JOBLESS MAN KILLS HIS WIFE OF 26 YEARS IN OSHODI OVER ALLEGATIONS OF INFIDELITY, ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.

A crowd besieged Araromi Street in Oshodi area of Lagos State on Friday after a 49-year-old man, Jafaru Sougie, allegedly killed his wife of 26 years.

The suspect was said to have poisoned himself thereafter and was vomiting in the bathroom when one of their children, Richmond, woke up.

Jafaru had reportedly slit the wife’s throat with a knife around 2am but she was discovered dead at 4am by Richmond and his aunt who raised the alarm.

#DIEZANIALERT - 11 INEC OFFICIALS ADMIT RECEIVING N120M FROM DIEZANI'S N23BN.

Eleven officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission who supervised the 2015 general elections in Gombe State have admitted to receiving N120m out of the N23bn ($115m) allegedly disbursed by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, according to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

The revelation comes about a month after the EFCC arrested a former Resident Electoral Commissioner in Rivers State, Mrs. Gesila Khan, and other top INEC officials in the South-South for allegedly receiving N675.1m from Diezani.

Sources at the EFCC said on Friday that the 11 officials had been interrogated and had made confessional statements.

KYLIE JENNER DENIES RUMOURS ABOUT HER EX TYGA OWING HER $2M.

Reports began circulating recently claiming that the rapper had been using the E! star's cash flow for his own expenses, and once their relationship came to an end, Kylie was "begging" him to start paying her back the "over $2 million" he reportedly owed her.

However, that doesn't seem to be the case. Kylie took to Twitter to deny the claims, responding to a user who tweeted about one of the reports with, "Lies lies lies."

Tyga has not publicly addressed the claims.

The longtime, on-again, off-again couple called it quits earlier this month. An insider told E! News at the time that ending things with the rapper "hasn't been easy but she's just keeping busy."

14-YR -OLD ESE ORURU WHO WAS RESCUED FROM HER ABDUCTOR IN KANO DELIVERS BABY GIRL.

The rescued 14-year-old girl, Ese Oruru, was on Thursday morning delivered of a baby girl.

Ese was allegedly abducted in Bayelsa State in August 2015 and taken to Kano State where she was converted to Islam and married out without the consent of her parents.

Since her return to Yenagoa,  she has been living at the Police Officers’ Mess in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.

OLISA METUH IS READY TO RETURN N400M #DASUKIALERT, WRITES EFCC.

The immediate past National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Olisa Metuh’s lead defence counsel, Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN), has said his client has told the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission that he is willing to return the N400m he allegedly received from the Office of the National Security Adviser in November, 2014.

Metuh is currently being prosecuted by the EFCC for allegedly receiving the money, which the prosecution alleged was collected from the $2.1bn arms funds allegedly diverted by the former NSA’s office to other purposes aside from buying arms to fight insurgency.

The money was said to have been released to him to launder the alleged bad image of former President Goodluck Jonathan a few months to the 2015 presidential election which Jonathan eventually lost.

COURT SENTENCE RETIRED COLONEL TO SEVEN YEARS IMPRISONMENT FOR DUPING CHURCH OF THE SUM OF N34.5M

Justice M. N. Yunusa of the Federal High Court sitting in Enugu has sentenced Col. Eugene Okpala (retd.) to seven years in prison in a case of conspiracy, and obtaining money under false pretences to the tune of N34.5m.

The convict duped a church, Dominium City Church, of the sum in 2010.

he Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said in a statement by its spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, that the 62-year-old convict was earlier slated for trial on Wednesday but the case took a different turn when the retired colonel decided to change his plea from “not guilty” to “guilty”.

THE FIVE KEY 2016 UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL CLASHES.

Real Madrid face local rivals Atletico Madrid in the Champions League final for the second time in three years at Milan’s San Siro on Saturday. Atletico are aiming to win the competition for the first time after losing out 4-1 to Real after extra-time in the final in Lisbon two years ago. By contrast, Real are already the most successful side in Champions League history as 10-time winners.

Here, We sports look at five key clashes that could decide the outcome.

40 NIGERIANS DEPORTED FROM AUSTRALIA AND UNITED KINGDOM.

For the second time in a month, United Kingdom and Australia, yesterday, jointly deported 40 Nigerians for various immigration offences. The deportees, males and females, arrived the Hajj camp area of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport on chartered aircraft. It will be recalled that last year, more than 40 Nigerians were similarly deported from UK for what the United Kingdom government called immigration offences. Switzerland also deported some Nigerians. 

