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Just a week after his death, tempers are already rising over the will of late Igbo leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. Speculations were rife during the week that Ojukwu might have willed his recently built estate in Enugu to Bianca to the consternation of some of his older children, raising the question of what could be in the former Biafran ...

A BULAWAYO man will spend the next sixteen years of his life behind bars, ruing the day he decided to connive with a neighbour to rape his 13-year-old stepdaughter. The man (whose name has been withheld to protect the identity of the girl) and his female accomplice were sentenced to 20 years in jail but could serve at least sixteen ...

A nominated MP has urged the government to compensate the thousands of people who will be displaced at Hindi Magogoni to make way for the construction of Lamu port. ODM-Kenya’s Shakila Abdallah said the proposed multi-billion shilling port will displace people yet the government had not spelt out how they will be compensated or whether they will get alternative land. ...

Seven Nigerian gays yesterday in New York, United States, protested the passage of a bill by the Senate banning same-sex marriage. They gathered in front of the Nigeria House to express their displeasure over the bill which will not become law until its passage by the House of Representatives and assented by President Goodluck Jonathan. If it becomes law as ...

A diplomatic storm is brewing after police allegedly tried to storm the Consulate General of Nigeria in Johannesburg last week. The drama played out on Tuesday when 68 members of Twelve Apostles Church in Christ who were to travel to Nigeria on Wednesday demanded their passports back after being denied visas over claims they “refused to pay a bribe”. They ...