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Award winning Gospel group  Living Faith Connections Choir  are flying the flag for a new wave of Gospel music in the UK and Africa at large. Having already been nominated at the  Africa Gospel Music Awards  for ‘Group/Choir Of The Year’ and reached the finals of the  BBC Gospel Choir of the Year  finals, the London based choir have now been nominated for ‘Best Gospel Act’, at the prestigious MOBO Awards . The  Living Faith Connections Choir  released their debut album in 2013 titled  Beyond The Norm , collaborating with award winning songwriter  Evans Ogboi  to create what has widely been regarded as one of the best modern Gospel albums to come out of the UK and Africa in recent times. The album’s lead single “Nobody But You” went on to win ‘Song Of The Year’ at 2013’s  Africa Gospel Music Awards . Living Faith Connections Choir  now need your help to bring the  MOBO Awards  home! Taking pla...

The Delta state government on Sunday Oct. 5th allegedly burnt over 200 motorcycles it confiscated from those who flouted the state's newly introduced ban on motorcycle riding in some parts of the state. Two weeks ago, the State government banned Okada in some parts of the state, including Ika South, Ika North and Sapele. The ban was however flouted by some motorcycle riders who got their machines seized by officials of the state. The seized motorcycles have now allegedly been burnt at the Mosogar end of the Gammon Bridge in Sapele. According to Sahara Reporters who spoke with the state's Commissioner for Transport, Ben Igbakpa, he denied knowledge of the State burning the motorcycles. "I am not aware of the burning of any Okada, the fact remains that any confiscated Okada is not going back to the owner. How such Okadas are being disposed is not the issue, what matters is that, all Okadas in these areas must be off the road” he said

Richestlifestyle.com  a few days ago released its list of The Most Beautiful First Ladies in the world 2014 and US First Lady Michelle Obama came 6th. See all the world's most beautiful First Ladies below 1) Queen Rania of Jordan 2) Asma al-Assad - First lady of Syria 3) Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco 4) Mehriban Aliyeva - Azerbaijan’s First Lady 5) Queen Jetsun Pema of Bhutan 6) Michelle Obama - US First Lady 7) Sylvia Bongo Ondimba - Gabon’s First Lady 8) Angelica Rivera - Mexico’s current First Lady,

Richest Lifestyle, a US-based website, has listed President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria as the 6th Richest African president. In an article titled, ‘Richest African Presidents 2014′ , the US website compiled a list of the nine richest presidents and kings in Africa. According to the article, President Jonathan is worth $100million. Other African presidents and kings on the list include; 1. Jose Eduardo dos Santos of Angola – Net Worth: $20 Billion 2. Mohammed VI of Morocco – Net Worth: $2.5 Billion 3. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea – $600 Million 4. Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya – Net Worth: $500 Million 5. Paul Biya of Cameroon – Net Worth: $200 Million 6. King Mswati III of Swaziland – Net Worth: $100 Million (The monarch shares the number 6 spot with President Jonathan) 7. Idriss Deby of Chad – Net Worth: $50 Million 8. Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe – Net Worth: $10 Million

Ekiti State Governor-Elect, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has faulted the opinion of the Lagos-based legal practitioner, Mr Femi Falana (SAN) that some people are planning to relocate from the state after the inauguration of the governor-elect In the statement made available to newsmen by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi,in Ado Ekiti Tuesday,the governor-elect described the claim by the lawyer as baseless and out of place Fayose was apparently reacting to a statement in a publication in one of the national dailies (not Vanguard) in which Falana was quoted as saying some people in the state are planning to relocate from the state after the inaguration of Fayose in October 16 ,saying Ekiti State is gradually gaining the status of terror- state. Adelusi, who expressed doubt over the claim of Falana,noting that only those who have skeletons in their cupboards may decide to move out of the state to other state. He noted that the overwhelming people of Ekiti State that voted...

ARMED herdsmen have continued to launch attacks on motorists and passengers plying Enugu-Nsukka Road almost on daily basis, Vanguard’s investigation has shown. The bandits, suspected to be Fulani herdsmen, have left several passengers wounded, while others have lost cash and valuables. Narrating their ordeal to Vanguard, some of the victims called on the police to beef up security on dreaded portions of the road. In the latest attack, a victim, who identified herself as Mrs. Salome Nnadi, a teacher at Queen of the Rosary Secondary School, Nsukka, recounted how they were ambushed and robbed along Ugwuogo-Nike-Opi Road, a few kilometres from Enugu. She said: “We were returning from Enugu on Thursday, around 3p.m. On reaching a sharp bend, four armed men dressed in Fulani regalia suddenly appeared from a near-by bush. “They ransacked the commuter bus, carting away mobile phones, jewelleries and cash from passengers.” She added that the bandits also inflicted machete wounds on ...

