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A Federal High Court in Makurdi on Friday lifted a government ban on the use of HIV vaccines produced by a Nigerian doctor, Jeremiah Abalaka. The court, presided over by Justice Binta Nyako, also restrained the Federal Government and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, from further interfering with the use of the vaccines. Mr. Abalaka, an Abuja-based medical practitioner, had challenged NAFDAC for banning him from using the vaccines he discovered in 1999 for the treatment and prevention of the deal Human Immuno Deficiency Virus, HIV. The therapy, which generated controversy for years in Nigeria, was banned by the Obasanjo administration. Joined in the suit were the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Attorney General of the Federation. Testifying before the court, Mr. Abalaka, who also called three witnesses, said he discovered a recipe to turn the virus in the infected blood of HIV infected person into both preventive...

The  Olugbo  of Ugbo land, HRM Oba Obateru Akinruntan recently celebrated his 5th year coronation anniversary and I have some pics from the event. Continue to see them....

A 37-year-old woman in China got so angry that her three-year-old nephew walked in on her while she was using the toilet that she cut his penis off. Xue Paan, was supposed to be looking after her sister's son, Qiang Qiang, while his mum went to visit a neighbour nearby but when the little boy interrupted her as she was texting her boyfriend, and asked if he could play a game on her phone, the furious aunt stormed into the kitchen, picked up a knife and hacked off the boy's penis. The little boy's mother Cai Tuan, 27, ran back to the house when she heard child scream only to find that he had fainted and was in a pool of his own blood.  "I had popped out to see a neighbour and was only gone 30 minutes when I heard Qiang Qiang scream. I ran back to the house and couldn't believe what I saw. Qiang Qiang had fainted and was lying in a pool of blood. Next to him was a knife and his penis. It was simply horrific. My sister, his aunt, had gone. ...

This is the big question that many are seeking answer to since leading celebs magazine, Ovational International, released the photo of ‘Mr Endowed’, D’banj (Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo) and the former Miss World, Agbani Darego in the company of eachother at the Olu of Warri’s son wedding in London, days ago. The duo seems to be in love from the image but is it another make-belief? What do you think the koko master is telling Agbani from the photo? Vanguard

JJ Okocha shared this photo from his early years in Germany on Twitter. Legend!

Before Dagrin and Olamide,Lord of Ajasa reigned supreme as the king of Yoruba rap. Reacting to reports Olamide's emergence made him leave the music industry, he told Nigezie "You don’t know the story of Olamide and I, its a long story I won’t lie to you, Olamide is my son,And let it be known, I was the first artiste to produce Olamide, back in the days at Bariga when we had nothing.’ ‘I did not leave the industry for anybody. You are talking to Lord of Ajasa, I cannot leave industry because of anybody, it’s not possible."

There have been several allegations  of rape involving Bill Cosby who is now 77. But the latest one by 59 year old Super model Janice Dickinson is unsettling...  In a haunting new interview on  Entertainment Tonight,  Dickinson reveals that Cosby invited her to dinner to discuss a role on The Cosby Show, offering her a glass of wine and a pill she thought was for her menstrual cramps.That wad the last thing she remembered. "The next morning I woke up, and I wasn't wearing my pajamas, and I remember before I passed out that I had been sexually assaulted by this man," "... Before I woke up in the morning, the last thing I remember was Bill Cosby in a patchwork robe, dropping his robe and getting on top of me. And I remember a lot of pain. The next morning I remember waking up with my pajamas off and there was semen in between my legs."  The supermodel claims the incident occurred in Lake Tahoe, California in 1982. On why she is coming forwa...