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Former President Jonathan this morning on his Facebook page, shared excepts from the chapter one of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of Jonathan Years, Chibok, 2015 and The Conspiracies, a book that is being written by his former media aide, Reno Omokri. The book is being written to counter the contradictions in the recently launched book titled, "Against The Run of Play" written by the Chairman of ThisDay Editorial Board, Olusegun Adeniyi. In Adeniyi's book, Jonathan was quoted as saying that he lost the 2015 election to President Buhari because the Obama administration and some other world leaders worked against him. Now in the yet to be released book, Reno said he interviewed one Matthew T. Page who until his resignation in 2016 was the U.S. State Department's top intelligence analyst on everything regarding Nigeria. Reno said Page gave an insight into why the US government was not pleased with the Jonathan administration. According to Reno, what he cou...

JAMB conducted a mock examination for candidates that registered for the 2017 computer based Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examinations (UTME) on Saturday, April 29. The Head, Information and Media of the board, Dr Fabian Benjamin, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in a telephone interview on Thursday in Lagos that 150,000 candidates registered for the mock examination nationwide. The examination was initially scheduled to hold on April 8 but was postponed to April 29 due to some hitches. Benjamin said the results of the mock examination had been uploaded to the board’s website. “We have finished marking the scripts and uploaded the results to our website. “We call on all candidates that participated in the examination to check on their results on our website. “However, these results have nothing to do or add to the main examination scheduled to begin on May 13. “So, we will not want those who did not participate in the mock to entertain any fear, because it will not tak...

Last month, former stripper and Instagram model Layla Lace claimed she's pregnant with Drake's baby and shared text messages to support her claim but Drake denied the incident ever happened. Now, a former porn star, Sophie Brussaux , who was seen hanging out with Drake in Amsterdam in Jan this year, has accused the rapper of being the father of her unborn baby.  She clams she is 3 and a half months pregnant and already knows the sex of the baby. She said she got pregnant around January 20 or 21. The photo above of both of them was taken on Jan 24th at a Japanese restaurant in Amsterdam. Brussaux hired a big NYC lawyer, Raoul Felder, to help her file papers to get the paternity/child support. According to TMZ:  The woman, a retired porn star, has what she says are text messages between her and Drake, which purport to say the following: Drake: I want you to have an abortion. Brussaux: I can't kill my baby simply to indulge you sorry. Drake: Indulge me? F*** ...

Last night, May 3, 2017, popular messaging app, WhatsApp had technical issues and was offline for over 2-hours in some parts of the world. It was unprecedented, no one saw it coming and the world panicked. The service has since been restored and WhatsApp is yet to make an official statement as to what led to the sudden crash of the app. Read some more reactions after the cut..

According to a new biography, former US president Barack Obama proposed to a woman he dated in the 80's who rejected his proposal twice before he met and married his wife, Michelle Obama. The woman is said to be Sheila Miyoshi Jager who is of Dutch and Japanese descent. The author of the new book, "Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama," David Garrow, says Obama met Jager in the mid-'80s when he was doing community organizing in Chicago.  Garrow said that when he interviewed Jager, she told him that even back then, Obama had a strong belief he'd someday become President of the United States. She also told the author Obama had "a deep-seated need to be loved and admired." Adding that in  1986 Obama asked her to marry him, but her parents were opposed because they thought she was too young to get married, so she turned him down, but they continued dating.  Then, Garrow says, Obama's presidential ambitions became a centerpiece of their relat...

In a post on Facebook hours ago, ex-beauty queen and former Nollywood actress turned U.S based nurse, Regina Askia-Williams, wrote; "15 years in America as a green card holder, i never felt any type of pressure to change status, all these years until Trump came. I always thought the blue passport was not necessary afterall i was still nursing big political ambitions for Nigeria. I never cared for the inconvenience of being separated from the rest of my family who are all Americans to boot, ( except Stephy who is French) when ever we had to pass through immigrations on our many travels. And then Trump and his extreme vetting policies which by the way folks is no joke. "Questions like forsaking all royalty and titles, will you bear arms for the country, when and why did your name change from Imaobong to Regina, have you ever been arrested, do you have any criminal records, do you owe money under a different name, when did you first come into America, when and where ...

Actress Sofia Vergara has also lashed out at Star for reporting that she and actor Joe are separating..  "The editor of this magazine is an idiot. if he is going to have my ring removed to create a "fake" "news" he should have made sure that he removed from social media all the other pictures of that award night in Rome where Im wearing it. By the way...thats my friend the producer of the movie Bent that I was shooting in Rome and who came to spend Easter at my home the week later. #Starmagazinebullies   #goinventsh *itaboutyourmother"

25 Youth Corps member, Charity Wadzani Thilza, pictured above, who is supposed to pass out from the NYSC scheme today May 4th, has died after she was shot dead by some armed robbers in Abuja on Monday May 1st. According to reports, Charity, who is from Borno state, had gone to a night club where singer Phyno performed and was returning home with three of her friends and a man when they were attacked by robbers. The armed robbers chased their vehicle, shooting at it to force the driver to stop. One of the bullets hit Charity. The robbers stopped the hot chase when they realized that their victims were heading towards a police station. Charity was rushed to the hospital but was rejected by the medical staff. Said to be the first child of her parents, Charity served at the Nigeria Civil Defence Corps in Abuja and had hoped to continue working with the agency after her service. May her soul rest in peace Amen.

