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We have  already been regaled with reports provided by the Wikileaks which identified the US embassy in Nigeria as a forward operating base for wide and far reaching acts of subversion against Nigeria which include but not limited to eavesdropping on Nigerian government communication, financial espionage on leading Nigerians, support and funding of subversive groups and insurgents, sponsoring of divisive propaganda among the disparate groups of Nigeria and the use of visa blackmail to induce and coerce high ranking Nigerians into acting in favour of US interests. But beyond what we know from the Wikileaks report, what many  Nigerians  do not know is that US embassy’s subversive activities in  Nigeria  fits into the long term US government’s well camouflaged policy of containment against Nigeria the ultimate goal of which is to eliminate Nigeria as a potential...

A team of online sleuths claim to have exposed an attempt to smear the former governor of Nigeria's central bank. Lamido Sanusi - who is widely respected in the international community - was suspended from the bank last month  after accusing the government of corruption. A few days later, a number of journalists were surprised to receive an email from an unknown man, Wendell Simlin, which linked Sanusi with the militant Islamist group  Boko Haram . The group is believed to have killed thousands of people  in a string of brutal attacks  since 2009. But a handful of digital activists who obtained the email say it was actually written by one of the president's aides, after they found his name in a Word document attached. Reno Omokri - social media advisor to President Goodluck Jonathan - is listed as its author in the document properties. "We just did a simple right click on the document and looked at the 'properties'," says Feyi Fawehinmi, one of the te...

The good looking model and actor joined singer Yemi Alade on stage at last night’s Industry Night. The two grinded and gyrated on stage to one of Yemi’s songs to the delight of the audience. More photo after the cut....

Everyday ladies are devising new trends of showing off in the name of fashion. Nawa o, wetin we fit call this one now? See more after the cut...

They say that if you don’t ask, you won’t get. And that phrase certainly proved fruitful for one of Oprah Winfrey’s fans recently. A Twitter user who goes by the name Snobaby Brandi used the social networking site to tell Oprah how much she loved a dress the star wore in a photo shoot for Essence magazine. ‘You look beautiful in that essence cover pic. WOW. CAN I please have that dress? Cuz I know u won't wear again lol luv u,’ [sic] the fan tweeted. And she got the surprise of her life when the talk show host agreed. ‘You're right I won't wear ever again contact my asst. and show her this tweet,’ Oprah, 60, replied. See The Tweet after The Cut....

5 years ago, Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o starred in  Shuga , a sexually-charged MTV Base Africa soap opera in which she juggled two men. In the three-part first season, the 31-year-old actress played ambitious go-getter Ayira, who sleeps with her boss at Maverick Advertising 'You got what you wanted, right? Now it's my turn,' wealthy Felix said, kissing Ayira over a conference table. 'Do you have rubbers?' Ayira asked. 'Are you sleeping with anyone else?' Felix asked and when she said no he added: 'Then there's no problem, is there?' More Photos after the cut...

I married this man in an elaborate wedding that cost both our parents a fortune less than a year ago. I can't stand him anymore.  And he's told me on numerous occasions that he can't stand me either. At the time I married him everyone told me he was the ideal guy and comes from a good, wealthy family. We dated for less than a year before getting married but the marriage was over before it even started.  He's spoilt, egocentric and with him there's no middle ground. It's his way or the high way. These things I only noticed after I married him. I sincerely can't see myself spending the rest of my life with this man. The last time he touched me was just five months into our marriage.  I'm sure he's getting it somewhere else but who cares? We are still keeping up appearances and still live in the same house but I want out. Thing is, my parents will be so disappointed in me because they have invested so much in us.  I don't want to disappoint ...

Maheeda recently shot the video for her new single 'Lasgidi Chick' and like her last video for 'Naija Bad Girl' she was also naked in this video shot Frizzle N Brizzle Films, same people that shot Naija Bad Girl. See behind the scenes pics after the cut. If you're viewing from your office, be careful..

TMZ is reporting that B.Howard could be Michael Jackson's son after DNA results were made public From  TMZ There's a 99.9% chance a 31-year-old man is Michael Jackson's illegitimate son ... at least that's the claim after an alleged DNA test turned up a match. According to the test results -- obtained by Alki David and his company, FilmOn.com - Brandon Howard is almost certainly Michael's son. David told TMZ Live he got MJ's dental impression from a Beverly Hills doctor that he got at an auction. The impression is 30 years old but David says its filled with DNA. Brandon - who now goes by B Howard and looks and acts very much like Michael - was not present for the unveiling, but David says he had Howard's DNA and it matched up. Who believes this? Continue... 

