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President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria removed the governor of the country’s central bank from his post on Thursday, after the bank governor repeatedly charged that billions of dollars in oil revenue owed to the treasury was missing. The dismissal of the bank governor, Lamido Sanusi, was seen as further evidence of the Nigerian government’s weakening resolve in tackling widespread corruption, a problem that has plagued the country since independence, analysts said. Mr. Sanusi’s removal was greeted with dismay in financial markets. The country’s stock market fell sharply, bond trading was halted and the value of the Nigerian currency, the naira, plunged to a record low against the dollar before the bank intervened to prop it up. Outside investors had generally seen Mr. Sanusi as an effective regulator of the country’s troubled banking sector; his tenure was scheduled to last until June.

After he was sentence to death by hanging by an Ikeja High Court, sitting in Lagos State, Akolade Arowolo burst into tears and began to pray.

By David Gambo “Africa I have long being away from you, wondering like a Fulani cow…I feel the warm of your arms…the Tomtom of revolution beats in our hearts…” A quote from ‘Freetown’ a poem by Sly Cheney Coker. “Things fall apart, the centre can not hold” is a popular quote even among the illiterates in Africa especially Nigeria. Achebe, Coker, Soyinka and a host of others were and are great African writers with Africa in view. Virtually all of them receives Western education abroad and some stayed back to serve foreign masters but they never for onece despise or forget their origin. All their writings were either based on the fight for freedom from colonialism or on the essence of the african culture. They exported African traditions to the white-man land and imported as well whiteman values but compromised not their native standards. Why am i saying this? It is disheartening that opportunist African West based writer– Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie i s deviating from well establish...

Here are some photos from the comedian's recent photo-shoot to promote his annual AY Live Easter Sunday show. Funny and cute. Continue to see more photos...

A few months back you all saw behind the scenes  pics  of Rihanna's beach shoot for Vogue Brazil. In some of the pics, Rihanna's perky boobs were on display but how many of you noticed her extreme nipple piercing? BadGal RiRi put a spike through each boob. In case you missed it, see the up-close pics after the cut...18+

According to reports and tweets from David Ekpo, a staff of Ecobank, Babatunde Oke was allegedly killed in police custody yesterday. Tunde (pictured above), who worked at the Ladipo Oluwole, Ogba branch of the bank, had been accused of fraud and handed over to the police. Davido Ekpo claims Tunde died after severe torture by the police. He leaves behind a wife and two children, a 2 year old and a 5-month old. Continue to see more tweets...

A Couple's desperation for a baby led them into a programme of bogus herbal treatments that convinced them she was pregnant and had given birth - until DNA tests proved it was a lie. The British couple, who have not been named, returned from the specialist hospital in Nigeria to bring up their 'daughter' in Britain when they were arrested, and the little girl seized. They had gone to a doctor in Lagos, Nigeria, to spend more than £4,500 on 'herbs' in a last ditch attempt to conceive after a decade of trying. Miraculously, the substances they ate seemed to mimic the effects of pregnancy. Even a London GP believed the symptoms, issuing a maternity leave certificate. Nine months later, Dr Cletus Okolo staged a charade labour, during which the mother was drugged. At the end, she was handed what she believed to be her daughter.