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It's no longer news that Tom Cruise indeed went on a rogue mission with his stunts in the action thriller 'Mission Impossible : Rogue of Nation.' A recently released stunt featurette proves that Cruise had to hold his breath for six minutes for the 'Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation' underwater scene. Speaking on the experience, Cruise said “Normally in underwater sequences, people hold their breath for 10 seconds, 15 seconds max.” “So I had to prove to everyone that it was actually safe, and spend time with the safety guys and the safety officers to show them, look, not only is it safe, it’s better that I know how to hold my breath because I’m going to be very relaxed. No one’s going to have to rush in, no one’s going to have to panic.”

Chuks Anyaduba's latest movie is a short one which revolves around the side effects of prostrate cancer.

'Okonkwo's Inquest' is a stage play inspired by Chinua Achebe’s classic novel 'Things Fall Apart.' 'Okonkwo's Inquest' i s a stage play inspired by Chinua Achebe’s classic novel ' Things Fall Apart.' The play intends to rationalize human reactions to strange cultures and dogmas through a post mortem on the fatal consequences of colonial assumptions of the African traditional structure.  Okonkwo’s Inquest is a devised Theatre workshop play directed by multiple award winning Theatre veteran Toyin Oshinaike , and is produced by Oxzygen Koncepts. The play will premiere at Terra Kulture, Lagos on Thursday October 1, 2015. It would also show on October 2, 2015, at Terra Kulture, Tiamiyu savage street, VI, Lagos

Oscar and Emmy award winning actress, Kate Winslet was a vision for WSJ. Magazine's October 2015 Issue. From bulky leather jackets to to ball gowns and gloves, she was perfection.          The actress rocked retro looks in blacks and whites.                                                              Watch her lesson video above

Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has said that his administration needs more than N32. 2 billion to off-set the arrears of workers’ salaries, gratuities, pensions and subventions. At an enlarged meeting with labour leaders in the state, Ugwuanyi said that the debts were accumulated by previous administrations over the years. He said that the essence of the meeting was to intimate the labour leaders with the efforts to procure the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) bailout funds to off-set part of the debts. He said that it was important that the workers were carried along to determine the best ways to disburse the fund. “The essence of this meeting is for you to know that we have formally applied for the sum of N4.2 billion for the purpose of defraying debts owed workers in the core ministries. “We want you to interface with your colleagues in other states to recommend ways the funds will be managed when it arrives,” he said. The governor said that the deb...

Ahead of Nigeria’s independence day tomorrow, October 1, multi-talented sound engineer, Samklef releases brand new viral video entitled ‘Nigeria Go Survive’ featuring Ichaba. ENJOY

The National Hajj Commission, has confirmed that Nigerian casualties at the September 24 Muna stampede has risen to 64. Similarly, as many as 240 Nigerian pilgrims are still missing at the time of filing this story. In a telephone interview, Mr Uba Mana, the Public Relations Officer of the Commission, said the injured were receiving prompt medical attention. According to him, a report containing the identities of the victims is on its way to Abuja, in line with the directive from the Presidency to the National Hajj Commission. He said: “As soon as our medical team finishes treating the injured, we will start airlifting them back to Nigeria.”

Miss Kedike “Chidinma” performs the remix to her well accepted single “Kedike” with Pearl at MTN Project Fame Season 8.0 grand finale. Guess what? It was a great collaboration. Download And Enjoy!! DOWNLOAD AUDIO DOWNLOAD VIDEO

The list of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees failed to reach the National Assembly on Wednesday as widely expected.   The Senators, who had eagerly awaited the list, adjourned plenary to Tuesday next week. Senator Dino Melaye said on Wednesday that the list had yet to reach the Senate. Buhari, who is currently attending the 70th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, had consistently promised to unveil members of his cabinet in September, which ends today.

The Central Bank of Nigeria has revealed in its data for the month of September that there has been a fall in Nigeria’s foreign reserves. Foreign exchange reserves fell by 3.14 per cent to $30.48 billion by September 23 from $31.47 billion a month ago, central bank data showed on Wednesday. The reserves of Africa’s top oil producer is now down 23.03 per cent from a year ago. In August, the CBN indicated that foreign exchange reserves rose by $350 million to 31.43 billion. The reserves increase crossed $30 billion in July, rising by 5.6 per cent from 29.03 billion in June to $30.69 billion

President Muhammadu Buhari has honoured his pledge to make his ministerial list available to theSenate today. A tweet by Senate President, Bukola Saraki, confirming the receipt of the President’s letter has gone viral. The letter was delivered to Saraki at 5.30 pm today. It was delivered by Chief of Staff, Malam Abba Kyari and Senator Ita Enang, the senior special assistant on National Assembly matters to President Buhari. Nigerians had waited since morning for the list. And when the Senate president did not read it during the plenary of the Senate this morning, there were fears that the president would not honour his pledge. Here is the Senate president’s tweet that has gone viral: I can now confirm that I just received #Thelist ofMinisterial nominees — Bukola Saraki (@bukolasaraki) September 30, 2015

