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Actress Faithia Williams who turned a year older yesterday, was hosted by her colleagues and friends to a surprise birthday dinner at Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island. Dayo Amusa, Femi Adebayo, Liz Da Silva, Muyiwa Ademola, Desmond Elliot, Iyabo Ojo, Ireti Osayemi Bakare, Ronke Odusanya, Doris Ekere, Foluke Daramola and more were present. More photos after the cut...

Actress Faithia Williams who turned a year older yesterday, was hosted by her colleagues and friends to a surprise birthday dinner at Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island. Dayo Amusa, Femi Adebayo, Liz Da Silva, Muyiwa Ademola, Desmond Elliot, Iyabo Ojo, Ireti Osayemi Bakare, Ronke Odusanya, Doris Ekere, Foluke Daramola and more were present. More photos after the cut...

Actress Faithia Williams who turned a year older yesterday, was hosted by her colleagues and friends to a surprise birthday dinner at Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island. Dayo Amusa, Femi Adebayo, Liz Da Silva, Muyiwa Ademola, Desmond Elliot, Iyabo Ojo, Ireti Osayemi Bakare, Ronke Odusanya, Doris Ekere, Foluke Daramola and more were present. More photos after the cut...

Tracee Ellis Ross, Taraji P. Henson, Kerry Washington, Viola Davis, Gabrielle Union, Dwayne Johnson (The Rock), Laverne Cox, Regina King, Michael B. Jordan, Will Smith and Jennifer Hudson are among the nominees tonight at the 47th NAACP Image Awards, at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Anthony Anderson is hosting for the third year in a row. Chrissy Teigen and her Husband, John Legend, Ice Cube, Terrence Howard, Jada Pinkett, The Cast of Empire and a host of others were in attendance. More photos after the cut..

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode and Commissioner for Science & Technology, Mr. Olufemi Odubiyi received the Deputy Minister, Finland Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Matti Anttonen and  Ambassador of Finland to Nigeria, Ambassador Pirjo Suomela-Chowdhury , Consulate of Finland, Lagos, Dr. Kingsley Akinroye  during a courtesy visit to the Governor by a Delegation from Finland, at the Lagos House, Ikeja, on Friday, February 05, 2016. Another photo after the cut..

Rescuers in the southern Taiwanese city of Tainan pulled out 221 people and three dead from a residential high-rise complex that collapsed when a shallow 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck before dawn Saturday, leaving still others trapped inside. Firefighters and soldiers scrambled with ladders, cranes and other equipment to the building that folded like an accordion in a pile of rubble and twisted metal and extracted dazed survivors. The emergency response center told The Associated Press that three people were killed, including a 10-day-old infant, a 55-year-old woman and a 50-year-old man. Taiwan's official news agency said the infant and the man were pulled out of a 17-story Wei Guan residential building and that both were later declared dead. The agency said 256 people were believed to have been living in 92 households. Dozens more people have been rescued or safely evacuated from a market and a seven-floor building that was badly damaged, the Central News Agency repor