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Some gunmen on Sunday abducted three polio workers, including a woman in Darazo Local Government Area of Bauchi State. It was learnt that the victims were picked up by the gunmen while moving from house to house, immunising children against polio in the council area. PUNCH Metro gathered that immediately the gunment left, residents informed the police, who went after them. Police Public Relations Officer, Haruna Mohammed, confirmed the incident and said the three polio workers abducted were two men and a woman. Haruna Mohammed, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, also said one of the men and the woman had been released. He added that the police were making efforts to secure the release of the second man who is the Health Officer of Darazo Local Government Area. The PPRO advised people in the area to remain calm and law abiding and cooperate with the police in order to secure the release of the detainee and also arrest the perpetrators. Gist Arena

So award winning writer Chimanda-Adichie has many speculating if her marriage with U.S based doctor, Dr. Ivara Esegee is intact after she told a Sunnewsonline journalist to address her as "Miss" not "Mrs". Mrs Chimamanda Adichie, wel-come back to Nigeria… Before we start, please, I just want to say that my name is Chimamanda Adichie. That’s how I want it; that’s how I’m ad-dressed, and it is not Mrs but Miss.  Ms: that’s how I want it. I am saying this, because I just got a mail from my   manager   this morning . It seems that there are people who attended the church service, and they wrote about it, addressing me as Mrs. Chimamanda (Esega). I didn’t like that at all. So my name is Chimamanda Adichie, full stop!

KANO  (AFP) – Suspected Islamist insurgents killed 29 people in  embattled northeast, an official said Monday, the latest carnage in a surge of violence that has left more than 100 dead this month alone. The latest attack on Sunday hit the town of Mafa in Boko Haram’s historic stronghold of Borno state, which is witnessing one of the deadliest episodes of the group’s nearly five-year-old rebellion.   The militants had sent fliers to the town earlier in the week, warning of an impending attack, a tactic used by the extremists elsewhere in the region, said Borno senator Ahmed Zanna.   Following the threat, some people fled, schools were closed and military reinforcements were deployed to the town roughly 45 kilometres (28 miles) northeast of Borno’s capital Maiduguri.   But when the attack began “the soldiers fled because they could not match the firepower and numerical strength of the gunmen,” Zanna told AFP.   “Twenty-nine people have been buri...

Waje doing her thing on stage  On Saturday 22nd Feb, 2014 soul singer Waje & her band performed an unplugged set of all her songs at Soul Lounge, Intercontinental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos. Ever the performer Waje really caught the spirit during her performance, her BFF Omawumi joined her on stage at some point and from the looks of it Waje brought the house down!!

This our Nollywood will not kill us o. This is so funny

Has  Jennifer Lawrence 's sweetness finally curdled?! After winning the Best Actress Academy Award last year for her turn in  Silver Linings Playbook , the beloved, fun-loving star, 23, was up for yet another trophy this year in the Best Supporting Actress category for  American Hustle  -- but, despite what many considered neck-to-neck odds,  12 Years a Slave 's  Lupita Nyong'o  triumphed instead. And backstage, Lawrence, naturally, played up her loss and the battle-of-the-ingenues angle, grabbing Nyong'o's golden statue as both stunning women pretended to fight over the Oscar. Indisputably this award season's breakout star, Nyong'o, 31, was emotional and poisedas ever when she accepted her award. "It doesn’t escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's," the Prada-clad newcomer said of her harrowing portrayal. "And so I want to salute the spirit of Patsey for her guidance. . . Whe...

A plate of okra  soup cooked with ewedu leaves. Okra soup is very good when cooked green and fresh. Ewedu leaves are good for weight loss. They are both full of vitamins which can be destroyed by heat, reason   we do not overcook these greens. For mums introducing their babies to solids, this soup is it. I think babies love this soup cos it makes swallowing   fufu   very easy.  Try giving them with   amala , soft   eba , soft   wheatmeal , soft   semo   or any other swallow but not too soft please. This soup cooks very fast.

