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Saturday, July 29

Man Kills Wife, Her Lover As Children Watched

Police in Lusaka have arrested a 33 year old man identified as Peter Siwale, a clearing agent of Lusaka’s Mean Wood Phase 2 for allegedly shooting dead his wife identified Charity Namuko aged 30 together with another man identified as Andrew Chibesa aged 27, whom he suspected to have been having an affair with his wife. This happened on Thursday, 27th July 2017 between 18:00 and 19:00 Hours in...

Uzbekistan said today that it has jailed the eldest daughter of late president Islam Karimov, Gulnara Karimova -once a prominent socialite, fashion designer and singer after charging her with massive fraud and money laundering. In a statement the Uzbekistan Prosecutor-General’s Office said that “Gulnara Karimova has been charged” with crimes including fraud, money laundering and concealing...

After 64 days in captivity, the six abducted pupils of the Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, Epe have regained their freedom. Although details of their release have not been made public, the kids were released in Ajakpa Community in Ese Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State. A senior police officer said the children had been moved to the Ondo State Police Command headquarters in Akure where...

Eleven-month-old Charlie Gard, whose short life captured the hearts of the world, has died, just a week before his first birthday. Charlie suffered from a rare genetic condition which saw him in hospital for the majority of his short life. His parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, fought a lengthy and emotional legal battle to take their severely ill baby son to the US for treatment, which was...

Ahmed Makarfi, the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party has been involved in a car crash. He escaped death after a vehicle he was travelling in was involved in multiple collision along Abuja-Kaduna Highway. Dayo Adeyeye, PDP spokesman confirmed the accident in a statement. According to him, Makarfi “and all other passengers in his vehicle came out unhurt. “This is to allay the fears...

The world body of the Nigerians Living in the Diaspora (NIDO), has appealed to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to extend the voting right to Nigerians living in the Diaspora through Out of Country Voting system (OCV). INEC Director of Voter Education and Publicity, Mr Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja, noted that the call was made during NIDO delegation...

George and Amal Clooney are ready to defend their infant twins in court ... as they vow to sue a French magazine that published pics of them. The mag, "Voici," published shots on Friday of the Clooneys cradling Alexander and Ella. They appeared to be in a backyard, and George says that's exactly what happened ... and he's pissed. In a statement he says, "Over the last week photographers from...

Five members of the University of Maiduguri were killed when Boko Haram fighters attacked oil workers who were prospecting for oil in the Lake Chad Basin. The insurgents had on Tuesday attacked a team of geologists who were on an oil exploration trip to the Lake Chad Basin at Jibi village in Borno State. The team comprised members of staff of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation,...

Samsung Overtakes Apple To Become Worldâ€™s Biggest Phone Maker

Samsung Electronics has overtaken Apple to become the world’s largest maker of mobile phones, memory chips and the most profitable tech firm. The South Korean tech giant's quarterly earnings was released on Thursday and the figures show that Samsung is on course to overtake Apple as the world’s most profitable tech firm. The firm said huge sales of its new Galaxy S8 smartphone...

Wonders shall never end. A man allegedly pleaded with his female neighbour to allow his teen son have sex with her teen daughter so they could find out if his penis is still working fine. It all started when the son raised alarm that a middle-aged man identified as Taoheeb had touched him in a suspicious manner as he walked along the road in Idimu and this caused his penis to shrink. It was also...

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo last night had an emergency meeting with all the service chiefs and after the meeting, he gave a directive that the Chief of Army staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai and the Chief of Air Staff, Sadique Abubakar, should immediately relocate to Maiduguri, the Borno state capital. The meeting was called for following the increasing rate of attacks being carried out by...

Photo: Floyd Mayweather Shows Off $100 Bills On His Private Jet Ahead Of Conor McGregor Mega Fight

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Amazon's Founder And CEO, Jeff Bezos Was World's Richest Man Only For A Few Hours

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Outrage As Rolling Stone Puts Canadian PM Justin Trudeau On Their Cover And Ask Why He Cant Be The US President

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Again, efforts by Donald Trump and Republicans to repeal and replace Obamacare failed. In a devastating setback, 3 Republican Senators, John McCain, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins joined with Democrats to oppose the measure. Speaking after the vote, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell looked stunned and lamented the vote and the inability of the GOP to fulfill their long-term campaign...

