Islamic extremists have publicly crucified two Syrian rebels in northeastern Syria in revenge for a grenade attack on members of their group. The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq said it had executed a total of seven prisoners who it claimed had carried out a grenade attack on one of its fighters earlier this month in the Euphrates Valley city of Raqqa.   The group, which even Al-Qaeda have been keen to distance themselves from, said on Twitter: ‘Ten...

    A Pakistani national, Malala Yousafzai, has called on the federal government to do all it can to rescue the abducted girls. Malala, who made the call while speaking with the Hausa Service of the BBC, said that the federal government should know that it is its responsibility to rescue the abducted girls still being held by members of Boko Haram sect. She said, "I was depressed to hear the news that female schoolgirls were abducted;...

  "The girls, we believe, are alive but they have been moved from the location to which they were originally taken," the intermediary told Channel 4 News. "It would not be hard to engineer a deal. It looks like they want to release them." The kidnappers have warned, however, that attempts by the military to launch a rescue attempt "may result in the deaths of many of the captives". "They want a way out," said the negotiator, who has long...

Pascal Ejikeme a.k.a Etcetera formerly signed on X3M music label known for his soft rock genre of music expressed his dissatisfaction over the Nyanya bomb blast that occurred in Abuja on the 14th of April. According to him: ’For God’s sake, can somebody please call D’banj, Don Jazzy, Onyeka Onwenu, Duncan Mighty, Stephanie Okereke, Genevieve Nnaji, Funke Akindele, Omotola, Rita Dominic, Aki and Pawpaw, Sammy Okposo, Sunny Neji, Maleke, Okey...

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday, on the occasion of Good Friday, led his family and other Christians in a prayer session seeking an end to Boko Haram’s reign of terror in parts of the country. They also prayed for peace across the country. The service held at the Presidential Villa chapel was anchored by the Reverend Obioma Onwuzurumba. Intercessory prayers were said for Nigeria and Nigerians, especially as the country is going through trials...

The Koko master, Dapo Daniel Oyebanjo, D’Banj, who is seriously putting together grand plan to celebrate his 10th anniversary as a musician recently revealed in an interview how he discovered his love for music. The Oliver Twist crooner conceded he had never really owned up on the question, saying that being in the choir as a young boy was never really the reason he fell in love with music as it widely believed. “My love of music came from the...

  A manager in Shell Development Petroleum Company (SDPC) Nigeria and a businessman have been allegedly killed in Rivers State by fraudsters impersonating as women on a dating site. The corpses of the victims and one other unidentified person have been recovered in a bush by the police in the state. The late Shell manager, Mr. Progress Benin Disi, went missing on March 7, while Shola Olaseinde, the businessman got missing on March 26. Police,...

Armed robbers in the early hours of Friday unleashed terror on the students of the Osun State University, Osogbo at their different private hostels located close to the campus of the university. It was gathered that the robbers armed with dangerous weapons stormed the private hostels one after the other and dispossessed them of their belongings including laptops, mobile phones, money, beverages, wrist watches among other things. It was also learnt...

Twelve bars of gold have been recovered from the stomach of a businessman in the Indian capital, Delhi, a surgeon treating him has said. The 63-year-old man was admitted to hospital after complaining of vomiting and difficulty defecating. He told his doctor that he had swallowed a bottle cap in anger, after a fight with his wife. But when surgeons operated they found gold bars weighing nearly 400g (14oz) in his stomach instead of a bottle ca...

  Nigeria’s armed forces have formally issued a retraction to the unfolding story of the kidnapping of more than 100 female students in the country’s northeast Monday. The statement, issued by Chris Olukolade, a Major General who also serves as Coordinator, and the Director of Defense Information, centers on a discrepancy of fact, and concerns a mis-quote from the School Principal whose students were abducted in the Monday siege. In an attempt...

According to the French anti-tobacco agency (OFT), a report from the French national laboratory revealed that smoking shisha gives off as much carbon monoxide as 15 to 52 cigarettes and as much tar as 27 to 102 cigarettes.Bertrand Dautzenberg, OFT President said, “The report confirms that smoking shisha is a major source of air pollution in closed and covered areas. If comparing the data to regular cigarette smoke, one shisha corresponds to an average of...

A Chinese blogger Qin Zhihui, 30,who was accused of spreading rumours about the government and celebrities has become the first blogger to be jailed since the government decided to crackdown on online bloggers .He was slammed with a 3 year jail sentence for 'rumour mongering'. According to China Post,they claim Qin & his 3 colleagues spread false reports that a foreign victim of the 2011 train crash received a £24million in compensation while denying...

