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Ghanian rapper, Sarkodie teams up with one of Africa's hottest pop stars of the moment, Runtown to deliver an amazing new song titled 'Pain Killer'. Produced by Nigerian producer, T-Spize, the song 'Pain Killer' sees the legendary Gahanian rapper, Sarkodie drop bars on the verses while Runtown practically murdered the chorus with his sweet and melodius flow. The video was shot in Accra and directed by GYO Gyimah for Phamous Philms. https://youtu.be/NtwfYRFi1wE

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The Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the former ruling party remains strong, intact and strategizing to take over power in 2019 from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). PDD which said it will no longer allow itself to be distracted by Senator Ali Modu Sheriff and “his cohorts in the ruling party, the APC,” added that Nigerians are suffering under the scourging and suffocating miss-governance of the APC and promised it will as the opposition, continue to hold the government accountable to its promises. A recent report had quoted PDP National Working Committee chairman, Makarfi, to have described PDP as broke and unable to meet its financial obligation to staff at the research and training institute, the Peoples Democratic Institute (PDI) in Abuja. But PDP in a statement released on Friday by its spokesman, Dayo Adeyeye, denied the reports and assured all its members and teeming supporters that it remains intact and is rebranding to

Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja has granted Shamsudeen Bala, son of a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed N100 million bail and has ordered that he be remanded in Kuje prison pending the perfection of his bail terms which includes two sureties in the sum of N50million each.

Chairman of Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State died in the early hours of today, after attending a political meeting with Governor Mimiko. Agunola Omomowo, popularly known as 'Adoration' was said to have slumped in his hotel room shortly after the meeting and was confirmed dead on arrival at a local hospital in the area. Late Omomowo was elected as the Ilaje Local Government Chairman on March 24, 2016 under the platform of the Peoples Democratic party (PDP)

It's never too old for love. Brazilian pensioner, Valdemira Rodrigues de Oliveira is believed to be the world's oldest person to get engaged after she said 'yes' to her 66yr old lover Aparecido Dias Jacob in a ceremony last Saturday. The lovebirds defied doctors' ban to go ahead with the engagement. Medics had assessed their health and age and warned the duo, known as Valda and Jaco, would not be able to cope with living on their own. But after three years together, the senior romantics, who have separate rooms at Nossa Senhora Fatima retirement home in Pirassununga, south east Brazil, were determined to prove age is no barrier to finding your soul mate. The elderly sweethearts exchanged engagement rings in a betrothal service organised by volunteers under an initiative called the 'Project of Dreams' and the event was no puny affair. It was lavishly decorated with a four-tier cake, flowers, cupid ornaments and scattered rose petals. Valda looked he

Sari Rezita Ariyanti looks like a three-year-old girl, but she is actually 24-years-old. Born in 1993, the second of five children, Sari who weighs 20kg and is 87cm tall, speaks, acts and is as helpless as a child. She also cannot walk and has to be pushed around in a wheel chair.  Sari struggles to speak and only makes sounds which her mother alone can understand. She is totally dependent and lives with her mother, Suryani H Suud and sister Lela in Didie Jaya District, Indonesia. In spite of her appearance, Sari menstruates every month like every grown woman and as with all else, she has to be assisted by her mother who helps her maintain hygiene during this period. "I feel very sad. I see my first and third children and they are healthy but Sari is different," Suryani lamented.  ''I was deeply shocked but thanks to God, Sari has siblings who love and take care of her. People would stare at us and others would ask 'why can't she walk and why is she so s

Actress Angelina Jolie in a recent op-ed for the New York Times has weighed in on President Donald Trump's immigration ban, accusing him of ignoring facts about how refugees get into the U.S. " It is simply not true that our borders are overrun or that refugees are admitted to the United States without close scrutiny. Refugees are subject to the highest level of screening of any category of traveler to the United States'  she wrote. Angelina works with the UN's High Commissioner for Refugees. She's also adopted 3 children born outside the country and she says she understands security from terrorism is of the utmost importance, but thinks  "our response must be measured and should be based on facts, not fear."  In the article, she never mentions Trump by name, but says she'd want any president to work with people of all faiths around the world to make all nations more secure.