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South African model, Refilwe Modiselle , is featured on the most recent edition of CNN ‘s African Voices . She speaks on her strong family ties, living with looking different, and the challenges of being an albino in Africa.

it feels like Iggy Azalea has one more problem after another without Hefe Wine, her former boyfriend who hit her with a divorce filing earlier today. Hefe Wine filed for divorce, citing a common law marriage in Texas that they allegedly entered into and would entitle him to half of Azalea's assets. The Australian rapper, 24, denies that they were ever married, finding his claim desperate and laughable at

  There is no doubt that Solange Knowles is beautiful, and these images run as a test shot for Casper Sejersen ’s studio show a delicate and ethereal side to her beauty. Her looks are hauntingly graceful and slightly heavenly. We love the focus on her eyes with the use of easy yet catchy makeup. Check out more images from the shoot After cut

Chris Brown , Tyga, Wiz Khalifa and Travis Barke r all have massive tattoes all over their bodies but the man responsible for painting their skin - Trigz - has been pronounced dead! According to TMZ, Trigz got into an altercation with a man outside of Black Derby Smoke Shop in North Hollywood. Police reports say the man shot the ink master and then fled the scene around 5:30pm yesterday Oct.9. They also haven't confrimed if any of his clients and superstar clients have a hand in the shooting. Since then, fans have placed candles in front of his shop.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West ’s daughter, North West , is barely a year old and she already has more things in her ‘diary’ to boast of than most adults. From front row seats at the Paris Fashion Week to being featured in a magazine and more, the 16-month-old mini West is definitely living life on the fab lane. According to Daily Mail , North West is more stylish than you think as Kim has hired a personal tailor whose

In the entertainment industry today several male artistes in the business who aren't married are known to have children. When some of these artistes decide to settle down, they sometimes make it official and marry their baby mamas. These are five baby mamas who made the transition to wife status, marrying their celebrity baby daddies. See More After cut...

Earlier today, there was a riot and alleged jail break by prisoners at the famous Kirikiri Maximum Prison in Lagos. The Sun Newspaper is reporting the reason for the unrest as the following: “the inmates were fed up with what they described as highhandedness on the part of the new Deputy Controller at the Maximum Security Prison, DCP Kayode Odeyemi. They alleged that he stripped the inmates of all the privileges given to them by former controllers. An inmate who spoke to

Nigerian Highlife singer, Flavour has been dropped from the performance line-up of the World Creole Music Festival (WCMF), slated to hold from October 24-26 in the Caribbean island of Dominica , over Ebola fears, Associated Press reports. The cancellation of Flavour’s contract was announced by

  It is a star studded one from Nigerian filmmaker, Elizabeth Daniels. The soon to be released Nollywood Movie 'Folly' features top Nigerian actors like 'Joke Silva', 'Uche Jombo', 'Alex Ekubo', Yvonne Nelson', 'Joseph Benjamin', 'Belinda Effah' and other talented actors. Directed by Alex Mouth and produced by Elizabeth Daniels, Folly tells the story of love and sweet life gone sour. Folly will be premiered in the United States of America next month.

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Stars like Funke Akindele, Toolz, Ice Prince and Rita Dominic at the AFFRIF Beach party More pics after cut....

  Former Big Brother 'The Chase' housemate, Angelo Collins, has released new photos. The buffed South African showed off his tattooed skin in different shots, cycling, a bit pensive, pulling a martial stunt letting his super long dreads hanging. More pics after cut.....

Wiz Khalifa may have lost his wife but he has definitely not lost his sense of style. That's why he is now rocking a new purple hair-do (dreds) and believes it should trend. The " We Dem Boys " rapper has gone totally purple and we are assuming its his own 'strange' way of mourning his failed marriage. But then again, because his ex wife, Amber Rose has once rocked purple on her hair to, is Wiz indirectly saying he misses his wife? Wiz posted the image of his newly coloured hair on his Instagram page yesterday with the caption, "The kid".

Chocolate City’s First Lady, Victoria Kimani is burning up the airwaves and she has released a new song to add to her growing list of hits. The Kenyan songstress releases “I Don’t Love You” a smooth reggae R&B heartbreak track recorded about 3 years ago, but resurfaced at her stellar performance with Flavour on Coke Studio Africa this week.

Wizkid and 2Face Pop Icon 2face Idibia ‘s FESTAC night club ‘Rumors’ was a befitting venue for the debut live performance of “Dance Go” , a feel good dance track and landmark collaboration between the musician and

Wizkid is on track to become a major international star! In a recent interview with DJ Abrantee on Capital XTRA , Wiz spilled the beans on his collaborations with international stars Chris Brown and Rihanna . He confirmed that his single with Chris Brown “ African Bad Girl ” will be the first single from his next album while in Rihanna’s case, he worked on music for her with production team Stargate though it is yet to be confirmed if it will see the light of day. Wizkid also spoke on his Davido twitter drama.

