HOLY BUSINESS: Bishop David Oyedepo Launch New Airline?

Nigeria’s richest pastor and self-styled bishop, David Oyedepo, has made a glistening addition to his business empire by floating an airline called Dominion Air. Oyedepo, who a few years ago ignited debate on flamboyant Christianity by acquiring his fourth private jet, is the owner of Dominion Publishing House, Covenant University and an elite secondary school called Faith Academy. Listed...

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DISTURBING: Boko Haram Factory Discovered In Lagos?

Fear gripped many residents of Lagos  on Thursday  when news  filtered in that troops numbering about 100 stormed terror suspects’ hideouts in Ijora, a  densely populated part of the city. The soldiers, who were assisted by men of the State Security Service, were  believed to have acted on a tip-off. They were said to have arrived in the area around 7am in search...

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SURPRISING: Mike Aondoakaa Sue U.S. Government?

Former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mike Aondoakaa Disgraced former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Michael Aondoakaa, has sued the American government, seeking explanation for the revocation of his U.S. non-immigrant visa. The U.S. government had revoked Mr Aondoakaa’s visa and those of members of his family soon after he left office...

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ONDO STATE: NTA Reporter Kidnapped?

A female journalist working with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Olubunmi Oke, has been kidnapped. Olubunmi Oke of NTA was kidnapped by unknown gunmen last night It was gathered this morning that the reporter was kidnapped on Thursday night by four gunmen at her Oba-Ile residence in the Akure area of Ondo State. She was said to have been whisked away shortly after she drove into...

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INTERESTING: Farouk Lawan Sacked?

Farouk Lawan is being tried for corruption. The embattled Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Education, Farouk Lawan (PDP-Bagwai/Shanono) was on Thursday replaced by Aminu Suleiman (PDP-Kano). The Speaker of the house, Aminu Tambuwal, announced this on Thursday in Abuja. No reason was given for the replacement of Mr. Lawan who had headed the committee for more than 12 years,...

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SHOCKING: Chinua Achebe Is Dead?

Nigeria’s literary icon and publisher of several novels, Chinua Achebe, is dead. Mr. Achebe, 82, died in the United States where he was said to have suffered from an undisclosed ailment. PREMIUM TIMES learnt he died last night in a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. A source close to the family said the professor had been ill for a while and was hospitalised in an undisclosed...

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MYSTERY: A Kid From Hell?

A suspected kid from hell has been arrested in Ada, a village near Oyo town for allegedly shooting to death his friend over N100 loaf of bread. The alleged killer kid, Issah, 12 years old was said to have shot dead Victor Akinlabi for refusing to give him part of the N100 bread he and his brother were eating. According to investigation, tragedy struck on March 4, 2013 when the deceased elder brother, Maliki Nurudeen went to collect alleged N100 debt from Issah’s father Ismaila Hassan in...

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FRENCH HOSTAGES: Jonathan, You Dare Not - Boko Haram

A Nigerian Islamist group warned against the use of force to free a French man and six members of his family kidnapped in Cameroon in a video aired on Thursday. Tanguy Moulin-Fournier was kidnapped on 19 February along with his wife, four children aged between five and 12, and brother while vacationing in northern Cameroon. “We are proud to say that we are holding the seven French hostages,” said a Boko Haram member in the video aired by France’s i-Tele channel with French sub-titles. The...

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SURPRISING: Tinubu Back Boko Haram Amnesty?

While commiserating with the Emir of Kano in Kano today over the attack on him and his convoy in January, former Lagos State governor Bola Tinubu made some controversial statements. He called for the granting of amnesty to some Boko Haram militants. Tinubu said: For the innocent ones among them, there must be amnesty. We cannot fight a war in our own country against minor crimes...

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FACTS: Alamieyeseigha Could Be Entitled To Billions He Stole?

DSP Alamieyeseigha Former Bayelsa State governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, may be paid billions of naira, the value of the assets seized from him after his conviction for money laundering. President Goodluck Jonathan had granted Mr. Alamieyeseigha a presidential pardon, rendering the former Bayelsa State governor a freeman. While Mr. Alamieyeseigha was convicted, properties he acquired...

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FATAL: Woman Kill Soldier Over Fight?

Dectectives at Homicide Department, State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Panti, Yaba have arrested the wife of a Sergeant in the Nigerian Army for allegedly killing her husband during a domestic fight in the barracks in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria. The incident happened at Arakan Barracks in Apapa, Lagos where the victim, Sergeant Agofure Benjamin lived with his family. The 26-year old Gloria Benjamin allegedly hit  Benjamin with a metal object on his head and he started...

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FUEL SUBSIDY: I Must Remove It - Jonathan

The President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government has restated its plan to fully deregulate the downstream oil sector, despite the aversion of most citizens to the proposal. Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, briefing pressmen, Wednesday, at the end of the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, said the total withdrawal of subsidy on petroleum products had become inevitable. “Without deregulation, there will be no deregulated downstream sector. Currently the government...

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NEW RELEASE: Listen To Psquare New Single ‘Unlimited’

Here’s a new single from PSquare featuring Lagbaja titled Unlimited. Not what you thought you would hear but this is a pretty good collaboration . P-Square Ft. Lagbaja – Unlimited Download: P-Square – Unlimited ft Lagba...

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INTERESTING: Hermaphrodite Saved In Warri?

