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After six months of electrifying performances, surprise evictions, tough and thorough training, the third edition of Nigerian Idol the TV reality show has come to an end with 22-year-old Moses Obi-Adigwe declared as winner! After an opening performance from season one winner Yeka Onka, the show started with the host ...

One of the most shocking stories of the tragic accident involving a Young Shall Grow luxurious bus and a Dangote cement truck was that of Nneka and Kenneth Ojielo, a couple who died in the accident. Theirs is a story that will bring tears to many eyes because�Kenneth had not ...

Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerburg is to visit Akwa Ibom in the next month, the Niger Delta Young Professionals, a non governmental group has said. The chairman of the group Mr Moses Siasia made the announcement when he paid a courtesy visit to the governor of the State on friday. Siasia ...

Please this cute girl has been declared missing by her family. She’s Miss Chiemelie Vivian Muoghalu. She went to the market with her mum on friday 12.04.2013 at Idumota, from there she went to the bank since then she hasn’t returned or called. If you have any information about her ...

It was a shocking revelation at the Isolo Customary Court in Lagos, where 86-year old Nweke Robinson Ugo, divorced his wife, Mrs. Beatrice Umera Ugo, for denying him of sex and food. The grandfather abandoned his 70-year old wife, a retired school teacher in their matrimonial home and eloped with ...

21-year-old Rickesha Burns, a Phoenix woman is accused of shoving a vibrator into her 2-year-old son’s anus, which will require a surgery to remove it. According to New Times Rickesha Burns called the police on Sunday, reporting that her son was bleeding from his anus. Rickesha said she was at ...

The former Super Eagles captain, Kanu Nwankwo has decided to join twitter. He opened his Twitter account yesterday. We would love to know your thoughts on this post. Drop your comments

On April 8, 2013, the Actors’ Guild of Nigeria (AGN) organised in honour of the late actor, Justus Esiri, a tribute night at the open space of the O’Jez Bar in the National Stadium, Lagos. The tribute night had the presence of top Nollywood acts including veteran actors Olu Jacobs, ...

The Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has rejected the idea of an amnesty. Last week President Goodluck Jonathan asked a high level team to look into the possibility of granting the militants a pardon. The announcement was made via an audio statement believed to be from the group’s leader Abubakar ...

He reportedly arrived at the Consular office of the United States in Abuja last week in a flowing agbada, bearing his self-importance on his lapel. By the time he left, however, a member of the House of Representatives from the South West cut a pitiable sight as he had been ...

There seems to be no end to the Police Pension fund scandal. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said yesterday that about N1, 141, 309, 080.25 has been traced to a chief accountant in the Police Pension Office, Mrs. Uzoma Cyril Attang. The fraud was allegedly perpetrated through seven ...

Emeka Inyama, a board member of the Nigeria Football Federation, has stated that Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi, has travelled to the US without permission and must return from his California base by Monday. The former Mali and Togo boss left the country and failed to attend the meeting of ...

A wife has been killed by her own husband over an HIV fear and it’s making international headline news. 64-year-old Eugene Maraventano killed his wife, Janet, 63, because she was ill and he was worried that he gave her HIV, cancer, or another disease. And he was having this worry ...

An 82-year-old Seventh Day Adventist deacon is bracing for a dose of unwanted attention from his village after he failed to control his penchant for sex and allegedly had intercourse with a donkey. The detestable incident which left villagers in Filabusi’s Gangabezi village, Zimbabwe shell-shocked transpired sometime last month. According ...

The poor supply of electricity being witnessed across the country currently is as a result of a significant drop in power generation from a peak of 4,517 megawatts attained on December 21, 2012 to 3,443MW on Tuesday April 9th. The drop in power generation, according to the Ministry of Power, ...

Former Super Eagles goalkeeper and 1994 African Nations Cup gold medalist, Peter Rufai worked very hard to be in form and maintained good name. He was in goal for Nigeria’s senior national team for over a decade, and kept goal for European clubs such as K.S.C Lokeren, K.S.K Beveren (both ...

The level of desperation people exhibit these days is just sickening: A father, Mr Onyekachi Ekwelum, who sold his six-month-old son to raise money to process his travel documents, has been charged before a magistrate in court to defend his action. Mr Ekwelum allegedly hatched and executed the act without ...

The General Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, MFM, Dr. Daniel Olukoya, last weekend, splashed N40 million on 77 members of his�church who graduated with first class honours degree from different universities across the country. And this isn’t even the first time he’s doing so. Last year, he ...

A corps member, Emmanuel Oyelara serving in Ohaozara Local government area of the state was weekend, stabbed in his left eye by�one of his girl friends for allegedly having an affair with another�lady within the area of his place of primary assignment. Oyelara who is now lying in a critical ...

Feminist Ukrainian protest group FEMEN have struck again: going topless near mosques and Tunisian embassies across Europe on Thursday to express support for embattled FEMEN activist Amina Tyle. We’re free, we’re naked, it’s our right, it’s our body, it’s our rules, and nobody can use religion, and some other holy ...