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First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama in a blue and black gown with President Barack Obama at the 38th Annual Kennedy Center Honors at The Kennedy Center Hall of States in Washington, DC. Credits: Yahoo News

This Brazilian model has taken her love for football to greater heights by keeping her promise last week to strip if her childhood club Palmeiras wins the Brazilian cup. Fortunately for the guys, Palmeiras beat Santos last week in the cup final in a penalty shootout. Palmeiras have now won the cup three times, and […]

Music legend, King Sunny Ade, star actress, Bukky Wright, Lola Alao and others visited the new Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi Ojaja II. More photos below: Images: LIB

The Federal Executive Council presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday approved the nation’s Medium Term Expenditure Framework in preparation for the presentation of the 2016 budget. The framework sets up government’s economic plans for the next three years. The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma, explained this to State House […]

Watch the shame of a country as this video documentary shows the cankerworm called corruption and how it has been killing Nigeria. Credits: PBS News hour, Youtube

President Buhari attended the book Launch of Minister of Science & Technology Ogbonnaya Onu at the Yar-Adua Conference Centre Abuja on Monday, December 7. Other dignitaries in attendance included former Nigerian Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, Sokoto state governor, Aminu Tambuwal and so on. More photos below.  LIB

The cartoon has been shared several times on twitter. Photo credit: Mike Asukwo

ABC News shared a photo showing terrorists, Tashfeen Malik and Syed Rizwan Farook, newly-married couple who killed 14 people in San Benardino, California last week in a suspected ISIS-inspired attack, entering the U.S. together for the first time last year. Photo credit: LIB, ABC News

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared the December 5 governorship election in Bayelsa state inconclusive following the cancellation of the voting in Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa State. The electoral body decided to cancel the election in this particular Local government area because ‎of violence, abduction of electoral officials and ballot […]

Senator Buruji Kashamu has floored his opponent in the 2015 general election, Dapo Abiodun, at the Court of Appeal. The Court, which sat in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, ruled on Monday that Kashamu is the validly elected representative of Ogun East Senatorial District in the National Assembly. Kashamu had headed to the Court, which is […]

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode (2nd right); Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola; Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi and Oyo State Governor, Sen. Abiola Ajimobi, during the Coronation of the new Ooni of Ife, at the Ooni’s Palace, Ile-Ife, Osun State, on Monday. See more photos of the event below: Photo credit: […]

The former Lagos state Governor, Bola Tinubu and former Osun state Governor, Bisi Akande pictured arriving the venue for the Coronation of the new Ooni of Ife in Ile-Ife on Monday. Welcoming them are Osun state governor, Rauf Aregbesola, Babafemi Ojudu among others.

President Mohammadu Buhari Monday distanced himself from the proposed Social Media Bill currently being debated in the senate seeking to restrict Nigerians from “criticizing”, political and public office holders. The president stated that the principle of the bill was inconsistent with democratic ideals free speech enshrined in the constitution of the land. He added that […]

A former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has given insights into the intractable investigation of the infamous Halliburton bribery scandal in which Nigerian government officials were bribed with over $184 million over a period of ten years. Giving a TEDx talk in Berlin, Germany, Mr. Ribadu said he […]

The Director of Media and Publicity of the Jonathan/Sambo Presidential Campaign Organization in the last general elections, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has reportedly blasted the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, for alleging that $1 billion was stolen monthly under the former administration. Emir Sanusi, a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, in […]

RRS’ Press statement: A 54-year-old man, Michael Bisa, who is an expert in swindling members of the public by disguising to be selling a mobile phone, was arrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS). He was arrested along Oshodi-Apapa Expressway over the weekend at about 17:50 hours when the police suspected his movement […]

The Oyo State governor, Abiola Ajimobi, raised the alarm yesterday that, about 28 of the 36 states of the Federation are technically bankrupt. Ajimobi disclosed this when he delivered the seventh annual Lateef Femi Okunnu lecture entitled: “State Financing and Over-dependence on Oil: Issues and Challenges,” organised by Muslim Law Students of the Obafemi Awolowo […]

According to Punch, the incumbent Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson of the Peoples Democratic Party, is currently leading his main opponent in Saturday’s governorship election, Timipre Sylva of the All Progressives Congress, with a wide margin after results of five local government areas were released Sunday night. Dickson, who won in four out of […]

Press statement of Ekiti State’s Attorney General: Ekiti State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Owoseni Ajayi has expressed concern over the Anti-Media Bill proposed by All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator, Bala Ibn Na’allah, saying; the National Assembly must not allow itself to be used to bring back Decree 4 that was used against the […]

The Department of State Services (DSS) in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday, December 6, said the Service has arrested two out of five of its staff members involved in the robbery of N310 million belonging to a Bureau De Change operator in Abuja. According to the statement, preliminary investigations revealed that Abdulharasheed Ahmadu […]