Taylor Swift shocked her fans with an up close and personal look at her wildly successful Reputation stadium tour in a new Netflix concert special that started streaming on New Year’s Eve. The concert was for fans who loved the Grammy award winning music legend but could not afford to pay to watch her perform live. Taylor Swift gave them the opportunity to watch her on stage without letting go of a huge sum. The concert was recorded in Dallas. It featured Swift dancing her way through hits like “Look What You Made Me Do”, “Blank Space” and a “Shake…
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Briefly after going on an uplifting social media spree about how he feels “stronger than ever” and surrounded by “so much good energy” going into the new year, the Ye rapper, 41, once again forgot all of this by speking against Drake, in lots of tweets that he then quickly deleted. Seemingly out of the blue, West returned to the limeight.. “I’ve never mentioned or touched on anything related to family when it came to Drake,” he wrote in a since-deleted Tweet, including a devil emoji after the Canadian rapper’s name. “He followed my wife on Instagram he mentioned Pusha’s…
Justin Beiber has gotten for himself a timely reminder of God’s grace. Two months after the allegation of a new face tattoo for the Grammy-winning pop crooner, a tattoo artist has officially revealed an up-close look at the ink just in time for the new year. Around his right eyebrow, Bieber is now sporting the word “grace” in script. Tattoo artist Jonathan “JonBoy” Valena captioned the shot on Instagram, “2018 was a lot of work for me. Both in tattooing and inner work I thought I would never have to face. So many times wanting to give up asking God…
Alicia Keys’ son Genesis turned four on (Dec. 27) and the songstress resorted to social media to celebrate her “sweet little baby.” “Keep following your star young king!! I can’t wait to see where it takes us!!!” she wrote alongside a throwback photo of Genesis. “you are loved endlessly!! Happy born day Genesis!!” Genesis, who is fathered by Swizz Beatz, is the younger brother to 8-year-old Egypt. Happy Birthday in arears to him.
Olamide Adedeji aka Baddosneh has shared brand new photos to celebrate himself and his fans in the new year. Known to not do it often, he sure knows how to dazzle his supporters when he decides to flaunt pictures of himself. The editorial shoot has Olamide smoking cigar, looking calm and collected. Recall that the rap king managed to attract, mesmerize and captivate the crowd during his performances at his OLIC 2018 concert days ago. Considering all the rants and threats on Twitter to boycott OLIC this year, all was quickly forgiven as he performed his major hits Worth noting…
The New Year is a time we all regard with great expectations as we plan to do better things. As we all know, time and time again, celebrity marriages are not known to last long and for that reason, assurance is often needed to strengthen these unions. For this reason, Popular Nollywood actor, Bolanle Ninalowo, recently took to his Instagram page to share cute photos of himself and his wife to celebrate the New Year. Reports had it recently that the huge movie star was separated with his wife of 12 years, Bunmi. Bolanle even came out to say, “I…
Chinonso Arubayi, the pretty wife of Nigerian gospel artiste, Eric Arubayi who died on February 11th 2017 from complications that came from taking fake anti-malaria drugs has shared that she felt betrayed by God after the unfortunate incident that happened three years after their wedding. In an interview with TVC, today, Chinonso, his wife and mother of his son, said: “My husband & I lived a faith based life. When he died, I lived in denial because I felt betrayed by God that my husband, a Gospel artiste, could die. I fell into depression, shaved my hair & wouldn’t accept…
Seyi Shay recently clashed with a follower of hers on social media who told her to accept Jesus christ. The fan made the statement in reaction to extremely revealing bedroom photos Seyi Shay shared to usher in the new year. The troll posted, “U need Christ” and the beautiful singer quickly responsded, “U need a brain.” Seyi Shay recently revealed a space in her heart no one can fill. In a chat with Satruday Beats, she said, “Currently all my father does is to pray for me. Before my mother died, her last words to me were that I should…
Terry G has said the reason he abandoned the name Terry Gzuz was because many were mistaking the Gzuz to mean Jesus, so he had to go back to using Terry G. “I did not receive any death threat for initially changing my stage name to Terry Gzuz. Sometimes people call me Terry Gzuz when they chat with me online. When they spell Gzuz as Jesus, I try to correct them immediately.“Now that I have rebranded, when the same people call me Gzuz I tell them that I have changed it to Genius. Nobody has kicked against this yet. I…
As the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) are set to meet with the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) in two days time, January 4, 2019, over corps member’s involvement in the February 2019 elections, ASUU has gone on to say that the ongoing strike would not end unless the government meets lecturers’ demands. The president of the Union, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi in a recent interview said the strike, which is now in its seventh week is in the interest of everyone. After several meetings with no positive result between the government and the union, there have been pleas to…
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC), Dr Maikanti Baru has said that the country’s refineries had not undergone Turn Around Maintenance(TAM) for an aggregate of 42 years. He said that in spite of this hindrance, a lot of rehabilitation works were happening in all the three refineries. He noted that the Warri Refinery and Petrochemical Company, WRPC, had its Distribution Control System (DCS) successfully upgraded while the Port Harcourt Refining Company (PHRC) had major interventions in Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit, (FCCU) and Power Plant Unit (PPU) fixed. He added that Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical Company (KRPC)…
