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In a few hours the couple would be married for 5 years. The got married in the midnight of 1st December 2001. Still going strong..

THE Austrian government has contacted the Nigerian Police over the death of an Edo State-born lady, Ms Rose Aifuwa, who was allegedly murdered on Christmas eve by her boyfriend, Festus, popularly known as Two Million. The incident occurred at Upper Mission Extension in Benin. The suspect allegedly knocked the mother of three down with his car, which dragged her for over 500 meters, after the deceased requested the suspect to pay her money, estimated at over N10 million. Vanguard learned from the state Police command that the Austrian government had called to find out what happened, following information that the deceased flew into Nigeria with her Austrian passport. It was learned that the suspect, who is a spare parts dealer, was married to an Igbo woman here in Nigeria, but had been overseeing his lover’s investment here in Nigeria. It was gathered that the deceased, who has a dual citizenship, had been supplying the suspect with spare parts for s...

The Nigerian Army said on Wednesday that the need to reduce collateral damage had delayed the recapture of some towns and villages seized by insurgents in Borno. Brig.-Gen. Olajide Laleye, the Director, Army Public Relations, gave the explanation while fielding questions at news conference in Abuja. Vanguard reports “We are not interested in collateral damage. “The Nigeria Army is very careful about collateral damage, to that extent our operations are carefully planned to make sure that collateral damage is reduced to the barest minimum. “If certain areas have not been recaptured it is because the Nigerian army is giving such areas very careful plans, the plans are ongoing. “At the right time you will see the outcome; we will not tell you, of course, before hand, of what we intend to do; but you will see the outcome,’’ Laleye said. According to him, Nigerians will be pleased at the end of such operations that collateral damage is reduced ...

Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Salvation Force, NDPSF, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari has again stated that desperate politicians from the northern Nigeria are ungrateful parasites who have not appreciated the south and especially the Niger-Delta for depending on their oil proceeds over the years. Asari’s outburst was a reaction to the comments recently made by the Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido that staunch supporters of President Goodluck Jonathan such as Asari and Chief Edwin Clarke were making incisive statements in their bid to secure a second term for Jonathan. Lamido had in his statements decried the candidacies of Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and General Muhammadu Buhari of All Progressives congress, APC. He was quoted as saying that the duo were capable of setting Nigeria ablaze with their ambition. But reacting to the statement, Asari who was also the former national President of Ijaw Youth Council, IYC and J...

17 year old Leelah (Josh) Alcorn committed  suicide  on Sunday December 28th by walking in front of a tractor trailer and left a suicide note before he died. But when her mum reacted to her death on Facebook, she wrote something that many folks in the gay/transgender world are very upset about. First the mother said she was 16 when Leelah wrote she was 17. Carla called her Joshua instead of the name she'd given herself, Leelah and she also refused to acknowledge that Leelah had committed suicide instead she wrote that she was hit by a trailer. Meaning that she still doesn't accept who Leelah was as a person even after she committed suicide. After the backlash, Carla deleted the post and removed herself from Facebook. Leelah Alcorn blamed his suicide on his Christian parents... Leelah's parents

He posted the pic above of that lovely house and wrote that below....

Two German Nationals have been shot dead in Nigeria. According to German newspaper, Ostsee Zeitung, the two nationals, both male aged 34 and 20 were working as engineers at Julius Berger and were shot dead last Saturday December 27th while riding on a motorbike in Abuja. Confirming the incident to AFP, a foreign affairs official said “Unfortunately we can confirm that two German nationals were killed in Nigeria last weekend".

Nice Family

Khloe Kardashian looked stunning in a little black sequined dress as she hosted a pre-New Year's Eve party at 1OAK Nightclub inside the Mirage Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on Tuesday Dec. 30th.

Speechless. And there are people who lost their lives in the accident. Begin to count your blessings!

D'banj and other stars he collaborated with won Best Africa Collaboration for Cocoa Na Chocolate at the recently held All Africa Music Award. List of nominees in his category below... David O and Mafikizolo (Tchelete) Diamond platnumz ft david o(number one) Uhuru ft Dj bucks,Oskido, Professor and uri-da-cunh (Y-tjukutja) Dbanj  and Friends (cocoa Na Chocolate) Mavins/don jazzy (dorobucci ) See him lying next to his plaque, with his chains and Rolex watch also chilling

Here's Gen. Buhari's New Year message to Nigerian youths... As we welcome the year 2015, I have shared a message to Nigerians in general, but I find it crucial to send another message directly to Nigeria’s youth, who are the major stakeholders of this enterprise. The year 2014 was a challenging one for most citizens of our dear country. We remember our compatriots who were brutishly killed or maimed by evil terrorists in 2014. I remember with a still broken heart that 219 of our children from Chibok are yet missing, let down by a country that should protect them. I remember that, even as I speak, some of our towns and villages are yet under the occupation of Boko Haram. Yes, it is enough for you to despair. It is enough for you to wonder if your country cares about you and can protect you. But do not despair. 2015 has arrived at a time of great discomfort; but the beauty of the New Year is that we can look forward with renewed hope and the knowledg...

