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It shouldn’t be a rock science to know that the high and mighty in the society will be at the palace of Muhammadu Sanusi, Emir of Kano, for the wedding of Fatima Dangote and Jamil Abubakar. While the bride is the daughter of Africa’s richest man, the groom is the son of MD Abubakar, former inspector-general […]

The dancer, who was recently deported from Zambia for performing without underwear, wore nothing but strings on the set of a music video. Sharing one of the photos,  she said all she wants is her money and doesn’t care what the society wants from her. Credit: Zodwa Wabantu

The bodies of a young couple was discovered hanging from a tree at Madarganj upazila in Jamalpur, Bangladesh in a suspected suicide death. Locals discovered the bodies of the two lovers, Sujan Mia, 25, and Joya Akhtar, 22, from Nalachhiya village under the upazila on Wednesday. They immediately informed the  Madarganj police who responded and brought down the […]

A 20-year-old South Carolina woman has opened up about what life has been like since she removed both of her eyes last month while she was high on methamphetamine. Kaylee Muthart says: “Life’s more beautiful now, life’s more beautiful than it was being on drugs. It is a horrible world to live in.” Kaylee, who struggled […]

An apparent frustrated entrepreneur in Kano State identified as Malam Isma’ila Abdullahi Shabege climbed a radio transmission mast belonging to Kano Broadcasting Corporation with a view to committing suicide unless the governor of Zamfara state, Abdulhaziz Yari steps down as the chairman of Nigeria’s governors’ Forum. According to Dailytrust, Shabege who was a political praise singer […]

Donatus Dunu, managing director of Maydon Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Lagos, on Friday told an Ikeja high court how he was kept in chains for 88 days by the gang of Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike the billionaire kidnapper better known as Evans. Led in evidence by Titilayo Shitta-Bey, director of public prosecutions (DPP) in Lagos, Dunu spoke for four […]

Elections in our country, according to the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in a remark made on 30th June 2014, have become a perverse form of modern coronation. “Instead of choosing public servants, elections in Nigeria have been basically to select a new aristocracy, an elected royalty,” he said in an […]

Who says you cannot be big, bold and beautiful? Who says you cannot rock bold colours, heels and stand out? No one but yourself and that is the plain truth. Wish to look better even while on the big side?  We have got some outfit inspiration for you. (Credit: Trendy Curves, Fabwoman) 1. This would […]

2 final year students of Kwara State Polytechnic died in an auto crash, yesterday, while heading home after the day’s exam. According to reports, the accident which also claimed the lives of the driver and a corps member, occurred along the Unilorin Teaching hospital, Oke-Ose, Ilorin, after the cab driver was said to have lost […]

A female Ukrainian jogger enjoys running through the snow unclad. Inna Vladimirskaya, 32, says that she jogs and swims in the snow every weekend for the past nine years because, she believes that the freezing temperatures are what keep her looking young and healthy. ‘Every week I take a run in the snow and then […]

African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL), has called on the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, to urgently intervene and void the sack of a lecturer, Mr Joseph Akeju, whose appointment was terminated by the governing council of Yaba College of Technology (Yabatech), Lagos, for exposing corrupt practices at the institution. Akeju, a Chief […]

Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, has berated governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna state over an interview he granted Channels Television in 2016, accusing Southern Kaduna Christian clerics of using the mass murder of its natives and the destruction of their communities by armed herdsmen to get financial supports from churches overseas. […]

The Obama Foundation seeks to identify a group of emerging African leaders from all sectors — government, civil society, and the private sector — who have demonstrated a commitment to advancing the common good. The objective of the program is to build a growing network of innovative and ethical changemakers, who seek to drive positive […]

After their historic participation at the just-concluded 2018 Winter Olympics, the Bobsled and Skeleton athletes, Seun Adigun and Simidele Adeagbo were received by the President, Muhammadu Buhari and VP Osibanjo , on the 7th of March. The bobsled and skeleton athletes, Seun Adigun, Ngozi Onwumere, Akuoma Omeoga and Simidele Adeagbo made history as the first Nigerian representatives at the Winter Olympics.They rank 20th in […]

Although we have not been able to lay our hands on any concrete evidence like court papers or the suit number, but there are fresh reports that music diva, Tiwa Savage may have filed the papers requesting a divorce court to annul her marriage with estranged husband, Teebillz. In 2016, a dirty public spectacle was […]

Nigerian Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and his wife Dolapo Osinbajo have shared photos from their daughter, Oludamilola Osinbajo and her love, Oluseun Bakare‘s engagement ceremony. See more of their photos below:

  Speaking today at the maiden edition of Ripples Nigeria dialogue in Lagos, former governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi said many Nigerians will stop shouting over what Nigerian Senators earn, if he reveals what Governors earn. The statement sent a lot of ripples through the Nigerian social media platforms. Comparing Nigeria with the US, […]

Nigerian Supreme Court has adjourned indefinitely the hearing in the appeal filed by the Senate President Dr. Bukola Saraki and the Federal government to challenge the decision of the Court of Appeal in the trial of Saraki on false assets declaration. The court put off the two appeals sine die to enable Saraki and government […]

More than two-thirds of prison inmates in Nigeria are awaiting trial, the Prison Rehabilitation and Welfare Action (PRAWA), has revealed. PRAWA, a body championing the reform of the Nigerian Prisons disclosed to journalists in Enugu at a joint press briefing with the Nigerian Prison Service (NPS) that out of 71,642 prison inmates in various prisons […]

Nigeria’s National Judicial Council, NJC, has recommended the compulsory retirement of the Chief Judge of Abia state, Theresa Uzokwe, after it was discovered that she received N825,000 to rule in favour of a litigant and subsequently signed a garnishee order for N109, 612, 500. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the spokesman of the NJC, […]