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A man, Idowu Kayode, has been sentenced to death by hanging over murder and robbery of 200 Naira. Justice K. M. Akano of the High Court in Osogbo, handed down the capital punishment on Thursday. At the hearing, it was learnt that on August 3, 2009 two men – Idowu and Femi – awakened Mrs […]

Nie Shubin, who was executed 21 years ago for rape and murder, had his conviction overturned by China’s top court on Friday. The second circuit court under the Supreme People’s Court revoked the verdict. Nie was convicted of raping and murdering a woman in Hebei provincial capital, Shijiazhuang in 1995 and executed the same year […]

A female member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), identified as Miss Elechi Chiyerum, has been confirmed dead after she was found ill at the orientation camp in Kaiama, Kolokuma-Opokoma, Bayelsa State. Miss Chiyerum, 27, from Rivers State, reportedly arrived at the camp with an illness that made her bleed and vomit. She was […]

A journalist, Mrs Jill Iyuadoo Tor-Agbidye, has been kidnapped by five gunmen in Benue State. Mrs Tor-Agbidye is the News Editor with Radio Benue. Eyewitness said she was taken from her residence, along Adah Chenge Street, in Makurdi, the capital of the state, at about 4:30 a.m. local time. The victim’s daughter, Miss Kashimana Tor-Agbidye, […]

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has conceded defeat to the opposition, the chairman of the electoral commission said Friday, bringing a dramatic end to his 22 years in power. “It’s really unique that someone who has been ruling this country for so long has accepted defeat,” Alieu Momar Njie told reporters ahead of the results of […]

Embattled spiritual leader of Shiites sect, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, who has been in detention with his wife, Zeatudden, have been ordered to be released by the Federal High Court, Abuja. The court presided over by Justice Gabriel Kolawole, ordered the government to free the duo unconditionally within 45 days. They have been in custody for one […]

Social media personality and blogger Japhet Omojuwa has a word for those who think they are failures in life, those who are shedding secret tears and those who have given up hope. Continue below JJ. Omojuwa, Twitter

Yesterday a US ex-stripper and wannabe celebrity named Nya Lee rubs mouth on Nigerians in an Instagram video. Nya Lee, whose only claim to fame is her small role in reality show ‘Love & Hip-Hop: New York’ took to Instagram to let her followers know that she’s not a fan of “dirty Nigerian n*****s.” Her language was full of […]

Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have sealed a $2 million deal with main objective strengthening policies of the state governments in the areas of revenue generation and primary health care. Speaking yesterday in Abuja while unveiling the terms of the new partnership deal, the Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, […]

Psychedelic, “magic” mushrooms appear to significantly ease anxiety and depression among cancer patients, according to two small studies. The double-blind studies were done at Johns Hopkins and New York Universities and found large doses of psilocybin, the hallucinogenic compound found in certain mushroom species, can provide relief for up to six months. “The most interesting […]

For more than 25 years, the people of South Sudan fought their powerful common enemy to a standstill. The enslaving Arab Islamist forces of North Sudan were matched fire for fire, until the northerners acknowledged that the southerners who are Animists and Christians have rights to live free and on their own cultural and religious […]

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), through its National Working Committee (NWC) has rejected the offer to step aside by its National Legal Adviser and former Commissioner for Environment in Lagos State, Dr. Muiz Banire (SAN). Reports say that Banire had about three weeks ago written to step down as the party’s National Legal Adviser following an […]

Nigerian Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Thursday, congratulated the newly elected National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi. Saraki, in a statement by his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, described the election of Abudullahi earlier on Thursday as a square peg in a square hole — […]

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state has dispelled the news making the rounds that he planned to dump the Peoples Democratic Party, saying, I am a PDP member and I remain a PDP member. “What I said is that if the current man-made crisis rocking the PDP persists till 2018, rather than allow them mess […]

46 year-old-supermodel, Naomi Campbell, is flawless in a bold new shoot for high-fashion magazine, W. Naomi poses in color and black-and-white for the magazine, adopting a series of power-stances. See more photos below: Photo Credit: Naomi Campbell, Photographs by Steven Klein

Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court Abuja has denied the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, bail. While giving her ruling on his application today, Justice Nyako said offences committed by Kanu and his supporters are not entirely bailable. She said the charge of treasonable felony, which Kanu and his supporters […]

African culture which includes clothing is very rich. These pictures have just demonstrated that and the royalties. See another photo below:

The Ondo State gubernatorial election has come and gone and by most objective accounts, the votes were properly cast, they were counted and they count–at least to the extent that majority carried the day. So for that reason, we must commend the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for finally getting it right; the outgoing Governor […]

Twins Hassaina and Heusiana live in a camp for displaced people in Monguno, Borno State. Photo credit: Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affair (UNOCHA)

Jasmine Tookes, 25, was chosen to showcase the $3million Bright Night Fantasy Bra designed by Eddie Borgo at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show holding in Paris. The bejeweled bra which features in a different form each year contains nearly 9,000 precious gemstones and weighs about 450 carats. See more photos below: Source and Photo credit: […]