Poverty Palaver! Nursing Mother Jailed for Stealing Indomie

For stealing a cartoon of Indomie to feed herself and her baby, a 28 year-old nursing mother, Ms. Taye Joseph, has been sentenced by an Osogbo Senior Magistrate Court to Seven Days in Ataoja Police Station, from where she would be going to clean the court's premises every morning.

During the trial which attracted a lot of sympathy from those present,...

Actor Kunle Afolayan Returns With Something Bigger

Kunle Afolayan can be comfortably said to be among the few filmmakers in Nollywood who strives for quality and professionalism in delivering stories. It is based on this that one is not surprised that his last movie - The Figurine - broke box office records in Nigeria and won several awards.

The soft-spoken brother is back with a brand new movie that would be released in early 2012. As the above poster design show, his latest movie is titled Phone Swap. I hear the movie comes with lots of exciting twists. Continue to see the trailer...

Sexual Slaves! Nigerian Teenage Girls Are Sold Out for N2m

As part of its renewed onslaught against human trafficking in all forms, NAPTIP has located and successfully evacuated about 104 Nigerian citizens from Mali, mostly women, who are made to work as sex slaves as well as those who facilitated their trafficking out of the country.

According to official records of NAPTIP, those evacuated are...

Aliko Dangote, GCON, Emerges the Richest Man in Africa

Nigeria’s leading business mogul, Aliko Dangote, who was recently decorated with the GCON Honour by President Goodluck Jonathan, has been confirmed as the richest man in Africa. This is according to the Forbes official inaugural list of the 40 Richest People in Africa. Below are those who made it to the top ten in the period under review and other Nigerians who made the list...