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Lauren London is remembering her man, Nipsey's Hussle, who was murdered a little over two months ago. The mother-of-two shared a photo of the slain rapper and wrote: "Never could I ever forget. I miss you so much."

Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and wife, Dolapo Osinbajo, attended the Presidential Inauguration Interdenominational Church Service at the National Church Abuja yesterday Sunday May 26th.  Other dignitaries in attendance include General Yakubu Gowon (rtd), CBN governor Godwin Emefiele, Secretary to the Government of the Federation Boss Mustapha, deputy senate president Ike Ekweremadu and many others. See more photos below.

R&B singer, Chris Brown is celebrating his daughter, Royalty who turns  5 today, May 27, 2019. The 30-year-old father of one took to Instagram to share a series of new photos of his adorable child and wrote: 'I KNOW ITS EARLY BUT I WANNA SHOUT IT OUT TO THE TOP OF MY LUNGS “HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY”!  5years old.. IIIIIIIII LLLLLLLLLOOOOOOVVVVVEEEEE YYYYYYOOOOUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .'

A student of the Federal Polytechnic Oko, Anambra State popularly known as Mr HOD, allegedy committed suicide few days ago. According to reports, the man from Enugu State, called his close friends on Wednesday, to tell them that he was going on a journey of no return before drinking Sniper, a lethal pesticide which has become a popular choice for suicidal Nigerians. Read reports by his classmates, Uchenna Jovita and others: "A student of Anambra federal polytechnic Oko.  popularly known as Mr hod in the  department of public administration, level ND. From Enugu state. Committed suicide two days ago.  According to News in my department, his father died when he is still in secondary school.  Two nights ago,He drank  sniper and called his close friends to tell them that his going to a journey of no return. Before they came to his Lodge to know what is happening, he has already drank half of the sniper. He gave up before they were able to get him to the ...

An Almajiri boy was spotted sleeping by the fence of a filling station in the early hours of Sunday May 26, at Kawo bridge, Kaduna. Photo credit: Muhammad Bukar Umara

Musician and activist, Charly Boy has taken to Instagram to publicly criticize the federal government  for opening a Fulani radio station. According to the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, the Federal Government acquired an Amplitude Modulation radio broadcast licence to reach herdsmen across various locations in the country as parts of measures to enhance nomadic education. He added that the establishment of the radio frequency was to end the perennial farmers-herders crises across the country. Reacting to the move which has been generating criticism online,  Charly Boy wrote:  OBJ was President for 8 years him no set up Oduduwa radio. GEJ was President for 5 years, there was no Niger Delta radio.. Buhari President, under 4 years has opened Fulani radio... Where do you think all of this is heading to.  My people, these people don enter our 18. Let’s all adjust ourselves.  I smell a truck load of wahala coming.

Juventus and Argentina star Paulo Dybala has promised to visit the beautiful country of West Africa Ghana after a meeting with the consulate in Rome.  The Juventus midfielder discussed issues about the future of the youth of Ghana and the environmental problems of the country. Dybala was excited after the meeting and promised to visit Ghana in the future. The 25-year old Argentine was former teammates with Ghana international Kwadwo Asamoah before the latter left for Inter Milan last season. Paulo Dybala has been one of the key players in the Juventus set up as they defended their serie A title. He has been named in the Argentina team for the Copa America this summer. Dybala played 30 serie A games this season, scoring first times and was the club's second to scorer in the UEFA Champions League with 5 goals just behind Ronaldo by one.

Ghana president Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo will host the Black Stars to a farewell dinner on Friday before the team flies out to Dubai for pre-2019 Africa Cup of Nations camping. The head of state will interact with the 29 players named in the provisional squad for the training camp. The technical and management teams are expected to show up at the event. Nana Addo is expected to use the opportunity to talk to Asamoah Gyan, now appointed General Captain, and newly-installed Black Stars captain Andre Ayew. He will task the two players to nib their differences and remain united to end Ghana's long wait for a continental title since 1982. Ghana are scheduled to play two pre-tournament friendlies against Namibia and South Africa in the Gulf country. The Black Stars are scheduled to play Benin, Guinea-Bissau and Cameroon in Group F at the tournament.

