by David Murrow If we’re going to be fishers of men, we’ve got to do a better job considering men’s needs and expectations. Jesus did it; so must we. Five years ago, my faith in Christ was hanging by a thread. I loved God, but I hated going to church. Sunday morning would find my... Read More
by TexTheLaw To say that mob justice is not a crime is to suggest that each of these heinous acts is perfectly legal. Clearly, this position is absolutely untenable. In the wake of the gruesome extrajudicial murder of the four young men who have since come to be known as the “Aluu4”, author Okechukwu Ofili... Read More
by Isi Esene Nigeria’s Civil War president, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (rtd.), has hit renowned writer, Chinua Achebe, very hard over the content of his recently released book on the Nigerian Civil War saying Achebe was writing from a position of ignorance. The ex-president reportedly said this yesterday while speaking to newsmen on a visit to... Read More
by Stanley Azuakola President Jonathan endorses Mitt Romney The campaign of Mitt Romney, the Republican challenger to Barack Obama, the president of the United States, in the forthcoming presidential elections received a major international boost last week as Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Jonathan endorsed him. The endorsement came as a shock to Obama who thought he... Read More
A 21-year-old man allegedly beat his month-old daughter to death and murdered her mother with a machete before setting their Bronx apartment on fire, police sources said Friday. Elgidio Lind was being grilled by detectives after firefighters found the bodies of his girlfriend, Louisa Rodriguez, 32, and their baby, Angela, stuffed under a smoldering mattress... Read More
Whitney Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina could be drinking herself to death, family members say. The 19-year-old’s boozing has actually gotten worse since she finished taping her reality show and as she struggles with questions over her “incestuous” engagement, sources say. TMZ said they fear Whitney’s old enablers could be getting to her daughter, too. Bobbi... Read More
by Isi Esene President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered the attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, to locate the whereabouts of the $26.5m plea bargain money paid by the construction company, Julius Berger, and returned to the police by next week. It was gathered that there were conflicting signals coming out... Read More
Taraba State Governor, Danbaba Suntai, who was involved in a Cesna 208 5N-BMJ plane crash Thursday at the Yola Airport, was on Saturday, flown to Germany for treatment. The governor was moved out of the National Hospital, Abuja, where he was receiving treatment at about 3:30 pm today. Vanguard gathered that injured governor was driven... Read More
by Isi Esene Fire has gutted the multi-storey Euro-Asia Plaza in the popular Balogun Market on Lagos Island. The cause of the fire could not be immediately ascertained but huge smoke was seen billowing from the building located on Breadfruit street. Traders were also seen hurling their goods from adjoining buildings to prevent them from... Read More
by Isi Esene If the courts were to sentence suspects on the basis of their mugshots, then James Holmes, would have been long found guilty and sentenced to life in jail. Of all the weird mugshots we’ve seen, from the odd to the awkward, to the extremely insane, this is certainly one of the most... Read More
by Isi Esene You can say all you want about singer Dencia but one thing you can’t take away from her is her penchant to say it as it is. In an interview today, she spoke about her life, career, fashion and more. She spoke about her disputed ancestry saying she grew up with her... Read More
by Hauwa Gambo She’s certainly one of our favourites! Lara George, gospel singer and former member of girl-band KUSH has just had a baby girl in America. George, the fourth of five children, had a new album ‘Higher’ out in July this year and her latest single ‘Dansaki’ has been a blessing to many. This... Read More
According to Italy’s Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, there are detectable levels of cocaine in the air of eight major cities. The report followed the findings in 2006 that cocaine was present in Roman air. Now it’s been discovered that cocaine also occupies airspace in Palermo, Bologna, Florence, Turin, Milan, Verona and Naples. The levels... Read More
by Isi Esene After spending another year rocking live shows, this time in heart of London, Bishop is set to release a fun visual for his first single, ‘Two teas, please’. With a smooth hip-hop energy, true emotions bonded with the right instruments, this is the first official video ever from the Lagos-born talent whose... Read More
The General Officer Commanding 1 Division, Nigerian Army, Maj- Gen. Garba Wahab, yesterday said that the military was closing in on politicians, who sponsor terrorism in the country. He also said the Police alone cannot handle the security challenges facing the country. “If we are told by the political leadership of Nigeria to leave the... Read More
