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Super Eagles striker Obafemi Martins, who last week confirmed his transfer from Seattle Sounders of U.S.A to Shanghai Shenhua of China will reportedly earn $6.6 million per year after tax at his new chinese club. Martins was on $3 million a year at Major League Soccer side Seattle Sounders, but after he has paid tax, he took home about $2 million.  And now according to Steven Goff of the Washington Post , the Nigerian who scored 40 goals and 23 assists in three seasons with the Sounders will earn a mouth-watering $6.6million annually more than double of what he was earning while playing in America. Martins has already joined his new club, which will open the Super League season March 5. He has played for Inter Milan (Italy), Levante (Spain), Wolfsburg (Germany), Newcastle United, Birmingham City (England) and Rubin Kazan (Russia).

Grammy award winning Gospel singer Israel Houghton took to his Facebook page on Feb. 22nd to announce that he and his wife Melease are getting divorced. There were rumors that Israel had cheated on his wife with another gospel singer and she filed for divorce after she found out. He kinda admitted to messing up but didn't out-rightly admit to cheating. Read what Israel wrote after the cut..

This is the official rate of the dollar at the parallel market. Photocredit: Instagram@TheGuardian

The fate of the naira no doubt hangs on the balance, what with the unprecedented fall of the local currency, which exchanged for N400 to the green back last week, a development, many financial and economic analysts argue does not bode well for the economy  Read More

It was N378 to $1 yesterday February 22nd. Its N367 to $1 as of this morning. Photo credit: Instagram @TheGuardian

Vice President, Yemi Osinbanjo was at The Sun Awards over the weekend. While speaking he jokingly threw shade at former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (Jagaban). He said the only way to bear the kind of name Tinubu bears, is because he is very troublesome. Trust Asiwaju, immediately he mounted the podium to receive his award, he fired back at the VP...all joke. Watch the video  HERE.  Read the full story  HERE

You go, Lagos! The state is serious about crime fighting and has established the first DNA Forensic lab in the country. Read the press statement below... "In furtherance of its commitment to the criminal justice sector reforms and take the fight against crime to a greater level, the Lagos State Government on Tuesday announced that it has concluded plans to establish the first ever high-powered DNA Forensic Laboratory in Nigeria which will take off within the next six to twelve months. The lab, which would be called the Lagos State DNA Forensics Centre (LSDFC), when fully operational, would fulfill an unmet need for DNA profiling which is a unique forensic technique that is now being used all over the world. Addressing journalists at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre in Alausa  on Tuesday , the State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem, said the establishment of the centre was another eloquent testimony of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s sincerit...