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Yesterday serious allegations were posed against the new member of President Muhammadu Buhari’s team, Williams Babatunde Fowler, who was has been appointed head of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). The  detailed investigation suggested that Fowler’s Honorary Doctorate Degree of the Irish International University , which was proudly announced by the presidency, is of no value as it was issued by a fraudulent, non-existing university. More questions were raised even regarding Fowler’s bachelor’s degree. The report caused outrage among Nigerians who wondered how a man of, so-to-say, insufficient qualification can manage affairs in the FIRS. Those opposing the acting government referred to the pre-election reports doubting the education level of Muhammadu Buhari, the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate. Naij.com readers were like… 1. Some came down on Buhari: Sylvanus Ikechukwu: “Even Buhari holds fake WAEC cert.so all d same.pls i...

Five Star Music CEO, Emeka Okonkwo, popularly called E-Money and his wife, Juliet, talk about their love story How did you meet your spouse? Juliet:  I met my husband at a video shoot by Julius Agwu, in 2003. I was at the shoot to support Agwu as a long-time friend of his. Prior to meeting my husband, I was already friends with his brother, Kcee. Was your first impression of him favourable? Juliet:  He bore a striking resemblance to Kcee, so I imagined they were twins. I liked him when we met for the first time and we started out as friends. We dated for four years and decided to get married afterwards. He was very mature for his age and had a kind heart. He was very reserved, welcoming and spoke affectionately about his family. E-Money:  When we met, I was a young man who was struggling to make ends meet and she was equally very young. She was in her sophomore year at the university. Because she was my first girlfriend and the first woman I ever loved, ...

As part of the continued offensive operations against the Boko Haram terrorists, troops of 7 Brigade have today entered and cleared Gudumbali town, Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State. During the operation, quite a number of the terrorists were killed their weapons and equipment were destroyed. The troops are currently doing clearance operations in the general area. It should be recalled that the Nigerian Air Force has inflicted heavy damage on the terrorists camps within the general area last Monday. In a related development, troops of 5 Brigade Explosive Ordinance Devices (EOD) Unit while advancing towards Dikwa, ran into landmines buried by the terrorists. Unfortunately, 2 soldiers lost their lives, while 2 others were critically injured. The bodies of the two gallant soldiers have been evacuated, to the rear, while the other two wounded soldiers have also been evacuated and are receiving treatment at the military hospital. The unit also lost a Mowa...

The Inspector-General of Police, Solomon E. Arase,  has called on members of the public including medical personnel to attend to accident victims and persons with gunshot wounds without any police report when the need arises. In a statement released today August 21st, Arase said the police can be informed afterwards for necessary action after the injured have been given proper attention. The full text of the statement after the cut... The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Solomon E. Arase, NPM fdc has enjoined members of the public including medical personnel to attend to accident victims and persons with gunshot injuries and thereafter, inform the Police for necessary action. This became imperative, following neglects and consequent untimely death of victims in this regard out of fear of being implicated without Police involvement. The Police High Command also directed its Officers and men not to harass good Samaritans/Nigerians in this regard, but endeavour to elicit cor...

Pastor Mathew Asuquo, a resident of Ajegunle community in Lagos state has petitioned the Lagos state police command over the repeated attack on his family by one of his neighbors named Jane Osasa. Pastor Asuquo in his petition alleged that Jane had repeatedly attacked his family and nothing had been done to get her arrested even when he reported the case to the Ajeromi police station. According to him, Jane who is known as Iron Lady in their community, had an argument in their compound with his wife, Cecilia on Mach 20th and while they were arguing, Jane allegedly stabbed his wife with a kitchen knife on her forehead. It gets more gruesome...*graphic photo below* He said he reported the case at the Ajeromi police station but Jane wasn't arrested neither was anything done to caution her. He said a similar incident happened on June 13th when the said Jane stabbed his daughter, Peace, on the neck. He reported the matter again to the Ajeromi police station but nothing wa...

Mikel, why did you refuse to pick your call when you oga called you?

