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Abuja - The Department of State Services (DSS) says it is investigating the former Governor of Borno, Alhaji Modu Sheriff, over allegation that he is a sponsor of the Boko Haram. Ms Marilyn Ogar, the Deputy Director, Public Relations of the DSS, stated this on Friday at a news conference. Ogar also said that other allegations made by the Australian negotiator, Mr Stephen Davis, over sponsorship of the sect by some individuals were being investigated. “As for the former governor, he has been invited twice by this service and the service has also invited him again,’’ she said. The DSS spokeswoman, however, defended former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Azubuike Ihejerika, saying that it was uncharitable to accuse the ex-army chief of sponsoring the sect. Ogar, who was responding to questions, said the accusation should not be the way to reward a man who risked his life for the security of the nation and its citizens. “I would want to say here that it is abso...

Multiple award winning Nollywood actress and style icon, Rita Dominic has been announced as the new brand ambassador for Zaron Cosmetics. Here are a few images from the ad campaign that will roll out soon. She's stunning!.. .

Chris and Damilola just welcomed a son. So happy for them. Big congrats to them...

The Somali prime minister said on Friday that Ahmed Godane, head of the Islamist militant group al Shabaab, was killed in a U.S. strike this week, although the group that is waging an insurgency against the government has yet to comment. U.S. officials had said on Wednesday that they were still checking to see whether Monday's U.S. missile strike on an al Shabaab encampment had killed Godane, who was appointed leader in 2008 after his predecessor was killed in a U.S. attack. "We tell the Somalis that Godane is dead," Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed said on his Facebook page, the first government confirmation of his death. (Reuters)

A Zimbabwean Reverend Menard Zvenyika has reportedly committed suicide after allegedly impregnating his married housemaid three times and fathering her baby. Zvenyika was due to appear before a disciplinary hearing of his church with a $10,000 fine slammed on him by a local court in Zimbabwe. However, apparently unable to stomach his sinful act, and possible excommunication from the church, he decided to end his own life by drinking poison. Reports say the fiery Man of God was involved in an extra marital affair with Rosemary Nyamukachi wife of Forty-two-year-old Chezhira Mukobvu which resulted in several pregnancies. The couple have been married for 17 years and the clergy took advantage of the woman who was working for him to put her in the family way The “35-year-old woman was employed as a housemaid in the home of Zvenyika for about 5 years, during which time she had allegedly been forced to terminate three pregnancies fathered by the reverend before finally giving...

Two women got physical at the Cathedral Church of All Saints, Makurdi Benue state after one accused the other of being a witch. During the church’s monthly Power Night program which held on Wednesday, September 3, a woman who was in deep reflection suddenly jumped up and attacked another woman named Christy. She told Christy that she got a revelation that she was a witch. She said: “Christy is the cause of many problems in people’s lives. She has been destroying people’s families, enough is enough.” According to reports on YNaija, the congregation tried to calm her down but to no avail. The accused who couldn’t take the allegations anymore decided to get violent, tearing her attacker’s cloth, while still inside the church. The Prayer and worship session was cut short following the fight, while the two women were later taken outside. One of the church members was of the opinion that the woman was actually under the influence of the Holy Ghost and got a revela...

These people like to confuse Nigerians sha. How will someone claim he was hired to do a job by a government if that is not so? FG has denied claims by Australian hostage negotiator, Stephen Davis, that he was employed by the Nigerian Government to negotiate for the release of the Chibok girls. Speaking through the Coordinator of the National Information Center, Mr Mike Omeri, today September 5th in Abuja, FG said the decision to hire a negotiator would be made public whenever they decide to do so and that they have no plans to question those alleged t o be Boko Haram sponsors by Stephen Davis “ For now nobody has been hired by the government to negotiate on its behalf with Boko Haram. Anytime the government decides to do so, it will make it known to the public.  The government is still investigating the allegations made by the alleged negotiator. However, the government has no plan to question anybody because of those allegations made by the Australian,” Omeiri ...

