Army raids suspected criminal's camps

– Troops of 222 Battalion, 4 Brigade Nigerian Army involved in the field training exercise of Operation CROCODILE SMILE have been conducting patrols and raids – The troops carried out

Boko Haram: Army chief reveals secrets

– Major General Lucky Irabor says the Boko Haram war ends in a matter of weeks – The army chief says contrary to popular opinion leader of the sect is not dead – Irabor says some strongholds in Sambisa are yet to be broken by the army Major General Lucky Irabor has said that Nigeria’s army expects to seize Boko Haram’s last few strongholds in the northeast over the next few weeks.

Mother And Her Three Children Strip Naked In Public

A woman who stripped naked along with three of her children outside a high school has blamed the psychotic episode on an adverse reaction to medication she was taking.

Mother sleeps naked with teen son, asks whether it's normal

– A mother asked whether it is okay for her to co-sleep naked with her 16-year-old son – The internet responded with anger, misunderstanding and even warned she could be arrested A woman, who

Too much hunger in the country, Fayose tells Buhari

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[REVEALED] How 4.58 Million Nigerians Became Jobless Under Buhari

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BREAKING: Nigeria officially in recession, GDP growth drops to -2.06%

The National Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday released the much-awaited Gross Domestic Product figures for the second quarter of 2016 with the GDP growth rate sliding further from -0.36 per cent in

‘Ex-President told Anenih to transfer N100M to me,’ Falae says

Falae is being investigated for money laundering by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) after he was accused of benefitting from the arms deal fraud.

Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Chief Olu Falae has said that Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Chief Tony Anenih transferred N100 million to him on the orders of former president, Goodluck Jonathan.

‘I wasn’t slapped by a goddess,’ Governor says

Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha also dismissed claims that he had travelled abroad to seek treatment for a medical condition.

Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha has denied reports that he was slapped by the goddess of Nworie and Otamiri River.

Okorocha also dismissed claims that he had travelled abroad to seek treatment for a medical condition.
The governor made the clarifications while speaking with journalists in Owerri on Monday, August 29, 2016.
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FIRS Launches Recruitment Programme

IN order to bridge the taxation gaps in Nigeria, The Federal Inland Revenue Service, in a statement released yesterday, as part of its consolidation strategies, wish to engage the services of early starters

[REVEALED] Falae Links Jonathan To N100m Election Funds Scam In Email Sent To EFCC

A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, has submitted to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,an email correspondence linking former President

Aso Rock clinic faces drug scarcity inspite N3.87bn budget

Despite the N3.87bn allocated to it in the 2016 Appropriation Act, lack of drugs and other essential medical items have crippled operations at the State House Medical Centre.

President says FG will deal with militants if dialogue fails

President Buhari has said the Federal Government will not spare any act of insurgence or terrorism should Niger Delta Avengers refuse to embrace dialogue.

I rejected private jet gift —Apostle Johnson Suleman

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Police arrest mastermind of herdsmen attack

The spokesman said the police will stop at nothing to ensure that those involved in the act are apprehended and brought to book.

Governor threatens to arrest PDP members

Governor Adams Oshiomhole has threatened to arrest members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who go against the law.

The First Light Rail In Nigeria Ready For Inauguration

Built by Ponet TFZE, the train with a cruising speed of about 40 kilometres per hour, has 12 cars, including 10 passenger and two equipment cars.

The World’s Longest Civil War Is Over

Colombia’s chief negotiator, Humberto de la Calle, expressed it in this way. “The war is over,” he said.

Today starts the end of the sufferance, pain and tragedy of the war,” President Juan Manuel Santos,

Delta state confirms one dead, 32 others on surveillance

The Delta State Ministry of Health has confirmed one confirmed person dead and 32 others on surveillance following the reported case of Lassa fever.

