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This was the day the police went to pick him up after they got a tip off that he had chained 28 people, including his son, at his home. More photos below..

Ondo State Police Command on Thursday, August 25, rescued a 4-year-old girl who was caged in Akure. The girl, a pupil of Temiloluwa Nursery and Primary school, Imafon, Akure North Local Government Area, was rescued by the personnel attached to the Juvenile Welfare Centre (JVC) of the command. Ondo State Police Commissioner, Hilda Ibifuro-Harrison, who confirmed the arrest to journalists from her office in Akure, said the culprit identified as Mary Matthew, a foster parent of the victim. She stated that Mrs. Matthew and her husband alleged that the young girl was possessed. "On receipt of the information, personnel attached to Juvenile Welfare Centre (JVC) visited the scene and met the girl in the cage as reported. She was immediately rescued and taken to the Police Clinic for proper medical attention. The culprit was paraded at the Ondo State Police Headquarters Command on Igbatoro road in Akure," Ms Ibifuro-Harrison said. Narrating how she w...

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has asked the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, to be more proactive in dealing with the problems of the Niger Delta region. Professor Soyinka, at a press conference in Lagos believes that the government is not doing enough in handling “the tension in the Niger Delta region”. The Nobel laureate said he was asking the Federal Government, like other key players in Nigeria and the region, to change its government’s style and move swiftly to deal with the issues of the Niger Delta. He is advocating a more proactive intervention by the President and his government to douse the tension. Agreed A Ceasefire His comments is coming at a period militancy resurgence in the Niger Delta region, with the militants resorting to bombing oil installations. Their activities have reduced Nigeria’s oil output by 700,000 barrels per day to 1.56 million bpd. It is a huge loss of revenue, amounting to billions of Dol...

In a statement by Ikemba Biafra, a splinter new group which parades itself as the Reformed Indigenous People of Biafra (Re-IPOB), has disclosed that it has sacked the Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) led by the detained Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu and the new faction, The Rebranded Indigenous People of Biafra (TRIPOB). The group who promised to disclose their leader on Monday, 29th August, 2016, advised all pro-Biafran agitators to remain peaceful and warned security agents to stop molesting Biafran activists.  “Both IPOB and TRIPOB have been sacked; they should no longer speak for the Biafran people. They are the same outfit and have nothing to offer Biafra.  "We warn that if Nnamdi Kanu , IPOB  and the so-called TRIPOB  continue their antics , RE-IPOB will be forced to make public the sponsors of the two groups. RE-IPOB will not accede to the burning of the Biafran flag as the sacked TRIPOB planned. The Biafran flag is sacr...

A man named Sukurat Idowu, 45, has been arrested by the Lagos state police for brutalizing his 5 year old daughter at their home in Ikotun. The man, who works as a road side mechanic assaulted the little girl named Monsurat by beating her with hot iron and causing serious body injury... The suspect is currently being held by the command for the offence of child abuse. He was arrested after a concerned neighbour who witnessed the battery reported the case at Ikotun division.  The neighbour narrated to the police how the suspect sent the victim to go and dispose of the content of a potty in the latrine and the child fell into the gutter, an occurrence which infuriated the father and made him to beat her mercilessly with a hot iron. The suspect was subsequently arrested and the victim rescued. She is currently undergoing treatment in the hospital while the suspect is undergoing interrogation with the gender unit of the command. Effort is on to ...

The alleged internet fraudsters being paraded A group of internet fraudsters a.k.a Ghana Burgers were apprehended by policemen at Koko Junction, Warri, Delta State. According to the evidences found on them and their confessions, they went to Oyo State for rituals in other to boost their chances of luring foreign scam victims on the internet. Read below what was shared by on Facebook poster, Ossai Ovie Success: Mobile police apprehend some group of Ghana Burgers at Koko Junction. According to the visuals and photo of evidence we find out that these guys according to their confession went to Oyo State for rituals. They used two Ecolax buses and boarded the vehicle from Benin and asked the driver to move straight to Sapele. One of the culprits said his name is Simeon and he stay at Uruhakpa and Otefe Poly student. According to their own confession after police interrogations, they said they went for rituals at Oyo State. The two Ecola...

