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Star singer, Tiwa Savage is on the cover of Essays of Africa magazine’s July 2016 issue. In the issue, Tiwa Savage shared the pain she has endured publicly and how she never let it get in her way of her success. See more photos below: Images: Essays of Africa Mag

The EFCC on Thursday, detained a former Comptroller General of Customs, Abdullahi Inde Dikko, after he was questioned over an alleged N42billion fraud. The EFCC has also reportedly traced how about N2.6billion was withdrawn from Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, and remitted into the accounts of companies founded by a former Assistant Comptroller General who served […]

  The House of Representatives has said it has commenced investigations into allegations of sexual misconduct against three of its members by the United States embassy, even as the embassy has already revoked the US visas of the accused lawmakers. The US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. James Entwistle, in a June 9, 2016 letter to […]

The Nigerian Senate has passed the Public Procurement Amendment Bill which seeks to go a long way in promoting local content. It called on the Executive to comply, especially in the area of first policy options, which would help to stimulate the Nigerian economy. Speaking on the passage of the bill, after it had undergone […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday obtained conviction on a case of suspected money laundering brought against one Samuel Duru before Justice M.N Yinusa of the Federal High Court, Enugu. Duru was charged for failure to declare the sum of $86,000 out of a total sum of $96,000 in contravention of Section […]

The National Economic Council (NEC) says disbursement of the N90 billion budget support proposed by the Federal Government to state governments to ease their economic hardship at interest rate of nine percent will start from next FAAC meeting. This was disclosed to State House correspondents by the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mr Emmanuel Udom, […]

1). He who refuses to mix Agege bread and akara as a type of sandwich is a racist – Martin Luther King jnr (1788) 2). He who completely unwraps moimoi and gal…a before eating cannot keep a secret – Abraham Lincoln (1864) 3). Only a courageous woman can fry a bunch of plantain without tasting […]

Crime scene photos showing the dead body of Reeva Steenkamp, who was murdered by Oscar Pistorius at his home in 2013, have been made public after her father, Barry Steenkamp, pleaded for them to be released to show what Pistorius did to his daughter. The photos were released by the Pretoria High Court yesterday. The […]

The above picture was taken on the set of a movie in Festac yesterday June 15. Cossy shared it on her Instagram page. She rarely looks like this before… and bold of her to share this on a social medium. Lovely! See below what she wrote: “Rounded up.. The REFORMER.. Working for Mr Zeb Ejiro and […]

Politician and businessman, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce, shared the above while addressing the problems Nigeria is currently facing. According to him, since Nigeria has some of the highest paid politicians in the world, how can they help the poor when they feed from them? How then could they find solutions to address the level of poverty in Nigeria?

Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi and his wife, Olori Wuraola attended a Symposium on Culture, Healing & Development at Howard University, Washington DC, awhile ago. See more photos from the event below: Photo Credit: Facebook, LIB

Twists and violence were thrown into the leader­ship crisis mix rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday as groups loyal to both Ahmed Ma­karfi and Ali Modu Sheriff’s factions stormed Wadata House, Abuja, the national secretariat of the party. The groups, the PDP National Rebirth Group and the Guardian of Democracy carried placards, barri­caded roads […]

Former Aviation Min­ister, Chief Femi Fani-Kay­ode, has asked the Federal High Court, Lagos, to ad­mit him to bail 24 hours after he was arraigned on a 17-count charged by the Economic and Finan­cial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He also alleged that he is being pressured by EFCC to refund N840 million without trial. In the motion […]

The Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) on Wednesday said that waste scavengers were stealing government’s raw materials and would begin to pay levies to the state government. The Executive Chairman of LAWMA, Mr Olumuyiwa Adejokun, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that wastes were resources for the state, which scavengers stole […]

As soon as the death of Stephen Okechukwu Chinedu Keshi was announced, those same “people” who hated his guts were among the first people who started mourning him, saturating the air with eulogies. The same Nigerians who then had filled the blogosphere and social media  with anti-Keshi sentiments have been using superlatives to describe him […]

Following a recent column which apparently did not appeal to a particular reader, he sent me a tweet that when next I have no important message to convey, I should just simply not write. Today is one of such days and I have decided to follow his advice. The point really is, even if I […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has released the highlights of the much awaited flexible foreign exchange market policy. The highlights, which are key notes and agreements reached by the CBN, were released on Wednesday, weeks after the Monetary Policy Committee meeting announced the introduction of the policy. After its meeting of May 24, the […]

A Russian man who tried to rob a hair salon ended up as the victim when the female shop owner overpowered him, tied him up naked and then used him as a sex slave for three days. Viktor Jasinski, 32, admitted to police that he had gone to the salon in Meshchovsk, Russia, with the […]

According to Mcebisco.com Lagos men are going to the village to pick their wives and here are ten reasons why they are doing so Lagos girls are very sophisticated, approachable and good to be with, but why are Lagos men going back to the village to pick their wives? What is it about village girls that makes […]

In today’s court hearing at Pretoria High Court, athlete Oscar Pistorius stunned everyone when he removed his prosthetic limbs and walked round the courtroom in a desperate emotional bid by him and his defense team to prove to the Judge that he didn’t intentionally murder ex-girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013. The South African runner was […]