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Last night Nick Cannon's father, James Cannon, posted some relationship questions on his Facebook wall that hit a little too close to home considering his son's impending divorce from Mariah Carey. When Mariah fans who felt he was referring to her dragged Mr Cannon for his post, he claimed the questions came from a book he wrote three years ago and had nothing whatsoever to do with his son and daughter-in-law's crumbling relationship. See the questions and what he wrote afterwards... When fans attacked him for the questions, James Cannon wrote this..

16 year old Nigerian Student Temidayo Joseph (pictured above) was found dead yesterday morning just hours after he collected his GC SE exam results. His school, Ockendon Academy, in Essex, UK, announced his demise in a statement on their website yesterday and commiserated with his family over the loss of the promising footballer and athlete. Management of the school said he'd been to school on Thursday to collect his results and didn't look troubled. The circumstances of Temidayo's death are not yet known but it is not being treated as suspicious. May his soul rest in peace...amen. Continue The announcement... 

2face Idibia's father died today August 23rd after a battle with prostate cancer. May his soul rest in peace, Amen. 

Dennis The fiancé of a nurse who died of Ebola has been discharged from the Ebola treatment center in Lagos this evening after his third test came out negative. Dennis, who was late Justina Obi Ejelonu’s fiancé had been quarantined and later admitted into treatment after two tests confirmed that he was positive. However, this evening Dennis was discharged from the treatment center with a certificate of clearance. He walked off the center in good health according to top doctors who spoke anonymously with Saharareporters. A second spouse of a deceased doctor who had primary contact with Liberian -American Thomas Sawyer who was admitted yesterday with Dennis remains hospitalized at the center, currently undergoing treatment. Dennis story is a powerful one, he refused to abandon his fiancé despite her being diagnosed with Ebola. He told Saharareporters that Justina lost a two-month pregnancy, vomited severally on him while she collapsed and had to be carried to hospital...

(U-20 Falconets' team) in line up as they chat with President Jonathan via telephone in Canada. Mr. President wished them #GOODLUCK in the #Final match and says Nigerians are proud of them as they are assured of Heroines' reception on lifting the female World Cup.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's daughter, North, turned 1 in June, and she's already taking after her mom, making her debut as a model earlier this month. Most of what we've seen of North has been through the various Kardashian family members' Instagram accounts and her surprise appearance in the April 2014 issue of Vogue with her famous parents. On Friday, North's grandma Kris Jenner shared yet another adorable moment from a family trip to the San Diego Zoo on Instagram. In the sweet snap, Kris holds little North as a giraffe leans in close. "Thank You @SanDiegoZoo for the most amazing day!" Kris captioned the pictures. The duo was joined by sisters Kim and Kourtney and the elder Kardashian's children, Mason and Penelope Disick. Keep scrolling to see all the pictures that baby North's family have shared so far.

Nicki Minaj's rehearsal for the MTV VMAs took a frightening turn on Friday. During a run through of the singer's routine for her hit "Anaconda", a 6-foot-long boa constrictor bit an unidentified backup dancer's left arm. According to MTV, the practice stopped following the bite and Nicki rushed over to check on the dancer. "Did she get bit by the snake?" Nicki reportedly asked. The snake wasn't venomous, but MTV didn't take any chances — the dancer's wound was cleaned by an onsite medic and she was immediately taken to a hospital. "It is in no way life-threatening, but scary," said Chris Velvin, director of production safety for Viacom Media Networks. "We wanted her to start getting treatment as soon as possible." Meanwhile, the snake was removed from the stage by its handler. The reptile would likely be replaced by another snake for the big show on Sunday, MTV said. This isn't the first time a snake has part...

John Abraham Godson, a Polish citizen born and raised in Nigeria, who was sworn in as Poland's first black parliament member, has just taken part in the on going   Ice Bucket Challenge.  He has also  put a challenge to the Polish  Prime Minister-Donald Tusk, Wicepremierowi Sean Piechocińskiemu and Prime Minister Leszek Miller. He gave them 24 hours to take the challenge or pay 300 PLN about N15,500 to organization fighting the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Watch his challenge below.

