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Protesters numbering about 100 stormed the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Monday, demanding the postponement of this month’s general elections. The youth gathered at the INEC headquarters in the Maitama District of Abuja asking it to delay the polls because of the difficulty in the distribution of the Permanent Voters Card, PVCs. The protest confirmed PREMIUM TIMES exclusive story of last Thursday revealing the plot by the Presidency and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] to organize nationwide protest against the electoral body to force it to shift the polls. According to the protesters, only 40 per cent of the poll had been distributed ahead of the February 14 and 28 elections. They also claimed that INEC needed 960,000 ad hoc staff but that at the time of their protest the staff had not been engaged. They argued that if the polls were allowed to go ahead as scheduled, several million Nigerians would not be able to...

The British teenage sisters who fled to Syria to marry ISIS fighters, have posted pictures of 'self defence training' on social media. Zahra and Salma Halane, both 17, of Chorlton, Manchester left their homes last June after becoming radicalised online. The pictures have been posted on one of the twins' Twitter accounts, and shows four veiled women holding AK-47 assault rifles and handguns. Another image shows two women, their faces, bodies and hands covered, making a 'heart sign' The set was captioned: 'Fun day training for self defence in the Islamic State... Alhamdulilah [thanks be to God] with humble sisters'. The Halane twins, whose parents hail from Somalia, are thought to have married two ISIS militants in Syria, who have both died in battle. They are believed to be part of an all-female religious police brigade alongside former public schoolgirl Aqsa Mahmood, 20, from Glasgow, who enforce Sharia law on the stree...

Militants fighting for the Islamic State terror group in Syria and Iraq have released a video they claim shows Jordanian pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh being burnt alive while locked in a cage. The footage, which is titled 'Healing the Believers Chests' appears to show the captured airman wearing an orange jumpsuit as a trail of petrol leading up to the cage is seen being set alight. Flames are seen quickly spreading to the cage where they completely engulf the helpless pilot in images that are far too distressing to publish. Yesterday Jordan government spokesman Mohammed al-Momeni said the kingdom was doing 'everything' it could to secure the release of Kassasbeh, who was captured by ISIS after his F-16 fighter jet crashed in territory controlled by the militants in Syria in December. However the statement came with an explicit threat that if 'hero' Kassasbeh came to any harm, Jordan would 'quickly judge and sentence' all tho...

Worried by the high rate at which resource-rich African countries lose huge revenues through corruption, illegal transfers of profits and money laundering abroad, the African Union, AU, has asked President Goodluck Jonathan and other African leaders to openly declare their assets and subject their wealth to public scrutiny. A report on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa, compiled by an AU panel led by former South African President Thabo Mbeki, said Africa loses an estimated $60billion (about N10.08trillion) annually through such transfers. The report was presented Sunday at a summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The report has stirred massive concerns in Nigeria, which is said to account for over $40.9billion (about N6.87trillion), or 68 per cent of the total figure. Cumulatively, Nigeria also topped the list of ten African countries with highest incidence of illicit financial transfers between 1970 and 2008, recording about $217.7billion (about N36.57trillio...

A stock brokerage firm, Valueline Securities and Investment Limited, has instituted a legal action against the founder of the Living Faith Church, popularly known as Winners’ Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, over alleged breach of agreement on a N9bn worth of investment. The firm along with its Managing Director, Samuel Enyinnaya, are seeking an order of the court compelling Oyedepo and others to pay them the sum of N1.86bn jointly and severally as professional fees and damages. Besides Oyedepo, the other defendants in the suit filed before a Federal High Court in Lagos are Oyedepo’s wife, Abiola; his children and blood relatives, Priscillia, Jesutobi, Makinde and Isaac. Others are the World Mission Agency Inc, which is the overall ruling organ of the Winners’ Chapel; Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State; and the Nigerian Stock Exchange. The plaintiffs, in their statement of claim, averred that Oyedepo and the other defendants entered an Investment Portfol...

Pastor Nike Adeyemi, wife of Pastor Sam Adeyemi of Daystar Christian Center took to twitter to celebrate her husband as he turned a year older today. She also shared a throwback pic of two of them

Cosmas Maduka, whose auto dealership, Coscharis Motors, was involved in a shady car purchase deal by former Aviation Minister, Stella Oduah, apparently tried to offer Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly a Rolls Royce Phantom during the pastor’s 60th birthday celebration, SaharaReporters has learnt. Coscharis Motors had presented invoices to the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) claiming to have supplied two bulletproof BMW cars for the use of Ms. Oduah at the cost of $800,000 per car.  Mr. Bakare, a fiery pastor who was a former vice presidential running mate of Muhammadu Buhari, told his congregation in Lagos that he woke up early one day during the commissioning of a new branch of his church to find the expensive luxury car at his doorsteps. He said he rejected the gift, stating that his interest was in good governance, adding that it would have been unconscionable to accept the car while a majority of Nigerians continue to wallow i...

