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Matthew Mbu was the Federal Minister for Labour at Age 23 in 1953. He remains Nigeria's youngest Minister till date

Actor Yul Edochie, son of veteran actor, Pete Edochie, has rebuked a man, he alleged made love advances to him. He made this disclosure on his micro-blogging site-Twitter (@yeledochie), where he alleged that a man he called Steven Ugochukwu Onyebuchi, has harassed him and his family because he refused his advances. Read the tweets of the graduate of Theatre Arts. University of Port Harcourt,below: His name is Steven Ugochukwu Nelson onyebuchi. A nigerian based in canada and america. pic.twitter.com/AwC0ZrDCSb — Yul Edochie (@YulEdochie) April 7, 2015 Dis is d psycho who's hiding behind different fake female accts to wish me death, insult my fans n my family pic.twitter.com/GZMTnvEvJq — Yul Edochie (@YulEdochie) April 7, 2015 All bcos I refuse to be gay. All bcos I wont send him a pix of my penis which he's been asking me for. pic.twitter.com/sZPiE6twGF — Yul Edochie (@YulEdochie) April 7, 2015 Is it by force to be gay? I hav no is...

 See what a fan wrote to Tonto Dikeh after she posted a photo of her dogs on instagram. Tonto, of course, had a reply for the fan. See it below

Come to think of it, not that many Nigerian celebrities publicly condemned Oba of Lagos anti-Igbo comments. When a fan called Don Jazzy out for not condemning it because of his supposed alliance with Governor Fashola, the maverick music producer took to instagram to rationally reply and clarify himself. See what he wrote below

A mini-heatwave hit the UK ove r the weekend, with visible clear skies and  warm air bringing hot temperatures.  It's so hot in many parts of the UK right now that this woman removed her clothes and strolled naked except for her hat with her dogs at  the beach in Cornwall yesterday. See up-close photo below

This is one of the most shared photo on social media today. Apparently she on the right used to be the he on the left. One Nigerian man said, 'Na to dey ask woman her childhood photos 

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has condemned the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu and distanced itself from the hate speech made by him that any anyone that refuses to vote for APC governorship candidate in Lagos, Akin Ambode, will die in the lagoon within seven days. The party made this known via its twitter handle, @APCNigeria. Read tweets below

A 46yr old woman in Malaysia was shocked when her Caucasian boyfriend, who she fell in love with on the Internet, turned out to be a Nigerian. On Saturday, the teacher met the 36-year-old Nigerian at a hotel in Jalan Tun Perak, Malaysia for the first time because he wanted to repay the RM130,000 that she'd lent him. The man handed her a black briefcase containing US$22,100 (RM81,770) 'cash'. "When she checked the notes, she knew that something was wrong so she called us," said Dang Wangi OCPD Asst Comm Zainol Samah in a press conference. ACP Zainol said the woman met the Nigerian two months ago on the Internet and they began 'dating' after telling the woman he was white. (police pictured above showing the media the fake money) "The man pretended to be a Caucasian when they met on Facebook. After a while, he told the victim that he was financially constrained and that he needed her to help him," he said. The woman wired RM130...

A woman gave birth to a baby on the streets of Lagos this morning April 7th. Eye witnesses said the woman was on her way to the market when her water broke. She started screaming for help and a few people gathered around her and when they saw the baby's head was already coming out, they helped her deliver the baby right there. The woman and her baby are said to be doing well.

President-elect General Buhari arrived Lagos this morning to campaign for APC Guber candidate, Akinwumi Ambode. He also met with former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Buhari and Lagos State Governor, Tunde Fashola, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Rotimi Amaechi and other dignitaries later headed out to campaign at Orile. 

According to DHQ, Nigerian troops this morning successfully completed a raid on all terrorist camps in Alagarno, Borno state.

About 1,000 APC members from Rivers state this morning March 7th stormed the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Abuja, demanding for the immediate sack of the state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Gesila Khan. See photos from the protest below

Legal luminary and human rights activist, Femi Falana has called on the Oba of Lagos to issue a public apology to the Igbo community in Lagos, over his threats to evacuate them from the state and into a lagoon, if they do not vote for his preferred governorship candidate, Akinwunmi Ambode, in Saturday’s election. “Last Sunday, Oba Rilwan Akiolu was reported to have threatened to deal ruthlessly with the Igbo people in Lagos state if they fail to vote for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Akinwumi Ambode in the governorship election slated for Saturday, April 11, 2015. The diversionary threat should not be condoned in a decent society. It is totally unacceptable as it is a mockery of the political objective of national integration. “It is illegal as it clearly offends section 42 of the Constitution which has prohibited discrimination on grounds of ethnicity, religion, political opinion, creed or sex. Although the Oba lacks the power to cause ...

Cartoonist,Charles N'Guessan,depicts how the offer from Nigerian prostitutes influenced #Nigeriadecides

A 21 year old Newark man, whose identity is being kept out of the press by the police, filed a police report in Newark New Jersey on Sunday Morning April 5th, claiming rapper DMX and his entourage robbed him just after midnight on Sunday morning at a gas station. The man claimed he recognized DMX at a filling station on Highway 21, walked up to him and struck up a conversation with him about music. He said while talking with the rapper, a person in his entourage pulled a gun on him and demanded money. The man claims he pulled a wad of cash out of his pocket - about $3,200, which DMX snatched before escaping in a caravan of Caddilac Escalades. The man said he followed the vehicles for a while and was able to provide a license plate tag number for one of the vehicles to the police. The case is under investigation. Hopefully, he mistook the thief for DMX

In an interview with Views Channel, 2face Idibia shared his rag to riches story, remembering a time in his life he claimed 'staff' when he boarded buses in Lagos because he had no money to pay for his bus fare. Staff is a word public servants like police or the army say to bus conductors so they would not pay their bus fare.. "I got robbed sometime in school. All my audio cassettes that I recorded they took them. I was sad for like a year plus. I dropped out  and I am like look I am not continuing this thing I am going to follow music. I actually confessed to my parents. I told them the truth that I am not going back to school. I am going to Lagos, Festac town. All this waka wey I dey talk so, na molue... staff, sometimes na fight we go fight. Them go pursue us from bus" he said