OLISA METUH AGREES TO RETURN N400M ARMS FUND, SUPPORTS PRESIDENT BUHARI'S ANTI-CORRUPTION CRUSADE.

The former spokes person of Peoples Democratic party has agreed to return the 400 million naira he was accused of receiving from the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki. According to the statement issued by his lawyer Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN) said his client Chief Olisa Metuh’s legal team  and officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have begun talks to facilitate the return of N400million traced to him from defence funds.

ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC CONFIRMS HE WILL BE JOINING MANCHESTER UNITED.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic has confirmed football's worst-kept secret - he will be joining Manchester United this summer.

The Swedish superstar put millions of his fans out of their misery on Thursday - almost four weeks after it was revealed Old Trafford as his next port of call.

Ibrahimovic posted a message on social media, accompanied by a picture of United's badge. It read: "Time to let the world know. My next destination is Manchester United. #iamcoming."

IGGY AZALEA HEARTBROKEN - I CAUGHT NICK CHEATING WITH OTHER WOMEN ON SECURITY CAMERA FOOTAGE.

There’s still six months to go, but Iggy Azalea is having one terrible 2016. Fresh off her break-up with Nick “Swaggy P” Young and getting blamed for ruining hip-hop, the Aussie entertainer is now dealing with learning her former beau may have knocked up his ex-girlfriend again.

Several reports surfaced recently claiming Iggy kicked Swaggy P to the curb after he cheated and got is his son’s mother, Keonna Green, pregnant. Allegedly, Green is four months into her pregnancy. However, the “Fancy” pop star says she has no clue if any of the reports are true, tweeting Thursday morning, “I have never even been told by Nick that his baby mother is pregnant so if this is true I’m finding out via E news.”

Iggy also says the real reason she dumped her Laker fiance was because he cheated on her with a multitude of women, even bringing them over to his and Iggy’s shared California home. And despite teammate D’Angelo Russell’s leaked cell phone video of Nick admitting to stepping out on Iggy, it was home security camera footage that did him in.

SGF TELLS SARAKI & EKWEREMADU TO RESIGN OVER ALLEGED FORGERY.

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, David Babachir Lawal, has thrown himself into the fray in respect of alleged forgery trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, asking the principal officers of the Senate to resign their positions. 

The Senate, in a swift reaction last night, said the two principal officers of the Senate will not resign, insisting that it was being assaulted by the executive arm of government in the ongoing trial of its leaders. But Lawal said, yesterday, that the Senate was not on trial for forgery, but that only the actors in the alleged act, the Senate President, his deputy and two others being prosecuted. He also said the honourable thing for the duo to do was to resign as former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Salisu Buhari, who was accused of certificate forgery, did. 

15 FACTS ABOUT LATE MINISTER OJO MADUEKWE.

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Minister of Transportation Ojo Maduekwe died on Wednesday June 29, 2016 at age 71.

Mr. Maduekwe died at about 7pm on Wednesday at a hospital in Abuja. A close associate of the former minister said that Mr. Maduekwe was returning to Nigeria from the U.S. via Dubai when he fell ill.

“He fell ill while on air from Dubai and he was rushed to the hospital as soon as the plane landed in Abuja, but he died before doctors could do much,” he said. The associate could not provide further details as he broke down while speaking on the phone.

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The project launched on 26 September 2015, World Contraception Day — an annual event that focuses international attention on enabling young people to make informed decisions about family planning and reproductive health.

120 Under 40 is organized by the Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with sponsorship from Bayer.

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CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF AND HIS TWO WIVES ACQUIRED DUBAI PROPERTIES WITH PERSONAL SAVINGS - ARMY CLARIFIES.

The Nigerian Army has clarified that the two properties of Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, Chief of Army Staff, in Dubai were acquired by him and his two wives in 2013 with personal savings.

In a statement released on Saturday, the Army denied reports that the properties were acquired and paid for in a single transaction.

The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman, confirmed that the Buratai family had two properties in Dubai.

CHARLES OKAH DID NOT ESCAPE FROM ABUJA PRISON.

The Nigerian Prisons Service, NPS has denied news circulating that the leader of the Movement for the emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) suspected to have masterminded the 2010 Independence Day bombings, Charles Okah, has escaped from prison.

