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The father of a 12-year-old Pennsylvania girl who was killed while a constable was serving an eviction notice has been charged with criminal homicide in his daughter's death, prosecutors said. Don Meyer allegedly pointed a loaded semi-automatic assault rife at the chest of Constable Clarke Steele as they argued over an order to vacate on January 11. Steele fired one round, which struck the 57-year-old father in the arm and then pierced the chest of his daughter, Ciara, who was hiding behind him. She died at the scene. She had been home from school that day because she was sick. Prosecutors upgraded charges against Meyer on Thursday. He now faces counts including criminal homicide, involuntary manslaughter, aggravated assault, endangering the welfare of children and illegal possession of weapons. He is being held without bail in Pennsylvania's Perry County Jail and has pleaded not guilty. Several eviction orders had been issued against Meyer, authorities said, and he had b...

BlacChyna who has been in the news this week for being recognized as Rob Kardashian's new girlfriend was arrested on Friday evening after allegedly getting drunk and becoming belligerent during a flight from Los Angeles, California to Austin, Texas on her way to London. According to TMZ... Chyna was busted in the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport Friday afternoon. Cops tells us ... when the plane landed they were there and met her at the gate. She stormed toward the gate for a connecting flight and an eyewitness says she screamed at an airline employee, "Nasty ass bitch." That was enough for cops, and they arrested her on the spot. An eyewitness tells TMZ, Chyna appeared "heavily intoxicated" on the plane and was "fighting" with a flight attendant, acting "like a drunken fool." Another eyewitness says, at one point she screamed, "Y'all got no respect for me. I gotta tie my shoes. Let me tie my Yeezys." She'd just...

Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos (right) lost $6 billion in one day after his company's share price fell 11 percent but don't cry for him, he still has $49.2 billion even though he slipped from fourth place to fifth on Forbes's rich list. According to Forbes, he was worth $49.8 billion at 5pm. In the space of 30 minutes he lost $800million, so ended up falling behind Carlos Slim Helu of Mexico, who is now the fourth richest person in the world with a net worth of $49.6 billion. Bezos prefers to look on the bright side of things however. 'Twenty years ago, I was driving the packages to the post office myself and hoping we might one day afford a forklift. This year, we pass 100 billion dollars in annual sales and serve 300 million customers. And still, measured by the dynamism we see everywhere in the marketplace and by the ever-expanding opportunities we see to invent on behalf of customers, it feels every bit like day one.'See the top ten richest men below. Billionai...

Our current retired dictator has once again ignored the democratic independence of the central bank of federal republic of nigeria and insisted that he is in charge of our monetary policy. See for yourself. Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari erased any doubt about who is in charge of currency policy in Africa’s biggest economy -- to the detriment of the central bank’s independence. Buhari said that he won’t “kill the naira” by allowing it to be devaluedand that a weaker currency will only result in higher inflation and hardship for the country’s poor- and middle-class. His comments to Nigerians living in Kenya on Wednesday came only a day after Governor Godwin Emefiele resisted pressure to depreciate the naira despite a plunge in oil prices that’s slashed revenue in Africa’s biggest crude producer. “Definitely the independence of the Central Bank of Nigeria at the moment is undermined,”Robert Omotunde, an analyst at Afrinvest West Africa Ltd., which manages the equivalent of $500...

Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has revealed that Politicians, Pastors and Judges of Various courts will be the three Categories of People the God almighty will Judge first in the last Day. Okorocha revealed this why speaking at the Burial Ceremony of Late Deaconess Bessie Ikpeazu, Mother to the Abia State Governor Dr Okezie Ikpeazu at Umuobiakwa Community in Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State. On how God will Pass his Judgement on these persons, Okorocha revealed that God will take two weeks to Judge Politicians, for Pastors He said one Full month will be taken by God while two months will be used by God to Judge the Justices of the various Courts over the type of Judgement they had given so far. He said the reasons are that Politicians who make promises to the people fails to keep to it, why Some pastors deceive their members and the Judges pass Bad Judgement to the People. Okorocha said that whatever a beginning must have an end and therefore there was the need for p...

