Frontline music label, X3M Music, is consistently pushing the envelope on taking the music revolution a notch higher as its artiste and one of Nigeria’s finest vocalist, Simi, expresses the true meaning of the love to her fans with a heartwarming soulful single titled: ‘Love don’t care.’

The Academy Awards is the place to make a fashion statement. But unfortunately for many of the star-studded crowd at the 88th Annual Oscars, which took place in Los Angeles last Sunday evening, having their pick of the world’s best designers and the option of forking out plenty of cash for the perfect outfit didn’t necessarily equal a statement of success.

Away from the brickbat between Coach Sunday Oliseh and Nigeria Football Federation,, the camp of the Eagles comes alive tomorrow as 22 home –boys are expected to hit the Bolton White Apartments, Abuja to start preparing for the March 25 AFCON 2017 qualifier with Egypt in Kaduna.

Newly elected president of the Directors Guild of Nigeria,DGN, Fred Amata, said he can’t wait to hit the ground running as soon as he’s sworn in as the new helmsman of the Guild.

A leading retail bank, using new technology and digital applications to drive financial inclusion and innovative customer experience, while contributing to Nigeria’s economic growth, Diamond Bank, in partnership with MTN and global nonprofit; Women’s World Banking, is unveiling the next phase of the Diamond Y’ello account aimed at encouraging more financial inclusion of women in Nigeria.

Mrs. Alaba Kasumu is the proprietress, Brownsville College, Ikoyi. Her passion for youth empowerment and development triggered her vision to establish the school and contribute to the society through educating our children.

The embattled former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki, retd, yesterday, failed to persuade an Abuja high court sitting at Maitama to stop the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, from prosecuting him on a 22-count criminal charge bordering on alleged diversion of N19billion arms fund.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has taken a swipe at Governor Yayaha Bello of Kogi State over the demolition of roundabouts in Lokoja, the state capital over allegation of voodoo power planted under them by past administrations. This is coming just as the Audu/Faleke Campaign Organisation also condemned the exercise, said the demolition was ill-formed and demonstrate the cluelessness of the governor on issues of priority of governance.

Chief Iyobosa Solomon Edebiri (ISE) is not your run of the mill politician as he confessed penultimate Friday. An encounter with senior journalists including a sprinkling of media executives and some veteran journalists confirmed that fact as seen in the way he sauntered into the parley. Clad in a black suit as if set for another business meeting, and not a political dinner, he had on arriving the venue of the dinner in Ikeja, Lagos, proceeded straight to the middle of the high table and sat down. Surely not your typical politician who would come in shaking, patting here and there, albeit pretentiously telling you how long he had desired to see you, though not from his heart.

The budget is unquestionably one of the major levers of the legislature in determining the shape and structure of governance. By holding the power of the purse, the National Assembly is able to determine the expenditure of the Federal Government in any given year. It is thus not surprising that the committees on appropriation are about the most coveted in the Senate and the House of Representatives. Legislators would crave, covet and bribe to become members of the committee on appropriation. In almost all cases, the chairmanship of the committee on appropriation in either the Senate or the House of Representatives is almost always reserved for close associates of the Senate President or the Speaker of the House.

Hell was let loose recently at the Brown street, Oshodi as hoodlums and touts who claimed membership of the National Union of Road Transport Workers turned the ever-busy and yet-to-be transformed modern garage into a theatre of war and slaughter slab. Armed with all sorts of dangerous weapons, including guns, machetes, cutlasses and broken bottles, the bandits set aside last Wednesday for the mayhem killing one person and injuring several others. Property worth millions were destroyed. The warring factions clashed over chairmanship tussle.

Wife of the Edo State Governor, Mrs. Iara Oshiomhole, Tuesday launched her pet project christened “We Care Trust”, and her passion for the less privileged glowed. Flanked by her husband, Governor Oshiomhole, and the Chairman of the State Economic Team, Mr Godwin Obaseki, the First Lady described Nigerian children as special, saying the children were always happy and full of joy, no matter the circumstance. She explained that the mission of the project was to care for underprivileged Nigerian children.

The excitement was all over her as she told the story of how she won the brand new car in the Mamador Cook and Cruise promo. The most intriguing part of her story is that the jar of Mamador oil which won her the car was given to her as Christmas gift by her madam who is her Pastor’s wife She also said she warned her son against wasting her airtime when he told her he wanted to enter for the promo for her after reading a label on the body of the jerrycan.

My father-in-law watched an intimate video of myself and my partner. I didn’t know my husband’s father is computer literate and operates the lap-top very well. A video of his son and I smooching and making love was saved in my lap-top which was in the sitting room the day he visited. I was in the bathroom and when I came out, he was already on the lap-top. My husband was not around. I didn’t like that and ever since,I feel funny and strange around especially after he made comments about my body.

I am a 62 year old retired civil servant. My husband died many years ago and I live with my father, who is 82. Until he suffered stroke nine months ago, we led a good life together. We went for walks, read, listened to music and shared the household chores. I have no close friends but I enjoy my own company. I love travelling by train and used to do so regularly here and abroad. Although my father has made a good recovery, our lives now consist of shopping and watching television.