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Ex-militant Niger Delta militant Asari-Dokubo has vowed to retaliate the attack carried out by some hoodlums on President Jonathan's convoy during his campaign rally in Katsina state yesterday Jan. 20th. At a press conference in Abuja today Asari-Dokubo said for every action, there will be an opposite and equal reaction. He called on the Igbos in the north to come home, saying failure to do so and they'll themselves to blame. He said Shekau is a man like himself and that he does not have the monopoly to kill or destroy "There is an established pattern of pre and post-election violence in the north. In the 50s when late Awolowo was campaigning in the north, he went with helicopters and he was mocked. People said he was flying over the houses and peeping at their wives. That has continued and everywhere in the country, people say leave them alone. We don’t want any trouble. But I think the game has changed. The rules of the game have changed. “For every action,...

A 59-year-old man, Ferdinand Duwanamu, has been arrested by the Taraba State Police Command, Jalingo, after he was accused of raping 2 little girls who are sisters, aged 3 and 5 respectively. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Ademola Omole, made the revelation while briefing newsmen on the arrests his command made during and after the yuletide season. The Commissioner said that the father of the two girls, Igwe Samson, a business man based in the city, reported the case to the Kurmi division and the police moved to arrest the accused. Admitting his sordid crime while begging for mercy, the accused said it was the devil that made him carry out the act. "I lost my wife almost 10 years ago and my first daughter is 34-years-old. This is a mistake and I think it is the work of the devil. This is the first time in my life that I would do such a thing and I wish it never happened." The police said the accused will be charged to court as soon ...

Scientists have dubbed 'woman on top' as the riskiest  sexual  position, due to the high likelihood of penile fractures. This was followed by doggy style (28.6%), while missionary was deemed the safest, accounting for just 21.4% of broken penises in the study. The Brazilian scientists who conducted the study say this may be because the woman is placing her entire weight on her partner's piece, meaning she is unable to correct a "wrong way penetration"  situation. Half of people involved in the study reported hearing a loud crack, seeing swelling and feeling pain. Anal sex was also shown to be safer for the man involved, apparently, with only 7% of penile fractures occurring during anal penetration. More than 75% of broken penis complaints were caused by sexual intercourse, with 14.3% being down to "penile manipulation" and the rest being listed as "unclear". Which begs the question: how can anyone be in doubt abou...

If you're rolling your eyes at this, I don't blame you. This was sent to me by a Synagogue Church writer. Don't know why they have to release a report on T.B Joshua rejecting a $1k offering but obviously they think it's important for people to know, so read it below..if you care to! Hehe To buttress his unconventional sermon last Sunday where T.B. Joshua berated pastors who ‘forced’ their members to pay tithes and offerings, a video has surfaced of the Nigerian cleric refusing a whopping $1,000 offering. Continue... The clip, which was posted last week on Emmanuel TV’s channel on video-sharing site YouTube, shows Joshua ministering to the sick during his recent visit to the South American nation of Colombia. An elderly Paraguayan lady who had travelled to the meeting from Switzerland is shown receiving prayer for a 60 year back problem. After she had received prayer, the son of the overwhelmed lady brought out an envelope from her bag. “In here is ...

The Lagos State Government has ordered the Transformation Ambassador of Nigeria (TAN) and its affiliates to immediately remove all President Goodluck Jonathan campaign materials illegally deployed on street lamp poles in Lagos. The government said if TAN failed to heed the order, its enforcement team would remove the posters in line with the enabling law setting up the Lagos State and Advertising Agency, LASAA. At a news conference in Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria on Wednesday, Managing Director, LASAA, George Noah, said the agency was constrained by recent developments in the electioneering campaign in Lagos to bring to the fore impunity and illegality that posed immeasurable and long term damage to those who erect, operate and maintain billboards in the state. Noah said the agency had been informed that in the last 48 hours, two advertisers in the outdoor sector had terminated multi-million naira contracts with outdoor agencies registered by LASAA to operate in t...

The Federal government says the highly transmittable avian influenza viral disease also known as Bird flu has spread to five more states asides Lagos and Kaduna where the first cases were recorded in Nigeria. The states with the latest cases of the disease in poultry animals include Ogun, Delta, Rivers, Edo and Plateau states. Speaking at a press conference today in Abuja, the Minister of Agriculture, Akinwunmi Adeshina said 15 commercial farms and 9 live bird Markets have been affected by the disease in the five states. He stated that the disease has not reached an epidemic state in Nigeria and that everything is being done to contain its spread in the country. "We are not in a state of any epidemic. Seven states have so far reported cases of the bird flu – Kano, Lagos, Ogun, Delta, Rivers, Edo and Plateau States. The most affected state has been Kano, where the initial case of the bird flu was found. In all of these states, different levels of in...

