THE ALLEGED KIDNAPPED ESE ORURU FINALLY SPEAKS

According to Premium Times, Ese Oruru, who was allegedly kidnapped from Bayelsa State to Kano, said she was not interested in reuniting with her family and denied reports that she was abducted from her home in Bayelsa State. In an exclusive audio recording obtained by the online publication today, the girl also said she eloped with her lover to Kano in order to convert to Islam. “My name is Aisha Chuwas. I am 17-year-old. I came here to be...

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PASTOR'S WIFE GAVE BIRTH TO TWINS AFTER 18 YEARS

Pastor Mrs. Akin-Akinsanya pictured with her set of twins after reportedly waiting for a child for 18 years. Congrats to h...

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PHOTOS: CIARA VISITS SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN LAGOS

Us singer Ciara visited Ilado Community Junior High School andAkande Dahunsi Memorial Senior/Junior High School both in Lagos today February 29th. More photos after the cut... ...

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#FreeEse: Mama Taraba vows to rescue Ese, prosecutes abductor

The Minister of women Affairs and All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the April 11 governorship election in Taraba State, Senator Aisha Jummai Alhassan, popularly known as Mama Taraba, has condemned the alleged abduction of 14-year-old Ese Oruru by one Yunusa, who hails from Kano. She vowed to ensure the release of Ese and prosecution of the abductor. She maintained that Ese is a minor and as such cannot consent to marriage, stressing...

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You Lied In Church That Jonathan Built No Road – Doyin Okupe Blasts Osinbajo

Former Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Doyin Okupe, on Sunday, described the recent statement credited to vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, that no new road has been built by government in the last ten years as “a lie and an absolute falsehood.” While expressing regrets that the statement was made in a church, Okupe, who stated this on his Facebook page, said that the church has a role to...

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Bangladeshi man has tree-like growths removed from his hand after three hours of surgery

26-year-old Abdul Bajandar from southern Bangladesh suffers from epidermodysplasia verruciformis, a condition so rare there are only three known cases in the world. The condition is dubbed 'Tree Man' because sufferers grow bark-like warts on their appendages. He successfully underwent surgery to remove the warts that first started to appear ten years ago from one of his hands. 'I have fought for 10 years and endured the pain,' I want...

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With $30 oil price, we have to proritize and downsize our promises- Lai Mohammed

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says with oil prices sliding to as low as $30 per barrel, the APC-led government will have to downsize or prioritize on the promises it made during the election campaigns. Lai said this to Channels TV "When you campaign, you say you’ll do A, B, C, but when you win elections, you’ll priotize. We were elected for a four-year period, not for one year. Things, we hope, will not be bad all through...

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Gov. Dickson's sister rescued by security agencies without ransom

The younger sister of Bayelsa State governor, Henry Seriake Dickson has been rescued after spending over two months in the hands of kidnappers. A statement issued on Monday by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, said 26 year old Nancy Dickson, was rescued on Sunday evening from her abductors without any payment of ransom. According to him, "some of the kidnappers took to their heels while others were apprehended...

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OAU Students Express Concern About Increased Sickness On Campus

The institution’s largest student hostel, Awolowo Hall, showed that many of the rooms had at least one student who had fallen ill. One of the rooms, which has 8 occupants, had five of them already fall ill this past week. An average of five students stay in a room in the hostel officially although the figure is often up to a dozen due to the shortage of student accommodation. The increased cases of illness has been attributed to the ‘harsh’...

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No more home based coaches for Nigeria' as NFF plans to sue Sunday Oliseh

Nigerian Football Federation president Amaju Pinnick has vowed not to employ a foreign coach to take charge of the Super Eagles again after Sunday Oliseh's handling of the job and resignation on social media while he was away at Zurich for FIFA's elections. Amaju, who christened Sunday Oliseh 'Africa's Pep Guardiola' upon his appointment last year says the era of giving indigenious coaches a chance to head the Super Eagles is over, saying Samson...

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Pastor was shot and killed at the altar by his brother who was sitting in congregation

William Schooler, 70 (right), a pastor at St Peter's Missionary Baptist in Dayton, Ohio was shot and killed by his brother while service was in session at the church. The choir was singing when the suspect, 69-year-old Daniel (left), got up, followed the pastor and shot him as he got behind the pulpit. He died at the scene from his injuries. While the motive for the shooting is not clear, reports say it was related to a domestic incident. Schooler...

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23, 846 ghost workers removed from government payroll, saves FG N2.293bn

Not less than 23, 846 ghost workers have been removed from the Federal government's payroll, saving the government N2.293 billion from the total salary bill for the ministries, departments and agencies MDAs for February 2016. According to the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, who disclosed this over the weekend, Bank Verification Exercise and enrolment to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) exposed ghost workers...

