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Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has jettisoned the call by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that the South East should contest for President in 2019, saying that it was only ripe for Ndigbo to do so after President Muhammadu Buhari has had his full eight years tenure. This came as the Senate Majority leader, Ahmed Lawan said that peace now reigned in the Senate caucus of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, following his election recently.

Dan Borno, a Lawyer and freelance journalist, who tweets about happenings in Borno State claims that a soldier attached to a Nursing camp for the Internally Displaced persons located along Damboa Road, allegedly impregnated an IDP.

You won't believe the tweets you are about to read. Someone died this morning at the Lagos State Teaching University hospital because the hospital couldn't find their staff with the key to the oxygen control room. So pathetic.  The story has provoked an outrage and other who have similar experience at LUTH shares  disturbing stories of  hospital's negligence: 

Adoka, a district in Otukpo community was on Monday thrown into confusion following the death of a young man identified as Inalegwu (other names withheld). The deceased reportedly drank poisonous substance suspected to be insecticide after he allegedly put his younger sister whose identity was given as Ene in a family way.

The Niger Child Rights Protection Agency has arrested a 20-year-old man, identified as Ibrahim for alleged sexual harassment of two minors in the state. The suspect, aka ‘Ibro’, was arrested in Randan Ruwa Bosso, in Bosso Local Government Area, LGA, of the state where the incident occurred.

Donald Trump came under fire from mass protests and global outrage over his controversial ban on travelers from seven Muslim countries, facing the first real test of his nine-day administration. The ban was criticized by allies, sparked confusion over its implementation and galvanized Democrats looking for a lightning rod to beat Trump. There was growing unease among Republican lawmakers as well. Four federal judges moved to halt deportations, around 300 people were stopped or detained worldwide and US civil rights lawyers warned it could ultimately come down to a battle between the Trump administration and the Supreme Court.

Popular Nollywood actress, Georgina Onuoha has called on her fellow colleague, Angela Okorie, to sue US trained journalist, Kemi Olunloyo for defamation of character. Ms. Onuoha said this in reaction to the allegations raised by Ms. Olunloyo, who called Okorie a prostitute. Recall that Ms. Olunloyo had lambasted Okorie for allegedly ‘prostituting’ in the movie industry and outside the shores of Nigeria.

Sir John Hurt's wife, Anwen, has led tributes to the veteran actor after he died at the age of 77. The Bafta-winning star, known for his roles in Alien and The Elephant Man, had been treated for pancreatic cancer in 2015. Sir John's wife said he had brought "joy and magic" and it would be a "strange world without him". He recently starred as Father Richard McSorley in Jackie, the biopic of President John F Kennedy's wife.

Award-winning South African gospel singer, Lundi Tyamara, has passed on at the age of 38. According to the Times Newspaper, Tyamara’s family confirmed that he died in the early hours of Friday morning at Edenvale Hospital. He was reportedly admitted to hospital at first in December 2016 for abdominal Tuberculosis (TB) and a liver condition.

The Executive Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello might be up for a fresh trouble, as the leadership of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has made weighty allegations of financial recklessness and piloting a non-inclusive government on the young Governor. At a Press Briefing held in Abuja on Friday, the party also gave an ultimatum of 4 weeks, for the Governor to pay up all outstanding entitlements of civil servants and pensioners from the N30bn bailout fund currently available to the state.

  A governor in one of Nigeria’s oil producing states is under probe after $10 million he diverted from the bailout funds allocated to his state was hijacked by his America-based mistress. The unidentified governor had commissioned his mistress to help him launder the money to slush accounts the governor provided. But instead, the lady sent the money into her own account in the United States. The money in question has been traced. According to the report, the governor resorted to using his US-based mistress to stash the funds abroad to avoid detection by security agencies.

  This report seeks to reveal and challenge some of the practices by most state governments which still result in wastefulness at a period that demands reduction of cost of governance While conventional wisdom suggests that the current economic crisis in Nigeria would naturally make state governors abandon the culture of wastefulness, findings showed that much is not being done in this regard.  The situation which contradicts claims of a committed resolve to plug leakages comes surprising given that the trend is happening when most states are in precarious financial positions. The trend also goes contrary to an earlier charge by the Presidency to state governments to prioritise their expenditure in order to perform the primary function of government as enshrined in section 2b of the 1999 constitution.

