Category Archives: PEOPLE

Niger urged to release Al Jazeera crew, including Yvonne Ndege

June 17, 2013 1 comment

Al Jazeera’s four-person Niger team is still being held by authorities, despite the Attorney General saying there was no evidence to detain them, and the fact that their footage was earlier app...

Fatai Rolling Dollar suffered respiratory complications

June 13, 2013 no comments

Fatai Olarenwaju Olagunju, the highlife maestro popularly known as Fatai Rolling Dollar, died on Wednesday morning after suffering respiratory illness for a short while, reports have said. The star w...

Nigerian oil tycoon’s daughter becomes first black marchioness a...

June 13, 2013 no comments

Emma McQuiston, daughter of millionaire Nigerian oil tycoon, became the first black marchioness over the weekend when she tied the knot to the future Marquess of Bath, Caewlin Thynn, but the marriage...

Nigerian cook survives two days under the ocean in shipwreck air bubbl...

June 12, 2013 no comments

Harrison Okene, the cook on the Jascon-4 tugboat that capsized on May 26, has told of how he spent two and half days under the ocean, certain he was going to die until rescue came his way. Okene, 29,...

Marathon runner didn’t know she was pregnant, mistook labour pai...

June 6, 2013 no comments

An aspiring half-marathon runner, who has been training hard for the upcoming June 22 race, was surprised to find that her severe back pains was not just because of her just concluded two-hour traini...

Aggrieved family says mother’s name excluded from Dana crash mem...

June 3, 2013 no comments

The grieving Abu Iyere family were doubly upset when the discovered that the name of their mother, Mrs. Maria Abu Iyere, who was one of the victims of the June 3, 2012 Dana plane crash, was not inclu...

PHOTOS: Baby rescued from sewage pipe claimed by grandparents, mother ...

May 30, 2013 no comments

Chinese officials say the newborn baby boy who was rescued from a sewage pipe after his mother flushed him down the toilet has been taken from hospital by his maternal grandparents. The infant was re...

INCREDIBLE PHOTOS: Mom gives birth on a sidewalk, right outside hospit...

May 29, 2013 no comments

A South Florida mother couldn’t wait to get inside the hospital and instead gave birth on a sidewalk outside a Boca Raton hospital. Her birth photographer, Emily Robinson, who was there to capt...

Reuben Abati’s mother dies at 81

May 24, 2013 no comments

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity Reuben Abati’s mom died on Thursday. Abati’s mother, Madam Maria Taiwo Abati, was 81. The spokesman to President Goodluck Jonathan ...

Asylum seeker in Britain fears becoming 14th bride of Swaziland’...

May 19, 2013 no comments

A young woman, 22-year-old Tintswalo Ngobeni, is seeking asylum in Britain after she turned down an offer of marriage from Swaziland’s polygamous King Mswati III. Ngobeni, who fled the south Af...