by Rachel Ogbu Who cares about dead-heat presidential elections? A little boy kept his focus on what really matters – girls – when President Obama made an unscheduled stop during campaigning in Florida on Tuesday. As Obama, all smiles, balances a small child on his knee in the front row, but was totally oblivious to... Read More
A little girl at the centre of a ‘bizarre’ tug of love baby scam will finally today be returned to the London couple who believed she was their miracle baby. High Court Family Division judge Mr. Justice Coleridge said the 21-month-old little girl should live with the couple who was the victims of greedy international child... Read More
Suspected members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect on Wednesday set ablaze a middle-aged man in Maiduguri, Borno State capital. This is coming barley two days when similar attack was carried out in Potiskum, a suburb of Yobe State. It was gathered the victim was said to have been burnt in his residence, owned by... Read More
No, this is not a joke, it’s not fake, Chinese hospitals really are using automatic sperm extractors for the most serious medical purposes. Still, I thought this was weird enough to post an article on. So, an entry about automatic sperm extractors being introduced in a Nanjing hospital recently went viral on China’s Weibo social... Read More
by ‘Ifreke Inyang All across Europe, the third round of the group matches of this season’s Champions League were played. And here are the five things we came away with from MatchDay. We still need shock absorbers Who would have thought Schalke 04 would defeat Arsenal at the Emirates? Yes, we know thee Gunners, are... Read More
by Chude Jideonwo It is, highly instructive that the most remarkable performance from last years’s editon of the Headies, easily the most important event in Nigeria’s music calendar, was that of a man whose music shook the nation in the 90s. The body of work that Sir Shina Peters introduced at the peak of his... Read More
The unerring efficiency with which we repeat mistakes of the past makes Nigeria the perfect location for a latter day Nostradamus to emerge. One of Wole Soyinka’s most entertaining characters has to be Jerobam, the lead character of his plays, The Trials of Brother Jero and Jero’s Metamorphosis. It is easy to see why the... Read More
Bosnian Muslim pilgrim who left last December on pilgrimage to Mecca by foot told AFP on Monday that he has arrived after passing through seven countries including war-torn Syria. “I arrived Saturday in Mecca. I am not tired, these are the best days of my life,” Senad Hadzic, 47, said when reached by phone... Read More
by Ugodre Obi-Chukwu They both used equity to finance their business and no debts yet his brother made more money than he did. Two brothers were given an equal share of their father’s wealth as he approached his death. They both followed the footsteps of their father and decided to engage in buying and selling.... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu You’ve got to love it when stories evolve. ‘Skyfall’ may be hitting cinemas tomorrow but right now this is the action to watch. Rihanna’s best friend Melissa Forde and another female suspected to be Karrueche’s friend exchanged some harsh words on Instagram yesterday. Threats were made, names were called, the messy situation just got messier. Read the... Read More
Created by MIT student Melissa Chow, the “like-a-hug” jacket makes virtual experiences a bit more realistic, by inflating and giving you a hug whenever someone likes you on Facebook. Soon, real friends will probably be obsolete. Having people like you on Facebook is nice, but don’t you wish you could feel the love whenever they... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu The drug, Rophynol that was given to late Cynthia Osokogu whose death was all over social media mid this year has been described as a powerful sedative that is illegal in the United States but is used elsewhere for hypnosis and anaesthesia. It is popularly known as the ‘date rape’ drug because of... Read More
It’s not the world’s first wooden car, but it is the first of its kind in Vietnam. Featuring a body made exclusively from high-quality wood and decorated with intricate carvings, the Achilles has been turning heads on the streets of Ho Chi Minh City. The one-of-a-kind vehicle was created by Le Nguyen Khang, owner of... Read More
