The Gulf Coast states and the United States Government have reached a tentative settlement with British oil company, BP, to pay about $18.7 billion over 18 years, to compensate for damages from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, state officials said Thursday.

The Performing Musicians Employers Association of Nigeria,PMAN, has finally penned a multi-billion naria deal with corporate bodies in the bid to put the association back on track. The deal which covers areas of the Biometric I.D. Card Scheme for PMAN members and practitioners, African music films Distribution network (both music and films) in Nigeria and globally; tracking and collection of downloads, Bar-coding And Encoding of all musical works coming from Nigeria, was signed with the Airtel Network Limited as the official telecommunication.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday sacked the Director General of the State Security Service, Ita Ekpenyong.

Nigeria’s entertainment industry has received a massive boost from information communication and technology solutions provider, Globacom, as the network last week announced the signing of 28 artistes as brand ambassadors. The list is made up of 9 new ambassadors and 20 old ones whose contracts were renewed by Globacom.

Truth be told, online companies make a lot of money. The beauty of ordering for items and receiving them in the comfort of your home at the click of a button could be appealing to the customer, and profit making to the business as well. However, not every business gives back to the community.

Rafael Nadal was sent crashing out of Wimbledon by dread-locked German qualifier Dustin Brown on Thursday, his fourth successive humiliation at the All England Club.

“I do not like the way Flavour talks about women in his songs. I would say that I’m defending Nigerian women through my music because it seems all the male singers like to embarrass the womenfolk in their various songs. I want to use my music to counter the way Flavour dehumanize women in his songs. So in my music, I asked him what he wants us to do for him or he should stop saying all those things he talks about women in his songs.”

As part of continuous efforts to ensuring a mutual relationship between Nigeria and Germany, in addition to helping to boost the Nigeria economy especially through renewable energy solutions, the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Lagos, held an interactive seminar for stakeholders in the energy industry recently at Westwood Hotels, Ikoyi, Lagos.

The All Progressives Congress, APC in Osun State has alleged that the immediate past Peoples Democratic Party PDP-led government as people whose looting of government finances is ”unequalled in the history of corrupt governments in Africa.

But this is not the only bandwagon effect in the Nigerian music scene. There is the baby daddy culture that is becoming a new way of life among the present day musicians. In his report, we take a look at Baby Daddy Syndrome (BDS) as it is associated with male performers in Nigeria. The syndrome is ‘a new culture of impregnating a woman without marrying her before hand.

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Solomon E. Arase, has deployed new commissioners of police to Lagos, Rivers and Ogun states, according to a statement from the deputy Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Abayomi Shogunle

The Labour Party, LP, said President Muhammadu Buhari made a right choice in the appointment of Hajia Amina Bala Zakari as the Acting Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

The family of Rita Anuku, the 1986 Miss Nigerian has released a statement that the beauty queen passed away this morning, July 2nd at an undisclosed Abuja hospital. According to a family source, the beauty queen has been battling with cancer for the past two years and gave up the ghost this morning.

The Government of the United States of America has restated its commitment to assist Nigeria in the fight against Boko Haram and rescue the Chibok girls.

The Government of the United States of America has restated its commitment to assist Nigeria in the fight against Boko Haram and rescue the Chibok girls.