Chinakwe Joachim Iroko who was arrested on August 13th and arraigned before a Sango Magistrate court for naming his dog Buhari has fulfilled his bail condition and has been released from Prison custody. The court in its ruling on August 22nd granted him bail in the sum of N50,000 with two sureties. 

The Ijaw Peoples Development Initiative (IPDI) has condemned the Nigerian military's activity in the Niger Delta region, saying that its attacks on the region under the pretense of fighting insurgents amount to "genocide." The group called on the United States, United Nations, and Amnesty International to come to the aid of the people of the Niger Delta. Read the full press release below:  IPDI WARNS MILITARY AGAINST GENOCIDE ATTACKS IN NIGER DELTA CREEKS BY DEPLOYING HEAVY TROOPS AND EQUIPMENTS IN THE CREEKS Our attention has been drawn to the report of proposed massive deployment of military officers with heavy military equipments under the pretend of conducting purported training exercise in the creeks. We are aware of the suicidal move of the government to cause genocide in the creeks as well as bombing and killing of innocent villagers and then conduct mass burial for those who will be killed. It is so sad that oil fortun...

Fulani herdsman According to a shocking new report by DailyPost , some suspected Fulani herdsmen have attacked Atakwu community in Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State on Thursday morning, killing ‎a seminarian of the Catholic Church and several others. It was learnt that the herdsmen who were 'armed to teeth' invaded and started shooting and maiming anybody in sight which included a seminarian who is said to have just returned from his apostolic work. Speaking with a correspondent, a community source, said “they just came early this morning and started killing people. There is confusion everywhere now; people are running helter-skelter.” This is a developing story, we'll be bringing you more details as soon as its made available.

The former BBA star revealed that she enlarged her boobs due to pressure from society and her personal insecurities. Photo on the left was taken when she went for BBA while the one on the right was taken after she had her boobs enlarged. She wrote; "And on top huh? Two bee stings😂 ... This is when I didn't have tits, I succumbed to the pressure of society because I was under depression due to the videos of me in Big brother shower hour. Soooo I ended up getting fat transfer by reducing my butt to get fuller boobs .....................................I wouldn't tell anyone to do the same ! It's still natural coz it's my own fat , NO silicone but I will never advice anyone to go under the knife coz of what people think about their bodies , never make irrational decisions ,wait until you are mature enough .I was naive , young and stupid at that time . Love yourself ! Fuck the rest! Experience is the best teacher! Learn some of these things from me ...

Early today, a Container truck fell on a car along Ikorodu road, inward Onipan, Shomolu Local Government area. According to the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), one life was lost during the terrible accident. More photos below..

In a series of tweets, convener of the Bring Back our Girls Group & former Minister, Oby Ezekwesili asked President Buhari to stop giving excuses for his inability, so far, to rescue missing Chibok girls. According to her, Nigerians want results and not excuses. See more of her tweets below.

This is according to Cameroonian investigative journalist, Bisong Etahoben. Cameroon is among the 5 West African countries that have been adversely affected by Boko Haram attacks. 

After reports emerged last week that a Nigerian woman had filed for divorce one week after marriage because she couldn't handle the size of his partner’s manhood, Jessica Opare Saforo, a co-host of celebrity and lifestyle show in Ghana, Celebrity Fanzone, disclosed that her pastor supports the idea of manhood viewing for couples before marriage. Jessica, last Saturday, said that her pastor once insisted that women should demand to see the size of the manhood of their potential partners before marriage; sparking an intense debate on social media. "I remember being in church one day, when my pastor was preaching about things like this… What the pastor did say though is, "women should ask to see the manhood. They have to look at it to be sure because you can look at the size to be sure is if it’s something you can live with." She was fully in support of her pastor’s position but couldn’t indicate how the same principle could be applied to w...

