Court sacks Pakistan’s Prime Minister over corruption, refers him and 3 sons for trial

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has stepped down after the Supreme Court disqualified him from office as leader of the country’s government. Friday’s landmark ruling comes after months of hearings in a case instigated by the “Panama Papers” leaks, related to alleged corruption during his previous two terms in office. The five-member bench of the […]

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Boko Haram releases photo of 3 abducted UNIMAID staff

The deadly sect, Boko Haram has released the image of kidnapped staff of the University of Maiduguri, UNIMAID. The three staff were kidnapped during Tuesday’s ambush of oil exploration workers in the Lake Chad Basin by the terrorist group. Meanwhile, no fewer than 48 bodies of the victims of the attack have been deposited at the […]

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BREAKING: Kidnapped Lagos model school students rescued

Indications have emerged that the police have rescued the school students who have been kidnapped for more than 53 days. The boys were kidnapped in Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, Epe, Lagos State. Reports say they were released at Aboto Creek in Ilaje local government of Ondo State on Friday afternoon. The Lagos State Government has welcomed […]

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Pan Yoruba group wants Oodua Republic, not restructuring of Nigeria

A new movement, Yoruba Liberation Command, (YOLICOM) Thursday call for a sovereign nation for the Yoruba people in Nigeria, saying that the call for restructuring is just too late. The group addressed journalists on Thursday in Lagos. The event attended by hundreds of Yoruba people from across the South West states was read on their behalf by Mr […]

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NYSC scheme in the air as Nigerian Senate deletes provisions from the Constitution

Some Nigerians have expressed mixed feelings on the deleting of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Decree provisions from the 1999 Constitution. The development came up in the recent Senate review and consideration of 33 Bills for passage. The bills are contained in the report of the Joint Committee of the National Assembly on the […]

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See where a female medical personnel puts her hands while attending to an injured male player during a football match (Photo)

Photo of a female medical personnel attending to an injured male player during a league match in the Zambian Super Division League, goes viral. NOTE: You may not blame this female medical personnel because she might be attending to the exact spot of the male player’s injury. The only thing is not putting on glove […]

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See how a Nigerian Governor purportedly used his seat belt in an Airplane (Photo & Comments)

A popular Nigerian Disc Jockey, DJ Shabsy, has taken to popular social networking platform, Instagram, and mocked the governor of a state in Nigeria over how he used a seat-belt aboard an airplane suspected to be the presidential jet. He posted the photo and captioned it: “Smh for Nigeria. Whose governor is using airplane seat belt […]

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Bill Gates regains world’s richest person title 8 hours after losing it

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos lost his “world’s richest person” title after eight hours, as weak earnings pushed the company stocks lower on Thursday. The e-commerce giant said its net income declined to $197 million in the second quarter, from $857 million the same period last year, marking a massive 77 percent decline. Revenue […]

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Internet giant, Google to train 10 million Africans in online skills

Internet giant, Google aims to train 10 million people in Africa in online skills over the next five years in an effort to make them more employable, its chief executive said Thursday. The U.S. technology giant also hopes to train 100,000 software developers in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, a company spokeswoman said. Google’s pledge marked […]

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Death toll in Boko Haram ambush on oil workers, Varsity staff, troops rises to over 40

Details emerging from Tuesday’s ambush in northeast Nigeria suggest the death toll is higher than initially reported. More than 50 people were killed in a Boko Haram ambush on an oil exploration team in northeast Nigeria earlier this week, multiple sources told AFP news agency on Thursday, warning the death toll could rise. Tuesday’s attack […]

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School teacher charged to court for allegedly defaming Saraki on Facebook

Many lawyers appeared at the Ilorin Senior Magistrates Court in support of a 37-year-old primary school teacher, charged with defaming Senate President Bukola Saraki on Facebook. Biodun Baba, a teacher at LGEA School, Olorunlana in Moro Local Government Area of Kwara, had been reportedly sacked by the Kwara state government for the alleged offence. He was […]

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Obamacare skinning repeal bill fails in U.S Senate

Republican efforts in seven years to repeal Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare in the United States have failed once again. The Republican and Democrat Senators debated till early Friday morning after which they went into voting session of the skinning repeal bill. 48 Democrat and 3 Republican Senators voted to defeat the Bill. At the […]

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This 1999 Constitution amendment will promote good governance -Dogara says

Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara in Abuja on Thursday said the alteration of the 1999 Constitution would promote good governance. The lower chamber has so far approved 14 out of 33 Bills before it on the Constitution amendment process based on the report of the Joint Committee of the National Assembly. The Senate carried […]

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Northern governors, northern traditional rulers meet over restructuring of Nigeria

Northern Governors and traditional rulers are meeting in Kaduna to take common position on the agitation for the restructuring of the country. Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno, who is the Chairman of Northern States Governors Forum, said the region is not afraid of restructuring and its position on the issue would be in the best […]

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Reconstructing the Global Academy: Falola and African Scholarship, By Tunji Olaopa

In my last reflection on the global personality, Professor Toyin Falola, the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, United States of America, and Africa’s preeminent historian, I situated a critical dimension of his intellectual eminence within the triad factors of Nigeria’s, and Africa’s, development, the […]

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Zimbabwean First Lady, wants husband, Mugabe to name his successor

Zimbabwean First Lady, Grace, on Thursday advised President Robert Mugabe to name his preferred successor in order to end perceived deepening divisions over the future leadership of the ruling ZANU-PF party. Africa’s oldest leader, Mugabe, 93, has ruled the former British colony since independence in 1980,and has insisted that ZANU-PF, and not him, will choose […]

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9mobile latest list of Data Plans, Subscription Codes & Prices

9mobile data plans: 9mobile is one among the fastest network. 9mobile has all types of data plans that will meet your needs like daily, weekly, monthly plans, night and weekend plans. In any case, it can be used on Modem, Gameconsole, PC, Windows, iPOD, Smartphones iPAD iOS, Android and many other devices that can connect to […]

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Super Eagles player, Jude Ighalo, and his wife looking hot in swimwear inside pool (Photos)

Nigeria’s Super Eagles player, Jude Ighalo and his pretty wife, Sonia are one couple that makes marriage look really enticing. Jude took to his Instagram page to share these cute photos of him, his wife, and three kids enjoying some pool time in China where he is currently based. More of their photos below: LIB

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See Nigerian big boy who makes money rain at his friend’s child’s dedication (Photos & Video)

Nigeria’s big boy, Escoba Smith, made money rain at his friend’s daughter’s dedication which held over the weekend. Adaeze Onwuzurike, the daughter of Mr Kingsley Ikenna Onwuzurike, was dedicated in church last Sunday. After the church service, reception held at the Onwuzurike family home in Umuahia and Escoba Smith made it the talk of town. The CEO of […]

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