Bucknor, Terry ThaRapman, Others Step Out As Zinno Orara's Exhibition Opens In Lagos

Award winning artist and one of Nigeria’s most celebrated painters, Zinno Orara on Friday, 5th of December 2014, opened an eight-day exhibition of his works to the delight of art lovers in Lagos. The exhibition, titled Against All Odds is in celebration of Zinno’s wife Adaora who is currently battling breast cancer.

Zinno Orara & Daryn Wober

Nigeria launches 2014 edition of SWOP

The 2014 edition of the State of the World Population, SWOP, report will be launched on Tuesday, November 25, 2014 at the auditorium of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Alausa, Ikeja.

The report, which is annual publication of the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, focuses on emerging demographic changes on population and development and examines its implications on the development process.

Twin Bomb Blasts Hits Maiduguri

Twin bomb blast has occurred at the capital of Borno State. The bomb blast occurred at early hours of today, Friday November 14, 2014.

Genevieve, Asa, others, Join Future Awards Campaign Against Ebola

The Future Awards Africa, TFAA, has announced the leading influencers for its global campaign to pool one million young Africans to act against Ebola in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. The #StopEbola campaign will be led by TFAA Young Person of the Year 2013, Ashish Thakkar and Africa’s leading creative celebrities Genevieve Nnaji, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde and Asa Elemide.

Kano orders closure of secondary schools

The Kano State Government on Thursday closed its secondary schools to enable students who have attained the age of 18 years to partake in the Continuous Voter Registration, CVR, by INEC.

Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in the state, had set aside between November 12 and November 17 for the registration of those who had not registered before but now reached 18 years of age.

FIFA clears Qatar, Russia of corruption

Football's world governing body FIFA has cleared Qatar and Russia of corruption and ruled out a re-vote for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup tournaments despite widespread allegations of wrongdoing.

An exhaustive report by the FIFA ethics committee admitted that even though there had been a series of worrying episodes in the bidding for the 2022 tournament, as well as the 2018 World Cup in Russia, there was not enough evidence to justify reopening the process.

Alex Ekubo wins Fashion Personality Of The Year

Alex Ekubo, a Nigerian actor and model has won the Fashion personality of the year at the just concluded Garden City Fashion Award held in PortHarcourt.

Jonathan Declares Intention to run in 2015

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday, November 11, publicly declared his intention to run in 2015.

The colourful event was held under tight security at the Eagles Square, Abuja.

Jonathan arrived the venue in company with his wife, Patience; the President of the Senate, David Mark; and some Peoples Democratic Party governors.

I Was Born Blind - Chidinma Ekile

Chidinma Ekile, popular musician and MTN ambassador, has revealed that she was born blind.




The Kedike crooner took to her Instagram page to make the shocking announcement on Monday, November 10, 2014 after she released a new song, titled Martha and she posed with her mom on the album cover.

AFRIMA 2014 Modifies Events, Extends Voting

The All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA, has undergone some urgent modifications in order to help us better host Africa and the rest of the world. According to the organisers, the reason for this is that a major continental sponsor of AFRIMA was unable to conclude its commitment by the deadline required to deliver on the world-class event.

Kelly Rowland Gives Birth to a Baby Boy

Kelly Rowland has given birth to her and Tom Witherspoon’s first child, son Titan Jewell, who weighs just 7.5lbs.


The 33-year-old star welcomed her first child with husband Tim Witherspoon into the world yesterday, November 4, 2014 afternoon, her representative has confirmed to PEOPLE magazine.

Fire outbreak at foursquare camp ground

There is a fire outbreak at foursquare campground, Ajebo, Ogun state. As at the time of filling the report, the cause of the inferno was not known yet. Further report will be posted.

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Norway travellers break World record

Three friends from Norway; Gunnar Garfors, 39, Tay-young Pak, 42, and Oystein Djupvik, 40 have set a new world record for visiting the most number of countries in a day.

They made it to 19 different countries across Europe in only 24 hours, beating the 2012 world record of 17 countries.

Throughout the journey, they had to follow only three simple rules: physically stand in each country, complete visits within any consecutive 24-hour period, and provide media evidence.

Decoding Body Language of Dogs

Researchers in North Carolina State University have created a dog harness outfitted with technology designed to ease interspecies communication with canines.