The Nigerian Prisons Service confirmed there was an incident yesterday night but it didn’t lead to Charles Okah’s escape.

Speaking on the alleged escape, the NPS spokesman, Francis Enobore said: “It is not true (that he escaped).”

UNCONFIRMED REPORTS INDICATES LINDA IKEJI IS IN TROUBLE WITH FIRS OVER N75M UNPAID TAXES, DENIES OWNING N500M BANANA ISLAND HOME.

Reports indicates the celebrity blogger Linda Ikeji may be in troubled waters with the Federal Inland Revenue Service over N75M unpaid tax.

According to a source in the FIRS, the celebrity blogger had been evading tax payment, which has amounted to the whooping sum of N75 Million. However, when asked about the purchase of the house, it was disclosed that Linda blatantly denied ownership of the N500 Million luxurious mansion which she allegedly purchased in 2015.

The FIRS has initiated measures to prosecute her in a court of law.  

We hope she can swim out of this wahala.

86-YR-OLD NARRATES HOW NOTORIOUS IKORODU RAPIST BADDO ATTACKED AND SENT HER INTO COMA. #SAYNOTORAPE.

An octogenarian, Madam Belawu Jimoh, yesterday, narrated her experience with the man suspected to be a serial rapist and murderer in Ikorodu area of Lagos State. 

The 86 years old woman, who lives in Oke Ota, Ibeshe area of Ikorodu, claimed she was attacked a fortnight ago. She, however, expressed happiness that her attacker, simply identified as Badoo, was arrested last Sunday after a three-day manhunt. 

The suspect, who allegedly raped and murdered a 27-year-old school teacher, Grace Jubreel, in her home in the presence of her 14-month-old baby in the Ibeshe community in Ikorodu, was nabbed by residents who would have lynched him if not for the intervention of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, that rescued him. 

RIP OJB JEZREEL, THE TALENTED SINGER/PRODUCER DIES AT 49.

Nigerian music producer and singer, Babatunde Okungbowa, popularly known as OJB Jezreel has been reported dead.

The music producer died from complications resulting from the kidney transplant surgery he had about two years ago. He would have been 50 years old in a month’s time.

The music maestro, who was flown for a Kidney transplant in India in 2013 and was said to be doing well, had a relapse about two weeks ago and was kept on daily dialysis before his urgent need for oxygen yesterday. Unfortunately, he didn't make it. He died early this morning June 14th at Isolo General Hospital in Lagos.

15-YR -OLD GIRL COMMITS SUICIDE AFTER HER FRIEND SHARED HER NUDE VIDEO ON SNAPCHAT. #STOPBULLYING

A Florida girl killed herself after a naked video of her in the shower was taken without her permission and posted on Snapchat, her family says.

Tovonna Holton, a freshman at Wiregrass Ranch High School in Wesley Chapel, took her own life just hours after the video circulated on the app, WFLA reports.

The 15-year-old had taken a gun from her mother’s purse and shot herself in the bathroom of her home on Sunday.

Her mother, Levon Holton-Teamer, said that she had sent her daughter to clean her room that afternoon and a little while later, went looking for her.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S 500,000 TEACHERS RECRUITMENT PORTAL CRASHED SAME DAY IT OPENED.

The recruitment of 500,000 teachers by the Federal Government might have run into a hitch as the website for the exercise crashed on Sunday following what was suspected to be massive applications by prospective candidates.

The Federal Government had, last week, announced that the recruitment of the teachers would commence on Sunday, directing interested Nigerians to apply through http://portal.npower.gov.ng.

But attempts by one of our correspondents to register on the portal around 6.48pm on Sunday failed as the website was not available.

CUSTOM OFFICERS BEAT MAGISTRATE MERCILESSLY IN LAGOS FOR IMPOUNDING VEHICLES.

There was confusion in the Ikeja area of Lagos State on Friday after some officers of the Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Ikeja, allegedly attacked a magistrate, Lekan Aka-Bashorun, for impounding their vehicles.

It was learnt that the customs officers allegedly slapped Aka-Bashorun, while two policemen and two paramilitary officials attached to the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, were also beaten up.

It was gathered that court exhibits and recording gadgets were also allegedly damaged by the customs officials, who reportedly claimed that their vehicles could not be impounded by  the Lagos State Mobile Court.