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Korean statue that depicts Jesus

This photo was shared by an IMGUR user by the username Geekologie. He said: "This is a Korean crucifix featuring a very muscular Jesus. I'm not entirely sure where it's located, but presumably outside the Church of Gains. Honestly, if Jesus really did look like that there probably never would have been a crucifixion, just "the day Jesus killed all the Romans swinging a cross...

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Child trafficking: Ebonyi State Police Command intercepts man with 13 underaged children

A statement issued by the Ebonyi State Police Command yesterday, Feb. 28 said that it intercepted a man accompanying 13 underage children. The statement below: "On 26/01/2016 at about 1600hrs, acting on a tip-off, one Emmanuel Okuegu and Andrew Okperegede were intercepted accompanying 13 underage children in a bus to an unknown destination. The suspects were arrested and they confessed that they were taking the boys to Port Harcourt for hawking....

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Lagos state launches sexual assault standing order, rape kits

In line with the mandate of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT) in partnership with the Ministry of Health and the Primary Health Care Board at the weekend launched the Sexual Assault Standing Order and Sexual Assault Evidence Examination Kit, also referred to as rape kits. Coordinator of the DSVRT, Mrs. Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi said the launch was done at a training session for Health...

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I AM DONE WITH SUPER EAGLES- EMMANUEL EMENIKE

According to Sportinglife, former Super Eagles forward and West Ham FC of England’s striker who was offered to be the new Super Eagles coach has rejected the offer. He revealed last night that he's done with the Super Eagles and not going back. He said: “I’m done with the Super Eagles, and I am making it clear again that I am not going back.”It’s my decision and I am not going to reverse it, I am sorry if I have offended anybody regarding this...

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WHATSAPP WILL STOP WORKING ON BLACKBERRY AND NOKIA OPERATING SYSTEM BY 2016

Earlier this week Whatsapp celebrated its 7th years anniversary with its 1 Billion Active users, instead to break a bad news on such a good day, the team decided to wait till on Friday when they announced that: the app will soon be discontinued on BlackBerry and Nokia devices running those company’s operating systems. Yes! that include the Blackberry 10 device, Though the new Android-powered Blackberry Priv slider phone might probaly survive...

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OAP FREEZE SPEAKS ON OLAJUMOKE RISE TO FAME AND UNILAG FIRST GRADUATE WITH A 5.0 CGPA

Cool FM OAP Freeze just shared this on his IG page and he’s asking why Mr. Ayodele Daniel Dada, the first Nigerian to finish university with a perfect CGPA of 5.0, is not getting the same rise to fame as former bread seller turned model, Olajumoke Orisaguna. ‘POVERTY MENTALITY’ When are Nigerians going to celebrate real achievements? On the left is Mr. Ayodele Daniel Dada the first Nigerian to finish university with a perfect CGPA of...

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I WOULD RATHER USE THE N5000 TO EMPOWER AGRICULTURE RATHER THAN GIVE IT TO UNEMPLOYED NIGERIANS- BUHARI SPEAKS CONCERNING THE N5000 THAT THE PARTY PROMISES TO NIGERIAN

While speaking during a meeting in Saudi Arabia, President Buhari said he had a different opinion on the N5000 stipend his party promised to give to unemployed Nigerians when they come into power. Buhari said he would rather use the N5000 to repair the infrastructures in schools and empower mining and agriculture than to give the money to people who don’t work; “This largess of N5,000 for the unemployed, I have got a slightly different priority. I...

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WE WOULD BE AT THE TOP IF EVERYONE MATCHES MY STANDARD-RONALDO

Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo claimed the Spanish giants would be top of La Liga rather than nine points behind Barcelona if his team-mates matched his standards. Ronaldo had a day to forget in front of goal as Real waved goodbye to any lasting hope of mounting a title challenge in a 1-0 defeat to Atletico Madrid on Saturday with even coach Zinedine Zidane admitting their challenge was over. “If everyone was at my level, we would be top,”...

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NIGERIAN PILOT SET TO BE THE FIRST AFRICAN TO FLY AROUND THE WORLD ALONE

A Nigerian pilot named Ademilola Odujinrin is set to make history as the first African to fly around the world alone. This historical journey will happen in April according to Demilola who said he's put everything in place to ensure a hitch-free journey. He said his solo expedition will begin in Lagos and take him round the 7 continents of the world. It will take 6 weeks to complete and he will end his journey in Lagos sometime in May. “The...

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NASARAWA CIVIL SERVICE SACKS WOMAN FOR SAYING HER MIND ON FACEBOOK

A Nigerian woman named Ruqayyat Tijjani Usman, (pictured above) who worked with the Nasarawa State Government civil service took to twitter to say she was sacked over comments she made on Facebook Ruqayyat was unfairly sacked because she expressed her freedom of speech by asking the Nasarawa State government some pertinent questions on social media. She was sacked a few days after she made these comments below; ...