SaharaReporters has exclusively learned that two sons of Nigeria’s former Minister of State for Defense, Musiliu Obanikoro, are currently on the radar of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over a massive amount of monies transferred to their accounts from funds budgeted for the procurement of weapons and other equipment for the country’s military. Two sources at the anti-graft agency told a correspondent of SaharaReporters that the EFCC had traced N4.745 billion to the bank account of Sylvan McNamara Limited, a company in which the former minister’s two sons, Ibrahim Babajide and Gbolahan Olatunde Obanikoro, have major interest. Our sources disclosed that the funds were paid in several tranches into the company’s account number 0026223714 with Diamond Bank. The sources added that the funds were paid from an account maintained by the Office of the National Security Adviser at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). One of the sources revealed that all the transfers were ma...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested one of its operatives, Abdulrahman Mohammed Biu, who is a Deputy Detective Superintendent for allegedly collecting $150,000 (about N45 million) from some military officers currently under investigation for their involvement in the arms procurement scam. He promised to give the unnamed seven military officers soft landing to escape probe in the $2.1billion arms scandal. A statement issued by the EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, said documents relating to the ongoing arms scandal investigation were recovered from the suspect. The statement said: “An operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrahman Mohammed Biu, a Deputy Detective Superintendent, (DDS) has been arrested for offences bordering on extortion, influence peddling and impersonation. “The officer was arrested on Monday following intelligence report alleging that he extorted a whopping sum of $150,000 from some military off...

Our current retired dictator has once again ignored the democratic independence of the central bank of federal republic of nigeria and insisted that he is in charge of our monetary policy. See for yourself. Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari erased any doubt about who is in charge of currency policy in Africa’s biggest economy -- to the detriment of the central bank’s independence. Buhari said that he won’t “kill the naira” by allowing it to be devaluedand that a weaker currency will only result in higher inflation and hardship for the country’s poor- and middle-class. His comments to Nigerians living in Kenya on Wednesday came only a day after Governor Godwin Emefiele resisted pressure to depreciate the naira despite a plunge in oil prices that’s slashed revenue in Africa’s biggest crude producer. “Definitely the independence of the Central Bank of Nigeria at the moment is undermined,”Robert Omotunde, an analyst at Afrinvest West Africa Ltd., which manages the equivalent of $500...

So i was invited to a job aptitude test in Surulere 2days ago. 3 questions caught my attention. Even though i was quite sure of the answers i provided, i still want to ask guys here for their perusal on them Here they are: 1. A glove and cup both cost 110naira. The cost of the glove is 100times more than that of the cup. How much is the cup? 2. If it takes 10 machines 10minutes to make 10doughnuts, how long will it take 100machines to make 100doughnuts? 3. A man wants to venture into business so he buys a dozen eggs for 5naira and sells them for 3naira. From his calculation, if he sells 20eggs daily, in 1year he will be a millionaire. And his calculation is correct. How is that possible?

1- World public free sex day 2- World enemy killing day 3- World free shopping day 4- Public fighting day 5- World body inspection day 6- World free food day 7- Naked street walking day 8- Free beer drinking day 9- World free transport day 10- Public weed smoking day. . . . . . . . Choose just one day.

Peter PSquare Spotted With Samuel Eto In The Street Of London. Who look dapper in this pics? See photo here http://www.nairaland.com/attachments/3347239_etooo_jpeg15ceb455df9eb7075b3cdb35c18d4a78 and also here http://www.nairaland.com/attachments/3347149_screenshot201601291557481_jpeg3e70027786fead4ed59e74eefe5eaf1a

Former Governor of Akwa Ibom State and Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio has denied owning any property in Dubai, United Arab Emirate or any other foreign country. Akpabio in a statement on Friday by his his media assistant, Anietie Ekong, challenged the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to seize any money found in a foreign bank account bearing his name. Akpabio The Senate Minority Leader was denying reports that accused him of makiing a secret attempt to withdraw $7.2 billion from banks in Dubai, United Arab Emirate, through channels in the Central Bank of Nigeria. It would be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari had recently signed agreements with the United Arab Emirate on the repatriation of Nigeria’s stolen funds deposited in that country. This move is believed to have unsettled corrupt, former and serving Nigerians officials, who have unexplained wealth and property there. Stating that the media report against him was sponsored by his politic...

Sophie was Wizkid's girlfriend during his early days in the music industry. Things changed when stardom came. Wizkid featured Sophie in his first single, ‘Holla at Your boy.’ Desmond Elliot broke the news of Sophie's marriage via instagram by sharing the picture below which he captioned: ''Congrats Mrs Alakija ...Have a wonderful blissful marriage'' see a caption of her on this link http://www.olisa.tv/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/wizkid-3.jpg. And also a caption of her as wizkid's girl friend here http://778819914.r.worldcdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/blogger-image-1686884238.jpg

A boy on Friday detonated a suicide vest at a crowded market in Gombi town in Adamawa State, Killing many according to witnesses. A vigilante leader confirmed ‎the incident to Daily Trust in a telephone interview saying 20 persons including the bomber died in the blast. Gombi was recaptured from Boko Haram in 2014 and since then, the insurgents have made several failed attempts to retake the town from the Nigerian military. ‎The military authorities at the 23 Armoured Brigade in Yola was not immediately available for comment.