AT LEAST 50 DEAD AND 53 INJURED IN GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTING IN #ORLANDO.

Fifty people are now known to have died in Saturday's shooting in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and a "state of emergency" has been declared, the city's mayor Buddy Dyer has said.

The gunman, named by officials as 29-yr-old Omar Mateen, was killed after taking hostages. Another 53 people were injured in the shooting at the Pulse club.

It is the worst mass shooting in recent US history. Police described it as an act of terrorism.

COURT SENTENCE BANKER TO 39YRS JAIL TERM FOR STEALING N30M FROM DEAD CUSTOMER.

OLAWALE GARUBA

Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of the Lagos State High Court has sentenced Olawale Garuba to 39 years jail term for stealing over N30M from a dead customer of the new generation bank he was working.

The convict was arraigned alongside six others in July 2015 for conspiring among themselves to steal over N30,000,000 (Thirty Million Naira only) from the bank account a deceased customer of a new

generation bank where the convict works. ‪

REPS REDUCES AGE OF QUALIFICATION FOR PRESIDENCY, GOVERNOR AND SENATE TO 30.

The Bill seeking to reduce the age qualifications for interested candidates to contest for the positions of President, governor and senate in the country to 30 years yesterday passed second reading in the House of Representatives. 

The bill, which also makes provision for independent candidacy into the country’s electoral process, further reduces the age qualifications to contest for the House of Representatives and State Houses of Assembly to 25 years. 

The Bill is an alteration of section 65, 106, 131 and 177 of the 1999 constitution which had prescribed qualification into the office of President to 40 years and above, office of governors and senate, 35 years and above as well as House of Representatives and state Houses of Assembly to 25 years and above. 

MUSLIM YOUTHS IN KADUNA STAB CHRISTIAN MAN FOR NOT FASTING.

A Christian man, Francis Emmanuel, on Wednesday narrowly escaped death as a gang of six youths, believed to be Muslims, armed with daggers stabbed him severally at a restaurant in Kakuri, Kaduna. 

They accused him for not fasting. Tension flared after the incident as the man was rushed to St. Gerald Catholic Hospital about a kilometre from Sokoto Street, Kakuri, where the incident happened. Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, on learning about the development rushed to the hospital and greeted the victim and promised he would get the culprits to face justice. 

ELEGUSHI BEACH TRAGEDY - POLICE ARREST 2 BEACH MANAGERS OVER DEATH OF 2 UNILAG STUDENTS.

The Lagos State Police Command says it has arrested two managers of the Elegushi Beach in Ajah where two postgraduate students of the University of Lagos drowned on Sunday during their friend’s birthday.

The command, however, declined to disclose the names of the suspects, adding that it was on the trail of some other members of the management to investigate their complicity in the incident.

It was reported that the deceased Adesola Ogunmefun and 25-year-old Funmi Odusina  were having fun with their friend, Bolu, on the beach when they were submerged by strong tides, which swept them into the Atlantic Ocean.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SET TO BEGIN RECRUITMENT OF TEACHERS.

The recruitment of the 500,000 teachers promised by President Muhammadu Buhari in his Democracy Day speech starts on Sunday.

According to a statement on Wednesday by the Senior Special Assistant to the Vice-President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, the recruitment would be done online.

Akande said the 500,000 Teacher Corps, nicknamed N-Power Teach on the portal, was one of the three direct job creation and training schemes Nigerians could start applying for from Sunday.

SHOCKING - FORMER SUPER EAGLES CAPTAIN AND COACH STEPHEN KESHI "THE BIG BOSS" DIES OF CARDIAC ARREST.

One of the most iconic captains of the Nigerian national football team, the Super Eagles, and former coach of the team, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, is dead, his family has announced. He was 54.

Emmanuel Ado a brother to the late coach said the 54-year-old died of Cardiac arrest in the early hours of Wednesday, June 8.

“With thanksgiving to God, the Ogbuenyi Fredrick Keshi family of Illah in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State, announces the death of Mr. Stephen Okechukwu Chinedu Keshi,” Mr. Ado said in a statement.

LAWYER SUE LINDA IKEJI FOR DAMAGES IN THE SUM OF N50M ONLY.