World heavyweight champion, Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua, 27, who defeated Ukrainian giant Wladimir Klitschko in an epic 11 round battle at Wembley Stadium on Saturday, will be honoured for his heroics in Ogun State, Nigeria where his parents were born. Read Also: I'm 28 not 41, I can beat Anthony Joshua with one hand behind my back'- Tyson Fury brags The British boxer was born to a Nigerian mother and a British father of Nigerian and Irish descent. According to ESPN, the Sagamu International Stadium in Ogun State will be renamed 'The Anthony Joshua Stadium' whilst Cinema Street will also be named 'Anthony Joshua Street' by the Ogun State government. It was also reported that Joshua’s family own around half of the land and property on one side of the street and the cinema was built by his great-grandfather Omo-Oba Daniel Adebambo Joshua in the 50s. Read Also: Klitschko makes first public appearance with his fiance after losing heavyweight bout to Jo...

Ex-Big Brother Naija housemate, Marvis was over the weekend pictured clubbing at Joker Club in Benin with 2Baba, Sound Sultan Peter Okoye, Ice Prince and Denrele. See more photos after the cut..

Wladimir Klitschko has made his first public appearance just a day after losing the IBF, WBA and IBO heavyweight titles to British boxer, Anthony Joshua. The Ukrainian boxer who was knocked out on Saturday in the 11th rounds, was spotted on Sunday with his fiance Hayden Panettiere signing autographs and posing for pictures with fans before they both made their way to west London restaurant Roka for a lunch date. Read Also: I'm 28 not 41, I can beat Anthony Joshua with one hand behind my back'- Tyson Fury brags  See more photos after the cut...

Barcelona footballer, Neymar, shared photos on his Instagram story, showing him undergoing the famous 'fire cupping' therapy used to heal muscle pain and aid quick recovery. Neymar is suspended for Barcelona's La Liga clash with Osasuna on Wednesday night but doesn't want to leave any stones unturned as he hopes he can get fit as soon as possible and help Barcelona in their La Liga title push.

Dethroned due to use of cocaine, former heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has claimed he'll defeat new WBO, IBF and IBO heavyweight champion of the world, Anthony Joshua with one hand behind his back, after Joshua called him out for a possible fight following his sensational 11th-round win of Wladimir Klitschko  on Saturday  night in a packed up Wembley stadium. Fury held the WBA, IBO, Lineal and Ring magazine heavyweight champion after outboxing Wladimir Klitschko in Düsseldorf in November 2015 but was suspended from the sport last year after his blood samples tested positive for cocaine use. Now, Ring magazine, has given Fury the power to hold on to the heavyweight division’s No 1 status belt if he has a fight scheduled  within 29 days , and Fury, 28, has now claimed he wouldn't only defeat Joshua with one hand behind his back but he wouldn't need to do a warm up before fighting Joshua, 27. Fury told Sky Sports: 'Styles do make fights but I am sure I can ...

Tennis pro, Serena Williams made her very first red carpet appearance, since announcing her pregnancy, at the Met Gala in New York  on Monday  evening. Williams was dressed in a gorgeous emerald green gown that highlighted her baby bump and featured a plunging neckline, paired with sparkling diamond earrings that had jade green stones. The Olympic athlete was accompanied by her fiance, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, to the fashion gathering. See more photos after the cut.

Jacob Malone, a former pastor at Calvary Fellowship, a nondenominational church in Downingtown, has been jailed for three-six years in prison for sexually assaulting and impregnating one of his young parishioners. The 35-year-old American from Exton who was arrested in January 2016, was sentenced on Friday after entering guilty pleas to institutional sex assault, corruption of minors and child endangerment, NY Daily reported. The court heard that he began to sexually assault the girl in the fall of 2014, impregnated her when she was in her late teens and she gave birth a year ago to their daughter.  She, however, maintained that the former pastor took advantage of her 'mentally, physically, spiritually.' Admitting to the crime,  Malone told the court that he gave the girl alcohol but said the sexual encounters were consensual denying that he raped her. But he apologized, saying his 'failures and weaknesses' had hurt her, her family and his family. 'She admir...

American rapper, Eminem has staged up a legal battle against New Zealand's National party for using an unlicensed version of his 2002 hit song 'Lose Yourself' without permission for a political campaign ad in 2004. According to the New Zealand Herald, the case kicked off in the High Court at Wellington on Monday between Eminem's publishers, Eight Mile Style, Martin Affiliated and  National Party of New Zealand. It was reported that the party's lawyers argued in Court that it was not actually Lose Yourself, but a track called Eminem-esque which they bought from a stock music library. The court played the full version of 'Lose Yourself', with lyrics, followed by a track whose file was allegedly labelled 'Eminem-esque', before the instrumental of 'Lose Yourself' was heard. A lawyer for Eight Mile Style - a publishing group representing the rapper said, Lose Yourself was 'iconic' and 'without doubt the jewel in the crown of Em...

The official lineup for the 2017 Made In America Music Festival has just been announced and it includes Nigerian singer, Tiwa Savage, Jay-Z, The Chainsmokers, Solange and J. Cole as headliners. The festival will take place on Saturday, September 2nd and Sunday September 3rd 2017 in Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Other artists performing at the festival, includes Migos, Kaskade, Little Dragon, DJ Mustard, Cash Cash, Marian Hill, Stormzy, BURNS, Run the Jewels, Marshmello and many more

Jose Crisol, a 32yr old from San Francisco sufferers from spina bifida, a painful neurological condition where the spine fails to develop properly. The bodybuilder made the decision to amputate his poorly developed legs and believes it is one of the best decisions he's ever made because it has made him more mobile and independent, allowing him to focus exclusively on developing his powerful upper body. Incredible footage taken at the gym shows him powering through routines that many able bodied people will find difficult. To make things easier, he improvises to create workout routines that work for him. Watch the video below: