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Wednesday 31 August 2016

Photo: Teenager arrested in Ikorodu for allegedly selling bar of soap as mobile phones

The Operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of Lagos State Police Command, have apprehended an 18 -year-old boy, Segun Adeyefa, for allegedly selling bar of soap as mobile phones to unsuspecting members of public in traffic.

The suspect was arrested by the RRS men on routine patrol of Ikorodu Motor Park yesterday at about 19:50 hrs, while trying to defraud a young man at the motor park.

Upon his arrival at RRS’s Headquarters, the suspect confessed that before he was caught on Tuesday, he had duped one person of N3,500 who wanted to buy the phone.

He noted that he was lured into the fraud after he was duped through a similar means about a year ago.

Read the rest after the cut...

Billionaire founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg today met with Nollywood actors & actresses, music stars and media personalities

Cameroonians welcome Samuel Nlend who was sacked for being HIV-positive back home (photos)

Samuel Nlend, 21, is back in Cameroon, after being sacked by an Egyptian football club, Al Ittihad, for allegedly testing HIV positive during the club's standard medical test routine.

The 21-year-old footballer's friends, teammates and fans came out in their numbers to welcome him back home. Cameroonians are reeling in anger and have called for the club to be sued for violating Samuel's right to privacy by making his HIV test results public.

The SYNAFOC (Syndicat national des footballeurs camerounais) has even promised to take legal actions against the Egyptian club.

Instead of being congratulated on their engagement, this couple has been trolled by online users for obvious reasons.. After this picture surfaced online of a young man proposing to his lady who is much endowed at her backside -some internet users who feel the equation is not balanced -are saying that the young man that he just signed his death warrant. See more reactions below;

Hajiya Aisha Wakil, who is believed to be close to the Boko Haram leadership, says the group is ready for talks with the Federal Government on the fate of the 219 missing Chibok girls.

She said yesterday that she had been on the neck of the Boko Haram leaders, who according to her offered to honour her to dialogue with the government and release the girls and other captives.

The group’s leadership might soon make a pronouncement on their plan for the girls, she said.

Hajiya Aisha, who spoke with our correspondent on the phone, said she expected the Boko Haram leaders to come out and discuss with the government.

She said: “Since I came back, I have been on their neck. They have now agreed to come out and discuss with the government and bring back the girls.

Good times are here for loyal Air Peace customers as the airline has issued hundreds of free business and economy class tickets to those who have earned enough points under its frequent flyer programme tagged “Peace Advantage.” In a message sent to the qualified customers, the airline said it was grateful to them for their loyalty and patronage.

“You have kept faith with us and continued to make Air Peace your airline of choice. On behalf of the chairman and management of Air Peace, please accept our heartfelt gratitude and congratulations,” the airline said.

“The Peace Advantage package,” Air Peace added, “is our way of giving customers a well-deserved appreciation for their decision to fly with us always. With a Peace Advantage card, the traveller gets additional travel time on any destination they wish each time they travel with us.”

Cameroonian football star fired by Egyptian club for testing HIV positive 4 days after signing contract

Cameroonian football player Samuel Nlend has been sacked by a top Egyptian football club after tests revealed he was HIV positive. Egyptian Premier League side Al Ittihad sacked the 21-year-old just four days after signing a three year contract with him.

The Nigerian/American singer arrived Nigeria today. He is billed to perform at a show in Lagos on September 1st at Hard Rock Cafe. he is expected to be in Enugu tommorow for another event..see more photos after the cut...

OAP Freeze posts picture of himself kissing Basket Mouth's wife Read more: https://www.naij.com/943461-controversial-oap-posts-shocking-picture-kissing-basket-mouths-wife.html

Yesterday, August 25, Comedian Bovi posted a picture of a cat with the shadow of a lion and captioned it “Freeze”. And in the comment session, Elsie Okpocha, Basket Mouth’s wife, posted a response laughing at the picture. Then Basket Mouth re-tweeted the post and captioned it:

He was gunned down in Las Vegas 1996 at the age of 25 but conspiracy theories surround his demise and rumours abound that he is alive.