The police in Sapele, yesterday, saved an hermaphrodite who is partly man and partly woman, from being lynched by a mob, when the figure suddenly showed up along New Ogorode road, by Total Filling Station, in Sapele. An eye witness said the incident led to traffic jam along Sapele/Warri ever busy expressway and the New Ogorode road as commuters and drivers stopped to catch a glimpse. When Vanguard visited the scene, the fellow was completely naked, with hair covering most part of the...

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2015 ELECTION: ACN National Chairman Kidnapped?

The Vice Chairman (South-east),  of the Action Congress of Nigeria ,Dr. Chudi Nwike, has been abducted. He was  kidnapped in Anambra State yesterday, and the abductors  want N30million in foreign currency for his release. In a statement in Lagos by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party quoted Nwike’s younger brother, who has been contacted by the victim,as...

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TRAGIC: Twins Suffocate To Death?

Tragedy struck on Monday at Osisioma, a suburb of Aba, the commercial capital of Abia State when four-year-old male twins, suffocated to death inside a car parked in front of their house. The boys, Chukwuemeka and Chiemela Okechukwu, the only male children of their parents and who were in nursery school at the Stella and Maris School in the city were with their mother, Mrs. Ngozi Okechukwu in the morning hours on that fateful day as they could not go to school for undisclosed reasons. After...

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CONFESSION: I Don’t Produce Fake Drugs, I Only Package Them – Suspect

58- year-old Ikenna Nne has been accused by the Lagos State Police Command for engaging in the production of “large quantity of” substandard drugs in the state. Ikenna, however denied ever producing the drugs, accepting that he only repackaged then so they could look original. Some of the drugs found in his possession comprise five large cartons of fake Zentel tablets, thousands of packs of Zentel tablets and a large quantity of printed packets for packaging Postinor tablets. He confessed...

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PRESIDENTIAL PARDON: It's A Symbol Of Corrupt Mentality - Soyinka

The Jonathan presidency got a bloody eye Wednesday in Lagos, when Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, characterized the state pardon granted former governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, by President Goodluck Jonathan, as both a corrupt act and an example of state impunity Mr. Soyinka, who made the comments while opening this year’s edition of the Lagos Black Heritage Festival,...

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HOT PHOTO: Boko Haram Kingpin In Court?

A top Boko Haram operative Kabiru Sokoto was brought to court for formal arraignment today by the State Security Service (SSS). However, the absence of the judge at the Federal High Court Abuja stalled the arraignment. Mr. Sokoto is expected back in court on April 19 2013.   Kabiru Sokoto ...

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CONFESSION: Indian Hair Chased Me - Rachel Edjeren

Below is a story Abuja based TV producer/ presenter and blogger, Rachel Edjeren, shared some days back on her BLOG about the day she was chased in a dream by the Indian hair she fixed.. "My sister in-law came to pray with me last two years. She said she was experiencing ill luck during the week. So many nasty things happening to her. "I prayed wit her and the Spirit led me to ask her what...

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BEWARE: Prepare For Deadly Flood

Nigerians cannot forget the 2012 floods. According to official figures, 360 people lost their lives with more than two million rendered homeless. Some displaced people are still in camps in Delta, Kogi, and Lagos States.The flooding began in July, at the peak of the rainy season, when the nation usually recorded the first of its double rainfall maxima, and lasted till December, when the dry season should be underway.The worst hit states included Anambra, Bayelsa, Benue, Cross River, Delta, Edo,...

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DEADLY LOVE: Wife Poison, Stab Husband To Death?

It was gory sight yesterday in Mgboshiminu community in Obio/Akpor Local Government of Rivers State as Charity Ovudah, 36, allegedly stabbed her husband to death after first poisoning his food.The alleged murder said to have taken place in the night before was reportedly provoked by the deceased, Peter Ovudah’s attempt to bring a second wife into the matrimonial home he had shared with the alleged killer.A family source said the decease had already concluded plans to bring the new wife, who was...

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TRAGEDY: Boat Carrying 166 Sink, Many Dead?

Sahara Reporters has learned that most of the nearly 170 passengers traveling in a huge boat are feared dead in a disaster earlier Tuesday. The boat reportedly capsized some 40 nautical miles off the coast of Calabar. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in Nigeria had earlier reported nine people dead and two survivors however eyewitnesses told our correspondent that the passengers were traveling in a massive wooden boat that took off from Oron, Akwa Ibom State, and headed for...

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CONFESSION: We Kidnapped And Killed The Pregnant Woman And Others - Suspect

”We kidnap victims from Imo State, take them to Rivers state … Suspected leader of  a kidnap syndicate that abducted the Managing Director,  Naija Plaza Hotel, Oguta, Imo state and a pregnant woman and  killed them after collecting ransom from their relatives,  has been arrested by Policemen attached to Ilemba Hausa division in Lagos. The suspect,   Chika...

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2013 BUDGET: Jonathan Reject Transparency Clause?

President Goodluck Jonathan has rejected a number of ambitious stipulations in the Budget Act allowing the Senate and the House of Representatives to monitor every kobo disbursed by the executive for project execution, a design federal lawmakers hatched to check the perennial problem of poor budget implementation. Mr. Jonathan said the unprecedented clauses, inserted by both chambers into...

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Poor performance in last NECO exams underscores neglect by federal and state governments

The results of last year’s November/December Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations recently released by the National Examinations Council (NECO), has once again exposed the precarious state of education in Nigeria. The registrar of the 13-year-old examination body, Professor Promise Okpala, who announced the performance of the candidates said only 33 per cent of the 83, 755 candidates who sat for the English Language paper passed at the required credit level. By the result, given the...

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