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Nigerian troops at the 33 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, today concluded the dislodgment and clearing of Boko Haram terrorists from Lame/Burra forest, which traverse Ningi and Torro Local Government Areas of Bauchi State. A statement released by Nigeria Army spokesman, Colonel Usman Sani, disclosed that all the camps in the forest have been destroyed. According to him, "During the operation that started since last weekend, quite a number of terrorists were killed, their weapons and equipment destroyed. Similarly, a sizable number of arms, ammunitions, food stuffs, Hilux vehicles, motorcycles and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) were recovered by the troops. "The recovery include 3 Hilux vehicles, 12 motorcycles, 4 AK-47 rifles, 1 Fabrique Nationale rifle, 1 Small Machine Gun (SMG), 1 Police Teargas pistol, 36 Primed IEDs, 56 rifles magazines, over 500 rounds of 7.62 milimetre ammunition, 6 jerrycans of groundnut and palm oil and several IEDmaking mat...

Sara Bahai's decision to become Afghanistan's only known female taxi driver has earned her alot of death threats..Bahai, now around 40 years old, had already spent much of her life defying taboos in Afghanistan, where women are widely regarded as inferior to men and discouraged from working outside the home. According to  AP ,She never married, she said, because she had to support her parents and siblings and feared a husband would prevent her from working. With no children of her own she adopted two boys, now both in high school. When Taliban insurgents shot and killed her brother-in-law, she took in her sister and seven nieces and nephews. She now supports a dozen people. To put food on the table, she drives around the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif in a spotlessly clean yellow and white Toyota Corolla with sparkly woven seat covers and a good luck talisman in the front window. "I receive threats from unknown callers who tell me to not dr...

Madonna has opened up on the frustration of being judged at her age. Speaking to  The Sun : 'the 56 year old said.. It's OK if Mick Jagger dates a 25-year-old girl but if I date a 25-year-old man I'm, you know... it's ridiculous. It's so unfair, I mean, I don't get it.' ‘You’re still categorised—you’re still either a virgin or a whore. If you’re a certain age, you’re not allowed to express your sexuality, be single, or date younger men She also says she wishes she was gay ...She said .‘I didn’t feel like straight men understood me. They just wanted to have sex with me,’ Madonna admitted. ‘Gay men understood me, and I felt comfortable around them. 'There was only that one problem, which is that they didn’t want to have sex with me!'  On her ex husband Guy Ritchie, I did find myself sometimes in a state of conflict. There were many times when I wanted to express myself as an artist in ways that I don't think my ex...

Vice Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Professor Yemi Osinbajohas stated that if elected,Buhari would not spare anyone found to be corrupt ..Speaking in Kaduna today, Wednesday ,he said not even family members would be exempt from this rule..He was reacting to claims that some of the top members of APC are accused of being corrupt  “On the various issue of corruption, what General Buhari has said categorically is that as far as he is concerned, the day he is sworn-in as president, he would have drawn a line. Anybody who runs foul of the law, anything that is been investigated before will continue as it is. “If you are found to be corrupt, you will receive the consequence, no matter who you are. Whether you are his brother, sister, his friends there will be consequences. That is what he has said and I think that is in line with the position of the party.” “He is just too straight forward to do that. You know he can never do that. Ther...

Alvan and Ugonwa Orji, from Ikot Nakanda, Akpabuyo local government area of Cross River State are now in police detention at the state Police Command, after a concerned neighbour reported how they have been physically abusing their 11-month-old baby boy over accusations that the toddler is bewitched and is the one behind their misfortunes. The complainant, Barr. James Ibor, the Principal Counsel of Basic Rights Council Initiative (BRCI), a child rights advocate group, told the police that he received a complain from an undisclosed person that the Alvan and his wife were in the habit of physically and emotionally assaulting their son constantly, giving him inhuman treatments such as tying him to a chair, using electric cable on him and consistently yelling at the boy. Ibor then decided to carry out investigations into the allegation privately and sent some undercover agents to the Orjis wine shop in the town on several occasions. The investigators confirmed w...

Patience Jonathan, wife of the president has got the nod to use Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium by the Edo State Government despite applying for the stadium after Aisha Buahri, wife of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate did same. For avoidance of trouble, Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo pleaded with Mrs Buhari to allow Patience Jonathan use the stadium in a bid to allow peace reign in the state,Pm new reports. In a statement signed by Louis Odion, Commissioner of Information and Orientation, he said: “The mix-up in the use of the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium on Saturday, March 14, 2015 was occasioned by the laxity on the part of the officials of the Ministry of Sports who, without reference to their supervisors, proceeded to collect money and issue receipt only yesterday (Tuesday) to the PDP for use of the stadium knowing full well that the APC had, last week, applied for and got approval for use of same facility same day.“In fact, jingles were alread...

