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Cross Rivers State Police command has arrested a suspected serial killer, Cyril Ojang Etim, 25, who had been wanted by the police over series of unexplained deaths in the state. He was picked by detectives attached to the state Criminal Investigation Department days after he alleg­edly beheaded one Ubong Asuquo who caught him steal­ing N4000 from his house at old Netim, Akamkpa Local Government Area of Cross River State. In the course of investigation, it was discovered that he was also responsible for the death of his ex-lover, Esther. He admitted to have killed her when he discovered that Esther, who was two months pregnant, had an abortion. On his arrest, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Henry Fadairo told  Saturday Sun  that he had received sev­eral reports of the activities of Etim especially from rela­tives of victims that were either raped or murdered. He explained that the manhunt was intensified when it was confirmed that the suspect beheaded his...

A Nigerian teenager identified as Christiana, shared her horrific ordeal. She talked about how she was raped by four men in Michika, Adamawa state. According to Christiana, it all happened when she had gone to repair her phone at one of the phone repair centers in Michika. She said when she got there, she was told to come in the evening of the same day for her phone but because she had things to do in the market, she decided to go collect her phone the next day. When she returned the next day, she was told to follow the repairer to where she will collect her phone. When she got there, she said stood at the entrance of the room, waiting for the man to bring her phone out when she was suddenly pushed from behind by someone else who into the room. As they attempted to have their way, she said she screamed and a rag was put in her mouth. They told her they will kill her if she doesn't allow them have their way. Unfortunately one of the men had his way and after he was done, ...

Some more photos from the scene of the Airforce Helicopter crash that happened in Kaduna state this morning. All 7 on-board the helicopter died. A statement from NEMA says the Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar has aborted his official trip to Port Harcourt to visit the site of the crash and families of some of the deceased personnel. He has also set up an investigation panel headed by an Air Vice Marshal to unravel the cause of the accident with immediate effect...

Between himself, his Chief Security Officer and the former Petroluem Minister, former President Goodluck Jonathan spent, in just one deal, a princely $6.9 million dollars to buy three 40-feet mobile stages for use during mass public speaking events, investigations have now revealed. Federal government investigators and security agencies say this is just one of the tons of allegedly corrupt practices frequently engaged and condoned under the presidency of the immediate past president. Besides the fact that the sum for the stages have been incredibly inflated according to mobile stages industry experts, government investigators say there is no evidence as yet that any stage was purchased at all. While the cost of mobile stages range in size and designs, only outlandish rock star musicians in Europe and the U.S. spend hundreds of thousands on their huge stages way bigger than the 40-feet stages. Even then, those musicians and super stars would not pay over $2m per stage,...

Reasons why Donald Trump should not be US President. Been trending on Twitter for a while and has been reposted by so many people. The tweets state some things Donald Trump has said earlier and gives a glimpse at his past behavior. More tweets below

These two men were caught while trying to steal a Toyota Venza car at FCMB Rumumasi in Port harcourt yesterday August 28th and were attacked by a mob. The car they tried to steal below

Press statement from the presidency Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN has declared that nobody has a right to pocket public money stating that corruption by its very nature is antithetical and inimical to the development of any nation. Prof. Osinbajo noted that everyone needs to uphold the virtues of truth and justice if the country must make progress in the anti-corruption campaign emphasizing that people should not give the anti-corruption fight any ethnic coloration in order to escape punishment. He explained that ‘’when there is a fight against corruption, it is not an ethnic fight; it is not an ethnic battle. People can come up with all sorts of things and say it is selective. People say the reason why a man is being tried for corruption is because he is a Yoruba man, or he is from the North or from the South. We should not encourage this kind of ideas.’’ The Vice President disclosed this on Thursday, 27th August 2015 evening when he received in his office the deleg...

Above is the photo of Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti state and the 72 year old carpenter, Pa Olatunde Afolayan, who appointed as the caretaker chairman of Moba Local Government. While appointing him yesterday August 28th, Fayose said; "In my government, whether you are educated or not, you will get something. The vote of a professor and an illiterate is the same. So, under my administration, those who are not educated can rise to any level they want.” Responding, Pa Afolayan said "I have never gone to school for a day, but that does not diminish my intelligence. I may not be educated or certificated, but I have the experience to pilot the affairs of the council. I promise to surpass the records left behind by my predecessors to justify Governor Fayose’s assertion that local people are intelligent and visionary.”.

