HKN boss, Davido, has finally announced the release date of his much anticipated second studio album. Speaking in Kenya during the weekend, where he performed at the 5th Afrobeatz Festival, Davido said, ‘I’m inviting all of you for my graduation on June 7, then on June 8 I launch my album.
I have worked hard for this degree, day in day out. If I am in China today and I have examinations tomorrow, I better get to school tomorrow or else everything is a bust. I have worked on this degree for six years now.
Before I became famous while I was in school,...
Friday, April 3, 2015
What Jonathan told Buhari on phone
A recording of the telephone call by President Goodluck Jonathan to Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) on March 31, congratulating him on his victory at the last Saturday’s presidential election hit the Internet on Thursday. The recording revealed what transpired between the two leaders.
President Jonathan had reportedly called Buhari hours before the official declaration of the presidential election results by the Independent National Electoral Commission that Buhari had won the March 28 presidential poll.
The audio of the conversation credited...
ISIL re-enters refugee camp in Syria
Palestinian officials and activists say fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant battling armed groups inside a refugee camp in the Syrian capital, Damascus, have taken control of most of the camp.
Members of the ISIL stormed the Yarmouk camp on Wednesday but were expelled on Thursday before re-entering the camp on Friday.
Palestinian official Khaled Abdul-Majid said the group was in control of half of the camp.The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the Syrian conflict through a network of activists,...
China’s ex-security chief arrested for corruption
China’s former security chief Zhou Yongkang has been charged with bribery, abuse of power and disclosing state secrets, making him the most senior official being prosecuted in decades.
Zhou is the most prominent victim of President Xi Jinping’s much-publicised anti-corruption drive, which has targeted high-level “tigers” as well as low-level “flies”.
“The defendant Zhou Yongkang… took advantage of his posts to seek gains for others and illegally took huge property and assets from others, abused his power, causing huge losses to public property...
Garissa attack: Bodies still on ground; victims face down, shot in back of head
The ambulances come and go through the gates of Garissa University College, as townspeople strain from a distance to see what's going on.
Soldiers shoo and drag them away, but they keep coming back.
In this small town, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) from the Somali border, nothing much usually happens.
But not so Thursday, when Al-Shabaab militants raided the Kenyan campus, leaving 147 dead.
A day later, there are still bodies on the school grounds waiting to be transported off.
A medic said most of the victims had been shot from behind,...
