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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 ...

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a towering figure in postwar British and world politics and the only woman to become British prime minister, has died at the age of 87. She suffered a stroke Monday, her spokeswoman said. Thatcher’s funeral will be at St. Paul’s Cathedral, with full military ...

A�Russian billionaire has unveiled plans to make humans immortal by converting them into �Terminator-style” cyborgs � a creature that’s part human and part machine � within the next three decades. Thirty two-year-old mogul, Dmitry Itskov has been pushing the project forward since 2011 when he founded the 2045 Initiative. His ...

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has posted on its official Facebook fan page the passenger’s manifest of the ill-fated auto crash that occurred Friday 5th of April at Ugbogui Village along the Benin-Ore road. A Dangote truck reportedly hit a petrol tanker after its tire burst, which also involved ...

On Tuesday, Lagos State Police Command, paraded seven suspects of a robbery gang that attacked the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos, last month, killed two policemen and injured several others. Among the suspects, was the General Overseer of The way of Joy church located in Egbe, a Lagos suburb. ...