GLO Gains Most Porting Subscribers

National Operator, Globacom, recorded the most gains according to the porting figures released by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for March and April this year. This was contained in the Port-Out Activities of Mobile Network Operators' report made available by the industry regulator on

Teenage Girls Trade Sex for Mobile Phones In Sierra Leone

Teenage girls in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown are selling their bodies to buy mobile phones, putting them at increased risk of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, says a study by Save the Children. "Mobile phones represent everything that an adolescent associates with being young, hip and fashionable. They are part and parcel of the idea of what they want to become, and to get them they engage in

School Deploys E-Learning Technology In Lagos

A private primary school in Lagos State, Saint Saviour's School, Ebute-Metta, has deployed e-learning technology to provide quality education to the pupils of the school. The need to deploy the technology is in line with its vision to use innovative technology to drive education.Tagged 'LearnPad', the device is an exciting tablet computer built and designed by

Cybercrime On Increase in Kenya

Increased internet penetration and technological advancements in Kenya have been driving innovation and business growth, but the same innovations are also exposing the public to cybersecurity threats, according to a recent

INEC will replicate Ekiti success in Osun, 2015 polls - Jega

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, assured on Tuesday that it would repeat the feat it recorded in last Saturday’s election in Ekiti State in future elections. The Commission’s Chairman, Attahiru Jega, who stated this in Abuja at a meeting with the leaderships of the 26 registered political parties, said the experience in Ekiti election would be improved upon specifically in both the August 17 governorship election in Osun State and the 2015 general

Ekiti cannot afford to be in opposition to FG - Afe Babalola

Legal luminary and founder of Afe Babalola University, Chief Afe Babalola, has congratulated Mr Ayo Fayose on his election as the next governor of Ekiti State. In a letter to the Ekiti governor-elect, dated June 24, 2014, Chief Babalola said he wrote to “formally congratulate you most heartily and warmly at your resounding victory at the Saturday, June 21, 2014, gubernatorial

We Sell Human Parts To Pastors - Muslim Clerics

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, thereafter directed the SARS Commander, Abba Kyari to arrest the four-man gang identified as: Olakunle Ogunsola, Oyebamiji Olalekan, Rasheed Opeyemi and Akorede Wasiu.

The gang members each confessed to the crime, revealing how much they buy the body parts, what they use the body parts to do

Confusion in Kano Over Sanusi’s Appointment As Emir

Reports emanating from Kano, northern Nigeria indicate that there was confusion in the ancient city early this morning as rumors spread that President Goodluck Jonathan has decided to arrest newly installed Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

Boko Haram Demands Cows In Exchange For Abducted Women

No fewer than 20 young women from three clustered nomadic settlement were abducted on Thursday, June 5, by suspected Islamist Boko Haram group near Chibok, close to the place where the group abducted more than 200 schoolgirls.
The gunmen were said to have stormed the villages of Bakin Kogi, Garkin Fulani and Rugar Hardo along Damboa road in Chibok local government

Stella Damasus Reportedly Faked Assassination Attempt

You must have read about the assassination attempt on Nollywood actress Stella Damasus’ life in Abuja. As earlier reported, sources close to Stella and Daniel claimed 12 armed gunmen attacked their home in Abuja asking for Stella.

Nollywood Holds Seminar on Movie Distribution

The Nollywood Studies Centre has announced plans to hold a conference on the Distribution of Nigerian Films to explore ways of enhancing the distribution of such material.
The two-day conference will be held from June 26, at the School of Media and Communication, Pan-Atlantic University

See What Tonto Dikeh Got As Birthday Gift

One of the cakes presented as gift to Tonto Dikeh

Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh was 29 few days back and friends surprised her with different kind of gifts including cakes.
Guess what, one of the cakes was designed in the face of a weed smoking doll.

This perharps opened a chapter we thought was closed already in her life.
So, Tonto still smokes weed? We thought she'd given all that up since last year when she said Prophet TB Joshua delivered her from her smoking habit.