by Hauwa Gambo A baby is a gift from God – and so we celebrate with producer and failed musician K-Solo as he welcomes a son. You would remember that he is now most famous for being accused of physically abusing his wife, then reconciling with her, sort of, then announcing last week that he... Read More
by Hauwa Gambo Should we pretend we are really interested in what these guys are saying or how come they are on this jet? Em, well we called Psquare’s representatives for comments, but they were not available as at the time of writing this report. So moving on, we don’t care if this was all... Read More
by Isi Esene Oluyinka Akinadewo, 39, was on Friday sentenced to 46 months in jail for his involvement in the use of compromised identity information to commit bank fraud in the Washington DC area of the United States of America. His co-defendant, Adebimpe Olejiya, was earlier in the month sentenced to 35 months in jail... Read More
by Dr. Boyce Watkins Another thing that most business school faculty don’t understand is struggle. Most of the faculty at Harvard University or any other business school would not have been able to start where Jay-Z began and make it to adulthood as a healthy individual who wasn’t either dead or in jail. Maria Lloyd... Read More
Submission seems to be a sensitive issue because many perceive it as a way for men to dominate women. Those who speak against it say that it requires women to shut off their voices and behave like children while their husbands dictate the course of their lives. Other believe that submission is misunderstood and is... Read More
by Dr. Boyce Watkins But in Jay-Z’s defense, I must say that any business school professor who doesn’t believe that students can learn from him is DEAD WRONG. Maria Lloyd recently wrote an article in which it was claimed that the rapper Jay-Z was rejected by a career counselor at Harvard University as an appropriate... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu Naomi Campbell’s Russian billionaire boyfriend has built her a house in Moscow. But this is no ordinary house, goodness no. The building located just outside the Russian city features a futuristic style that many believe looks like a spaceship. Dubbed Capital Hill, the new futuristic house is designed by renowned architect Zaha Hadid, who... Read More
A two-year-old Syrian boy has been reunited with his family in Cyprus after they accidentally left him behind as they fled shelling in Damascus in the summer. Bushr Al Tawashi’s parents thought their son had died when their house was bombed, but he was found in the rubble of his family home by rebel fighters.... Read More
Justin Sisley, 30, from Melbourne, hopes viewers will witness the transformation of the lives of Alex Stepanov, a 21-year-old Australian student, and Catarina Migliorini, 20, from Brazil. Catarina’s virginity was sold to a Japanese man called Natsu for $780,000, Sisley says, but Alex only managed to pull in $3000 from a Brazilian woman in an... Read More
A devastated mother committed suicide after her three children, husband and subsequent partner all died in separate tragedies. Patricia Gibbs, 67, felt ‘so alone’ when her son James Ellis, 33, was killed when his Yamaha motorbike collided with a van near Summercourt, Cornwall in June last year. He was the last of her three children... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu Diandra Forrest is probably the most popular Afro-American albino top model and she’s setting a trend that could see other albinos come out of their shell more especially in Africa. It matters a lot to me to be here, because I want to change the way people see girls with albinism on... Read More
by Isi Esene Rita Dominic was on yesterday’s episode of The Big Friday Show with comedian and host, Basketmouth. The award winning beautiful actress was her down-to-earth, funny, bubbly self, cracking jokes and looking as stunning as ever. This outing is coming after appearing in a stunningly beautiful dress at the premiere of her movie... Read More
Mrs. Olusola Gbediga has asked the Customary Court Agege, Lagos State, to dissolve her six-year union with Mr. Matthew Gbediga. Mrs. Gbediga said her husband beat her regularly and that he nolonger loved her. She accused him of infecting her with a sexually transmitted disease through his adulterous lifestyle. She told the court that they... Read More
An aspiring male model has allegedly been having an affair with Jessica Simpson’s father Joe, it has been reported. It has been claimed that the 54-year-old has been dating Bryce Chandler Hill, who at 21 is 33 years his junior, on and off for about a year. The allegations come days after rumours began swirling... Read More
A truck driver, Efe Godspower, 25, was sentenced to one month imprisonment by an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for stealing a tyre worth N40,000. NAN reported that Magistrate I.O. Afunwa convicted Godspower following his guilty plea on arraignment. Afunwa condemned stealing and hoped that the sentence would serve as a deterrent to others. Godspower,... Read More