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Oil hit its highest price range on Wednesday, driven by a falling dollar and evidence of declining U.S. supply, putting the price on course for its strongest monthly performance since last April. Brent crude futures were up $1.03 at $46.77 a barrel in early trading, having risen nearly 20 per cent in April, their largest […]

The Edo state born popular Nollywood actress, Mercy Aigbe, was Wednesday arrested by policemen at Olaiya junction in Osogbo, Osun State capital for allegedly displaying a police cap on her car’s dash board. It was gathered that the sporadic gunshots by the police men attracted passers-by to the scene that occurred around 4:30 p.m. According […]

The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, yes­terday filed a fresh application and insisted that the Chairman of the Code of conduct Tribunal (CCT), Danladi Umar lacked the moral rectitude to preside over his trial. In asking the Tribunal Chairman to disqualify himself from his case of alleged false declaration of assets, Saraki said he will not […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested and detained the managing director of a popular bank, over an alleged $115 million deal with the former Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. According to a source in the EFCC, the managing director, who was arrested on Monday, is being quizzed over his role in […]

The Governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, in the wee hours of this morning expressed shock at news of the kidnap of a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Senator Iyabo Anisulowo. Senator Anisulowo, former Minister of State for Education, represented Ogun West Senatorial district from 2003-2007 at the Senate. She was […]

Former Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, again touched on some of the legacies of his administration while speaking to Friends of Africa Coalition on “Strengthening Democracy and Elections” at the mayor’s office in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Speaking to the elite group, Jonathan said the 2015 general elections in Nigeria had potential for major crisis and […]

Bukola Saraki, the enormously corrupt and filthy rogue who rose to the position of Nigeria’s number three citizen after robbing a bank and a state blind, managed to summon enough human feeling to beat President Buhari to a reaction to the recent massacre committed by Fulani herdsmen in Enugu. Bukola Saraki expressed sadness over the […]

LIJADU SISTERS: The afrobeat soul singers with their captivating voices of the 80s… E Rora, Danger, Orere Elejigbo, Osupa, etc. Great musicians with fine lyrics…Did they waste the talents in moving to United States?Credit: Desola Ajayi | Facebook

In 1994 almost one million Tutsis were murdered in cold blood in the space of on month by members of the ruling Hutu tribe in Kigali, Rwanda. The genocide that took place in Rwanda at that time ranks as one if the most sordid chapters of African history and it must never be allowed to […]

Miss Bumbum Brazil, Barcelona and Lionel Messi’s superfan, Suzy Cortez was spotted going topless on the beach outside Lisbon shortly after reports of her idol, Lionel Messi’s wife/partner, blocked her from their accounts on Instagram. More photos after the cut.. Photo credit: LIB

Nigerian academic, Prof. Abiodun Alao, will today deliver an inaugural lecture at King’s College, University of London. This would make him the first ever black African scholar to deliver such lecture since the institution was established back in 1829. A professor of African Studies, Abiodun Alao was conferred with a professorial title about two years […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commissions (EFCC) has seized properties belonging to former Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. The Nation reports that EFCC confiscated houses and a very expensive wrist watch worth £600, 000 as well as other gold and diamond jewelry from the former minister who is being prosecuted at the Westminster Magistrate’s […]

A top official in EFCC says contrary to reports, the arms deal scandal is $15 billion not $2.1billion. Daily Trust reports that the EFCC official who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the $2.1 billion that has been linked to former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, is just one transaction out of the $15 billion […]

I am really at loss about how to respond to the column of my friend, Femi Orebe on the 8th Senate. He correctly identified my exasperation with things as they are. But more than being exasperated, Orebe might never understand the magnitude of the harrowing sorrow I daily feel pertaining in general to the sordid […]

I wish to start off this article with an honest caveat, which is, that Professor Sola Adeyeye, a senator of the Federal Republic, is a man I respect very much. That affirmation made, I shall proceed to write about Senator Adeyeye, not as the Omoluabi I  thought I know, but rather as a typical member […]

According to 234today, a Zambian wife scalded her husband and sister with hot water after she caught them in bed.They were said to have been having an affair under her nose for a sometime. (Source: 234today)

The Managing Director of World Bank, Mrs. Sri Mulyani-Indrawati, arrived Abuja at about 2pm yesterday on a three-day working visit to convince Nigerian authorities on the need to devalue the naira. This is coming few days after the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank ended in Washington DC, USA, […]

Continued in their rampaging, the Fulani herdsmen, yesterday, kidnapped eight persons in Obiaruku, Ukwuani Local Government Area of Delta State and held them hostage for several hours. The victims were said to be working in their farmland when the herdsmen stormed the farm at about 6am and seized the farmers on the ground that they were […]

The most sexually satisfied countries in the world have been revealed and Nigeria makes the cut. In research reported by the Alternet , Switzerland was ranked highest and Nigeria made the 10th position. Top 10 most sexually satisfied countries 1. Switzerland 2. Spain 3. Italy 4. Brazil 5. Greece 6. Netherlands 7. Mexico 8. India […]

Protests began on Monday last week at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa against incessant rape on the campus. Topless female students with ‘this is mine scrawled on their breasts’ were seen among the protesters demonstrating against the rape culture on a university campus. The police have tried to disperse students using pepper spray and stun […]