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ANOTHER OLAJUMOKE IN THE MAKING!!!! CIARA TOOK A PICTURE OF A LADY HAWKING FRUIT

Ciara landed in Lagos yesterday for Darey’s Love Like A Movie concert. She took a photo of a nigeria lady hawking in traffic which she shared with her 10 million instagram followers. In the photo is a well dressed woman selling some type of fruit in traffic. People are now asking that the lady should be found and her life turned around like what happened with TY Bello and the bread seller. Anyone knows the lad...

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IGBO GROUP BEGS FG NOT TO KILL REV. KING

Ndigbo Cultural Society of Nigeria (NCSN) has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria not to make haste in carrying out the death sentence passed on Rev. Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, the General Overseer of Christian Praying Assembly, by the Supreme Court on Friday. Leader of the group, Chief Udo Udeogaranya, made the appeal after the Supreme Court threw out Rev King’s appeal against the death sentence passed on him in 2007 by a Lagos High Court...

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CIARA ARRIVES LAGOS AHEAD OF DAREY LOVE LIKE A MOVIE 3

International Grammy Award winning singer, Ciara arrived Lagos yesterday ahead of the Darey Art Alade's "Love Like A Movie 3" which will be holding this Sunday at Eko Hot...

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JJC PROPOSES TO FUNKE AKINDELE AKA JENIFA

Nigeriafilms reports that Abdul Rasheed Bello, popularly known as JJC Skillz went down on one knee and made the surprise proposal a few weeks ago in Lekki on the set of her new TV Comedy Drama, Jenifa’s Diary. And she said yes! Funke Akindele, a Christian, has remained single after separating from her husband, Kehinde Almaroof in 2013 under very controversial circumstances. JJC Skillz is a single father of three children, ages 18, 15 and...

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PURE WATER SELLERS STAGED A PROTEST IN BENIN CITY OVER HIKING OF PRICE

Women who sell sachet water popularly known as Pure water, staged a protest in Benin city, Edo state yesterday February 25th, over the hike in price of the product. Some of them say they now buy a bag of pure water for N 400 and are forced to sell it at N20 as against the N5 they sold it before. And people are no longer patronizing them like they used to...

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BREAKING NEWS: SUPREME COURT OKAYS REV. KING TO DIE BY HANGING

The Supreme Court has okayed the convicted General-Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly, Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, a.k.a Rev. King, to die by hanging. In a unanimous judgment this afternoon, a seven-man panel of Justices ‎of the apex court led by Justice Walter Onnoghen, upheld the death sentence that was earlier handed to Ezeugo by the Lagos state high court. Consequently, the court in its lead verdict that was delivered by Justice Sylvester...

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FIFA CONGRESS STARTS TO CHOOSE A NEW PRESIDENT

A FIFA congress to choose a new president for world football’s crisis-hit governing body opened in Zurich on Friday, where major reforms were also to be adopted. The meeting to replace the disgraced Sepp Blatter began with a video montage that noted FIFA’s need to restore its “credibility” and move past the period of unprecedented scandal that has plagued the organisation in recent months. Five candidates led by Sheikh Salman Ebrahim Al Khalifa,...

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FATHER SELLS HIS SON FOR N250,000

A father, Daniel Barnney, is being held by the Lagos State police for allegedly selling his nine-month-old son Emmanuel to a 43-year-old woman, Mrs. Ekah Richard, for just N250,000. Barnney, one Pastor Samuel Osavitu and a worker at an orphanage, Alhaji Sunkanmi Adamu, are all being quizzed at the FESTAC Police Station over the matter. Barnney’s Nigerian wife Ijeoma Ndoku raised the alarm. She got to know of her Liberian husband’s plan to...

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SENATE ORDERS THE ARREST OF FORMER EFCC BOSS IBRAHIM LAMORDE

The Senate has ordered for the immediate arrest of former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Alhaji Ibrahim Lamorde for his refusal to honour the invitation by Senator Samuel Anyanwu-led Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions to answer questions bordering on money laundering allegations. Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu while commending the committee for a good job well done, ordered...

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SUNDAY OLISEH RESIGN AS SUPER EAGLES COACH

Sunday Oliseh has quit as Nigeria’s football coach after claiming violations of his contract and receiving too little help from the national federation for next month’s crucial 2017 Africa Cup of Nations clash with Egypt. Nigeria host seven-time African champions and group leaders Egypt on March 25 in Kaduna before a return fixture days later, with only the overall group winners guaranteed automatic qualification to the 2017 Nations Cup in...

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SUPREME COURT TO GIVE FINAL VERDICT ON REV. KING TODAY

The Supreme Court would today, give the final word whether Rev. Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, alias Reverend King should be hanged for murder or whether he should spend some few years more in jail. King, General Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly in Lagos, is challenging the judgment of a Lagos High Court sentencing him to death by hanging. The apex court presided over by Justice Walter Onoghen adjourned till today to give judgment after listening...

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