Serena Williams rewrote history Saturday to surpass Steffi Graf and capture a record 23rd Grand Slam title as well as the world number one ranking by beating her sister Venus in the Australian Open final. The dominant American swept past her greatest rival 6-4, 6-4 on Rod Laver Arena for her seventh Melbourne Park crown to finally clinch the record for Open-era major titles, nearly 18 years after winning her first. The 35-year-old, who equalled Graf’s mark of 22 at Wimbledon last year, now stands just one behind the all-time 24 won by Margaret Court, who was in the president’s box to witness Williams’ feat.

Some Nigerians have continued to comment on President Muhammadu Buhari, who is currently on a 10-day working leave in London, UK. and his latest pictures. Some said ‘Those who said Buhari is dead. Those who said he is in intensive care God is watching you bcus #OurPresident is fine’ ‘Shun rumours ! Here is President MUHAMMAD BUHARI.’ ‘Buhari: Here’s proof that President is alive’

Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo Umbrella body of Christians in the country, the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, yesterday, warned against the use of security operatives to harass and oppress Christians and those who stand up for their course, vowing to resist an attempt to turn Nigeria into a refugee camp for them. The body took a swipe at Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, a senior pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, saying his silence on the persecution of Christians in different parts of the country was no longer golden.

Chief Magistrate of Mararaba Magistrate Court, Nasarawa State, Mr Vincent Gwehemba, has told the newly wed not to come to the court to seek for divorce, as they must take their vow seriously. Gwehemba, gave this advice on Friday, when he joined one Peace Nwofor and Jeremiah Samuel together as husband and wife.

Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola  The Senate, yesterday, asked its Committees on Public Procurement and Works to, as a matter of urgency, investigate alleged irregularities in awards and inflation of two contract sums which show excess of N2.4 billion by the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, and Bureau of Public Procurement, BPP. The Senate also directed the committee to forward the report of the probe within one week. The decision of the Senate was sequel to a motion moved by Senator Dino Melaye (APC, Kogi West) on alleged irregularities in the award of contracts for the construction and rehabilitation of road and bridge projects in the first and second batch forwarded to it by the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing through letters dated November 7 and 15, 2016 as contained in the 2016 budget implementation.

Justice Latee Okunnu of the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja on Thursday sentenced the Managing Director of Ontario Oil and Gas Limited, Mrs. Ada Ugo-Ngali, to a jail term of 69 years for a fuel subsidy fraud of N754m. But the jail term would run concurrently for 10 years. The judge also ordered the return of the N754m to the Federal Government.

Thousands of people lined the streets of Gambia's capital Banjul on Thursday to welcome home new President Adama Barrow days after authoritarian leader Yahya Jammeh fled into exile under pressure from regional forces. Barrow, a former real estate agent, won a Dec. 1 election but Jammeh refused to step down, forcing his opponent to be inaugurated at the Gambian Embassy in neighbouring Senegal.

An Ado-Ekiti Customary Court on Friday dissolved a nine-year-old marriage between Adeniyi Eiyebiokin and his wife, Adeola, for lack of affection, love and respect for parents. Eiyebiokin, 31, an artist, told the court that Adeola had no respect for his parents and often quarrel with his mother. The father of one, said he was tired of the union because he could no longer leave under the same roof with a woman that he had no affection and love.

A commercial sex worker, Janet Etim, has been reported dead in Lagos State after she was allegedly attacked and beaten by her customer when she could not withstand a long drugged-induced sex. The unnamed customer went into Etim’s room on Wednesday to have short time sex with her for a fee but when the romp started, he was taking too long to ‘cum’.

Emmanuel Eluozo, the All Progressives Congress APC Ward 5 Secretary in Ogba Egbema Ndoni LGA of Rivers State was murdered last night in cold blood right in his home town Obor village by unknown gunmen. He was reportedly hacked to death by his assailants. Viewers discretion strongly advised

A certain Mr. Sunday Olaosebikan on Wednesday called for the dissolution of his seven-year-old marriage to his wife, Mutiatu, for allegedly demanding for money before sex. Olaosebikan told the Igando Customary Court in Lagos that he was no longer comfortable with his wife’s unusual demand.

The founder of Omega Fire Ministry, Apostle Johnson Suleman, has wondered why the Department of State Security Service, DSS, attempted to arrest him over his alleged ‘hate speech.’ He said Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai had tweeted a hate speech and no one arrested him. Recall that apostle Suleman had allegedly asked his members to kill any Fulani herdsman they find around his church premises.

