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Bet you didn't see this news coming! Viewers watching American Idol were more than prepared to see a winner be announced during tonight's finale. But before Ryan Seacrest could deliver the results, he wanted Caleb Lee Hutchinson and Maddie Poppe to share some ne...

Hollywood star Hugh Jackman took to social media Wednesday, on what was his 22nd wedding anniversary to fellow Australian, Deborra-lee Furness. “I believe in life we need to see and truly be seen by the most important people in our lives,” Jackman wrote on his Instagram, Twitter and Facebook pages, sharing a photo of him and his spouse. “Deb, from day one, we had that. 22 years later ... it only gets deeper...

Rick Ross, a.k.a. Ricky Rozay, a.k.a. the biggest boss that you seen thus far, has returned. Today (March 8), the Black Bottle Boy returned to Instagram with a simple message, "Ain’t nothing like home 🙏🏼. I love y’all...

The holiday season may be behind us, but Drake has been channeling his inner Santa Claus all week long, doling out gifts, groceries, and giant checks galor...

Legendary jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela, a leading figure in the struggle to end apartheid and "the father of South African jazz", has died aged 78. In a statement, his family said he had "passed peacefully" in Johannesburg "after a protracted and courageous battle with prostate cancer". Masekela gained global recognition with his distinctive Afro-Jazz sound and hits such as Soweto Blue...

Ankara's 'Operation Olive Branch' aims to create a buffer zone in Afrin, a Kurdish-controlled enclave on Turkey's border Turkey has begun a major new offensive in northwestern Syria, in a bid to oust Kurdish militia from the area. Named 'Operation Olive Branch', the ground and air operation aims to create a 20-mile (30km) "secure zone" in Afrin, a Kurdish-controlled enclave on Turkey's border. Members of Free Syrian Army (FSA), backed by the Turkish...

Hollywood's oldest working actress, Connie Sawyer is dead. She died at home after an incredibly long and prolific caree...

  his past Saturday (January 20), thousands of women marched across the U.S. in cities like New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, and more to protest President Trump and his administration's policies (and to commemorate the one-year anniversary of last year's historic Women's March). Among them was Halsey, one of a reported 200,000 who protested in New York alon...

After tons of actors, directors, producers and more showed their supportfor Time's Up at the Golden Globe Awards on January 7, Oprah Winfreysat down with a few of the women who spearheaded the initiative to talk about where they — and we — go from her...

The first stilettos have toed the carpet and awards season is officially here! The Golden Globes kick off the 2018 awards season by honoring the best of film and TV, under one roo...

The show must go on, but not before a touching tribute to Gloria Fallon. After a week-long break from hosting The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon returned to his late-night show and addressed the death of his beloved mother. While holding back tears, Jimmy paid tribute to Gloria who he called "the best audience."...

King of night life and Chairman of Aquilla Group, Shina Peller might be forced to take up a political post in his hometown, Iseyin, Oyo State. The easy going man, was recently a guest at Nigerian Union of Journalists NUJ, Oyo state chapter, where he confirmed he is currently under intense pressure by indigenes of Oyo state, particularly his constituency to run for a political office in the 2019 general election...

A 23-year-old man, Kinsley Eze, has said that he sold his five months old baby boy for N250,000 due to lack of money to raise and train him. Eze made the confession while in the custody of the police in Umuahia, the Abia State capital. He said he had agreed with his girlfriend to sell the baby before luck ran out on them. Eze said, “I am a mechanic. I was arrested for child trafficking. The baby is mine; my fiancee gave birth to him. We decided...

Yvonne Jegede Fawole is furious. The actress is furious because certain media houses had reported she just lost her baby-- she had a miscarriage. But Jegede says it's not true and went to IG to debunk the news. She wrot...

  The Nigerian Army said on Sunday that it had concluded plans to launch its “Operation Crocodile Smile” in Ogun State. The operation is a training and operations exercise planned for the South-western part of the country. The Brigade Commander of the 35 Artillery Brigade, Alamala, Abeokuta, Basil Adoke, disclosed this in Abeokuta at a reception organised by the state government as part of activities to mark Nigeria’s 57th independence anniversary. Mr....

  A retired senior military officer and one time governor of Kaduna State, Mouktar Muhammed, is dead. Mr. Muhammed, a retired air vice marshal, died yesterday evening, according to a Facebook announcement by his younger brother, Faruk Dalhatu. He died in a London hospita...

Kcee's former manager, Sosoberekon is still in MONEY! You might not have been hearing a lot from him lately, but he wants you to know he is still BALLING! He showed off bundles of naira notes in a sack he placed in his car boot on IG and before Nigerians will tag EFCC, he tagged them himself, lo...

  A majority of the projects the Muhammadu Buhari administration is working on was inherited from previous administrations, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity has said. Mr Femi Adesina said this when he appeared on Channels Television’s special Independence anniversary programme on Sunday. “Most of the things this administration is doing – 60 to 70 percent of them – were initiated by previous governments,” he said. “That...

  An actress is risking her life for ‘eternal youth’ by injecting herself with doses of a 3.5 million year-old bacteria discovered in Siberia. The 45-year-old from Munich, Germany, who goes by the moniker Manoush, has been pumping an extract of Bacillus F into her blood stream for the past three months and says it has made her look and feel younger. The ancient bacteria was discovered in the permafrost of north-west Russia by scientists in 2009...

  Venita Akpofure has had a tell it all with Punch. In this interview, she spoke about her background, how it all started in her career, what she is into at the moment, how marriage came, her rumoured affair with Chris Brown and many more. Enjoy! Background I was born in Benin and I am the first of four children. I lived with my maternal grandmother until the age of nine when I went to join my parents in Europe. As a kid, I liked to cook, or...