Reuben Abati’s mother dies at 81
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 ...
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Asylum seeker in Britain fears becoming 14th bride of Swaziland’...
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...
Church, community and family fight over Achebe’s body five days ...
A church, a community and a family are at war over who has the right to lay late “Things Fall Apart” author, Chinua Achebe, to rest. The St. Philip’s Anglican Church, the Ogidi comm...
WATCH: Four-year-old nursery pupil is new mayor of US town
Metro UK - A four-year-old boy has found himself having to worry about more than just what his mum has packed for his lunch after being voted in as his town’s mayor. Robert Tufts became an unlikely l...
LOOK: Photos of the man deported from Saudi Arabia for being too hands...
Behold! The face of the man who is too sexy for Saudi Arabia. Omar Borkan Al Gala has been identified as one of the three men who was deported from the wealthy country for being too handsome. And loo...
“Virgin cleansing” – HIV positive father rapes 2-yea...
Here is some truly disturbing news. Police in Guateng are investigating a HIV positive father who allegedly raped his two-year-old daughter because he believed “sex with a virgin would cure him...
Man sentenced to up to 15 years behind bars for sex with dogs
Huffington Post – A Michigan man who pleaded no contest to having sex with two dogs felt the bite of a wary judge on Monday. Kurtis Peterson, 36, was sentenced to between one and 15 years by ju...
Nigerian woman married to British man in coma after attempting suicide...
A 19-year-old asylum seeker from Nigeria, who is married to a British man, is in a coma after an overdose just days before she was due to be deported to Nigeria for being a “sham bride,” ...
Kano’s Hisba board disqualifies five pregnant women from mass we...
Kano state’s Hisba board thinks three is a crowd. Five women who were to set to take part in Saturday’s mass wedding in northern Nigeria’s largest state have been disqualified becau...
Hisba board to marry off a thousand more women in Kano
NAN – As part of pre-marriage rites organised for the wives –to-be, the board charged prospective couples to maintain their new marital status by striving to stay in the marriage. The Deputy Co...