Lol. Reno Omokri Visits Abuja House, London (PHOTOS)

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Meet Some Trans Soldiers Affected By Donald Trump's Recent Ban

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Lesbian Model Cara Delevingne Caught Ogling Rihanna On The Red Carpet

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Slap the shit out of their president and make him go away...l...

Marriage is one of the most important event in an individual’s life. Marriages are said to be destined from the heavens. The advent of a supposedly golden period in one’s life is expected give birth to feelings of positive anticipation. This holds true though for most women.Women are said to be difficult to understand. But the same seems to be true for the guys. Have we ever pondered enough on...

The Federal High Court, Abuja, today granted former Adamawa governor, Murtala Nyako, permission to travel abroad for medical treatment. Justice Okon Abang gave the permission after hearing an application filed by Nyako’s counsel seeking permission to travel. Justice Abang in his ruling said that he granted the application since the prosecuting counsel raised no objection. The judge further said...

He was part of the team that visited President Buhari in London on Sunday and today, shortly after a meeting at the APC National Secretariat, Oyegun had a brief interview with journalists where he was asked few questions about his trip to London to see the President and below is what he said. Enjoy! Your Excellency, you led an APC delegation to visit Mr. President. What is his state of health? Oyegun:...

The Nigerian Customs Service has begun the implementation of the directive issued by the Federal Government, directing the dismantling of all illegal check points by its operatives across the country. A circular from the office of the Deputy Comptroller General on Enforcement and Investigations, addressed to all Ag. DCGs, ACGs, Zonal Coordinators, CACs, Comptrollers FOUs, GIU, CGCs compliance...

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has dropped three commissioners in a minor cabinet reshuffle announced on Thursday. Those affected were commissioners for Information, Godwin Udeuhele; Youth and Sport, Charles Ndukwe; and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Smart Ogbe. The Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Uwakwe Abugu, confirmed the development to Government House correspondents...

As at last year, this popular messaging app, WhatsApp had 1 Billion 'monthly' active users. But they have recorded a tremendous growth. Now Whatsapp have one billion active daily users. This the company disclosed in a blog post, also stating that its monthly active user base has increased to 1.3 billion. Additionally, almost 55 billion messages are sent every day in 60 supported languages. 1 billion Videos...

Indications have emerged that the improving health status of President Muhammadu Buhari is unsettling several politicians scheming to contest the presidency in 2019. Buhari, who left the country on May 7 to London, for follow-up medical checks, is said to be recuperating fast from an undisclosed ailment. A senior presidency source, who prefers not to be quoted, confirmed to our correspondent yesterday...

Barcelona 's miraculous Champions League comeback against Paris Saint-Germain last season forced a French mayor to eat a RAT after a bet backfired. With PSG hammering Barca 4-0 in the first leg of their last-16 encounter, Charles Dayot of Mont-de-Marsan — a commune in southwestern France — took to Facebook to announce he would gobble down the unappetising dish if the Ligue 1 giants were dumped...

The Governor of Ebonyi State, Mr. Dave Umahi, has described the rate of the recovery of President Muhammadu Buhari as a miracle. Umahi, who is one of the seven governors that visited the President in London yesterday night, told one of Punch correspondents on the telephone from London, that he and his colleagues were surprised with the level of his (President) recovery. Apart from Umahi, others...

The chief executive officer of Google Incorporated, Sundar Pichai, has said his firm would prepare 10 million Africans for ‘jobs of the future’ in the next five years. He said this in a company conference held in Lagos, Thursday. The pledge marked an extension of an initiative Google launched in April 2016 to train young Africans in digital skills. It announced in March it had reached its initial...

A 36-year old grandmother, Mrs. Bosede Oyetunde, has been sentenced to one month’s imprisonment by a family court sitting in Oke Eda, Akure, Ondo State, for dumping a day-old baby boy, her grandson, in the bush. The incident happened in Omotoso town in the Okitipupa Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the woman committed the offence on July 13, 2017. The accused and her...

