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Norway (AP) — Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India on Wednesday received the Nobel Peace Prize for risking their lives to fight for working to protect children from slavery, extremism and child labor at great risk to their own lives. The 17-year-old Malala, the youngest ever Nobel winner, and Satyarthi, 60, collected the award at a ceremony in the Norwegian capital to a standing ovation. Saying that all children have a right to childhood and education, Nobel committee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland said "this world conscience can find no better expression" than through this year's winners. In his speech to the gathering before Norwegian royalty, Jagland related how Malala was shot in the head and critically wounded by a Taliban gunman two years ago. He said Islamic extremist groups dislike knowledge because it is a condition for freedom. "Attendance at school, especially by girls, deprives such forces from power," he sai...

A security source in Kano town has just tipped SaharaReporters of an explosion in a market situated in Kano town. According to the security source, the blast is reported at a market popularly known as Kwari Market, but the actual nature of the blast and casualty is yet to be ascertained. “Our men are on their way and I will brief you as soon as we get comprehensive details.” Also, the Police spokesperson in Kano, DCP Bagiga said he could not immediately confirm the nature of the blast. The incident is coming barely two weeks after bombers killed over 100 persons and injured about 150 at Kano Central Mosque located inside Emir’s Palace in the ancient town.

ISIS have thrown a man down to his death for being allegedly gay. The shocking images posted on the jihadi website shows about 8 men on top the roof as they flung the man down.. It is unclear if he died immediately because the harsh judgment also stated he was to be stoned after being thrown off. A statement accompanying the images read.... 'The Islamic court in Wilayet al-Furat decided that a man who has practised sodomy must be thrown off the highest point in the city,'adding that he would also be 'stoned to death.'

With the yuletide season around the corner,  desperate criminals  have been devising different means of carrying out their trade. So it was for some  armed robbers  in  Benin , Edo State, who disguised themselves as Evangelists to gain access into private residences, in the guise of preaching the gospel. But it was a bad day in the office for three of those armed men who were nabbed at Evoutubu, a settlement in the city when they gained access into a block of four flats early in the morning dressed as men of God. They had with them cut-to-size pump action guns which they used to dispossess many tenants of their belongings. Luck ran out on them when one of the members insisted on raping one of the female occupants of the flats. It was in the process of carrying out their unwholesome activities that one of the occupants to managed to escape and subsequently raise an alarm, which attracted neighbours who pursued and caught them. According t...

Founder of Liberty Foundation Gospel Ministries, Helen Ukpabio, has reportedly sued 2 UK human rights groups,  British Humanist Association (BHA) and the Witchcraft and Human Rights Information Network (WHRIN) for libel at N130 billion. Premium Times reports that Ukpabio says her teachings that a child “ under the age of two”  who exhibits certain  “symptoms ” may be possessed by vampire spirits have been misrepresented by the groups. She says that a child under the age of two who is  “possessed with black, red and vampire witchcraft spirits” can be identified by features such as s/he “screams at night, cries, is always feverish, suddenly deteriorates in health, puts up an attitude of fear, and may not feed very well,”  adding that “children who stamp their feet may be “trying to make signs… to communicate with gnomes, the witchcraft spirit in charge of the earth.” According to Premium Times, the preacher stated that the BHA and WHRIN had misr...

A Pastor claimed to have killed more than 7000 people from various parts of Kenya while on a satanic mission. 47-year-old Samuel Mwema Muli, who converted and became a pastor said he began his horrible acts in 1992 , which broke his home apart after he killed his 8-month-old son which made his wife quit the marriage. His confessions were taken by Kenya new site,  Standard Media . Here is his story: Born in Roysambu, Nairobi, Muli, who spent three years in jail for mentioning the names of powerful people as devil worshippers, went to primary school in Mathare and secondary school in the city before studying journalism. “After graduation, I was employed by a news agency in Nairobi where I overheard fellow scribes talk about devil worshipping. I did not believe the talk. But what attracted me to it was the money,” Muli claims. One Thursday evening after work, Muli says he was walking outside the KPCU Building to his Majengo house when he stumbled upon a letter add...

In what has turned out to be a sensational revelation of the happenings in a Satanic Cult, a woman who now calls herself Annabelle Forest, has told how her mother, Jacqueline Marling, and her boyfriend, Colin Batley, fored her to sleep with more than 1,800 men by the time she was 18, as part of the rituals of the sect. Annabelle, according to the  Daily Mail UK,  stated that she was initiated into the sick cult after having to watch her mother perform a sex act on the cult's ringleader, Colin Batley, at the age of seven. At 11, she was raped twice by the man, and three years later, made to take part in group sex with her mother at their home near Llanelli in Wales, where at least two other households on the street took part in cult activity. Annabelle confirmed in her book, The Devil on the Doorstep: My Escape from a Satanic Sex Cult, said Jacqueline and Colin,  systemically sexually abused her throughout her childhood, including Batley's bisexual ...