A delegation of members of the National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party who went to the Abeokuta residence of President Olusegun Obasanjo got a shocker of their lives as they were stopped from entering the house of the respected leader and turned back at the gate. Obassanjo celebrated his birthday on Wednesday, the PDP didn't send anybody to his house and after they had realised their mistake the party hurriedly put up a delegation to go and see Baba on Thursday. But they were prevented from entering Obasanjo’s house by the security men. The top security men, who came out to brief the delegation, simply told them   “Baba has no appointment with your delegation and Baba said you should drop any gifts you have for him at the security post.” The delegation led by the National Auditor of the party, Mr Adewole Adeyanju left the place with sad faces. Others in the delegation are state executives of PDP including the Chairman, Mr Bayo Dayo, Pegba Otewolu, Waliu ...

Harvard still sits on top. MIT comes in second. Stanford is in third place. Those are the three universities with the best reputations in the world, according to a ranking just released by  Times Higher Education  ( THE ), a London magazine that tracks the higher education market. THE  also releases a more established list, the World University Ranking, which it has been putting together for the past 10 years, where it uses 13 different metrics, from the number of academic citations schools receive to the percentage of their faculty members with Ph.D.s But  THE  rankings editor Phil Baty explains that four years ago, he and his colleagues realized that it could also be meaningful to look purely at reputation. Click HERE to see the list of the 2014 Reputable Universities

Singer Kcee shared this heartbreaking  photo  which shows a child victim of the  recent  killings inthe  north "@iam_kcee: "Poor child�������� wicked world!!!! Put yourself in this little innocent child's shoes,we need to embrace peace ,stop the killing!!!!!!"

Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Ambrose Aisabor, on Thursday paraded a female student of College of Technology, Offa in Kwara, Miss Mary Awolola, said to be a cultist, for allegedly luring her friend to be gang-rapéd by five of her cult members. Miss Mary confessed at the Police headquarters in Ilorin that she was also gang-rapéd much earlier by four boys before she was initiated into the cult group. She confessed that she lured her friend to be rapéd by her cultist friends because she refused to join them in spite of the pressure she mounted on her girl friend... Mary also said she regretted her action having been arrested by the Police and more importantly that she was not gaining anything from the cult activities. “I did not gain anything from cultism. I regret all my actions.” According to the CP, Mary was arrested on February 22, 2014, at Rondo area in Offa where five boys of the same school gang-rapéd the victim. The police is considering if they should charge Ma...

You know how this things works in naija, when we see a single ma and a single female together, we will conclude.  There is a saying that nothing is impossible. Source said that actor RMD used to be a member of Pastor Chris Okotie's church and as such he's very close with Stephanie Henshaw. But since they was spotted together at an event in Lagos last weekend, different stories have been flying around. Are their substances to these stories?

A bogus bride trying to wed the fourth time was caught by the police before she could tie the knot. The bride,Raquel Neto Furtado De Andrade had already married three Nigerians to help them reside permanently in Britain, collecting cash in return.

A banker in his fifties died while he was sleeping with a fish seller popularly known as Alhaja Adegbite in her house. The woman and the banker both reside in Oluwatedo community, Ayetoro-Itele in Ado Odo-Ota Local Government Area (LGA) of Ogun State. Alhaja who was said to have abandoned her husband for whom she had children, when the man suffered stroke and was hospitalized had received the banker in her apartment on Monday afternoon and in the evening residents suspected the man must have passed away as she was trying to get rid of the corpse. They then alerted the community leader, who alerted the police. The police, members of the vigilance group and some community leaders theredore, arranged to monitor Alhaja’s movements.  

As you read this, a rude official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, Taye Shittu, has been arrested by the Nigeria Police at the Pen Cinema Police Station in Agege for giving a Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Komolafe Abimbola of Court 2 Ikeja, Lagos, a dirty slap. Mrs Komolafe was on her way to the office around the popular Pen Cinema area when the incident happened on Wednesday. Shittu accused Mrs. Abimbola of not obeying the traffic light and ordered her to come out of her car. She obeyed Shittu’s instruction after which there was an argument between them.  In the course of their argument, he landed the woman a hot slap. Anyway, I hear he's been dismissed. Good!

Nollywood actor, Emeka Enyiocha's joy is endless as his beautiful wife just gave him a bouncing baby boy on the day he is celebrating his birthday. He says it's a special gift...cute baby. Congrats to the couple!!