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Veteran Nollywood actor Sir Ozor Akubueze died in Enugu on Friday July 10 after a longtime battle with pancreas disease. He was in his 70s. He featured in several Nollywood movies that were shot in Enugu. May his soul rest in peace..amen.

This 14 year old girl named  Chiawolam Comfort Umeh (pictured above) committed suicide on July 7th after she was gruesomely gang-raped by 3  men on June 28th at Iyienyi Village, near Okwoyi Community, in Isieke, Ibeku, in Umuahia North LGA of Abia State. Chiawolam was a virgin before she was defiled by the vile men. Read the full report after the cut. Culled from  Sun News online Chiawolam, who was among students who sat for the Junior Secondary School education (JSS) examination recently from Isieke Model Community High School, was reported to have dashed into the bush at the back of the family house with her mother’s head tie, climbed on top of a guava tree and hung herself two days after she was raped by the three beastly boys. The rape incident happened on Sunday, June 28, 2015, while she hung herself on Tuesday morning, July 7, 2015. Chiawolam’s father, Mr Umeh said that early in the morning that Tuesday, her mother called her to find out how she w...

Seen as he left Our Lady Queen of Nigeria, Pro-Cathedral in Abuja this morning. A white shirt with an inscription on the back that says 'Doggy Style'. Is that an offensive t.shirt to wear to church?

The  Evangelical Church Winning All ( ECWA) church in Tudunwa, Angwan yashi, near the Federal Secretariat in Jos, was rocked by explosions this morning. Details are still sketchy but witnesses say they expect high casualty as worshipers were at the church for the Sunday service when a bomb went off. Details later.

So, is this what they sent you Nigerian students to go and do in Kenya...fight over girls? A group of Nigerian and Tanzanian boys who are students of a private university in Kenya clashed on Friday July 10th at Roysambu area in Nairobi. According to local reports, the students had been drinking together at a bar called Shisha bar when they began arguing over Kenyan girls who they met at the bar. As the girls made to leave with the Tanzanian boys, the Nigerian students refused to let them go...allegedly. But the Tanzanian boys managed to flee the scene with the girls only for the Nigerians to pursue them in their car to the boys flat near the bar...allegedly. Continue... Realising that the Nigerians students were catching up with them, the Tanzanian students abandoned their car - a Subaru - and fled to their flat - only for the Nigerians to smash the abandoned car ...allegedly...while shouting obscenities at the same time. They fled the scene after causing damage. Sup...

A GA reader who visited the place sent in the photos and wrote; I write to you with a heavy heart. Social welfare generally is meant to remedy the ills of the society. Hence, it engages in different services such as;  child welfare services including adoption, solving post/pre marital crisis, rehabilitation and reformation of delinquent & mal-adapted youths, Providing care, protection for the disabled, destitute etc but one would ordinary think that an agency that does this much for the society deserves a lot in return. But reverse is the case in Oyo state as it looks do not fit all any of these welfare functions." I got a letter from them, I decided to pay them a visit (as a professional counselor) what I saw was indeed an eyesore (ranging from dilapidated building, inaccessible road, Zero publicity, lowly motivated staff, etc.) The most surprising aspect is that people visit this office regularly, and its a pity that the government doesn't see it fit to give th...

EFCC disclosed that 2 of its crucial witnesses in the N29billion fraud case against former Adamawa state governor Murtala Nyako, his son Abdulazis and other associates, have died mysteriously. The anti-graft agency told a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday July 10th that the mysteriously deaths of the 2 men have put fear in other witnesses who are now refusing to cooperate with them for fear of the unknown. EFCC begged the court to remand Nyako and his co-accused as it would be dangerous to allow them go on bail & also so witnesses could come forward & testify against them "Two of our crucial witnesses, Ma’aji Mohammed Iro and Abdulmalik Dalhatu have died in mysterious circumstances and this has instilled fear in other prospective witnesses in the case" EFCC told the court Ma’aji Mohammad Iro was a Regional Manager with Zenith Bank, who was in charge of Adamawa State Govt's accounts with the bank and allegedly assisted the former governor ...