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Following the murder of Taiwo Dokun, a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), by suspected Boko Haram militants, members of the church in Dille, Borno State, have been thrown into mourning and apprehension. It would be recalled that Mr. Dokun was killed on Monday, 14 July, 2014, during the Islamist insurgents’ attack on Dille village in Askira-Uba local government area of Borno State. According to Sahara Reporters, several members of the church, who spoke to newsmen in Maiduguri, the capital of the state, said the late pastor’s wife and their three children have disappeared since the tragic incident. “The family could have been abducted by the insurgents who took away many of the residents of the town,” said a church member. “The pastor’s family members have not been found since the attack and have not called any one,” he added. Another source, who narrated what happened when members of Boko Haram attacked the village on Monday, said the pastor’s residence w...

A spreadsheet that a man emailed his wife detailing her reasons for turning him down for sex has been shared by thousands of people online. For a whole month, the 26-year-old sexually-frustrated husband jotted down every response from his other half when he asked her for intimacy. He then collated the information and put it into an Excel document before cruelly emailing her as she arrived at an airport ahead of a ten-day business trip. Her replies included 'I'm exhausted', 'I need a shower (didn't shower)', 'I'm trying to watch the movie (fell asleep 15 mins later)' and 'I'm not feeling too well'. Shocked at the email, the anonymous woman, also aged 26, tried to get in touch with her husband but he failed to return her calls. In the end, she decided to share her husband's harsh behaviour with users of Reddit by uploading the spreadsheet. She explained the couple had been together for five years in total but been marrie...

The mother of two, married to Peter Okoye, posted the message above on her instagram page.

A Nigerian Air Force Mi-35 helicopter that was on a training mission crashed this afternoon in South Bama, Borno. According to a statement signed by Nigeria Defence spokesperson, Chris Olukolade, the jet crashed due to technical fault and not as a result of any enemy action. The statement did not say whether anyone was killed or injured in the crash. Mr. Olukolade said investigation has commenced to unravel the circumstances that led to the crash.

A pure water truck has rammed into a meat market (Odo-Eran), on Governors’ Road along LASU-Iba expressway killing at least 10 persons. The truck which was carrying bags of pure water for distribution reportedly lost control and rammed into stalls at the market which is not far from the road. An eyewitness, who chose to be identified as Tunde, told our reporter that the driver of the bus lost control just as he neared the market. “I want to believe he lost control because there is no plausible explanation for this accident,” said Tunde who arrived the scene shortly after the accident had occurred. The accident has halted vehicular along the road particularly for tricycle (Keke Marwa) riders who operate commercially from Ikotun to Governors Road. A Keke Marwa rider who spoke to P.M. News said it was a sad event because some of the people who died in the accident were friends of Keke riders. “We have some friends in this silly accident. I have been plying this road for year...

A non-partisan organization, Abia Vanguard for Good Gov­ernance has thrown its weight behind the aspiration of the immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Onyeabor Azubuike Ihejirika to contest for the office of the governor of Abia State in 2015. Speaking in an interview with Daily Sun in Lagos, the president of the or­ganization, Ezeikpe Onyeka said that the emergence of the former Army boss for the race for the governorship seat in Abia State would bring about peace, stability and growth. According to him, the choice of Ihejirika by his group was made after they had analysed the challenges that have undermined the growth and de­velopment in Abia State since 1999. In this interview, he speaks on vari­ous issues. Excerpts: Why we formed Abia Vanguard for Good Governance This organization, I must confess as a child of circumstance is one of the umbrella organizations of Abia State indigenes living in Lagos State. We are non-partisan and what led to its formatio...