The latest 'proof' that the rapper is not dead is a selfie (left) included in a YouTube video allegedly showing Tupac - or a man who looks similar to him. Subtitles in the video allege the picture was taken in in 2015 on a phone 'made in 2011'. The clip has been watched more than 1.4 million times.

Alhaji Aliko Dangote and Irish musician and lead vocalist of rock band U2, Bono arrived Maiduguri today on a day official visit. He was received by Borno state Governor Hon. Kashim Shettima, Senate Majority Leader, Ali Ndume and other top government officials.

The 56-year-old singer-songwriter is widely known for his activism concerning Africa, for which he co-founded DATA, EDUN, the ONE Campaign and Product Red. More photos after the cut.

The former Super Eagles player launched the football academy in prisons to secure release of many inmates.

Nollywood actress Funke Akindele has confirmed that she's married to Abdulrasheed Bello aka JJC Skillz. According to some guests at the “Love Lagos Weekend” event hosted by the Lagos state government in London, Funke introduced herself to the crowd as "Olufunke Akindele Bello".

Love Lagos Weekend event is geared towards selling the state and uniting lovers of Lagos in the Diaspora.

Delhi Police Crime Branch arrested two foreign nationals, identified as Michael James and Umeadi Valentine Chigozie from Mandawali area of Delhi. They were arrested on a complaint received by the cyber cell for a case of cheating in Cyberabad, Telangana.
Police recovered 52 SIM cards, two Data Cards, three Laptops and five mobile phones from their possession. The recovery includes the mobile phone used in the case of cheating.

THE CASE
The cyber cell of the Delhi Police received a complaint from M Ganagalakshami. She alleged that "Some unknown frauds cheated her with the amount of Rs 2,25,600/- on the pretext of providing her job opportunity in Qatar Airways Co. The frauds took this amount from time to time as Visa charges, Processing fee, Medical fee and to transfer Access Code etc."
The complainant also provided alleged email IDs and mobile phone numbers used by the accused persons to dupe her. A resident of Telangana, Gangalakshami had also registered a complained under the IT Act at the Cyber Crime Police Station in Cyberabad.

Three men who specialize in breaking into shops at the Mushin and Ladipo Auto Spare parts market in Lagos state are telling Federal Special Anti- robbery Squad FSARS policemen how they perpetrate the act.

The suspects were arrested following a tip off that they were allegedly breaking into a building material stall to cart away valuables and cash but luck ran out on three members of the six man gang as they were nabbed in the act.

This is barbaric, most time I begin to imagine..
just imagine what they did to a fellow human being all in the name of making quick money.
The Police should get to root of this matter....God forbid!

Police invasion: Dickson Aide open up, says no money was found stolen

Government House Accountant in Bayelsa State, Ritchie Etonye, said he was not at home when a team of policemen numbering about 50 invaded his house on Wednesday, August 24, 2016, and therefore could not have absconded.
He also said that contrary to reports, no money was found in his house while, "it is not true that any money belonging to the governor was stolen."

Fake Naval Officer Snaps Girl Unclad In Hotel After Sex, Tries To Take Her Blood

As crowds gathered outside the popular hotel (Big fish restaurant and bar) where short time rest is done. I tried to inquire what was happening, turned out to be that a man took a girl (supposed prostitute) for a short time and after the first round of s3x, as the girl is resting egbon not only snapped her Unclad but as he attempts to take her blood she woke up feeling so dizzy as someone who has been drugged then she raised alarm.

Few weeks ago, a female fuel attendant at Mobil filling station, Gwagwalada, Abuja found N30,000 lost by a customer. The young lady who's named Esther earns N15,000 monthly salary but in a rare display of integrity, she decided to return the money to the owner. Hear from Efe Okposio:

Polish discus thrower Piotr Malachowski sold the silver medal he won at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics to help pay for the medication of a 3-year-old boy suffering from eye cancer.