When Ronald Jackson found a text he thought was rude and inappropriate on his then-12-year-old daughter’s phone in September 2013, he took the cell away. But the child’s mother, Michelle Steppe, got mad at his action and she called the police. WFAA reported that the 36-year-old, who hails from Grande Prairie, Texas, had been charged with theft of property of at least $50 but under $500 after confiscating his daughter’s iPhone 4 when he found an inappropriate text in September 2013. Shortly thereafter, Jackson recieved a citation for the “theft,” a Class C misdemeanor. Jackson was then offered a plea deal in January 2014 if he returned the phone, attained legal representation, and requested a jury trial. That’s when the city attorney’s office refiled the case with a harsher offense, a Class B misdemeanor, punishable to up tosixmonths in jail and a $2,000 fine. After a warrant was placed on him, Jackson was arrested and taken into custody in April 2015, but managed to post the $1,500...

The Speaker of the ‎House of Representatives, Rt Hon Yakubu Dogara, has invited foreign investors to come and invest in Nigeria, saying the present administration is in the process of clearing out hurdles raised by corruption which had previously discouraged some investors from doing business in Nigeria. A press release issued by his special adviser on Media and Public Affairs‎, Mr Turaki Hassan, stated that the Speaker also‎ urged the Polish government and business community to take advantage of the ongoing diversification of Nigeria's economy to invest in fast growing sectors such as energy, solid minerals, tourism and agriculture. The Speaker said this when he received the only black legislator in the Polish parliament, a Nigerian, John Abraham Godson, in his office yesterday, who led some members of the ‎Polish/African forum to pay him a courtesy visit. "There is a new government in Nigeria, a government that is emphasizing due process and fighting corruption in Nigeria...

The Lagos State Government has identified the influx of substandard electrical appliances into Lagos as one of the major causes of the increased rate of fire incident in the state. ‎ The Government in a statement signed by the Commissioner for Special Duties and Intergovernmental Relations, Oluseye Oladejo, said preliminary investigation by his office and the State Fire Service Director, Rasak Fadipe, revealed that installation of substandard electrical appliances in most cases trigger fire outbreaks, adding that all hands to be on deck to forestall future occurrences. The government called on the Standard Organization of Nigeria SON to rise of to its responsibility to check the standard of materials coming into the state. The commissioner urged residents to be more vigilant and look out for only quality electrical appliances in the market as well as ensure that they patronise only qualified electricians to install same in their homes. He also urged Electricity Generation (Gencos) an...

Read the press statement below... Chief James Onanefe Ibori’s Media Office was shocked to read in the newspapers of Wednesday January 27, 2016, that the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami, said the Federal Government was priming itself to recover the sum of 6.9m British Pounds Sterling described as “Ibori loot”. In a press statement, Mr. Tony Eluemunr, Ibori’s Media Assistant said ‘’there is no Ibori loot anywhere in the world. Such money, whether in British pounds, American dollars or the Nigerian Naira just does not exist. This is because the Ibori London trial is not yet over. It is an incontrovertible fact that the confiscation hearing has not started at all, and remains months away into the future. This makes it disappointing that a high official of State such as the Attorney-General may have been misled into believing that an Ibori loot not only exists anywhere, but he even put a figure (6.9 million pounds) to it. Mr. Eluemunor con...

Many of us grew up hearing the name CharlyBoy and beside that name, Lady Di. It is not by luck that the pair are still very much in the picture together and rocking it after 36yrs of being together. May God continue to keep them together, happy and fulfilled. Charly Boy shared an open letter to Lady Di on her birthday today 29th January professing his love. Read after the cut... My Dearest Diane, Like joke like joke we both are getting older. Today is your birthday and once again I can't help but to celebrate you in the open, what I have always done for the past 37yrs of our married life. Celebrating our extraordinary life together. I hope that our togetherness over the years have taught some people about perseverance, tolerance, discipline and love. You know our marriage has not been a bed of roses like that, but we have stayed loyal together through all kinds of terrible weather, never strayed, through all the challenges, battling so many winches and wizards, through tick and th...