The drama of President Goodluck Jonathan's true state of health is getting interesting. Nigeria’s ambassador to Germany, Abdu Usman Abubakar, has claimed that Jonathan, who was abruptly flown to Germany from Abuja on Thursday, in taking a deserved rest in Germany. It was reported that Jonathan was flown to see doctors in Wiesbaden, Germany a few hours after the Nigerian president rounded off the National Confab in Abuja. President Jonathan’s sudden departure from Nigeria’s capital city and the cancellation of the scheduled dinner with members of the just concluded National Confab triggered panic and alarm amongst presidential aides and the Nigerian political class. But Nigeria’s top diplomat in Germany told SaharaReporters that Mr. Jonathan traveled to Germany for a well-deserved rest. To underscore his claim that the president was in fine shape, Ambassador Abubakar told one of SaharaReporters correspondent that Jonathan would have spoken directly to him but f...

Dear Gistarena readers, I’m 27 years old and I’ve been dating a married man for 3 years. And in that 3 years I’ve had 4 abortions, which I never told my boyfriend about, so in his heart of hearts he thinks I’ve been very careful hence no pregnancy palava for him. I think that’s the main reason he loves me so much and he’s taking good care of me. Just found out a few weeks back that I was pregnant again, I’ve begged God to stop giving me these pregnancies until I’m ready, Cos I’m tired of aborting. So he came to my house as usual and for the first time ever I told him about my current pregnancy. He hugged tightly me, gave me a cheque and told me to terminate it because of his family bla bla bla. I collected the cheque and jokingly told him that I’ve had 4 abortions already for him without letting him know because I didn’t want to stress him. Immediately, he gave me a slap, collected the cheque from me and told me he would get me arrested, just imagine. That I’m evil and should...

Love is beautiful, love is wicked; it's a case of different strokes for different folks. Radio personality Toolz in a recent chat with Entertainment Express, opened up on how a guy she liked did not want to her. *Sad!* "There was this guy I met during my final year at the University. He had just moved from Houston and didn't know a lot of people in London and after a few random conversation about course work, he asked me out. Our first date was amazing and after about a month of seeing each other a few times a week, I was almost certain he was "the one". After dancing around the issue for a week or two, I was finally brave enough to bring up the "where are we" issue.  "His exact words were, 'I really like you Tolu, but I'm not looking for a relationship right now'. "I had to take a moment to mentally pick up the fragments of my broken heart, then I smiled at him and said 'No worries, it's okay'." ...

One of the United States aid workers who recovered from an Ebola infection, Dr. Kent Brantly, has said he is “thrilled to be alive” as he and another patient were discharged from the hospital. In his first public speech after the leaving the hospital on Thursday for treatment of the deadly virus, Brantly, 33, thanked supporters for their prayers. “Today is a miraculous day,” said Brantly, while addressing reporters at Emory University hospital.  “I am thrilled to be alive, to be well, and to be reunited with my family. As a medical missionary, I never imagined myself in this position. When my family and I moved to Liberia two years ago, Ebola was not on the radar. We moved to Liberia because God called us to service in Liberia.” But after his family returned to the US as the Ebola outbreak tore through West Africa, he stayed back and he continued to treat Ebola patients. He said he woke up on July 23, 2014 feeling “under the weather”. Brantly said he lay in bed ...

Jolted by the acri­mony trailing his en­trance into the PDP, the Presidency may have withdrawn its support for the former EFCC chairman, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu. Saturday Sun checks revealed that Presidency was worried by the gang up by certain governorship aspi­rants for the Adamawa gov­ernorship ticket on PDP plat­form against Mallam Ribadu and intelligence reports that former Vice-president, Atiku Abubakar was waiting in the wings to exploit the acrimo­ny in the ruling party to the advantage of the main oppo­sition party, the APC. A source fin­gered a presidential aide from Adamawa State and arrow­head of the Ribadu governor­ship project as the one who misled the Presidency on the political weight of Nuhu Ribadu. “The race in the coming days is likely to be very in­teresting but we have all re­solved to be very careful because in politics, you cannot take chances, especially ones that are likely to jeopardise the chances of your party.  When the issue of Ribadu first ca...