The latest deportees came on two separate chartered flights. One of the chartered aircraft, with registration number ZTA -4741, arrived Lagos Airport with 36 Nigerians: 29 males and seven females. 

PASSENGERS STRANDED NATIONWIDE AS DANA AIR PILOTS GO ON STRIKE

Dana Air pilots have gone on strike, grounding the airline’s operations and leaving hundreds of passengers stranded nationwide.

“The strike started this morning and passengers that were supposed to travel this morning are stranded,” a source at the airport told our correspondent, adding that the pilots were protesting the non-payment of their salaries.

According to the source, the airline had continued to sell tickets to passengers earlier today in the hope that the dispute would be resolved.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT APPOINTS DGs FOR NTA, FRCN, VON AND NAN.

The Federal Government on Wednesday named chief executives for six agencies under the Ministry of Information and Culture.

The appointments were announced in Abuja by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed.

The new Director Generals include Ishaq Modibo Kawu – Director-General, Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC); Mansur Liman – Director-General, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN); and Yakubu Mohammed – Director-General, Nigerian Television Authority (NTA).

EFCC DECLARES IYIOLA OMISORE WANTED.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), today, May 24, declared former deputy governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, wanted. The former senator is wanted in connection with a case of receiving and misappropriating the sum of over N700, 000,000.00 from the Office of the National Security Adviser, between June and November, 2014.

According to EFCC, Omisore has been elusive and refused to report to the Commission after invitation was extended to him on April 7, 2016 requesting him “to come and make clarification on the ongoing investigation”.

 Instead of responding to the Commission’s investigation Omosore had approached the Federal Capital Territory High Court for the enforcement of his fundamental human rights.

FAMILY OF ELECTROCUTED UNILAG STUDENT GETS N45M COMPENSATION.

LATE OLUCHI WAS A 1ST CLASS STUDENT

The family of Oluchi Anekwe, a 300-level student of Accounting in the University of Lagos, who was electrocuted by a live wire on the school premises, has been paid N45m as compensation.

A source said that the money was paid after the Eko Electricity Distribution Company reached a non-disclosure agreement with the victim’s family.

It was reported in September 2015 that Oluchi, a first class student of UNILAG, was electrocuted at about 7pm, while returning from an evening mass with her younger sister.

EFCC TO KEEP FANI KAYODE FOR ANOTHER 3 WEEKS.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has transferred a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, to its Lagos office.

The EFCC also obtained a fresh remand order from a Lagos Magistrate’s Court to hold the ex-minister for another 21 days.

Fani-Kayode, who was the spokesman for the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation was arrested on May 9, 2016 for allegedly receiving N840m during the build-up to the 2015 presidential election.

NEITI DISCOVERS N1.12TN FRAUD IN NNPC.

The long-awaited Nigeria oil and gas as well as the solid minerals sectors 2013 audit reports by the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, was officially unveiled in Abuja on Monday.

The Minister of Solid Minerals and Chairman, NEITI Board, Kayode Fayemi, who unveiled the report, said the document contained damning revelations about revenues either lost or unremitted by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and its sub-units.

About N1.12 trillion, consisting $3.8billion (about N756.2 billion) and N358.3billion, was outstanding revenues from NNPC as unpaid royalties from the divested oil mining leases, OMLs.

READ HOW EX DEFENCE CHIEF, ALEX BADEH BOUGHT FAYOSE'S LAND FOR N650M.

A witness in the ongoing trial of former Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh, has shed light on how Mr. Badeh bought a land belonging to Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, for N650 million.

The witness, Mustapha Yerima, managing director of a contracting firm, Right Builders Limited, said he got to know about the said land during a negotiation with a company, Kasamgo Investment, for the purchase of a land, on which his company would construct a mall for Mr. Badeh.

Mr. Yerima explained that it all started in 2013 when he found out about the plan of the Nigerian Air Force to engage the services of contractors for the construction of a mall for the helmsman at the Air Force.

GOVERNOR FAYOSE BANS GRAZING IN EKITI AFTER 2 PEOPLE DIED AS A RESULT OF SUSPECTED HERDSMEN ATTACK.

The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has banned grazing and rearing of cattle in the state, saying those interested in cattle farming should get their own private cattle ranches.

The governor announced this when he visited Oke Ako in Ikole Local Government Area of the state where some residents of the town were attacked on Friday night by criminals suspected to be Fulani herdsmen.

Two persons died from the attack while three others are receiving treatment in separate private hospitals in Ikole Ekiti and Ado Ekiti.

