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A suspected female kidnapper accused of abducting eight children was on Friday morning along Emir Road, Ilorin, Kwara State capital, lynched by a mob. The mob descended on the middle-aged woman, beat her, tore her clothes and striped her naked. Officers of the state police command had to disperse the mob with teargas to prevent the suspect from being set ablaze. The incident caused traffic gridlock along the road, as motorists passing through the area could not access the road while the incident lasted.

A photo has surfaced online of a number of children involved in a fatal accident. According to a source, the photo was of a couple of students who were on their way to their JAMB centre before they were involved in the accident at Akoko in Ondo state. May their souls rest in peace.

President Jonathan's daughter Faith married her man Godswill today in Abuja. These are pics from inside the church...will hopefully get pics from the reception later. Continue for more pics...

Five persons were on Saturday arrested in Ogun State for allegedly being in possession of cut human parts. PREMIUM TIMES learnt that the suspects were apprehended at  Joju area of Ota in Ado Odo Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State following a tip off. Confirming the arrest, the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, named the suspects as Kubura Salami, Tantolorun Abimbola,Kafaya Popoola, Wahid Ibrahim, and Adamu Rafiu. He said exhibits recovered from them include one human head and pieces of human flesh in a container stained with liquid substance suspected to be human blood. Mr. Adejobi said the Ogun State Police Commissioner, Ikemefuna Okoye, has ordered that the case be handed to the Special Anti-robbery Squad, SARS, in Lagos, which collaborated with the Ogun police for the arrest. The spokesperson said the arrest was part of an ongoing investigation with the Lagos SARS. "Ogun Command will complement Lagos command in the course of its investig...

We have already read so many articles on Heartbleed, one of the biggest iNternet threat that recently came across by a team of security engineers at Codenomicon, while improving the SafeGuard feature in Codenomicon's Defensics security testing tools.  The story has taken every media attention across the World, as the bug opened doors for the cyber criminals to extract sensitive data from the server's memory and almost every major site have been affected by it. UNINTENTIONAL BIRTH OF HEARTBLEED More than two years ago, German programmer Robin Seggelmann introduced a new feature called "Heartbeat" in the most secured open source encryption protocol, OpenSSL, which is used by several social networks, search engines, banks and other websites to enable secure connections while transmitting data. But introducing heartbeat feature cost him dearly, as here the most critical bug resides. Dr. Seggelmann allegedly was just trying to improve OpenSSL and working on an upd...

Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and other top websites are scrambling to reassure users that their pages are now safe from the Heartbleed bug. As news of the OpenSSL software flaw spread across the nation, many users simply changed their account passwords. Then came the message that password changes on unsecure sites are fruitless, and panic set in.   While many top sites implemented the Fix OpenSSL software early on and informed users of the renewed safety, thousands of sites have either not implemented a fix, or have not communicated their website's status to accountholders. The Daily Mail created a list detailing who was affected, whether the problem has been fixed, and whether a password change is recommended. Affected major sites include Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Google search, Gmail, Yahoo and Yahoo Mail, Netflix, YouTube, Amazon web services, Dropbox, and LastPass. Some websites, such as http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/ , allow visitors to search a domain name to se...

The Malaysian plane has not been found 35 days after it went missing and according to new reports, the co-pilot of the missing flight tried to make a desperate call from his mobile phone after the aircraft went missing but was abruptly cut off... UK Daily Mail reports Investigators have learned the call was made from a mobile phone which belonged to Fariq Abdul Hamid (left) as the Boeing 777 flew low near the island of Penang, on the north of Malaysia's west coast. It was understood the aircraft, with 239 people on board, was flying low enough for the nearest telecommunications tower to pick up Fariq's signal. The call ended abruptly. However, contact was definitely established with a telecommunications sub-station in Penang state. Experts have said it is possible for a mobile phone to be connected to a telecommunications tower at an altitude of 7,000 feet - which is low for a large jet like the Boeing 777 unless it was flying at high speed to maintain height. Yesterday it ...

