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A 24-year-old female youth  Corper , Ijeoma Susan Azubuike (pictured above) has been declared  missing by her family. She was last seen on Sunday May 31st in Owo, Ondo State where armed robbers attacked a GUO Transport bus conveying her and several other passengers to Lagos. Ijeoma, a graduate of the University of Ado-Ekiti, left Jigawa for Lagos State on saturday 30th of May after completing her 3 weeks orientation exercise but stopped over in Abuja to continue her journey  on Sunday  being a long trip. The family said they got a call on Sunday, May 31st, around  3:30pm  from someone in Owo, Ondo state asking to speak to the of father Ijeoma. He then proceeded to explain that the GUO bus which was bringing them to Lagos from Abuja was attacked by armed robbers in Owo and they all had to run for safety, after the robbers had left, they all went back to the bus to continue their journey and it was then they discovered that Ijeoma was...

The event happened yesterday, 1st June 2015. Two people (a boy and a girl) apparently ANSU students were found lifeless in their room in Diamond Lodge (Back of Gift lodge, opposite Chidinma Lodge Igbariam campus). As at the time of report The guy is still breathing but appears lifeless and has been rushed to the hospital with an ambulance with the company of the Nigerian Police…while the girl on the other hand has been pronounced dead. Their death is a total mystery to everyone as no one can even phantom the cause of death." - Graphic pic below Some say it was as a result of generator fumes, other said food poisoning while some others said drug overdose, but all still remain speculations nonetheless. The Nigerian Police are already on scene as the case might likely turn into a homicide case (hopefully not). But till now the death is still an absolute mystery to everyone. The guy is said to be a 200l student from the dept of Pub Admin while the girl 200L Entreprene...

President Buhari met with Service Chiefs at the Defence House Abuja earlier today. At the end of the meeting, Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Usman Jubrin, spoke to state house correspondents. He said their meeting was to brief President Buhari about the current security situation in Nigeria. “Since he was inaugurated as the President and Commander in Chief, this is the first time that we are formally meeting him to give a general security briefing of the country and that went very well. i think we have been able to provide insight into the security situation of Nigeria" he said On the presidential directive to move the military command to Borno state, Vice Admiral Jubrin said the military chiefs will go back and work on the directive and then get back to President Buhari.

Kim reacted so angrily on Twitter this evening that Twitter contacted her to be sure she hadn't been hacked because the things she wrote were so unlike her. The pregnant reality star got really angry after Wendy Williams said on her show that Kim will use a surrogate for her second baby but will try to deceive the public with a prosthetic belly. Wendy told her audience; "They're saying that they could possibly be using a surrogate from Thailand who's allegedly living in Kanye's Manhattan Beach home, and they're also alleging that Kim will buy prosthetics to baby up for every month." Kim didn't find that funny and blasted Wendy Williams.   

A 24 year old woman identified as Marie Shade Adebayo was shot dead yesterday June 1st by a man believed to be her ex-boyfriend outside a Target store in Milestone Center, Montgomery County, Maryland. Police have arrested 27 year old Donald Wayne Bricker Jr for the murder. According to  NBC Washington , witnesses said they saw Shade and Donald involved in some sort of altercation inside a vehicle prior to the shooting. Shade then got out of the vehicle and Donald followed. Investigators say Donald fired his gun at Shade, striking her. According to police, he then walked up to her and fired again. He then took off in a white Ford Ranger. He was arrested by police an hour later. A gun was recovered at the scene of the crash, police said.

Press statement from Kashamu's lawyers Our attention has been drawn to a press release by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) purporting to have served extradition proceedings on Senator-elect, Prince Buruji Kashamu. We wish to state that the NDLEA has no role to play in extradition proceedings until a warrant of arrest has been issued by the court. It is the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice that initiates extradition proceedings after receiving a request by an order directed to the court and asking the court to take over the matter. It is the court that will decide whether a warrant of arrest is necessary. It is the court that will consider all the evidence provided by the United States to see whether it satisfies the onus of proof and that it establishes that the person sough is the person that actually participated in the offence alleged. In this case, the NDLEA is very jumpy, nervous and unsettled because it has expo...

He shared his thoughts on his Facebook wall this afternoon. What do you guys think?

The power couple boarded a helicopter while their handlers carried a backpack with lots of cash as they headed for The Hamptons.  Photo credit: Splash news

NFL Player Osi Umenyiora has finally responded to cheating allegations leveled against him by an alleged bitter side chic who revealed all via an anonymous instagram page. Osi claims the instagram page was opened by a hateful man. Below is a statement he and his new wife Leila released together. "We strongly condemn the vicious and malicious lies that have recently been perpetuated all over the media. We already know that these lies are a coordinated effort by a single unstable male source to malign and discredit an otherwise joyous and highly successful occasion. An appropriate legal recourse is currently in effect. We are pleased to report that the expected result from this individual has been an abysmal failure. We are fortified, strong, and extremely happy. We look forward to a prosperous life together. We would like to thank our family and friends for all your support. Leila & Osi."

div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Find the EFCC Press statement below ... Six staff of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, implicated in an N8billion defaced and mutilated currency recycling scam, were today remanded in prison custody following their arraignment by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, before Justice N. Ayo Emmanuel of a Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State. The suspects: Patience Okoro Eye; Afolabi Olufemi Johnson; Ilori Adekunle Sunday; Kolawole Babalola, Olaniran Muniru Adeola and Fatai Adedokun Yusuf, were arraigned on a five -count charge bordering on conspiracy, fraud and stealing. Specifically, the apex bank employees were alleged to have compromised the CBN's Briquetting exercise, meant to mop up mutilated and defaced higher denomination currencies from circulation, to combat inflation. Instead of destroying the currencies, they allegedly recycled the notes and subs...

