Little boy with cancer who Paul Okoye & wife helped with his surgery has died

Sometime in November, Paul Okoye granted his wife's birthday by paying the medical bills of cancer patient, little Eniola (Read story here). Sadly, Eniola died after the treatment. Paul took to his Instagram account to relay the sad news. He wrote;

Olamide and Don Jazzy reconcile, release joint statement

Olamide and Don Jazzy both shared the photo on their respective instagram pages and wrote "We are very Sorry for the wahala make una no vex oh. It is our responsibility to lead but then again we are only human and we all make mistakes! #WeAreSorryHeadies #WeAreSorryFans #PeaceAndUnity"

'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' will break the all-time US box-office record by Monday

Disney"Star Wars: The Force Awakens."

The third weekend in theaters for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" was another strong one. The film earned an estimated $88.30 million, according to BoxOffice.com (a record for New Year's weekend), putting it atop the weekend box office for a third consecutive week.

But many are eyeing what the film's number will be by Monday. 

If estimates hold, "Force Awakens" (now at an estimated $740.27 million) will pass the lifetime domestic total of "Avatar" ($760.5 million), making the seventh "Star Wars" the all-time US box-office record-holder. And doing it in only 18 days!

Saudi Arabia is severing diplomatic ties with Iran

Saudi Arabia will cut all diplomatic ties with Iran, the Saudi foreign ministry said on Sunday.

Saudi officials said that Iranian diplomats have 48 hours to leave the country, according to CNN.

Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told a news conference that "Riyadh would not allow the Islamic Republic to undermine the Sunni kingdom's security," according to Reuters.

He added: “The Iranian regime has a long record of violating foreign diplomatic missions."

Jay Z vows to make Harry Styles the “biggest artist in the world” after One Direction

Roc Nation boss Jay Z has got his eyes on Harry Styles, and has reportedly promised to make him “the biggest artist in the world”.

The music mogul, who has mentored the likes of Rihanna, Shakira and Kanye West, has vowed to give Harry the help he needs to forge a solo career.

"Harry doesn't need any help with exposure, everybody in the world knows who he is,” he reportedly told The Daily Star Sunday.

"But he does need to make the transition from being part of a group to becoming an individual artist.

Millionaire stabbed to death in Bahamas home led an idyllic lifestyle but was all as it seemed?

Phillip and wife Donna met when they were teenagers but was there trouble in paradise?

Respected podiatrist Phillip Vasyli was at the top of his game when he was found stabbed to death in his luxury home in the Caribbean.

Australian Phillip, 59, was a leader in his field. Over 30 years, he’d run several podiatry clinics, and he’d also founded an orthotic footwear company which sold shoes in the UK and across America. His website boasted the fact he’d treated over 50,000 people during his career.

Who would want to kill a man who’d devoted his life to helping people? And how had the killer entered an exclusive gated community and taken the life of a much-loved family man? No one expected the events that unfolded next.

The charismatic businessman was married to Donna, 54, who he’d met when they were both teenagers. And the couple had two grown-up children: son Aron and daughter Lauren. Phillip and Donna had started the Vasyli Foundation; a charity that gave health support to the underprivileged.

Saudi Arabia executes 47 convicted terrorists in one day

Saudi Arabian government has executed 47 people in one day including the prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr after convicting them of Terrorist related activities that have occurred in the last decade.

According to the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Interiors, the executed men believed in extremist ideology, were members of terror groups, and they were convicted of plotting and carrying out attacks against civilians going back as far at an attack on the U.S. consulate in Jeddah in 2004.

TRUMP: 'Hillary Clinton created ISIS with Obama'

Real-estate mogul Donald Trump opened his Saturday-night rally by blasting the Obama administration's approach to Iran and the Islamic State terrorist group.

"I'm pretty good at signals, and I see a lot of things happening," Trump said at a campaign stop in Biloxi, Mississippi.

The Republican presidential front-runner pointed to Iranian protesters sacking the Saudi Embassy in Tehran earlier in the day, after Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Shiite cleric.

Former Premier League footballer found dead

Former Premier League footballer Steve Gohouri has been found dead in a river in Germany. The 34-year-old, who played defence for Wigan Athletic between 2010 and 2012, had been reported missing two weeks ago.


Ghouri attended his German team's Christmas party on December 11 and was due to travel to see his family in Paris.

When he failed to turn up his family filed a missing persons report and a police appeal for his whereabouts was issued.

German media confirmed today his body had been found in the River Rhine, with no indication of violence.

Here's what we think is going to happen in 2016

In 2014, when Business Insider's Military &Defense team got together to guess the state of the world a year down the line, we thought we were embarking on a slightly embarrassing endeavor.