As the military grapples with the insurgency of Boko Haram, security agencies have uncovered plans by insurgents to attack five busy spots in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). This came at a time intel­ligence reports revealed that some insurgents had infiltrated Utako Market, disguising as petty traders, wheel barrow pushers, butchers, and cab drivers awaiting instructions on when to bomb the market. According to security sourc­es, the identified terror targets were the Utako Market, Area 1 Shopping Centre, DeiDei Mar­ket, Farmers Market, Maitama and Area 3 Motor Spare Parts Market located behind the old secretariat in Abuja. It was gathered that having uncovered the plot, security agencies were working round the clock to avert the attacks. To this end, the task force in charge of security in Abuja was considering shutting down the Utako Market, DeiDei Market and the shopping malls target­ed for the attacks. Sources told Daily Sun that security personnel had...

There was an uproar in Ebonyi State Government House, Monday morning, around 11:00 am over the impeachment of the Embattled Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Chukwuma Nwazunku. The House members who carried out the impeachment made attempts to stop the embattled Speaker from seeing the Governor Martin Elechi and also prevented  him from attending a function at the Exco chambers of the Government House. The timely intervention of security operatives averted what could have led to a bloody confrontation. The erstwhile  speaker was later seen at a corner shielded away from other assembly members. Meanwhile, the 18 members of  state House of Assembly who had impeached Hon. Nwazunku at 6:30 am also led a delegation to meet with the state governor. Addressing newsmen,  Hon Enyi C Enyi, reprenting Ezza North West said that the new Speaker, Hon Helen Obasi representing Abakaliki South remains the authentic Speaker and the choice of the peo...

Naija men, pls ensure you stay away from another man's wife while on your "rough" escapades. The quest by an Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP, attached to the Ilu-Titun Divisional Headquarters in Okitipupa council area of Ondo State to satisfy his séxual urge while on duty has allegedly cost him his life. He reportedly died while doing it with a woman allegedly laced with the dreaded magun charm ‘thunder bolt’. It was gathered that officer, after reporting for duty on the ill-fated day, inspected the officers on duty and left for the house of his "special woman". The residence of the woman is said to be a walking distance to the police station. The relationship between the lovers had been on for a long time. It was learnt that the police officer, who had no premonition that death was lurking around the corner, walked into the embrace of his lover only for him to start somersaulting mid way into their séxual act... According to Vanguard, around m...

Bodies of about 200 victims of the Malaysian Airlines flight that was shut down on Thursday July 17th were left in heat in fields for over three days before they were finally piled up in bags and tossed into rubbish trucks then transported to refrigerated train carriages where they are said to be decaying.  The train with the dead bodies, which observers says is stinking of decay, is stationed in the town of Torez where rebels who are in charge say they will let it leave this afternoon but didn't indicate where or whether the bodies would be handed over. There's an international outrage that the rebels are holding the bodies unnecessarily as families beg for their loved ones to be returned to them so they could bury them properly. The bizarre part is that Holland, who lost more citizens than any other country, isn't showing as much outrage as other countries like Britain that have threatened to seize Russian's billions. See more pics after the cut....

The Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, says the claim by a suspected armed robber arrested by the Lagos State Police Command, Ifeoluwa Coker, that he was a graduate of the institution was false. (Read it HERE ) PUNCH Metro had reported on Thursday, July 17, that two of the suspects arrested by the state command for snatching cars at gunpoint, Ifeoluwa Coker and John Odu, identified themselves as a graduate of FUTA, and a Postgraduate Diploma holder from the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, respectively. Coker had claimed that he studied Biology Education from FUTA. However, a statement by the Head of Information, Protocol and Passages Unit, FUTA, Mr. Adegbenro Adebanjo, and dated Friday, July 18, said the claim by Coker was “false and spurious.” Adebanjo said, “Our check at the Students’ Affairs Division revealed that Coker had never been registered as a student of FUTA and therefore was never a student or a graduate of our university. “In ...

