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Few months after former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, made fleeting overture at reconciling their five-year beef, remarks from Condoleezza Rice’s memoir has plunged both men in a fresh war of words. The latest clash, sparked by Obasanjo’s Newspaper interview where he said Atiku failed to succeed him in 2007 because he was inexperienced and self destructive ...

South Africa’s Julius Malema, the firebrand leader of the ANC’s Youth League, has admitted his political career is “finished” after his suspension from the ruling party for breaking its internal rules, a newspaper reported on Sunday. The Sunday Times said Malema, the main force behind a push to nationalize mines and banks in Africa’s biggest economy, had decided to go ...

Yasmin El-Rufai, the eldest daughter of former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has died in London. The 25-year-old was found dead in her residence in London on Sunday. The cause of her death is still unknown, but there is no suspicion of foul play. Some say she died in her sleep, others say the death could ...

This week on “Keeping It Real With Adeola,” she picks on the crazy diamond hunt in Zimbabwe. Ever wonder what Lagos would be like on a Black Friday? Well, watch and laugh!

According to Vanguard, the National Coordinator of Odua Peoples’ Congress, OPC, Chief Gani Adams, has warned members of Boko Haram to stay away from the South-West, threatening to demystify the group should they perpetrate any violence in any part of Yorubaland. Adams, who spoke in Ira, near Offa, Kwara State, during the celebration of Oya festival, said: ”We have sent ...