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Wife of the police officer who murdered his two children and mother-in-law suspects he was pushed by spiritual forces to commit the gruesome crime. Lance Corporal Wilfred Amuzu killed his mother-in-law and his two young sons (three months and one-year-old +) with a rifle which he had booked for duty  on Monday  evening, July 25. The mother-in-law was said to be bathing her grandchild when the Lance Corporal shot her and the baby, killing them both, after which he shot the other child before committing suicide. Rapha Iddrisu, 29,  told journalists today at the Devtraco Police Station in Community 25 that there was no way her husband would have committed the act if he was in his right mind. The devastated woman said she noticed changes in her husband some months back. His utterances had changed and some things he said did not make sense. Rapha also confirmed that she had made a complaint at the Domestic Violenc...

This is so painful, another young beautiful doctor lost her life in a fatal accident around Umuikaa while going to Umuahia from Aba. The bus containing 12 people including the driver had 11 people injured and 1 dead. The one person that dead is this beautiful damsel called Dr. Nneoma Uhuegbu. This is what one of her friend had to say ; The Audacity of Death The reckless, arrogant enemy of humanity has struck again. On this occasion, its wicked hands did us an irreparable damage which is permanent. It has snatched away a humble, brilliant, amiable, creative and hard-working doctor from us, in a rude and shocking manner. Nneoma has spent 8 years of her life studying medicine & surgery. Their induction into the medical body was scheduled to hold this Thursday 28 July. What a loss!!!.. What happens to the project I wanted you to be part of? what of the lives you planned to save as a medical doctor 😷? should we forget about it? No!!!! Hey, I am dreamin...

An appeal filed by the embattled Abia State Governor Okezie Ikepeazu, challenging a federal high court judgement that declared him unfit to hold office, has just been postponed by the court of appeal sitting today in Abuja. According to  TheCable News , the decision of the court to postpone the appeal of Ikepeazu to August 9 was due to the submission of Friday Iwunzo, the 5th respondent, that he had equal rights to be part of the suit filed by ‎Uche Ogah. The 5-man panel, which did not earlier recognise Iwunzo as part of the suit, said Ikpeazu remains governor till August 4, when Iwunzo’s suit will now be heard. Recall that Uche Sampsom Ogar, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) member, had contended that the governor evaded tax prior to his election, and as such was‎ not qualified to hold an elective office. It was on this basis that, ‎Okon Abang, the presiding judge, of the high court gave the judgment declaring Ikepeazu unfit to hold office. Meanw...

Two ministerial nominees failed to recite the National anthem and pledge properly. The nominees, Ibrahim Isa from Niger state and Vivian Nwunaku Okeke from Anambra state mixed up the National Anthem and pledge when the chairman of the senate committee on Foreign Affairs, Monsurat Sunmonu asked them to recite it at the senate's screening exercise for the 47 ministerial nominees today July 26th. Other senators present burst into laughter... Senator James Manager who is a member of the committee saved them from the embarrassing moment by correcting them immediately. Photo credit: Tsegbemi Gbonkanwe

Pastor Joseph, pictured above, of the Holy Fire Ministries in Waterfalls, Zimbabwe was last Sunday July 24th dragged before the church's elders after one of his female members confessed that the pastor had sex with her at the Church's prayer room. The victim approached the elders after she discovered that her belly was swelling and itching even though pregnancy tests proved she was not expecting . “My tummy is just swelling and I am in pain. I suspect Pastor Joseph could have bewitched me after he forced me to have unprotected sex with him. Pastor Joseph asked me to see him after church service sometime in April for prayers but the prayers could not be conducted as he asked for sexual favours. Since he is single, I gave in after he promised to marry me and buy a car for me and from that time he accommodated me over night. He refused to use protection claiming that he is a holy man that cannot live with HIV but now I feel cheated, abused and dumped because he...

