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Rebecca Ferguson shocked viewers of Loose Women after she collapsed during a performance of her new song on the show mid-morning show. The X Factor star had just finished singing All That I’ve Got, at the end of the show when she fell to her knees in front of the millions watching at home, and those in the audience. Quick-thinking co-host Myleene Klass ran over to the stage and put Rebecca, 27, into the recovery position until a medical professional arrived. Myleene's mother is a nurse so she knew what to do in these type of situations, and so took Rebecca's shoes off, checked she was breathing then put her into the recovery position.  Jonathan Shalit, Rebecca's manager told MailOnline: 'Rebecca complained of being dizzy throughout the show but insisted on performing.

Over 40 students were brutally murdered during an attack by Boko Haram gunmen on the Federal Government College Buni-Yadi, Yobe state in the early hours of Tuesday February 25th. Many of the students are still unaccounted for. Below are the names of 24 students confirmed dead. Sale Mamiski, Musa Muhammad, Sani A. Audu, Usman Faltu, Garba Jibo, Hussani Mari, Mailam Ali, Goni Ali Babamai, Ali Ayuba, Peter John, Abba Mohammed, Aliyu Yala, Abba Adam, Hamidu Bala, Suleiman Lawan Guji, Abbas Ibrahim, Inusa Ali, Rukaya Gaji, Usman Saleh Idris, Auwal Adam, Usman Abba Kaku, Musa Yalti Buba, Sadisu Dauda, Aisha Audu Goni #YobeMassacre These were people's children. Innocent boys massacred while they slept in their hostel. Dear people who sleep in Aso Rock Villa, please do something. Help our children.

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have killed at least 32 people in three separate attacks in northeast Nigeria, including at a theological college, a local government official and residents have said. The co-ordinated attacks in Adamawa state late on Wednesday came just a day after armed fighters were blamed for killing 59 people, most of them children, as they slept at a boarding school in Yobe state. Maina Ularamu, the chairman of the Madagali local government area in Adamawa, said "a large number of militants carried out three separate attacks on Shuwa and Kirchinga in my local government area and on Michika in neighbouring Michika (district)". "The gunmen divided themselves into three groups and separately attacked the three locations," he told AFP news agency. In Shuwa, several buildings were burnt, including a Christian theological college and a section of a secondary school.

A Nigerian man, Chris Dikeh was found in the wheel well of a South African Airways plane that departed Dakar, Senegal and arrived the Dulles Airport in Washington D.C on Saturday. The man is believed to have frozen to death in temperatures reaching -60°C. Per Second News gathered from the Police that it was a South African Airways jet that was parked now in a remote part of the airport. Grounds crews found the body on Saturday afternoon.” Airport authorities say the male body was recovered from the landing gear of the Airbus A340 belonging to South African Airways. The flight arrived in Dulles on Wednesday last week.   In a release sent to Per Second News by officials of the South African Airways and signed by SAA spokesperson Mr Tlali Tlali,” (SAA) has initiated an internal investigation into the discovery of a human body on its aircraft in Washington DC, in the United States of America”.

This man and the vehicle he built were spotted on the road around the Ikorodu area of Lagos yesterday. He built a multi-routed car which he says can be sailed on water just like a boat and as well could move on the road with its three tyres. He says he needs encouragement and motivation. See more photos after the cut...

Shanties around the Lekki 2nd Roundabout are currently been razed down by police in a bid to chase the residents out of the area. The fire is reportedly going out of control. See more photos after the cut

Barely 24 hours after the attack on the Federal Government college in Yobe state where 43 young students were killed, suspected men of the Islamist group yesterday night attacked settlers at Kirchinga, Michika, Shuwari and Shuwa district all in Adamawa state. Several cars, houses, catholic churches, shops and even a First Bank Complex were burnt down.  The men also burnt down 3 catholic churches in Shuwari as well as a seminary school, Saint Joseph Minor Seminary in Shuwa. The armed men came in nine Toyota Hilux vans, firing guns and throwing explosives. 9 people have so far been confirmed dead, including a staff of Bank of Agriculture. Spokesman of 23rd Armour Brigade, Yola, has confirmed the incident. Nine Toyota Hilux vans? Wow! 

