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Former Minister of Petroleum resources, Prof Tam David-West says anyone caught involving in election rigging deserves to be sentenced to death. Speaking in Port harcourt, Rivers state to Punch over the contentious Saturday governorship election in the state, David-West said election riggers are worse than armed robbers and that sentencing them to death when apprehended is the only way Nigeria can have peaceful, free and fair elections "I have said that election riggers should get death sentence. Rigging election is worse that armed robbery. If an armed robber can be sentenced to death, election riggers must face similar punishment. That is the only way we can have peaceful, free and fair election in this country. It (election) was a sham. From all I heard, in Buguma, Asari-Toru, there was no election as a result of sporadic shooting in the area. Surprisingly, INEC released a result. It is wrong for anyone to say that the conducted election is good. Is that s...

She was showing off her pets in the new pic she just posted on instagram but if you zoom in, you will see she's showing off something more. See the close-up photo below

Beyonce shares some intimate bikini photos of herself from her fun wedding anniversary getaway in Hawaii with Jay Z.  

A Federal High Court in Abuja has vacated the order restraining ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo from publishing, printing or offering for sale, his controversial autobiography titled “My Watch.” which had been in the custody of the Nigerian Customs Service since 2014 following a N20billion libel lawsuit by PDP chieftain, Buruji Kashamu, asking the court to stop the distribution of the book because of some things Obasanjo wrote about him in the book. In the book, Obasanjo described Buruji as a fugitive wanted in the US. A court, last year, ordered security and law enforcement agencies including ‎customs to confiscate the book anywhere they saw the book. But on Monday, Justice Valentine Ashi who in December 2014 placed a ban on the book, vacated his earlier order on the ground that the plaintiff and a PDP chieftain, Buruji Kashamu, suppressed fact from the court to obtain the order. According to Justice Ashi, Kashamu who had approached the court saying that t...

President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, has dismissed as fictional and uncharitable, a report by an online medium that he walked some government officials out of his residence in Daura, Katsina State. A statement by the Director of Media and Publicity of the APC presidential Campaign, Garba Shehu on Wednesday denied that any such incident took place as reported by the online newspaper. “It was a false and an inaccurate presentation of facts of what transpired when some government officials visited the President-elect at his Daura country home. It is totally out of General Buhari’s character to ask his visitors out,” Mr. Shehu said. Mr. Shehu said the alleged visit by the Comptroller-General of the Customs, Abdullahi Inde, only happened in the imagination of the said publication. “He did not come visiting at any time.” On the other reported incident involving Ade Abolurin, the Commandant-General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Mr. Shehu said the Presid...

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He said they were found around the Shasha area of Lagos and they didn't pay any ransom. Watch...

The federal government has disclosed that President Goodluck Jonathan will formally handover to the President-Elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari at a dinner on May 28th. Minister of Information, Patricia Akwashiki made the disclosure on Wednesday at the end of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Jonathan. According to her, May 29 has been reserved for the incoming government as a schedule of activities have been lined up all through that week to showcase what the Jonathan administration has achieved. The President has also directed all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to submit their transitional briefs to the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) by April 20. Akwashiki said valedictory FEC session for this administration will hold on the 20th May, while a valedictory dinner is slated for May 28. In her words, “By May 28th, the president intends to have the formal handing over done a...

A special court martial of the Nigerian Army has discharged and acquitted 57 soldiers who were charged with losing their weapons and going on an Absence Without Official Leave (AWOL) while battling insurgents last year,  Post Nigeria is reporting , quoting a source in the office of the National Security Adviser. In December last year, the soldiers were charged with conspiracy to commit a mutiny after their revolt led to the death a few of their colleagues in a duel with insurgents. The soldiers had claimed that their weapons were inferior to the enemy’s at the time. The court martial, which sat at the Army Headquarters Garrison in Abuja also convicted 15 other soldiers, sentencing them to one-year prison sentences.

African immigrants and their children pictured in a South African police station today where they are taking refuge following a string of Xenophobic attacks in the country. More photos below..  Photo credit: Robert Alai

Teslim Balogun(L), playing for Queen's Park Rangers(QPR) in 1956.He was one of the first Nigerians to play in England

Popular Nigerian musician 2face Idibia has recounted the early days in his career, when he had nothing and had to hustle for a living. Speaking in an interview with Views Channel, 2face talks about the devastating incident, that led to his dropping out of school. According to him, he was robbed of all his audio cassettes that he recorded and he was so devastated and later dropped out of school to face music. He also recounts how he used to claim ‘staff’ when he boarded public buses in Lagos because he had no money to pay for his bus fare. Staff is a popular word in Nigeria used by public servants like policemen or members of the armed forces whenever they enter public transport so they would not pay their bus fare. He said: “I got robbed sometime in school. All my audio cassettes that I recorded they took them. I was sad for like a year plus. I dropped out and I am like look I am not continuing this thing I am going to follow music. “I actuall...

