Ladies and gentlemen, please join me as I raise a toast to an African icon, business titan, managerial wizard and philanthropic legend, Dr Michael Adeniyi Agbolade Isola Adenuga, as he clocks 60 on Monday, April 29, 2013. He has done more than enough to justify each of those adjectives. On a personal note and as a journalist, I’ve had the ... Read More »
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Uk to Build Prisons in Nigeria,Plans to send Home 594 Prisoners
British taxpayers are to fund a prison building programme in poor countries such as Nigeria and Jamaica so more foreign inmates languishing in British jails can be sent home, David Cameron announced yesterday. The Prime Minister admitted that too many foreign prisoners remained in this country and said ‘helping to build prisons in their own country’ would ensure ... Read More »
Help us… unemployed parents of triplets cry
THOUGH the birth of children should bring joy, to the family of Kumaga, their latest triplet is something else. After losing his job, 32-year-old Mr. Derrick Kumaga, an unemployed welder and his wife, Susan were blessed with triplets. But instead of rejoicing at the birth of the trio, he is now in pain and agony following the births. The triplets ... Read More »
Nigerian Lady Takes Overdose of Drugs to avoid being Deported,Now in coma
An asylum seeker who is married to a British man is fighting for her life in hospital after an overdose just days before she was due to be sent back to Nigeria. May Brown, a 19-year-old college student, fled to Britain from her home country three years ago after witnessing her father’s murder and being subjected to sexual abuse. She ... Read More »
Toni Payne Launches Line of Human Hair Eyelashes, calls it IncrediLASH
Entertainment Diva, Poet, and CEO of Toni Payne Concepts, Toni Payne, has launched a new addition to her cosmetic line, called IncrediLASH Human Hair Eye Lashes. IncrediLASH is a high end line of Human hair Faux eyelashes, created to give you soft, lustrous, natural looking and feeling, fuller lashes without breaking your pocket. Say no to Faux Eyelashes that ... Read More »
WHY I MOVED OUT OF MY HUSBAND’S HOUSE iyalode Adunni Bankole
WHY I MOVED OUT OF MY HUSBAND’S HOUSE I suspect there must have been a reason for you packing out of your matrimonial home at this point in the life of the union?. The man has been busy for five years; he hasn’t had time for any of his older wives for five years. He has been into politics, ... Read More »
Femi Fani Kayode Confess “i Cheats on my wife”
This is According to the Latest Edition of City people I DATED OTHER WOMEN For a couple of years I became deeply attached to this young lady. I will refer to her as “Omo C”, I got very close to her and we fell in love. Eventually things did not go to well for us because I was ... Read More »
Because of N4,000, woman loses day-old triplets
FOR Temitope Sanni, the birth of a set of triplets has become more of a curse than blessing: Shortly after they were born, the babies, all boys, died one after the other. Reason: The parents could not raise the N4,000 required of them to buy drugs. Apparently because of the family’s indigent condition, the woman was delivered of the babies ... Read More »
UGANDA Celebrates Chinua achebe at varsity symposium; sets up Prize in his honou
Literature: Considered the father of African literature, Ugandans’ love for Achebe’s works was reflected at the symposium organised in his honour on April 16. This is not dancing on the graves of the dead but the recent death of Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has come as a blessing to Uganda after Makerere Institute of Social Research (Misr) in collaboration with ... Read More »
UNILAG Medical Student Drowns at Elegushi Beach
A 200-level student of the Department of Dentistry, School of Medicine, University of Lagos, Unilag, Idi-Araba, Eniola Abiola has drowned. The incident occurred at the Elegushi Beach, Ikate, in Eti-Osa Local Government Area, of Lagos, where the deceased was attending a friend’s birthday party. Abiola was reported to have got to the party at 8:15 p.m. and later joined her ... Read More »