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The policeman that killed his wife and five members of a family, including an auto-cyclist, in Abeokuta today, has been described as mentally deranged. Information gathered by PM NEWS was that the killer cop, identified as Corporal Sunkanmi Ogunbiyi, ran amok early this morning while still in the office and had to hurriedly leave for his house and carry out the killings. The policeman early today at Akingbala area of Eleweran, Abeokuta, Ogun State shot dead his wife, Corporal Oluwatosin Faremi, a commercial motorcycle rider,identified as Kunle and five members of a family. After killing his wife who was also a policewoman attached to the Obantoko Police Station and the seven other victims, the rampaging police corporal shot himself dead immediately.  

I'm sure Ms Sahhara no longer needs any introduction. The transgender beauty queen wrote on her Facebook page yesterday that she's planning to contest in more beauty pageants next year and was wondering what country to represent.. See what she wrote below... Question: I'm flirting with the idea of competing in more beauty  pageants  next year. I find them quite fun. Which Country should I represent? UK or Nigeria? If I represent Nigeria, below will be my national costume!  The pic on the right is what she shared as her national costume.. Continue...

After reading the headline, I know some of you will say the prophet must be smelling badly by now, but the truth is Prophet Wale Olagunji who heads Divine Seed of God Chapel Ministry in Ibadan, Oyo State does not smell and in fact moves about doing his daily activities and even looks neater than some people who take their bath every day. The prophet said God spoke to him in year 2000 that he should stop taking his bath and separate himself from his wife and till now he has been doing that. '' Early 2000 the Lord told me to stop taking my bath, separate myself from my wife and that I should stop taking all those soft drinks and wines. And since then, diligently, I have observed all those things.Whoever God wants to use for certain purposes on earth, there is a serious price attached to that calling. ....So I believe that is the price I am paying. As I am talking to you now, I have not taken my bath, if you want me to show you evidence, I will show you if you doubt all I a...

The police on Thursday arraigned four men in an FCT Chief Magistrates’ Court in Karu for forging a dead man’s signature and attempting to withdraw N135,000 from his account. Stephen Dughnal, Barnabas Luga, Moses Alari and Paul Felix appeared before Chief Magistrate Hadiza Shagari on a three-count charge of joint act, forgery and attempt to commit an offence.  The prosecutor, Cpl. Silas Nanpan, identified the dead man as AB Ogwe, who owned Mangrine Hotel in Nyanya, Abuja.

Mr Chidi Lloyd, Majority Leader of the Rivers House of Assembly, was on Thursday discharged and acquitted by a High Court in Port Harcourt over a charge of attempted murder. Justice Ledan Nyordee, who delivered the judgment, said there was nothing the court could do in the matter as the police was not willing to prosecute the case. Lloyd was arrested and charged with attempted murder of Mr Michael Chinda, (PDP- Obio/Akpor 11) in the state legislature. Lloyd was alleged to have hit Chinda on the head with a mace during a fight between the supporters of Gov. Chibuike Ameachi and anti-Amaechi legislators in July 2013.

A Belgian man is seeking to have his marriage annulled after discovering that his Indonesian wife of 19 years had been born a man. The man, only named as Jan, married Monica, his family’s former nanny in a previous marriage, in 1993 despite legal difficulties raised by the Belgian immigration authorities. But it was only in recent weeks that he discovered that his wife had originally been a man and had undergone a s*x change. “I feel I’ve been assaulted,” he said. “I brought her to Belgium. That was not easy. The Belgian courts had serious doubts about the authenticity of her birth and her identity papers, but eventually they accepted it anyway. “I thought she was an attractive woman, all woman. She had no male traits.” Jan, 64, said that he and his wife had decided not to have children because he had two by his previous marriage and she fooled him by pretending to menstruate, using sanitary towels, “to conceal the truth”. “Even during s*x, I never noticed anything,” he said.

A review of vital documents shows that the ministry of police affairs benefited from CBN intervention funds as claimed by suspended Governor Lamido Sanusi. Nigeria’s police affairs ministry deliberately misled the House of Representatives in feigning ignorance of a presidential directive mandating the Central Bank of Nigeria to provide N19.7 billion for police equipment, and in denying receipt of the funds, a PREMIUM TIMES examination of the case has shown. The claim by the permanent secretary, James Obiegbu, of the ministry’s non-involvement with the funds, in what the chairman of the House committee on public account, Solomon Olamilekan, described as an “official discussion”, came as lawmakers reviewed disbursement of government funds this week. The expenditure, made public two weeks ago by the suspended governor of CBN, Lamido Sanusi, was spent  on financing the purchase of new helicopters and security equipment for the police.

A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos State has nullified the collection of any toll or tariff on the Lekki-Ikoyi Bridge. Ruling on the suit, which was filed by human rights lawyer, Ebun Adegboruwa, presiding judge, Justice Saidu, J. held that the power of control over all navigable waterways in Nigeria resides in the Federal Government, and not any state government. He held that from all the documents made available to the court, the only justification for the toll fee on the bridge by Lagos State is the private partnership law.