Find the EFCC press statement below... A  suspected fraudster who attempted to fraudulently assume ownership of a prime plot of land in the Maitama district of Abuja, belonging to a member of the famous Dantata  family of Kano has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.  Mohammed Awwal alias Nasiru Abdulkadir Dantata was arrested by operatives of the Commission sequel to a report from the Department of Land Administration, Federal Territory Administration (FCTA) Abuja.  Continue... The suspect, who was parading himself as Nasiru Abdulkadir Dantata, was in possession of the original Right of Occupancy of Plot No. 2068 Cadastral Zone A05, Maitama District, Abuja, along with several other forged documents. Upon his arrest and subsequent investigation, ‘Nasiru Abdulkadir Dantata’ was discovered to be the same as Mohammed Awwal but assumed the false identity of Dantata in a desperate bid to hoodwinked unsuspecting members of the ...

Article written by Charly Boy. Read below... Oh God! Why was I born in this neck of the woods? See how low my country has sank, demeaning our value as human beings, destroying our image as greed and corruption destroys everything we hold sacred. See how it drives the youths crazily into the uncertain life of crime, dispossessing the creative and talented youths of their dreams and discrediting their imagination. Haba, God, why? As Nigerians, what are we really good for? Were we born to be haunted and taunted?" I don’t know what drives us but were we created to be a sub. Like you create two versions of something and see which one would thrive more in the habitat it would be placed. It seems the Africans (Nigerians) are failing the test and soon would be wiped out from existence. Why have we remained a consumer nation, can't even produce nothing, even the few who can are not encouraged. We are so backward it troubles me. Even if the western world were to wait for us ...

An online writer has deemed the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge a satanic ritual which has consumed Americans. Selena Owens could not understand the concept of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge nor the reason anyone would willingly dump a bucket of ice water on themselves. In efforts of understanding the whole phenomenon the writer said she began to research the challenge in hopes of making sense of it. After her investigation she determined the Ice Bucket Challenge is not just a lighthearted attempt to understand a debilitating disease; unbeknownst to many participants it is actually a satanic ritual. Owens said she feels like there are other ways to bring attention to ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, that are not as extreme or sensationalized as a bucket of water such as educating people. The intriguing aspect of the challenge, according to Owens, was the way social media became saturated with videos of celebrities, athletes, politicians and a host of others aroun...

The Federal government has directed all primary and secondary schools to resume on Monday September 22nd. The resumption date for schools had earlier been postponed to October 13th as a precautionary measure to contain the spread of the Ebola virus in Nigeria. 

Australian negotiator Stephen Davis has dared former Borno state governor, Alimodu Sheriff to sue him for saying he's one of the sponsors of Boko Haram. Mr Sheriff had threatened to sue at a press conference on Wednesday. Speaking with TheCable today, Davis said if Alimodu Sheriff goes to court, evidences to prove he has connections with the sect will be produced. " He is worried, is he? He knows that if he goes to court, the evidence will be produced and he cannot escape justice. Let him go to court if that is what he wishes. It is his right to do so. He will not be able to avoid close examination and then the facts will be known. Good luck to him if he decides to sue me in Australia. He can’t buy the judges here. Truth is not for sale. Australia has zero toleration for those who might sponsor terrorism."  No one should be above the law whether in Australia or Nigeria. Justice must be served for every Nigerian killed, every girl and boy kidnapped, ev...

Floyd Mayweather's ex-fiancee Shantel Jackson (pictured above with her lawyer, Gloria Allred at a press conference yesterday) is suing the boxing champ for assault, battery, defamation, invasion of privacy, false imprisonment, and claimed he forced her to return her engagement ring at gun-point… From  TMZ   According to the lawsuit, obtained by TMZ Sports, Jackson claims Floyd first got violent with her back in 2012 ... right after he was released from the slammer in a domestic violence case involving another woman. Jackson claims the two were arguing when "He twisted [her] arm, choked her and forcibly took her phone away from her to look through it.". Continue... Jackson claims Mayweather got violent again in April 2013 ... when during another argument, he "bent her arm, restrained her, and pointed a gun at her foot, asking 'Which toe do you want me to shoot?'" In her suit, Jackson claims he then demanded her to remove her 17 carat di...

