The rise and rise of 'Runtown'

The name Douglas Jack Agu might not strike a chord, but the moment you mention the name ‘RunTown’ you instantly relate the name with the remarkable success of one of Nigeria’s fastest rising pop sensations who has broken several boundaries in the music industry within a very short period of time, and he doesn’t seem to slowing down anytime soon.

Sistely love! Gumsu Sani Abacha gets a kiss from sister on her birthday

Gumsu Sani Abacha (left) got a kiss from her younger sister Zainab Abacha Danmarke (right) as she turned a year older yesterday...how cute! 

'We won't plead for the 12 soldiers sentenced to death' - Senate

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Defence, Senator Thompson Sekibo has said that members of the Senate will not be intervening on the death verdict handed to 12 soldiers for mutiny by a military court on September 16th.

Senator Sekibo who spoke with journalists after a closed-door meeting between the senate committee on Defence and the Service Chiefs at the National Assembly in Abuja yesterday September 23rd, said the verdict of the military court is meant to instill discipline into the military. 

EFCC press release: Man arraigned for duping another of N100k

Below is the EFCC press release

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on September 22, 2014 arraigned one Musa Yunusa alias Yassa Mustapha Aliyu before Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court on one count charge of obtaining money by false pretense. The accused allegedly obtained the sum of N100, 000 (One Hundred Thousand Naira Only) from one Abdulkadir Abbas under the guise that he had power voltage regulators to sell to him.

Ex-Gov Orji Uzor Kalu reportedly acquires most expensive private jet in Nigeria

According to Encomium mag, former Governor of Abia state, Orji Uzor Kalu, now has the most expensive private jet in Nigeria. The jet, which is the latest edition of the Gulfstream G650, is said to be worth about N12billion and arrived the Murtala Mohammed International Airport Lagos on Thursday September 18th from New York.

Why I published the TB Joshua bribery audio - Nicholas Ibekwe

Nicholas Ibekwe is the journalist who published the audio recording of T.B Joshua offering N50k to journalist to give his church favorable coverage (read here). He took to his blog today to explain why he did it. Find it below

Soldier detained for molesting, shaving pastor’s hair in Delta state

A soldier with 3 Battalion Effurun in Delta state, was yesterday September 22nd arrested by his command after he physically assaulted and shaved the hair of one Reverend Felix Omas, the General overseer and founder of Tower of Faith Ministries at Aleghor road checkpoint in Effurun, Delta state. Narrating his ordeal in the hands of the soldier, the elderly clergyman said; 

Nigerians Troops Plan Big Push To Recover Territory From Islamist Insurgents

                                    

Boosted by recent successes in Konduga and Bazza, commanders of Nigeria’s armed troops in the northeast are drawing up an ambitious tactical plan for a new offensive aimed at recovering territory seized by Islamist insurgents in the last two months.

Several military sources at Defense Headquarters in Abuja as well as field commanders told SaharaReporters that Nigerian troops have retaken Bazza, a town in Adamawa State earlier seized by militants. An earlier attempt by the army to recapture Bazza was repelled by Boko Haram insurgents. Lieutenant Colonel Adeboye Obasanjo, a son of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, was injured in that earlier battle when insurgents ambushed his platoon.

Viola Onwuliri: Omo Buruku l’Ojo Tie By Pius Adesanmi

                      
I am really beginning to like Viola Onwuliri, Nigeria’s Minister of State 1, Foreign Affairs. The first time I was moved to intervene positively about her in a public statement, our friends in India had just murdered a Nigerian. It was a mob job somewhere in India. And because, under normal circumstances, the life of the Nigerian citizen is not worth the fart of a hyena in the eyes of Nigerian government officials, I had expected the usual Nigerian state response to that tragic loss of the life of one of us in India: indifference, galling irresponsibility.

Photos:Months After Murders, Kaduna Governor Visits Killing Field As Women, Naked, Protest Poor Leadership

                                          

Months after his inability to visit murder sites in the troubled Southern Kaduna region of Kaduna state, Governor Mukhtar Yero finally surfaced in the ‘killing field’ today, while angry women protested, naked, against the governor's negligence and poor leadership.

An indigene of sanga local government,residing in the United States,

Man rapes girl, uploads her nude photos on the Internet

A 30-year old man has allegedly raped a 20-year old girl in Lagos, southwest Nigeria and uploaded her pictures on the internet. PM News reports that the suspect, Olaniyan Oluwakayode, who hails from Osun State, allegedly raped the girl in his apartment at Ifako area of Lagos. He was arrested by the police and brought to the Lagos State Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, WAPA, in handcuffs.

The victim (name withheld) from Akwa Ibom State, alleged that after being raped, Oluwakayode snapped her pictures despite pleas from his sister to desist from such barbaric act, saying Oluwakayode was never her boyfriend as he claimed.

