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According to Today's Telegraph, the police officers indicted in the lynching of two innocent young men (Ifechukwudi Nwanikpor, 25, and Kazeem Onayemi, 26) in Ajara, Badagry, have been granted bail. The officers were arrested due to their alleged involvement in the mob action that led to the brutal killing of the two young men as captured by various video clips which later went viral on the internet.

I'm not yet sure of the veracity of this report. Found it on Sahara Reporters....read below.... Clara Chime, the First Lady of Enugu State, says Gov. Sullivan Chime, has placed her under house arrest, and has cried out for assistance to human rights bodies to rescue her. In a letter dripping with pain and suffering, Mrs. Chime (pictured above with Governor Chime) disclosed that she married Mr. Chime in Oct. 2008 but that she has been unable to share the matrimonial bed with him for over four years. Describing her desperate situation, she said that even President Goodluck Jonathan and First Lady Patience Jonathan have intervened with her husband without success.

Nigerian girl, Saheela Ibraheem, whose name has been buzzing in the headlines lately as a promising talent, that has reserved a place among “The World’s 50 Smartest Teenagers” list. The young girl, only 16, made it in the headlines earlier this year when she was accepted into Harvard University, making her one of the youngest students ever to attend the school.

The Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has expressed her support for the recent inauguration of the Bloomberg TV Africa in the country. During the North American launch of Bloomberg TV Africa in Washington DC, Okonjo-Iweala said the establishment of the media unit in Nigeria was a welcome addition to the country's growing economy.

Associated Airlines’ aircraft technician who was among the five survivors of the October 3 crash that left 15 people dead in Lagos has passed on. He died at the Gbagada General Hospital, Lagos, where he had been receiving treatment. The development brought to 16 the number of dead victims of the ill-fated plane which crashed while conveying the remains of former governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Agagu, from Lagos to Akure. Sources at the hospital said the technician, Mr. Samson Fatoye, died at about 7pm on Wednesday. Fatoye, who suffered severe burns from the crash, had been treated in many hospitals before he was finally taken to the Gbagada hospital. The sources said Fatoye died few hours after immigration officials from Abuja arrived in the hospital with electronic data capturing machine to prepare passport for the survivors to travel overseas for further treatment. Our correspondent however learnt that the remaining four survivors, including the two cabin crew members, were captu...

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal has appealed to the Executive and the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) to speedily resolve the on-going faceoff which has led to government owned universities being closed for over three months. This appeal followed a briefing from the House Committee on Education which had been mandated to look into the matter. The Speaker said both parties should consider the interest of Nigerian students and the education future of the nation above other considerations. He said the House of Representatives is willing to offer budgetary intervention when the need arises with a view to speedily resolve the strike which has lingered for too long.

The author of ‘Practical Steps to Financial Freedom and Independence,’ Usiere Uko, writes on how to acquire a university degree without going bankrupt Abel is a retired surveyor and a building contractor. He has been retired for five years and the last of his four children graduated from a university in the United States two years ago, as her three other siblings had years before her. Abel believed that a foreign degree was the ticket to a better life for his children, so he spared no expense making sure his children got one, even if it meant sinking his gratuity and income from his business into the project.

The House of Representatives has mandated its committee on aviation to investigate the controversy surrounding the purchase of two exotic armoured vehicles by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) which are said to be for the Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah. This resolution followed a debate on a motion of urgent national importance by the minority whip Samson Osagie who brought up the matter during plenary. The lawmaker said given the poverty in the land, it was unpatriotic for an agency of government to incur such expenditure for the comfort and safety of one public officer.

The Federal Government has once again given full assurance to students that the industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) would be called off soon. The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Mr Macjohn Nwobiala, who represented the Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Nwike at a lecture to mark the golden jubilee of the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) in Abuja, gave the assurance that government is working assiduously to resolve all contending issues. Former Executive Secretary of the Commission, Muzali Jibril however noted that chronic under-funding is largely responsible for the series of strike actions by members of ASUU. He called on the government to channel funding of the university through the universities commission to help sort out the challenge of funds, which according to him stands at 34 per cent. Stakeholders and participants agree that higher education is indeed facing testing times, but how this is eventuall...

Smoking and enjoying good health don’t go together. But despite this fact, experts say the number of smokers has continued to swell, with young adolescents taking to the dangerous habit with gusto. “They see it as a rite of passage; while many see it as a way to be ‘cool.’ Yet, cigarette use is anything but cool, what with the toll it takes on health, with different consequences among the sexes,” says General Practitioner, Dr. Friday Odiase.

