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According to the Punch a 27-man gang on Friday abducted a pastor, Mr. Godson Akubiro, and six of his children from their Adeosun Street residence, Koya Estate, Igbo Olomu, Ikorodu, Lagos State. Akubiro is said to be the founder of Mountain of Breakthrough Church in the area. The incident was said to have occurred about 1.30am.

The Federal Government has barred airlines from flying into the Maiduguri airport until March 2014; documents obtained by our correspondent have shown. According to a Notice to Airmen sent by the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency to airline operators, a copy of which was obtained by our PUNCH, the carriers were told that the airport would no longer be available for flights until March 2014.

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This is what he said in the video “The concept of government of the people by the people for the people will never be possible and will never exist. Democracy shall be replaced only by the government of Allah, from Allah and for Allah.”

Ethiopian police have arrested five people suspected of plotting suicide bombings during Ethiopia’s World Cup qualifying match against the Super Eagles in October, security officials said on Thursday. The planned attack failed when two Somali suicide bombers accidentally blew themselves up a few kilometers from Addis Ababa Stadium where football fans were gathering.

His Excellency, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR Agbe L’Oba House, Quarry Road, Ibara, Abeokuta. RE: Before It Is Too Late I wish to formally acknowledge your letter dated December 2, 2013 and other previous correspondence similar to it. You will recall that all the letters were brought to me by hand. Although both of us discussed some of the issues in those letters, I had not, before now, seen the need for any formal reply since, to me, they contained advice from a former President to a serving President. Obviously, you felt differently because in your last letter, you complained about my not acknowledging or replying your previous letters. Continue...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its over five months old strike. ASUU Chairman, University of Lagos Chapter, Dr. Karo Ogbinaka told Channels Television that the union decided to suspend the strike after a marathon meeting held in Minna, Niger State capital on Monday. In attendance at the meeting, which ran till late in the evening, were all the ASUU branch chairmen and secretaries, the national executive members of the body, coordinators and past leaders, including 56 members from 52 universities.

Men of  the Ogun State Police command have arrested a-45-year-old  man,  pastor  Daniel  Samuel for stabbing his wife over the later refusal to attend church activities.

The All Progressives Congress has asked the National Assembly to rise beyond partisanship and save Nigeria from imminent collapse by immediately kick-starting the process of impeaching President Goodluck Jonathan for gross misconduct.

The 80-year-old retired Army Major, Azum Asoya, and his 55-year-old wife, Elizabeth, have been set free by their abductors. The gang however left an indelible mark on their body by cutting off their fingers. They were set free on Sunday, after 17 harrowing days in the den of the kidnappers. The octogenarian and his wife were abducted by the gang on November 30, while on their way home from a burial in another part of the town.

As the Presidency prepares a reply to the 18-page letter written by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to President Goodluck Jonathan on the state of the nation, indications emerged, yesterday, that the former leader was not expecting any reply but action from Jonathan. A competent source according to Sunday Vanguard said  that Obasanjo was more interested in Jonathan addressing the core issues he raised in his letter rather than getting a reply to his damning missive, entitled, ‘Before it is too late’.

Oh my God! According to the Eagle online a lawyer and his colleague died at a popular roundabout in their steaming Toyota Camry car in the state. The casualties, seated in the neatly parked steaming car, with registration number FGG 931 AE, along the road, after negotiating the roundabout, left the air-conditional system on and dozed to death.

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a gang of kidnappers who abducted a female pastor for ransom and took turn to rape her. The gang was said to have been busted after the pastor escaped naked from the kidnappers’ den. She was said to have screamed as she ran out of the den until residents in the area came out from their respective apartments to know what was going on.

The claim by a FIFA agent, Goke Oshotoba that Dele Alampasu, adjudged the best goalkeeper at the recently concluded FIFA U-17 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates, is set to complete a move to Belgian side Genk, has been rubbished.

The best player at the 2013 Fifa Under-17 World Cup, Kelechi Iheanacho could be the shock inclusion in the Super Eagles squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals in Brazil. Iheanacho is currently in Abuja training with the Eagles preparing for the 2014 African Nations Championship (CHAN) in South Africa.

The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved a contract of N40.2bn for the construction of the Phase III, Part III of the National Assembly complex and the upgrading of the assembly’s two chambers.

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The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities have reached an agreement to end the over five month old strike by ASUU. The lecturer's association has however said that its members may return to work next week.

Premium Times claims to have obtained an 18-page letter written by an angry and frustrated former president Olusegun Obasanjo to president Jonathan, accusing the current president of 'ineptitude and of taking actions calculated at destroying Nigeria.'

Thousands of South Africans lined the streets of Pretoria to pay their respects as the body of Nelson Mandela was taken to lie in state. The coffin was draped in the multi-coloured South African flag as it arrived at the grand setting of the Union Buildings, seat of power in the country's capital and the place where the former leader was sworn in as president.

