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After his seeming endorsement of President Goodluck Jonathan and then shortly afterwards the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), and promising to mobilise retired military generals to support the latter, former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (rtd), on Thursday decided to be more generous with his support, saying that he endorses all 14 presidential candidates in the forthcoming election. Babangida stated this during a talk show on Channels TV, adding that all the candidates had displayed passion for the unity of the country. Continue...

President Goodluck Jonathan has forwarded the names of seven new ministers to the Senate for confirmation, African Independent Television [AIT] is reporting. Among the nominees are a former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, Kenneth Kobani, a former National Treasurer of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria [ACN], who recently defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, and a former Senator, Patricia Akwashiki. Continue...

Kenya's Rita Jeptoo, winner of the Boston and Chicago marathons, has been banned for two years after failing a drugs test. She became Kenya's first high-profile athlete to fail a test, when she tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in September. Jeptoo, 33, says she may have been prescribed some banned substances at a local hospital after a road accident. She has become the 45th Kenyan athlete to have failed a doping test. David Rudisha, the Olympic 800 metres champion, said he fears for Kenya's hard-won reputation after repeat allegations of doping. "Athletics Kenya followed due process in her matter and it was appropriate that she serves a two-year ban," said the governing body's chief executive Isaac Kamande. The ban comes only a few days after Athletics Kenya announced that eight more Kenyan athletes have been suspended for between one to four years for taking performance-enhancing drugs. Over the last two years Kenya has been in the spotlight...

This picture was posted by Flavour on his Instagram page and his fans have been dropping quite a lot of comments. The picture shows former beauty queen Sandra Okagbue holding her baby, and even though Flavour has never publicly admitted it, for a while it’s been rumoured that he had a child with Sandra Okagbue in September 2014. Flavour simply posted the picture without a caption or comment but it has certainly gotten a lot of reactions. See few tweets below!!. Continue...

The ‘Enterkraner’ has a new hairstyle and the verdict is out on it. While attending the APC Presidential rally Dammy Krane showed off his new, dreadlocks. You Like?....

Peter, Paul and Jude Okoye are in Anambra for the funeral rites of their father with Peter and Paul accompanied by their wives, Lola Omotayo-Okoye & Anita Okoye. Paul shared a few pictures from the gathering as well as appreciative words for his wife. Also spotted at the funeral is Nollywood actor Osita Iheme. Continue...

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State yesterday challenged the People’s Democratic Party, PDP governorship candidate, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, the owner of Jaykay Pharmacy, to publish receipts showing that he had paid N1.6 million land use charge debt. The governor, who made the statement while addressing the crowd at the APC campaign rally held in Epe Local Government, said that revealing the facts on land use charge debt of JayKay pharmacy was not for personal reasons but for the development of the state. According to him, “It is not that I hate him (Agbaje). But this is not a personal issue. This is an issue that concerns the development of Lagos State. I am saying this without mincing words. His pharmacy has not paid land Use Charge for year 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012; it amounts to N1, 629, 064.62. But they have paid for 2013 and 2014.” Continue....

At least 26 people, mostly soldiers, have been killed in a series of attacks by Islamist militants in the north of Egypt's Sinai peninsula. A car bomb and rockets hit military targets in provincial capital El-Arish. Other attacks took place in the town of Sheik Zuwayid and in Rafah, near Gaza. Militant group Sinai Province, which changed its named from Ansar Beit al-Maqdis when it pledged allegiance to Islamic State, said it carried out the "extensive, simultaneous" attacks. The US condemned the attacks, saying it remained "steadfast in its support of the Egyptian government's efforts to combat the threat of terrorism". The insurgents have intensified attacks since Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi was ousted in 2013. Continue...