American Actor Ron Lester Dies at 45

Bulky built actor, Ron Lester, who starred in Varsity Blues has died. He died at the age of 45. He has been hospitalized in Dallas for almost four months, where his health became worst on Friday.

Lamborghini bursts into flames on major road

A Lamborghini has engulfed in flames on a motorway near Wuhan, China. The owner, who remained unidentified, had just bought this secondhand supercar and was on its way home to show it to his family and sort out relevant paperwork when the accident occurred, reported the People's Daily. 

The car, which boast a maximum speed of 340kmh, can cost up to £500, 000 when bought brand new

Obama hosts powerful Saudi prince

US President Barack Obama hosts youthful Saudi Arabian Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House on Friday, underscoring his guest’s meteoric rise and increasingly pivotal role in strained US-Saudi ties.

White House spokesman Eric Schultz said Obama would meet the 30-year-old deputy crown prince, who has become the driving force behind economic reform and a more activist Saudi foreign policy.

King Salman’s son, who is his country’s defense minister, has met the very biggest of Washington’s big hitters during a week-long visit.

He held talks with the CIA director, the secretaries of state, defense and treasury, as well as leading members of Congress.

The White House said Prince Mohammed’s meeting with Obama will take place in the Oval Office

Wreckage of EgyptAir plane found in Mediterranean

Wreckage of the EgyptAir flight that went missing over the Mediterranean last month has been found, Egyptian investigators say.

A statement said "several main locations of the wreckage" had been identified. A deep sea search vessel had also sent back the first images of the wreckage, the statement added.

Dis Fela Sef!: He lives – By Reuben Abati

On the occasion of his 80^th birthday, Benson Idonije, who is arguably Nigeria’s most informed analyst of jazz music and an enthusiastic promoter of popular culture and music has released for public review and consideration an absolutely well-informed biography of Fela, the Afro-beat music maestro. The book is a useful contribution in my opinion. But the first thing I noticed- signposted by the copy sent to me, is how indeed, this particular publication appears to be a victim of the emergent crises of publishing in Africa in dispossessed economies. The copy sent to me is copyrighted 2014; on the cover it is described as a preview edition, scheduled for “official release: first quarter 2015”, the review copy doesn’t even have an ISBN number, there is no index and the bibliography is wrongly presented. 

After more than 29 years of assessing manuscripts and editing/reviewing books, I assume that I can conveniently imagine what the author, printers and local publishers of this book must have gone through, the same challenges other book writers publishing in sub-Saharan Africa face at the moment: looking for money, getting good editors, looking for publishers, and hoping that there will be readers. But we must be glad, and Benson Idonije deserves to be congratulated, on  his tenacity, in bringing out against all possible odds, a memoir as he correctly describes it, on Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, legend, maestro, counterculture hero, mystic, musician, philosopher, iconoclast, rebel, patriot and one of Africa’s most significant contributions to the world of art and music in the 20^th century. 

Singer, Meat Loaf reportedly slumps on stage during Performance

The 68-year-old performer, Meat Loaf collapsed onstage while performing. He was right in front of crowd that was obviously enjoying his performance when he slumped.  

He was performing at the Jubilee Auditorium Thursday night in Edmonton, when he hit the floor in

Some Nigerian lawmakers accused of rape, soliciting for prostitutes on visit to US

The US ambassador in Nigeria sent a letter to the speaker of the House of Representatives accusing some lawmakers of attempted rape and soliciting sex workers while on a visit to the US at the invitation of the US government. 

But the lawmakers have denied the allegations and have threatened to sue the US government for character assassination.

Ten lawmakers were invited to the International Visitor Leadership Program held between

Floyd Mayweather acquires another Private Jet worth $37m

Retired boxing champ Floyd Mayweather has acquired a new private jet two weeks ago.Floyd's rep tells TMZ, "It’s a 12 passenger Gulfstream III with gold cup holders, gold sink, gold accents throughout. It has all white leather seats and a fully stocked kitchen. He now has two jets. Air Mayweather 1 and 2." Such planes run around $37 million, but it’s unclear how much Floyd dropped on this particular jet. See more photos below...

Oscar Pistorius to be sentenced on July 6

The judge at Oscar Pistorius' hearing in Pretoria, South Africa has announced he will be sentenced on July 6.

The South African athlete shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on February 14, 2013. 

Judge Thokozile Masipa is reconsidering his sentence after a court found him guilty of murdering Ms Steenkamp, overturning an earlier manslaughter verdict, BBC reports. 

CBN announces Devaluation of Naira, introduces New ‘Flexible’ Forex Regime

The value of the Nigerian currency was today devalued to the dollar as the Central Bank of Nigeria announced a flexible foreign exchange regime that would see the country abolishing the dual exchange rate regime.

Under the new plan, the official exchange rate of the naira will exist in a "single flexible window," which will likely be determined by market forces.

President Muhammadu Buhari, who is currently on medical vacation in the United Kingdom, had

Obama slams Trump’s ‘loose talk and sloppiness’ over Muslims

President Barack Obama on Tuesday charged that “loose talk” about Muslims by presidential hopeful Donald Trump and other Republicans was betraying American values and harming the fight against extremism.

“We’re starting to see where this kind of rhetoric and loose talk and sloppiness about who exactly we’re fighting, where this can lead us,” Obama told a news conference, two days after the Orlando

List of Compulsory Retired Nigeria Army Officers inaccurate – Army

According to the Nigerian Army-; "The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to speculations and rumours regarding the number and names of the senior Army officers affected in the recent retirement exercise. This is worrisome as some individuals and media houses went to the ridiculous extent of publishing outrageous figures and names of serving officers as being retired. This is unethical and unfair.

It is therefore necessary to inform the public to please disregard such inaccurate lists.

Orlando Gay Club shooter, Omar Mateen worked for Global Security Firm

The (gentle and harmless looking) man behind the worst mass shooting in U.S. history worked since 2007 as a security officer at one of the world's largest private security companies, which said Sunday it was "deeply shocked" by the news.

"We are cooperating fully with all law enforcement authorities, including the FBI, as they conduct

Photos of Orlando Gay Nightclub shooter’s apartment

These are photos of the apartment where the man ,Omar Mateen, responsible for the gay Orlando nightclub shootings had been living and plotting out his horrific attack.  He had been living in Apartment 107 at the Woodland Condominium in Fort Pierce since he was divorced from wife Sitora Yusufiy in 2011. He was living there with the woman believed to be his current wife and mother of their three-year-old son, Noor Zahi Salman. Daily Mail has obtained photographs inside the killer's apartment, where investigators did a sweep on Sunday. See more photos below....