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria on Tuesday announced a tightening of monetary policy stance by increasing the monetary policy rate by 200 basis points from 12 per cent to 14 per cent. It, however, left the Cash Reserve Ratio and the Liquidity Ratio unchanged at 22.5 per cent and 30 per cent respectively. The CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, who announced the decision of the committee after a two-day meeting said five out of the eight members that attended the meeting voted in favor of monetary tightening. The remaining three members, according to him, voted to hold the rate at 12 per cent. The Monetary Policy Rate is the anchor rate at which the CBN, in performing its role as lender of last resort, lends to Deposit Money Banks to boost the level of liquidity in the banking system. If the apex bank intends to increase the level of liquidity in the economy,it reduces the MPR but increases it when it intends to ...

BBC recently shared a special report featuring a middle aged HIV positive Malawian man, Eric Avina, whose responsibility is to conduct "sexual cleansing" for underaged and also matured women in Nsanje district in southern Malawi. Avina in his community is referred to as Hyena, a traditional title given to a man hired by communities in several remote parts of southern Malawi to provide what's called sexual "cleansing". Teenage girls, after their first menstruation, are made to have sex over a three-day period with Avina to mark their passage from childhood to womanhood.  Alvina has now been arrested.  A government spokesman told BBC Africa that Aniva was arrested on Malawi President, Peter Mutharika's orders and would be prosecuted for violating children's rights. The spokesman also revealed that the president was disturbed by the revelations made in the story and has vowed to crackdown on the cultural practice.

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, says he was born to save and restore Biafra. According to a statement released by the Media and Publicity Secretary of the Independent People of Biafra IPOB, Emma Powerful, Kanu said this while speaking to some of his members who recently paid him a visit at Kuje prisons. The statement reads in part; "The reason my mother gave birth to me was to restore and save Biafrans. I also promise that the Biafran race will be a cleaned up nation and all the people of Biafra will come back home, if they are living outside the country of the new nation. Our people will no longer wander on the road again. How can I encourage the people of Biafra to work towards the upbringing of Nigeria, when we don’t speak the same language, don’t eat the same food and don’t have the same culture. In fact, if we come to their land to practice our culture and religion, we will be beheaded. Their women wear hijab, and Biafran wo...

A young man believed to be in his mid 20s or early 30s was caught by security vigilante and community youths today, for allegedly stealing motorcycle and blinding the victim. According to Abia Facts Newspaper, the young man and his accomplice, who is still on the run, picked a commercial motorcycle rider from Okigwe to Isuikwuato via Ezinachi road to Ndi Ubi farm settlement where they brutally beat the owner of the bike and whisked away with the motorcycle, leaving their victim blind. "A man saw them while they were taking off with the bike and called for reinforcement. The villages and vigilante now laid siege, on sighting the villagers, the thieves abandoned the bike and ran into the bush. Unluckily for the apprehended one, he strolled into the trap of the vigilantes who were still waiting all night for them to come out of the bush this morning. We gathered that this apprehended thief has already been killed and burnt by Okigwe people who came to Is...

ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AT THE COMMISSIONING AND FLAG-OFF CEREMONY OF ABUJA (IDU)-KADUNA STANDARD GAUGE TRAIN SERVICE ON TUESDAY, 26TH JULY, 2016 Protocol. I am delighted to be here today to commission the Abuja – Kaduna railway track and flag-off the Abuja-Kaduna train services (Passengers & Freight) on Nigeria’s first ever Standard Gauge Rail track to go into operation. This project was conceived by a previous administration, started by the last government and I am pleased to complete and commission it. 2. It is on record that between 1963 and early ‘80s, Nigeria had a vibrant rail system which conveyed agricultural and livestock and solid mineral resources to Lagos and Port Harcourt sea ports from where they are exported to other parts of the world. It is our vision and hope that those good old days will soon be back with us and indeed in a more prosperous way with the restoration of rail transport...

