The 2012 FIFA Ballon d’Or nominees list has been released. Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and Real Madrid’s Cristiano are two strong players who are contending for the prestigious award. The Ballon d’Or ceremony will take place in Zurich on January 7, 2013. -FIFA BALLON D’OR NOMINEES Sergio Aguero (Manchester City) Mario ...

Man killed, dumped inside well for snatching another man’s fiancée in Kwara Community Hell was let loose recently in Abayawo, Ilorin, Kwara State capital, Southwest Nigeria after a middle aged man’s corpse was recovered from a well at Ile Alowo-Eru in the area. A mob, suspected to be kinsmen of ...

Mark Clattenburg is understood to have told the FA that John Obi Mikel hurled expletive-laden threats in the referees’ room after Chelsea’s loss to Manchester United. Under-fire Clattenburg has chronicled in detail the startling flashpoint that unfolded off the pitch as a climax to the mayhem on it. The Premier ...

Four persons were shot dead on Sunday night by suspected Fulani herdsmen at a local drinking spot in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State. About seven others were injured and are now receiving treatment at Plateau Specialist Hospital during the attack on the drinking joint for local brew ...

Hurricane Sandy is bearing down on the US East Coast, threatening serious flooding and power cuts that could affect 50 million people. Hundreds of thousands of residents have been ordered to evacuate New York City and New Jersey, reports the BBC. Public transport has been suspended in cities up the ...

Chinedu Okoli, popularly known as Flavour Nabania, has launched his night club on Wednesday 24th of October, 2012, in Enugu State.Flavour N’Abania joined the likes 2face Idibia and Basketmouth as club owners, when he launched �2nite Club” . Artistes like Tiwa Savage, Iyanya, Kcee and Bracket were there to grace ...

A lull in business activities caused by insecurity in Kano State alone has cost the Nigerian economy N1.3trillion ($6 billion). The figure is contained in the 2011 World Investment Report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The report says that the Nigerian economy lost over $6 ...

Barely 24 hours after the Eid-El-kabir celebration, a middle age man whose name is yet to be known engaged in an indiscriminate slaughtering of human beings in the form of a ram leaving two persons dead and other Four in a critical condition at the Saint Gerard Catholic Hospital in ...

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has condemned Sunday’s suicide bomb attack on a Catholic Church in Kaduna. The President, who was extremely saddened by the explosion, described it as �barbaric, cruel and uncalled for.” According to a statement by presidential spokesman, Dr. Reuben Abati, President Jonathan noted that the apparent objective ...

GARY Glitter was arrested this morning – by police investigating the Jimmy Savile scandal. The 68-year-old former pop star was held at 7.15am at his home in central London and taken to a police station for questioning. He was held for several hours but has been released this evening. A ...

BLACK Eyed Peas star Fergie is a Halloween Treat in a sexy leopard-print catsuit. The singer squeezed her curves into the im-purr-sibly tight costume and showed off her fancy dress outfit to her Twitter fans. The costume featured a long tail and cute black ears, which Fergie accessorised with a ...

Music producer K-Solo and his estranged wife, Kikelomo Oyeniyi, welcomed a son yesterday October 26th. Kikelomo announced the arrival of her son on Twitter yesterday, just a few days after K-Solo announced his engagement to another lady on Facebook. Big congrats to them!

Security details attached to the wife of Enugu State governor, Mrs. Clara Chime, attacked a photojournalist with the News Agency of Nigeria, Mr. Mike Agada, on Friday evening. The mobile policemen attacked Agada at the burial of an in-law to one of the special advisers to the governor, at Amebota ...

Two male students of the Federal Polytechnic Auchi, in Edo state have been nabbed by the police for allegedly kidnapping, raping and killing a female student of the same institution. According to Vanguard, the students, Henry Edewo and Emmanuel Isikhuime kidnapped 21-year-old Mercy Peter on July 29, 2012, allegedly serially ...

UPDATE Here is a full statement sent by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity. �President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has condemned Sunday’s suicide bomb attack on a Catholic Church in Kaduna state. �The President who was extremely saddened by the explosion, described it as �barbaric, cruel and uncalled for.” ...

Nigerian Army in Enugu has paraded 21 Enugu State University of Science and Technology students for allegedly torturing and forcing some female students into lesbian acts. The students, most of who confessed to being cultists, told journalists that they took video shots of the lésbian act because they had been ...

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday in Abuja described his wife, Patience, as a shining star in his life. This came as Patience took a retrospective look at her life, especially in the last few weeks she was believed to have spent in hospital abroad and said whatever might have happened ...

For those of you who think it is an ordinary feat to get verified on twitter or assume it is not news worthy, you are mistaken! Getting the blue ribbon is no mean feat as it is a sign of authenticity, a seal of approval and acceptance by twitter that ...

Call it a narrow escape or a close shave with death, you are not wrong in capturing the story of 25-year old Patience Bitrus who recently escaped from suspected ritualists in Bauchi State. However, her co-traveller was not as lucky as Patience painted a gory picture of how she was ...