Malachowski wrote, according to Facebook's translation: "In Rio I fought for gold," "Today, I appeal to everyone -- let's fight together about something that is even more precious. The health of this fantastic boy."

51-year-old Woman Caught With Heroin At Lagos Airport

Akinyemi Monsurat Olajumoke, who hails from Ogun State, was nabbed with four parcels of heroin, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, during inward screening of passengers on an Ethiopia Airlines flight from Entebbe, Uganda.

Narrating how she got involved in the act of drug pushing, 51-year-old Olajumoke said:
"I am a trader. I used to buy female clothes from India for sale. However, due to family problems and the economic situation, my capital is getting smaller and I wanted to expand my business. I was introduced into drug trafficking by a friend who invited me to Uganda.

The actor and father of one doesn't want ladies who pop and waste champagne ....

I know many guys will agree with this prayer.

Why I am in love with Pres. Buhari- Cross Rivers governor says

Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River yesterday said although he is a PDP member, he is in love with the style and ability of President Buhari.

“I am in love with the style and ability of President Muhammadu Buhari as leader of Nigerians. He does not see himself as a party leader but as father of the country. His efforts at streamlining the country’s resources, as well as tackling corruption drew me closer to him. Besides, he has shown me love even though I am of the PDP. He gives utmost and prompt attention to my requests”he said.

Scrabble World Champion Wellington Jighere denied travel visa by French Embassy to World Championship in Lille

Wellington Jighere, the reigning world champion of Scrabble has been denied travel visa to represent Nigeria at World Championships in Lille, France. He shared this photo on social media today wishing his teammates luck.

This is to wish everyone participating in this year's MSI World Scrabble Championships the best of luck since I and my Nigerian compatriots were refused visas. Yes, you heard me right! The number one Scrabble playing nation on earth was refused visas to enable her contingent participate at a Scrabble event.

US Secretary John Kerry Visits Sultan of Sokoto

The US Secretary of State, John Kerry, arrived the Sultan of Sokoto's palace this morning. Continue to see more photos.

Joseph Nyumah Boaka Visits Osinbajo

African nations have to work together especially in developing their economies for the benefit of their people ahead of other forms of international cooperation.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, expressed this view today while receiving the visiting Vice President of Liberia, Mr. Joseph Nyumah Boakai in his office at the Presidential Villa.

According to him, "we have to help ourselves first before others come, we should look for ways we can benefit each other."

Prof. Osinbajo observed that there are Nigerian business people that can invest in Liberia, suggesting the creation of a bilateral economic council that can bring business interests from both countries together.

"We must engender stronger relationships between our countries, that is what Africans need," the Nigerian Vice President stated, adding that Nigeria and Liberia need to work together "to develop our economies."

Mr Joachim Chinakwe, The 40-year-old trader arrested for naming his dog Buhari has been arraigned in court.

Joachim, who was arrested on August 13, 2016, was arraigned before a Sango Magistrate Court, Ogun State on Monday August 22, 2016.

According to the charge sheet, the trader was said to have conducted himself in a manner likely to cause breach of peace by naming his of Buhari and parading same at Hausa section of Ketere market in Sango area.

Joachim pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Help has come the way of an Indonesian lady and her family after suffering in the Eastern part of the country (Nigeria) for years following accusation that her husband had killed his father and niece. This had caused the family to flee for their lives... The once troubled family has been given a reason to smile again. See below;

Mastermind Of Abakaliki Jail Break, Awaiting Trial Since 2007- Prisons Boss - Crime -

ABUJA—The mastermind of last Thursday’s attempted jailbreak at the Abakaliki Prisons in Ebonyi state has been at the facility since 2007 awaiting his trial, Vanguard has learned.

Controller-General of the Nigeria Prisons Service NPS, Ja’afaru Ahmed announced this in a statement issued Sunday morning in Abuja.

Prisons authorities did not immediately give further details about the ring-leader including his name, offences and whether he was among the inmates killed in the crossfire.

