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Saturday, 22 August 2015

Buhari to set up special courts for looters

The Federal Government has begun moves to establish special courts to try corruption-related cases as part of the efforts to fight graft in the country.

Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo Named World's Most Charitable Sports Star

Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo has been named the world's most charitable sports star after donating million of pounds to causes across the globe.

Ronaldo topped DoSomething.org's Athletes Gone Good 2015 list and beat the likes of John Cena, Serena Williams and Barcelona star Neymar.

Islamic State's second in command, Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, has just been killed in a US airstrike.

According to the White House, Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali was killed in a strike near the Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday. Hayali was said to be a 'senior deputy' of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
He had reportedly been involved in the offensive that led ISIS to capture Mosul last summer and was allegedly involved in moving large numbers of weapons and supplies and people between the organization's strongholds in Iraq and Syria.

The comptroller general of Nigeria Immigration Service, David Parradang has been suspended by president Buhari .The service’s deputy comptroller general, Martin Abeshi,was directed to take over with immediate effect
It was not immediately clear why Mr. Parradang was sanctioned.The suspension was contained in a statement signed by the Director of Press, Federal Ministry of Interior, Mr Yusuf Isiaka Alhaji, on behalf of the permanent secretary of the ministry.

A teenage boy met a brutal death after four students hacked him with a machete and buried him alive.Two attackers then had sex near his shallow grave, police said.
The group plotted the gruesome murder of Jose Amaya Guardado for two weeks, digging the grave and hiding the machete in woods near their Florida university campus.
Kaheem Arbelo, 20, Jonathan Lucas, 18, and Christian Colon, 19, were arrested and confessed to the crime last week, Miami-Dade police said.

25 year old Jennifer Lawrence is the highest-paid actress of the year. she banked a whopping $52 million dollars thanks to her roles in Hunger Games franchise as well as appearing in independent productions and the X-Men films... She made $16.5 million more than second-ranked Scarlett Johansson, who earned $35.5 million. In third place is Melissa McCarthy's
Check out the top 18 below.

Tonto Dikeh Churchill has revealed she has been married for longer than we know but only recently made it public.In an interview with Channels TV she opens up on how marriage has changed her and why controversy surrounds her..I transcribed some excerpts from the interview below

I have been(Married) for a very long time.Just kept the secret to myself .One mistake we do is having this very loud announcement on when you have been engaged and everything.It is only normal that the media helps you destroy your marriage before you even get into your home.So,privacy is key in my marriage.

On how marriage has changed her

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole.

Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and it could go no further.

So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon.

A N20 million-business deal between the Enugu State Police Commissioner, Mr. Adamu Mohammed, and an Abuja-based businesswoman, Mrs. Hannah Ochepo, has gone awry as the woman has sued the police officer for N5 billion at the High Court of Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The case was connected with alleged kidnapping and illegal detention.

National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has discovered 22 Boko Haram members among Nigerians deported from Cameroun. The returnees were settled at the internally displaced persons (IDPs) camp in Mubi, Adamawa, State.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Director General of NEMA, Mr, Muhammad Sani Sidi, disclosed this at the 18th Safe Schools Initiative Technical Committee meeting yesterday in Abuja.
Sidi stated that the Boko Haram members were identified with a peculiar mark on their backs among the 12,000 Nigerians deported from Cameroun residing at the IDPs camp in Mubi.

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday in Abuja vowed to take the war against corruption to the doorstep of looters despite the moves by some powerful people in the society to stall the fight.

The president remarked that he took over the country’s leadership at a time when morale was at its lowest ebb in all strata of the Nigerian society, with the nation functioning as a rudderless ship.

Buhari made the above comments while presenting a keynote address at the 15th National Productivity Day and conferment of National Productivity Order of Merit Award organised by the National Productivity Centre in Abuja.

ISIS are getting rid of militants who contracted HIV from captured sex slaves,by forcing them to become suicide bombers.
Medical sources told Kurd news agency ARA News that, at least 16 fighters were diagnosed in al-Mayadeen city in the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor.
They are now being held in a quarantine centre after being infected with HIV from two Morrocan women.A civil rights activist said

Ms Mahlangu said in a statement her department had found:

In 2014/15‚18‚086 people visited public health facilities with sexually transmitted infections (19‚416 in 2013/14);

The incidence of STIs (in 2014/15) was 33‚4% (males) and 66‚4% (females);
The most affected age groups are 25 to 29 years for both males and females; and
More female are attending public health facilities than males‚ which is why the incidence of 'STI treated new episode seems to be higher than males'.

