Society Gists

Fellow Nigerians, today is one of those days that I don’t even know where to start from. I’m sure you won’t blame me for finding myself in this lethargic and somnambulist state. I feel like I’m in a trance with

The Duchess of Cambridge has become the muse of a street artist who spray-painted a picture of her, pregnant and naked, on the wall of an art gallery in London. The artist has been revealed as a 29-year-old American called

Shell Petroleum and Development Company has denied that it lied to a Dutch court in The Hague about oil pollution in the Niger Delta. The multinational company, half owned by Nigerian government and with significant Dutch shareholding, said sabotage, not

A church in Tanzania, Parokia Ya MT. Martin Wa Porres seems to have something serious against Manchester United Football Club as the religious centre has banned its congregation from wearing the Premier League giants’ jerseys to church services. On the church’s

A Saudi groom, from the town of Medinah, has divorced his bride on their wedding night after seeing her face for the first time when the photographer asked them to pose for pictures, The Mail Online has reported. The UK

Zimbabwe leader, Robert Mugabe’s wife, Grace, is about to be the world’s first female dictator as she plots to take over power from her 90-year-old husband. Grace Mugabe has been called many things since the moment when, barely out of

In the latest of many attempts at blackmailing SaharaReporters into silence, a new (what else?) website has concocted the story that the All Progressives Congress (APC) bought and gave me a mansion located in Atherton, California. Everyone around the world

Terrorist group ISIS, has announced that it will soon start minting its own currency in gold, silver and copper. According to CNN, the currency will consist of seven coins: two gold, three silver and two copper. ISIS revealed that its

Court documents presented by Amnesty International (AI) have exposed the fact that Shell repeatedly made false claims about the size and impact of two major oil spills at Bodo in the Niger Delta, allegedly in an attempt to minimise its

A UK-based woman who was a Jehovah’s Witness, died shortly after child birth after refusing a blood transfusion for religious reasons. This choice may have contributed to her death. Adeline, 40, and her husband, Kweku Keh, had been seeking a