As at the time of filing this report, the casualties
and the details of the goods destroyed by the inferno were not ascertained.
LG showroom and Bedmate furniture building in Lekki, Lagos on fire (Picture)
Friday, April 28, 2017
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
VIDEO: Outrage As Oba of Lagos Humiliates Ooni of Ife
This video showing the Oba of Lagos giving the Ooni of
Ife the 'Keep to yourself' sign has gone viral. The video shows the Oba of
Lagos clearly refusing to greet and acknowledge the Ooni of Ife as he attempted
to greet him, thereby sparking rumours that all is not well between the two
monarchs.
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Breaking...... Federal High Court Orders Immediate Release Of Biafran Leader, Nnamdi Kanu
The High Federal Court of Abuja has ordered the
release of controversial director of Radio Biafra, Nammadi Kanu. He was
arrested in October by the the state security service (DSS) on charges of
criminal conspiracy and belonging to an unlawful organisation.
The DSS refused
to release Kanu after the magistrates court in Abuja had granted him bail in
October.
The DSS argued the conditions for the bail were not
met and obtained permission from the High Court to detain Kanu for a further 90
days to investigate on alleged terrorism charges.However, Kanu's supporters and
family members expressed concern as Kanu did not appear in court for the
ruling. His wife, Uchechi Okwu-Kanu, told IBTimes UK: "He has been
released unconditionally but he was not brought to court. What have they done
with my husband? I will wait till he's been seen.
"The ruling came as thousands of Ipob members are
holding a two-day demonstration in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial hub. Protesters
have been asking for the immediate and unconditional release of Kanu as well as
the independence of Biafran territories that used to be part of a separate state
before being annexed to Nigeria during the British colonisation. However, a
source close to the family told EasternRadio in a chat that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu
was released this morning by DSS after
yesterday court ruling which seemed like a defeat of all their plans to detain,
torture and stall the Biafran Agitation.
Lagos Landlord Beats Wife To Death, Flees
Residents of Solar Power Drive, Igbo Olomu, in the
Ikorodu area of Lagos State, are in shock after a landlord in the community,
Omolaja Sodipo, allegedly stabbed his wife, Titilayo, killing her.
Sympathisers, friends and family members of the mother
of four, trooped to their bungalow on Monday, where Titilayo laid in a pool of
blood.
The husband was said to have fled the scene.
Community leaders reportedly alerted policemen from
the Owutu division, who removed the corpse and deposited it in a mortuary.
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See how Governor Amosun saved Gov Aregbesola's aide, Mrs Idia Babalola from being lynched during Senator Isiaka Adeleke's burial (Video)
See how Governor Amosun saved Gov Aregbesola's aide,
Mrs Idia Babalola from being lynched during Senator Isiaka Adeleke's burial (Video)
Monday, April 24, 2017
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Saturday, April 22, 2017
BREAKING.............Veteran Yoruba Actor, Olumide Bakare Is Dead
The Veteran died in the early hours of Saturday. Olumide Bakare who had been sick since
last year, according to family sources. His health got worse in the middle of the night and was said to have called his personal assistant to take him to UCH in the middle of the night but died before he could be conveyed to the hospital.
He was declared on arrival at the hospital, according to findings.
Bakare is said to be suffering from
lungs and heart related ailment.
May His Soul Rest In Peace.
Details soon.
Friday, April 21, 2017
Jonathan Approved Release of $289m – Suspended NIA Chief
The suspended Director-General of the National
Intelligence Agency, Amb. Ayodele Oke, has met with Vice-President Yemi
Osinbajo, where he admitted that his agency received the sum of $289,202,382 on
the orders of former President Goodluck Jonathan in February 2015, according to
a report.
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, ordered the
suspension of Oke over the role of the NIA in the ownership of $43m (about
N13bn) and other currencies uncovered in Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos.
Buhari also ordered the suspension of the Secretary to
the Government of the Federation, Mr. Babachir Lawal, in connection with his
indictment for contract fraud by a Senate ad hoc committee on mounting
humanitarian crisis in the North-East.
A top government source, on Thursday, said that the
Osinbajo-led committee had directed Oke to submit documents to back his claim.
