by Soyombo Ayomikun They dreamt of a haven to be named Nigeria. Not a nation to be ravaged by a legion of diseases one of which is malaria What more can we get from life Than a world so green and free from strife Beautiful streams peacefully flowing through our yards Watering the growing lilies... Read More
by ‘Jola Sotubo Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State yesterday lost his sister Hafsat Yuguda Ibrahim to cancer. Hajiya Ibrahim was the governor’s immediate younger sister. The condolence messages have already been pouring in with the first coming from his fellow governors under the auspices of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) The condolence message to... Read More
by Vera Ezimora My people, it has happened to me. Ever since I went natural, I have never, ever carried my own hair outside. And the reason is that (1) I never know what to do with it, and (2) It’s a lot more convenient for me to just do something to it, so I... Read More
What: Elite Model 2013. Where: Eko Hotels and Suites, V.I, Lagos. When: September 29, 2013. Photos by Hycinth Iyereosa
by Bonaventure Melah Any politician who wants to contest the 2015 presidential election should be free and bold enough to declare. But nobody should tell Jonathan not to contest the election because that is an insult to both the president and the tens of millions of Nigerians who gave him mandate to govern them. Let... Read More
The much-publicised October 7 resumption of peace talks between President Goodluck Jonathan and the breakaway faction of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will not be — after all. The Abubakar Baraje-led faction, which includes no fewer than seven governors has asked for a postponement. Baraje said some key members of the faction, including some... Read More
Three suspected members of Eye and Aiye confraternities have been arrested by Police in Lagos State in connection with the murder of some rival cultists in Epe area of the state. Among them is a 200 level Business Administration student of the Lagos State Polytechnic. The suspects, as gathered, were arrested following investigation into the incessant clashes between rival... Read More
by Demola Rewaju There is a Sango grove in Ile-Ife where the fiery god entered the earth. There is a Sango grove in Ekiti where the fiery god entered the earth. Elders in both places swear by the truth of their history. I grew up in a compound with six Igbo neighbour families but I... Read More
Two female members of a robbery gang that had been terrorizing Iheorji axis of Aba in Abia State area have been lynched . It was gathered that angry residents of the area, last weekend, killed the two girls, whose robbery gang had been giving them sleepless nights. Sources told Daily Sun that two young women... Read More
by Dele Agekameh Kelvin lived like a kingpin. His tentacles and business interests cut across Delta State, Port-Harcourt, Enugu, Ibadan and Lagos. The kidnap baron shocked security operatives when he pulled a daring mission in Warri, some months ago, killing a number of prisons officials, as his gang ambushed warders and snatched two of its... Read More
by Phil McNuilty Arsene Wenger has often been accused of allowing his team to go in search of the near-perfect goal at the expense of the game’s practicalities. The manager’s punch of the night air and beaming smile, the years seeming to fall away, suggested this was a thing of beauty that would keep him... Read More
by Perry Brimah Terrorism is not directly limited to instant murder. There are varieties of terrorism and the terrorism deaths can be slow, torturous, disgraceful and painful. Ultimately terrorism leads to a state of increased loss of life and life’s worth. These are three terminologies that have recently been discombobulated in Nigerian presidential speeches. Therefore... Read More
by Olusegun Adeniyi That our nation is not working is all too clear to everyone but do we need a conference to stop the massive oil theft in the Niger Delta? Will another dialogue put an end to the security challenge that is fast turning the North-eastern part of the country into a war zone?... Read More
She famously stripped off for a sultry kissing scene in a Brazilian lake with ex-boyfriend Robert Pattinson in the fourth Twilight film Breaking Dawn: Part One. And Kristen Stewart has just embarked on another risqué lake shoot – but this time with a woman. The 23-year-old actress took off her trousers and T-shirt to reveal... Read More
by Adaora Nwajiaku I once read a popular book Steve Harvey wrote, called ‘What Women Want’. It was from this book that the word ‘cookie’ got stuck in my head albeit in a very different way from the original definition of the word. (According to the 5th edition of Longman Active Study Dictionary, the ‘original’... Read More
