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Adele has finally confirmed she has married Simon Konecki, after months of media speculation. The singer was on stage in Brisbane, Australia, talking about her track Someone Like You, when she said, "I'm married now". There had been rumours the pair had wed and Adele had also referred to him as her husband at the Grammy awards. Adele and Simon have one child together, a four-year-old son named Angelo. Video of Adele talking about being married has been shared on social media. She was describing the moment she had played Someone Like You to close friends and family, when she referred to being married. "I could see in their eyes as they were listening to it on their headphones that it reminded them of something or someone," she said. "That's what I wanted to remember, how it was I felt at the beginning of the relationship that inspired that record. "Because as bad as a break up can be, as bitter and horrible and messy as it can be, ...

A renowned economist and former presidential candidate, Prof. Pat Utomi, tells TOBI AWORINDE that Nnamdi Kanu’s continued detention is a violation of the rule of law Please, narrate your experience during the visit of Igbo leaders to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, in prison. For some time now, a group of us have been involved in leadership mentoring. We have mentored a group of Igbo professionals who are scattered around the world, many in the United States, some in Nigeria, some in Europe. A number of us had argued that the time for a new generation of leaders is needed. But in some ways, there has been a failure of leadership across the country. But more importantly, in Igboland, we needed a new vision and new kinds of leadership vistas. That discussion resulted in a global group known as Nzuko Umunna. Nzuko Umunna in Igbo basically is a sort of town hall meeting of brothers. We’ve been active on a couple of communication platforms in which we are ...

At midnight, Tuesday, February 28, hours after the Minister of Youths and Sports, Solomon Dalung, commissioned the new offices of the Peace Corps of Nigeria close to Jabi Lake, Abuja, men of the Nigerian Police Force, the military and the Department of State Services (DSS) raided the building. They arrested some 48 people, including Dickson Akoh, the Commandant of the Peace Corps of Nigeria. The 47 others arrested alongside him were members of the corps he established 18 years ago. There were allegations of force being used, as Mr. Akoh would tell journalists after his release two days later. He said he was beaten and nursing mothers arrested along with him were denied access to their children until Thursday March 2, when they were freed. The police said the raid was a crackdown on an illegal security outfit that is positioning itself to constitute security threat. “For avoidance of doubt, the Peace Corps of Nigeria under the leadership of one Akoh Dickson was registered as an...