I read with amazement the story on page 16 of The PUNCH, August 19, 2015, on how no fewer than 2,000 commercial s*x workers in Awka, the Anambra State capital, have concluded plans to commence their strike action against the state government. It means prostitution is legalised in that state. Their leader was even reported to pointing accusing finger at the government officials as their best customers who throw money at them; “They want me to expose them?”. Awka with only about 301, 000 population in 2006 has over 2,000 prostitutes in one group. This is more than the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible. The Anambra State Government should allow the strike for everlasting, and that would be the best thing that can happen to the state. It is the handiwork of God. Deacon Monday Akpotuvie, 37 Efosa Street, Benin City, Edo State,

Joseph Wanjau, the Founder of Hope Foundation, was arrested by police crack squad on Thursday, 20 August at the ABC Place in Nairobi, Kenya. Mr Wanjau initiated a funds drive on social media to raise the money by posing with Fidelis Muthoni who is suffering from a life-threatening frontal bone defect known as Frontal Encephalocele. According to Nation FM, the baby had been booked for surgery in Canada but the family lacked funds. Her family said a team of doctors from Canada had offered to treat her for free if they paid for her flight and six-month stay. It was then Mr Wanjau, a close relative of the family, volunteered to conduct the funds drive, but the money was withdrawn without their knowledge and the ailing baby was never treated. "This case is a clear indication that cybercrime has gone a notch higher and some people no longer have a sense of humanity. There are many foundations conning people online and we were tirelessly working to crackdown on them. Keny...

World Football governing body, FIFA has appointed the president of the Nigerian Football Federation NFF, Amaju Pinnick as a member of the FIFA U-20 World Cup Organizing Committee. In a letter dated 14th August 2015 and signed by FIFA Secretary General, Jerome Valcke, the world body wrote “We are very pleased to inform you that you have been appointed as a member of the Organizing Committee for the FIFA U-20 World Cup. Please accept our sincere congratulations on this nomination. We wish you success and enjoyment in this role at FIFA and look forward to welcoming you soon in Zurich.” Congratulations to him.

Few weeks ago, the media was awash with news of a pipeline explosion at Arepo, Ogun state, where scores of vandals were reportedly burnt to death. The cause of the explosion which started the fire that was put out next day by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC was attributed to a scuffle between groups of vandals over ownership of a particular section of the NNPC owned pipeline, during which a shot fired by a member of the rival faction, hit the pipeline. That incident was not the first of its kind in recent times at Arepo. Infact, that area has become a haven for criminal activities by vandals who seem to have thrown caution to the wind as they vandalise pipelines and siphon petroleum products, without fear of molestation by security agents. Information at Vanguard’s disposal showed that these vandals who are drawn from different parts of the country could be militants in disguise . From all indications, they seem to have taken over the entire cre...

ISIS  are getting rid of militants who contracted HIV from captured sex slaves,by forcing them to become suicide bombers. Medical sources told Kurd news agency ARA News that, at least 16 fighters were diagnosed in al-Mayadeen city in the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor.  They are now being held in a quarantine centre after being infected with HIV from two Morrocan women.A civil rights activist said "IS leadership is planning to assign suicide attacks for its militants who are tested positive with AIDS,”.Most of those infected are foreign militants who had sexual intercourses with two Moroccan women.The women passed on the disease to the militants before their infection was revealed.  A Syrian doctor in al-Mayadeen said...  We were ordered by the group’s local leadership to transfer the infected militants to a quarantine center in the city,"  The women reportedly fled to Turkey because they feared ISIS would execute them. Three...

The screams of three children, their mother and her lover, who were engulfed by fire on Sunday, August 16 woke up residents of Ajumose, Ogbein area of Ede in Osun State . It was gathered that the victims were set ablaze by a man, who allegedly felt scorned that his lover was also dating another man. The five victims were said to be the suspect’s rival, Munirudeen Lawal; the lover, Hadijat Adegoke, and her three children. Lawal and Adegoke were said to have been rushed to the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, as a result of the burns they suffered. Sources at the hospital told our correspondent on Thursday that Lawal died on Tuesday while Hadijat died on Wednesday. Our correspondent gathered that Adegoke, 35, had recently moved to her own house, which had yet to be completed. The woman, along with her four children ─ Fawas (13), Ishwat (12), Sodiq (8), and Fathia (6), were said to be the residents in the two-bedroomed apartment. ...

