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.