Text of the New Year message to Nigerians by the National Leader of the APC, Bola Tinubu... As we enter a New Year today, it is all too easy to give in to despair and despondency at the current state of Nigeria. The gap between our tremendous potentials as a country and our actual attainments is depressing and disheartening. For a country as endowed with human, material and natural resources as Nigeria, the level of poverty in which the vast majority of our people live is appalling and unacceptable.  The voodoo statistics of illusory growth and progress peddled by those currently in charge of Nigeria’s affairs do not reflect the dire material circumstances of millions of Nigerians. The ever widening inequality between the wealthy minority and the impoverished majority is fueled largely by a scale of corruption and outright theft of public funds that have reached unprecedented heights in today’s Nigeria.  All of these are responsible for the large scale manif...

Suspected members of Boko Haram killed at least 15 people in a fresh attack on Kautikari, a village near Chibok community in Borno state on Monday December 29th. "They were about 20, well-armed. They came in four-wheel drive vehicles and some motorcycles. Initially, I thought they were soldiers. The man running behind me was gunned down as I was fleeing. Afterwards, there were 15 people lying dead in the streets,” ,” a survivor, Jonah Umaru, told newsmen on phone.

When you are big, you are big! 

A health worker who was diagnosed with  Ebola  in  Glasgow , Scotland  has now been transferred to a hospital in London. The unidentified patient, a female, will receive treatment at the Royal Free hospital in the British capital. She arrived at the hospital on Tuesday, December 30 in an ambulance which was guarded by police officers. "We think so far certainly the clinical care for her is going as expected,"  The Director for Health Protection at Public Health England,  Paul Cosford , said on BBC radio. The infected woman is a National Health Service worker, who had been working with the charity, Save the Children in Sierra Leone before her arrival into Glasgow on Sunday, December 28, aboard a British Airways flight. Authorities in Scotland have said that the disease was diagnosed in its early stages so the risk of transmission to others is low.

A desperate  Bakassi  refugee in  Cross River State  has been forced to use his 12-year-old daughter as collateral for a loan which he is now unable to repay. Edet Okon  in a bid to save his older daughter from death by cancer used her sister as a bargaining chip to acquire a sum of N600, 000. However, the sick daughter,  Blessing  died, in 2013 and the younger one, Mary is forced to remain in slavery due to her father’s inability to pay back the money he borrowed. Okon told Punch of his ordeal: “I was desperate to save Blessing from dying. Her situation had become critical at that time. That was the only thing I could do to salvage the situation. I am heartbroken. I don’t know what came over me. It was sheer desperation I gave out my daughter so that the man would accept to give us the money,”  he said. Mary on the other hand opened up on her life in slavery: “The man my father is owing has three female children and...

A 16-year-old girl in Delta State has given birth to triplets, according to reports. Helen Ezeh delivered the babies in Owhelogbo community, in the Isoko North Local Government Area of the state, Leadership reports. The children were said to have been born prematurely, after just seven months of pregnancy. However, both the mother of the children and the newborns are doing well. The father of the children, John Eyavoro has also reportedly given thanks to God for the miraculous birth... S ource

Drinking water pipes at Ijora-Badia In the second part of his report,  KUNLE FALAYI  takes on the Lagos State Water Corporation armed with the report of a chemical analysis done on a sample of the contaminated water which some Lagos residents drink oblivious of the dangers they face At Ijora-Badia, one of Lagos’ most notorious slums, living around dirt is obviously not strange to the residents. But the water they buy from vendors who get their supply from the Lagos State Water Corporation may be doing them more harm than good. A sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation, which is Target 10 under Goal Seven of the Millennium Development Goals, continues to be an illusion to people like the residents of this area. According to the United Nations, at least 783 million people the world over lack access to clean water. Our correspondent noticed that many residents of the Ijora-Badia community dispose of their human wastes in open sewers while...