NIGERIA’S 10 MOST OUTSTANDING COMEDIANS IN 2014 Comedians otherwise referred to as humour merchants have become a major part of the entertainment industry in Nigeria. ANTHONY ADA ABRAHAM and SAMUEL ABULUDE, profile the...

Osinbajo or Osibajo OSINBAJO OR OSIBAJO? PROFILE OF BUHARI’S RUNNING MATE He is so relatively new to the public eye that we don’t even know his correct surname. We know him as Yemi, quite all right. But is it Yemi Osibajo?...

  LOBI STARS STRIKER, SERIKI AUDU DIES IN CAR CRASH Lobi Stars Football club striker, Seriki Audu passed on December 20, 2014 after an auto crash. The footballer was traveling with his wife and daughter in his car from his home...

EGYPTIAN JAILED 10 YEARS FOR SPYING FOR ISRAEL An Egyptian court has jailed a Suez Canal shipping services manager for 10 years on charges of spying for Israel about naval movements through the strategic waterway, state media...

WHAT I KNOW ABOUT BOKO HARAM – ALI MODU SHERIFF Former governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has opened up on what he knows about the Boko Haram insurgents currently ravaging states in the northeast and some other...

‘NO CAUSE FOR ALARM ON 1500 BALLOT BOXES FOUND IN BAUCHI’ [PHOTO] The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has cleared the air on the truck load of 1550 ballot boxes intercepted in Bauchi State on Friday. It would be...

  WEDDING PHOTOS OF IBINABO FIBERESIMA AND UCHE EGBUKA These are the official photos of Ibinabo Fiberesima and Uche Egbuka, which took place on Friday December 19, 2014, in Port Harcourt, Nigeria....

KOGI GOVT. RESOLUTE IN IMPROVING AND MAKING LEARNING ATTRACTIVE The Kogi State Government has once given its reassurance that it is resolute in its quest to improving and making learning attractive to the younger generation....

Controller General Nigeria Immigration Service, Mr. David Shikfu Parradang ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FROM NIGER CAUGHT WITH NIGERIAN VOTER CARDS The Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, arrested and repatriated 430 illegal immigrants in...

APC COMMENDS GOV. AMAECHI’S APPOINTMENT AS THE DG OF THE BUHARI CAMPAIGN ORGANISATION The All Progressives Congress [APC], Rivers State chapter has profoundly congratulated the ‘fiercely courageous, dexterous and hardworking’...

Mohammad Ali Has Been Suffering from Parkinson’s Disease Since 1984 BOXING LEGEND MOHAMMAD ALI HOSPITALISED WITH PNEUMONIA Former three-time heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali has been hospitalised due to a mild case of...

NAIRA RAIN AT JONATHAN’S RE-ELECTION FUND RAISER AS OVER N21BN DONATED The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) last night demonstrated why it is the largest political party in Africa as its fund raising dinner towards President...

VOTING BUHARI WILL RETURN NIGERIA TO QUASI-MILITARY DICTATORSHIP – MUAZU Ahead of the 2015 presidential election, national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, has warned that Nigeria will return to...

 Photograph: Christophe Ena/AP REAL MADRID BEAT SAN LORENZO TO WIN FIFA CLUB WORLD CUP Real Madrid have won the FIFA World Club Cup competition after beating San Lorenzo 2-0 in the final played on Saturday in Marrakech, Morocco....

  GOVERNOR AMAECHI TAKING A WALK WITH HIS WIFE [PHOTO] River State governor Rotimi Amaechi and his wife Dame Judith Amaechi, 44, spotted taking a stroll around government House in Port...

SCHOOL TEACHER CAUGHT SEXUALLY ASSAULTING 9 YOUNG FEMALE STUDENTS A school teacher was arrested on charges of sexual abuse after he was caught sexually abusing nine young female students, prosecutors in New York said. Brooklyn...

NEW MUSIC: STELLA DAMASUS – THE MAN The Multiple award winning actress-cum-singer, Stella Damasus releases new track – My Man. Stella Damasus (born April 24, 1978) is a Nigerian actress and singer. She was nominated for Best...

