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Mr. biter biter Dracula has been banned for four months from all football related activities by FIFA for biting Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini during the Uruguay-Italy match played on June 24th. FIFA's disciplinary committee released a statement on their website stating this. See it below... "The player Luis Suárez is regarded as having breached art. 48 par. 1 lit. d of the FIFA Disciplinary Code (FDC) (assault), and art. 57 of the FDC (an act of unsporting behaviour towards another player). · The player Luis Suárez is to be suspended for nine (9) official matches. The first match of this suspension is to be served in the upcoming FIFA World Cup fixture between Colombia and Uruguay on  28 June . The remaining match suspensions shall be served in Uruguay’s next FIFA World Cup match(es), as long as the team qualifies, and/or in the representative team’s subsequent official matches in accordance with art. 38 par. 2a) of the FDC. Continue... · The player Luis Suárez is...

The Lagos State Police command has refuted claims that the explosion that happened last night at Creek road in Apapa Lagos was caused by a bomb saying it was caused by a tanker carrying petrol     Force Public Relations officer, Ngozi Braide explains “There is nothing whatsoever suggesting that it was a bomb explosion. It was a tanker loaded with fuel that burst into flames. Policemen are on ground there now and we cannot yet ascertain the casualty figures. But everything is under control,” she said. In a contradictory statement, Ibrahim Farinloye, the Spokesperson for the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA South-West said the cause of the fire was as a result of a gas cylinder explosion. See more photos from the incident after the cut... "People were reported to be filling gas into the cylinder before it exploded. The incident happened within Folawiyo Energy Premises but they did not allow fire men into their premises at all” ...

Sulley Muntari and Kevin-Prince Boateng have been expelled from Ghana's World Cup squad for alleged indiscipline . According to BBC , A statement on the  Ghana Football Association website  said both players had "been suspended indefinitely". It added Boateng had used "vulgar verbal insults targeted at coach Kwesi Appiah" and said Muntari was guilty of an "unprovoked physical attack on an executive committee member". The news comes just hours before Ghana take on Portugal on Thursday. Ghana still have an outside chance of qualifying for the knockout phase of the tournament. They need to beat Portugal and hope there is a winner of the other Group G match between Germany and United States - although the Black Stars would also need to overtake their rivals' superior goal difference. The Ghana FA statement said the incident involving AC Milan's Muntari took place on Tuesday and named Moses Armah, who is a member of the team manageme...

A Chinese tourist was in for something of a surprise after he came across this bizarre looking 'monster' while out camping near Beijing. The man was camping with friends in a valley in Huairou, Beijing, when he spotted the human-like 'beast'. The images sparked speculation as to the origin of the creature after they were posted online. But a science fiction actor seems to have settled the argument after claiming he was pictured by somebody while filming in the mountains The tourist who took the pictures said: 'I walked far away to have a pee, and suddenly saw a monster. I took a few pictures of it, but I am now terrified by my courage then.' Any debate however as to what the creature was appears to have been settled after an online commenter described being spotted while filming with friends. The actor wrote: 'Over the weekend I and my friends went to the mountains to take a mini sci-fi film. And when I was having a pee a person popped up and too...

The way some men treat their wife is not good. If you know you can't cope with one wife just marry another one legitimately and stop the nasty act. Now see what a man pushed his wife into: I have a problem and I need advice from fellow readers of your blog. I got married to my husband in the year 2011 and our marriage has been consummated with a girl child. Our marriage was working smoothly until my husband got an offshore job to work with an oil servicing firm based in port Harcourt last year June.  Ever since then, he hardly comes home. Most times he comes home just for the weekend once in two months and even when he comes he hardly touches me. I have spoken to him about this and he keeps telling me it's because of the stressful nature of his work.  I am tired of tending to the baby at night alone and things got a head recently when hormones got the better of me and I ended up sleeping with a male colleague of mine at work... Ever since this incident, I h...

THERE was in Ikorodu, Lagos, on Wednesday, as residents of Ogoloto in the area stormed a church (names withheld) and razed it down following alleged discovery of a dead baby and four skulls in a bag found with a woman, Rosemary Chuckwu. She was said to have confessed that she was sent by the pastor of the church. The residents gathered in groups on the streets, while business activities were paralysed as policemen took control of the Ikorodu Road when the Nigerian Tribune visited the area of the incident. Eyewitness accounts said the woman was discovered by some residents, who were said to have mobilised others to the church following the alleged confession by the woman that she was sent by the pastor. The enraged residents, who, on getting to the church, reportedly could not find the pastor, was said to have resorted to setting it on fire before the police came to dispatch them. Policemen were still on standby as of the time of filing this report, while the residents had ...

