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Veteran Nigerian actress, Omotola Jalade has gotten a confirmation letter as member of the OSCARS voting board. Being among the new members invited to join the group behind the Oscars film awards, Actress and philanthropist, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, has now received her letter of confirmation ...

A 31-year-old Nigerian man who attempted to rape a lady at Milan’s Garibaldi station few days ago, has been arrested by the Police in Italy. It was gathered that the Nigerian man who is an undocumented migrant who made a request to Italian authorities ...

Osama Bin Laden’s Son, Hamza Bin Laden, has reportedly married the daughter of Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker in the 9/11 terror attacks, according to his family. Osama bin Laden’s half-brothers confirmed the union in an interview with Guardian. Speaking to the press for ...

At least 20 prisoners are on the run in the biggest jailbreak in the history of the Gambia.   According to reports, the prisoners escaped from Gambia’s second penitentiary on Saturday, triggering a serious manhunt. They escaped from the remand wing ...

The number of confirmed cases in Congo’s new outbreak of the Ebola virus has risen to 13, including three deaths, the health ministry said late Saturday. The World Health Organization has warned that this new outbreak of the deadly virus ...

A teenager who planned an Isis-inspired terror attack in London after being prevented from joining the terrorist group in Syria has been jailed for life. Safaa Boular was just 17 when she mounted the plot, making her the youngest woman ...

Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed said this in an interview on Saturday. The Minister when asked about the party’s next step for the defected APC members to vacate their seats, said: “I still believe that the party (APC) reserves the legal ...

It was a clean sweep for Egypt as the North African nation carted away all medals in the men’s hammer throw final at the ongoing African Athletics Championship in Asaba. Mostafa Elgamel claimed the gold with a throw of  73.50m;  ...

Former Cabinet minister and West Mugirango MP Henry Obwocha has died. The current West Mugirango MP Vincent Kemosi said the former lawmaker, 69, died after collapsing at his home in Nairobi on Friday night. Obwocha had on Friday afternoon attended ...

Eighteen people have died after a Mi-8 helicopter crashed in the north of Krasnoyarsk region, East Siberia. TASS reported that the helicopter crashed after colliding midair with the cargo being carried by another helicopter.   “It crashed immediately after takeoff because of ...

Red Carpet is all about making a stupendously statement. It doesn’t matter whether they wear Versace or Chanel, fortunately for fashion lovers, celebs nowadays are willing to experiment. From Emmy Awards, to elegance at Cannes Film Festival, these women made ...

Cancer-stricken Australian golfer Jarrod Lyle thanked friends and fans in an emotional message Thursday after deciding to halt his treatment for leukaemia, saying he was overwhelmed by the outpouring of support. The 36-year-old former US PGA Tour player moved into palliative ...

Through hellfire and brimstone, “The Big Red Machine” has emerged victorious not inside the squared circle, but in the race to become the new mayor of Knox County, Tennessee. Republican Glenn Jacobs, better known to the WWE Universe as Kane, ...

Traffic offneders in Lagos state were forced to sweep and cut grass by LASTMA officials this morning. lol  See more photos below.  

Apple has become the first publicly traded company in the world to be valued at $1 trillion. The tech company’s stock jumped 2.8 percent to as high as $207.05 around midday today, bringing its gain to about 9 percent since Tuesday ...

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa won election Friday with just over 50 percent of the ballots as the ruling party maintained control of the government in the first vote since the fall of longtime leader Robert Mugabe. Mnangagwa received 50.8 percent ...

The mystery behind the disappearance of several boats in the Bermuda Triangle may have finally been unraveled in a new theory by British scientists. According to the recent research, “rogue” waves going up to 100 feet could be engulfing boats ...

19-year-old Methia Nalukwago, a student at Makerere University in the capital Kampala, is excited by the proposal to have all students undergo compulsory HIV/AIDS testing. Some students, she says, have been living in denial. “Our friends, we study with them ...

Popular Ugandan socialite and model, Judith Heard has been arrested by authorities in Uganda over her nude photos which were leaked back in May. She was arrested on Tuesday at Kampala city streets and taken to the Kampala Central Police, after she failed ...

Madonna suggested in a new interview that she relocated her family from their Manhattan base across the Atlantic Ocean to Portugal to escape Donald Trump. The singer spoke to Vogue Italia about the motivation behind her big move saying “this ...

A serving youth corps member, Tony Zita, has died after he was involved in a fatal accident. According to a twitter thread shared by The Capital moverment, an organization he was actively involved in, a police rescue team who arrived ...

Jennifer Aniston has delivered one of her most candid interviews to date about her personal life, hitting back at her critics and declaring her ‘purpose on this planet’ may not be ‘to procreate’. The 49-year-old Friends vet, who was interviewed by ...

Indonesian activists have filed an official complaint against three judges in Sumatra, who sentenced a teenage girl to six months in prison for having an illegal abortion after she was repeatedly raped by her brother. An alliance of women’s rights ...

Margaret Dery, the winner of Miss Ghana 2017 beauty pageant has resigned while stating that being Miss Ghana was one of the worst experiences of her life. The beauty queen, who was crowned 8 months ago, claims she sent the organizers an email informing ...

Three European journalists were killed overnight in Central African Republic (CAR) by unidentified assailants who ambushed their vehicle, the mayor of the nearest town said on Tuesday. Henri Depele, the mayor of Sibut, around 200 km (125 miles) northeast of ...