ETISALAT THRILLS ELITE CUSTOMERS WITH DECEMBER SHOPPING DASH Nigeria’s fastest growing and most innovative telecommunications company, Etisalat Nigeria, has chosen to deepen consumer engagement this festive season by giving some...

PRIZE-WINNING NIGERIAN PHOTOGRAPHERS AND ARTISTS FROM LAGOS PHOTO FESTIVAL ON CNN’S ‘INSIDE AFRICA’ …Show explores Nigerian photography and prize-winning contemporary art. This week on CNN International’s ‘Inside Africa’...

  AMAZING PHOTOS OF ACTRESS DANIELLA OKEKE Breathtaking...

PASTOR FRANCIS IRABOR OF AN ABUJA-BASED CHURCH KIDNAPPED The General overseer of Abuja-based church, Great Calling Ministry, Pastor Francis Irabor was  kidnapped by unknown gunmen while driving along the Lokoja-Abuja Rd in Abuja...

Nicki and Safaree Samuels NICKI MINAJ’S EX-BOYFRIEND WANTS TO COMMIT SUICIDE? The ex-boyfriend of Nicki Minaj is taking their break-up INCREDIBLY hard… to the point he’s having suicidal thoughts. TMZ reports...

FEMALE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PICKED BY UPN The Unity Party of Nigeria has picked a motivational speaker, Mrs. Helen Godswill, from Delta State, as its Presidential candidate for the 2015 general elections. Alhaji Abdulrasheed...

MOZAMBIQUE’S PRESIDENT GUEBUZA OFFERS OPPOSITION LEADER PLUM $2M POST Maputo – Mozambique’s President Armando Guebuza has signed into law a bill granting special status to opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama, who lost...

JONATHAN SAYS, I GET CONTRADICTORY ADVICE ON ISSUES President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday disclosed that for every issue he had to take a decision on, multiple suggestions that were most times contradictory were given to him....

AFRICAN LEADERS CONSIDER JOINT STEPS AGAINST ISLAMIST THREAT Nouakchott – A summit on security in the sub-Saharan Sahel region of Africa, where armed Islamic extremists linked to al-Qaeda are active, opened Thursday in...

BUHARI POSES WITH PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE [PHOTO] Presidential candidate of the All progressive Congress (APC), General Muhammad Buhari, has been pictured together with the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God,...

2014 NOV/DEC WASSCE RESULT RELEASED, OVER 70 PERCENT CANDIDATES FAIL More than 70 percent of the candidates who sat for the 2014 November/ December 2014 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), failed to make...

‘FRAUDULENT CONSTRUCTION OF 2ND NIGER BRIDGE: ANOTHER 419 ON THE IGBO NATION’ The construction of 2nd Niger Bridge through a Public Private Partnership involving Julius Berger -NSIA Consortium and tolling the Igbo people for 25...

Actress Ibinabo Fiberesima got married to her man, Uche Egbuka on Thursday in Port...

DISSOLUTION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCILS IN COMPLIANCE WITH COURT ORDER In compliance with a Court Order made by Hon Justice Alaba Omolaiye – Ajileye Kogi State Government has dissolved all the 21 Local Government Councils...

Nicki Minaj and Safaree Samuels NICKI MINAJ BREAKS DOWN WHILE TALKING ABOUT EX: ‘I DON’T EVEN KNOW HOW TO FUNCTION WITHOUT THIS PERSON’ Nicki Minaj breaks down while talking about longtime boyfriend Safaree who...

  OAU FEMALE HOSTEL GUTTED BY FIRE [PHOTO] Moremi Hall female hostel, at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife in Osun state, was gutted by fire this morning December 18, 2014.According to reports, the fire started from an...

STEVIE WONDER WELCOMES HIS 9TH CHILD, A BABY GIRL Nia is the second child for the couple and Stevie Wonder’s 9th child, according to his reps to US Weekly. The 64-year-old musician is a dad to seven other children from previous...

ANTIBIOTIC ABUSE: NIGERIANS DYING FROM SUPER BUG INFECTIONS I recently watched an interview on CNN where the issue on discussion was of microbial resistance to antibiotics. It was projected that by 2050, antibiotic resistance...

