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On Friday April 4th, 23yr old Tosin Odunaiya (pictured right), a Nigerian living illegally in England tried to invade Buckingham Palace, seeking to see the Queen. Tosin, who came alone, told the guards who stopped him in front of the palace, that the queen would welcome and help him as he is finding it hard to return to Nigeria. When the guards told him to step, Tosin started a shouting match with the guards, resulting in one armed soldier intervening & pointing his gun at Tosin.  Speaking to The Sun , Tosin said: 'I wanted to speak with the Queen and presumed the Royal Family would have welcomed me as their lost son." Lol. What does this guy smoke? Continue...

She is described as “billionaire oil tycoon, Fashion designer and philanthropist” and her net-worth is estimated to be around $3.3 billion, making her the richest black woman pushing Oprah Winfrey’s $2.7 billion dollar net worth into 2nd place in the world. But 30 years ago, Folorunsho Alakija, was only a well-known fashion designer with absolute no experience, expertise or investments in the oil industry. And of course, she wasn’t worth anything near $3.3 billion dollars back then even though she’s from a wealthy polygamous home. So how was she able to become a ‘billionaire oil tycoon’ virtually overnight with no expertise or experience running an oil field? Well, there have been speculations that Folorunsho Akakija, was the late Ibrahim Babangida’s wife’s favourite fashion designer, and she somehow acquired a 617,000 acre oil bloc now worth $3.3 billion dollars of Nigeria’s money. In this interview which was granted to a TheSun reporter, Folorunsho talks about how she was able ...

Oscar Pistorius took the witness stand today April 7th to tell is own version of what happened on the day he shot his girlfriend four times through a bathroom window, killing her. A sobbing Oscar then apologized to Reeva's parents, saying he was trying to protect and not to take her life... "I want to take this opportunity to apologise to Mr and Mrs Steenkamp. There hasn't been a moment since this tragedy happened that I haven't thought about your family "I wake up every morning and you're the first people I think of. The first people I pray for. I can’t imagine the pain and the sorrow and the emptiness that I’ve caused you and your family. "I was simply trying to protect Reeva. I can promise you that when she went to bed that night she felt loved. I have tried to put my words on paper many times to write to you but no words would ever suffice.' Continue..

Cattle rustler this past weekend killed over 200 people who were attending a security meeting in Yargaladinma area of Dansadau community in Maru LGA of Zamfara state. The men said to have come in over a hundred motorbikes carrying guns and machetes, surrounded the building where the security meeting was holding and opened fire on them, killing over 100 on the spot. Some escaped, some died the next day  while others were gravely injured. The Emir of the Dansadau, Alhaji Husaini Adamu, while expressing his sadness over the attack said “This is not the first time the people of the area would be facing such problem but this attack was the worst of its kind in the history of killings in this area.”. Continue... The Governor of Zamfara State yesterday visited the scene of the attack and was reported to have broke down in tears after seeing the corpses of those killed. He and his team later attended the funeral for 79, who were given mass burial. In a r...

Kate Middleton and Prince William began their 3-week royal tour of New Zealand and Australia today Monday April  7th, and were greeted by half-naked traditional Maori warriors at New Zealand Government House in Wellington. See  the way she's checking the guy out.  Bad princess...lol. More pics after the cut...

Sahara TV shares a video of two Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) officials demanding bribe from bus drivers at the popular Ojota Bustop in Lagos on Sunday April 6th 2014. Watch the video after the cut...

(NAN) – A four-year-old Nigerian, Kennedy Nwariwe, has been hit to death by a man suspected to be insane in Portbouet, a sub-urban settlement of Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire’s economic capital. The victim’s father, Mr Andrew Nwariwe, said the incident happened in a church premises after the boy left the auditorium to play with other kids outside. “I did not know that he has left the church hall, it was when we heard noise outside that I saw it was my child.   “With the assistance of some persons, we immediately rushed him to the hospital where he was confirmed dead,” he said.   According to eyewitnesses, the man, who attacked the children, grabbed late Nwariwe’s two legs and hit his head severally on a wall. They said it took the intervention of some daring youths to get the little boy off the man’s grip.   According to them, Nwariwe became instantly lifeless while his head got seriously swollen due to the attack. Reacting on the incident, the President of the Nige...

The wedding took place at Conrad Hotel in Dubai yesterday. Chief Bisi Akande, former governor Bola Tinubu, Ambassador Yahaya Kwande and many other dignitaries attended. Continue to see more photos...

Popular video vixen Voney Dolce just released some hot, semi-nude pics. If you're 18+ then view after the cut...

A lot of our top music stars are from average homes who made something of themselves with their talent, hard work, started from the bottom with nothing and are today, rich and famous. While some came from wealth, and didn't need to struggle as much but felt a need to make something of themselves instead of relying on daddy/mummy money. Meet seven of them below... 1. Davido: His father may be a billionaire businessman, his uncle may be a former governor of Osun state, but most of us didn't know the Adeleke family until Davido burst into the scene a few years ago. Davido's father is the chairman of Keplo Pacific Energy, a company into banking, steel, power and energy. Continue...

