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Some Christians considered it a sign from God that the end is near. A fetish priest said it is a message from his gods asking him to perform some rituals.

Others were just shocked at the sight of the fruit and asked that the tree that bore the fruit be cut down. An agriculturist had a simple explanation, but not many were prepared to listen to him.

The issue that had set the Lolobi-Kumasi village in the Hohoe District of the Volta Region abuzz last week was a mango fruit that appeared to have some human features.

The discoverer of…

POLICE are investigating a Harare church which claimed to be affiliated to the controversial Nigerian preacher, TB Joshua, after scores of people reported to have paid thousands of dollars for trips to the West African country which never materialised.

The church, which is based in Sunridge, Mabelreign, allegedly promised members trips to TB Joshua’s Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) which is headquartered in Lagos.

TB Joshua is reputed across Africa to have mythical healing powers which has seen thousands of people from around the world with various personal problems and ailments flocking to his…

Boko Haram issues new threats and says all government establishments in northern Nigeria and Abuja should be evacuated in preparation for deadly attacks The extremist Boko Haram sect says it is set to resume its deadly attacks with sights now aimed at bombing government-owned properties, offices and residential quarters, in the 19 northern states and Abuja.

In what appears to be a defensive response to growing public anger and a tactical shift in operational approach, the spokesperson for the sect, Abul Qaqa, told PREMIUM TIMES, Thursday afternoon, that the facilities being…

Omo N’Oba N’Edo, Uku Akpolopolo, Oba Erediauwa of Benin has warned political parties and politicians to stop using his name for campaigns ahead of the Edo State July 14 governorship election.

In the last few weeks, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and some chiefs in the Benin Traditional Council had consistently said that the Oba had endorsed Governor Adams Oshiomhole for the coming governorship election.

But in a press statement signed last night by the secretary, the Benin Traditional Council, Mr. Frank Irabor, the respected Oba said that he had not endorsed anybody or political…

The 2005 film “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” grossed nearly $200 million worldwide based on the premise of a man who went without s*x into midlife. But one real-life woman has managed to stay a virgin up to her 70th birthday.

The virgin in question this time is a 70 year-old woman from England named Pam Shaw. Though she has made a living as a sexy cabaret singer, going by the nickname The Sexational Pam, Shaw claims that she has never actually had sex. She says she is against sex before marriage and has been too busy with her career to ever…

His mother, Mrs. Kikelomo Ilori, 32, a Cosmetologist, told us that he was born on Monday after she had carried the pregnancy for about 10 months. The single mother claimed she was abandoned by her husband who denied responsibility for the pregnancy and encouraged her to abort it.

The woman also said: “When I refused to abort the pregnancy, he deserted me, saying ‘that is your own problem’.” Mrs. Ilori expressed surprise at the birth of the boy. She added that the nurse who delivered her of the baby was physically…

Again let me emphasis: Rashidi was not sick at the time he was abducted. Rashidi was never mad. He could have had periods of some depression but those were in the distant past.

This is one of the most difficult articles I have ever written.

I now believe that the universe sought me out some months ago for an assignment, to bear witness and to testify in the unfolding events surrounding the life and death of Rashidi Yekini! But why me?

Within the football circle I believe I am one of a very few persons that…

Sources in several state governments as well as the Federal Ministry of Finance Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala  have disclosed to us that Nigeria’s cash flow woes appear to be worsening. For the second month in a row, the Nigerian government was unable to meet the schedule for disbursing monthly allocations from the federation account to states.

Our sources accused President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration of depleting the country’s foreign reserves and recklessly overspending budgeted funds.

One source revealed that the Federal Ministry of Finance has paid March monthly allocations only to some states. The allocations for April and May 2012 remain unpaid….

Wife of the President, Dame Patience Jonathan, has said that plot to discredit President Goodluck Jonathan over the security situation in the country will fail.

She said though it was becoming clearer that the insecurity caused by the rising bomb attacks and other attacks may be sponsored, the mission of those involved will not work because the President is a man with good heart, who was voted into office by a majority of Nigerians.

Mrs. Jonathan, who, weekend, led the Speakers of Delta, Rivers and Akwa Ibom State Houses of Assembly to the Kingdom of Grace Mission in Yenagoa,…

You could say it happened just like in Disney’s “Little Mermaid”. Milagros Cerron, is a Peruvian girl,born with a rare condition, known as sirenomelia, or “mermaid syndrome“, which left her legs bound together, fro her heels, all the way to her groin.