In Nigeria, public office often usually 'lie' about their health status. Contrary to the official claims that President Goodluck Jonathan travelled to Germany on a private visit, Leaders has disclosed that the president actually took ill and had to leave the country for Germany to seek medical care. Efforts to get a confirmation from the Presidency failed up until the time of going to press, as several calls to his spokesman, Dr Reuben Abati, did not go through and he didn’t respond to an email enquiry either. Similarly, the senior special assistant to the president on public affairs, Dr Doyin Okupe, did not pick or return several calls to his mobile number last night. It was gathered that President Jonathan, on arrival in Germany, headed for a private hospital in the Germany for urgent medical attention. Jonathan left for Germany on Friday. Prior to his departure, presidential spokesman Abati had issued a terse statement saying the president would be making a ...

Beautiful actress Tessy Oragwa has proved that she is one of the next actress to watch in the industry. Despite her parents’ attempt to thwart her career because of the wrong impression of actresses in the movie industry, she tells The Sun's Christian Agadibe how far she can go in business of "rough" acting. What challenges did you encounter when you started? It was really challenging just like every business comes with its own challenges. I could remember a time I got a job for a very good role after going for the auditions from the outset. I was inside the location bus when the EP talked to the PM and the Production Manager came to tell me that the Executive Producer said that I didn’t look like Eucharia Anunobi and that they have someone who looks very much like her, and that was the person he wanted. I accepted, dropped the script, came down and went back home. How did you feel? I felt bad, because I really gave my best right from the audition and got the rol...

Music is what we know how to do best. Every time we come at you, we strive to give you nothing but the best. No better king than the king of kings.... Everything we r, everything we own, everything we have achieved has been by His grace! Baba God na you BIKO. We r ready for dis next level. Let's go on this journey together guys. #6thalbum In anticipation of P Square's 6th studio album in September, Peter Okoye just shared hot  photos from a new photo shoot......

Four long months after over 200 girls were taken from their school in Chibok, Borno State, the Nigerian government have not been able to find them ...and now their parents want the case closed and have asked the Federal government to just help bring back their daughters corpses. Some of the parents said after missing for four months, they already presumed the girls are no longer alive and have performed their funeral rites according to their custom. The parents position was made known yesterday August 22nd at the #Bringbackourgirls advocacy group daily sit-out meeting for the rescue of the missing girls at Unity Fountain, Abuja. The group said all the parents want at this time is for the bodies of the girls to be returned to them so they can be given proper burial. “All they said they want is their corpses to bury them honourably” the group said

Hundreds of millions of women wear a brassiere (bra). Why? This was the subject of discussion at a function recently. In the course of finding an answer to this knotty question, I discovered that, many women wear bras without ever asking why. Interestingly, bra wearing is not a necessity for most women for their breasts’ sake; rather, it is worn more for cultural reasons. The modern bra with its two separate cups dates back to the corset in the early 20th century, in an attempt to manufacture a more comfortable underwear piece and has evolved from simple underwear into an actual sexual garment that emphasises the sexual nature of breasts. This can be readily seen, for example, by the terminology used to advertise bras: enticing, hot, ravishing, seducing, etc. For most purposes however, wearing a bra is feminine and rather strangely, going braless is sometimes also connected with feminism. So why wear, or not wear a bra? According to experts, women’s breasts change sizes an...

Lagos State Police Command is currently investigating the circumstances surrounding the kidnap and murder of a 20-year-old undergraduate, identified as John Chinedu Okere, who until his death was a 300 level Electrical Engineering student at Covenant University, Otta in Ogun State. According to reports, Chinedu left his parent’s house in the morning of Wednesday, August 6, 2014, to a Hospital in Yaba, Lagos for medical reasons and never returned. He reportedly left home with about N6000 and that was the last time he was seen alive. The mysterious disappearance of Chinedu, caused a stir as the parents ran helter-skelter, in search of him to no avail.  They  gathered from some family members that one of his friends called on phone earlier that morning to tell him to meet him at an undisclosed hotel. KIDNAP Crime Guard   learnt that at about mid-day,the victim’s father, Jude Okere, received an SMS notifying him that Chinedu had been kidnapped. Later, he received...