TRAGEDY AS NOLLYWOOD LOSES PROLIFIC PRODUCER AMAKA IGWE TO ASTHMA.

Prolific Nollywood producer Amaka Igwe is dead.

She reportedly died on Monday night in Enugu after an asthma attack. The veteran producer was reported to have travelled to Enugu in company of her husband to make preparations for a new Igbo soap, when the incident occurred.

She did not respond to initial rescue operations and passed away before arriving at the hospital. Amaka Igwe was the founder of BoBTV Expo, Top radio Fm amongst other business ventures.

ARMED FORCES SET TO EMBARK ON MASSIVE RECRUITMENT TO FIGHT TERRORISM...............

The Federal Government has given  the armed forces and other security agencies the nod  to embark on mass recruitment to fight terrorism.

According to PUNCH, the directive was to give fillip to the war against terrorism in the country.

It was also learnt that those who attended the expanded National Security Council meeting in Abuja on Thursday emphasised the need for the recruitment.

A highly placed military source said that   President  Goodluck Jonathan  issued the  directive for more recruitment into the army in March after the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen Kenneth Minimah,  had briefed him about the operations of the army.

The source, who did not want to be named because he was not authorised to speak on the  matter,  said   the army did not  begin   the recruitment immediately because of the need to expand training facilities in parts of the country. It was learnt that the army would commence  the recruitment in May 2014.

(VIDEO) LIVERPOOL 0 CHELSEA 2. TITLE RACE BLOWN OPEN PLUS THREE THINGS FROM THE CLASH.

LIV 0 CHE 2

Demba Ba's first-half goal and Willian's injury-time strike gave Chelsea a stunning 2-0 win over Liverpool at Anfield. Here are three things from their Premier League clash:

1. Chelsea take the crown off Liverpool's heads.

The temptation is to call Chelsea the "party poopers," but the significance of this win means they were much more than that. They were the men who arrived at a coronation intent on grabbing the crown before it could be placed on anyone else's head.

BACARY SAGNA SET TO QUIT ARSENAL AFTER CONTRACT RENEWAL BREAKDOWN.

Bacary Sagna is set to reject Arsenal’s final contract offer move that will spell the end of his eight-year stay at the club.

Sagna has already rejected two formal offers and manager Arsene Wenger confirmed on Friday the club have tabled their final attempt to keep him.

The last is understood to be for two years with an option for a further 12 months, but Sagna’s £100,000-a-week demand has not been met. Sagna, 31, has told friends he will not sign the deal, meaning he will leave after the FA Cup final against Hull on May 17.

The defender, a target for Manchester City, Galatasaray and Fenerbahce, knows his next contract will be his last big one and feels he can earn more elsewhere.

Sagna has been infuriated by the club’s attitude, feeling he has not be rewarded for his loyalty.

PHOTOS PHOTOS PHOTOS FROM TIWA & TEEBILZ'S DUBAI WEDDING....

Pictures from the wedding of Tiwa (Savage) Balogun and Teebilz who doubles as her manager. The wedding held in Dubai yesterday was star studded.....

(FRESH VIDEO) GINGER - L.A.X - Ft. WIZKID

GINGER

LAX presents visuals of another LAX & WIZKID collabo titled GINGER!!!!!!! The video was directed by Moe Musa.

WATCH VIDEO HERE.

AMAZING REVELATIONS ON BOKO HARAM AND THE SAMBISSA FOREST CAMPS. #BringBackOurGirls...

Some of the girls who escaped.

Many have berated the Nigeria Military over the shoddy handling of Boko Haram, afterall they are humans and not spirits. A report from TRENT claims that the Military refused to engage Boko Haran insurgents who kidnapped over 200 girls at a school in Borno in the deadly Sambissa forest claiming they were not given orders to attack the sect.

Read more below.....

Firstly, we would like to thank everyone for the support pouring in, in response to our calls for assistance and contributions towards the obligatory mission to free our 200 abducted daughters. The promises from so many blessed youth, to head to the conflict zone and join the effort to rescue our girls and sack the terrorists out of their comfortable camps, is beyond words. May the Almighty protect and reward you in the ways that He only can.