The Chief of Defence staff, Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh, says any Nigerian soldier with a riffle cannot complain of being under-equipped. According to him, Nigerian soldiers enjoy free accommodation, transportation, Electricity and other pecks which those in the civil service do not enjoy. Badeh said this and more in an interview with the Defence Headquarters magazine recently. We live in houses we don’t pay for accommodation, we have buses that bring troops to work every day and take them back home, we don’t pay for light, we don’t pay for water, our salaries are good compare to what is paid in the civil place, if someone with school certificate joins the Army, by the time he is five years in the service, his salary has doubled that of a graduate. Why do you think Nigeria is doing that for us? Nigeria is doing that for us because we have vowed that we will defend our nation if need be with our blood; so for a soldier to come up and say am not well equipped, yet you hav...

Government College, formerly Provincial Secondary School, Katsina, which Muhammadu Buhari, the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, graduated from in 1961, has released Mr. Buhari’s secondary school certificate examination results. The results, obtained exclusively by PREMIUM TIMES Wednesday, confirm Mr. Buhari’s claim that he undertook the University of Cambridge West African School Certificate Examinations and obtained five credits in English Language, Geography, Hausa Language, History, and Health Science. PREMIUM TIMES obtained the computer printout from Cambridge University as well as a statement of result, signed by the current principal of Katsina College, dated January 21, 2015. The results show that Mr. Buhari, a former military head of state, failed in Mathematics and Woodwork, and had a pass in Literature in English. The examination centre number was 8280 while Mr. Buhari’s candidate number was 002. The statement of results is prin...

Former Nigerian International goalkeeper, Wilfred Agbonavbare has been diagnosed with cancer. The ex-Rayo Vallecano goalkeeper is currently at a Spanish hospital where he is undergoing treatment for an undisclosed type of cancer. Agbonavbare was a member of Nigeria’s U-21 Mexico 1983 Flying Eagles, 1984 AFCON silver medalist and 1994 AFCON gold medalist. He lost his wife three years ago to breast cancer.

After last week Thursday's Abuja meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan with some Pentecostal pastors including Bishops David Oyedepo of Winners Chapel and Felix Omobude, the PFN president, PDP political strategists are unconvinced how much the pastors can truly deliver on their promises to help the President. It would be recalled that at the secret meeting in Abuja, President Jonathan confessed, "Osinbajo is my problem." According to those at the meeting, the President added, "everything was okay until APC picked Osinbajo." It is believed that this conclusion was reached by the President after extensive discussions with his political advisers and strategists on the APC's choice of the law professor - pastor of the RCCG as General Muhamadu Buhari's running mate. A source at the meeting said while offers of oil blocks are being made to some of the top pastors at the meeting, PDP strategists are warning the president that General Muha...

The controversial leader of the Boko Haram terror group Abubakar Shekau on Tuesday declared the duo of President Goodluck Jonathan and his 2015 arch-rival, Muhammadu Buhari as infidels who cannot rule Nigeria. He declared that the war he is waging would soon bring democracy to an end. Mr. Shekau who spoke in a 36 minutes video released via youtube also warned that more killings and attacks would be recorded in the days to come as he boasted that the quantum of ammunition his group has so far seized from the Nigerian army especially in Baga would be enough to prosecute a war against Nigeria. The man whom Nigeria military authority had declared dead on three occasions in the last two years said his group would soon bring Nigeria to its knees and warned the governments of the neighbouring countries, comprising of Chad, Cameroon and Niger of similar attacks. Mr. Shekau who appeared in the video standing in front of three patrol jeeps mounted with anti-air assault gun...

Check out the crowd that came out for President Jonathan in the Kano-leg of his presidential campaign. He made a stop over at the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi 11's palace before heading to his campaign ground.  He also met with Emir of Kano 

Popular Lagos pastor, Poju Oyemade of the Covenant Christian center is getting ready to wed his love, Toyin Fajusigbe. Pastor Oyemade is the Senior Pastor at the youth oriented Covenant Christian center while his bride-to-be, Toyin is the Founder/Producer of Story Teller Media. There are reports that they will be getting married in the first week of February. Congrats to them.

If your thought your outrage over his last advertorial on Buhari will stop Ekiti governor, Ayo Fayose, then I guess you better think again! Here's another ad he sponsored, released in a few newspapers today