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The controversy caused by the death of a graduate, Kolawole Idowu, in a Lagos hospital has deepened as the result of the autopsy conducted on his remains says he died from pneumonia. A death certificate issued to the family, a copy of which was obtained by our correspondent, dated July 26, said the 29-year-old was killed by the lung infection. The mother of the victim, Mrs. Mopelola Osiyemi, said the report had raised more questions than answers on how her son died.

A former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has tackled Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State for his; “constant unwarranted verbal attacks on President Muhammadu Buhari and his family members.” He described Fayose’s utterances as, “unbecoming of a governor.” Kalu, who spoke in Lokoja, at the weekend, during the inauguration of the Ndigbo Support Group for Governor Yahaya Bello, urged Fayose to be constructive and fair in his criticisms.

A father of five, Austin Segun, who tied his 13-year-old son to a burglar-proof for three days because a Church leader said the boy was a wizard, has been given an ultimatum to leave Eruemukohwarien community, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. Mr. Segun was said to have been released on bail after he was arrested and detained at the Ughelli ‘A’ Division Police Station over the incident. The victim, Tobi Segun, who just finished his Primary 6 School Leaving Certificate exams, was rescued by a group of vigilante, who heard him whimpering at about 2a.m.

After a few weeks of relative peace, the notorious ritual cult, Badoo, has rekindled panic in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State. The cult killed a couple – Mr. and Mrs. Adejare – two of their children, while the third kid was said to be in a coma at the Ikorodu General Hospital. The incident happened in the early hours of Sunday in Oke Ota community, Ibeshe. The children were reportedly aged between five and one. Two of them were identified as Siyin and Ajoke, all females. The assailants cut the window net of the family’s apartment to gain entry. They were said to have subsequently smashed the victims’ heads with a stone and left the area unnoticed.

The Niger State Police Command, on Saturday, said it had arrested 23-year-old Sunday Jamilu Abubakar of Babako village in Wushishi Local Government Area for murder. Abubakar was reportedly trailed and arrested by a team of policemen, said the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Bala Elkana,at his office in Minna. According to Elkana, the suspect was arrested for killing one Ibrahim Gyagyah, who “prevented him from stealing two fowls that did not belong to him.”

Members of the House of Representatives are enraged after the lawmakers could not take delivery of exotic cars worth about N6.1bn as official vehicles for the 360-member House. Every four years, lawmakers get exotic official vehicles, better known as “utility or committee” cars, though the cars are more like the personal property of the legislators. Investigations by our correspondent on Sunday showed that after using personal cars to work or go on oversight duties for over two years, lawmakers had told the leadership of the House that they had had “enough of suffering.” About 223 of the 360 members of the house were “freshers” who first came to the National Assembly in 2015.

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe on Saturday said he was neither stepping down nor dying and that there was no one with his political stature who could immediately take over from him. The 93-year-old leader has been in charge in the former British colony since independence in 1980. His health is closely watched by Zimbabweans who fear the country could face chaos if he dies without anointing a successor.

Chairman, Kunukunuma Federated Communities of Gbaramatu Kingdom and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain, Chief Moses Bebenimibo, has urged the All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal Government to come clean on President Muhammadu Buhari’s health status. Bebenimibo made the call yesterday, in Effurun, Delta State, while playing host to his followers in his office. According to Bebenimibo, the manner in which the President health was being handled has left much to be desired.

The United States television medium, Cable News Network, CNN, has mocked Nigeria in its latest edition of “The Global Public Square (GPS)”, a foreign affairs show anchored on CNN by Fareed Zakaria. In an apparent mockery of Nigeria and her President Muhammadu Buhari, CNN, on its programme displayed at 4:59pm local time on Sunday said, “The head of state from which country has not set foot in his homeland in over two months?”

Staff of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) have said that the corpses of soldiers, NNPC staff and Civilian JTF members killed by Islamist Boko Haram terrorists during an ambush in Magumeri local government area of Borno state are currently decomposing at the hospital’s mortuary, unattended to, because there is no more space for the bodies. A senior official of the hospital who spoke on anonymity to The Cable, said staff are worried because the bodies are smelling and could lead to the outbreak of an epidemic.

The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Gombe has warned intending Muslims pilgrims against smuggling of hard drugs and kolanuts to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Mr Aliyu Adole, Commandant of the agency, gave the warning on Friday in an interview with newsmen in Gombe. Adole said that smuggling of drugs was prohibited and attracted death penalty in Saudi Arabia, while in Nigeria it is punishable with a minimum sentence of 10 years.

