Achebe for burial today!

Renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, who died in March, is due to be buried in his home town Ogidi in Anambra state.

Mr Achebe's body arrived back in Nigeria on Wednesday from the US. The author died in Boston at the age of 82 following a brief illness.

Relatives and officials were at Enugu airport in southern Nigeria as the coffin was lowered from the plane.

Mr Achebe is widely regarded as the founding father of African literature in English.

2 Arik Air staff caught with cocaine in London!

Two staff of Nigeria’s largest airline, Arik Air have been arrested at the Heathrow Airport in London for suspected drug trafficking on Tuesday.

The Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency disclosed that they had opened investigations after the Arik Airline workers were allegedly caught with cocaine in the Uk.

NDLEA spokesperson, Mitchell Ofoyeju said the allegations constituted a national embarrassment.

“We are aware of the arrest and we have
opened an investigation into the matter,” Ofoyeju said.

Banji Ola, Arik Air spokesperson said he was not aware of the incident or flight details.

However, Arik Air image maker, Banji Ola said he was yet to be briefed on the matter.

It would be recalled that in December 2011, a 29-year-old Arik Air female hostess, Miss Chinwendu Uwakaonyenma
Ogbonnaya, was arrested at Heathrow Airport over allegation of drug smuggling into the United Kingdom and was thereafter sentenced to five and a half years imprisonment last year.

Suspected killers of Kwara state police commissioner arrested!

Seven suspected killers of late Kwara state commissioner of police, Chinwike Asadu, have been arrested by the police. The announcement was made today by the Inspector General of Police, Muhammed Abubakar, who also said the arms used by the killers were also recovered.

“We have arrested seven of those behind the killing of CP Chinwike Asadu. His killing was indeed a sad incident and that’s why when I visited the after the incident I made a promise that we shall stop at nothing to get those behind the dastardly act. I am glad to tell Nigerians that of those who took part in the killing, seven have been arrested and arraigned before a court.

These are the seven persons charged for murder: Ogechukwu Uzoh, Ogechukwu Nnadi, Ugwuoke Obiora, Okwuosa Anthony, Chukwudi Enete, David Elvis Aja and Amobi Nnamchi.

The late commissioner was shot dead in Enugu on Saturday March 2nd

Ray J Finally Admits That "I Hit It First" Is About Kim Kardashian!

Is Ray J finally ready to admit what we all already knew?



The singer's most recent single, entitled "I Hit it First" has a blurred out picture of ex-girlfriend Kim Kardashian on the album cover and makes more than a few references to his famous ex in both the song and the video.

Despite the fact that everyone immediately put the pieces together (it didn't take too much detective work), Ray J refused to admit that the song was, in fact, about Kim....until now!

During a recent visit to The Wendy William Show, Wendy asked Ray J if he was still denying that the song was about Kim.

"I never denied it," he responded. "I just felt like in the promotional campaign to go so hard after you kind of know what the song is about...so, I just let the song speak for itself."

Mission accomplished on that one!

He says that he didn't want to push it during the promotional campaign because everyone already knew what the song was about. So, that takes care of that...

While Ray J's song might not be the nicest gesture he could have thrown in Kim's direction, he did send a big "congratulations" to her and Kanye who are expecting their first child this summer.

Do you think it was wrong for Ray J to write that song about Kim? 

'British Soldier killed suspected terror attack!

A man believed to be a soldier was killed in London's southeast Woolwich district on Wednesday in what authorities are treating as a suspected terror attack. 

They first hit the man, thought to be a British soldier, with a car in broad daylight. Then the two attackers hacked him to death and dumped his body in the middle of a southeastern London road. As the victim -- dressed in what appeared to be a T-shirt for Help for Heroes, a charity that helps military veterans -- lay prone, 

one of the two attackers found a camera. "We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you," said a meat-cleaver-wielding man with bloody hands, speaking in what seems to be a London accent.  "The only reasons we killed this man this is because Muslims are dying daily," he added, in video aired by CNN affiliate ITN. "This British soldier is an eye for an eye a tooth for tooth." One witness, Michael Atlee, described the gruesome, frenzied and ultimately fatal sequence of events Wednesday afternoon as "a bloody mess." 

Witnesses Describe The London Attack

An witness said that he heard gunshots, and when he arrived at the scene there was blood all over the ground. Another witness said: “I still am quite shaken at what I’ve seen — I’ve seen a victim of an awful attack, and I’ve seen a body of a young man.”

The two suspects have been taken to hospital after they were shot by a firearms unit. No motivation is yet known.

London Mayor Boris Johnson tweeted about the attack on May 22: “This afternoon’s attack in Woolwich is a sickening deluded and unforgivable act of violence. My thoughts are with the victim and his family.”

British Prime David Cameron called it a terrorist attack. "We will never buckle to terror," Cameron wrote on Twitter. Home Secretary Theresa May offered a similar assessment Wednesday night of the situation and a similar message of resolve. 

London woman says she's too pretty for work!

A London woman has made headlines after going public with her decision to quit her job because she's too attractive.

Laura Fernee told the Daily Mail her most recent job was in medical research, which she started in 2011. Fernee has a PhD in science and started in the workforce in 2008.

"The truth is my good looks have caused massive problems for me when it comes to employment, so I've made the decision that employment just isn't for me at the moment," the 33-year-old told the paper.

Fernee says despite her qualifications, she was "constantly" being asked out or being given gifts by colleagues.

"Even when I was in a laboratory in scrubs with no makeup they still came on to me because of my natural attractiveness."

Because she's not working, Fernee's parents are covering her expenses including rent, gym membership and more than $2,300 a month in designer clothes.

Controversy over Taylor’s family ejection from Calabar mansion!

Contrary to reports, there are indication that the family members of former Liberia President, Mr. Charles Taylor, were not ejected from any building in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria.

A soft sell magazine had reported that Taylor’s family members had been ejected from their N2.5m per year rented mansion in Diamond Hills in Calabar.

According to the magazine, the Taylor’s family was left behind in Calabar as he faced criminal charges in The Hague. They were ejected from their home because they were unable to pay their rent. The house belongs to Dr. Joseph Wayas, the Second Republic Senate President.

But a source close to the family said the report was not true, insisting that Taylor’s family never stayed at any building in the Diamond Hills area of Calabar.

The source, who craved anonymity, said while Taylor, a war crime prisoner, stayed in a government lodge (Solomon Uno’s Lodge) around the state House of Assembly complex, his Irish wife lived in a building owned by Joseph Wayas located off Third Avenue in the state Housing Estate.

The source said, “The family relocated from the State Housing apartment owned by the former Senate President to another one located along Atekong Drive shortly after Taylor was arrested, but even at that, the family also did not stay long in the Atekong Drive apartment before leaving Calabar.”

He said the only Taylor’s family presently staying in Calabar is the former president’s younger sister, Nancy, who owned a shop along Atekong drive.

Charles Taylor was forced to resign as president and take up political asylum in Nigeria. He arrived Nigeria with his family on August 12, 2003 but was extradited in 2006 to stand trial for war crimes.

In 2012, he was found guilty of all 11 counts of “aiding and abetting” war crimes and crimes against humanity.