A 31-year-old woman, Idowu Akinwunmi, has narrated how the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Onikan Police Station, SP Adekunle Awe, allegedly rapéd her, extorted and threatened her life in the station.The victim said the incident occurred on April 15, 2014. She explained that on April 14 she was arrested by the police for “spurious” reasons. In her words:    “I work at an eatery on Keffi Street, Obalende, as a cook. The eatery also...

  According to Sahara Reporters, youths in Akure, Ondo State today took to the street to protest the state governments decision barring them from using the Democracy Park in the state which they had planned to use for their annual festival which was to hold today.According to the youths, they had already taken permission from the State government through a written letter and there was no objection from them prior to today. Fuji Star Saheed Osupa was...

  In a approximately a year from the release of his hit single  “Sho Lee”; Sean Tizzle has a studio album in the curriculum vitae. Titled “The Journey”; the album has production from his label boss D’Tunes and Prince Boom who featured Sean Tizzle on “Your Body” last year as well as guest appearances from 9ice, Reminisce and more.Our track pick from the 17 track LP is the remix of “Kilogbe” which features indiegnious rappersOlamide & Reminisce;...

A Nigerian, Odeomenan Kenneth Ozioma, has been reported to have been arrested in New Delhi, India with heroine concealed in a lady’s shoes. It was said that the 23-year-old Nigerian kept the heroine weighing 330grammes in specially made cavities in the shoes, meant to be sent by courier to the United States. According to additional commissioner, crime branch, Ravindra Yadav: “The heroin weighs 330 grams which is worth Rs 70 lakh(about $120,000)...

The super model who also happens to be a mother  of four, was spotted frolicking on the beach ofMexico with her 27 Year old Boyfriend Vito Schnabel. Wonder why she hasn’t done a breast lift like many of her counterparts! See the full picture where she bared her bosoms after the break. ...

  Expect to see a lot of over-compensation by poorly endowed men in Brooklyn on June 14, as the ‘Smallest Penis Contest’ is back in New York for the second year.Back for a second year running, the Smallest Penis Contest is a pageant for “confident people with a sense of humour,” and of course a small penis. The competition will have multiple categories in which contestants will be judged, including bath and evening wear. A cash prize and a wee crown...

This has to be one of the weirdest festivals ever! During spring in Japan, every year, people flock to Kawasaki to celebrate Kanamara Matsuri aka the “Festival of the Steel Phallus.” Held this year on April 6, the festival is a celebration of the penis and fertility in a no-holds-barred kind of way. And it is carried out in a carnivalesque, friendly atmosphere that puts a smile on the face of every visitor. People parade gigantic phallic-shaped...

According to reports, US rapper and Wu-Tang affiliate Andre 'Christ Bearer' Johnson tried to jump to his death from a 2nd-storey window after cutting off his penis with a kitchen knife… From TMZ  A rapper affiliated with Wu-Tang Clan was rushed to the hospital early Wednesday after he cut off his penis and then jumped off a second story balcony in what police believe was a suicide attempt ... law enforcement sources tell TMZ. Our sources say...

According to the Registrar of JAMB, Prof Dibu Ojerinde while announcing the release of the 2014 UTME results at JAMB headquarters, a total of 990,179 candidates applied for PPT while 25,325 candidates applied for DBT which amounts to 1,015,504 applicants". Out of this, 36,164 were recorded as invalid results and 37,315 are for applicants who were absent on the exam date. 2,494 results were withheld due to various examination malpractices. Ojerinde...

The Federal Government has come out defend President Goodluck’s Jonathan visit to Kano few hours after the Abuja bomb blast which killed many on Monday. Speaking at the end of the weekly Executive Council of the Federation, FEC, meeting on Wednesday, the Information Minister, Labaran Maku, said Jonathan had to attend the rally to prove to the terrorists that they cannot cripple the activities of government and they also cannot stop the administration...

According to PM News, a middle aged man named Mamodu Bashir Ibrahim has been arrested by the Ogun State police command for behading a 2year old boy and raping the boy's mother inside an uncompleted building in a bush at Ofada town in Obafemi/Owode local government area of the State. Reports say the man trailed the woman who was carrying her son on her back, into the bush, forced her into an uncompleted building, raped her, then stabbed her in the...

BFF’s Jim Iyke and Nadia Buari have been in the news for some time now, from their tour round the world to their engagement which was said to be fake.As season 2 of Jim Iyke‘s reality TV show “Jim Iyke Unscripted,” wraps up, the couple are already geared up for season 3.Jim and Nadia recently shot the teaser for the 3rd season and in it, we see the Nollywood actor and the Ghanaian beauty partying hard, flying in private jets and attending events together.Recall...

Serena Williams showed off her hot body at the beach in florida. more pix after the cut.....