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The Nigeria Police Force recently foiled an attempt to kidnap billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola. This was accomplished when the force arrested a three man notorious kidnap gang in June, 2016, after coordinated intelligence gathering and deployment of technical investigative tools. The Main suspect, one Ikechukwu Daniel, a 28 year old indigene of Imo State, who is the mastermind of the gang, was rusticated from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria due to his cult related activities on campus in 2009/2010. He also doubles as the IT guru of the kidnap gang with mastery of Computer applications. He made damning revelations of their criminal exploits in the South West of the Country. Another member of the gang, 29 year old Adeyemi Kayode, a serving officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence corps and a native of Ojoo in Ibadan, Oyo State serves as a Personal Assistant to the Commandant, NSCDC Oyo State Command. The suspect took undue advantage of his offic...

Former Abia state governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, has defected to APC. In a statement released today, Kalu announced his resignation from his former party, Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), which he founded. He is pictured above at APC secretariat in Abuja with the party's National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun and others. See the statement he released party after the cut. The letter was made available to the media yesterday:  “It is with a heavy heart, full of precious memories, profound appreciation and goodwill that I write to inform you of my decision to quit my membership of the PPA.“As a founding member of the PPA, in 2006 and a former chairman of the BoT, I have been fortunate to have witnessed first hand, the growth of a party that grew out of the yearning of a people to challenge their intuition and their struggle to determine who governs them and how they should be governed.  “I gave to the PPA and that struggle the better part of my political li...

Sergey Mavrodi: The Founder of MMM So many lies have been told about the founder of the world life saving scheme, known as MMM, the Russian government termed him a convicted criminal just to soil the good work he is doing that the government could not do for her people. Sergey Mavrodi is a founder and leader of the MMM Social Financial Community. MMM is sure to be his life-work, but not the only one. Sergei Mavrodi, having a degree in mathematics, worked as a programmer and took part in the development of the first operating systems. The company he founded was one of leading computer equipment distributors in Russia. He was a Deputy of the Russian Parliament. His literary works were published and they are sold in book stores. Two of his screenplays were made into movies. His poems were turned into songs. Youth Sergey was born in 1955, in Moscow in a simple Soviet “middle class” family – of a worker and an economist. From his father, of Ukrainian and Greek origin, was left a...

The comedian took to his Instagram and twitter page to declare his interest in running for president come 2019. According to him, it's time we vote for shift and change the status quo. Read the rest of what he rote after the cut.. Why aim low when you can aim high? I believe that the status quo must change for Nigeria to regain its place as a force to reckon with. The energy and knowledge of the Nigerian Youth must be put to positive use. It is time we acknowledged the ingenuity of our vibrant men and women to ensure proper representation at the different levels of governance and not mere reduction to PAs and SAs.  We must ensure we retain our best brains in the country and adequately make provision to reform our educational institutions, healthcare system and industries. Our ways of learning must change to meet required standard. I am ALETILE OLUWASEYITAN LAWRENCE aka SEYILAW and I am running for the highest office in the land in 2019....

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, made the announcement on his official Facebook page yesterday

Barely a week after a gallant soldier, Lt. Col Muhammed Abu-Ali was killed by Boko Haram members in Mallam Fatori, Borno state, the sect members yesterday ambushed and killed another Lieutenant Colonel, B.U. Umar, the commanding officer of 114 TF battalion of the Nigerian Army. Premium Times reports that he was ambushed alongside members of his troop yesterday between Bita and Piridang.  A source who confirmed the development said: “His vehicle stepped on an improvised explosive device, but he was not hurt. He came out to assess the damage on the vehicle and Boko Haram opened fire and killed him in the process.” The source added that the soldiers were said to be on their way to Yola, Adamawa State from Bita in Borno State when they were attacked. Umar, who took over the command of the 114 battalion about three weeks ago, was a member of the 48 Regular Course in the Nigeria Defence Academy, NDA. When contacted, the Army spokespe...

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in his recent interview with EFCC quarterly magazine, Zero Tolerance, reacted to the allegations of corruption leveled against him by Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, in his book, "Accidental Public Servant". In the book, El Rufai accused Atiku of using his office as Vice President for corruption and self aggrandizement.  Atiku in an interview with EFCC, reacted to El-Rufai's allegation by accusing the governor of offering him shares in Transcorp Ltd when he was still VP.  He said he turned down the offer because it was unethical for him as a VP to be a shareholder in a company formed by the government.  Atiku says this act and many others are pointers to the fact that he is not corrupt.  In a swift reaction to Atiku's claims, El-Rufai released a statement titled "Atiku haunted by his corruption demons". In the statement, El-Rufai denied Atiku's claims of offering him shares in Transcorp. ...

The three men and other accomplices were planning to kidnap the billionaire businessman...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday 15, November, arraigned the duo of Patrick Shanchi Nwokike and his wife Rosemary Ifeoma Nwokike along with their company ‘Lets Partner With You Limited’ before Justice Dugbo R. O. Oghoghorie of the Federal High court Enugu, on a four count charge of; Advanced Fee Fraud and Carrying Out Banking Business without valid License, an offence which runs contrary to the provisions of section 2(1) of the Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act. According to a statement released yesterday by the agency, the accused persons pleaded not guilty on all counts of the four count charge preferred against them by the EFCC. The defense counsel, Barr. Orji Nwafor-orizu quickly applied for bail for the accused persons on the grounds that the offence was a bailable one and he prayed the court to grant bail on liberal terms. But the Prosecuting Counsel Barr. S. M. H. Ibekwute immediately opposed the application with a...

According to Ani Amatosero who shared the photo on her Instagram page, Leo Mezie is back in Nigeria after a successful surgery in London. The actor was diagnosed with Kidney disease five months ago and solicited for N10 million naira from well meaning Nigerians to help him undergo a kidney transplant surger y.

I know some of us behave like animals but we can't be so animalistic and inhuman that we will beat and burn a young boy to death for stealing?