After about a week of battling old age sickness in a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States of America, 82 year old Africa’s foremost novelist and author, Prof Chinua Achebe succumbed to the cold hands of death yesternight. His health had deteriorated over a week ago after which he was rushed to the hospital but just as there was hope that the literary icon may survive it, things fell apart ...

1) And it came to pass after these things, on the first day of the first month of the twelfth year after the second millennium, that king Jona son of Bele announced to the people saying; there is no money left in the royal treasury, and the future of the kingdom is in great danger. 2) Therefore, a measure of oil shall no longer sell for three scores of silver and seven, but shall now be seven scores of silv ...

Barely 24 hours after iReports-ng.com published a portion of the messy extra-marital affairs of Mrs Juliet Oluremi Olu-Akerele, the special assistant on electronic media to Ondo state governor, Dr Olusegun Rahman Mimiko, has gone gaga in her desperation to keep the report out of circulation by sponsoring viral attacks on the news site and taking names of imagined sponsors of the report to spiritualists in A ...

Veteran Nollywood actor, Enebeli Elebuwa is dead. He died in an Indian hospital in New Delhi at the age of 66. The death of Elebuwa who was an indigene of Utagba Uno, Delta State is coming shortly after the death of another veteran actor, Pete Eneh who was amputated few weeks ago in connection with diabetes.   Elebuwa was said to have died as a result of complications from stroke at the Asian Institute ...

Special Assistant on electronic media to Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo state, Mrs Juliet Oluremi Olu-Akerele is now the centre of a raging war over who controls the heart of Chairman of Daar Communications, owners of Africa Independent Television, AIT and Raypower FM radio, High Chief Raymond Dokpesi. iReports-ng.com gathered that the battle recently assumed a spiritual dimension as some managers in the ...

Few days after pop star-turned pastor, Chris Okotie announced that his four year old marriage to Stephanie Henshaw has packed up without giving any reason, the lady at the center of the failed marriage appears to have come out to state her own side of the story. Okotie who is the founder and presiding pastor of the Household of God Church in Lagos had shocked his congregation about a fortnight ago towards t ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died. She was 48. Publicist Kristen Foster said Saturday that the singer had died, but the cause and the location of her death were unknown. At her peak, Houston the golden girl of the music industry. Fr ...

Beginning July 8, 2011 through January 12, 2012, the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indiana will showcase ancient Ife art of the Yoruba people during the 12th - 15th centuries.  The exhibition, called Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria, will include art pieces of human figures and near life-size heads made of cast copper-alloy, terra-cotta, brass and stone.  These artworks are considered some o ...

The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF is to formally protest the gender of an Equatorial Guinea player, Salamatu Simpore to the Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) tomorrow. The Nigerian authorities want CAF to carry out a gender test on the player who drew the ire of all during Equatorial Guinea's semi final game against South Africa on Thursday. During the game ,the controversial player scored two goals ...

by David-Chyddy Eleke Even as growing up kids, living with our parents in our early years, it was easy to decipher the happy moments of our father, it was usually when he is relaxed with any track of Sunday Oliver Akanite’s (Oliver De Coque) music, which he practically forced us to listen to, our mother inclusive, claiming that there exist salient and hidden truth in what the musician sang, which is capable ...