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BY/Chidimma okafor Nigerian-international singer, Bukola Elemide popularly known as Asa, has revealed how she lost her virginity at the age of 28. In a rare interview conducted by Funmi Iyanda long time ago in the UK, but which was released on YouTube during the week, Asa opens up on her music, sex life, battle with depression and rumours of her being a lesbian. It’s quite thrilling. Enjoy it. Do you remember the first time you and I sat down to talk in Lagos?  Yes, at the studio? Yes, at the studio. Maybe almost 10 years ago.  ‎Yes. I remember. That was the first time you made me cry. You played a song out of the guitar. Can you remember the song you played? It’s so beautiful!  Yes. It’s so beautiful. You played the song so beautifully in the studio that day and I cried. I cried because I knew you were going to be really, really big. And from that moment in the studio, you fought the jailers. I remember you said exactly this (thing) 10 years ago. And I ...

It was learned that the deceased, identified as Mr. Jemudia, his wife and daughters were found dead in early hours of Saturday by their neighbours after they noticed that fumes were coming out of their three-bedroom flat apartment. A source in the community said the deceased had put on their power generator due to power outage, before they went to bed in one of the rooms in their apartment on Friday night, after they had earlier attended a funeral ceremony in the community.

BY/Uchenna Agwaraonye In an apparent bid to ensure sanity, the management of Federal Polytechnic Oko Anambra State has issued a statement through the examination committee prohibiting its female students from wearing trousers and the male students from keeping beard, afro or grown hair during the examination. To ensure absolute compliance to directives , the School’s Anti -cult unit has been mandated to prevent defaulting students from accessing the examination halls. Reacting to the new development, a student from Department of Mass communication who identified himself as Ikenna described the move as “senseless, oppressive and uncalled for”. He further described the new management of the polytechnic and in fact some of the lecturers as agents of oppression. In his words “I don’t know what the new acting Rector wants to turn the school into. I don’t know if they wants to turn this higher institution into a secondary school? About a month ago one of the lec...

BY/Keto obi The Fetish materials in front of the departmental office complex In what looked like a pay-back for ‘no-nonsense’ lecturer, final year students of Human Nutrition and Dietetics department of University of Nigeria (UNN), have allegedly dumped what is described as ‘diabolical’ materials in front of their departmental complex with a note directing the fetish materials to go to work against their lecturers. The students were said to have rebelled against their lecturers for daring to fail a good number of them, leaving about 50 of the 2016/2017 graduating students behind while passing just 30 in a class of 80 students. Some angry students prepared what appears to be juju (a calabash containing ‘charms’, feathers and broken eggs), dumped them on a red cloth in front of their departmental office, and leaving a note that said “ since una no wan make we go…una go DIE here with us .” Speaking on the matter,  a student of the institution simply i...

BY/Keto obi This might be a caveat to many. If you are one of those who carry their banks on their hands, then this might interest you. If you have a high-level passion for Internet banking, or you have your bank accounts wired straight into your cell phone, then you better be careful. If you also go about with your Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards in your pockets all the time, and make several visitations to the ATM as soon as you’re low on cash, this might also be a piece of warning. There are lots of thieves out there targeting your cell phones and ATM cards. If you misplace any of them these days, you might be in trouble. They will have access to your bank account and proceed to drain everything in it to the last kobo. Many who have fallen prey to them in recent times are still sulking. In one fell swoop, the fraudsters swindled them of all the money they had toiled for. When the thieves steal cell phones, they use them to access the bank accounts of their victi...

You won’t believe the hilarious reason why a popular Ghanaian boxer began to bleach in the first place. Ghanaian boxer, Braimah Kamoko, also known as Bukom Banku has said he regrets bleaching, according to a report by AdomNews. The boxer who had been flaunting his heavily bleached skin some months back had admitted that he was bleaching to become Ghana’s ambassador to Germany. “I am bleaching myself for German people to know that German people and Bukom Banku are one…. So if you see me now, you will observe that I am from Germany. I want Ghanaians to know that I am a German now,” he said. But, after going at it for months now, he had now advised people not to bleach because of the adverse consequences. Banku gave the advice while chatting with Bola Ray on Starr Chat on Wednesday, October 25. Banku said he was inspired by the fairer skin of musicians such as Michael Jackson and Daddy Lumba, but has now realized bleaching is not a good thing and regrets i...

You won’t believe the hilarious reason why a popular Ghanaian boxer began to bleach in the first place. Ghanaian boxer, Braimah Kamoko, also known as Bukom Banku has said he regrets bleaching, according to a report by AdomNews. The boxer who had been flaunting his heavily bleached skin some months back had admitted that he was bleaching to become Ghana’s ambassador to Germany. “I am bleaching myself for German people to know that German people and Bukom Banku are one…. So if you see me now, you will observe that I am from Germany. I want Ghanaians to know that I am a German now,” he said. But, after going at it for months now, he had now advised people not to bleach because of the adverse consequences. Banku gave the advice while chatting with Bola Ray on Starr Chat on Wednesday, October 25. Banku said he was inspired by the fairer skin of musicians such as Michael Jackson and Daddy Lumba, but has now realized bleaching is not a good thing and regrets it. “I stopped bleaching long...