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, said the army has commenced massive recruitment to tackle the security challenge in the country. Ihejirika said this while opening a five-day seminar organised by the army’s Department of Civil-Military Affairs at the 2 Div. Odogbo, Ibadan on Monday. “I have commenced the recruitment of 9,000 persons in our various training institutions’’, Ihejirika said. The COAS, represented by Maj. Gen. John Ewansiha, said the objective of the seminar was to foster better working relations with civil society organisations toward winning hearts and minds.

Uruguay is planning to start selling marijuana legally next year, a top official said, though the Senate must approve the proposed legislation. The country is hoping to act as a potential test case for an idea slowly gaining steam across Latin America — that the legalization and regulation of some drugs could sap the cartel violence devastating much of the region. "The illegal market is very risky and offers poor quality," National Drug Board chief Jose Calzada was quoted as saying in Sunday's El Pais newspaper.

A 33-year old mechanic, Abimbola Oluwole, who allegedly stole a Blackberry Torch and an I-phone, worth N125,000 from a shopper at the Ikeja Shopping Mall, on Monday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates' Court in Lagos.  Oluwole, a resident of 17, Oke Ira Powerline, Agege, Lagos, is facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing.  The prosecutor, Insp. Edet Okoi, told the court that the accused and others at large, committed the offences at 5.40 p.m., on 15 October at the shopping mall at Alausa, Ikeja.  He said that the accused stole a Blackberry Torch and an I-phone handset with a total value of N125, 000, property of Mrs Oge Onyebuchi. "The accused removed the phones from the complainant's handbag, while she was walking towards the car park.

BlackBerry has rolled out BBM BlackBerry Messenger for Android and iOS “again”, yesterday! This time around, they are making it available in stages and they are giving preference to those who signified interest in getting updates about the availability of the app. If you head over to BBM.com with your Android or iOS device from your mobile browser, you will be able to download the app as long as it is available for your region. Once you download the app, you’ll need to enter your email to reserve a space or get in right away if you had initially reserved a space.

The photo shows the scene of a ghastly motor accident that occurred late last night around 9:58pm. The accident which occurred at Abayomi Iwo Rd., involved the official vehicle of Hon. Tunde Olaniyan (Akoro) .An Accord Party Honourable Representing Ibadan North State Constituency. The driver was said to have had too much to drink and crashed destroying two power line poles throwing the host community into total darkness.

Striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have accused the Federal Government of using orchestrated propaganda to compel their union to end the current industrial action. The leadership of the union made the allegation on Sunday in Abuja, where it also reiterated that its indefinite strike started on July 2, still stands, irrespective of the move by government to discredit their union. ASUU distanced itself from a purported meeting at the State House, Abuja, with Vice President Namadi Sambo, where it was claimed that government further shifted grounds on the demands of the union.

Musician and former Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria, Munachi Abii is no doubt a very beautiful and talented young lady who has got many sides to her personality. On ‘Rubbin Minds’ this Sunday she let it all out on several controversies that have trailed her career and relationships with fellow artistes, especially the men. From her relationship with P-square, to the other celebrity men she has been reported to have dated, her issues with Mode-9, being friends with Waje and Omawunmi, plus a little about the current happenings in her love life, Muna spoke about life in the limelight.

Congratulations Sasha P!

Kanye West kicked off his 'Yeezus' tour in Seattle,  Saturday October 19th and before his performance of his College Dropout hit song, Jesus Walks, a man dressed as Jesus walked on stage and Kanye jokingly asked "White Jesus, is that you?… Oh, shit!,".

Fresh facts have finally emerged on how Assistant Superintendent of Police, Orubabe John, was killed by a robber, whose wife he allegedly snatched. Tragically, the angry robber did not only kill John, but also shot and killed John’s daughter, who was then a serving youth corps member. John was killed in December 2012, but recent events had further cleared the air, following his second wife’s (robber’s wife) confessions. The police have now embarked on a man hunt for the robber and his gang. Trouble for John and his subsequent death started after the ASP, who was the Officer-in-Charge of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, attached to Area F Police Command, with his team, arrested a suspected robber.

This is what some Nollywood movies fans tweeted in reaction to the recent rise in matured celebrities playing the roles of kids in movies. What do you think?

Unless a miracle happens, or the Federal Government urgently intervenes to fly Mrs Queeneth Owolabi abroad for treatment, she would have her toes and fingers amputated due to gangrene infection. Mrs Owolabi is a surviving cabin crew on the ill-fated Associated Airlines plane that crashed in Lagos two weeks ago. But for her husband’s resistance, the amputation would have been done yesterday or today at Nigerian Air Force, NAF, base hospital in Ikeja, where she had been hospitalised since the crash. Mrs. Owolabi survived the crash alongside six others, although two of the survivors later died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH.