Twitter user Kaylan Mahomes shared this photo of her mother and twin sister writing: "Mom, twin and me" It is hard to tell who the mother is among the three. Who do you think she is? Left, Centre or right? See photo on this link https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEahoYW6f8LkhwSQ3ZxrhtghzDJMms6Uq-HXWNO2-3m5vJIdpCVy3lqCqNkwDlJO3qmQasqe6MpJt-pr3Fmle4XJrp-XKeggHAHU1OJdq5Pbxi3GF3_mY6NQQWzPOmvXE7FBqk0kc50ns/s1600/index.jpg

Rivers State government has called on the Minister for Transport and former Rivers State governor, Chibuike Amaechi, to account for about N3 trillion he received throughout his eight years tenure as the governor of the State. Speaking to media aides in Port Harcourt yesterday January 28th, the State Commissioner for Information, Tam George said the State was still reeling from “the catastrophic legacy of the former governor” despite receiving over three trillion naira in revenue in 8 years. “Amaechi left the most abandoned projects in the history of Rivers State since 1997. Thousands of workers were without their salaries for four months and thousands of teachers were not paid for nearly 12 months. We have so many abandoned projects which huge sums have been paid but projects are yet to be completed. We have the Mono-rail project that gulped over N60bn and it was abandoned. We have the Woji road project awarded at N3bn. There was a variation of the project to the upward of N14bn but i...

31 year old Danielle Whyte had given birth to her baby boy just seven weeks before he was allegedly murdered at the hands of the most unsuspecting suspect - his own father. 51-year-old Jose Feliciano was allegedly jealous of baby Mason for commanding the attention of Whyte. On Dec. 10, police say Feliciano grew angry after hearing Mason crying and yelled at him in his room to stop crying but the infant kept crying, shortly after, Whtye heard ‘several loud bangs.’ Prosecutors now say the baby suffered ‘blunt force trauma.’ While Whyte explains she tried to revive her son once she realized what happened, it was too late. She says Feliciano allegedly threatened to kill her if she called police, so she decided not to. Officials didn’t know about Mason’s tragic death until week later when Whyte attempted to harm herself and was sent to a New York hospital. It was in the psychiatric ward where she confessed that Feliciano had taken the life of her baby boy and the location of where his ...

These women are really proud to be in the Nigerian army as showcase themselves on the depicted photo.. See photo here.http://www.nairaland.com/attachments/3338589_fbimg1453861047206_jpeg81986b8192d7c899e09f8532d94d5648

These women are really proud to be in the Nigerian army as showcase themselves on the depicted photo.. See photo Here /A>

Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed said Nigerians should be prepared for more shocking revelations on corruption, which is yet to be released. Mohammed raised the alarm that treasury looters had resorted to fighting back, using various means. Speaking to chiefs of newspapers on Tuesday,he said ”When I met with the news and political editors in Lagos on Sunday, I said, among other things, that the government is aware that in fighting corruption, corruption will also fight back. “I also said that those who stole us dry are powerful. They have newspapers, radio and television stations as well as online platforms, and an army of supporters to continuously deride the government’s war against corruption.”Well, I can tell you today that corruption is already fighting back, and it is fighting hard and dirty. When we make subsequent revelations, you will be more shocked than you are now.” Sponsored articles have started appearing in the newspapers and in the social media whi...

The United States, US, government, yesterday, listed Nigeria as one of the top 10 global economies by 2050, citing the economic potentialities of countries across Africa. This came as President Barak Obama dispatched a team of US officials to study Nigeria’s business climate, with the aim of investing in the country, even as President Muhammadu Buhari expressed gratitude to the US President and his government for assisting Nigeria in its anti-terrorism war. US Secretary of Commerce, Penny Pritzker, who disclosed this at a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, in Abuja, said this explained why her government was deepening economic and commercial engagement with African countries. According to her, Nigeria is at the top of the list, considering the fact that Nigeria’s middle class of roughly 50 million people is expected to help grow the country into one of the top 10 global economies by the year 2050. Pritzker, who is currently in Nigeria on a fact-finding mission with senior US ...

