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The PDP today conducted a screening exercise for President Jonathan at the party secretariat in Abuja. According to the party leadership, the screening process was necessary in order to comply with the processes leading to the primaries and ratification of political aspirants of the party. At the end of the exercise, President Jonathan was handed a certificate of clearance.  Meanwhile Abdujalil Balewa, the son of the late Nigerian Prime Minister, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, who was also at the party secretariat for the presidential screening announced he was stepping down.

Here are some images showing the living condition of people at the Internally Displaced camp in Yola, Adamawa state, after fleeing their homes following Boko Haram attacks. See more photos below Photo credit: Bukky Shonibare of Bring back at our girls group

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This randy man got  four female prison officials pregnant while serving   a 20 year jail sentence for  attempted murder inside a Baltimore City Detention Centre.   Tavon White, known as 'Kingpin' ran a   vast drugs smuggling business from inside the prison, CBS Baltimore reports.   Prosecutors say he made $10,000 to $20,000 a week smuggling drugs and cell phones into the prison and befriended the female guards who helped to make his business easy. He rewarded them with sex and got 4 pregnant. Two of the women even tattooed his name on their body. Five officers of the corrupt prison, Tavon & two other inmates are now facing charges of conspiracy, drug distribution and money laundering.

ISIS have pledged to send militants to fight police in Ferguson, Missouri as long as they accept to join Islam..Following protests against the Micheal Brown ruling, many took to the streets to protest the non-indictment of the police officer who killed the teen. Islamic extremists have now used the opportunity to pass chilling messages .Using the slogan 'From #IS 2 Ferguson', jihadi Junaid Hussain, 20 this morning tweeted a photograph of a hand-written letter urging the Ferguson rioters which reads.. Accept Islam & give bayah [allegiance] to Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi & then we will send u soldiers that don't sleep! - #IS #Ferguson' 'We hear you and we will help you if you accept Islam and reject corrupt man-made laws like democracy and pledge your allegiance to Caliph Abu Bakr and then we will shed our blood for you and send our soldiers that don't sleep, whose drink is blood, and their play is carnage.'  See more belo...

Nigerian prosecutors opened their case on Wednesday against a 14-year-old girl accused of murdering her 35-year-old husband, with testimony from a child allegedly sent to buy the murder weapon: rat poison. Wasila Tasi’u, from a poor, rural family ,could face the death penalty if convicted in a case that has outraged rights activists who say a girl who married a man more than twice her age should be treated as a victim, not a criminal. According to  Vanguard , Prosecutor Lamido Abba Soron-Dinki’s first witness was a seven-year-old girl identified as Hamziyya, who was living in the same house as Tasi’u and her husband Umar Sani, when the child-bride allegedly laced his food with rat poison. Hamziyya was identified as the sister of Sani’s “co-wife”, referring to a woman the deceased farmer had married previously.The seven-year-old testified that Tasi’u gave her 80 naira ($0.45, 0.36 euros) to buy rat poison from a local shop on April 5, the day Sani die...

Find the EFCC statement below The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday November 26, arraigned a 77- year- old woman, Alhaja Mulikat Shonekan and two others: Martins Ogiogwa, 40 and Mujekanm Petroleum Nigeria Company Limited, before Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of Lagos State High Court, Ikeja on a 5-count - charge bordering on conspiracy to obtain money under false pretence and issuance of dud cheque. They pleaded not guilty to the charges when they were read to them. Counsel to 1st and 3rd accused persons, Bamidele Ogundele, tabled an application for bail, asking the court to grant them bail on the grounds of old age and heath condition; emphasizing that the septuagenarian would not jump bail. Also, second defendant, Austine Akpomreta, presented his bail application, and prayed the court to grant his request. While opposing the bail applications, the prosecuting counsel, Anslem Ozioko asked for a trial date. Justice Ipaye how...

House Committee Members this afternoon walked out on the Inspector general of police, Sulaiman Abba, after he refused to address Speaker Aminu Tambuwal properly when he appeared before the House of Representatives Police Committee today after several days of ignoring their invitation According to  Sahara Reporters ; while trying to explain why his men invaded the National Assembly last week, the IGP said 'they had credible intelligence that some thugs had planned on causing mayhem at the resumed sitting of the house." Now here's where it gets interesting...lol. The IGP said 'one Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal led a group of thugs to overpower the security at the first gate. A move he claimed led the police to lock down the second gate and fire a canister of teargas.   His reference to the “Speaker of the House as “one Alhaji Tambuwal” made the committee members mad. Continue... They asked the IGP to properly address the speaker of the house accor...

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Joan Collins has spoken on camera for the first time about being raped by her future husband Maxwell Reed. Speaking to former Israeli Miss World, Linor Abargil, who was raped herself six weeks before being crowned the tittle, 81 year old Joan said: “I was raped when I was seventeen years old.”' The attack occurred while she was on a date with Maxwell Reed, who went on to be her first husband – he passed away in 1974.On the evening Michael went to take a bath leaving a young and somewhat naïve Joan to read some books and drink a rum and coke.But Joan was surprised by the books content: “The books were porn, which I’d never seen before. Hardcore porn.”The next thing I knew, I was out flat on the sofa in that living room and he was raping me.And what he had given me was a drug. He had drugged my drink. “It was what is called in those days a Mickey Finn. Which I think today would be Rohypnol. It felt so horrible. That I...that I'd done this thing.” ...

Because a couple 'quarreled' on their hotel balcony, their marriage is over? That's what Intouch mag is claiming after photos showing them having a heated conversation in Australia last week hit the net. An eyewitness told InTouch: 'When Brad threw up his arms, you could see the frustration on his face. He was clearly exasperated with her. They kept talking over each other and putting their hands up in anger. They were upset but getting nowhere. Angie looked like she was on the verge of tears.'  And because of that their marriage is over? Lol. See more pics from their heated talk on the balcony below  Photo credit: Xposurephotos.com