Genital blisters without ulceration‚ genital ulcers and genital warts are among the most common STIs.

Super Eagles Chief Coach, Sunday Oliseh yesterday explained why he left out Chelsea of England midfielder, John Mikel Obi from his list of players invited for the forthcoming 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier against Tanzania. Oliseh who revealed this at a media parley in Abuja said he made several phone calls including text messages to Obi’s number but he never responded to any.

Controversy is currently trailing the death of a 22-year-old man, who was allegedly set ablaze by his landlady and her children in the densely-populated Ajegunle area of Lagos.

The deceased, simply identified as Emmanuel, reportedly went to ease himself in the early hours of Tuesday, leaving his father and sister inside their one-room apartment.

The fixing of petroleum products’ prices is denying the country investment in the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry and depriving Nigerians certain benefits from the country’s petroleum resources, industry stakeholders said on Thursday.

The Federal Government currently regulates the prices of Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise known as petrol, and kerosene, and subsidises their prices to enable Nigerians to get the products at the regulated prices.

The regulated price of petrol is currently N87 per litre while that of kerosene is N50 per litre. But the products are sold above the regulated prices in parts of the country, despite government’s subsidy.

The Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr. Emmanuel Kachikwu, in his address at the National Association of Energy Correspondents’ conference in Lagos, said, “Subsidy creates distortions in government revenue distribution as a result of round-tripping and unnecessary carry-over of expenditures every year in a way that is difficult for government to control or sustain.”

An Abuja-based gynecologist, Dr Kola Osibote, has said mothers with diabetic conditions are at risk of giving birth to children with brain defects.

Osibote told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja yesterday that diabetes increases pregnancy related risks and causes lots of negative effects to the mother and child.

Gay Man Bites Off Another Man's Lip For Refusing To Have Sex With Him In Lagos

Saidi Abubaka, a 27-year old man, has been arrested and charged with sodomy before a Magistrates’ court sitting in Isolo, Lagos State.

According to PM News, Saidi allegedly bit off the lip of his victim, a man who refused to have sex with him. According to the police, Saidi was arrested for his involvement in an indecent act by forcing 25 year old ,Abubaka Abdulahi, into unlawful sex and assault. It was alleged that when the victim, Abdulahi resisted the unlawful sexual act, Abubaka bit off his lower lip.

Wow! Such dedication!

Soldier Catches Wife With Another Man, Parades Both Of Them Naked On The Streets (18+ Photos)

If this story is true, then this is such a mess. These pictures having been making their way round the internet after a regular civilian shared the interesting story and photo on Facebook after witnessing the embarrassing situation.

A popular fisherman who died in a village called Oshei in Ghana was buried in a fish casket.

Nigerian Army recalls soldiers dismissed for refusing to fight Boko Haram

The Nigerian Army have recalled about 3000 soldiers that were relieved of their jobs because they refused to fight Boko Haram. The soldiers refused fighting the sect because they said they lacked the appropriate weapons to engage the sect members and win the battle.

According to Daily Trust, the soldiers are currently being screened at the Jaji military cantonment in Kaduna State.

The 350 Spanish gold coins were found 300 years to the day after a fleet of ships sunk in a hurricane while en route from Havana to Spain.
Treasure hunters have found a trove of $4.5 million worth of Spanish gold coins in Florida.
The discovery was made 300 years to the day after a fleet of ships sunk in a hurricane while en route from Havana to Spain, the salvage owner said.

The 350 coins include nine rare pieces, known as royal eight escudos, which are being transported to the King of Spain, according to Brent Brisben.
His company, 1715 Fleet - Queens Jewels, owns the rights to the wreckage.
Only 20 such coins were known to exist prior to the recovery of the nine royals, Brisben said.

The Saudi Gazette said authorities shut the emergency ward at one of the capital's largest hospitals, King Abdulaziz Medical City (KAMC-R), "after at least 46 people, including hospital staff" contracted the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.