DOWN AND OUT - MANCHESTER UNITED SACKS LOUIS VAN GAAL, EXPECTED TO NAME JOSE MOURINHO ON TUESDAY.

Louis van Gaal has been sacked as manager of Manchester United, with former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho set to be named as his replacement.

Van Gaal, 64, leaves after two years of a three-year contract and is currently discussing severance terms.

The former Netherlands boss is believed to earn around £6.4m a year.

NLC SUSPENDS INDEFINITE STRIKE, SET TO MEET WITH FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

The Nigeria Labour Congress has suspended the indefinite strike it called to protest the increase in the pump price of petrol from N86 and N86.50k to N145.

The decision to suspend the strike was taken at an emergency meeting of the NLC National Executive Committee in Abuja on Sunday.

The NEC also resolved to resume negotiation with the government on the issue of the increase in electricity tariff and the 45 per cent increase in the pump price of petrol.

COURT ORDERS OKONJO IWEALA TO ACCOUNT FOR MISSING N30TN.

A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered a former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to account for the N30tn which a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof. Charles Soludo, claimed went missing under her watch.

Justice Ibrahim Buba said ordering Okonjo-Iweala to offer explanation on the allegedly missing money was the only thing to do since she had failed to put in a valid defence against a suit seeking an order, mandating her to account for the allegedly missing money.

Soludo had, sometime ago, alleged that “at least, N30tn was either stolen or unaccounted for, or grossly mismanaged” over the years that Okonjo-Iweala was in office as the Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance.

POLICE SEAL OFF PDP HEADQUARTERS IN ABUJA AS 3 FACTIONS EMERGES.

Heavily armed policemen have taken over the national headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party in Abuja.

This step, which was noticed on Sunday, was said to have been carried out by the police to prevent the breakdown of law and order at the secretariat.

A former Governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, was reportedly removed as the PDP national chairman at the party’s convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Saturday.

SERAH LUKA BECOMES SECOND CHIBOK GIRL RESCUED BY THE NUGERIAN ARMY.

A second schoolgirl who was among more than 200 others kidnapped by Boko Haram during an attack on their school in the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok more than two years ago has been found, the army said Thursday. The news comes just days after the first of the missing schoolgirls was found by vigilantes late Tuesday in Sambisa forest, near Nigeria’s border with Cameroon.

The second schoolgirl, Serah Luka, was among 97 women and children held hostage by Boko Haram who were freed Thursday after clashes between soldiers and jihadi militants in northeastern Borno state, Army spokesman Col. Sani Usman reportedly said. Luka reportedly was from the northeastern town of Madagali, in the state of Adamawa, which borders Borno.

WRECKAGE OF CRASHED EGYPTAIR PLANE FOUND NEAR GREEK ISLAND.

Wreckage of EgyptAir flight MS804 has been found south of the Greek island of Karpathos, Egyptian aviation officials say. The Airbus A320 was en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew when it went down overnight.

Egyptian Vice-President Ahmed Adel told CNN the rescue operation was "turning into a search and recovery". Officials say the plane is more likely to have been brought down by a terrorist act than a technical fault.

It made two sharp turns and dropped more than 25,000ft (7,620m) before plunging into the Mediterranean Sea, Greek Defence Minister Panos Kammenos told reporters.

WHY WE CANNOT RELEASE SAMBO DASUKI - FG TELLS ECOWAS COURT.

The Federal Government on Thursday told the Economic Community of West African States that it would be dangerous to release the immediate National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), from custody because he constituted a threat to national security.

Dasuki was re-arrested on December 29, 2015 by the operatives of the Department of State Service shortly after he was released on bail from ‎Kuje Prisons, Abuja, with respect to his ongoing trial on three separate sets of charges.

The Federal Government on Thursday called two witnesses ‎to oppose a fundamental human rights enforcement suit filed before the ECOWAS Court by Dasuki seeking his release from the custody of the DSS.

RONKE SHONDE MAY HAVE DIED FROM RESPIRATORY SEIZURE & HEAD INJURIES.

Autopsy report reveals that late Ronke Shonde, who was  allegedly killed by her husband, Lekan, died from respiratory seizure. The report which was signed by Dr. Shoyemi, a pathologist at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital LASUTH, attributed Ronke's death to head injuries and she also had water clustered in her head.

The final autopsy report, which just got to the State Department of Criminal Investigation, revealed that the victim did not die from domestic violence.

A very reliable source said, “The final autopsy result has been released. In fact, it is just getting to the SDCI. The summary of the report is that she did not die from the bruises on her body. She died from respiratory seizure.”

