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Ladies and gentlemen, we have a number. Adele's blockbuster 25 has sold a record-shattering 3.38 million copies in its first week, according to Nielsen Music. It easily bests early projections of 2.5 million made more than a week ago. Adele performs on the "Today" show on Nov. 25 to promote her latest release, "25." The album sold a record-breaking 3.38 million copies in its first week. As Billboard reports, that's the largest sales week since Nielsen started tracking album sales in 1991. It's the first album to ever sell more than 3 million copies in one week and only the second to pass 2 million (the first was NSYNC's No Strings Attached, with 2.416 million sold in 2000). Already, 25 is the biggest selling album of the year so far (nearly doubling the 1.8 million copies Taylor Swift's 1989 has moved in 2015). It will debut atop the Billboard 200 album chart this week, making it Adele's second No. 1 album after her similarly mammoth 21...

Here's something to be thankful for! Coco Austin and husband Ice-T welcomed their new baby girl, Chanel, into the world with an adorable Instagram debut. "Surprise!!! Look who came early," Coco captioned the photo. "Welcome the new arrival of Chanel Nicole. A beautiful healthy 5.7 pound and 18 inch baby girl. Ice and I are so proud! I cried while she was coming out I was so excited to meet her!" What a cutie. It's currently unclear when the baby was born, but only hours before uploading the photo above, a very pregnant Coco posted a pic of herself standing next to a Christmas tree. In the caption, she described what the pregnancy has meant to her and revealed she had a feeling Chanel might arrive earlier than expected.  "My 37 week bump!!..This baby is coming early 😉  - a mothers intuition 🎀#ChanelNicole is trying to make her appearance," she wrote. "Strange thing is I will miss her inside of me..I really enjoyed the experience. My goal ...

A Chicago Burger King manager who accuses police of erasing surveillance video in the case of a black teenager shot last year by a white officer said Saturday he testified before a federal grand jury investigating the shooting. Jay Darshane told the Chicago Tribune that the FBI also took the video recorder containing all of the fast food restaurant’s surveillance images. The allegations of tampering has fueled the anger of protesters who say the city, police and local prosecutors have botched the case of Laquan McDonald’s death. After months of refusals, the city released police squad car footage of the shooting Tuesday in response to a judge’s order. Both the police chief and the Cook County state attorney deny the Burger King video was altered. The Burger King is yards from where McDonald, 17, fell when the first few rounds from Officer Jason Van Dyke struck him. It took minutes for police to demand the restaurant’s password-protected video, Darshane said. "I was just tryin...

Public funds that have so far been returned by some past government officials who looted the treasury while in the saddle are currently with the Central Bank of Nigeria, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt. It will be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari had while speaking during an interactive session he had with members of the Nigerian community in the Islamic Republic of Iran disclosed that some past government officials who stole public funds had started returning parts of their loot to government coffers voluntarily. Buhari did not disclose the identities of the former government officials who have so far returned parts of the looted fund or the amount returned to the public treasury. But SUNDAY PUNCH’s investigation revealed that the money is with the CBN, although the amount could not be immediately ascertained at the time of filing this report. It was also not certain yet the purpose for which the money would be utilised. Although there are speculations that the return of the monie...

Breezy surprised fans with 34 new tracks album yesterday. Brown’s upcoming album Royalty was originally slated to drop Friday (Nov. 27), but its release was mysteriously pushed back three weeks to Dec. 18. But don’t worry, #TeamBreezy, your boy’s come through and given you the next big thing: a whopping 34-track mixtape. Though Brown Named His Album After His Daughter, But His New Single Isn’t Quite Kid-Friendly. Before The Party dropped Friday afternoon and boasts an impressive guest roster, including Tyga, Wale, French Montana and Fetty Wap. Brown also teams up with ex Rihanna, Wiz Khalifa and Kelly Rowland on the tape’s opening track, “Counterfeit." As if 34 new tracks wasn’t enough to keep fans happy, Brown also released a new music video for “Fine By Me,” which finds him getting into an intense dance-off with some demonic dancers. It ends on an obvious cliffhanger, so it looks like this saga may be continued soon.  Between this and Lil Wayne’s No Ceilings 2, hip-hop fan...

Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik  Credit:  Xposure/AKM-GSI Hadid has him hooked! Fresh off her split from  Joe Jonas ,  Gigi Hadid  is now dating recently single  Zayn Malik ,  Us Weekly  can exclusively confirm. "It’s a very new thing. They're just seeing where it goes," a source tells  Us . "I wouldn't call them boyfriend and girlfriend," another insider adds. "But seeing each other? Definitely. He's chuffed." Xposure/AKM-GSI Indeed, the model, 20, and Malik, 22, seem to be enjoying each other's company. The pair were spotted getting cozy while partying in West Hollywood on Sunday, Nov. 22, after Hadid attended the 2015 American Music Awards, where Malik's former One Direction mates picked up two awards. "Gigi was leaving The Nice Guy," an eyewitness tells  Us . "Gigi went out the front, though. She walked down the street and jumped into the car where Zayn was waiting to pick her up." Hadid — who prev...