The health ministry has said it registered 21 confirmed MERS infections, all but one of them in Riyadh, between August 9 and 15.

There was no immediate explanation for the difference in the figures, but the ward closure at KAMC-R was confirmed to AFP by a hospital employee.

Elizabeth Nnyanzi, 31, was found unconscious by detectives at the home she shared with her father and two sisters in Northumberland Road, Harrow, northwest London around 5.55pm on Friday, August 14. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Until her death, Elizabeth who had studied medicine at Imperial College before switching to follow in her Ugandan father’s footsteps as a lawyer, worked at leading City firm Herbert Smith Freehills.

The Nigerian embassy in Delhi, India, has written to the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to see the 2 Nigerians that were arrested in Punjab recently while on their way to Pakistan, allegedly to join the Islamic State terrorist group.
The two suspects from Kano, identified as Imran Kabeer and Sani Jamiliu, are currently being detained by the Punjab Police in India.

ISIS have brutally murdered an 82-year-old retired archaeologist because he refused to tell them where gold and ancient statues were hidden.

The family of Khaled Asaad are said to have been told that the retired scholar, who worked for more than 50 years as head of antiquities in Palmyra, was beheaded by ISIS yesterday.

Authorities of the Nigerian Army on Wednesday, said it had identified the soldiers who violated the rights of a member of the public in Mararaba, Nasarawa state, on Aug. 8.

Brig.-Gen. Yusuf Shalangwa, Director, Legal Services, Nigerian Army, made this known in Abuja when the army appeared before the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that on Aug. 8, a photograph of a man lying in the mud, with some soldiers standing over him was seen on the front page of a newspaper.

Cross River State Governor Ben Ayade yesterday announced that low-income earners will no longer pay taxes.

Ayade told reporters in Calabar, the state capital, that a bill to this effect was before the House of Assembly.

The governor said the poor could not continue to suffer while the rich keep amassing wealth without giving back, describing the bill as people-oriented.

Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo yesterday said there are 110 million poor Nigerians.

He added that some past polices and planning, including budgeting, did not reflect the needs and conditions of the people, who have become disempowered.

He spoke while receiving the Alumni Association of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPPS), in Abuja.

A university teacher has dumped his wife of 46 years, and their six children, saying his repeated effort to put the troubled marriage back on track has failed.

Sixty seven-year old Benki Womboh, a professor of Library and Information Science at Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola, told a court Wednesday he felt his life was not safe and that he needed an end to his turbulent marriage.

FC Ufa striker, Sylvester Igbonu, is happy to have rejected an offer to play for Denmark, saying he had always wanted to play for Nigeria.

Igbonu is among 18 overseas-based players invited by coach Sunday Oliseh on Monday for the Super Eagles’ 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Tanzania on September 5. It is the first time the powerful forward will be invited to the Eagles.

The Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Police, on Wednesday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, says it has uncovered a new strategy used by cultists and other hoodlums to poison their victims and dispossess them of their valuables.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ajayi Okesanmi, said the cultists and other evil minded people put tramadol inside a Lacasera drink or other soft drinks and make their victims to drink it thinking they were drinking safe soft drink.

Renowned law scholar and leader of the Concerned Igbo Leaders of Thought, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, has criticised President Muhammadu Buhari for delaying the appointment of ministers into his cabinet.

The Senior Advocate of Nigeria described Buhari’s refusal to appoint ministers over 80 days after taking office as a reflection of Buhari’s military personality.

He said this was why former President Olusegun Obasanjo (also a former soldier) failed to appoint ministers on time as well.

Following the controversy which trailed Skiibii's reported death last week,Kcee has revealed his manager Soso Soberekon has been sacked .Kcee who was in Sweden with Soso is back in the country and during an interview with Cool Fm,when asked about the controversy, Kcee is quoted to have said

A former National Deputy Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to take his anti-corruption war to the next level by probing the last two governors of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN).

George said in a statement that it would be wrong of Buhari to claim to be spearheading an anti-graft campaign and at the same time be considering Fashola for appointment in the light of the N78.3m of taxpayers’ money Fashola spent on a personal website,www.tundefashola.com.

