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A 31 year old Nigerian man, Adio Opeyemi Micheal (pictured above) has been arrested by the EFCC for duping a 75 year old dutch woman of €200,000 in an internet romance scam. Find the EFCC press statement below... "For swindling a 75 year old woman of 200,000 Euros in a romance scam, a 31-year-old confidence trickster, Adio Opeyemi Michael, an indigene of  Owu LGA of Ogun state, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC. The victim, a certain Jeanet De Jonge, is a Dutch national." Continue... Adio allegedly met the victim on the ‘Net log’ dating site and pretended to be a 41-year-old American citizen, working as a chef in a Nigerian restaurant and needs a wife.  The profile attracted Jeanet and, in no time, began sending him money through Western Union and Money Gram. "She was sending me money monthly, ranging from $800 to $900 from June 2012, through Western Union Money transfer and Money Gram to the extent that Western Uni...

Flavour and his half-nude selfies. He shared this one tonight. 

The remains of late Dr. Stella Ameyo Adadevoh, the phenomenal doctor who died on August 19th after being infected with the Ebola virus by Liberian Sawyer, will be buried on  Friday September 12  at a private family funeral. A memorial service will hold at the Holy Cross Cathedral opposite the City Mall in Lagos by  10am  before her ash, which has been obtained by her family, will be committed to mother earth. Her family had obtained her ashes after her corpse was decontaminated and cremated by the Lagos State Government.  A Night of Tributes has been slated for  Thursday by 6pm  at Harbour Point Hotel, Lagos. A family member who spoke anonymously with The Nation said they decided to bury the late doctor so that her only child, Bankole Cardoso and other family members will be able to point at a grave site where they know their loved one is resting peacefully. “It was basically a cultural thing that informed us to decide to obtain her ashes fo...

Malaysia Airlines has provoked a storm of controversy by asking customers to list the things they would most like to do before they die. The airline, which lost two planes this year in disasters that claimed 537 lives, committed the marketing gaffe when it launched a "My Ultimate Bucket List" campaign on Monday.  The campaign called on Australian and New Zealand residents to write their own bucket list and enter it into a competition to win flights to Malaysia and iPads. But with the world still reeling from the twin catastrophes of the MH370 and MH17 crashes, social media users swiftly began mocking the marketing ploy. It has since been rebranded around "your ultimate to-do list". "The competition had earlier been approved as it was themed around a common phrase that is used in both countries," the airline said in a statement. "The airline appreciates and respects the sentiments of the public and in no way did it intend to offend any part...

Joan Rivers , the raspy loudmouth who pounced on America’s obsessions with flab, face-lifts, body hair and other blemishes of neurotic life, including her own, in five decades of caustic comedy that propelled her from nightclubs to television to international stardom, died on Thursday in Manhattan. She was 81. Her daughter, Melissa Rivers, confirmed her death. Ms. Rivers died at Mount Sinai Hospital, where she was taken last Thursday after reportedly losing consciousness while undergoing a procedure on her vocal cords at a doctor’s office on the Upper East Side. Doctors at the hospital placed her in a medically induced coma. On Tuesday, her daughter said she was on life support; on Wednesday, she said she had been moved out of intensive care. The State Health Department is investigating the circumstances that led to her death, a state official said Thursday. She was one of America’s first successful female stand-up comics in an aggressive vein that had been almost exclusively t...

Big boys going places making us proud. 

Aminu Maigari for the second time in less than a month has returned as the president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), supersport.com can report. This follows a directive from the world football governing body, Fifa, on Wednesday that "the NFF executive committee as it was composed on 25 August 2014, meaning under the presidency of Mr Aminu Maigari, should then convene a first extraordinary general assembly as soon as possible to elect the members of the electoral committees and a second extraordinary general assembly in order to proceed with the elections of the new NFF office-bearers." The NFF congress, however, restored Maigari and his board in Abuja on Thursday. The Maigari-led executive committee is now saddled with the responsibility of convening two general assembly meetings "in order to proceed with the elections of the new NFF office-bearers," as directed by Fifa. Supersport.com was informed that the NFF executive committee of Maigari...

No, not Aliko Dangote but his younger brother, Sani Dangote. According to reports, a  Federal High Court in Lagos today September 4th ordered 20 Commercial banks in Nigeria to dishonour all withdrawal cheques from Sani Dangote and his companies, Dansa Foods Limited and Bulk Pack Services Limited until September 11th .    According to Punch, the high court judge, Justice Okon Abang, gave the order while presiding over a case brought against Dangote by Union Bank.  Union Bank had dragged him and his companies to court over alleged refusal to pay up the N5.2bn loan granted his company since September, 2008.    The bank, through its lawyer, Mr. Chukwudi Enebeli had instituted suits seeking an order of mareva injunction to restrain all the defendants’ banks in Nigeria-    Access, CITI, Diamond, Ecobank, Enterprise, Fidelity, Keystone, Mainstreet, Skye, Wema, Heritage, Sterling, Unity, Zenith Banks,   First Bank, First City Monument B...