BOKO HARAM KIDNAPS 185 WOMEN AND CHILDREN, KILLS 32 IN GUMSURI Boko Haram insurgents kidnapped at least 185 women and children, and killed 32 people in a raid in northeastern Nigeria this week, local officials and residents...

WADA: IMBUED WITH A HIGH SENSE OF SERVICE Thus far, Kogi State Governor Capt. Idris Wada has proven that he is a man imbued with a high sense of service. In order to expand the frontiers of infrastructural and human capital...

  PASTOR ADEBOYE REGISTERING WITH INEC TO VOTE IN 2015 [PHOTO] The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor E. A. Adeboye has created time to register with INEC to vote in 2015 general election. But the...

APC VP TICKET: PDP MOCKS AMAECHI In an apparent bid to spite Governor Chibuike Amaechi, the Rivers state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has ‘congratulated’ the governor for losing out in his bid to be the running mate of his...

NIGERIAN WOMEN TOPS WORLD’S MOST UNFAITHFUL WOMEN A worldwide survey held by Durex, the condom manufacturer on over 29,000 people from 36 nations revealed that the following people were the most culpable to infidelity and...

  POPE FRANCIS’ 78TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION [PHOTOS]   Pope Francis turned 78 on December 17 and to celebrate him, thousands of people sang Happy Birthday and performed a mass tango in St Peter’s Square.     The Argentinian...

WOLE ONI’S ABC JAZZ EVENING: 28TH DECEMBER 2014 WOLE ONI’s ‘Audacious, Bold and Crispy’ (ABC) is an evening of Live Premium Jazz music, with amazing vocalists, strictly LIVE MUSIC with an Orchestra,...

PHOTO: MUM MURDERS OWN UNDERGRADUATE DAUGHTER A middle-aged woman in Ekiti, Mrs. Victoria Aina Adanikin, has allegedly murdered her own daughter, Miss. Oluwafunmilayo Rosaline Abosede Adanikin, a 300 level student of the Federal...

WHY I CHOSE OSINBAJO AS RUNNING MATE – BUHARI The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari has revealed the reason behind his choice of Prof. Yemi Osinbajo as his running mate for the 2015...

OSINBAJO EMERGENCE A SIGN TINUBU WILL BE RULING NIGERIA IF APC WINS IN 2015 – PDP The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has criticised the All Progressives Congress (APC) for taking ‘too long’ to come up with a vice-presidential...

OKONJO-IWEALA ASSURES ON $65 PER BARREL BENCHMARK Minister of Finance, and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who was delegated by President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, laid the 2015 budget...

  PASTOR ADEBOYE REACTS TO PROF. OSINBAJO’S ENDORSEMENT BY THE REDEEMED CHURCH   The Redeemed Church has dissociated itself from rumours making the rounds that its General Overseer, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, gave his blessings...

CAMEROONIAN FOOTBALLER EBOSSE ‘KILLED BY BEATING, NOT PROJECTILE’ – AUTOPSY Douala – The death of Cameroonian footballer Albert Ebosse in Algeria in August was caused by a brutal post-match beating, not an object thrown by angry...

MARRIED WOMAN PAYS LOVER FOR SEX A sex addicted Harare woman who was in the habit of paying her toyboy for ‘service’ and sending him nudes was found wanting after her husband bumped into her explicit Whatsapp chats. The man last...

MAN ARRESTED FOR POSSESSING 589 PERMANENT VOTER CARDS The police on Wednesday arraigned a 29-year-old man in an Ikeja Magistrates court in Lagos for being in possession of 589 Permanent Voter Cards. Lukman Animashaun who resides...

  JULIET IBRAHIM RELEASES STUNNING NEW PHOTOS Ghanaian actress-cum-singer, Juliet Ibrahim releases stunning new photos....

  NASA’S CURIOSITY ROVER DETECTS ORGANIC MOLECULES AT MARS FINDINGS There’s big news coming out of the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument suite (SAM) on NASA’s Curiosity rover. For the first time, organic matter has...