Nigerian student marries and graduates with 1st class, on same day!

    

A Nigerian Birmingham City University student Anu Yusuf wore two important outfits - her wedding dress and a cap and gown, on the same day. And this was partly because they did not adhere to 'African time'. 

Anu Yusuf, aged 26, received her Law LLB in a ceremony at Symphony Hall alongside hundreds of her fellow students on Wednesday 27 July, wearing a traditional cap and gown.

CBN Tells Banks To Accept Cheques For Savings Accounts

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday directed banks and other financial institution to allow customers operating savings accounts to lodge in cheques.

CBN Director, Banking and Payment System Department, ‘Dipo Fatokun, who disclosed this in a circular, said savings account customers with Bank Verification Number (BVN) should be allowed to deposit cheques not more than N2 million in value into their accounts, per customer per day.

Man hospitalised after waiting 10 days in Chinese airport for online girlfriend

A Dutch man who flew to China to meet a woman he met online has had to be treated in hospital with exhaustion after waiting at the airport for 10 days.

Alexander Peter Cirk, 41, refused to leave Changsha Huanghua International airport in Hunan after his online girlfriend, known as Zhang, failed to turn up.

Mr Cirk was eventually taken to the hospital suffering from physical exhaustion, according to Hunan TV.

Dangote transforming Africa, says Togolese leader

   
Governor Ambode, President Gnassingbe and Alhaji Dangote during the Togolese President’s visit to the Dangote Refinery, Lagos, on Tuesday.


President of Togo Republic, Faure Gnassingbe yesterday in Lagos, lauded the investment drive of the richest man in Africa, Aliko Dangote across the African continent, describing him as a man with a mission to aggressively transform the African economy.

Gunmen rob Lagos police inspector, two shot dead

There was confusion on Monday on Okunola Road in the Idimu area of Lagos State after suspected armed robbers unleashed mayhem.

PUNCH Metro learnt that a police inspector, who had just left a commercial bank in the area around 11.45am, was attacked and robbed by a three-man gang, which came on a motorcycle.

For Daring To Go On A Date, Unmarried Youths In Indonesia Sentenced To Public Lashes

                  

This is the moment three young couples were savagely whipped in public after they violated a Sharia law by going on dates.

Pictures show one woman crying out as she is repeatedly lashed with a cane at Al Furqon Mosque in the city of Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Separate images show a man standing as he received the same brutal punishment.

If a girl cannot pray for one hour, don’t marry her-Pastor Adeboye

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has frowned at ministers of the gospel growing beards in the name of new fashion.He also frowned on arranged marriages in the church ...

Fed Govt takes over Ajaokuta steel

The Federal Government has taken over the ownership of the Ajaokuta steel plant.

Also, the government yesterday took a major step in its plan to revitalise the steel sector as it signed a renegotiated concession agreement with Global Steel Holdings Limited for the Nigerian Iron Ore Mining Company (NIOMCO), Itakpe.

Kogi jailbreak: Six escaped prisoners rearrested

The Controller-General of Prisons, Ja’afaru Ahmed, has announced that six out of the 13 prisoners that escaped from the Koton-Karfe prison in Kogi State have been rearrested.

Ahmed noted that the six pre-trial detainees were recaptured with the assistance of other security agencies and local vigilante groups.

CBN begins enforcement of dollar sales to BDCs

To increase the volume of dollar in the market and stabilise the naira, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) may compel banks to sell foreign currency proceeds of international money transfers to Bureaux De Change (BDCs).

The CBN is likely to begin the enforcement of its directive to that effect soon, it was learnt yesterday.

Justin Bieber Allegedly Making Big Plans For His Funeral

                        

The singer has been reportedly shocked by the slew of celebrity deaths this year, including the likes of Prince and David Bowie, that he's made arrangements for when the time comes, reports the Daily Star Sunday.

Unlike Prince, Bieber has made plans for his estimated £180 million estate and has been busy making plans for his final send-off, the newspaper claims.

I have nine years before reaching menopause – Halima Abubakar

In a swift reaction to the mounting criticism that trailed her online ‘revelation’ penultimate week that she was looking forward to losing her ‘virginity’ and having kids, sultry Nollywood actress, Halima Abubakar, has lashed out at what she calls the negative stereotype of women in the make-believe industry.

If there is no abuse, there is nothing you can't overcome in marriage-Omotola

           

Omotola Jalade-Ekehinde recently celebrated her 20th wedding anniversary.In an interview with The Nation, she opens up on the secret of her marriage,aging and beauty..

