Gambian President Yahya Jammeh on Friday rejected the results of the December 1 election and called for his country to vote again — a week after initially accepting his defeat. Jammeh, who has ruled Gambia with an iron grip since a 1994 military coup, suffered a shocking loss after running for his fifth term. […]
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Why Igbos should join APC – Orji Kalu
December 10, 2016 
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Former Gov. Orji Kalu of Abia State says it is more beneficial for the South-East to join the All Progressives Congress (APC), in order to benefit from being in the mainstream national politics. Mr. Kalu said this during an interaction with journalists at his “Camp Neya” country home at Igbere in Bende Local Government Area […]
Continue reading Nana Akufo-Addo wins Ghana presidential election
December 9, 2016 0 Comments
Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party has won Ghana’s presidential election with an absolute majority over President John Mahama, two influential private radio stations said on Friday. Joy FM’s website showed the opposition candidate winning 53.27 percent of the vote and Mahama with 44.93 percent. The results, the station said was based on its count of […]
Continue reading “Arrest Obasanjo, IBB, Tinubu, others to show seriousness in anti-corruption war”
December 9, 2016 0 Comments
A former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Humphrey Asobie, on Thursday advised the anti-corruption agencies to be holistic and go for the ‘big fishes’ in the fight against corruption. Mr. Asobie, who was the chairman of the board of the Nigerian Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, NEITI, made this call while speaking […]
Continue reading “My husband left because I refused to give him oral sex”, wife tells Lagos court
December 8, 2016 1 Comment
A 42-year-old woman, Fausat Ayinde, approached a Lagos Island Customary Court on Thursday for the dissolution of her 15-year-old marriage on grounds of emotional abuse. Fausat told the court that her husband deserted her because she refused him oral sex, adding that he made her feel inferior because of his complaints and verbal abuse. The […]
Continue reading “Nigerian journalist detained for writing ‘offensive’ story against SSS”
December 7, 2016 0 Comments
The Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Kogi council, has dragged the State Security Service, SSS, to a Federal High Court, Lokoja, over ‘unlawful’ arrest and continued detention of its member, Friday Ogungbemi. Mr. Ogungbemi, a Lokoja-based journalist and publisher, was arrested and detained by the SSS, also called DSS, on November 30 over alleged offensive […]
Continue reading Father jailed for life for leaving son to die in hot car while ‘sexting’
December 6, 2016 0 Comments
Justin Ross Harris, 36, has been jailed for life without the possibility of parole for leaving his son to die in a hot car. Prosecutors, while argueing that Harris wanted to be free of family responsibilities, said he went into his office and sent sexually explicit messages to a woman while his son, Cooper, died […]
Continue reading Nigerian soldiers, policemen arrested for ‘raping, sexually exploiting’ women displaced by Boko Haram
December 6, 2016 0 Comments
The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Ibrahim Idris, said two policemen, three army personnel, one prison official, one Air Force personnel, a staff of Borno Ministry for Agriculture and two members of the Civilian JTF have been arrested for sexually abusing women and girls displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency. A report published in Human Rights […]
Continue reading I’ll hold private funeral on Trump’s inauguration day – Soyinka
December 5, 2016 0 Comments
Revered playwright and Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, says he will hold a private funeral on January 20 when United States President-elect, Donald Trump, is inaugurated as President. Soyinka, who spoke in Lagos on Monday, explained that the funeral is not to mourn with the citizens of the US over their choice of president but […]
Continue reading About 500 Nigerians die of HIV/AIDs daily – NACA
December 5, 2016 0 Comments
At least 500 Nigerians die of HIV/AIDs daily, with an average new infection of 600 people every day, says Sani Aliyu, Director General, National Agency for the Control of AIDs, NACA. Mr. Aliyu gave the figure during an interview with the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, about HIV/AIDs, aired on Saturday night. He said although […]
Continue reading Donald Trump names Nigerian to strategic policy board
December 4, 2016 0 Comments
United States President-elect, Donald Trump, has tapped a Nigerian investment banker, Bayo Ogunlesi, to serve as a strategist on his economic policy team. The 16-member group will be led by Stephen Schwarzman of the American equity firm, Blackstone, CNN reported on Friday. Mr. Ogunlesi, a private equity tycoon, will serve as a member of the […]
Continue reading You can now test yourself for HIV
December 2, 2016 1 Comment
When it comes to HIV/AIDS, the new word in the medical world is self-testing. With the advent of new technologies in medicine, you and I can know our HIV status with a simple test that can be taken in the privacy of our homes. Nowadays, testing yourself for HIV means that you and other people […]
Continue reading Brazilian legend Ronaldinho ‘to come out of retirement’ to play for Chapecoense after tragic plane crash
December 2, 2016 0 Comments
Ronaldinho is reportedly considering coming out of retirement to play for Chapecoense. The Brazilian side were struck by tragedy this week after the plane crash in Colombia. 71 people, including 19 Chape players, plus club staff and journalists died when the aircraft carrying the squad to for the first leg of the Copa Sul-Americana final […]
Continue reading Avoid premarital sex, I married my wife a virgin – Governor Ayade
December 2, 2016 0 Comments
Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State said, yesterday, that he married his wife as a virgin, which is the pride of Africans, who value the virtues of chastity. Governor Ayade, who made the disclosure in Calabar, while delivering a lecture on the HIV/AIDS scourge to mark the 2016 World Aids Day, said the greatest […]
Continue reading Trump: I have destroyed my ‘green card’ – Soyinka
December 1, 2016 0 Comments
Nobel prize-winning author Wole Soyinka said Thursday he has fulfilled his pledge to throw away his US residency green card and leave the country if Donald Trump won the presidential election. Shortly before the vote, Soyinka had vowed to give up his permanent US residency over a Trump victory to protest against the Republican billionaire’s […]
Continue reading 4 in 10 people with HIV don’t know status
November 30, 2016 0 Comments
The World Health Organisation has issued new guidelines to broaden self-testing for HIV amidst concern that up to 18 million people living with the virus, majority of them unaware of their HIV-positive status, are unable to access treatment. The guidelines allow for rapid testing lasting up to 20 minutes, using oral fluid, blood, or […]
Continue reading Lady Gaga turns heads in bizarre outfit (Photos)
November 30, 2016 0 Comments
Lady Gaga lived up to her bold and glamorous reputation as she flaunted her unique sense of style in another head-turning outfit… The Poker Face singer is in Paris ahead of her highly anticipated performance at the annual Victoria’s Secret runway show in the city of love, and she’s been showing off her love for […]
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