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United state President, Barrack Obama for the first time, light the first ever diya in the Oval office to mark the start of Diwali, the Hindu Festival of light, a holiday that occurs every autumn when Idians of all faiths celebrates the triumph of good over evil, and light over darkness.

The National Industrial Court in Ibadan on Monday stopped the University of Ibadan management from ejecting a sacked lecturer, Dr Adenike Ogunshe, from her official residence, pending the determination of a suit. Ogunshe, a lecturer in the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, is challenging the institution and its council over the unlawful termination of her appointment. The institution had also directed the claimant to vacate her quarters on the institution’s campus.

Bishop of Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Father Matthew Hassan Kukah, today, Monday paid an unscheduled visit to the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Abuja, where some top-ranking Peoples Democratic Party officials, are being detained over graft-related issues. Kukah, who was conducted round the detention facilities, described the detention facilities as which he described as ‘clean and orderly” and prayed for Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, Femi Fani-Kayode and Reuben Abati, who have been in detention for the second week running.

Today is Yoruba actor, Taiwo Hassan popularly called 'Ogogo's birthday. From all of us here at SlankyDiva-Blog, we wish him more prosperous years.

About six months after her marital squabble made the front page of newspapers, magazines and dominated discussions on radio and TV talk shows, it appears talented minstrel, Tiwa Savage, is ready to mend fences with her estranged hubby, Tunji Balogun aka Tee Billz. According to sources close to the singer, her body language indicates that she’s ready to reconcile with her baby’s daddy. Already, there have been meetings between both families aimed at a peaceful reconciliation. Tiwa is also said to have been meeting with older couples and counsellors who have been advising her to give her marriage another chance in respect of the ‘for better, for worse’ vows she took at the altar.

Danish police said Monday they found the bodies of a slain Syrian refugee and her two young daughters in a freezer in their apartment, as they launched a manhunt for the girls’ father. The bodies of the 27-year-old mother and her seven and nine-year-old daughters were found inside a freezer in their apartment in the southern Danish town of Aabenraa after a concerned relative had not heard from them for days.

The protest in Ondo State, over the weekend, took a bloody dimension as a secondary school student was said to have been hit by the tear gas canister, released by the police in dispersing the rioters in Ondo town, near Ife garage. This came as opposition political parties in the state, weekend, called for calm and caution over the protests.

Pandemonium erupted on Saturday at Berger bus stop, Lagos State, after a policeman, who was a passenger on a 14-seater bus end route from Ibadan, Oyo State, reportedly stabbed a motor park tout, popularly called agbero, to death. The deceased was identified simply as Ahmed and was reportedly planning to marry in December. The policeman was said to be serving in a command outside Lagos.

National President of the Bus Conductors Association of Nigeria, BCAN, Comrade Israel Ade Adeshola through the Lagos State ministry of transportation said it would employ 1000 graduates from different Universities as Bus Conductors. Comrade Adeshola in an interview also disclosed that the new policy of the Lagos state government under the leadership of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode is collaborating with the association to give Bus Conducting profession a new look.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan said decisions taken by his administration were guided by the overall interest of the nation and not ethno-religious or personal considerations. Jonathan said this during the Nigerian Lawyers Association’s annual dinner and merit awards ceremony held in New York, on Saturday.

A 26-year-old man, Tunde Agbaje, has reportedly trekked from the Ketu area of Lagos State to Zaria in Kaduna State. Agbaje, who is the cousin of a former People’s Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate in Lagos State, Jimi Agbaje, went on the adventure to prove his love for a lady, Sharon Donald.

Jimoh Ibrahim A member, Board of Trustees, Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of being behind the emergence of business mogul, Jimoh Ibrahim, as the candidate of the opposition party in the forthcoming Ondo State governorship election. In a text message sent to our correspondent on Sunday, Babatope said Buhari manipulated the political events in Ondo State in order to favour Ibrahim and set the state on the path of dictatorship.

Kneeling on the ground, facing the floor as she prepares for her punishment, this woman is the latest victim of Indonesia's strict Islamic rules.  The 20-year-old was forced to undergo a public caning today after being caught standing too close to her boyfriend in Banda Aceh province. Under Islamic Sharia law, unmarried couples are forbidden from becoming too intimate.

Grief and sober has literarily taken over the residence at the Popoyemoja palace of Olubadan, Alayeluwa Saliu Akanmu Adetunji Aje Oguguluso 1, as news came that one of his daughters, Princess Mujidat Adejoke Adetunji-Alagbada died in a car crash. The late Princess Mujidat was the wife of popular Lagos record dealer Alhaji Lati Alagbada and daughter of Olubadan’s eldest wife Olori Kudirat.

  President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, formally married off his daughter, Fatima, to Malam Yau Gimba Kumo in Daura, his home town in Katsina State. The wedding took place at the president’s residence on Mai’adua road, Duura at about 2.40 p.m.

A certain Emmanuel Unobi, the Magistrate Court Clerk in Otukpo Benue State has been arrested for allegedly stealing items from his own court. Unobi, was few weeks back arrested by the local vigilante group in the area after he reportedly broke into a store and made away with provisions.