Filipino model & pageant queen Geena Rocero has one of the best bodies in the modeling/pageant business so you can imagine people's shock when she recently revealed that she was born a man Coming out in March 2014, Geena said... "The world makes you something you are not. But you know inside what you are. And that question burns in your heart, how would you become that. I maybe someone unique in this but I am not alone. So when I became a fashion model, I felt that I'd finally achieved the dream that I'd always wanted since I was a child. My outside self finally matched my inner truth.  All of us are put in boxes by our families, by our religion, by the society, by history. For the last 9 years, some of my neighbours, friends, colleagues and even my agent did not know I was born male. Because of my success I was scared to reveal this..." She changed her gender in Thailand when she was 19 years old with her mother's help. See more photos and watch he...

The Imo State Police Command through its Anti-kidnapping Squad has arrested a 50-year old woman, Anne  Soronnade who allegedly bought a day-old baby boy for N600,000.The original mother of the baby  gave birth in a woman called Madam Nnena's house who asked to bring 30,000 to cover the expenses of taking care of her during pregnancy. She left her baby to go and look for the money and when she came back,her baby had been sold for 600,000 naira ..Here is what the mother told "The Sun". Read if after the cut...

A 36 year old Nigerian Medical Doctor was shot dead by her 63 year old husband on Saturday March 22nd 2014 at their home in West Harris County, Houston, Texas. Dr Isioma Awele Ebegbodi nee Unokanjo (pictured above), a mother of two and a medical resident physician at Marshfield Clinic in Texas, was shot dead around 3.am on that fateful day after getting into a fight with her husband and the father of her children, Martin Ebegbodi (also pictured above). After killing his wife, Martin Ebegbodi went to a neighbors house and asked him to call the police. When deputies arrived, Martin Ebegbodi was arrested and  charged  with the murder of Isioma. Isioma Ebegbodi attended Queens College Yaba and studied Medicine at the University of Lagos Medical School. May her soul rest in peace. Read her former classmate's FB post after the cut..

MediaTakeOut and some of their stories...lol. According to the gossip site, Rihanna is expecting a baby for either ex-boyfriend Chris Brown (who she broke up with in April 2013) or current boyfriend Drake and they even have a  baby bump  to prove Rihanna's pregnant. Choi! Find their report below...

Chief Tola Okuneye, a.k.a Ajagajigi, was seated during the service at St. John Anglican Church, Oke-Sopen, when 10 gunmen, who rode in vehicles painted in Lagos commercial yellow colour, stormed the church and shot him at about 11a.m.The gunmen pretended to be worshippers.When they saw Okuneye, Chairman of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) & Chairman of the Police Community Relations Committee, they shot him in the head and chest. He died on the spot. The assailants fled the scene without taking anything away. Okuneye’s body was deposited at a mortuary in Ijebu-Igbo. A witness told Pm news..  

Article  written by Associated Press writer, Michelle Faul. It's quite interesting. Read! Nigeria's recalculated economy is worth $510 billion, by far the biggest in Africa, officials announced Sunday using long overdue revised data that gives the West African nation continental bragging rights but does little for the 70 percent of its citizens living in poverty. The new value of Nigeria's GDP adds previously uncounted industries like telecommunications, information technology, music, airlines, burgeoning online retail outlets and Nollywood film production that didn't exist when the last GDP count was made in 1990. Then, there were 300,000 landlines. Today, Nigeria has 100 million cell phone users.

This is really sad. A source said the guy got mad and decided to expose the big woman because after he took his time to "service" her well, he later discovered that she is not as rich as she claimed and can't be giving him the kind of money he had expected to be getting from a sugar mummy. Such a big mess...

Several passengers, including popular singer Banky W, on an Arik Air flight from Lagos to New York were, in all ramifications, subjected to a dehumanizing treatment as they were locked up inside a plane without AC for over One Hour. It got to a stage someone collapsed and others had to protest. See the video below...

Dr. Chike Akunyili is the loving husband of Madam Dora Akunyili who has been trending in the social for a few weeks now as a result of the health challenge that has left her emaciated to the surprise of everyone. But her husband says he is in support of her mission at the National Conference. Below her his message: “May the good LORD bless all of you that have prayed and still pray for my unique and lovely wife DORA. She is a noted personality and risked everything for the love of our dear country NIGERIA. I thank God that I was present when she made that very singular speech. It resonated in the corners of the Confab and instantly touched many hearts. The illness has not blunted her childlike frankness in our blessed 36 years of marriage.

Worshippers at St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, Umushene, Umuida, Enugu Ezike in Enugu State, are still searching their lexicon for words that will describe their experience last weekend when some female teenagers filed out before their priest to give chilling accounts of how they have used their spiritual powers to destroy the lives of men through sex. Besides, another young boy who also sought forgiveness from God told how he killed his own mother along with eight others, turned his brother to a dwarf and prevented his elder sister from getting a man to marry her through the power of witchcraft. These were part of the raw confessions that held worshippers glued to their feet at a vigil organised by the Okunerere Catholic Adoration Ministries (OCAM) between Friday and last Saturday. Signs of what happened began to show early in the service when the clerical train made its way through the middle of the arena in thunderous applause. Several priests in white cassock led the way whi...

The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, established by decree No.24 of 22nd May 1973, due to the ethnic tension inflamed by the gory years of the Nigerian Civil War, is one of the most significant schemes in present day Nigeria. The NYSC scheme, quite unarguably, has, over the years, fostered national unity by creating a platform for graduate youths to live in different parts of the country for a period of one year. During this period, corps members, as these graduate youths are formally called, learn the culture of the host communities, including language, world view, and other pecularities which distinguish the host communities as a people.