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Latest Michael Schumacher news is "not good", claims former Ferrari boss Luca di Montezemolo The latest news about the health of Michael Schumacher's is not good, his former Ferrari boss Luca di Montezemolo said on Thursday. The German is still receiving intensive treatment far from the public eye at his home in Switzerland following severe head injuries that he suffered in a skiing accident in France in December 2013. Read more »

Father Mbaka: Priest or political soldier? These, indeed, are interesting times when Nigerians are treated to different forms of absurdities on daily basis. A lot of things that happen, no matter how odd or insane it may be have come to be viewed as normal in Nigeria.  Read More

Is Naughty by Nature broke? asks fans to donate $100k for  money for their 25th anniversary album. Naughty By Nature, one of the hottest rap groups in the 90's, have launched a KickStarter Campaign to fund their 25th anniversary album...They are hoping to raise $100k to put out their 25th anniversary album and are going directly to the fans. They are offering fan experiences for whoever donates. So far, they've raised $23,000. See their campaign video  here

Rihanna Am too busy to have a steady relationship Lies! You just haven't found the one that makes your heart stop beating..:-). During her appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to promote her new album and, Rihanna said she has no time to be in a steady relationship because pf her very busy schedule.. 'I'm single right now. And it's not that I'm like ''Oh, pro single. Yes, I hate men.'' I just think that I just have so much on my plate that I can’t even find the time to entertain a steady relationship or anything serious. Or even a text. Right now it's just crazy.' she said The singer looked amazing in a little  green skirt and cropped green blouse with a revealing neckline.  More photos »

Lionel Messi scores his 500th career goal Last night, soccer star Lionel Messi scored his 500th career goal in the win against Valencia and he's still just 28. The breakdown is as follows: 435 goals for Barcelona, 49 goals for Argentina, 14 goals for Argentina U20, and 2 goals for Argentina U23. What a milestone!!

Photos: Ghanaian boy diagnosed with cancer gets his dying wish. This story was shared on Facebook. The person who shared it claimed that the little boy was dying from cancer and one of his last wishes before he died was to see the interior of a plane. And the wish was granted. The Facebook user wrote; Read more »

Photos: Police officer who battered his wife to death for refusing sex jailed for life PC Adrian Goldsmith was jailed for life on February 1 at Stafford Crown Court after he was found guilty of killing his wife. Goldsmith, 50, beat wife Jill, 49, with a mallet, paint pot and heavy battery then stabbed himself to make it look like self-defence. He tried to trick colleagues and a jury into thinking she had attacked him first at their home close to Northants Police headquarters. Read more »

Photos: 22-month old girl undergoes successful skull defect surgery in Canada The 22 month-old girl, Fidelis Muthoni from Makuyu in Murang’a county, Kenya who was suffering from frontal encephalocele underwent a free operation in Toronto, Canada to remove a bone growth on her face. The Canadian doctors volunteered to operate on her for free when her father Kenneth Kinuthia met them in Kiambu county during a medical camp. Muthoni’s plight was highlighted when the family accused her uncle, Hope Foundation founder Joseph Wanjau, of misappropriating the ticket money. Read more »

Ruggedman writes open letter to 9ice, bloggers, friends & fans The rapper and entrepreneur poured out his heart in an open letter he just released. Read below... In 2010 9ice released a song that made a lot of people wrongfully drag me into a terrible situation. People who miscontrued the song and it created a rumour .  A terrible false rumour that was fueled by journalists and bloggers who were only after hits on their sites.Bloggers and journalists who did not care to investigate and confirm a rumour,but chose to print and post it anyways not caring who got hurt in the process.  Read more »

Presidency slams refutes reports that Pres Buhari hasn't achieved any of his campaign promises The Presidency responded to reports that President Buhari has only achieved 1 out of his 222 electoral promises . The Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, reacted by saying that the president has successfully blocked the leakages in the system within the last seven months he has been in office. Read more »

Over 1,000 giant ants removed from  year old Indian girl's  her ears. This 12-year-old girl above has had more than 1,000 giant ants removed from her ears within the last 5 months, after doctors find them nesting in her drum canal. Shreya Darji, from Deesa, in Gujarat, western India, has around ten live ants crawl out of her ears daily, her parents say. Shreya's problem first started as an irritation in her ear in August last year, and when she visited her local hospital, doctors found the ants inside her ear canal. Read more »

Man shot by cop paid $23.1m in damages A federal jury awarded $23.1 million on Wednesday to a 22-year-old black man who was unarmed when he was shot and paralyzed by a sheriff's deputy, but Florida lawmakers will have to approve any award above $200,000. The six-woman, two-man jury ruled after 3 and half  hours of deliberation that Palm Beach County Sheriff's Sgt. Adams Lin violated Dontrell Stephens' civil rights when he shot him in September 2013. Read more »

US President Obama tells Muslims: We are ‘One American family’ US President Barack Obama visited a Maryland mosque on Wednesday to deliver a simple message at a complex time. “We are one American family,” President Obama told the gathered crowd at the Islamic Society of Baltimore. “We will rise and fall together.” Read more »

Photos:Rescue operation of Bristow helicopter crash A Bristow Helicopter from Port Harcourt en-route Lagos with 9 Passengers and two crew members, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean yesterday February 3rd. Officials of the National Emergency Management Authority NEMA carried out rescue operation at the scene of the incident. All 11 persons on board were rescued alive.  See more photos »

APC National chairman bemoans loss of oil rich states to PDP APC National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, has bemoaned his party's loss of important oil-rich states to the opposition party, PDP. Delta, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa and Cross Rivers states, are all being governed by PDP-elected governors. Oyegun expressed his sadness while reacting to the Supreme Courts ruling on the Rivers state governorship election. Read more »

7 month old baby killed alongside his parents by gangs in Mexico (Graphic pics) 7 month old Marcos Miguel Pano Colón (left) was shot dead by gang members alongside his parents last week. Horrific photos showing the bodies of the baby boy and his parents slaughtered in Oaxaca, Mexico, were released this week and it has sparked fierce debate about the country's rampant gang violence and society's acceptance of it. The boy was being carried by his 24-year-old father, Juan Alberto Pano Ramos, and accompanied by his 17-year-old mother, Alba Isabel Colón, when their attackers opened fire on them in the city of Pinotepa Nacional on Friday evening. Read more »

Angels exist? 18-month old rescued from crashed car that killed her mother after 4 police officers heard mysterious voice calling for help This baby was saved from drowning by a mysterious voice. Four police officers said they heard a mysterious adult voice calling for help from a scene of a car crash in northern Utah. When they rushed there to help, they only found 18-month-old Lily alive. Her 25-year-old mother had died in the crash. The police said they could have sworn they heard an adult female voice calling to them for help...but only met Lily trapped in the car but alive in the icy river. The mother was long dead.  Read full story  »