Off Samklef’s “Sound Of Musik” albumcomes this Fela inspired single titled “Bobo Dem”. Download Below & Enjoy!! DOWNLOAD HERE

The nominations for the MOBO Awards 2015 have been announced, with Nigeria’s Yemi Alade, Davido, Wizkid and Patoranking slugging it out in the “Best African Act”category alongside AKA, Fuse ODG and more. SEE FULL LIST BELOW AND SHARE YOU THOUGHTS Best African Fuse ODG Davido Wizkid Patoranking Moelogo Yemi Alade Aka Mista Silva Shatta Wale Silvastone Best Male Skepta Mark Ronson Krept And Konan JME Stormzy Best Female FKA Twigs Little Simz Ella Eyre Lianne La Havas Jess Glynne Best Album Krept And Konan – The Long Way Home JME – Integrity Lianne La Havas – Blood Wiley – Snakes & Ladders Jamie XX – In Colour Best Song Mark Ronson Feat. Bruno Mars – ‘Uptown Funk’ Skepta – ‘Shutdown’ Tinie Tempah Feat. Jess Glynne – ‘Not Letting Go’ JME Feat. Giggs – ‘Man Don’t Care’ Krept And Konan – ‘Freak Of The Week’ Best Video Stormzy – ‘Know Me From’ FKA Twigs – ‘Pendulum’ Rita Ora Feat. Chris Brown – ‘Body On Me’ Lethal Bizzle – ‘Fe...

Listen To And Download New Music:Gyptian – “Keep Your Calm”. DOWNLOAD HERE

The Argentine attacker converted from the spot late in the game as the visitors came from behind to land the three points Download

The three-time Ballon d’Or winner reached a personal milestone on Wednesday in Sweden after notching a quincentenary of career goals at just 30-years-oldCristiano Ronaldo scored his 500th career goal in Real Madrid’s 1-0 win over Malmo in the Champions League as Los Blancos record back to back wins in Group A. The Portuguese international held his run before being fed by playmaker Isco and striking a low effort into the far corner to net the landmark tally, equalling Raul’s long-standing record of 323 goals for Real. Real almost doubled their advantage before the interval as Dani Carvajal latched onto a loose ball inside theMalmo box before crashing a superb half-volley strike onto the crossbar from an acute angle. Malmo almost snatched a second half equaliser as captain Markus Rosenberg headed wide after a fine cross from Anton Tinnerholm but their task became even tougher when Yoshimar Yotun was shown his second yellow card after bringing do...

The Italian outfit move into top spot in Group D with a home win over their La Liga opponents thanks to a first half header from their in-form Spanish striker Alvaro Morata and substitute Simone Zaza scored to helpJuventus record their first win in Group D over Europa League holders Seviila on Wednesday. With both sides eager to stamp their identity on the fixture, it was Juve who produced the first real effort, with Hernanes testing Sevilla goalkeeper Sergio Rico with a darting long range strike. Moments later, star midfielder Paul Pogba’s wonderful pass found Juan Cuadrado inside the area but the Colombian attacker’s attempted lob was inaccurate and only found the top of the net from 8-yards. Alvaro Morata finally broke the deadlock with four minutes remaining in the half, heading in Andrea Barzagli’s lofted cross into the bottom corner for his seventh Champions League goal in nine games. Simone Zaza then sealed the win with three minutes to play at the Juventus Stadium...

Goals scored in the first half were enough to see les Parisiens through in Ukraine, with the hosts now bottom of Group AParis Saint-Germain earned a 3-0 win at Shakhtar Donetsk on Wednesday to preserve their perfect start to the Champions League. Serge Aurier got himself on the end of Maxwell’s cross in the seventh minute to put Laurent Blanc’s side in the lead, before being key to his side’s second goal, flicking on a corner for David Luiz to double their advantage. Shakhtar then went on to put the visitors under heavy pressure and were unlucky not to have scored when Oleksandr Gladky came back off the woodwork. DOWNLOADHERE Watch highlight

Here is another street anthem from General Record’s Solider CDQ FeaturingYBNL Boss OLAMIDE, After successfully pulling out of  “INDOMIE”which took over all media house and club by the two vibrant rapper, CDQ and OLAMIDE  slayed  WOSS WOBI a song for the street which has hilarious native words,The song produced by TWIZZLE mixed and master was blended by SUKA SOUND DOWNLOAD HERE

