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Maria Cue the bling! Mariah Carey is engaged to her Mariah Carey is engaged to her boyfriend, James Packer, her rep confirms to Us Weekly. According to Carey's rep, the pair got engaged on Thursday, January 21, in New York City. The “Hero” singer and the Australian billionaire businessman, 48, have been dating under a year. The two lovebirds just got some R&R while aboard Packer’s yacht in St. Bart’s earlier this week. The pair first stepped out together in June during a Capri getaway. “He’s wooing her,” a source told Us at the time. This will be the third marriage for Carey, who split from estranged husband Nick Cannon in August 2014. The America’s Got Talent host filed for divorce from Carey in January 2015. During a recent interview with Dujour magazine, Cannon said he “highly doubts” he’ll ever marry again. Carey and Cannon are the parents of 4-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe. Prior to Cannon, Carey was married to Tommy Mottola for five years. Us Weekly

A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the remand of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra and founder of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, in prison custody. Justice James Tsoho made the order on Wednesday after Kanu, who has since October 14, 2015 been in the custody of the Department of State Service, was arraigned along with two others on charges of treason and others bordering on his agitation for the secession of the Republic of Biafra from Nigeria. Kanu was arraigned along with two others – Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi. ‎The judge in ordering the remand of the accused in prison overruled the request by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Mr. Mohammed Diri, for an order further remanding the accused persons in the custody of the DSS. The ruling of the court ordering Kanu’s remand came as a relief to the defence team, led on Wednesday by Mr. Chuks Mouoma (SAN)‎, who had complained that the accused persons had been denied access to their families and lawyers since...

weet 0 Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole Tuesday announced the escape of a Lassa fever patient in Ebonyi state. The patient, whose identity was not made public, it was learnt escaped from the health facility where he was receiving treatment. The minister made the disclosure during the emergency meeting of National Council on Health in Abuja. The National Council on Health is the highest advisory body on health in the country. The minister also inaugurated the 15 member Lassa fever eradication committee, to address the outbreak of the disease and other communicable disease in the country. The committee is headed by Prof. The minister while the meeting was on announced to the entire gathering that he just received a text that a Lassa fever patient had escaped from a health facility in Ebonyi while undergoing treatment. The minister therefore urged the relevant agency and the state government to do everything possible to trace the patient and those who mi...

99246 Kunle Falayi Like a scene out of a horror movie, a 10-year-old girl, Damilola Fasanya, who went missing on Saturday, January 9, 2016 in Ipaja area of Lagos, came home two days later to recount horrific tales of her short time in the hands of her kidnappers. In fact, after her captors released her, she was so traumatised by what she saw that she could not gain her memory back for two days. If Damilola’s parents did not vouch for her truthfulness, many would have dismissed her story as mere product of an imaginative mind. Damilola said that on Saturday, she was on her way back from the errand she ran for her father around their street at Ipaja when a vehicle double-crossed her. She said she was about rebuking the strange men in the vehicle for blocking her path, when two of them jumped out and forced her into their car. “There were three of them in the vehicle. I became dizzy and did not know where I was again when one of them hit me with a strange object insid...

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu 12288 •Crude production cost almost equals selling price This is an uncertain period for the Nigerian economy due to the continuing fall in the price of crude oil, the nation’s main revenue earner, and projections for the petroleum industry are indeed grim,  ’FEMI ASU writes With crude oil trading around $30 per barrel in the international market from a peak of $114 in June 2014, production from Nigeria now faces a decline as some fields face an imminent shutdown if the low oil price persists. Industry players say operating some of the fields in the country is becoming uneconomic, with the selling price of oil being driven down close to the production cost level. The price of the Nigerian crude oil, Bonny Light, has fallen to $29.47 per barrel, according to the latest data obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria. “When oil price drops, we are all in serious trouble, because if the oil price and your un...

Tourists take pictures in front of a shoe-shaped church in southern Chiayi on January 11, 2016. The church, which measures 55 feet tall and 36 feet wide, took two months to build. (Photo: STR/AFP/Getty Images) (CNN) The  marvels of modern architecture abound around the world . There's a building that looks like a banknote in Lithuania, a building called the "friendly alien" in Austria, and now, a church shaped like a high-heeled shoe in Taiwan. The church, a tinted blue glass structure, is 55-feet tall at the top of the heel, and 36-feet wide. Based on that and guessing it's roughly 75-80 feet from toe to heel, we'll call it a size 880. It's taken two months to build at a cost of $686,000,  according to the BBC. The structure has been created by local government officials in Taiwan and will be used primarily for weddings and and photo shoots, but not regular services, the BBC reports. New York magazine  quotes a regional official as sa...

