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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked Nigerians to expect “shocking revelations” of the past government in the coming weeks and months. In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by Lai Mohammed, national publicity secretary of the party, APC accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of distorting the facts about the source of the $2.1 billion that President Muhammadu Buhari approved for sharing among the three tiers of government. The statement also faulted the claim of Olisa Metuh, PDP spokesman, that former president Goodluck Jonathan refused to share $5.5 billion dollars from Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) dividends because he wanted to leave money for Buhari. APC alleged that such money was not in the federation account, urging Buhari to probe past dividends of the NLNG. ”The revelations concerning the deep rot in the system that will come in the weeks and months ahead will shock even the most ardent critics of the Buhari administration’s salva...

A man who was driving a Sienna bus was almost burnt alive after his car caught fire on 3rd Mainland Bridge Lagos this evening. More photos below

Tragedy struck today when a trailer fell on a car carrying a family of six near Finotel Agu-Awka Junction, along Enugu-Onitsha Expressway, Awka, killing three, including both parents and a son. Their 4-month old baby and two other little ones survived and are in the hospital. Governor Obiano and wife, Osodieme went to Regina Caeli Hospital to see the survivors of the ghastly accident. See more photos below

He's still got it! David Letterman come out of retirement for a surprise performance on Friday, July 10. The former late night host, 68, made a cameo on Martin Short and Steve Martin's A Very Stupid Conversation tour, where the topic of presidential hopeful Donald Trump came up. "I am so happy to be out of the house!" Letterman joked. "I retired and I had no regrets, none. I was happy. I was complacent. I was satisfied. I was content. And then a couple of days ago, Donald Trump said he was running for president. I have made the biggest mistake of my life, ladies and gentlemen." Much to the audience's delight, Letterman then pulled out a Top 10 list of interesting facts about the controversial businessman.  "No. 10: That thing on his head was the gopher in Caddyshack," he teased. "No. 9: During Sex Donald Trump calls out his own name." Then then poked some fun at himself, quipping, "N...

T hirty-year-old Blessing Augustine, who hails from Kogi State but resides in Lugbe Zone 4, Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, has been accused of defiling the one-year-old daughter of his neighbour. While pretending to play with her, he allegedly poked his finger at different times into the baby girl’s gen­ital and in the process broke her hymen.  The alleged act of Augustine came to light when the baby’s father reported him to the police and he was arrested. The baby was taken to Gwarimpa General Hospital and Amaco Hospital, a private health facility, where doctors in both places confirmed that she was defiled. Recounting how the deeds of the suspect were uncovered, Nnamdi Chukwu, father of the baby told  Sunday  Sun : “The ugly incident happened on June 13, 2015, when I heard my baby crying. I asked my wife to find out why the baby was crying. She said that Augustine told her that the little child saw a chicken and was frightened. But somehow the ...

More drama for Floyd Mayweather last night ... when an SUV in his motorcade crashed into a guy on a motorcycle -- as the boxer and his crew were on their way home from a nightclub.  Floyd had just made an appearance at One% nightclub in Kansas City ... when one of the 5 vehicles in Mayweather's TMT motorcade collided with the bike around 3AM.  It's unclear if Floyd was riding in the SUV involved in the accident -- but in video obtained by TMZ Sports, you can see Mayweather at the crash scene while people attend to the downed biker.  Emergency personnel raced to help -- but the biker's condition is unknown.  One witness at the scene told us it appeared as if the motorcycle clipped the back end of the SUV -- and the guy was ejected from his bike.  We also obtained pics which showed Floyd in the passenger seat of an SUV earlier in the night -- so it's unlikely he was driving.  We reached out to Mayweather's camp for comment -...

Former Super Eagles Technical Adviser, Clemens Westerhof has condemned the move by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to offer untested Sunday Ogorchukwu Oliseh the coaching reins of the country's senior national team. According to the Dutchman, Oliseh, his former player lacks the technical capability to lead the team, especially in this crucial time giving the sack of former coach, Stephen Keshi. He also maintained the NFF is committing a blunder by hiring a greenhorn coach who has not gotten the requisite experience to handle the team. “No, no, that cannot be, he can’t be Super Eagles coach. Oliseh cannot, no, he can’t,” Westerhof said. “If the Nigeria Football Federation is bringing Oliseh to handle the Super Eagles, then that is too bad because it is not right. It is not proper, he is not the right man for the job.” “Before I took over the Super Eagles in 1989, I was the head coach of Feyenoord and we were champions after many years. I coached other...

After Floyd Mayweather won the much awaited Mayweather-Pacquiao fight on 2nd May 2015, the authorities found multiple pill bottles in Mayweather’s locker room. Muscle Rev , which has previously been in the news for its steroid-like effects, was one of the supplements found. This fascination revelation could land Mayweather in trouble. Muscle Rev has been banned by many sports federations, the World Boxing Association being one of them. Although Muscle Rev is legal and causes no side effects, it is still banned by many sports authorities because it gives athletes an unfair advantage by greatly reducing the amount of time and effort required to build muscle. Muscle Rev is the one benefiting from this accidental celebrity endorsement, and it has decided to take full advantage of this controversial situation by giving away free bottles until Sunday, July 12th, 2015 or until they run out of supplies.

Islamic State fanatics have released one of their most sickening videos yet - new footage of hundreds of military cadets being machine gunned to death while lying face down in the dirt.  The grisly footage shows executions on an industrial scale, as young men are seen falling from trucks and pleading for their lives before being lay down in shallow graves and sprayed with bullets. Others are shot individually and their bodies dumped into the Tigris River, while an excavator is seen shifting vast piles of bodies as the executions continue into the night. The footage reveals the true scale of last year's Speicher massacre, in Tikrit, Iraq, where up to 1,700 military cadets are thought to have been slaughtered.

A twitter handle called @MinorityNigeria is posting  # Genocide Pictures   to draw attention to the massacre of minorities in Plateau, Nassarawa and Benue States by herdsmen. The photos are horrific! See them below

In 1997, a brilliant Igbo Electrical Engineer and Lecturer at the Federal polytechnic Nekede, Dr. Ezekiel Izogu designed and developed the Izuogu Z-600, the first African indigenous manufactured car. The car was described by the BBC as ‘ the African dream machine’ as 90% of its parts were sourced locally . At a projected sales cost of 2000 dollars, it would have taken the world by storm and become the cheapest and most affordable car on earth. With mass production planned under Izogu Motors plant in Naze owerri, the prospects of an industrial revolution in Igbo land and Nigeria, was in the making. The car was equipped with a self made 1.8L four cylinder engine that got 18mpg and allowedthe car to achieve a top speed of 140 km/h. Front Wheel Drive (FWD) was chosen over Rear Wheel Drive (RWD) because a transmission tunnel, which RWD would require, would be more expensive to fabricate. So 90% of the car’s components were made locally. General Sani Abacha set up a 1...

"Throughout my life, people have asked me why I look the way I do,” says Lacey Schwartz. “I would tell them that my parents were white, which was true. I wasn’t pretending to be something I wasn’t. I grew up being told, and believing, that I was the nice, white, Jewish daughter of two nice, white, Jewish parents.” But Schwartz, a 38-year-old film-maker, has brown skin, curly hair and full lips. It was only when she was 18 that her mother admitted the truth: that she had had an affair with a friend and former colleague who was black. And that, in all likelihood, he was Lacey’s biological father. The revelation not only shook her relationship with her mother to the core, but also led Schwartz to question everything she had believed about who she was, and eventually inspired her to make a documentary about the experience, called Little White Lie. “I started out wanting to make a film about being black and Jewish, because I was really struggling with my dual iden...