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Just when we all thought enough had been said about the General Overseer of the Synagogue Church of all Nations, Prophet T.B Joshua. The founder of the Calabar based liberty gospel ministries,Evangelist  Helen Ukpabio, who was recently deported from abroad has accused the prophet of being fake. She went ahead to state that demons made him wealthy and his predictions should not be believed. Her explosive interview has been published in the recent edition of YES! International.

Doris Payne When the sweet octogenarian African American lady walked into El Paseo Jewellers in Palm Desert, California, last October, staff were delighted. White-haired and petite, not in the best of health but articulate and elegantly turned out, she told them she had just had a $25,000 insurance payout and wanted to spend the cash on a present for herself. Salespeople fussed around her with typical Californian courtesy, helping her try on gem-encrusted necklaces and rings and, when her hip began playing up, finding her a chair to rest her legs. After making arrangements to complete her purchase of a diamond and white gold pinkie ring the next day, they helped her hobble to the door. What staff did not realise was that the $22,500 the ring was still on her finger. 'Diamond' Doris Payne, the world's most unlikely international jewel thief, had struck again. Within minutes she had sold on the ring for a mere $800 at a nearby pawnshop. Unfortunately for Do...

For, after urging the singer to remove any nude/suggestive snaps from her account on the photo-sharing outlet, the company now appears to have deleted said account in full, pulling it from their servers earlier this morning. Details below… After uploading pics from her controversial ‘LUI’ shoot last week, the ‘Battleship‘ babe was issued a warning from the company who caught wind of the images ‘titillating’ nature shortly after they were uploaded.

(CNN) -- A man claiming to be Boko Haram's leader has said he'll sell the more than 200 girls that the Islamist militant group abducted from a rural Nigerian school last month. "I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah," a man claiming to be Abubakar Shekau says in a video, according to a CNN translation from the local Hausa language. "There is a market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell. He commands me to sell. I will sell women. I sell women." The nearly hourlong video, first obtained Monday by Agence France-Presse, appears to be Boko Haram's first public confirmation that it abducted the girls on April 14 in northeastern Nigeria's restive Borno state. According to accounts, armed members of Boko Haram overwhelmed security guards at the all-girls school in Chibok, pulled the girls out of bed and forced them into trucks. The convoy of trucks then disappeared into the dense forest bordering Cameroon. On F...

First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan was all tears yesterday at a meeting she convened in Abuja over the abduction of school girls in Chibok, Borno State. Her first meeting on Friday set up a committee headed by the Borno State governor’s wife to ensure attendance at yesterday’s meeting. But the governor’s wife did not attend. WATCH VIDEO BELOW....

According to Sun News, Mrs. Tina Iwuji, a 52 year old mother from Ezinihitte Mbaise LGA, Imo State has been arrested by the Imo state police command for allegedly selling the two weeks old baby of her son's girlfriend. Mrs Iwuji son, Emeka had impregnated his Lagos girlfriend, Esther Godwin, a native of Ndoki, Delta State and then decided to send her to his mother without telling his mum that he owned the pregnancy and also instructed Esther not to open up to his mother that he was the who got her pregnant. Mrs Iwuji accepted Emeka's request and allowed Esther move into her house in January 2014. Esther eventually gave birth, and just two weeks later, Mrs Iwuji sold the baby for N350,000 not knowing she was selling her own grand daughter Mrs Iwuji told Sun "It was my son Emeka Iwuji who brought Esther as a friend not a wife from Lagos to my home in Mbaise, Imo State. I asked Esther who was responsible for her pregnancy and she said it was not my son. I asked her wh...

A leader of a protest march for 276 missing schoolgirls said that Nigeria's First Lady ordered her and another protest leader arrested Monday, expressed doubts there was any kidnapping and accused them of belonging to the Islamic insurgent group blamed for the abductions. Saratu Angus Ndirpaya of Chibok town said State Security Service agents drove her and protest leader Naomi Mutah Nyadar to a police station Monday after an all-night meeting at the presidential villa in Abuja, the capital. She said police immediately released her but that Nyadar remains in detention. The national police spokesman referred a journalist to the spokeswoman for police in Abuja. Reached on the phone, the spokeswoman said she was driving and could not immediately respond. Ndirpaya says First Lady Patience Jonathan accused them of fabricating the abductions. "She told so many lies, that we just wanted the government of Nigeria to have a bad name, that we did not want to support her husband...

