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Source: Pilot Africa Top Nigerian musical artists, Banky W. and Wizkid are set to star in new seven-part Kenyan drama series “Shuga: Love, Sex, Money” which will debut next month (video promo below). The hitmakers will not be taking on any roles in the anticipated series, but will be making cameo appearances in the club scenes, a press release from ...

Fresh explosions and gunfire early Tuesday rocked an area near a police station in the Nigerian city of Kano, where coordinated attacks claimed by Islamists and shootouts left at least 185 dead last week. Some 15 blasts and gunshots were heard coming from the vicinity of a mobile police headquarters. Details were not immediately clear, and police were not available ...

Abdelwahab Zaydoun, a 27-year-old Moroccan has on Tuesday died from self inflicted burns, a day after setting himself on fire in protest against unemployment. Zaydoun had a master’s degree in law and was part of a group of unemployed graduates who occupied an Education Ministry building in Rabat, the Moroccan capital, to protest their unemployment. The state news agency confirmed ...

Information recently made available to 247ureports.com through a high ranking contact within the organizational structure of the terrorist Islamic group, Boko Haram reveals unnerving revelations regarding the recent attacks on Kano, Bauchi State – and the aborted attack of September 15, 2011 visit by former President of the federal republic of Nigeria, General Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo to the home of ...

Nigerians on Monday gathered at the Central Business District area of Alausa, Lagos state, South-west Nigeria to discuss the current state of the nation. The Town Hall Meeting, organised by the Save Nigeria Group, SNG, had in attendance Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka, foremost economist, Henry Boyo and Afro-beat icon, Femi Kuti, musician Dede Mabiaku, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin among others. ...