Built in 1946 with an installed capacity of 387 inmates, the Abakaliki Prisons had 920 inmates as at Thursday. Of the figure, “811 are awaiting trial prisoners leaving just 109 as convicted inmates. The ring leader had in fact, spent about nine years awaiting trial,” he said.

How the incident happened
In the statement signed by the Service Public Relations Officer, Francis Enobore, the CG also gave an insight as to the circumstances leading to the attempted jailbreak.

The Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, Lagos State, has arrested a 45-year-old pastor, Joseph Olude, and his church member, Rasak Raheem, for allegedly robbing in the Idiroko-Oke Odan area, a border community between Ogun State, Nigeria, and the Benin Republic.

PUNCH Metro learnt that Olude and Raheem were arrested by the operatives of the Zonal Intervention Squad, after a tip-off.

It was learnt that while the police arrested the two suspects, other members of the gang fled.

Our correspondent gathered that on Thursday, August 11, the police received information that a robbery gang was operating in the Idiroko-Oke Odan area, and dispossessing motorists of their valuables.

Alleged N63.6m fraud: How MOD staff died in EFCC custody -Cellmates

The police, The Nation gathered, were brought in and as a first step, questioned some of Nunugwo’s cell mates who witnessed how he died.

One of them, Odeh Onoja Jnr., according to an official document, said: “I reported to the EFCC office on the 9th of June, 2016 in response to the invitation sent to my office to have a chat with me. I was still in the office when the man (Nunugwo) was brought in. The officers obtained his statement after which both of us were conveyed together to their head office for detention.
“We were checked in about 9.30pm and the ‘president’ (of the cell) welcomed us after which he gave us our respective places to sleep”.

Battered corps member: NYSC to decide next week

Two weeks after the story of the female corps member Temitope Adedewe, who was battered and her two teeth removed with a hammer by a male corps member broke, the National Youth Service Corps headquarters Abuja is yet to officially respond.

Also her NYSC discharge certificate, which was withheld for purportedly breaching the NYSC code of conduct and reporting the matter to the police in Arochukwu, Abia State, where the incident happened, is yet to be issued to her. This is despite a strong allegation that her assailant, Oluwabusiyi Adeola Bolarinde is already studying for his master’s degree at the University of Ibadan, which could not have been possible if he didn’t produce his NYSC discharge certificate.

Following recent conflicting rulings over the governorship tussle in Abia State and the leadership crises rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, by Justice Okon Abang of the federal High Court Abuja, the National Judicial Council, NJC, has commenced discreet investigations on the judge.

Justice Abang is to face an NJC panel September. A highly placed Judiciary source at the weekend told Nigerian Pilot Sunday that some chieftain of the leading opposition party, PDP, have petitioned the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed and the NJC over alleged misconduct and abuse of office by Justice Abang.

The plans of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to hijack the cash gift given to the Nigeria Under-23, shortly after they won bronze at the Rio 2016 Olympics was foiled by captain of the Nigeria team John Obi Mikel.

A total of $390,000 was given to the bronze winning Nigeria team by Japanese surgeon Dr. Katsuya Takasu shortly after their 3-2 win over Honduras, but the NFF asked for the said amount to be given to the Federation which is presently battling financial crunch.

However, captain of the team Mikel foiled their plans by clearly telling them that any attempt to hijack the money from the team will make them boycott the tie against Honduras.

A notorious suspected fake prophecy syndicate that specialized in working with some owners of religious ministry to confirm a certain prophecy in order to win more members for ministries and churches were on 19th August and 20th August 2016 nabbed at Holy Ghost park axis and popular P&T axis of the state by the operatives of the central police station of the Enugu state police command of the Nigeria police Force.

The lady pictured above is named Olubunmi Uko, a single mother of three boys who walked out of her Fola- Agoro, Lagos home last Friday at about 5am with her last son, Seun. According to her family members, on the day she went missing, she told her two older sons, Toni and Iyiola that she was going to see someone. When the older children woke up, they found the 7-page suicidal note she wrote to her children, mum and to whom it may concern.

