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On June 29, 2015 an Igbo business man, Chijoke Ngwu Ogbodo, a native of Nkanu LGA, Enugu State was gruesomely murdered along with his wife in Katsina by gunmen suspected to be Fulani herds men. The couple were killed in the presence of their children. Sources report that the assassins clubbed the couple and butchered them with a machete before shooting them at point blank. The Igbo community in Katsina have been thrown into deep mourning and fear as a result of the killings. The killing of Ngwo Ogbodo and wife appears one in a series of targeted attacks on the Igbo population in living Katsina. The bodies of the couple have been removed from their home located along the Katsina Bypass and deposited at the katsina mortuary. Mr Ogbodo is the manufacturer of the popular Sir Benjik Pure Water. Leaders within the Igbo community have express little confidence in the police ability to fish out the killers. Previous attacks and premeditated killings of the Igbo ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC), has appointed three members from its youth wing into the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the party. This is the first time any political party in Nigeria will appoint youth into its Board of Trustees which is the highest decision making organ of the party. Although the party is yet to officially communicate the appointment, one of the appointees, Rinsola Abiola, announced on twitter a short while ago that she has just been appointed a member of the APC BoT. “Hello, all. I, Rinsola Abiola, have just been officially appointed as a member of the  # APC  Board of Trustees. # YouthInclusion “ We  however gathered that the two other appointee are Ismaeel Ahmed and Jasper Azuatulam. Isameel Ahmed is the chairman of the All progressives Youth Forum (APYF), a group that pride itself as the most formidable youth group in the APC, which contributed in no small measure to the growth and success of the party. Incidentally, Ms. Abio...

Today June 3rd,the APC held their Executive Council Meeting at the party secretariat in Abuja..Senate president Bukola Saraki,Speaker House of Reps,Yakubu Dogara and Lagos state governor,Ambode were some of the leaders in attendance .. President Buhari called on all parties to resolve their differences and put the party's supremacy first..  SENATE PRESIDENT BUKOLA SARAKI PROBABLY MULLING EITHER TO STICK TO PDP COHORTS OR HEED TO PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI’S POSTION ON PARTY SUPREMACY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI ADDRESING THE APC NEC MEMBERS EARLIER TODAY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI FLANKED RIGHT BY CHIEF oDIGIE jOHN-OYEGUN, THE APC NATIONAL CHAIRMAN. BUKOLA SARAKI AND YAKUBU DOGARA ALSO ON HIGH TABLE AT APC NEC MEETING PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI

Pastor Chris Okotie of Household of God Church, Lagos, turned 57 on June 16. His church members organized a celebration service for him at their church on Sunday June 21st where they gave him plenty gifts. Continue to see more photos...

A 34 year old man named Citizen Emeka Benjamin Uche fled his home & remained incommunicado after his wife, Ruth, informed him that her third pregnancy was a set of twins - the couple's third set. A distraught Uche upon hearing the news left their home in Agege in February this year. He hasn't been heard from since then. The couple welcomed their first set of twin, both girls – Goodness and Goodnews in 2009 and in 2011 welcomed another twins – a boy and a girl, named John and Joyce. Ruth, who gave birth to the couple's third set of twins, Daniel and Daniella last month, was at the Lagos State Secretariat, Alausa yesterday July 2nd with her six children, to solicit for government's assistance. Speaking with newsmen, Ruth said “I met my husband in 2002 but we got married in 2008. We met in the village at Umuahia. I don’t want to leave the children and run away. This is why I want government to help us. I was using traditional way of family plann...

A burglary suspect broke down in tears in court after the judge he was appearing in front of recognized him as a former schoolmate and said he had been the "best kid" in school. "Oh my goodness!" replied Arthur Booth, then he broke down in tears. Disheartening. Booth, 49, was arrested on Monday after being spotted driving a car that matched the description of one allegedly involved in a robbery and failing to stop after a police officer signaled him to. A police chase followed, resulting in two accidents before he crashed the car. He fled on foot but was eventually caught and charged with various offences. Arthur Booth appeared in front of judge Mindy Glazer at Miami-Dade bond court charged with burglary. When he was taken into court, the judge looked at him for a moment or two and then asked: "Did you go to Nautilus?" "Oh my goodness," replied Booth several times, at first with smiles and then breaking down in tears. ...

The new head of the State Security Service, Lawal Daura, appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari, will act in that capacity pending the appointment of a substantive Director General, the Head of Service has said. Mr. Daura was appointed Thursday by the president after he fired the former DG, Ita Ekpenyong, who is accused partisanship. The first announcement from the Head of Service, Danladi Kifasi, said President Buhari appointed “Lawal Musa Daura as the new Director General Department of State Security Service”. The statement, signed by Haruna Imrana, for the head of service, said the appointment was with “immediate effect”. However, the Head of Service issued a second statement late Thursday amid controversy over the appointment, after it became clear the president recalled Mr. Daura, his kinsman, from retirement, ahead of other qualified personnel still in the service. “President Muhamadu Buhari has appointed Lawal Musa Daura as the new acting Director Gene...