Against the backdrop of the crisis rocking the power sector in Nigeria, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu has subtly called for the split of the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing currently under the leadership of Babatunde Fashola. The APC Chieftain made the remark while delivering a lecture at the National Defence College, Course 25, titled: “ Strategic Leadership: My Political Experiences.”

“My wife is stronger than me and she has turned me into a punching bag,” a man, Lukman Owolabi, told a Customary Court sitting in Ikole in Ekiti State on Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the wife had filed a suit seeking the dissolution of their 23-year-old marriage over constant fighting and threat to life.

US President Donald Trump said late Wednesday that his plan to limit the entry of people from several Muslim countries was necessary because the world is “a total mess”. Interviewed on ABC News, Trump denied that it was a ban on Muslims.  “No it’s not the Muslim ban, but it’s countries that have tremendous terror,” Trump said.

President Muhammadu Buhari has not cleared the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Babachir David Lawal, of allegations of corruption made against him by the Senate, a top Presidency official said last night. The source told our correspondent that Buhari’s letter to the Senate rejecting its recommendation to remove and prosecute the SGF is not an indication of the president’s attitude or ultimate decision on the substantive allegations against Lawal. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, clarified that Buhari, in his letter, explained why he could not accede to the request by the Senate based on the circumstances, clearly leaving open the conclusion of the matter by other means.

When former Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, died in June 1998, I was one of those who took to the streets to celebrate the nation’s liberation from his murderous grip. These days, I look back at that infamous Monday and wonder the point of rejoicing at someone’s death when none of us is beyond mortality. Abacha’s death, we know, resolved a conundrum and cleanly freed us from the bonds with which he held us. Also, given the timing of his death, it did in fact seem God heard Nigerians’ cries for liberation. However, death by natural causes is no punishment; it is one of life’s many realities. In the past few days, both the “fake news” and refutation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s “death” have seized the airwaves and “bus-stop parliaments.”

The hope mavrodians have of retrieving their ‘investments’ and ‘profits’ from the Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox (MMM) Ponzi scheme continues to dim by the day, as Nigeria’s top guider, Chuddy Ugorji, has reportedly fled the country. It was gathered that Ugorji, left Nigeria with his wife to the Philippines.  He fled the country when many investors were waiting to be paid their money with the accrued interest, the News Agency of Nigeria reported.

Born José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix but popularly called Jose Mourinho,the 'Special' one . former Chelsea Football Club coach, now Manchester United Coach, Mourinho  was born on the 26th January 1963. Happy 54th Birthday to the Special one. 

Life on Ebijimi Street in the Meiran area of Lagos has yet to be fully restored after a jilted engineer allegedly killed his lover, his rival and poisoned himself. The woman, Oriyomi Folarin, a divorcee popularly called Iya Corner, operated a beer parlor on the street and had three grown-up children. The engineer, identified as Ogundare, opened the shop for the woman and rented an apartment for her in the Agbado area of Ogun State. Around 9am on Sunday, Ogundare, who was said to be a building engineer, reportedly stormed the shop with a gallon of petrol, poured it on the woman and his rival, Akinade Omole, aka Currency, and set them ablaze.

The Federal Government has denied reports that governors are meeting in Abuja on Thursday to send emissaries to see President Muhammadu Buhari. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated the position on Thursday in Abuja when he received a delegation of the Presidential Committee on the North-East Initiative.

Presidency has vehemently rejected the speculation making the rounds that Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo was being held hostage and pressured to resign his office by Nigerian governors. The insinuation has been rife following the rumoured death of President Muhammadu Buhari who took leave to see his doctors for medical attention in London, United Kingdom last week. Reacting to the matter in a tacit statement titled “State of the Nation,” the Special Adviser to the president on Political Affairs in the office of the Vice President, Femi Ojudu in Abuja on Wednesday said there was no truth in the matter, saying it was entirely false.  Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo 

Nigerian pop icon, 2face Idibia, has announced a massive nationwide protest against the policies of the federal government. The singer took to his Instagram page to call on Nigerians to seek urgent explanation for the present economic state of the country.

A senator from Ondo state, Omoyele Omogunwa has called for the legalisation of corruption in the country. Speaking on the floor of the u‎pper legislative chamber on Wednesday, senator Omogunwa lamented that corruption was pervasive in the country, and argued that it should be legalised.He said if corruption was legalised, Nigerians who stole public funds would use them in building factories and industries in the country, instead of having them stashed away abroad.