ICE PRINCE CONFIRMS EXIT FROM CHOCOLATE CITY.

Rapper Ice Prince confirmed he has parted ways with Chocolate for over two years but decided not to make the news public. He made the announcement on a radio station during an interview earlier today.

He stated that he will float his record label "Super Cool Cat" soon.

NIGERIAN ARMY RELEASES STATEMENT & PICTURES OFTHE RESCUED CHIBOK GIRL, HER BABY & SUPPOSED TERRORIST HUSBAND.

MISS AMINA ALI

Please recall that we informed you that one of the abducted Chibok school girls has been rescued earlier today and promised to give further details.

Further to that, in continuation of Operation CRACKDOWN, troops of 25 Brigade Damboa in conjunction with Civilian JTF deployed in one of the blocking positions at Baale, near Damboa rescued one Miss Amina Ali and a suspected Boko Haram terrorist, Mohammed Hayatu, who claimed to be her husband.

CHIBOK GIRL, AMINA ALI FOUND IN SAMBISA WITH A CHILD SHE HAD IN CAPTIVITY.

The first of 219 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram from Chibok in northeast Nigeria more than two years ago has been found. 

Amina Ali was discovered in the Sambisa Forest area of Borno state by civilian vigilantes assisting the military on Tuesday.

Ms Ali, who was 17 when she was abducted, has reportedly had a child while in captivity.

According to a local spokesperson, she is now with her family in her home town of Mbalala, near Chibok.

FAMILY OF LATE RONKE SHONDE KILLED BY HER HUSBAND RELEASE PROOF OF BATTERY AS ALLEGED LOVER DENIES ALLEGATIONS.

The man accused of dating late Ronke Shonde, Kayode, has denied the allegation, saying he only had a professional relationship with the deceased.

This is just as the family of the victim released Whatsapp snapshots which showed Ronke’s husband, Lekan, admitting to brutalising her, asking for God’s forgiveness and promising to stop beating her.

Our correspondent had reported that 51-year-old Lekan allegedly killed his wife at their home in the Egbeda-Idimu area of Lagos State last Thursday.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT REMOVES PETROLEUM SUBSIDY, RAISES PUMPPRICE TO N145/L.

The federal government has deregulated the downstream sector of the petroleum industry, which will raise the price of fuel to N145 a liter.

According to the Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, who made the announcement after meeting with top government officials in Abuja on Wednesday, the policy aims to increase the supply of fuel in Nigeria.

Stakeholders present at the meeting agreed that the primary cause of fuel scarcity in Nigeria is “the inability of importers of petroleum products to source foreign exchange at the official rate due to the massive decline of foreign exchange earnings of the federal government.” This has prevented private oil marketers from meeting their 50 percent portion of the total national supply of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS).

EFCC TRACES 15BN OF DIEZANI'S N23BN TO EX-MINISTERS, INEC OFFICIALS AND OTHERS.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has located the whereabouts of  N15billion of the N23.29billion ($115m)  allegedly offered as a bribe by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)  in connection with the 2015 elections.

The bribe was for the purpose of compromising the result of the elections which the party’s presidential candidate Dr. Goodluck Jonathan lost to Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Fourteen directors of four oil firms suspected of substantially bankrolling the N23.29b poll bribery scandal have also been identified by the anti-graft agency while some former Ministers arrested in connection with the scandal were battling for bail last night.

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Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II speaks on how $20bn vanished from state coffers under the watch of @GeJonathan.

EMIR SANUSI

In this explosive interview by Forbes TV, former CBN Governor and current Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido exposes how former President Jonathan , Diezani Madueke and Okonjo Iweala supervised the theft of $20BN from the coffers of Nigeria.

#DASUKIGATE- EFCC TRACE STOLEN FUNDS TO AIDES OF EX-PRESIDENT JONATHAN. ABATI, GULAK, AND OTHERS INVOLVED.

Reports indicates that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has located stolen money from accounts of the former National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki to several prominent aides to the former President Goodluck Jonathan.

This news comes just as EFCC agents have raided the home of former top aide to Mr. Jonathan and spokesman of his presidential campaign Femi Fani-Kayode. This is also the latest development in a massive probe of Mr. Dasuki’s fraudulent use of public funds which are now known to have been used to bribe top military officials, rig the Ekiti State gubernatorial elections, and be diverted to accounts belonging to powerful public officials.