In Nigeria, the International Children’s Day is marked annually every May 27. This year, Ayodeji Ake, Sunday Ehigiator, and Ozulumba Chiamaka shine the spotlight on underaged street hawkers, who have swapped the classrooms for the streets in a bid to eke a living. Juxtaposing that narrative with the 2006 report on child labour by UNICEF Nigeria, which revealed that a staggering 15 million children under the age of 14 are working across Nigeria, this thus establishes a cycle of child rights violation that must be stopped at all costs  13-year-old Favour John and seven-year-old Gift John are siblings who on a daily basis, excluding Sundays, hawk  groundnut the long distance of Ogba to Ikeja then to Oshodi, Lagos, to support their parent’s finances. If Lady Luck shines on them, their trays would have been empty by their 8pm closing time and if not, they have to at least sell to a reasonable minimum. Their living arrangements, as awkward as it sounds, probably works for t...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has stated that the recent revelation by the First Lady, Aisha Buhari, that there is humongous fraud in the N500 billion Social Investment Programme (SIP) and the N16 billion Mosquito Net Project of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, has further vindicated its stance that the administration is deceitful and a pretentious citadel of corruption. However, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Social Investment, Mrs. Maryam Uwais, has faulted the president’s wife, insisting that 250,000 people benefited from the scheme in Adamawa State. But the PDP in a statement Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, said that more disheartening was the fact that the said funds were meant for the welfare of the poor, whom the President had always claimed to represent in government. The main opposition party added that Aisha Buhari’s revelation has further shown that the PDP has not been crying wolf by insisti...

Nigeria’s Dangote Group, for the second year running, has emerged the most admired African brand. A survey of 100 Africa best brands, announced in Johannesburg at the weekend, put Dangote Group ahead of telecommunication giant, MTN. According to the seventh edition of South Africa-based Brand Africa, in a survey carried out in collaboration with the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), of 15,000 brands mentioned, Dangote ranked first when consumers were prompted to recall the most admired African brand. In the top 100 list, the United States sports and fitness mega brand, Nike, a non-African brand, retains the overall number one brand in Africa spontaneously recalled by consumers. South African telecoms brand, MTN, is the number one African brand spontaneously recalled brand, while surging Ethiopian brand, Anbessa Shoes, at number two, swapped positions with Nigerian conglomerate, Dangote, which is the number three most admired brand of African of origin.   Howev...

President Muhammadu Buhari will today sign the N8.916 trillion 2019 budget passed by the National Assembly on April 30, 2019. THISDAY learnt last night that the budget would be signed at 11 a.m. this morning in the State House. The budget, presented by Buhari on December 19, 2018, is N86 billion higher than N8.83 trillion proposed by the executive. The budget consists of  N4.65 trillion recurrent expenditure, N2.94 trillion capital expenditure, statutory transfer of N502.58 billion, N2.25 trillion for debt servicing. The budget also consists of N10 billion added to the service-wide votes to support victims of crises in Zamfara State. In his remarks after passing the budget, Senate President Bukola Saraki praised the committee and fellow senators for their contributions to the passage of the bill and tasked executive to ensure its full implementation. He said: “I want to thank our colleagues, particularly for their understanding and for us to be able to meet today’s...

A socio-cultural group, Yoruba Council of Youths Worldwide (YCYW), has called on the militant Fulani herdsmen in South-west to vacate the region. The group in a communique it released after a meeting of its members at the weekend in Ile-Ife in Osun State, decried the growing insecurity in Yoruba land allegedly precipitated by militant Fulani herdsmen and members of the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram. In the communique signed by the group’s President, Oladotun Hassan, it accused militant Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram members of killing and kidnapping people of Yoruba stock, and consequently, issued a seven-day ultimatum to the alleged perpetrators to move out of South-west states or risk reprisal attack. The group cited what it described as the “recurrent decimal of flagrant brutal killings by the gun-wielding terrorist Fulani Herdsmen/Boko Haram, aggressive invasion and violent attacks and alleged kidnapping of innocent Yorubas and Nigerians domiciled in Yorubaland, gross...

