Premiership club, Arsenal have announced Henrikh Mkhitaryan, 30, will not be involved in the Europa League final against Chelsea.

The Armenia international’s safety was a concern due to the dispute between his country and Azerbaijan, the host nation of the final tournament clash.

For this reason,the Gunners decided against him travelling to Baku for next Wednesday’s game with Chelsea.

A statement read: “We are very disappointed to announce that Henrikh Mkhitaryan will not be travelling with the squad for our Uefa Europa League final against Chelsea.

“We have thoroughly explored all the options for Micki to be part of the squad but after discussing this with Micki and his family we have collectively agreed he will not be in our travelling party.

“We have written to Uefa expressing our deep concerns about this situation. Micki has been a key player in our run to the final so this is a big loss for us from a team perspective.

“We’re also very sad that a player will miss out on a major European final in circumstances such as this, as it is something that comes along very rarely in a footballer’s career. Micki will continue to be part of our preparations until we depart for Baku at the weekend.”

The former Manchester United player also admitted he is “hurt” to miss the final. He tweeted: “Having considered all the current options, we had to take the tough decision for me not to travel with the squad to the UEL Final against Chelsea.

“It’s the kind of game that doesn’t come along very often for us players and I must admit, it hurts me a lot to miss it. I will be cheering my teammates on! Let’s bring it home Arsenal.”

UEFA said in a statement: “Working alongside Arsenal FC, UEFA sought and received assurances regarding the player’s safety in Azerbaijan from the highest authorities in the country.

“As a result of these guarantees, a comprehensive security plan was developed and given to the club. While the club acknowledges the efforts that Uefa and the Azeri government have gone to in this matter, we respect the personal decision not to travel with the player.”

Singer, Simi is all shades of gorgeous in stunning photos she posted to her Instagram page.

Daddy Freeze has spoken about the controversy surrounding Naira Marley's detention in EFCC custody.

Sharing a very different perspective, Daddy Freeze says, 'christians who are afraid to judge their false pastors have no right to judge Marley'.

He went on to say, 'God’s judgement will begin in his house. The ‘house’ of God (I say this metaphorically because God does not live in temples built by human hands Acts 7:48, Acts 17:24), is in total disarray, until we are ready to fix this, we remain hypocrites worse than the Pharisees'.

Naira Marley appeared in court today but shortly before his court appearance, Bobrisky publicly prayed for "God's favor" to be with him.

A follower pointed out to Bobrisky that justice is what is needed, and not God's favor, especially if he's guilty of fraud as charged. But Bobrisky jumped to the singer's defense and asked the follower not to judge.

Singer Adebayo Adeleke, better known by his stage name B-Red, who is the son of dancing senator Ademola Adeleke, has acquired a N120 million house. He shared photos of a bundle of keys on his Instastories while announcing his new acquisition. 

On Sunday, May 19, 2019, veteran musician, Friday Igweh aka Baba Fryo, shared photos of his bloodstained face after he was attacked by fake soldiers in Lagos state. Read here.

In a fresh update on his Instagram page, Baba Fryo, disclosed that one of the fake soldiers that attacked him has been arrested.

Sharing the photo of the culprit in handcuff, Baba Fryo wrote;

''This is one of the unknown fake soldiers that deliberately beat up our living legend Baba fryo Igweh yesterday without a reason,
People need to be very careful these days as there so are many Babylonians posing as soldiers.

I am very proud of the Nigerian Army and OC MP ojo Cantonment Capt. A.S ATUNWA for his effective investigations and action taking in this matter.

We give thanks to the most high God .
The picture below is the picture of the very fake soldier. He has been arrested by the military police ojo cantonment his name is Muhammed Ishaq.
Thank you Nigerian Army ojo cantonment.

Jada Pinkett Smith has opened up on her previously "unhealthy" addiction to porn.

The 47-year-old actress was joined by her 18-year-old daughter Willow Smith and mom Adrienne Banfield-Jones for the candid discussion on her Facebook Watch show, Red Table Talk.

On her porn addiction, the mother of two revealed it occurred shortly before her relationship with her husband Will Smith began.

'Back in the day I had a little porn addiction, but I wasn't in a relationship when I had a porn addiction, believe it or not, thank goodness,' said the Girls Trip star.

'I actually feel like I was using "addiction" a little lightly,' said Jada, once the women had sat down at the titular table.

And maybe I'll say now that I had an unhealthy relationship to porn at one point in my life where I was trying to practice abstinence.'

Her daughter, Willow then asked if her porn fixation came from an 'emotional' place.

'It was actually like filling an emptiness, at least you think it is,' Jada explained. 'But it's actually not.'

Earlier in the episode, the teenage 'Whip My Hair' singer admitted she began watching porn with her friends at a young age on Tumblr.

She said she was 'around 11' at the time.

All my girlfriends were like, ‘Oh, you should [watch],' the I Am Legend actress said.

Jada then picked up her daughter's story.

'I remember the first time I went on Willow’s Tumblr, she was 10 or 11,' the actress began.

'She was very matter of fact, she said, "I’m going to my Tumblr page but as we’re going to the Tumblr page you’re going to see a lot of stuff. This has nothing to do with me."'

'So she’s just scrolling, scrolling. And when I tell you I saw some of the most hardcore pornography on Tumblr.'

Willow countered, 'It wasn’t! Mom. It really wasn’t.'

Following today's arraignment of Naira Marley in Lagos court, over an alleged internet fraud by the EFFC, the estranged husband of Tiwa Savage seems to have picked sides with Naira Marley.

In an Instagram post he made few minutes ago before editing it, he called out Ruggedman for over doing things and challenged him to come face him if his message gets to him.

Read his post below..

May the grace of God be sufficient for the needs of this talented young man during his trials...... we all make mistakes and my personal take is that most of this young guys don’t know better and I feel it’s our obligation as the older ones to put them right instead of just calling them out on social media for unnecessary validation! DON’T CONDOLE FRAUD OR IGNORANCE!!!

Stonebwoy has denied reports he was arrested by the police after he pulled gun on stage at the just concluded Vodafone Ghana Music Awards.

Pulling out the gun disrupted the show for some minutes because there was a little scuffle between Shatta Wale’s crew and that of Stonebwoy and there were reports in sections of the media that Stonebwoy has been arrested.

But he tweeted that he was not arrested like some media outlets are reporting, adding that the situation has been calmed by the Counter-Terrorism Commander of the police service.

'Kindly help Me Thank The Ghana Police Force..For Keeping Situations Calmer And At All Cost ENSURED My Safety Up Until I Entered My Gates. I WAS NEVER Arrested Whatsoever As Some Media Reporters Have It! Thanks to The Counter-terrorism Commander And His Team' he tweeted.

Speed Darlington sure knows how to look for trouble.

Today he shared a video of Don Jazzy and singing and wrote, 'for sure my future in music industry is solid see voice and yet this guy has a very nice house or at least afford to rent in a clean neighborhood drives nice cars with this voice? I will be alright I know that for sure. Shout out to @donjazzy'.