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Today is Jay Jay Okocha's wife's birthday...and the ex-footballer invited close friends to their home this afternoon to celebrate with them.  Jay Jay has been married to Nkechi Okocha for 17 years and they have two children together.

An Abeokuta Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday remanded a 24-year-old man, Adedeji Adeniyi, in prison over alleged murder of his friend, Akeem Agbadaowo, 25. The Chief Magistrate, Anthony Araba, ordered that the accused be kept behind bars pending advice from the State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). The accused, whose address is unknown, is facing a charge of murder. The prosecutor, Insp. Sunday Eigbejiale told the court that the accused committed the offence on May 3 at about 9.50 p.m. at Mokola area of Ogun capital. He said the accused unlawfully killed his friend, Akeem Agbadaowo, by attacking him with a machete and a broken bottle during a dispute. Eigbejiale said the offence contravened Sections 316 and 324 of the Criminal Law of Ogun, 2006. The chief magistrate adjourned the case till Jan. 9, 2015. Vanguard

US billionaire businessman Donald Trump is one of the millions of people around the world who feel Oscar Pistorius got a light sentence today in the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva. And trust Donald to speak his mind. He called judge Masipa a moron for giving Oscar just five years.

Isis (Islamic State) has reportedly stoned a woman to death for adultery in Syria's Hama region, according to a graphic video published online. Dramatic footage shows an Islamic State militant instructing the woman that the sentence "is God's sharia and so she has to be content and happy about the stoning". He is depicted with a hand on the shoulders of the woman's father. The jihadist says that she had an affair out of her marriage and thus violated God's law. He then asks her if she's happy with the punishment, to which the woman is heard saying "yes". Before the stoning takes place, the father has the chance to forgive his daughter for her "crime"- but refuses to do so. After seemingly being persuaded by IS, the father of the girl tells her: "Don't call me father." He straps her with a rope and leads her to a hole in the ground before the stoning takes place. A number of men, including her fat...

Christophe de Margerie, the Chairman and CEO of giant oil company, Total, died in plane crash last night October 20th in Russia. He was 63. According to a statement released by airport authorities early this morning, de Margerie's private plane collided with a snowplow on the runway of Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow as it was accelerating for takeoff just a few minutes before midnight. They also said in the statement that the driver of the snowplow was intoxicated. The business jet's three crew members also died. The chief executive who was based in Paris, France had gone t to Russia to attend a meeting of corporate executives with Prime Minister Dmitri A. Medvedev and was returning to Paris when the accident occurred. He is survived by a wife and children. May his soul rest in peace...amen. Total released a statement on their website this morning, confirming his death. See below Paris: Total confirms with deep regret and great sadness that Chairman and...

Nigerian terror group Boko Haram is believed to have abducted 40 women in Adamawa State. The mass kidnapping occurred during attacks carried out by the militants in the northern village of Wagga at the weekend, local reports said. The attacks also killed dozens of people in the towns of Damboa and Sabon Gida and the Shaffa village in Borno State. The abduction cast further doubts on the alleged ceasefire that the Nigerian government claimed it had reached with the terrorist group on Friday (17 October). During talks, Boko Haram allegedly committed itself to releasing the 220 girls it kidnapped in Chibok, in Borno, last April. Enoch Mark, whose daughter and niece are among the missing Chibok girls, confirmed the recent abduction in Wagga. According to critics and anti-terrorism experts, the alleged ceasefire should not be confirmed as the terrorists' leader, Abubakar Shekau, did not release any official statement regarding the truce. "The l...

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has described the newly built Government House in the state as a show of wickedness to the people of the state by the immediate past Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi. Fayose, in a statement by his Special Assistant Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said the new government house was an act of insensitivity to the plight of Ekiti State people, many of whom cannot afford to feed once in a day. Speaking with newsmen in Ado-Ekiti on Monday, Olayinka said no progressive minded Ekiti State person would see the out-of-this-world luxury provided with over N3.3 billion borrowed fund for Fayemi, his wife and children and will not weep for the state and its people. Olayinka, who said Fayose was alarmed at the waste of Ekiti State resources to provide comfort for a single family out of the thousands of households in the state, added: “The governor would have preferred to sell out the property and use the fund to provide bas...

The story was seen on SDK's blog and it goes like this:  ''Stella good day. Am shaking right now. What kind of life is this? Why are men so useless? Why? As I type this I am in the hospital at the waiting room. I went to the village for a wedding so I decided to visit my cousin. We were gisting and gisting when ‎her 5yrs old daughter came in and started walking somehow. She was so cold.  You need to see the fear in her eyes like a lost child. She started crying and pointing to her vjayvjay. Her mum started shouting "shay u don piss for body again". I told the mum to hold on because I noticed she was bleeding. I quickly asked her to come and I checked.  Oh lord! Stella what I saw! I just burst out crying and told the my cousin her daughter has been raped. I asked the child who touched you. She said "uncle stanley beat me and put his pee pee inside my wee wee" I asked who is uncle stanley. Lo and behold. He is a youth corper living in ...

