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Meet the Youth Corper who invented a driver training workshop which allows a person to learn how to drive without d use of car.Let's celebrate him ‪#‎ MadeInNaija‬ Source: Reports Afrique News

The spiritual leader of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, Olumba Olumba Obu, has predicted that President Buhari will complete not only his first but second term in office despite attempts by certain individuals who are not happy with his stance on corruption, to eliminate him. Olumba Olumba stated this while addressing a crowd of guests and adherents in Calabar, Cross River State, during an international youth event with the theme ‘Respecting Authorities and Higher Powers’. "For now, which leader in Nigeria would people be afraid of, to the extent of coming up by themselves to return stolen money?"  he asked. "I can assure that despite the millions of money people are spending, including going diabolical, to kill the president, they will not succeed and he will not be harmed. He will certainly complete his eight years in office. Buhari has a special task to accomplish in Nigeria at these times," he added.

South African Twitter User @ninoromey shared these photos but no details. The pics however tells the full story and it has been trending on Nigerian Twitter.

  The tanker exploded in Lagos this evening, between Cele bus-stop and Ijesha. According to reports, people were trapped in the accident. The driver and 3 other people are feared dead. See more photos below:

In a recent interview with Radio Continental, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Buhari, Mr Femi Adesina responded to salient issues affecting the nation. Issues like Hard times in Nigeria, Niger Delta Agitations, Recovered monies, Power Supply and more, were addressed by him. Excerpts after the cut... Alleged lopsided Appointments What I would like to say is that this government takes feedback very serious. The feedback that has come on appointments in the last few weeks has been well noted. They are being processed and would inform what is going to happen going forward and be assured that the processing would come with something good for every part of the country. That is not to say that those appointments do not have their merits. All of them can be defended, but the feedbacks are well noted. Under the presidential system, there is what is called presidential prerogative, and there are some appointments the president can make and he does not n...

Earlier today, former President Olusegun Obasanjo visited President Muhammadu Buhari  behind closed-doors   at the presidential villa Abuja. Obasanjo later disclosed to state house journalists that he visited the president to deliver messages he brought from abroad.  “I am visiting this time because I have some messages for the president.” The former president said he recently travelled to Liberia and Gambia.  “I have messages that these two countries will want me to deliver to the president. “Also, only yesterday I came back from Seychelles Island where I attended this year’s Annual General meeting of Africa Export Development Bank. And there are aspects of the proceedings that I think I should update the President on,”  he said. While speaking on the National Assembly lawmakers, the former president reiterated his earlier stand that Nigeria’s National Assembly was made up of corrupt lawmakers. Reacting to the...

Members of CAC at Abule-Ijesha in Yaba local government, Lagos state yesterday Sunday July 24th, threw their pastor Micheal Oni out of the church during the service, over disagreements on the disbursement of church funds and his monthly salary.  According to a member of the church, the pastor who was recently transferred to their church from Ibadan, was demanding for a certain amount of salary which they refused to pay him. They accused him of insulting them and causing trouble in the church "He has been giving the church problem, causing chaos in the church and fighting members, insulting and raising bad covenant between members"Badejo Adelu, a member of the church told TVC According to the pastor, the church members refused to render accounts of the church to him  "I asked them that I want to see the account of the church which they failed to render. I told them they should not spend any money without approval by...

President Buhari on Monday received Mr Gianni Infantino, the President of football’s world governing body (FIFA) and Secretary-General, Fatma Samoura at the State House, Abuja. Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung and NFF President, Amaju Pinnick were present during the courtesy visit. More photos below.

A 28 year-old housewife, Mary Attah has been condemned to death by hanging by an Effurun High Court for stabbing her Pastor husband, Darlington Attah, with a kitchen knife and setting him ablaze. Prosecution from the Delta State Ministry of Justice had told the Court that the accused who was married to Darlington Attah (now deceased) with four children, on or about the 6th day of July, 2012 at Effurun within the Effurun Judicial Division did attack her husband with a kitchen knife and stabbed him in the neck as a result of an alleged phone call from the husband’s lover. The Court was further told that the accused was infuriated by the telephone call at a time they were having a ‘nice time’ which prompted her to rush to the kitchen, collected the knife and armed herself with grounded pepper which she rubbed on her husband’s face to immobilize him before stabbing him in the neck. Not satisfied, she doused the husband who was already weak as a result of excessive...

Patoranking posted a photo on his IG page with 2 babes and dollars littered all around them. A US site, Yeezybusta, which identifies fake and original Yeezys called out Patoranking for wearing fake Yeezys. Trust Americans, they started making fun of the Yeezys, they also claimed that the dollars were fake because the dollars were all facing up, some even said the girls were fake, lol. Of course, Nigerians also commented on the photo. More comments below...

