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Except the five governorship candidates challenging the credibility of the April 11 governorship election in Rivers withdraw their cases from the election petition tribunal or fail to present material evidence like the one exclusively obtained by PREMIUM TIMES , Nyesom Wike of the Peoples Democratic Party, who was returned winner of the election, is as good as gone. Mr. Wike may need a miracle to come out of the election petition tribunal victorious. The evidence against the legitimacy of the election that returned him winner is too damning and overwhelming, this newspaper can authoritatively report today. The Independent National Electoral Commission in Rivers awarded Mr. Wike votes almost five times higher than the actual, authentic total number of voters accredited with card readers and Permanent Voter Cards which was 292, 878, PREMIUM TIMES investigation has revealed. Downloads First and Last page of PVC accreditation in Rivers 2015 governorship election. ...

The Senator-elect for Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, on Saturday tackled President Goodluck Jonathan on the sale of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, and the  last-minutes sale of the Nigeria Telecommunications Limited, NITEL. He also carpeted the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on her economic policy. The senator-elect also described the current impasse in the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, as a disgrace to Nigerian workers. Mr. Sani, while receiving the Kaduna state executive of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, who visited him in his office in Kaduna, said the privatization exercise under President Goodluck Jonathan is a monumental theft of Nigeria’s collective resources in the interest of a few. “The sale of PHCN has not translated into consistent electric power in our homes, in our offices , in our markets and in our work place,” he said, adding that the issue of privatization has also seriously affected many workers who...

Madthaw Village in Miringa District of Biu Local Government Area in Borno state is currently under attacks by men suspected to be of the Boko Haram sect. Sporadic gunshots are being heard while villagers are running for safety. More details later.

An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak to 3 years in prison on corruption charges after a retrial in Cairo. It was not clear whether the sentence will include the time Mubarak has already served, the Associated Press reported. According to the court order, which also includes a 125 million Egyptian pound ($16.3 million) fine, Mubarak's sons Gamal and Alaa were given 4 years of imprisonment each in the same case, which centers on the embezzlement of millions of dollars over the course of a decade. The court's decision can be appealed, a lawyer for Mubarak reportedly said. The funds, which were meant to pay for renovation of presidential palaces, were allegedly spent by Mubarak and his sons on maintaining their private residences, AP reported, adding that several supporters of the 87-year-old autocrat shouted in anger as the judge announced his verdict. In January, an Egyptian court had ordered a retrial...

Muslim shops and restaurants in a Chinese village have been ordered to sell alcohol and cigarettes in an effort to weaken Islam’s hold on residents in China’s Xinjiang region. Shop owners who refuse face closure and prosecution, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported Monday. It is the latest in a series of anti-Muslim campaigns by Chinese authorities in the name of fighting religious extremism to undermine Islam influence in northwestern China. Chinese authorities in Laskuy township issued a notice to residents in Aktash village last week saying in part, “all restaurants and supermarkets in our village should place five different brands of alcohol and cigarettes in their shops before (May 1, 2015).” Shopkeepers were also instructed to promote the products in “eye-catching displays.” Authorities warned that “anybody who neglects this notice and fails to act will see their shops sealed off, their business suspended, and legal action pursued against them.” The notice also said the ...

Kim decided to take a break from the heavy contouring and makeup to show off her natural beauty..Safe to say, she's flawless!

Denrele Edun has been talking about his plans to get married for quite a while now.But,in a ne winter view with Saturday Beats, he says the married is taking place this year “It is true that I am about to get married but it is not now. I would get married later this year. It was meant to be a secret but I don’t know how everybody has heard. I just hope ‘bad bele’ people would not jinx the marriage for me and make the girl that wants to marry me change her mind. She is the same girl I spoke about with you during our last interview. I cannot explain how the girl captured my heart but everyone would find out on the D-Day. I don’t want to share the identity of my wife now. When the time comes, people would know who she is,

Kim is defending Kylie,after the teenager finally confessed she plumped up her lips with fillers..Speaking to Access Hollywood,Kim says Kylie always wanted lips like theirs! What you'll see on the show is, Kylie, for a really long time, she was over-lining her lips. That was the truth for a while, then she decided to plump them.' She didn't lie, it took her a while to actually make that decision to do it and once she decided to plump them, she was still over-lining, then sometimes it would look too big, then she figured out to stop over-lining. She plumped them and she was happy with it.' On Kylie being too young for that, she said 'At 10 and 11 years old she'd say "Kimmy, how come my lips aren't as big as your guys'?"'If it's going to make her feel better then I'm all for it.' before adding 'Now people can stop talking about it.'

Tonto Dikeh who is vacationing in Ghana with her Malaysian based boo, Mr X shared more adorable kissing photos with a dolphin.. More below

A Fourteen-year-old girl has recounted her four-year ordeal in the hands of a neighbour, Felix Emmanuel, an Edo State indigene, who took advantage of her innocence. At 14, she explained that if she knew that the threats that had kept her quiet from disclosing what she was going through were mere lies, she would have told her mother about what was happening to her before it went on for too long. “He (Emmanuel) first raped me in 2011 when I was 10 years old. He brought out a calabash with cowries in it and told me that if I told anybody, I would die within 24 hours,” she told our correspondent, sobbing. Jane, a senior secondary year one student, lives in the same compound with Emmanuel, a 28-year-old unemployed secondary school drop-out, in Egbeda area of Lagos.The girl told  Saturday PUNCH .. “The first time he raped me, my mother sent me on errand. I was passing by his room on my way back when he called me. “I did not know what he wanted from me, but...