Against the backdrop of reactions that have continued to trail the recent collapse of the six-storey guest house attached to the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, Ikotun Egbe, Lagos, the founder, Prophet T.B. Joshua, has again fired at several commentators, describing their alleged negative commentaries as an act of destroying Nigeria’s image before the international community. TB Joshua-Synagogue Church In another two minutes and 44 seconds video clip sermon titled “A cloud that covers Nigeria has closed my mouth,” posted weekend, on the church’s Facebook page, T.B. Joshua Ministries, Joshua who was said to have just returned from Colombia decried that since the September 12 tragic incident which claimed over 116 lives, Nigerians have continued to soil the country’s image through bad press. His words: “I just came back from Colombia. Although, I intended to travel from there to another country, but I came back home because there is a cloud that covers Nigeria. I want...

Former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd) has said that he has recovered and would soon be back in the country. General Babangida, who spoke on telephone with journalists at Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu’s Tunga residence in Minna yesterday when General Abdulsalami Abubakar paid the governor a Sallah homage said,”I am now well and will be back to Nigeria very soon.” He was not however specific on the date of his arrival. IBB, while speaking through General Abdulsalami’s phone said “I miss all of you, I wish you all Barka de Sallah. I am better now and I will be back in few days’ time. The two former military leaders normally pay Sallah homage on the state governor annually but this year, General Babangida is currently receiving treatment in a foreign country. Last week, the state governor sent a delegation from the state to visit the former military president. Source: Vanguard

Some people reached out to me to help them share this info. Said it's very serious. Moronke Temilola claims her daughter's paternal grand-mum (her baby daddy's mother) took her daughter from the UK to Nigeria yesterday without her consent and wants anyone who has seen either the woman or the child to reach out to her or report to the police.

Professor Piot, as a young scientist in Antwerp, you were part of the team that discovered the  Ebola  virus in 1976. How did it happen? I still remember exactly. One day in September, a pilot from Sabena Airlines brought us a shiny blue Thermos and a letter from a doctor in Kinshasa in what was then Zaire. In the Thermos, he wrote, there was a blood sample from a Belgian nun who had recently fallen ill from a mysterious sickness in Yambuku, a remote village in the northern part of the country. He asked us to test the sample for yellow fever. These days, Ebola may only be researched in high-security laboratories. How did you protect yourself back then? We had no idea how dangerous the virus was. And there were no high-security labs in Belgium. We just wore our white lab coats and protective gloves. When we opened the Thermos, the ice inside had largely melted and one of the vials had broken. Blood and glass shards were floating in the ice water. We fished the o...

Nigeria responded with fury Monday after South African authorities confiscated a second tranche of funds meant for arms purchase to fight the extremist Boko Haram sect, denying the deal was unlawful and warning South Africa of its investment in Nigeria. The warning came after the South African government seized US$5.7 million wired by the Nigerian government through a bank to an arms dealer in that country. South Africa’s Asset Forfeiture Unit of the National Prosecuting Authority said the money, about N952 million, was the proceed of illegal transactions, according to local paper, City Press. The seizure was the second in nearly three weeks, coming after authorities there froze $9.3 million transported in cash by two Nigerians and an Israeli for arms purchase. At the time, South Africa said the transaction violated its laws on movement of cash. In a terse reaction to what appears a potential diplomatic spat between the two countries, the Nigerian government denied t...

Dancer Kemi Omotoyinbo died on October 1st after being in and out of labour for several days at a private hospital in Lagos. (Read  here ). Wellness doctor, Sola Fajana says her death was preventable. Read what he wrote below... I read about Kemi Omotoyinbo's death some few days back and I still feel so much burden to write about it. She is a popular dancer and died during child birth. Her friends took to social media to condemn the managing Doctor on how she was treated and refusal to perform the surgery due to unavailability of funds. If I were the Doctor I would have gone ahead to save her life but my concern is why did her friends keep her there if they knew she could not afford it? I mean, 450k is a lot of money and if you can't afford it, go to a cheaper facility. Why toy with your friend's life? I still know of some centers in Nigeria that you can get CS done for as low as 50K. Again we can't say much because we don't know what transpired betwe...