Osas Ighodalo is Made Magazine cover girl for February 2015

The actress, model covers the latest February 2015 edition of Made magazine.

New Ebola testing kit gives results in 15 minutes

The World Health Organization has approved a rapid test for the Ebola virus which can deliver a diagnosis in just 15 minutes.

In what could be a breakthrough for bringing the epidemic in West Africa to an end, the test kits will be deployed to countries affected by Ebola within a matter of weeks.

Julia Roberts has lost her mother, Betty Lou Bredemus to cancer

Julia Roberts has lost her mom to cancer.  The actress mom, betty Lou Bredemus died after battling lung cancer in the early hours of today.  She was aged 80 years.

Julia's mom in the last two months of her illness has been living at Julia's Loa Angeles home, along with the Oscar winning husband Molder and their 3 children.

Betty Lou's passing comes just a year after her daughter Nancy Moles - Julia's half sister committed suicide from a drug overdose in February last year.

Lupita Nyong'o wows in a rainbow of colours at the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon

 

Lupita Nyong'o is a regular on the best dressed list, proving she can elegantly master any color of the rainbow.

And on Thursday, the 12 Years A Slave star looked stunning in a psychedelic dress at the 8th annual Essence Black Women In Hollywood Luncheon in Los Angeles.

Naomi Campbell indeed is the golden girl of catwalk and runway (photos)

 

Supermodel Naomi Campbell, an iconic beauty showed everyone that she is still one of the best as she walked the runway at her Fashion For Relief Charity show at London’s Somerset House.

 

The 44-year-old Brit donned a glittering gold coat with nothing underneath as she sashayed her way down the catwalk, proving beyond all reasonable doubts she is an utterly gorgeous tour de force.

 

She finished her golden ensemble with a wraparound snake necklace, and donned a simple pair of towering peep-toe black heels, clearly just for show as the lofty beauty didn't need to add any height to her Amazonian frame.

Man gets 15 years jail term for raping a 7-year-old girl

 

A middle aged man, Adamu Abdullahi, was on Thursday, sentenced to a 15-year jail term by a Bauchi State High Court sitting in Bauchi, the state capital, for raping a seven-year-old girl.

 

The convict, who was dragged before the court, presided over by Bauchi State Chief Judge, Justice Rabi T. Umar, by the state Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Dauda Yakubu, was said to have raped the minor, names withheld.

 

Comedian Bovi Ugboma covers the February 2015 issue of Allure magazine

Bovi Ugboma, one of Nigeria's foremost comedian talks on the bankability of comedy as he covers the February 2015 issue of Allure magazine.

The magazine will be out on the news stand this weekend.

Alfa kills and shares body of friend with others

The suspects, Afobaje, Tanko and Suleiman

 

An Alfa in the Oko Agbonla, Magbon area of Badagry, Lagos State, Fatai Afobaje, has been accused of conspiring with some security men in his area to kill his friend, Rafiu Suleiman.

 

Police sources said after the 40-year-old was dead, Afobaje, along with five others, shared his remains among themselves for ritual purposes.

 

It was gathered that what remained of the late Kwara State indigene was recovered by men of the Nigeria Police Force on Monday, after an intensive search.

NIS arrest 120 illegal immigrants, I came to Nigeria to eat and marry stated one of them

The arrested illegal immigrants

 

For 21-year-old Musa Isa, who is from the Niger Republic, his major mission to Kwara State, Nigeria was to work and get money to feed himself and later marry.

 

Isa was one of the 120 illegal immigrants arrested and paraded by the Nigeria Immigration Service, Kwara State Command, on Thursday for not having valid documents.

 

He said he had stayed in Kwara State for about 10 years without documents and without arrest until Wednesday when he was nabbed by immigration officials.

Bobbi Kristina was probably high on Xanax which she is said to have abused since age 16 - Ex-boyfriend

 

Bobbi Kristina Brown was reeling from a huge argument with her 'husband' Nick Gordon and likely high on Xanax when she was found unconscious in her bathtub on January 31.

The 21-year-old tragically remains in a medically induced coma in an Atlanta hospital following the incident at her home in Roswell, Georgia.

See Amber Rose in a racy blue outfit as she celebrates carnival in Trinidad

 

From her Twitter rants to her ridiculous outfits, Amber Rose sure knows how to make a statement.