Varsity teachers remained adamant last night, saying their strike would go on, despite the government’s shifting of its position. The strike has been on for four months. More cash has been pledged for projects on the campuses. Besides, the earned allowances due to the teachers have been increased from the initial N30 billion offer, which the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) rejected.

What a coincidence one of the deadliest attackers of the Super Eagles of Nigeria and one of the silliest comic actors in Nigeria are celebrating their birthdays today. Bigger you guys I pray. IJN @Odu keep my cake oooo! 

**What's the point.. Just let him die instead of wasting medical resources*** A death row prisoner in Iran is to be hanged for a second time once he 'becomes well again' after he survived an initial bungled execution. The 37-year-old man named as Alireza M was 'put to death' in the Islamic regime's Bojnourd prison last Wednesday for drugs offences.

The Ethiopia Football Federation (EFF) got a rather unexpected response from the World Football Governing Body FIFA over its protest letter on the referee's decision to disallow their goal against Nigeria during the World Cup qualification clash which took place in Addis Ababa over the weekend.

A Lagos-based businessman, Asogwa Ochiabuto, has been arrested by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for smuggling 7.45kg of cocaine hidden in flasks and kitchen utensils into the country. In a statement by the NDLEA Head of Public Affairs, Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju, on Tuesday, the discovery was made during the inward screening of passengers onboard an Ethiopian Airline flight from Brazil. The agency added that the drug, which was industrially concealed inside food flasks and kitchen utensils, tested positive for cocaine and weighed 7.45kg. It is estimated to have a value of N82m, the single largest seizure recorded at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja, since January.

According to reports, the woman in question is identified as Asampete Fatima Usman, a graduate of the University of Maiduguri who lives and works in Abuja. Depressed Fatima sent out an apparent suicide letter to a couple of friends on Facebook on the 1st of October 2013. In the suicide note, Fatima informs friends of her intention of killing herself but her friends thought she was joking. One of her friends who got the mail late was convinced that Fatima would kill herself for using the term “end it all” but she was pacified by those she those who assured her that everything was fine, that she had read too much meaning into the mail….she let it be but a few days later on October 8, 2013 exactly 3 hours after her last Facebook post, people started commenting that she had died. To everyone’s surprise Fatima’s corpse was found by her family. May God comfort her family! Source:  http://www.trendysturvs.blogspot.com/2013/10/see-nigerian-woman-who-committed.html

The Oyo State Police Command has arrested a man, identified as Pascal Amaechi, who is said to be specialised in robbing passengers along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway while the operatives of the command are on the trial of his accomplice, simply named Monday. The state’s Police Public Relations Officer, Olabisi Ilobanafor, said both men disguised to commit the crime.

Like a lump in her womb  Was my seed in her tube  Washing her skin into mottled pigment of St.louis cube  Invoking amidst her being a strange feud  As the odd presence of a teetotaller in a pub 

Nigeria is already preparing for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.Moments after securing victory over Ethiopia, the Nigeria Football Federation and its match agent, Jairo Pachon confirmed an international friendly against Italy. The match against the former world champions will be played in London on November the 18th. Meanwhile, the home based Super Eagles will play Jordan in Omman on October the 28th in a match that will serve as preparation for CHAN 2014 in South Africa.   NFF Reports Ethiopia Attack To FIFA Real Betis midfielder Nosa Igiebor has been hurt when angry Ethiopia fans attacked the Super Eagles bus following Sunday’s home defeat. NFF Vice President Mike Umeh said the incident has been reported to the FIFA security team at the match venue and he hopes action will be taken. Igiebor, who was a second-half sub in Sunday’s showdown, was the unlucky one as the stone slashed his right palm leading to profuse bleeding that was immediately attended to by team doctor, Ibrah...

A Malaysian court ruled on Monday that a Christian newspaper may not use the word "Allah" to refer to God, a landmark decision on an issue that has fanned religious tension and raised questions over minority rights in the mainly Muslim country. The unanimous decision by three Muslim judges in Malaysia's appeals court overturned a 2009 ruling by a lower court that allowed the Malay-language version of the newspaper, The Herald, to use the word Allah - as many Christians in Malaysia say has been the case for centuries.

Six kidnap suspects have been gunned down at Azia, Ihiala local Government Area of Anambra state as they tried to escape with their victim.   Addressing newsmen at the headquarters of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) Awkuzu, the state Police Public Relations officer, Mr. Emeka Chukwuemeka, narrated the story of the kidnap suspects who kidnapped one Mr. Sunday Okoye from Awka and were headed for the neighboring Delta state when luck ran out of them as they encountered the men of the Anambra state police command.