Arinze Ejiofor was killed in a car accident in his native Nigeria. Chiwetel was 11 years old in 1998 when he joined his father on the bonding trip. The car they were travelling in was involved in a head-on collision with a lorry. The 12 Years A Slave actor was the only survivor

Oscar Pistorius has formally pleaded not guilty to murdering Reeva Steenkamp after walking past the victim's mother who says she wanted to 'really look him in the eyes' for the very first time.  The double amputee responded 'not guilty, my lady' after a state prosecutor read out a charge that he 'unlawfully and intentionally did kill' his girlfriend on Valentine's Day last year. The court was read a statement from the Paralympian in which he claimed he had mistakenly thought there was an intruder in his home, leading him to open fire in an attempt to protect himself. The statement, read by his defence lawyer while the athlete remained standing, said the scene had been contaminated and disturbed. See more photos after the cut

IBADAN — DARE-devil robbers, yesterday, desecrated a church as they shot two policemen dead at the Vine Branch Church, Queen Elizabeth Road, Ibadan, after their failed attempts to steal the church’s tithes and offering. Policemen were also said to have fired some fatal shots at one of the robbers who was reportedly taken  away by his gang members. According to sources, the robbers, who were said to have mixed with the congregation, accosted a banker who is in charge of the collections, but the robbers miscalculated as nothing was found on him. Infuriated, the robbers reportedly shot in the air thereby causing commotion in the well attended church. When they missed their target, Vanguard gathered that the robbers, in annoyance, shot two police officers who were on guard in their van outside the church.

Three brothers in Satellite Town, Fatia, Sakiru and Tunji Osun, have killed their brother, Yusuf, over the house that their father left when he died. According to witnesses, their father willed the house to Yusuf, who wasn't the eldest, but the eldest, Fatia decided to sell the house for N15m, take N10m and give his brothers N5m to share. Yusuf did not agree, and the rest, is history. TelegraphNG  reports  Three brothers have been arrested by the police in connection with the murder of their blood brother. Fatia Osun (31), Sakiru Osun (20) and their step-brother, Tunji (34), were accused of killing Yusuf Osun (27) over N15 million which was to be realized from the sale of a house left behind by their late father. The incident occurred in the early hours of Thursday, Feb. 27, at Kano street in Mobile Estate, Satellite Town, Lagos and left residents of the estate and its environs jittery.

This is crazy but it's going on live! Thousands of samba dancers took to the streets for the opening night of the annual carnival celebrations wearing just bodypaint, feathers, glitter on the streets of Sao Paulo for the opening of the country’s wild carnival festivities. The carnival’s nudé display is considered an “act of farewell to the pleasures of the flesh,” before Lent period during which Christians are supposed to abstain from bodily pleasures. Nawao! See the photos below...

Is this poverty or what? I just don't get it. Is hunger in Nigeria so bad that matured men and woman will go to any length to show their loyalty to a politician just to get crumbs from him? Elder Godsday Orubebe is one of the Minister that was dropped from President Jonathan's cabinet and he has declared his intention to contest for the governorship of Delta State.  Is this how Elder Orubebe intends to rule the people of Delta State?

The actress who turned 31 broke down in tears and gave a moving speech as she won the Best Supporting Actress award for her role as Patsy in 12 years a slave... Excerpts from her moving acceptance speech .....  ""I want to salute the spirit of Patsy for this award,It doesn't escape me in this moment that so much good in my life is because of the pain I'm someone else's."No matter where you're from your dreams are valid." Wow!BIG congrats to her..Well deserved...Full list below After the cut....

In a startling revelation the daughter of President of Ugandan, Yoweri ­Museveni, confessed during a radio talk show in Mbarara, Western Uganda, that she is homosexual, and that she is revealing this fact as a protest to the anti-gay law that was recently signed into law by her own father. Diana Kamuntu, President Museveni’s daughter said though she loves her father unconditionally, she does not agree with his government’s anti-gay stance, and that she will fight against it. In the words of the President's daughter:  “I am gay, I am homosexual. I have known this since I was a little girl. Also, I have been Christian all of my life, so I will not tolerate any law of this supposedly democratic nation, that will place hate on any person just because of what his or her sexual orientation happens to be. “Now that I finally revealed my sexual orientation, I put myself in front of this new law and I will let our people decide what to do with me,” she said with a lot o...

The Kardashian sisters  attended the Elton John's Oscars party  and Kim made sure all eyes were on her with a plunging neckline...As usual mum Kris was also right behind her girls....(People are starting to ask if she would keep chaperoning her girls till they are 50 lol) Kim looks lovely in red More photos after the cut...