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3 year old Oluwabunmi Ajelero has been declared missing. Her family say she was abducted from Surulere Baptist Church today. Anyone with useful information should please call 08022289455. 

All Sen.Chukwumerije's children had a black belt in Taekwondo (includ'g his daughter),2 nat'l champs,1 Olympic medalist So it is obvious he had a black belt in Taekwando too Credit: SeeMeSeeNigeria

FULL TRANSCRIPT OF REUBEN ABATI’S INTERVIEW WITH STATE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS ON THE SUNDAY PUNCH FRONT PAGE STORY OF APRIL 19, 2015 TITLED “JONATHAN DEMANDS N2tn ELECTION FUNDS REFUND, AUDIT” The front-page story of the  Sunday Punch  of April 19 alleging that the Presidency spent a whopping N2 trillion on the 2015 General elections, and that a Committee of Five has been set up by President Jonathan to conduct an audit of how the funds were disbursed by party members and state officials is mischievous, false and embarrassing. The President has not set up any committee as alleged in that story. It is also not true that the Presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party used state funds, or spent N2 trillion during the campaigns. The innuendoes are wrong-headed; the motives behind the story are suspicious.  The story alleges, for example, that the Presidency spent N2trillion on elections and embarked on a money-sharing spree to party members, support groups...

The Presidency has denied that it spent N2 trillion on April 19 election according to a media report not Vanguard. The Presidency through Reuben Abati, Special Adviser to the President Media and Publicity, made this statement on Sunday. The statement read thus The front-page story of the Sunday Punch of April 19 alleging that the Presidency spent a whopping N2 trillion on the 2015 General elections, and that a Committee of Five has been set up by President Jonathan to conduct an audit on how the funds were disbursed by party members and state officials is mischievous, false and embarrassing. The President has not set up any committee as alleged in that story. It is also not true that the Presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party used state funds, or spent N2 trillion during the campaigns. The innuendoes are wrong-headed; the motives behind the story are suspicious. The story alleges, for example, that the Presidency spent N2trillion on elections a...

The Senator representing Abia North Senatorial District, Uche Chukwumerije, is dead. He was 75. According to a statement by a family representative, Chidi, the Senator died on Sunday after a long but gallant battle with lung cancer. “On the evening of  Sunday, the 19th of April, 2015 , surrounded by his family, Comrade Uche Chukwumerije passed into the open arms of history, and of our Lord Jesus Christ, after a long but gallant battle with lung cancer,” the statement said. “His life is many volumes, which can only be told with care and time, of dedication and focus, integrity and discipline, and an unbroken love for the highest ideals of our shared humanity. “Details of burial arrangements will be announced in due course. We ask only for your prayers and good wishes.” Below is the Wikipedia entry for   Mr. Chukwumerije  here. Uche Chukwumerije  (born November 1939) was elected a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in April 2...

Senate has announced the death of Senator Uche Chukwumerije in the evening of Sunday in the Turkish Hospital, Abuja A statement by Senate Spokesman, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe described the lawmaker who until his death was the Chairman, Senate Committee on Education as political giant and one of the nation,s finest legislator. Abaribe said the lawmaker who represented Abia North Senatorial District of Abia state in the current senate easily passes as a repository of legislative tradition and practice. “The Senate will surely miss his erudite contributions on the floor of the chamber and his painstaking approach to committee work. Chukwumerije was indeed an embodiment of legislative tradition and consummate activists democrat who loved his people passionately”, he said.

A mother-of-two who posted pictures of her post-pregnancy stretchmarks on Instagram to inspire others was horrified after they were removed for breaching the site's decency guidelines. Hannah Moore, 20, of Broxburn in West Lothian, uploaded the snaps in a bid to boost her confidence and told her followers: 'Nobody should be judged by their size because everyone is beautiful'. Hannah says the blocking of her account has made her think her body is 'clearly fat, ugly and disgusting and it made people feel sick'.  'Two minutes after the picture was uploaded my account got closed down, my mouth just dropped and my eyes watered.I don't know why, it was out of the blue but I decided to post a picture of my belly on Instagram because I've had twins. 'I had written underneath the picture how unconfident I had always been, how relationships have been hard and how hard it is to find clothes that I like.''I want not just myself but other w...

