The Secret Service said Wednesday it is investigating the reported theft of copies of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s federal tax records during a break-in at an accounting office in Franklin. Someone claiming responsibility demanded $1 million not to make them public. An anonymous letter sent to Romney’s accounting firm and political offices in Tennessee... Read More
by Stanley Azuakola Nigeria’s minister of sports, Bolaji Abdullahi has debunked claims by some newspapers that President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed minister of finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to head a committee charged with repositioning Nigerian sports and to “return its lost glory”. A statement released by the minister’s special adviser (media), Julius Ogunro, stated that the... Read More
The late Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the Unification Church founder who died this week at 92, had 14 children with his second wife, Hak Ja Han Moon, according to his autobiography. He also had one child with his first wife, officials say, and at least one illegitimate child, according to one of his daughters. He... Read More
A 2-month-old boy was grazed in the shoulder by a stray bullet last night in New York. In yet another senseless act of gun violence, Trayvon Brunson was in a stroller, being pushed by his parents near the Seneca Houses in Hunts Point, when shots rang out. His horrified parents saw their little boy was... Read More
Busted! One highlight of Nokia’s flagship new Lumia 920 smartphone is an incredibly fancy camera, which features image stabilization to compensate for shaky hands. But it was Nokia itself that was caught compensating. On the same day the company unveiled the gizmos meant to turn the sagging business around, Nokia found itself issuing an apology when... Read More
Thai police said Thursday they would add drunken driving to the charges against a Red Bull energy drink heir accused of killing a police officer while speeding in his Ferrari and fleeing the scene. Tests taken in the hours after Monday’s crash showed 27-year-old Vorayuth Yoovidhya’s blood-alcohol content was 0.063 percent, exceeding the legal limit of... Read More
Facebook’s stock increased nearly 5 percent on Wednesday following a disclosure that its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, won’t sell stock in the company for at least a year. Zuckerberg holds about 504 million shares and options and had been eligible to start selling them in November. The company currently has about 692 million shares eligible for sale.... Read More
R&B diva Patti LaBelle has settled a dispute involving a woman and her child for $100,000, reports say. In 2010, the diva rented a Trump Place apartment for three months in Manhattan as she performed in the “Fela!” broadway musical, in which she made $50,000/week. Allegedly LaBelle became irate with a then-pregnant woman and her... Read More
If you’re looking for a way to feel like a virgin again, here it is. So says an Indian pharmaceutical company hawking a new vaginal tightening gel called 18 Again, which promises to whip aging lady parts back into shape, all under the guise of female empowerment. In an ad posted on YouTube, an Indian... Read More
Students and teachers are revolting against a decision to make students where electronic ID badges so that administrators can keep up with them at all times. The Radio Frequency Identification System, or RFID, is causing an outrage among those in the community, as well as civil liberties advocates, who are calling it an invasion of... Read More
On Monday at 2 a.m., Earl Jones heard a noise in his basement and decided to get his .22-caliber rifle and wait for what he suspected was an intruder to come upstairs to where he was. When the intruder came up the stairs, Jones shot him in the chest as soon as he appeared and... Read More
Nicki Minaj was most notably known for being one of the first — if not THE first — female rappers to openly discuss her bisexuality. In 2010, Details interviewed her asking if she, an openly bisexual rapper, thought Hip-Hop would get more “gay –friendly.” She answered the question saying: “I think the world is getting more... Read More
by Stanley Azuakola Cancer awareness would be the focus of the next edition of Charity Lounge International titled Charity Lounge 3.0 which has been scheduled for October 2012. Already, organisers of the event, Creative Five World, are getting the word out and making adequate preparations to ensure that the event is a success. Apart from highlighting and... Read More
A billboard sign in Victoria, Texas had drawn an investigation by the Secret Service. The controversial sign seems harmless at a glance because it says, “Pray for Obama” and then quotes a scripture, Psalms 109:8., but it is the scripture that has caused an uproar. Psalms 109:8 reads, “Let his days be few, and let... Read More
Nicki Minaj may not be American Idol bound after all and Pepsi is to blame. Not so fast. The “Moment For Life” rapper inked a deal with Pepsi earlier this year, which puts her in direct conflict of interest with their competitor, Coca Cola. Coca Cola is a sponsor of American Idol. This is not... Read More