Nigerians and the world must know what the true situation in Sambisa and other forests in Borno is. It was in the media that the families who ventured in pursuit of their daughters turned back when they approached the terrorist camps. The media reported that what they saw, was “serious,” but they will not say it for security concerns. We are obligated to reveal what they saw.

THE INTERROGATION - @AYCOMEDIAN & YEMI BLAQ

THE INTERROGATION

Yet another interesting skit from AY featuring Yemi Blaq... You will simply love it.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH.

IMPATIENT MANCHESTER UNITED FIRES DAVID MOYES PLUS 12 MOST DAMAGING RESULTS THAT CLAIMED HIS JOB.

Patience has finally run out at Old Trafford, with David Moyes sacked by the club. Eleven Premier League defeats, a failure to qualify for the Champions League for the first time in 19 years and little sign of any serious progress meant the United board were compelled to act.

The season that followed Sir Alex Ferguson's departure has been tougher than expected. Here are the painful defeats that led to Moyes' departure. 

Liverpool 1-0 Manchester United, Premier League, Sept. 1, 2013

With Liverpool making their best start to a Premier League campaign in nearly two decades, United were coming to terms with the loss of Wayne Rooney to a head wound. They lacked creativity at Anfield and Moyes suffered his first loss as United manager.

PRESIDENT JONATHAN PICTURED IN A JOYOUS MOOD IN KANO BARELY 24HRS AFTER OVER 85 PERISHED IN #ABUJABOMBBLAST.

At a time when the nation is mourning the unfortunate death of over 85 innocent Nigerians in the #AbujaBombBlast, the nation's President who visited the scene of the blast and the hospital where survivors were recovering still managed to attend a political rally in Kano barely 24hrs after the bomb blast.

Meanwhile, many of the abducted school girls in Borno are still missing...

It's a shame... 

(VIDEO) - DRUNKEN MOBILE POLICEMAN ASSAULTS WOMAN IN LAGOS. Cc: @PoliceNg

MOPOL ASSAULTS WOMAN IN LAGOS

A drunken police officer with the Mobile Police, or Mopol, Unit #20, in Lagos, who was later identified as Tafa Mohammed, was caught breaking the law. 

A citizen video photographer captured officer Mohammed brutalizing two women with a hidden camera, filming this disturbing footage at a safe distance. This illegal action by the officer erupted when a street food vendor would not issue him fish to finish up his beer. The food vendor was said to have declined to sell fish alone, except to those buying food with it, a vendor policy that angered the policeman. 

Mohammed, a mobile policeman, was reeking of alcohol, say eyewitnesses to this event. Mohammed took on a female customer who was buying food from the same vendor at the time he got there, and threw her into a nasty pond of putrid muddy water.

Read more below...

#ABUJABOMBBLAST AND PRESIDENT JONATHAN'S INSENSITIVE RALLY IN KANO

President Goodluck Jonathan made a mockery of his sympathy visit to the site of Monday’s devastating bombing at the Nyanya Motor Park, near Abuja, in which 75 innocent Nigerians died, while 254 others were injured, by attending a political rally in Kano, barely 24 hours after the horrendous incident. Jonathan led party chiefs to Kano where they received Ibrahim Shekarau, a former governor, who recently defected to the Peoples Democratic Party. His televised dance and backslapping while the dead were yet to be buried and with the fate of survivors still hanging in the balance were another blunder.  No wonder the President’s action has provoked national outrage.

But the Presidency says the public indignation is an attempt by politicians to score cheap political points. Labaran Maku, the Information Minister, says, “You will notice that whenever there is any significant story, something will just come negatively. So the purpose is to demoralise, disrupt government, society and to set people against each other and create paralysis…So if we are to say we will do nothing because of the strike, then it means that terrorists would have succeeded in putting a stall each time they strike on our country.” As he put it, going to Kano was a loud statement that terrorists will not stop this country from working.

#POLICERAPECASE - DPO AND TWO OTHERS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED.

The Divisional Police Officer in charge of Onikan Station,Mr. Adekunle Awe has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for alleged rape and threat to life. Two other policemen of the rank of inspector were also arrested as part of ongoing investigations.

