Cape Town prepaid power to shut down

Cape Town - Cape Town's prepaid electricity system will be temporarily off-line next week for maintenance, the city said on Friday.

"The City of Cape Town's electricity prepayment vending system will be switched off for planned maintenance from 22:00 on Wednesday, 17 September 2014 until 05:00 on Thursday, 18 September 2014," a statement said.

The immediate former Kogi state Commissioner of Education, Mrs Grace Elebiyo, is dead.

                                                                                            Grace Elebiyo

According to Punch, Grace Elebiyo was said to have died in a car accident on Tuesday, along Kabba-Okenne road of the state while returning from a public function.

The Special Adviser, Media and Strategy to the Kogi State Governor, Mr. Jacob Edi, who confirmed the incident in a statement on Wednesday, said the former commissioner died in the evening, September 2.

Meanwhile, the Kogi State Governor, Capt. Idris Wada, has reportedly commiserated with the family of the deceased and the people of the state in general over her untimely death.

Musician Kcee Flaunts His House, Calls It FiveStarMansion

Nigerian celebrities have come to the knowledge of channeling their earnings on assets and not intangible things as it was in the past.

Musician, Limpopo Crooner, Kcee is a landlord. He has a beautiful house and he has never stopped showing it off. Report has it that the musician spent  so much in building the house which he calls FiveStarMansion.

Tearful judge gives man 17 years for Michigan porch shooting

Theodore Wafer sits in the court room during his arraignment in Detroit, Michigan January 15, 2014, for the November 2, 2013 shooting death of Renisha McBride in Dearborn Heights.

A tearful judge on Wednesday sent a white Michigan man to prison for at least 17 years for fatally shooting an unarmed black teenager on his front porch in a racially charged case that sparked protests in the Detroit area.

Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Dana Hathaway sentenced Theodore Wafer, 55, to a mandatory two years for felony firearm usage followed by concurrent sentences of seven to 15 years for manslaughter and 15 to 30 years for second-degree murder.

Obama says will 'degrade and destroy' Islamic State

Iraqi Shiite militia fighters hold the Islamic State flag as they celebrate after breaking the siege of Amerli by Islamic State militants, September 1, 2014.

The United States plans to fight Islamic State until it is no longer a force in the Middle East and will seek justice for the killing of American journalist Steven Sotloff, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday.

He added that destroying the militant group will take time because of the power vacuum in Syria, the abundance of battle-hardened fighters that grew out of al Qaeda during the Iraq war, and the need to build coalitions, including with local Sunni communities.

Islamic State released a video on Tuesday showing the beheading of the U.S. journalist, the second American hostage to be killed within weeks, in retaliation for U.S. air strikes in Iraq.