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Detectives from the Homicide Department of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti, Yaba,Lagos has arrested a 25-year-old former student of the University of Lagos. The student identified as Oluropo Tifase who was dismissed from the University allegedly stabbed his father, Moses Tifase, to death due to an advice from the father concerning his inappropriate behaviour. It has been reported to the police by sources at the area where the murder was committed that the suspect (Oluropo Tifase) truly murdered his father. ‎Kenneth Nwosu, the Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO), while confirming the incident said that the wife of the deceased, Mrs. Comfort Tifse, Oluropo- the suspect and Olufunmbi the sister to the suspect were at the scene of the murder. Nwosu further stated that findings have so far showed that the suspect and his father had not being in good relationship and were confronting each other in a heated argument before he finally ki...

Obasanjo's new book keep causing controversy upon controversy. This is what he said of Tinibu “Nuhu Ribadu tried to investigate almost all of them to the best of my understanding.  At a time, he publicly announced that 28 out of the 36 governors were either manifestly corrupt or had tainted in one way or other. He gave me a copy of his report on those governors.  Bola Tinubu was definitely one of the worst cases.” He also said this about Gbenga Daniel: “Daniel is shifty, dubious and believes he is the cleverest human being on earth.”  While answering questions thrown at him, Obasanjo said he was not afraid of telling the truth, insisting that everything he wrote was true.

An 18-year-old boy, Jose Reyes, is currently undergoing trials in the US state of Texas for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl, Corriann Cervantes, during a Satanic ritual, before gouging her eyes, disfiguring her body and killing her. Reyes, and his accomplice, 16-year-old Victor Alas, allegedly killed Cervantes in a vacant apartment in southeast Houston in February this year, in a bid to sell their souls to the devil. According to  Huffington Post , on the night of the incident, the two boys allegedly engaged in consensual sex with Cervantes before brutally attacking her. Reyes, who was 17 at the time of the crime, faces a life sentence if convicted of capital murder but would be eligible for parole after 40 years, according to the Houston Chronicle. If he's convicted of murder, the jury would determine his punishment. Prosecutors contend the two teens were hoping to make a deal with the devil when they disfigured the girl's body, including carv...

 Some group posted this pic above of former president Obasanjo and former minister Oby Ezekwesili at the former's book launch yesterday on their Facebook page and wrote some mess about it.  Oby Ezekwesili responded via Twitter.. .

One of the first Miss American winners to make it big in Hollywood, Mary Ann Mobley, has died. Mary Ann, who won the Miss America pageant in 1959, died yesterday Tuesday Dec. 9th in Beverly Hills after a long battle with breast cancer, TMZ reports. She was 75 years old. The former beauty queen appeared in several Hollywood movies and sitcoms including 'Diff'rent Strokes. Her family says she will buried next week in her native Mississippi.

Latest reports from the venue of the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential primaries holding at the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos indicate that the five APC aspirants contesting for the party’s ticket were on Tuesday engaged in a last minute scramble for the votes of the 8,000 delegates that would determine who would square up against President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 presidential election. The aspirants will slug it out at the party’s national convention slated to commence today, Wednesday, 10 December, 2014. The contenders for APC’s presidential ticket are former military Head of State, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari; former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar; Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso; Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha; and Founder of Leadership Newspapers, Sam Nda-Isaiah. According to Thisday report, the aspirants were said to be offering delegates money, airline tickets to and from Lagos, as well as promises of luxury hotel accommodat...

Not the actual Image The Borno State Police Command reportedly “intercepted and defused” a bomb planted at the Kano Motor Park in Maiduguri, by suspected Boko Haram terrorists. In a statement by the spokesman of the state police command, Gideon Jibrin, the bomb was uncovered at about at 1.35p.m. on Friday during the Juma’at prayers, Nigerian Guardian reports. He said: “ On December 5 at about 1330hrs, the attention of the State Intelligence Bureau (SIB) operatives of the command and civilian JTF men on duty at the Kano Motor Park, Maiduguri, was drawn to a bunch of suspected Improvised Explosive Devices concealed in a receptacle and planted near the exit gate of the Juma’at mosque at the motor park .” Jibrin explained that the bomb disposal unit was promptly drafted to the scene where they found the IEDs ostensibly targeted at unsuspecting worshipers who were already in prayers. He added that they neutralized the bomb, thereby preventing havoc on worshippers and ...