It was learnt that the suspended NIA boss had also
gathered documents which would be formally submitted to the panel showing that
the transaction was approved by Jonathan through the embattled former National
Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.).
It was learnt that the transaction was known as an
intervention fund for national security or special services with the aim of
fighting insurgency during the six weeks period between February 14, when the
Presidential/National Assembly elections were postponed and March 28, when the
polls were held.
However, operatives of the EFCC are said to be working
on the theory that the money was meant for the prosecution of the 2015 general
elections.
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BREAKING: Over 30 Football Viewers Die In Calabar, Nigeria During ManUtd's Game Against Anderlecht
Over 30 people have been reported dead at a football viewing centre in Calabar, Cross River State capital after being electrocuted by a high tension cable that reportedly fell on them.
The football fans are said to have assembled at the centre to watch a UEFA Europa League quarter-final match.
The football fans are said to have assembled at the centre to watch a UEFA Europa League quarter-final match.
According to Channels TV live electricity cable broke from its mooring and fell on the football fans who had gathered at the centre to watch a UEFA Europa League quarter-final match between Manchester United and Anderlecht.
A survivor told The Punch that a transformer near the
viewing centre located in the Iyang-Esu area of the Calabar Municipal local
government area exploded during the match and this caused a high-tension cable
to drop on the viewing centre.
The survivor said : “It happened during the
match between Manchester United and Anderlecht. I heard a deafening bang. I
rushed out to see what was happening. When I turned back to go inside the
viewing centre, I saw a cable coming down on the centre and this killed the
viewers in the hall. “It was a horrible sight to behold. I wish I didn’t come
out to watch the match. Come to think of it, I have DStv at home but I enjoy
watching matches at viewing centres. I could have been dead. I can’t believe
that the people I was chatting and joking with a few minutes ago are all gone
in a most anguishing way. This world is vain.”
Thursday, April 20, 2017
BREAKING.......French Police Officer, Gunman Killed On Champs-Elysees
One police officer and an attacker were killed in a Thursday night shooting on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, the French Interior Ministry said.
A car stopped at 102 Champs-Elysees in front of a police van, ministry spokesman Pierre Henry Brandet said. A man emerged from the car and opened fire on the van with an "automatic weapon," he said. The police returned fire and killed the attacker.
The ministry said one police officer was killed. It's not known if the attacker was a man or a woman.
French anti-terror prosecutors and the National Intelligence Service are opening an investigation to determine the nature of the incident, the Paris Prosecutor's Office said in a text to CNN. This means they are looking at terror as a possible motive in the attack.
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NYSC Releases Online Registration Details For Batch A Corps Members..........
The National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) says that
prospective corps members can begin online registration for the 2017 Batch A
programme of the scheme.
A timetable on the scheme’s website said that the
online registration for foreign and locally trained graduates will end on May
15.
According to the timetable, prospective corps members
will be able to print their call-up letters from May 18. However, the scheme
did not state when the orientation course would begin.
In various posts on its website, NYSC gave
instructions on how to pay and correct errors like date of birth and course of
study in the case of errors.
Married woman stuck in bed with husband's best friend while having sex [VIDEO]
The adulterers reportedly got stuck into each other as
a result of a charm placed on the cheating woman by her husband.
Just when we thought we have seen it all, here is another man who got stuck inside his best friend’s wife while they were having sex.
The embarrassing incident reportedly occurred in Kenya, where similar occurrences have occurred.
In the video shared by Ebals News, the man was performing doggy sex style with the woman when they got stuck.
While crying in pains, the pair attracted a large crowd who then moved them out from the room wrapped in a sheet.
The woman’s husband is said to have served a witchdoctor's concoction to his wife, who unknowingly took it and in turn exposed herself.
Serena Williams is pregnant
Serena Williams just shut down anyone who considers
women "the weaker sex."
A spokesperson for the tennis player has confirmed
that she and fiancé Alexis Ohanian are expecting their first child. "I'm
happy to confirm Serena is expecting a baby this fall," Williams'
spokesperson told CNN in a statement.
The news broke Wednesday after Williams offered up a
side profile shot of herself in a yellow swimsuit with a caption that read
"20 weeks" in a Snapchat posting that quickly disappeared.