The world may not have seen the last in terms of the inane witch hunting campaign being waged by Pentecostal pastors in Nigeria. New christian witch hunters-pastors and churches- are emerging with force and ferocity. Another 'Kill the Witch' miracle crusade has just been announced to take place next week. It will be held in Calabar, the capital of Cross River State in Southern Nigeria. According to a poster being circulated in the city, the event : ''Ikot Ishie/Ikot Ansa Miracle Crusade I AM THAT I AM'' is to be held on March 3-5 with a 'Tarry Night' on Friday March 7 at AB Martins Field by Ikot Ishie Market in Calabar. The theme of the event 'That Witch Must Die' is a clear indication of what the program is all about- an event to incite violence and hatred against innocent citizens.

Reno Omokri, the outspoken Special Assistant on Social Media to President Goodluck Jonathan, was yesterday unmasked as the brain behind a fraudulent attempt to link Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to the recent spike in Boko Haram violence in Borno and Yobe States. In one of the recent attacks, Boko Haram terrorists slaughtered some 60 secondary school students at their boarding house. Posing as “Wendell Simlin,” Mr. Omokri circulated a Word document linking the former CBN Governor to the recent attacks. The ruse was however uncovered when some Internet-savvy Nigerians traced the IP address of the source document and it turned out that it had been authored and circulated by Mr. Omokri.

A 28 year old Nigerian student, Prince Bartholowmew Obitube, has been sentenced to death by a high court in Malaysia for trafficking drugs. The Shah Alam High Court yesterday Feb 26th gave the death penalty to Obitube after he was found guilty of trafficking cannabis, also known as marijuana. The accused, a student with a private college in Kuala Lumpur, was arrested with 9,189kg of cannabis at Desa Satu Apartment, Gombak on Aug 20, 2011. He was caught by police from the Gombak Narcotic Crime Investigation Department, after a tip off, within the apartment area after he tried to run away with a backpack containing the drugs. The offense, under the Dangerous Drugs Act in the country, provides a mandatory death sentence upon conviction.

This may not be a news to many people, but it is still necessary for the majority, who do not have the knowledge of this information, to be aware of what is going on in our country. The western world maybe behind most of the things happening in our country, they take most decisions of what is happening in the country behind closed doors, they have some of their people planted in most strategic positions in the Nigerian government, so that through those people, they will be manipulating the affairs of this nation Shell EVP for Shell Companies in  Africa met with the Ambassador on October 13 to discuss the status of the proposed Petroleum Industry Bill. She said the GON wanted the National Assembly to pass the bill by November 17 and that the international  oil  companies would have to move quickly if the House passed the bill in the coming weeks. She said there was "total alignment" among the IOCs and with the Nigerian oil companies. She said it would be helpful if ...

Sometime ago, I discovered that a friend of mine is playing under 21 in Nigeria and according to his data he is just 20yrs old. I was shocked! But I later discovered that it's called football age. If you try to expose the truth many people will hate you, they will say you are an "enemy of progress". So, the lies continue. Could this be the case with Samuel Eto'o? Anything is possible. It seems Chelsea coach, Jose Mourinho, is one of those who doesn't believe that Eto'o is just 32-year-old. In the words of Mourinho: "The problem with Chelsea is I lack a scorer. I have Eto’o but he is 32 years old, maybe 35, who knows?" But his ex-lover, Anna Barranca, who has an 11year old daughter with him, has exposed Eto'o...

When churches compel ladies who have been séxually active for years to just abstain from the act over night it should be made clear that most of these ladies may just be pretending to be abstaining because of the man they want to get married to in church but they are busy getting "enough servicing" from other men. This was the big mess that played out at a Redeemed Church last Saturday, 22nd February, 2014. The Senate President's wife, Helen Mark, was to play hostess at the wedding. The bride, Cynthia worked for her and was said to be an orphan thus had become her adopted daughter. Guests got to the venue of the big wedding at about 9am but 2hrs later, neither the bride or the groom came out. As guests started getting impatient, the groom came out, took the microphone and announced to the surprise of all guests present that he is no longer interested in the marriage...