Viewers discretion advised. The Cross River State Police Command has nabbed a 40-year-old man, John Friday Akpan who allegedly nailed his two children to a cross on allegations they are witches. The Akwa Ibom State-born man, residing in Akpabuyo Local Government Area, LGA of Cross River, reportedly starved his children to a skeletal point after a native doctor branded them witches.

Activist says the N250 thousand fine in a monumental pension fraud is a “handshake” An Abuja court on Monday handed a two year jail term, with a N250,000 fine option, to one of six federal officials tried for stealing N32.8 billion of police pension fund. The sentencing is the first conviction in an elaborate scam that came to light early 2012 involving several top officials, offices and banks.

The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has called out President Muhammadu Buhari’s Personal Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmed and the Alder Consulting’s Executive Committee for pulling out of a seminar because they would be sharing the same podium with Nigerian intersexual cross-dressing, bleaching advocate, Bobrisky. The NHRC said it was bigotry to act in such manner.

How do we explain this between a mother and child? Read this letter from a first time mum. Good morning editor. Please kindly accommodate this little piece in your widely-read platform. I have been battling this problem for long now and I think it is high time I shared it. Before now, I have this weakness that whenever a guy touches my breast, I loose control.

A lifeless body of a female child, believed to be 2 years old, has reportedly been found in Osun state. The corpse was found beside Gbodofon bridge, in the Ogo Oluwa area of Osogbo, the state capital on Thursday morning.

A 32 year-old man has been arrested by the Kaduna State Police Command, for allegedly raping a 14-year-old to coma. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Aliyu Usman, who made this disclosure to newsmen on Wednesday said the suspect, Hamza Abdullahi, who resides in Rigasa, Igabi Local Government Area of the state reportedly lured Faiza Salisu (14), to his room which is opposite the family house of the said victim where he had carnal knowledge of her. Archive photo

The United States police have arrested a 66-year-old Nigerian nanny, Oluremi Oyindasola, for murder. Oyindasola of Glenarden, Maryland has also been charged with second-degree murder, first-degree child abuse, resulting in death and other offenses. This is coming after she force-fed an eight-month-old baby girl to death, NBC Washington is reporting.

Former Special Assistant on new media to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has charged President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint capable hands into his cabinet. In a message he posted on his social media handle on Sunday, Reno said, “With all due respect, Kemi Adeosun cannot be able to pullout the economic magic that Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will pullout.

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested two suspected hired-assassins and a female banker over failed attempt to assassinate her ex-husband identified as Tochukwu Onyebuchi. The state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu paraded the suspects at the command’s headquarters in Abeokuta on Wednesday. He said the banker, Oluchi Tochukwu, hired the suspected criminals to assassinate her husband in his residence at Ayobo area of Lagos State.

The Akwa Ibom State governor, Udom Emmanuel, has claimed the holy spirit of God led him to sack the State executive council, adding that all indigenes stand a chance of making the next cabinet. He further claimed that he was looking up to God to help him constitute the next executive council.

Legislative aides in the National Assembly yesterday protested over unpaid allowances and entitlements and issued a 14-day ultimatum to the management to settle the entitlements or have the place shut down. But the Director of Information of the National Assembly, Sani Diban, when contacted, said he knew nothing about the allowances and entitlements as claimed by the aides.

When we in the South say that the Hausa people of Northern Nigeria are our enemies, we really ought to be aware that we are just playing into the divide and rule strategy of the oligarchs who have been the powers behind the throne in Nigeria for decades and who want the North and the South to be suspicious of each so they can play one side against the other and continue to dominate us to our detriment. Now if you are a Southerner, ask yourself, who are these so called Hausa people that are dominating us? Of the thirteen Prime Ministers, heads of state and Presidents that have either ruled or led Nigeria since her independence from Great Britain in 1960, not one of them have been Hausa by tribe.

The Court of Appeal in Abuja will today (Thursday) deliver judgment in the appeal filed by Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, challenging his trial on charges bordering on assets declaration breaches before the Code of Conduct Tribunal. The Justice Abdul Aboki-led panel of the appeal court had on October 6 heard the appeal challenging the jurisdiction of the CCT, and reserved for judgment.

A 35-year-old man, Mohammed Dan Abass, has been arrested by the Niger State Police Command for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl, Ramatu Mohammed at Barkin Saleh area of Minna. Niger state. The victim was said to have lost her money and while searching, the suspect who met her crying over the loss, promised to give her the exact amount.

A man, who confessed to newsmen that he was ‘flying’ from Benin Airport, Edo State, to attend a meeting in the United Kingdom, before watching a football match going on simultaneously in the coven, also in the United Kingdom, was, yesterday, discovered at Ajogodo River, Sapele, Delta State. The self-confessed wizard said: “I was flying in with what is known in the physical realm as ‘Plantain Leaf,’ but it is actually my expensive private jet in the coven realm.

