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Wizkid! The Starboy who just dropped his “Sounds From The Other Side” Mixtape is currently on a short break in Lagos. The ultra-talented singer quickly chopped it up with ace producer Masterkraft over the last 24 hours, and report shows that they recorded up to SIX(6) songs in the process.

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Although, Africa's richest man, Nigerian Aliko Dangote dropped to 105th on the 2017 Forbe's real-time billionaires' ranking, he maintains the lead in Africa, as the richest man. Dangote, who was ranked 51st in 2016 with a net worth of $15.4 billion, currently has a net worth of $12.2 billion, africannews.com reports.

The businessman was ranked 37th richest man in the world in 2014 with a net worth of $25 billion. The decline is attributed to the devaluation of Naira, the Nigerian currency. There are 21 African billionaires living in Africa worth a combined $70 billion.

The next African on the is South African diamond magnate Nicky Oppenheimer who ranks 199th with $7 billion, followed by another South African, luxury goods tycoon Johann Rupert who ranks 237th with $6.1 billion.

Nigerian telecom tycoon Mike Adenuga ranked 250th with a net worth of $5.8 billion, followed by Egypt's richest billionaire Nassef Sawiris ranked 269th and worth $5.6 billion.

Retail magnate South African Christoffel Wiese ranked 269th with a worth of $5.6 billion. South Africa retains its dominance on the Africa list and is tied with Egypt for the largest number of individual billionaires.

Only two female billionaires in Africa made it on the list including daughter of Angola's president Isabel dos Santos - who is Africa's richest woman - and Nigeria's Folorunsho Alakija, vice chair of Nigerian oil exploration company, Famfa Oil.

Tanzanian Mohammed Dewji is Africa's youngest billionaire at age 41. He is CEO of conglomerate METL, which his father founded in the 1970s.

Onsi Sawiris of Egypt is the continent's oldest billionaire at age 86 and the father of two other African billionaires - Nassef and Naguib Sawiris.

Thirteen out of Africa's 21 billionaires have self-made fortunes, while the other eight inherited their fortunes.

They hail from 7 countries: South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, Morocco, Algeria, Angola, and Tanzania.

-NAN

Arsenal have seen a third offer for Monaco winger, Thomas Lemar, rejected.

Lemar is Arsene Wenger’s No1 target following the arrival of Alexandre Lacazette, but the Ligue 1 champions are reluctant to allow the France international leave.

After a second bid of €45million was rejected earlier this week, French outfit, L’Equipe, reports that a third €50million offer has also been turned down.

This comes after Monaco vice-president, Vadim Vasilyev, insisted the player will be staying at the Principality .

“Fabinho and [Thomas] Lemar are essential players, they will stay with us,” he said on Wednesday. “We have kept all of the key players we intended to keep.”

Monaco have reportedly set an £80million price tag on the 21-year-old.

The so-called Islamic State faction of the sectarian terrorist group, Boko Haram, has claimed responsibility for the attack on a military-escorted convoy of oil exploration workers in the Chad Basin. Scores of soldiers and civilians died in the ambush.

According to sources within the leadership of the insurgent group, the Islamist terrorists did not immediately realize the composition of the convoy when they launched their attack. Such attacks on convoy are a common occurrence in Nigeria’s beleaguered northeast zone where Boko Haram militants have been most active.

After the attack, the insurgent fighters abducted four persons contracted by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). One of their victims died from injuries he sustained during the onslaught.

In a photo obtained by SaharaReporters through a journalist with access to the two factions of Boko Haram, the abducted lecturers are seen looking terrified and seated barefoot in some unidentified indoor facility.

It is not clear whether the Islamist insurgents intend to make ransom demands in exchange for the release of their victims.

However, their decision to release the photo of those they abducted may suggest a desire to seek a negotiated settlement to free the captives

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With Samantha still doing rounds, Tekno drops a new single to whet our appetites.
Here is the promised single titled "GO". The video was directed and shot by Patrick Elis sometime earlier in the week and should be released in a few hours.

Hopefully, Tekno should grace us with a debut album before the year runs out.

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Twenty members of the gang that abducted six Lagos State students for more than two months died in gun battle with the police earlier on Friday, during the rescue operation in the creeks of Ondo state.

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni disclosed this at a news conference in Lagos. He also said one civilian volunteer died, while eight policemen and four other civilian volunteers sustained injuries.

Owoseni said that a suspect, who attempted to swindle the parents of the students by asking that they should bring ransom to Abeokuta, was arrested. He is in police custody, he added.

The police chief praised the South West Governors for demonstrating clear commitment to combat crime in the region, saying that the communiqué issued in Abeokuta with respect to creation of Joint Security Task Force for the region, is already yielding positive result.

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, who was away in Switzerland delivered a message at the conference through the deputy governor, Oluranti Adebule.

Ambode hailed the successful rescue of the six students of Igbonla Model College, Epe. He gave an assurance that the government would utilise the holiday to reinforce security in all schools in the State, especially in the suburb and riverine areas to prevent a re-occurrence.

