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In a recent interview with City People, Annie Idibia is quoted as saying no amount of gossip can ruin her marriage with the love of her life, 2face Idibia "My husband and I have already made up our minds that no gist or gossip would come between us. We laugh over the controversy. Our friends and families are even more worried for us but we are fine and don't bother about the gossip." That's the spirit!!! Sent by Gist Arena

WARRI—Delta State Government, yesterday, said that a cult of teenage homosexuals patronised by gay men exists in Warri. Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, who made the disclosure in his Easter message to Deltans at the First Baptist Church, Warri, said teenagers from ages 15 to 18 belong to the sect named Yansh, and live in rented apartments close to Enerhen Junction, Warri, where men come to sleep with them. He said: "These are our sons and men come to sleep with them. It is through the Edu Marshals Programme that we discovered them. We used to know about female harlots, now we have male harlots. Unfortunately they are young boys. There is much government can do, but there is more we can do as parents." Uduaghan, who noted that the country was going through trying times, challenged parents to be alive to the realities of today's society as crimes committed daily were committed by children belonging to parents who are members of the immediate society. Vanguard Sent by G...

La Mara Salvation, commonly known as MS or MS-13, is a street gang started in the 1980s by El Salvadoran transplants living in Los Angeles. In the years since it has spread internationally; from Mexico, to Canada, to El Salvador, to all parts of the United States including Texas, Maryland, and even Washington D.C. MS-13 is one of the biggest and most violent drug gangs in the world. Members of MS-13 are easily recognizable because they are heavily into tattoos, most commonly the letters 'MS' or the number '13' is incorporated into the tattoos, and they really like face tattoos; some MS-13 members will even get a huge '13' tattoo that covers their entire face to show their commitment. Sent by Gist Arena

On January 6, 2012 in New Nyanya area of the state, six policemen – Inspector Danladi Lelika, Inspector Odua Eketo, Sergeant Vincent Manu, Corporal Christopher Maikasua, Corporal Musa Audu and Corporal Samson Mago, were on a patrol & allegedly shot dead Stephen Anakwe, a dog breeder in Jos. As if that was not enough, acting on the report from the patrol team, few days later, the police paraded the corpse of the defenseless civilian, branding him a suspected criminal. Infuriated by the allegation, a younger brother to the deceased, Mr. Stanley Olisa, petitioned the then Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Ringim, and other authorities about the injustice and the criminality. He told The Sun "On January 14, 2012, a lady called me from Jos that my brother had a problem with the police in New Nyanya, Nasarawa State. On January 16, I went to the place and I made inquiry from residents of the area and they told me that my brother was beaten up with his right eye plucked out. They sai...

According to Empowering Everyday Women (EEW) magazine, Pastor Charles Jenkins (pictured), a Grammy award-winning songwriter, an author, and a senior pastor at Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago, has unpleasant photos of himself, displaying his bare body, floating around the internet. EEW states that the alleged photo of the multi-Stellar award-winning recording artist was posted online by a woman who is attempting to force the pastor to pay her money that she says he owes her. Jenkins appears in the picture completely nαked, brushing his teeth in front of a mirror and apparently unaware that his picture is being taken, according to EEW. EEW continues that this is the first time that the recording artist, music producer, and senior pastor has stolen the limelight for anything except proclaiming the gospel of the Kingdom of God. In a recent Black Entertainment Television (BET) interview, Jenkins said that it was important that leaders of the community, especially Ch...

It was a bloody Easter Sunday in Taraba State yesterday. No fewer than 15 persons died when unknown gunmen attacked Gidin-Doruwa village in Wukari Local Government Area. Twenty residents were injured. Residents said over 52 houses were torched, including the family house of Daily Independent's reporter Janet Audu, in Jalingo during the attack. The attack came barely 24 hours after Acting Governor Garba Umar visited Wukari to plead for peace. Eye-witnesses said the gunmen opened fire on the town at about 1:30a.m on Sunday when Christians were still celebrating the Night of Light to commemorate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. When the residents, confused and scared, began to run, their attackers set their homes ablaze. Churches were almost burnt. A source said when the CRCN Church caught fire, the youth in the neighborhood started destroying some mosques. Fleeing residents said the attackers came from "all corners" and cordoned the town before they started shooting withou...

Seven more girls out of the 100+ girls that were abducted from Government Girls Secondary School Chibok, Borno state on April 14th have escaped the Boko Harem den. According to the Borno State Governor, Kashim Settima who revealed this during his Easter message to the state, the girls escaped between Saturday night and Sunday evening and have reunited with their families. He said out of the 129 that were kidnapped, 52 have reunited with their families while 77 are yet to be found.   The Governor described the last one week as the most troubling of his tenure since he assumed office "I have seen very serious moments since I became the Governor of Borno State in 2011 at a period of insurgent crisis. I have seen many innocent lives lost for no reason and I mourn every life lost with empathy and high sense of responsibility. But the last one week have been my worst days as a Governor and even the worst in my life. I am troubled as a father, as a leader and as a politician. So ...