Fire has gutted Federal Mortgage Bank building at Mamman Kontagora house, located in Broad street, Lagos. According to available information, the raging inferno has already gutted 7 floors of the building. Fire Service men have just arrived to fight the inferno. Eyewitness in Broad street suspect foul play, a source who doesn’t want his name in print who spoke to us said “It is strange that the fire affects the Mortgage building”. He doubts that it was a coincidence that the fire burnt almost all the official documents in the bank. The Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) was established in 1956, known then as the Nigerian Building Society (NBS), a joint venture of the Commonwealth Development Corporation and the Federal and Eastern Governments of Nigeria. Following the introduction of the Indigenisation Policy, the Federal Government, by Indigenisation Act 1973, undertook 100 percent ownership acquisition of the NBS and consequently renamed it the ...

A Nigerian army armoured vehicle escorting Chibok women as they walk along a road in Borno State ”

The singer went braless i n a see-through white vest top as she visited   one of her favourite restaurants in Santa Monica, Giorgio Baldi, last night.   Photo credit: X17online.com

After the gubernatorial election which the APC candidate Ambode emerged winner in Lagos State. Obanikoro took to his twitter and congratulate him and called out on Rotimi Amaechi to learn from that.  See below Amaechi's response to Obanikoro. Read from bottom to top And Obanikoro's reply. Read from bottom to top

Lagos state Governor Babatunde Fashola yesterday rewarded Sergeant Mercy John pictured above for bravery. The female police officer single-handedly disarmed two robbers who attempted to dispose her of her belongings at Egbeda-Shasha by Tawakalitu Close, Orisunmibare Road, Lagos on 10th February, 2015. Sergeant Mercy, a native of Ikori in Cross River State was on her way to work when armed robbers attacked her. She fought back and was able to recover a locally made pistol with two live cartridges from them. At a ceremony which held at the Lagos House, Ikeja, Governor Fashola encouraged the brave female officer not to relent in her efforts in keeping the state safe... "Let me say very clearly that I value the work that you do, people of Lagos value what you do and where ever you come from, this is your home and I think it is right to say that it was because you take this as home, you did the right thing, you took two robbers out of commission so that the peo...

One of Africa's richest men, Tony Elumelu paid a congratulatory visit to President-elect, Gen. Buhari, at his home in Daura, Katsina today April 15th. He also paid a congratulatory visit to former FCT Minister & Kaduna state Governor-elect, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, in Kaduna. 

President-elect Gen. Buhari in an opinion article published on  New York Times  yesterday April 14th, wrote on how his administration will tackle the terror group, Boko Haram. Read below... When Boko Haram attacked a school in the town of Chibok, in northeastern Nigeria, kidnapping more than 200 girls, on the night of April 14, 2014, the people of my country were aghast. Across the world, millions of people joined them in asking: How was it possible for this terrorist group to act with such impunity? It took nearly two weeks before the government even commented on the crime. This lack of reaction was symptomatic of why the administration of President Jonathan was swept aside last month – the first time an incumbent president has been successfully voted out of office in the history of our nation. For too long they ruled, not governed, and in doing so had become so focused on their own self-interest and embroiled in corruption that the duty to react to the anguish...

According to this twitter user, his brother who is in South Africa has armed himself with a gun to protect his family from rampaging Zulu South Africans who have carried out xenophobic attacks on African immigrants in recent times. So sad. 

Malawi says it will repatriate its nationals from South Africa, following an upsurge in xenophobic violence. At least five foreigners, including a 14-year-old boy, have been killed in attacks in South Africa's coastal city of Durban since last week. Some foreign-owned shops in the main city Johannesburg have shut amid fears that the violence could spread. Zimbabwe has also condemned the attacks, blamed on locals who accuse foreigners of taking their jobs. Tens of thousands of foreigners, mostly from other African states and Asia, have moved to South Africa since white-minority rule ended in 1994. At least 62 people died in xenophobic attacks that swept South Africa in 2008. The government has ordered police to step up efforts to protect foreigners Local gangs accuse of foreigners of taking their jobs Thousands of migrants have fled to camps to escape the violence Malawi is the only country which has so far decided to repatriate its citizens. Information Minister Kondwa...

On Feb 13, 1976 Nigeria donated the sum of $2million to South Africa's Africa National Congress (ANC) to assist its liberation movement Nigerian High Commiss'n in Botswana during the apartheid era issued over 300 Nigerian passports to black S/Africans to travel the world with A street in Tanzania's Capital named after Azikiwe: Nnamdi Azikiwe Avenue, Dar es Salaam 11101, Tanzania. MKO Abiola,a friend of Murtala Muhammed,said Murtala had only ₦7.22(present purchasing power= ₦9,807)in his bank account when he died in 1976 In the 1970s,Nigeria was making so much profits from the oil boom that General Gowon said Nigeria’s problem is not money but how to spend it Credit To   @ SeeMeSeeNigeria