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This woman's husband did this to her. Apparently this photo is being passed around on BlackBerry. They say her name is Yejide and her husband allegedly attacked her with an iron belt after suspecting her of infidelity. When I asked how a belt can do that to her body, they claimed it's because of the cream she uses, it left blood clot all over her skin (if that makes any sense). Anyone know who this woman is? What really happened to her?

A TransAsia airways plane carrying 58 people  crashed  into a river this morning just three minutes after it took off in Taipei, Taiwan, and 15 people miraculously survived the crash, including a 2 year old boy. The 15 were pulled from the wreckage of the plane by rescuers, 43 others are either dead or missing. Sad. The little boy who was rescued wasn't even seriously injured.  Photo credit: AFP/Getty Images

A former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Chukwuma Soludo, has reaffirmed his claim that at least N30 trillion of Nigerian money has either been stolen, diverted or unaccounted for in the last few years under Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as finance minister. He however said that does not include the about N8.6 trillion the African Union said is stolen from Nigeria annually. In a statement Wednesday, Mr. Soludo said he stood by statements he made in the last one week exposing the rot in the Nigerian economy, and accusing President Goodluck Jonathan and Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala of ineptitude. Mr. Soludo however said he would no longer release the second and third parts of his promised three-part response to Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala’s reply to his first article on the state of the economy. Mr. Soludo’s first salvo at the government, alleging extensive abuse and corruption in the system and grading Mr. Jonathan and Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala “F” on economic management, triggered a combat...

Is this for real or is this website just messing with us?  Found it on this website -  finchglowtravels.wordpress.com/

This accident happened this afternoon along the Benin Ore expressway involving a commercial bus and a trailer. The commercial bus driver was trying to overtake a trailer but wasn't fast enough and ended up crashing into the rare end of another trailer. Eye witnesses said the trailer driver didn't even stop to see what had happened, he sped off. All passengers were rushed to the hospital, but the driver of the bus died instantly as he was pinned in the driver side.

Boko Haram fighters slit civilians’ throats and torched the main mosque in the Cameroon border town of Fotokol during an attack on Wednesday repelled by regional forces, residents said. Several residents said civilians’ throats were slit and that the town’s main mosque was torched. “They burnt houses and killed civilians as well as soldiers,” a source close to security forces said. Another resident who had fled to another town told AFP he knew of at least 10 people who had been killed. After several hours of clashes Cameroonian troops, backed by Chadian forces who scrambled back from Nigeria to help guard the town, managed to repel the assault. “People are coming back little by little to assess the damage. The survivors among the attackers have left the town,” a source close to the Cameroonian security services said. No official death toll was immediately available. Boko Haram fighters went on the rampage in the Cameroonian border town of Fotokol Wednesday,...

Photo shows Chadian soldiers patrolling Gamboru town in Bornu state after recapturing it from Boko Haram on Sunday February 1st.

Find the EFCC Press statement below Former governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako has been declared wanted by the anti- graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Also wanted by the EFCC is the son of the ex-governor, Abdul Aziz Murtala Nyako, a retired Naval officer. Both are wanted in a case of criminal conspiracy, stealing, abuse of office and money laundering. - Wilson Uwujaren - head of media & publicity for EFCC

Niger Delta militant Asari Dokubo has threatened series of action against some opposition leaders and voters in the Niger Delta region should the February 2015 general elections don't go the way of President Goodluck Jonathan in the region.

Evil has overcome the hearts of human. According to report, This guy killed his so-called Girl Friend and took off her heart claiming that she cheated on him This incidence took place in Darsalaam,Tanzania. It was gathered that the boy convinced the girl to pay him a visit, she did as he requested and not knowing his intention. He sadly murdered this girl in his room after making love with her.  See the graphic photo is Below

Boko Haram members are currently attacking Dikwa, Baga and Mungulo villages in Borno state. According to reports, the sect members launched a fresh attack on the villagers in the early hours of today Wednesday February 4th. Nigerian troops and allied forces are currently engaging them in a gun battle. More details later.

This twitter user shared the photos on social media. It shows Lagos state governor Raji Fashola throwing things to the crowd. Nuel says they were recharge cards and cash. 

The newly posted Assistant Inspector General of Police,AIG, to Zone 2,Lagos State,Mr Joseph Mbu met with Gov. Babatunde Fashola,recently. Both of them had a closed door meeting which lasted for several hours at the Lagos House,Alausa,Ikeja.Details of the meeting were not revealed but a close source said they discussed about the security of the state especially before and after next month's election. He was deployed recently to Lagos from Police Command Zone 7 in Abuja,to Zone 2,Lagos. His deployment was criticized by many people saying it was linked to rigging of election in Lagos.

LWKMD, what a name. anyway, people should take note

Nine Chadian soldiers have been confirmed dead while 21 others sustained various degrees of injury after a fierce battle with Boko Haram members in Gamboru-Ngala in Bornu state on Sunday Feb 1st. "We regret nine dead and 21 wounded. On the enemy side: more than 200 deaths...," a statement from the Chadian Army released yesterday February 3rd said. The statement also added that the death and injury toll of their soldiers could rise since clean-up operations in Gamboru-Ngala and other villages where the soldiers battled with the militants were ongoing. The bodies of the soldiers have been repatriated to Chad for burial.

