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        A thrill seeking outing turned out to be the last for an unfortunate graduate in Lagos after he was stabbed while watching football. 29-year-old Saheed Badmus went to a public viewing centre in the Egbe area of the state to watch a match between Chelsea Football Club and Atletico Madrid. An argument is said to have broken out while the deceased was there and he was allegedly stabbed to death by one Yemi, a barber. The duo was said to have disagreed after Yemi shouted at both Saheed and an elderly man during the match. The disagreement led to them being tossed out of the viewing center and it was while they were outside that the suspect allegedly stabbed the victim to death with a broken bottle. It was learnt that during the match, Saheed stood up and Yemi shouted at him and told him to sit down as he was blocking him from viewing the match on the screen. An elderly man was said to have cautioned Yemi against shouting, but Yemi insul...

The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has predicted jail term for Governor Rauf Aregbesola. He spoke in Osogbo on Thursday during his presentation by the PDP to the public as the candidate of the party for the August 9, 2014. Omisore, who made the remark in response to Aregbesola’s reference to him as ‘an ex-convict accused the governor of forging some documents that made him won his election appeal.   It would be recalled that Aregbesola had said that a former prisoner could not unseat him, no matter who was supporting him. He said, “We know that Ogbeni Aregbesola didn’t win the election but was installed by Salami. We have to push him out on August 9. “The documents he forged, the case is in Abuja; and that is why he is fretting because he knows that he has begun his journey to the prison, where he belongs. “I won’t engage him in any altercation because we are not mates. Aregbesola was a common thug w...

                 A former Aviation Minister and Women leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Dr. Kema Chikwe, yesterday clarified the rhetorical questions she posed on the kidnap of the 234 female students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok. According to the chieftain, those accusing her of insensitivity over the incident misunderstood her views. Chikwe had raised some questions on the kidnap of the female students during a prayer session for security of the country which was interpreted by sections of the media as an expression of doubt as to whether the girls were actually kidnapped or not.

Another bomb exploded in Nyanya, Abuja yesterday allegedly killing ten people and injuring about a dozen others. The bomb was reportedly triggered off from a white gulf car parked a few meters away from the scene of the first bomb which occurred two weeks ago. We are shocked beyond words not only by the audacity of the perpetrators but also by the failure of our security apparatus. The fact that this second explosion occurred almost at the same spot with the first one accentuates the grave danger facing Nigerians in the hands of terrorists and the seeming helplessness of the security agencies. The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) strongly condemns this dastardly act. We are also constrained to conclude that we are all to blame for the deteriorating security situation in the country. The Federal Government (FG) takes the lion share of the blame for monopolizing the security agencies (police, army, etc) without allowing state governments to create complementary outfits contrary to int...

They have reportedly found their way to Monguno area of Borno State, according to sources, bringing the number of girls who have escaped to 48 out of the 234 abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok on April 14, 2014. The source said, the girls were rescued by some good samaritans in a village near Monguno council area last Sunday before they were handed over to security operatives in Maiduguri, the state capital. Monguno is about 134 kilometres from Maiduguri while Chibok is about 130 kilometres south of the state capital. According to the source, “four abducted school girls who were smuggled out of Sambisa forest en route Monguno were in the last few days rescued by villagers. In fact, the girls, who looked traumatized and frustrated were sighted around the outskirts of Monguno. Only one of them managed to talk as she said, they were students writing their final year exams in Chibok but were kidnapped by unknown gunmen. She said that when four of them de...

Mothers and other  indigenes of Chibok, Borno state yesterday staged a protest at the National Assembly calling on the government to speed up the release of their daughters that were kidnapped from the Government Girls Secondary school on April 14th. The women under the aegies of Kibaku Development Association and led by senior female police officers converged at the Eagle square Abuja, all dressed in black, from where they match peacefully to the National Assembly, wailing and pleading for help from the government. Senators Barnabas Gemade and Helen Esuene received the protesters and said the senate were considering raising a motion as regards the kidnapped girls for the house to deliberate on. Continue to see more photos...