On being married for 20 years

It’s just been fun. I’m married to my friend and should I say, my destiny supporter. There’s no relationship without its challenge. When people hear that we are celebrated twenty years, they think we must be really without stress or anything, but I just want to let people know that if you are determined to do it in life, if you are determined to make it, you will make it. You have troubles in life generally anyway; either with your parents, or with your siblings.

Delta Government to immortalize Keshi

The Delta State Government has revealed plans to immortalize the late former Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, who died in June.

Deputy Governor, Barrister Kingsley Otuaro, confirmed this while speaking at the funeral mass for the Big Boss, held at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Illah.

Man Dies From Snake Bite Then Wakes Up At Funeral Before Cremation

                                          

A young man in India who was presumed to have died after being bitten by a snake rose up from the funeral pyre at the moment it was set on fire.

The 23-year-old man, named as Sandeep, was attacked while collecting wood from the forest. When he arrived back in his village in the Raisen district of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, he told his family about the snake bite.

Meet the four-year-old boy who looks like an 80-year-old

    

Tragic four-year-old Bayezid Hossain has been born with an incredibly rare condition that has left him looking like an 80-year-old man.
Bayezid, from outside Magura in southern Bangladesh, also has difficulties passing urine and already has weak and broken teeth.

{Graphic} Man cuts off wife’s hand over alleged adultery in Abia

                           

A man identified as Jacob Nwachukwu has reportedly cut off his wife’s left hand over an allegation of infidelity at Abala in Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State.
It was gathered that the victim, Nwadiokeonu Nwachukwu, is currently receiving treatment at a local hospital in Aba, while her severed hand had been taken to her husband’s village at Abala for burial.

The 12-Yr-Old Twins Who Are Eternally Hungry And Eat Until Their Nose Bleeds! [Video]

A SINGLE mother is struggling to cope with her twin boys who suffer from an extremely rare condition – which makes them eternally hungry. Stevie and Eddie Ahern were born with Prader-Willi Syndrome and autism, a devastating combination that leaves them prone to extreme anger and violent outbursts.

Corpses of Nigerian drug convicts set on fire in Indonesia

The Indonesian government has cremated one of the four persons executed Thursday night for drug trafficking.

However, bodies of the three others were being prepared for burial.

Controversy had been trailing the handling of the process, which saw the other 10 prisoners slated for death – including citizens from India, Pakistan and Zimbabwe – spared at the last minute.

Police rescue another tortured, chained child in Ogun

Less than one week after security operatives rescued a nine-year-old boy, Korede Taiwo, allegedly chained and starved for a month by his pastor – father, Francis Taiwo, at Ajibawo, a suburb of Otta Local Government Area of Ogun State, the Police, yesterday, also set free a 10 -year – old girl, Promise Ude from a similar circumstance in Adigbe area of the state .

Incredible photos show thousands of swimmers cramped into pool in China

                   

With barely any room to move, thousands of swimmers escaped a heat wave in China by cramming into a pool on one of the hottest days of the year in the south-western city of Chongqing.

According to the Shanghaiist ,government meteorologists had issued an orange alert - the second-highest level on the country's heat scale - for the fourth consecutive day as the temperature peaked at a sweltering 40C

Man rapes church member after her birthday party

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 31-year-old man, identified only as Damilola, for allegedly raping a 25-year-old woman on Omole Estate, in the Ojodu area of the state.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the victim, Favour (pseudonym) and Damilola were members of a parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, and the woman had invited the suspect to her birthday party on Tuesday, July 19.

Malawi arrests man paid to have sex with 100 children

Malawi police have arrested an HIV-infected man who was paid to have sex with more than 100 adolescent girls as part of a traditional ritual marking their passage to womanhood, officials said Tuesday.

Eric Aniva, from the southern district of Nsanje, was held after giving a media interview confessing to have slept with the girls for a fee of between four and seven dollars, paid by each of their families.

The face of 19 year old priest killer in France

One of the ISIS gunmen who brutally slaughtered an 84-year-old priest in the French town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen in Normandy has been named as 19-year-old Adel Kermiche.

Kermiche, who was known to police as a terror threat, stormed the church with an accomplice and filmed themselves slitting the throat of elderly priest Jacques Hamel .

Man who had been away in Russia for 36 years, returns to Africa in style

            
                   

This stylish Cameroonian man who had been away for 36 years finally returned home..His relative shared the pics.

More below

FAAC: FG gives breakdown of amount 36 states received in May

The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) allocation to state governments in June, obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) showed that Lagos State topped the states with N6,082,690,933.64 as total net amount received from the Federal Government.

NAN reported that the allocations were shared in June as revenue collections accrued to the account in May.