Victor Moses has been challenged to step up and prove that he is a Liverpool material, following the spate of injuries that have hit the Anfield side. The Reds had already lost one of their star performers, Daniel Sturridge to a long term injury, and they have suffered more bad news as it emerged Steven Gerrard and Jordan Henderson will also miss the next few weeks.

A high-flying German businesswoman lost £625,000 after she had an affair with a former security guard who posed as a wealthy investor, a court heard today. Company chief executive Talke Stauss, 46, claimed she was so in love with Rizwan Butt she believed his story that he was the go-between for a potential $1.5 billion dollar investment into her hedge fund.

The Band were worshipping God at R.C.C.G Ebute Metta in Lagos and some kids were snapping pictures Only to get home and they discovered an alleged 'Angel' at the background. What do you think? Is this real or photoshop?

Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State on Tuesday urged the National Assembly to immediately proscribe the Academic Staff Union of Universities for “sabotaging the nation’s education sector”. The governor made the call in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, during an interactive session with journalists.

THE Federal Government , Tuesday, said it was withdrawing the ultimatum given to striking university lecturers to resume or be sacked following appeals from well-meaning Nigerians and substantial compliance with the directive by some members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. According to the Federal Government, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN has confirmed that a sum of two hundred billion Naira agreed with ASUU at a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan on the 5th of November ,2013 has been fully paid into a Revitalization of Universities Infrastructure Account.

Striking lecturers in the nation’s public universities on Monday made good their decision not to return to work as directed by the Federal Government. The striking teachers also refused to sign the attendance registers in their respective institutions as ordered by the government. They said they were only waiting for the sack letters the Federal Government threatened to give them if they did not return to work. In many of the universities visited by our correspondents, only administrative offices opened for business while the lecture rooms were empty. Particularly, lecturers’ offices remained shut. Among some of the universities visited by our correspondents were the University of Lagos, University of Ibadan, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, University of Calabar, Nnamdi Azikwe University, Awka, and the University of Uyo.

 A man accused of murdering a British soldier in broad daylight on a London street told a court on Monday that he was a soldier at war and loved the Islamic militant group, al Qaeda. Michael Adebolajo, 28, is accused with co-defendant Michael Adebowale, 22, of running over Afghan war veteran, Lee Rigby, in Woolwich, southeast London on May 22 before attacking his unconscious body with knives and a meat cleaver. Adebolajo sat in the dock of London’s Central Criminal Court, the Old Bailey, just metres away from Rigby’s family as he gave evidence for the first time. He told the court that he was engaged in a war against Western nations fighting in Muslim countries.

The under 30achiever conference is an initiative of Inspire Afrik Network , a team of vibrant visionaries taking stages to set Africa on fire for socio -economic surge of entrepreneurial revolution and human capital capacity development in all walks of life . The maiden edition of the conference is slated for the 11th of December , 2013 at 40/42 Imam Dauda street , off Eric Moore , Lagos .

A twenty-four-year-old man, Ndifreke Uko has allegedly impregnated his younger sister, Otobong Uko. According to SunNews, the incident occurred at Ikang Etta Street in Calabar Municipality of Cross River State, where residents are still shocked as to what may have led the duo to engage in such sacrilegious act.

 Former Portsmouth, Reading and West Brom Defender Sam Sodje has been filmed admitting he had accepted money in order to get himself sent off according to the Daily Mail. The 34 year old younger brother of Efe Sodje the former Super Eagles defender was recorded by an undercover reporter claiming he could arrange for players to pick up deliberate yellow cards for a fee of around £30k and that he had himself received £70k for picking up a bizarre red card for punching Oldham Athletic’s Jose Baxer whilst he was playing for Pompey.

PUBLIC university lecturers on Sunday insisted  that they would not return to the classrooms  on Monday (today). They also accused the Federal Government of insincerity in its bid to resolve its dispute with the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The President of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Fagge, confirmed this on Sunday via a Short Message Service  to an enquiry by The PUNCH. The Federal Government had through the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Prof. Julius Okojie,  deferred its earlier ultimatum to the lecturers to resume work on Monday (today) or risk being sacked. The shift  was to enable them to participate in the burial of Prof. Festus Iyayi, a former president of ASUU on Saturday.

Nigerians who subscribe to pay TV are now at the receiving end. Most of the time, they say they pay for services that are not delivered. Severally, the management of pay TV companies has called press briefings and customers’ fora to address some of these biting issues concerning their operations, particularly, with off time lost signals by subscribers which lasts for days before signals are restored.

 No 5 Nwolisa street opposite CCEEC Construction Company, Okota Road Amuwo Odofin was engulfed with pomp and pageantry as one of Oraifite's Illustrious sons, Sir Emeka Offor KSC commissoned the state of the art Oraifite multi-purpose hall.