Cancer patient Mayowa Ahmed has died. She died this afternoon August 21st in a hospital in South Africa after battling Ovarian cancer for a while. She was flown to South Africa on August 11th for treatment after kind-hearted Nigerians raised over N100million for her treatment. Unfortunately, she didn't make it. So sad! May her soul rest in peace, amen.

Saturday 20 August 2016

Photos: Bukola Saraki renovates home of mother of late footballer, Rashidi Yekini, hires personal nurse for her

Senate President Bukola Saraki has come to the plight of the mother of iconic footballer, Rashidi Yekini who died on May 4th 2012. Rashidi's mother, Alhaja Sikirat Yekini, made headline news after photos of her poor living condition was made public some months ago. In reaction to the story, Senate President Bukola Saraki picked up the bill to renovate her home, stocked up her small shop where she sells food items and provided Yekini's younger brother, Akeem Yekini a tricycle for his business. The senate President also employed the service of a private nurse who would take care of her medical needs. See before and after photos of her shop and home after the cut...

The Ogun State Police Command has rearrested Joe Chinakwe, the man who named his pet dog Buhari (read here). He would be arraigned in court on Monday.

To my own observation if they like make them send Police to me, I believe the Presidency has heard about this issue and personally ordered for the arrest of this man, see lets not deceive ourselves, we are been ruled by a One sided Nigerian. says me Chris Bassey

According to the state’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Abimbola Oyeyemi, Chinakwe, who was earlier released a few days ago, was picked up again based on the belief that the suspect’s action was capable of provoking an ethnic religious crisis. He said,

EFCC Arrests Man For Duping ‘wife’ Of N6.7m -

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has arrested one Chike Nnaemeka, for allegedly tricking an official of the Federal Road Safety Corps into marrying him and paying for the wedding.

Nnaemeka, aka Dr. Justified, was said to have duped his victim, Nkechi Ani, of N6.7m.

The EFCC, in a statement by its spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, said Nnaemeka, who claimed to be a gynaecologist, allegedly collected the sum under different requests. The victim was reportedly introduced to him by one of her classmates at the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State.

People feared dead in failed jail break in Ebonyi

A failed jail break attempt may have resulted in the death of many prisoners at the Abakaliki prison in Ebonyi state this morning. According to reports, the inmates at about 9am started an intense riot in the prison over poor feeding and living condition.

During their protest, the inmates reportedly used dangerous objects on some of the prison officers.

One of the officers reportedly died during the incident. As the protest continued, some of the prisoners broke the wall of the prison and were trying to escape when a combined effort of Prison officers, Nigeria police and Army drafted to the scene teargased them to submission.

The injured inmates and officers are currently receiving medical attention at the Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, FETHA.

Police arrest notorious kidnapping gang terrorizing Kaduna-Abuja & its environs (photos)

Police have arrested a notorious kidnap for ransom gang that has been linked to kidnapping and violent crimes along Kaduna-Abuja and its environs.

The kidnappers; Haruna Adamu ‘M’ 25 yrs Gang Leader, Shaibu Adamu ‘M’ 18 yrs and Abubakar Saidu”M’ 30 yrs, were arrested after coordinated and painstaking investigation by the Intelligence Response Team(IRT) of the IG of Police' monitoring unit.

The brutalized man in the photos above is believed to be a Nigerian man accused of being part of a robbery gang that terrorized citizens in Monrovia, the Liberian capital. He was caught after an alleged botched robbery on Monday August 15th. A Liberian, Arrington Ballah, who put up the pics wrote;

"This guy is alleged to be a member of a robbery group that has a black four-door pickup moving around Monrovia. Unfortunately, on Monday, August 15,2016 they had an unsuccessful mission that led him to how you see him in this photo. Before I arrived on the scene, it was said that one of the guys managed to escape into the 72nd Community swamp (directly opposite the new health ministry in Congo Town with with the fire arm they use for operation. He was never found.

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