After Peoples Democratic Party’s failure at the last general elections, top party men are calling for the resignation or removal of the party’s National Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu.  PDP stalwarts who spoke with Sunday  Punch  said it behoves on Mua’zu to turn in his resignation letter even without since he had been unable to take the party to victory.  The PDP not only lost the presidential election to the opposition, All Progressives Congress, it also lost its National Assembly majority status and governorship seats including state Houses of assembly.  But the embattled national chairman, Mu’azu, has said he would not resign despite the loss of the party he leads.  Mu’azu said it was also wrong for anyone to call for the sacking of any member of the party’s National Working Committee because of what happened to the ruling party during the elections. PDP chieftains including a former National Vice-Chairman of the Peoples Democr...

Dear times magazine,  Shekau is not influential in my country, the basis of this statement and ranking amongst the most popular positive great Nigerians you mentioned in that list makes it even more difficult for me to understand, how would you call a man who has killed over 15,000 of my people as influential? How would you call a man the world has called mad influential?  This is a man whose image has been generally of terrible reckoning and the you call him influential? I don't understand the basis for that, if you wanted a list of most influential wicked terrorists in the world, if shekau tops that list, I would never have any problems with that, I would understand if you compiled a list filled with members of ISIS, alshabab and other terrorist groups we Nigerians would understand that. Nigerians have converged together as one to hate this creature, our people have come together to make sure we normalize this situation. You put up some positi...

A woman from Delta State who effective­ly hid her adulter­ous relationship from her husband, Lekan Onipede, is now on the run after she viciously attacked him with boiling water and pursued him with a knife. The woman, Rosemary David, had a son for Onipede, a 31-year-old indigene of Ondo State, about 11 years ago, when he was 20. While still living with him under the concept of common law mar­riage, and in what would appear to be a case of polyandry, she allegedly hooked up with another man in Delta State and had two other children (a boy and a girl) with the man, and then passed them off as Onipede’s children. Over the years, David perfectly juggled the two ‘husbands’ in Ondo and Delta states, co-habit­ing with one or the other in a near seamless manner until the bubble burst, and set the stage for the heinous attack on Onipede after accusing him of adultery. The tale began when David who was living with her parents in Ore, Ondo State, got into a relationship...

According to a user on Nairaland,Armed robbers posted a notice on Friday Street, Rumuapu GRA, Rukpokwu, Port Harcourt..It reads SAVE YOUR LIFE WE WHAT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT FROM NEXT WEEK THERE'S A VISITOR FOR YOU AND THE REASON OF OUR COMING IS THAT WE NEED TEN MILLION NAIRA ONLY FROM YOU. IT'S GOOD FOR YOU TO ARRANGE THE MONEY WHICH IS 10 MILLION BEFORE WE SHOW FAILURE TO OBEY SHALL LEAD TO DEATH, THAT IS FOR YOU. JUST DO AS WE WRITE IN THE SCRIPT. ALSO THIS ONE IS FOR PUBLIC NOTICE WE WHAT YOU PEOPLE TO LET YOUR SECURIT MEN TO KNOW, MAY THERE PACK AND RUN A WAY BEFORE WE LAND G.R.A RUMUAP. AND IF ANY SECURITY MAN DIDNT VALUE HIS LIFE BECUASE OF RICH MAN LIKE YOU, IF YOU DIE THAT ONE IS FOR YOUR OWN. OUR COMING IS UNDATED

Vanguard columnist Dr. Femi Aribisala, in an interaction with Vanguard editors, explains why he is not proud to call president-elect, Gen. Buhari his president. Quite interesting. Read below... How did you come about your claim that INEC rigged the election for Buhari?   There are certain things that are interesting about this election. The first one is that it is one of the most keenly contested elections that we have had in this country. It involved more people. But 10 million less people voted than last time, which gives us some idea as to how true some of the figures we have been having before had been. But the question is: Where did the decline of 10 million come from? I discovered that it came disproportionately in certain areas than it did in others. And to some extent, if you look at the PVC distribution, you can project the election. It is because Buhari could campaign in the South, but the North didn't permit same kind of liberty for the president. ...

The reality star and mother of one was  spotted in LA yesterday driving in a brand-new  2015 Rolls Royce Phantom,  the latest model which starts at $407,000. That would be about N80m in Nigerian currency .