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Ken Saro-Wiwa’s 74th Posthumous Birthday Is Today!

Kenule "Ken" Beeson Saro Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995) was a Nigerian writer, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize. Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in Nigeria whose homeland, Ogoniland, in the Niger Delta has been targeted for crude oil extraction since the 1950s and which has suffered extreme environmental damage from decades of indiscriminate petroleum waste dumping. (more…)

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Dolapo Oni Set To Wed Her Prince Tomorrow! Get The Scoop On The Wedding Gown & More!

We are hearing that the TV show host will wear an Elie Saab wedding dress. The couple are set to finalise their marital union with their white wedding taking place tomorrow in London, UK.  And we her cherished fans can’t wait to see the pictures (expect she decides to pay my airfare) of the lovely couple especially Dolapo in her wedding dress as she’s a stunner any day. Elie Saab is a popular designer known around the world for dressing celebrities and members of royalty.  Yesterday, the bride and her close friends celebrated her departure from singlehood with a b

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Diezani’s Travails: Family Releases Statement

The family of the embattled former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke has released a statement following the bout of “media trials” they have been going through. Read below. The Truth Versus The Media Hysteria Against The Madueke Family In this era of cyber terrorism, decency dictates that one should respond to false and defamatory allegations with silence. But there is a limit to how much any reasonable person can bear the tactics of these cyber terrorists. We all know that what makes a lie fly is the little truth contained therein. This happens to be

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The TechCabal Africabeta Chat 3.0

Nigeria is getting more innovative by the minute of every second!  (lol, yeah...) The first edition of Africabeta took over Lagos on the evening of Saturday Oct 3rd. Organized by TechCabal, the event was quite the spectacle as stakeholders in the African tech scene, graced the event looking brilliant and beautiful, eager to learn, ready to teach, ready to network. There were insightful exposes by experts, thrilled winners in the Raffle draw and of course, lots and lots of pictures. We just had to narrow it down to our favorites. Here you go: check out some of the