EFCC sources said that Mr. Jonathan’s former spokesman, Rueben Abati, took N72 million; top-PDP chieftain Uche Secondus took N250 million, and Ahmed Gulak was found to have taken N50 million. Bello Fadile, a security analyst who was used by Jonathan to attempt to stop INEC from releasing the 2015 presidential election results, took N754 million.

EFCC TRACES $88M FROM DIEZANI MADUEKE TO STERLING BANK MD YEMI ADEOLA.

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said they traced more than $88 million to a hidden account controlled by the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Sterling Bank of Nigeria, Yemi Adeola.

Our EFCC source said the money was transferred to Mr. Adeola from Fidelity Bank of Nigeria whose managing director, Nnamdi Okonkwo, was last week detained by the EFCC. Mr. Okonkwo last was granted bail late yesterday.

One EFCC source said that the $88 million found at Sterling Bank was separate from the $115m given to Fidelity Bank by the ex-oil minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke. The funds were used to bribe officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to rig the 2015 presidential election for ex-President Goodluck Jonathan.

HUSBAND ABSCONDS AFTER KILLING WIFE IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN LAGOS. #SAYNOTODOMESTICVIOLENCE. #RIPRONKESHONDE.

Tragedy struck in the home of "Mr. & Mrs. Shonde" at Tiemo Crescent off Awori street in Egbeda Lagos when the nanny discovered the lifeless body of Ronke in the early hours of Friday 6th May 2016.

She was allegedly beaten to death by her husband Lekan who then locked her in with their two children who are both aged 6 & 7. He absconded afterwards.

CAMEROONIAN FOOTBALLER PATRICK EKENG COLLAPSED AND DIED DURING A CLUB FOOTBALL MATCH.

Dinamo Bucharest and Cameroon midfielder Patrick Ekeng died on Friday after collapsing on the pitch during a match for his club.

Ekeng, 26, fell to the ground shortly after coming on as a 62nd-minute substitute during a league match against Viitorul Constanta, his club said in a statement on their website.

Media reports said he suffered a suspected heart attack and was pronounced dead in hospital two hours later.

"Dinamo lost tonight, forever, footballer Patrick Claude Ekeng Ekeng," Dinamo said.

ROB KARDASHIAN CONFIRMS BLAC CHYNA IS PREGNANT WITH WILD EMOJI ON INSTAGRAM.

Rob Kardashian has just confirmed what we all thought was true … Blac Chyna is pregnant with their first child! We are so happy for the couple!

It’s true, Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna are having a baby. The KUWTK star took to Instagram on May 6 confirming that she’s pregnant and a report claims she’s several months along. Rob’s Instagram pic is an emoji of Blac pregnant and it’s so cute. This is amazing news considering Mother’s Day is just two days away.

PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI SIGNS #BUDGET2016.

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the the 2016 appropriation Act into law.

Mr. Buhari signed the budget in the presence of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, in his office at the presidential villa Abuja.

Others who witnessed the budget signing ceremony were the national chairman of the governing All Progressives Congress, APC, John Odigie-Oyegun and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal.

KISS DANIEL RELEASES TRACK LIST FOR "NEW ERA" ALBUM WITH NO FEATURES.

Kiss Daniel whose May 1 album was rescheduled for 15th May 2016 finally unveils the tracklist to the soon to be released 20 track album titled “New Era”

The G-WorldWide Entertainment Artist did not feature anyone on his debut album.

See track list after the cut.

EX-MINISTER IYABO ANISULOWO RESCUED FROM KIDNAPPERS DEN BY POLICE.

A former minister and senator, Iyabo Anisulowo, who was kidnapped Wednesday in Ogun State has regained her freedom.

Police said on Tuesday evening that Mrs. Anisulowo was rescued at Gbegbelawo village, a suburb of Olorunda town, located in Yewa North local government of the state.

The Ogun State Command Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, said that the 65-year-old was rescued at about 7.00pm. He said two suspected kidnappers were arrested during the rescue operation.

N23BN SCAM - FIDELITY BANK NAMES ACTING MD TO REPLACE DETAINED NNAMDI OKONKWO.

The Board of Directors of Fidelity Bank Plc has appointed the Executive Director, North, Alhaji Mohammed Balarabe, as the Acting Managing Director/Chief Executive of the bank with immediate effect subject to regulatory approval.

The appointment, according to a statement by the bank on Monday, follows the absence of the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Nnamdi Okonkwo, who was last week arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission alongside some officials of the bank for allegedly receiving $115m (N23bn) from a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, to prosecute the re-election of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

The bank, however, reassured the over 400,000 shareholders and 3.4 million customers of its continued seamless services.