I didn't work against Jonathan - Metuh

The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, said, yesterday, that he is the target of some elements within and outside the party because of his readiness to lead a strong opposition against the All Progressives Congress, APC, led government. Metuh, who described the accusation that he worked against the re-election of former President Goodluck Jonathan...

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Femi Fani-kayode doubts paternity of three children from his ex-wife

Former aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, and his family, have questioned the paternity of three children from Mr. Fani-Kayode’s former wife, Yemisi. In a lengthy article published Saturday, a representative of the family, Felix Olawunmi, narrated a turbulent post-marital relationship between the former minister and Yemisi, and said the issue of the children’s parenthood had been on for years. The...

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Ooni’s last text message to me touching – Aregbesola

The Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has said that the Ooni of Ife, Okunade Sijuade, sent him “a touching text message” just before he travelled out of the country to London for medical aid. It was the governor’s first public comment on the Ooni since the news of the Ooni’s demise set a stream of activities within the Ife traditional court. Mr. Aregbesola dropped the hint on Friday in Osogbo...

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NEW VIDEO: Adekunle Gold – Orente

YBNL artiste and fast rising Nigerian Urban Highlife singer Adekunle Gold fuses his unique sounds of highlife-meets-afro-rock-and-pop in his new single titled “ORENTE”. The artiste has immediately followed the release of the single with a video that was shot in the ancient city of Osogbo in Osun State. The video captures the essence of the ancient city and is shot across different locations of...

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Chelsea suffer disappointing opening day draw after Courtois red card

Chelsea suffered a disappointing 2-2 draw with Swansea City at Stamford Bridge as they were unable to begin their defence of the Premier League title with a win, losing goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois to a red card in the process. Jose Mourinho's side took the lead when Oscar whipped a free kick which was intended as a cross beyond Lukasz Fabianski. The visitors were soon level...

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Pirates kill 4 soldiers, policeman in Bayelsa

The Bayelsa Police Command said on Saturday that four soldiers and a policeman were killed in an attack on Nembe waterways by armed gunmen, suspected to be pirates. The command’s spokesman, Asinim Butswat, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yenagoa that the Joint Task Force (JTF) base at Nembe came under attack on Friday’s night. “On August 7, 2015, at about 11:30p.m., four speedboats...

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53-year-old woman jumps into well in Lagos

A 53-year-old woman have died after jumping into a well in the Idimu area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. The woman, Amoke Adeoko, 53 was said to have jumped deliberately into a 130 feet deep well in her apartment at 5 Ajilekege Street, Pipeline Bus Stop, Idimu. Director, Lagos State Fire Service, Rasak Fadipe disclosed that the tragedy occurred on Friday night, saying that the woman was brought...

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Iheanacho gets jersey number at Manchester City

English Premier League side, Manchester City, has assigned jersey numbers to its squad for the 2015 – 2016 season. The former English champions confirmed that Nigeria youth international, Kelechi Iheanacho, will feature in the first team alongside top stars such as Sergio Aguero, Yaya Toure, David Silva and Samir Nasri, allnigeriasoccer.com reports. Iheanacho has been assigned the number 72...

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Hackers broadcast p0rn on TV screens at Brazil bus depot

Hackers infiltrated the travel information video screens at a Brazilian bus station and replaced arrival and departure times with hard-core p0rn. The sex footage ran for 15 minutes Friday evening at the Boqueirao station in the southern city of Curitiba. The depot was packed with travelers at the time. The police cyber crime unit has been notified and is trying to trace the hacker or hackers,...

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Lagos pastor in divorce mess: He steals church funds says wife

The pastor in-charge, Pentecostal Power and Authority Ministry Worldwide, Mr Kayode Oladoyinbo, and his wife, Christian, are locked in a bitter divorce battle after 11 years of marriage. The union is blessed with three children, aged 11, 9 and 6, respectively. Asking an Ojo, Lagos Customary Court to dissolve the marriage, Christian accused her husband of frequent beatings, cruelty, illegal summoning...

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Nigerian foward, Odion Ighalo stars in Premier League debut

Super Eagles striker Odion Ighalo continued his goalscoring form for Watford, scoring in their 2-2 draw away at Everton in their opening game of the 2015/16 English Premier League season. Ighalo came in as a second half substitute put Watford back in the lead with a finish after a nice work displacing two defenders. Watford has earlier taken the lead in the first half against the run of play...