The Federal Government has shelved plans to build a world-class and ulta-modern film village in Kano following criticisms made by Muslim clerics who say it will promote immorality. Some Muslim social media users also opposed the move using the hashtags #FilmVillage or #ImmoralityVillage #WeSayNoToFilmVillageInKano, for same 'immorality' reason. Nigeria's government had set aside N3billion for the construction of the Muhammadu Buhari film village at Kofa in Bebeji local government area of Kano State, that will provide over 10,000 jobs to Nigerian citizens and also increase revenue generation to Kano state in particular and the nation in general. The project is schedule to take place in three phases and the federal government had put aside N1billion for the commencement of the first phase of the film village, stated the Managing Director Nigerian Film Corporation Danjuma Wurim Dadu, during a stakeholder’s interaction session held at Tahir Guess...

The Adaka Boro Avengers (ABA) and other militant groups have asked indigenes of South-East and South-South all over Nigeria to immediately come back home. Specifically, they called on former President Goodluck Jonathan; elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark; King Alfred Diete Spiff; Ankio Briggs; Joseph Eva; Patrick Fufein, Pastor Good, past and present military personnel from the Niger Delta region, present senators and members of the Houses of Representatives to come to Kaiama for the official declaration of the Niger Delta Republic on August 1. In a statement issued on Sunday, July 24, General Edmos Ayayeibo, the group’s spokesman, reiterated the earlier order that Northerners and South Westerners should vacate the South-South before August 1. He warned the Federal Government to “move out all military personnel and all government agencies out of the Niger Delta,” noting that “failure will lead to destruction of military barracks and personnel.” General Ayayeibo also...

President Buhari is currently having a closed door meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo at the state house Abuja. Obasanjo arrived the presidential villa at about 12 noon in company of one of his daughters and was taken straight to President Buhari's office. Reason for the closed door meeting is not yet known.

After Sunday Oliseh calls out former Super Eagles captain and goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama in his article, Read that HERE Enyeama took to his twitter handle to address Oliseh, advising him to move on with his life and go sort himself out with NFF, Below are Enyeama's tweets Please senior man,I will so much appreciate if you stop talking about me and face your life.please please please pic.twitter.com/vrQR04lXx6 — vincent enyeama (@vinpee) July 24, 2016 All that glitters is not gold @SundayOOliseh stop mentioning me in your post.i don't want to get dirty.we all can pic.twitter.com/mdzew2t6r3 — vincent enyeama (@vinpee) July 24, 2016 You keep saying that you took me to lunch @SundayOOliseh I am wondering if the Resto in in Verviers on LILLE. #allthatglitterisnotgold . — vincent enyeama (@vinpee) July 24, 2016 Move on with your life please.sort out your issues with the NFF.please STOP mentioning me in your post.pretend that we never met. ...

Erstwhile Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has stated that he was deceived by Yakubu Dogara’s “innocent looking personality” into working for him to emerge as Speaker of the lower chamber. He stated that, “I made an error of judgement. I don’t know to whom and from where I will start apologising for not heeding to wise counsel.” In a statement he personally issued on Sunday, Jibrin said, “How do I face the world and say I got it wrong after playing such a lead role in his emergence? When you see a house you sacrificed everything to build is falling apart and the driver believes he is firmly in charge because he has 8 votes advantage, you are left with no choice than to tie your seat belt for obvious eventuality.” He stated that his allegations of budget padding are against the Speaker and the three other principal members of the House rather than against the entire house. Jibrin alleged that Dogara ...

The Local Crime Branch, LCB, Thane Rural in India has arrested a Nigerian national, Uzoma Eleazar, for attempting to sell seeds for the cure of AIDS in an online scam. The Hindu reports that Eleazar was nabbed on Sunday alongside three accomplices for cheating a local resident at Naya Nagar, Mira Road, one Anil Mathur of nearly Rs. 23 lakh in an online scam. They met on the social media and developed a friendship, after which, Eleazar offered Mathur a dealership in seeds that he claimed he used to produce expensive medicines in Nigeria. The victim fell for it and had paid nearly Rs. 23 lakh since June 21 before his arrest. According to an Assistant Police Inspector, API Prafull Wagh, “The Nigerian offered a dealership for special seeds that grow only in Nigeria, which he claimed can cure AIDS. “Eleazar managed to sell seeds in 400-gram packets for Rs. 1 lakh each. “The seeds turned out to be ‘Bitter Kola’ (botanical name: Garcinia kola), whic...