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The Nanny, known as Mary Akinloye but whose real name is Funmilayo Adeyemi, narrates how she executed the kidnap of the Orekoya children which was planned by her husband and four kids, her brother-in-law and wife as well as her mother-in-law. Courtesy Channels TV. Watch..

Senator-elect, Prince Buruji Kuruji has responded to Associated Press report on his  alleged  drug indictment in the US published today titled -  Man indicted in US for drug deal elected Senator in Nigeria . The politician and businessman insists he was not the man indicted. His response below.. 1.  M y attention has been drawn to a syndicated report by Associated Press (AP) entitled “A man indicted in US for drug deal elected senator in Nigeria”. 2.     First, it should be noted that this is part of a renewed campaign of calumny and propaganda that I have anticipated and I am prepared for. 3.        I wish to state for the umpteenth time that I am not man who was indicted in the said case. It was a certain “ALAJI” and not me, Prince Buruji Kashamu. 4.        Also, contrary to the AP’s account, after the failed extradition attempts by the United States government against...

After he performed his smash hit single, ‘Godwin.’ at HICC (Harvesters International Christian Centre) in Lagos, On Sunday, April 5, 2015, Marvin new boy Korede Bello faced mixed reactions from some of his fans and followers of Nigerian music. While some saw nothing wrong with him performing the song in a church, others felt he crossed the line as a secular act who mounted the sacred pulpit. While speaking to TheNET recently, Korede Bello said he doesn’t regret performing in church and if the opportunity presents itself again, he’ll gladly do it all over again. Hear him:   ‘ If you are the pastor of a church and you invite me to perform the song, Yes i will perform the  song again. It’s God’s song and whatever is happening now is predetermined, people are talking about God that’s all that matters, From the inception of Godwin, I knew that it wasn’t my song, I knew that anything that’s for God has the potential of growing bigger than you imagine. It’s ...

Counsel in the class action suit brought against DStv on Thursday informed the court that the satellite television service provider has gone ahead to give effect to its price increase contrary to the order given by the court. Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos had on April 2, 2015 made orders restraining DStv from giving effect or enforcing its planned increase in cost of the different classes of programme offering pending the determination of the Motion on Notice for Interlocutory Injunction, which was adjourned till April 16, 2015. But when the matter came up on Thursday, the counsel told the court that DStv had breached the order by going ahead to enforce the price increase. Oluyinka Oyeniji led a team of lawyers, including the Osasuyi Adebayo, Mufutau Olajobi, Yemi Salman and Fola Oluwole for the applicants. DStv was represented by Moyo Onigbanjo (SAN) and M.K. Adesina among other lawyers. Mr. Onigbanjo informed the court of...

Multiple car accident happened this evening along Transamadi road in Port Harcourt Rivers state. Photo credit: @touchph

American veteran gospel musician, Don Moen will be singing in Igbo on a new album with fellow singer Frank Edwards. The duo will be collaborating on an EP, and revealed this in a recent video posted online. Don Moen said that they started out with working on a song, before it grew to a five track EP. Doen Moen also said that he was glad to get the opportunity to sing in the Igbo language on one of the songs. This will be the first time that both gospel artists will be working together. Source: News24

Read the State House press release.. President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Thursday in Abuja urged world leaders and international institutions to give their fullest possible support to the incoming Administration of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. President Jonathan also called on all Nigerians to do their utmost best to help the incoming President succeed in leading the country to greater heights of accomplishment.   At separate audiences with the new ambassadors of France, Senegal and Ethiopia, President Jonathan appealed for patience, understanding and cooperation from all stakeholders in Nigeria, which, he said, General Buhari will need to move the country forward to greater, peace, security and progress. Responding to the commendation of his exemplary concession of victory in the Presidential elections by the new ambassadors, President Jonathan said that he acted out of his abiding conviction that the unity, well-being and progress of Nigeria must supersede all person...

30 year old US model, Sarah Stage, who caused quite a storm on social media with her pregnant-yet-toned physique, gave birth to a bouncing baby boy on April 14. He's been named James Hunter. The model became popular on instagram by regularly posting pics showing off her tiny, barely-there pregnancy belly. In the pic above, she was nearly 9 months. Amazing stuff! Congrats to her.

Last week, 30-year-old Russian man, Valery Spiridonov, announced that he will become the subject of the first human head transplant ever performed. Val, who's paralyzed from waist down, says he wants his head removed from his non-functioning body and installed on another person’s able body. He volunteered himself as a guinea pic after Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero said head transplant was possible and outlined the transplant technique he intends to follow. But now a top surgeon said Val will experience a death worse than death is he goes ahead with this... " A Werdnig-Hoffman disease sufferer with rapidly declining health, Spiridonov is willing to take a punt on this very experimental surgery and you can't really blame him, but while he is prepared for the possibility that the body will reject his head and he will die, his fate could be considerably worse than death.” "I would not wish this on anyone," said Dr Hunt Batjer, president elect of th...

Lagos state Governor-elect, Akinwunmi Ambode, pictured with his wife receiving his certificate of return from INEC officials this afternoon. More photos below

This is an exclusive report by  Associated Press  and it's about PDP Chieftain, Buruji Kashamu. Read the report below... A man indicted in America for allegedly smuggling heroin, in a court case that was the basis for the TV hit "Orange Is The New Black," has been elected a senator in Nigeria. Buruji Kashamu was little known before he returned home in 2003 from Britain despite a U.S. extradition order to become a major financier of President Jonathan's party. Election results posted late Wednesday identify Kashamu as a senator-elect in southwest Ogun state. Opponents are challenging his victory in court, saying ballots were rigged. Kashamu, 56, hung up the phone twice when the AP called for comment about the drug case on Thursday. Kashamu has said he is "a clean businessman" and that the 1998 indictment by a grand jury in the Northern District of Illinois for conspiracy to import and distribute heroin in the United States is a case of...

Founder of Latter Rain Assembly and former Vice Presidential candidate of General Buhari in 2011, Pastor Tunder Bakare paid the President-elect a congratulatory visit in Kaduna today April 16th. More photos below   Photo credit: Sahara Reporters

A housemaid in Nairobi, Kenya was caught on camera attempting to breastfeed her employer’s baby, Nairobi News reports. The maid, Grace Mwikali Mwema, had just been employed two days prior to the incident. A hidden camera in the living room showed Mwema offering the 9-month-old baby her breasts to suck. However, the baby resisted. She was seen offering the baby her right breast first. She then shifts the baby to the left breast. . Throughout, the 9-month-old baby refused to suck her breasts. Eventually, she gave up and let the baby play. What was insulting was the response she gave when confronted with the video. She claimed that the baby made the first move by touching her breasts. . The employer says she was stiff worried that her baby could have been infected. She quickly took Grace for a medical check-up. To her relief, she tested negative for HIV and Hepatitis, both of which can be transmitted through breastfeeding. . . The doctor confirmed t...