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A 75-year-old grandfather, Umoru Choji, was paraded, after he was allegedly caught defiling his granddaughter. The Commissioner of Police, Mr Nasiru Oki, who paraded the suspect, said that Choji had confessed to having carnal knowledge of his granddaughter 'several times.' The suspect claimed he was tempted to have sex with his granddaughter because, she always slept with him on the same bed.. Speaking to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) after he was paraded, Choji said that the girl started asking for more "after the first act. "The girl has been on my neck because she derives satisfaction in sleeping with me and I had no choice but to satisfy her," he said. He blamed his incestuous act on the pressure from his granddaughter and appealed to his wife and children to forgive him. He promised never to commit the crime again.

At least 10 students of Olabisi Onabanjo University Ogun state lost their lives after a container on a truck fell on the commuter bus they were traveling in, crushing all the passengers and the bus driver to death. This happened along the Sagamu/Benin expressway at Ilishan, very close to Sagamu junction at about 12noon today June 26th. The students were on their way to Lagos when the accident happened. An eyewitness said the driver of the truck drove against traffic which caused the head on collision with the commuter bus "I was coming from Sagamu side and saw the accident. I had to hurriedly park my car, run to the scene to see if the passengers could be rescued but unfortunately all the occupants were dead including the driver. The bus was facing Lagos, but I dont know where it was coming from. The driver of the truck carrying an empty container was coming from Sagamu axis but was driving against traffic and that resulted in the collision, which eventually claimed ...

So Nigerian people are angry with members of our National Assembly following all the craziness that's been going in the last few days. And of course we discuss on Twitter - the hashtag #Nass has been trending - only problem is - the @Nass Nigerians were attacking on Twitter is just a random guy in Qatar, not the twitter handle of our national assembly. At first the guy was confused about why Nigerians were on his timeline and abusing him - then he got it. The drama that ensued is hilarious. See all the tweets below

There were 3 terrorist attacks today. One in France, one in Tunisia and another in Kuwait. A suicide bomber attacked and killed at least 27 people at a Shiite mosque in Kuwait City today. Above are haunting images of the terrorist walking into the prayer room before blowing himself up. He killed them while they were praying. He is reportedly a Saudi man with ISIS Wahabi Takfiri ideology. Graphic pics from the blast below   The youngest victim The suicide bomber.. .

Footballer Chichi Igbo celebrated the announcement made by the US supreme Court which legalized same sex marriage in all 50 states in the US by dancing in a video and waving the rainbow flag. She captioned it "Congrats to my American folks, love won period!! Say anything dumb and get your ass blocked"! Try me.

I am a blog reader and I comment as ***** tho not often. I was the lady who send you an email around late February concerning my daddy’s burial. The man who was shot by hired killers at Ziks roundabout Onitsha on February 2nd 2015. I became an orphan that day (Mummy died 12 years ago) but it is well cos my redeemer lives. . I didnt get a reply from you and I felt maybe you have been too busy so I dont hold this against you. I hope you help me out this time. I have reasons to believe that my brothers has tampered with my late daddy’s will. Yesterday was the day slated for the reading of the will. Laila, nothing was left for me. Not even a pin. Even our family house where we live in now belongs to my elder brother now while the other house at oguta road was shared between my 2 younger brothers. Even down to the cars. I got no pin. The Sab miller shares, The 4 shops at main market, the pure water factory which i manage. everything was on my 3 brothers despite the fact that t...

The Nigerian Army yesterday presented cheques to families of some of their officers who died in the line of duty. More photos below

An Abuja Federal High Court Justice, Adeniyi Ademola, yesterday ordered the sack of Emeka Godwin Idu, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) member of House of Representatives representing Onitsha North/South Federal Constituency of Anambra State. The judge also ordered the cancellation of the Certificate of Return issued him (Idu) by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Justice Ademola was ruling in a suit by Lynda Chuba-Ikpeazu, who challenged the decision of the party to substitute her name after being accepted by the party’s National Working Committee (NWC), with that of Idu. Chuba-Ikpeazu had filed the suit on March 18, 2015, seeking among others to set aside the party’s decision. The PDP, INEC, the National Working Committee of the PDP and Idu were  defendants in the suit. But INEC did not file any defence. Justice Ademola held that the substitution of Chuba-Ikpeazu was wrong because it did not confirm with the requirement under the law....