The team of researchers said the harness includes technologies aimed at interpreting the body language signals used by dogs, as well as technologies designed to translate human language into signals the dogs will understand.

Burkina Faso’s president resigns

Burkina Faso’s president resigns

By Temitope Adeogun

Blaise Compaore, Burkina Faso's President has announced his resignation, following violent protests at his attempt to extend his 27-year rule on October 31.

Patoranking to perform on Big Brother Africa this Sunday

Patoranking, Nigerian reggae, dancehall singer and songwriter will be performing live on the Big Brother Africa stage, Sunday, November 2, 2014.

November 9, Save the date for AFRIMA Awards Night

AFRIMA awards ceremony holds on Sunday, November 9 at Landmark Convention Center, Oniru, Victoria Island.



Visit www.afrima.org and click on AFRIMA AWARDS NIGHT banner to get your IV and seat reservation now, it's free!

2face Meets Jega Over 2015 Election

2face Meets Jega Over 2015 Election



2face Idibia meets with Attahiru Jega, the INEC chairman recently over the 2015 political election.

Idibia, the music crooner posted the pictures below on his instagram page with the hashtag #votenotfight.

2014 World Beard Championships

The World Beard and Moustache Championships were held in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, October 25.

Professor Joyce Ogwu Loses Husband

The Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations, New York, US on Thursday, announced the death of Aloysius Ogwu, husband of Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Professor Joyce Ogwu.

Apple CEO, says he is proud to be 'Gay'

Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple have announced that he’s gay on Thursday, October 30 in an essay that puts him among the highest-profile publicly out business leaders in the world.

Foot Attached Backward to Replace Lost Knee

Foot Attached Backward to Replace Lost Knee
Jordon Moody, a British woman whose lower leg was amputated due to cancer has had a foot attached backward to replace her lost knee.


Moody lost her left leg above the knee due to bone cancer and doctors performed a rotation plasty to reattach her foot facing backward to create a replacement knee joint.

Couple Cruise Round the World in Car for Three Decades

When Gunther Holtorf, a German, set out on an 18-month road trip to Africa in 1988, he had no idea his journey would go on for almost three decades. He ended up travelling 556,000 miles spanning 215 countries in his trusty old car; a Mercedes Benz G Wagon nicknamed ‘Otto’.


The peregrination started 26 years ago, when Holtorf quit his 30-year work at Lufthansa, and with his fourth wife Christine, braved gravel-covered, pothole-riddled roads from their Bavaria hometown to Africa.

Celebrity birthday: Happy birthday Ice prince

Panshak Zamani popularly known as Ice Prince was born in Minna, Niger State, Born October 30, 1986. At age of 2 ice and his family moved to jos were he had his primary Education at St. Murumba School, same school P.square and professional footballer Mikel Obi attended He also attended the Science Tutorial College in Jos, where in 1998 he began writing music, he also performed this songs in his school and parties then. In 2001 this brother started going to studios were he met some people and later formed a group in 2002 called "the Ecomog Squad" They had a few performances as a group and split a year later.In 2004 were he met Jesse jagz and M.i Abaga.

MI's New Album

Mr Incredible's new album 'The Chairman' support good music..... get yours.

Solidstar drops My Body

Download latest song 'My Body' by Solidstar ft Timaya
click: www.solidstarmusic.com

Bangladesh Islamist Leader Sentenced To Death

Motiur RahmanNizami, head of Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party has been sentenced to death for war crimes committed during the country’s independence war against Pakistan in 1971.

AFRIMA’s 23 Karat Gold Award Arrives Nigeria

The International Committee of the All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA has received the 23.9-Karat gold plated trophy on Friday in Lagos.

The coveted trophy was received by Rikki Stein, AFRIMA International Advisor.

The trophy, which was produced by an award trophy making company ‘Awards4u’ based in the United Kingdom, UK, was conceived and visualised by Mike Dada, AFRIMA executive producer and designed by Ademola Tajudeen, the Assistant Artistic Director of AFRIMA.

The award trophy is a blend of traditional and contemporary elements of music, the African Djembe drum and a microphone.

It went through series of technical processes for it to be realised. The first stage was the creation of a clay model of the trophy followed by moulds creation from which resin model was made.