Against the backdrop of speculations about the true state of health of President Muhammadu Buhari in a London hospital, Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Kputom Idris, on Tuesday led a high powered police delegation to visit the President in London. Reliable sources told Vanguard that the IGP was accompanied by the DIG in charge Finance and Administration, Mr. Shuiabu Gambo, Commissioner of Police in Charge Monitoring Unit, CP Umar Garba and other top ranking officers who left the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport early Tuesday morning.

A 70 year old herbalist, Simon Odo Okoro a.k.a Onuwa, has divorced his 57 wives. The herbalist who vowed not to marry again has accused some of his children of allegedly sleeping with some of them. However, Onuwa, who calls himself King of Satan broke his vow not marry again by quickly remarrying one of the youngest of his divorced wives, an 18 year old Chidinma. Onuwa said that the new wife whom she divorced pleaded with him to marry her so that she could take care of him as an old man. “The girl who lured me to marry her returned from the United States. She told me to marry her so that she would take care of me as an old man. She is from Enugu State. Onuwa with one of his daughters

Ekiti state governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose in the early hours of today Wednesday January 25 prevented operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) from arresting Apostle Johnson Suleiman of The Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide in Ado Ekiti. The Pastor who was in Ado Ekiti for a two-day crusade was alleged to have preached against Fulani Herdsmen rampage by ordering his members to kill any suspected herdsmen they find near him or his church recently in Auchi, Edo State.

A 29 year old Zambian Woman based in south Africa has just wedded with her love life partner peter grooves aged 92. Charity Mumba on Saturday made the “i do” vows to a 92 year old man charging that peter was her love life partner. Mr. Peters is reported to be a very rich old man in South Africa and has alot of shares in companies.

The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has urged Nigerian youths to ‘quit whining’ and that no body owe them anything. Fayemi made this known in a lecture titled ‘The Successor-Generation: Reflections on Values and Knowledge in Nation Building’ at the 2017 UNILAG Convocation Lecture in Lagos, Monday. Fayemi who went on memory line told the graduating students of his Alma Mater that as a UNILAG graduate and a post-graduate student in the United Kingdom for him to survive he drove taxis and worked as a security guard, amongst several other menial jobs.

Members of the House of Representatives said on Monday that the current pricing template set for premium motor spirit by the Petroleum Products Price Regulatory Agency is “fraudulent.” They insisted that PMS, otherwise known as petrol, should not have cost Nigerians more than N70 per litre. Lawmakers noted that if unnecessary charges built in by government regulatory agencies were removed, the price of the product would have been below the current post-subsidy N145 per litre. The revelations came in Abuja as an ad hoc committee of the House on the Review of Pump Price of Petrol opened a public hearing at the National Assembly in Abuja.

Abba Kyari, President Buhari and Adesina President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to seek medical attention abroad was based on prior appointment with his doctors who have treated him over the years, presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina said. Speaking in an interview Sunday, Adesina said Buhari was well informed of the difficulties Nigerians are passing through even as he said that the ensuing economic recession which he described as inevitable would soon end.

Jammeh only agreed to step down from power after regional leaders flew in for last-ditch negotiations and a regional military force was poised to swoop in and force him out. Often startlingly outspoken, Jammeh was more diplomatic when he said he would leave power, and Gambia, in a statement early Saturday. Jammeh ruled the tiny West African country for more than two decades and once vowed to rule for a billion years. He represented one of a dwindling number of West African leaders staying in office without apparent limit. Getting him to leave peacefully may help the vast region move toward more stable transfers of power.

Kendall Jenner dazzled the crowd in a black and white plaid gown as she walked the runway for Givenchy’s fall/winter 2017-2018 collection at Paris Fashion Week on Friday. But it was on the streets of the City of Light on Saturday where the 21-year-old supermodel really left photographers seeing stars. The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star was snapped on her way to dinner at L’Avenue restaurant with friends, wearing a completely see-through top with no bra.

President Donald Trump questioned the more than 1 million people around the country who marched in protest of his presidency on Saturday and criticized the celebrities who joined the demonstrations. “Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election!” Trump tweeted early Sunday. “Why didn’t these people vote? Celebs hurt cause badly.” Millions of people around the world turned out for hundreds of simultaneous demonstrations on Saturday. More than 1 million people joined marches in the United States, including hundreds of thousands in Washington, D.C., for the Women’s March on Washington. Madonna, who performed at the rally in D.C., also delivered a profanity-laced speech.