(PICTURES) PILOT OF THE NIGERIAN AIR FORCE FIGHTER JET THAT CRASHED IN ADAMAWA BURIED AMIDST TEARS.

Late Fight Lieutenant Ebitimi Owei was laid to rest at the National Military Cemetery, Abuja today.

Flight Lieutenant Owei who was deployed to combat terrorism in the ongoing operation Lafiya Dole in the North East paid the supreme sacrifice for the peace of the Nation on 10 October on the ill-fated Nigerian Air Force F-7 Fighter Jet that crashed in Adamawa.

Born on 13 October 1984. A pilot, commissioned in 2008. He was survived by wife, two children, siblings and parents. May his gentle soul rest in peace.

CLARK THE FATHER, JONATHAN THE SON - WRITTEN BY REUBEN ABATI.

I have tried delaying the writing of this piece in the honest expectation that someone probably misquoted Chief E.K. Clark, when he reportedly publicly disowned former President Goodluck Jonathan. I had hoped that our dear father, E.K. Clark, would issue a counter statement and say the usual things politicians say: “they quoted me out of context!”  “Jonathan is my son”. That has not happened; rather, some other Ijaw voices, including one Joseph Evah, have come to the defence of the old man, to join hands in rubbishing a man they once defended to the hilt and used as a bargaining chip for the Ijaw interest in the larger Nigerian geo-politics.

U-17 WORLD CUP - EAGLETS LAND IN CHILE TO CONQUER THE WORLD AGAIN.

Defending Champions of the FIFA U-17 World Cup, the Golden Eaglets of Nigeria landed in Chile yesterday with FIFA officials hailing Nigeria for their records in the youth World Cup.

The Emmanuel Amuneke-tutored record-seekers (Nigeria) have won the U-17 World Cup a record four times.

16 years, 11 months and ten days will be the average age of the Nigeria squad when the tournament kicks off on Saturday 17 October, the youngest at Chile 2015. Emanuel Amuneke will be hoping his young charges continue the good progress made by Manu Garba’s champions from 2013, with 12 out of the 21 in their UAE 2013 squad featuring at the FIFA U-20 World Cup earlier this year in New Zealand.

OSCAR PISTORIUS SET TO BE RELEASED FROM PRISON.

Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, jailed for killing his girlfriend, is to be freed from prison to house arrest next Tuesday, a South African parole board says.

He was sentenced to five years in prison in 2014 after being found guilty of culpable homicide, or manslaughter.

He shot Reeva Steenkamp through a locked bathroom door but said he thought she was an intruder.

The prosecution has appealed, saying he should instead be convicted of murder.

PICTURE OF LATE DIEPREYE ALAMIEYESEIGHA WHILE ON LIFE SUPPORT.

Late Diepreye Alamieyeseigha's brother shared the picture of the ex-governor while he was on life support at the Uniport Teaching Hospital.

RIP Alams.

MINISTERIAL SCREENING - HOW FASHOLA, KACHIKWU AND OTHERS PERFORMED.

The screening of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees entered the second day Wednesday after the event kicked off on Tuesday with the screening of 10 nominees.

Senate President, Bukola Saraki, kicked off Wednesday’s screening session by announcing that Mr. Buhari had withdrawn a nominee from Niger State, Musa Ibeto.

No reason was given for his withdrawal.

WANDE COAL ANNOUNCES ALBUM RELEASE DATE PLUS COVER.

The six years wait is over for the release of the highly anticipated album from Super-talented artiste Black Diamond popularly known as Wande Coal.

The sophomore album titled WANTED drops on the 26th October 2015.

#LAMARODOM BECAME A MESS BECAUSE HE COULDN'T KEEP UP WITH THE KARDASHIANS - PIERS MORGAN

There can’t be many more pitiful, humiliating ways to potentially end your life than face down in an infamous Nevada brothel, vomiting uncontrollably from the overdose of herbal Viagra you took to keep up with myriad prostitutes during a 4-day binge.

As I write, Lamar Odom is clinging on. He’s in a coma, distraught family and friends at his bedside. But his dignity and reputation are already dead, shredded at the altar of reality television.

It would be inhuman not to feel a massive jolt of sympathy for this giant 6ft 10in champion sportsman as he faces his greatest challenge.

NO IMPUNITY FOR BURKINA FASO SOLDIERS WHO SHOT CIVILIANS.

Amnesty International on Wednesday said there can be no impunity for Burkina Faso troops who shot dead unarmed civilians including children in the days following their September 17 coup.

The troops from the west African nation’s presidential guard, the RSP, “displayed a cold-blooded disregard for human life, killing 14 unarmed protestors and bystanders and wounding hundreds more with automatic weapons,” the rights group said in a statement.

It said two children were among the 14 dead, six of them shot in the back.

FATHER ACCUSED OF BEATING 7-YR-OLD DAUGHTER TO DEATH BECAUSE SHE SAID SHE DID NOT LOVE HIM.

A father has been accused of beating his young daughter to death because she said she did not love him.

The man, who has not been named, allegedly battered seven-year-old Yara with an air conditioning hose in a fit of rage at his home in the Saudi capital Riyadh.

He locked his daughter in her bedroom after 'hitting her all over her body' and later found her in a critical condition.

LAMAR ODOM BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH AFTER BEING FOUND UNCONSCIOUS IN A BROTHEL.

Lamar Odom is fighting for his life after suffering heart failure induced by a four day binge at a Nevada brothel where he took up to ten herbal Viagra.

The professional basketball player, 35, was found unconscious with liquid pouring from his mouth and nose at Dennis Hof’s Love Ranch South, in Pahrump.

