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It appears Australian hostage negotiator Dennis Stephen isn't done making outrageous and some would say 'eye-opening' claims. Just a day after he claimed that former Borno state Gov, Alimodu Sheriff and an unnamed retired army chief are sponsors of Boko Haram, he's now claiming that the insurgent group if funded through the CBN. In an interview with  TheCable , Stephen claimed a senior official of the CBN handles the financial transactions of the sect group. What his said below... "One of the biggest of suppliers of arms and military uniforms to the JAS (Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad, better known as Boko Haram) currently lives in Cairo, Egypt. He is the recipient of money sent by political sponsors from Nigeria. The funds go through the CBN’s financial system and appear to be a legal transaction. Meanwhile, the CBN official who handles the funding is an uncle to three of those arrested in connection with the Nyanya bombings. The three boys ...

Samstel Clinic and Maternity, owned by the first victim of Ebola virus in Riv­ers State, Dr Sam En­emuo, is still open for patients, Saturday Sun checks revealed yes­terday. The Sun Reports that two nurses working in the hospital have been placed under close watch, while doctors have confirmed that the late doctor’s thee month old baby and only child is free from the virus. When the reporter vis­ited the hospital, located near the ever-busy Rumuo­koro Roundabout yester­day, some patients were seen at the reception of the hospital, waiting to be at­tended to by doctors who were nowhere to be seen. Investigation showed that some of the patients were yet to know about the Ebola virus incident at the hospital. Others were already aware but decided to come to the hospital, since there are other doctors to attend to them. Some nurses working in the hospital that unusually were in mufti mixed with patients. The nurses were seen trying to convince the patients to stay ...

Johnson Ayodeji The excitement that comes from watching a football match when one is an avid supporter of a team coupled with poor health and overcrowding among other factors seem to have caused the death of a 60-year-old man in Byazhin, Abuja. According to Vanguard , Mr Johnson Ayodeji died at a viewing centre behind his building where he had gone to watch Arsenal versus Liverpool in late 2013. Arsenal won the match 2-0. Ayodeji, who hailed from Okuku village in Odo-Otin local government area of Osun State, had left his house to watch the football match without symptoms of ill health on that day. He left his phone behind to avoid distraction from callers, got to the viewing centre and sat on a chair like every other person there. Halfway into the match, Ayodeji pleaded with a young man by his side to adjust his seat so he could relax properly, perhaps the seats where too close for comfort. The young man in obedience to the plea of the old man stood up and continued watching t...

Controversial Ghanaian actress cum rising singer, Kisa Gbekle who derives joy in exposing her body at random, like her Nigerian counterpart, Maheeda, has vowed to dump the dirty habit. The actress made the promise on her facebook page, apologising, however, for posting her semi-nude and sexually suggestive photos on some social media platforms, after months of being attacked by her fans. “Never again will I be a bad girl. I promise on my honor to be faithful and loyal to my people. No more bad pics ..lol but check Instagram now “kisagbekle,” she wrote on facebook. The actress-turned-musician who is in her twenties, recently made headlines with her semi-nude photos in public domain. She attempted to offer explanations to justify the photos by comparing them to the ones posted by world acclaimed star, Rihanna. Kisa had argued by then that if the Ghanaian entertainment media had no problems with semi-nude photos of American singer, Rihanna, then she had every right to take sam...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Saturday, took a swipe at Liberian officials who, according to him, connived with Sawyer, who brought Ebola Virus to Nigeria. Obasanjo spoke while answering questions from guests at an event organised by the publisher of Inside Watch Africa magazine, Oluwaseyi Adegoke-Adeyemo, tagged, ‘An afternoon with Obasanjo’, held at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta. According to him, this singular misadventure has started to take its toll on the manpower and the economy of not only Nigeria but the West Africa sub-region. Obasanjo, however, disclosed that he had a meeting with the Ghanaian President, John Mahama, who’s also the Chairman of the Economic Community of West African Countries, some weeks ago, and discussed how to contain the spread of the deadly virus within the sub-region. He further said that, during the meeting, Mahama wanted a meeting of ministers of health, but he suggested that there was a limit the ministers could go an...

Men of the Nigerian Police from the Area A Command, Lion Building, Ikoyi, Lagos State, and operatives of the Nigerian Immigration Service, on Friday raided one hotel and a guest house on the Lagos Island, arresting 39 foreign nationals over the Ebola Virus Disease scare. The foreigners identified as 35 from the Democratic Republic of Congo and four Senegalese, were were said to be co-habiting in one Benin Hotel and one other guest house both situated on Atere street on Lagos Island. According to security operatives, the raid of the two hotels was motivated by reports from residents of the area who expressed concern that activities of the foreigners, swarming the area, could lead to the spread of the Ebola virus. It was gathered that the Commander of Area A Police Command, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Imohimi Edgal contacted the officials of the NIS and some health workers after the tip-off from the residents and the two hotels were raided. The police said it has p...