Asari Dokubo is back again. After his encounter with the SSS in Abuja, he went quiet for a while but the issues at hand is one that he can't just allow to go on without saying anything. Reacting to the latest onslaught by the dreaded Boko Haram terrorist group, Asari described the episode as a political movement set up to cow Christians in the northern part of Nigeria against voting for President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 general election. According to him, the key mission of Boko Haram was to instil fear in Christian communities in the northern part of the country, so that they cannot come out to queue up for Jonathan during the election. Asari made his stand known last weekend in Port Harcourt at the 4th edition of South-South Youth Leaders and Elders interactive forum. The former Niger Delta militant leader said no matter what happens, President Jonathan have no choice other than to run for a second term even as he stressed that Boko Haram had nothing to do with Isla...

The Secretary of Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor Jerry Asemota, announced on Saturday morning through satellite broadcast that the leadership of the church had to "plead" with their General Superintendent, Pastor W.F. Kumuyi to rest after it became very clear the work was taking its toll on him. The effect began to show on Friday evening while taking a third message at the Kilometre 42, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway camp ground titled, "In the steps of the saviour," when his voice cracked. Assuring the church members and the general public that all is well now, Pastor Asemota said: "We had to plead with him to rest because he had been moving from one state to the other and travelling to different countries, preaching." On Sunday morning Pastor Kumuyi returned to the camp, he confirmed Asemota's statement while speaking to the church, adding that he would be going for another round of ministration in Delta State from April 25 to 27, 2014. The work must ...

The down fall of many men was facilitated by their "relationship" with women. So, it is always good for one to at all times exercise caution. But it seems the divisional police officer, DPO, of Onikan police station in Lagos, Adekunle Awe, did not exercise caution when a curvy lady wearing only boxer and shirt entered his office and, after everything, he is now in police cell. Imagine an SP locked up inside cell. The lady was arrested by policemen when she was sleeping with a man friend in a room her employer gave to her in her place of work. The policemen didn't allow her dress properly, they just took a woman away like that with only a wrapper on top her boxer and shirt. And when the woman wanted to go to the DPO's office she didn't even have her wrapper on again... She just went in with only the small boxer and shirt. I guess the Oga DPO couldn't resist the sight of an endowed lady alone with him in the office, especially considering what she was wea...

The police in Bauchi State said suspected gunmen set ablaze some houses in the staff quarters of the Government Girls' Secondary School, Yana, killing a five-year old girl on Sunday. The police spokesperson in the state, DSP Haruna Mohammed, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Bauchi that the gunmen also burnt a telecommunication mast in the town. He said they stole a private car belonging to the principal of the school. "Unknown gunmen attacked the staff quarters of GGSS Yana, Shira Local Government Area of the state, around 2.30 a.m. on Sunday. "They set the school bus ablaze; and in the process, a five-year-old girl was killed in the fire while they destroyed the vault of a bank,'' he said. According to Mohammed, a combined team of security forces are on the trail of the attackers. NAN recalled that on April 17, the police said a team of security forces foiled an attack by some unknown gunmen on Misau town, Misau Local Government Area of the ...

There are strong indications that members of the Somalia militant sect, Al-Shabab, aided Boko Haram militants in carrying out the attack on Nyanya Motor Park seven days ago. The PUNCH's investigations on Sunday also revealed that Al-Shabab, which has strong links with Al-Qaeda, had moved from providing technical assistance to Boko Haram to fighting alongside insurgents in some parts of the North-East. It was gathered that security agencies received intelligence reports that Al-Shabab, which carried out the West Gate Mall attack in Kenya, was planning an attack in Abuja. A top   military source, who confided in one of our correspondents, said the information was received two weeks before the March 31, 2014 attempted jailbreak at the Yellow House headquarters of the Department of State Security Service in Abuja. Investigations revealed that operatives were still trying to verify the claim that the jailbreak might be an Al-Shabab's idea when the Nyanya Park blast occurred...

Channels TV tells a story of how parents in Bayelsa state kept their 16 year old daughter in a cage for three years because she suffered from convulsion. Read full story below... A regular visitor to the home of Mr Selekeowei Olokumo, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria's South-South region, would probably have noticed a small make shift building directly opposite his one bedroom apartment which could easily be mistaken for a generator cage. To think it is a place where he stores his old and worn out property would not be out of place, as it was haphazardly built with wood and carton on what could be seen as a semi refuse dump site. It was a feeling of shock when Channels Television realised that it was not for keeping his generator or other items but where his 16-year old daughter, Blessing Olokumo, had called home for almost three years. Blessing is the 6th out of the 16 children of Mr and Mrs Olokumo; a twin who has no relationship with her twin sister, not because her twin siste...