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Abia State residents today came out to rally in solidarity with their embattled Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu. This is coming after Justice Okon Abang of a Federal High Court in Abuja, ordered the Governor to vacate his office after finding him guilty of submitting false information to his party - PDP during the party's governorship primary in December 2014.  Responding to the crowd of Abians who besieged the government house in Umuahia, the Governor, represented by his Deputy, Ude Oko Chukwu, said he will employ all judiciary processes to regain his mandate and expressed confidence that the judiciary will do the right thing. He thanked the people for conducting themselves well without disrupting peace and informed them that he has appealed the judgement.  More photos...

Is it really? I don't think so...I think it's a beautiful thing if you find the right partner but the actress thinks it's not and says she has no immediate plans to be a Mrs, as there's no happiness or genuine love these days. Speaking with Encomium magazine, she said; Marriage has been overrated. It’s unnecessarily over rated. It’s just too much of headache with how things are now. Even ordinary relationship is a huge burden, huge headache and heartbreaking, let alone marriage. When you can’t stand each other as boyfriend and girlfriend, how would you live together under the same roof when you get married? People need to know themselves seriously. When I say seriously, I mean spiritually before getting married. People only know themselves physically, not spiritually, so they end up getting bored with each other. And they will say they don’t want to get divorce because of what society would say after investing so much on the marriage. They stay in that m...

Corby Persin, a YouTube prankster from New York city has pulled an almighty one on an unsuspecting lady. He convinced her to cancel plans with her boyfriend after making her believe he owned a private jet then dumped her on the runway. It all began when he approached her on the runway, she appeared disinterested but things changed when he mentioned his private jet at which point she agreed to join him and two strangers in a car to the airport to fly to Miami. Here's how it happened. While at the station, he asked her what she is doing later that evening she says: 'I'm actually meeting my boyfriend.' He says in response: 'Oh you have a boyfriend? Oh, man. Right I'm going to leave you alone, you have a good night tonight with your boyfriend. Take care.' But just as they part ways, he calls her back, saying 'actually one more thing' and asks her for her Instagram name so they can be 'friends'. As she enters her name...

The senate have countered the SFG. In a statement released and signed by  Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi  . Read the statement   We note the statement issued by the Secretary to the Federal Government, Mr. David Babachir Lawal that the Senate is not the one on trial in the Forgery case instituted by the Attorney General of the Federation against the Senate President and his Deputy.   We disagree with him on this position and we maintain our earlier stand that it is the Senate that is the target of the present attempt to intimidate the legislature to force a leadership change in the Senate.   Mr. Babachir Lawal should tell us how reasonable it is to conclude that when the President of Nigeria and the Vice President are being jointly tried in a suit whose outcome can remove them from office, it is not the Buhari Government that is being targeted.   It is also imperative to clearly state that contrary to the claim by the SGF, ne...

Philanropist Modupe Ozolua earlier this month shared photos of extremely malnourished children rescued from Boko Haram captivity. Here are before and after photos of one the children, Baby Hadiza following intensive CMAM treatment. Her post below. "Remember Baby Hadiza?!??! YES!! That's her TODAY June 29th 2016 after her evacuatuon from Bama on June 13th 2016! Remember we informed you she has been receiving intensive CMAM treatment and responding well? We are thrilled to present Baby Hadiza to you as she is today, June 29th 2016! Amazing what proper medical care and compassion can do! In the very near future, we will be establishing such intensive CMAM centres in various parts of Borno state to ensure more lives are saved. Again, we thank His Excellency, Kashim Shettima, Governorn of Borno State for ensuring the evacuation and treatment of these children from Bama that were rescued from Boko Haram's captivity. We also thank everyone concerned and donating clot...

  Obele Wilson The student, identified as Obele Wilson, was shot and killed by rampaging armed robbers Wilson was a final year Engineering student of the Bayelsa State-owned Niger Delta University (NDU), Wilberforce Island, Amasoma, Southern Ijaw. According to The Nation, the victim was attacked along the Sani Abacha Expressway, Yenagoa, where some branches of new generation banks are located. The bandits who were armed with guns and other weapons reportedly rounded up Wilson and some bank customers at about 2pm and started dispossessing them of their cash, mobile handsets and other valuables. Prior to the incident, Wilson was said to be in the business of electronically processing NDU’s screening forms for admission seekers. A source who spoke in confidence said the deceased student was at the spot to seek customers from persons who bought the NDU forms from banks. He said:  “The killing of Wilson was very painful. He was a final year engineeri...

