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The United States and its allies have started airstrikes against the ISIL terrorist group in Syria, the Pentagon says. "I can confirm that US military and partner nation forces are undertaking military action against ISIL terrorists in Syria using a mix of fighter, bomber and Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles," Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby said in a statement issued on Monday night. He added that the head of US Central Command, General Lloyd Austin, decided to launch airstrikes inside Syria on Monday "under authorization granted [to] him by the commander-in-chief.” "We will provide more details later as operationally appropriate," Kirby stated. The ISIL terrorists, who were initially trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, control large parts of Syria's northern territory. ISIL sent its fighters into Iraq in June, quickly seizing vast expanse of land straddling the border between the two countrie...

Reporter Bayo Akinloye was one of those at the Synagogue church when T.B Joshua offered N50k to journalists. He says Nicholas wasn't the only journalist who refused the money and says Nicholas maligning his colleagues is sad, evil and unprofessional. See more tweets below

The Defence Headquarters spokesman, Gen Chris Olukolade has denied claims he issued a statement earlier today confirming the release of some Chibok girls. See more tweets below

A 55 year old man named Chief Jude Dike (pictured above) who police say is the sponsor and leader of a 7-man gang was today September 23rd paraded alongside six other members of his gang at the Lagos state police headquarters in Ikeja. The others paraded were; Joel Eghon, 38, Solomon Igwe, 32, Ifeanyi Onwuegbuchi, 34, Emmanuel Ifeanyi, 34, Ejike Emegwo, 31, and Leonard Afoaku, 39. See more photos below    According to PM news, Chief Dike, a resident of Ajegunle, confessed to being the sponsor of the robbers by providing them with weapons for their operation and facilitating the sales of whatever they steal from any of their operations. Speaking on how they were arrested, the State Commissioner of Police, Cornelius Aderanti said on September 20th, information got to him that some armed robbers who had earlier snatched a Toyota Hiace bus around Ebute Metta were planning another operation. He immediately instructed men of the State Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, to chase a...

Remember the lady who said she got a third boob implant to scare men away? (read  here ) Well, she lied. The boobs are fake - a 3 breast prosthesis. TMZ just exposed her. In today's world, some people will do almost anything to be famous. See the TMZ reports below... The woman claiming to have 3 boobs is a fraud, a fake ... and ironically what exposed her lie is a crime someone committed against her.Jasmine Tridevil has been making the rounds, claiming she got plastic surgery to net her an additional boob.  But we got a document from the Tampa International Airport Police Dept. describing a baggage theft. According to the doc ... someone stole a bunch of luggage off an American Airlines conveyor belt, including a black nylon roller bag.Cops caught the thieves after IDing them with surveillance video.   The black bag belonged to Tridevel, but before she got it back it was inventoried by police as part of the case against the crooks.Guess what was inside the bag...

The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre), a non-governmental organization whose mandate is to promote and protect human rights, has called for a complete investigation and prosecution of Modu Sheriff, former Borno State governor, and former army Chief of Staff Azubuike Ihejirika, following allegations that the pair sponsored Boko Haram terrorists in their ramage in northeastern Nigeria. In a letter to Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda of the International Criminal Court, Olanrewaju Suraju, Chairman of HEDA, called for a "comprehensive examination" of these accusations, as Nigeria is subject to ICC rules and regulations. The prosecutor spoke out against the Boko Haram menace in April 2014.  "With your public admittance of Boko Haram's activities as qualifying for crimes against humanity, we shall not bother with further legal points to qualify these atrocities under the Rome Statute," Suraju says. "It is also instructive to...

According to the earlier report, which the Nigeria military has since denied, two Toyota Hiace buses carrying girls suspected to be Chibok girls this afternoon drove into Maimalari Barracks, the headquarters of the 7th Division of the Nigerian army in Maimalari with heavy security...but the military is now saying the bus load of individuals were not Chibok girls

Found this breaking news report on  Premium Times . Apparently the Nigeria military said today that some schoolgirls abducted from Chibok town in April this year had been rescued by Nigerian troops only to retract the statement minutes later. Read the report below... The Defence Headquarters has retracted its earlier statement confirming the rescue of the abducted Chibok girls. The spokesperson for the defence headquarters, Chris Olukolade, had told Premium Times that a yet unclear number of the girls had been freed and driven in two Toyota Hiace buses to the Maimalari Barracks, the headquarters of the 7th Division of the Nigerian Army in Maiduguri. But less than 30 minutes after he spoke to us, Mr. Olukolade called back to say he was withdrawing his earlier statement. He said he had been having difficulty establishing contact with his colleagues in Maiduguri and that he was no longer sure that the girls driven into the barracks were newly rescued. Mr. Olukolade ...

