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An Australian exploration company says it might have found the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 — and it's not in the Indian Ocean. The company, GeoResonance, claims it has identified possible wreckage from a commercial airliner on the ocean floor in the Bay of Bengal, Australia's 7News reports. The Bay of Bengal, marked on the map below, is about 3,100 miles from the circled area of the southern Indian Ocean where authorities have been looking for the missing plane. The plane has been missing for about six weeks, and search teams have yet to find any wreckage. In March, Malaysian authorities said satellite data revealed the plane's last known location in a remote area of the Indian Ocean. But GeoResonance claims it surveyed about 1.2 million square miles of the possible crash zone and identified "chemical elements and materials that make up a Boeing 777," a company official told 7News. GeoResonance apparently used images obtained from satellites and...

Onder Aytac (left)   prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) A Turkish journalist has been sentenced to 10 months in prison after insulting the prime minister with a typo in a tweet which changed the word meaning 'my chief' to 'f*** off'.  Prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had announced plans to shut down private schools including those run by the Gulen movement - now one of the government's enemies.  Onder Aytac, who has 180,000 followers on the social media site, reacted to the news by tweeting the words: 'KAPAT BE USTAAAAAAMMMMMMK' The word 'ustam' means 'my chief' or 'my master' and is a common nickname for Erdogan among his  supporters.  However, it was the letter 'k' at the end of the word which landed Aytac in hot water. Zeynep Tufekci, social media expert and assistant professor at the University of North  Carolina, told the  International Business Times  that the 'k' transforms the last part of th...

The Nollywood actress Rita Dominic took to her Instagram page to eulogise the veteran Nollywood film maker who passed away last night, read HERE .   AMAKA Ene Igwe, MFR(1963-2014) - A Brief Elegy. Born 2nd January 1963, Amaka Igwe (nee Isaac Ene) may be the singularly most important WOMAN in the creation & evolution of Nollywood. Starting out as a young Lecturer Assistant at the then Anambra State University, Amaka Isaac Ene dedicated her young adult life to the creation of CHECKMATE (a Soap-Opera that leveraged on the previous success of Lola Fani-Kayode's MIRROR in The SUN).  Her star actors were the 1st Stars of Nollywood. Her RATTLESNAKE movie trilogy, though came out a few weeks after Living in Bondage, was the 1st artistic success of Nollywood's videography. 

We all know how this thing work, someone somewhere will want to cause problems, but i tell you kim is not going to allow that to happen, she will be out to protect her man. Haters will keep on hating, while lovers will keep loving. Just a month before the Kimye (Kim Kardashian & Kanye West) wedding ceremony to hold in France, a 17 year old girl named Pia Mia has come out to ruin Kim’s moment of happiness with her controversial tweets suggesting West had a secret affair with the budding singer Apparently she had been invited to the LA home of the Kardahsians a while ago where she sang to the hearing of Kanye West and Drake and they thought she was awesome. Kanye West who felt the exceptional singer should receive some credit for her amazing talent was asked to sing at the family dinner at which Kim and Khloe Kardashian were reportedly present. Shortly after the dinner, Kim Kardashian posted the video of Mia’s performance at the family dinner on her Keek account. Kim will defin...

So it was all a publicity stunt after all. While we were all worried and praying against rumours of infighting and break up in the P Square camp, some other people were laughing at the gullibility of Nigerians. Speaking in this chat with  Icon Weekly magazine , P-Square’s Publicist, Bayo Adetu opens up on what really transpired.. Read excerpts from the interview after the cut...

The Imo State government has declared the 6th of May 2014 as Imo Freedom Day considering its significance in the democratic history of Imo State when peoples’ voice and the masses stand in politics stood above all. The State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha announced this while briefing the Press at the end of the State Executive Council meeting today at the Government House, Owerri. In his words, “democracy was practiced for the first time in Imo State on the 6th of May 2011 when it became obvious to the institutions that the masses voice must be respected. It will also guide our subsequent election so that those who think about rigging will better desist from that because there will be no more rigging of election in Imo State; one man one vote and every vote must count in the State.” Continue...

Posing naked during or after pregnancy is often the last thing that some women feel like doing, but for others it can be both empowering and emotional. Now a new book reveals the truth about women's bodies after they have had children, complete with stunning photos and wise words from the mothers featured, all of whom explain how they learned to love their changing physique.  And it certainly doesn't pull any punches. Stretchmarks, saggy tummies and loose skin all feature in A Beautiful Body Project: The Bodies of Mothers by US photographer Jade Beall. According to experts, birth has a huge impact on a woman's body and many feel their bodies are no longer the same afterwards.  But many of the women in Beall's fascinating book say that having their photograph taken helped them to reconnect with their bodies and overcome any negative thoughts about their perceived imperfections. More photos after the cut...

