Just In: Plane Crashes At Lagos Airport [Photos]

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 There's been information that a plane crash has occurred at the Lagos airport.
It's not yet known if there has been any casualties.
In accordance with a witness, the crash occurred at the area wing of the airport near the section were JET-A1, plane fuel, is stored.
Fire service officials were seen evacuating the occupants of the plane.
The spokesman of the Nigeria aviation agencies, Yakubu Datti, called for additional time to get details of the incident, Premium Times reports.

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Catholic Priest Nabbed For Molesting and Rá*ping Over 20 Children

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A priest has been reportedly arrested and is now facing charges for rapé.

75-year-old Father Robert Brennan allegedly s-éxually assaulted over 20 children.

He was arrested under the charges of rapé, involuntaryf deviate s-éxual intercourse, and aggravated indecent assault in connection with incidents between 1998 and 2001. The victim was 11 to 14 years old.

The allegations include oral sé-x and digital penétration, or finger penétration.

According to allegations from a male victim, he said the priest routinely touched altar boys inappropriately in exchange for candy or prizes.

Lawyer, Marci Hamilton represents the current victim, now 26 years old, and two other alleged victims.

Source: Huffington Post

Thugs Cause Disruption At Redeemed Church Construction Site

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Members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, who started construction a new 3-kilometre auditorium for the church at Agufoye village were chased away by a large group of over 40 armed thugs.   The trouble has started, it was gathered, when fraudsters obtained a survey plan and
invited land grabbers to claim a portion of the land which the Redeemed Christian Church of God had earlier bought for N215 million.

Two Ogun State Government receipts dated July 22nd and 29th, 2009, serve as the evidence for purchase.  The land was also allocated to the church for 99 years by the Ogun State Bureau of Lands and Survey, Abeokuta, in July 2009.

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Woman stabs husband in the butt after he comes home late

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Yvette Raylene Jones

Police were called when a woman stabbed her husband after he came home late. Police and emergency workers in Ferndale, Michigan, were called at about 10:25 pm, on reports of an injured man.

Police found the man bleeding from the upper leg and buttocks at the motel. Yvette Raylene Jones, 49, told police her husband fell on glass and hurt himself.

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National confab, attempt to deceive Nigerians — CNPP

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BY PETER DURU
MAKURDI—The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties, CNPP, has declared the President Goodluck Jonathan’s proposed National Conference as another dummy by the presidency to deceive Nigerians.
According to them, ”the process will definitely be manipulated by the government to suit their own purpose. The fact is that, at the end of the day, it will turn out to another jamboree and avenue for people to make money from the system.”

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Lagos State Almost Self-Sufficient In Power Generation – Fashola

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Lagos State Government has said its energy reform initiatives are yielding positive result with the state close to being self-sufficient in its power needs.
To this end, it said a number of public institutions was being moved out of the national grid and connected to the power being generated from the power plants built by the state government.

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No to ‘extension of colonialism’: Gambia dumps British Commonwealth.

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Gambia has withdrawn from the Commonwealth, a collection of 54 nations made up largely of former British colonies, saying it will “never be a member of any neo-colonial institution”.
In an unexpected announcement broadcast by the west African nation on state television on Wednesday it was not immediately clear what prompted the decision to leave the Commonwealth, which is headed by the Queen.

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Moscow police detained 16 Nigerian students over Embassy violence

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Ambassador Assam

Moscow police have detained 16 Nigerian students accused of smashing furniture inside their country’s embassy, reportedly in anger over unpaid grants.

The 16 suspects were removed from the embassy building at the request of Nigerian staff, Russia’s interior ministry told local media.

All of them are enrolled at colleges of higher education in Russia, it added.

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Spilling of innocent blood unIslamic – NSCIA

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Ibadan – The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) on Wednesday described the spilling of innocent blood of students of the College of Agriculture in Yobe as “unislamic and sadistic’’.

This is contained in a statement entitled “Spilling Innocent Blood is Unislamic’’ issued in Ibadan and signed by Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, the Secretary-General of NSCIA.

“No group or person, militant or terrorist, should take pleasure in brutal elimination of innocent lives,’’ the statement stated.

