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LATEST NEWS The Big Picture: Today's Hot Photos Ruby Rose Drags Katy Perry's New Music Through the Social Media Mud Liam Payne Drops Debut Solo Single "Strip That Down" (feat. Quavo) Is this what a catfight sounds like? Katy Perry 's new album,  Witness , is now available for pre-order ahead of its June 9 release. Fans who pre-order the digital album will instantly receive "Swish Swish" featuring  Nicki Minaj , plus the "Chained to the Rhythm" (featuring  Skip Marley ) and "Bon Appétit" (featuring  Migos ). The song was released at midnight, and fans are already speculating that it's about Perry's nemesis  Taylor Swift  . Last week, Perry danced around the notion of responding to Swift's " Bad Blood " via song, insisting in an  Entertainment Weekly  interview it's "a very empowered record." Perry added, "There is no one thing that's cal...

Chris Cornell 's widow is speaking out one day after his death. Early Thursday morning, the 52-year-old  Soundgarden  singer was  found unresponsive  with a band around his neck inside his bathroom at the MGM Grand Hotel in Detroit. The grunge rocker was pronounced dead on the scene. Later that afternoon, after an initial autopsy had been completed, the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office announced his  cause of death  "has been determined as suicide by hanging. A full autopsy report has not yet been completed." Kirk Pasich , an attorney for the Cornell family, said Friday they are disturbed by implications that Chris knowingly and intentionally took his life. "Without the results of toxicology tests, we do not know what was going on with Chris—or if any substances contributed to his demise. Chris, a recovering addict, had a prescription for Ativan and may have taken more Ativan than recommended dosages," Pasich said. The family believes that if Ch...

Nigerian Federal Government recently secured, through a swap deal, the release of 82 of the abducted school girls kidnapped in Chibok, a community in Borno state by Boko Haram. 57-year-old Lawyer from Borno state, Zannah Mustapha brokered the deal to the release the girls. A special profile-report of Mustapha by BBC says that when he arrived for the handover of the-now-freed 82 Chibok girls from Boko Haram, after three years in captivity, a militant read out the girls' names from a list.   One by one, the abducted schoolgirls, now women, lined up along the outskirts of a forest near Kumshe town, on the border between Nigeria and Cameroon. Each of them was covered from head to ankle in a dark-coloured hijab. Mustapha said: "I went ahead of the Red Cross. They [the militants] brought the girls to me,". For the past 3 years, Mustapha been mediating between the government and militants for the release of the over 200 Chibok girls and for an end to the Boko Haram insurgency. H...

Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has called Cote d’Ivoire and Liberian Presidents regarding how a small fraction of the Ivorian’s Armed Forces mutinied against the Government. The Presidency stated this in a tweets on Thursday afternoon. The tweets reads: “@ProfOsinbajo has been in phone discussions w/ Ivorian and Liberian Presidents, regarding a peaceful resolution of the Ivorian situation “The AgPres noted the readiness of @AsoRock to work with @ecowas_cedeao & West African leaders to pursue a quick resolution of the situation. Recall that on Wednesday. the acting President, Yemi Osinbajo condemned developments in Cote d’Ivoire in which a small fraction of the country’s Armed Forces mutinied against the Government. The Acting President, in a statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant on Media & Publicity to the Vice President, Laolu Akande said Nigeria express strong and unflinching support for the Government of President Alhassan Ouattara and welcomes ongoing ef...

Acting President, Mr. Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday, signed three executive orders with the potential to significantly change some of the ways government business and operations are conducted in the country.  This was contained in a statement by Mr. Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant (Media and Publicity) to the acting President. The statement disclosed that ahead of the signing, an interactive session held at the old Banquet Hall of Presidential Villa. In attendance were all relevant government officials, including ministers, permanent secretaries and heads of departments and agencies. The session was held to directly engage government officials, who would be in charge of the implementation of the orders and the new instructions. The executive orders also stipulate sanctions and punitive measures for violations. The three orders signed by Mr. Osinbajo provide specific instructions on a number of policy issues affecting the ease of doing business in the country, sup...

