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Four persons were killed yesterday as gunmen, believed to have laid ambush, opened fire on the convoy of the Emir of Kano Alhaji Ado Bayero who was on his way back to the palace after attending a Quranic competition in the city. Though Bayero, a highly revered traditional ruler in ...

A sugarcane seller is presently on the run, for stabbing his 19-year-old customer, Umaru Abdulrahaman, to death on Wednesday morning in Wadata, Makurdi town, Benue state. Local media reported that the teenage customer, a resident of 20 Kano street, Wadata, was repeatedly stabbed in the chest by the sugarcane seller ...

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 ...

  The police in Lagos State have arrested a 27-year-old housemaid, Mariam Acheme, and four others (picture above) for allegedly robbing the housemaid�s boss. NaijaVibe.Net gathered that the housemaid, invited her boyfriend, Dansu Akokran, and another person at large to rob her boss and also stage her own kidnap. The ...

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 ...

The Nigerian music industry definitely moved to the next level this year (2012) and we expect that the industry will keep getting better with a lot of re-branding that took place in the year which prompted international collabo; some made headlines others didn’t cause the artist decided not to promote ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The Lagos State Government has given out 140 transformers that cost N975m to members of the State House of Assembly, ministries, agencies and parastatals to boost energy generation. Commissioner for Rural Development, Cornelius Ojelabi, at an event to mark the handover in Badagry, said the transformers were a fulfillment of ...

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We had earlier announced the unveiling of Congo based VMK�s Africa designed Elikia smartphone. You can read the post here: VMK unveils Congo designed Android Elikia smartphone VMK�s Elikia smartphone has officially launched. According to the company�s C.E.O.,�Verone Mankou,�VMK wants to be for Africa what Apple is for the U.S. ...

The multi million naira Hilltop Mansion of former President Olusegun Obasanjo is presently on fire. The house located in Abeokuta is the official residence of Chief Obasanjo. The cause of the fire is still unknown