After producing this, it was cleaned, smoothened and prepared for copper plating, polishing and finally deepened into 23.9-karat gold molten (hardened with nickel) with 99.58% gold concentration.

When this process was completed, the trophy was then mounted on a base and information plate was inscribed.

How to paint with your tongue

You can say Chinese artist, Han Xiaoming, has a great ‘taste’ in art – he actually uses his tongue as a brush to create paintings!

Luckily, he doesn’t use oil paints or acrylic, just sweetened food dye.

Xiaoming, 35, claims he came up with the technique while trying his hands at traditional Chinese sugar painting. The ancient art form involves the use of melted sugar to create figures such as dragons, monkeys, fish, dogs, birds and flowers.

Halfway through his work, however, sweet-toothed Xiaoming got hungry and decided to take a sip of the sugary paints used to paint the sugar artworks. He loved the taste so much that he finally ended up abandoning the paintbrush and continued to paint with his tongue. Over time, he completely switched to using his tongue as a tool for his art.

Free of Ebola But…

Nigeria continues to earn plaudits at home and abroad for its effort in eradicating the Ebola virus from its shores but the recent upsurge of  Lassa fever in the country calls for caution

Dr Idowu

For a country that had often been portrayed negatively in the foreign media it is understandable why many Nigerian government officials will continue to celebrate the accolades the country has been lavished with over its success in containing the Ebola virus. Even before October 20, when the World Health Organisation, WHO, officially declared Nigeria Ebola-free, the country had been praised at home and abroad by both ordinary people in the streets of Lagos and representatives of foreign governments and agencies alike.  But the seal of approval came on Monday, October 20 when Rui Gama Vaz, WHO representative, officially announced to the world that Nigeria had not only conquered Ebola, but had become a beacon of hope to the world.

“Nigeria is now free of Ebola, the virus is gone for now. The outbreak in Nigeria has been defeated. This is a spectacular success story that shows to the world that Ebola can be contained”, said Vaz.

AFRIMA UNILAG CONCERT (PIX)

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AFRIMA takes UNILAG by storm with 2face, Jaywon, others, in concert

AFRIMA takes UNILAG by storm with 2face, Jaywon, others, in concert

By Temitope Adeogun

The All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA, on Wednesday, October 15, 2014 held an entertaining concert tagged 'Road to AFRIMA on Campus’ at the Indoor Sports Hall of the University of Lagos.

The event, which also marked the launching of ‘Vote-Not-Fight-Campaign’, was targeted at communicating the vision and ideals of AFRIMA to the vibrant youth generation in Nigeria.

Present at the concert were big names in the Nigeria music industry as well as AFRIMA Awards’ nominees and upcoming artistes such as, 2face Idibia, Skales, Naeto C, Jaywon, Niyola, Zeez, Dammy Krane, Queen Moda, Efa, Saeon, Joel, Seriki, Capital F.E.M.I, Tony One Week and many more.

Gbenga Adeyinka, foremost Compere and Comedian in Africa anchored the concert. 

Thousands of students adorned in their AFRIMA branded T-shirt attended the concert and were excited to see their favourite artistes perform.

Funmi Oguntade, an undergraduate of the Faculty of Law said: “I’m glad to have witnessed such a great concert as this and I look forward to the AFRIMA Music Village and the Award Ceremony in November 4-7 and November 9 because I have heard that popular music stars in Africa and abroad will come”. Victor Okonkwo, another University of Lagos student at the concert expressed gratitude to AFRIMA for helping them relieve the tension of academic work through entertainment.  “This is best thing that has ever happened to UNILAG and we are honored that AFRIMA is holding the maiden edition of the ‘Road to AFRIMA’ on campus in this great institution”. The 300-level Economics student added further that, “Personally, I’m a bookworm and anytime I have opportunity for quality entertainment as AFRIMA provided, I jump on it. I hope to attend their events in November, particularly the Africa Music Summit where a lot of discussion will go on about the African music industry”.

Mike Dada, Executive Producer, AFRIMA, on behalf of the International Committee of AFRIMA expressed appreciation to artistes and students for showing up at the event especially for their support and commitment towards AFRIMA events. 

Voting for winners continues in the 32 categories of the award till November 4, 2014. The main award ceremony comes up on Sunday, November 9 in Lagos, Nigeria.