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                                                 Below is the official press release from EFCC: A suspected internet fraudster, Dumi Osayemi, a.k.a Larry, is currently ruing his attempt to compromise operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

                                  In an age when many celebrity marriages barely outlive the buzz they created, Mercy Johnson-Okojie is one actress whose four-year-old marriage has remained stable and she attributes this to her decision to build her marriage on truth, no matter the situation. In this interview with SOLOMON NDA-ISAIAH, the thespian said her resolve to abide by the truth at all times followed an advice from her pastor.

                                Erstwhile Head of State, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) was last night sustaining his lead over President Goodluck Jonathan in the declared results of the presidential elections released by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, last night.

                                                Below is what por*n star, Afro candy posted last night... I pity all these people Chanting 'Sai Buhari' when your name is not 'Malam Douda'. It is clear this is a Tribal Election and Housa people stood by their own. 

                                                    President Goodluck Jonathan has urged Nigerians to exercise patience as they wait for the Independent National Electoral Commission to collate and announce results of Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections.

                                 Pardon me, I can’t find any right phrase for actor-Majid Michel’s grand delusion—but for a 21st century actor who claims to be one of the best in Africa to say homosexuals are abomination and his sole source of reference is the Bible, a bronze age badly written life manuscript, then surely we have a lot on our hands to deal with as people.

                              Results so far released in the presidential polls in Nasarawa State indicates that President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has taken lead ahead of his closest rival and candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Gen. Mohammadu Buhari.

                                This photo has a clear date, time and you can see the new colour coded INEC ballot papers on a open field.

                                 Amber Rose and Wiz Khalifa have called a truce in their custody war ... and they've agreed to co-parent their son ... TMZ has learned. 

                                 General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) of the All Progressives Congress was on Monday morning announced the winner of the March 28 Presidential elections in Kogi State.

                    They stole the money, but they will not live to spend it. The Police in Ondo State have recovered N9m from 6 out of 50 robbers that raided Owo, an area in Ondo State last week.

Following the elections over the weekend, the stage seems set for a change of leadership in the nation’s polity with results of the presidential polls indicating that the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd), is in comfortable lead in three of the country’s six geo-political zones. The zones include the two largest ones – North West and South West. Buhari also polled more votes than his arch-rival and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), President Goodluck Jonathan, in the North East zone. The incumbent president clinched the South South and the South East. Both candidates have shared the spoils in in North Central zone with Buhari winning in Kogi, Kwara and Niger states while Jonathan cornered Nasarawa, Plateau and Benue. According to Leadership, from results trickling in from the collation centres, the former military head of state has emerged the preferred choice of the people in the presidential poll. “There is no doubt the race ...

                                    Pastor Kumuyi while preaching in during yesterday's Worship Service on the topic 'The Word in A Transformed Believer' reportedly chastised some sections of the church. 

                                 The police in Ondo State have recovered N9 million from the six of the fifty armed robbers who raided four banks at Owo last week.

                 Anton Kraft, 52, is a world record bodybuilder, who stands at 4ft 4in and arguably the strongest man in the world, as the only man in the world who has lifted four times his own body weight.

                                 13 persons including two suicide bombers were confirmed dead in the twin bomb attack in Jos with fourteen others injured following twin blasts that occurred along Bauchi Road in Jos, the Plateau State capital, in the north central region of Nigeria.

                                          The Lagos State Police Command has arrested one 26-year-old pregnant Onyiyechi who allegedly stabbed her husband to death during a quarrel over who would emerge winner between the Peoples Democratic Party and All Progressives Congress, APC presidential candidates, while voting was on-going , weekend, at Ejigbo area of the state.

Less than three days before the presidential election holds across Nigeria, the wife of Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience Jonathan, has misfired at a public function.

                                After spending millions on an SUV for clocking 100,000 followers on his Instagram page, Chocolate City artiste and music executive, M.I, has continued to celebrate and in the mood of felicitation, he has blessed his manager with a car.

                                Reports making the rounds, has it that Nollywood actress, Oge Okoye, may have finally found love in the hands of a business man who shuttles between Nigeria and Europe.

                                Finally, the body of Aishat Noble-Mustapha, the female Silverbird staff that was gruesomely killed by unidentified assailant has finally been laid to rest yesterday in Lagos.

                                In America mother of a boy and girl whose bodies were found in a freezer at the family home have beenarrested in Detroit.

                          Prof. Attahiru Jega, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) A Lagos-based company, Vision Web Technologies, has launched an online platform to enable Nigerians monitor and report proceedings during the general elections starting on Saturday.

                                            Achusa, a small village in Makurdi local government of Benue State has been thrown into confusion after an 11-year-old boy identified as Terkula Botwer committed suicide by hanging himself on a tree. Tekula, who was accused of stealing N200 by his guardian, allegedly committed suicide to prove his innocence. An eyewitness who pleaded anonymity noted that,“It all happened on Sunday morning when Mrs. Nadoo Hember, the boy’s guardian, was alleged to have complained that her only N200 was missing in the house she lived with the late boy. “She confronted Terkula who denied taking the money, but as she was leaving for church, she allegedly warned the boy that if the money was not found, she would be forced to return him back to his parents in the village. “Unfortunately, when she got back from church later in the day, she got into the house ...