The Nigeria Customs Service on Wednesday intercepted three consignments containing 140 species of snakes and 660 other animals imported into Nigeria from Cameroon. The containers were brought in aboard a Cameroonian vessel, MV Flesh, through the Calabar waterways to the National Inland Waterways Authority jetty in Calabar, Cross River State. The other animals which were identified as geckos,...

For failing to appear before them to clear suspicions on the suspension of Executive Secretary of National Insurance Health Scheme, NHIS, the House of Representatives, yesterday, threatened to issue a warrant of arrest against Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole. The lawmakers also said there would be no consideration of budget of the NHIS henceforth. Professor Isaac Adewole Chairman...

Two UN peacekeepers were killed yesterday when their helicopter crashed as they were monitoring clashes in northern Mali, their mission said. UN diplomats confirmed that the attack helicopter and the crew had been supplied by Germany to MINUSMA, the UN mission in Mali. MINUSMA in a statement said the helicopter came down with the two peacekeepers aboard near Tabankort, south of the city of Gao. “Unfortunately...

Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, yesterday, attributed increasing rate of kidnapping in the country to weak laws, saying the menace could conveniently be brought to a permanent end, if the National Assembly comes up with stringent laws. He said mere parading of suspected kidnappers by his agency without either taking them to law courts for prosecution and possibly sentencing them...

Defeated Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu who was the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 28, September 2016 election in Edo State, yesterday in a live television programme in Benin City thanked all the people of Edo State for their support before, during and after the election. Iyamu said, “The love shown to me, my party and candidacy was unprecedented. Edo people have...

Pop star Rihanna has been putting in some “work” on global education efforts, and a meeting yesterday with France’s president appears to have paid off. President Emmanuel Macron said on Twitter after the pair met in Paris that he is "committed" to helping address the challenge of 264 million children being out of school. He mentioned the social action platform Global Citizen and a nonprofit founded...

Beyonce and Jay Z welcomed twins Rumi and Sir in mid June. And the family have already snapped up nannies to help take care of the newborn babies as they nest in Los Angeles. According to a Wednesday report from US OK! magazine, the singers have hired six nannies at $100,000 a year each for the bundles of joy. 'The twins don't sleep at the same time, so she decided she needed three per child,...

Pop star Justin Bieber has accidentally hit a photographer with his pickup truck after leaving a service with the Hillsong Church group in Los Angeles, police say. The 23-year-old was seen trying to help the man to his feet after he fell to the ground beside the vehicle outside the Saban Theatre on Wednesday night. Pictures show the 57-year-old photographer lying on the ground and clutching his...

The actress who has mostly made people understand she is not in need of money has taken to IG to thank her colleague, Chika Ike for always calling to check and pray for her and said she also gave her some cash and insisted it was a token. What she wrote; Chika called several times to pray for me and she did today too(bless her)she gave me money and insisted it was a token(I was touched)chika you...

She has largely maintained a dignified silence as her estranged husband of eight years sets up home with another woman. But yesterday Melissa Meeks gave a rare insight into her life post-Jeremy Meeks, as she took to Instagram in a lengthy tirade. The mother-of-three, 38, who shares a seven-year-old son with the 33-year-old felon turned model, let rip just days after he continued to parade his...

His love of partying is said to be driving a wedge between one of the world's best-loved power couples. And David Beckham was unleashing his daring side again on Sunday, when he was pictured signing a girl's bottom in Kernville, California. Enjoying a spot of 'guy time' away from wife Victoria, the 42-year-old hunk had pulled over at a hardware store during his motorcycle road trip with...

Middle aged man, identified as Ekene Ezeogo, has allegedly beaten his mother to death following a squabble that erupted in their residence located at No 24 Agbaja Road in Abakaliki Ebonyi State capital. Findings revealed that the incident occurred yesterday when the woman identified as Prophetess Mary intervened in a fight that ensued between the suspect Ekene and his younger sister. It was gathered...

Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo today visited Rivers state and was received by the State Governor, Wike Nyesom. He is there to commission the state's projects. More Photos... ...

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