He said he remained totally committed to ensuring the security of all residents especially students and would spare nothing to ensure that schools remain safe from all forms of crime and criminality.

The issue of security is a social contract that we have signed with the people of Lagos and we would ensure that we do not disappoint. As far as our schools are concerned, we are going back to the drawing board to secure our schools before the next academic session".

Ambode commended the collaborative efforts by security agencies from Lagos and Ondo States. He specially thanked the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo for his intervention towards ensuring the safe rescue of the students.

Adebule presented the rescued students to the media and said they would be debriefed and taken through comprehensive medical tests so as to ensure that they recover from the trauma they might have passed through while in the custody of their abductors.

Ondo State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu commended Acting President Yemi Osinbajo and Governor Ambode for working tirelessly on the matter, saying that the duo demonstrated uncommon interest in the whole process leading to the safe return of the students.

Akeredolu said he never believed the kidnappers could be hibernating in Ondo creeks until he was told about a month ago during the National Economic Council (NEC) Meeting in Abuja by Osinbajo, and later Governor Ambode.

He said he immediately deployed his deputy, Mr Alfred Agboola who is from the riverine areas in Ondo, to take up the matter.

He said Agboola immediately swung into action and worked with the Delta State Deputy Governor, as well as security agencies to ensure the safe return of the students.

Akeredolu said:

I must commend Governor Ambode for his commitment to the rescue of the students. At the meeting of Western Nigeria Governors' forum held in Abeokuta on Monday, we discussed the issue of the students and Governor Ambode mentioned the issue of joint security patrol in our riverine areas.

He (Governor Ambode) was very committed to it and he expressed readiness to support with the needed resources. Throughout the days the students were in captivity, the Lagos State Governor never kept his eyes off the ball and he kept working on it until today that we have the students back," Akeredolu said.

-NAN

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Nemesis has finally caught up with a 22-year old graduate of History from Abia State University, Uchechukwu Oriaku, who was allegedly caught yesterday afternoon r*ping a teenage girl in his house in Olokoro, Umuahia South LGA of Abia State. 

The angry youths of the area descended on him and beat him to a pulp. Emmanuel Maduka Nwazue who shared the story wrote:

This is 22-year old Uchechukwu Oriaku, a native of Olokoro in Umuahia South LGA of Abia State. He's also a graduate of History from Abia State University, Uturu. He was caught this afternoon molesting a girl of 10 years + in his house. According to the girl's father who is a furniture maker, Uchechukwu met him this morning at home and hinted him about a certain business he needed both of them to execute. They scheduled to meet at 2pm at his workshop for further discussions on the said business. This was because he was visiting a building site that morning. According to him he was still at the site when he received a phone call from one of the boys in community that Uchechukwu had been caught molesting his daughter.

The girl while narrating the incident said Uchechukwu came to their house when her father had left and took her to his house with the notion that he bought her a new pair of slippers. On getting to the house he started touching her privates. Apparently, this he was doing when a group of youths got feelers about the sordid event and caught him in the act.

The culprit himself said he wanted to give the girls a pair of slippers. When he was asked if he specifically bought the slippers for the girl, he said it belonged to his 18 year old sister. Imagine a 10-year-old plus wearing a pair of slippers belonging to an 18 year old. Well, he blamed the devil for the act and maintained that he never had any intention of raping the girl since she was still a minor.

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Laura Ikeji Kanu who just welcomed a baby with her husband Ogbonna Kanu, has expressed how happy she is that Nigerian women are now documenting their pregnancy journey.

According to her, nobody is ever going to terminate pregnancy via Instagram or Facebook, and it’s always a thing of joy to look back and recall challenges one overcame during pregnancy.

Here’s what she wrote;

I'm glad alot of Nigerian women are beginning to document their pregnancy journeys, women 're beginning to post pictures of baby bumps,dance videos, vlog about how miraculous pregnancy journeys 're. Until recently , Nigerian women hid pregnancy as if it was something to be ashamed of, so what if you added alot of weight, so what if you looked darker with alot of pimples , so what if you looked out of shape, it's a thing of joy, be fat, be dark , be different from what u used to be. No biggie. Just enjoy every second of it. Ps. Nobody will send miscarriage to you via Instagram or Facebook.. take your mind off negativity. God has blessed you with what a lot of women 're looking for, relax n enjoy this glorious journey. I can't wait to be pregnant again. LK.

A post shared by Laura Ikeji Kanu (@lauraikeji) on Jul 28, 2017 at 12:52am PDT

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Nigerian music star, Davido whose single’s video ‘Pere’ featuring Rae Sremmund and Young Thug just dropped, has taken to Twitter to reveal that his label mate, Dammy Krane who is enmeshed in a court case, co-wrote the single’s hook with him.

See Davido's tweet below..

Shoutout @dammy_krane !! Co wrote the hook on 'PERE' with me !!

— Davido (@iam_Davido) July 28, 2017

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