Fans of Big Brother Africa can heave a sigh of relief as this year’s show will go on afterall. The organizers of BBA Hotshots have released a statement saying that a new venue has been found and the show will begin within the next month. The statement reads: Following the devastating fire on 2 September 2014 at the Big Brother house in Johannesburg, M-Net and Endemol SA have spent the last 48 hours searching both locally and internationally for a venue in which to produce Season 9 of the highly popular Big Brother Africa reality show. After exploring all possible options, the team are delighted to announce that the show will go on as a venue has been found to get the show on air within the next month. A multitude of factors have had to be considered including the complex technical requirements, logistics, technical crews and satellite link facilities which have all formed part of the challenge.  However, M-Net is delighted to assure all its Big Brother fans t...

Just when we thought we had heard it all, another gory story of horror and man’s inhumanity to man breaks out from somewhere. This time it is at Doso Village in Doko District of Niger State, where a woman known as Fatima Saraka Mohammed slaughtered her nine-year-old grandson, Mohammed, shared his roasted flesh and drank his blood in connivance with two other people in an apparent act of cannibalism. LEADERSHIP Friday gathered that little Mohammed was always attached to his grandmother, and whenever he was not with his parents, he would always be found nestling in her arms or sleeping beside her; he was quite fond of her. But how tragic, and ironic, that it is this same grandmother that would turn around and end the little boy’s life by this heinous act, something that can only be heard of only in fairytale books. Many people describe it as heartless and some cannot believe that a human being, in his or her normal senses, could be that cruel to any child, much less her own ...

Actor, film maker and media consultant Saint Obi just took delivery of the 2014 edition of the Mercedes Benz G Class (G65-AMG) popularly known as a G Wagon. The car is said to be worth about $292,000, which is about N48million. And I hear only a few Nigerians have this car. St Obi's G Wagon is said to be BITurbo, boasts of a specially constructed V12 engine, is bullet proof and was shipped into the country a few days ago. Congrats to him. See more photos below  

9 year old twin brothers Patrick and Thomas O'Driscoll were stabbed to death yesterday September 4th by their older half brother Jonathan, 20, who then killed himself about an hour later. Read the full story below... Nine-year-old Patrick and Thomas O’Driscoll were dressed in their school uniforms when found dead in separate bedrooms by their younger brothers, aged three and five. Their half-sibling Jonathan, 20, sped from the scene in Charleville, Co Cork, and was discovered hanged 15km away. The tragic boys’ parents Tom and Ellen were shopping in nearby Kilmallock, Limerick, at the time.A security source told the Irish Mirror : “It was a frenzied attack, the boys were stabbed multiple times. It’s understood there are psychological issues involved.” Other sources last night claimed Jonathan was adopted before the O’Driscolls later went on to have the twins. The nine-year-olds, who were being minded by older sibling Jonathan, died in separate bedrooms hours afte...

When some people told Nuhu Ribadu that he is not yet a political heavy-weight, he did not agree. Now the saga is getting clearer and interesting. Eight of the 14 aspirants jostling for Adamawa Governorship ticket under the PDP stepped down from the race in the early hours of Friday. After about four hours meeting with the aspirants that started by 9.06 p.m on Thursday and ended around 1.00 a.m on Friday at the Banquet Hall of the State House, Senate President, David Mark along with other officials of the party were able to reach a compromise with the aspirants and pruned down the number of those contesting to six. The six aspirants still in the race for the party’s ticket on Saturday are: Ahmed Gulak, Buba Marwa, Ahmed Modibbo, Umar Ardo, Jerry Kumdisi and Ag Gov Umaru Fintiri. Those who were made to withdraw from the primary election are Nuhu Ribadu; Auwal Tukur; Aliyu Idi Hong, Andrawus Sawa; James Barka; Gen. Aliyu Kama; Markus Gundiri and Abubakar Girei. It was agreed at th...