Stevie Wonder recently made some comments, in an interview, which landed him in some hot soup. The legend of all things music has issued an apology and has made an attempt at clarifying what he meant when he implied that Frank Ocean, an R & B singer, was confused and not really gay. Frank Ocean... Read More
The speed and secrecy with which Dame Jonathan was shipped out of the country suggests our leader might believe in Nigeria, but won’t put all his eggs in this basket. A few years ago, a well known professor was invited to Nigeria from the United States at the behest of one the South-West governors. The... Read More
Gregory Johns, 42, was killed at a motel in Treasure Island, Fla. He was wanted for sexually assaulting and impregnating his girlfriend’s 11-year-old daughter. Gregory fled when his girlfriend’s daughter was taken to the hospital for stomach pains and underwent tests that revealed she was pregnant. Johns immediately asked his girlfriend for the keys to her... Read More
A North Carolina woman is accused of trying to poison both of her lovers in her love triangle. 22 year old Tara Jackson allegedly put anti-freeze in one lover’s drink and a muscle relaxant in the other lover’s food. Jackson’s love triangle involved her and her neighbor, Donald Russell, who lived in the house next-door... Read More
Actor and rapper, Will Smith, may be making his debut as a director in a new movie that tells the biblical story of Cain and Abel. The film, “The Redemption of Cain,” has gotten the go ahead from Sony Pictures Entertainment. The film is reported to have a vampire spin on it. There has been... Read More
by Akan Ido A telephone operator in the household of the former military ruler, Late General Sani Abacha, who is standing trial for alleged theft of Maryam Abacha’s jewellery has accused their son, Abdullahi Sani Abacha, of involvement in the crime. The accused, Abdullahi Ali, who was charged to court along with three others for the... Read More
by Stanley Azuakola These are dangerous times to be a journalist in Nigeria. Just last month, Benedict Uwalaka, a photo journalist with Leadership newspaper was assaulted at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) by hospital officials, when he went to cover the release of the corpses of the Dana crash. On Tuesday in Abuja another... Read More
A husband and wife duo is wanted by the police for shooting a police deputy and for carjacking. They allegedly shot the sheriff’s deputy of L.A. County early on Sunday morning. The attack took place on Durfee Avenue in South El Monte outside of a convenience store. According to the authorities the Temple Station deputy... Read More
Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, was buried on Sunday. Expectedly, there was a performance of grief and lots of adulatory expressions at the burial. From Jacob Zuma to Susan Rice, encomiums poured in. While some of the eulogies were touching, the truth is that he was just another sit-tight autocratic leader who spent 21 years... Read More
Nigerian music superstar Wizkid Ayo Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, has taken to Twitter to lambaste UK-based Nigerian rapper, Fresh L. Wizkid’s action might have been fueled by a tweet by the London-based artiste that his label mate, BOJ was better than the Pakurumo singer. Fresh L, known in real life as Ladi Lanre, tweeted... Read More
The owner of the “Hitler” clothing shop in western India says he will remove the sign and rename his store after hearing people’s complaints. Rajesh Shah said Tuesday he had chosen the name in memory of his grandfather, a strict disciplinarian whom the family referred to as “Hitler.” The shop in Ahmadabad, the main city... Read More
China’s hopes for a smooth, once-a-decade political transition have been shaken by a lurid new scandal involving the death of a senior official’s son who crashed during what may have been sex games in a speeding Ferrari. Details of the March accident in Beijing, which allegedly also injured two young women, have stayed under wraps... Read More
A terrible headache probably isn’t the sensation people are hoping for when they turn on a porn video. But unfortunately for a 24-year-old bachelor in India, that’s exactly what has happened for the last two years whenever he tried to watch an X-rated movie. According to a case study on the man, who is unnamed,... Read More
One academic is proposing a cure for morning sickness that some moms-to-be might find in bad taste — sperm. Gordon Gallup, a psychologist at SUNY-Albany has a theory that pregnant women who are continually exposed to the father’s semen are less like to suffer from AM nausea. Gallup, who specializes in human reproductive competition and... Read More
“Your Excellency, I scan the Nigerian media everyday and I also do same for American and British media and I am aware our media is not as cynical and contemptuous of their government and the man in power as the British or American media Without conducting a poll or a content analysis, Dr Goodluck Jonathan... Read More