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Rapper MI, who is currently in South Africa, visited an animal reserve today where he hung out with some really big elephants.  See more photos  

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says he will not be a part of any plans to constitute an interim government that may be formed after the general elections.According to PMNews, he said this while addressing a group of Concerned Nigerians who had come to allay their fears about the upcoming general elections at his home in Abeokuta, Ogun state this morning. He also said that there is no possibility of the election being annulled“You need not to worry about anything. There can never be any June 12 annulment again.Buhari is not Abiola, he is a trained and highly intelligent soldier. Oyegun is not Anenih, Osinbajo is not Kingibe.Jega is not Nwosu, Jonathan is not IBB and this time around, Obasanjo will not support any interim government.Obasanjo will rather support a free, fair and credible election.”he said

Toyin Aimakhu has reacted to the backlash over her support for President Jonathan and Jimi Agbaje.. While hosting the president Jonathan meets 5000 youth in Lagos, she said she would gladly die for PDP.. The backlash was intense and she just released  a statement saying it was a joke and there is freedom of speech..Our country has given its citizens the right to freedom of speech and right to vote and be voted for, I’m most definitely not an exception. As of 1999, Nigeria has about 29 political parties, allowing every citizen to choose at their own free will. It is then left to us not to undermine the decision or choices of others as it is loathsome. We live in a world where people take pleasure in bringing other people down. I feel obliged to address the matter of me dying for the PDP. Firstly, no one is dying for anyone and the last time I checked only Jesus had died for us with no strings attached or money promised to his family when he’s gone. He died to save us all. ...

Bill Gates has been declared the richest man in the world for the 16th time by Forbes magazine’s annual ranking of global billionaires. The Microsoft founder once again beat Mexican businessman Carlos Slim to the top spot. Mr Gates’ net worth rose by just over $3bn (£1.94bn) in the year to 13 February, to $79bn. There are a record 1,826 billionaires in the world, Forbes said, an increase of 181 in the past 12 months. Mr Gates has now been top of the list for 16 of the last 21 years, Forbes added. Legendary US investor Warren Buffett regained third place in the list with a net worth of $72.7bn, from Amancio Ortega, the founder of Spanish fashion chain Zara. Forbes 2015 ranking of richest people: 1. Bill Gates $79.2bn (Microsoft) 2. Carlos Slim Helu $77.1bn (Phones and construction in Mexico) 3. Warren Buffett $72.7bn (Global investor) 4. Amancio Ortega $64.5bn (Zara and other fashion chains) 5. Larry Ellison $54.3bn (Oracle data storage technology) 6. C...

Another white woman has been caught in the web of scammer’s love net, maybe her story is black magic because she has sent to this boy who may be less than 21 years old $1.4 million and has never met him, yet she claims she loves him. According to her "Though the mysterious man's accent has changed over time, and he keeps asking for money to be wired to various different countries, she is '95% certain' that he is telling her the truth that although he keeps trying to come over, they are arresting him on false charges.' In her interview with Dr Phil, Sarah said that they speak for hours on the phone each day. He introduced himself as Chris Olsen, said he was from Milan but moved to the U.S 18 years ago. However, he is currently based in Africa on business and has been for more than a year and a half. When he met her online, he said he was in South Africa. After a brief stint in Nigeria, he r...

Femi Fani Kayode's lawyers have written to APC spokesman Lai Mohammed, asking him to withdraw the statement he made yesterday questioning Fani Kayode's mental state, issue an apology and enter negotiations for N5billion as damages against him. This is coming a day after APC threatened to sue Fani-Kayode over his claims of an oath-taking pact between Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and Bola Tinubu.

Indonesia is nearly ready to execute by firing squad nine foreigners and an Indonesian condemned for drug smuggling. According to ABC news,they are four  Australians Andrew Chan, 31, and Myuran Sukumaran, 33, who are currently in a Bali jail, Raheem Agbaje Salami, 45, a Nigerian national who was born in Cordova, Spain, and 30-year-old Filipina Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso. The four convicts being transferred, two Nigerians and four men from  Brazil , France, Ghana and Indonesia will be executed simultaneously by a firing squad on the prison island off Indonesia's main island of Java. The Nigerians face execution after their clemency requests were rejected by Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo last  month , said Attorney General's office spokesman Tony Spontana. They are Silvester Obiekwe Nwolise, 39, and Okwudili Oyatanze, 40, whose clemency was rejected after he was caught running drug transactions from behind bars. Jokowi has received phone calls from ...

Boko Haram has released a  new video  which shows the executions of two alleged spies. According to AP,In the video posted on Monday titled “Harvest of Spies,”  a man identified as Dawoud Muhammad of Baga city on his knees in the bush before several armed and masked fighters. In response to questions, Muhammad says a police officer paid him 5,000 naira ($25) to spy and promised to make him so rich he would never have to farm again. The other man is identified as Muhammad Awlu. The video does not show the actual beheadings but the two bodies after the executions, with heads on the chests.Worthy of note is the fact that,the  video is similar  to that of the ISIS  militants .

There were revelations in Abuja on Monday on why President Goodluck Jonathan and the national leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party were angry with the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega. A week-long investigation by our correspondent in Abuja showed that the President and his party are not happy with Jega over his insistence that the commission would use the Permanent Voter Cards for the election. The PVCs were used for the conduct of the governorship elections in both Ekiti and Osun states, which were won by the PDP and the All Progressives Congress respectively. Apart from this, the President and the party were also angry that the commission was going ahead with its decision to use card readers. This technology was however not used in both Ekiti and Osun states elections. The commission has said that the card reader can only read PVC issued by it and that any person that shows up at the polling unit without a PVC or with ...

According to a report by Reuters , Chadian military officers, who are part of the West African Joint Military Task Force to fight Boko Haram, are complaining that the Nigerian government is stalling their operations to assist in fighting Boko Haram in Nigeria. According to the report, Nigerian military officers recently rebuffed the offer of the Chadian soldiers to join in the mission to recapture Baga and other towns. Find the report after the cut… When battle-hardened Chadian troops overran a Boko Haram camp in northern Nigeria last week, they wanted to press deep into territory controlled by the Islamist group but Nigeria refused to let them. Having defeated al Qaeda in Mali two years ago, Chad’s military believes it could could finish off Boko Haram alone. It has notched up victories that have pushed the Nigerian militants back from the Cameroonian border. But with presidential elections this month, Nigeria is keen to press ahead with its own military campaign against...