Ini Edo's husband Phillip Ehigwina threw her a surprise birthday party yesterday and invited some of her close friends to celebrate with them. Ini turned 32 on April 23rd. See more pics after the cut...

The APC chieftain, Bashorun Bayo Awosanya, who battered his wife at their residence in Sagamu on Easter Sunday April 20th (read  here ) after an argument was arrested yesterday April 28th by the Ogun State police command. "The suspect personally reported himself to the Sagamu Divisional Police Officer, CSP Lawal Adebowale, around 0800hrs due to arrest warrants issued and pressure mounted on him to show up before he would be publicly declared wanted by the police" the PPRO of the Ogun State Command in a statement. He was later transferred to the Department of Criminal Investigation for further questioning. Ogun State police say they plan to charge him to court. If you have a violent husband, you can actually get him arrested and locked up. Nigerian police now take domestic violence serious. If your spouse bribe their way out of an arrest, contact NGOs that cater for battered women and they will take up your case. Domestic violence needs to stop!

Most of the 234 Borno schoolgirls in Boko Haram captivity have been ferried abroad to Chad and Cameroon after they were married off to sect members on N2,000 bride price each, an elder told Daily Trust yesterday. The female students were taken from their hostels at the Government Girls Secondary School Chibok on the night of April 14. About 40 had escaped in the days after the incident, but parents and school authorities said at least 234 of them were yet to be found. Dr. Pogu Chibok, who is the leader of the Chibok Elders Forum, told Daily Trust yesterday that latest information available to them indicates that most of the girls have been taken to the neighboring Cameroon and Chad by their captors. He said before they were ferried in canoes across the Lake Chad, a wedding ceremony was conducted at a town on the border with Cameroon where they were married off to Boko Haram militants. He said N2,000 was paid as bride price on each of the girls to the specific Boko Haram member...

Nollywood’s foremost producer, writer, director Amaka Igwe has passed on at age 51. She died after complications from an asthma attack on Monday night, April 28, 2014 in Enugu where she was with her husband, Charles Igwe, for pre-production preparations for a new Igbo soap. She suffered an asthma attack and was rushed to the hospital but sadly she died before getting there. Ibinabo Fiberesima, the President of the Actor’s Guild of Nigeria (AGN), confirmed the news. Igwe leaves behind her husband and three children.

I got this mail from a source, so I will just let you guys read it the way it came in: On Friday 25th of April 2014 at about 6.10pm, in front of Silverbird Galleria Ahmadu Bello,Victoria Island Lagos, where I was trying to park in a space pre-occupied by another car hence I needed to wait for him to move so I can occupy the empty space. Apparently, a naval Toyota Hilux was behind me all the while then found a way to move from behind me to my side and I was asked by one naval personnel occupying the passenger’s seat what I was doing on the spot, then I replied that I was waiting for the car in front of me to move out of the car-park space so that I can park. The naval personnel abruptly got down from the Hilux and tried to pull me out of the car then he slapped me, tore my shirt and then kicked the door with his boots on - to my surprise he also kicked and broke the glass of the driver’s seat which I occupy.  Whil...

Ambrose in detention at Sabo Police station An ex-student of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Mr. Ambrose Ezeanwani,  who exposed a racket in the students’ bursary scheme in Delta state  was handed over to men from the Delta State Government this afternoon after days of illegal detention in Lagos. Police officers in Sabo Station this afternoon handed him over after the Delta State officials visited to ask for his transfer to Asaba, Delta State where he will be most likely tortured and “tried” for revealing the fraud perpetrated by officials of the state.  Ezeanwani was President of the National Association of Delta State Students Union at the University of Lagos. During his tenure, he revealed that the bursary system was fraught with fraud, which he said was being perpetrated by men in the scholarship board in Delta State.

Rihanna looks incredibly stunning in the May issue of Vogue Brazil. The singer stripped down for the mag a while back and pics from the photo shoot were recently released. See more pics after the cut.

Some of you have heard that beautiful Nollywood actress, Angela Okorie, was arrested in South Africa for involving a theft scandal. Anyway, the babe is defending herself. She said one of her man friend who is based in South Africa wanted séx from her by force and because she refused he decided to set her up. She has decided to expose everything. Read her story below: I left Nigeria for South Africa to shoot my movie, Nwa Abakaliki in South Africa on Monday April 7 2014 with Prince Ekeh, Muma Gee's husband. I paid for his flight and accommodation from Port Harcourt to Lagos and from Lagos to South Africa. Then at a point, I decided to move to a hotel so as to give him space and a friend of mine called M.K said I should come over to her place at North Gate Estate where I can pay less for my accommodation because she has a 3 bedroom flat.  So I moved in and met a friend of mine called Prosper who is actually one of my biggest fans in her place. But he was also living in a sepa...