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Read press statement by the National Coordinating Council of the OODUA People Congress (OPC) after a ‘violent’ protest occurred today in Lagos calling for the removal of INEC Chairman by Gani Adams fraction. The National Coordinator and other key members released this statement disassociating themselves from the act and wanting Nigerians to know Gani is on his own. We, the members of the National Coordinating Council of the Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, the highest ruling body of the organization, wish to disassociate ourselves from  the shameful, destructive, violent and reactionary activities of the Gani Adam-led team which occurred in Lagos today.  What was witnessed today in Lagos was the highest level of political violence sponsored and funded by certain elements in the Jonathan government. Gani Adams is on his own and does not enjoy the support of a large size of our membership spread across the country. He is working for the sponsors of viole...

Mr West shared his wife's latest nudes on twitter saying he's so lucky and also congratulated her on the premiere of her reality show and reaching 30m followers on twitter. 

The convoy of Mrs Aisha Buhari, the wife of APC Presidential candidate was reportedly attacked by some hoodlums around a film house along Emir road in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital this evening. According to a statement by APC Chairman in Kwara state, Alhaji Balogun Fulani, 10 vehicles in her convoy were vandalized. Continue to read the statement posted on Bukola Saraki's Facebook wall. Meanwhile, Mrs Buhari and her women reached their destination in tact. They are pictured above with Bukola Saraki

Got this email with photos from a close friend of the family of the young man named Chibyke Edeh (pictured above) who was killed. I will share it exactly the way it was sent  Read below... "I never thought I will ever have cause to go through such torment. The story I am about to share is worse than that of ALUU4. ALUU4 victims were murdered by civilians and not people meant to protect the masses...the Police. The attached pictures are of a boy in his mid twenties. He was tortured to death by police men. Until his arrest and murder, he was working with  Protea hotel in Benin. He was accused of stealing N45,000 from a guest in one of the rooms he attended to and as such was arrested, detained and not granted bail. The police then asked the parents to go bring N27000 for his bail. By the time they got back with the money, they were told he was dead. He was tortured until he died. The person went on to mention name of the police station and officers invol...

Fiery Enugu-based Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Mbaka has disclosed in a new video sermon uploaded on youtube that President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience, are planning to kill him over political disagreements regarding his opposition to President Jonathan's re-election. In a 21-minute sermon given during one of his preachings, Fr. Mbaka stated categorically he was made aware of the plans recently. The popular Adoration Ministries coordinator said his support for Jonathan in the last six years did not attract death threats or condemnation from opposition politicians. He also used the opportunity to address allegations that he received some money from Mrs. Joanthan last during her visit to his church. Fr. Mbaka disclosed that Mr. Jonathan dropped money for him through Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, but that he left the money with Ekweremadu and his wife, he further stated that the money Mrs. Jonathan gave as offering at the church's offertory was...

A frontline leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, at the weekend confessed he betrayed his own candidate for President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2011 presidential contest. In that contest, Mr. Jonathan was in competition with General Muhammadu Buhari of the Congress for Political Change, but also with Nuhu Ribadu, the former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, who was the flagbearer of Tinubu’s Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN). Curiously, while the candidates of the ACN did very well in the legislative and gubernatorial elections, Ribadu was trounced in all but one of the ACN States by Mr. Jonathan. Observers have always suspected that Tinubu, who was known to have flown to Abuja to meet with the president just before the election, was bought off to give victory to Jonathan in the area. Speaking at Onikan Stadium during an Ndigbo APC governorship rally on Saturday, Tinubu appeared to co...

Adekemi Faboro reportedly died after her first meeting with a married man she met on Facebook, according to a report by  PM News . The teacher with a primary school in Ogba had met with the married man, one Christopher Ezekiel, online sometime ago and they started an online relationship, communicating on phone and through Facebook messages. The two later agreed to meet for the first time this past weekend. Ezekiel left his wife and 2 children in Ibadan and traveled down to Lagos where he stayed in Adekemi's house at a street off Ajayi Road, Ogba. Trouble started when Adekemi started coughing profusely in the middle of the night. Her concerned neighbors who could hear her coughing came to inquire what the problem was. Seeing that she was not getting any better, they rushed her to the Ifako General Hospital in Lagos where she died. Ezekiel was immediately arrested by policemen attached to the Pen Cinema Police station in Ogba. Her body has since been d...