Nigeria conquered the high altitude of Ethiopia with a 2-1 victory as they signified a firm interest in making a fifth appearance in the World Cup in Brazil. Emmanuel Emenike was the hero for the Super Eagles as he scored the equalizer and the winner in the 89th minute. Ethiopia had gone ahead in the 56th minute when Vincent Enyeama mis-judged a cross from Assefa and the referee, Aliou Neant from Cameroon, ruled that the ball had crossed the line.

An Algerian blogger has been detained for posting cartoons on the Internet mocking President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, and is due to stand trial for “contempt” and “defending terrorism,” his lawyer said Wednesday. Abdelghani Aloui, 24, has been held in custody since September 25 and faces several charges, including “attacking the person of the president,” Amine Sidhoum told AFP. The blogger allegedly published cartoons ridiculing Bouteflika and Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal on his Facebook page. The charge of “defending terrorism” relates to the fact that he was “in possession of a scarf on which was written the phrase ‘There is no God but God’” Sidhoum said, referring to the Muslim declaration of faith. “My client was received today (Wednesday) by a specialist judge at the Algiers criminal court who decided to keep him in custody. Tomorrow we will file a request for bail,” he said. In June 2012, another blogger received an eight-month suspended jail sentence and a 1,000 euro ($1,350...

The proposed civic reception in honour of Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha, billed to hold today in Aba, the commercial nerve centre of Abia State, has been stopped on the orders of the state governor, Theodore Orji. Abia governor who alleged that the reception was a ploy to launch the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the state stopped the reception organised by rescue missionaries to mark the 51 birthday of Okorocha.

The Catholic Bishop of Nsukka Diocese, the Rt. Rev. Professor Godfrey Igwebuike Onah, on Friday at Ede-Oballa, in Nsukka Council Area of Enugu State, derided Nigerian politicians over the plight of youths and the generality of the masses in the country. Bishop Onah spoke passionately at the funeral mass for Lolo Josephine Oyima Abba, mother of the Enugu State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Engr. Vita Abba. Shifting to a warning tone, Onah cautioned political leaders to retrace their steps, as it would not be possible to quench the indignation of Nigerian youths who would soon run out of patience.

A Federal High Court in Lagos, on Friday, sentenced a prison warder, Frank Obi, to 10 years imprisonment without any option of fine for selling indian hemp to inmates of the kirikiri Maximum Prisons in Lagos. Obi, 31, confessed committing the crime, and was jailed by Justice Ibrahim Buba, who regarded him as a disgrace to lawful authorities in Nigeria. “Following the guilty plea entered by the accused, he is hereby convicted as charged, and accordingly, sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, without option of fine,” Justice Buba ruled.

The Super Eagles took off for Ethiopia on-board a chartered flight to Ethiopia around 1:40am this morning and they would arrive Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by 8:00am local time today. Our World cup dreams hangs on their crucial encounter with the Antelopes of Ethiopia tomorrow by 3:00pm local time. And what did Nnamdi Oduamadi have to say? He told me that Nigerians should believe in the whole team, in his words  "There is no cause for alarm, the Antelopes would be defeated tomorrow, we are fully ready for them" Go boys!

They call themselves the TIGER CREW and these are their first two videos ...

There appeared to be an argument between the Captain and the First Officer of the Associated Airline aircraft which crashed on 3 October in Lagos Nigeria and killed 15 people, the aircraft’s black box has revealed. The readout of the black box ,also known as Cockpit Voice Recorder, CVR, conducted by Nigeria’s Accident Investigation Bureau, AIB, in its Abuja’s laboratory revealed that the computer onboard the plane sent a warning message to the Captain, Yakubu Abdulrahman, shortly before take-off but he ignored it.

TRIPOLI - Libya's Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been taken by force from a hotel in Tripoli by a group of former rebels, the government said in a statement on Thursday. "The head of the government Ali Zeidan was taken at dawn this morning by gunmen to an unknown place for unknown reasons," the government said. Guards at the Corinthia Hotel said gunmen had taken Zeidan from the hotel but there were no shots fired or clashes during the incident.

The Lagos State Police Command has apprehended a 37-year-old man, Ajibola Idowu, for allegedly kidnapping the daughter of his landlord for three years. The suspect was also said to have forcefully impregnated the victim, Modupe Brown, during captivity. The police told PUNCH Metro that after Brown had given birth to the child, Ajibola refused to allow the child access to immunisation. As a result, the child was said to have contracted polio disease and subsequently became crippled. Lagos Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, Damasus Ozoani, told PUNCH Metro that Ajibola, was arrested along with his mother, Ebun, who allegedly conspired with him to commit the act. He said, "Brown, a 400 level student of Business Administration at the Lagos State University, was kidnapped by Ajibola who kept her in captivity with his family for "three years between 2010 and 2013.