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Nigeria’s entertainment industry has again been hit by yet another death. Obiajulu Nwaozor, who is better known as MC Loph met his untimely death earlier today while driving on the notorious Benin-Ore expressway. According to Street Journal, he was traveling with his wife-to-be to Anambra State in the Eastern part of Nigeria for his traditional [...]

Freedom, excellence, accountability, creativity, enterprise and other great attributes are the soul of a modern and progressive society, created and nurtured through visions of it's leaders. Is Nigeria an exception?

A concerted effort of a Liberian to get his countryman informed via a chalkboard newspaper. Watch video...

Of the nine black women listed among the World's 100 Most Powerful Women three are indigenous Africans. Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and South Africa's Nonkululeko Nyembezi-Heita.

Nick Ashford, who along with wife, Valerie Simpson, wrote some of Motown's biggest hits, died in a New York City hospital

The decision to drop the charges in a case that has attracted global attention as a cauldron of sex, violence, power and politics had been widely expected...

Nigeria has extradited a man accused of scamming more than 80 law firms and lawyers out of $31 million in a debt collection ruse. Nigeria’s anti-graft agency announced the extradition of Emmanuel Ekhator to the United States on Friday, the Associated Press reports. He is one of several people accused of participating in a fraud [...]

South Africa’s biggest clothing company, Pepkor Ltd., plans to expand into Nigeria as retailers including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) fight for a share of some of the world’s fastest growing retail markets.

Viridis Africa plans to bring together investors and entrepreneurs from Africa and rest of the world to jointly explore commercial initiatives in green technologies.

A report released by the U.N.'s environmental program said that drinking water supplies within the oil-rich Niger Delta have been damaged by 50 years of crude oil spills. In some areas drinking water is contaminated so severely it needs immediate action.

This is a must read story about how some people have entered into the child factory business. This is appalling. Read the Vanguard report below: Child Trafficking in the Eastern part of Nigeria is a lucrative trade. In Nigeria, human trafficking ranks the third most common crime after financial fraud and drug trafficking. At least [...]

Nafissatou-Diallo, acknowledged her mistakes but wants her assailant jailed for sexual assault.

The first man to be convicted of trafficking females out of the UK, in a case involving two Nigerian girls, has been jailed. Anthony Harrison, 32, was sentenced to 20 years for four trafficking offences as well as two of false imprisonment. At Woolwich Crown Court, Harrison, of Stratford, east London, was cleared of two [...]

A 24-year-old man with U.S. and Nigerian multiple citizenship, Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, who describes himself as a “storyteller”, was able to pass through the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screening at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in Jamaica, New York on Friday, June 24, 2011, and board Virgin America Flight VX-415 to Los Angeles International [...]

Thirty year old unemployed graduate, Mr. Kolade Arowolo, allegedly stabbed his wife, Titilayo, a banker with Skye Bank, on his birthday June 24, 2011. According to a witness who overheard the couple fighting on the fateful day: “Suddenly, Kolade rushed out from their apartment and hurriedly made for the car. We tried stopping him, but [...]