Finally, the six Senior Secondary School Students of Lagos Model College,Igbonla, Epe, who were abducted on May 25, 2027, have regained freedom. They were rescued from Aboto creek, Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo state , at about 3.30pm.  Their release as gathered was effected by the Lagos and Ondo states government and the Nigeria Police.

Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Fashola on Friday tendered an unreserved apology to Members of the House of Representatives on his unsavoury comments on the 2017 budget. The minister who appeared alongside his aides as early as 9.45am told the Rep Aliyu Madaki led adhoc committee that there was no time he deliberately disparaged the National Assembly as alleged.

Former Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been named an independent non-executive director at Standard Chartered Plc in the United Kingdom. Okonjo-Iweala Standard Chartered PLC is a British multinational banking and financial services company head-quartered in London and with presence in 70 countries.  According to a statement released by the company yesterday, her appointment is effective from November 1, 2017. She will earn £130,000 per annum for her expertise in financial and development financing.

As President Muhammadu Buhari continued to welcome delegations, both of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and from his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, party, at his Abuja Home in London, the former aide to Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on electronic media, Pastor Reno Omokri has decided to visit Buhari’s Abuja Home in London too. Photos show Reno standing in front of the Abuja Home in London where Nigeria’s President Buhari is currently being taken care of, medically, by his London doctors after leaving Nigeria for months now.

The Governor of Ebonyi State, Mr. Dave Umahi, has described the rate of the recovery of President Muhammadu Buhari as a miracle. Umahi, who is one of the seven governors that visited the President in London on Wednesday night, told one of our correspondents on the telephone from London, that he and his colleagues were surprised with the level of his (President) recovery.

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Ekiti and governorship aspirant, Bamidele Faparusi, on Wednesday called on the Department of State Services to investigate Governor Ayodele Fayose for treason over his claim that President Muhammadu Buhari was on life support. The call came days after a picture confirming the visit of some governors and the National Chairman of the APC, Chief Odigie Oyegun, to President Muhammadu Buhari in London went viral.

Its raining reason no doubt but flood has rendered most Nigerians homeless in some part of the states like, Lagos, Oyo, Rivers, Sokoto, Osun etc. The below picture is the aftermath of rain in River state. Even the official car of the FIRS is not left out. O ga oooooooooo....

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, has said Nigerians elected Muhammadu Buhari as president willing and should, therefore, accept the way he “prefers to do things”. Adesina, who was responding to questions during a phone conversation on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, was asked why the President did not consider a video recording to address Nigerians formally.

Nigerian immigration uses torchlight to register passengers at the MMIA Lagos As Nepa Takes Light Source: Sahara Reporters 

The House of Representatives Committee on Public Petition, yesterday, asked the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, to disclose the identifies of persons who tipped them for a raid on a property belonging to the former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan. The demand was made at a hearing which followed a petition recently submitted by Mrs. Jonathan, alleging harassment by officials of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, as well as the Nigeria Police.

Seven state governors visited the ailing President Muhammadu Buhari in London on Wednesday. The delegation was led by Zamfara State Governor Abdulaziz Yari, who also serves as chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum. He was joined by governors Dave Umahi (Ebonyi State), Umar Ganduje (Kano State), Kashim Shettima (Borno State), Samuel Ortom (Benue State), Udom Emmanuel (Akwa Ibom State) and Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo State).

Rose Patrick, the 25-year-old housekeeper, and Mohammed Abdulazeez, the 26-year-old driver of spouse of an ex-international, have appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing N150 million worth of jewellery. The accused were arraigned alongside Esther Pam, 28, a friend of the housekeeper. The trio are facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing. They all denied the charges. Patrick Olusegun Odegbami According to the prosecutor, Insp. Peter Nwangwu, the trio committed the offences on Dec. 10, 2016 at the complainant’s residence in Ikoyi, Lagos.

The Nigerian Sex Workers Association has called on the Federal Government to decriminalise prostitution, saying such would curb the spread of HIV. The association added that HIV infection had continued to increase because the government treated prostitution as a crime.  It stated that law enforcement agents, especially the police, consequently harassed sex workers and sometimes demand sex without using condoms.

A Minna magistrate’s court in Niger State, yesterday, sentenced a butcher, Abdulrahman Umaru, to 30 days imprisonment for stealing a goat. Umaru, 28, was earlier arraigned on a count charge of theft, contrary to Section 287 of the Penal Code.  In her ruling, Magistrate Amina Musa said the prosecution had proved its case against the accused beyond reasonable doubt and that she had also taken note of the guilty plea of the accused. Musa, therefore, convicted Umaru of the offence and sentenced him to 30 days in prison.