  Tonto Dikeh is ending her year on a holy note..The actress/Musician attended church this morning ..Isn't that wonderful....

The VW Golf is visible crushed beneath the rear trailer of an articulated lorry A 51-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving after the five-vehicle smash on the A120 in Colchester, when a skip lorry appeared to push a VW Golf under the back of an HGV A driver was somehow plucked alive from this horrific road smash after her car was crushed between TWO lorries. In a five-vehicle pile-up, the 27-year-old woman was hit from behind by a skip lorry and wedged under the lorry in front of her. The furthest forward lorry was hit with such force that two cars in front of it were also damaged. The Golf driver, from Colchester, was flown to the Royal London Hospital and early indications are she may have escaped without life-threatening or life-changing injuries - which police described as "extremely unlikely". A 51-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving, causing a collision and on suspicion of being under the influence of...

A rapper shot his TV star wife dead before turning the gun on himself at an upmarket apartment complex where numerous British celebrities live when they're in Los Angeles. Earl Hayes, who was once signed to boxer Floyd Mayweather, killed stunning Stephanie Moseley, a dancer and actress who starred in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, following a huge row yesterday morning. Witnesses say there were ten gun shots heard and Mayweather was on FaceTime to Hayes when the incident happened. He is now being treated as a witness to the suicide murder. Residents at the high end gated community were left shocked – particularly as it is the place where Brit stars live when they try to crack Hollywood. Russell Brand used to have a three-bedroom penthouse at the Palazzo East apartments before he bought his home in the Hollywood Hills, Strictly hunk Thom Evans lived there until a few months ago, as does judge Bruno Tonioli when he is in LA to work on Dancing With The St...

The APC Presidential Primaries is currently going at Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos. There are reports that 12 APC governors have endorsed Buhari. The governors are: Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara), Ibrahim Geidam (Yobe), Kashim Shettima (Borno), Tanko Al-Makura (Nasarawa), Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara), Babatunde Fashola (Lagos), Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo), Adams Oshiomhole (Edo), Rauf Aregbesola (Osun), Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto) and Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers). 

Speaking at the weekend during the presentation of the new cars, Aganga said that by producing a truly made-in Nigeria car, the company has put Nigeria in the global map of car manufacturing countries. IVC located in Nnewi, Anambra State. Chief Willie Obiano, Anambra State governor, added that the initiative and efforts of the managing director and chief executive officer of the company, Dr. Innocent Chukwuma in expanding the state’s industrial base.  

PEOPLES Democratic Party (PDP) leader in Ogun State, Prince Buruji Kashamu, on Tuesday, said he would file contempt charges against former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, for going ahead to launch his controversial book. The former president had, on Tuesday, against court restriction, held the public presentation of his memoir and autobiography, “My Watch,” in Lagos. Reacting to the development, Kashamu said the action by Chief Obasanjo, again, confirmed the former president’s “knack for lawlessness and arbitrariness.” According to him, Obasanjo, by this act, had “shown that he does not have respect for the judiciary. “I have asked my lawyers to press criminal contempt charges against him and all those who assisted him in flouting the orders of the court. “I will ensure that they are all dragged before the court, and particularly, Obasanjo, without his cap, to show why he should not punished for criminal contempt.”

This TV presenter dressed like this to the South South Music Awards which held in Benin this past Sunday. 

Abiola Olaleye, a 400 level student of Tourism Department at Redeemer's University Ede, Ogun state died on Monday Dec. 8th just six months before he was due to graduate from the university. According to his friends, Abiola fell ill a few weeks ago and was taken to the school's hospital where he was for a while receiving treatment. But when his condition didn't improve, his parents took him out of the school hospital and moved him to a hospital in Lagos where he later died. Now some of his friends are blaming his death on the poor medical facility of their school. They alleged that the table water he was given had no NAFDAC number and that the food provided by the school is bad. They also accused the school's VC of mismanagement. Continue... Some of the things the students wrote on instagram...  Abiola Olaleye's chat before he passed...

In recent days,Drake has been hounded by rumours. First was Chris Brown calling him out for having secret dates with Karruche, then It's reported that Pdiddy punched him for being disrespectful. As he says"either way,the name poppin"

A serving police officer attached to the  Jigawa State  Police Command has been arrested by the  Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps , NSCDC, in the state for allegedly  raping  his mother-in-law. In a press statement released by the command led by Dr Muhammad Gidado, the erring polieman was caught red handed having sex with his mother-in-law in Duste municipal council, the capital of the state. The statement reads: "A police officer (names withheld) was arrested for having sex with the wife of his father-in-law in Dutse, Jigawa State capital. The suspect admitted to committing the crime and rendered a written apology and undertaking to his father-in-law." The command head further explained that investigations were being carried out into the matter, after which the suspect would be arraigned in court.