This is so heartbreaking to see.Can you imagine how this small  boy is protecting his little sister from air strike. This is what war can cause. 

According to what they posted on their twitter handle, the opposition party have outlined up to 24 things they will do for you in the next 12 months Read From Bottom to top

Olusegun Obasanjo, former president of Nigeria, believes that the Boko Haram sect has legitimate grievances.  Criticising the response of the current administration to the insurgency, Obasanjo highlighted low level of education in the northern part of the country as a contributory factor to the situation. He was speaking on Monday during a global education conference in Dubai, United Araba Emirates (UAE). In an interview with IBTimes UK on the sidelines of the Global Education Forum conference in Dubai, Obasanjo said that while 79% of Nigerians received education in the south west of the country and 77% in the south east, in the Boko Haram stronghold of the north east that figure was just 19%. "We don't need anyone to tell us that that is a problem. A problem of disparity, a problem of marginalisation. A problem because education is fundamental to your employability, to your living conditions. If you are not educated you are handicapped," he ...

The mother of two looked beautiful out and about last week. 

Unknown gunmen on Saturday night shot and killed two chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Ibima Olunta and Mr. Goodfellow Bobmanuel, in Abonnema, headquarters of Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State. It was gathered that Olunta, who is the chairman of PDP Ward 2, Abonnema, and Bobmanuel, who is a PDP councillorship aspirant for Ward 2, Abonnema, were sitting in front of their houses in the community, when the gunmen struck. When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, Ahmad Kadiya Muhammad, could not confirm the development, as he said he was out of the state, and had not been briefed about such attack. Reacting to the development, Chairman of PDP in the state, Chief Felix Obuah, alleged that members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akuku-Toru local government area of the state were behind the dastardly act. Obuah, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt yesterday, condoled with the fa...

OPC thugs unleashed terror in the name of political campaigns this afternoon and caused serious traffic on the road. The thugs said they want INEC chairman Jega removed and also don't want card readers for the election. They were escorted by SURE-P police escorts. Nigerians took to twitter to vent their anger on the madness that happened on Ikorodu road today. See that below

Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has nullified the restriction of movement of Lagos state residents during the monthly environmental sanitation exercise. Delivering his judgement in a suit filed by some aggrieved residents, Justice Mohammed described as unlawful the restrictions of residents, adding that it was a violation of the citizens’ right to personal liberty and freedom of movement protected by sections 35 and 41 of the Constitution. He voided the power of the Lagos State Government and its agent to arrest any citizen found moving between 7am & 10am during the monthly sanitation which holds every last Saturday of every month.

The High Court of Lagos State presided over by Honourable Justice Akinkugbe I.O. granted an injunction restraining Daar Communications, owners of AIT from broadcasting, transmitting or airing how-so-ever a documentary titled "The Lion of Bourdillon" pending the determination of "The Motion on Notice" The application was moved by Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, the lead counsel for Bola Tinubu (The Plaintiff/Applicant] in the defamation case against Daar Communications. The court also adjourned the motion for interlocutory injunction on the application of the defendant/respondent counsel to Friday, March 20, 2015 at 1pm. The defendant/respondent, that is, DAAR COMMUNICATIONS[owners of AIT] was represented by Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos today March 16th upturned the election of Ibinabo Fiberisnma Egbuka as President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria.   Delivering his judgement in a suit filed by actor Maradonna Mikevine, the presiding judge, Justice James Tsoho, ruled that the October 2014 election that brought Ibinabo back for second term was against a subsisting court order obtained by actor Emeka Ike in 2013, restraining the AGN from conducting any elections. Emeka had dragged Ibinabo to court in July 2013 following the constitution of a National Unity government in the AGN which was led by Segun Arinze who later handed over power to Ibinabo after a disputed election. Ibinabo has not reacted to this new development.