  Nicki Minaj and a bunch of other Hollywood stars have joined the list of celebrities who have had their nude photos leaked on the Internet in recent times. Over the weekend, infamous Reddit group The Fappening released another set of nude photos belonging to a long list of

2014 has been the year of feminism in the entertainment industry, right after Beyoncé dropped an album that was all about feminine power, embracing sexuality and gender equality in December 2013. With each concert, each ‘Flawless’ remix, and each Beyoncé stan the word ‘Feminist’ has been resounded in our ears. Well according to legendary singer Annie Lennox , Beyoncé is nothing but a ‘lite feminist’. What does that mean? 59-year-old Annie Lennox who is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist explains to

Nigerian artistes Seyi Shay and Patoranking are in a romantic relationship, Although the pair have been able to keep their affair secret , the relationship, sources say kicked off earlier in 2014, around the same time the pair

Olisa Adibua’s “The Truth” had actress, Genevieve Nnaji as a guest and she spoke out concerning a lot of personal issues. The screen diva discussed her career, her newly re-launched clothing line and life as a single mother. She also described her ideal man saying:

Two 8-year-old children from Okobo Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, lived on the streets for the past month, after their relatives tortured them and sent them out of their homes for alleged witchcraft. The children have been identified as Mary Odiong and Ekong Asua. Odiong told Punch that she was blamed for the death of her uncle who died in

  D’banj is certainly the KOKO Master! Yesterday was an eventful day for the music star. Not only did he speak at the TedxWBG conference in Washington DC, USA, he was announced by Beats by Dre as

While many Nigerians celebrated the last Eid-el Kabir Sallah, the family of an Edo State born man simply identified as Arthur, has been thrown into mourning when their bread winner was crushed to death by a hit-and-run commercial motor cyclist popularly called Okada, in the Idimu area of Lagos. The 47-year-old Arthur, who was an aluminium materials contractor, according to police report, was

Joke Silva, Jide Kosoko, Kate Henshaw, Ireti Doyle, Lala Akindoju, Adebola Williams, Is Finally Here The theatre production everyone has been waiting for this month and its finally here.   The Wives, a play written by Prof. Ahmed Yerima will be showing this weekend – from Thursday 9 – Saturday 11 October, 2014. It shows at the Agip a Recital Hall of the Muson Centre, Onikan Lagos. The play is presented by  The Make it Happen Productions , directed by Seke Somolu and produced by Kemi Lala Akindoju . This dark comedy will be starring: Joke Silva, Kate Henshaw, Jide Kosoko, Iretiola Doyle, Kemi Lala Akindoju, Toyin Oshinnaike and Adebola Williams. The super talented musician, producer, and songwriter, Cobhams Asuquo will be performing at the command performance of the play. Tickets go for N5000. VIP tickets are N7500. See full schedule below;

  DJ Cuppy fast rising disc jockey, less than 2 weeks ago, had an autograph signing session at Ginger Tapas and Grill . This was in relation to her major project of the year 2014, the mix tape compilation, House Of Cuppy. The autograph signing session was a chance for Cuppy to meet with her fans one on one, chat with them, express her love and gratitude for their support and also personally sign House Of Cuppy Cds, posters and Cuppy shirts for them. Amidst the heavy rain and serious traffic Lagos witnessed on the said day, Fans still turned up from different parts of Lagos to show love and support.

  Lil Wayne  is hoarding  Young Money 's money ... so claims a music producer who says Wayne & Co. screwed him out of tens of thousands of dollars. Ramon Owen -- aka REO -- claims he

  Rihanna has a very strong reaction to the allegations that a Texas stripper reportedly filed against Drake, saying he allegedly “threatened her life” after they had a sexual fling.  “It’s a terrible situation for him and it’s not even funny, that’s the sad part. She wants to laugh at it but it’s so serious she can’t,” a source tells  HollywoodLife.com  EXCLUSIVELY. Rihanna still has

  ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’ premiered on Oct. 8, and it was just as creepy, unexpected and awesome as we hoped it would be! So many new characters were introduced tonight, but fans are seriously freaking out over Twisty The Clown! The much anticipated  American Horror Story: Freak Show  premiere sure gave us the goosebumps! As expected,  Ryan Murphy  gave us yet another compelling, character-driven and horror-inducing season to look forward to — not to mention possibly the most terrifying villain yet!

  Ekiti Governor elect, Ayo Fayose has new photos to show off! The soon to be Governor of Ekiti was at the studio few hours ago with his men for a new photoshoot ahead of his swearing-in ceremony. He will be officially sworn-in on Thursday, October 16, 2014 in Ado-Ekiti.