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Just in: Nollywood Star Shot Dead in Benin

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Nollywood star, Flavian Okojie, has been shot dead in Benin, the Edo State capital. Okojie, who just got married NTA presenter Omo-kivie Adeola three weeks ago had many fans all over Nigeria.  His widow in her distress posted a facebook update  indictating her despair.

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Washington live: US government tweets its shutdown

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Lots of federal services are disrupted in US as the government shutdown went deep into a second day. What keeps kicking is Twitter. Federal agencies didn’t forget to tell Netizens that they were not working anymore.

First of all most agency branches' simply tweeted of the news.

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How we robbed Pasuma of his Range sport & distributed the money - Robber confesses

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The suspects  identified as Fatai Balogun, Wale Akinjobi and Gbenga Kolawole during interrogation, confessed to have come all the way from Ogun state to operate.
A source, who craved anonymity  told Crime Alert that the police launched a manhunt for the gang after  Pasuma’s encounter, during which  they were  intercepted.

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We Want 3 Trillion Before Calling off the Strike-ASUU

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Dr. Nasir Fagge, National President, ASUU

George Okoh

The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Dr. Nasir Fagge, has accused the federal government of not telling Nigerians the truth about the demand of the union as regards the government’s statement that the union's demand has been met.
According to Fagge, ASUU had a Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with the federal government for it to spend over N3 trillion to turn around the fortune of all federal and state universities and also to better the lot of the educational sector in the country.

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10 qualites Guys Look For in a Girlfriend

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Number 10
She’s Independent
No one wants a girlfriend they have to baby-sit.
Once in a while, like if she’s had a rough day, it’s great to be her shoulder to cry on, but if she can’t seem to function without you and is constantly after you, she will eventually make you feel like you’re suffocating, which is a surefire way to get you running out the nearest exit. On the other hand, if she has her very own personality and opinions, can stand on her own two feet, both financially and emotionally, and is able to enjoy time away from you — while still missing you, of course — then she must be a great girlfriend.

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Wicked Apprentice malested and Rapes His Master's Wife

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To have a matured man live with you in the same house with your beautiful wife, comes with its challenges, especially if the guy is one that you can't really vouch for his character.

As you read this, an Ibadan Chief Magistrates’ Court at Iyaganku area of the city has remanded a 20-year-old bricklaying apprentice for having carnal knowledge of his master’s wife. Prosecutor, Grace Akinsehinwa, told the court that the young man had been working for the woman’s husband and living in the same house with the young couple.

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Post Of The Day: #Independence53 – Don’t get it twisted, my tribe is Nigeria

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My son sees my friends gather in the house and talk things Nigeria. He sees us watch Nigerian games on television and proudly waves the green-white-green flag. He rides in the car and mimes the Nigerian hip-hop songs. He doesn’t know under the American skies, he’s been shielded from the reality of a country sometimes so divided you wonder, is it really a country?

A year ago, my five year-old son was asked to give a talk to his class about himself. He stuns his teachers when he tells them he’s Nigerian. The teacher corrects him. “You’re American, your father was Nigerian as were your grandparents,” the head teacher tries to correct him.

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Train Hits Couple Having $-ex On Its Tracks - Woman Killed, Man Loses Both Legs.

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A thrill-seeking Ukrainian couple met a tragic end after they stopped on their way home to made love on a train tracks and were hit by a train.  According to Ukrainian Interior Ministry, which announced the Saturday morning accident,  the couple 'wanted to experience an extreme sensation near the railroad tracks.

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ASUU Update: FG Invokes "No Work, No Pay" Policy For ASUU Lecturers

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The Federal Government has invoked the ‘no work, no pay’ labour rule against striking university lecturers as their industrial action enters the 93rd day with no end in sight.
Some of the federal university vice chancellors have not paid the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) members their August and September salaries in compliance with the government’s directive.
Some branch chairmen of ASUU see the government and vice chancellor’s move as an attempt to break the rank of their members, insisting that their members are resolute on the ongoing strike.

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Video: Teenage Girl Narrates how she Was molested and R-aped by her Father and his friends In the name of ‘Jihad’

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CBN bans importation of foreign currency

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Abuja -  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has banned the importation of all foreign currencies except with approval.
This was contained in a statement signed by CBN Director of Corporate Communications, Mr Ugo Okoroafor, on Tuesday in Abuja.
It said that the move was sequel to the Bank’s withdrawal of the operating licence of 20 Bureaux de Change (BDCs).

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