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A baby factory was uncovered on June 13th in Etiti, Amankwo-Ngwo Udi Local Government Area of Enugu state by men of the 9th Mile Division of Enugu Police command. The baby factory which was operated by one Obinna, was keeping 9 young pregnant ladies, according to  Vanguard . Enugu state police spokesperson, Ebere Amaraizu confimed the discovery. We had strong intelligence report about his activities. We had to put a tab on him for some time which eventually paid off. Nine pregnant girls at various stages of pregnancy were rescued" he said . When interrogated, the operator claimed he ran a maternity home and not a baby factory. He said he got approval from the state's Ministry for Women Affairs "I decided to run the maternity from my house. I am supposed to inform the Social Development and Women Affairs Ministry within 24 hours of admitting any pregnant women. I called the Ministry on phone instead of writing them. The people I admitted came...

Singing diva Yemi Alade has declared that she is open to the idea of dating Phyno. She revealed this and many other juicy tidbits on this week’s episode of MTV Base Real Talk. Responding to the question from Twitter user @prolificJack, “Would you ever consider dating Phyno if he asked you to be his girl?” she replied, “Well, as the mama tangerine, if the household tangerine  would love that, then yes I would.” I t will be recalled that she has been rumoured to be romantically linked to the rapper, and this disclosure will no doubt add to the speculation around their alleged relationship.     In the course of this episode,   Yemi   Alade   answers a number of questions from fans such as whether she can speak French ( “Oui je parle Francais, mais elle n’est pas tres bien.” ) and if she can date a guy who cannot afford to buy her lunch ( “If you can’t get lunch, maybe you can get breakfast, maybe even dinner!” ) W atch...

South Carolina church shooter Dylann Roof attended his bond hearing via video hookup from the jail behind the courthouse and a judge allowed distraught family members of his victims to speak to him. “It’s important to hear from the victims and let them speak out,” said the Judge Gosnell. Some family members declined to speak but the daughter of Esther Lance (pictured inset), spoke "I just want everybody to know… to you… I forgive you. You took something very precious away from me. I will never talk to her ever again. I will never be able to hold her again. But I forgive you… and have mercy on your soul. You hurt me, you hurt a lot of people, but I forgive you.” she said as Roof showed no emotion.

Over the past 5 days, the CUPS organisation has published documents showing the DSS’s complicity in detonating deadly bombs, targeted killings, mass hacking into citizen’s mobile phones and computers including those of his Excellency the President, elections rigging, vandalism, assault and inflicting grievous bodily harm, abductions, unlawful detentions, and tantrums and rampages at beer parlours, among others. The CUPS organisation has obtained yet another damning evidence proving the fact that the DSS under its current DG, Ita Ekpeyong, is nothing but a treasonous criminal agency giving comprehensive support to the Boko Haram insurgency and its sponsors. In early 2013 there was agitation by Nigerians that Ali Modu Sheriff was one of the Boko Haram sponsors, and must therefore be arrested and tried accordingly. This was preceded by a spate of bombings and targeted killings in the North East that were directly linked to him. To cover up for their partner ...

Contrary to reports that President Muhammadu Buhari had ordered the immediate disposal of nine of the 11 VIP transport aircraft in the presidential fleet, the presidency on Friday denied knowledge of any such directive. THISDAY newspaper had quoted unnamed sources as saying the president had directed the selling of serviceable and unserviceable aircrafts to cut maintenance costs in line with the government’s policy to drastically reduce its annual expenditure. Eight of the planes in the fleet, including Boeing 737, two Gulfstream 550 jets, Gulfstream V jet, two Falcon 7X planes, the Hawker Siddeley aircraft and Augusta Westland chopper, the report said, are reserved strictly for the president’s movement. Other aircrafts, including two Falcon 900 planes, the Dornier, the Cessna Citation, the Beechracft King Air, and two AugustaWestland choppers, are reserved for the airlifting of the Vice-President, Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Minister of For...

T he Code of Conduct Bureau will not make public the details of assets declared by President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo due to limitations in federal laws covering such release, the office has said. There has been controversy over the release of the details of the president and vice president’s assets since their inauguration May 29. Mr. Buhari pledged to publicly declare his assets despite the lack of a law requiring him to do so. The Nigerian Constitution stipulates that senior office holders declare their assets, without requiring them to do so publicly. Despite his promise, the president has yet to publicly declare his assets three weeks after taking office. His office said those details will be made available after the Code of Conduct Bureau authenticates claims in the declaration forms. A civil society group, Stop Impunity Nigeria, an affiliate of the Centre for Social Justice, had on June 1, 2015 applied to the CCB to request copies ...

A 31-year-old man named, Michael David, who allegedly stabbed his wife, Onyinyechi Dennis, to death on Friday appeared before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos. The accused, who resides in Ojoku around Olodi-Apapa, is facing a charge of murder. The Prosecutor, Insp. Emmanuel Ajayi, told the court that the offence was committed on April 7, at No. 24, Ojoku St., Olodi Apapa in Lagos. Ajayi alleged that the accused stabbed Dennis, his wife, to death with a kitchen knife over allegations of infidelity. “David confronted the deceased over allegations that she was cheating on him, a fight ensued leading him to stab his wife to death,” he said. Ajayi noted that the offence contravened Section 221 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011. The section prescribes a death sentence for offenders. The plea of the accused was not taken by the court. The Chief Magistrate, Mr O.O. Olatunji ordered that the accused be remanded at the Ikoyi Prisons pending the rec...

Am still thinking what sort of human being this guy is

The message ends with " To my soul mate, lover and best friend… Happy Birthday.” Happy birthday to Charly Boy!