Pres. Jonathan yesterday paid another courtesy visit to former Military Head of State, Gen Ibrahim Babangida at his home in Minna. The President was in Niger state for his campaign rally.  Remarks by Gen. IBB during the courtesy visit below as shared by Reuben Abati... The Former Chairman who is now the Director-General of Namadi Sambo and Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Team, the deputy chairman, distinguished ladies and gentlemen. My Governor, the chief servant. Mr President, I want to thank you most sincerely for finding time amongst your crowded programme to pay me a visit. I feel deeply touched Mr. President because on your own, you travelled to Germany to see me just coming out from hospital after a gruesome nine-hour operation on my back and tummy, I felt deeply touched by your kind presence. Then when I struggled and traveled back to Nigeria, you found time to also visit and see how I was doing. I thank you Mr President and I want to tell you that...

As reported by Yahoo News, “President Barack Obama says the U.S. is doing everything in its power to try to rescue an American woman being held by Islamic State militants. A day after a Japanese journalist held by the militants was purportedly beheaded, Obama says the U.S. and its allies are deploying all available tools to identify a 26-year-old U.S. aid worker’s location. He called her captivity heartbreaking.” “The woman was captured last year in Syria while working for aid groups. U.S. officials have asked that the woman not be identified out of fears for her safety. Obama says he has watched videos of hostages being beheaded. He says “the terrible stuff that’s happening” is part of the reason why the U.S. has to be aggressive in going after Islamic State terrorists.” I find it unconscionable that President Obama refers to the savage and barbaric beheadings as “the terrible stuff that’s happening.” Downplaying the actions of ISIS is commonplace for the Obama ...

The Serving Overseer of Latter Rain Assembly and President of Latter Rain Ministries, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has refuted a Saharareporters story today which claimed that Cosmas Maduka of Coscharis Motors had attempted to bribe him with a Rolls Royce Phantom luxury car. The pastor, speaking to SaharaReporters on the phone from Lagos, said he never told anyone that Coscharis was the source of the car gift he rejected during his 60th birthday celebrations. He said the car was not an “attempted bribe”, as reflected in our story, but a gift. He explained that he rejected it because he did not need a luxury car of that magnitude while Nigerians wallow in abject poverty. Asked if he knew how the car was purchased or by whom, Pastor Bakare said he couldn’t tell, but vehemently denied that Coscharis had anything to do with it. Coscharis has not officially denied involvement in the car gift saga. The automart had publicly stated in 2013 that it has the official...

My finger hovered over the ‘click’ button. I’d heard that ISIS had burned a young Jordanian pilot alive in a cage, and there were numerous people posting the snuff movie on social media. I wanted to watch it. To see for myself whether it really was, as many claimed, the ‘sickest video ever made’. But I hesitated. I don’t ‘need’ to see a man burned alive. Nobody ‘needs’ to see such an abomination. It’s diabolical enough that it happened at all. Why compound the misery of that man’s life ending by acting as some kind of complicit voyeur? Then I pressed click anyway. I watched those murderous bastards light up a trail of petrol into a small cage, I watched as Lieutenant Moaz al-Kasabeh caught fire, and I watched as he screamed in horror and burned to death. It was just as repulsive and sickening as I feared it would be. Truly the worst thing I have ever had to witness, and as a journalist for 30 years I’ve seen a lot of...

Faisal Getso was shot dead yesterday Feb. 3rd and his friends on twitter and Facebook, are alleging the Kaduna-based man was shot dead by escorts attached to the Kaduna state governor.

Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo is to launch his autobiography, “My Watch”, with the Royal African Society next Wednesday, 11 February 2015, at the Royal Society of Medicine in central London. Obasanjo will be in conversation with Richard Dowden, Director of RAS, to present his three-volume autobiography, which has controversially been banned in Nigeria on accusations of libel, ahead of a crucial and closely fought presidential election. “My Watch”  follows in the steps of his previous memoirs,  My Command  and  Not My Will , and spans large expanses of time, from pre-colonial Owu history to early Abeokuta and the last throes of an independent city state at turn-of-the-century colonial Nigeria. The three-part memoir explores Obasanjo’s early years, his civil war experience and his stewardship of the transitional government of 1976-1979, as well as covering his tenure as a civilian president on Nigeria's return to democracy in 1999 and his s...

Former EFCC Chairman and PDP Governorship candidate in Adamawa state, Nuhu Ribadu says the allegation by former CBN Governor Charles Soludo that N30trn had gone missing under the watch of the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala wasn't true In an interview with NAN, Nuhu Ribadu said it was not possible to have such a huge amount of money go missing in an office she assumed about three to four years ago... "I was baffled and got deluded for anyone to say that N30 trillion got lost. I think we just have to look at what we earn as a country and what our budget had been in these few years and see how possible it is. If everything we earned is not up to that within the period she has been the minister, which is about three to four years, then we need to be careful. We need to be careful to avoid more damage to our nation, because there are certain things that when it comes out, it will never go back again.". M...