This Facebook user who goes by the name Teddy Skitt shared this short video earlier today. According to her bio, she lives in Port Harcourt but hails from Imo State. The young girl captioned the video: "Good morning. Boo made my night. I love u baby"  Like I asked before, whose child is this? See the video she shared below

An Abuja high court has removed Ali Modu Sheriff as the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Justice Valentine Ashi, the judge, on Tuesday, nullified the 2014 amended constitution of the PDP through which Sheriff was appointed chairman. He held that the process of amending some sections of the party’s constitution ran contrary to the Electoral Act, declaring the positions of Sheriff and other PDP executive as null and void. The judgment followed a suit filed by Joseph Jero, a member of the party. The PDP has been embroiled in a leadership since its national convention in Port Harcourt. While Sheriff had mid-way announced the cancellation of the exercise, some leaders of the party went ahead with it, setting up a caretaker committee chaired by Ahmed Makarfi, former Kaduna state governor. The committee was given three months to steer the affairs of the party, and to hold another convention at the end of the term. But Sheri...

MTN Nigeria says it has paid N80 billion out of its reviewed N330 billion fine, handed down by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in October 2015. The telco has also been declared by NCC as the winner of its auction for a 10-year frequency spectrum licence for the 2.6GHz band, which is expected to “guarantee superior performance for wireless networks, especially 4G” internet services”. According to a statement released on Tuesday by Ferdi Moolman, chief executive officer of MTN Nigeria, the company paid N30 billion in addition to the N50 billion paid earlier in the year. “I am pleased to announce that the first payment of N30 billion in the terms of settlement has already been disbursed to the NCC. In addition to the earlier payment of N50 billion, which we paid in good faith and without prejudice on February 24, this means we have now paid a total of N80 billion,” Moolman said. He also said that after complying with all the requirements for the 2....

Members of the Ekiti state house of assembly on Wednesday took over a highway in the state capital to protest against the “harassment” of Ayodele Fayose, governor of the state, by the federal government. The lawmakers, who held their plenary session on the Okesa highway in Ado Ekiti, condemned the freezing of the accounts of the governor. Last Tuesday, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) froze the Zenith bank accounts of Fayose on the grounds that some illicit funds, about N1.2bn, were traced to them. Reacting to the development on Wednesday, the lawmakers asked the government to let the governor be. “No amount of intimidation, harassment, arrest will push us to do any dirty job. We have had enough of intimidation. They should leave Governor Fayose alone; he was duly elected by the people of Ekiti state,” Kola Oluwawole, speaker of the assembly, said while speaking with journalists. “The freezing of his account without following due proc...

Justice Olukayode Adeniyi of a Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed the fundamental human rights enforcement suit filed by Femi Fani-Kay‎ode, challenging his detention by EFCC. Fani-Kayode who was arrested on  May 9th , asked the court to release him from EFCC custody as his continuous detention was unconstitutional. The presiding judge, while delivering his judgement this afternoon, said FFK's detention was not illegal since it was backed by an order of court. Fani-Kayode alongside former Minister of Finance, Nenadi Usman were arraigned in court yesterday over and N4.9 billion fraud. 

A street hawker lost his life this afternoon while being chased by Kick Against Indiscipline officials along Ikorodu road in Maryland today. According to eyewitnesses, the KAI officials making an attempt to enforce the law, chased a man hawking along Maryland bridge. While trying to avoid them, he ran into a BRT bus and was knocked to the ground, he died instantly. Angry hawkers and area boys armed with sticks & stones immediately descended to destroy all BRT buses in the area and riot in protest. The Army and police officers have since arrived to the area to restore order. More photos below

Chinese woman publicly punished her husband’s alleged mistress by stripping her and beating her in the street. Footage of the punishment shared online, shows the woman and her group of friends hitting and kicking the lady who they claim had been sleeping with one of their husbands.  In the video, the alleged mistress can be seen on the floor surrounded by the women and onlookers who did nothing to stop beating. The victim looked helpless with her top torn as the women beat her up. A woman, who was wearing a beige top can be seen pulling the mistress' hair and trying to slam her to the floor before slapping her repeatedly.  The women then start pushing the girl around and try to remove her clothes completely. The victim tried to cover her breast with her top but it was immediately collected by one of the women who threw the top away. She then pulls her hair up so she can get a better angle for her photo, before hitting her on the head repeatedly. A Passer-by...

Ghanaian pastor and head of the International Godsway Church, Bishop Daniel Obinim, during his recent healing service in his church, asked his male members who wanted bigger p*nis to file out. He then laid his hands on their genital region and offered special prayers. In March this year, same pastor told his congregation he has the power to pray for anyone who wants bigger breast, buttocks or genitals “If you do not like the looks of any part of the body, come to me, what do you want that I can’t offer…if you want a big buttocks I can do it for you, if you want big breasts, I can help…if you have a small manhood, I can change them all when I come to the spiritual realm…,” he is quoted as saying in one of his services. Watch the video of him praying for longer eggplants for his male members below..