But not before a screen shot was taken and sent around
the Web.
hat means Williams was pregnant when she won the
Australian Open in January, further adding to her reputation as one of the
greatest athletes of all time.
After deleting the Snapchat post, there was
speculation as to whether Williams was just playing with fans -- even as good
wishes flowed in from fellow celebrities and US Open Tennis.
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Tears as slain WASSCE candidate, mother, father are buried
Tears flowed on Wednesday at the Ibeshe Titun, Ikorodu, Lagos State, as three family members who were murdered by some assailants, were buried.
The late couple, Mr. Lucky Ebhodaghe and Mrs. Margaret
Ebhodaghe, and their son, Jonathan, were buried in their house around 12pm.
The residents, community leaders and members of the Deeper
Life Bible Church, where the husband was a member of the prayer team and the
wife, a worker in the ushering section, could not hide their grief.
Our correspondent had reported that 15-year-old
Jonathan, the only child of the family, was participating in the ongoing West
African Secondary School Certificate Examination when the incident happened.
It was reported that the assailants tore the window
net and cut some burglar-proof bars to gain access into the house late Monday
night.
The suspects were said to have inflicted machete cuts
on the family members, leaving them for dead.
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017
At Least 44 Dead As Bus Plunges Into Tons River In Northwestern Himachal Pradesh State, India
At least 44 people are feared dead after a private bus
fell into the Tons river in India’s northwestern Himachal Pradesh state on
Wednesday, said a government official.
Rohan Chand Thakur, deputy commissioner of the Shimla
district where the incident occurred, said that the rescue
operation was ongoing and that casualties could increase.
“Our officials, workers and medical teams have rushed
to the spot for the rescue work. It’s not possible now to say the details,”
Thakur said. The cause of the accident is not yet known.
The ill-fated bus
skidded off the road fell nearly 250 meters downhill. Among the casualties, 10
are women and three children, according to the report.
The private bus was
on its way to Tyuni in the nearby Uttarakhand state.
BREAKING: Buhari Suspends Babachir, DG NIA Over Grass-Cutting Contract, Mystery $43m
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered an
investigation into the allegations of violations of law and due process made
against the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, David Babachir
Lawal, in the award of contracts under the Presidential Initiative on the North
East, PINE.
The President has also directed the suspension of the
SGF from office pending the outcome of the investigations.
In a related development, the President has ordered a
full scale investigation into the discovery of large amounts of foreign and local
currencies by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in a
residential apartment at Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos, over which the National
Intelligence Agency, NIA, has made a claim.
The investigation is also to enquire into the
circumstances in which the NIA came into possession of the funds, how and by
whose or which authority the funds were made available to the NIA, and to
establish whether or not there has been a breach of the law or security
procedure in obtaining custody and use of the funds.
The President has also directed the suspension of the
Director General of the NIA, Ayo Oke, pending the outcome of the investigation.
A three-man committee comprising the Attorney-General
of the Federation and Minister of Justice, and the National Security Adviser,
headed by the Vice President, is to conduct both investigations.
The committee is to submit its report to the President
within 14 days.
The most senior Permanent Secretary in the SGF’s
office, and the most senior officer in the NIA, are to act, respectively,
during the period of investigation.
Cristiano Ronaldo Goal, Sergio Ramos Own Goal Send Real Madrid vs. Bayern Munich To Extra Time.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice in extra time to
complete a hat trick and take his career Champions League goal tally to an even
100 as Real Madrid advanced to the semifinals over 10-man Bayern Munich on
Tuesday.
Robert Lewandowski had opened the scoring in the
second leg with a penalty early in the second half, and though Ronaldo scored
his first for Madrid, his header was immediately followed by a Sergio Ramos own
goal that levelled the aggregate score and sent the tie to an extra period.
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Cleveland Facebook Killer: Spotted at McDonald’s, Steve Stephens Shoots Self Dead After Pa. Police Chase
Stephens fled and Pennsylvania State Police troopers
gave chase. One officer performed a "PIT" maneuver, a strategic way
of ramming a car to disable it.
"As the vehicle was spinning out of control from
the PIT maneuver, Stephens pulled a pistol and shot himself in the head,"
police said.
