Tuesday, March 4, 2014

400 level law student in OAU Commits suicide. (Pictured)




Oladipo Olalekan Ige, a 400 level law student in Obafemi Awolowo University was found dead in his room away from campus.

Dipo is believed to have to committed suicide as he left a note in his room before going ahead with the act on Sunday evening.
Based on sources, Dipo was reported to be suffering from depression.
The late dipo stayed off campus, at Asherifa, a location not close to the uni. itself.
His corpse has been taken to the morgue.

All Heads of Aviation Agencies Fired



A statement from the office of Secretary to the Government of the Federation announced the changes.

The statement reads:

PRESS STATEMENT

RE-ORGANIZATION IN THE MINISTRY OF AVIATION

Navy Jet crashes during training flight in US



A supersonic combat jet crashed Saturday afternoon on a training complex in rural Nevada, the Navy said. The F/A-18C Hornet transpired about 70 miles east of Naval Air Station Fallon in western Nevada, an hour's drive east of Reno.

The aircraft was conducting a training flight. Navy personnel were en route to the scene Saturday night and had not yet “confirmed the status of the aircraft crew member,” according to a news release.  The plane was assigned to the air station's Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center.

24,118 Police Officers Promoted




...IGP calls for rededication to duty 


As part of on-going measures geared towards boosting the morale of Police officers and rewarding those who have excelled in their assigned roles, particularly in the area of combating crimes and criminalities in society, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP MD Abubakar, CFR, NPM, mni, psc has ordered the release of the promotion of Twenty-four thousand, One hundred and eighteen officers. A break-down of this promotion which ranks as the highest number of Police Officers promoted in one fell swoop in the history of the Force and cuts across different ranks is as follows:

Armed Robbers Strike Church During Service In Ibadan, 2 Policemen Killed, 40 Persons Wounded



At the least 6 robbers reportedly invaded the Vine Branch Church in Ibadan, Oyo State, having killed 2 policemen and having lost 2 of the men to fatal injuries in the attempt to steal the Sunday service offering. 
An eyewitness narrated to Sahara Reporters that the hoodlums, who attained 12.15 pm, all wearing black suits and white shirts caught the policemen on duty unawares, as they were mistaken for church worshippers. Two policemen were shot immediately, then 6 robbers entered the church and several others probably stayed outside, the eyewitness said.Continue.....

Pic: Married Amber Rose lets a fan grab her butt



 She discussed the picture on instagram and explained why she allow him grab her butt. Wiz Khalifa come get ya woman.

Monday, March 3, 2014

Boko Haram Re-strike in Borno State leaving 33 People Dead.



The Islamic sect men struck again yesterday March 2nd in Borno state in Mafa Local Government area, a border community between chad and cameroon, killing scores of people. 

According to residents in the area, the men came into Mafa town using Hilux Toyota vans armed with AK47 rifles, Improvised Explosive Devices ( IED’s ), Rocket Propelled Launchers, petrol bombs and opened fire on residents who were asleep, which led to at least 33 people being killed, with several injured, and property worth millions of Naira destroyed. The gunmen are reported to have had a field day in Mafa having overpowered the military personnel stationed in the Village.

‘I do not regret killing him ': Man caught for stabbing Neighbour to Death in Oyo (GRAPHIC IMAGE)




‘I don’t regret killing him’: Man arrested for stabbing neighbour to death in Oyo (GRAPHIC IMAGE)


A 28-year-old man who had reportedly just landed a new job had no idea that he wouldn’t live to resume after he confronted a neighbour and lost his life in the process.
Joseph Faminigba of the Owode Estate environs of Apata in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, is said to have been stabbed straight through the heart by one Sunday Delight Ajayi, a neighbour.\
graphic photo below:

3 Offa students arrested & paraded for r*ping female colleague



Men of the state police command on February 15th arrested three of six students of Kwara State College of Health and Technology, Offa, who allegedly raped their female colleague in the institution to a state of unconsciousness.

Parading the suspects to journalists in Ilorin on Friday, the state Commissioner of Police, Ambrose Aisabor, said the female student was drugged by the six suspects before they raped her. He said that the suspects raped the victim “mercilessly until she became unconscious.” Continue...

Graphic photos: 3 Brothers kill 1 brother over their father's Property in Lagos



 Three brothers in Satellite Town, Fatia, Sakiru and Tunji Osun, have killed their brother, Yusuf, over the home that their father left when he died. Based on witnesses, their father willed the home to Yusuf, who wasn't the eldest, however the eldest, Fatia decided to offer the home for N15m, take N10m and give his brothers N5m to share. Yusuf didn't agree, and the remainder, is history.


TelegraphNG reports...

