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A High Court of Kogi State has sentenced to death a man prosecuted by the Department of State Services, DSS, for kidnapping and murdering his neighbour. This came barely 24 hours after a Katsina State ...

The Katsina high court has sentenced Hauwa’u Mukhtar, a female arms courier, to death by hanging for conspiracy to commit, aid and abet terrorism. According to Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency ...

For a few precious hours on May 24, people came together to celebrate a band that had helped soundtrack their youth. They sang along to familiar songs. They laughed at old stories. They remembered a ...

A social media controversy involving prominent Kannywood actress Hadiza Gabon, businessman Salim Goje and his wife, Hafsat Kamal, has continued to generate intense reactions across various platforms, ...

British actor Idris Elba, who has long been rumored to be in the running to play James Bond, has said that audiences wouldn’t “go for a Black male, an African male” playing the 007 spy. There’s been ...

Idris Elba has confirmed he will not be playing James Bond, saying that he felt some audiences wouldn’t “go for” a Black actor playing the role. “I’ve always felt that it’s not a realistic thing,” he ...

“His last breath became my first breath, quite frankly,” the actor said Desiree Anello is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has previously appeared on E!

Idris Elba believes “it’s not a realistic thing” for a black actor to play James Bond. “James Bond was written how he was written for a reason. But I was complimented by it,” Elba said in a new ...

"I think you've got to be pure to what it is: escapism. Don't try and answer the world's taste. Just be Bond," Elba said Charlotte Phillipp is a Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Could the next James Bond be a Black man? Idris Elba isn't so sure. In a British GQ profile published June 8, the "Masters of the Universe" star, who was once rumored to be in the running to play 007, ...