He said the Following: I have arrived in Eldoret where my Deputy William and I will will be receiving Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari at the Eldoret International Airport this afternoon. The Nigerian President will be in the country for a 3-day State Visit. We will then proceed to the 9th Kenya Rifles, Moi Barracks, Eldoret where we will be joined by Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud. The Somali President is already in the country after having been received by my Deputy earlier this morning. At Moi Barracks we will attend a special inter-denominational service to celebrate the lives of our gallant soldiers fallen in Somalia. Tomorrow we will hold private talks, before a bilateral meeting at State House, Nairobi. Kenya and Nigeria enjoy warm and cordial relations. Kenya and Nigeria concluded an Agreement for the establishment of a Joint Commission for Cooperation in July last year. The Agreement established a framework for enhancing Trade, Tourism, Education, Energy, Agric...

Civil Rights Organisation, Centre for Social Justice , Equity and Transparency ( CESJET ), has condemned recent allegations linking the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai to the ongoing Dasuki armsgate scandal. The group in a statement signed by its Executive Secretary, Comrade Ikpa Isaac, the group has described the ongoing allegations of complancecy in the recent arms scandal as a deliberate attempt to discourage the army from their ongoing onslaught to end insurgency. The group further informed that the propaganda against the army chief was as a result of his recent drive at transparency through his call for all officers to declare their assets which they claim is the first step at sanitising the military which according to them has enmeshed itself in corruption and is in need of such sanitary steps. " We are aware that certain elements in the Military are very uncomfortable with Buratai since his call for declaration of assets, but let it be know...

Human rights lawyer Femi Falana SAN, has dragged embattled former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki to the International Criminal Court. He is requesting them to“investigate allegations of crimes against humanity committed against the Nigerian people by some former and serving military as well public officials and private persons who engaged in the criminal diversion of $8 billion earmarked to procure equipment for the armed forces to fight insurgency” In a petition dated 19 January 2016,reads in part “On account of the deliberate refusal of the former military authorities to equip and motivate the members of the armed forces involved in combat operations the insurgents have killed about 25,000 soldiers and civilians including children and displaced over 2,000,000 people. Having compromised the security of the people of Nigeria by collaborating with the terrorists the former military authorities deliberately encouraged the brutal killing of innocent people including ill-equipp...

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the judgment of a Lagos High Court sentencing a man, Nonso Okeke to death for the murder of one Chinwe Ofomatu on October 28, 2004. Okeke was convicted by the Lagos High Court on April 13, 2010 for the murder of Ofomatu at her residence in Festac Town, Lagos. He was found guilty, convicted and sentenced to death by the Court. Okeke was convicted and sentenced to death by the trial court for conspiracy and murder contrary to Sections 324 and 319(1) of the Criminal Code Act Cap 17, Laws of Lagos State, 2003. Dissatisfied, Okeke appealed his conviction in Lagos and asked that the judgment of the lower court be upturned. But the appeal failed as the appellate court dismissed the application. Again, Okeke took his case before the Supreme Court in Abuja and asked that the judgments of the lower courts be upturned. While arguing the case before the Apex court, the Lagos State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem had urged th...

Former presidential candidate of the defunct All Peoples Party (APP) Chief Olu Falae, who was allegedly accused of receiving N100m from the $2.1 billion arms money from the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki, in an interview said: "I want to say with all emphasis that I never took even one naira from Dasuki. Beyond that, I want to assert that I never had any relationship with Dasuki. I knew Dasuki way back in 1986-87,when he was ADC to General Babagida and I was Secretary to the Federal Government. Since he left that government around 1987, I had no contact or dealing with him; absolutely none". "The N100 million they are bandying about in the media, the one that I know about, it happened as follows: Chief Tony Anenih, a former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the PDP, phoned me late January last year and said he would like to see me; he would like to come from Abuja to see me in Akure. And he came. He came with someone, and I, too, invite...

The House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee, investigating alleged fraudulent practices in the collection and management of non-oil revenue remittances by MDAs, has threatened to issue a warrant of arrest on the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, if he fails to appear before the Committee, on Tuesday, to account for the revenue collected and remitted to the Federation Account. The Committee had, on Thursday, walked out representatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, and National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control, NAFDAC, because their Directors-General were absent at a meeting in the National Assembly. Expressing his dissatisfaction with the absence of the DGs of the two agencies, the Chairman of the Ad-Hoc Committee, Rep Chike John Okafor, said some government agencies treat the National Assembly with disrespect especially in honouring invitations during the course of oversight functions. Okafor said...

