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The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Taraba state has accused former minister of Defence, Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma of bribing INEC to rig the re-run governorship election in the state in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). It has been reported by PM news that the ex-minister bribed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) with the sum of N2bn not to declare Aishatu Jummai-Alhassan, the governorship candidate of APC winner of the guber polls in the state. With the official results yet to be released, the youth leader of Alhassan’s campaign, Bala Abubakar Maina has claimed that INEC officials in the state has collected Two billion naira to tweak the results in favour of the PDP. Bala is however optimistic that the rigging arrangement will fail because they already have permutations that Alhassan is the winner of April 11 elections. “I am assuring you that with their TY Danjuma and the bribe money, Senator Aisha Jummai Alhassan, Maman T...

Yeh Vaada Raha - (The Promise) is arguably one of the most popular Indian films ever made - at least it was very popular in Nigeria. If you didn't watch it, then you weren't born in the 80's. The main protagonists in the classic Hindi film released in 1982 were Sunita and Vikram, pictured left from a scene from the movie. That's the actors together recently on the right. Rishi Kapoor is now 62 years old and Poonam Dhillon is 53 years old. And they are still actively acting. Good to see them again!

Kunle Afolayan, film director Tunde Kelani, Kehinde Bankole, Yemi Shodimu, and others held a peaceful walk against piracy this morning. They marched from Ikeja Under Bridge through Awolowo way to the Governor's office in Alausa where they are waiting for the governor to attend to them. See more photos below

Choi, how do you go on an interview and swear that you didn't date someone when it was public knowledge? Singer Emma Nyra swears she never dated her label boss, Ubi Franklin. In an interview with with Golden Icon, she said; "No I never dated him. I get that him and Iyanya gist. No, we never dated. We have a business deal together I never dated any of them. I swear I never dated him. I was dating someone else in the industry, but we're not dating right now" she said Asked how she feels about Ubi Franklin's recent engagement to actress Lilian Esoro, she said  "Yes I am happy for him. He is in a happy place. To marry somebody, you have to be in a certain level in your life. I am happy for him". On her relationship with Ubi's fiancee, she said "I don't really know her very well. Because when they met I was more of doing my own thing so I don't really know her very well but I wish them the best really...

There were a few Nigerians in the boat that capsized in the Mediterranean sea early yesterday April 19th claiming the lives of about 700 people. The illegal migrants drowned while on their way from Libya to Italy.  With yesterday's accident, it means that at least 1,500 migrants have died so far in 2015 while on route to Europe - and some of them are Nigerians.

“He strongly reaffirms that May 29 is, has been, and will remain sacrosanct,” were the exact words of Dr. Reuben Abati, spokesperson of President Goodluck Jonathan.  “I made it absolutely clear that the May 29th handover date is sacrosanct,” were President Jonathan’s own words in a statement he signed while relaying the meeting between himself and the U.S. Secretary of State, Senator John Kerry. If May 29 is sacrosanct, why is the presidency distracting everyone with a new unconstitutional handover date of May 28, 2015? If the current administration gets away with handing over on a day outside the constitutionally recognised date, what is to say the next administration and those after it will not do likewise? It would look like as long as the administration hands over on or before May 29, it would just be fine. But May 29 is there for a reason and there are no democratic values without traditions. This becomes even more worrying because there is absolutely no ...

President Goodluck Jonathan has raised the alarm that some powerful forces in the country are after him following his inability to win the March 28 general elections. The president who spoke through his spokesman, Reuben Abati at a media briefing in Abuja on Sunday said the forces after him have continued to push into the public domain false allegations capable of causing national crisis in an attempt to diminish his local and international reputation as well as legacy. He cited as false a report published by Sunday Punch today alleging that the Presidency spent a whopping N2 trillion on the 2015 General elections, and that a Committee of Five has been set up by President Jonathan to conduct an audit of how the funds were disbursed by party members and state officials adding that the publication is mischievous, false and embarrassing. According to the presidency “the President has not set up any committee as alleged in that story. It is also not true that the Pres...