His ex-wife Khloe Kardashian has rushed to the Nevada Hospital where he is being treated and was described as completely inconsolable. Her sister Kim Kardashian West and mother Kris Jenner are understood to be with her.

READ HOW ROBBERS INVADED 2 BANKS, KILLED A MOTHER & HER CHILD IN FESTAC. Cc: @PoliceNG @AkinwunmiAmbode @Mbuhari.

No fewer than forty heavily armed robbers, yesterday morning, invaded two second generation banks in 4th Avenue, Festac area of Lagos state and carted away huge sums of money.

During the operation which lasted hours, a two-year-old toddler, Mmesoma Ndirika, and her mother, Jane, who were inside their apartment in an adjoining building, were reportedly hit by stray bullets from the bandits who were shooting sporadically in all directions.

Reports said both mother and child later died as a result of injuries they sustained from the bullet.   A commercial motorcyclist who was also hit by stray bullets reportedly died later in an undisclosed private hospital.

BOKO HARAM HAVE KILLED AT LEAST 1600 PEOPLE SINCE JUNE 2015.

Amnesty International said last month that the Boko Haram conflict had killed at least 1,600 people since the start of June in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon and called for more protection for civilians.

An AFP tally puts the death toll at more than 1,320 in Nigeria alone since Muhammadu Buhari became president on May 29.

Boko Haram claimed responsibility for three suicide attacks in the satellite towns of Kuje and Nyanya outside Nigeria’s capital Abuja on October 2, which killed a total of 18 people and injured 41.

FIVE MEN ARRAIGNED FOR IMPREGNATING 13-YR-OLD GIRL.

Five men on Tuesday appeared before a Senior Magistrates Court in Katsina, for allegedly impregnating a 13- year-old minor.

Those arraigned incuded Amadu Mairake, 60, Samaila Hamza, 30, Hassan Surajo, 40, Sani Abdullahi, 30, and Hassan Ila, 40.

The suspects, who reside at Borin-Dawa village in Malumfashi Local Government of Katsina State, were charged with a one-count charge of rape.

31-YR-OLD JAILED SENTENCED TO 885 YEARS FOR CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.

A Seminole County judge sentenced a man to 885 years in prison for possession of a massive amount of child pornography, Attorney General Pam Bondi's Office of Statewide Prosecution announced on Monday.

Shawn Ryan Thomas, 31, was sentenced to 885 years in prison on 59 counts of possession of child pornography, 15 years for each count.

According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Thomas communicated online with an informant regarding a disturbing plan to kidnap a child, kill the parents and sexually batter the child while filming the acts to produce child pornography.

PRESIDENT BUHARI WILL NO LONGER BE MINISTER OF PETROLEUM.

There is an indication that the  Presidency has reversed itself on the petroleum ministerial position.

The portfolio will now have no minister, while a ministerial nominee in the person of Emmanuel Kachikwu, current Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, would be Minister of State for Petroleum Resources.

This indication was given by the presidential spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina, barely two weeks after he had told international media that President Muhammadu Buhari would take the position.

POLICE PARADES 2 ABDUCTORS OF CHIEF OLU FALAE WHO CLAIM THEIR COLLEAGUE ESCAPED WITH N5M RANSOM FEE.

The Department of State Service, DSS, yesterday presented two suspected abductors of Chief Olu Falae, a former Secretary to Government of the Federation, in Abuja.

Chief Falae, was abducted on his farm at Ilado village, Akure, Ondo state on his 77th birthday on Sept. 21 by armed Fulani herdsmen and released four days later.

Presenting the suspects, Mr Abdullahi Garba, an operative of the service, said that they were arrested on October 5 at J. Zebra hotel in Lokoja.

EFCC ARREST FORMER BENUE GOVERNOR GABRIEL SUSWAM.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has commenced interrogations of former Governor of Benue state, Gabriel Suswam over alleged massive corruption in the state during his tenure as Governor. Suswan was arrested Monday and is being questioned by EFCC.

Suswam, who left office on May 29, this year, is alleged to have made away with state funds running into billions of Naira and is to defend himself against the charges.

Speaking with newsmen a short while ago, the EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwajuren confirmed that Suswan was arrested Today, Monday and is being quizzed by the anti-graft agency.

APC LED LATE DIEPREYE ALAMIEYESEIGHA TO THE PATH OF DEATH - GOVERNOR FAYOSE.

Ado-Ekiti- Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has fingered the All Progressive Congress led Federal Government in the death of former Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Diepreye Alamieyeseigha.

Describing the death as painful and unfortunate, Fayose said, the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government finally succeeded in hounding an Ijaw leader to death just because of his staunch stance on the upcoming Bayelsa State governorship election.”

Fayose, in a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka said, the governor commiserated with the deceased family, former President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan as well as the Governor of Bayelsa State, Hon Seriake Dickson and the entire people of the State.

I WON'T JOIN ISSUES WITH BOLA TINUBU - BUKOLA SARAKI.

Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on Sunday, responded to a statement said to have been issued by the National Leader of his party, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, where he (Tinubu), while reacting to a recent media report by a national daily (not Vanguard), accused Saraki of crass disloyalty to party discipline, giving the manner he captured his current seat as Senate President.

But in a swift reaction, Saraki who took to his Facebook page, said he had seen the statement said to be issued by Senator Tinubu over the published story, but have decided not to join issues with him.

Recall that on Saturday, the national daily had in its publication alleged that the former Lagos State governor, is reportedly angered that the ministerial candidates he sent to President Muhammadu Buhari didn’t scale through.