Getty Images Kendall Jenner  may be the world’s latest it-model, but that doesn’t mean the 20-year-old hasn’t  made her fair share of enemies  along the way. According to  In Touch , Jenner received a chilly welcome from the angels during the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, which taped last week. “Most of the girls winked or high-fived when they passed each other on the runway,” an onlooker noted to the publication, adding, “nobody did that with Kendall.” Sources close to the situation shared that most of the Victoria’s Secret angels look down on Jenner for  being associated with the Kardashian Klan. “The other girls think that Kendall became a famous model solely because of her family,” one insider told  In Touch . To make matters worse, Jenner’s allegedly icy personality also rubs most models the wrong way. “Kendall is just not a nice girl,” the source said. “[She’s] getting a really bad reputation in the model world.” As Radar ...

Italian journalists-writers Gianluigi Nuzzi, right, and Emiliano Fittipaldi arrive for the first day of their trial at the Vatican on Tuesday. The Vatican has placed the two Italian journalists under investigation in its probe over leaked documents that revealed waste, greed and mismanagement at the highest levels of the Roman Catholic Church.  (Ettore Ferrari / European Pressphoto Agency) Tom Kington   At the first hearing in a controversial Vatican trial of five people accused of leaking Holy See documents, judges have thrown out a request by one of the defendants to drop the case because it violates human rights. Emiliano Fittipaldi, one of two authors on trial who published confidential reports of greed and corruption at the Vatican, told the court he was incredulous to find himself on trial for “simply having published news.” Fittipaldi faces up to eight years in jail, alongside fellow Italian author Gianluigi Nuzzi, for publishing findings from a ...

Football - Chelsea Press Conference - Sammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa, Israel - 23/11/15 Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho during the press conference (Reuters) Chelsea's academy players should fight to break into the first team, manager Jose Mourinho has said, while defending the way in which he is using the youngsters. The Blues, who currently have 33 players out on loan, have had many young players under contract in recent years, most of whom were out on loan and were eventually sold, and 34-year-old John Terry is the last academy graduate to win a regular place at Stamford Bridge. Mourinho, who is expected to name an experienced team for Tuesday's Champions League clash against Maccabi Tel-Aviv, said 19-year-old Ruben Loftus-Cheek has to do more to get regular game time. "Sometimes young players can argue that the chances were not too many for them. Ruben is the last one who can complain about that," Mourinho told a news conference on Monday. "He is a p...

image: http://cms.dailytrust.com.ng/cms/gall_content/2015/11/2015_11$largeimg24_Nov_2015_161824068.jpg Ben state governor, Samuel Ortom Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state has confirmed the sudden demise of the paramount ruler of Tiv nation, Dr. Alfred Akawe Torkula IV. Ortom while answering questions from journalists today on the news the state about the death of the royal father replied that details of the death and formal announcement would be made public soon as the Tiv traditional council formally meets with him. "As am talking to you now, members of the Tiv traditional council are on their way coming from Gboko to Makurdi to formally announce the passing away of the paramount ruler," he said. The Tor-Tiv who assumed throne on April 21, 1991 was chairman of the Benue state council of Chiefs and was aged 71. He held the position of Pro-Chancellor of Michael Okpara University, Umudike in Abia state until his death.  The late royal father's spokesman had debunk...

Following the sudden death of Abubakar Audu, the Kogi state's former governor and gubernatorial candidate in the state's recent poll, his party, All Peoples' Congress (APC) has expressed its resolve to field another candidate in his stead in the upcoming elections. The recently-held November 14 gubernatorial poll was inconclusive though Audu was leading. More details to follow...

Until the End of Time centres on a Chinese student who meets up with an ex-girlfriend of the rapper for a project on American civil rights history  Thug life after death ... The real Tupac Shakur. Photograph: Chi Modu The success of the hip-hop biopic Straight Outta Compton at the US box office this summer has  reignited hopes that a film based on the life of the late rapper Tupac Shakur could finally get the greenlight . Now it’s emerged that Hollywood has been beaten to the punch by a little-known Chinese film-maker named Steven Sheng, with the distinctly unauthorised Tupac-themed movie Until the End of Time. The trailer intersperses scenes in which actor Dean Xue, as the student, discusses his project with Tupac’s rather young-looking “ex-girlfriend” in China, with mock flashback scenes featuring Baptiste as the rapper. Complex Magazine reports  that the film has been banned from social media by Chinese authorities, but Baptiste himself ...

