PHOTOS of Beyonce from GQ Magazine + Interview

Beyoncé has been chosen as GQ Magazine’s #1 Hottest Woman of the 21st Century and this is certainly no surprise.

While taking a slight break from releasing new music last year, the songstress has been enjoying motherhood and the fruits of her labor. Check out some of the highlights from the cover story and the full spread after the jump!

Enjoy her interview when you continue

Rihanna and Taylor Swift Will Perform at the Grammys

 

 Rihanna, Taylor Swift, and the Black Keys are set to perform live at the Grammys. The initial group of artists were announced Wednesday, and the early list is damn impressive.

Also: Beyonce will sing at President Obama's inauguration, the Les Miserables soundtrack is tearing up the charts, and more ahead.

TMZ Report: Britney Spears to Quit 'The X Factor'

TMZ reported late Wednesday night that the pop star, who served as a judge on the most recent season of the Fox singing competition, has quit the show to focus on her music. An unnamed source tells the website, "Britney loves Simon, she likes Demi Lovato, but her thing is music."

Spears is currently in the studio recording her eighth album with some help from Will.i.am and all-star producer Hit-Boy. TMZ reports that the singer wants to head out on tour after she completes the album, and judging another season of The X Factor would obviously conflict with that.

Full List of 2013 Oscar Nominees

Here are the full list of nominees announced this morning:

Best Actor

Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables

Denzel Washington, Flight

Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook

Joaquin Phoenix, The Master

Two trains collide in Switzerland, several injured

Two passenger trains collided at a train station in northern Switzerland on Thursday morning, injuring several people, according to police, as media reported at least 30 had been hurt.

“There are injuries. We are not commenting on the number or severity of the injuries,” a local police spokeswoman in the canton of Schaffhouse said.

Details later.

PHOTOS: Check Out the inside of Kanye West And Kim K's $11Million Mansion

Check out Kim K and Kanye's newly acquired  crib in gated community in Bel Air, CA.  

More photos when you continue. am speechless oo

PHOTOS: See Psquare's house in the United States of America (USA)

               

The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California, United States.

Igbo boys doing it big hehe, more Photos when you continue

EFCC Arrests Former CBN Governor Charles Soludo

EFCC una no they laugh these days oo everyday I hear they have arrested Mr. A or Mr. B today its Oga Soludo turn. Well this is a very good development  the shame is getting to much; people seeing Nigeria as a hell fire existing in planet earth not a good thing

Saharareporters just learnt that officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission this afternoon arrested immediate past Governor of the Central bank of Nigeria, Charles Soludo in connection with the Australian polymer banknotes bribery scam.

A close relative of Mr. Soludo confirmed to Saharareporters operatives picked up the former CBN governor in Abuja a few hours ago.

Ice Prince and Wizkid moves into New home

I have said this before now am saying it again. Money is good. its simple lol. Two hot Naija music stars have made a twiiter announcement that they are moving into a new crib. We shall be chilling for the photos. I don't need a prophet to tell me the house is not just a house.

TOPIC OF THE DAY: Please what's Up with Sky B?? (Ma Bebe)

Sky B, Sky B Who knowns his whereabouts?  I really enjoyed his song "ma bebe" when it came out, you will quite agree with me that this song was a hit in Naija. This morning my neighbour was playing it, I remembered the good old days when I had my earphone on my ear every minute playing :"ma babe"  lol

Biko where is he hiding? Sky B come out and do 'ma babe" remix featuring Wizkid or P square

50-Year-Old Woman beaten To Death In Ogun State

The Ondo State Police Command has arrested two persons for allegedly beating a 50-year-old woman to death at Idanre town in the state, last Saturday.

The State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Adeniran Aremu, disclosed this to newsmen, and added that the suspects had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigations Department for discreet investigation.

Mr. Universe Nigeria 2013 activation/launch

Accomplished, Striving as well as Aspiring very charming and very sexy young men from all corners of Nigeria have started gearing up as the quest to who becomes the next Mr. Universe Nigeria 2013; the nation’s biggest and creatively produced contemporary male contest gets underway.