For two days, authorities across the country scrambled
to find Stephens, the man wanted for the death of Robert Godwin, a self-taught
mechanic and grandfather of 14.
"We're grateful that this has ended,"
Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams said. "We would prefer that it had
not ended this way because there are a lot of questions, I'm sure, that not
only the family, but the city in general would have had for Steve."
BREAKING.........LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT TO EXECUTE REV. KING, OTHERS
The Lagos State Government on Tuesday said it will
soon execute the General-Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly, CPA,
Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, a.k.a Rev. King and others on death row in the state
prisons.
Supreme court had on 27 February, 2016 upheld the
judgment of the Appeal Court which passed death penalty on King, saying the
condemned reverend must die by hanging.
State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice,
Adeniji Kazeem at a ministerial press conference in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria
said the state government was reviewing the matter with a view to taking a
crucial decision very soon.
Ethiopian Airlines Lands In Abuja As Airport Reopens After Six Weeks
An aircraft belonging to Ethiopian Airlines has landed in the Nnamdi Azikiwe International airport in Abuja.
The aircraft touched down some minutes past 12pm.
Firiehiwot Mekonnen, traffic and sales manager of the
airline, had earlier told NAN that the decision to fly the new aircraft to
Abuja is because of the belief in the Nigerian market.
Ethiopian Airlines was the only foreign airline that
made use of the Kaduna airport during the period that flights were diverted
from Abuja.
The Abuja airport was closed on March 8 to enable
repairs on its runway.
Earlier, Hadi Sirka, minister of state for aviation,
joined a test flight from the Kaduna international airport.
Speaking with reporters at the Abuja airport, Sirika
expressed delight that the facility got ready before the deadline
“Runway friction test, the final activity, concluded.
Just landed on the runway, everything is perfect. We beat the deadline. We thank
you,” he tweeted.
“Abuja runway 100% completed and certified by Nigerian
Civil Aviation Authority. Consequently the airport is open for operations.
Thank u.”
Biafra: Southern Cameroon Joins IPOB’s Struggle For A Sovereign State
A new pro-Biafra group, the Biafra Nations Youth
League, BNYL, has joined the Nnamdi Kanu-led Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB,
in its struggle for a sovereign state.
Leader of the new group, Prince Robinson C. Obuka said
BNYL is a community-based organization of youths with headquarters in Bakassi
Peninsula, Cameroon.
The group was reportedly established on August 3, 2013
in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, following agreements by members and founders to
uphold the unity of the various ethnic nations in the Bight of Biafra.
The group said it supported all the actions taken so
far by IPOB on the continued detention of its leader, Kanu.
Woman With Two VAGINAS Who Doctors Thought Was Infertile Is Now Pregnant With Miracle Baby
The 32-year-old was diagnosed with uterus didelphys at the age of 12.
Since starting trying for a baby with her husband Courtney, 33, the couple have endured two miscarriages and had given up hope of having a baby.
But as they began to consider IVF, Krista discovered she was pregnant.
The horse trainer from Washington, in the US, said: “After being diagnosed with uterine didelphys at 12 years old, I knew I had two uteruses and two cervixes.
“But when I was 30, I found out that I also have two vaginas that are side by side.
“I always felt the separate sections during intercourse and smear tests but I just thought that feeling was a normal thing every woman had.”
Nuclear War Could Break Out At 'ANY MOMENT'.........North Korea
North Korea has consistently issued threats of war toward the United States in recent decades, but the Trump administration's announced end of a "strategic patience" policy with Pyongyang has upped the ante in terms of warnings and bellicose rhetoric.
North Korea's UN deputy representative, Kim In Ryong, on Monday unleashed at a hastily called UN press conference a torrent of threats, war scenarios and rhetoric aimed at the United States.
In New York, North Korea returned verbal fire. North Korea's UN ambassador condemned the US naval buildup in the waters off the Korean Peninsula, plus the US missile attacks on Syria.
While reporters at the United Nations have heard similar rhetoric from North Koreans before, Monday's forceful wording was on a higher level.
The deputy ambassador, reading from a statement, said, "The US is disturbing the global peace and stability and insisting on the gangster-like logic that its invasion of a sovereign state is 'decisive, and just, and proportionate' and contributes to 'defending' the international order in its bid to apply it to the Korean Peninsula as well."