The nationwide fuel scarcity has forced the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to dispatch about 96.61 million litres of petrol within three days, a development which the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, says is above the corporation’s normal delivery capacity. But long queues for fuel have persisted at a few filling stations where petrol is being sold in major cities across the country. The daily dispatch reports of petrol to filling stations by the corporation at the peak of the fuel scarcity problems showed that over 95.61 million litres of petrol was distributed between Monday, November 16 and Wednesday, November 18, 2015. An analysis of the reports showed that on November 18, a total of 83 stations got 3.266 million litres of petrol from Suleja Depot; 25 stations received 991,007 litres from Kaduna Depot; 113 stations got 4.974 million litres of fuel from Kano Depot; seven outlets in Minna got 280,987 litres, while Gusau Depot dispatched 1.534 mi...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that no Nigerian was involved in the terror attack at Radisson Blu hotel, Bamako, Mali last Friday in which 19 people were killed. The ministry’s spokesperson, Ahmedu Ogbole-Ode, said the ministry did not have information that Nigerians were killed or injured in the attack by Islamist militants who stormed the luxury hotel and held 170 hotel guests hostage. “No Nigerian was involved in the attack, we don’t have any information that Nigerians were affected by the incident,” he said on Saturday. Initially, there were speculations that multi-billionaire businessman, Aliko Dangote was in the hotel, but the industrialist in a tweet said he left the hotel on Thursday, 24 hours before the attack. Most of the hotel guests and workers were freed when Malian and French special forces, and off-duty US servicemen stormed the hotel to end the siege. Two militants were killed by the special forces who freed dozens of trapped guests. Meanwhile, President...

With its reign of terror in the Middle East, its claim to have brought down a Russian passenger jet and now, the atrocities in Paris, ISIS has commanded global headlines as the world's most dangerous terror group. But another militant Islamist organization overtook ISIS to become the world's deadliest terrorist group last year, according to a new report. Boko Haram, the Islamic extremist group based mainly in Nigeria's northern states, was responsible for 6,644 deaths in 2014, an increase of 317% from the previous year, according to the Global Terrorism Index, released Tuesday. By contrast, ISIS, the terror group to which Boko Haram reportedly pledged allegiance in March of this year, was responsible for 6,073 deaths. Between them, the two groups were responsible for more than half (51%) the deaths attributed to terrorism, in the deadliest year on record for terror, according to the report. Internationally, deaths from terrorism experienced a "dramatic rise" ...

Former vice president of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday, described the late Yeye Oodua of Ile-Ife, Chief (Mrs) HID Awolowo as an extraordinary woman married to the most extraordinary man Nigeria had the privilege to have.  Abubakar said this at the public presentation of “In the radiance of the Sage: The life and times of HID Awolowo,” a biography written in honour of the late chairman of the African Newspapers Nigeria (ANN) Plc, publishers of the Tribune titles.  The book presentation, held at the Awolowo family compound in Ikenne, amid fanfare, with a live band welcoming guests to the venue with the best of Chief Ebenezer Obey’s numbers before the event formally took off.  Abubakar, who was the chief presenter on the well attended occasion, stated that Mama was created to help Chief Obafemi Awolowo actualise the vision God gave to him, adding that Mama was a natural partner, who was always beside her husband when it mattered most, including during his ...

There were indications on Wednesday that security agencies, including the police, were concluding arrangements to invite some former service chiefs, who were said to have been indicted by a committee, set up by President Muhammdu Buhari to probe arms procurement during the last administration. Investigations showed that indicted service chiefs would be charged, while those who were not affected by the probe panel’s report might serve as witnesses during the trial of the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki(retd.), and others said to be the masterminds of the alleged scam. It was learnt that those, who might be invited, include ex-naval chiefs, Vice-Admiral Dele Ezeoba, (2010-2013), and Vice Admiral Usman Jubril (2014-2015). In the Air Force, former officers that may be invited include Air Marshal Mohammmed Dikko (2010-2012); Air Marshal Alex Badeh (2012-2013), who later became the Chief of Defence Staff, and Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (2013-2015). The police could not ...

Two lawyers, Ezechukwu Obete and Gabriel Ebule, battled each other for the right to represent the Director of Radio Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, when the Federal Government’s case against him came up before a Magistrate’s Court in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, on Wednesday. Both lawyers flaunted different letters appointing them to defend the accused person.  Kanu was on October 19, 2015 arraigned on charges of criminal conspiracy, managing and belonging to an unlawful society as well as criminal intimidation, offences said to be contrary to sections 97 and 397 of the Penal Code. The accused was not present in court on Wednesday but a number of his supporters were seen in the court premises throughout the period the proceedings lasted. However, the dispute between the two lawyers over his legal representation made the presiding Chief Magistrate, Shuaibu Usman, to order the Department of State Services to produce him on Monday to enable him to identify his desired counsel. Prosecuting counsel...

No fewer than 15 mobile phone dealers and patrons were killed on Wednesday, while 20 others suffered varying degrees of injuries when two female suicide bombers blew up themselves at a market located at Farm Centre in Kano. The Kano State Police Command however put the casualty figure at five, which included the two female bombers. A couple of minutes after the explosion, angry residents gathered the fragmented remains of the female suicide bombers a few metres away from scene of the blast, piled used tyres on the pieces and set them ablaze. One of our correspondents, who visited the scene of the explosion a few hours after the blast, observed that some parts of human flesh still littered the environment, which had been cordoned off by security operatives. Pieces of cell phones could also be found in most parts of the market after the blast which occurred at about 3pm. A man, who claimed to be a brother to one of the victims, identified as Ibrahim, told one of our correspondents am...