by Mayowa Salami You can imagine the shock that hit parishioners of the Saint Augustine’s Catholic Church, Ibusa, Delta State, when they were greeted with an abandoned baby girl in front of the church while filing in for morning mass over the weekend. The new born baby girl was said to have been abandoned by... Read More
by Isi Esene The Yobe State Deputy Governor, Abubakar Aliyu, whose convoy was shot at on Saturday at a checkpoint while returning from his farm, said the police corporal who opened fire on his convoy was drunk. He made this clarification through his press secretary, Musa Alaraba, who said it was untrue that the policeman,... Read More
by Isi Esene The marked $620,000 which Hon. Farouk Lawan allegedly received as bribe from billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola, seem to have grown wings. The police investigating the bribe scandal say they are unable to find the money. The money was allegedly offered to Farouk to remove Otedola’s company from the list of companies named... Read More
A local lawyer friend told me there are only two reasons expats come to Nigeria: love and money. ‘You know there will be a war in this country’, he states matter-of-factly, gazing out of the window of his overpriced apartment looking out to the Ikoyi skyline. He points down to the street below. ‘There will... Read More
Finally, BBA Star Game ends Last Sunday, the 2012 Big Brother Africa Star Game came to an end after 91 days. And as you must have heard, 22 year old South African Keegan is the winner! All this can’t be news to BBA followers. Keegan had six votes to beat Prezzo (Kenya) his lone rival... Read More
by Osita Egbubine US presidential campaigns are always roller coasters. One moment, Candidate A is leading, then a seed falls from the sky and the other candidate steals ahead. Pollsters have a field day polling people in every possible constituency- gays without siblings, blonde Negroes, adults under 18- trying to find out where they stand... Read More
by Catherine Bennett So all-pervasive is the social networking service that non-users are now treated with deep suspicion Colorado killer James Holmes, not a fan of Facebook. It is a frustration for those who study them that there are not enough murderous psychopaths to help isolate, at all reliably, characteristics specific to the type. Not... Read More
by Sonala Olumhense IF you have yet to read the New York Times story of Nigeria’s remarkable basketball team to the London Olympics, it is available online. Before I comment on it, here is a question: to whom, exactly, is President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria accountable? His answer last week, as he vigorously tried to... Read More
What Nigeria needs today is a government of the brightest Nigerians regardless of political affiliations. Fellow Nigerians, I’m not about to discuss football or our ill-fated participation at the London 2012 Olympics. It is better not to write on what has brought ignominy and despair on a country of 160 million people or more. We... Read More
Neigh means no. Jeremy Johnson, 20, of Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to breaking into a barn and performing oral sex on a female horse, Pennlive.com reports. Johnson was sentenced to two-and-a-half years probation for defiant trespass and sexual intercourse with an animal. Police were called to the Perry County farm for a possible break-in at around... Read More
A mother and son from Tamarac, Fla, may be placed on Santa’s naughty list after being accused of stealing $2 million worth of toys. The Broward Sheriff’s Organized Retail Crimes Unit arrested Ignatius “Michael” Pollara, 46, and his mother, Margaret Pollara, 70, on Thursday, accusing the pair of stealing more than $2 million in merchandise,... Read More
What’s more alarming: seeing a dead body in a river, or seeing that dead body get up and start moving toward you? Sue Hubbard of Williamsport, Pennsylvania was sure that the man she saw floating in the Susquehanna River on Thursday was a drowning victim, WNEP reports. She was so sure, in fact, that police,... Read More
Isaak Lasson can finally breathe easy after three years of sinus problems. The cause? A single wheel-shaped Lego piece that he got stuck up his nose back when he was 3. At least that’s what his dad, Craig Lasson, said he thinks. His son started having a hard time breathing back then. “I felt so... Read More
As if carrying and giving birth to twins isn’t hard enough, Siobhan Anderson, a mom from Amityville, N.Y., gave birth to hers on two different highways last Saturday! More precisely, she delivered them in two separate highway stops while trying to get to the hospital. Gavin, the first, was born outdoors, beside Southern State Parkway,... Read More
When the reality TV shows are no longer banging down your door, those bangs get replaced by the IRS. Flavor Flav, who opened up the reality TV bonanza that we have today, is in debt to the IRS for nearly a million dollars that he earned during the time he was on television each night.... Read More
