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That's what a committee at the on-going National Conference is suggesting...for all unemployed graduates in Nigeria to earn a monthly allowance equivalent to the allowance of members of the National Youth Service Corps, which is N19,800. Punch reports that the conference’s Committee on Law, Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Reform made the recommendation but it can only fall through if it's accepted by the Federal Government. A member of the committee said the recommendation was one of the ways the committee members felt that crime could be reduced in the country. He told Punch; "The recommendation is our own way of finding solutions to the rising wave of crime in the country and to also force the government to do the needful for the increasing number of unemployed graduates in the country. We have done our part and it is left for the delegates to either reject or accept it at plenary.” I have a feeling FG won't be interested in this. Who thinks it...

If you think nothing will make you to laugh, well you have not seen this video, watch it at the bottom of this post, after watching the photos. You will laugh like a confused person. I can't stop laughing. Very hilarious OMG  Two passers-by (far right) approach what appears to be a young girl sobbing by the side of a path. The two women, pictured, spot the crying child and approach her - looking very concerned. One of the two ladies touches the young girl on the shoulder, attempting to comfort her.  But the 'devil child' looks up - showing her bloodied and disfigured face to them.  The terrified Good Samaritans flee in terror - as the girl, wearing a bloodied dress, runs after them. Earlier in the film the child is seen in full - with blood running down her face on to her white dress The young girl is then seated - waiting for the next group of passersby to walk past ...

In what appears an act of profligacy, the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio, is said to have spent well over N2.3 billion on aircraft charter between 2009 and 2011. “The governor started using the jet shortly after Arik Air withdrew its services from the Akwa Ibom International Airport due to squabbles associated with the ticket subsidy which the government was paying to the aviation company.  “Arik Air was collecting money for empty seats each time it came in or left Ibom International Airport. The ticket subsidy ran into hundreds of thousands of naira on a daily basis with so many people feeding fat on it... Premium Times investigations showed that Mr. Akpabio signed a charter deal with Vista Jet, a Swiss Airline Holding Company in 2009. The state’s Commissioner for Information, Aniekan Umana, however said the jet was hired based on Governor Akpabio’s need. Founded in 2004 by Thomas Flohr, Vista Jet has operations in Nigeria and six other countries ...

The scene of the attack. A suspected kidnapper in Lagos State got her attackers angry after she claimed that she was a mad woman when she was apprehended by the mob. It was learnt that the incident occurred on Thursday at Etegbin Community in the Otto Awori Local Council Development Area. Residents of the area told our correspondent that the suspected kidnapper, who had yet to be identified, was overheard on the telephone, telling someone that she had not been able to find any child. The woman was said to be talking not far from a private primary school in the area (name withheld) and this was said to have made those who overheard her curious. PUNCH Metro gathered that the people soon concluded that she wanted to kidnap a child from the school and they raised the alarm. One of the residents, who is also the head teacher of the primary school, Miss Ebun Oyebade, said the kidnapper was not after any child from her school. She, however, told our correspondent that the inci...

There is nothing wrong with dating someone you meet online but the danger is where either or both parties just reduce the whole thing to séx and money. That is the dangers of online dating and it has come out again as a young girl is said to have fallen victim to rapé by a man she met on Facebook and his accomplice. The Custom officer has been identified as Felola Uzezi and his accomplice is Mohammed Sanni: The girl was said to have visited officer Uzezi after few months of chatting with him online but on getting to his home near the Badagry Expressway, he had forceful séxual intercourse with her and, sadly, he invited his friend, Sanni, to join in the act.  According to the girl, she refused to have séx with officer Uzezi because she was on her period but this didn’t deter him and his friend and when they were done with her, she was given one of officer Uzezi’s boxers to clean up with. The victim reported the case at a neighbouring police station. Both men ha...

At least one person has been confirmed dead, while eight others were rescued alive after a commercial boat capsized on the Victoria Island area of Lagos State on Saturday evening. This is the third boat mishap in the state in less than three months. In March, about a dozen people died in FESTAC, while nine others perished in April in the Oworonshoki area. PUNCH Metro learnt that the Saturday mishap happened around 8pm after the boat hit an object in the water. The passengers, mostly fun seekers, were said to be returning from the Ilasha Beach. A rescue officer, who pleaded anonymity said, “The fun seekers were coming from the Ilasha Beach when the boat capsized around Bonny Camp at about 8pm. There were nine people on board. We were able to rescue eight of them alive, but the ninth person, a lady, died.” Our correspondent gathered that the passengers wore live jackets, and floated, making it easy for rescue officials to sight them. The deceased, who was identified as ...

ABUJA — The arrest of Sadiq Aminu Ogwuche, mastermind of Nyanya bomb blast, was made possible through on-going collaboration of Nigeria and Sudan’s intelligence community, Sudanese High Commissioner to Nigeria, Dr. Tagelsir Mahgoub Ali, revealed to Vanguard, weekend. Ambassador Ali, who spoke about the role of his country’s security agencies in the arrest of Ogwuche in Sudan, in an exclusive interview with Vanguard in Abuja, also revealed that Nigerian visa applicants were now required to come with verifiable references as proof of not having any connection with extremists or terrorists organisations. Ogwuche, fingered as the mastermind of Nyanya blasts that claimed over 70 lives, was declared wanted alongside one other, with a bounty of N25million placed on his head by Nigerian security forces. Speaking on the arrest of the Boko Haram member, awaiting extradition from Sudan, Ambasador Ali said: “Of course, the news that Sudan learnt from here in Nigeria that one of the people i...