Senate President David Mark said he had changed his position on previous calls for dialogue with Boko Haram, adding that it was time to confront the insurgents with a full scale war. Mark declaration coincided with the protest by parents of the yet-to-be-found 181 girls, who stormed the National Assembly yesterday, demanding the return of their daughters. The senate president described yesterday’s motion as the most emotional issue ever debated since his membership of the Senate in 1999. “I have spent many years in the Senate here and I’m not sure there is any motion that has had so much emotional touch as this one. I think Ndume just managed to hold himself and the three senators who spoke also. I think the issue is not so much as to whether Boko Haram is even in the country now or not, but that 234 girls could disappear and up till now, none has been rescued. The 53 who are back escaped on their ow...

Veteran film maker Amaka Igwe is dead The iconic Nollywood figure, who was responsible for some of the popular sitcoms and TV soaps reportedly passed on last night, April 28, 2014 after battling with asthma attack. President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, Ibinabo Fiberesima allegedly confirmed this with a ‘Yes” response in a phone call with Best of Nollywood and ended the call abruptly. Uche jumbo has confirmed it too via a tweet that reads “sad sad sad day, may God console your family, a great filmaker gone”. She is survived with husband and children may her soul rest in peace.

After successfully moving the abducted school girls of Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State to two border countries of Lake Chad and Cameroon, the Boko Haram sect has married off the girls to their members on a bride price of N2,000 each, an elder who knows of the development reportedly said yesterday. Dr. Pogu Chibok, who is the leader of the Chibok Elders Forum, said that latest information available to them indicates that most of the girls have been taken to the neighboring Cameroon and Chad by their captors. He said before they were ferried in canoes across the Lake Chad, a wedding ceremony was conducted at a town on the border with Cameroon where they were married off to Boko Haram militants. He said N2,000 was paid as bride price on each of the girls to the specific Boko Haram members who took them from their school and who had assumed “ownership” of the students. “The...

These buses were destroyed by a bomb on the outskirts of Abuja, Nigeria, on Monday, April 14, 2014. Two weeks after the tragic bomb blast that claimed many lives in Nyanya district of Abuja, forensic  experts  have successfully established the identities of two men that  participated in  the bombing A bomb went off in the busy Nyanya park on Monday, April 14, 2014 killing over 70 and leaving over 100 wounded. Reports punch: Security sources told one of our correspondents in Abuja  on Monday  that the experts   identified  their  bodies  using certain scientific variables, including body tissues. It was learnt that they also   identified the third suicide bomber, who managed to escape from the scene before the explosion. One of the  sources said,  “The third terror suspect has also been positively identified and we are working to arrest him; but the identities of ...

File photo A newborn baby in Lagos has lost her life after she was abandoned by her mother at birth and subsequently rejected by two hospitals. The baby was reportedly found inside a carton around Great Aduke School, Victory Estate in Iba area of the state. She was then taken to two hospitals who rejected her due to a lack of bed space, by the time she was admitted, it was too late. It was gathered that the baby girl was discovered by a young man (names withheld) who had gone to inspect his building site in the estate. According to him, “on getting to my site, I started hearing an unusual sound. I kept moving towards the direction of the sound. As I moved closer, I discovered a baby inside a carton soaked in blood, still attached to the placenta. “Immediately I saw the baby I raised alarm and people gathered. A woman among the crowd carried the baby to her house to clean up while I reported my finding at the...

Today, This morning to be precise, around 9am, a woman who confessed to be a witch was found inside a sealed gutter around Abalti Barracks, just before Ojuelegba in Surulere, Lagos. A passerby noticed someone stretching out a hand from a very small hole in the 6ft deep gutter just in front of the Barracks, calling out for help. The pedestrian quickly ran into the barracks to draw the soldiers attention to what he saw. when they looked and saw it was a woman…a welder was sent for to bring a cutter and open the iron cover and the woman was brought out. When asked how she found her way into the tunnel the woman said: My name is Amudat Jimoh, It was God that sent me here, He (GOD) said I should confess my sins so that I don’t die, please I need water to drink, help me, I don’t know i found myself here, please help me…” The soldiers however didn’t let reporters get more details from her. Later, some people in the crowd said she confessed to witchcraft saying that she went fo...