An 18 year old Nigerian teen has been arrested after his doctor mum was found seriously injured and his younger brother found dead beside her at their home in Dix Hill, Long Island, New York. Their dad returned home on Saturday night July 19th to discover 15 year old Bradley Okonkwo (pictured centre) dead in their apartment, and his wife, Dr Chinwe Okonkwo (pictured left) suffering from severe head wounds. He immediately called the police who arrived the scene shortly afterwards. Charles Okonkwo jnr (pictured right), who'd left the home shortly after the incident, was eventually arrested near the family home, and has been charged for attacking his mother. He is yet to be charged for his brother's death, though he confessed to 'hurting his mother and his brother'. Dr Okonkwo is currently receiving treatment at Stony Brook University Hospital, but is said to be in serious condition. She sustained serious trauma including facial fractures and loss of consciousness....

Suspected members of Boko Haram have kidnapped the wife and two children of Alhaji Zaraye Mala Sheriff, a Councillor in Borno state who is reported to be a cousin of former Borno state, governor, Ali Modu Sheriff. A source told Daily Trust that the men stormed the Ngala town residence of the politician in the early hours of Friday July 18th.  "The insurgents stormed the house of the councillor around 12:30am on Friday and asked the wife about her husband. They also asked her for the money he kept at home but she kept quiet. Luckily enough, Zaraye was at the other side of the house and when he heard the conversation, he fled,” a source from Ngala said. He said angered by her silence and the absence of their target, the sect members took her and her two children away. Continue... "Up till now, nothing has been heard of the woman and her kids. We have not heard anything about the two businessmen either,” he said. Two other politicians, Alhaji Annur Mohammed an...

An official of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Assistant Inspector Lasisi Iyanda, has been arrested and detained by the police for an alleged murder of an Islamic Religious Knowledge teacher, Kamaldeen Muritala,32. Muritala, who worked at Titilope Islamic Comprehensive High School, Ejigbo, Osun State, was said to have been stabbed in the neck by Iyanda on June 27, 2014 following an argument between the duo close to the entrance of a hall where the National Examination Council examination was taking place. A statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, in Abuja on Sunday, said preliminary investigation by police detectives from the Osun State Police Command, Osogbo, revealed that the teacher died at Baptist Hospital, Ejigbo, from complications arising from fatal stab wounds inflicted on his neck with a jack-knife by the NSCDC officer. Mba said following the death of Muritala, students of the school attempted to raze down the NSCDC office as wel...

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a couple, Mr. Danladi Wushishi, and Mrs. Ojuolape Wushishi, for allegedly duping unsuspecting victims to the tune of N20m in fake auction sales in Lagos. PUNCH Metro learnt that while Ojuolape was arrested on Wednesday, June 18, at Odeogbolu Street, Ijegun, Danladi, was apprehended at Allen Avenue on Friday, June 25. Our correspondent gathered that the couple were arrested after a petition to the Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, from one of the victims, Mrs. Chinyere Uzorchukwu, who was allegedly duped by the couple to the tune of N5m. The Special Anti-Robbery Squad operatives had subsequently gone on the trail of the couple and arrested them. The Wushishis had allegedly collected money from their victims under the false pretext that they had a container load of goods meant for customs auction sales at one of the customs terminals in Lagos. It was further learnt that prior to the incident, the couple normally took their v...

Laide Anikulapo-Kuti, Nee Babayale, was one of the 27 wives that the late Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, married in a mass ceremony. The woman has been talking to the press and reveals new details, some of them very shocking about the late Abami-Eda, and life in Kalakuta between the seventies and eighties. Supposedly, Dr. Keti Ransome Kuti was procuring abortions for the many woman of Fela when he got tired of having children, and the African mediticine he took to render him sterile failed. I wonder if there were no condoms then, or maybe Fela is not the type to use condoms. See excerpts below: How did you meet Fela? I met Fela at a Sunday Jump in 1974. The shrine was opposite my house and some of my friends were selling things in front of the place, and we were just there doing our own thing, while Baba was inside doing his own thing as usual. It was the boys that made us know him well. They came to buy cigarettes from my friends, and wanted to take candy sweets for ...