We hope this habit won't eventually run her down one day!

NFF To Spend $800,000 In Brazil FIFA World Cup Tournament

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) is budgeting to spend about $800,000 in order to take some entertainment artistes to Brazil for the 2014 FIFA World Cup tournament which commences tomorrow.
Ten Nollywood actors have been shortlisted by the NFF as its guests to the mundial, with the football body taking the responsibilities for their

Charlie White Is Finally Engaged

Olympic ice dancer and Dancing with the Stars competitor Charlie White is engaged to his girlfriend Tanith Belbin, he announced Tuesday on Instagram.

"Couldn't ask for a more beautiful setting for the best time in our life," he wrote alongside a photo of the pair in Hawaii. "Hashtag she

David Beckham To Establish A New Soccer Team In Florida

British soccer star David Beckham recently paid an unexpected visit to the Little Haiti Football Club in Miami, Florida. The Little Haiti neighborhood, where Haitian children play soccer and “dream of becoming professional players in the US Major League Soccer (MLS)” welcomed Beckham, who joined them on the field. The soccer player plans to establish a new

91 Year Old Woman Won San Diego Rock and Roll Marathon Competition

Harriette Thompson just set a world record for the fastest marathon ever by a woman 90 years or older. She’s 91, and made her mark at the San Diego Rock and Roll Marathon. She also became the second oldest marathon finisher in U.S. history. She logged those 26.2 miles in 7 hours, 7 minutes and

I Don't Believe In Birthday Celebration - Tonto Dikeh

Sometimes you begin to wonder because there are one-thousand-and-one weird things about Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh.  In a world where everyone is happy to celebrate birthdays, Tonto has revealed that birthday celebration is one of the things she hates the most!

 Why is that? According to her revelation via her instagram, Tonto says she likes to feel young all the time and gets scared to think she'll growing older for every year she adds to her age!

 "I'm too playful. I never want to grow old, part of the reason I hate celebrating ma birthday. Am getting too old and scared as hell. I hope I age gracefully".

Bomb Blast Kills Several At A Football Viewing Centre In Adamawa

A bomb blast targeting football fans at a viewing centre in Mubi in Adamawa State, northeast Nigeria, has killed an unconfirmed number of people. The bomb occurred yesterday evening.

A military source said several bodies had been recovered from the site of the

My Back Is Hotter Than My Front - Anita Joseph

Nollywood actress cum singer, Anita Joseph, isn't just a girl that would get up close and personal with you without some emotions running wild - real wild! Unlike most women who are blessed with either the front or back, Anita has both in abundance and when she isn't throwing them at you, you feel they somewhow reaching out to you

Chris Brown Freed From Jail

Chris Brown has been released from jail, TMZ has reported. The R&B singer was said to have left the L.A. County Jail in the early hours of today Monday, June 2nd.

A judge recently ruled that Christopher Maurice “Chris” Brown had violated his probation on the Rihanna case and sentenced him on May 9th to 131 days in jail. Though it’s not clear yet why he has left the L.A. County Jail facility so early, Chris’ Washington D.C. assault trial is to begin in the next few months.

He tweeted this a few minutes after his release.

Wole Soyinka Mourns Maya Angelou

The Nobel Laureate, described the icon in a statement as” down-to-earth kind who felt her subjects keenly, “a philosopher queen without the aloofness” and one of her poems, “AFRICA” as more than a mere literary metaphor and reference point. It went beyond race identification. To obtain a glimmering of what the continent meant to her, one would have to think in terms of a mystic nostalgia. That could be because she was so markedly black – regal both in bearing and pronouncements, she made one

Suspend Borno, Yobe And Adamawa Governors Now- Former Chief Of Army Staff

Nigeria's former Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi, has urged President Gooduck Jonathan to suspend the governors of Adamawa, Yobe and Borno states, as a matter of urgency, for their failure to curtail the activities of Boko Haram insurgents in their respective domains