YBNL star Adekunle Gold and HKN hitman Davido are ready to hit the studio together and cook something up for their fans. We never saw it coming until blogger Japhet Omojuwa tweeted saying he would love to see Adekunle Gold and Davido in a new song together after Davdio signed his Sony Music deal. Adekunle Gold replied the tweet saying he will give anything for that to happen, Davido who always say he don't charge for collabos simply said Done. The collabo is done and sealed. See the tweets below.... Would love to see @adekunleGOLDx @iam_Davidoin a new song!— JJ. Omojuwa (@Omojuwa) January 21, 2016 HA!!, I'LL GIVE ANYTHING FOR THAT TO HAPPEN! @Omojuwa @iam_Davido https://t.co /DRad8A48fm— King (@adekunleGOLD) January 21, 2016 Done https://t.co/YtfdpYCzFl— Davido (@iam_Davido) January 21, 2016 @adekunleGOLDLETS GIVE DEM— Davido (@iam_Davido) January 21, 2016 I cant wait for the collabo, some fans are already saying they want DJ Coublon to produce the track, if Adekunle G...

A 56-year-old man, one Felix Onyebuchi, who is in police net in Enugu for allegedly using fraudulent means to withdraw the sum of N11m from the account of a bank customer, has blamed “lack” for his venture into crime. Onyebuchi, a native of Osa-Ukwu, in Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State, but based in Lagos, was paraded alongside other criminals by the Enugu State Police Command. Enugu State commissioner of police, Mr. NwodiboEkechukwu, disclosed that Onyebuchi was a member of a sophisticated syndicate that specialised in stealing and manipulating bank data. According to the police chief, the syndicate usually applied to mobile telecommunication service providers to ‘welcome-back’ registered phone numbers that belong to their potential victims. In the process, according to Ekechukwu, they block the real account owners and, through the phone numbers, get access to sensitive personal information, including bank data. Once they obtain the relevant bank data, members of the ...

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has said that it will not provide sureties or Bail out its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh. The party said since Metuh was being prosecuted for offenses that have nothing to do with it, its embattled spokesperson should look for those who would stand as sureties for him. Metuh is currently being held in Kuje prisons pending when he can fulfill his two separate bail conditions of 600m for allegedly tearing up his EFCC statement and N400m for his initial corruption and money laundering charge..This brings it up to N1billion and four sureties.. Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Alhaji Abdullahi Jalo, Punch “Metuh didn’t represent the party in the alleged crimes he’s being prosecuted. The party didn’t benefit from the alleged crime.“So, he is going to look for sureties himself. We won’t be involved. He would carry his own cross alone, without the party being involved.”However, the National Legal Advis...

The Lagos State Government yesterday confirmed two more cases of Lassa fever in the state with one of the victims already dead. The development brought the number of Lassa fever cases in the state to three, including the index case at Ahmaddiya Hospital in Ojokoro part of the state. The Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris, yesterday said the deceased is a a 51-year-old resident of Ilasan Leki and indigene of Edo State,was initially admitted at Divine Medical Centre in Ikoyi on January 12, this year, but died at 2 pm the same day before the result of the laboratory test that confirmed him positive was received. His corpse has been kept in the morgue in a leakproof body bag. He said his ministry had listed 447 contacts of the confirmed cases and 438 (98 per cent) of the contacts were being monitored. The index case was responding to treatment at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH),while the second victim,a 36-year-old lady; an indigene of Kogi Statehas since been receivi...

The federal government has warned on the outbreak of Meningitis Type ‘C’ in Nigeria. Meningitis is a serious viral or bacterial disease in which an outside layer of the brain or spinal cord becomes infected and swollen. It usually leads to death of the patient. Chief Executive Officer of the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Abdulsalam Nasidi at the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja, said this during the emergency National Council on Health on Lassa fever outbreak “There is a need to inform us that there have been reported cases of Meningitis ‘C’ in our country and it is killing lives. The Type ‘A’ has been successfully dealt with and now we are battling with the ‘C’ type. I call on all state governors especially those of the north-west to start warming up to introduce vaccines and must not rest on their oars.”he said

Foundations owned by the wealthiest man in the world Bill Gates and the Wealthiest man in Africa, Aliko Dangote have earmarked $100 million towards the fight against Malnutrition in Nigeria. Bill Gates was in Nigeria yesterday January 20th to sign the Memorandum of Understanding, MoU.

