Photo: Mavin Record Artists Win Big At City People Entertainment Awards In Lagos

Mavin Record artists won big yesterday at the City People Entertainment awards ceremony. Tiwa Savage won the award for the best female artiste of the year, while Dr.Sid won best song collabo of the year for Surulere and Don Jazzy won in the best record label category.

2face Idibia's father starts treatment for cancer

The father of music superstar 2face Idibia was recently diagnosed with prostrate cancer. 2face himself revealed this early this month while speaking at a cancer charity event at the Eko Hotel, in Lagos.

The good news is that he Mr. Idibia was diagnosed early and has started the required treatment.

"He is fine and there is really no problem. He was diagnosed early and he has started the required treatment. He will be fine. It is just one of those things. The family will get through it. The whole family is behind him and most importantly God is behind him too." 2face said.

Photo: Patoranking Is My Favourite Artiste! Timaya Puts An End To Fight Rumors

Timaya has put an end to the rumours circulating online that he is fighting Patoranking because he left him for another record label after he discovered and shot his first video.

Patoranking used to be one of Timaya’s boys who followed him around with dem mama soldiers but no formal arrangement was made between them. But when the dancehall artiste got a record label offer he left and people started calling him an ingrate, and assuming the two artistes are now sworn enemies.

In a bit to put a stop to this speculation, Timaya posted a picture of them at a show over the weekend and called him his favourite artiste.

Wizkid Features International Stars…Meets With Rihanna

Dreams do come true. Wizkid who has been in the States for some days now, has been busy recording with different international artistes. He has been keeping us update via his instagram page, and we can’t but just thank God for him. He was fast to also let us know, he met with Rihanna and she referred to him as an ‘amazing act’. You will also recall that he was featured on Dailymail.co.uk recently with Chris Brown and his entourage.

Full Text & Video Of Gov. Fayemi’s Speech After Defeat

Outgoing Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi said yesterday after PDP’s Ayo Fayose defeated him in the state’s governorship election on Saturday, 21st of June 2014. 

Yesterday, Ekiti State decided. Following the gubernatorial elections held in the land of honour, Ekiti State, Nigeria, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has officially returned the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of the election. The speech below.

Demand appears high for Jay Z and Beyonce's On The Run tour, over $86m in tickets sold

There were reports last week that the ticket sales for Beyonce and Jay Z's 'On The Run' tour set to begin in Miami on June 25 and wrap in San Francisco Aug. 5 were much lower than expected as people were no longer interested in watching the power couple in concert after the elevator fight...but it seems that report isn't true...

From Billboard:

Sources close to the Live Nation-produced tour tell Billboard that, as of June 17, the tour has racked up about $86 million in ticket sales and is on a pace to gross close to $100 million from just 19 shows. The source says attendance is on a pace to top 850,000 tickets sold, and a Live Nation rep confirmed to Billboard last night that the tour is indeed nearing that threshold. That’s a whopping nightly take of $5.2 million, and an average attendance of nearly 45,000 per show -- well more than two sold-out arena shows would generate in any given market. Numerous shows are sold out, and Live Nation cites "unprecedented" VIP and platinum ticket sales.

LASU slashes fees, reopens June 23rd

The management of the Lagos State University, LASU, has announced the resumption of academic activities in the school. The school re-opens June 23rd after it was shut down following weeks of students' protest over increase in school fees. The school fees have since been reduced.

Below is a statement released by the school's spokesperson, Kayode Sutton...