Some students of the Nigerian Law School have responded to the statements made by the Director of Administration of the Law School yesterday (read  here ), calling it appalling, contradictory and a blatant lie. They have written to explain some facts that they say are easily evidenced by the law school records. Find the statement below...  The Nigerian Law School has issued a statement in the media claiming that the mass failure of the 2014 results is a lie. It is so unfortunate that an institution like the Nigerian Law School and its new acting DG cannot even stand by their actions and tell the truth.  The Nigerian law school is meant to be an institution that breeds future legal practitioners and Judges of this great country. The mass failure of 5800 students is no joke and cannot be kept hidden. There are some students that their whole community or villages had to pull their resources together before paying their tuition fees. Some students parents had...

It was a sad end for Pastor Augustine Kadurumba of the Mountain of Solution Ministry, Akesan who was arrested and charged before Ejigbo Magistrate’s court for impersonation and unlawful possession of Nigeria police Identity card in Lagos State Western Nigeria. The c ourt ordered him to be remanded in prison custody at Kirikiri, Lagos. Kadurumba who resides at 20 Benson Onyeacholam street, Igando, was dismissed from police 19 years ago as constable for gross misconduct by the Nigerian Police Force. That did not stop him from parading himself as policeman until he was eventually arrested. Police sources said Kadurumba who hails from Imo state promoted himself to the rank of police Sergeant and upgraded his identity card as his mates still serving got promoted to that rank. He was alleged to have been using the identity card to extort, harass and intimidate innocent people for about 19 years. Police sources said Kadurumba reportedly continuously promoted and upgraded...

A 30-year old woman, Uju Okeke has been arrested by the police for attempting to kill her neighbour’s two-year old boy, Bright Paul by hitting him with a big stone in Lagos State Western Nigeria. Uju Okeke reportedly hit the victim, Bright Paul with a big stone on his head to avenge a quarrel she previously had with the victim’s mother. The incident happened at 7 Opawande street, Obawole area of Lagos where they reside. Although Paul did not die, he was seriously wounded and had bruises on his body. He was taken to a hospital where he is being treated. The matter was reported at the police who arrested and charged her to court with assault under the Criminal Code. She was charged before Ojokoro Magistrate’s court for the alleged offence. Neighbours who did not want to be named wondered why Okeke would chose to punish the little boy for a sin he knew nothing about. P.M. NEWS learnt that the suspect had quarrel with the victim’s mother over an undisclosed matter. ...

Omonigho Abraham, the four-year-old boy who was attacked by two dogs in the Igando area of Lagos State, has said the police and the government must ensure that the dogs that almost took his life are killed. (Read it HERE ) The little boy, who is in the Burns and Plastic Ward of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, told PUNCH Metro on Monday that he would not return home until the dogs were dead. The victim, who still had a bandaged head, said he tried to run from the dogs when they started to attack him but he was overwhelmed. Narrating his ordeal, he said, “I was playing with my brothers when the dogs entered our flat. I could not jump, so they bit my head. I pinched Gaddafi (one of the dogs), but he did not leave me. It was when I heard the voice of my mummy that I woke up. I want them to kill the dogs; I won’t return home.” Omonigho, whose face was still marred with signs of the attack, wore a sad countenace when he saw the gory pictures of ...

THE Rivers State Police Command says kidnappers in the state have changed their mode of operation. The police said the new method being employed by kidnappers was to first abduct their victims and force them to reveal their ATM Personal Identification Numbers. The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ahmad Mohammad, said after withdrawing the money, the kidnappers would then release their victims. He urged members of the public to be wary of how they carried their ATM card. He said, “The command wishes to bring to the notice of the general public of the new technique employed by criminals to drain their victims’ bank accounts by keeping them hostage and using the victims’ ATM cards to withdraw money from their account. “Such victim regains freedom only after his bank account has been exhausted. Members of the public are hereby advised to exercise caution when moving about with their ATM cards on them unless it is most necessary.” On the immediate past pres...

A 60-year-old pastor, Mr. Joseph Adebo, has been killed by armed robbers who unleashed terror on residents of Oke Ela area in Ilaro, Ogun State. Punch   learnt that the pastor was shot in the chest and his left arm by the robbers. It was further gathered that Adebo was pastor in charge of a Pentecostal church situated at Powerline, Oke Ela in Ilaro. Our correspondent learnt that the robbery gang, whose number has yet to be ascertained, stormed the area around 3am of Saturday, October 4. They were said to have fired several gunshots into the air to scare the residents as they went from one apartment to the other, dispossessing residents of their valuables. Punch learnt that when they got to Adebo’s church, an argument reportedly ensued between the robbers and the pastor during which he was shot dead, while the assailants were said to have quickly taken to their heels. The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, while confirming t...