2 weeks ago, Nokuthula Magwanyana, 45, was told to step down from her position as the principal of Villa Maria Primary School in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa or face death. The word 'resign' was boldly written across her office wall in red and on Wednesday August 26th, the killers made good their threats by brutally hacking her to death as she made her way home from school.  Her lifeless body was discovered along Table Mountain Road in Bishopstowe. Her body was slumped out of the driver’s door of her maroon Chevrolet. The lower half of her body was still secured with a seat belt inside the vehicle. Magwanyana’s sister Toyi Mthembu, 54, who traveled from Johannesburg to be with her family, said they were devastated "She was pushed off the gravel road and from what I heard from her husband, she had several stab wounds and there was a big gash on her back and it looked like she had been hacked with a panga. She was still in the car, but her body was slump...

Senator and his mistress Mrs Augusta Uzodinma, wife of Senator Hope Uzodinma from Imo State, has raised an alarm over her husband’s plan to get married to another woman in the Catholic Church and asked the Church and all concerned in the new marriage arrangement to indefinitely call off the plans , stressing that she is still legally married to the Senator. She made this known to LEADERSHIP Weekend during her visit to the corporate Headquarters of LEADERSHIP Group in Abuja yesterday, alleging that the ban of the marriage has been sent to the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Maitama, Abuja. According to her, she was legitimately married to Uzodimma (now a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria) and has consummated their union both in court and in the Catholic Church. She said they “got married when Uzodinma had nothing, let alone people hearing about him as is the case today”, and have had five children together, until 1996 when he asked her to go back to her pare...

These are some photos from the crash site of the Dornier 228 aircraft belonging to Nigerian air-force that crashed at the Nigerian Defense Academy old site in Kaduna at about  6:45  this morning. The helicopter was said to be on a routine training flight and was heading to Abuja from the Nigerian Airforce base in Kaduna, when the incident occurred. All 7 people on-board, including the pilot, co-pilot, two engineers and three passengers all died. See more photos from the crash site below

Squadron leader Kunle Suara died this morning after the air-force helicopter he was flying crashed just 10mins after take off at the Nigerian Defense Academy old site in Kaduna. Six other people lost their lives. May their souls rest in peace, amen.

A  Lagos Waste Managment Authority, L AWMA official  was knocked down this morning during the Environmental sanitation exercise by a green SUV along Apongbon, Lagos Island. The individual that hit her didn't wait and the source who witnessed the incident and sent the photos in said the woman died right in front of him. So sad! Killed while diligently doing her work. 

Contrary to rumor that that former Gov. Amaechi had jetted out to London in frustration for not been appointed SGF. Gov. Amaechi lands in PH this morning and was received by associates who defied the rains and restriction of movement due to sanitation exercise.

In what could be described as a twist of fate, the same court the former governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Amaechi, shut down for over a year following his feud with the National Judicial Council had cause to decide his suit against the commission of inquiry to probe his administration last week, Davidson Iriekpen writes While in power, if anyone had told him it would happen so soon, he would have doubted it. But this was what played out last week when the suit the former Governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Amaechi, filed to stop the probe his administration at the state High Court sitting in Port Harcourt was dismissed. Wike had on June 19 inaugurated a judicial commission of inquiry to investigate Amaechi over the sale of Omoku 150 megawatts (MW) Gas Turbine, Afam 360 MW Gas Turbine, Trans-Amadi 136 MW Gas Turbine and Eleme 75 MW Gas Turbine, the mono-rail project and Olympia Hotel. Other areas for the commission of inquiry to investigate include “the non-execution ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday disowned two of his campaign documents containing promises on what he would do in his first 100 days in office. A statement from his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu titled: “Understanding Buhari in 100 days” pointedly disowned two campaign documents which he said emanated from some of party’s “so many centres of public communication which, for whatever reason, were on the loose.” “There is a certain document tagged “One Hundred Things Buhari Will Do in 100 Days” and the other, “My Covenant With Nigerians.” Both pamphlets bore the authorised party logo but as the Director of Media and Communications in that campaign, I did not fund or authorise any of those. I can equally bet my last Kobo that Candidate Buhari did not see or authorise those publications. “As a consequence of these publications, expectations have been raised unreasonably, that as President, Muhammadu Buhari will wave his hand and a...

The prices of imported rice and maize on Friday slightly decreased at the Mile 12 market in Lagos State for the week ended, Aug. 28. This is contained in the commodity index sheet made available by Novus Agro Nigeria Ltd to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. The index showed that the price of a 50kg bag of imported rice which now sells for N8,567 was sold at N8,700. While the price of a paint bucket measurement remained the same at N800 at the market. It also showed that the price of a 100kg bag of maize reduced by about N500; it now sells for N6,000 but was sold at N6,433 the previous week. However, the price of a paint bucket measurement remained the same. Meanwhile, other agricultural commodities like Garri, Sorghum, Drum Beans and Soya Beans sold at the same price as last week. A 100kg bag of soya beans is now selling at N15,000 at the same price as last week; the paint bucket measure also remained the same at N550. A 60kg bag...