An unidentified resident doctor at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC), Osun State, has died of Lassa Fever. According to the Chairman of the hospital's committee on Lassa Fever, Prof. Adedeji Onayade, the unidentified doctor died on Monday January 18th. The cause of his death was only confirmed yesterday January 20th after his blood sample was taken to the diagnostic center for test. "The resident doctor’s death on Monday at the hospital was caused by Lassa fever. The result of the first test carried out on the sample of the deceased tested positive and we have a report back and the result came as positive. We were supposed to do two tests, but the patient was dying when we took the first sample. We can’t do the second test now. So, we can say it is 50 per cent. But we are going ahead to take necessary steps. We have informed those who should know.”he said

Founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Frederick Fasehun, says Pres Buhari led government may run into trouble if they are not careful in their fight against corruption. Fasehun said this in an interview with Daily Independent. “Look, I am appealing to those in power not to dig into some of these reported scams because it may unearth situations the government itself may not wish to unearth. With the way they are going, national leaders are being involved and a country boasts of its national leaders. By the time you downgrade every national leader, you disgrace and embarrass them, and there will be no country to think of. I understand plea bargaining is going on, that is good enough”he said

As EFCC intensifies its investigations into the alleged stealing of $2.1 billion arms fund, former Chairman of PDP Adamu Muazu, former Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service Abdullahi Dikko Inde and four others may soon be declared wanted as they have all reportedly declined to honor invitations by the EFCC to answer questions in connection with the fraud. According to The Nation, the others are former PDP Kebbi State governorship candidate Gen. Bello Sarkin Yaki, a former top official in the Office of National Security Adviser, Col. Bello Fadile, former Special Assistant to eformer President Goodluck Jonathan on Domestic Affairs Waripamowei Dudafa and a former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Mr.Abdulrasheed Maina. Investigations by EFCC have shown that they all have questions to answer as they are alleged to have diverted the arms fund for the prosecution of the campaign for the re-election of Jonathan last year. EFCC sources gave a breakdown of what each of them a...

Although he is armless, he makes a living by creating beautiful artworks with his foot. Very inspiring! See photo Here

Our heroes! They all lost hands/legs during different battles with Boko Haram. See photo Here Photo credit: Umar Farouk

Justice John Itsoho of the Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered that Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenious People of Biafra, who has been in the custody of the Department of State Security Service since October 14th last year, be sent to Kuje prison in Abuja immediately. The order was given at a resumed hearing of the treasonable charges the Federal government filed against him today January 20th. His lawyer actually asked that Nnamdi should be sent to prison as it was difficult for his legal team and friends to talk to him while he was in DSS custody.

Port Harcourt 17th January 2015: Residents of Port Harcourt, the capital of Nigeria’s treasure Base, Rivers State, can now browse the internet at the fastest speed available, as Nigeria’s foremost Internet Service Provider, Spectranet, launched and activated the 4G Long-Term Evolution (4G LTE), a service that promises to redefine the life style of residents and business owners in the state. With the launch of the 4G LTE, a standard that defines wireless communication of high-speed data for mobile phones and data terminals, Spectranet has provided Port Harcourt business owners and residents faster, reliable and affordable internet service that could lift them above current challenges caused by infrastructure deficits. Speaking on the launch of the service in the Rivers State capital, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Spectranet 4G LTE, David Venn, said: “Today marks another milestone in our service delivery, as we bring faster, reliable and affordable internet service closer to you for a...

27-year-old Dorcas Awinja sustained burns after her husband doused paraffin on her and set her on fire over a love text message. Awinja, who is admitted at Nairobi Women’s Hospital, Nakuru branch, suffered 63% burns and has wounds on the neck, arms, breast, thorax, abdomen, back and legs. She depends on the nurses to feed, dress the wounds and bathe. The mother of two from Ipali village, Luanda sub-county in Vihiga County, Kenya said she had been married for 12 years before the incident happened. "My husband poured paraffin on my nylon dress and lit fire on me, leaving me with all these injuries," she said. According to Standard Digital, she had just arrived home from her business of selling vegetables and prepared dinner for her children and her estranged husband, aged 33. However, just before they went to bed, her husband’s phone started ringing but he kept ignoring the calls. Awinja said she picked the phone after a message came through and was shocked to see a love me...

A Boko Haram kingpin identified as Jarasu Shira and 10 other terrorist were arrested in Damboa, Borno state today January 20th. He was arrested at a motor park at about 8.30am along with 10 other suspected members of the group who escorted him to Damboa to connect a vehicle to Biu enroute to Lagos. Dressed as a cowboy, Jarasu and his accomplice were arrested by men of the vigilante (Civilian Joint Task Force, JTF) who are providing support to the Nigerian military fighting the sect group.

