Not many women would come out openly to declare that they have no scruples about their husbands taking another wife. Although still single, stunning Nollywood actress, Chukwukere Sarah Ujunwa a.k.a Hon Sarah Martins told Potpourri in a chat that she wouldn’t mind having her husband take another wife. According to her, it is never a taboo for an African man to have many wives. Hear her: “Back in... 

Reverend Isaac Achi, a Catholic priest, was burnt alive on Sunday in a bungled home invasion at his residence in Kaffin Koro parish in Nigeria’s Niger state, according to a police official. When the armed would-be thieves were unable to gain inside, they chose to set fire to the property, leaving the priest to perish while his aide, Father Collins, nearly escaped with his life, suffering a gunshot... 

A suspected cannibal has been arrested in Nigeria after he allegedly cut off his aunt’s head and used it to make pepper soup. Jeremiah Ode, 45, allegedly killed his uncle’s wife Priscilla, 65, and cut off her head with a machete at her farm in Oju, in the southern state of Benue. Ode then cooked a pepper soup with Priscilla’s decapitated head and was eating a steaming bowl of it... 

Nigerians are weary of corporations marketing their products in the nation with virtually solely white models and voiceovers with British or American accents. According to the Arab broadcaster Al Mayadeen, there will now be a law that only local models and readers will be allowed to participate. When African enterprises sell their products to an African audience, unlike in many Western countries,... 

At least 50 people are feared dead after gunmen opened fire on worshippers and detonated explosives at a Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria on Sunday, officials said. The violence at St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo town, in Ondo State, happened during the morning service on Pentecost Sunday in a rare attack in the southwest of the African country. While much of Nigeria has struggled with security... 

Twitter declared access to its platform a ‘human right’ on Saturday, prompting conservatives to accuse the firm of hypocrisy after it banned former President Donald Trump and millions of others for violating its terms of service. The social media giant’s statement came as a response to Nigeria’s decision to ban Twitter over the deletion of a tweet from Nigerian President Muhammadu... 

Joe Biden has issued a presidential memorandum threatening “financial sanctions” on African countries for failing to embrace the LGBTQI+ agenda. The memorandum directs federal agencies to “conduct and expand efforts to combat discrimination, homophobia, transphobia, and intolerance on the basis of LGBTQI+ status or conduct”, with an annual report detailing the status of LGBTQI+ rights in countries... 

A “gruesome” massacre against farmers in northeastern Nigeria killed “tens of people”, the United Nations said late on Sunday, amending an earlier statement putting the death toll at 110. The killings took place in the early afternoon of Saturday in the village of Koshobe and other rural communities in the Jere local government area near Maiduguri, the capital of the conflict-hit Borno state. “Armed... 

A Belgian journalist is being threatened by Muslims for an article he wrote earlier this month about a three-year-old girl who was slaughtered by Islamic extremists using machetes in Nigeria. Jakob Kürüm writes for SCEPTR, a popular Flemish conservative news portal. On June 12 he published an article about a 3-year-old Nigerian Christian girl, Elizabeth Samaila, who was cut to pieces by Islamic... 

Nigeria has declared a national emergency over a “strange epidemic outbreak” that has already left 15 dead and 104 infected by this disease, which can end the life of a person in just 48 hours. The Nigerian Senate declared an alert on January 29 for a “strange epidemic outbreak” in Oye-Obi, in the southern state of Bunue, which has already claimed the lives of 15 people and... 

Nigeria wants Russia’s assistance to finally launch its steel plant, Ajaokuta Steel, sometimes called the “bedrock” of the nation’s industrialization, which was almost completed in the 1980s, but has never become operational. Russian MetProm group, which specializes in modernization and construction of iron and steel plants among other things, has agreed to finish the project, Nigerian Minister... 

It is common in Nigeria to attribute car crashes to the work of witches and demons, senior staffers at that country’s Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) have told the News Agency of Nigeria. In an article titled “Don’t blame witches for road crashes—FRSC,” Sector Commander of the corps in Imo, Joseph Aremu, said that “most road crashes on Nigerian roads” are attributable to “human factors... 

In a mission that was intended to target the Boko Haram, an Islamic Terrorist group, a Nigerian fighter jet mistakenly dropped a bomb on a refugee camp killing dozens of refugees and volunteers. From USA Today: A Nigerian Air Force fighter jet on a mission against Boko Haram extremists mistakenly bombed a refugee camp Tuesday, killing more than 100 refugees and wounding aid workers, a Borno state... 

Fatalities from terrorism are at a record high now with just two groups, Boko Haram and Islamic State responsible for half of them, a new report showed. The Nigerian militants kill more people than their Iraqi-Syrian allies. Two terrorist groups were responsible for over a half of the killings in 2014 – Nigeria-based Boko Haram and Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), which aims to expand its influence... 

Witnesses and security officials say at least 12 people have been critically injured when a gunman opened fire outside a school in Nigeria’s violence-plagued northeastern state of Yobe. Multiple students at the College of Administrative and Business Studies (CABS) in the city of Potiskum, situated about 575 kilometers (350 miles) northeast of the capital, Abuja, said the gunman arrived at around...