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We’re ready for Indian investors – Ambode

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Saturday reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to strengthen trade relationship with investors from other countries. Ambode said this during a courtesy call on him by the High Commissioner of India, Mr. Ajjanpor Ghanashyan, at the Lagos State House, Alausa, Ikeja. He said his administration was determined to further strengthen trade with India. According...

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Nigerians outraged over report that former Lagos Governor, Babatunde Fashola spent N78.3 million on personal website

Several Nigerians are outraged over a recent report that former governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola spent N78.3million on his personal website. The mind-boggling expenditure published on the state public procurement office’s website, was first exposed by foremost budget analytic firm, BudgiT. Other questionable expenditures incurred by the administration include N1.2 billion vaguely...

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IN PICTURES: Obasanjo's private visit to president Buhari at the Villa

Former president Obasanjo paid a private visit to Pres. Buhari at the presidential villa on Wednesday. Details of the meeting are unknown, more pictures below... ...

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'Even if all the other state governors ban Okada, I will never ban Okada in Ekiti state' - Ayo Fayose

Governor of Ekiti state Ayo Fayose has promised Okada riders in the state that he will not ban Okada. He took to his twitter handle on Saturday to share this. He disclosed that he met with artisans and Okada riders in his state on Friday and promised them that until other means of livelihood is provide, existing ones should not be cut. Read Tweets below... ...

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Insecurity grounds Borno hides and skin firm

Security challenges in Borno State have crippled the hides and skin business in the state, investigations by the News Agency of Nigeria have revealed. While the state-owned shoemaking and hides tannery firm, Neital Nigeria Limited, has been grappling with problems, the bustle that used to characterise the premises of the Maiduguri Central abattoir, is completely gone, especially after the blast...

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Kyle Walker score first premiership ‘own’ goal

Tottenham Hotspur right-back Kyle Walker had the misfortune of scoring the new Premier League season’s first goal with an own goal for Manchester United at Old Trafford on Saturday. With 21 minutes on the clock, Walker attempted to stop Wayne Rooney shooting from Ashley Young’s right-wing cross, only to send the ball rolling past Spurs goalkeeper Michel Vorm and into the bottom-left corner. United...

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Manchester United get first 3 points of the 2015/2016 English Premier League

An own goal from Kyle Walker ensured Manchester United opened the Premier League season with a 1-0 victory over Tottenham at Old Trafford on Saturday. The right-back stabbed into the back of his own net midway through the first half after a new-look United side had made a shaky start. David de Gea watched on as Sergio Romero made his United debut, with Louis van Gaal stating that the Spain goalkeeper...

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Adeboye urges members to donate towards completion of a 12 million seater new auditorium

Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, the General Overseer said he has turned a beggar to persuade members to donate towards the completion of the 12 million seater new auditorium of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, at its camp in Ogun state, western Nigeria. The church had planned to move to the new auditorium this month, but members were surprised that the monthly vigil held at the old auditorium. Adeboye...

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Boko Haram suicide bombers spread fear in Cameroon

Empty streets, body searches and tips to police embody the fear that Boko Haram has instilled in northern Cameroon, where they killed more than 40 people in suicide bombings in July. Raiders from the Nigerian sect later kidnapped 135 villagers and killed eight others in a pre-dawn strike across the border last Tuesday, police and local sources said. Boko Haram has attacked villages in Cameroon’s...

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Captives rescued as Mali hotel siege leaves seven dead

Captives held by gunmen during a standoff at a hotel in central Mali have been freed overnight and at least five foreigners evacuated from the site, according to Malian military sources. The hotel was stormed by the armed men in an attack on Friday that left at least seven people dead, including a UN contractor. “We cannot say that everything is finished, but a number of hostages” were freed...

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Prostitute dies after drinking two bottles of Ogogoro

Tragedy occurred at Obalende road, Ikoyi, Lagos, western Nigeria, on Thursday evening when a suspected prostitute simply identified as Favour slumped and died after allegedly consuming two bottles of local gin popularly called Ogogoro. She was said to have drank the illicit liquor without eating any food. Some of her colleagues who spoke  at the scene of the incident said that the deceased...