by Isi Esene This is definitely an area psychologists need to look into – is it love, lust, stupidity or temporary insanity that makes people tattoo lover’s name on their bodies unmindful of what might happen in the future? Is it ever a good idea? We’ll do a run-through of celebrities who have realised their... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu The State Security Service, SSS has revealed to an Abuja Federal High Court that Senator Aliyu Ndume gave instructions to Ali Kodunga (a.ka Al-Zawahiri), of the Boko Haram sect to call and threaten the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke (SAN). The SSS said when Ndume’s mobile telephone call logs were analysed during... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu A new single from rapper/ song writer M.I. is a tribute to the four young students who were murdered by a mob in the Aluu community, Rivers State. It’s called “Ashes.” In a statement, the artist said: “4 young men died at the hands of a lynch mob on the 5th of... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu There are Bond girls and then there are Bond girls. See 46 year old Halle Berry in these stunning new photos having close encounters with great white sharks in behind the scenes footage of her movie Dark Tide. The mother-of-one is pictured reaching out to the ocean predators while leaning over on... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu A new report reveals that Ministers of Petroleum Resources between 2008 and 2011 handed out seven discretionary oil licences, but that $183m in signature bonuses was missing from the deals. A team headed by the former Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, produced the 146-page study based on the... Read More
Spare me the lecture on the benefits of going au-naturel, I have heard it all; from the smug ‘that is the way you were created’ to the supposedly intellectual ‘when it comes to looks, African women suffer from a serious inferiority complex’. I am at my desk, trying to perform an honest day’s work. Then... Read More
Between 2008 and 2010, Anthony Johnson spent his weekends slithering underneath movie theater seats and stealing credit cards from purses and pocketbooks, according to GreenwichTime.com Johnson and his accomplices, who were usually female, would choose chick flicks to ensure that many purse-toting women would be in attendance. They would then choose seats that allowed them... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu Meet Terri Graham, a 44-year-old mother of two from California – who breastfeeds her dog, Spider. Graham first started breastfeeding Spider when the dog started licking the teat of the bottle she had filled to breastfeed her son… And the rest is rather bizarre history. The 44-year-old mother of two who couldn’t... Read More
by Isi Esene The Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has sent a message to the newly re-elected governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Mimiko, congratulating him on his victory in the October 20 elections. In a letter signed by the group’s leader, Reuben Fasoranti and Seinde Arogbofa, it said Mimiko’s re-election is a victory over “godfatherism and... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu Chris Brown may have broken up with girlfriend of two years, Karrueche Tran just to be with Rihanna but that’s not keeping Tran, 24, from trying to win the “disturbed” singer back. TMZ reports that Tran is adamant to reconcile with Brown, because “she never stopped loving him,” and also because she “got used to... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu To mark the week-long musical celebration of the life of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti called Felabration this year, some of the hottest acts in the Nigerian Music Industry performed live on stage. But the most memorable of all performances came from sons of the Afrobeat legend, Femi and Seun Kuti with Fela’s Egypt 80 Band which was the... Read More
by Isi Esene Lagosians have continued to groan under the weight of the new traffic law which placed restrictions on the operation of commercial motorcyclists on major highways in the state. Many Lagosians have now resorted to trekking long distances to get to their destinations – a proposition which has not gone down well with... Read More
by Isi Esene This photos capture the sombre scene of a triple murder in California where a mother and two of her children were brutally killed. The surviving child was later found crying but unharmed in another room. Here we see a sheriff’s deputy cradling the 6-month-old survivor. These photos aptly reflects the kind of... Read More
The African Union (AU) has lifted Mali’s suspension from the bloc and said an African plan for military intervention to help the country reclaim territory from Islamist fighters would be ready within weeks. The organisation suspended Mali’s membership in March; days after mutinous soldiers staged a coup against then-President Amadou Toumani Toure, and said it... Read More
by Isi Esene If this HIV/AIDS awareness sign doesn’t get the message across, then all hope is lost, no? This is a poignant message for discerning ‘Aristos‘, but bad news for ‘Sugar daddies‘ who now have to talk to the hand.
By Rachel Ogbu Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola has asked everyone to build a consensus that the idea behind the new traffic law was to make sure life and assets of every resident of Lagos and their businesses were protected. Recently speaking on the topic “Freedom from Fear” in relation to law and order in... Read More