A federal high court sitting in Lagos has restrained Africa Independent television (AIT), Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) and the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON) against airing any damaging video against APC presidential candidate Yemi Osinbajo. AIT and NTA in the last few weeks has aired documentary detailing ‘atrocities’ of General Buhari and APC Chieftian Bola Tinubu. There were reports that the media outfits were also planning to air damaging video against Osinbajo before the restraining court order.  “Osinbajo said such video would damaged his “guaranteed and protected fundamental right to life and/or livelihood; right to dignity of human person, and right to privacy and family by virtue of Sections 33, 34 and 37 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, (as Amended).” He also said the planned “publication, dissemination and broadcast of a video documentary containing untrue information and injurious falsehood” ...

John Legend's wife model Chrisy Teigen posed completely nude in a new sexy photo shoot at Miami beach with her husband yesterday Tuesday March 10th. John could hardly take his eyes and hands off his beautiful wife during the shoot. See more photos below  Photo credit: INF photo

According to Ojudu Babafemi, an APC Senator representing Ekiti Central constituency in the Senate, supporters of Senator Musiliu Obanikoro allegedly attacked Senator Oluremi Tinubu at the National Assembly today. This was while Senator Obanikoro was in the Senate Chamber waiting to be confirmed at minister.

That photo was taken in front of Agege local govt secretariat by Pen Cinema. It was Re-twitterd by @Gidi_Traffic.  There is no information on what the guy did, i wonder why he would be dragged like this on a tarred road. this is too bad

Kanye's laptop was stolen in Paris yesterday and now, MTO is claiming the thieves that stole it want to sell something they found on it. A threesome involving Kim, Kanye and another blonde. Probably not true but read below.. "MediaTakeOut.com just got some blockbuster News - a man is selling a sextape - which reportedly shows Kim and Kanye and a blonde haired woman, engaged in three-way sex. We were unable to confirm the identity of the parties on the tape - but it sure as f*ck looked like Kim and Kanye . . . allegedly. We're gonna say a lot of allegedly here, because Kanye's laptop was stolen in Paris earlier this week . . . and we're not trying to snitch on anyone that may or may not have stolen it.   We also are not admitting to possessing, viewing, or ANYTHING whatsoever with the stolen property. So here it goes. ALLEGEDLY we spoke to a person who claims that they may have ALLEGEDLY accidentally came upon Kanye West's personal laptop...

According to twitter user @sasalam, he paid more than N20k today for seat 14F on #ArikAir W3 721. He got to the seat and viola! - No upholstery, just bare metal. He refused it and told the air hostess who just shrugged like it was something normal.  I paid more than N20k for seat 14F on #ArikAir W3 721. No upholstery, just bare metal. I refused it. @ogundamisi pic.twitter.com/A0J9iSwAio — A | (@sasalami) March 11, 2015

My goodness! These politicians don't play at all. The spokesperson of the PDP Presidential campaign organization, Femi Fani-Kayode released a statement just this afternoon alleging that APC is planning to run a documentary about the private lives of President Jonathan, his wife and the Petroleum Minister, Dieziani Allison Madueke.  He said that APC can say all they want about Pres. Jonathan in the documentary but one thing they cannot say about him is that he engages in gross and perverse intimate affairs with little boys unlike one of the APC leaders who is sponsoring the planned documentary. Ouch! He also alleged that while Buhari was in the UK recently to solicit for support for his presidential bid, he agreed to repeal the anti-gay law signed by President Jonathan in January 2014. Full text of what he said below Gentlemen of the media ,   Let me start by expressing the gratitude of our Campaign Organisation to all of you for the support you have been sho...

A 26-year-old worker at a Chinese factory making Apple iPhones died after working up to 12 hours a day, seven days a week, his family have claimed to MailOnline. Tian Fulei was found dead on February 3 in a dormitory he shared with other workers near Shanghai at Pegatron, one of Apple's largest product manufacturers, responsible for making items including the iPhone 6.  A verdict of 'sudden death' was given in court, but no autopsy was carried out. Mr Tian's family said he worked relentless overtime hours at Pegatron, and his death came less than two months after an undercover BBC Panorama investigation revealed how workers there worked to the point of collapse. His sister, Tian Zhoumei, 25, told MailOnline that her brother had been healthy up until his death and blamed overworking for his demise. Pegatron has denied a link between the death and his working environment.  The death of Mr Tian once again highlights concerns over th...