He said Fashola’s excuse for spending N78.3m on a website was disgusting and should be rejected.

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A 52-year-old man, Maxwell Ekwueme, was on Wednesday arraigned in a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly touching the breast of a 10-year-old girl without her consent.

The accused, who resides at No, 17, Tola Oduntan St., Shomolu, Lagos, is standing trial on a count-charge of sexual abuse.

The prosecutor, Rita Momah, told the court that the accused committed the offence on Aug. 13, at about 2:00 p.m., at No. 17, Tola Oduntan St., Shomolu, Lagos.

Who knew such an eccentric man like Charles Oputa could raise a son who has no tattoo, no piercing, no jewelries, no power bikes and no weirdness

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Following the call by veteran actor, Lari Williams to President Muhammadu Buhari to probe the $200million fund reportedly given to the entertainment industry by the Goodluck Jonathan administration, the Bank of Industry (BOI) has denied getting such fund.

The bank, in a statement, claimed Jonathan never gave them the said amount.
In 2010, the former president announced a $200million intervention fund for the entertainment industry during a function in Lagos. The money almost tore Nollywood apart and some of the practitioners who tried to access the fund were getting frustrated because of the conditions attached to it.
But some days ago, Lari Williams, a former president of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), called on the President to probe the fund, which was reportedly in care of BOI.

Oh dear, I read the interview from the beginning to the end. One time billionaire, Goddy Anabor who was the talk of the town by all and delight of musicians years back, a well-known IKEJA lord, has explained to E-27 magazine’s Bodun Kupoluyi, how he lost the billionaires, what led to his fall, how he sold his properties and now left with none.

How he made atleast three people billionaires and have showed him no gratitude, above all how he sees himself now and how he has come to reality with his present situation. It’s a must read for every young person who wants to know how to manage his finances, people around him and ofcourse LIFE. The full interview after the cut.

Zimbabwe's lower house of parliament has approved a bill making it harder to fire workers, after thousands were sacked following a controversial Supreme Court ruling in July.

The state-owned Herald newspaper reported Wednesday the bill passed late Tuesday in the House of Assembly and now awaits a rubber-stamp from the Senate.

The approval came as the capital's municipality mulled laying off more than 3,000 workers to reduce its wage bill -- the latest in a slew of firings following a court ruling that allowed employers to dismiss workers after giving three months' notice.

Watch girlfriend sets fire to 'cheating' boyfriend's penis

A video was uploaded to YouTube on Sunday showing an angry girlfriend setting fire to her 'cheating' boyfriend's penis. Video posted to YouTube by Mazzy Shazzy AR2.

38 year old consecrated virgin marries Jesus in Indiana, USA (PHOTOS)

38 year old High school teacher Jessica Hayes is one of 230 consecrated virgins in the US who have vowed to never have sex or marry a living person and so over the weekend, she married the son of God, 'Jesus Christ' in a ceremony that attracted hundreds of people.

Consecrated virgins are like nuns, they live chaste lives, the only difference is that they don't live in convents and they are not obliged to take on any particular work for the Catholic Church. See pics from the wedding below...

The sisters who are in St Bart for vacation with other members of their family, put their curves on display in slinky black maxi dresses as they stepped out for an evening stroll in St. Barts yesterday.

Comedian AY buys brand new G-Wagon as birthday gift

Comedian and movie producer AY Makun turned a year older today August 19th and bought himself a brand new G-Wagon as birthday present. Happy birthday to him.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has denied accreditation to foreign printers who hitherto printed cheque books for some Nigerian banks. In a circular released, yesterday, entitled: “Circular to deposit money banks, cheque printers and other stakeholders on the accreditation of cheque printers for 2015/2016″ and signed by Director, Banking and Payment Systems Department, Dipo Fatokun, the Central bank said it has duly notified all accredited printers and issued certificates to them.

A Special Adviser to Osun State Governor, Mr Bode Olugbore, has been arrested by the police over the death of his girlfriend, Miss Kemi Arobieke.

A Punch correspondent gathered that Kemi, a graduate of the Lagos State University, visited Bode in Osogbo, the Osun State capital on Thursday, August 6, all the way from Lagos and promised to return on Saturday.

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