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A judge ruled Wednesday that the frozen embryos of a divorced San Francisco couple must be thawed and destroyed despite the ex-wife’s desire, over her former husband’s objections, to use them to become pregnant. The decision by Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo clarifies in an era of emerging reproductive technologies what happens to frozen embryos […]

Hasna Ait Boulahcen’s brother says she had no interest in religion and never read the Koran, her friends describe her as carefree and party loving. Her brother says she had a troubled childhood and grew up in foster homes, the mastermind of the terror operation, Abdelhamid Abaaoud was her cousin. French police say they saw […]

According to Associated Press, the Belgian extremist suspected of masterminding the deadly attacks in Paris died a day ago along with his female cousin in a police raid on a suburban apartment building, French officials said Thursday, adding it was still not clear exactly how he died. The body of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27, was found […]

According to Punch, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, is to set up a fresh panel that will hear the appeal filed by Senate President Bukola Saraki, challenging the jurisdiction and competence of the charges by the Code of Conduct Tribunal over alleged false asset declaration preferred against him. It was learnt on Wednesday […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the compulsory retirement of Justice Lambo Akanbi of the Port Harcourt Division of the Federal High Court for misconduct. The acting Director of Information, National Judicial Council, Mr. Soji Oye, who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, said the compulsory retirement took immediate effect. Oye said the NJC had […]

Dele Babatunde died. Yes he died. It was one afternoon in December 2014, a few days before Christmas in Iyin, at the party organized by Victor Adewusi as part of activities for his father’s funeral ceremony. I was seated among a few Panupo guys who I met at the church service earlier. Goke Omidiran who […]

About 24 hours after al­leged assassination attempt was made on the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekwer­emadu, national leadership of opposition Peoples Dem­ocratic Party (PDP) alleged that the Presidency and certain stalwarts of the All Progres­sives Congress (APC) were behind the attack. On Tuesday, Ekweremadu’s media adviser said his convoy was attacked by un­known gunmen on his […]

The former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki has denied allegations that he awarded fictitious arms procurement contract to the tune of N300 billion while he was in office. In a statement he released this evening, Dasuki said he was not NSA as at when the fictitious contracts were said to have been awarded. Below is […]

Press statement from Nigerian presidency: “On the authority of Mr. President, a 13 man committee was set up by the Office of the National Security Adviser to audit the procurement of arms and equipment in the Armed Forces and Defence sector from 2007 to date. While the committee which was inaugurated on 31 August 2015 is […]

The Group Anonymous has begun publishing the names and addresses of alleged ISIS recruiters after they declared war against the Islamic State in the wake of the Paris attacks, vowing to silence extremist propaganda and expose undercover operatives. Now it has leaked details of at least five men it claims are recruiters for the terror group, […]

A female police sergeant, Obotie Adesuwa, is currently in the cell of the X-Squad Section of the Lagos State Police Command, after she allegedly sold a one week-old baby boy who had been brought with his mother to the police station. It was learnt that the sergeant who is from Edo State, is attached to the […]

The Nigerian Senate, yesterday, directed the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, to extend the validity of its results to a period of at least three years. JAMB was also ordered to immediately stop its policy of re-assigning candidates to schools they didn’t apply to, saying such policy was contrary to the act establishing the board. The […]

According to LIB, Nigerians have reacted to the indictment of former NSA Sambo Dasuki by a 13-man committee set up by President Buhari to investigate arms procurement under previous administrations from 2007 to 2015. Presenting their report to Buhari yesterday November 17, the committee indicted Dasuki of being involved in monumental fraud while he served as […]

Seal, the British soul and R&B star singer, (real names according to Wikipedia are: Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel) made references to his Nigerian heritage and bits and pieces of childhood memories. Read below: I was born in Paddington but went to Romford in Essex to live, from age zero to four, with foster parents who were […]

The list of the 2015 Africa’s 50 richest men and women was released by Forbes today and expectedly, the Nigerian businessman, Aliko Dangote, is still the richest man in Africa. See some of the rest below:See the full list here Source: LIB

The feature film nominations for the 2015 HomeVida Awards is now open! This year, HomeVida in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is raising awareness about the issues faced by persons with disability particularly disabled women and youth in Nigeria. Do you know any Nigerian movie that highlights this issue? If […]

Wife of Psquare’s Peter Okoye, Lola Omotayo has revealed how she was molested and sexually abused as a teenager. While addressing a group of young ladies at a Kinabuti event, which held some months ago in Lagos, the mum of two and career woman said she was molested when she was in high school – by a […]

Prof Wale Oke, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH has called on men to stop competing with their babies to suck the wives’ breast. Oke urged his fellow men to allow their babies to enjoy their natural meal. He spoke a few months ago at the World Breastfeeding Week (WBW). The […]

Controversial Ghollywood actor, Majid Michel, says he has a crush on US-based singer, Rihanna, noting that he enjoys acting with the likes of Nadia Buari and Genevieve Nnaji. The father of two, speaking with Encomium magazine on his female celebrity crush, said, “She is not an actress but a music star. Her name is Rihanna. […]

See more photos from the celebration of life of Yeye Oodua, Chief Mrs. HID Awolowo as the event progresses.