The event which was activated today in Lagos is exclusively for Nigerian males between the ages of 17-28 years who either live in Nigeria or outside the shores of the country.

EFCC Arrests Imo Finance Commissioner, AG For Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested two officials of Imo State Government over alleged case of fraud running into billions of naira. The two state officials are the state Commissioner of Finance, Deacon Okafor Chike John and the Accountant-General of the state, Eche Ezenna George.

Nigeria's University of Benin disowns professor claiming AIDS cure

Culled from PREMIUM TIMES

UNIBEN says Prof Ibeh did not carry it along in his research and cannot authenticate his AIDS cure claim
The University of Benin has disowned claims its researchers have found a cure for HIV/AIDS, a day after one of its professors, Isaiah Ibeh, announced a new drug which he said was capable of wiping out the virus from a patient in 30 days.

Emere by The Bonafide Crew, Debuting on 9th of January, 2013

The Bonafide Crew started out as a group of seven artists/producers back in secondary school in Lagos in 2004. Their music was heavily hip-hop influenced and they put out three mixtapes: Written from the underground, Virus and Bonafide's Turn 2 Murder (B.T.2.M.) from then till 2007, gaining massive popularity among the teenage audience in Lagos.

Beauty Of The Day: Queen Sola Chinaka - Most Beautiful Student In Nigeria 2012!

The reigning Most Beautiful Student In Nigeria Queen Sola Chinaka Nkechi, student of Imo State University is set to take the Ivory tower and Nigeria in general by storm come 2013

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I Don’t Want Kris Humphries Around When I Give Birth – Kim Kardashian

Kim Kardashian does not plan to tie the knot with Kanye West — at least not yet — but she is angry and frustrated that Kris Humphries is putting her in a position where she may have a baby with one man while still married to another. Sources say she does not feel the need to marry Kanye, even though she’s having his baby. But she does not want to be legally married to Kris Humphries when she gives birth.

I Will Try And Talk To Justin Bieber About Smoking Weed – Akon

Akon doesn’t drink … Akon doesn’t smoke … but Akon was pretty damn surprised when he found out his pal Justin Bieber might be doin’ both.

Akon was leaving The Ivy yesterday when we asked him about the fan reaction to the photos of ‘ away on a joint, while surrounded by Coronas, at a recent hotel party.

PHOTOS: Jim Iyke's Island Holiday vacation.

Jim Iyke the action man. lol; this young man is having fun spending his the holiday season on an island vacation. Based on these photos, it seems as though he had very pleasant moment

Fire Guts Ship At Tin Can Island In Lagos

 

A ship docked at the Tin Can Island port in Apapa, Lagos has exploded in flames. No one can ascertain the level of damage yet and if there are any casualties.*The burning ship

 More details soon

PHOTO: Woman Set Ablaze By Jealous Husband

Four months after 39-year-old Janet Odhegba was set on fire by her jealous husband, Kehinde Adesanmoye, in Ikotun, Lagos State, she has yet to fully recover from the burns she sustained after the incident.

Mariah Carey Calls Nicki Minaj 'Unsafe' & Unprofessional!

Culled from  perezhilton

The fires of their now infamous feud might have been fueled back in October, but tonight, we’ll get to hear what Mariah Carey had to say about Nicki Minaj!

With American Idol’s premiere in just one week, Mimi is speaking out yet again on that oh so fateful day where Nicki allegedly said she’d “shoot that bitch!”

When Barbara Walters asked Mariah about that incident in particular, she stated:

PHOTO: Truck Crushes Man’s Head In Lagos (viewer discretion Adviced)

A man reportedly died on the spot after his head got trapped and crushed crushed to a pulp when the rear tyres of a truck rolled backwards and crushed his  head to a pulp.

Reports say the unidentified man, a mate to the driver of the haulage truck with Registration Number XT 727 LSR was trying to place a wedge behind the tyres when they rolled over him, squashing his head which caused his body twitching as blood was gushing out  of where his head was and which was now a mess of brain and bones.