The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Nicholas Azinge, in a statement on Monday in Asaba, said

Prices of rice, corn, other foodstuffs crash

– Prices of foodstuffs have begun crashing in Jigawa as latest survey of the popular Hadejia

Breaking News: Avengers adamant on declaring independence October 1

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Police discover graves in house of prophet who chained 28 persons

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Breaking News: Police withdraw from Kwankwaso’s home

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Reality star can't stop showing off that beach body [PHOTOS]

The mum of two revealed she has been battling getting rid of her baby fat ever since giving birth to son Saint West in early December.

Gunmen attack UNILAG student

A student of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), identified as Bayo from the department of Economics Education, is in critical condition in the hospital after being shot by unknown

Nigerian Air Force kills 300 Boko Haram members

The Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar has said that about 300 Boko Haram members were killed by the Nigerian Air Force in a raid in Borno State.
Abubakar said this on Monday in Bama, while addressing men and officers of the Nigerian Air Force.
“I cannot but say thank you. I am very happy to note that since  August 16 to now, you undertook extensive air operations and we were able to deal with these terrorists trying to make life difficult for our people.
“I want to say from the briefing that I received from the Air component commander that I am satisfied with what you have done.

“Of particular note is the operation you conducted on the 19th of this month, it was a night operation and we were very lucky to deal with these guys (insurgents) who had en-massed and were planning an attack . We are very happy to note that about 300 of them will not be available to commit evil again.”
source;THE PUNCH

OVER 20,000 RESCUED FROM BOKO HARAM CAPTIVITY – TUKUR BURATAI.

 Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, the Chief of Army Staff on Saturday stated that the military had so far rescued more than 20,000 people abducted by Boko Haram insurgents.

RECESSION: Kumuyi, Udom foresee hope for Nigeria

GENERAL Superintendent, Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor William Kumuyi and the Akwa Ibom State governor, Mr. Emmanuel Udom last Sunday assured Nigerians that the current harsh economic situation would soon abate. Kumuyi Kumuyi Speaking at a special Sunday service at the church’s International Bible Training Centre, Ayobo, a suburb of Lagos the twosome foresee hope

Usain Bolt Biography

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90-yr-old Rev S.T. Ola Akande

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Rio Olympics Football Bronze

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I and four others brought Buhari to rescue Nigeria" - Ex-president says

Ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo has said he and four other notable Nigerians brought President Buhari to salvage Nigeria from its challenges.

Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria's former president has opened up on the emergence of Muhammadu Buhari as the country's leader.

No pain, no gain,' Pastor says Buhari won't fail Nigerians

A former presidential running mate and the General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has urged Nigerians to be patient with the President Muhammadu Buhari

Buhari, US Secretary of State Kerry to meet over Boko Haram

United States Secretary of State, John Kerry, has been scheduled to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja next week.

Paul Manafort resigns from Trump campaign

Paul Manafort resigns from Trump campaign

Donald Trump’s outspoken campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, resigned Friday -- days after he was pushed aside for conservative media executive Steven Bannon -- and also amid growing speculation about his ties to Ukrainian politics.
“This morning Paul Manafort offered, and I accepted, his resignation from the campaign,” Trump said in a written statement to FoxNews.com. “I am very appreciative for his great work in helping to get us where we are today, and in particular his work guiding us through the delegate and convention process. Paul is a true professional and I wish him the greatest success.”
Manafort, who as a 26-year-old Republican operative, helped manage the 1976 convention floor for Gerald Ford in his successful showdown with Ronald Reagan, drew praise for steering the campaign through the final weeks of the primary process and the convention.
But he came under fire following a New York Times article over the weekend claimed handwritten ledgers show $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments to him from ex-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s pro-Russian party between 2007 and 2012.
The document was found by investigators from Ukraine’s newly formed National Anti-Corruption Bureau. Investigators reportedly say the payment was part of an illegal off-the-books system whose recipients also included election officials.
Manafort strongly denied receiving any such off-the-book payments – calling the accusation “unfounded, silly and nonsensical” – and denied ever doing work for the government of Ukraine and Russia. He has worked on political campaigns there but maintains they were not government-sanctioned.
Those close to Trump praised Manafort, but did not dismiss a possible connection between his ouster and the Ukrainian controversy.
"I think my father didn’t want to be, you know, distracted by whatever things Paul was dealing with," Eric Trump, told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo.
Earlier this week, the campaign announced that Breitbart head Steven Bannon was being brought on as CEO, and GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway as campaign manager. While Team Trump initially insisted the new team members would work with Manafort, many predicted his days were numbered.
Sources told Fox News brinbging in Conway was the idea of Manafort, who believed she could help him get the developer to stay on script and avoid verbal gaffes. But bringing on Bannon was Trump's idea, the source said.
A source familiar with Manafort's thinking said the 66-year-old stepped down so that "Trump could stay focused on the campaign." He will "continue to work from the outside," helping with coordination in Washington, the source said.