by Steve Nwosu Suddenly, we have all stopped thinking as Nigerians. Everyone now is either a Northerner, a Southerner, a Middle Belter, an Igbo man, a Niger Deltan, a Yoruba, Hausa, Tiv, of the Anambra League of Professionals, Arewa Youth Front, Muslim or Christian. Our journey of the last 53 years, even if I joined... Read More
A 911 caller says his girlfriend is on fire. Cue the laugh track. Lalo Delgado was outraged when he reported the horrific emergency and heard an Arizona dispatcher chuckle. “My car just kinda caught on fire, and my girlfriend caught on fire,” Delgado says on the 911 recording. He and the girlfriend were stranded... Read More
In a sneak peek preview for his new video clip All Of Me, John Legend’s wife Chrissy Teigen was pictured topless in bed with her husband. And now in the full-length video for the romantic single, the Sports Illustrated model is completely nude in the shower. The 27-year-old strips off once again for a steamy... Read More
After Aryas Borges rescued two abused tigers from a circus in 2005, he got very close to his new pets. He started an improvised exotic animal sanctuary at his home in Maringa, Brazil, where he now owns seven tigers, two lions and one pet chihuahua named Little, according to ABC News. Everyone — tigers included —... Read More
A nurse who let a three-and-a-half week baby bleed to death after carrying out a circumcision using just scissors, forceps and olive oil has been banned from practising in the UK. Grace Adeleye, 67, performed the dangerous African treatment known as a ‘clamp and cut’ on Goodluck Caubergs for a fee of £100 at... Read More
A 20-year-old man stabbed his step-grandmother 28 times in her own home in a sexually motivated attack after watching internet pornography. Jack Huxley used four knives and a carving fork or skewer to kill 62-year-old Janis Dundas at her home in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, after she had taken him in ‘out of the goodness of... Read More
Armed hoodlums, numbering over 40, have invaded Agufoye village, site of the proposed new 3-kilometre auditorium of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, and chased away members of the church who went to start work on the ultra-modern praying ground announced recently by the head of the church, Pastor Enoch Adeboye. According to sources... Read More
A 3-year-old boy in India who started getting acne and a deeper voice when he was just 1-1/2 has been cured of premature puberty thanks to a complex brain surgery. The child’s parents reported that he began undergoing emotional and physical changes about a decade too early. His genitals started to grow... Read More
A massive python was spotted coughing up a dog it devoured on the streets of Bangkok. A cellphone video of the grisly regurgitation shows the snake stretch its huge jaw out wide and back up until the canine is completely out of its system, reported Nine News. “The video tells me that the python... Read More
by Oge Okonkwo Two suspected homosexuals, Samuel Friday, 19, and Oni Oluwatobi, 18, have been arraigned before an Osogbo Chief Magistrates’ Court on a two-count charge of indecent sexual practice and seducing another into homosexuality. According to the prosecutor, Solomon Oladele , the accused committed the offence in May 2012 at about 2 a.m. at Peace of Jesus Apostolic Church,... Read More
An Arizona woman died on Tuesday after being accidentally shot and killed by her boyfriend while the couple was hugging. Phoenix police said that the 18-year-old man was embracing his 24-year-old girlfriend at a home on Tuesday morning when the gun he was wearing in his waistband went off, according to KTVK. The man told police... Read More
A Connecticut man was arrested after stuffing a goat he purchased at a livestock auction into his car truck Monday, authorities said. Ernesto Rodriguez, 36, of East Hartford, was charged with cruelty to animals and breach of peace, said Sgt. Salvatore Calvo. “He took the goat and kind of threw it into the trunk,”... Read More
A flight attendant working for budget airline JetBlue has admitted to accepting $10,000 to smuggle heroin disguised as chocolate pellets into the country from Colombia. Carla Michelle Alvarado was caught by customs officers coming off a flight from Bogota to Orlando with 940 grams – or just over two pounds – of the powerful street... Read More
by C.Don Adinuba For a moment, the Igbo nationalists forgot that it was Fashola who in 2009 personally led the protest against a serving Yoruba naval officer, Harry Arogundede, whose aides beat up a female banker from Imo State, Uzoma Okere, and even successfully instituted a N100 million suit against the rear admiral. African leaders... Read More
Shocking: A Chinese woman was bitten by a pit viper after marinating it in sorghum wine for three months A Chinese woman was reportedly bitten by a pit viper after marinating it in sorghum wine for three months. The woman identified as Liu from Shuangcheng in Heilongjiang Province was using the pickled snake to treat... Read More