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Gunmen on Saturday in Maiduguri struck at the venue of the wedding ceremony of 30-year-old Maduga Borikmen and shot him dead. The stray bullets also hit one person and injured two others on the occasion. According to an eye witness, who pleaded anonymity, three assailants arrived at the scene in a golf car. When they alighted from the car with ...

Hollywood A-lister Jennifer Lopez has jetted over from Los Angeles to Casablanca to inaugurate the Morocco Mall, billed as Africa’s largest shopping center and among the world’s top five. After King Mohammed VI’s sister, Princess Lalla Meryem officially opened the mall on Thursday, the US star became its first customer and capped the glitzy launch with a private concert. “She ...

Two Chrisitan pastors in Nigeria claimed they were raped by prostitutes while on a mission to a local brothel. The incident occurred when the two men went on a mission to try to convert sex workers in the town of Cable Point near the Niger River delta, “a notorious stop-over for hoodlums,” according to The Nigerian Voice. This is not ...

In this week’s edition of Keeping It Real With Adeola, she discussed the Zimbabwean Prime Minister’s divorce after 12 days of marriage, along with his other baby mamas. She advised him to get together with Herman Cain and the King of Swaziland. Watch and laugh!

Former US President George Bush and his family arrived in Zambia yesterday to a thunderous welcome despite Amnesty’s international calls for the former President’s arrest over human rights violations. Bush is on a health awareness three-African nation trip which has already taken him to Zambia’s north eastern neighbor Tanzania and later Ethiopia after Lusaka. The trip is aimed at raising ...