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Tonto Dikeh and hubby officially part ways as family returns bride price

After months of accusations and counter accusations, the troubled marriage of Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh and her husband Olakunle Churchill has officially come to an end if a video by Media Room Hub is anything to go by. The video by the online platform shows the father of the actress, Sunny Dikeh, and Churchill’s uncle, Bishop Dare, in a meeting acting as go-betweens in a bid to finalise the separation. The clip later shows the Dikeh family returning the bride price to their erstwhile in-laws, a situation that officially annuls their union as man and wife. There had been attempts in the past to save the marriage of the couple but all efforts came to nothing ending their rocky union which was consummated in 2015.

UK's May strikes $1.3 billion deal with Northern Irish party to prop up government

UK's May strikes $1.3 billion deal with Northern Irish party to prop up government LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May struck a deal on Monday to prop up her minority government by agreeing to at least 1 billion pounds ($1.3 billion) in extra funding for Northern Ireland in return for the support of the province's biggest Protestant party. After over two weeks of talks and turmoil sparked by May's failure to win a majority in a June 8 snap election, she now has the parliamentary numbers to pass a budget and a better chance of passing laws to take Britain out of the European Union. May and Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster presided at the signing of a three-page so-called "confidence and supply" deal that is some way short of a more formal coalition agreement. It means the DUP's 10 lawmakers will now vote in support of May's 318 Conservatives in the 650-seat parliament on the budget, legislative agenda, motions of confidenc...

Music star can't stop showing off his jewellery

The music star has been showing off wads of cash and jewelries on Snapchat. Doavido                                                                                                                                                     Davido is a baller he wants you to know it! The music star has been showing off wads of cash and jewelries on Snapchat. Davido showing off his expensive Jewelries (YouTube)                                             Just last month after his successful performance at the O...

Technical glitch reveals Nasty C as winner Best International Act Africa

The organisers of the award have sparked some drama with their website mistakenly revealing the South African multi-talented rapper to be the winner of that category.    Nominees                                                                                                                            The BET Awards has slipped up again, this time, the website of the network revealing South African Hip Hop act Nasty C as winner of the Best International Act Africa 2017. The Best International Act Africa category has nominees from Nigeria, South Africa and Ghana facing off and contesting keenly for the award. They include Nigeria's Wizkid, Davido, Tekno, and Mr ...

'You are destroying our future stop it', rapper criticizes 9ice's song 'Living things'

Falz the bahd guy advocates for using the music to build up and move people's life forward. Falz                                                                                                                                            Rapper Falz has voiced out his opinion on 9ice's recent single 'Living things'. The 'Soft work' rapper is of the belief that 9ice is encouraging fraudsters and 'Yahoo' boys, mentioning the specific words he didn't find pleasing. "You are an entertainer in a position as a role model to younger ones coming up and in your musical record you are greeting all the yahoo boys, you are greeting all the fraudsters...

Woman catches lover raping her 15-month-old baby in Bayelsa

A 50-year-old man has been arrested in Bayelsa for allegedly raping a 15-months-old baby belonging to his lover.     Residents of the Swali community in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State have been outraged after a 50-year-old man, Oku Ekanem, was arrested by the state Police Command for allegedly raping the 15-months-old infant daughter of his lover. Punch reports that Ekanem, an indigene of Akwa Ibom State, was arrested by men of the state’s security outfit, Operation Doo Akpo, after his lover, Blessing Joshua , the mother of the child, caught him red-handed in the act and raised an alarm. It was gathered that the single mother who is Ekanem's lover, had caught him defiling the toddler at about 1 am on Monday, June 19, 2017, in her house and the incident is said to have provoked serious anger among residents of the area, particularly women lawyers in the state under the auspices of the International Federation of Women Lawyers [FIDA]. Speaking on the shocking discover...

Court sentences businessman to 3 years’ imprisonment for trafficking in drugs

A Federal High Court in Lagos has sentenced a 42-year- old businessman, Ifeanyi Obori, to three years’ imprisonment for drug trafficking. Justice Kuewumi  in his judgment found the accused guilty as charged and sentenced him to three years’ imprisonment. Kuewumi said the imprisonment period would begin from the date of the convict’s arrest. The convict was charged with trafficking in drugs by the  National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) . The NDLEA arraigned him before  Justice Babs Kuewumi , where he pleaded guilty to the charge. After his plea, the prosecutor,  Mr Jeremiah Aernan , reviewed the facts of the case before the court. Aernan tendered a statement written by the convict, a request for scientific aid form, and a drug analysis form. He also tendered the remnant of the narcotic substances found on him before the court as evidence. The  News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)  reports that the evidence were, accordingly, admitted by t...