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Urgh! Hausa Facebook page Zuma Times posted these photos of a Barcelona fan showing him swimming inside gutter in celebration of the club's historic 6-1 win against Paris Saint-Germain last night...

A federal High Court in Abuja today sentenced two police officers, Emmanuel Baba and Ezekiel Achenege, to death for their roles in the killing of six Apo spare parts dealers in 2005. The officers were found guilty of killing the traders who according to them, they thought were armed robbers. More photos below...

A 26 year-old lady identified as Lucy Daniel allegedly poured acid on her ex-boyfriend, Iniubong, 24, on Tuesday, March 7, 2017.  According to Facebook user, Nse-Abasi Odiong who shared the story, the lady and the victim were in a relationship for one year before Iniubong called it off due to constant quarrels with Lucy. On the night Lucy carried out the attack, she allegedly went to her ex-boyfriend house in the middle of night and pleaded with him to let her spend the night at his place because she was stranded. Iniubong was reluctant at first to let her in. When he finally agreed and opened his door, she poured the acid on him. The victim is currently at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital receiving treatment while the suspect is still at large. Read the Mr Odiong Facebook post below..  ACID BATH IN UYO: Victim Cry for Justice By Nse-Abasi Odiong Iniubong, 24, an indigene of Ikot Ntuen Oku, Uyo, who resides at Akpan Essien S...

The senate today ordered Comptroller General of Custom, Hameed Ali, to appear before it on March 15th in his complete Customs Officers uniform. The senate gave the order following the refusal of Customs to comply with its directive to suspend the collection of duty on old vehicles. Hameed who is a retired Nigerian Army Colonel, has never worn the Customs officers uniform since assuming office in August 2015. The senate during plenary on Tuesday ordered the Nigeria Customs Service to suspend its directive to collect duties on old vehicles whose importer might have failed to pay for duties while importing the car into the country. Customs had sent out a circular informing old car owners to go to the nearest Customs office to verify if the duties of their cars were fully paid for as cars with unpaid duties would be impounded.  Despite the senates directive to suspend the order, Customs says it would go ahead with its own directive. This decision apparently i...

Following reports of alleged denial of some Nigerians entry into the US by some US immigration officers, the US embassy in Nigeria has released this statement saying Nigerians with valid visas should not postpone or cancel their trips as they are not on the list of Executive Order on Immigration. The statement reads: "The U.S. Embassy in Abuja wishes to clarify that there is no reason for Nigerians with valid visas to postpone or cancel their travel to the United States. Nigeria is not named in the Executive Order on Immigration issued on March 6, and there is no prohibition against Nigerian lawful permanent residents or persons with a valid visa or other U.S. government authorization from entering the United States".

President Buhari receved the Most Revd and Rt Hon Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, at the Abuja House in London this afternoon...

An FCT High Court has convicted and sentenced two out of five policemen accused in the extrajudicial killings of six Apo traders in 2005 to death. The accused Ezekiel Acheneche and Emmanuel Baba were convicted of homicide punishable by death under section 22 1a of the penal code while others were absolved of wrongdoing and discharged.  Justice Ishaq Bello while delivering judgment on Thursday held that that the action of the convicted men was condemnable because there was no evidence that the traders did anything to constitute a threat to police at the time they were shot dead.  Justice Bello said that the killing of the traders was painful noting that the police officers took laws into their hand by summarily executing innocent young people.  During the trial, the accused police officers tried retracting their confessional statements, but the attempt was dismissed by the judge who ruled that dismissed adding that it is an afterthought. Ho...

On Monday March 6th, Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Diaspora matters, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, released a statement advising Nigerians who do not have any important thing to do in the US not to travel there as she has received reports of some Nigerians being denied entry by some US Immigration officers. Her advise was later countered by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama who at a press briefing in Abuja, said there was no truth in reports that some Nigerians are being denied entry into the US due to the new US immigration policy... A Nigerian man, Femi Olaniyi, has come out to share a story of how he was denied entry into the US, locked up in a cell for four days and then flown back to Nigeria in February. Olaniyi who spoke with  Punch  said he obtained his visa from the US Consulate in Lagos on December 23rd last year and planned to go on holiday with his wife to the US but she couldn't make it due to official engagements. Accordi...

A Malaysia-based Nigerian man jumped from the 31st floor of his apartment building in suspected suicide.  According to Swiss-based Nigerian Facebook user, Uzodimma, who announced the sad news yesterday, the victim simply identified as Chimaobi popularly known as Paco jelapa na malaysia from Ideato South, local government area of Imo State, suddenly screamed, threw his phone and laptop from the window and jumped.

The Inspector General of Police's Intelligence Response Team (IRT) last Sunday, arrested the most trusted herbalist of the late deadly kidnap kingpin, Henry Chibueze, popularly known as Vampire. The notorious kidnapper in South East and South South axis, was killed in a shootout with the police last week Thursday, at Omu Awa forest, in Ikwerre, Rivers State. According to police sources at the Force Headquarters in Abuja, the 55-year-old ‘medicine man’, Iweajuo Gad, was arrested in his shrine at Asoeme Town in Aba, Abia State. According to the source, “in continuation of the operations in mopping up Vampire’s gang members in the Southeast, IRT operatives arrested one Iweajuo Gad from Asoeme Town in Aba, Abia South Local Council. The suspect is the number one herbalist of Vampire and many other groups of armed robbers and kidnappers. One of Vampire’s gang members already arrested led detectives to the shrine where the herbalist was arrest...

Eze Ndigbo in China, His Royal Highness, Igwe Henry Chibueze Onwughalu has passed away. According to reports, Igwe Henry suffered a stroke and had been in a coma few days before his death in the early hours of Wednesday, March 8th. The businessman and philanthropist hailed from Adazi Ani in Aniocha Local Government Area of Anambra State. He was building a house before he died. May his soul rest in peace...Amen More photos below