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This man allegedly bought a flight ticket just to steal from another passenger. See the rest of the tweets below He was caught while stealing onboard an Aero contractors flight from Lagos- Abuja this morning. The 31 year old Dennis stole the sum of N350,000 from a luggage belonging to an Austrian, Novotny Anton, who was on the same flight. He was spotted by a member of the airline’s cabin crew when he removed the Austrian’s bag from the cockpit as if he was changing his seat. He took the bag to his own seat while giving the impression that he was changing his seat and stole N150, 000 from the bag and 500 Euros belonging to the Austrian. A female cabin crew raised alarm, asked him to remain seated while he was trying to return the bag to the cockpit before the Austrian could suspect any foul play. “While trying to return the bag I asked him to seat down. But he became uncomfortable before the plane landed and the white man raised alarm that he couldn’t fin...

Multiple bomb explosion rocked the Chadian capital, N’Djamena this morning. Reports say suicide bombers who are believed to be members of Boko Haram attacked the Police Headquarters. One of the suicide bombers attacked the police academy where a graduation ceremony was going on. Unconfirmed reports say at least 30 cadets were killed in the attack.

Pictured above is one of the masterminds of the Gombe motor park bomb blast arrested by Nigerian troops on June 9th. Himself and one other are responsible for the October 31st 2014 bomb blast at the Gombe motor park that killed over 30 people. Photo credit: DonKlericuzio

The whereabouts of Sudanese President Al-Bashir were still not known on Monday morning, more than 12 hours since the first report that he had left SA. Justice department spokesperson Mthunzi Mhaga told News24 on Monday morning: “As a legal team we move from the premise that he is still within the country as we are yet to verify these conflicting media reports.” The confusion started when Bloomberg News quoted Sudanese Information Minister Ahmed Bilal Osman as saying, “the president finished his business in South Africa and is coming back home”. But a while later, the news agency reported that journalists had seen Al-Bashir at an African Union summit in Johannesburg. Police escort? The KZN-based Mercury newspaper reported on Monday it understood that Al-Bashir left South Africa under a heavy police escort. “He was escorted by all the security detail, including the Saps VIP Protection Unit, metro police and intelligence officials,” said a highly-placed s...

Over the weekend, we heard Toke Makinwa's husband Maje Ayida is expecting a baby with a longtime girlfriend named Anita Solomon, who is mixed-race, a lawyer and is based in Calabar. Well, I just went through Anita's Facebook page and found photos of herself and Maje all loved up...this was as far back as 2007. Some pics were taken in 2010. And Maje constantly commented on her page. How you can have sex with a man who is married and get pregnant for him is beyond me .  

I have read your open letter published on PM News and re-published on Bella Naija, premiumtimesng.com and a number of online papers.  No one who read that letter could miss the fury embedded in your words. I know where that fury comes from: moral fiber, good conscience, and love of people. I want to assure you that it was the very same sentiments that drove me to come up with that bill and the same sentiments that led Senators and members to pass it. As always, your aim was to speak as the voice of reason in our increasingly confused society. I know you meant well. I know you acted out of your deep compassion for Nigerians and fatherly love for the children.  But as I read your open letter, my heart sank because this time, my dear Baba, my dear icon, you are wrong; very wrong.  You have been misled by the misinformation circulated by someone who could not read or comprehend a legal draft; someone who did not have the patience to read through a pr...

Sudanese President Omar Al -Bashir has left South Africa in his official jet just as a South African high court took a short break to receive information from South African state lawyers over its interim order asking Mr. Bashir to remain in the country. Diplomatic sources in South Africa revealed to reporters from the BBC that Mr. Bashir left his hotel for the Waterkloof Air Force Base in a Black BMW car and immediately departed the country under tight security. Mr. Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over allegations that he committed crimes against humanity in Darfur. President Bashir denies the allegations claiming that the ICC was set up to hunt down Africans. Sahara Reporters