The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Umuahia, Abia State, has fixed July 10 and 13 respectively for confirmation and pre- hearing in the petition filed by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Dr. Alex Otti, against the election of Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu. Otti seeks the nullification of Ikpeazu’s election and his ( Otti’s) declaration as the winner of the governorship poll in the state. The Tribunal Chairman, Hon. Justice Usman Bwala, while adjourning sitting on Thursday, said it was expected that before the new dates, all the processes would have been served and replies also filed by all the parties in the matter. He gave all the parties up to the end of Thursday next week to file all their motions, warning that no other motions would be acceptable after the next sitting. Counsel for Otti, Chief Awa Kalu, had, during the sitting, withdrawn a petition he had earlier filed, seeking an order of the tribunal to enab...

In less than three weeks, President Muhammadu Buhari will visit his counterpart in the United States, Barack Obama, for the first time to discuss political and economic issues as well as the fight against terrorism. Coming barely a month after the US Supreme Court legalised same-sex marriage across the country’s 50 states, coupled with Obama’s open support for gay rights, observers reason that the US President might attempt to encourage Nigeria to follow suit. The US apex court had last month ruled that the US constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, handing a historic triumph to the American gay rights movement. With the landmark ruling, gay marriage became legal in all the 50 states of the US as opposed to the 37 states that permitted gay marriage earlier. Appearing in the White House, Obama hailed the ruling as a milestone in American justice that arrived “like a thunderbolt.” Obama, who is the first sitting US President to support gay marri...

According to a Twitter user, the people pictured above were protesting against NYSC Bayelsa + Bayelsa State Government over the non payment of their allowances. Apparently force (tear gas & gun shots) were used to disperse them. More photos below

Add caption Former Governor of Anambra state, Peter Obi , has refuted claims by the state governor Willie Obiano that the transfer of Boko Haram prisoners was concluded in 2012 during the reign of former Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan and Obi as governor of the state. He expressed shock about Obiano’s claims, describing it as a blatant lie. Reacting to the claim that Jonathan and Obi were behind the relocation of Boko Haram terrorists to Anambra State, the media aide to Peter Obi, Mr. Valentine Obienyem, said he was shocked that Governor Willie Obiano would personally sign such a release laying claims to what appeared nauseating and childish. Obienyem said that such a claim would only end up proving to the people that there were more to the relocation than they already knew. Describing the claim as a blatant lie, Obienyem wondered how an action or a plan concluded by a man who left office almost 16 months ago was being implemented now. He said: “The...

Two suicide explosions along a highway in Borno State killed at least 10 people on Thursday afternoon, state police said, the latest in a string of almost daily attacks by suspected insurgents. A female suicide bomber killed seven and injured 13 at a village called Malari on the main road from Bama to Konduga while a second suicide bomber killed three in blast along the same road, the state police chief, Aderemi Opadokun, said. A military source told Reuters that in both cases the suicide bombers targeted crowded areas where locals sell fruit along the highway, which runs southeast of the state capital Maiduguri, The Nation reports Thousands of people have been killed and about 1.5 million displaced during Boko Haram’s six-year fight to create an Islamic caliphate in the northeast Nigeria.

Governor Fayose says he will be employing illiterates such as Okada riders, farmers etc into his government. See more tweets below...

President Buhari asked APC members to put their personal interest in their pocket and allow the party system work. He gave the charge during his opening remarks at the party's NEC meeting currently holding at the party's National secretariat in Abuja. "What ever your personal interests, put them in your pocket. Let APC work. Let the system work. I appeal to you to accept the superiority of the party. I cannot confine myself in Sambisa forest and refuse to participate in the meeting because I respect the superiority of the party.” he said Senator Saaraki and Hon Yakubu Dogara are present at the meeting while Bola Tinubu is absent.

Cameroonian investigative journalist, Chief Bisong Etahoben shared the news on his twitter handle.

The governing All Progressives Congress, is holding a meeting of its National Executive Committee at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja. President Muhammadu Buhari, his vice, Yemi Osinbajo, all governors elected on the platform of the party, the leadership of the national assembly and a cross section of Senators and members of the House of Representatives are expected to attend. Top on the agenda of the meeting is the crisis rocking the party since the election of Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives. Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara were elected to the two offices against the wishes of the party. APC governors had also met last night to take a common position for today’s deliberation. They also met with President Buhari last week who asked them to wade into the matter. Already, Mr. Dogara, his deputy, Suleiman Lasun and governors of Yobe, Plateau and Ogun have arrived, while the deputy governors of Nasarawa, Borno and Bauchi are also aroun...