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HOW WE SHARED CHIEF OLU FALAE'S N5M RANSOM MONEY.

Three of the suspects arraigned for kidnapping Olu Falae, former Secretary to the Government of the Federation – Abubakar Auta, Bello Jannu and Idris Lawal on Thursday confessed that they received N100,000 each as reward for their involvement in the operation out of the total of N5million collected as ransom.

The suspects, who spoke to reporters in Hausa shortly before their arraignment at the Ondo State High Court in Akure, had denied the charges filed against them in court.

Mr. Auta served as middle man during the negotiations on the ransom demanded.

NIGERIAN ARMY DISMISSES AND JAILS GENERAL WHO LOST EQUIPMENT TO BOKO HARAM.

The Nigerian military on Thursday convicted a Brigadier General, Enitan Ransome-Kuti, blamed for the loss of Baga in Borno State to Boko Haram insurgents in January according to Premium Times.

Mr. Ransome-Kuti, son of Beko Ransome-Kuti, a foremost Nigerian pro-democracy activist who died on February 10, 2006, was arraigned before a military court, sitting in Mogadishu Barracks, Abuja, in May.

He was accused of cowardly behaviour, loss of weapons to Boko Haram, and negligent performance of military duty under section 62b of the Armed Forces Act.

(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.