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Damaturu, the Yobe state capital is currently under attack by members of Boko Haram. Residents of the city who are talking about it on twitter say sounds of gunshot and explosions started at about 8pm and is still ongoing. More details later.

The music star took to his twitter handle to warn against violence and the need to respect the choices and opinions of others in the weeks to come. More tweets below    

Victor Ikpeba took to his real Twitter Handle @V_Ikpeba to deny ever making that Buhari comment. Twitter handle @Ikpebaofficial tweeted  "Even if Buhari presents NEPA bill as certificate, I will vote for him, e don reach that level" . The former Super Eagles player says this is not him!

Brothers Cherif (inset top left) and Said Kouachi (inset bottom left), who attacked & killed 12 people at Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday Jan. 7th have been killed by French police in a bloody standoff. A third guy, Amedy Coulibaly (inset right), who was working with the brothers and killed a female police officer, was also killed by French police. Amedy is reported to have killed four people at the kosher grocery store (right) where he had been hiding with his girlfriend who was not caught. Full story below From UK  Daily Mail Amedy Coulibay was shot dead after taking at least six hostages at a grocery store in east Paris. He is believed to be have been working with his girlfriend Hayat Boumeddiene (right) who was said to be 'armed and dangerous' Three jihadists were dead tonight after special forces brought an end to more than two days of slaughter which have left at least 17 dead and spread terror across France. Said and Cherif Kouachi, the b...

A woman and her two children have died after she jumped from the 30th floor of an apartment building while holding her daughters, aged one and two, following a row with her boyfriend. The father of the two girls, Carlos Pinto, 33, needed to be sedated after his partner Lucia Brum Padilla grabbed their two daughters and jumped off the balcony of their flat, killing herself and the girls. Neighbours reported hearing the couple shouting and screaming at each other about his friendship with another woman. They realised things had spiralled out of control when they heard screams and passers-by saw the young woman clutching her two daughters - aged one and two - as she fell. The neighbours ran into the flat where they found Mr Pinto hysterical and restrained him as he then tried to jump from the building, located in Santiago's Estacion Central neighbourhood. Neighbour Casiana Collazo Armas, who was friends with the young woman, told local TV: ...

Commercial sex workers in the country under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Prostitutes, NANP, have thrown their weight behind the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.NANP said it would declare a-three day free sex across the country if president Jonathan eventually loses the seat to Gen. Muhammadu Buhari of APC. A statement signed by the group’s General Secretary, Jessica Elvis noted that NANP was not happy with Jonathan’s government over the way commercial sex workers were being treated in the country since he assumed office as the first citizen. Recall that the group had in 2013 declared one-week free sex after the Super Eagles defeated Burkina Faso to lift the AFCON trophy after almost 20 years. It described Jonathan’s government as the worst in the history of Nigeria, saying that it recorded the lowest income during his tenure. The statement also quoted Elvis as saying that several...

After killing 12 in a massacre that stunned the world, the two Charlie Hebdo gunmen have been killed in a firefight with French special forces, according to reports in France. The hostage, named as Michel Catalano, who taken by Said Kouachi, 34, and his brother, Cherif, 33, is believed to have been rescued alive. A few minutes later, several explosions were heard at a second hostage siege in eastern Paris where an accomplice was threatening to kill at least six captives if police stormed the Kouachi brothers. At least one hostage is also believed to have survived that siege in a kosher supermarket. The gunmen, Amedy Coulibay, was reportedly shot dead by police. The siege reached a bloody climax, with the brothers reportedly 'coming out fighting'.They had earlier told police negotiators: 'We are ready to die as martyrs'.

Former Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria, Anna Banner, has shot down rumours that she is pregnant for  Flavour. Recently, there were reports that she is also pregnant for the star who recently welcomed a child with Sandra Okagbue ..According to Netng,Anna dismissed the reports while saying she hadn't slept with a man in a long while  ‘I don’t know where those peeps got their news from, I haven’t had s *x in a while now so where did the pregnancy come from?’

Have you been wondering why our amiable president was named Goodluck? The answer has been revealed in his authorized biography..According to his mother, Madam Eunice Aye Jonathan.... “Madam Eunice recalls that there was nothing special about the day on which Goodluck was born in Otuoke. His birth was however very easy compared to her other experiences with childbirth. She recalled, “I often had prolonged labour during childbirth, sometimes for up to a wee, and because of this, I usually had still-births. But when it was the turn of Goodluck, I delivered him the very day I started having labour pains. This surprised me”. “Apart from this, Eunice, did not regard the day as extraordinary. According to her, the people of Otuoke went about their duties as usual. No dramatic event occurred. Perhaps, the fact that nothing special happened was indeed significant and the truly important event was his birth. His father also said: “ I called him Goodluck because...

Above is what Governor Fashola said about Pres. Jonathan's speech at his presidential rally in Lagos yesterday. Fashola shared his thoughts during the APC town hall meeting in Edo state yesterday

According to Julius Agwu's wife, Ibiere, it was at this wedding in 2000 they met for the first time. She was the bridesmaid and Julius was the MC at the wedding. They dated for years and got married in 2008. They have two children.

Multiple accident involving six cars and a truck occurred along Falomo bridge in Ikoyi Lagos, this afternoon. Fortunately no lives lost. Another photo below

APC Presidential aspirant Gen .  Buhari was this morning conferred the title of Ogbuagu1 (The Lion Killer) of Aba by Enyi of Aba in Abia state. He is currently in Abia state campaigning. Morephotos below  

She shared this photo on Instagram with the caption. "White". Annie is simply beautiful.

The son of actor Jackie Chan has been sentenced to six months in jail after pleaded guilty in a Beijing court to providing a venue for drug users. Police seized more than 100 grams of marijuana during an August raid at Jaycee Chan's Beijing home, while he and Taiwanese movie star Ko Kai both tested positive for the drug, it was reported. His imprisonment comes amid a major crackdown on illegal drugs in China, and is particularly embarrassing for his father, who in 2009 was named an anti-drug ambassador. 'I violated the law. I deserve to be punished. When I return to society, I won't do it again,' Chan said in courtroom footage aired on state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV). Police arrested more than 7,800 people last summer in Beijing over illegal drug use. Other celebrities, including actor Gao Hu, were also among those detained in what was described as the biggest such crackdown in two decades. Illegal drug use ha...

Well who knows if he has actually bought this car and he wants  to show it off like this. Basketmouth thinks this is what people do, celebs mostly. Go to a car shop, snap some photos and get the whole internet to talk about it. Hmm, some truths in his caption

Some of these things that I don't have full details on, I like to just post the way it was sent to me. This one is from a friend of the late woman. May her soul rest in peace, amen. Find attached photos of Owoedimo Inyang with Facebook page name of Imo Inyang whose brilliant life was cut short by a medical doctor at a government hospital in Port Harcourt. She studied MBA in Human Resources from the prestigious University of Wales in England and graduated with flying colours in 2012. She returned back to Nigeria in February 2013 and got a job with an Estate firm in Uyo, Akwa ibom State. She was admitted at the hospital in September 2014 for CS ( Cesarean section) operation which went wrong as her intestine was cut in the process and stitched up thereafter.  She only got to know few days later what the doctor had done. All effort by the family and friends to save her vibrant life proved abortive and she died in the early hours of 31st Dec.2014 and was buried on ...