A 49-year-old pastor, Friday Arthur, has been charged before an Igbosere Magistrates' Court in Lagos for the alleged defiling of two under-aged sisters aged 10 and 11 in Lagos. The Prosecutor, Sgt. Victor Eruada, told the court that Arthur committed the offence between March 28 and April 6 at the Ikota Housing Estate area of Lekki, Lagos. Sgt. Eruada said the pastor had, at various times, lured the girls into his room and defiled them... He said that the offence violated Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos, 2011. Section 137 prescribes life imprisonment for anyone convicted of the offence of defiling a child. Arthur, who resides at No. 856, Ikota Housing Estate, Lekki, Lagos, is facing a charge of defilement. The two sisters and their female guardian were in court.  Surprisingly, when the charges were read to him, Pastor Arthur pleaded not guilty. The Magistrate, Mrs Linda Balogun, granted the pastor N500,000 bail with two sureties and adjourned th...

As you read this, scores of students travelling to write JAMB exam in Borno State have been reportedly killed by the dreaded Boko Haram sect. They were among several persons that lost their lives in multiple attacks that were unleashed by the sect in four communities. A senator from the area said: "What happened in Borno was beyond understanding. It is a must for me to speak since the people lives are involved and they are my people. All these are happening in my constituency and it will be wrong to keep quiet. I feel so much pained and would not have spoken but definitely my conscience will not let me do that." The Senator who is representing Borno Central in the Senate, Zannah Ahmed, on Friday accused the military of complicity in the latest attack where he said that 210 people were killed in attacks on four towns. The towns included Dikwa, Kala Balge, Gambulga and Gwoza. The senator claimed that the attackers were all dressed in military uniforms an...

Leke Adeboye, son of Pastor E.A. Adeboye, general overseer of Redeemed Church, and his wife Titilope, has finally opened up on their marriage and the "difficult" issue of abstaining from séx until wedding night. Below is the interesting chat that tell it all... Thank you so much for agreeing to do this! It's a delight to be able to hear your story and more importantly, share to bless people. Could we please start off with a brief introduction? Leke: Introduction of his wife Titilope Adeboye... How do I introduce this fine hot lady?... Forget that she's my wife, for any random girl – that is still amazing! Lol What else, she runs me! She's my Manager, I call her my CEO.. She's my Account Manager, she runs my entity as a personality and then she runs a number of businesses – Oasis Suya Eatery and Sharwama and she's also the owner of Mimi's Confectionery. My wife is multi-skilled and multi-talented and takes every advantage to improve herself. Whateve...

Frank Edoho's wife, Sandra Onyenaucheya, gave birth to the couple's first child together in the US recently. Frank revealed the good news to friends. Not sure if it's a boy or a girl but big congrats to them. Frank already has three kids with ex-wife Katherine Obiang, while Sandra has a child from a previous relationship. Gist Arena

Yusuf Isiaka Onimisi "Ciaxon", the Nigerian man abducted by the State Security Service (SSS) for tweeting live photos of a terrorist jailbreak at their headquarters has been released according to family members.  Mr. Onimisi's arrest sparked a twitter campaign for his freedom, also, Amnesty International joined the campaign yesterday leading to international media attention  about his ordeal. Gist Arena

Nigerians may continue to spend dirty and mutilated notes if findings by Saturday Punch are anything to go by. Nigeria's currency, the Naira, in all its denominations, has been severely mutilated, overused and over-circulated such that it has become an issue of luck to come across a clean note. However, Saturday Punch learnt that the scarcity of the clean notes is due, in part, to the fact that the Central Bank of Nigeria has refused to recycle the old notes while it imposes charges on commercial banks that want to change the dirty notes to cleaner ones, thereby turning it into a money-making practice. Access to clean notes is now by luck, special request with pleas and sometimes, financial inducement and purchase from sellers who have taken to the streets to sell the clean notes to legitimate customers who have no access to them. Many Nigerians wonder why the CBN has refused to withdraw the bad notes from circulation and replace them with clean ones.

A London-born Nigerian Hollywood star, Chiwetel Ejiofor, on Friday said he was proud to be identified as a Nigerian. Mr. Ejiofor said this in Lagos at the premiere of a movie "Half of a Yellow Sun'' based on a novel written by a Nigerian novelist, Chimamanda Adichie. He said that there was a wrong impression that he claimed not to be a Nigerian. "During the period of publicising "Twelve Years a Slave", I was asked where I was originally from. "I suppose I was trying to give an honest answer about where I was born, and so, I said London, which is where I was born. "And to me, it was a surprising reaction that people then concluded that I didn't identify as Nigerian. "Of course, I am Nigerian-British, but if they ask me where I was born, I can't say Enugu, because I wasn't born in Enugu, but, it doesn't mean that I don't identify as Nigerian. "I am proud of being Nigerian that I am extraordinarily happy to be here to mak...