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Four persons, including a 15-year-old hawker identified only as Sukurah, lost their lives on Sunday after a two-storey building under construction, collapsed in Surulere, Lagos State. Our correspondent, who visited the building on Ishaga Street, learnt that the building collapsed around 10am during  the early morning rain. PUNCH Metro  also learnt that three people were rescued and were responding to treatment at different hospitals. A friend of the 15-year-old victim, Tobi, told PUNCH Metro  that she had gone to the building to sell bread to labourers few minutes before the collapse. She said, “Sukurah and I hawk bread. The labourers called me saying they wanted to buy bread but I did not have change so I left. Sukurah entered into the building a few minutes later. It collapsed almost immediately. Sukurah attempted to run out but she was not fast enough.” A resident, Alhaja Bukola Saka, said immediately after the collapse, youths in the area rescued three people alive, whil

Lagos-based actress, Kabira Kafidipe, speaks on her experience starring in Ekun Iyawo, a new video on Yoruba bridal poetry, AKEEM LASISI  reports Celebrated actress, Kabira Kafidipe, has, in recent years, had a unique experience in her career. The Abeokuta, Ogun State-born actress, who came into limelight when she acted as  Araparegangan  – one whose arms were made to dance  gangan  drumbeat – in Tunde Kelani’s  film,  Saworo Ide , came in professional encounter with oral performance as she is the bride in  Ekun Iyawo . It is a musical  video recreation of old Yoruba bride’s poetry that goes by the same name. An offshoot of a 2001 documentary on the oral form,  Ekun Iyawo , produced by Full Point and Alaby Communications and Publications, brings together Nollywood acts, singers and promoters of Yoruba culture who believe that it is possible to reinvent some of the elements of the  people’s cultural heritage that are threatened by modernity. Apart from the 40-minute video, who

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That's Tania seated over there Wizkid had all the fun in the world yester-night! He had his 23rd birthday party celebrated in London at plush nightclub, Funky Buddha. The private party was with intimate friends including Liam of one direction, see photos from the party below: Wizkid and Liam                                         Tania's outfit

A woman, Sakirat Attah, 25, has been arrested by the police at Elemoro Division, Lekki, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, for severely scalding her son’s face. The petty trader who resides at Abijo village in Ibeju Lekki, allegedly carried out the dastardly act while punishing little Daniel for licking their neighbour’s soup. It was gathered that Sakirat also used a broken bottle to stab Daniel in the head during her fit of anger and he sustained a deep cut in the head. A police source said that the victim’s neighbours rescued him from the mother and quickly rushed him to a nearby hospital due to excessive loss of blood. The trouble started for the little boy when their co-tenant allegedly caught him licking their pot of soup and reported him to his mother. The mother of the child was said to have dragged her son inside her room and locked the door. She allegedly lit her stove and put an iron spoon on it to get hot and used it to burn her son’s face and hands as punishment.          

                                                                        T he reported separation of celebrated actress, Funke Akindele, and her husband, Kehinde Oloyede, lengthens  the list of celebrities with failed marriages, writes  TEMITAYO FAMUTIMI Some days after pictures that Funke Akindele took on location for a new film – in which she acts as a  palmwine tapper  – circulated on the social media, the story of her separation from her husband, Kehinde Oloyede, broke on Monday. Although rumours that usually trail weddings of entertainment celebrities demand that one exercise caution while reacting to such information, the channel from which the divorce scare came made it look too real. Oloyede relayed it on his Facebook page. He wrote, “ It’s with heavy heart that am announcing the separation of me nd ma wife Mrs Olufunke Akindele, we’ve both agreed to go our separate ways coz of irreconcilable differences. we still best of friends nd we 4ever remain gud friends .” Wh

                                                                                   2013 Ramadan turned sour for the Adigun family of Abiola Central community, Moniya, Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State, as one of the youths in the family, Mutiu Tiamiyu, inflicted injury on the head of the family, Pa Nasiry Adigun, which led to his death on Tuesday night. According to reports, Pa Adigun, who was visually impaired, was prevailed upon by his family members to observe Tarawhi prayer at home while other household members had gone to mosque. However, the attention of neighbours and worshipers at the village mosque and its environs was drawn to the noise of a young boy who kept on shouting the suspect’s name around the village. Before people got to the scene of the incident, Pa Adigun was already on the ground, bleeding profusely. The victim, who had lost his jaw in the process, was quickly rushed to a nearby private hospital, from where he was referred to the Univer