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Culled from Saturday sun: Members of a five-man gang of kidnappers, including a lady, have given a gory detail of how they lure men through a popular online dating website known as Badoo to a lonely spot where they attack and rob them of their valuables while the unfortunate ones ...

Yusuf Onimisi� with twitter handle @Ciaxon, who was arrested by the SSS for tweeting pics of military operation during the Boko Haram prison break attempt on March 30th. He has been silent since his release last week. Finally he has tweeted his thanks to everyone for supporting and fighting for ...

The principal of the Government Secondary School, Asabe Kwambura, has stated that she mistakenly handed over the 129 schoolgirls to Boko Haram gunmen, who posed as military men. Speaking Associated Press reporter,� Jon Gambrel, the principal said,� �the insurgents arrived after midnight at her Government Girls’ Secondary School, wearing military ...

The former FCT minister shared this pic on his timeline, criticizing President Jonathan’s decision to attend a PDP rally in Kano a day after over 100 people were killed in a bomb blast in Abuja and over 100 girls abducted from a secondary school in Chibok, Borno. Can you see ...

In this shocking footage by Sahara reporters, a drunk ‘abi na’ Police officer identified as Tafa Mohammed with the Mobile Police, or Mopol, Unit #20 assaulted two women a fish seller & a customer, aiming his gun at them . This assault which took place at Lewis Street, Lafiaji, Obalende ...

Parents of the missing girls, the principal of the school and Borno state governor told reporters this morning that the military lied about the rescue operation as the girls were still missing. Below is what the principal of the school, Mrs Asabe Kwambura, told Premium Times this morning: “There is ...

A 32-year-old man Yusuf Siyaka aka Ciaxon�who tweeted live photos of attempted jailbreak at the SSS headquarters on March 30�and was later illegally detained for 12 days, was paid to tweet the sensational images, secret police said.� According to the spokesperson of the Department State Services, Marilyn Ogar, the blogger ...

Since the recent bombings in Abuja Nigeria, emotions have been running high with so many citizens expressing their anger online and offline. In the midst of it all, I have watched carefully and searched for any statement from religious leaders. For two days, I saw nothing except from a certain ...

About 80 students of the Government Girls’ Secondary School in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State, abducted by the Boko Haram insurgents on Monday were reportedly rescued on Tuesday and Wednesday morning by a group of vigilante, local hunters and soldiers The joint security team pursued the insurgents in ...

A 10-month-old baby simply identified as Goodness, who was rescued from the scene of the Monday bomb blast in Nyanya near Abuja,  has been reunited with her mother in hospital. Goodness was separated from her mother, Gloria Adams, who was presumed dead in the explosion. Before she was taken from the Asokoro ...

From Uk Daily Mail A�Nigerian ‘witch-hunter’ who claims any child who cries is a ‘servant of Satan’ could be banned from the UK following calls to Home Secretary Theresa May that she is a risk to youngsters. Campaigners are urging for Helen Ukpabio, known as ‘Lady Apostle’, to be deported ...

According to reports, 103 girls were kidnapped after an attack on a Girls Secondary School located in Chibok, a town on the border of Adamawa and Borno state last night April 14th. Gunmen reportedly arrived at the school in Chibok around 9pm, killed the soldier stationed to protect the students ...

‘Mummy, mummy, don’t let me die’, the agonising cry of a 15-year-old boy, whose legs were shattered and holding on to his mother trailed the deafening bomb�explosion�reverberating through the Federal Capital City. A woman was lying face down without limbs while another who was surrounded by her children, struggled for ...

The Peoples Democratic Party has condemned as barbaric, monstrous and extremely wicked, the bomb attack which claimed the lives of innocent Nigerians in Nyanya, a suburb of Abuja on Monday. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, in a statement said the party was shocked and has remained grief- stricken ...

According to a report on PMNews, some Jehovah’s Witnesses have decried the restriction on them, barring them�from marrying Catholics, Anglicans, Baptists and members of all Pentecostal churches, among others. According to the Witnesses, marrying non-members is seen as immoral and contrary to the teaching of their church. Thus, such union ...

President Jonathan has canceled his proposed trip to Ibadan Oyo State today to visit the scene of the bomb blast at Nyanya Motor Park Abuja with Four Service Chiefs & the National Security Adviser. President Jonathan was supposed to be in Ibadan to felicitate with the Olubadan of Ibadan who ...

A bomb blast rocked a crowded bus station near Abuja the capital city of Nigeria early this morning. The loud blast rocked Elrufai Park Nyanya Bridge, packed with commuters heading to the capital Abuja on Monday, with many people feared injured, the rescue agency spokesman told AFP. �This morning there ...

Unknown terrorists are said to have taken control of the missing plane and forced it to land near Kandahar. A Russian newspaper has claimed that Flight MH370 was hijacked by “unknown terrorists” and flown to Afghanistan, where the crew and passengers are now being held hostage. The extraordinary comments, attributed ...

Pope Francis on Friday said he felt responsible for the child sexual abuse scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church, and has issued an unprecedented apology. He made the remarks during a meeting with the International Catholic Child Bureau (Bice), a non�governmental organization. Pope Francis said: �I feel compelled to ...

Wasila Umaru,a 14 year old child bride who was forced to marry 35-year-old Umaru , killed him and three of his friends by lacing his rat dish with rat poison According to assistant superintendent Musa Magaji Majia, after their wedding last week, Umaru invited his friends to celebrate in northern ...