FG Should Stop Payment of Salaries and Allowances to Former Governors in the Senate - Femi Falana

Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, in a lecture he delivered at the investiture of Mr. Dele Ojogbede as President of Rotary Club, Ikoyi in Lagos, said, it is illegal for former governors, who have been placed on life pension in their states, to also earn salaries in the National Assembly.

He also said that lawmakers should not be paid their full salaries and allowances if they don't sit for the mandatory 181 days before going on a seven-month recess.

Flood’ll affect Lagos, Imo, Yobe, 11 others –NIHSA

The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency on Monday announced that there would be flooding in 14 states and urged residents living in flood-prone areas of the states to relocate.

According to the agency, most cities would experience heavy floods due to the rise in sea levels and tidal surge.

Indian girl, 14, died in agony 2 months after being 'tortured, raped and force-fed acid

A teenager from Delhi who was allegedly tortured, repeatedly raped and force-fed acid has died a sickening painful death after her 'internal organs were destroyed.'

The 14-year-old 'Dalit' - a member of the lowest caste in India's social system, also known as an 'untouchable ' - is said to have been drugged and raped by her family's neighbour last year.

EFCC Arrests 3 Undergraduates Over N16m Fraud

       

The EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Office, has arrested five suspected undergraduate scammers. Four from the Federal University of Technology Akure, (FUTA) and one from Adekunle Ajashin University, Akungba, (AAUA). They were picked up at an Off- Campus Residence located at Anuoluwapo Close, Stateline Hotel Road, off FUTA South Gate, Akure, Ondo State.

They suspects who are between the ages of 20 and 23 include: Adeleke Paul, 21, Adebiyi Tayo Abudu, 22, Akinsanmi Olusola Adeniyi 21, Ogundile Ademola James, 23 and Okali Ugochukwu, 21.

I Stood Yesterday. I Can Stand Today.

I have been through the depths of poverty and sickness. When people ask me what has kept me going through the troubles that come to all of us, I always reply, "I stood yesterday. I can stand today. And I will not permit myself to think about what might happen tomorrow."

I have known want and struggle and anxiety and despair. I have always had to work beyond the limit of my strength. As I look back upon my life, I see it as a battlefield strewn with the wrecks of dead dreams and broken hopes and shattered illusions--a battle in which I always fought with the odds tremendously against me, and which has left me scarred and bruised and maimed and old before my time.

Man Steals Another Man’s Identity to Escape His Wife, Spends Decades With His New Family

63-year-old Richard Hoagland was arrested in Florida on Wednesday for stealing the identity of Terry Symansky and living as him for decades. The real Terry Symansky drowned in 1991.

Richard (as Terry) met and married a woman named Mary Hickman 20 years ago. They had a son and lived as a family in Zephyrhills, Fla.

Turkish Troops Imprisoned After Failed Military Coup Are Being Raped, Starved & Tortured

Turkish troops imprisoned after the failed military coup are being raped, starved and left without water for days, it is claimed.

Many of the 10,000 detainees are locked up in horses’ stables and sports halls - some hogtied in horrific stress positions, according to human rights campaigners.

Man wrestles robbers after beating wife to coma

                                 •Viho’s injured head


A man has foiled a robbery on his Ajegunle, Lagos home through his bravery.

Segun Viho, according to the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), fought with the three suspected robbers when they beat up his wife.

One of the suspects, Wasiu Bashir, 22, was arrested through Viho’s bravery. Others fled.

Ooni of Ife blasts critics who mocked him for calling Jesus ‘his father’

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has responded to critics, ‎who are ridiculing him for calling Jesus his father, when he knelt to worship God during a thanksgiving after his coronation.

The picture of him on his knees, with a caption: ‘Jesus is my father’ caused a stir on the social media, with users calling him a hypocrite; but the Ooni says he is not moved by mere criticisms.

Men Land In Trouble After Catching A Giant Alligator And Turning It Into Food

                          

Six Chinese men are facing criminal charges after catching and cooking an endangered alligator that has washed up on a street in East China’s Anhui Province. The Chinese alligator, had wound up on the streets of Wuhu County after a rainstorm lashed the region.

Ex-Councillor, 54, Defiles Seven Year Old Girl in Delta State, Nigeria

 

A 54-year-old former councillor of Sapele Local Government Council in Delta State, Mr. John Onose, has been arrested by the police for allegedly defiling a seven-year-old girl.
The incident, it was gathered, happened on Tuesday afternoon after the ex-council lawmaker allegedly lured the kid to a nearby bush around Fovie Street before forcefully sleeping with the victim.

CBN directs banks to sell forex to Bureau De Change operators

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed agent banks to approved international money transfer operators to sell foreign currency accruing from inward money remittances to licensed Bureau De Change operators (BDCs).

