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Singer Adele has baby boy: British media

British singer Adele has given birth to a baby boy, British media reported. There was no statement on her official website and her spokesman said "no comment" on Monday in reply to a request for confirmation.

The 24-year-old, whose album "21" topped charts around the world and turned her into one of pop music's biggest stars, announced she was expecting a child with her partner Simon Konecki in June.

In August she took to Twitter to quash rumors that the couple were married. "I'm not married...Zzzzzzz" she wrote. Adele has been in the headlines in recent weeks for singing the theme tune to the latest James Bond movie "Skyfall". She also co-wrote the track with collaborator Paul Epworth.

BRT buses destroyed as Okada riders protest in Lagos

Commercial motorcyclists popularly known as “okada riders” this afternoon marched through some majors roads in Lagos State protesting the recent law banning the riders from operating on about 500 roads in Lagos State.

Daily Post gathered that the protesters obstructed vehicular movements in some parts of Lagos, and attacked some government-owned Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) buses at Onipanu thereby making passengers to trek frustratingly to their destinations.

The Chairman of the Motorcycle owners and Operators in Lagos State, Tijani Perkis, stated that the union would meet with Governor Babatunde Fashola to relax the order banning okada from operating on about 500 roads in Lagos State.“I have nothing to say now. But I will be meeting with the governor tomorrow and after our meeting I may talk to the press,” he said.

UCI strips Armstrong of Tour wins

Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life on Monday after the International Cycling Union (UCI) ratified the United States Anti-Doping Agency's (USADA) sanctions against the American.

The long-awaited decision has left cycling facing its "greatest crisis" according to UCI president Pat McQuaid and has destroyed Armstrong's last hope of clearing his name."Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling. Lance Armstrong deserves to be forgotten in cycling," McQuaid told a news conference as he outlined how cycling, long battered by doping problems for decades, would have to start all over again."The UCI wishes to begin that journey on that path forward today by confirming that it will not appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and that it will recognize the sanction that USADA has imposed.

"I was sickened by what I read in the USADA report."On October 10, USADA published a report into Armstrong which alleged the now-retired rider had been involved in the "most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen".Armstrong, 41, had previously elected not to contest USADA charges, prompting USADA to propose his punishment pending confirmation from cycling's world governing body.Former Armstrong team mates at his U.S. Postal and Discovery Channel outfits, where he won his seven successive Tour titles from 1999 to 2005, testified against him and themselves and were given reduced bans by the American authorities.

I used to look up to Lance Armstrong and how he overcame cancer to win seven Tour de France titles, and now to find that he only accomplished that through the use of endurance enhancing drugs is simply disheartening.

“My ex-husband never beat me” – Kate Henshaw

Up until recently, she was Kate Henshaw-Nuttall. But the elegant Nollywood actress, is now divorced from her British husband, with which she had a daughter. In a recent interview published on OMG, she talks about her failed marriage, amongst other issues: 

How have you been able to cope with the separation?

I don’t know what to say. The Bible says, “He makes all things beautiful in His own time.” When you are down at the rock bottom, that is when God will lift you up. People have died in their marriages, some have lost one part or the other, some are still married, they have spent 30, 40 years in their marriage. You have to make the best out of your situation and move up. I have so much I want to do, I don’t have to wallow in self pity. That is just an aspect of me. Marriage does not define anybody. Our daughter is the most important thing. We have to make sure she is happy, she gets the best.

About your failed marriage, did he ever beat you?

No. He never did. I can’t just say why it failed. Marriage does not define anybody. Once it doesn’t work, we move on, although it hurts.

But I am sure so many people would have come along to date you now that you are single?

I am not looking in that direction but if an ideal man comes, it comes. I can’t say I would never love again.