Amid her explosive online feud with Khloe Kardashian on Monday, the model found time to slip into this racy blue ensemble to celebrate Carnival in Trinidad.

Sporting a snakeskin bikini, gigantic feather headdress and beads, Rose put her famous physique on display in the very revealing number as she paraded through the streets. See more photos .....

Man sets wife ablaze accusing her of infidelity

 

The people of Umuna community in Orlu Local Council Area of Imo State were thrown into shock in the early hours of yesterday when  a middle aged  man identified as Uche allegedly set his wife, Ugochi Uche ablaze before handing himself over to the police.

It was gathered that Uche, a 45-year-old man  had  allegedly doused his wife, who was said to be sleeping with fuel and set her ablaze.

Spiritual attack forced my son into armed robbery

Taiwo and other gang member

 

A middle aged mother of four sent shock waves into the spines of police detectives in Lagos recently, when, on seeing her first son being paraded as a suspected armed robber, she broke down and started crying out loud, telling everybody that cared to listen that his son could not have, ordinarily, done any bad thing.

According to her, ‘’He went into robbery after having spiritual attack. As a mother, I have done all I could to make sure that Taiwo becomes useful to himself. After his father died, I tried my best with the little I had to ensure that he completed his secondary school education.

Bad girl Riri wows in a sophisticated and demure look at Zac Posen's NYFW show

Rihanna known for her overly sexy look and style on Monday at Zac Posen's New York Fashion Week show came out looking very sophisticated.

She arrived at the star studded fashion show in a curve hugging maroon dress.  The dress featured a deep plunging necklace and showed off the singer's toned figure.
 

I asked my girlfriend to abort her pregnancy because I do not want to father a thief like myself - Robbery Suspect

 

A member of a three-man armed robbery gang busted by the Police at Ketu area of Lagos has said he forced his lover to abort a three-month pregnancy because he did not want her to give birth to an armed robber like him.

 

Musliyu Ahmed, 23, who was arrested in Ketu, said: “I had to force her to go for an abortion because I do not want her to give birth to a child, who will have the blood of an armed robber. And because she understands the nature of my job, she had to obey.

Obasanjo dumps PDP, as party expelled him two-hours-after

The torn membership card

 Former President Olusegun Obasanjo after months of speculations has finally dumped the PDP.

 

Just two hours after he announced that he was dumping the PDP, the Ogun state PDP executive Council head by Chief Adebayo Dayo expelled him from the party over what he termed as “series of unabated anti-party activities’’. 

The former President was hosting the executive and members of the party from Ward 11, Abeokuta North at his Hilltop residence when he announced that he was dumping the PDP.  He said to the ward Chairman, Alhaji Usman Oladunjoye during their fact finding mission to the Hilltop residence of the former president to verify reports on a plot to suspend him from the PDP.

Obasanjo wants to run my government - President Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, described former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s attacks on him as the consequence of his failure to surrender his administration to the former leader.

 

Responding to the tirades of the former president last week, President Jonathan said Obasanjo was so bent on controlling his protégées that he would not mind installing the devil in power so long as he can control him.

Bricklayer hacks neighbour to death over generator fumes

The deceased, Bashorun Okanla

 

A 29-year-old bricklayer, Ibrahim Tijani, has hacked to death his neighbour, Bashorun Okanla, for complaining about fumes emanating from his generator.  The incident happened in the Okun Ajah, Ogombo area of Lagos State.

 

The suspect, an indigene of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, and the deceased lived in an uncompleted building.

 

On the fateful day, Tijani was said to have turned on his generator around 11am, while the fumes escaped into the room of the 57-year-old carpenter.

Man rapes 4-year-old girl in Lagos

 

A 25-year-old man, Kingsley Churchill, has been arraigned before an Ebute Meta Magistrate’s Court for raping a four-year-old girl.

 

It was gathered that the victim was raped on January 24, 2015 at her parents’ house on Adeshokan Street, Ayobo, Lagos State.

 

It was said that Churchill had first inserted his fingers into the victim’s private parts before having sex with her.

Two die, one arrested in supermarket robbery

The suspect with dangerous items recovered from the gang

 

One armed robbery suspect was on Saturday shot dead after a gun duel with the police during a robbery operation that took place in a supermarket at the Ikot Effa area of Calabar, Cross River State.

Two robbery suspects were also arrested in the process while four others were said to have escaped. One of the arrested suspects, was said to have later died.