A Lagos-based Lawyer Olumide Babalola has dragged the popular celebrity blogger, Linda Ikeji before the Lagos High Court for several reliefs bordering on unauthorized and offensive use of picture.

In Suit No. LD/3265MFHR/2016 before Hon. Justice O.H. Oshodi, the lawyer sued the blogger for damages in the sum of N50, 000,000 (Fifty Million Naira) for the unauthorized use of his picture on her blog for crime-related stories which he claimed has subjected him to mental and psychological torture in violation of his constitutional right to dignity of human person and freedom from degrading treatment.

NIGERIA MAY REVISIT LAW ON GAY MARRIAGE - GOODLUCK JONATHAN.

Nigeria may revisit a law that banned same-sex marriages, former President Goodluck Jonathan.

“When it comes to equality, we must all have the same rights as Nigerian citizens,” Jonathan said at a forum at Bloomberg’s European headquarters in London on Monday.

Jonathan in 2014 signed a law criminalizing same-sex marriages, gay groups and public displays of affection by homosexuals. The decision triggered condemnation by religious leaders, human rights groups and Western governments.

“In the light of deepening debates for all Nigerians and other citizens of the world to be treated equally and without discrimination, and with the clear knowledge that the issue of sexual orientation is still evolving, the nation may at the appropriate time revisit the law,” Jonathan said.

Source - Bloomberg

TEN MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE IN PRESIDENT BUHARI'S GOVERNMENT.

In June 2015 shortly after he was inaugurated, President Muhammadu Buhari travelled to South Africa and used the opportunity to meet with Nigerians resident in that country.

During the interactive session, the septuagenarian Nigerian leader did not mince words in saying that his age would limit his performance as the president of the country. “I wish I became Head of State when I was a governor. Now at 72, there is a limit to what I can do,” he had said.

It however seems Buhari has found a way round the limitations imposed by age.

POLICE ARREST ALFA FOR ABDUCTING AND RAPING CHARMED 24-YR-OLD DUBAI RETURNEE WHO FOR FIVE MONTHS. #SAYNOTORAPE.

The police in Ogun State have rescued a 24-year-old Dubai returnee from the custody of an Islamic cleric five months after he allegedly abducted her from the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Ikeja, Lagos State.

The suspect, Olalekan Anifowoshe, aka Alfa, was said to have kept the victim, Simbiat (pseudonym), in his rented apartment in the Atan-Ota area of the state and allegedly had sex with her during the period.

A Good Samaritan, who saw her sometime in May, was said to have informed her family and the case was reported at the Onipanu Police Division, leading to Alfa’s arrest.

INDIAN COURT FINDS FIVE MEN GUILTY OF GANG-RAPING DANISH TOURIST IN 2014. #SAYNOTORAPE.

An Indian court has found five men guilty of gang-raping a Danish tourist at knifepoint in New Delhi.

The 52-year-old got lost on the way back to her hotel in January 2014, and stopped to ask a group of men for directions.

But the men she asked for help instead lured her to a secluded area, where she was raped over a three-hour period, robbed and abandoned.

PRESIDENT BUHARI HEADS TO LONDON FOR 10 DAYS REST AND MEDICAL TREATMENT.

President Muhammadu Buhari will today travel to London for 10 days to seek medical attention and take a rest, his verified Twitter handle announced, yesterday. The President’s verified Twitter handle, @NGRPresident, tweeted yesterday, “During the holiday, the President will see an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist for a persistent ear infection. 

President Muhammadu Buhari “The President was examined by his personal physician and an E.N.T Specialist in Abuja and was treated.  Both Nigerian doctors recommended further evaluation purely as a precaution. 

SENATE PRESIDENT BUKOLA SARAKI LOSES N12M TO BURGLARS AT HIS ILORIN HOME.

The President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, said yesterday that he lost N12 million to burglars in his Ilorin, Kwara State home. News of the robbery was first revealed by an online news portal, which alleged that N300 million mysteriously disappeared from the Senate President’s bedroom. The online news medium claimed the alleged N300 million was provided by the Kwara State government and was in different foreign currencies. The money was reportedly meant to serve as Ramadan handout to be distributed by the Senate President to supporters. 

BELLO DEFEATS FALEKE AT ELECTION TRIBUNAL.