It turns out several of our predictions were correct.

ISIS proved it could strike beyond its "caliphate" by bombing a Russian passenger jet and carrying out multiple attacksinside a European capital as well as inspiring several "lone wolf" attacks.

Meanwhile, Iran signed a landmark nuclear deal in July that has the potential to reshape the Middle East and the larger issue of global nuclear-arms control.

Here are 15 big geopolitical events that we think are in store for 2016.

Two-year-old girl tragically dies just two days after Christmas from swallowing a battery

The day after Christmas, 2-year-old Brianna Florer was laughing and jumping around with her older brother and two sisters opening presents at her grandparents' home. The next day the precocious blond-haired toddler was dead.
An X-ray of her tiny body showed the "killer" was a shiny, silver button battery.

“On Saturday she was fine,” maternal grandfather Kent Vice said. “It was a perfect Christmas.”

Brianna had not been feeling well for a couple of days, throwing up and running a low-grade fever, he said.
Late Sunday, Brianna threw up blood, and her body turned a blue color. Her parents, Brian and Stephanie Florer, who live in rural Delaware County, called the Jay ambulance, which met them at a convenience store to check Brianna's condition.

Full list of winners of 2015 Headies Awards (olamide violent Rant & don jazzy reply) video

Below is the full list of winners of the very interesting Headies awards which held last night in Lagos.

Best Street-Hop Artiste

Olamide (‘Bobo’)

Best Pop Single

‘Godwin’ by Korede Bello

Best Male Performance

Timi Dakolo (‘Wish me well’)

Best R&B single

‘Wish me well’ by Timi Dakolo

Best rap single

‘King kong’ by Vector

Happy New Year From #3M360 #Chaperon Group #Forever Records #Dj Led

South African king sentenced to 12yrs in prison for cruelty towards his subjects

South African king Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo has been sentenced to 12-years in prison for arson, kidnap and assault of his subjects. King Dalindyebo handed himself over to the Mthatha Correctional Center in Eastern Cape province minutes before midnight on Wednesday, December 30, after failing in an 11th-hour bid to evade incarceration by seeking a retrial or a presidential pardon.

In a statement, Justice spokesperson Mthunzi Mhaga said:

"We confirm that King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo handed himself to the head of Mthatha Corresctional Centre at 23h40 in the presence of the Regional Commissionerof the Eastern Cape"

In 2009, the controversial king was convicted of manslaughter, arson and assault charges for offenses committed more than two decades ago. He was sentenced to 15 years in 2009, but in October the Supreme Court dropped the manslaughter charge and reduced his sentence to 12 years on appeal.

This week he sought to further extend his bail, but a High Court judge in Mthatha threw out the request. The king's daughter, Yasmin Omar, stated that the judge had not given them reasons for his decision.

"No indication was given for when we can expect the reasons for the dismissal of the application and we will continue with the case," said Omar.

He is expected to serve his sentence in Wellington Prison, outside Mthatha.

The 51-year-old king, a self-confessed marijuana smoker, was found guilty of torching dwellings that housed some of his subjects and tenants who had resisted eviction.

He was also convicted of publicly assaulting three young men who had already been brutally beaten by his henchmen, and of kidnapping a wife and children of one of his subjects whom he considered a dissident.

The Supreme Court concluded that the king "ruled with fear and trepidation" and that "his behavior was all the more deplorable because the victims of his reign of terror were the vulnerable rural poor." It also accused him of "obstructive" action for changing his lawyers 11 times, causing 34 postponements of the case.

Dalindyebo became king of the Thembu, a Xhosa ethnic group that boasted Mandela as its most prominent clan member, in 1989. The royal family will meet next week to discuss whether a successor should be chosen due to their monarch's imprisonment.

Rwandan pastor sentenced to life imprisonment for genocide crimes

A Rwandan pastor accused of leading and coordinating attacks on minority Tutsis during Rwanda's 1994 genocide has been jailed for life, Rwanda's high court said on Wednesday, December 30.

An estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed by dominant Hutu forces in the genocide in 100 days.

Jean Uwinkindi,64, who once led the Kayenzi Pentecostal church in the rural outskirts of the capital Kigali, was convicted of crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the slaughter.

"The court finds that there were killings of the Tutsi at Rwankeri and Kanzenze hills and that the attacks were led by Uwinkindi," said Judge Kanyegeri Timothee.

Uwinkindi was arrested in Uganda in 2010 and the following year his case was referred from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, in Tanzania, to the Rwandan national court system. It was the first such referral. The pastor said he plans to appeal.

Source: Reuters