Nollywood actress, Ini Edo’s soon to be ex husband was initially married to Ruth Okoro a medical administrator, actress, model based in Manhattan, New York. When news filtered to her that Ini Edo was dating her ex husband, Ruth wrote Ini a letter advising her against falling for her ex husband, Phillips Ehiagwina. Read what she wrote, in 2007:

Thomas Eric Duncan, who caught the virus in his native Liberia, was being kept in isolation in a Dallas hospital and receiving experimental drugs. According to BBC,  a statement released by Texas hospital officials, reads:

Business mogul Aliko Dangote has dropped in the latest Forbes Billionaire rankings. In the latest rankings released, Dangote is now at the 26th spot, down 3 from his former 23rd place, with his

The Chinese Embassy in Nigeria has denied visas to some students of Ekiti State University on the grounds of Ebola despite the World Health Organization declaring Nigeria an Ebola free country. The students were invited to participate in ENACTUS 2014 (Entrepreneurial Action Us), an international competition of young entrepreneurs involving 36 countries slated for 22 – 24th of October 2014 in China in which Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana and Egypt are to represent Africa. But the Chinese Embassy here refused to grant the student visas to go to China. The Ekiti State University students, who were picked to represent Nigeria having won the ENACTUS Promoted Innovation Competition earlier in the year, have written an open letter about the situation. REPRESENTATION OF NIGERIA AT THE ENACTUS WORLD COMPETITION IN CHINA: DISCRIMINATORY DENIAL OF VISA BECAUSE OF EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE We write to introduce ENACTUS (Entrepreneurial Action Us), an internatio

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The Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, on Wednesday gave its external students a two-week ultimatum to pay their fees, saying it plans to wind up the programme by 2016. The Vice-Chancellor of the institution, John Obafunwa, told a press briefing in Lagos that the two weeks ultimatum commenced from Oct. 8 to October 22nd. Obafunwa said the decision was taken at a stakeholders’ forum after it was discovered that only 5, 366 students had registered for

The other day ,it was Peter being shocked that his 2014 Bentley GT is being used as police cars there.. Funny brothers.. see the meal with corn after cut

  After several attempt by her enemies especially the hacker called Mr Aydee, they've finally succeeded in geting Google to remove the site after they lodged a campaign of copyright infringement against her. This must be a big blow to the multimillionaire blogger who is Africa's number one. She is expected to release a statement on this. Earlier in the day she told her readers that she's been trying to get a domain name but the internet squatters have hijacked most of the likely name she could use. That's a multimillionaire business google has just shut down! Sobs!

The Presidency has faulted the listing of President Goodluck Jonathan by a website, RichestLifestyle.com, as the sixth richest African President. It described the publication as another attempt to portray the President as a corrupt leader and incite public disaffection against him. The Presidency’s position was contained in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati. Abati said there was no factual basis for Jonathan to be listed as the sixth richest African Head of State with a net worth of about $100 million. He therefore demand a retraction and

46-year-old Nigerian woman who recently speaks up about her immigration struggle in the United Kingdom has won an award for Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals & Transgender in the UK. Apata made history as the first Nigerian to ever win the award by beating four others.

Peter Okoye is the new face and spokesperson for Olympic Milk. He signed the endorsement deal for several millions of Naira last week and will be officially unveiled soon, a source revealed exclusively to LIB. And yes, it's just Peter, not P-Square. This is the first time one of them will be endorsing a brand without Paul.

Gospel act, Tope Alabi has spoken for the first time since her former spiritual father, Prophet Ajanaku passed on. Late Prophet Ajanaku and Tope used to be very close, that the singer sang his praises on different tracks. They were too close for comfort, that church member’s started spreading rumours that the prophet and the singer must be having something intimate together. And alas before the cock could crow, Tope and the prophet have already started having issues and the prophet came out to announce the singer asked him for sex. Sex? Tope denied it, and vowed not to say anything further about the accusation, but said God will vindicate her. Till he died, Tope and the Prophet weren’t on talking terms, and he was the last thing she was ready to talk to the press about. However in a Radio interview on Faaji Fm on Monday, Tope gave the real reasons why

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So something has been going on for the past couple of days that I haven't reacted to because I wanted to see it play out and see how far these people will go. They have gone far and it's now time to react. The only reason this is happening to me is because I'm number one...so I am flattered. I am currently No.10 on Alexa.com, more read than all the other

Richestlifestyle.com released their Richest African President list recently and they placed Nigeria's president at number 6 with a net-worth of $100million. And they know this how? According to the list, the richest president in Africa, Jose Eduardo dos Santos of Angola, is worth $20billion. See full list after the cut...

Oh dear! The moment a lion was trampled to death by a large herd of Buffalo was captured by game ranger, Lyle Gregg. The sad event happened at the Kruger National Park in South Africa. According to Gregg, the herd of Buffalo spotted the lion, which had earlier been forced out of his pride, and went after him. The lion tried to run but the herd caught up to him and trampled him to death by goring his body and stamping on his head. See the dramatic photos after the cut...

 A fter touring the world to research and experiment on different genres of music ,  Wale Adepoju , popularly known as “ W4 Mr Wonda”  has finally returned to the entertainment centre stage with his new single titled: 'Foreign dance' The talented  Afro-pop  singer will never be forgotten for his striking roles in Nigeria's music scene from his melodic debut titled  'Solo', followed by the viral single hit  'Wa Gba Kontrol'  in  2012,  a song which stands

The Director General of the Nigerian Institute of Leather Science & Technology (NILEST), Zaria,  Dr Isuwa Adamu, has said  that consumption of animal hides and skin, popularly known as Ponmo is dangerous to human health. Speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, today in Abuja, Adamu said scientific research has shown that ponmo doesn't have any nutritional value to human health and that some of the animals where ponmo is gotten from are usually sick & harbor dangerous chemicals. "In fact,