On a day when Ukraine celebrated it's 25th anniversary of independence from the Soviet union, Ukraine's president Petro Poroshenko has alleged that Russia's president Vladmir Putin wants to take over 'all of his country' According to Petro Poroshenko, 50, Putin, the world's most powerful man according to Forbes wants "the whole Ukraine" to be part of the "Russian Empire." Russia recently conducted military drills in Crimea, the peninsula it annexed from Ukraine in 2014 -- but this military move is regarded by a lot of Nations as illegal and unwarranted. "It is absolutely the same situation like Russian bombardment in Aleppo," he told CNN's Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview  on Wednesday  night. "They have only one purpose -- [the] world should be less stable, less secured." Had you asked him in 2013, Poroshenko said, if it would have been possible for R...

Kwara state police command yesterday paraded a Fulani herdsman named Abubakar Usman for allegedly killing his 65 years old mother, Khadijat Usman and his elder brother’s wife, Ramatu Shagari (35) in Patigi, Patigi local government area of the state on August 13th. While parading the suspect, the state Commissioner of Police, Olusola Amore, said Adamu who is known to be very violent, also macheted a cow in the Mamba Fulani camp for no reason. Usman, 25, said he does not know what came over him when he killed his family members. He said he had just returned home with his cows when he carried out the dastard act "On getting back home, something came over me and I used a knife to stab my mother. I also stabbed my brother’s wife. I believe that my father charmed me. I do not have mental disorder.” The commissioner also paraded two men, Yahaya Umar and Abubakar Saletu who were arrested with the severed head of their friend. According to th...

Gunmen suspected to be cultists killed a man on Wednesday in Obiagu area, Enugu State. According to eyewitness, the victim, identified as Ayaka, was in his late 20s. The suspected cultists, armed with assault riffles, riddled his body with bullets and escaped before the police arrived.  The eyewitness reported that sporadic gunshots in the area disrupted activities as everyone ran for their lives while screaming and shouting. When the heavily built gunmen, about 10 of them, were done with the attack, they entered into two different cars, a Sienna and a Camry 2002 model and sped away. They also collected another Camry from a man at gun point. When calm was restored, people started going back to the scene where the shooting took place and saw the lifeless body which was thrown into a gutter. The police arrived after some minutes... Some residents at the scene however claim that guy they killed was also a notorious cultist. Spokesman for the Enugu state Pol...

MTV has announced that Kim Kardashian West alongside  Rita Ora, Ansel Elgort, Alicia Keys, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Jaden Smith, Fifth Harmony and Shameik Moore will be presenters at the MTV Video Music Awards that'll take place  this Sunday . The Music Television company also announced that Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj will rock the stage in the highly anticipated event slated to go down live in Madison Square Garden in New York City.  Beyonce garnered a whopping 11 nominations while Adele, Ariana Grande and Drake have eight, five and four nominations of their own, respectively.  Kanye West is in the Video of the Year category for the controversial visuals accompanying "Famous," as well as Best Male Video.

Two students of the Imo state polytechnic, Umuagwo in Owerri, the Imo state capital, lost their lives yesterday in a fire outbreak at Infinity lodge at their school. Their remains have been deposited at the morgue. It is believed that the fire incident may be as a result of an upsurge in electricity. May their souls rest in peace, Amen. 

According to Militant group Niger Delta Avengers, they have video and pictorial evidence that show troops of the "Operation Delta Safe force", which was activated on June 24 with the mandate to stop all illegal oil bunkering activity, involvement in thefts. They also condemned security reports linking their militant forces to the killing of military troops. The statement read; "The High Command of the Niger Delta Avengers condemns the entire security reports linking our forces to the killing of military troops in Nembe Bayelsa state. NDA still wonders when this charade and acts of desperation of the Nigeria military by always linking crimes in the southern part of Nigeria to our fighters will stop. It is a shame that Operations Delta Safe is still employing the old habits of deliberately dinning and wining with unaudited intelligence from political thugs, political paymasters and enemies of the Niger Delta to perpetuate their continuous funding an...

APC Governors under the auspices, Progressive Governors, had a meeting in Kaduna state yesterday night where they discussed issues of national importance. More photos below