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Rapper Kendrick Lamar performs at the [+] As was expected, Kendrick Lamar’s new album DAMN. has started at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with a large opening frame, easily beating out the competition. The record kicked off with an impressive 603,000 copies, of which 353,000 were sales. That gives Lamar the largest opening frame of 2017 thus far, ahead of even Drake’s More Life, which managed just over half a million units in its first seven days. DAMN. is Lamar’s third consecutive No. 1 album in as many years on the all-encompassing tally. He first made it to the top of the ranking in 2015 with his record To Pimp A Butterfly , which was immediately heralded as a triumph in the rap world. Just one year later, Lamar gifted his fans with the compilation untitled unmastered., which wasn’t so much a proper album as a collection of songs that he had never released that were all, as the title suggests, untitled and unmastered, but that didn't stop his massive fan base from buying the e...

— 23rd April 2017 Actresses, Omotola Jalade-Ekehinde and Kate Henshaw are among notable personalities lined up to address issues affecting women at the Sexually Confident Women (SCW) conference scheduled for June 25, at the Renaissance Hotel, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos. Themed ‘Self Love’, the event is organised by REB 360 Media and aimed at bringing women together with a view to emphasising the importance of self love both in achieving greatness in the bedroom and boardroom. Mrs. Tope Mark Odigie, the convener and co-host of the programme, Your View on TV which airs on TV Continental (TVC), explains that the conference would be interactive as there would be a line-up of experienced speakers to comment on the issue. Jalade-Ekeinde will talk on her journey through motherhood and its impact on her body and the process of loving herself, while Henshaw will discuss how physical fitness helped her fall more in love with herself. Other speakers include a gynaecologist, who will proffer medical...

— 23rd April 2017 By Ayo Alonge Author of a popular Nigerian novel, Eze Goes to School, Onuora Nzekwu is dead. He died last Friday in his hometown, Onitsha, Anambra State, at the age of 89. Nzekwu also authored several novels. In 1966, Nzekwu co-authored Eze Goes to School and Eze Goes to College with historian Michael Crowder. His other works include Wand of Noble Wood, written in 1961; Blade Among the Boys, written in 1962; The Chima Dynasty in Onitsha, written in 1977 and Faith of Our Fathers, written in 2003. He worked at the Federal Civil Service as Editorial Assistant at the Nigeria Magazine Division of the Federal Ministry of Information, from 1956 to 1958 before taking over as the Editor-in-Chief of the magazine. In 1966, when the Nigerian civil war broke out, he transferred his services to the Eastern Nigeria Public Service and returned to the Federal Service at the end of the crisis in 1970. Nzekwu who was a professor, a writer and an editor of repute was also the f...

— 23rd April 2017 Gareth Bale will return to the Real Madrid squad for today’s El Clasico against Barcelona at Santiago Bernabeu, head coach Zinedine Zidane has confirmed. Bale was absent from Madrid’s dramatic extra-time triumph over Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter-finals on Tuesday, the second match he missed due to a calf problem sustained during the first leg at the Allianz Arena. But the 27-year-old Wales forward returned to training on Friday and Zidane told a pre-match news conference yesterday that Bale will have a part to play against Madrid’s bitter rivals. “Bale will be with us tomorrow (today),” he said. “Then you will see if he starts or not.” If Bale is restored to the Madrid forward line, it will be alongside Cristiano Ronaldo in prime goalscoring form. The four-time Ballon d’Or winner netted a decisive hat-trick as 10-man Bayern were dispatched 4-2 on the night and 6-3 on aggregate, taking his tally over the course of the tie to five. Ronaldo is ai...

— 23rd April 2017 By Onyedika Agbedo As far as people like us are concerned, we don’t think this government has done anything much in this corruption war. That they suspended the SGF, who has been accused of corruption for so many months, is not something that the government should be praised for. Besides, who are members of the committee to investigate the allegations against the SGF? These are the same set of people in the government who cleared the man before. It’s like being a judge in your own case. So, it is still the same style of governance that we were running away from that we are still practicing in the APC government. There are so many things one can talk about. Look at the kind of money they discovered in an apartment in Osborne Towers, about N13 billion. They are now telling us it’s NIA that owns it. How can a government parastatal like the NIA, which is domiciled in the Presidency, keep that amount of money in a residential house? Nigerians are now moving about as if ...

— 23rd April 2017 By CHIDI OBINECHE the lingering impasse on the fate of Babachir David Lawal, the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF came to a screeching halt on Wednesday, April 19, 2017 when a terse two-paragraph statement from the Presidency directed him to proceed on suspension pending the conclusion of a three- man probe panel headed by the Vice-President, Prof  Yemi Osinbanjo. Other members of the panel are the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami, AGF and the National Security Adviser, NSA Major General Babagana Monguno, Rtd. Lawal has been enmeshed in controversies on violations of law and due process made against him in the award of contracts under the Presidential Initiative on the North East (PINE). The Senate had in response to mounting cries on the humanitarian crisis in the troubled North-east set up an ad-hoc committee headed by Senator Shehu Sani. The committee turned in its interim report on Wedne...