Dogs are usually considered man’s best friend. But, as WHNS Fox Carolina 21 reports, sometimes they can go bad and turn to a life of crime. A Dollar General store in Clinton, South Carolina was dismayed when they discovered that they had been robbed. Manager Anastasia Polson told WHNS that they noticed that pig ears, beef bones, and dog food and treats were missing. The store has security cameras, so Polson went to see who had done the deed. Turns out, it wasn’t a person, “Well, we had a shoplifting dog.”

According to Jim Solouki and Martin Baker, South Africa’s legendary first black president, Nelson Mandela who died on Thursday at the  age of 95 in his home in Johannesburg is in hell.  Here is  what they wrote on their blog

The definition of the world humanity is not farfetched from the word itself, it means “the state of being human and having qualities and rights that all people have” comparing it with the definition of revolution which means “a time of great usually sudden, social and political change.” A revolution necessarily needs not be positive but it must take a form that changes a state of affairs to another state for a common purpose.

2million naira, a public apology, scholarship for her son and now a Special Assistant on Environmental matters to the Governor of Edo State. That’s how lucky the “Go and Die “widow is. She flaunted her appointment letter for all to see. Meanwhile some say the Governor is over exaggerating now and making it look like it’s ok to break the law..Lol

The Chairman of PDP in Anambra State, Prince Kenneth Emeakayi, was kidnapped today Monday Dec. 2nd by unknown gunmen who abducted him up as he was returning to Awka, the State capital. Prince Emeakayi was said to be returning from his village in Okija when his car was intercepted at a junction in Nri and was taken away by the gunmen. He hasn't been heard from since and the kidnappers are yet to contact his family.

Earlier this year, a study by the United States’ Department on Human Rights Practices for 2012 reported that about 60, 000 inmates live in prison with their children in Nigeria. Although the Controller General of Prisons, Mr Zakari Ibrahim, had debunked the figures, RUTH OLUROUNBI examines living conditions of the inmates in Nigerian prisons and asks if it is not a cruel punishment to make children serve terms with their parents.

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48 hours to the deadline given by the Federal Government to striking university lecturers to resume classes or be sacked, the union has remained adamant, advising parents not to risk the lives of their children by sending them to the campuses. The Presidency, on its part accused ASUU leaders of treachery and warned the university lecturers not to dare the resolve of government to carry out its threat to sack them if they failed to resume.

A mystery was recorded in the rural community of Olori Oko near Ogotun Ekiti in Ekiti South-West Local Government of Ekiti State as a goat allegedly gave birth to a strange creature. Olori- Oko, a farm stead dominated by people of Ede and Modakeke in Osun State is about six kilometres to Ogotun Ekiti and three kilometres away from Ikeji Arakeji in Osun State, with about 500 residents, witnessed a huge, bewildered crowd that stormed the serene community from the neighboring towns and villages to catch a glimpse at the strange birth. Read more after the break

What wont they do for money?

All nigeriasoccer.com understands that French Ligue 1 outfit Monaco have joined the chase for Nigeria youth international Kelechi Iheanacho, scorer of 6 goals at the 2013 Fifa Under 17 World Cup. But it is not only Monaco, who are financed by Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, that are eyeing a January swoop for one of the top prospects in his homeland. The seven - time champions of France face competition from the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea, Porto, Udinese and PAOK for the signature of Kelechi Iheanacho, who is represented by Henry Galeano. Speaking of agents, clubs that intend to do business with Taye Academy do not know the right individual to deal with as many people are claiming to represent the Golden Ball winner. If that is resolved, there is a four - year deal that has been offered by Monaco. The only missing detail is Kelechi Iheanacho’s signature.

The Imo state police command has arrested a 56 year-old man, Mr Ogbubia Donatus for running a fake wine factory. While conducting newsmen round the factory located at Ugbele Atta in Njaba local government area of Imo state, the state commissioner for police, Mohammed Katsina said the command’s ambush squad on getting wind of the illegal wine factory monitored their activities for some time.

The mop-up registration exercise for the 2nd Semester, 2012/2013 Academic Session will commence on Monday, November 25 and end on Sunday, December 1, 2013. As a result, the University Portal will be re-opened. All students who are yet to register  and those who may wish to edit their course registration records are advised to take advantage of this opportunity. Please note that the Registration Portal will be FINALLY closed by 12 midnight on Sunday, December 1, 2013. Source

The Okoye family is obviously in order.

A suspect, Pius Edward; his wife, Fausat; and her mother, have been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command in connection with the theft of N13m from Bishop’s Court, an Anglican church in Bodija area of Ibadan. Edward, a security man at the church was said to have broken into an office where the money was kept and made away with it.

Hundreds of women on Sunday marched through major streets in Awka to protest against the Nov. 16 governorship election in the state. The women said they would not accept the result of the election because there was no voting in most parts of the state. They said they were disappointed with the conduct of the election and called on INEC to organise a fresh one.

Do you like shaking people? Source: http://www.trendysturvs.blogspot.com/2013/11/photo-of-day-why-i-avoid-handshakes.html