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Flavour and his baby mama Sandra Okagbue loved up in new photos. The couple welcomed a baby together in September 2014. Heard they've also been loving up in Enugu.  

Jonathan with Ron Kenoly President Jonathan, Senator David Mark and top military heads converged at the Ecumenical center in Abuja to hold the  2015 Armed Forces Remembrance Day Interdenominational Church Service. More photos below

Unknown men earlier today January 11th bombed the APC secretariat in Abam Ama in Okrika Local government area in Rivers state, leaving three party members seriously injured. They are currently on admission at an undisclosed hospital.  Confirming the attack, the local government party chairman, Christian Asifamaka said the attack on the three storey building was carried out at about 3am today... "The All Progressives Congress in Okrika views this latest attack as a deliberate provocation by our opponents, the People’s Democratic Party to draw the APC into a battle that would destabilize our beloved local government area. This is unfortunate and the APC in Okrika would not allow Okrika to become a hotbed of crises as the PDP would wish.” he told newsmen. Okrika is the local government of the first lady Dame Patience Jonathan

Some guy named Lugard Ekhator is on Facebook claiming that his grand father, Pa Ekhator Onabor, is a super-centenarian - born around 1890, which would make him about 125 years old. According to the grandson, Pa Ekhator Onabor is the current Odionwere of former Ugbugo village, now Evbuohen N’Oba, near Ugo Niyekeorhionmwon, in Orhionmwon LGA of Edo State. "He married a wife who had six children for him (2 men and 4 women), but died in the 80s. One of the female child (the first born) is late now some years ago and was of old age, as Pa Ekhator now has 5 surviving children. More of what the grandson wrote on Facebook below... Although he never went to any former school, but worked with white men in the timber industry where they were used as tree (igedu) cutters with axe, and then prepare the logs for transportation through the sea via Sapale for industrial usage by the white men. Although he was born and bred as a traditionalist, (I used to follow him to...

The settlement beside 3rd Mainland Bridge in Lagos is currently being ravaged by fire. According to Olamide Adedeji, people are wailing and crying and car owners on the bridge say they can feel the heat from the fire. Emergency service is urgently needed

Two female suicide bombers today, January 11, blew themselves up at the crowded Kasuwar Jagwal GSM market in Potiskum, Yobe State. The attack is said to have claimed six lives while 21 people were left with varying degrees of injury. "We evacuated six bodies including those of the two female suicide bombers to the hospital. Twenty-one people were injured in the attacks. One of the bombers looked 23 and the other 15,” a security source told AFP. “The first bomber -- the 23 year-old -- detonated her explosives just outside the entrance of the market, where volunteers were sweeping people going inside the market with metal detectors. The second bomber was terrified by the explosion and she tried to dash across the road but she also exploded,”   the official added. A member of the local vigilante confirmed fears that young girls were being forced to participate in the atrocities saying of the 15-year-old:  “I doubt if she actually knew what was st...

These are the some of the transformations by GEJ in the South Eastern Zone, according to Abati

Prominent former militant and Founder of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF) Alhaji Asari Dokubo, today disclosed that he is no more a Nigerian citizen. Dokubo, who was speaking on the popular Youth-inspired show on Channels Televison, Rubbin’ Minds said Nigeria has not provided him the atmosphere to flourish and bring his dreams and aspirations to life. “I am a businessman. My business is mostly centred around education. I have about four schools. “I have crèche , nursery and secondary school, King Amachree International School in Cotonou, Republic of Benin. I have King Amachree Automobile and ICT Academy and I have King Amachree Arts Academy and King Amachree Sports Academy. “Its only education that I do. By March, King Amachree African University will come on board. His opined that his passion for education, despite not completing his own university education, was because the quality of in Nigeria was very inadequate as he believes “it...

Two police officers were killed and others injured at the Divisional Police Station in Potiskum, Potiskum local government area in Yobe state after a Volkswagen golf car filled with bombs went off at the station. Daily Trust reports that the car was earlier intercepted by the policemen. The police station is said to be close to the palace of the Emir of Fika. “It was while they were at the gates of the police station undergoing security checks that the car exploded,” an officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity told AFP news agency. Another police officer, who also spoke on condition of anonymity told Punch, “A saloon Golf car, laden with explosive devices was seized and driven to the Police station for investigation and when the car was being parked within the premises of the station, the blast went off around 3.15 killing two people on the spot.” He disclosed that one of the deceased was a police inspector, serving in the command while the o...

The controversy surrounding the educational qualifications and certificates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, seem not to have died down. Buhari’s educational qualification has come under scrutiny at various times by critics of the Daura-born retired General who have continually cited his lack of educational qualifications as one of the reasons why he is not capable of leading Nigeria effectively. An email purportedly from the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States of America has surfaced online disputing the claims on Buhari’s certificate that he gained a Masters Degree in Strategic Studies from the college in 1980. The email to seek clarifications on Buhari’s status in the college was written by one Sunday Iwalaiye who sent an email to Carroll Kerr last week Thursday (January 8, 2015) who works in the public affairs office of the college. Kerr responded to the email same...

Ogboru, an indigene of Delta state is being detained at the dreaded State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) cell in Yaba, over a case of alleged murder.He allegedly stabbed one of his neighbours to death during a fight on December 22, 2014. Crime Guard  gathered that Ogboru, a driver with Worldwide Commercial Ventures located in Matori area of Lagos, engaged one Jonathan Ameh, a father of three, in a fight at their residence in Gowon Estate, Okonola in Egbeda. Trouble, as gathered by Crime Guard, started for the duo after Ogboru’s sister rushed into their one-room apartment, with her wrapper tied on her chest, and informed that one of the tenants, Jonathan Ameh, dashed into the bathroom unannounced while she was taking her bath .Irked by the tenant’s action, Ogboru was said to have gone to accost him (Ameh) in his apartment while members of his family were still awake. Time was 10pm. An argument was said to have ensued, which degenerated into a...

World leaders including David Cameron of United Kingdom, Angela Merkel of Germany, Isreal's Benjamin Netanyahu and others joined French president and thousands of France nationals in a solidarity march on the streets of Paris this afternoon to protest the killing of 12 Charlie Hebdo cartoonists. The march began in Place de la République and will end at Place de la Nation. More photos below

Excerpts from his interview with Ebuka Obi-Uchendu on RubbinMinds on Channels TV minutes ago. More when you continue...

Two of Nigeria's richest men, Femi Otedola and Aliko Dangote at president Jonathan's niece's wedding in Abuja yesterday. See more photos below