 SOURCE;FOX NEWS

Everything I said about marriage I meant it- Pastor E A Adeboye

74-year General Overseer of the Redeemed Christen Church of God (RCCG) Pastor E A Adeboye has said that he meant every-word he said about marriage during the recently concluded RCCG 64th annual convention. Pastor Adeboye Pastor Adeboye Adeboye,

Why I named my dog ‘Buhari’

The Police in Ogun State, yesterday, released unconditionally, the 30-year-old trader, Joe Fortemose Chinakwe, who was arrested last Saturday for naming his pet dog ‘Buhari’. The embattled trader, Chinakwe. The embattled trader, Chinakwe. The embattled trader, who was visibly angry after his three-day incarceration in police cell, was let off the hook around 5pm on Tuesday after the intervention of both the Serkin Hausa and President-General of non-indigenes in the state. It was learned that the prompt intervention of the elders made the complainant to withdraw the case he reported against the trader at Sango-Ota division which was later transferred to Police headquarters at Eleweran. However, police sources said both the complainant and suspect were made to sign an undertaking not to cause any breach of peace again. Speaking to Vanguard after this release, the trader, a father of two from the Niger Delta, who trades on second hand clothing lamented that he was made to suffer for no just cause. Complainant from Niger Republic Narrating his ordeal, Chinakwe said “It is annoying because the complainant is from Niger Republic and I am sure he is one of those illegal aliens in this country. He connived with one Police Sergeant from the Northern part of Nigeria called Musa, who works at Sango Police division to humiliate me. Worse still, the Divisional Police Officer there, did not help matters as he refused to entertain any plea from me after I was arrested that Saturday night. He simply ordered his men to throw me into the cell.” Why dog was named Buhari Continuing, he said “I did not commit any offence. I named my beloved pet dog Buhari, who is my hero. My admiration for Buhari started far back when he was a military Head of State. It continued till date that he is a civilian President. After reading his dogged fight against corruption, which is like a canker worm eating into the very existence of this country, I solely decided to rename my beloved dog which I called Buhari, after him. I did not know that I was committing an offence for admiring Buhari. Ordeal with Police “I was intimidated and thrown inside the cell with hardened criminals for about three days. While I was there, the complainant from Niger Republic and Sergeant Musa from the North kept on taunting me saying people from my part of the country are trouble makers and that after detaining me, they will throw me into prison where I will die unsung. ”Even when my wife came with our baby on her back, they stopped her from giving me food. One of my friends that came to see me was also maltreated. “While taking me to Eleweran the next day, they handcuffed and chained me together with that my friend. Fortunately, when we got to police headquarters, both the Commissioner of Police and other officers were angry with their colleagues at Sango-Ota. ”They were wondering loudly why I was brought to the headquarters over such a minor case. It’s very unfortunate that I have to be so humiliated in my own country because of the antics of a foreigner in connivance with my brother from the North.” SOURCE;VANGUARD

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/named-dog-buhari-trader/

APC will kill democracy in Nigeria, Agbaje implies

Former Governorship Candidate of the PDP in Lagos State, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, has blamed the leadership crisis in his party on the ruling APC.

