to the first, when a two-year-old girl died from the disease in late October. Nearly 5,000 people have been killed in the West African outbreak, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the outbreak a global health emergency. The new case in Mali comes a day after the WHO confirmed the release from quarantine of 25 of 100 people who were thought to have come into contact with the two-year-old girl who died on 24 October   BBC  reports. Continue...