Hmm : "I am ready to defend Rivers State with my life" - Governor Nyesom Wike

Earlier today, Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) and the police made an attempt to arrest a Federal High Court judge in Port Harcourt, Rivers state. ....

Bayero University lecturer, Aliyu Kiri kidnapped in Kaduna

A lecturer in the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology of Bayero University Kano, (BUK), Aliyu Kiri, has been kidnapped. ...

Six Pregnant Women Arrested As Police Raid Baby Factory In Okwe community, Delta State. [Photos/Video]

Police have raided a baby factory and arrested at least six pregnant women who are allegedly planning to sell their newborn babies after delivery in Delta State. ....

908 Chinese Women In Wedding Gowns Break Guinness World Record. See Photos

About 908 women wearing wedding gowns gathered at a shopping mall in Suzhou, China on Friday, to break a Guinness world record for a get-together with the most women dressed as brides. ...

NBA declares state of emergency over the arrest of some judges in Abuja, other states

The Leadership of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, has declared a state of emergency on the judiciary following the arrest of some judges by agents of the State Security Service in the early hours of today October 8th....

Photo: 74 year old man, Godwin Agbada arrested for defiling two girls in Delta

The Delta state Police command have arrested 74 year old Godwin Agbada pictured above, for allegedly defiling two girls aged 12 and 14 years in his workshop situated at No. 9, Morka Road, Ubiaruku, Delta state...

#Nigerian Army Records More Victory As Soldiers Raid Armed Bandits Camps In Zamfara. Photos

Troops of 1 Division Nigerian Army involved in the fight against livestock rustling, armed banditry and kidnapping in the northwest geo-political zone of the country, have been recording successes....

Benin Agog As Crown Prince, Eheneden Erediauwa Begins Coronation Procession. See Photos

The crown prince of Benin, His Royal Highness, Eheneden Erediauwa, on Saturday began his procession from his Edaiken palace in Uselu, Egor Local Government Area of Edo, to Oredo, as part of activities lined up for his coronation as the new Oba of Benin Kingdom. ...

Bukola Saraki, Atiku, Gabriel Igbinedion at Ibrahim Mantu's son's wedding

Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, Atiku Abubakar, Bukola Saraki and others were guests at the wedding ceremony of a son of the former Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu at the National Mosque on Friday, 7 October. More photos after the cut...

APC Social Media Activist Attacked By Thugs In Benue Over Facebook Posts. Photo

Read the press statement by the All Progressives Congress (APC), Benue state.

Yesterday evening an All Progressives Congress, APC, social media activist in Benue State, Mr. Armstrong Iorwase Msugh Chir, was attacked and his right leg broken....

Father, Pangi Satibabu Carries His Sick Daughter On His Head, Passes Through Flood In Order To Reach Hospital.. Pics

A desperate father carried his sick baby daughter on his head and walked for two hours through deep floodwaters to reach the nearest hospital in India. ....

"I Love My #Curves "- #Obese #BBW Glamour Model, Sarah Rout Refuses To Lose Weight Despite Being Told She Could Die. Photos

A 28-stone glamour model has refused to slim-down after doctors warned her if she didn't lose weight she could die. Defiant Sarah Rout reveals in her status as a 'body positive' size 30 Big Beautiful Woman (BBW)...

"I Beat My Wife, Idayat Adekunbi Because She Starves Me Of Sex" -- Wasiu Tells Court

An Ibadan-based mother of seven, Idayat Adekunbi, has asked a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan, Oyo State, to dissolve her 22-year-old marriage to her husband, Wasiu.....

Photo: SS3 student, Godwin Ejeh electrocuted to death in Benue State while trying to charge phone from naked wire

Godwin Ejeh, a senior secondary school student of Jesus College, Otukpo Benue State, was electrocuted to death in the school hostel on October 6th while trying to charge his mobile phone. ...

Photos: Kidnappers arrested in Zaria while collecting ransom

Troops of 1 Division Nigerian Army stationed in Anchau, Kubau Local Government Area of kaduna State, on Wednesday, October 5th, arrested 2 kidnappers in the process of collecting ransom from a kidnap victim's family in the area... 

Photos: Two injured after a car somersaulted along Bourdillon, Ikoyi road

This happened last evening. Men of the Lagos State Emergency Management LASEMA have taken the victims to the hospital for treatment... see another photo after the cut...

More Boko Haram Terrorists Arrested By Soldiers In Borno State. Photos

In what could be described as bumper harvest in the wave of arrests of escaping and infiltrating remnants of Boko Haram terrorists in the north east, troops of Operation LAFIYA DOLE with assistance of Civilian JTF, have arrested quite a number in Maiduguri and Mafa....

Scottish photographer, Mathieu Willcocks captures two West African migrants drowning in the Mediteranean during resue

Scottish photographer Mathieu Willcocks captioned these photos of two migrants from West Africa drowning in the Mediterranean being rescued by Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS). The migrants were among those rescued this week while attempting to cross the sea on a overcrowded rubber boat. Both were struggling in the water, one pushing the other under....

