Netflix has recently acquired world rights to Lionheart, which will be the first Netflix original to come from Nigeria! The movie premiered Saturday in Toronto at the Toronto International Film Festival and marks the directorial debut of Genevieve Nnaji, according to Deadline. It stars Nkem Owoh, Pete Edochie and Onyeka Onwenu. The comedy is about a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has welcomed the first African leader to visit the White House during his presidency, Nigeria’s Muhammadu Buhari (moo-HAH’-mah-doo boo-HAH’-ree). Security and economic issues top the agenda for the one-on-one meeting and working lunch. They also plan a joint news conference. The Nigerian president’s visit Monday follows an uncomfortable start […]
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Boko Haram extremists returned most of the 110 girls abducted from their Nigeria boarding school a month ago with an ominous warning, witnesses said Wednesday. The fighters rolled into Dapchi around 2 a.m. in nine vehicles and the girls were left in the center of town. As terrified residents emerged from […]
Cops arrested a White man for his role in cheating people out of thousands of dollars in the infamous “Nigerian Prince” scam.
Nigeria will participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics games in PyeongChang after their women's team qualified in the bobsled category for the first time.
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari said his government will step up its campaign against Islamic extremist rebels but made no mention of his health he spoke to the nation for the first time Monday, after more than three months of medical treatment in London. “Terrorists and criminals must be fought and destroyed […]
Two Toronto sisters black mailed a billionaire businessman into giving them cash.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Twenty-one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamic extremists more than two years ago have been freed in negotiations, officials said Thursday. Some 197 girls remain captive, though it is not known how many of them may have died. The freed girls, the first to be released as a […]
Boko Haram released a new video of the abducted Chibok school girls. They're offering to release them in exchange for captured fighters.
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamic extremists have a new leader who promises to end attacks on mosques and markets used by Muslims, according to an interview published Wednesday by the Islamic State group. The group’s al-Nabaa newspaper identified Abu Musab al-Barnawi as the new “Wali” of its West Africa Province, a title […]
YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Boko Haram militants opened fire at a funeral in northeast Nigeria, killing 18 mourners including many women and children, officials and witnesses said Friday. The attack occurred late Thursday night in the Madagali area of Adamawa state near the Sambisa forest, which has long been a stronghold for the Nigeria-based Islamic […]
According to the plaintiff Chris Ubosi, his company Megalectrics paid Rihanna $160,000 to perform a 65-minute set with Jay Z.