The directive is in a circular with reference number, “TED/FEM/ FPC/GEN/01/004, dated July 22, 2016 and posted on its Website’’.

Those Crippling Sins

There are some issues in marriages which, if not addressed, can be crippling to the marriage. These are the “biggies.” They may manifest themselves in other ways, but if you could trace back to the origin you would find these to be at fault.

Left to fester on their own, these sins will eventually be the destroyer of the marriage or certainly keep it from achieving the oneness God commanded.

JESUS! Malnourished little boy rescued after he was chained in a Celestial church for weeks

                                

On the 22nd of July 2016, at about 10:30hrs at Ajibawo in Ado odo OTA division 2, NSCDC officers rescued a boy named Taiwo Korede aged nine years old, who had been chained for weeks at Celestial Church of Christ key of Joy Parish Ajiwo.

The case has since been transferred to the appropriate authority for further investigation. More traumatizing pics after the cut.

2 Women Arrested For Begging With 'Rented Babies in Lagos

                                  

Two women were yesterday arrested in Oyingbo, Lagos, for using babies to beg for alms.

Three babies who are less than one month old were recovered from them.

Hadiza Nosiru and Salamotu Salitu were arrested by the monitoring team of Lagos State Ministry of Youth and Social Development.

NAFDAC impounds N15m sex stamina drugs, others

The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control has in its recent operations in Gembu, Taraba State impounded unregistered drugs worth N15 million.

The impounded drugs included Tramadol and Sildenafil combination.

Joseph Asikpo, the state Co-ordinator of the agency, made this known at a media briefing in Jalingo on Friday.

Man Buries Lover Alive Which Has Now Made Her Unable To Speak & Walk Well

                 

Stacey Gwilliam, from Swansea, was left for dead by her partner Keith Hughes. He had buried her on the Swansea Bay coastal path between Bracelet Bay and Langland Bay in July last year.

She told Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid on Good Morning Britain that she used her fingernails to get out. The brave 34-year-old said:

Meet the HIV-infected man hired to have sex with children in Malawi

    

A HIV-infected man in his 40s has told how he makes a living by being paid to have sex with children.
Eric Aniva, who would not reveal his exact age, lives in the Nsanje district of southern Malawi where he works a sex worker.His work - known as a "hyena" - is embedded into the sacred traditions of his village.
There, young women are regularly "cleansed" by having sex with a hyena, sometimes as punishment for an offence such as having an abortion.

Facebook Internet drone passes first full-scale test

Facebook announced it has completed its first successful test of its solar-powered Aquila drone, being develop to deliver internet service to remote areas of the world.


The test flight represents a "major milestone" for Facebook's efforts to bring the internet to underserved locations of the planet.

20 Year Old Woman Gives Birth to 3 Sets of Twins in 26 Months

A 20 year old Kansas woman has given birth to three set of twins in a little over two years, with the latest born last month.

“People just consider me a freak of nature when I tell them,” said the 20-year-old mom, who apparently has a condition in which she releases more than one egg per month.

Couch delivered two boys 26 months ago but one of them died from complications of premature birth. Fourteen months later, twin girls Delilah and Davina, were born. The third set, Dalanie and Darla, both girls, were born last month. They came home after three weeks in neonatal intensive care.....


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Photo: Five Men Accused Of Killing Kano Christian Woman Over Blasphemy Denied Bail

                

A Kano Magistrates’ Court today denied bail to the five men who allegedly killed 74-year-old Mrs Bridget Agbahime in Kano on June 2. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Agbahime was murdered at Kofar Wambai Market, Kano, over alleged blasphemy.

The accused persons: Dauda Ahmed, Abdulmumeen Mustafa, Zubairu Abubakar, Abdullahi Abubakar and Musa Abdullahi, were charged with inciting, disturbance, culpable homicide, joint act and mischief.

Why we patronise commmercial sex workers-Robbery Suspect

                                          

Ifeanyi Okolie, showed no sign of remorse as he was paraded at the Lagos State Police headquarters alongside other 45 robbery suspects that have been terrorizing the state. According to him, members of his gang usually retired to hotels at the end of any successful operation where the loot is squandered on commercial sex workers and expensive clothes.

Pensioner accidentally leaves his wife of 47 years behind in an airport

  

A forgetful pensioner accidentally left his wife in an airport and jetted off to Spain on holiday without her, only realising he had left her behind when he landed.

Maurice Hunter, 80, from Plumstead in south London, thought wife Carolyn, 70, had already boarded the plane at Stansted Airport while he popped to the toilets.