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The Principal of Government College, Makurdi,Godfrey Ugudu, on Saturday said the school had received letter from Boko Haram sect threatening to attack the school. At a news conference,  Ugudu added that the school received two letters which had the same content on 14 May. “It is true that we saw two letters informing us of the intention of the sect to invade our school on Friday or Monday by Boko Haram. “The letters were dated May 14, 2014, stating that they were coming either of the two days to abduct our boys whom they would marry to the secondary school girls abducted in Chibok. “In the letter, we were asked to inform the Mount Saint Gabriel Secondary School opposite us to also get prepared as they promised to invade the place too.’’ According to him, “we immediately alerted the police and the Commissioner for Education. A report has been made to the Governor on t...

An unidentified young man in Ilobu community, in the Irepodun LGA of Osun State, was found head deep in a grave in the early hours of Wednesday May 14th, after allegedly attempting to cut off the head of a corpse, buried in Tonto compound in the area, Saturday Tribune reports The suspect’s accomplices fled in terror after seeing half his body get stuck mysteriously in the grave. His death has generated concern among the terrified residents of the Ilobu community. It was gathered that the victim and his partners in crime allegedly came to Tonto compound in the early hours of Wednesday with a plot to exhume the corpse of an aged woman and sever her decomposed head, allegedly for ritual purposes. Continue... A credible source in the community, who did not want to be named, told Saturday Tribune that “this particular corpse was buried five years ago and the suspected ritualist attended the burial in Ilobu.” He explained: “There are indications that he ...

The mother of one of the girls allegedly raped by Emmanuel Matthew, a pastor, told an FCT High Court on Friday that the accused used a white bedspread and red curtain to rape her daughter. Mr. Mathew, 52, who is the General Overseer of The Choice Bible Church, Mpape, Abuja, and proprietor of the primary school where his alleged victims attended, was arraigned on a six-count charge. At the continuation of trial, Jacintha Ejiofor told the court that her daughter was molested by the pastor in his bedroom on March 12, 2012. While being cross-examined by Ejike Orji, a lawyer from the Attorney- General’s office, the mother said her child, one of the pupils in the accused’s school, was lured into his bedroom for unknown reasons. She said: “My daughter told me that the pastor laid a white bedspread and a red curtain after which the accused inserted his finger into her private part, then used his manhood afterwards.” Ms. Ejiofor said one of the alleged victims’ mother, had ea...

A political group under the aegis of Visioners for New Lagos (VNL) said on Friday that the purported endorsement of Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode as the next governor of Lagos State by the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, was a ruse, adding that the monarch lacks the power to impose a candidate on the state. In a statement endorsed by its leader, Mr. Bambo Akin-Johnson, the group said that the assertion by Oba Akiolu was a grand illusion. The group said it had earlier raised the alarm on the same issue recently, adding that the disposition of the “phantom Lagos elders” showed that the Oba of Lagos had veered off his brief “by arrogating to himself the right and power to determine who governs Lagos State.” The group said that it would continue to insist that Lagos State is not the property of anyone or group, adding that it’s a collective heritage it’s ready to protect.

Hollywood actress, Gabrielle Union and her basketball player fiance, Dwayne Wade, will say ‘I do’ on Saturday, August 30, in Maimi, Florida. Photos of the couple’s Save the Date  (invitation cards) have been revealed by TMZ, and according to the site, the IVs have already been sent out to guests. Dwayne’s kids also feature in the heart-shaped reminders, holding up signs that reads: “Nickie, will you marry us?”  (Nickie is Gabrielle’s nickname, from her middle name ‘Monique’).