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Africa’s richest man, and die-hard Arsenal fan, Aliko Dangote, said he still wants to buy the English Premier League soccer team even after he was rebuffed by its owners in 2010. Dangote who is worth $15.7 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, was in talks to buy a stake ...

Buzzing Entertainment outfit, SON OF THE SOIL ENTERTAINMENT (SOS ENT) announces its emergence into the Music industry as it presents it’s first signing “CHIVIBES” who’s about to take the entire music industry by storm with his unique blend of style and music. Born CHIBUEZE AKUNNA TORTI better known as “CHIVIBES” ...

Mrs. Adebisi Orekoya, had over the weekend, revealed that the family parted with N2.5 million as against the initial N15 million demanded by the kidnappers as ransom. According to Thisday, speaking to a group of working mothers in Lagos at the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) Conference and ...

35 year old man from Taraba, Mr.Paul Jamasuru Tankwa has vowed to present President Jonathan with a Peace award and to congratulate him for conceding defeat.. According to reports, Paul set off for Abuja from Jalingo, Taraba state yesterday. They are awarding Jonathan with the Peace Maker and African Hero ...

58 year old Nigerian man, Christopher Omigie, who is a self acclaimed witch doctor has been sentenced to 14 years in a US federal prison for providing drug traffickers with magical and “supernatural” protection. At a court hearing yesterday April 30th, prosecutors told the presiding judge, Judge Marcia Crone, that ...

President-elect Gen. Buhari says he never gave the directive to anyone to bar AIT from covering his activities. In a statement released this evening and signed by the Director of Publicity for the Buhari Campaign Organisation, Garba Shehu, Gen Buhari said this is the era of change and that he ...

This young man was murdered by arm robbers on his way to Abuja on Monday April 27th, just three days to his traditional wedding and five days to his white wedding which was supposed to be 2nd of May. So sad! May his soul rest in peace, amen.

This is getting annoying, cant people get creative. Do something else! 45 year old Adamu Abdullahi (pictured above) says he will be trekking form Maiduguri in Borno state to Abuja from tomorrow April 30th, so he can meet with Gen Buhari to congratulate him on his victory at the presidential ...

A pretty and slim female truck driver caused traffic in Ibadan when people stopped their cars just to take pictures of her. The Twitter user who shared the images said the lady drove so well, she even left other drivers in the traffic after she had wriggled her truck out ...

The Director, Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, has confirmed that the troops of the Nigerian Army rescued 200 girls and 93 women during a raid on Sambisa Forest on Tuesday. When the news of the rescue was broken on the tweeter handle of the military on Tuesday, many Nigerians ...

APC has released a statement saying all accredited media, including AIT, are free to cover President elect, Buhari The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that all accredited media organizations in the country, including the African Independent Television (AIT), are free to cover the activities of the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu ...

PricewaterHouse Coopers PWC on the financial management of the NNPC has revealed that there were many cases of duplicated subsidy payment by the NNPC to many oil marketers between 2012 and 2013. According to the report, payment of subsidies for petrol (PMS) and kerosene (DPK) between January 2012 and July ...

A 35-year-old Kaduna-born cyclist and supporter of the president-elect, Mohammed Kabiru Jafaru, yesterday embarked on a journey to meet with the vice president-elect in Lagos State. Mohammed a father of four took off on his journey to Lagos at exactly 6: 35am at the palace of Sarkin Hayin Malam Bello, ...

Staff of Africa Independent Television, AIT, have been barred from covering all activities of the President-elect, Gen. Buhari until issues bordering on ethics and standards against them have been addressed. AIT crew members were escorted out of the Defence House where the president-elect currently resides. He was about to have ...

Precious Nwaigwe, the 15-year-old schoolgirl, who was kidnapped in the Ajah area of Lagos State about a year ago, has said she was made to work for $6,000 the Libyan pimp paid to buy her. She added that after paying the money, she was again used as collateral for a ...

The pedestrian bridge was said to still be under construction and workers at the site had warned pedestrians not to pass the area. About seven persons have been reported dead on Sunday, April 26, at Dorayi quartersarea of Kano state after a pedestrian bridge collapsed on a taxi. The pedestrian ...

The Lagos state government has revealed plans to provide Wi-fi to every resident of the state.. According to Channels, the Permanent Secretary of the State’s ICT Ministry, Mrs Nike Animashaun said the first phase of the Wi-Fi connectivity would be deployed at parks located at different parts of the state. ...

President-elect Gen. Buhari has signified interest to probe the alleged missing $20 billion from the coffers of the NNPC. Speaking with APC members from Adamawa state at the APC National headquarters in Abuja on April 26th, Gen Buhari queried the dismissal of Former CBN governor now Emir of Kano Muhammad ...

According to Daily Trust, Gen Buhari read the riot act to members of his family in Daura, Katsina state recently. A Family source said he gathered all his children and family members together and advised them to seek meaningful ways to make a living, stressing that no family member of ...

Prophetess Esther Adeyemi, mother of Funmilola Adeyemi, the nanny who kidnapped the Orekoya boys has called on the affected family and the general public to have mercy on her daughter and forgive her. Mrs Adeyemi in an interview with Saturday Sun, said Funmi, who is her first daughter left home ...