KOBE BRYANT BIDS FAREWELL TO NBA.

After his 20th season in the National Basketball Association (NBA), Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant will finally call it a career.

In a letter posted on the Player’s Tribune entitled “Dear Basketball,” the Lakers legend wrote of the end of his storied career.

In the heartfelt message, Bryant bared his love for the sport and acknowledged that this season is all he has left to give.

FRAUD SUSPECT DIES IN EFCC CUSTODY.

Tragedy has hit the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, after a suspect in its custody, suddenly developed chest pains, and died.

Arowofela Olufemi, who was being investigated by the commission following allegations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, that he fraudulently converted over N100 million dividend warrants to himself, died in a military hospital, where he was rushed to by officials of the EFCC.

A statement made available to Vanguard yesterday indicated that Olufemi had complained of chest pains early in the day and was rushed to an unnamed military hospital in Lagos, where he gave up the ghost before doctors could attend to him.

SUGABELLY SHEDS MORE LIGHT ON HER RAPE HORROR - #SurvivingMustaphaAudu #SayNoToRAPE.

The lady who alleged that the sons of late Governor of Kogi. Audu Abubakar and his friends raped, abused and molested her multiple times have opened up more on how the tragic events happened.

Sharing the details on her blog she wrote; ''Every time I see a white Nissan Altima, my palms go sweaty, and my knees get weak. It’s an involuntary reaction born of so many nights being driven around Asokoro pinned to the floor of Tunji’s white Nissan Altima, barely able to breathe, the stench of weed stinging my eyes while I choked on the penis of whomever it pleased Mustapha to force me to pleasure that day.

''I can’t have music playing while driving around in a car either. Or just sitting around at home. I can’t have music playing period. Especially not Maroon5. If I get into your car, please drive in fucking silence or you will make it hard for me to breathe.

TREASURY LOOTERS ARE RETURNING STOLEN FUNDS IN BITS VOLUNTARILY BUT WE WANT EVERYTHING - PRESIDENT BUHARI,

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday disclosed that some past government officials who stole public funds while in the saddle have started returning parts of their loots to government coffers voluntarily.

He however said he was not satisfied yet as his government would stop at nothing to ensure all stolen funds and not a fraction was recovered.

Buhari disclosed this during an interactive session he had with members of the Nigerian community in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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.