Ovation publisher, Dele Momodu and his crew were in Abuja to visit the new Senator Ademola Adeleke, representing Osun West Senatorial district of Osun state. Dele Momodu and his crew also use the opportunity to congratulates Senator Adeleke on his victory.

Barcelona 's miraculous Champions League comeback against Paris Saint-Germain last season forced a French mayor to eat a RAT after a bet backfired. With PSG hammering Barca 4-0 in the first leg of their last-16 encounter, Charles Dayot of Mont-de-Marsan — a commune in southwestern France — took to Facebook to announce he would gobble down the unappetising dish if the Ligue 1 giants were dumped out.

A 36-year old grandmother, Mrs. Bosede Oyetunde, has been sentenced to one month’s imprisonment by a family court sitting in Oke Eda, Akure, Ondo State, for dumping a day-old baby boy, her grandson, in the bush. The incident happened in Omotoso town in the Okitipupa Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the woman committed the offence on July 13, 2017.

Proud dad, Nigerian born International footballer, Mikel Obi and his Russian girlfriend Olga Dyachenko both walk their twin kids, Mia and Ava Obi to school today. The twins starts Nursery class this week.

Pretty actress Lilian Esoro And music promoter hubby, Ubi Franklin puts their differences aside and celebrates their son, Jayden's first birthday over the weekend. Happy birthday to cute Jayden.

The United state of America President, Donald Trump on Twitter blocked Hollywood celebrity,  Chrissy Teigen   after she replied his tweet with "lol no one likes you".

Amara Kanu, pretty mother of three and wife of ex international footballer Nwankwo Kanu was on TVC's Wake up Nigeria new breakfast show today to promote her new book 'Healthy Living with Amara Kanu'. Also the CEO of DO.II Designs Ltd, a reputable furniture company in Lagos, Ifeyinwa Igbodalo. Singer Omawunmi and Creative Artist Olumide Oresegun were guests on the show this Morning.

Two ministers-designate, Stephen Ocheni (Kogi) and Suleiman Hassan (Gombe) were today inaugurated as Federal Executive Council (FEC) members. Acting Presidential spokesman, Mr Laolu Akande, announced this in his tweeter handle late Tuesday night, and said that Acting President Yemi Osinbajo would perform the ceremony.

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC) yesterday claimed that there are no “killer” anti-malarial medicines in Nigeria. Its Acting Director-General, Dr. Yetunde Oni, spoke at a news conference in Lagos yesterday. The briefing was prompted by the list of 42 banned anti-malaria medicines released by the Senate and said to be in circulation in hospitals and pharmacies and consumed by Nigerians. According to report, the medications have been banned in Europe but were still in the Nigerian market. Oni said: “We want to douse the tension and correct the misinformation on the social and mainstream media about the 42 anti-malarial medicines purportedly banned by the European Union but allegedly circulating in the country.

Governor Ajimobi of Oyo state post this picture few minutes ago on his instagram page with the caption: "Enroute London, United Kingdom on a special visit to see President Muhammadu Buhari along with my counterparts from Zamfara, Borno and Kano'' His said counterparts are Gov. Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara, Umar Ganduje of Borno and Kashim Shettima of Kano.

A 29-year-old sex worker, Beauty Tagbami, is facing trial at an Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly cutting the face of her colleague with a razor blade. The accused, who resides at a hotel, appeared on a two-count charge of unlawful assault and assault causing bodily harm. Tagbami had entered a “not guilty” plea.

Pretty actress, Mercy Aigbe steps out with her kids, Mitchel and Olajuwon, the three looking cute in a matching outfit.

For the first time since he returned to London in May on medical vacation, President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday spoke on his health. He said he was “making good progress” and would soon “return to my duties”. His message is contained in a letter to Guinean President Alpha Conde. In the letter, Buhari thanked Conde for last week’s nationwide prayers held in Guinea for his recovery and good health.

A Nigerian pastor has been accused of brutalizing a woman for ‘not worshiping in his church’. According to a Facebook user, Joy Ejiofor who revealed that the victim is her mother, post on July 20 that the Ogun state based pastor of Christ Covenant  Sabbath Mission ordered that the woman be beaten mercilessly on July 18, according to her, all this was because her mum stop to worship in the said church, leaving her bloodied in the process and landing her in a hospital.

Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has urged members of the newly constituted Governing Council of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) at Ogbomoso to restore the institution’s fading glory. The governor said the council members could attain the feat, even if it would take a “miracle” to accomplish it. Aregbesola spoke at the inauguration of the university’s governor council. He was in company with his Oyo State counterpart, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, at the Executive Council Chambers of the Governor’s Office in Ibadan, Oyo State capital.

A 23-year-old salesman, Martins Ovotu is to spend the next three months in the Kirikiri Prison, Lagos, for stealing eight bottles of perfume worth N108,000. An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court gave the judgment on Friday and did not give an option of fine. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ovotu had pleaded guilty and prayed for leniency.

Sikiru Odejide  A 41-year-old man, Sikiru Odejide, who has been sleeping with his 13-year-old daughter (names withheld) since December 2016, has blamed the devil for his action. The Ogun State Police Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed that the arrest of the randy father was as a result of a complaint from the victim’s mother, who has been separated from the man.  Oyeyemi said the victim’s mother reported at Sango Police Station that her daughter came to her house at Ijeshatedo area of Lagos State to inform her that her father had been having carnal knowledge of her since December 2016 with a threat to kill her if she dares tells anybody about it.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) appear to have won the council election held in 20 Local Government Areas and   37 Local Council Development Areas ( LCDAS) on Saturday. As at last night, the state Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) had not formally declared the results but results from various LGAs and LCDAs saw APC coasting to victory.

The Ogun Government has inaugurated a committee to look into the menace of prostitution among under-aged youths in the state. The committee members, drawn from the Ministries of Youth and Sports and Women Affairs, would sensitise, arrest and rehabilitate youths found engaging in such activities. Speaking at the inauguration of the committee on Monday in Abeokuta, the Commissioner for Youths and Sports, Mr Afolabi Afuape, lamented the rampant nature of open prostitution in the state. He said that sensitisation would start from all the four stadia across the state for a week, after which arrests could be made by security personnel.

Professor Isaac Adewole The House of Representatives has insisted on interrogating the Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, to ascertain reasons he suspended Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, Professor Usman Yusuf, in the wake of an investigation. Chairman of House Committee on Health, Chike Okafor, who, weekend, asked the minister to appear before the committee on Thursday, also gave Wednesday as deadline for the 35 recalcitrant Health Management Organisations, HMOs, to make their financial records available to commissioned auditors for payment update from the NHIS.

Borno Governor, Kashim Shettima has directed the State Civil Service Commission to recrui 300 unemployed graduates. They are to be recruited from among graduates of various fields from the 27 local government areas of the state. Governor Shettima gave the directive while presenting certificates to 10 youths sponsored by the State government for one year course on electricity generation, distribution and transmission at the National Power Training Institute.

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has confirmed the death of three persons in a suicide bomb attack at the Dalori Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Maiduguri on Sunday night. The NEMA North-East Zonal Information Officer, Mr Abdulkadir Ibrahim, confirmed this in a statement on Monday, adding that 17 other persons were injured during the incident.

President Muhammad Buhari receives in audience APC delegation lead by APC National Chairman, Chief John Oyegun. Others are Imo State Governor Owelle Rocharles Okorocha, Nassarawa State Governor, Tanko Almakura, Kaduna State governor Mallam Nasiru El-Rufai and Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello in Abuja House London on 23rd July 2017. In the first reported encounter with government officials since he went on medical vacation to the United Kingdom last May, President Muhammadu Buhari has laughed away negative insinuations about his health, vowing to return to the country once he gets the all clear from his doctors. President Buhari spoke when he received a delegation of All Progressives Congress, APC, governors, ministers and party officials in London, yesterday. Among those in the delegation were APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun; Governors Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa Stat

Acting President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has urged parents and guardians of the kidnapped Lagos School boys not to lose hope on the return of their wards. This is even as he assured that the Federal Government in collaboration with state authorities are working tirelessly to ensure their safe return. On May 25, six secondary school boys of the school were abducted by unknown gunmen, this is even as four students and six staff of the same school were also kidnapped in October 2016.

The bodies of three of the four children who had gone missing since Wednesday have been found in a car.  The fourth child who was also found in the car however survived at the time of the discovery and is receiving treatment at 44 Army Reference Hospital in Kaduna. The survivor and the bodies of the three dead children were found at Surajo Road in Tudun Wada area of Kaduna on Saturday near their parents’ house in a car belonging to a neighbor. The car had not been used for a long while.