Israeli Judaic scholar Menachem Cohen, 84, spent 30 years correcting what he believed to be a plethora of errors in the Hebrew Bible. This is the first edit in 500 years for the Hebrew Bible. Correcting a total of 1,500 grammatical errors, Cohen’s work is slated to be published next year. He said his main... Read More
Former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield is finally getting a divorce from his wife, Candi Holyfield. The divorce has been finalized, and comes in the middle of very serious financial problems for the fighter. Evander has declared bankruptcy this year, had his mansion foreclosed upon and even sold his Olympic medal. Candi filed for divorce in... Read More
The US women’s 4×100 meter relay team pulled off a whammy this week. The team not only confronted and broke a quarter century old record in the relay event, they crushed it. Allyson Felix, Tianna Madison, Bianca Knight and Carmelita Jeter ran a shockingly fast time of 40.82, which is more than half a second... Read More
On Thursday, Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX) wrote a letter to California Senator Ted Lieu to let him know that they were very upset about his decision to introduce legislation to ban therapy for minors to change their sexual orientation from homosexual to heterosexual. In the letetr, PFOX accuses the Senator of... Read More
“Mister President! Mister President!” Those are the words that are heard at times when George Hussein Obama, the half-brother of our president, walks out of his house. Living in a slum in Nairobi, George is half a world away from the life of his famous sibling. The two men have the same father, with George... Read More
Bishop T.D Jakes has never been one to pigeonhole himself, expanding into the movie making world with movies such as the popular “Woman Thou Art Loosed”, “Jumping the Broom”, and “Not Easily Broken”. His latest venture into the movie world is “Sparkle,” which will be released next week. The movie will go down in history as Whitney Houston’s last... Read More
by Adeniyi Abdul Al-Farouq Aminu is a basketball player who was part of the Nigerian Olympic team. He used to play with the Los Angeles Clippers and is currently with the New Orleans Hornets. What’s interesting, however, is that despite the fact he played for Nigeria at the Olympics, he doesn’t identify himself as Nigerian... Read More
In a rather shocking development, Chief Marcel Nnakwe, one of the prime suspects in the 2003 failed assassination attempt on the life of former Information Minister, Prof. Dora Akunyili, may be made a traditional ruler in Imo State, following the ongoing review of 106 new autonomous communities in Imo that ratified his new Isialla Orlu... Read More
by Adeniyi Abdul 10 security operatives were shot earlier today in Damaturu, Yobe state. The victims were one mobile police officer and nine soldiers, in the attack which took place around the Shagari housing area in the state. The incident was confirmed by State Police Command spokesperson, Toyin Gbadegeshin who revealed that the gunmen had... Read More
by Adeniyi Abdul A worker at the London 2012 Olympic Games has been arrested by police on suspicion of child abuse. The 49-year-old man was on his way to work around 5.30 a.m on Friday when the policemen apprehended him. Police reportedly found him on Twitter where he shared information and pornographic pictures of sexually... Read More
by Adeniyi Abdul 50 Cent and Kanye West haven’t exactly always been the best of friends, and that isn’t looking like it’s going to change anytime soon after 50’s recent comments. In an interview with XXL Magazine, 50, when asked about Kanye’s (yet to be released) song ‘Perfect B***h”, said, “I mean, if that man... Read More
by Adeniyi Abdul Is Nigeria ready for a female president? Ambassador Ebun Oyagbola, who happens to be Nigeria’s first female minister, certainly thinks it’s time. Speaking yesterday in Abuja at a workshop on “Effective Leadership Through Attitudinal Healing” organized by the Centre for Attitudinal Healing, Oyagbola pointed to herself as an example of how women... Read More
by Isi Esene The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has recently released the 2011 unemployment data which reveals a wide dichotomy between states in the North and those in the southern part of the country. According to the released data, the bottom ten in the jobless list are; Zamfara State with 42.6%; Bauchi, 41.4%; Niger,... Read More
by Isi Esene Three men were apprehended about 3am yesterday at Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, for allegedly raping a prostitute. The lady was reported to have been invited from a nearby brothel at Emosivwe Street by one of the suspects to come to his house at an agreed fee only for her... Read More