Facts have emerged showing why Senate President Bukola Saraki led a delegation of Senators to meet former President Olusegun Obasanjo at his hilltop mansion, Abeokuta, Ogun state on Friday. A source close to the meeting told PREMIUM TIMES that the Senate President was in Abeokuta to beg Mr. Obasanjo to reconcile him with President Muhammadu Buhari and his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC. Mr. Saraki emerged as the president of the Senate against the decision of APC leaders. He was also elected when most Senators from the APC were at the International Conference Centre waiting to hold a meeting with Mr. Buhari to discuss the election of the Senate president and Speaker of the House of Representatives. Our sources said Mr. Saraki lamented to Mr. Obasanjo that although the party leaders have stated that they have accepted his emergence, there was “complete communication breakdown between him, the president and the party”. The national chairman of the APC, John Oy...

 11 kid robbers arrested in Ibadan,Oyo state are to be rehabilitated.They were arrested on June 15.The Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Katsina, told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan  Some of the kid robbers, aged between 12 and 14, conspired and invaded a house around the Challenge Area of Ibadan, where they stole the sum of N11,000.  “Based on information, the Anti-Robbery Squad of the command was sent out immediately and they were surprised to see kids of 12 and 14 years of age coming out to make confessional statements,” he said.  Katsina, who also expressed pity on the plight of the kids, explained that they voluntarily narrated to the police details about their activities. He lamented that the involvement of the kids in robbery activities could be attributed to lack of parental care and poverty.  “Most of these children are from broken homes and I wish parents can learn from the plight of these kids and take proper care of t...

The Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, and the Senator representing Bayelsa-East senatorial district, Mr. Ben Murray-Bruce clashed on Thursday over Aregbesola’s inability to pay workers’ salaries. The faceoff started after Murray-Bruce, who is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, said on his official Twitter handle that he would donate his wardrobe allowance of over N500,000 to the unpaid workers in Osun State and widows in his home state of Bayelsa. Murray-Bruce, who is the Chairman of the Silverbird Group, said he would give the money to the Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress in Osun State who would distribute the money to the unpaid workers. He wrote, “I, Ben Murray-Bruce, will not sit down idly while my fellow citizens die because salaries have not been paid. As a first step, I am immediately donating my wardrobe allowance to unpaid workers in Osun State and widows in my constituency. “We are starting in Osun but we will not end there...

A girl of about 18 years has killed her mother in Rumuchakara village in Choba community, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. Choba community, one of the communities that plays host to the University of Port Harcourt (Uniport) witnessed rowdiness after a young girl allegedly killed her mother with a plank. A source that is privy to the family said that disagreement had ensued between the young lady whose name withheld and her late mother on Wednesday evening after the mother had asked her to go and prepare the night meal. The source said that the young girl protested that she would not cook and that made her mother to slap her. Vanguard gathered that after her mother slapped her for refusing to cook that the little girl picked up a plank and smashed her mother’s head. Vanguard also gathered that every efforts made to save the life of the woman from the fatal injury she sustained did not yield positively. The source reveale...

A girl of about 18 years has killed her mother in Rumuchakara village in Choba community, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. Choba community, one of the communities that plays host to the University of Port Harcourt (Uniport) witnessed rowdiness after a young girl allegedly killed her mother with a plank. A source that is privy to the family said that disagreement had ensued between the young lady whose name withheld and her late mother on Wednesday evening after the mother had asked her to go and prepare the night meal. The source said that the young girl protested that she would not cook and that made her mother to slap her. Vanguard gathered that after her mother slapped her for refusing to cook that the little girl picked up a plank and smashed her mother’s head. Vanguard also gathered that every efforts made to save the life of the woman from the fatal injury she sustained did not yield positively. The source reveale...

Lol, is this what he wants now? 

A married woman based in Houston Texas lost her life yesterday afternoon in a tragic car accident after her car had a head-on collision with another car while she was chasing her husband who was carrying another woman.  The woman apparently lost control of her car and went into a spin, striking another vehicle head-on. She died at the scene and the man in the vehicle that she had a head-on collision with sustained injuries and was taken by Life Flight to an area hospital. The woman's husband and the woman with him were unhurt. So sad

She's 49 & still looks incredibly good. The pop star popped up at LA Airport on Wednesday, rocking a black top, matching harem pants, white sneakers and a whole lotta curly hair. She was with her with her husband of three-years, Wissam Al Mana, who also wore black outfit and white sneakers. Ms Jackson is set to hit the road for her first tour in four years in August with a new album due out shortly after. 

The spokesperson of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mr Ohi Alegbe says that Nigeria's four refineries - two in Port Harcourt, one in Kaduna and the other one in Warri will resume production next month. “The refineries at Warri, Port Harcourt and Kaduna will resume next month after a successful turn-around-maintenance (overhaul) of their facilities. The turn-around-maintenance has been on for some time. We did not just want to make any noise about it. The refineries will start production as soon as they have delivery of crude oil for refining,” he told AFP. Amen!

It started out as just another day for Debbie Dills, but that quickly changed. Debbie was running late Thursday morning on her way into work at Frady's Florist in Kings Mountain, N.C., but she was actually right on time...to help police catch the alleged Charleston church shooter. Dills and her boss, Todd Frady (both pictured above), made the initial calls around 10:35 a.m. that led to the arrest of suspected shooter Dylann Roof in Shelby, according to local reports. Dills had been following the news surrounding the tragedy that struck Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., the night before, and recognized the car and Roof's bowl haircut when she passed him on the highway. "I saw the pictures of him with the bowl cut. I said, 'I've seen that car for some reason.' I look over, and it's got a South Carolina tag on it," Dills said. "I thought, 'Nah, that's not his car.' Then,...