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Omotola Jalade stars in her first ever American series called Bounce alongside Dean Cain, Kimberly Elise, Charlotte Ross, Taylour Paige, Akon, Logan Browning and others. Created and written by James LaRosa, Bounce follows the lives and loves of the Los Angeles Devil Girls, the dance team for the country’s No. ...

It is no news that ladies love rapper, Lynxxx. He told Saturday Beats that the reason was that many of his fans are ladies. He stated that he was aware that he was referred to as ‘ladies man’. I am aware that they refer to me as the ladies man. ...

A new app launching next month will allow Twitter users to keep sending 140-character messages after they die, The Guardian reports. The app, LivesOn, analyzes the late user’s Twitter feed and then posts messages or links in the dead tweeter’s �voice.” The app features a gallows-humor tagline, �When your heart ...

The last good glimpse Nigerians had of Goldie was of her photos on the red carpet of the 55th Grammy Awards, where she appeared as a woman full of life. Her death four days later on Valentine’s Day was one hell of a shock for her fans, friends and family. ...

Brymo was recently taken into police custody following a misunderstanding with the police. The singer reports that he was stopped by police while shooting on location in Ibadan who claimed that his driver had stolen the vehicle they were traveling in. He further reports that they were also accused of ...

Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, came under attack yesterday over his tweet, stating, ‘If Jesus Christ should criticise President Goodluck Jonathan, his aides would accuse Him of sleeping with Mary Magdalene.’ Expectedly, his tweet elicited angry reactions from both Muslims and Christians who deployed the social media to lambast the former minister for blasphemy ...

A fire swept through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday, killing at least 180 people and leaving hundreds injured, police and firefighters said. Sandro Meinerz, a spokesman for the police in the city of Santa Maria, told local media that the fire broke out at the Kiss club ...

For weeks now there have been speculations that Tiwa Savage secretly married her manager and business partner, Tee Billz.. Tiwa says it’s not true. She also denied being the one behind The 10 commandments for single ladies that appeared on a lot of blogs today. The advise for single women ...

I have written many stories, over time, about life in Lagos. It is a land of opportunities, Nigeria�s Big Apple, but it is also a place that consumes some its residents in silence. Some fall in the hole of life and go from there, but most others are afflicted by ...

Organisers of the annual�Big Brother Africa�reality TV show have announced that auditions for the 2013 edition of the show�will begin in January 2013. Managing Director of M-Africa,�Biola Alabi, says the �next edition will feature housemates whose activities will provide the audience with happiness, hope, anxiety, friendship, love, arguments and fights. ...

Deputy governors are rising to power in ways that increasingly disprove their consideration in political parlance as spare tyres, write Vincent Obia and Jaiyeola Andrews Friday�s ghastly motor accident in which Kogi State Governor Idris Wada was seriously injured, with one of his aides reported dead, has raised both curiosity ...

I have a brother who is 3 years younger than me. I wanted to buy a handkerchief, which all girls around me seemed to have. So, one day I stole 50 cents from my father’s drawer.Father had discovered about the stolen money right away. He made me and my younger ...

I will appreciate if you could help publish my story so I can get answers from your readers. I lost my virginity a few years back during my service year. Before then I had vowed to keep myself for my husband, but I had a boyfriend then who eventually forced ...

I need help. I have been in a relationship for the past 4 years with a man and am newly engaged. He plays football overseas and I am finishing school to get my bachelors degree, so for the most part, our relationship is primarily long distance. We have found a ...

There was something about Helga�s friend, Trisha. She was sinewy yet elegant and graceful, reserved and down-to-earth but extroverted, cool yet able to glow into warmth, but still careful not to flare into heat. She had me fascinated at hello and had me completely spellbound but confused at good night! ...

Delta State Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan, will cough N116 million reward for gold medal winners who represented his state at the EKO 2012 National Sports Festival. As part of his motivational moves, the governor had promised each gold medalist N1 million, so in redemption, Uduaghan will pay N116 million added to ...

In the Yoruba culture, when people pray that a man should not leave the world through the same entrance by which he came into it, then something is apparently wrong with the sex drive of such a man. However, saying the same kind of prayer for Uroko Onoja might be ...

I feel dirty. I feel used. I feel like jumping off this building. Every day I wake, it is the same thought that goes through my mind. My childhood was that of a typical teenager. I played with my friends when the time was available, but I always remembered that ...

A teenager downed shots of vodka at school then jumped to her death from a motorway bridge because she was �worried about getting into trouble�, an inquest heard today. Wendy Maguire, 16, left the school grounds after being sent to the head teacher�s office when staff reported smelling alcohol on ...

Nigerians are always doing good when it comes to personal achievements. Forbes named Mrs Folorunsho Alakija as the richest woman in Africa according to its November 2012 edition. She ventured into the oil business many years back; she has an oil bloc that pulls in N157 million a day. Yes, ...