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Rock star, Paul David Hewson, (aka Bono) and Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, yesterday met with the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa to discuss the possibilities of a global partnership to address the humanitarian crisis in North-eastern part of the country through international advocacy. However, the new partnership will help amplify the calls of million of Nigerian ONE members, who have been campaigning for years on issues including health, anti-corruption and agriculture. This year’s Make Naija Stronger campaign calls for the government to deliver on its commute, net to invest more in healthcare. ONE campaign is a powerful global advocacy group which was instrumental in Nigeria’s debt cancellation, which led to its exit from the Paris Club and it’s incursion into the country at the request of Dangote is expected to produce more concrete results in the rebuilding of the North-east.

                                  Drake professed his love for Rihanna at the MTV VMAs the previous night. And though they have remained mum on whether or not they are official, it certainly looked like they were getting on well on their latest outing together. The 28-year-old singer and 29-year-old rapper were spotted after an intimate dinner date at Nobu in New York City on Monday night. Continue...

Yesterday there were 284 arrests at the carnival, including 108 drugs offences, 64 offensive weapon (blade) offences, 26 public order offences, 18 nitrous oxide offences, 17 assaults on police and six sexual offences. Meanwhile there were also arrests made for drink driving, theft, actual bodily harm, grievous bodily harm, criminal damage, robbery and going equipped for theft. Monday marked the Grand Finale of the event's 50th anniversary, which has this year hosted 60 bands and 38 sound systems, but it was marred by scenes of mayhem could be seen throughout the west of the capital. Metropolitan Police l Continue....

The Association of Scholarship Students in Russia (ANSSIR) has appealed to the Federal Scholarship Board (FSB) to pay up the monthly stipends owned Nigeria students studying in Russia, saying that the 10 months allowance has been delayed for long, said since October 2015, the students have been experiencing incessant delays in the payment of their stipends, “they only paid part of last year till October; therefore from November 2015 to August 2016, we have not received any payment.” “Students who graduated are yet to get their tickets back home.  Continue...