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President Jonathan this afternoon (meeting may still be going on as you read this) held a closed door meeting with some state governors, heads of security agencies, ministers and spiritual leaders in the country with a view of finding lasting solution to the security problems the nation is currently facing.   The meeting which started around  12.10 this afternoon  has in attendance Willie Obiano (Anambra), Theodore Orji (Abia), Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara), Seriake Dickson (Bayelsa), Gabriel Suswam (Benue), Martins Elechi (Ebonyi), Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara), Emmanuel Uduaghan (Delta), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Kashim Shettima (Borno), Aliyu Wamako (Sokoto), Ramalan Yero (Kaduna ), Garba Umar (Taraba), Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti), Tanko Al-Makura (Nasarawa), Seidu Dakingari (Kebbi), Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Olusegun Mimiko (Ondo), Lyel Imoke (Cross River), Ibrahim Dankwambo (Gombe) and Isa Yuguda (Bauchi).   Spiritual leaders, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor (Preside

A San Francisco-based law professor who founded an international organization to fight hunger and poverty has teamed up with a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist to compile a collection of shocking images of poverty throughout the world for a new book that puts a face on global poverty and provides a window into the lives of people who survive on little-to-no money. Renee C. Byer, who won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography in 2007 for a collection of heartbreaking images that show a young boy's battle with cancer and his mother's anguish, traveled to four continents to photograph people living in some of the most extreme poverty on the planet for the new book  Living on a Dollar a Day . 'The book is a call to action to eradicate global poverty,' Byer tells Mail Online. She says the book is 'the vision' of  The Forgotten International  founder Tom Nazario, who also is the executive director of the Center for Community Legal Education at the U

This incident happened this afternoon along Patigi Road in Kwara State. According to eye-witnesses, the policeman tied above and a few of his colleagues stopped a driver delivering telecoms equipment to a site at Patigi and allegedly demanded for money. When the driver refused to part with money, an argument ensued and he was shot in the arm. (You will find the graphic pic after the cut). After the shooting, a mob descended on the policemen but were only able to catch one as the others ran away. The one caught was beaten and tied up by a mob. See more pics after the cut...

Ciara is expecting her first child with singer/rapper Future. She's expected to give birth in the coming weeks. See another pic after the cut...

Controversial singer and producer, Gabriel Amanyi, popularly known as Terry G, has again been involved in a messy fight at a hangout in his Iju neighbourhood. The fight, which later resulted in a free-for-all, took place at the Treasures Exclusive Garden, off Bola Tinubu Road, Iju, Lagos at about 6p.m. Wednesday. A source told P.M.NEWS that Terry G and his boys stormed the hotel to relax but things later turned awry between some staff of the hangout and the music star with his crew. According to the source, when Terry G arrived the club, one of his boys forcefully jumped into the swimming pool without paying. One of the hangout’s attendants asked the boy to come out of the pool but he refused. When he was dragged out, his colleagues reportedly reacted with violence. The ensuing free for all, the source said, saw Terry G raining blows on the hotel manager.

The Imo Government has announced plans to revive three moribund industries established by the first civilian administration of the late Chief Sam Mbakwe about thirty-three years ago. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Mbakwe who ruled Imo from 1979 to 1983, established more than 10 industries across the old Imo which included the present  Imo, Abia and part of Ebonyi. In a statement, Mrs Ugochi Nnanna-Okoro, the state Commissioner for Industry and Non-Formal Sector, identified the  industries to be revived as Resin Paint Industry, Aboh Mbaise; Avutu Poultry, Obowo, and Paper Packaging Industry, Owere Ebiri Orlu. The statement signed by Mr Kennedy Amanze, the Public Relations Officer of the ministry and made available to NAN in Owerri, said that the ministry was already in contact with the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation on the matter. It said that successive administrations in Imo were unable to manage the industries established by the Mbakwe administration.