A soldier with 3 Battalion Effurun in Delta state, was yesterday September 22nd arrested by his command after he physically assaulted and shaved the hair of one Reverend Felix Omas, the General overseer and founder of Tower of Faith Ministries at Aleghor road checkpoint in Effurun, Delta state. Narrating his ordeal in the hands of the soldier, the elderly clergyman said;  “I was driving in my SUV, but due to the traffic situation, I boarded a tricycle. The soldiers stopped our tricycle as we were coming from Alegbor, forcibly seated me on the ground as one of them pulled a scissors and stroke three ugly cuts on my hair, saying my hair style violates their rules.” He said he could not protest the action of the soldier because he was carrying a gun. The soldier's command got wind of the his unruly action and arrested him. According to a military source in the battalion, the soldier will be charged for improper action.

According to Encomium mag, former Governor of Abia state, Orji Uzor Kalu, now has the most expensive private jet in Nigeria. The jet, which is the latest edition of the Gulfstream G650, is said to be worth about N12billion and arrived the Murtala Mohammed International Airport Lagos on Thursday September 18th from New York. Described as the fastest civilian jet in the world, the PJ boasts of a basketball court, 8,000 statute-mile range, some of the most sophisticated avionics rivaling nearly anything in the sky and uses two Rolls Royce BR725 engines. The main price of the aircraft is put at $65 million but other charges could have raised it to $75m. According to Forbes, the Gulfstream G650 has an order book of 200 customers throughout the world.

Nicholas Ibekwe is the journalist who published the audio recording of T.B Joshua offering N50k to journalist to give his church favorable coverage (read  here ). He took to his blog today to explain why he did it. Find it below The last 72 hours were probably the most intense in my life. The love, kind words and support I’ve received in that period from, mostly, total strangers have been overwhelming. I want to thank everybody who saw the good in what I did. Though, to be honest, I think it was a little stupid. What was I thinking putting my life and probably my career on the line in an attempt to change something so entrenched it seems unchangeable?  But really I’m not fazed by the trash talk from those allergic to the truth. It’s a long time coming and someone has to put the Big Ben on the fat cat, I guess. During the same period I’ve also been insulted like never before. I’ve been called the most uncomplimentary names and all the curses in Deuteronomy hurled t...

37 year old Dale Decker (pictured above with his wife) says his life is being ruined by having 100 orgasms a day. Speaking for the first time about his near-constant erection which he says he doesn't enjoy and says has cost him friends and destroyed his family, Dave says he hardly goes out because of the embarrassment he feels when the orgasms start coming in public places... According to the UK Mirror, Dave's condition is called Persistent Genital Arousal Syndrome which he developed in September 2012 when he slipped a disk in his back while getting out of a chair. "Imagine being on your knees at your father's funeral beside his casket - saying goodbye to him and then you have nine orgasms right there, while your whole family is standing behind you. It makes you never want to have another orgasm for as long as you live. There's nothing pleasurable about it because even though it might feel physically good - you're completely disgusted by what...

The Synagogue Church of All Nations guest house collapse and the number of dead South Africans is fuelling anti-Nigerian sentiments in South Africa. Unconfirmed reports on Monday say some Nigerians were attacked in the aftermath in an area in the outskirts of Johannesburg. But reacting to this, the South African National Police Commissioner General, Reah Phiyega, told Channels Television’s correspondent, Betty Dibiah, in Pretoria, that she was yet to receive such a report, promising that the agency would investigate the allegations. “This is no time for finger-pointing but a time for all affected to deal with the disaster as one,” she said. A South African Minister with the Presidency, Jeff Radebe, had earlier told reporters on Monday that the death toll from the collapsed building had risen to 115, a figure that is contrary to that of the Nigerian government’s emergency management agency, NEMA, which was put at 86. Giving the figures to reporters at the premises of ...

21 year old Russian student Daria Radionova spent £20,000 to cover her £25,000 2011 Mercedes CLS 350 with one million Swarovski crystals. After blinging her car, she parked it outside the Levin Hotel near Harrods in Knightsbridge, London for the world to see it. Explaining why she did it, the business student said "I wanted to have something unique and do something special. The people who did it came over from Russia and worked for 12 hours a day for two months on the car. I am really happy with it and I am looking forward to driving it around. It has only just been finished and everywhere I go people stop to have a look at it. It gets lots of attention from people walking by and in cars. Sometimes I think they might crash. Everyone is taking pictures of it. When I sell the car I will give the money to charity." See more pics of the car below