What is truly going through the mind of President Buhari at the present moment has become a task for fortunetellers and tea leaves readers. In these early days of his Presidency, he reminds me very much of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in the second term of his Presidency. The former President, who had a very clear idea what to do with Nigeria, made a clear point of refusing to interact with Nigerians through the mass media and allowed the opposition to use the media as a playground to throw mud at him uncontrolled. Much of that mud does stick to the former President today in his public perception. On the contrary, former President Goodluck Jonathan had no idea whatsoever, what to do with the Presidency and the country at large. To him, being a President was divine blessing enough, than the overwhelming task of moving Nigeria forward. The latter was a burden that he simply did not bargain for. Yet, he used the media. He communicated regularly with the people no matte...

President Muhammadu Buhari has dissolved the board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). In a statement signed by Haruna Imrana, Director of Communications for the Head of Service of the Federation, President Buhari said that the dissolving of the board is with immediate effect. According to the statement, the directive to that effect was conveyed in a letter signed on Friday, June 26, 2015 by the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Barr.Danladi Kifasi. In the letter, President Buhari also expressed gratitude to members of the dissolved board for their services to the nation.

The US Supreme Court has ruled that same-sex marriage is a legal right across the United States. In a landmark 5-4 decision, Justice Anthony Kennedy writing for the majority ruled that marriage is a constitutional right for all. "No union is more profound than marriage,'' he wrote, backed by the court's four more liberal justices. It is unclear how soon marriage licences will be issued in states where gay unions were previously prohibited. Before the ruling on Thursday, gay couples could marry in 37 states in addition to Washington DC. Loud cheers erupted outside the court after the ruling was announced, said the BBC's Paul Blake at the Supreme Court. Hundreds of people had camped out for hours awaiting the news. One of the demonstrators, Jordan Monaghan, called his mother from his mobile phone amid the celebrations. "Hey mom, I'm at the Supreme Court. Your son can have a husband now," Mr Monaghan said. ...

President Buhari today attended his first Jumaat prayer at the Presidential mosque after moving into Aso Rock last Sunday June 21st. 

The Presidency Yesterday refuted rumours making the rounds that the ongoing crisis in the National Assembly was preventing President Muhammadu Buhari from naming his ministers. The Senior Special Assistant to the president on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu dispelled the claim on Sunrise Daily, a morning programme on Channels TV. He said Buhari was taking his time to name his ministers because he is trying to avoid a situation whereby he would fire a member of his cabinet few months after he or she is appointed. “Do you want a situation where the president will appoint a minister and then fire the minister in few months time?” Shehu asked.

The Enugu State Police Command has commenced a full scale investigation into the alleged pouring of a substance suspected to be acid on one Sunday Onwe Uche from Amuri Nkanu west local Government Area of the state by his yet to be identified friends. Public Relations Officer of the command, Ebere Amaraizu, who confirmed the sad incident, said the suspects also forced their victim to drink the substance. Amaraizu added that friends of the victim had allegedly lured the victim to a hotel situated at Gariki Awkunanaw, Enugu state from where they took him to Enugu Port Harcourt expressway. He stated that the victims allegedly poured the substance believed to be acid on the victim and thereafter forced him to drink the substance. “It was further gathered that the victim after taking the substance and having also been poured with the substance, became critically unconscious but was able to pass relevant information to a brother who shortly got to the scene when he was...

A suicide bomber blew himself up at a Kuwaiti Shi’ite Muslim mosque in Kuwait city during Friday prayers, wounding at least eight people, Kuwaiti newspaper al-Jarida said on social media. The newspaper said the attack targeted Imam al-Sadeq Mosque in the Sawaber district. “Eight casualties have been taken to the Emiri hospital, two in critical condition,” al-Jarida said on its Twitter feed, without giving a source. Arab television stations al-Arabiya and Al Jazeera earlier reported that an explosion hit the mosque and caused several casualties.

Having exhausted the much-debated immunity provision in the Nigerian constitution, some ex-governors may be heading to the days of reckoning when they have to pay for their misdeeds if the anti-graft agency remains focused on achieving a conclusive prosecution. With the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) trailing some past governors and grilling them for hours, many of them will never want their paths to cross with that of the commission. Some of the former state executives having cases to answer before the commission are: Ikedi Ohakim If former governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim, had been informed that operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) would knock at his door at about 8am in his Asokoro residence on Thursday, June 18, to arrest him, he may probably have changed his direction and hurried out of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). But that was not to be and his immunity as governor haven long been exhausted, EFCC officials storm...