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The 25th edition of the Glo CAF Awards held on Thursday night to honor some of Africa’s brightest and best footballing talent. Here’s a full list of winners. African Player of the Year Pierre-Emerick AUBAMEYANG (Gabon & Borussia Dortmund) Riyad MAHREZ (Algeria & Leicester City) Sadio MANE (Senegal & Liverpool) African Player of the Year – Based in Africa Denis ONYANGO (Uganda & Mamelodi Sundowns) (Winner) Khama BILLIAT (Zimbabwe & Mamelodi Sundowns) Rainford KALABA (Zambia & TP […]

Countdown to the Miss Universe beauty pageant holding in the Philippines begins. Set to hold on the 30th of January, the competition will feature 88 beauty queens from around the world. Getting ready for the competition, Nigeria’s representative, Unoaku Anyadike, has released some stunning new photos of herself. Images: Unoaku Anyadike, BMB Studio

Ex-aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode is becoming more restless everyday because of inequality in Nigeria. Femi Fani-kayode gathered the pictures below to demonstrate complex in its nakedness even in high places. Hear him: These two pictures of ex-Governor Godswill Akpabio and Governor Nyesom Wike tell the whole story. We in the south are in trouble. We really […]

Wife of Nigerian President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, has denied a report linking her with the abuse of privileges at the Nigerian High Commission in London. In a statement by Adebisi Olumide-Ajayi, her Special Assistant on Media, Mrs. Buhari described the report as “baseless and mischievous.” “It was not in the interest of Mrs. Buhari to […]

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the temporary forfeiture of the sum of $153,310,000, which a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, allegedly siphoned from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and stashed in three banks in the country. Out of the allegedly stolen $153.3m, a sum of N23,446, 300,000 […]

Although the Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayo Fayose regularly bashes the Federal Government, the financial solvency of the state has depended largely on the Muhammadu Buhari presidency which recently approved an N8.8 billion share of the Paris loan refund to the state. Contrary to claims by the governor, the Federal Government has indeed been supporting […]

A Kenyan woman posted a video on the internet where she demanded for a refund from a witch doctor who could not secure her a husband in 2016 despite having met all the condition. The woman was issued with a list of demands by the witch doctor identified as Abdalla Koka, in order to make […]

The disastrous leap year of 2016, with all its surprises and disappointments, has finally come to an end. The New Year means a new beginning; a fresh start. Many will have New Year resolutions to fulfil while others might just be content with plodding along. But for many it will mean a continuum to the […]

Former First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, has said that contrary to reports in a section of the media, that the house the police searched is her brother’s, it is her family house, and described the search which occurred late on Wednesday as an embarrassment to her person. Patience Jonathan, who spoke through her lawyer, Charles Ogboli, claimed that nothing […]

Glo CAF Awards ceremony took place at the International Conference Center, Abuja. The event witnessed amazing performances by African superstars like Flavour, Omawumi, Reekado Banks, Diamond Platnumz, Femi Kuti and others. These pictures are some of the early birds at the event which includes host RMD and Mimi Fawaz pictured above.  See more photos below:

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has welcomed a newly found Chibok schoolgirl, Rakiya Abubakar, who was rescued in the Alagarno area of Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State on Thursday, January 5. According to a statement issued by Buhari’s media aide, Mr. Femi Adesina, the President noted that the recovery raises renewed hope that other captured girls will one day be […]

She so much resembles Regina Askia, except the eye balls but she is Femi Fani-Kayode’s ex-wife, Saratu Atta, who is a daughter of the former Governor of the old Kwara state Alhaji Adamu Atta. Saratu has just been appointed as an assistant to Nana Akufo-Addo, the President-elect of Ghana. Her mother is a Ghanaian and she […]

International Tennis star, Serena Williams showed off her new massive diamond engagement ring when she posted a photo on Thursday with her fiancé, Reddit co-founder, Alexis Ohanian. Congratulations again to the duo. (Photo: Reddit.com)

International women football star, Asisat Oshoala who seldom wears fashion dresses, rocked this blue sequin dress to the GLO CAF award which held at the International Conference Center Abuja. ‎You ‘ll agree that she looks hot and beautiful. O yes. (LIB)

The Nigerian currency, Naira, weakened against all three major currencies at the parallel market on Thursday, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. NAN reports that Naira lost three points to the dollar as it closed at N493 to a dollar, against N490 it traded on Wednesday. Also, the Pound Sterling and the Euro exchanged […]

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari appears to have a change of mind on the killings in Southern Kaduna and is now getting involved in the search for a solution to the violence there. He was previously reluctant listening to pleas to intervene, arguing that the Kaduna State Government was equal to the task. This led to allegations that he was supporting genocide against […]

Nigeria’s Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has begun installation of mobile cameras in its operational vehicles to track traffic offenders. The agency explained that the cameras would be used to check traffic light violators, assaults and other operational offences. The development was announced on Wednesday by the FRSC Corps Marshall, Mr Boboye Oyeyemi, at the […]

Obasanjo’s Press Release (Open Letter To Awujale) December 30, 2016His Royal Highness,Oba Alaiyeluwa S. K. Adetola,The Awujale & Paramount Ruler of Ijebuland,Oba Adetona Road,P. O. Box 263, Ijebu Ode.​The extract from your Autobiography “Awujale: The Autobiography ofAlaiyeluwa Oba S. K. Adetola, Ogbagba II”, published by Mosuro Publishers2010, pp. 187-195, which I attach to this letter […]

‘Awujale: The Autobiography of Alaiyeluwa Oba S.K Adetona, Ogbagba II’, Mosuro Publishers, 2010, pp. 187-195 “The EFCC in Lagos had come calling brusquely on Mike Adenuga (Jnr), Chairman Globacom on 9 July 2006. They broke his gate, swarmed into his house and kept him under ‘arrest’. When I heard about the arrest, I called the […]

Former Nigerian rulers have banded together to sing a hymn for peace in their troubled nation, with some acknowledging they had a role in creating the “mess.” Their video wish for 2017 is getting scornful comments from many on social media. The former leaders, many white-haired and in their 80s, sing “Oh God Our Help […]