Italian coastguards recovered the bodies of 13 women who died after a crowded migrant boat capsized in heavy weather as rescue boats approached it off the coast of Lampedusa, an island south of Sicily, local authorities said on Monday. ...
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Governor David Umahi has ordered his security details to shoot anyone who block his convoy which according to him is backed by the law. The Ebonyi state Governor who hosted some guests at the State Executive Chambers in Abakaliki, recalled ...
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Singer Falz is currently trending on Nigerian Twitter over the #SexForGrades documentary. Popular Nigerian feminist, Ozzy Etomi, took to her Twitter handle to ask why singer, Falz has not spoken since the #SexForGrades documentary was released by BBC yesterday. ...
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Singer, Seun Kuti has called out the leadership of ASUU (Academic Staff Union of Universities) for keeping mute over the trending #SexForGrades scandal. According to Seun Kuti, ‘ASUU leaders make una no pretend like say una no hear all ...
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A man from Texas robbed a bank the day before his wedding to pay for his fiancee’s ring and the cost of the venue for their ceremony. Trinity County Sheriff, Woody Wallace said on Facebook that Heath Bumpous, 36, of Crockett, about ...
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Abike Dabiri, The Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission has reacted to the trending #SexForGrades scandal rocking Nigerian universities. According to the diplomat, ‘great journalism by BBCAfrica for the #sexforgrades expose. Beyond being suspended, the lecturer should be tried under ...
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Earlier this month, former Dallas police officer Amber Guyer was sentenced to 10 years in prison for fatally shooting her unarmed neighbor she mistook him for a burglar. After her sentencing on Wednesday, October 2, the victim Botham Jean’s brother Brandt Jean ...
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The Kremlin has released new photos of Russia’s president Vladmir Putin hiking in the Siberian desert, as the country gears up for the 67th birthday of one of the world’s most powerful leaders. This isn’t the first time ...
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While a number of people are praising BBC journalists for going undercover to expose the rut in Nigerian universities with the sex for grade exposé, some Nigerians are not happy about it and feel the BBC has ulterior motives. A number ...
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Kiki Mordi, the BBC journalist who went undercover to expose university lecturers guilty of sex for grades, has started receiving death threats from people angry about the exposé. Kiki, who said she was herself a victim of sexual harassment in ...
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Rangoli Ranaut, an acid survivor and sister of popular Bollywood actress, Kangana Ranaut in a series of social media posts, revealed the heart-wrenching yet brave story of her survival after an unfortunate event that changed her life. Rangoli ...
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EFCC has denied reports that N900 million which it is investigating from the Central Bank of Nigeria Ibadan zone, has disappeared. The agency says although it is investigating the said amount, on no account was the money moved from the ...
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A Nigerian couple in the UK has been sentenced for selling illegal skin-whitening products online. Jonathan and Holiness Ikpere have avoided jail after admitting selling the toxic products. They are thought to have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds from selling banned ...
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Ghanaian broadcast journalist Gifty Anti Oheneyere has said that some female teachers and lecturers are also in the habit of demanding for sex in return for good grades from their male students. Gifty stated this while reacting to the ...
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On Monday, October 7th, thirty eight persons reportedly drowned inside the Kirfi River, Kirfi Local Government Area of Bauchi State. According to the chairman of Kirfi Local Government Area, Alhaji Bappa Danmalikin Bara, while speaking to newsmen yesterday, “I want ...
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Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State have defended his decision to hire ”30 Saudi-Arabia based Islamic Clerics to pray for peace in the state and also recruiting 1,000 hunters who reportedly have the power to appear and disappear to fight ...
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Gifty has suggested to the Nigerian government the “exact punishment” she believes should be given to rapists. The mother-of-one, who rose to fame in the Big Brother Naija season 2 reality show, said the perfect punishment will be castration, ...
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Some old men were seen watching porn in bus they boarded with other passengers from Ajah to CMS in Lagos. A co-passenger who shared the video on Twitter, said the men are obviously in their 50s and they had a “swell ...
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Bisi Fayemi, wife of the Governor of Ekiti State Kayode Fayemi, has narrated how she was sexually harassed in the University, in reaction to BBC’s hour long #sexforgrade documentary which exposed randy lecturers in some Universities in Nigeria and Ghana. Bisi ...
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Minnesota Democratic Representative, Ilhan Omar has filed for divorce from her husband, Ahmed Hirsi. While Omar and Hirsi have been legally married for 21 months, they’ve been together on-and-off for more than 17 years. The four-page divorce filing ...
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Reno Omokri has responded to a follower who doesn’t agree with his opinion that some of the most loving people are covered in tattoos. It all began with Reno sharing a photo of Danish aid worker Anja Ringgren Loven helping ...
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Okwechime Emmanuel, a University of Benin (UNIBEN) professor, who reacted to BBC’s hour long documentary which exposed some randy lecturers in Nigeria and Ghana, has defended academics enmeshed in such scandal by stating that sexual harassment is being seen from one angle. ...
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A tragic incident occurred on Monday October 7 at Uwasota Junction in Ugbowo community of Benin City, as a 17-year-old sales girl was found dead at a shop she works in. The deceased whose head was covered with a black cellophane ...
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US President Donald Trump has threatened to destroy Turkey’s economy totally if the Turkish military ‘does what he doesn’t like, hours after the US administration changed it’s foreign policy in North Estern Syria by pulling out it’s military. Trump has ...
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Ibrahim Magu, the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), has said that the fear of the agency has prevented many serving state governors from organising flamboyant parties within and outside Nigeria. Magu made the statement when he ...
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