TURKEY SHOOTS DOWN RUSSIAN FIGHTER JET - PUTIN DESCRIBES TURKEY'S ACTION AS A STAB IN THE BACK.

Turkish fighter jets on patrol near the Syrian border on Tuesday shot down a Russian warplane that Turkey said had violated its airspace, a long-feared escalation that could further strain relations between Russia and the West.

The Turkish prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, ordered the Foreign Ministry to consult with NATO and the United Nations, his office said in a statement, without elaborating. NATO announced that it would hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday in Brussels to discuss the episode.

In his first remarks on the incident, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia confirmed that an F-16 Turkish fighter jet had shot down the Russian plane, a Sukhoi Su-24, with an air-to-air missile. But he insisted that the Russian jet had been in Syrian airspace at the time and had never threatened Turkey’s territory.

HOW AUDU ABUBAKAR DIED ON ELECTION DAY.

Unknown to many, Kogi State All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Prince Abubakar Audu died on Saturday –  the day of the election he was set to win.

According to a highly placed source within the party, the Kogi APC standard bearer whose death came to public knowledge  Sunday evening, actually passed on few hours after casting his vote at his polling unit at Ogbonicha in Ofu Local Government Area.

The source confided in our correspondent that Audu had been feeling quite unwell a day before the election. A doctor was called in to attend to him, pending when he would have been flown out for proper medical attention, he said.

FREEDOM REMANDED IN PRISON FOR RAPING 15-YR-OLD GIRL IN LAGOS. #SAYNOTORAPE.

An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State on Monday remanded a 27-year-old musician, Friday Freedom, in prison for allegedly raping a 15- year-old girl.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Chief Magistrate, Mr. Tajudeen Elias, remanded the accused in the Kirikiri Prison and adjourned the case till November 28, 2015, for ruling on bail application.

The accused, who lives on Kilani Street, Papa Ashafa, Agege, a suburb of Lagos, is facing a charge of rape.

STUDENT ACCUSED OF RAPING, MURDERING AND BURYING TEACHER PLEADS NOT GUILTY. #SAYNOTORAPE

PHILIP CHISM - ACCUSED OF MURDERING TEACHER

The student accused of murdering and raping his teacher was seen in surveillance footage rolling a recycling bin down a hallway and outside the school in court on Monday. 

Philip Chism, 16, sat quietly and emotionless while jurors watched video of him dragging the large blue recycling bin the prosecution claims contained the body of Colleen Ritzer, his math teacher at Danvers High School in Massachusetts.

He is then seen returning to school with his pants covered in a dark red substance that appears to be blood.

FG IS STILL SUBSIDIZING PETROL BY N10.58 DESPITE FALL IN GLOBAL OIL PRICES.

Despite the fall in global crude oil prices, its harsh impact on Nigeria’s revenue and the current petrol scarcity in many cities, the Federal Government is still subsidising by N10.58 for every litre of the product consumed across the country, latest figures from the Petroleum Pricing Regulatory Agency have shown.

This is coming as fuel scarcity in Abuja and neighbouring states of Kaduna and Nasarawa continued on Monday. The queues by motorists at the few filling stations that had the product to sell stretched farther than they were previously.

Experts in the oil and gas sector have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to stop subsidising petrol, explaining that aside from the fact that it would check the illegalities in the system, the removal of subsidy would also help address the issue of fuel scarcity.

SUGABELLY NARRATES THE RAPE HORROR THE AUDU FAMILY SUBJECTED HER TO AT THE TENDER AGE OF 17..

Twitter user @Sugabelly did not hide her excitement when the news of  the death of APC Governorship aspirant Prince Audu Abubakar broke.

She alleged that the sons of Audu, his nephew and their friends raped her several times while she was just seventeen.

Read the story she shared with her friend twitter user @Echecrates......... 

APC GOVERNORSHIP CANDIDATE IN KOGI ABUBAKAR AUDU REPORTED DEAD AS INEC DECLARES RESULT INCONCLUSIVE.

Unconfirmed reports reaching us indicate that the candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the Kogi State Governorship election, Abubakar Audu, has died.

Sahara Reporters had reported his death earlier.

Audu is said to have died earlier today, but his death was kept secret by his family and associates according to additional reports from Kogi State.

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WORLD'S SECOND LARGEST DIAMOND HAS BEEN DISCOVERED IN BOTSWANA.

A diamond nearly the size of a tennis ball, second only in size to a stone that is now housed in Britain's crown jewels, was unearthed in Botswana this week.​

The 1,111-carat stone was discovered in the Karowe Mine in Botswana, which is owned and operated by the Vancouver-based Lucara Diamond Corp, according to the Wall Street Journal. An 813-carat diamond was also found in the cache.

The largest diamond ever uncovered was a 3,106-carat stone found in 1905 in South Africa. It was split into several separate gems that include the Great Star of Africa and the Lesser Star of Africa, two stones that are now housed in the crown jewels of the United Kingdom. 

BENIN REPUBLIC INVADES AND HOISTS FLAG IN 16 VILLAGES IN KWARA STATE, NIGERIA.

The neighbouring Benin Republic has invaded sixteen villages in Okuta, the border town in Baruten local government area of Kwara state, thereby causing serious fear and palpable tension in the affected communities.

