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Nigerian men who just returned from Niger Republic queue for HIV/AIDS test at their IDP camp today May 15th. Photo credit: NAN

Corporal Cosmas died from injuries he sustained while fighting Boko Baram militants in Maiduguri, Borno state yesterday May 14th. May his soul rest in peace, Amen.

Gov Adams Oshiomhole kisses his wife during their wedding reception today. See more photos below Photo credit: Bobo Omoboriowo

Boko Haram members have captured Marte town in Borno town. Confirming the new development to newsmen today in Borno state, the deputy governor of the state Alhaji Zannah Mustapha expressed sadness and revealed that there are reports that the sect group had released about 600 female suicide bombers into the state to carry out various attacks. He however appealed to the residents of the state to be patent with the military. What he said below “It is sad as we have been made to understand that Marte is today ( Friday ) completely fallen under the control of the insurgents, which to us is a very huge setback. It is unfortunate that we are experiencing yet another attack in Maiduguri at this time that we are thinking that the insurgency should have subsided, following the taking over of Sambisa Forest by the military. Our thinking was that every other place should have been blocked so that the insurgency would be contained in a restricted area. But that has not been t...

The current change of tide in SPEAKERSHIP battle in Abia state is becoming more interesting by the day. The current and final plot now is to make Chukwudi Apugo SPEAKER. Chukwudi Apugo is green horn, a first timer in the House of Assembly, who does not know the rudimentary, but Ikuku is pushing very hard to make him SPEAKER. The information we received from an insider was that Ikuku said " IF I DO NOT MAKE THE SPEAKER, THEN CHUKWUDI SHOULD BE, THE SPEAKERSHIP MUST NOT LEAVE UMUAHIA". Right now they are lobbying House Members elect. But we are also aware that Dr Okezie Ikpeazu is not comfortable with any attempt of Ikuku or chukwudi SPEAKERSHIP PROJECT because he believes they are birds of same feather. Prince Ikedi of Umunneochi seems to be the outstanding candidate now because of his skills and knowledge of legislative business. Source:  Abia Facts Newspaper

(Reuters) - A U.S. jury on Friday sentenced Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for helping to carry out the 2013 attack that killed three people and injured 264 at the world-renowned race, taking 15 hours to reach a decision. The federal jury chose death by lethal injection for Tsarnaev, 21, over its only other option: life in prison without possibility of release. The same panel last month found the ethnic Chechen guilty of placing a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, as well as fatally shooting a policeman. The bombing was one of the highest-profile attacks on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. During 10 weeks of testimony, the jury heard from about 150 witnesses, including people whose legs were torn off by the shrapnel-filled bombs. William Richard, the father of bombing victim Martin Richard, described the gut-wrenching decision to leave his 8-year-old son to die of his wounds so ...

Comedian Wale Gates set Twitter on fire this evening with this Tweet above. People felt the tweet was inappropriate and Nigerian twitter is now dragging him by his balls, abs and fingernails. See the tweets below    

Abeg make them free these guys joor

Well, not the whole bikini body...lol...just the upper part!

On May 8th and 9th, Prophet T.B Joshua held a crusade at the Aztec Stadium in Mexico City that was attended by over 100,000 people...and there he 'healed' quite a number of people including this man in a wheelchair. I don't know what his story is but as soon as T.B Joshua prayed for him, he got up from the wheelchair and praised God. Hmmmm... Moving on. CeCe Winans, VaShawn Mitchell, Alvin Slaughter were all at the crusade. See more pic below

Is that so? Senator-elect, Dino Melaye,​ has alleged that the government of President Jonathan is the most corrupt in Nigeria's history. He made the allegation in a new interview with Premium Times. “Jonathan is the promoter of corruption. I am telling you that the Government of Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan is the most corrupt in Nigerian history but who we have as president-elect of this country today, Muhammadu Buhari, the man I see as the nemesis of corruption. I am an advocate of anti-corruption and for me if I enter office, I am going to do it more this time around. More importantly, now that we have a government that is going to have zero tolerance for corruption, we must as legislators carry out our functions from any form of sacrifice.” he said