Read : Femi Fani-Kayode's piece on President Buhari's new book

In this piece, FFK alleges that the book's author, professor John Parden is a praise singer who wrote a similar hagiography for Ahmadu Bello in 1986. He also makes some weighty allegations on the source of president Buhari's campaign funds. Read below...

Alleged Mistress Is Stripped And Beaten To Pulp By Angry Women In Public. Photos/Video

A disturbing video has emerged of a gang of women stripping and beating another woman on a busy street in China. The victim is thought to be a mistress and the group of attackers were giving her punishment for having an affair with a wedded man. ..

See The Giant Hairball Removed From A Woman's Stomach After Surgery (Viewers Discretion)

A woman who was hospitalised with swelling and vomiting astonished doctors when they discovered the cause was a giant hairball. The 38-year-old was admitted suffering from constipation and an enlarged abdomen. ...

CHECK OUT : The Epic Reply A Lagos Senator Gave A Corper Who Asked Him For N100K As NYSC Gift

A Batch 'B' corper who was desperate to get N100,000 from a senator as his NYSC gift after his Passing Out Parade yesterday -got an epic response from the senator. He tweeted to Senator Gbenga Ashafa, representing Lagos East Constituency. 

See the senator's reply below; ..

See Photos: One dies as Range Rover rams into a parked trailer along Lagos-Ibadan expressway

The Range Rover SUV rammed into the parked trailer at 1am along Lagos/Ibadan express way. The driver who was the only one in the car died instantly. 

 More photos after the cut....

N8bn CBN #currency #scam : Ex banker, Ademola Oni bags twelve years jail term

Ademola Oni (pictured), a former banker with the Wema Bank, has been convicted and sentenced to twelve years imprisonment for conspiracy and money laundering. Delivering the judgement, Justice Joyce Abudmalik of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Thursday, 6th October, ruled that he forfeits all his properties and cash in various banks as proceeds of the crime....

Riots At Daraja Mbili market in Kenya after police kill two women

Two women were shot dead by police at Daraja Mbili market in Kisii Town, Kisii County after the officers stopped to disperse motorcycle riders locally known as boda boda. According to an eye witness, a fight broke out after the police tried to disperse the motorcycle riders who had blocked the Kisii-Kisumu highway....

"How Goodluck Jonathan Caused The Spread Of Boko Haram" – VP Osinbajo

The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has blamed failure of the immediate past government to provide equipment and supplies to the military for the spread of Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East He made the statement on Thursday at the graduation of Cadets of 63rd Regular Course of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) in Kaduna....

Young Armed Robbery Suspects, Godspower Peter & Voke Samuel Arrested In Delta State. Photo

Officers of the Nigeria Police code-named Safer High Way Patrol, yesterday arrested two robbery suspects on Ekakpamre-Jeremi Road in Ughelli South Local Government of Delta State, for allegedly being in possession of firearms....

Photo: Zone 2 police arrest armed robbery gang terrorising 15 communities in Lagos and Ogun States

Operatives attached to the Zonal Intervention Squad (ZIS) of Zone 2 command on September 25, arrested some suspected armed robbers months after alleged robbery operations in Lagos and Ogun States. ...

St. Louis Police cuff and arrest 102 year old woman, Edie Simms ...find out why

Edie Simms is a 102-year-old woman with an unusual item on her to-do list. And, thanks to some officers in St. Louis, she was able to cross that off, CNN reports. Simms wanted to be arrested -- handcuffed, and placed in the back of a police cruiser....

Soldiers Arrest Kidnappers Who Were On Their Way To Collect Ransom In Kaduna. Photos

On Wednesday 5th October 2016, troops of 1 Division Nigerian Army stationed in Anchau, Kubau Local Government Area of kaduna State, arrested 2 kidnappers in the process of collecting ransom from a kidnap victim's family in the area....

#Recession ; Senator Dino Melaye Buys N180Million Rolls Royce From The US {Photos}

Controversial Nigerian senator, Dino Melaye, has acquired a 93-year-old Rolls Royce estimated at N180 million, amid a national recession that has left millions of his compatriots struggling to feed daily. Melaye, a first-time senator who represents Kogi Central, owns a fleet of luxury and antiquated cars worth billions of Naira....

Customs Officers Intercept 3 Bullet Proof Vehicles, Generate Over N1Billion At Seme Border {Photos}

The Nigeria Customs Service, Seme Command has generated N1, 129, 115, 213.23 (One Billion One Hundred and Twenty Nine Million, One Hundred and Fifteen Thousand Two Hundred and Thirteen Naira Twenty Three Kobo), as revenue for the month of September 2016....

Photos Of Multiple Accident Involving Trucks And Commercial Car Along Owode Idiroko road in Ota In Ogun State.

A multiple accident involving trucks and a commercial car occurred this morning at Honda bus stop along Owode Idiroko road in Ota, Ogun state. The number of causalities is yet to be ascertained as the accident has caused a traffic gridlock in the area. ..

Suspected militants invade Igbo Nla Model College in Epe, Lagos, kidnap principal

Suspected militants armed with guns this morning invaded Igbo Nla Model College in Epe, Lagos, kidnapping the principal. 

