Naija Update

Champions League Draw: ARSENE WENGER got his wish as Arsenal were handed a Champions League draw against his old club Monaco. Chelsea are also off to France to face mega-bucks Paris St-Germain - the team Jose Mourinho, like Wenger, eyed up before the draw. Mourinho had said: “Paris would be good as it's easy to travel for us and the fans. That would be good.” Manchester City meet Spanish giants Barcelona. Champions League Round of 16 draw: PSG v Chelsea

I'm not at liberty to tell exactly what's going on.' Hugh Jackman‘s days as Wolverine, like the character himself, are seemingly endless. The Australian actor first came to fame by playing the adamantium-laced mutant in 2000′s “X-Men,” and has since played the character in every single one of the seven “X-Men” films, if only to show up to curse out his fellow mutants. Will the streak continue when “X-Men: Apocalypse” hits theaters in two years? It’s hard to say. For one, the film is said to focus on the “First Class” era of mutants — namely, Charles Xavier, Magneto and Mystique, as well as new recruits Cyclops and Jean Grey — as they battle it out with Apocalypse, the most ancient mutant of them all, played by Oscar Isaac. With so much business to attend to, is there even room for Hugh Jackman’s claw-popping antihero?

CCTV footage from the Boutik mall shows the suspect -- covered in a black abaya -- in the stabbing of a U.S. woman. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- An American woman has died after being stabbed by an unknown attacker in the restroom of a high-end mall in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, police said. The 37-year-old woman, whom police did not name, was taken to the hospital after the attack Monday on Reem Island but died of her injuries.

Dancehall Artiste Vershon was caught in a sticky situation, last night (mon).

Stella Damasus’ late husband and father of her two children Jaiye Aboderin slumped and died while playing basketball with friends on December 3rd 2004.The actress today paid a tribute to her late husband on social media. Read her tribute to him on his 10th year anniversary ..

A 42-year- old housewife in Asaba, Delta State, simply identified as Monica (surname withheld) on Sunday threw caution to the wind when she engaged her 17 year-old daughter in a fight for allegedly snatching her boyfriend.

A photo of a half-naked gospel singer circulated various social media sites recently. According to a Malawian news site, the photo of the singer identified as ‘Only 1 Harmony’ (her stage name) was posted on Facebook by an outraged member of the church. The singer was said to be performing at the Riverside Church, New York, wearing a mesh pantyhose and sequin top.

The General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor William Kumuyi, has said that God will not allow Nigeria to break up in 2015. He said that regardless of the political tension, insecurity and predictions that Nigeria would break up in 2015, the country would not be dismembered. He spoke on Tuesday during a media briefing for the commencement of the Deeper Life Bible Church three-day crusade at Eiyenkorin in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. He advised against utterances and acts that could divide the country, saying that God’s purpose is for Nigeria to remain united. He stated that there would be life transforming encounters with God, adding that God would lift the burden of people during the crusade.

Lagos state Police command has paraded a 25 year old musician named John Sunday pictured left, who says he took to armed robbery in order to gather N100,000 to promote his reggae album.

A man has tied the knot (geddit) after marrying a tree. Serial tree-hugger Richard Torres got married to the tree in Colombia on Sunday – the second time he has done it. The ceremony took place in Bogota national park and included the placing of fruit and vegetable by young girls at the base of the tree. He’s certainly grabbed people’s attention with the act which he says was done to draw attention to climate change.

A notorious prisoner got FOUR female guards pregnant as he played “kingpin” inside a corrupt jail, a court has heard. Gangster Tavon White was serving 20 years for attempted murder inside Baltimore City Detention Centre. But he managed to make tens of thousands of dollars a week by smuggling in drugs and mobile phones, CBS Baltimore reports, and was once heard saying: “This is my jail. My word is law.” Prosecutors say gang members held the balance of power inside the prison, and sex between guards and inmates led to four guards becoming pregnant.

Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi II over the weekend said that Friday’s deadly attack at the Central Mosque at his palace was planned for two months. Over 120 people were feared dead after two suicide bombers and several gunmen launched the attack during the Juma’at prayers. The police, however, insisted yesterday that 34 people died and not 125.