Kim said his country is ready to react to any "mode of war" from the United States.
Any missile or nuclear strike by the United States would be responded to "in kind," said the North Korea representative.
BREAKING: Five Die In Another Lagos Accident.
At least five people died in an auto accident in Lagos
on Monday evening.
The incident occurred at
about 6.47 p.m. when a vehicle caught fire at stadium bridge, around Barracks
area of the state.
A commercial Volkswagen bus (danfo) with registration
number AND 996 XC caught fire as it descended the bridge.
The Lagos emergency agency said five persons,
including a child, three women and a man, were burnt beyond recognition and
were recovered from the bus.
LASEMA, however, said five other people were also
rescued and rushed to the hospital with severe burns.
Troops Kill 21 Boko Haram Terrorists, Rescue 1,623 Hostages
Troops on clearance operations on Monday at Jarawa
village in Kala Balge Local Government Area of Borno, rescued 1,623 captives
held by remnants of Boko Haram terrorists after they neutralised 21 terrorists.
According to a statement issued by the army spokesman,
Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, the troops also recovered 3 AK-47 Rifles with
registration numbers 565222414, 563729686 and UF 3646, a 36 hand grenade, 12
cutlasses and four motorcycles.
“The rescued persons have been escorted to Rann
Internally Displaced Persons Camp, while all the children were vaccinated,”
Usman said.
He said the troops of 3 Battalion, 22 Brigade also
cleared terrorists from Deima, Artano, Saduguma, Duve, Bardo, Kala, Bok, Msherde
and Ahirde settlements, based on tip off.
Monday, April 17, 2017
FAAN - Abuja Airport Runway Ready For Inspection
The Managing
Director, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, Engr. Saleh Dunoma,
weekend declared that the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja runway
will today be ready for inspection by Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA,
and if certified okay by the regulatory authority, will be reopen for flight
operations. This is two clear days before the reopening date of 19th April of
the runway for air traffic.
Dunoma who
made this declaration after inspecting the runway said; “We will be ready by
Monday, April 17 but we are leaving the remaining two days for Nigerian Civil
Aviation Authority, NCAA, because they have to certify that what we have done
is in accordance with their standards.
‘’If they do
that, we will bring in the traffic. But if they do not, we have the opportunity
of making corrections within the two days we have saved”.
Cleveland Police Hunt Man They Say Livestreamed Killing On Facebook ( WARNING: Disturbing Content)
The 37-year-old man, whose real name is Steve Stephens but uses the name “Stevie Steve” on social media, allegedly shot dead the elderly man after choosing him at random.
The city of Cleveland, Ohio is in lockdown as police search for Stephens, who also claimed in another Facebook post to have killed 15 people on a murder rampage.
Stephens wrote on Facebook he wouldn’t stop killing until his mother and a woman he names in the video call him.
Thursday, April 13, 2017
BREAKING......US Drops Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb In Afghanistan
The U.S. dropped the largest non-nuclear
bomb it’s ever used in combat on Islamic State positions in Afghanistan
Thursday night, a move the Trump administration said was aimed at denying the
group’s freedom of movement.
The Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb was
dropped to reach “a system of tunnels and caves” used by the terrorists, White
House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters Thursday.
"The United States takes the fight
against ISIS very seriously and in order to defeat the group, we must deny them
operational space, which we did," Spicer said, using an acronym for
Islamic State. "The United States took all precautions necessary to
prevent civilian casualties and collateral damage as a result of the operation."
Chemical Attack In Syria Was ‘100% Fabricated’ – Assad
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has reiterated that
his government had nothing to do with the chemical gas incident in a rebel-held
village last week that killed more than 80 people.
Allegations that his forces had deliberately poisoned
civilians were ''100 per cent fabrication'', the president said on Thursday,
adding that the Syrian government gave up its chemical weapons stocks as part
of a 2013 agreement.
Comedian Charlie Murphy Dies Following Leukemia Battle
Comedian Charlie Murphy died Wednesday after a battle
with leukemia, according to his publicist Domenick Nati.
Murphy was 57.
A long time comic, Murphy rose to fame for his work on
Dave Chapelle's popular "Chapelle's Show," where he was a co-star and
writer.
