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Irish boyband "Westlife" to split in 2012
MBGN World 2011 'Sylvia Nduka' off to London for Miss World 2011 Finals
Copy of letter Baba Suwe's lawyer sent to Director General of NDLEA
MTV sets dates for 2012 Video Music and Movie Awards
Legendary Rapper snoop Dogg celebrates 40th Birthday

Irish boyband "Westlife" to split in 2012

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 09:16 PM PDT

Chart-topping Irish boyband Westlife, have been delighting fans for the past 14 years, but have announced they are splitting next year. Following a greatest hits album and a farewell tour, the Irish foursome - Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily and Shane Filan ,have announced they will part ways amicably reported daily mail.

"After 14 years, 26 top ten hits including 14 number one singles, 11 top 5 albums, seven of which hit the top spot and have collectively sold over 44 million copies around the world, 10 sell-out tours and countless memories that we will forever cherish, we today announce our plan to go our separate ways after a greatest hits collection this Christmas and a farewell tour next year," read a statement released by the band.

"The decision is entirely amicable and after spending all of our adult life together so far, we want to have a well-earned break and look at new ventures. We see the greatest hits collection and the farewell tour as the perfect way to celebrate our incredible career along with our fans. We are really looking forward to getting out on the tour and seeing our fans one last time," it added.

Westlife, who had a total of 14 number one hit singles, including Swear it again and Flying without wings, thanked their fans for supporting them over the years and revealed their time together has been a dream come true.

The band launched as a five-piece in 1998 but Irish singer Brian McFadden quit the group in 2004 to spend more time with his family and work on solo projects.

MBGN World 2011 'Sylvia Nduka' off to London for Miss World 2011 Finals

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 09:21 AM PDT

MBGN World 2011 Sylvia Nduka Joins over 120 other beauty queens from around the world as they start the exciting journey to the 61st Miss World finals in London on 6th November 2011.

Over the next few days the contestants will have a full schedule of photo shoots, filming and rehearsals before heading to Scotland where they will participate in traditional Highland games and much more!
Stay updated with photos and news of the days leading to the grand finale on her blog (http://mbgn2011sylvianduka.blogspot.com/), facebook fan page (Sylvia Nduka Fan Page) and twitter (@OfficialSylviaN)

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Copy of letter Baba Suwe's lawyer sent to Director General of NDLEA

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 07:56 AM PDT

Baba Suwe's lawyer bamidele Aturu sent a letter to Director General of NDLEA over the arrest and detention.

UNLAWFUL ARREST AND DETENTION OF MR BABATUNDE OMIDINA (A.K.A. BABA SUWE)

We are solicitors to Mr Babatunde Omidina (a.k.a. Baba Suwe, hereinafter referred to as 'our client') on whose behalf and instructions we write this letter.

We have been informed by our client's relations that he was on the 12th of October, 2011 arrested by your officers while trying to board a France Airline aircraft to France on the suspicion that your machines had revealed that he ingested an unknown quantity of illegal narcotic substances. Since then he has been detained in an unknown facility of your organization in inhuman and dehumanizing conditions, ostensibly waiting for him to excrete the allegedly ingested drugs. We were further informed that you have also denied him access to his lawyers and relations. We have been told that after more than three defecations you have been unable to find anything incriminating against him. Yet you continue to detain him. This is truly amazing.

As officers of the law it is our bounden duty to inform you in the unlikely event, and as it would appear, that your legal officers have failed to do so, that the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended guarantees to every person in Nigeria the right to liberty and that no one may be arrested or detained beyond 24 hours without being charged before a court of competent jurisdiction for a criminal offence known to law. To do otherwise is patently illegal, unlawful, unconstitutional and an affront on the tenets of liberal democracy.

In the circumstances, we have our clients' firm instructions to demand, and we hereby so do, that you cause our client to be released from unlawful detention forthwith and also cause to be written and circulated in conspicuous segments of This Day, The Guardian and The Punch, three newspapers circulating all over Nigeria which have repeatedly carried the allegation that our client ingested illegal narcotic substances an unqualified apology within 7 days of your receiving this letter. In addition we demand that you pay to our client the sum of N1 Billion as compensation for the damage that the arrest and detention have done to his person and reputation. Our client will not fold his arms and allow the tarnishing of his hard earned reputation and image that he has spent decades of excruciating personal struggles to build on the altar of unfounded suspicions. As you may probably be aware, suspicion, however robust, does not amount to proof under our system of administration of justice.

TAKE NOTICE that if our client is not released forthwith (that is immediately) and if after the expiration of the stated deadline the compensation has not been paid and the apology has not been published in the manner earlier indicated, we have our client's firm instruction to institute legal action against you for the unlawful arrest and detention and for the malicious defamation of his character. We have no doubt that a court of law and of equity will most certainly visit the unlawful arrest and detention and the unwarranted imputations against him with heavy and punitive damages. In this era of democracy everyone must justly earn his or her reputation. Our law firm is committed to seeing to that with unwavering commitment and vehemence. The fact that an institution is privileged by law to lead the fight against illegal use and sale of drugs is not a licence for reckless maligning of innocent, reputable, and decent persons. On the contrary, such institutions have the added responsibility to weigh their words and choose their actions lest they injure needlessly and groundlessly the rights and reputation of others which they have built over the years.

We have no doubt that you will accede to this very friendly request.

TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that there will be no further reference to you on this matter.

Accept the renewed assurances of our very high regards.

Thank you.

Yours faithfully,

Bamidele Aturu Esq.

MTV sets dates for 2012 Video Music and Movie Awards

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 06:33 AM PDT

MTV has set the dates for next year's MTV Movie and Video music awards.

The MTV Movie awards will air live from Los Angeles on June 3.After an August date in Los Angeles this year, the VMAs will move to Sept. 9. A host city hasn't been announced. The show will also air live on the network.

The announcement was made Thursday. This year's VMAs scored MTV's biggest audience in the network's history with a record-breaking 12.4 million total viewers, goosed, no doubt, by one of the most riveting moments in recent pop history: Beyoncé's baby-bump reveal.

The R&B superstar also made social media history by giving Twitter a record bump, scoring 8,868 tweets per second on a night when ladies ruled the (MTV) world

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Legendary Rapper snoop Dogg celebrates 40th Birthday

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 12:57 AM PDT

West Coast legend Snoop Dogg recently celebrated his 40th Birthday (280 in dog years) at the Rolling Stone Lounge in Hollywood.

The OG was serenaded by music icon Chaka Khan and howled the night away with guests like the Los Angeles Dodgers' Matt Kemp, the Cleveland Cavaliers' Baron Davis, the Oklahoma City Thunder's Russell Westbrook,DJ LT, and actor/singer Tyrese Gibson.