What Nigerian Soldiers are finding hard to do, Snakes and Bees are coming to the rescue. Some Boko Haram members are now fleeing from their Sambisa Forest base to local government areas across Borno State due to the invasion of their camps in a mysterious manner, believed to be a spiritual attack. One of the arrested sect members, Kolo Mustapha, confessed to Dailypost that snakes were attacking them in the forest and this is making their lives very difficult. “They (our leaders) told us that it was the people of Chibok that are hunting us through diabolical means in the form of snakes. Most of us are fleeing because there are too many snakes now in the forest, once they bite, they disappeared and the victims do not last for 24 hours... “We were told that the people of Chibok local government are the ones turning into snake and attacking us in the forest,” he disclosed. OluFamous.Com  gathered that Boko Haram are now trying to fortify themselves against spiritual at...

President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday reiterated his position that the   Boko Haram insurgency was worse than the country’s civil war. He said contrary to the case of the civil war where enemies and their territories were easily identified, insurgents   lived among the people. Jonathan spoke while granting audience to a delegation of the College of Bishops of African Church led by the Primate, Most Rev. Emmanuel Udofia, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He however reassured Nigerians that the activities of the sect would come to an end soon. The President urged the clerics to continue to pray   for the country . He said, “I have to thank you for your prayers because this country is facing challenges that we never expected. I always say it that apart from those of us from the then Eastern Region who witnessed the effect of the civil war, others   may have not witnessed this kind of insecurity in the country. “In the North-East, it is almost like a ci...

Last Saturday, singer turned writer Etcetera wrote an article titled 'On-Air-Personalities, you have killed radio' where he criticized OAPs saying all they do is glorify celebs, recycle their music, chase fame and fake accents, amongst other things (read it  here ). Well, one of the OAP's has replied him. Freeze Coolfm, who doesn't mince words, fired shots at him on Twitter this evening. He may not have mentioned Etcetera's name but which other singer turned columnist has been criticizing some of his colleagues in his controversial write ups? See more tweets below   

We saw 22 year old Super Eagles midfielder Michael Babatunde taken off in the second half of yesterday's game against Argentina with his arm in a cast but some of us didn't really know it was that serious. It kinda is. A scan after the match showed that he literally broke his arm after being hit by a fierce shot from Ogenyi Onazi. (see pic on the left). He's been ruled out of the 2014 World Cup. Onazi was aiming to score a goal with the long-range shot but the ball cannoned into Babatunde's arm. The video of the incident is kinda graphic..but you've seen worse, see it below

Men suspected to be members of the outlawed Boko Haram sect on Tuesday night attacked a military post at Bulabulin Ngaura in Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State and killed 16 soldiers. One of the soldiers that narrowly escaped the attack, who confirmed this to journalists in Maiduguri, said, “We were totally subdued by the insurgents.” He said, “Some of my colleagues were abducted and many others escaped with bullet wounds. Dozens of Boko Haram insurgents stormed our checkpoint at Bulabulin on Tuesday night. “The terrorists came in a convoy of over 30 vehicles, mounted with Anti Aircraft guns (AA).” On how he was able to escape unhurt, he said, “I was at the checkpoint when the terrorists came, we tried our best but they had advantage over us. They had AA and we had Ak47 rifles that are not fully loaded. When we realised that they had taken over the place, some of us escaped to Maiduguri and other places but many could not make it. “As I am talking to you, 16 bodie...

Suspected members of the Islamist militant sect, Boko Haram, on Wednesday detonated another bomb at the   EMAB Plaza,   one of the busiest shopping complexes, in Abuja. The explosion is the third in the Federal Capital Territory in the last two months. On April 14, 2014, a bomb blast at Nyanya, Abuja, killed 71 people and injured 124. Another blast in Nyanya , a satellite settlement near Abuja, on May 1, 2014, killed 19 people and injured 60. The   Wednesday   bomb went off   around 4.10pm   in front of the mall   adjacent to a very busy mosque where many Muslims had gone to observe   the  Asri  (4pm prayer). Although eyewitnesses put the casualty figure at 30, the Force Public Relations Officer,  Frank Mbah, told journalists at the scene that 21 people   died and 17 were injured. Mba’s figures were however contradicted by the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Bala ...

LAGOS— A ritualists’ den was, yesterday, uncovered at Ogolonto area of Ikorodu Lagos, with at least eight victims, said to have been kidnapped from different parts of the country, rescued One of the victims, a 52-year‑old man, who identified himself simply as Onwurah, alleged that his wife had a hand in his kidnap, saying he had spent two years in the enclave. The den was uncovered following a foiled attempt by a mother of four to take one of her victims, a seven year‑old boy, to the den. Vanguard  gathered that the woman identified as Mrs Rosemary Chukwu, who resides at 33, Omologede Street, behind C&S Primary School, allegedly abducted the seven-year‑old primary school pupil, Emmanuel Emeka, on his way to fetch water from a public well at about 6.30 a.m. Chukwu was alleged to have kept the boy inside her toilet and engaged her four children in a prayer session, apparently to prevent her co‑tenants from hearing the abducted boy’s cry for help. How Emeka was rescu...