The presidential candidates of four political parties are set to partake in televised town hall meetings alongside their VP candidates ahead of the 2019 presidential election. The town hall series is a co-production between Daria Media and the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), and supported by the MacArthur Foundation. According to a statement released on Monday, December 31, 2018, the series will start on Wednesday, January 9, 2019 with the candidate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP), Kingsley Moghalu and his running mate, Umma Getso. APC would have its candidate, President Muhammadu Buhari and his running mate, Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo,…
The leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has told President Muhammadu Buhari to investigate the corruption allegation that has gone Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje’s way this past few days. Its National Public Relations Officers (PRO), Mr Adeyemi Amoo asked all passionate Nigerians to join hands together in the battle against corruption and called for adequate justice on all corrupt leaders. Amoo said that it was time for the president to chase out all the politically corrupt office holders in the country and expose their dirty acts that can destroy his administration. “The national leadership of NANS have been…
Mrs Aisha Buhari has been appointed the Chairperson of All Progressives Congress (APC) Women and Youths Presidential Campaign team for the 2019 election. The wife of the Vice-President, Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo, is also appointed as the Co-chairman of the campaign team. Reports said the campaign team would be inaugurated on Jan. 3, by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa at 2 p.m. The appointees are expected to campaign vigorously for the re-election of Buhari and Osinbajo in the February poll. The list of the appointees also has the APC National Woman Leader, Hajiya Salamatu Baiwa,…
Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly has said even though there was clear corruption under former President Goodluck Jonathan, life was easier than it is currently under President Muhammadu Buhari. “Education in shambles did not start with Buhari, health care delivery in shambles did not start with Buhari, infrastructural deficit did not start with Buhari. What many people are saying is that there was corruption under Jonathan, yes, but life was better. At least we were able to get this, but this man cornered all the money, locked it up. He’s not releasing anything, so let’s fight him…
Ayo Fayose has described the Federal Government’s TraderMoni scheme as a higher form of vote buying. Fayose was baffled at to why the funds given to the traders are not paid directly into their bank accounts, so they can be traceable. He revealed this in a statement signed by his new media aide, Lere Olayinka. Fayose said “If not that TraderMoni was to reloot the recovered Abacha loot, the proper way was for beneficiaries to be captured biometrically and the N10,000 paid into their bank accounts instead of the Vice President going to the market to share cash. “Most importantly,…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged Nigerians to keep being faithful with the President Muhamadu Buhari-led administration, saying it is on a journey to rescue Nigeria. Malam Lanre Issa-Onilu, APC National Publicity Secretary said this at a news conference on Tuesday in Abuja. “As the ruling party on a rescue mission, we call on all well-meaning people of Nigeria to keep the faith with the administration. “The graphs are on the positive upward swing, Buhari is laying a solid foundation for a prosperous future, we must endure and be steadfast. “We have already turned the corner, leaving behind the…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has laughed at President Buhari’s New Year speech. PDP described the speech as empty, adding that it was idea-less. Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement, said that the President’s posture during his speech shows that he already knows he is not winning. Adding that “Even when he admitted in his opening that the turn of the New Year is a time for stock-taking and unfolding of new prospects, Nigerians are invited to note that Mr. President, in his entire speech, could not point to any single achievement he made in the out-going year, neither could he…
Atiku Abubakar has asked President Buhari to be like former President Goodluck Jonathan. Atiku mentioned this while reacting to a statement in the President’s New Year speech. Buhari said that the upcoming election is not one to die or kill for. In his response, Atiku said “It is not enough to preach peace when he (Buhari) cannot publicly condemn the violent behaviour of his supporters who harass, molest and publicly humiliate his opponents and their supporters. “It is not enough for the President to condemn do-or-die politics if he cannot control the activities of overzealous aides, including the country’s security…
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has admitted he will find it a wrench to leave Manchester United if he is forced to move on at the end of the season. The Norwegian became the first United boss to win his first four league games in charge since Sir Matt Busby after second-half goals from Romelu Lukaku and Marcus Rashford earned a 2-0 win at Newcastle to close the gap with the top four to six points. “Of course I won’t, I don’t want to [leave],” Solskjaer told a news conference at St James’ Park. “It’s such a great bunch of players, atmosphere,…