The Nation reports that men of the Lagos state police command in search of the kidnappers....

Gunmen shoot former UI vice-chancellor, Olufemi Bamiro in failed kidnap attempt

Former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Olufemi Bamiro was shot and wounded by gunmen in a failed kidnap attempt, on Tuesday, October 4th at Oluyole area of Ibadan.

The spokesman of the Oyo Police Command, Adekunle Ajisebutu, who confirmed the incident said Mr. Bamiro was rescued by the prompt intervention of police officers from the Oluyole Division of the command in response to a distress call. ...

See What A Woman And Her Sons Allegedly Did To A Prominent Doctor, Tunde Ojehomon In Benin. Graphic Photos

Men of the Okhoro Police Division in Benin -have arrested a 40 year old lady and her two sons and nanny for the gruesome acid attack on a renowned Benin based 80 year old doctor, Pa Tunde Ojehomon, PhD , over change of beneficiaries in a Will and Property Sales....

Minister Bababtunde Raji Fashola says no new road will be constructed until existing road projects are completed

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola while speaking to State house correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting at the state house Abuja, yesterday, said that the Federal government will not embark on the award and construction of any new road project until existing road projects from the last administration have all been completed. ...

FG approves N3.5bn for the purchase of 320 made-in-Nigeria cars to aid prisons decongestion

The Federal Government at its Federal Executive Council meeting yesterday approved the sum of N3.5 billion to purchase 320 made-in-Nigeria vehicles to aid prisons decongestion across the country....

READ: How Robbery Suspect, Ebere Nwankwo Raped A Male Victim In Lagos. Photo

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a suspected robber, Ebere Nwankwo, for allegedly attacking and raping a male victim in the Lekki area of the state. It was learnt that 20-year-old Nwankwo, after dispossessing his victim, identified only as Martins, of the sum of N22,000, allegedly had anal sexual intercourse with the victim....

Gbonyin LG Worker, Aderiye Kills Himself After Attacking 3 People With Machete In Ode, Ekiti State

There was confusion in Ode-Ekiti, headquarters of Gbonyin Local Government Area of Ekiti State, as a man, identified simply as Aderiye, committed suicide after inflicting three persons with machete cuts. The deceased was said to have gone berserk after the close of work on Tuesday evening. ...

Rod Temperton, Songwriter Behind Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Dies

Rod Temperton, the British songwriter behind Michael Jackson’s Thriller andRock With You, has died aged 66...

Radical Muslim, Imran Khan Who Killed His Wife, Nasreen For 'Taking Care Of Other Men' in Cheadle,Greater Manchester -Jailed For Life.

A devoted Muslim has been sentenced to life imprisonment after murdering his wife simply because he disapproved of her looking after men in her role as a care assistant. ...

Old Woman Allegedly Caught Burying Charms In Another Family's Compound In Anambra (Photos)

According to a Facebook user Uju Patricia, the woman was caught red handed trying to bury charm in another family's compound. ...

Kidnapped former Minister of Environment, Laurentia Laraba Mallam and her husband, freed

Former Minister of Environment under Goodluck Jonathan administration, Mrs. Laurentia Laraba Mallam and her husband, Pius Mallam, 73, who were kidnapped by gunmen on Monday night in Kaduna State have been freed, a competent source close to the family confirmed to SaharaReporters....

Edo Gov-elect, Obaseki, Others Mourn Former Edo Commissioner, Efosa Akenzua Who Died After Brief Sickness. PICS

The Edo state, Governor - Elect Mr Godwin Obaseki yesterday expressed shock over the death of Prince Efosa Akenzua who was former Commissioner of Land, Survey and Housing in the state...

Indian Boy With The "World's Longest Tail' Undergoes Surgery To Remove Growth. Photos

A teenage boy has had an eight-inch long "tail" removed from his back. The tail had started to grow on the back of the teenager just after his 14th birthday.But over the past four years, the "tail" had grown to 8 inches long on the Indian boy, now 18....

Paramedic guy, David Lee accused of sexually assaulting female colleagues while on duty ‘had erection as he drove ambulance

A male paramedic David Lee, 31, has been accused of groping the breasts of his female colleague and having an erection while she fetched kit from their ambulance to treat a patient. The 26-year-old female witness said on Tuesday in court: ...

The Sharjah Police UAE bust international gang, arrest five suspects including Africans

The Sharjah Police, in United Aran Emirates, on Monday, October 4th, busted an international gang that specialised in thefts targeting bank and hotel clients. The gang, who are considered one of the most dangerous international criminal syndicate were planning to rob bank clients in various European countries by stealing their bank account numbers but their plans were foiled by the police....

Senate rejects Senator Remi Tinubu's bill seeking special FG grant for Lagos state

Members of the senate today voted against a bill for an act to make provisions for Federal Grants to Lagos State in recognition of its contributions to the economic growth of Nigeria....

"I Won’t Quit From Your Case" -- CCT Judge, Danladi Tells Bukola Saraki

Danladi Umar, chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), has ruled that he will not withdraw from the trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki. Saraki had asked Umar to withdraw from his trial on the grounds that he was biased....