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Veteran Nigerian singer, Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2Baba, has teamed up with budding DMW act, Peruzzi, to share a new single titled “Amaka.” The song which narrates a story of disappointment by a love interest (Amaka) was produced by fast rising record producer, SperoachBeatz, who became popular for his work on Davido’s raving single “Assurance.” The track is accompanied by befitting visuals directed by Unlimited LA. This comes after 2baba shared “In Love and Ashes” soundtrack for a new television series “In Love and Ashes” which premiered in March. “In Love and Ashes” is a compelling 8-part drama series about loss, regret, forgiveness, hope and the human spirit’s incredible capacity for healing. Written by 2baba, Kelechi Orji and Efe Omorogbe and produced by Kelly Hansome, the song promotes the message of tolerance, unity and peace among Nigerians in particular and all of humanity in general. In 2017, 2baba also unlocked one of last year’s biggest hit...

Joe Jackson, 89, father of the late Michael Jackson is dead. The father of 11 died after a battle with cancer in his Los Angeles home on Wednesday. News of Joe’s death comes two days after the ninth anniversary of Michael’s death. “He had home nursing care and things took a turn and they wanted to rush him to the hospital, but it was too late,” a source close to the Jackson family said, according to Radar online. Joe, who married Katherine in 1949, had a brief music career before putting his sons, including Michael and Jermaine, together in a group called The Jackson 5. After they were signed to Motown in 1968, the family moved to California, where the patriarch supervised the group’s recording sessions and later opened his own record label, establishing the careers of his youngest son, Randy, and daughter Janet.

The Speaker of Cross River State House of Assembly,Rt.Hon.(Barr.) John Gaul Lebo has won the best Speaker a ward in Nigeria.The award which was given by the first Northern Achievers International Magazine was received yesterday by the Clerk of the House,Barr. Bassey Ekpenyong unbehalf of the Speaker, and the CRSHA which also emerged the best House of Assembly in Nigeria. The award was based on a review of current Legislative activities conducted across the 36 Houses of ASSEMBLY in Nigeria. The speakers Stellar and peculiar performance in the area of providing the legal framework for Legislative purpose vehicles to drive the operations of special purpose vehicles SPVs for the public and private corporations leading to the emergence of Rice city, Calapharm etc. The CRS Legislative direction 2015 to 2019 which targeted 80 bills in 4 years out which 83 has been proposed and 68 passed in 3 years. Rt.Hon.(Barr.) John Gaul Lebo The CRS HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY economy p...

Turkish Police raided the office of a left-wing opposition news website on Thursday, breaking into the office and searching the newsroom, the group said. The news came amid reports of detentions for the supporters of an opposition presidential candidate. Sendika.org said that there were no journalists present at the time of the raid. The website said the raid was part of a legal investigation into its editor, Ali Ergin Demirhan. Mr Demirhan was briefly detained in April 2017 on charges of not recognising the result of a referendum to switch to an executive presidency system. He was separately detained in May this year for a news story titled “We can stop the dictatorship,’’ but later released. A big majority of mainstream media outlets in Turkey are considered to be close to Islamic Conservative President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Critical journalists often switch to online platforms; however, many such websites are blocked in Turkey. Meanwhile, local media reported th...

Fifteen people died and 70 were injured when fire swept through a market and nearby homes in central Nairobi in the early hours of Thursday, a senior official said. The blaze broke out in a timber yard, said Nairobi regional coordinator, Kangethe Thuku. According to Emergency Service St John Ambulance, the fire started at around 2.30 a.m. and spread through Gikomba market and nearby apartments and shanties before being contained about 90 minutes later. Located in the densely crowded downtown part of the city, Gikomba is the heartbeat of a huge informal market, selling everything from second-hand clothes to hardware. It has been damaged several times by fire. Mr Thuku said the death toll from Thursday’s blaze had reached 15. “About five… arrived dead in the hospital but we still have about nine bodies in the burning buildings because we want to confirm and ensure the safety of those buildings,” he said. Some victims were taken to Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) ...

Pope Francis appointed 14 new cardinals in a ceremony at St Peter’s Square on Thursday, while warning the newly named dignitaries against internal wrangling within the church. “What does it profit us to gain the whole world if we are living in a stifling atmosphere of intrigues that dry up our hearts?’’ the pope said. “We might think of all those palace intrigues that take place, even in curial offices.’’ During his address, the pope also encouraged cardinals not to engage in a “quest of honours, jealousy, envy, intrigue, accommodation and compromise.’’ Among the new dignitaries are men from Iraq, Pakistan and Latin America who were previously relatively unknown, and Francis emphasised the need for the Catholic Church to reach out to the “margins’’ of the world. Among those appointed cardinals was Konrad Krajewski, a Polish archbishop known for his commitment to the poor, having set up showers for the homeless at the Vatican. Other appointees include the Spanis...

Nine people have been confirmed dead after a tanker conveying petrol went up in flames on the Otedola Bridge, along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Thursday evening, the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) has said. Adesina Tiamiyu, the agency’s general manager, said 54 vehicles were razed by the inferno. “On getting to the scene of the incident it was discovered that a Mack tanker truck loaded with 33,000 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) moving inward Berger at about 5:23 pm, fell and spilled its content on the road resulting into fire outbreak, said Mr Tiamiyu Adesina.  “Unfortunately, nine bodies were confirmed dead and recovered from the scene (eight adults and one minor) and four persons sustained various degrees of injuries and taken to the hospital.” Mr Tiamiyu said efforts were ongoing to move all the burnt vehicles off the road. The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) had earlier said the accident was caused by a brake fa...