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The long awaited and anticipated BBC Yoruba News website has launched and started the publication of Nigerian, African and Global News in the Yoruba language to service the needs of more than 45 Million Yorubas in West Africa, as well as the Yoruba diaspora to have news in their Languages. Ìròyìn Èkúnréré L'éde Yorùbá ti dé!

Gists going around now is that Nigeria's number one blogger Linda Ikeji has supposedly found her Mr Right and has answered the ‘Will you marry me’ question. The 37 year old blogger has been spotted wearing  an engagement ring but she is not talking about the engagement. (More Pictures after the cut)

  The story of Eric Aniva, Hyena, broke sometimes mid this year when a BBC reporter spoke to him. Aniva bragged of his mischeavious feat of having sexual cleansing for young girls before they are given out in marriage.verdict is expected this week in the case of a man arrested in Malawi after he told a BBC reporter he had had sex with pubescent girls as part of a “cleansing” ritual. But some Malawians are asking why only one man is on trial for a practice involving whole communities. On Thursday, the follow up reveals that a verdict is expected this week in the case the Malawian after he had sex with pubescent girls as part of a “cleansing” ritual. But some Malawians are asking why only one man is on trial for a practice involving whole communities. Eric Aniva was arrested in July on presidential orders after he admitted having unprotected sex with girls as young as 12 – and keeping quiet about his HIV-positive status. Aniva says he was hir...

Google's social network, Google+, is late. Facebook has a big lead, having ousted MySpace, which in turn deposed Friendster, the site that started us all on this path towards recreating our social fabric as a network of connected personal nodes. Facebook is an excellent tool for sharing music -- usually in the form of Google's YouTube videos -- but even the developer of the top music app on Facebook says it doesn't do enough, musicwise . And when we canvassed the top 20 Facebook music apps , we were shocked by what we found. The list of the most popular music apps on this, the most popular social network, included werevertumorro and Shane Dawson TV , which aren't even music apps; they merely alert fans when one of those videobloggers throws up another video on YouTube. Google+ may have a tough time making a dent in the popularity of Facebook. But on at least on the music front it can make a lot of inroads, fast. Fact is that music apps on Facebook are l...

Note: Story contains an image some may consider offensive The UNICEF says an estimated 33 million Nigerians still practice open defecation in different parts of the country. Dr Suomi Sakai, UNICEF’s Country Representative and Chief Ambassador, said this at the commemoration of the World Sanitation Day on Tuesday in Abuja. A man defecates in a canal at Oshodi. Photo by Akinbuli Oluwatobiloba “The most worrisome of all the unsanitary practices is the high rate of open defecation practice in the country. “It is estimated that about 33 million Nigerians defecate in the open, depositing about 1.7m tonnes of faeces into the environment annually,’’ she said. Sakai said that the development had resulted in a high level of contamination of the environment in which garbage and faeces often find their way into water resources. She stressed the need for awareness creation among the populace and the imperative of imbibing sanitary p...

Islamic sect, Boko Haram, yesterday ignored the presence of Joint Task Force deployed to Maiduguri to contain them, went on a fresh killing spree, killing 28 people and injuring several others within 24 hours. On Sunday night, the sect tossed bombs on a crowded beer garden in Maiduguri, Borno State capital killing at least 25 people, and struck again hours after attacking the customs area of Maiduguri where members of the Joint Task Force maintains a secretariat. The commander of the task force on Boko Haram, Maj. Gen. Jack Okechukwu Nwaogbo, who confirmed the attack which included bomb blasts and gunfire said 3 people were killed while at least two customs officials were wounded The destroyed local drinking joint in Dalla Maiduguri, where a bomb was detonated Sunday evening. NAN photo On Sunday night, suspected Boko Haram members riding on motorcycles attacked three different makeshift bars in the city Witnesses said at least 25 died in the beer parlour attacks, while Nwa...

By Ola Ajayi ONE of the two factions of the notorious National Union of Road Transport Workers in Oyo,  Tuesday,  appeared before the Commission of Enquiry set up by Governor Abiola Ajimobi calling for the arrest and prosecution of the immediate past Governor, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala. The factional Chairman of the union, Alhaji Lateef Akinsola aka Tokyo,  while presenting his memorandum to the panel advised politicians in the state to stop meddling in the affairs of the union. The infiltration of politicians into the union, according to him was largely responsible for the incessant bloodshed between factions of the union. Tokyo’s faction which commended the steps taken by governor Ajimobi to stop bloodshed in the state said politicians should “hands off the affairs of the union and stop supporting one faction against the other so as to put a total end to the carnage in the ...

  Three African states -- Somalia, Chad, and Sudan -- once again top this year's Failed States Index, the annual ranking prepared by the Fund for Peace and published by FOREIGN POLICY of the world's most vulnerable countries. For four years in a row, Somalia has held the No. 1 spot, indicating the depth of the crisis in the international community's longest-running failure. 1somalia 2chad 3sudan 4zimbabwe 5DRC 6Afghanistan 7Iraq 8central african republic 9Guinea 10Pakistan 11Haiti 12CIV 13Kenya 14Nigeria 15Yemen 26Cameroun 33Liberia etc   The new edition of the index draws on some 130,000 publicly available sources to analyze 177 countries and rate them on 12 indicators of pressure on the state during the year 2010 -- from refugee flows to poverty, public services to security threats. Taken together, a country's performance on this battery of indicators tells us how stable -- or unstable -- it is. And the latest results show how much ...

WHAT would have been a tragic air disaster was averted, Monday, when an Arik aircraft scheduled to fly Enugu to Abuja by 8.50am almost crashed four minutes after take-off from Akanu Ibiam Airport, Enugu. The over 100 passengers on board would have perished if the pilot had not turned round and made an emergency landing. Captain of the Boeing 737-800 aircraft with registration number F-MJK, whose name could not be ascertained, was quoted to have said he turned back to the airport when he noticed that the right engine had failed. Meanwhile, speaking to aviation correspondents in Lagos on the incident, Dr. Harold Demuren, Director-General of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, said the air return was necessitated by the indicator in the cockpit, adding that it was the best option the pilot took to avoid a fatal accident. He said: “The pilot took a precautionary measure to ensure safety of the passengers.” Spokesman of Arik Air, Mr. Ola Banji, said: “What ha...