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Popular Yoruba actor, Mr Bolaji Amusan, popularly known as “Mr Latin,” who was rumoured dead on Monday, has announced the arrival of his new baby. Report says his wife was delivered of a baby girl at about 11am Tuesday morning in Dublin Ireland. Sources say Latin will head to Dublin to meet his family this Friday. Congratulations to the family. ...

President Jacob Zuma’s son Edward got married last year, but he is yet to pay the wedding company the balance for planning his lavish nuptials at Tala Game Reserve. Now he is being sued for R1.5 million by the Durban wedding co-ordinating company. Edward Zuma married Phumelele Shange in October last year and had their wedding reception for 500 guests ...

There was pandemonium at the arrival wing of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos on Tuesday as officials and security men sought to unravel the content of an abandoned bag found at the busy airport. The PUNCH had gathered that airport officials invited the police anti-bomb squad to examine the bag after waiting, vainly, for hours for the bag to ...

Ahead of the 2015 elections, the leadership of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and Congress for Progressive Change, CPC met in Lagos on Sunday night to begin fresh merger talks. “We have commenced talks that will lead to merger of the two major opposition parties ahead of the 2015 elections. I can tell you that discussion has started on ...

AFP – Senegalese President Macky Sall has declared over two million euros ($2.6 million) in possessions to the country’s highest court, in an effort to improve transparency, local media reported Tuesday. The declaration was made public after being published in the government’s gazette on April 24. Sall, who was elected on March 25 after a crushing victory over incumbent Abdoulaye ...