N23bn Diezani poll cash: Ex-PDP chair refunds N6m to EFCC

ABUJA — Former Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  in Bagoro Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Andrew Adamu, yesterday, refunded N5 million of the N12 million he was said to have received in the build-up to the 2015 presidential poll. The payment of the N5 million was in

Court orders PDP not to hold convention till September

 The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted an order of interlocutory injunction restraining the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from conducting its National Convention until September 7. Justice

South Africa rape: 'Shocking' levels of violence in mining area

One in four women living in a key platinum mining area in South Africa has been raped in her lifetime, a survey by medical charity MSF has said.

About half of women in Rustenburg had been subject to sexual violence or intimate partner violence, it said.
The charity said the findings of its survey were "shocking but not uncommon" in South Africa.
South Africa has one of the highest incidences of rape in the world and a low prosecution rate.Based on its survey of more than 800 women aged 18-49 in Rustenburg municipality, north-west of Johannesburg, MSF said only 5% of the approximately 11,000 women and girls raped each year reported the incident to a health worker.

Stigma

The research also suggested that a very low number of these women were aware of how to prevent HIV transmission and even pregnancy.
MSF said survivors of sexual violence faced numerous other barriers to seeking care.
"Stigma within communities is high and options are few for accessing well-resourced, dedicated sexual violence health services," it said.
Despite lying at the centre of South Africa's platinum belt, Rustenburg is home to many poor communities.

Image copyright AFP

Image caption Miners' wives took part in demonstrations at Marikana in the Rustenburg municipality in 2012

The area attracts both men hoping to work in the mines and women from across South Africa and abroad who hope to benefit from the local mining economy.
MSF said unemployment was particularly high for migrant women "creating conditions that promote dependency on men who are more readily employed by mines in the area".

Marikana anniversary

The charity said there was a need to increase the number of staff trained in sexual healthcare in the area.
The BBC's Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg says the authorities hope ongoing awareness campaigns will encourage rape victims to seek medical attention and even legal recourse.
The survey was published on the fourth anniversary of the shooting by police of striking workers at the Marikana mine in the Rustenburg municipality.

Thirty-four people died in what was the worst violence in South Africa since the end of apartheid 20 years earlier. The incident led to intense scrutiny over the roles of the police, mining companies, unions and the government.
source;BBC NEWS

Father identifies Chibok girl kidnapped by Boko Haram

The father of one of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped from the remote area of Chibok more than two years ago said he recognised his daughter in a video released by Boko Haram on Sunday.

Niger Delta: Asari Dokubo Declares Support For Avengers, Biafra

Asari Dokubo has said that he will not dialogue with members of the Niger Delta Avengers and declared his support for them.

OPC Gives Niger Delta Militants 14-Day Ultimatum To Stop Attacks

The destructive activities of the Niger Delta militants in the the South-western part of Nigeria with the Imusin and Ogijo in Ogun and some riverine communities in Ikorodu area of Lagos State badly affected in recent times has attracted the attention of the pan-Yoruba organisation, the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC.

Buhari appoints 24 years old as Personal Assistant on New Media

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Bashir Ahmad as his Personal Assistant on New Media.
Mr. Bashir, 24, is an indigene of Kano state. Until his appointment, he was the Online Editor (Hausa) for Leadership Newspaper.
Mr. Bashir graduated from Bayero University Kano in 2013, with Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication.

He worked as an online editor and reporter at Rariya Hausa Newspaper, before joining Leadership as an online editor.

Robber Arrested on Wedding Day in Ibadan

Nemesis caught up with a suspected member of a notorious robbery gang, Olumide Asiyanbi, as the Oyo State police command caught up with him while exchanging marital vows at a

Under Jonathan, Nigeria earned N51trillion from crude oil R

The Nigerian state, during the five-year Presidency of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, earned a total of N51 trillion from petroleum resources. The money is part of the N96.212trillion the

Why Nigeria is so complete

Nigeria Tribes and People

We hope to answer any question you might have about Nigeria Tribes here. Recent statistics has shown that there is over 500 different tribes in Nigeria, while most people are very much aware of the three major tribes in Nigeria; Hausa Igbo and Yoruba, there myriad of other that are yet in obscurity