Sepp Blatter says he will resign as president of football's governing body Fifa amid a corruption scandal. In announcing his exit, the 79-year-old Swiss has called an extraordinary Fifa congress "as soon as possible" to elect a new president. Blatter was re-elected last week, despite seven top Fifa officials being arrested two days before the vote as part of a US prosecution. But he said: "My mandate does not appear to be supported by everybody." Fifa was rocked last week by the arrests on charges of racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering as part of a US prosecution that also indicted 14 people. A separate criminal investigation into how the 2018 and 2022 World Cups were allocated is also under way. "I am very much linked to Fifa and its interests. Those interests are dear to me and this is why I am taking this decision," added Blatter. "What counts most to me is the institute of Fifa...

Boko Haram released a 10-mins video on Youtube recently. Leader of the sect, Abubakar Shekau is believed to be absent from the video. The spokesperson in the video claimed they were still in authority over Dikwa, Gamboru, Damasak and other areas which the Nigerian military claimed they had liberated in recent times. The spokesperson swore in Allah's name that they were filming from Sambisa forest. “I swear by Allah that I am talking right now from Sambisa. Here in Sambisa you can travel more than four to five hours under the black flag of Islam by car or by motorbike,” the spokesperson said The video had on it the logo “Islamic State in West Africa”, suggesting that the sect members have indeed formed a coalition with the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. The video ends with a footage of a downed jet as well as plain cloth and uniformed service men that have been killed.

The Police in Borno said five persons died when a suicide bomber attacked an abattoir in Maiduguri on Tuesday. The Commissioner of Police in the State, Aderemi Opadokun, stated this when he spoke with journalists in Maiduguri. Mr. Opadokun said the attack occurred at about 11.30 a.m. “A suicide bomber, who was shouting “Sai Buhari”, and dancing in the abattoir, detonated Improvised Explosive Device strapped on his body when people had gathered around him. “Five people, including himself, died, while eight others sustained injuries,” he said. Mr. Opadokun added that policemen were mobilised to the scene to evacuate the corpses and the convey the injured to the hospital, adding that investigation into the blast was ongoing. (NAN)

The governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has said he will be happy to nominate a worthy candidate for appointment in President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet. Fayose, in a statement on June 2, Tuesday, called on Buhari to grant him the honour of naming the minister that would come from Ekiti state, Punch reports. The governor said: “I shall be happy to nominate a worthy and competent professional, who can always oblige Your Excellency and your cabinet the benefit of a second opinion in the serious business of governance.” According to him, he had already written to the President on the matter and was awaiting his reply which he hopes would be favourable. He explained that his letter was on the strength of Section 147 sub (2) and (3) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which states: (2) Any appointment to the office of the Minister of the government of the Federation shall, if the nomination of any such person to such office is co...

Niger Delta activist and spokesperson for the Ijaw Republican Assembly, Ms. Annkio Briggs, has criticised the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to discontinue the ongoing Niger Delta Amnesty Programme. The amnesty programme was instituted on August 6, 2009 by the administration of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua to tackle the growing militancy in the region, including destruction of oil pipelines, illegal bunkering, kidnapping and illegal refineries. But Buhari had said in his inaugural speech on Friday that the amnesty programme in the Niger Delta would end in December, 2015. He added, “But the government intends to invest heavily in the projects, and programmes currently in place. I call on the leadership and people in these areas to cooperate with the state and federal governments in the rehabilitation programmes, which will be streamlined and made more effective. “As ever, I am ready to listen to grievances of my fellow Nigerians. I extend my ha...

A 58-year-old bride,Jenny Buckleff shocked guests when she turned up at her own wedding in a coffin The bride, said: 'I just wanted to do something a little bit different! Instead of turning up in a horse-drawn cart, I thought I'm going to turn up in a coffin.I almost didn't tell Chris but in the end I spilled the beans about three weeks before.'He was a bit surprised but he said as long as I was happy he would go with the flow.What more could I ask for from a new husband?!'I don't normally dress like this and I'm not a goth at all.'I work for Bet365, so you have to be well presented and I'm normally very smart.'But my brother is different. He's covered in tattoos so for once he looked the part.' Although the pair gave lots of wedding guests a shock, they said they were pleased to have had such a talking point at the nuptials. The couple met just six months ago and Mr Lockett proposed one month later in their ...

Before his transition,Bruce  never spoke ill of ex wife Kris,now as Caitlyn,she is revealing she was mistreated in her marriage and contrary to opinions that their marriage broke down because of gender issues,it was majorly because he was mistreated .She told Vanity Fair  The first 15 years I felt she needed me more because I was the breadwinner,' 'Then really around the show, when that hit and she was running the whole show and getting credit for it and she had her own money, she didn't need me as much from that standpoint... I think in a lot of ways she became less tolerant of me. 'A lot of times she wasn't very nice. People would see how I got mistreated. She controlled the money, all that kind of stuff.'  In the same issue,Vanity Fair contacted Kris for her own side and this is what she said 'He was married to me and he wasn't who he wanted to be so he was miserable… All I was doing was working very hard for my family...

Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested two housewives for ingesting cocaine, packing some on their underwear and also inserting them in their private parts. The two women were apprehended at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, while attempting to board a Qatar Airways flight to China. In their statements,the women claimed that they smuggled cocaine because they were abandoned by their husbands. Priscilla, when asked questions, said that she wanted to establish herself financially to take care of her children.  “I am married to a soldier but he abandoned me 10 years ago when he retired from the army. I got married early because there was no money for me to further my studies after my primary education. My husband, who is a retired soldier, abandoned me. Since then, my life has been sorrowful. "I sell female clothes and shoes to take care of my children. I met a man at the market who promised t...