Three bombers male suicide bombers are dead and three security men injured when suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers attacked University of Maiduguri yesterday, an official has told Saharareporters. In an electronic message issued by Borno police public relation officer, DSP Victor Isuku to newsmen in Maiduguri on Friday confirmed that three university security guards were injured in a bid to stop the suicide bombers. "At about 2350hrs, three male suicide bombers with IEDs strapped to their bodies, gained entry into the premises of university of Maiduguri. In an attempt to enter the female hostels, they were intercepted by security operatives.  The statement added that one of the bombers hurriedly detonated his IED vest, killing himself instantly. The other two bombers detonated theirs near a construction site also within the proximity of the University premises, killing themselves alone. "Three university security personnel reported injured. Scene visi...

Roger Ailes, the former chairman and CEO of Fox News, died at age 77 on Thursday morning. The network he helped found in 1996 cited a statement released by his family confirming the late media mogul's death. The statement reads in part: "I am profoundly sad and heartbroken to report that my husband, Roger Ailes, passed away this morning. Roger was a loving husband to me, to his son Zachary, and a loyal friend to many. He was also a patriot, profoundly grateful to live in a country that gave him so much opportunity to work hard, to rise — and to give back." Mr. Ailes resigned from his position as CEO in July 2016 after allegations that he committed sexual assault were revealed. Among those who accused the CEO of sexual harassment was anchor Megyn Kelly, who has since left the network to join NBC News. Before founding the famous conservative news network in 1996, Mr. Ailes worked in politics in various capacities. He most notably served as a media adviser to Pres...

Less than a month after SaharaReporters exclusively reported attempted fraud by the Board of Directors of the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO) Plc, the agency's Managing Director, Norbert Bielderman, has tendered his resignation. Mr. Bieldermam, a German who was appointed the Managing Director of the company in December 2013, is scheduled to exit the company on August 31, 2017. SaharaReporters had in April reported a plan by the board to re-introduce the suspended Management Support Agreement (MSA) where three percent of the company’s gross earnings was shared among members of NAHCO's Board of Directors. In addition, SaharaReporters had disclosed that the Board of Directors of the ground handling company was seeking to spend a whopping sum of N155 million on an ostensible overseas training for members. Mr. Bielderman had kicked against the wasteful and fraudulent moves, and threatened to tender his resignation if the board insisted on pressing f...

A 13-year-old student of the Command Secondary School in Suleja, near Abuja, narrowly escaped death after being treated with the wrong medication by a nurse at the school clinic. SaharaReporters learned that the incident occurred on April 30 when the student sought medical treatment for having a high body temperature. After the drugs were administered to the student, he began to develop rashes all over his body. He also noticed that his lips were swollen and his eyes were red. The situation worsened when the nurse abandoned him at the school’s clinic for three days without making an effort to ameliorate his condition. The young student was then sent to Kubwa General Hospital in Abuja to recuperate from the near-fatal experience. SaharaReporters gathered that school authorities called the student’s parents to inform them of the development, but by the time his parents arrived at the school, his condition had worsened to the point that he needed to be rushed...

Few weeks after the death of two prominent Yoruba actors, Olumide Bakare and Pastor Ajidara, another popular Yoruba Nollywood actress, Moji Olaiya has died of cardiac arrest in Canada. Moji, daughter of Nigeria's high life music legend, Victor Olaiya, was confirmed dead barely two months after welcoming her second child in Canada, just a few months after she officially divorced her first husband to remarry another one. A close family source claimed the 42-year-old actress might be buried in Canada as her aged mother lives in Nigeria and its a taboo in Yoruba land to see the corpse of one’s child. Moji’s first marriage crashed in 2008, and the Yoruba actress decided to remarry last year at a quiet ceremony in Nigeria. She became more popular with Wale Adenuga's production Super Story in the 90's. Before her death, she featured in several Nollywood movies of Yoruba and English genres.