“It’s assumed there are many things you can’t do because you’re blind. And so, for me I had to prove that there are many things I can do because I’m blind, and that there are many things I have done because I’m blind,”-         Cobhams Asuquo Leading Nigerian music producer and songwriter, Cobhams Asuquo, who was born blind, is calling on all who care to listen to become blind. On a number of occasions, he has spoken about the advantages of blindness and he does not hesitate to encourage others to embrace blindness. In 2012, while talking at TEDxEuston, an event that brings people together to share their experiences, he spoke on the lessons he has learnt from being blind. “I believe strongly that one of the strong elements that have fuelled my very strong sense of imagination and my ability to dream is the gift of blindness,” he said at the event. In the t...

Former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida says he is not surprised by the rapid transformation in Edo State under Governor Adams Oshiomhole. Speaking at Igueben during the weekend, where he was Chairman of a ceremony to mark the 70th birthday of Chief Tom Ikimi, one-time Minister of Foreign Affairs, Babangida said, “I want to pay special homage to my Comrade Governor, Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, who has been doing so much to transform Edo State. “As a regular visitor to Edo State, I could feel and inhale the impact of good governance not only on the faces of the people but also on infrastructure. I saw several red roof schools on my way here. I saw well cultivated lawns, walk-ways and beautiful road networks. I saw expansions on roads that were hitherto narrow. In fact, the feeling of a transformed Edo State is palpable. “I am not surprised that all these are happening in Edo State given the antecedents of Comrade Adams Oshiomho...

The Osun State Police Command has warned residents of the state against carrying out jungle justice following the burning to death of three suspected kidnappers in Osogbo on Friday. The Police Public Relations Officer in the command, Mrs. Folasade Odoro, said this in an interview with our correspondent. Three suspected kidnappers were set ablaze on Friday in different areas in Osogbo, the state capital. Odoro said that a suspected kidnapper caught and beaten to a pulp at Alekuwodo area on Thursday eventually died while receiving treatment. The suspect, who some residents claimed was behaving like a mad man, was allegedly caught with three kids. He was beaten and was about to be set ablaze when some policemen arrived at the scene rescued him.  He was said to have eventually died while receiving treatment. Odoro said, “The suspect was rescued and brought to the police but he gave up the ghost when receiving treatment. The command is warning residents of ...

 Ogun State Police Command’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad has killed three robbers and arrested two others in separate operations at Toll Gate and along the Abeokuta/Sagamu Expressway. One of the arrested robbers is said to be an ex-convict. A statement by the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer DSP Muyiwa Adejobi, said, “Inspector Adeyemi Akeem led a team of SARS operatives last Friday to burst a gang of armed robbers that specialised in snatching cars, at Toll Gate Ota, Ogun State, around 6pm. Two of the robbers were killed while one identified as Yusuf Ahmed was arrested. “The robbers had snatched one Benz ML SUV marked Reg No LND 779 AQ from the owner at Dalemo area of Otta on Thursday 24th April around 8pm;and the team had since then put them under surveillance, after a tip-off, before the arrest.” The syndicate said to have been on the wanted list of the command for the past one year, has allegedly been involved in many robberies within and outside ...

Nigerian Pastor T.B. Joshua proclaimed to his congregation on Sunday 27th April 2014 that the abducted schoolgirls in Borno State were on the verge of being released by ‘God’, adding that almost half had already escaped their kidnappers clutches. Amid mounting public fury and an international outcry over the fate of 230 kidnapped Nigerian teenage girls – now missing for nearly two weeks – the controversial cleric declared, “They have to be released. That is the voice of God!” He proceeded to describe a revelation he claimed God had shown him. “I saw a vision where some of these girls have escaped and they are trying to find their way from the forest to the town.” He added that the remaining children under custody would also be released soon. “God has spoken – these children must be released,” Joshua authoritatively declared. “We can’t wait to see them.” In a message broadcast live via Joshua’s widely viewed station Emmanuel TV and subsequently posted on his  o...