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In November, Mr. Femi Badejo, who works with one of the Access Bank branches in Lagos and his security guard, Joshua Moses, were victims of trigger happy policemen. They had responded to a distress call, after armed robbers raided the banker’s home in Ikota, but ended up shooting at him. Mr. Badejo is out of hospital and has told his side of the story: "As I discussed the armed robbery incident with other occupants within our apartment complex, we noticed the gate open slightly followed by the unmistakable sounds of a war grade AK47 rifle. At the Instant, I docked under a car in the apartment complex and noticed my security guard groaning excruciating a few meters from my location. Why did these robbers come back? I asked rhetorically and prayed to be spared. Then as I heard the next round of shots, I felt the venom of the automatic rifle spew all over my body. So intense were the sharp burst of pains that I was on the verge of passing out when the words “Polic...

In Nigeria, some movie stars have proven again and again that they can guarantee return on investment as long as their faces adorn the poster. They are Genevieve Nnaji, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, Omoni Oboli, Funke Akindele and Nse Ikpe-Etim. Or how else could one explain the success of box office hits like Mirror Boy, Ije, and Tango With Me all having Genevieve Nnaji starring in them? And what about Figurine and Anchor Baby which both starred Omoni Oboli as the lead actress? Mirror Boy, Tango With Me, Last Flight to Abuja and Phone Swap all had sizeable negative reviews, yet they topped the box office, made huge profit and left many Hollywood movies far behind. Below is a list of Nollywood’s five bankable actresses, their earnings and what is possibly working for them. Genevieve Nnaji Topping the list of five is Genevieve Nnaji. Love or hate her, Genny as she is fondly called, has a way with cinema audiences that make them come back again and again for her movi...

Mexican-American singer, Jenny Dolores Rivera Saavedra better known as Jenni Rivera, has died in a plane crash, Sunday, in Mexico. Minutes after taking off from the northern city of Monterrey on its way to Toluca, the plane disappeared. “My queen, we will see each other again soon,” the singer’s father Pedro Rivera told reporters in Los Angeles. “We thought it was a press speculation, we wanted to believe that. But it’s true, my daughter is dead.” Mexico’s Director of Civil Aviation Alejandro Argudín said the plane had crashed, killing everyone on board. “The aircraft was left completely destroyed,” Argudín said. “The information we have is that there wasn’t a single survivor.” At least five people were traveling in the plane: the pilots, Miguel Pérez and Alejandro Torres, and three more passengers: the singer, her publicist and her makeup artist. Rivera is renowned for her work within the banda and norteña music genres. Her tenth studio album, Jenni in 2008, b...