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The March 2013 issue of Y! magazine is out! This edition is covered by artiste and new record label owner Wizkid – in an interview by Adedoyin Jaiyesimi and photos by Kelechi Amadi-Obi. Wizkid is styled by Tiannah Styling’s Toyin Lawani. “As this magazine went to print, the rumours were just about confirmed in public... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu Microsoft YouthSpark, a global initiative that aims to create opportunities for 300 million youth in more than 100 countries during the next three years was launched in Lagos on Saturday, March 16. A partnership established between Microsoft Nigeria, the National Youth Service Corps, Mind The Gap and Future Enterprise Support Scheme, Microsoft... Read More
Greek soccer player Giorgos Katidis has been banned from his national team for life after giving a Nazi salute while celebrating a goal in the topflight league. Greece’s soccer federation said Sunday in a statement that the AEK Athens midfielder’s gesture “is a deep insult to all victims of Nazi brutality.” The 20-year-old Katidis gave... Read More
by Onoshe Nwabuikwu  I have been a strong critic of Nollywood myself even though I do focus on individual projects and not a rabid critic of the industry as a whole. I don’t get how anyone can be proudly Nigerian and not take some pride in Nollywood’s achievements. Nollywood @ 20 Nollywood had been on my... Read More
by Debo Adejugbe As the venomous and dreaded corruption drives through our land unchallenged, it should never escape our minds that we, the people, are complicit in its growth. Recently, I wrote about our politics and its close resemblance to a “rocking chair”, all movement but no progress. The sad tale isn’t about how bewildering... Read More
We are all so focused on GEJ and how he is pardoning #DSPAlams that we forget that the biggest damage to our country is done at the local level. In the last week I attended a conference of ‘Future Leaders of Nigeria’, and one of the facilitators made a very interesting statement, “Politicians do not... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu A forty-year-old father has been accused of nailing his two children to a plank because a herbalist told him they were child witches Akwa Ibom State indigene, John Friday Akpan who lives in Calabar, Cross River State was arrested by the police after he followed a herbalist’s advice. Akpan, who with the help of... Read More
by Rache Ogbu Ondo residents are ready to obtain their social security cards following their participation in the registration exercise in 2010. About 600,000 residents this week will collect the State Residency Card known in local dialect as Kaadi Igbeayo which has basic information about the holder and according to co-ordinator of the scheme, Tunde Yadeka, it would allow... Read More
The Harlem mother who leaped eight stories to her death with her 10-month-old son strapped to her chest left behind a heartbroken husband to make sense of her incomprehensible suicide. Cynthia Wachenheim, 44, died but her body appears to have protected their infant son, Keston Bacharach, from hitting the ground directly. “I’m sure you understand,... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu The FOOTBALLCENTRIC Nationwide tour of events is to begin in June starting with #footballcentriclagos. According to sports presenter turned analyst, Sayo Owolabi, the FOOTBALLCENTRIC Project (which also includes Radio and TV Content, Magazine and Webzine) will serve football fans with live football centred content (chatroom, special interviews and an all-star 5-a-side football match) fused with... Read More
by Chi Ibe                         Taiwo Oyebanjo, D’banj’s younger sister received a pleasant surprise in  South Africa yesterday when her Cool FM On Air Personality boyfriend, Oladotun Ojuolape Kayode popped the question. Aww! In December, we reported how ‘Dotun Kayode was in a long relationship with D’banj’s sister, former Mo’ hits... Read More
by Chi Ibe                         Nollywood actress, Ngozi Nwosu who left for the United Kingdom last month to treat kidney and heart-related issues is allegedly responding to treatment. She was photographed smiling in a hospital surrounded by medical staff and reports from her publicist confirms she’s done the first... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu Dana Air operating license has been suspended again pending the resolution of certain safety issues, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has said. The airline had recommenced operations about three months ago following a seven-month suspension when its Boeing Md-83 crashed in Lagos, killing 163 people. According to the Acting Director-General, NCAA, Joyce... Read More
An upstate sicko cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet before carrying out a savage crime — stabbing a school librarian to death and raping a 10-year-old girl, cops said. Investigators were probing Saturday how 29-year-old David Renz, who was previously charged with possessing child pornography, managed to disable his monitoring device. Renz, a computer whiz,... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu It might have been the joke of the year but sadly the Lagos State Commandant of the National Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Obafaiye Shem, the man behind the “#MyOgaAtTheTop” sensation has been suspended from office, new reports say. According to sources at the Corps headquarters in Abuja, of Nigerian paper,... Read More
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