Sex is often seen as pleasurable to both men and women. Experts have always claimed a lot of energy goes into sexual activities, thus making sex a form 0f exercise. A new study has however discovered that lots of calories could be burnt via sex, thus making it a better form of exercise than jogging or running. Researchers have found out that the energy expended during sex, when compared to running, could get the hearts to pump and muscles to crank enough to qualify as a moderate form of exercise. According to them, a 25-minute session of sex, burns more calories, which is a unit of energy, than having a walk. A study by Anthony Karelis, a professor of Exercise Science at the University of Quebec, Canada, and his colleagues, which looked at how much energy is actually exerted during sex and compared it with other forms of body exercise, showed that having sex is better than working out or jogging. The research further showed that one hour of sex (based on the premis...

The Rivers State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Samson Parker, says the late Dr. Samuel Enemou, who treated Olu Koye, a Nigerian diplomat with the Economic Community of West African States, was aware that the diplomat was a carrier of the deadly Ebola virus. The commissioner stated this during a press conference in Port Harcourt on Friday evening. Parker said, “He had received the late Dr. Patrick Sawyer in Lagos. Upon developing the symptom, confided in a female colleague, called Lilian, who contacted the late Enemuo. It was after contact was established with Dr. Enemuo that Olu Koye flew to Port Harcourt to see him. “To conceal his movement, Koye, who had been quarantined among other people for having primary contact with the late Dr. Sawyer, the Liberian-American who transmuted the Ebola virus into Nigeria, sneaked out of the isolation unit where he was being observed and took a flight to Port Harcourt and switched off his phone so that he could not be reached or traced s...

Abia State Government has flatly denied rumours making the rounds that a relation of the Port Harcourt doctor, Iyke Enemuoh, who died while secretly treating an Ebola patient sneaked into Aba, the commercial nerve centre of the state. Commissioner for Information, Eze Chikamnayo who made the denial yesterday in a press briefing described as  ” evil and mischievous,” a news report in an Aba- based radio station that the late doctor’s sibling had taken refuge in Aba. Chikamnayo said investigations revealed that the deceased did not hail from Abia but Anambra, and that his mother was living with him in Port Harcourt while his wife had since been quarantined in Lagos. He said that the intension of those behind the report was to cause tension and unnecessary apprehension in the state, and enjoined residents not to panic but disregard the rumour. Chikamnayo cautioned media practitioners against false reports , noting that some lives were recently lost by drinking salt wate...

Chris Buckner, 20 (pictured left) and her 25 year old brother Timothy Savoy (pictured right) have been arrested after being accused of having sex with each other three times while parked outside a church after watching romantic movie, The Notebook, Savannah Morning News reports. According to reports, police found the siblings early Wednesday morning outside the Countryside Baptist Church in Georgia, while investigating reports of a prowler at 4.30am. The police didn't even know they were related until they were booked. The police say Chris and Tim admitted to having sex inside a tractor trailer after watching the film on Tuesday morning. They have both been charged with incest, aggravated sodomy, and prowling.

from a female Gistarena reader I have been married for 10+ years and thought I was happily married till some weeks ago. From the fourth year into my marriage my mom advised us to take on 2 female relatives. One was 22 and the other 13 at that time. In 2010, we noticed that the older of the girls had become so close to my husband to the point that anyone could easily conclude they were intimate. She became rude to me but got closer to my husband and he never saw anything wrong with her attitude. He would take her to school (UNILAG) and pick her up regularly. He would gladly buy the exact items for her and myself whenever he traveled. Several times he gave her large sums without my consent or knowledge but thankfully it all came out through her mom.  He blurted out once that she had STD and I was quite embarrassed that he would know that about her if nothing was going on. In the end we decided she couldn't go on living in my house and my mom came to take her away her even ...

These amazing photos show two lions as they fought to be the King of the Jungle and also for the attention of a lioness in Masa Mara, Kenya and luckily for us photographers were there to take some unbelievable snaps. The two male lions, who are actually brothers, were captured on camera by Laurent Renaud and Dominique Haution, who are French seasoned safari photographers. "When lions want to overtake a pride, the old lions fight with the new ones. But seeing two lion brothers fighting, one against the other is a very rare sighting. We were very lucky to witness it, and both lions unfortunately ended up with serious wounds. But that's just what happens in the wild and we would never interfere with nature." Laurent said She also said just 15 minutes after the lions finished scrapping, the triumphant brother went and mated with his lioness as a prize. See photos of the fight after the cut...

D ennis Akagha, the fiance of Justina Ejelonu, the First Consultant Hospital nurse who died after being infected with the deadly Ebola virus by Liberian Patrick Sawyer, in this exclusive interview with Vanguard spoke about how  his late fiancee  contracted the deadly disease, how she lost their unborn child while battling with Ebola, and also revealed that Justina had just landed the job at the hospital and met Sawyer on her first day there. He also spoke on how he got infected with the virus and how he finally got discharged. Fimd the in-depth interview below. On his relationship with the late Justina, Dennis said; "The   truth is that Justina and I were not legally married, we were planning for our traditional marriage in October and she just got this job. She was a qualified graduate nurse and got the job at the First Consultant Hospital in Lagos. She resumed duty at the hospital on the  21st of July , while Patrick Sawyer was admitted at the ho...