A team of students in the University of Lagos built an eco-friendly car. They say the car doesn't emit gas doesn't utilize fossil fuel. They built the car under the Project Dove Initiative and have successfully completed their first model, Dove P1, utilizing locally sourced materials and building it right here in the university of Lagos. Well done to them. See more photos below

A teenage boy met a brutal death after four students hacked him with a machete and buried him alive.Two attackers then had sex near his shallow grave, police said. The group plotted the gruesome murder of Jose Amaya Guardado for two weeks, digging the grave and hiding the machete in woods near their Florida university campus. Kaheem Arbelo, 20, Jonathan Lucas, 18, and Christian Colon, 19, were arrested and confessed to the crime last week, Miami-Dade police said. The students are believed to have lured Guardado to woods near the Homestead Job Corps campus, where all five lived around 35 miles south of Miami. Arbelo, Lucas and Colon then allegedly ambushed Guardado and Arbelo struck him repeatedly with the machete. Strickland "complained that she had missed the first series of machete strikes because she had walked away for a few minutes to urinate in the woods," according to the arrest report Accused: Jonathan Lucas and Kaheem Arbelo The victim ...

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Alhaji Garba Shehu, on Wednesday revealed that preliminary investigations indicate that wanted radical preacher Ahmed al-Assir got his Nigerian visa through a normal application. The fugitive radical Sunni preacher who is linked with the terrorist group ISIS was arrested at the Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport while trying to leave Lebanon to Nigerian through Cairo using fake Palestinian travel documents. Read  here In a statement made to the Daily Times, Shehu Garba said,  "Any claim linking the man to the Nigerian government must be regarded as born out of mischief. Our missions attend to all applications. Once an application meets the basic conditions, there is very little that the visa issuing officials can do, especially since he was using a false identity." "The government is awaiting the report of the investigation, but preliminary reports show that the applic...

While Putting your bra on in the morning may seems like a normal routine, according to research by one human behavior expert, the way you snap the clasp actually reveals a great deal about who you are as a person.  Body language and human behavior expert ,Patti Wood who is the author of Snap: Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma,has revealed that the way you put on your bra correlates with four different types of people and personality. 'There are four distinct personality types - drivers, influencers, supporters, and careful correctors - who tend to have very unique ways of doing things, even small tasks.. Read below and see which category you fall into... You Use A Back-Clasp Bra, And Fasten It in the Back  If you use use a back-clasp bra and clasp it in the back you are thought to be a supporter. People who fall into this personality type tend to follow tradition and stay true to what they have been taught. They are though...

VictoriaKimani decided to air her mind using the hashtag #Feministwhileafrican. She aired her displeasure at society's expectations of the African woman.Using Fela's wives as an example, she shared the pic above and said they were labelled as sluts while he remained King.. I guess she is trying to she can be a feminist while being an African woman.....  Some followers did not agree with her ,telling her Fela's wives were never labelled as sluts..

The All Progressive Congress, APC, Lagos Chapter has berated Peoples Democratic Party,PDP chieftain, Chief Olabode George over his call to President Muhammadu Buhari to probe former governor of Lagos State Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his successor, Babatunde Fashola. The party asked George to stand down and admit the defeat his party suffered at both the National and the state levels in the just concluded federal elections. APC State Publicity Secretary, Mr. Joe Igbokwe, yesterday, said George like the Lagos PDP Chairman is suffering the devastating defeat in the hands of APC. He said: “Why is Bode George finding it difficult to believe that the game is over for him in Nigerian politics talk less of Lagos State? Who will tell Bode George that nobody takes him serious again in matters of Nigerian politics? Who will persuade Chief George to quit politics now in his own interest?  “Did he know that the President has full knowledge of his ...