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In a domestic violence case brought before a Lagos court, a man has turned out to be the victim after his partner confessed to have taken out his teeth with a slap. Abiodun Olajide, 30, also pleaded guilty to inflicting wounds on Augustine Olukukoyi during a fight at their home ...

The Lagos State Police Command has started investigation into the murder of a banker, Adindu Ohamara, who was stabbed to death by his suspected homosexual lover in Akoka, Bariga Local Council Development Area �of Lagos State. It was gathered that Ohamara lived in a three-bedroom flat with his elder sister, ...

An Osogbo High Court yesterday sentenced a 31-year-old man, Kelvin Igha-Igbodalo to 45 years imprisonment without an option of fine for stealing a Sony Ericson phone belonging to Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola. Igha-Igbodalo is alleged to have stolen Aregbesola’s phone during the swearing-in ceremony of the governor in ...

THE Federal Government has ordered the retrenchment of no fewer than 20,000 workers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, ahead of takeover by successful bidders of its assets. Vanguard gathered that the Bureau for Public Enterprises, BPE, issued the directive to the Chief Executive Officers, CEOs, of the ...

Nollywood actress Camilla Mberekpe allegedly confessed to being a witch yesterday, Sunday 28, April 2013 at TB Joshua’s Synagogue Church of All Nations. The programme was shown live on the church’s Emmanuel TV We would love to know your thoughts on this post. Drop your comments

Mr Kevin Luciano Gabriel emerges as the new interim president of Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria (PMAN). He was appointed after his opponent Mr Skid Ikemefuna stepped down, He got the unanimous vote with Mike Okri as his deputy after he defeated Oritz wiliki for that post Azeezat emerged as ...

The federal government has stated that over 1 million candidates that sat for the University Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) on Saturday, may not gain admission into the nation’s tertiary institutions due to lack of space. The Minister of Education, Professor Ruqayyatu Rufai, made this known at a news conference in ...

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has grounded the plane of River state governor; Mr Rotimi Amaechi, for the expiration of its operating license.� The plane which was on Friday temporarily grounded in Akure, the Ondo state capital by NCAA for the inability of the pilot to provide the manifest ...

Three pupils, including a girl, were killed and hundreds injured on Wednesday when a building in which they were writing the West African Examination Council�School Certificate�examination (WASCE) collapsed on them. The incident occurred in Alpha Academy, a private secondary school in Mararaba, Donga Local Government Area of Taraba State. Some ...

This happened yesterday 26th April, 2013 in the afternoon. A tanker carrying diesel oil brakes failed, moved into the small motor park beside the cross over at unizik temp site and killed more than a dozen souls, most of them are students going for Saturday’s Jamb UTME. May God console ...

Recently, offering time in a Lagos church turned into a moment of hot curses when an already used condom, dripping with semen, was discovered inside the offering box after the Sunday service. It was like a weird dream, according to the former Chairman, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Ogba Zone, ...

Sir Alex Ferguson has come out on top of another table �� as British football’s wealthiest manager � with his former midfielder Roy Keane in second place. In the week his Manchester United team regained the Barclays Premier League crown, Ferguson has been named the richest boss in the country ...

On Thursday a ghastly motor accident occurred along Owerri Port Harcourt express road after the Army Barracks in Obinze just a few meters after the entrance of Arab Contractors Nig Ltd, involving a Petrol Tanker and a bus carrying full load of passengers. Three passengers died on the spot including ...

After bouncing into the world’s consciousness with coordinated demonstrations last month, the ladies of Femen have gatecrashed a lecture on blasphemy. Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard was drenched in water after members of women’s rights movement Femen protested against homophobia in the Catholic church Shouting slogans against homophobia and accusing the church ...

TV reporter Chen Ying was just about to take her nuptials when a massive earthquake, which has so for far claimed more than 150 lives, struck in southern China. But instead of panicking, her journalistic instincts kicked in and she got straight to work on reporting from the scene. With ...

Barack Obama demonstrated the fine art of parental jujitsu today, in�an interview with the�Today�show’s Savannah Guthrie. Asked whether his daughters think he’s uncool, Obama noted, Michelle and I have used this strategy when it comes to things like tattoos. What we’ve said to the girls is, if you guys ever ...

It seems the MTN Saka don port advert has only successfully helped people moved their eyes from one part of the screen to another. However, the songs being chanted are different. It is not Kirikata Kirikata. According to a recent survey,�statistics as at this morning -25th April 2013 11am show ...

President of the Federal republic of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan has hired an Israeli firm, Elbit Systems, to monitor the activities of the over 47 million Nigerian internet users. Elbit announced the contract award Wednesday in a global press release but was silent on the Nigerian destination of the contract. Its ...

Luis Suarez has been given a massive 10-match suspension for his shocking bite attack on Branislav Ivanovic. The Liverpool hot-head yesterday admitted a charge of violent conduct. And Suarez’s season has today been ended after an independent panel hit him with the bumper ban. The standard punishment for violent conduct ...

The Management of Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun state has denied the recent claims by some students of the University that the school tuition fees of different departments for the next academic session has been increased outrageously. In a statement released and signed by the Director, External and Community Affairs, Joshua ...