2 men get 17years for stealing Gov. Aregbesola’s Mobile phone



Osogbo High Court has sentenced Babatunde Ogunjobi, 33, and Abdulgafar Yusuf, 39, to 10 and seven years imprisonment respectively for stealing Gov. Rauf Aregbesola’s cell phone and duping with it.
Justice Saka Falola, who gave the verdict on Friday, said the convicts should serve the 17 years at the Federal Prison, Ilesa, because of the gravity of the offences.

Gen. Abacha Honoured With Centenary Award - Federal Government



The Federal Government had shortlisted 100 persons to be honoured with Centenary awards included in Nigeria's Centenary celebration and the late tyrant, Gen. Sani Abacha was on the list. Abacha's inclusion sparked a lot of controversy and Prof. Soyinka even rejected the award.
The government has said Abacha was among those receiving the centenary honours because he was a Nigerian soldier and politician who served as de-facto President of Nigeria from1993 to 1998.

Poverty Alleviation The Wrong Way




 Editorial (Guardian Newspaper)

donationTHE recent warning by the Lagos State Government to politicians, philanthropists and other affluent members of society to stop donating motorcycles and tricycles to people, as supposed means of poverty alleviation and employment is really timely and commendable. It has appropriately challenged a disgraceful, even insulting practice that has gradually become the norm in most communities across the country. Commercial motorcycle and tricycle riders are on the increase because a mindset has over time been built that it is a lucrative trade thus making people jettison quest for real skills and making governments too lazy in dealing appropriately with challenges of transportation on one hand and unemployment on the other.

"Life without Oil" - Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola



If George Etomi had not become such a successful legal practitioner, one thing I know he would have done extremely well and indeed on a global scale is to play squash rackets.

Many years back in Surulere, precisely over two and a half decades, it was a marvel to watch this graceful sportsman play this game, (whose evolution it is rumoured is located in some not too palatable origins), with the precision, competitiveness and expertise, that humbled his opponents, and dare I say frequent victims in the finest traditions of sportsmanship of honour in victory and gracefulness in defeat that I have never seen on our land.

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Seriously, what? Kerry tells Russia 'you don't invade a country on completely phony pretexts'





Seriously, what? Kerry tells Russia 'you don't invade a country on completely phony pretexts'
The US Secretary of State spoke today of the unacceptability of invading a sovereign country on phony pretexts in order to assert one’s own interests in the 21st century. But no, he was not speaking about the United States, as one might have thought.

“You just don’t invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests,” John Kerry said during an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press. “This is an act of aggression that is completely trumped up in terms of its pretext. It’s really 19th century behaviour in the 21st century.”

Check out Photos from the Centenary Awards




Former Presidents/Heads of State, business men, entertainers, sports men, and families of people who helped shape Nigeria in the last 100 years were all honoured at the Centenary Awards which held at the banquet hall of the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Friday February 28th.

President Jonathan decorated seven living former Heads of State and Presidents including; Yakubu Gowon, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, Chief Ernest Shonekan and Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar.

He also honored 6 late Nigerian Heads of State post-humously.

FIFA Authorize the us of Veils, Turbans During Matches After Protest



FIFA today has officially authorised the use of head covers for religious reasons during football matches for both male and female. It concluded today after a two-year trial proved that ‘wearing of head covers while playing competitive football posed too great a risk of injury to the head or neck’ as suggested by FIFA officials in 2012, proved not to be true.

Heavy Casualties In Maiduguri Vehicle Bombing



Several persons have already been killed with a bomb planted, by suspected Boko Haram sect militants, in a pickup van carrying firewood.

The huge explosion which occurred around 6 pm Nigerian amount of time in a densely populated Bintu-Suga area along Airport road in Gomari neighborhood killed and injured unspecified amount of people in accordance with security agencies evacuating bodies of the dead and injured in the area.

Doctors discover teeth growing inside baby's brain



Doctors discover teeth growing inside baby's brain
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Doctors have discovered a tumour with teeth growing out of it in a baby's brain.

The rare cancer was found in a four-month-old patient in Maryland, United States, last year but details of it have just been released in a medical journal.
It was reportedly the first instance of teeth being discovered in a particular brain tumour, called the adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma.

Baale, Four The others kill & bury Wife In Lagos [Pics]




The police at Okokomaiko Division in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, have arrested the Baale of Mebamu Kingdom, Chief Mosiu Adio Hassan, and four others over the alleged murder of a housewife.

The woman was shot dead and secretly buried in the area without her husband’s consent to cover up the crime.

It was learnt that the couple was attacked because they are related to the former Baale known as Kolawale, who was dethroned by Hassan last year.

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