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According to a story in Encomium magazine, the family of former Liberian president and war crimes prisoner, Charles Taylor, have been ejected from their N2.5million per year rented mansion in Diamond Hills in Calabar, Cross Rivers state. The family he left behind in Calabar as he faced criminal charges in ...

Nelson Mandela’s daughters are suing him for the rights to his artworks and control of his millions, it has been reported. On Monday, Zenani and Makaziwe Mandela intended fighting an order of Johannesburg High Court in April 2004, which gave Mandela the right to instruct Ismail Ayob, his then lawyer, ...

In a bizarre incident on Sunday, a 13-year-old school girl was forced to marry a man originally scheduled to marry her elder sister. The 18-year-old refused to marry the man, 25, and run away on the day of the marriage. In her place however, her 13-year-old sister was forced to ...

A Miami man briefly wrestled with and ultimately used a knife to kill a Burmese python measuring 18 feet, 8 inches. That sets a state record for pythons captured or killed in the wild. The previous record measured 17 feet, 7 inches. Jason Leon was not hunting pythons but, while ...

So amazing! When a massive tornado hit an elementary school in Oklahoma, a courageous teacher risked her life to protect six of her students from the powerful storm by covering them with her body. On May 20, a two-mile-wide tornado ripped through Moore, Okla. destroying hundreds of businesses, homes, and ...

1. Changed the golden throne by a wooden chair… Something more appropriate for the disciple of a carpenter. 2. Did not want the gold-embroidered red stole, Heir of the Roman Empire, nor the red chasuble… 3. Uses same old black shoes, not the classic red. 4. Uses a metal cross, ...

  The military has advised the media to be objective and not to take sides with criminals. This statement was made by�the General Officer Commanding (GOC), 1 Division Nigerian Army, Kaduna, Major-General Garba Wahab while addressing newsmen on the activity of the military in dislodging insurgent elements from terrorism trouble-spots ...

And �Americanah” comes dangerously close to the �exaggerated histrionics” and �improbable plots” that she ascribes to Nigerian, or Nollywood, films. When readers of �Americanah” first meet its Nigerian-born heroine, Ifemelu, she has come a long way in life. She holds a fellowship at Princeton. She is �the absolute love of ...

  Violence had rocked the Ago Iwoye campus of the Olabisi Onabanjo University on Monday. As early as 7.30 am, students had stormed the gates of the institution which they succeeded in locking. Only to reportedly have two students of the�university shot dead with several others wounded following an ongoing ...

The scramble for “Holy Water” from the popular Nigerian pastor, Prophet TB Joshua, by desperate people looking for emergency miracle out of their problems has led to a tragedy in Ghana. At least 4 people have been confirmed dead in Pastor T.B. Joshua’s Synagogue Church Of All Nations in Spintex ...

A 28-year-old man, Ayodele Olaoye, who was allegedly kidnapped by a lady, Esther Phillips, he met at a Club in Opebi, Lagos, has narrated his ordeal before an Ikeja High Court. Esther was said to have conspired with six others to commit the alleged offence.The other suspects are Patricia Nna, ...

BABS The Catholic Church in Nigeria pulled out as a member of the Association few months ago due to some irreconcilable differences between it and CAN. The Director of communications, Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja, Rev Fr Tom Asen, who disclosed this on Sunday, in Abuja as part of the ceremony ...

Following a request by star winger Franck Ribery, Bayern Munich FC have decided to build a mosque in the Allianz Arena for the Muslim players and fans. The German football club agreed to a request to build a mosque in the Allianz Arena stadium to serve its Muslim players and ...

The Lagos State Government on Friday said it had just employed 70 women as truck drivers, as part of efforts to empower women in the state. The Deputy Governor, Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, announced this at a news conference in Ikeja today organised to mark Governor Babatunde Fashola`s sixth year in office. ...

Shaniesha Forbes, 14, (pictured above) was killed by her 20 year old boyfriend who then burnt her body and dumped her remains on a beach just because he thought she was pregnant. Below is how�New York Post�is reporting it: The family of the 14-year-old Brooklyn girl who was allegedly killed ...

The state Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, MrAdemorin Kuye, gave the figure at a news conference organised to mark Gov.Babatunde Fashola`s sixth year in office. He said the figure was derived from a research recently conducted by the Ministry of Budgeting and Planning, which showed that the residents ...

Nigeria on Wednesday pledged a donation of two million U.S. dollars (about N320m) in support of agricultural development and conduct of free and fair elections in Mali. Vice-President Namadi Sambo made the pledge in Brussels at the International Donors Conference on the Development of Mali, organised by the EU, a ...

A terrible accident occurred today around 5pm at Ijoju, Sango Ota, that left two people dead. A trailer used in conveying sharp sand crushed an Okada man and his female passenger while they were trying to cross the road. The bodies were left there for a bit before it was ...

The clock will start ticking again on Fox’s real-time thriller 24. The network on Monday confirmed plans to restart the action thriller, which starred Kiefer Sutherland as counter-terrorist agent Jack Bauer and ended its eight-season run in 2010. The new season, one of two “limited series” Fox plans for 2014, ...

Dear compatriots, 1.��� It has become necessary for me to address you on the recent spate of terrorist activities and protracted security challenges in some parts of the country, particularly in Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Gombe, Bauchi, Kano, Plateau and most recently Bayelsa, Taraba, Benue and Nasarawa states.� These unfortunate events ...