The Nigerian Federal Civil Service has listed over 90 Jobs including the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR as having vacancies for recruitment or employments. Below is the breakdown of ministries that require applicants: – Bureau of Public Procurement. – Federal Ministry of Education. – Federal Ministry of Labour & Productivity. – Federal Ministry of Finance

A 29-year-old man, Leonard James, who allegedly sent series of threat messages to his ex-girlfriend, was on Wednesday brought before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. The accused,who resides at Ikeja area of Lagos, is standing trial on a two-count charge of threat to life and a breach of public peace. The Prosecutor, Insp. Roman Unuigbe, told the court that the accused committed the offences on May 16 at about 6.00 p.m. at Nigeria AirForce Base, Ikeja.

Mr. Nta Expo, Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, ICPC, may have been sacked by President Muhammadu Buhari. An ICPC source yesterday said that a letter from the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, informed Mr. Expo that he should proceed on compulsory leave beginning from today, October 26. The source also said that the Chairman had earlier received two letters from the office of the SGF, informing him to proceed on compulsory leave, which he allegedly ignored.

A prosecution witness, Orji Chukwuma, has informed a Federal High Court in Lagos that former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Patrick Akpolobokemi, paid N40m rent for an apartment in Banana Island in the state. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had charged Akpolobokemi alongside three others to court over alleged N8.5 billion fraud.

An unidentified elderly man was on Tuesday crushed to death by a train in Enugu. Our correspondent gathered that several persons were also injured in the incident, which occurred on a rail track located around the popular Ogbete main market in Enugu metropolis. Eye witnesses said the train, which was said to be returning from Port Harcourt, appeared suddenly on the track at high speed.

The 2016 MTV Africa Music Awards took place on Saturday night at the Ticketpro Dome in Johannesburg, South Africa, hosted by Bonang Matheba. It was a big night for Nigerian musicians as Wizkid walked away with three major awards, so also Yemi Alade. Let’s bring you some of the Fashion side of the event. The Good! The Bad!! The Worse!!!

Pretty actress Stephanie Linus and hubby Celebrates Son, Maxwell Linus first birthday with friends, family and loved ones with a lovely photoshoot of mum, son and dad. Happy Birthday to Baby Maxwell Linus.

Janet Jackson, former American singer and sister to late Pop-star Michael Jackson and her Hubby Wissam Al'mana was spotted shopping in London. 50 year old Janet married to a Muslim Qatar hubby is expecting her first child.

Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has, Monday, said that he was never elected as Nigeria’s president to spread poverty but to generate and spread wealth. Jonathan who spoke at the Oxford Union, with the theme ‘Fostering Youth Entrepreneurship, and succeeding US Secretary of State who spoke at the same event in May this year, said that only being entrepreneurial can completely cure poverty and not having a job or working for someone.

President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the National Assembly to approve his administration’s external borrowing plan of $29.960bn for the execution of key programmes and infrastructural projects across the country. The fund will cover projects between 2016 and 2018.

A few weeks ago, I had visited a court in Lagos to process an affidavit needed to retrieve a missing SIM card. Getting an affidavit in any Nigerian court is the easiest thing to do. Inside the court premises, an elderly woman typed the information I provided in an A4 paper with an old typewriter. A tout who had approached me earlier rushed with the paper to the court registry. He emerged later with the official affidavit complete with a court stamp and the official signature of the Commissioner of Oath! I had marvelled at the speed at which a legal document could be procured without actually swearing an oath before a constituted authority. In Nigerian courts, even a criminal can swear to an affidavit.

As Nigerians grapple with recession, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Monday reminded the nation that the sale of petrol at N145 per litre was no longer feasible with the current price of foreign exchange. The Group General Manager, Crude Oil Marketing, NNPC, Mr. Mele Kyari, stated this at this year’s Oil Trading and Logistics Expo, OTL, holding in Lagos. He said: “We have a very difficult business environment. It is impossible today to import products at the current market price, at current fixed foreign exchange, FOREX rate. 

A visitation committee set up by the National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has faulted the dissolution of the Governing Council of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. The committee also submitted that the Visitor, President Muhammadu Buhari, erred for approving the suspension of “an already concluded process for the appointment of a new Vice-Chancellor”. ASUU President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi

A self-styled doctor and three of his patients died in a south Indian village after drinking a poisonous herbal medicine which he claimed cured diabetes and hypertension, officials said Tuesday. Another patient is in a critical condition at a government-run hospital after they drank the concoction prepared by the doctor at his makeshift clinic in Alagappuram village in Tamil Nadu on Sunday.

The Police on Tuesday arraigned a 70-year-old herbalist, Alidu Afolabi, in an Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan, Oyo State, for allegedly defrauding two brothers of N18m. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Afolabi, a herbalist from Aba Paanu, Ilebu area of Ibadan, was arraigned on a two-count charge of obtaining money under false pretenses and stealing.The prosecutor, Inspector Sunday Ogunremi, told the court that Afolabi fraudulently obtained the sum from two brothers, Rasheed Alimi and Dauda Alimi.

The second daughter of President Muhammadu Buhari, from his first wife, Safinatu – Fatima, is set for her ‘Aqidun-Nikkah’ (Islamic wedding) with former Managing Director of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, Malam Gimba Yau Kumo. The Nikkah will come up this Friday after Jumat at the President’s residence in Daura, Kastina. Barqah lah fihi to the soon to be couple.