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*he was smuggling $82, 000 into the US without declaring it with the Customs officials both in Nigeria and the US. The Maryland State Police Department, USA on Sunday morning confirmed the arrest of the Executive Chairman of Udim local government area of Akwa Ibom state, Mr. Nse Ntuen, for ...

Pictured above is Muslim men protecting a Catholic Church in Egypt during mass. This is a big commendation to the Muslims that stood by peace in Egypt…..Wish this kind of love could extend to Nigeria. We would love to know your thoughts on this post. Drop your comments

I love this interview conducted with former Lagos State NSCDC commandant, Shem �Obafaiye(Oga at the Top).For the first time since the famed interview, he tells us how he really felt and why he emerged victorious at the end.Culled from theheraldng.com What is your opinion about the Channels Television interview that ...

The policemen, who were arrested in connection with the lynching of two youths (Ifechukwu �Nwainokpor, a final year student of Delta State University, and his friend, Kazeem Onayemi, an apprentice)by an angry mob on suspicion of armed robbery.in Ajara, Badagry area of Lagos State, �have denied participating in the killing. ...

A police officer, Mr. Raphael Ezechi, told a Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, at the resumed hearing in the killings of four University of Port Harcourt, UNIPORT, students in October 2012 in Omuokiri, Aluu community, that a dog was used to torture the students before they were ...

It was a horrifying moment when a police van was recently pushed off a bridge in Cairo by angry protesters. As if that was not enough, demonstrators attacked the burning wreckage, throwing stones at it. The dramatic pictures show the van being ambushed by dozens of people before crashing through ...

Yaounde, Cameroon (CNN) — Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has ordered the closure of nearly 100 Christian churches in key cities, citing criminal practices organized by Pentecostal pastors that threaten the security of the West African nation. But Pentecostal pastors said the move is evidence of Biya’s insecurity about the churches’ ...

Residents and visitors to Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital were on Thursday subjected to unwarranted restriction and security cordon, as the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, took time off to sing and dance with women drawn from the 36 states of the Federation. The event, which was held at the Eagles ...

This is to inform the general public of a fabricated and frivolous comments going round the internet, purported to have been written by Mrs Bianca Ojukwu, as her response to Kayode Fani-Kayode’s claim of having a relationship with her, before her marriage. According to aides of Mrs Ojukwu, “she has ...

It was a drama of sorts during the verification exercise of primary school teachers’ certificates in Edo State on Tuesday as one of the teachers in the state, Mrs. Augusta Odemwingie, could not read a sworn affidavit she tendered as part of her credentials. Mrs. Odemwingie teaches at Asologun Primary ...

Another baby was today found abandoned in a Lagos canal. The baby who still had its umbilical cord is suspected to be about 3-day-old. The baby was found dead floating atop a canal located at Orisan street, by Iyana bus stop, Ajangbadi, Lagos. The heart of man is desperately wicked. ...

A 14-year-old�schoolboy�has been jailed after he barricaded his teacher inside a classroom then laughed as he sexually assaulted her. Desperate colleagues tried to break down the door when they heard the teacher screaming for help but could not stop the boy, now 15, from Wrexham. Staff fought their way into ...

House Member, Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon never fails to amaze us with his grammatically inclined words. Read what he said on the current ASUU strike issue battling higher institutions in the country; �This ASUU strike is a miasma of a deprecable apothesis of an hemorrhaging plutocracy, cascadinly oozing into a maladorous ...

Onlookers were shocked when a man, who was said to be dead, suddenly got up and grabbed a bottle of water. The soft drink vendor in China faked his own death in order to sue the government after an altercation with government employees. But his cover was blown when he ...

This is a shocking testimony of Isiaku (A former Boko Haram member )as he told it himself. It was slightly edited to preserve its narrative purity.Wole Balogun was there: �I joined the Bafarawa Arabic Islamic Centre in 2010 and they were teaching us Arabic language. Every year, we take about ...

The police in Bayelsa State have arrested the alleged attackers of Folakemi Akinbode, a National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, member serving in the state whose right hand was almost chopped off, Monday night, at Obunagha in Yenagoa Local Government Area. You may wish to know that an Italian firm has ...

Permit me to make my second and final contribution to the raging debate about Lagos, who owns it and the seemingly endless tensions that exist between the igbo and the yoruba. It is amazing how one or two of the numerous nationalities that make up Nigeria secretly wish that they ...

26-year-old NYSC�member serving in Bayelsa State, Miss Folakemi Akinbode, is now struggling for her life at the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital, Okolobiri, following a brutal attack from suspected cultists. The incident occurred, Monday, at about 8.30pm at Obunagha community in the Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state. Miss ...

A 27-year old driver has been arrested and charged �before Apapa Magistrate’s court in Lagos for allegedly having sex with his girlfriend, a 23-year old Lagos State Polytechnic student, Thelma Lawrence, and posting her nude photo on the internet. Henry Aiyenero allegedly committed the illicit act in his house at ...

Rivers State Lawmaker, Chidi Lloyd Sues Nigerian Police N50billion For ill Treatment Chidi Llyod, the Leader of Rivers House of Assembly wants to sue the Nigerian Police N50million for ill treatment. While in their custody, embattled Rivers State law maker Chidi Lloyd claims he was blindfolded, battered and tortured by ...