Wike Has Paid $1.5m To Produce Video Clips To Pull Down Buhari Govt - APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has raised alarm over an alleged plot by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to pull down the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari and weaken

I’ve destroyed my US Green Card, says Soyinka

Nobel prize-winning author, Prof. Wole Soyinka, said on Thursday he had fulfilled his pledge to throw away his US residency green card and leave the country if Donald Trump won the presidential election.

Shortlybefore the vote, Soyinka had vowed to give up his permanent US residency over a Trump victory to protest against the Republican billionaire’s campaign promises to get tough on immigration.

AFP reported that Soyinka said

EXCLUSIVE: Colombian crash plane missed its crucial refuelling stop after it took off 20 minutes late - because the crew were looking for a player's video game

The plane which crashed in Colombia, wiping out a Brazilian football team, was late taking off because crew had to search for one of the players' lost video games, it was revealed today. Demerson Costa (pictured, left), a defender and one of seven players who did not travel with the team to Medellin, said

Breaking News: Gambia's Jammeh loses Banjul votes to opposition, heavy security deployed

Official results from Gambia’s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) indicates that opposition leader Adama Barrow has beaten incumbent President Yahya Jammeh in the capital Banjul.
Barrow took nearly 50 percent of the vote in Banjul’s three constituencies followed by

Gambia election: Officials engage in a count of marbles to determine the winner

Gambia’s election Polls closed at 1700 on Thursday when officials began the process of counting the marbles that voters had cast for one of three presidential candidates.

Voters on Thursday queued at polling stations all day to place a marble in one of three coloured ballot drums – green for President Yahya Jammeh, grey for Barrow and purple for the third candidate – former ruling party deputy Mama Kandeh.
Gambian officials say the system is designed to avoid

Boko Haram attacks destroy farm communities, bring famine risk

An internally displaced person, Fati Adamu, said she has not seen three of her six children nor her husband since Boko Haram militants attacked her hometown in northeast Nigeria in an hail of bullets.
She is among thousands of refugees at the Bakassi camp in Maiduguri, the city worst hit by a seven-year-old insurgency that has forced more than two million

Drinking too much water is dangerous, warn doctors after woman, 59, is admitted to hospital after overdosing on it

Telling people to 'drink plenty of fluids' when unwell could be dangerous, doctors have warned.

Experts at King's College Hospital in south London questioned the recommendation after treating a 59-year-old woman who drank so much water that she became gravely ill.

The woman, who is not

Breaking: Bomb hoax rocks UN Ave. building

Bomb threat sa Physicians Tower,UN Ave.,Maynila - Col.Desiderio, MPD Station 5 Chief 
Police swooped down at a diagnostics clinic in United Avenue, Manila Thursday after receiving a bomb threat, just three days after authorities foiled a bomb attack by Islamic

Kaduna Assembly approves N214.9 billion 2017 Budget

The Kaduna State House of Assembly on Thursday passed into law, the state’s budget of N214.9 billion for 2017.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the figure is N1 billion less than the budget proposal forwarded by Governor Nasiru El-Rufa’i to the assembly on October 12, for

What sent Kanye West to the hospital? Here are the theories

With Kanye West finally out of the hospital after more than a week of treatment, the speculative drumbeats around “why did he snap?” and “what’s going on?” were still going strong.
First the news: Word that the rapper had checked out of UCLA Medical Center was confirmed by The Times on Wednesday.
He got out Tuesday night after doctors determined he

Tanya Garcia's baby daughter baptized

Actress Tanya Garcia and former Pampanga governor Mark Lapid welcomed their baby daughter to the Christian world last Sunday.
The baptism was held at the Christ the King Church in Quezon City and it was attended by Garcia and Lapid’s family and close friends within and outside showbiz.
Among the celebrities who graced the ceremony were

Nigerian man jailed 4 months for stealing 10 fishes

A Magistrates’ Court in Evbouriaria , Benin City, on Thursday sentenced a man, Sylvester Livinus, 22, to four months imprisonment for stealing 10 cat fish.
The Chief Magistrate, C.E. Oghuma, however, gave the convict N 5, 000 option of fine.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Olatoye Oluwaseun, told the

78 million people living with HIV -UNAIDS

No fewer than 78 million people are currently living with HIV, while 35 million people had died of AIDS since the emergence at about 35 years ago, UNAIDS has said.
Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS and UN Under-Secretary-General, disclosed this in his message to the 2016 World AIDS Day observed on Thursday.
“Today, we commemorate World AIDS Day – we stand in

Mourinho: Half-time pep talk was catalyst for United win

Jose Mourinho revealed that a half-time pep talk set Manchester United on their way to the EFL Cup semi-finals as they roared to a 4-1 triumph over West Ham at Old Trafford.
The Portuguese was serving a one-match touchline ban on Wednesday, but his side shrugged off his absence to record a convincing victory as

EFCC shows how Nyako laundered N29bn

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has provided bank documents detailing how former governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako allegedly transferred state funds. 

 Nyako was arraigned in July, 2015 before a Federal High Court in Abuja on a 37 count charges of conversion of public funds totalling over N29 billion.

 Others charged along with him are his son, Abdulaziz Nyako, and

BREAKING: Again, court denies IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, bail

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday dismissed the bail applications filed by leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, and three others with whom he is being prosecuted by the Federal Government for offences including treasonable felony and an act preparatory to act of terrorism.
Justice Binta Nyako, ruling on the applications filed by

Outcry forces NCC to suspend data tariff hike

The outcry by Nigerians yesterday compelled the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to  suspend  the planned increase in telecom data tariff.

The directive issued by the NCC to telecom operators would have taken effect today.

Before yesterday’s announcement stopping the planned hike, the Senate called for a halt.

It summoned Minister of Communications Adebayo Shittu and

You will go to jail - Donald Trump talk tough

We have too much people who hate America and live here at the same time and this can’t go on. Something has to be done about it. Right after Trump tweeted this post, the liberals immediately called to mind that our Constitution has the First Amendment and it protects the freedom of expression (wish they could remember it while appealing

Zahra Buhari’s wedding reportedly postponed

The wedding ceremony of Zahra, the daughter of President Muhammadu Buhari, has reportedly been postponed.

The ceremony, which was scheduled for this weekend, was moved as a result of President Buhari’s insistence on a low-key wedding for the 21-year-old bride to be,

Photos: Darey celebrate his 10th Anniversary

Here's 2 d next 10 with d only one that makes my existence worth it. Love u 4eva and a day babe! Happy 10th Anniversary to us wrote Darey on his twitter handle