Shocking! How Aliyu and Lamido deceived me- Gov. Amaechi Reveals

"I personally do not have any issue with our President. You can ask him. The only issue was a minor disagreement between me and the wife of the President over certain aspects of government policies. And we could have resolved it. After all, I didn't continue with the demolition of the waterfronts. I stopped on her advice! However, the present feud started when Gov. Aliyu told me that the north has decided to sponsor a Tambuwal/ Amaechi ticket in 2015 under the platform of the PDP. Aliyu, then pretentiously initiated a grand plan that made me the chairman of Nigeria governor's forum, just to lure me, to support his rebellious act in the PDP to stop President Jonathan. But when it became very clear that the President was in total control of the PDP. Aliyu brokered a meeting between the G7 governors and the leadership of the APC at the Niger state governor's lodge. Tinubu, Buhari, Ikimi, Tambuwal, Ribadu, Baraje, Adams and 7 other APC governors were in attendance. In that meeting, the G7 governors all agreed to join the APC. Continue...
Two days after that meeting, Gov. Adams called me and advised me to remain in PDP. Then I called Aliyu and told him, that Adams has been with the APC long enough to know their intrigues, and has advised me to remain in the PDP. But Aliyu told me, that the day he discussed the Tambuwal/ Amaechi ticket with the leadership of the APC that Adams objected to it and expressed his willingness to run with Tambuwal. And Aliyu warned me never to discus my interest with Adams, that Adams doesn't mean well for me. So the G5 governors continued with the plan and remained in APC. Aliyu is a chameleon and represents everything evil. He was the pioneer and architect of rebellion in the PDP followed by Lamido. We are all in shock, on how Gov. Aliyu would turn around to champion an endorsement of President Jonathan for re-election. Even up till last month, Aliyu and Lamido were still promising the G5 governors of a showdown in the PDP. The hearts of men are indeed deceitful and desperately wicked. If you have to eat with the devil with a long spoon. For Aliyu, I would rather you don't eat with him at all. Better starve to death than eat with him. If I knew, I would have listened to Adams and remained in the PDP"  Gov. Amaechi concluded

Supreme Court affirms Obiano’s election, dismisses Ngige’s suit

The Supreme Court on Monday affirmed the election of Willie Obiano as the governor of Anambra State.

The apex court threw out the petition by the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in the February 16 election.Obiano contested the election under the umbrella of the Peoples Democratic Party

Nigerian military says “Abubakar Shekau” Killed Was One Bashir Mohammed

A Nigerian military intelligence source has told SaharaReporters that the top Boko Haram figure killed in a recent operation was one Bashir Mohammed, leader of the Islamist sect’s Uye camp.Mohammed Bashir's body in KondugaCameroonian authorities yesterday released a photo of a dead man they identified as Abubakar Shekau, the loquacious and attention-seeking leader of the terrorist group that has launched deadly strikes in Nigeria’s northeast zone as well as Cameroon.

Photos: Orange Drugs boss' daughter, Cynthia Ezenna set to wed

The first daughter of Orange Drugs chairman, Anthony Ezenna, Cynthia Uchenna Ezenna will marry her man Chukwueke Elurihuka Gboneme on Saturday October 11th at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Victoria Island, Lagos. See more pics of the couple after the cut..

Incredible: This gentle Indian giant is only 5-years-old

Standing at 5ft 7in tall, it’s hard to believe Karan Singh is only 5-years-old. The young Indian boy who dreams of becoming a basketball player when he gets older stands head and shoulder above his peers. Karan, made it into the Guinness Book of World Records in 2008 for being the tallest and heaviest baby, weighing a whopping 7kg and measuring over 2ft – and he hasn’t stopped growing since. It’s easy to see where he got the genes: Karan’s father, Sanjay is 6ft 6in while his mom, Shweatlana, is even taller, standing at a height of 7ft 2in. Until 2012, she was the tallest Indian woman

$9.3m deal: El-rufai Under Fire for Abusing Oritsejafor

Some youths in Kaduna State on Sunday carpeted a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, for disparaging the President, Christian Association of Nigeria, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, over the latter’s alleged involvement in the $9.3m smuggled cash into Johannesburg, South Africa.Two Nigerians and an Israeli were arrested with the money in a private jet, allegedly owned by the CAN president.The money was said to be meant for the procurement of arms for intelligence agencies in Nigeria.

South African minister says death toll at Synagogue building collapse now 115

South African minister, Jeff Radebe today Sept. 22nd, said that the death toll from the Synagogue building collapse has risen to 115. Radebe said this at an airforce base, North of Johannesburg in South Africa where 25 South Africans who were injured in the collapsed building were brought home in a military C-130 aircraft (pictured above) for treatment. He however maintained that 84 South Africans died in the tragedy.

Photos: Atiku Abubakar meets with young people in Lagos

Former VP and aspiring presidential candidate of the APC, Atiku Abubakar had an interactive session with some youths in Lagos on Saturday Sept. 20th. During the meeting, Atiku said if elected, 50% of his cabinet will be made of qualified young people. See pics from the event after the cut...

TF? Woman gets third boobs implant to scare men away (photos)

21 year old American Jasmine Tridevil, claimed she had plastic surgery to create a third breast to scare men away. And now she wants her own MTV reality show.

The woman who is based in Tampa Florida, shares pictures on her Facebook page to 'show the struggles she faces because of her surgery.' She said her main reason for getting a third breast was because she didn't want to appear attractive to men.

Adorable pic: Beyonce shows pregnant belly on her HBO Special

Beyonce flashed this pic of Jay Z cradling her from behind while she was pregnant with Blue Ivy in 2011 on her HBO show 'One The Run' yesterday. Too too cute...