In what has become a tiring back-and-forth between the Okoye brothers, Peter Okoye of P-Square has announced the group’s reunion, with Jude Okoye set to get back in charge. Stating that the drama hasn’t impacted positively on their attempted individual careers and admitting his role in the public family mess, Peter revealed in a statement on his Instagram: ‘My dear fans, P-Square is back. Ours is a journey that started from our mother’s womb. It was a journey that started from Primary School, continued to St. Murumba College, to when we were in University in Abuja. It was a journey in which we shared childhood memories and grown-up dreams. We are back because brothers do not let each other wander in the dark alone. We are back because we have tried the lonely road and it was not the same. ‘I want to take responsibility for what has happened and sincerely apologise to you our fans. For supporting us throughout this journey we owed you so much more t...

Former Speaker in the House of Representatives, Chibudum Nwuche, was yesterday detained by the EFCC for allegedly being involved in a N5.6 billion amnesty contract scam. Uwuche, who served as deputy speaker from 1999 to 2003, is alleged to have collected three contracts totaling N5.6 billion from the office of the former Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Kingsley Kuku who served during Jonathan's administration. EFCC sources say Nwuche, through his company, Foundation for Youth Development, had collected the money in the guise of sending some of the Niger Delta Militants to Malaysia for training which he allegedly never did. The former deputy speaker had gone to the antigraft agency's head office to honor their invitation but was not released after much questioning. He will be further questioned today July 26th.

Landlord The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a landlord, Gbade Metibemu, for allegedly stabbing his tenant of four months, Bright Abraham, to death on Apollo Street in the Makoko area of the state.  PUNCH Metro  learnt that Metibemu attacked the 35-year-old Abia State indigene with a knife for refusing to vacate his plank apartment after a week-long disagreement. Our correspondent was told that the suspect had warned the victim to stop soiling the slum with the faeces of his baby. When the warning did not yield any result, the suspect was reported to have threatened to kill Abraham. Last Thursday, around 10pm, the father of four was preparing to sleep when an argument ensued between him and the landlord which degenerated into a fight. Metibemu was alleged to have got a knife with which he stabbed Abraham in the chest. He allegedly rushed to the Adekunle Police Station to report that he had been injured by his tenant. He was, ho...

Chief of Army Staff Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai yesterday warned that the Army will use force if the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) and other militant groups reject dialogue with the Federal Government. Besides, Gen. Buratai said, the army will support civil authority during the elections in eight local governments, should there be a request for help. According to the Nation, Gen. Buratai, who was represented by the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 82 Division, Enugu, Maj.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, spoke yesterday after inaugurating the two-storey administrative headquarters complex, Olympic-size swimming pool and two other projects at the 2 Brigade of the Army, in Rivers State. The army chief said:  “Government is still committed to dialogue (with Niger Delta militants). Whereby this cannot go on, then there could be resort to other means. The non-kinetic means has always been the source first, before government can recourse to the kinetic means (d...

Chrissy Teigen enjoyed an ice cream treat while on stroll with husband John Legend and their three-month-old daughter Luna in St Tropez on Monday.  The trio are spending the summer on a glamorous European tour. They both have cool legs! 

A man has exposed screenshots of conversations between him and a Kenyan hostess who has been allegedly asking him for sex.I said allegedly because in this computer age, it is possible for a bitter lover or an enemy who has access to her intimate pictures to plan things like this just to spite her.Even a scorned wife could do this. The screenshots have gone viral on Kenyan socialmedia .. If he really turned her down because he is married with kids and knows this kind of behavior is shameful, kudos to him for being one of the rare good men out there.

21 year old Micah took the internet by storm in 2015 with his massive hips....He just released new photos from a shoot with Jersey magazine

TheCable has seen documents indicating the trail of the  “missing”  dividends paid by the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) to the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) between 2005 and 2013. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the senate are currently investigating the findings of the 2013 audit report of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) which raised the issue. NEITI had said the NNPC, which holds 49% equity in NLNG on behalf of the government, did not remit a total of $12.9bn to the federation account during the period. In its reaction, the NNPC said a part of the dividends was reinvested on behalf of the federal government and the rest is now in the treasury single account (TSA). However, TheCable has seen letters exchanged by former President Goodluck Jonathan and Diezani Alison-Madueke, the former minister of petroleum resources on $7.85 billion out of the dividends. Sources at the...