Yesterday, a former governor of Borno state, Mr. Modu Sheriff addressed a press conference at Abuja where he attempted to play on the collective intelligence of Nigerians by denying any link with the dreaded Boko Haram sect. He was apparently reacting to his indictment by Rev Stephen Davis, the international negotiator engaged by the federal government to dialogue with the Boko Haram sect to secure the release of the abducted Chibok girls In his press conference Mr. Sheriff claimed that he only met the late Mohammed Yussuf, the leader of the Boko Haram sect after he had been arrested by the army. As the Chief Security Officer in Borno State at the material time the ex-governor should open up on the circumstances of the extra judicial killing of Muhammed Yusuff and his father-in-law, Alhaji Kuba. More importantly, Mr. Sheriff should explain to Nigerians the basis of the appointment of Alhaji Buji Foi, a boko haram leader as the Commissioner of Religious Affairs in Borno State ...

The imminent breakup of their marriage may be the least of the problems popular mega-church pastor, Chris Oyakhilome, and his wife, Anita, are facing at the moment as the United Kingdom agency is investigating the UK branch of their church, Christ Embassy, over controversial payments.  The United Kingdom Charity Commission has launched a probe into the transfer of at least N941 million (£3.6 million) by the church to overseas entities between 2008 and 2012. In a statement on Wednesday, the Charity Commission said it has opened a statutory inquiry to investigate Christ Embassy over “a number of serious concerns relating to the use of charitable funds, in particular large connected party payments and the potential misapplication of grant funding.”  According to the Charity Commission, which is the regulator of charities in England and Wales, statutory inquiries are only opened to investigate “the most serious” regulatory breaches. The commission said the purpos...

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Early this morning, many woke up to the news that Nigerian multiple-award-winning record producer, singer-songwriter, musician, CEO of Nigerian record label, Michael Collins Ajereh, popularly known as Don Jazzy, had a car accident which claimed his life. The news, which emanated from a certain blogger, ‘Ogbonna Ikechukwu’ for Lafingas.com, who wrote an article late hours of yesterday, that the Music Mogul and entrepreneur passed away after he was rushed to a hospital because he suffered injuries from a car accident. Here’s the content of the write-up: Breaking News!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don Jazzy Dies In Car Accident!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Nigerian music industry has lost one of its greatest stars, and its MARVIN Boss Don Jazzy. He was involved in a car accident on the early hours of the morning. It has also be announced on MTV base, Channel O, Trace, Soundcity, E! Entertainment, Nigezie and all social medias. News report gathered that he was rushed to a nearby ho...

An 18-year-old Indian girl has married a stray dog as part of a tribal ritual designed to ward off an evil spell. DailyMail reports that Mangli Munda, from a remote village in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, wed the canine in a lavish ceremony. The wedding was hastily organised by village elders after a local guru led Mangli's parents to believe that the teenager possessed ill-luck and that marrying a man would bring destruction to the family and her community. The baffled dog, Sheru, a stray found by the girl's father, was brought to the wedding in a chauffeur driven car and welcomed by revellers.                           Mangli, who has not been to school, said she was not happy to wed a dog, but insisted that it will help change her fortunes. The hesitant bride said: 'I am marrying a dog because the village elders believe that my evil spell will be passed on to the dog. After that is ...

An Ebola outbreak in Nigeria’s oil producing hub of Port Harcourt could spread wider and faster than in Lagos, the World Health Organization warned on Thursday. The UN health body said the arrival of the virus in Port Harcourt, which is 435 kilometres (270 miles) east of Lagos, showed “multiple high-risk opportunities for transmission of the virus to others”. The haemorrhagic fever, which has hit five countries in West Africa and caused nearly 2,000 deaths this year, first arrived in Nigeria when a Liberian finance ministry official died in Lagos on July 25. He was taken from the city’s airport to a private hospital by two officials from the West African regional bloc ECOWAS. One of the officials later died of the disease but the other evaded detection to travel to Port Harcourt, where he fell ill and was treated in secret at a city hotel room by medical doctor Ike Enemuo from August 1-3. The ECOWAS official recovered but the WHO said Enemuo continued to treat patients at...

In a video that’s just too good to pass up, a series of ISIS extremists were captured by soldiers and slapped around a bit. In a bout of diminished masculinity, the Muslim militants were reduced to crybabies after finding themselves in a situation all too familiar (albeit their roles reversed). Instead of facing their capture with dignity, the jihadists found themselves a whimpering and sniveling mess. This is pretty ironic behavior for Muslim extremists, if you compare it to how “brave” they acted in the videos released during recent days (the executions of Foley and Sotloff). They proved themselves to be nothing more than cowards all along. Watch the video below