Naija Military lacking amunations, but BH having APV and rocket launchers, how do they get all these?

How possible  can this be? Does it mean when he was asking such questions , the security guys inside the bank did not spot him  out?

This is the moment a Nigerian man and his bride were handcuffed by immigration police in the UK, just moments before their sham wedding ceremony. The suspicious registrar had alerted police after the couple couldn't spell each others names before the ceremony began. She also noticed the man reading details about his bride-to-be from the back of his hand, very funny The man is 33 year old Joseph Iwueke, and his bride-that-never was is 29 year old Slovakian Ingrida Stojkova. He was going to marry her so he could legally stay in Britain. They were busted by police and were charged with conspiracy. Iwueke, Stojkova and two others, Obinna Odelugo, Robert Stojka who fixed the wedding have now been jailed for conspiracy to facilitate a breach of UK immigration law. 

APC VP aspirant, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo shares his pledge to God concerning public funds on twitter

Just got this from the missing girl's guardian... "I am a guardian to Faith Anwurika Amarawuchi (the missing girl in the photos above). She lived with my family for 2years. She is 15years of age and a current student of Crown-Base School in Ogba. She is from Imo state, fair in complexion, speaks Igbo and English. She left home since January 27th, 2015 supposedly to school but yet to return home even though she left without her school books. Anyone with information about her whereabout should kindly call 08023990889 or 08179379263 or 07067995350 or contact the nearest Police station. Yours, Mr. S. Igwe

In the face of dwindling prospects for his re-election bid, President Goodluck Jonathan has embarked on a renewed three-pronged approach to scuttle the presidential election scheduled for February 14, several sources within the Presidency have disclosed. In a startling disclosure, our sources said Mr. Jonathan was willing to entertain a military take-over as one of his options.  Over the last two weeks, it had dawned on Mr. Jonathan that his hopes for winning re-election had dimmed significantly. Our sources said the president was deeply distressed to find out that several governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had been working quietly with the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) to thwart his re-election. “Apart from Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, Mr. President is no longer sure that he can count on the support of any of our other governors,” an insider in the Presidency said.  Another source said several PDP governors were ag...

Popular porn star, Judith Mazagwu known as AfroCandy has joined the line of entertainers signing President Jonathan for another 4 years.  The Nigerian born porn actress and producer, took to her Twitter page to make her support known for the Peoples Democratic Party who is bidding for a re-election. To drive home her point, AfroCandy dropped a new video titled ‘Goodluck Ebele Jonathan for Second Term’. Aside the song, AfroCandy also told her followers to vote for Goodluck Jonathan. She also threw shades at the opposition presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, saying Nigeria should be divided into two so that Jonathan and Buhari can each rule one part. Watch the video below: Download video  Meanwhile, talking about stars supporting Good luck Jonathan, popular actress Rita Dominic has also took to her Twitter page to explain why she will be voting Goodluck Jonathan again come February 14. Rita Dominic In the 2minutes 47seco...

Life they say has no mathematical formular.You don't know where you will meet you will meet your missing rib.A young banker who fell in love with a customer and later married her narrates his love story. Read the story below... Henry: I am a staff in one of the Nigerian Banks and on this faithful Wednesday morning I had to attend to a lot of customers on the queue alongside my colleagues.Lo and behold i saw this beauty (omalicha) on the queue. I wanted to be the one to attend to her so I quickly rushed the people i was attending to and gbam, she was in front of me. I said a quick hello and she replied with a very formal tone and before i knew what was going on she had left.But as fate would have it she kept coming to the bank for one transaction or the other due to the nature of her job and that’s how we became friends. I would always complement on her dressing, her nails or hair when she’s around cos i love to see that smile on her face.Though she was alre...

Citing the need to de­fuse the rising tension in the land, among other rea­sons, the Federal Govern­ment is set to shift the com­ing polls by six weeks, the  Daily Times   has learnt. The presidential and Na­tional Assembly elections are currently scheduled for February 14, while those of the states will hold on Feb­ruary 28. Daily Times  authorita­tively learnt that under the new proposal, the elections may now hold at the end of March. The proposed change is hinged on the mounting tension in the country se­quel to violent displays at some of the ongoing cam­paigns across the country. The feeling inside gov­ernment circles is that there is need to let the ten­sion, which is nearing boil­ing point in the country at the moment, come down before the election could hold, otherwise there could be an implosion. Sources say that within the six weeks, efforts will be made to calm frayed nerves and encourage more people to embrace peace. It is feared that the presi­...