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A young Zambian man identified as Mpanjilwa Mulwanda, who committed suicide by hanging himself on July 24, barely days after making a joke about it on Facebook. His death is currently trending on Zambia Social Media and according to multiple Facebook sources, during a chat with his friends on Friday, July 21, he made it known that he was going to take his life but they all laughed it off. Infact some even encouraged him to do it. He posted a photo with a rope tied around his neck and his tongue out as he posed for a selfie, but friends thought he was just goofing around. A concerned Zambian, Simon Freeman, wrote on his death, he said: “I never knew Mpanjilwa Mulwanda personally but after learning what transpired, seemed he mentioned taking his life to his friends who took it as a joke & probably never talked him out as much as they should have. I know how friendship is but anyway, one thing this has personally taught me is we should learn to encourage love ...

American news network, CNN , has mocked Nigeria , asking where is President Muhammadu Buhari. The Nigerian president has not been in the country for over two months and the news television in a query on its website on Sunday asked which “ head of state from which country has not set foot in his homeland in over two months ?” The mockery came in the latest edition of CNN ’s “ The Global Public Square ( GPS )” show anchored by Fareed Zakaria . In an apparent mockery of Nigeria and her President Muhammadu Buhari, CNN , on its programme displayed at 4 : 59 pm local time on Sunday , asked , “ The head of state from which country has not set foot in his homeland in over two months ?” It went ahead to tick an option with the name Nigeria as the correct answer . The options were given as Saudi Arabia , Cuba , Nigeria and Syria . A screenshot of the mockery tweeted by Chidi Odinkalu , Former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission asked What do you say Nigerians ? Recall...

Just few hours after the "Trap Boy From The East" Smockizzy began his social Media campaign for his forthcoming single "Igbo kwenu" through what he calls the #IgboKwenuChallenge where fans(kizzings) are to drop igbo proverbs/idioms and then tag friends to do same, Wizkid was spotted on twitter tweeting in accordance to this. Star boy as he is fondly called who is back to Nigeria and has been very active on social media of recent tweeted "Igbo kwenu"!!!! which has raised several questions amongst music lovers, who are trying so hard to understand the reason for the tweet. Wizkid who is all over twitter with 'Medicine' (a song produced in a day by masterkraft ) should be taken seriously when he tweets with all that has gone between him ,OBO davido and Slim daddy Tekno on twitter. With the internet a space treaded by all and sundry, ladies and gentlemen we will love to leave you all with a this; Wizkid might just be showing love to the f...

Some of the gravest problems we face during a day can be traced back to a brutally simple fact: that we have not had enough sleep the night before. To a surprising, and almost humiliating extent, some of the gravest problems we face during a day can be traced back to a brutally simple fact: that we have not had enough sleep the night before. The idea sounds profoundly offensive. There are surely greater issues than tiredness. We are likely to be up against genuine hurdles: the economic situation, politics, problems at work, tensions in our relationship, the family… These are true difficulties. But what we often fail to appreciate is the extent to which our ability to confront them with courage and resilience is dependent on a range of distinctly ‘small’ or ‘low’ factors: what our blood sugar level is like, when we last had a proper hug from someone, how much water we’ve drunk – and how many hours we’ve rested. We tend to resist such analyses of our troubles. It can feel lik...

She posted this morning on her blog. "My younger sister, Laura and her hubby, Ogbonna Kanu, have welcomed a son. She gave birth to her son in the early hours of today in a hospital in the US. The baby's name is Ryan. Congrats to Laura and Ogbonna and to me...the latest aunt in town...lol! "

The loved up couple are celebrating his birthday in Miami

In an interview with National Assembly TV, dancing senator, Ademola Adeleke, who was sworn into office last week to represent Osun West in the senate, says he loves to dance and takes it as a form of exercise. "Like we normally say there is time for everything. There is time to laugh. There is time to cry but most of the time I love dancing and I take it as an exercise. My kids got it(dancing) from me, Sina Rambo and B-Red and of course my nephew Davido. I train them and as a matter of fact, they will tell me that Dad, we can't catch up with you. I love dancing"he said According to him, he became the face of APC campaigns some years back because of his dancing skills. "When I joined APC briefly, I campaigned with Aregbesola and my late brother. As a matter of fact, we put what is called interload into the campaIgn because you go to most campign, it is so dry but when you put an interload into a campaign where you dance, laugh and everything, As a matter of...