One Rifkatu Anthony has been arrested by the Intelligence Unit of the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) attached to the Kano Central Prison, for attempting to smuggle in 39 wraps of Indian Hemp into the prison. The suspect concealed the hard drug in harmless packs with the intention to deliver them to inmates in the prison. Upon interrogation, Miss Anthony feigned ignorance of the Illicit substance in her possession, claiming that the items were given to her by one ThankGod for delivery to the prison inmates.

Footballer Emmanuel Emenike and ex-MBGN, Iheoma Nnadi have put marriage crisis rumours to rest with live videos from a get together to mark their 1st wedding anniversary. The couple who have unfollowed and deleted each others photos from Instagram, both made live videos as they kissed and had a nice time.

Popular Abuja-based pastor, Prophet Joshua Iginla has just acquired a multi-billion Naira jet to celebrate his birthday yesterday. The clergy who runs the 80,000 seater auditorium widely known as Founder of Champions Royal Assembly, equally gave over 142 widows N150,000 each and a bag of rice which amounts to 21m. He also gave 3 widows and several of his pastors lands worth 95m in Abuja with assurance to build the house on them.

Zimbabwean socialite and former Big Brother Africa (BBA) housemate, Pokello Nare is allegedly expecting her 3rd child from the 3rd man, her new lover. Pokello according to an online report, has been spotted several times with her baby bump, even while with her new lover, Ronald Muzambe. This will be Pokello’s 3rd child from the 3rd man. She had her first son before entering BBA, then married Elikem Kurmodzie, her fellow contestant, for three years, they share a son together. The news of their split first surfaced in November 2017.

Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command says it has apprehended over 10 suspected traffic robbers and recovery of firearms and ammunition in different parts of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial city. The state police command made this known in a statement issued by Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Bala Elkana who said that the surveillance Patrol strategy introduced by the Commissioner of Police, Zubairu Muazu targeted towards tackling the menace of traffic robbery in Lagos State led to the arrest of the suspects. According to him, on 24th May, 2019 at about 0530hrs, the surveillance Patrol team from Ketu Police Station, foiled a robbery attempt at Kosofe bus stop. His statement obtained by Nairafame reads; “The leader of the gang, popularly known as Gabazine and two other members were arrested. One Samsung phone snatched from a victim was recovered and handed over to the owner. On 25th May, 2019 the same surveillance team on undercover operation at the same spot arres...

Here is the moment a man fought electricity officially who came to disconnect his light.He was pictured beating the man while neighbours watched. More photos below

Thinking about this question has reminded me of how lucky I am to have so many precious childhood memories. It’s hard to pick just one! In all of the ones that come to mind I am surrounded by family (parents, my grandmother, aunts, uncles and/or cousins) and involve food (think of a grandmother’s delicous baking) or the outdoors…beaches, woods, walks. I only hope that my kids can one day say the same! What about you…what is one of your favorite childhood memories?  Happy children's day!

As Nigerians lament the alarming increase in police brutality and cry out for an end to the oppression, singer, Runtown, shares in his own words, his thoughts on the evil of police brutality and the experiences of the masses both rich and poor. In his words, Runtown in an article published on Guardian wrote, 'As it appears, saving up enough money to exit the country has now become the Nigerian dream'. See the full piece below... It’s been over two months since Nigeria’s general elections and the tension that is borne out of vigorous political campaigns and a tussle for power has died down. Depending on who you ask, one vote at a time, the people have determined the fate of every candidate that vied for office and in a couple of weeks, newly-elected leaders will be sworn into office across the 36 states of Nigeria. Imperative for incoming leaders, both elected and appointed, to note is that there is a hanging duty to deflate the rising tension that stems from police...