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Boko Haram self-proclaimed leader, Abubakar Shekau, has disclaimed a ceasefire offer by a so-called commander of the Islamic sect, Muhammed Abdulazeez Ibn Idris, to the Federal Government in January. Shekau, according to a report by the Associated Press (AP), in an undated video given to reporters in Maiduguri, the Borno ...

Former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has been advised to face his certificate scandal alone without dragging the state Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, into the messy affair, which was already in the public domain before the present administration came to power. Kalu had reportedly cried out over ...

Yemi Solade is in the news again for sexual harassment issues, few months after United States based lady, Bunmi Ladipo, accused him of harassing her sexually. The lady told journalists then that the actor sent her a friendship request on popular social network site, Facebook and: I accepted his friendship ...

France will not negotiate with gunmen claiming to be from Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram who have taken a French family of seven hostage, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Tuesday. The three adults and four children were seized in Cameroon’s far north near the Nigerian border last week. ...

Police are believed to have seized a computer belonging to a young woman who was badly scarred in an acid attack amid suspicions that she may have caused the injuries herself. But her family fear that detectives are not doing enough to catch the perpetrator of the attack and are ...

Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State has expressed surprise about speculations that he was nursing an ambition to contest the 2015 presidential election allegedly in a joint ticket with Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State. Presidential campaign posters of the Jigawa governor and that of Amaechi cropped up on some ...

Former United States President Bill Clinton Thursday joined President Goodluck Jonathan and Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), among others, to unveil the Eko Atlantic City, about five million square metres of land reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean. Clinton, who spoke at the dedication ceremony of the Eko Atlantic ...

Ten personages, including renowned industrialist, Mr. Oba Otudeko, retired Catholic Archbishop of Lagos Diocese, Olubunmi Cardinal Okogie and Second Republic Governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, are to be conferred with the Life-time Achievement Award at the 18th edition of the THISDAY Awards, slated for Abeokuta, the Ogun State ...

Another day another incredibly sad news. Legendary actor Justus Esiri has died. The Member of the Order of the Niger (MON), famous for his role as the Village Headmaster in popular 80’s sitcom of the same name, passed on last night. No details yet on the cause of death, but ...

The Super Eagles coach has submitted his resignation to the Nigerian Football Federation, after a dramatic falling out with the governing body 24 hours after picking up the trophy. Keshi told Goal.com a few days before the final, that he would “pack his bags and leave” if he felt he ...

The publisher of Nigeria’s national daily, ThisDay Newspaper, Nduka obaigbena is set to launch two new television stations. The well connected media mogul, according to a release, will kick start Arise News and Arise 360 TV stations in four cities around the world. The stations will broadcast from Lagos, London, ...

A fire swept through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday, killing at least 180 people and leaving hundreds injured, police and firefighters said. Sandro Meinerz, a spokesman for the police in the city of Santa Maria, told local media that the fire broke out at the Kiss club ...

After decades of fighting for the formal recognition and acceptance of their products just like western medicine, traditional medicine practitioners appear to have now won the heart of the government. This was as the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, Wednesday disclosed that his ministry was in the process of ...

Naija’s Most Wanted, a musical concert often staged as one of the top notch events during the Calabar Christmas Festival has never failed to live up to its billing as one of Nigeria’s top-flight music concerts. The 2012 edition which was sponsored by Diamond Bank Plc, was graced by top ...

Die Hard director, John McTiernan has lost his appeal to have a one-year prison sentence overturned for lying to the FBI in a wiretapping case. The 62-year-old was sentenced in 2010 after pleading guilty to lying over hiring a private investigator to wiretap a film producer. He had been free ...

EMIBRIAN – LKT’s [Alaye Mi] Manager and Edlyne Records’ A&R manager is dead� He died in the afternoon of Tuesday, 15th, January 2013. Although the cause of his death is still not known and has not been made public but NV gathered that Emibrain died exactly a month to his ...

The Olugbo of Ugbo Kingdom in Ondo state and chairman of Obat Oil, Oba Fredrick Obateru Akinruntan, made history�last week�as the first black person�to buy�the 2014�model�of Bentley. The Oba didn’t just buy it, it was specially customized for him, according to sources close to him. The new ride, which arrived ...

Rita Levi-Montalcini, a biologist who conducted underground research in defiance of Fascist persecution and went on to win a Nobel Prize for helping unlock the mysteries of the cell, died at her home in Rome on Sunday. She was 103 and had worked well into her final years. Rome Mayor ...

E!s Fashion Police has in their end of the year episode named Rihanna the sexiest star for the year 2012. According to the lead host – ace comedienne Joan Rivers – Rihanna was bestowed with the honor because she looks effortlessly chic in any outfit be it casuals or haute ...