‎In their shrewd determination to annex the Nigerian villages, Vanguard reliably gathered that authorities of Benin Republic have gone ahead to construct Gerdarmes Office(Police station) in the affected Nigerian communities and also hoist the country flag at the affected Nigeria villages.

Vanguard checks revealed that the development negated the boundary delimitation of 1914 between Britain and France which the two countries had respected.

ARMED JIHADIST KILL 3 AND HOLD 170 HOSTAGE IN RADISSON BLU HOTEL IN MALI.

Armed jihadists have killed at least three people in a deadly shooting rampage and taken 170 hostages at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali according to Dailymail.

Automatic weapons fire has been heard on the seventh floor of the 190-room hotel, where it is thought as many as 12 militants have taken 140 guests and 30 members of staff hostage.

Witnesses described how the gunmen allowed around 20 hostages to leave safely after they proved they were able to recite verses of the Koran to the militants.

HOW TERROR GROUPS FROM NIGERIA TO TURKEY DEPLOYED FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBERS LONG BEFORE ISIS.

Hasna Aitboulahcen -– the ISIS fanatic who blew herself up in the police siege in Paris – may have been Europe's first female suicide bomber, but she is far from the world's first. 

While most suicide bombers are men, Islamic militant groups have occasionally deployed women to carry out such attacks, some as young as ten.

NIGERIA ARMY DEBUNKS REPORTS THAT IT LOST OVER 100 SOLDIERS TO BOKO HARAM, #BRINGBACKOURSOLDIERS IS A PROPAGANDA.

Chief of Army staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai has waved aside reports that about 105 soldiers prosecuting the war against Boko Haram terrorists met their untimely death when they failed to return in a bid to annihilate the terrorists in the North East.

The media had been awashed with news that about 100 Nigerian soldiers were missing after Boko Haram attacks in the epicenter of the battle.

But General Buratai in a telephone conversation with Vanguard said, “It is not true that our soldiers are missing. The soldiers went on a mission for the Nigerian nation and they have since returned and joined their Battalions”.

FG BANS IMPORTATION OF "I BETTER PASS MY NEIGHBOUR GENERATORS"

The Federal government has banned the importation of a very common brand of generators locally called “I better pass my neighbour”.

The Controller, Federation Operations Unit Zone A, Lagos of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Madugu Sanni Jubrin, who disclosed this, yesterday, said, “the smaller generators have been banned by the Federal Government because it is causing air pollution and destruction of our lungs and breathing system.

THE SHAME IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. Cc: @NGRSENATE

After months of procrastination, the Senate and the House of Representatives have finally constituted their committees. The setting up of the committees is the signal of the readiness of the National Assembly to settle down for business.

This is because the committee system is the engine room of the legislature – the platform upon which the business of lawmaking and legislative oversight are accomplished.

Senate President Bukola Saraki, who announced the constitution of the Senate committees penultimate Wednesday named 65 committees, nine more than the 56 committees of the preceding Senate.

PRESIDENT BUHARI AND THE BIAFRA PROTEST.

Let me say it, once again: I do not support the hysteria for Biafra. I am not sure Nnamdi Kanu fully understands the subject well enough to give us a picture of what to expect if wishes were horses and beggars could ride. But as an Igbo man I fully share the sentiments that are driving the protests.

The difference between these young people and me is that while they have surrendered to the heat of emotion and are being propelled by it, those of us who are more experienced and schooled in Nigerian affairs (part of which is the Biafra sub-plot) know that when faced with tough challenges, sentiment can never produce positive results.

This has been the approach of the Igbo elite since 1994, a period of our post-war history when the military had made the Igbo totally inconsequential in Nigerian politics. In the June 12, 1993 presidential election based on the military-decreed two party system, the Igbos were reduced to mere spectators in the fight between the North and the West for power.

SPEAK WITH DECORUM, GOVERNOR MIMIKO ADVICES LAI MOHAMMED.

The governor of Ondo state and Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, has advised the former Spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress, APC and minister of information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed to be more cautious, words-selective and fact-oriented before speaking for the presidency.

“As a former Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I want to believe there is an urgent need for me to assist in reorientation and exercise of Presidential familiarization for our Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed to know that he now works with the Presidency and should adapt to presidential breeze and ethics and learn how to address issues of public interest without unleashing terror and verbal war on personalities in oppositions like when he does as the Spokesperson to the All Progressive Congress, APC,”  Mimiko charged.

NINE SOLDIERS ARRESTED FOR TAKING THE BRT LANE HAVE PAID FINES. Cc: @RabeAbubakarDDI @DefenceInfoNG.

Nine soldiers who plied the lane designated for the Bus Rapid Transit in Lagos State on Tuesday have paid fines to the state government.

It was reported that some soldiers, including one Major Dickson Okpor and one Lt.Col L.A. Bello, allegedly led scores of soldiers to assault officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority who had accosted them for plying the BRT lane on the Onipanu end of Ikorodu Road.

It was reported that after the soldiers left, the General Manager of LASTMA, Mr. Bashir Braimoh, came to the spot where he personally enforced the traffic law.