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Grammy-nominated producer and pop artist, Sophie, is dead. Aged 34, the Los-Angeles-based artiste died on Saturday after she slipped and fell off while watching the full moon. In a statement, Sophie’s management said the musician had died at around 04:00 on Saturday in the Greek capital, where she had been living. Part of the statement reads “Sophie was a pioneer of a new sound, one of the most influential artists in the last decade,” they said. A further statement from Sophie’s record label Transgressive, explained how the “terrible accident,” had occurred. “True to her spirituality she had climbed up to…

Popular Nigerian Gospel singer has warned women to refrain from participating in the viral x-rated silhouette challenge. The silhouette challenge has flooded social media in the past few hours as users post naked videos with a red filter. With the Silhouette challenge, ladies and men on social media are showing off their curves using red light filters, door frames, etc, even some performing 3exual acts on one another. Mercy Chinwo in a post on her Instagram page warned women against following every trend online, even as she condemned the silhouette challenge. This is as Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer…

The embattled president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Ahmad Ahmad, has been dramatically restored back to his position following a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). He was banned by FIFA in November for five years after football’s world governing body found him to have breached several of its ethics codes. At that time, the FIFA ethics committee found “Ahmad had breached his duty of loyalty, offered gifts and other benefits, mismanaged funds and abused his position as the CAF President.” Ahmad, a former government official in Madagascar, was fined 200,000 Swiss francs ($220,000). The…

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says 26 persons in Akwa Ibom State were discharged on Friday, bringing total number of persons discharged so far to 520. This is as the state has recorded 18 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, bringing the total confirmed cases to 807. In the same vein, Nigeria recorded 1,114 new cases and 27 deaths. On its official Twitter, NCDC wrote ‘’On the 29th of January 2021, 1114 new confirmed cases and 27 deaths were recorded in Nigeria. A breakdown shows ”The 1114 new cases are reported from 22 states- Lagos (408), FCT (95), Plateau (90), Ondo…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it plans to challenge the result of the December 5, Imo North Senatorial by-election at the tribunal. This is contained in a statement by the state PDP Publicity Secretary, Mr Ogu Nwadike in Owerri on Friday. Nwadike said that the party’s decision was borne out of its dissatisfaction with the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner without a bonafide candidate. He said that a party should not be allowed to participate in an election without a candidate. He said that in the event of…

A Mapo Customary Court, Ibadan, Friday, dissolved a 38-year-old marriage between a trader, and her estranged husband, over financial exploitation and a threat to life. Delivering judgment, Chief Ademola Odunade,  the court’s President, said that evil could not strive forever, due to Justina Bassey’s eventual realisation that her husband, Evans, was exploiting her. Odunade, therefore, dissolved the marriage and ordered the husband to vacate the house immediately, so that there might be peace. He granted custody of the last child, an underage, to the wife and directed the remaining three adult children to relate with whoever pleases them between their…

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Enoch Adeboye, has warned his followers against watching semi-nude videos on social media. Adeboye gave the admonishment in a series of tweets on Friday at about the same time when a slew of sexually exposing videos and photos tagged “silhouette challenge” have begun to circulate on Twitter. In the #SilhouetteChallenge, ladies could be seen posing seductively in front of doorways while showing off their near-nude bodies under dimly lit red background filters. This had portrayed the physique of their naked bodies but as silhouettes. This is as BBNaija 2019…

An experimental COVID-19 vaccine appears to offer strong protection in late-stage UK and South Africa studies, said manufacturer Novavax. The Phase 3 trials – the final stage before a vaccine is looked at by a regulator – enrolled more than 15,000 people aged between 18-84, of whom 27% were older than 65, US firm Novavax said. The UK has secured access to 60 million doses of the vaccine, called NVX-CoV2373. The protein-based vaccine candidate was shown to be 89.3% effective at preventing coronavirus in participants in its Phase 3 clinical trial in the UK, which enrolled more than 15,000 people…

After 13 years, Dutch court has ordered Shell to pay compensation over oil spills in Nigeria’s Niger Delta in a ruling which could pave the way for more cases against the multinational oil firm. The Court of Appeal in The Hague on Friday ruled that the British-Dutch company, which is headquartered in the Netherlands, must issue payouts over a long-running civil case involving four Nigerian farmers seeking compensation, and a cleanup, from the company over pollution caused by leaking oil pipelines. “Shell Nigeria is sentenced to compensate farmers for damages,” the court said, adding that parent company Royal Dutch Shell…

Anambra State Police have arrested one  Prophet Onyebuchi Okocha, popularly known  as ‘Onyeze Jesus,’ waiting for arraignment in a court of law. The controversial prophet had claimed in a video message that he would raise seven corpses in mortuaries. Onyeze Jesus is the  founder of Children of Light Anointing Ministries, Nkpor, Idemili North Local Government Area of the state. He was arrested on Wednesday, January 27, 2021. The state government, through a statement by the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Mr C. Don Adinuba, had on Monday, January 25, 2021, warned the prophet over his practices which the government…