DOES it really matter how many die daily from Boko Haram attacks? Who cares who the targets are? Who is interested in the body count? What difference does it make if 500 die today or 100 the next day? Have the gruesome details of victims being burnt, slaughtered, or buried alive made any impact on us? Are we even able to count how many have been killed? Nigeria has descended to the dreaded lethargy prolonged exposure to gory lawlessness creates. There was a time when loss of a few lives drew those magnificent comments about the sanctity of lives and measures that must ensure that we never went through the fatal paths again. Lives were important. Their importance did not lie in the numbers, but the fact that each life counted, it mattered. Feeble as the efforts governments made to sustain lives seemed, we were aghast at every instance of security agencies unlawfully taking lives. Government vented its anger on groups that engaged in wanton destruction of lives and property. W...

EVERY June 24 will always ring a bell in the mind of  Akolade Arowolo, a 31 year old self acclaimed youth pastor, who was last Friday convicted for killing his banker wife, Titilayo Omozoje at their residence, 8, Akindeinde Street, Isolo, Lagos,. This is because the day marks his birthday and the day he brutally murdered  his wife, which eventually earned him a death sentence last week Friday. Justice Lateefa Okunnu of a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja sentenced Akolade to death having found him guilty of a murder charge pressed against him. 

ABUJA—Minister of Finance and Co-ordinating Minister for the Economy and , Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala , said yesterday that the $ 500 million recovered Abacha loot was used to develop the nation’s rural areas. The minister was reacting to an article by Mr.  Sonala Olumhense who claimed that $2.5 billion was recovered from the funds looted by the then maximum ruler, Gen. Sani Abacha but that the money disappeared under the minister’s watch. According to the minister, $ 500 million, not $2.5 billion was recovered and had been spent development projects in rural areas as agreed with the Swiss government.   A statement by Mr. Paul Nwabikwu, Special Adviser to the minister said that the claims by Mr. Olumhense were unverified and largely false. “The problem I have with Mr Sonala Olumhense’s articles on the Coordinating Minister and Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala is the general absence of verified facts and the basing of opinions on gross inaccuracies.

Hope of early return to office by the suspended Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Lamido Sanusi, was dashed on Wednesday when an Abuja Federal High Court refused an ex parte motion he filed in a bid to set aside his suspension by President Goodluck Jonathan. The court instead ordered that the President should be put on notice, and fixed March 12 for both sides to argue the motion. In the motion he filed on February 24, the CBN governor asked the court to reinstate him, and also make an order of interlocutory injunction restraining the President, the Attorney-General of the Federation and the Inspector-General of Police from stopping or preventing him from performing the functions of his office and enjoying in full, the statutory powers and privileges attached to the office. While urging the court to urgently grant the motion, Sanusi had argued that any delay might cause irreparable and serious damage and mischief on him in the exercise of his statutory duties as the CBN g...

The Federal Government on Wednesday continued preparations  for celebrations of the 100 years of Nigeria’s amalgamation despite the killings in some parts of the country. Only on Tuesday, the fundamentalist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, killed 43  pupils when they attacked  the  Federal Government College in Buni Yadi, Yobe State. The insurgents, who were said to have arrived at the college at about 2am when the pupils were already asleep, reportedly set  locked hostels on fire before shooting and slitting the throats of those who tried to escape through the windows. Some were burnt  alive. The incident was said to have brought to 300 the number of civilians so far killed in Boko Haram attacks this year alone. That is apart from the number of security agents that were killed. It came barely a week after 106 people were killed by the insurgents in an attack on Izge village in Borno State near the state’s border with Adamawa State. That same day the attack...

Nollywood actress Uche Ogbodo got married secretly to an America-based footballer, Apo Arthur, last year October in her home state of Enugu. Some reports have been flying about her in the media but Uche has now come out to tell her fans that she is indeed pregnant for her husband and that she is really doing good. "Yes it is true! My husband and I are very happy about it," she confirmed. Pix of Uche and hubby below...

Do you know that Nigerians are now living as refugees in Niger Republic? That is the reality of the matter, sad as it is. As you read this, tens of thousands of Nigerians have gone to Niger to escape from the latest wave of attacks and bombings by the deadly sect, Boko Haram, that continue to operate with impunity. One of the students who was shot by the terrorists but managed to survived, said: “I was shot on my left leg, while I was sleeping. When I woke up, I could not walk and was later taken to the girls hostel where the insurgents gathered us with the female students.   They selected some of the female students and went away with them, while they left some of us groaning in pain from gun shot”.