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PICTURES: India arrests two Nigerians planning to join ISIS

Indian security agencies have arrested two Nigerian youths suspected to be on their way to Iraq to join the terrorist organisation, Islamic State. They were arrested along the India-Pakistan border after scaling a barbed wire fence near the international border, where they were handed over to Punjab Police. They were identified as Imran Kabeer and Sani Jamiliu. Imran Kabeer and Sani Jamiliu According...

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Kano sacks 2,620 street sweepers

The Kano State Government on Friday sacked no fewer than 2,620 street sweepers. The street sweepers were employed by the state’s Refuse Management and Sanitation Board. Addressing journalists after the weekly state executive council meeting in Kano, the Commissioner for Information, Alhaji Muhammad Garba, said the disengagement of the sweepers followed the government’s determination to curb unnecessary...

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JUNGLE JUSTICE: Man burnt to death for allegedly stealing a motorcycle.

A set of angry commercial motorcyclists in Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State on Friday morning burnt a 41-year-old man in Masaka area of the state for allegedly stealing a motorcycle. It was learnt that the motorcyclists first beat and stoned the suspect before they set him ablaze. It was also learnt that persistent plead for mercy by the suspect fell on deaf ears, as the motorcyclists...

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Clampdown on corrupt Nigerians will be sustained – DSS boss

The Director-General, Department of State Services, Mr. Lawal Daura, has said that the service will sustain the clampdown on corrupt public officials and other saboteurs. In an apparent reference to the ongoing probe of former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.) and crude oil thieves by the DSS, Daura said the agency would be professional, noting that the service under his leadership...

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Buhari tasks defence ministry to produce weapons locally

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday directed the Ministry of Defence to produce a plan for the establishment of a military industrial complex for the local production of weapons for the use of the nation’s armed forces. According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President gave the directive at the graduation ceremony of the National Defence...

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Why I raped my friend’s teenage daughter – UNILAG lecturer

For nine days, Shola (not real name) was in pain. The abdominal pain she endured felt as if a knife got stuck in her. She was scared but she had no choice but to endure the pain since she couldn’t imagine telling her parents the unimaginable trauma she had been subjected to that led to the pains she was going through. “How could I face them? How could I tell them that the man they handed me...

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Black Box Still Key To Unraveling MH370 Mysteries, Says Aviation Expert

An aviation security expert on Friday in London, insisted that the future search mission should still focus on finding the black box of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. Graham Braithwaite, Aviation Security Expert at Britain’s Cranfield University, said the search for the black box remained the core objective. He said the data within the black box was key to solving all the mysteries. “In...

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'We Have Curtailed Boko Haram '

Former Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (retd) has disclosed that the Nigerian military has reduced Boko Haram to a shadow of its former self and expressed optimism about its final destruction sooner. Amosun who said this yesterday during the fly-out parade at Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Base, Abuja, held in his honour as he takes a bow out of the military after a 35 years of...

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NAFDAC arrests man behind distribution of fake De Rica tomato

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control on Friday said it had arrested five suspects for alleged sale of expired products. NAFDAC’s Director-General, Paul Orhii, who was represented by Kingsley Ejiofor, Head of Investigation and Enforcement Directorate, made the disclosure in Lagos. He told a news conference that the suspects were arrested following an intelligence...

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Pope Francis condemns persecution of Christians

Pope Francis, in a letter to the church community on Friday in Jordan, slammed the “atrocious, inhuman and inexplicable” persecution of Christians and minorities, urging the international community not to remain silent. This is contained in a message carried by the Secretary General of the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI), Nunzio Galantino, to the ecclesial community in Jordan, a country that...

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Nigeria doubles VAT to 10% to help shore up government revenue eroded by declining oil price

Nigeria plans to double the value-added tax rate to 10 per cent this year to help shore up government revenue eroded by the declining price of oil, the country’s main export, the Federal Inland Revenue Service said. “The plan is to increase to 10 percent this year, but we have to consult first with relevant stakeholders,” Sunday Ogungbesan, Acting Executive Chairman of the FIRS, told reporters. Nigeria...

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'We are tired of killing innocent persons' - 8 Boko Haram members renounce membership of sect

Eight members of the terror group, Boko Haram, have denounced their membership of the sect, in a town around Mussa in Askira/Uba Local Government Area of Borno State, the Chairman of the youth vigilance group in the town, Apagu Istifanus, told journalists on Friday. According to him, the eight claimed they are tired of killing innocent persons. Istifanus, who spoke with journalists on the...

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