Cesc Fabregas has looked better in the last few weeks (Picture: Getty Images) Time is running out for Chelsea to salvage anything from this season. Saturday’s draw with Everton means that qualifying for any sort of European football through the Premier League now looks impossible so the Blues should focus all their energy on the cup competitions and prepareing for next season. But what can Guus Hiddink change to improve Chelsea’s fortunes in the long-term. The Dutchman has already reintroduced John Obi Mikel in place of the dreadful Nemanja Matic but there are still too many players within that squad that simply don’t pull their weight. As such Hiddink needs to identify the players who don’t want to be there, make sure the club knows they need to be offloaded in the summer and then leave them out. There is no point in playing players now who won’t be at the club next term. One of the areas that Chelsea have struggled in is the midfield and, although Mikel has helped ...

Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney pounced to score a 78th-minute winner as his side stunned eternal rivals Liverpool with a smash-and-grab 1-0 victory at a freezing Anfield on Sunday. Presiding over his first game against United, Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp watched his team dominate, but Rooney punished their profligacy with his fifth goal in four games, a close range snapshot after Marouane Fellaini had hit the bar. It was United’s first shot on target, but it was enough to give visiting manager Louis van Gaal his fourth win over Liverpool in four games and a first away victory since the 2-1 success at Watford on November 21. Victory took United to within two points of the Champions League places and allowed them to reclaim fifth place from West Ham United, leaving Liverpool six points back in ninth place, their top-four hopes fading. They may be England’s two most decorated clubs, but Liverpool and United are not this season’s leading contenders and a scrappy, shap...

Attacks  on oil installations in Delta State entered  the third day, yesterday, as  militants blew-up major crude oil and gas pipelines to the Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, Tank Farm in Warri South West Local Government Area of the state. Blown up on Friday night was the main crude line from Makaraba through Otunana and Abiteye to Escravos while  Olero to Escravos gas line was attacked in the early hours of yesterday. Earlier on Thursday, the Escravos – Warri – Abuja – Lagos pipelines came under attack. The Itsekiri raised the alarm, yesterday, that the attacks could metamorphose into another Ijaw-Itsekiri war. File…Militants These acts of sabotage are coming at a time when global crude oil price continues its downward move. THE military, yesterday, deployed army and naval personnel in the creeks of Delta State to contain the militants. Our source, who spoke from one of the Ijaw communities in Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South-West Local Government Area, at ...

former President Olusegun Obasanjo was on Saturday awarded a master’s degree in Christian Theology by the National Open University of Nigeria. SUNDAY PUNCH  reports that Obasanjo was among the 10, 653 students who bagged degrees in various academic fields at the institution’s 5th convocation ceremony held at its permanent campus in Abuja. About 15 of them graduated with First Class honours. Obasanjo was said to have earlier graduated from NOUN with a first degree in Christian Theology and enrolled for master’s degree in the same discipline. Others who graduated with him included the Emir of Hadejia, Adamu Maje, and Paramount Ruler of Agwu, Felix Okechukwu Asad. He is expected to continue his PhD degree at the institution, according to the Vice Chancellor of NOUN, Prof. Joshua Tenebe. He said, “It is interesting to know that former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, will be graduating with a master’s degree (MA Christian Theology), having met the requirements for the...

Celine Dion announces brother Daniel (right) dying of cancer   Photo: Rex/Getty By  Harriet Alexander , New York 10:35PM GMT 15 Jan 2016 Celine Dion's brother Daniel is dying of cancer, the family has confirmed - announcing the news  the day after Dion's husband René Angelil died from a long battle with the disease . Claudette Dion, one of the 14 siblings, said that Daniel, 59, did not have long left to live. She said it was the third time he had been diagnosed with cancer. "It looks a lot like René, he had cancer of the throat, tongue and brain," said Claudette. "Our family is very experienced." She told  The Journal of Montreal : "He is 59 years old – very young to be the end of life." Celine Dion and Rene Angelil in Quebec in 2013   Photo: AP Claudette said part of the Dion family – including Celine's 89-year-old mother, Therese – were gathered at Daniel's beside on Thursday, afte...

15 January 2016   From the section Africa Image copyright AFP Image caption African Union troops in Somalia are supporting the UN-backed government BBC reports that the Al Shabab Islamist group says it has taken "complete control" of the AU camp and killed more than 60 Kenyan soldiers. Al-Shabab militants have overrun an African Union military base outside the southern Somali town of el-Ade. Residents told the BBC that al-Shabab had raised its flag at a camp for Kenyan troops and said insurgents had paraded bodies through the town. But Kenya's army spokesman said it was a nearby Somali base that was stormed and Kenyan troops counter-attacked. The number of casualties on both sides was not known, Kenyan military spokesman Col David Obonyo said in a statement. He told the BBC that reports of high Kenyan casualties were "normal propaganda from al-Shabab". Kenya contributes more than 4,000 troops to the 22,000-strong AU force that is in Somalia h...