FALEKE                                                           BELLO

James Faleke, running mate to the late Abubakar Audu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November 21, 2015 election, has lost his bid to unseat Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi state. 

The Kogi State governorship election tribunal, sitting in Abuja, upheld the election of Governor Yahaya Bello as the duly elected governor of Kogi State. The three-man tribunal led by Justice Halima Mohammed held that Faleke lacked locus standi to challenge Bello’s election having never been sponsored by his party, the APC, as a governorship candidate in both the November 21, 2015 election and the December 6, 2015 supplementary poll. 

The Chairman of the Tribunal, Halima Mohammed, who read the judgment in the petition filed by a member of the House of Representatives, James Faleke, threw away the petition for lacking in merit.  

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TRIBUTES POUR IN FOR LATE BOXING CHAMPION MUHAMMAD ALI WHO DIED AT 74.

Muhammad Ali, the former world heavyweight champion whose boxing feats, showmanship and political activism made him one of the best-known figures of the 20th century, died on Friday aged 74.

Ali, who had long suffered from Parkinson's syndrome which impaired his speech and made the once-graceful athlete almost a prisoner in his own body, died a day after he was admitted to a Phoenix-area hospital with a respiratory ailment.

His youthful proclamation of himself as "the greatest" rang true until the end for the millions of people worldwide, who admired him for his courage both inside and outside the ring.

CONFLICTING REPORTS ABOUT HEALTH STATUS OF FORMER BOXING WORLD CHAMPION MUHAMMAD ALI AS HIS FAMILY PREPARE FOR THE WORST.

The former heavyweight world champion Muhammad Ali remained in hospital on Friday, for treatment of a respiratory problem.

The Associated Press reported that the hospitalization was more serious than Ali’s previous hospital stays, though this could not be confirmed.

Other reports said the boxer’s family had gathered at the hospital and were “prepared for the worst”.

ANGRY MUSLIM YOUTHS BEHEAD IGBO WOMAN IN KANO OVER ALLEGED BLASPHEMY. CC @POLICENG @MBUHARI @PROFOSINBAJO.

Angry Muslims youths in Kano on Thursday evening decapitated an Igbo woman trader named Bridget Patience a native of Orodo, Mbaitoli, Imo State, over allegations that she blasphemed Prophet Muhammad. 

The victim, who was said to be of Igbo extraction was accused of blasphemy during a religious argument at Wambai market. 

The woman, who sells plastics at the local market was in the company of her husband when she was murdered.

BLOODBATH AS MILITANTS AMBUSH SOLDIERS IN DELTA STATE.

Two soldiers and six civilians have reportedly been killed on Wednesday’s night attack on soldiers’ houseboat around a creek close to Omadino/Idjere junction in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State.

Information gathered reveals that the incident occurred between the hours of 7pm and 8pm on Wednesday.

Investigations reveal that the militants struck when some of the soldiers deployed to safe-guard oil facilities had gone on a routine patrol.

ECOBANK SACKS 1040 WORKERS.

The gale of job losses being witnessed in the country due to the current economic hardship has caught up with Ecobank Nigeria, which has sacked over 1,040 of its employees.

It was reported on Tuesday that Diamond Bank Plc sacked over 200 members of its workforce, while FBN Holdings, the parent company of First Bank of Nigeria Limited, recently said it would prune the number of its employees by 1,000.

Investigations by our correspondents revealed that the affected staff members of Ecobank included full time and contract workers.

DETAILS OF PETITION BY BASELINE RECORDS AGAINST SKALES AND HIS MANAGER OSAGIE.

Earlier today, a petition issued by Skales‘ record label, Baseline Music against his manager, Osagie of Metal Entertainment surfaced online after which she was invited to the police station for questioning.

GAME OF THRONES IS TAKING LEGAL ACTION AGAINST PORNHUB FOR BREACH OF COPYRIGHT.

The makers of Game of Thrones are taking action against Pornhub over breach of copyright. HBO says it's because some scenes from the show have appeared on the site.

Some other videos even include parodies of porn stars pretending to be characters such as Cersei Lannister and Lord Varys from Game of Thrones.

In a statement, HBO said: "HBO is aware of the issue and is in the process of getting material taken down from Pornhub."