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The most powerful bomb blast ever witnessed in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital killed 276 people with around 300 others injured, the country's information minister,  Information Minister Abdirahman O. Osman said early Monday morning, making it the deadliest single attack in this Horn of Africa nation. The toll was expected to rise. The attack occurred when a truck carrying explosives detonated Saturday in a crowded street packed with cars and pedestrians, near government ministries and hotels. In a tweet, Abdirahman Osman called the attack "barbaric" and said countries including Turkey and Kenya had already offered to send medical aid. Hospitals were overwhelmed a day after a truck bomb targeted a crowded street near key government ministries, including foreign affairs. As angry protesters gathered near the scene of the attack, Somalia's government blamed the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group for what it called a "national disaster."...

Nollywood producer and filmmaker Moses Inwang and his beautiful wife, Emem have welcomed their second child. The baby boy already named Jordan was born in the U.S on Sunday, October 15. Congrats to them!

Three officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA were killed by unknown gunmen in the Okene area of Kogi state last Friday, October 13th. 41-year-old Ebun Peters pictured right, Nicholas Onwumere (top left) and Abdulrahman Musa (down left). The deceased officers were on duty at one of their post around the main gate of the Federal College of Education (FCE) Okene when they were attacked by the armed member at about 8pm. The gunmen escaped with their rifles. One of the deceased officers, Ebun, was also a photographer, hunter, choirmaster of the local Catholic Church and a frontline role player in community affairs. The sad news of his death has been broken to his 80-year-old mother who they say has remained inconsolable. He would be buried later today October 16th. May his soul rest in peace, Amen. 

President Buhari has invited a 10-year-old girl named Aysha Aliyu Gebi from Bauchi state to the state house in Abuja after her letter requesting to see him surfaced online. Her Uncle posted her letter on social media and it caught the eyes of President Buhari's personal assistant on new media, Bashir Ahmad, who showed the President over the weekend and he has asked for her to come and see him. Bashir notified Aysha's Uncle of President Buhari's invitation on social media. See their tweets below

Facebook Twitter Google Pinteres Linke WhatsApp Caleb University in Imota, Lagos State, says its cut-off mark for admission in the 2017/2018 academic session will be 120 as stipulated by Joint Admission Matriculation Board ( JAMB ). Its Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Daniel Aina on Friday in Lagos said that the cut-off mark was aimed at “liberalising admission” into tertiary institutions and give access to the best candidates. “The 120 cut-off mark was a joint decision of all Nigeria universities vice chancellors, not the JAMB alone. “Since universities are still at liberty to conduct Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination ( UTME ) to access their candidates and select the best, we are sure to still have the best students in the system to admit,’’ he said. Aina said the Post-UTME could not be cancelled in universities as “JAMB score is not enough to test the capability of a student’’. He said that admission into Caleb University was ...

Nelly (Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images) The 21-year-old woman who accused rapper  Nelly  of rape has in a letter released by her lawyers revealed she wishes to drop the case. The letter, painting a morbid picture, read that the lady doesn’t feel her “unimportant self” can go against a celebrity. She believes the system is going to fail her, the letter read. The lady had accused Nelly of raping her on his tour bus in a Walmart parking lot. Nelly had earlier refuted the allegation, saying he was a victim of false accusation, while apologising to his fans and loved ones for putting himseld in a position to be targeted for defaming allegation. “I am confident that once the facts are looked at , it will be very clear that I am the victim of a false allegation,” he had said. According to The Blast, the lady’s lawyer,  Karen Koehler , said her client has told the Auburn Police Dept and the King County D.A. in Washington to stop the criminal i...

The Federal Government’s desire to borrow more funds from international creditors is to prevent job losses, Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun has said. Mrs. Adeosun, who spoke yesterday at a joint press conference with the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, at the conclusion of 2017 International Monetary Fund (IMF)/World Bank Group Annual Meetings in Washington D.C, said with Nigeria’s source of revenue dropping  by nearly 85 per cent, the country had no option but to borrow.  The option before the country was to either cut public services massively, which should have led to massive job losses, or borrow in the short-term, until it begins to generate sufficient revenues, she said. “We felt that laying-off thousands of persons was not the best way to stimulate growth. Also, when we came into office, about 27 states could not pay salary. If we had allowed that situation to persist, we would have been in depression by now. So, we took the view...