See photos when you continue

6 killed in accident on Abuja-Lokoja road

The accident occurred in Karara village at 11.10 a.m.
The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, in Kogi has confirmed the death of six people in an accident that occurred on Tuesday on the Lokoja-Abuja road.

The state FRSC Sector Commander, Garba Mohammed, said in Lokoja that the accident occurred in Karara village at 11.10 a.m.

Dele Giwa’s mother to be buried on February 9th

The late Elekia Giwa will be buried on February 9.
The family of late Dele Giwa has fixed February 9 as the “tentative” date for the burial of their mother, Elekia Giwa.
Ms. Giwa, 87, passed away at about 5 a.m. on Tuesday after a brief illness at a hospital in Ikorodu, Lagos.
“The date is a tentative one but she will be buried in Edo State,” Ronke Aboaba, the last child of the deceased, said

Obasanjo is confused and unstable - President Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan has again lashed out at ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, describing him as a confused man unstable in his views regarding government’s handing of the protracted Boko Haram insurgency.

Mr. Jonathan, who spoke through his spokesperson, Reuben Abati, was reacting to Mr.  Obasanjo’s comment in a CNN  interview that the president had been deploying excessive force and exploring little or no dialogue in solving the Boko Haram problem.

Question for the day

Morning everyone, Little brain teaser for y'all Winner gets a surprise from me :)

If I saw a Movie for 97K and wanted to buy it, took 50k from dad and 50k from mum making it a 100k, after buying I have 3k left. I gave them 1k each and have 1k all to myself now owing them 49k 49k, that's 98k plus the 1k I have that's 99k altogether.. What happened to the remaining 1k that will make it a 100k??

Oya where are all the mathematicians? go go go!!! hehehe :-)

PHOTO: Meet John Dumelo's Mum

Ghanaian actor John Dumelo posted this photo of him kissing his mum on the cheek on Instagram. with the caption: Nothing like a mother’s love’, Yea Yea he can say that again, My own mum is better than all o u *in davido's voice*

PHOTO: See Omotola Jalade Ekeinde pose with her cute son

Nollywood star Omotola Jalade Ekeinde takes out time to pose with her cute son. She still looks beautiful and radiant even at 34 

IROKO Partners Opens South African Office

iROKO Partners, an established online distributor of Nigerian movies and music, starts 2013 with news of further expansion, with the opening of a new office in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The office, located in Maboneng precinct, will house a team of up to 5 and will be a regional hub for iROKO Partners with specific focus on the development of new business partnerships, working closer with key South African media agencies and the sourcing of new content for its popular movie and music platforms, iROKOtv and iROKING.

University Of Benin Unveils ‘Cure’ For HIV/AIDS

A cure for Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV, and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, AIDS, has been discovered, a Professor at the University of Benin said on Tuesday.
Isaiah Ibeh, the Dean of the School of Basic Medical Science of the University, said in Benin that the herbal drug has undergone “series of successful tests”.

“We are at the threshold of making history, in the sense that we seem to have with us something that will permanently take care of what over time seems to have defied all solutions.

PHOTO: Ice Prince attending to a customer at Etisalat Customer care centre

60 suspected oil thieves arrested in Lagos

Culled from PM NEWS

Officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDCs, have arrested 60 persons suspected of siphoning petrol from oil pipeline at Majidun area of Ikorodu, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.

Tapping fuel illegally from pipelines is common at Majidun, a suburb of Lagos, where villagers specialize in oil bunkering, raking in millions of naira from the illegal deal.

Man Sets 6 Co-Workers On Fire

A Nigerian factory worker at Amuwo Odofin, Moses Ayogu,  has been arrested by the police in Lagos State, for allegedly setting six of  his colleagues on fire,  leading to the death of two of them and seriously injuring  four others, now on admission  in the hospital.

According to the police prosecutor, the two victims who died in the fire attack are Lawrence Onyejekwe and John Omeren while four others, Chijioke Anayo, Titus Terkuve, Hope Effiong and Emmanuel Philip were badly burnt.