A riot policeman attached to the Special Task Force was on Wednesday  arrested for raping a four-year old girl in Jos, Plateau State. The girl, identified simply as Helen, was allegedly raped by the policeman, said to be a 32-year corporal, serving under STF at Rapum in Kassa, Barakin Ladi Local Government Area. Our correspondent gathered that the little girl was first treated for bleeding at the Barakin Ladi General Hospital and later discharged. However, by the following morning, the bleeding became so severe that she had to be rushed back to the hospital.

For seven days, Anthony Akatakpo, popularly known as Diplomatic Akas Baba, was trapped between the devil and the deep blue sea. During that period, the radio presenter, who works with Wazobia FM in the famous Garden City, was the unwilling ‘guest’ of a band of kidnappers that stormed his home about two weeks ago. Akatakpo’s abductors did not only shoot him in the leg before taking him away, they threatened to kill him if his wife failed to pay them a ransom of N10m. Although they did not get the money as demanded, the criminals eventually released their victim last Thursday and thus, doused the tension that had gripped members of his family, his colleagues, friends and fans. When our correspondent visited Akatakpo recently, he looked unruffled. But it was evident from the manner in which he kept scratching his body that the brief stay in the kidnappers’ den had adversely affected his health. “My ordeal in the kidnappers’ den is not what I wish anybody to experience. It was not...

An electronics merchant, Udoji Chike, has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, for being in possession of eight kilogrammes of Diazepam injections. The NDLEA also arrested an alleged drug trafficker for being in possession of 80 wraps of powdery substance suspected to be cocaine at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Rivers State. The discovery in Lagos was said to have been made at the departure hall of the airport while the suspect was about to board an Arik flight to Liberia.

WALLS came crashing down and roofing sheets got crumpling as bulldozer rumbled in the Ibadan “ forest of horror ” yesterday. But the police moved in to stop the demolition of structures at the Soka, forest where victims of ritualists and human parts were discovered last Saturday. Governor Abiola Ajimobi revoked the certificate of occupancy of the land and reclaimed it for the government.

As the rainy season gradually sets in, Lagos State is expected to experience 263 days of rains with a marginal error of nine days. The state Commissioner for Environment, Tunji Bello, dropped the hint at the presentation of year 2014 seasonal rainfall prediction and socio-economic implication for Lagos State. Bello said for the fourth consecutive year, the ministry had presented to the press, the Seasonal Rainfall Prediction (SRP) as a vital weather advisory and early warning tool with benefits to planners, decision makers and operators of the various rainfall – sensitive socio-economic sectors where preparedness against climate risk and associated hazards are essential.

Nigeria has indicated that it intends to claim the $458 million Abacha loot the government of the United States announced earlier this month it has frozen. In a statement, Mohammed Bello Adoke, Nigeria’s Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, said the government welcomes the forfeiture proceedings initiated by the United States Department of Justice against the property related to the corrupt conduct of late General Sani Abacha, the former head of state of Nigeria, and his Associates and the subsequent laundering of corruption proceeds. He added that those proceedings will make it possible for the defendants to forfeit over $550 million and £95,910 in 10 accounts and six investment portfolios linked to the Abachas in France, Britain, British Virgin Islands and the United States.

There were indications on Wednesday  that members of the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts had come under intense pressure to tread softly on their ongoing investigation into  the   alleged  financial excesses of the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. It was   also learnt in Abuja that Alison-Madueke   chartered a third jet for her use, besides the two already in the records of the committee.   The Solomon Olamilekan-led committee is  investigating the expenditure of  N10bn on a Challenger 850 chartered and maintained for  the minister’s use.  

Kim K stepped out in this see-through green lace dress which revealed her black underwear on dinner date with Kanye West and Vogue editor Anna Wintour at the  Waverly Inn in NYC yesterday. Would you rock what she's wearing? Continue to see more photos...

Lagos—In a report by Vanguard ,a Federal High Court in Lagos Wednesday held that it was unconstitutional for the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, to impose new number plates on motorists in the country. The judge, Justice James Tsoho, delivered the judgment following a suit by a lawyer, Emmanuel Ofoegbu, challenging the powers of FRSC to issue the new number plates. Ofoegbu had challenged the power of the commission to impound vehicles of motorists who failed to acquire the new numbers.   Tsho held that it was unlawful for the respondent to impose the new number plates on motorists, where there was no existing law permitting same. He said: “The issue of redesigning new number plates by the respondent is not covered under the provisions of any law in Nigeria.  

Nigerians have been complaining bitterly that nothing good will come out of the ongoing National Conference in the sense that majority of those sent to Abuja to speak and shape Nigeria's future are weak and dead woods who should not even have anything role to play, if Nigeria is a serious country in the first place...