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''This man here was found by Apo legislative quarters zone D second gate. He was dug out from this sewage tunnel after a kind woman selling crayfish heard his cries and called people to help. He said his name is Ayuba and that he was a guard at prince and princess estate Abuja but he was beaten to unconsciousness. All he remembers is that he woke up and found himself in the tunnel. He had been crawling and walking in the tunnel until the point which he was rescued.  He believes he has been underground for over a week because he says the incident happened before Sallah. His whole body was peeled. Sores all over.   He kept passing out and waking up until the police finally took him away .  The woman who helped rescue this man is Mrs Bakari. A poor crayfish seller with an infant on her back. She stood and attracted people to his plight. Even when people were running away she stood her ground and made sure he was rescued.'' Eye witness reports. ...

Oil giant  Royal Dutch Shell  has agreed to sell a prolific Nigerian oil block, Oil Mining License 29, and an associated pipeline, for $2.5 billion to a consortium led by  Taleveras Group , an oil trading firm founded and owned by a 39 year-old Nigerian multi-millionaire Igho Sanomi, according to the Wall Street Journal . Shell had been looking to divest from four of its onshore Nigerian assets since last year – OMLs 18, 24, 25 and 29, as well as the Nembe Creek Trunk line, a 60-mile aging pipeline which has served as Nigeria’s major crude oil transportation channel- moving oil through the Niger Delta to the Atlantic coast, but which has been beleaguered by leaks stemming from oil theft for many years. Taleveras will be getting a sweet deal. Of all the assets, Shell put up for auction, OML 29 was the most coveted. The Africa Oil & Gas Report magazine  reports that OML 29’s remaining reserves (P1+P2) are about 2.2Billion barrels of oil equivalent...

Just as fans are craving for the truth concerning music star, Tiwa Savage’s marriage to her former manager, Tunji Balogun , so is  the ‘Limpopo crooner’ Kcee. Kcee who is also not telling the media the truth about his marriage, lent his voice to the ongoing marital crisis between Tiwa Savage and Tunji Balogun during a radio interview last Friday. He advised her to clear the air now on the issue and halt the speculations, in the interest of her career and family. We confirmed  that Tiwa Savage’s marriage was going through the storms a few weeks back and while, recently interviewed on Olisa Adibua’s The Truth talk show, the singer and brand ambassador bluntly refused to talk  about her marriage. The couple, staged their traditional marriage in Lagos (Nigeria) on November 23, 2014, with a civil ceremony in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) on April 26, 2014,

Gov. Rochas Okorocha's second daughter, Uju Vantasia Okorocha, a medical doctor, who had her traditional marriage on Thursday sealed it off today with a white wedding ceremony. Uju got married to Uzoma Anwukah, the son of the Secretary to the State Government of Imo State. Big congrats to them. Continue below to see more photos. 

A fire outbreak has occurred in the Madam Tinubu hall of the University of Lagos. The fire was said to have started around 4am Sunday morning. No life was lost before the fire was put off . Details later, The Nation

The Christian Association of Nigeria has challenged the founder of Household of God, Pastor Chris Okotie to manage his home and keep to biblical principles of one man, one wife. The association was reacting to the demand by Okotie that its President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, should resign over the alleged involvement of his aircraft in the controversial $9.3m smuggled into South Africa by two Nigerians and an Israeli. Okotie, had in a statement by Okotie on his church’s Facebook page, said, “Considering the collateral damage Pastor Ayo’s close relationship with the President has done to the Christian community, it is fit and proper for the Pastor to resign immediately as CAN President to salvage what remains of the battered image of the association. “This is without prejudice to the on-going investigation on the matter. Denials of his culpability by the Federal Government, CAN officials and his own recent defense, does nothing to reduce the moral burden this whole saga p...

THE FACE OF TERROR : LAWRENCE ANINI, Nigeria’s most notorious armed robber on the hospital bed after he was badly injured following his capture in December, 1986. PICTURE CREDITS: NATIONAL MIRROR. On the 23rd of August 1986, something bizarre happened in Bendel State, Nigeria. A prince of the Benin royal family, Kingsley Eweka, was bundled to the Asoro firing range. A Bini prince and an aristocrat by birth and virtue of belonging to one of Africa’s oldest and most revered monarchies, Kingsley was however not accorded any honour that fateful day. As a matter of fact, he had just been condemned and sentenced to death by a court of law for armed robbery and he was manacled like a petty criminal that he was. At a time when the law was really blind, the prince was lined up and in a matter of minutes, he was fired and joined his ancestors. But something very interesting happened shortly before he was killed. Prince Eweka took a good look at his executioners, struggling to turn h...