RASKAPELLA BALLO aka KURAMORE one of OOU best rapper of all time is here again with another hit joint feature another rapper from OOU XAMOEL titled HUSTLE SPIRIT after the release of alayeluwa (freestyle), which gained massive downloads his EP ALBUM Drops soon. Watch out!!! Download

ChessMate Ent Artist LAYTEX with is unique Voice in Joint with Jovin , Preshy J , Venom C .This Track is a Jam, whereby they are trying to describe a lady . its Produced by F8 DOWNLOAD

Watch And Download The First Episode Of The Second Season Of Empire. A quick recap.. Three months after his arrest, Lucious Lyon tries to run Empire Entertainment while in federal lockup; Cookie stages a star-studded concert in support of Lucious while Andre, Hakeem, Anika and Mimi Whiteman (Marisa Tomei) attempt a hostile takeover. Download and Watch The First Episode Below. Download

The video-film industry of Nigeria has been described as one of the greatest explosions of popular culture that Africa has ever seen. It is the first economically self-sustainable film industry in Africa. Initially through the use of video technology, and now affordable digital technology, Nigeria produces more than 2000 films per year. The industry, popularly called Nollywood, is currently ranked as the second-largest in the world in terms of output after India’s Bollywood. Nollywood’s popularity has spread across the African continent, to the African diaspora in Europe, North America and Australia. It has even gone as far as the Caribbean and Pacific Islands. BORN OUT OF ADVERSITY The first seeds for the emergence of the industry were planted in the late 1980s. Nigeria was experiencing difficulties as a result of political unrest and measures imposed by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. This economic climate made film-making on celluloid prohibitiv...

“My father doesn’t have a problem with my semi nude photos, he selected what to post and what not to post. Those critics should be on the look out for hotter naked photos of myself soon” says Moesha Boduong. The self-acclaimed actress who hails from Upper West region made this revelation in an exclusive interview on Peace FM’s weekend show, Entertainment Review hosted by Kwesi Aboagye. According to her, both her father and boyfriend are satisfied with her semi-nude photos and promised to publicize hotter naked photos of herself very soon. Touching on why she did the semi-nude shoots for popularity, the curvy actress denied that her semi-nude photos which went viral in the media were for fame. “Am not advertising myself for money or fame as it has been carried out in the public domain, we all expose our naked bodies so why should people complain about mine.” “I have a nice body that others don’t have so I will embrace what I have and leave my normal life t...

The Ghana Hajj Board says it’s premature to conclude that five Ghanaian Muslim pilgrims are missing from their base in Mecca. There were reports that the Board could not confirm whether the missing Ghanaians, including a Hajj agent, were killed or injured in last Thursday’s stampede in Mina after it caused a headcount to be conducted. Over 700 pilgrims are reported to have died in the stampede with over 800 people injured. The disaster is the worst that has occurred during the pilgrimage in over 25 years. A total of 5,309 Ghanaian Muslims are in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia performing this year’s pilgrimage. In all, about two million Muslims from across the globe are performing the pilgrimage. Speaking to Fiifi Banson on Anopa Kasapa on Kasapa 102.3 FM, the Deputy Director of Communications of the Board, Alhaji Aminu Lamptey stated that he cannot admit that five pilgrims are missing or might have been dead as no such conclusion has been arrived at. He noted th...

Some 35 illegal miners have been trapped in a mine pit at Bonsawire near Asuoso in the Western Region. The incident which occurred 4:30 am on Monday morning, has brought activities at the mine site to a standstill. Sources say two persons have so far been rescued by the local folks with 33 others still trapped in the mine pit located in the forest of Bonsawire. Of the two, one is dead and the other seriously injured, our sources said. Our sources say the chances of survival of the remaining trapped illegal miners are minimal looking at the nature of the incident. About three hundred, our sources say, were working on the site at the time of the incident. The Police are yet to report to the scene.

There is no day that Sarkodie will be on Legon campus and will not record a successful show. The rapper each year entertain students of the premium university in Ghana with his first-class stage works. Sarkodie was billed for #FreshAfair event as part of Jubilant Hall Week celebration which happened on Friday, 26 September and the show was massive. Sarkodie together with Efya and Akwaboah performed many songs on the newly released Mary Album on the night of the show and the crowd wanted more hours after they were done Sarkodie for the first was at University of Ghana performed with live band. Before the three artistes made wonders on the night, Donzy and Strongman were on stage to also perform.