Beyonce is on 'slaying' streak this week,She has just been killing it fashion-wise.. See more below!

Popular Yoruba actress, Funke Adesiyan, who fought for a legislative seat in Oyo State under the Peoples Democratic Party, said she is not feeling bad for losing .She says she actually threw a party after the election. She told Punch “I threw a party immediately after the election. Didn’t you hear about it? Ah! I don’t feel bad at all. I threw a big bash where I invited my fans and friends to come and celebrate with me. There was no need for me to feel bad in any way,” she said. The actress said she is going back to her acting career and nothing is going to dampen her mood.

 Jonathan’s recent bid for the presidency is the brawl between the singer, broadcaster, actor and Director General, National Women Centre, Onyeka Onwenu and popular actor, Patience Ozokwor. According to Thisday ,Onwenu had made it her business to have a majority of the creative population in Nigeria channel their request to see Jonathan and/or participate in his campaign. For an actor or musician to go around Onwenu to see Jonathan, his/her connection in Aso Rock Villa had to be very strong. So Onyeka was allegedly miffed when Ozokwor managed to get attention from Aso Rock on her steam. Try as she did to issue an order that Ozokwor should revert to her, it just didn’t work. Ozokwor must have summoned extraneous powers from the ‘evil’ role she frequently plays in Nollywood to keep Onyeka off her track. The fracas between the two Igbo women was not unconnected with who should control disbursement of the Jonathan campaign fund to a group of certain artistes...

 A woman was eight months pregnant and had no idea. Abby Wake says she’s dreamed of being a mom but thought she’d have several years before she’d have a baby.But, last week, Wake learned she had just weeks to get ready for baby Isaac’s arrival. Her boyfriend Jarryd Gorman noticed a small belly but they both thought it was weight gain and bloat as Wake is lactose intolerant. She also has an irregular period and says she dismissed movement as gas.She told CBS ”I had no symptoms‘Cause it wasn’t distinct. There weren’t like kicks and huge movements. It was just like gurgles,” It was eventually Gorman who suspected a baby when he put his hand on Wake’s belly at a concert.”   Her boyfriend said.. “I felt the baby kick and I looked at her and said, ‘I think you’re definitely pregnant,’ ” “We need to go see someone straight away.” The couple visited Payman Joseph, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Van Nuys, who says Wake may have been surprised but he wasn’t...

As the military deploys its special force units to track the fleeing lead­er of the  Boko Haram  sect, Abuba­kar Shekau, there are strong indi­cations that the terror kingpin may have fled Nigeria through the help of Islamic State (ISIS) groups operating in East and North Africa. Saturday  Sun   gathered that with the recent loss of his group’s caliphate headquarters, Gwoza to the Nigerian troops and the invasion of Sambisa forest by a detachment of the na­tion’s special force units deployed from their base in Makurdi, Benue State, the  Boko Haram  leader saw his capture as imminent. According to dependable military intelli­gence sources, Shekau had to send emissaries to ISIS affiliates with strongholds in East and North Africa to pave the way for his escape to their region from where he intends to coordi­nate his group’s activities or ultimately relocate to ISIS headquarters in the Middle East. One of the sources revealed that ...

The World Health Organization WHO has declared Liberia, one of the countries worst hit with the deadly Ebola virus epidemic in Africa free from the virus. This declaration comes after no new case has been reported in the last 42 days. Over 4,700 deaths from Ebola virus disease was recorded in Liberia.

Nigeria's president-elect Muhammadu Buhari on the shuttle bus at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport in Abuja.

Former VP Atiku Abubakar's son Aliyu graduated today, Match 8 from American University Nigeria which is located in Yola and was founded by his dad years back. .

Photo taken inside the Met Gala. Fans of Beyonce have come for Rita Ora after photos emerged of her hugging Jay Z, her boss (she's signed to Roc Nation) from behind, as he talked to Diddy. The Bey Hives have swarmed her page and letting her have it. Is it inappropriate though?

Amber Rose has a gag order not to spill any secrets about Kanye from when they dated. Well, she did last weekend while hosting at a club when she accused Kanye of not writing his own songs. After the video went viral, Amber took to her Instagram page to kinda take back what she said and blamed it on being drunk.

Dangote is worth about $15.7 billion, Arsenal football club is worth about $2bn but singer turned writer Etcetera doesn't believe he can afford it. Read what he wrote below and tell us what you think  You have sold some shares and you’ve got some money to spend. Now you want the ultimate: Your own football club. Hold on there, are you sure? Football clubs are a nightmare to run. In fact, almost two-thirds of premiership clubs have been in receivership at some point. Remember Portsmouth FC ploughed through four owners some seasons back and landed itself a debt of £60m and relegation in the Championship.  Think of Leeds United’s tragicomic collapse; the balls-up at Cambridge United; Rotherham going into receivership in 2006 and 2008; Southampton’s sorry saga. And, of course, Crawley Town getting a winding up order years back. So, what do we know? Don’t buy a football club for the glory. So, before Dangote aspires to join Abrahamovic, Glazers and Al Mansours, he ...