                       Speaking at a stakeholders’ summit with political parties, Jega informed those present that accreditation of voters would take place from 8a.m. till the last person to join the queue at 1p.m. is accredited, while voting would commence at 1.30p.m. and would end when the last person on the queue has voted.

                                  One Mr. Ikechukwu Anajekwu, has been locked up in the Kirikiri Maximum Prison for beating his wife, Obiageli, to death over her inability to bear him children.

                    24yr old Harnaam Kaur, who lives in Berkshire, UK, and suffers from what doctors calls polycystic ovary syndrome (facial hair growth in women) says she now loves her beards and have stopped trying to get rid of it. 

A Federal High Court in Abuja will on ‎Wednesday rule on fresh applications by intended parties to join one of the suits challenging the eligibility of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), to contest Saturday’s presidential election.

                                  10 days after the Defence Headquarters announced the recapture of Damasak town in Borno state from Boko Haram, members of the sect group is reported to have struck the town again, this time kidnapping over 400 women and children.

                  Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO), Chief Femi Fani-Kayode said yesterday that the All Progressives Congress (APC) spokesperson, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has told yet another lie about speculated the disqualification of the APC presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari from the March 28 election. Fani-Kayode in a swift reaction to Mohammed on the issue said, “Lai Mohammed has told yet another dirty lie. What on earth is our business with Buhari’s court case? “We know that he does not have a certificate and that he was not eligible to contest but we have moved on from there and we are ready to meet him in the field. The truth is that the APC are suffering from all manner of paranoia and they have lost touch with reality. “They are the proverbial conspiracy theorists who are so consumed by their own morbid fears that they sleep in their wardrob...

                                 The police in Ekiti have arrested a man, Wale Ede, 25, for allegedly beheading a 50-year-old Vehicle Inspection Officer and father of seven, Joshua Fagbola.

                               Since the delivery of her babies on the 2nd of March 2015, fans have been dead curious to unravel who fathered the kids, but the actress has kept mum on the issue. 

                                  Rivers State Governor and Director-General of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has accused the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state, Chief Nyesom Wike, of giving $1m (N199m) monthly to the wife of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan.

                                 When tragedy such as this strikes condolences are due but at times we have to call ‘a spade a spade’, and call out the kind of negligence that can lead to such an incident.

                               More than 200 witch doctors and traditional healers have been arrested in Tanzania in a crackdown on the murder of albino people.

A Lagos tricycle rider (Keke Napep) has explained why she ventured into a trade believed to be strictly for men. Despite being heavily pregnant, Mrs Olayinka Adeyemo says she has no choice than to work because she has a family to cater for. Hear her: Please madam, how did you get into this keke (tricycle) business? “My brother, I’m a graduate, but rather than stay idle coupled with the responsibility of taking care of my young family, a friend of mine encouraged me to take-up this business. First, I got this tricycle through a hire-purchase arrangement from this friend, but now it’s mine because I’m done with paying up the cost of the tricycle.” How does it feel operating in a man’s world? I don’t feel any different. I’m working and the men are working too. The difference is that I get more considerations from bus-stop touts who milk us of our earnings because I’m a woman, and when they see my protruding tummy, they just let me be. And your condition? “I’m only pregnant. ...

                                 The High Court of Lagos State presided over by Honourable Justice Akinkugbe I.O. granted an injunction restraining Daar Communications,

                                              People have several different reasons for having relationships which may include companionship, friendship, marriage and what have you. However, some ingredients such as trust and faith are essential for its survival.

                   A man has been charged at a Nairobi court with intentionally touching a woman’s buttocks against her will.

                                  1. The Chatterbox This is the woman who never shuts up, barely stopping to breathe. Seemingly only concerned about what is going on in her life, she always has to make a comment about everything and dominates conversations.

                                   Singer Lami Phillips is outraged because the tyre of her car has been deflated because president Goodluck Jonathan is passing!

                                The police in Lagos State have arrested an Islamic cleric, Abdullahi Omobolaji, a.k.a Alfa, for allegedly having unlawful carnal knowledge of a 17-year-old teenager, Idowu (pseudonym), in the Agege area of the state.

                                  The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Kayode Aderanti, weekend, said that the command had clue of who the robbers that stormed a second generation bank last Thursday, killing three policemenand a teenager, were, assuring that it would soon round them up.

                                The electoral institute of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was gutted by fire yesterday ‎just as the commissionruled out political mischief and sabotage in the incident.

               The death has been announced of Dudu Evans, who was before her death, an OAP with Radio Sapientia 95.3FM Onitsha, one of the most popular radio stations in Onitsha. 

                                       A startling interview conducted several years ago with former Super Eagles goalkeeper and SuperSport football analyst turned Pastor, Idah Peterside, has surfaced online. Among other things, the ex-soccer star reveals his haunting journey into occultism, how his first marriage crashed and his relationship with controversial pastor T.B. Joshua.

                                 Just as the dust over the abduction of two Chinese construction workers is yet to settle, three others were kidnapped yesterday at the crusher end of Lokoja, the state capital.

                                   In the serious business of football coaching, the rule of the game is presentation. Far from leading you team to victories, today’s coaches are increasingly coming under the microscope of journalists and critics, who search for any scrub to put in the public domain. Like the saying goes, the way you are dressed is the way you will be addressed.

                                   No fewer than 6,885 graduates of the Lagos State University (LASU) will receive their diploma, first and higher degrees during the 20th convocation ceremony, the Vice Chancellor, Prof John Obafunwa has revealed.