Recall that a 31-year-old cook, Idowu Akinwunmi, had accused Awe of raping her in his office on April 15, 2014. Read the publication HERE.

A reliable source told our correspondent on Friday that the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, the Lagos State Government and other human rights groups were interested in the matter.

THE MILITARY LIED ABOUT THE RESCUE OF KIDNAPPED SCHOOL GIRLS AS MOST OF THE GIRLS ARE STILL MISSING.

 

Nigeria’s armed forces have formally issued a retraction to the unfolding story of the kidnapping of more than 100 female students in the country’s northeast Monday.

The statement, issued by Chris Olukolade, a Major General who also serves as Coordinator, and the Director of Defense Information, centers on a discrepancy of fact, and concerns a mis-quote from the School Principal whose students were abducted in the Monday siege. In an attempt to set the record straight, Olukolade’s statement reads as follows:

The controversy that has been generated around the efforts at securing the lives of the abducted students of Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok is unfortunate. The ongoing frantic efforts of security forces along with vigilante groups including hunters working to locate and free the abducted students have continued to be keenly monitored at the Operation Centre of the Defense and Army Headquarters as regular progress reports are being received from troops on the ground.

HOW DPO OF ONIKAN POLICE STATION RAPED ME - MOTHER OF TWO.

A 31-year-old cook, Idowu Akinwunmi, has narrated to PUNCH how the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Onikan Station, SP Adekunle Awe, allegedly raped, extorted and threatened her life.

The victim said that the incident occurred on April 15, 2014. She explained that  on April 14 she was arrested by the police for “spurious” reasons.

#MURDA - @Iamseyishay Ft @Patorankingfire @Shaydeeboi

This is the kind of song you will put on replay for a very long time. Easily one of the best HipHop collaborations in 2014... Seyi Shay, Patoranking and Shaydee killed this track... Enjoy it.

BOKO HARAM ABDUCT ABOUT 200 SCHOOL GIRLS IN BORNO.

Scores of girls have been abducted in an attack on a school in north-east Nigeria, parents say.

Gunmen reportedly arrived at the school in Chibok, Borno state, late last night, and ordered the hostel's teenage residents on to lorries. Parents told the BBC's Hausa service that at least 200 girls had been abducted. The attackers are thought to be from the Islamist group, Boko Haram.

On Monday, bombings blamed on the group killed more than 70 people in Abuja.

Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is forbidden" in the local Hausa language, has been waging an armed campaign for an Islamic state in northern Nigeria.

UPDATE ON #ABUJABOMBBLAST!!!! - 71 CONFIRMED DEAD AND 121 INJURED AS JONATHAN VISITS SITE.... (GRAPHIC IMAGES)..

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.

The confirmed toll from the twin bombing is 71 killed and 124 wounded so far, police spokesman Frank Mba said.

The twin blasts rocked the Nyanya station roughly five kilometres (three miles) south of Abuja at 6:45 am (0545 GMT) and destroyed some 30 vehicles, mostly large passenger buses, officials said.

WEEKEND OF BLOODSHED IN BORNO AS BOKO HARAM INSURGENTS MURDER ABOUT 60 PEOPLE.

Barely 48 hours after suspected Boko Haram terrorists massacred more than 200 persons including students who were writing their Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, in Borno, the insurgents, yesterday, continued their killing spree as they killed no fewer than 60 persons in Ngoshe and Kaigamari villages of Borno close to the border with Cameroon.

The terrorists also set ablaze many houses, shops, telecommunication masts and other property worth millions of naira. This came as the troops deployed to the North Central zone of the country to checkmate herdsmen/ farmers’ clashes as well as cattle rustling that has claimed hundreds of lives have recovered a cache of arms from militia men in Kaduna and Plateau states.

70-YR OLD HIV PATIENT RAPES 13-YR OLD GIRL IN PLATEAU.

A 70-year-old man has been arrested for raping a 13-year-old girl in Barkin Ladi Local Government of Plateau State.

The man whose name has been withheld was said to have raped the girl last Thursday. The suspect said to be  in police net is infected with HIV and is on anti-retroviral drugs.

The old man was said to have been caught in the act by the son of the landlord, who immediately reported the matter to the police.