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Nigerian football’s crisis has taken a bizarre twist with an attempt to appoint a dead referee for Sunday’s match between Warri Wolves and Giwa FC. It comes as Chris Giwa continues to challenge Nigerian Football Federation president Amaju Pinnick. A Nigerian court has ruled Giwa should replace the Fifa-recognised Pinnick and in a move to wrest control he has named the weekend’s top-flight officials. However, among those selected is Wale Akinsanya, who died in January. Giwa’s NFF rival group sent notice of its actions to the chief operation officer of the league management company on Wednesday. It has raised the possibility that two sets of match officials – those appointed by Giwa’s group and those appointed by the NFF – could turn up for the fixtures. Football’s world governing body Fifa issued a warning last week saying Pinnick and his board must continue in charge of the NFF or Nigeria would face a global suspension. Meanwhile, the Giwa-led faction has rejected a

Nigerian singer, Wizkid and L.A.X will headline the inaugural African Music Concert Malaysia, an event aimed at promoting the best of African Music in the country and Asia. Also performing at the event is popular Zambian rapper, Brizzo. African Music Concert Malaysia will also include comedy and cultural performances. Organisers hope the event will expose Malaysians to culture and diverse music from Africa. Wizkid’s collaboration with Drake is currently No.1 on the UK Singles Chart

Forbes Africa is launching its first ever TV platform with flagship show “My Worst Day”, anchored by award winning Forbes Africa and Forbes Woman correspondent, Peace Hyde. Leading business magazine, Forbes Africa, has released the first teaser for the first global TV platform,  Forbes Africa TV. Forbes Africa is launching its first ever TV platform with flagship show  “My Worst Day” , anchored by award winning Forbes Africa and Forbes Woman correspondent,  Peace Hyde. The show brings the unique Forbes journalistic style and glitz to the silver screen and focuses on the most challenging day in the lives of some of the most successful and enterprising business leaders of our time. "My Worst Day" features Africa’s business powerhouse’s in a way never seen before. The show will air on the CNBC Africa platform which provides a unique blend of International and African business and economic content. Forbes Africa publication is the sixteenth local-

Here are some tips to guide us to security consciousness. 1. Number tag of a real policeman must be six digits, less than six is fake. 2. Only female police officers have their numbers begin with "0", any policeman with number beginning with "0" is fake. 3. Every policeman's name tag is woven to the shirt, no more removable name tags. 4. A distinction between the normal policeman and the SPY (supernumerary) police personnel is that a "SPY"  number must be either three or four digits with the word "SPY" boldly inscribed on their uniform shoulder. Please at night always roll up your windows in traffic, central lock your doors, be double sure they are true policemen, if they are not, be strong and speed off. Never get frightened. Be watchful, they are everywhere. Educate your family members and friends.

Lawson in a photo shared today, Friday, April 22, 2016 on her Instagram page revealed she woke up a millionaire. Former beauty queen and billionaire wife,  Dabota Lawson has just revealed she woke up N3million richer. Lawson in a photo shared today,  Friday, April  22, 2016 on her Instagram  page revealed she woke up a millionaire. The billionaire wife wrote, " I woke up like this.T.G.I.F. " We can't help but wonder, is the money from her husband Sunny Aku ? The beauty queen's marriage has been in trouble ever since she filed for divorce  from her husband of two years. In the divorce papers Dabota Lawson revealed that Sunny Aku was still technically married when they had their wedding in December 2014. As a result of this revelation she cannot continue the marriage. But could this N3million be a peace offering from her hubby?

Speaking recently to  Hip TV , pop star and married mum of one  Tiwa Savage , 36, spoke about how society views celebrity mums after they give birth. According to her, “ When you give birth it doesn't mean you stop being sexy at all. It was being sexy that got us pregnant in the first place. Having a baby doesn't change anything it just makes me more responsible, I have a lot to live for, I have a lot to work for. I am still who I am and that's not gonna change. ” Tiwa Savage has in my books been a trailblazer. When she moved back to Nigeria in 2010 her exciting blend of pop music and sexuality made a quick lane for her. Not many female singers if not any where using sex appeal as a calling card. Tiwa Savage did and boldly so. When she exposed her cleavage in her second music video ‘ Love Me 3x ’ it caused quite a bit of stir in the music industry. Some people felt that she was flaunting what she had and others thought the she could have toned down on her cho

Bukky Wright has shared some very happy news, revealing that her second son, Wilson Amu-Wright, has just completed the process of becoming an American Air Force official. The Nollywood actress shared the news via several posts on her Instagram page, today, April 22, 2016. Wright shared cute and sharp photos of her son rocking the complete Air Force regalia, gushing about how proud she was of him. The mother-of-two shared a close up photo of her son, commenting: "Am so proud of my son as an American air force officer." Big congrats to her.                                                                                         Wilson Amu-Wright

Mahindra Comviva, maker of popular music app Mooditt, has announced the release of Mooditt 2.0, the latest version of the music app with improved features. The remarkable success of the Mooditt music app in mainstream Nigeria is a testament to how quickly the Nigerian music industry has mature with value chain players joining the mix and creating new wealth. The rise of Mooditt app as a content platform also reveals a growing subculture of content consumption over the mobile in Nigeria with some analysts hinting, that the value-added services industry could significantly displace traditional media in content storage, generation and distribution in coming decades. Mooditt is a high quality multimedia mobile application streaming service with a rich suite of local catalogue based digital music content. The application rejigs the streaming quality of the song depending on network bandwidth to ensure uninterrupted and seamless music experience to the consumers. The service all

Nollywood actor,  Nonso Diobi  has spoken on the reported auto crash that allegedly left him badly injured. In a statement credited to his management, the actor denied getting involved in such auto crash saying an impostor was actually responsible for the Instagram post that misled popular blogger, Linda Ikeji and other media practitioners.

The hospital was reportedly into selling and swapping 'unwanted' new-borns for the price of Rs 1 lakh each, which is about $1,000. Police in India have reportedly uncovered an alleged  'baby farm'  which was allegedly being operated from a private hospital. The hospital was reportedly into selling and swapping 'unwanted' new-borns for the price of Rs 1 lakh each, which is about $1,000. Most of the babies sold in this manner are usually those born out of rape or illicit relationships which had been delivered at the hospital and sold for adoption. Times of India  reports that, two new-borns have been rescued from the 30-bed, Palash Hospital in Gwalior's Murar area of India. An investigating officer speaking on the bust, said: "When a girl or her parents approached them for termination of pregnancies, doctors at this hospital used to convince them assuring a safe and secret delivery. Once baby is delivered and mother gets discharged, ho

Incumbent Chadian President and African Union chairman, Idriss Deby Itno, has been declared winner of the presidential elections in the West African country. The Electoral body said Deby won by 61.56% of votes cast. The 63-year-old President now has the legal mandate to extend his 26-year rule by a fifth term, which would run for the next five years. Voters were expected to choose between Deby and 3 other challengers including opposition leader Saleh Kebzabo who according to the results managed 12.8% of the votes having campaigned that Chad needed change. Chad, despite its abundant oil wealth has about half of the 13 million population living in poverty. The country is also battling against Boko Haram insurgents who have carried out attacks in the country. The opposition had earlier started preparing for a second round of polls claiming that there was no clear winner in the first round of polls. The issue of some missing soldiers who reportedly voted agains