It's a question that most couples wonder about constantly - but no one really knows the answer to. Now, a leading sexual health doctor has claimed the average couple has sex two to three times a week. But, many men are not able to hold out long enough to satisfy their partners, Dr Harry Fisch claims. The urologist, from New York Presbyterian Hospital, says about 45 per cent of men orgasm within two minutes of starting penetrative s£x, which is much too quick for the average woman.

                                                     Black is beautiful. do you believe? 

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Spokesperson for the Vatican officially announced days ago that the second coming of Jesus, the only son of the God, may not happen now after all, but urged followers to still continue with their faith, regardless. Here is the shocker: Cardinal Giorgio Salvadore told WWN that this year's 1,981st anniversary is to be the Vatican’s last in regards to waiting for the Lord to return to Earth.

At last, it has emerged that the group of herdsmen operating in Nigeria's middlebelt states of Benue, Nasarawa, Taraba and even those that recently killed scores of people in Zamfara state, are Boko Haram sect members, and not actual Fulani Herdsmen. The photo above are the faces of some of the men reigning terror in the land. These men were captured by the military. They were said to have taken part in the recent killing of hundreds of people and burning of houses in the Wukari area of Taraba state. They have confessed to being members of the Boko Haram sect.

The queen of talk show and one of the richest women in the world, Oprah Winfrey is in the eye of the storm and the storm is coming from inside her family. In an exclusive chat with Daily Mail, Oprah's stepmother, a 66-year-old Barbara Winfrey, has exposed too many of Oprah's dirty secrets. I just wander what Barbara Winfrey stand to gain by rubbishing her stepdaughter, the much loved Oprah. Anyway, read what she has to say and decide for yourself: Barbara said the Oprah who is loved by millions is world apart from the real person she really is. That Oprah is a manipulative and high-handed fellow, she treats family like staff and uses her wealth to control others. That Oprah Winfrey kicked her out of her home after 14 years, leaving her flat out homeless. That Oprah played in a huge part in ‘destroying’ her marriage to Oprah's father. She also reveals that Oprah and her "boyfriend" Stedman Graham are not bound by romance but a pragmatic cocktail of shared

Lagos—Lagos State Government, yesterday, said police report was delaying prosecution of those arrested in connection with the case of two women severely tortured over alleged theft of pepper in Ejigbo area of the state. This came as it said it was still pursuing the appeal it filed at the Supreme Court against the judgement of the Court of Appeal which discharged and acquitted Major Hamza Al-Mustpaha and Alhaji Lateef Shofolahan, over the the murder of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola. Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice, Mr. Adeola Ipaye, at the 2014 Ministerial briefing to commemorate the seventh year in office of Governor Babatunde Fashola's administration, said no fewer than 2,595 offenders had been sentenced to various terms of community service across the 12 magisterial districts of the state in the last one year. The state government however assisted aggrieved residents to recover over N479 million through payments of debt and compensations by its various agencies; and

Stephen Keshi was the first to step out of the meeting with the Technical Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation Tuesday. He told the press that he had submitted a provisional list for the 2014 Brazil World Cup to the committee. The whole country had waited for the list. Speculations on possible invitees had kept everybody in suspense. Would Ikechukwu Uche and Osaze be on the list? What about out-of- form goalkeeper, Chigozie Agbim? The list would be released by Paul Bassey the spokesman of the committee or Demola Olajire, the Director of Communications of the federation, the reporters outside the building hoped.

Women in Borno State have  accused President Goodluck Jonathan of not doing enough to secure the release of the over 200  girls  abducted from the Government Girls' Secondary School, Chibok by Boko Haram insurgents. The women, who at a news conference in Maiduguri, vowed to go into the Sambisa forest in search of the schoolgirls, said if Jonathan's child had been abducted, the story would have been different. They wondered why security agents had not been able to locate and free the girls more than a week after they were forcibly taken away from their hostel in the school. "Is the President telling us that the lives of over 200 girls abducted  and taken  into  the bush more than  a week ago are  not important?" they asked journalists at the conference.