Justice John Itsoho of the Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered that Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenious People of Biafra, who has been in the custody of the Department of State Security Service since October 14th last year, be sent to Kuje prison in Abuja immediately. The order was given at a resumed hearing of the treasonable charges the Federal government filed against him today January 20th. His lawyer actually asked that Nnamdi should be sent to prison as it was difficult for his legal team and friends to talk to him while he was in DSS custody.

After all the revelations of Mr. Akinbode on how Maima Nkewa cheated on Ice Prince, the rapper still remains with his heart beat. In a series of tweets this afternoon, the Chocolate city rapper defended Maima assuring fans that she wasn't guilty and heaped insults on Mr. Akinbode for trying to break them down. Read his tweets below.... Maima is NOT guilty in all this! I promise... I just feel Bad she's been made to look this way... Wish u knew the half of it— panshak zamani (@Iceprincezamani) January 19, 2016 This Man in question tho! I know some married people cheat, but never knew it was this bad!!! It's a crazy world my people— panshak zamani (@Iceprincezamani) January 19, 2016 Their are some Men not worthy of emulating. Any married men role models out there? Pls put your hands up— panshak zamani (@Iceprincezamani) January 19, 2016 This Said Man is still posting pictures of him on IG in locations with Even close relatives involved, all to bring this girl down!—...

Yesterday in Aba , eight members of the the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, were allegedly shot dead by the military during their peaceful protestover the continued detention of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, according to the spokesman of IPOB, Emma Powerful . Speaking on the situation, MASSOB National Welfare Officer, Jude Chukwu, said the protest was peaceful until soldiers and policemen came and started shooting and using tear gas. He added that over 30 members of pro-Biafra protesters sustained bullet wounds and are being treated in various hospitals. According to him: “The protest was peaceful until soldiers and policemen started shooting. As I’m talking to you, eight of our members have been shot dead. They should stop killing our members.. We are only protesting for the release of our detained leader, Nnamdi Kanu. Speaking to Vanguard, the Delta State Coordinator of IPOB, Jonah Chukwuma, called on the Federal Government to immediately release Kanu and grant freedom to the ...

Billionaire businessman, Jimoh Ibrahim has sacked the Managing Directors of his media companies over unpaid salaries of workers.This happened at a public lecture on the Energy Group 5th GMD Conference, aired live on AIT on Monday.Unpaid journalists of Newswatch Newspapers, Newswatch Magazine and National Mirror Newspapers had stormed the ongoing conference, demanding the payment of their 13 months’ unpaid salaries. Displaying placards,the journalists, sang protest songs and took over the venue of the conference,insisting that Ibrahim address the salary issue before the conference could continue. Ibrahim, who could not hide his anger , continued to blast company heads who could not generate their own money to pay salaries despite heavy investment in the business. He then fired Bolu Afolayan,MD of Newswatch on TV and verbally appointed , Demola Abimboye as new head of the Newswatch. Subsequently, he announced that he would help to pay some of the companies owing six months salaries b...

If Seriake Dickson the Governor of Bayelsa State is expecting a congratulatory message from President Muhammadu Buhari over his recent re-election for a second term of office, he had better forget it. Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s minister of information and culture told journalists in Abuja on Monday that the President would not follow the habit of his predecessor who was of the habit of sending congratulatory messages to winners of elections regardless of party affiliation immediately after announcement of results. Governor Dickson of Peoples Democratic Party was recently re-elected for a second term in an election that was marred by violence. He defeated Timipre Slyva of All Progressives Congress, APC, the party of President Buhari. There have been calls, especially from Senator Ben Bruce, a Bayelsa State PDP Senator and other members of the party that President Buhari should toe the path of former president, Goodluck Jonathan who issued statements to congratulate members of the opposi...

There was palpable excitement among Cross River State civil servants yesterday as Governor Ben Ayade kept his promise to pay January salary before the weekend. All across the various ministries, departments and agencies, workers could be seen jubilating and discussing among themselves that the governor kept to his words to pay January salary before the weekend. It would be recalled that the State Governor had directed on the 12th of January that salaries of workers in the state be paid on or before January 15th to cushion the effects of “January economic hardship”. The Governor had given the directive when he paid an unscheduled visit to the state’s Land and Urban Development Ministry in Calabar, to ascertain the level of staff punctuality. Governor Ayade who had given reasons for the early payment of salaries said the workers will be broke by now due to the yuletide expenditures. “We paid so early (15th) in December and so you should be broke by now and this is the time you need m...