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After falling to a record low of 500 naira/1 USD dollar, the Naira rebounded slightly today to close at 498 Naira per dollar. Which is not really much of a difference in the larger scheme of things. From the Punch: The naira dropped against the United States dollar from 498 to 500 at the parallel market during the early trading hours on Monday, crossing the critical threshold currency analysts had predicted. Foreign exchange traders linked the development to relative scarcity of the greenback in the Forex market. The local unit, however, reversed the loss during the intra-day trading and closed…

The 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (aka the SAG awards) held last night at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California.  The red carpet was ablaze with noteworthy looks from just about everyone including Kerry Washington who wore Roberto Cavalli to perfection, Natalie Portman, who’s maternity wear moves have been flawless and Janelle Monae who looked great in Chanel. Photos below and more at FBD: More photos here.

While speaking at the 60th Anniversary/Founder’s Day Lecture and Magazine Launch of Kaduna Capital School during the weekend, Muhammadu Sanusi II (current Emir of Kano & former CBN Governor), implored northern leaders to cut back on the huge family sizes if resources lack.  He noted:  “You are allowed to marry two wives if you can maintain them, you are also allowed to produce 100 children if you can maintain and educate them; but if you cannot, please marry the number of wives you can maintain and produce the number of children you can take care of.” “We are obsessed by number…

Azealia Banks needs to have several seats.  Like a stadium full. This weekend, Rihanna joined most of the rest of the world in showing detest for the immigration ban that Trump signed Friday afternoon.  She called him an ‘immoral pig’ which ever-beef ready, Azealia Banks, didn’t like. It prompted her to ask on social media if Rihanna was American and if she could vote. Pause. Since when do you need to be both 1) American and 2) a voter, to have a personal opinion? Right. Since never. Anyways, Banks made several other comments, which you can read here.  To which Rih…

From HNHH: After some delays, expectations were high for the first date on Drake’s European The Boy Meets World tour, and The Boy delivered on the hype by previewing some new music. As fan site Word On Road points out, Drake played a snippet of a new song during a break in the performance. Listen below – Drake previews new song in Amsterdam ahead of #MoreLife. #BoyMeetsWorldTour #BMWT A video posted by Word On Road (@wordonrd) on Jan 28, 2017 at 2:58pm PST “I’m in a penthouse but still nothing is sweet.” lol Drizzy stay dramatic.

From CNN: Donald Trump’s seismic move to ban more than 130 million people from the United States and to deny entry to all refugees reverberated worldwide Saturday, as chaos and confusion rippled through US law enforcement agencies, airports and foreign capitals trying to grasp the US’s new policy. Trump’s executive order bars citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US for the next 90 days and suspends the admission of all refugees for 120 days. Travelers who fit the ban’s criteria and were already in the air headed for the US on Friday afternoon when Trump signed the executive…

Congrats to Laura Ikeji and her beau, former football player, Ogbonna Kanu. The two celebrated their traditional wedding in Imo State this weekend, in front of family and friends.  Photos below and via the link above.

The first edition of the SLAY Festival, an event to celebrate innovation, culture, arts, music, food and technology, held on January 21st in Ebute-Metta, Lagos. The event was extremely well attended with over 15 speakers and panelists including Kemi Adetiba, MI Abaga, Audu Maikori, Pastor Idris Bello Osagie and many others.  Check out a few photos from the event below, and more via the link above.

Reekado Banks dropped the visuals from his hit song, Ladies and Gentlemen, off his debut album, Spotlight, and it’s as entertaining as the song itself.  Watch the ladies shake it and the band clearly enjoy themselves in the Clarence Peters directed vid, below –

From theYBF After won Serena Williams won her semifinal match against Mirjana Lucic-Baroni of Croatia on day 11 of the 2017 Australian Open at Melbourne Park yesterday, her fiance Alexis Ohanian immediately went to his Instagram to stan out. Her big sis Venus also killed her semifinal match against CoCo Vandeweghe of the US, so the Williams sisters will once again see each other in another Finals match up. Alexis posted: This is going to be a historic #WilliamsFinals at the #AusOpen. I'm so proud and grateful to witness this. I hope you all will be watching these two legends AKA…