Popular Nigerian Prophet, T.B. Joshua delivered a shocking message during his service on Sunday 4th May at The Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) in Lagos, heatedly calling on all Nigerian political leaders in the country to immediately cancel political rallies or face dire repercussions. In the words of TB Joshua:  “ There is a difference between Nigeria as a nation and these political parties. Nigeria is calm; it is the political parties that are not calm. These political parties gave birth to militants and Boko Haram.   “ They should suspend all rallies and acrimonious campaigns. It is this division that gave opportunity for hoodlums, militants and Boko Haram to explore and exploit .  “How can over 200 schoolgirls be kidnapped somewhere and we are talking about disagreements between political parties? And APC and PDP are not ashamed?” “If our political class does not stop their campaigns and rallies and put aside the name of parties – APC, PDP, Lab...

The way ladies dress in movies these days is very tempting but since that is what people who buy home video want to see, producers continue to encourage the nasty acts. Now see what it has caused one of Naija's best comic actor, Nkem Owoh. The man couldn't concentrate because of this actress big oranges.

Odutola's House The Lagos State Police Command has commenced investigation into the murder of a woman, identified only as Mrs. S. Odutola, in Omole Estate, Phase 2, a highbrow estate in the Isheri area of the state. Our correspondent, who visited the deceased’s home on Fatai Alapade Street, learnt that she was alone at home with her Cameroonian security guard on the day she was killed. When our correspondent entered the compound, it was observed that there was construction work going on. However, when our correspondent approached relatives for comment, they said, “Please we cannot talk to you.” Neighbours, however, told PUNCH Metro that the incident occurred on April 16, 2014. A neighbourhood security guard, who wished to remain anonymous, told our correspondent that the victim was strangled, while her corpse was found tied up. He said, “The lady lived alone in the house with a Cameroonian security guard who also acted as the houseboy. We learnt that on the night of...

The police have arrested four robbery suspects at the Ikeja area of Lagos State while they were having carnal knowledge of their victim, one Ogbonna, who was on her way to the office. Our correspondent learnt that the suspects- Tochuckwu Ilom (21), Confidence Oziegbe (20), Simon Peter (25) and Nnemeka Ugochukwu (26) – had first dispossessed Ogbonna of her valuables before taking turns to rape her. It was gathered that the victim and three of her friends were walking along Airport Road, Ikeja, around 6am on the fateful day when they were attacked by the robbers, who were with guns and other weapons. The ladies, who were on their way to the office, reportedly took to their heels. It was learnt that while three of the ladies escaped, the robbers caught up with Ogbonna and dispossessed her of her Samsung Galaxy handset and a cash sum of N2, 200. Meanwhile, her other friends who had escaped, were said to have met a police patrol van, which they stopped, and alerted the policemen...

A brave mother, Mrs Priscilla Ekpenyong, on Friday damned the consequences by clinging to a moving vehicle in order to rescue her nine-month-old child, Emmanuella, from the hands of fleeing abductors. The abductors had  pushed the 23-year-old woman out of the moving vehicle, but she held on to her daughter and was dragged on the tarred road for some distance before the kidnapping was aborted by security operatives. The incident happened by the Eburutu Army Barracks along the busy Murtala Mohammed Highway in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. Narrating her ordeal at the Police Clinic in Calabar, where she and her daughter received medical attention from bruises sustained during the incident, Priscilla said she boarded the taxi, a Volkswagen Jetta, at the Pyramid Hotel Bus Stop along the highway with another unidentified woman who was carrying a male child. She said shortly afterwards, the taxi stopped to pick two men, who on entering the vehicle demanded the babies in...

LAGOS — A SUSPECTED ritualist was, weekend, apprehended at Iyana Iba market in Lagos for allegedly kidnapping three children. The suspect allegedly took the children, aged four, six and seven years, on the pretext that she wanted to buy biscuits for them. Speaking to Vanguard , the mother of the children, Mrs. Iyabo Lawal, said: “I was in the shop when the man passed the first time, I didn’t know he was monitoring my kids who were playing with my mother in her shop. “I was busy attending to customers and didn’t notice when my children followed him. I thought they were still playing in my mother’s shop, not knowing that a stranger had taken them away. “Some people, who saw my children with the man at the end of Iyana Iba road, questioned him on what he was doing with the children and he told them he was going to buy something for them. “When he could not answer the neighbours satisfactorily, they raised alarm and people gathered and started beating him. “At this time I had start...