Rapper Cabum who recently released his new single “Style Biabi” has pronounced his love for Ghanaian actress and movie producer Yvonne Nelson. The rapper on Radio Univers in Accra said he has been admiring the award-winning actress for long but has not had the chance to tell her his feelings. He blamed the actress’ close friend, John Dumelo for preventing him from reaching Yvonne Nelson. On why he loves Yvonne Nelson, Cabum gave three reasons. Watch the video below to know what Cabum said:

Silverbird Cinemas foyer at the West Mills mall was the place to be on 24th September 2015 as over 2000 fans converged to meet and hang out with their music mentor and friend Pappy Kojo on the maiden edition of “Change Ur DP” with Pappy Kojo. His fans turned up in their numbers to meet, hang out and confirm their love for Pappy Kojo. The show officially started with rap battle as five of Pappy Kojo’s die-hard rappers had the opportunity to spit on the mic with him as they rode on the ‘Ay3 Late’ and ‘Realer No’ beat. The winner won a signed autograph photo of Pappy Kojo. The moment Pappy Kojo got to the foyer, he was greeted with loud applause from his fans and decide to perform ‘Ay3 Late’ before interacted with the fans. The event got more exciting as the audience were given the prospect to clear their conscience on some topical rumors circulating around about Pappy Kojo for clarification and question time. Amongst them was whether ‘Pappy Kojo was dating Mzvee...

Ghana’s Dancehall artiste Shatta Wale has won the Publisher’s Choice Award at the 5th Annual 3G Awards held on Saturday 26th September at PAK Banquet Hall in Bronx. The event which was organized by 3G Media was under the theme; Change by the Power of One, honoured other individuals who are making significant difference in the world. Leading artistes who were present at the event ceremony included: Award-winning gospel music star, Steve Kelly; US/Ghana sensational gospel music star, Ewuraba Nyamekye, Matu Saye, Hiplife Sensation-2Shy, Ghanaian trumpeter Francis Akrofi, Minister Ike from Canada , Elisante, Praise Dance King, 7 Renowned DJs and a live performance by The Ghanaian Catholic Community Church Live Band. Among the honorees were; Boxing Legend and former Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight Champion of the world, Mr. Michael Spinks, Pastor Lord Asante Boadu, Calvary Life Baptist Chapel, Gaithersburg, MD, Nana Aduanaba Kuffour, NY, Daniel Agyei (Kuwait Ship...

Made up of Paa Kwasi and Ennwai, the sensational duo Dobble jumps on the Bye Bye Riddim by O’tion. Ofite J3m3 is the title of the mid-tempo jam, check it out for yourself. Download

 Jp Blaze is a Port harcourt River state based Rn B Dancehall artist his debut track exceptional was released middle of last year and he has a video to it,His songs could be better than your favorite RnB artiste. but this is his follow up single titled Blessing which is like a testimony song despite its a dancehall jam but indeed this is to make you dance away  your sorrows and be happy . Download

This accident happened at Aggrey road port harcourt this morning.   See more photos below:-

According to a student, in most hostels on campus, there is a total infestation of bed bugs and it has become quite intolerable. They are now protesting against the school authority for them to take immediate action.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has identified politics in matters of religion and tribe as a major problem facing the Nation at the moment. Speaking at the National Ecumenical Center Abuja where the Thanksgiving service to commemorate the 55th Independence of Nigeria held yesterday September 27th, Osinbajo said Nigerians must dissociate themselves with from such tribal and religious lines as the issues that affect the country affects all irrespective of tribe or religion. “Our nation is sharply divided for long along religious and tribal lines. The moment we are divided against ourselves we can’t stand. We must also speak on the unity of the country. It will make a difference in the future of this country. Our country’s major problem is that we play politics with everything. We play politics with religion, we play politics with tribe. When a bomb goes off in Potiskum or Maiduguri, it doesn’t ask questions, whether you are a Yoruba, Igbo or Hausa. The issues that ...

Nigerian Singer Davido in a recent interview revealed his HKN necklace made him less richer by more than 13million Naira. “It is worth 60,000 USD,” Davido revealed. When asked by a Journalist why he shows off his accessories on social media he replied, “It is not about me. The display is about what we do and the business we are into. It is called showbiz and it comes with the territory.”He purchased the neck piece few months ago during one of his many stops in ATL and it is not his only expensive neck-piece. This latest info continues the trend of these Rich Artistes’ spending outrageous fees to buy or customize personal jewelries.

Fast rising singer, Cynthia Morgan is on collision course with her lover, singer, Le­zleesingz . Weeks after she shared a deep kiss with fellow artiste, Burna Boy , on the set of her video for a new song featuring Burna Boy, all has not been well with her relationship with Lezleesingz. Sources say Lezleesingz, a fast rising artiste went berserk after he heard details of how Burna Boy for more than two minutes kept kissing Cynthia on set because the director kept insisting on retakes. “Initially he refused picking Cynthia’s calls and never replied her messages. However, unable to bear it anymore, he flew into Lagos and immediately summoned Cynthia Mor­gan to the video shoot of one of his songs which features Cynthia. However, the chemistry between them was poor as they just acted like strangers on set,” a source said adding that Lezleesingz has given Cynthia an ultimatum that they either go public with their relationship which is against her label’s wish or forge...