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A mother who left her four kids in a hotel room to go out partying has been banned from giving birth to more children for 13 years. Kimberly Lightsey, aged 30, agreed to not get pregnant before 2025 to avoid five years in jail. She had earlier told the court ...

On January 1, 2013,�The Beat FM 97.9 went live on air, officially launching operations. Auditions were carried out in February 2012 and some staff have already been hired. Cool FM�s�Tyeng �Gang� Gyang is one of the�likely suspects to kick off with the station. The urban station will be rivaling popular ...

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 ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo over the weekend caused a mild drama when he sighted PREMIUM TIMES� correspondent at the Government House in Ogun State. The reporter tried to take a picture of the former president standing beside former Nigerian leader, Ernest Shonekan, with his camera phone, but got a dramatic ...

The Human Right department of Ilemba Hausa Police Division, in Ojo area of Lagos has arrested a 49- year-old man who allegedly had been having carnal knowledge of his teenaged daughter for five years. It was discovered during investigation that his daughter Janet (not real name) got pregnant in the ...

As 2013 gets into full swing, Prophet T. B. Joshua, a man of God renowned for controversial prophesies, has dished out SEVEN things that will happen to individuals this year. According to the report, �The prophecies for nations, continents and for those at the helm of affairs shall be announced ...

A 36-year-old man, Olalekan Kazeem, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for alleged fraud and theft According to police authorities, the suspect�s modus operandi was to either impersonate a popular person on facebook and defraud unsuspecting people or to offer women free rides with his car only ...

President Goodluck Jonathan’s New Year’s message’s to Nigerian outlined government initiatives for 2013. “We will give priority attention in the coming year to flood and erison control, the rehabilitation and expansion of roads,” he said. GEJ also spoke on the issues of employment and security. Nigeria has suffered numerous incidents ...

What can be described as the perfect combination of music artiste and manager has finally been broken apart � pop star David �Davido� Adeleke and his popular manager Asa Asika have parted ways. NET investigations reveal that the pair severed ties on December 28 � a day after Davido performed ...

This evening Lagos State Governor Babtunde Raji Fashola donated N4.5m to actress Ngozi Nwosu who needs N6m for a kidney transplant in the UK. She raised N2million from well meaning Nigerians a few weeks ago. Kudos to Lagos State Government.We wish her a Successful transplant Share your thoughts…………. B3rrilyn

Organisers of the annual�Big Brother Africa�reality TV show have announced that auditions for the 2013 edition of the show�will begin in January 2013. Managing Director of M-Africa,�Biola Alabi, says the �next edition will feature housemates whose activities will provide the audience with happiness, hope, anxiety, friendship, love, arguments and fights. ...

It was an emotional President Goodluck Jonathan who paid tribute to his former National Security Adviser (NSA), General Andrew Owoye Azazi, yesterday at the state funeral mass held in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. The former NSA who died two weeks ago in a helicopter crash at Okoroba area of ...

A 29-year old man, going by the name Nura Mustapha, is currently explaining to homicide detectives at the State Criminal Investigative Department, Panti, Yaba, Lagos State, why he was allegedly caught having ‘sex’ with the corpse of a lady identified as Faith Akin. Mustapha was arrested early in March after ...

Popular billionaire businessman Mike Adenuga has relocated his office from Adeola Odeku to his billion naira Banana Island building. This amazing beautiful edifice is located at 31A Close, Banana Island, Lagos. The gold building in the photo is just a quarter of the entire property. Choi is all I can ...

A 22-year-old woman was brutally raped for five hours by three men on Christmas night. The woman was waiting for her boyfriend near a bar in Philly when she was approached by three men, one of them holding a gun. The men forced her into the back of her own ...

Report reaching us indicates that the Kogi State Governor, Idris Wada, was badly hurt in a fatal road accident this afternoon and is in the intensive care unit at the Kogi State Hospital in Lokoja, the state capital. The ADC to the Kogi State Governor reportedly died on the spot. ...

A mild drama occurred on Wednesday, when security personnel attached to Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State and Senator Chris Anyanwu, representing Imo East senatorial district, engaged each other in an assault that caused �security breach” on both personalities. While the governor claimed that his convoy was assaulted by the ...

To usher in the New Year in a grand style, Star Premium lager beer in partnership with the Lagos State Signage and Advertisement Agency (LASAA) is hosting the first ever Lagos Crossover Concert. The Lagos Crossover concert will be preceded by ten days of music, comedy and all-round entertainment at ...

Journalists in Maiduguri that the gunmen arrived at the warehouse on foot, pretending to be customers before gunning him down. Narrating the incident, the witness said �A group of four teenagers arrived the warehouse on foot and met Girigiri, 58, attending to his business. After a short while, two of ...