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According to reports on Facebook, the lady in the picture was buried alive in a deep pit by her rich boyfriend allegedly for ritual. She was fed only twice a week. She was later discovered miraculously alive after 8-months. The evil boyfriend has been arrested. Viewers discretion strongly advised 

Aggrieved youths in Iwaro-Oka,Akoko Southwest local government of Ondo state Thursday barricaded the ever busy Oka-Akoko-Abuja road in protest against the incessant carnage on the highway. Sources said a trailer lost control at Oke-Maria and killed a man identified as Sunday Mogaji inside his house.

Eritrean Government finally debunked the rumour that spread like fire on social media since Monday, that Eritrea Mandatory Polygamy is Hoax: Eritrean officials are outraged over a satirical news article reporting that men in the country were ordered to marry at least two wives or face life imprisonment, according to BBC News. The hoax on mandatory polygamy in Eritrea went viral on social media this week and some news sites in other African nations reported the story as if it   were true.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has granted Nduka Obaigbena, the publisher of This Day newspaper, an administrative bail. However, he has been also given two weeks to refund N670 million allegedly collected for unexecuted contracts. During the investigation Obaigbena claimed that he had never  benefited  from the funds from the office of the national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki.

The President of the Senate, Sen. Bukola Saraki, on Thursday said the 8th Senate was committed to good governance, transparency, accountability and due process. The Chairman of the National Assembly (NASS) was responding to an open letter from the former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, to both chambers in which he called the attention of the lawmakers to issues bordering on budgets and finances of the NASS.

Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, Vice-Chancellor, Lagos State University (LASU), says the backlog of certificates in the institution will be resolved within four months. He said in Lagos on Wednesday that a task force would be set up to resolve the issue of backlog of certificates at the university’s External System.

The police in Bayelsa State say they have apprehended a woman for selling her three-month-old baby. The Police Public Relations Officer, Bayelsa State Police Command, Mr. Asinim Butswat, said in a statement on Wednesday that the suspect,   Oyikepreye Enoch, sold a baby girl to one Esther Tony, 30.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday affirmed the elections of Messrs Nyesom Wike, Ibikunle Amosun and Dave Umahi as the duly elected governors of Rivers, Ogun and Ebonyi states, respectively. A seven-man panel led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, affirmed the governors’ elections in three separate judgments on Wednesday.

There was confusion in the Mushin area of Lagos State after a 51-year-old carpenter, Muritador Ajayi, was electrocuted by a live high-tension wire. The deceased was working on the roof of a building under construction on Bamigboye Street, when power was suddenly restored to the area. Muritador’s hammer was said to have touched the wire as he raised it to drive in a nail, which led to his electrocution.

A Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has berated the immediate past Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, describing her service to Nigeria as one based on lies, deceit and disregard for due process. The senior advocate said this in a three-page statement on Wednesday while reacting to Okonjo-Iweala’s diatribe against him. Okonjo-Iweala had on Monday described Falana as an ‘integrity-challenged charlatan’ who was being sponsored by corrupt elements.

James Faleke, the running mate to the late governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Kogi State, Abubakar Audu, said he would be declared the governor of the state before the end of the year. Faleke, who had been canvassing support to be declared Kogi governor, is currently at loggerheads with the leadership of the APC over the governorship seat of the state, following the sudden death of Audu on November 22, 2015.

Lagos state government, through the Environmental Health Officers has declared war on rodents, especially rats, killing over 7,243 to curtail the outbreak of Lassa fever. Speaking at the sensitisation campaign of the state health workers, organised by the Ministry of Local Government and Community Affairs yesterday, President, Environmental Health Officers Association of Nigeria, Lagos State Chapter, Mr. Samuel Akingbehin, said his association had so far carried out anti-rodent exercise in eight local governments in the state.

Pan-Yoruba Socio- Political organisation, Afenifere, yesterday, cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari against making the anti-corruption fight his only agenda but to tackle the nation’s dwindling economy. It also kicked against  the plan to finance the 2016 budget through excessive borrowing from international financial institutions.

A 59-year-old landlady, Mrs Floyinka Ayinda has been arrested and detained at Idimu division for her alleged role in vandalising NNPC pipeline in Isheri Olofin area of Lagos State, western Nigeria. Ayinda allegedly connected a pipe inside her water well to NNPC pipeline and has been siphoning petrol illegally for the past three years.

There was pandemonium at the Omole bus stop on Oba Ogunnusi Road in the Ojodu area of Lagos State on Tuesday after a traffic warden, Sunday Charles, engaged in fisticuffs with a motorist, identified only as Kingsley. Kingsley, who was stopped by a team of traffic wardens at the junction, was allesgedly beaten up by Charles for refusing to part with N50.

The burial ceremony of the late former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, will commence on March 24 and end on March 26, a family source said on Tuesday.  Alamieyeseigha would have been buried on November 16 last year, the day he would have marked his 63 birthday. But it was reportedly put off because of preparations for the state governorship election and lack of agreement between the state government and the deceased’s family.

Nigeria’s Super Eagles lost to Guinea’s Syli Nationale by a lone goal on Tuesday to crash out of the 2016 African Nations Championship (Chan) in Rwanda. Guinea needed an outright victory to stand any chance of further progress to the knockout stages and they showed intent from the blast of the whistle. The Eagles were made to sweat for a single shot at goal in the first 20 minutes of the game.

The drivers, who were also protesting against unlicensed cab firms, joined a nationwide public sector strike. Millions of teachers, health workers and air traffic controllers are protesting against labour reforms.  At least 20 taxi drivers were arrested for "violence, carrying weapons and starting a fire", police said. Some had set bonfires on the road before dawn.

One of Nollywood's fashionista actress, Mercy Aigbe-Gentry look fabulous in this Owambe dress.

According to a memo allegedly posted by the Eritrean government, any man or woman who contested the law would face prison time. The post, which was written in Arabic and translated to English by activists, reads: “Based on the law of God in polygamy, and given the circumstances in which the country is experiencing in terms of men shortage, the Eritrean department of Religious Affairs has decided on the following.” Archive pix

Kogi State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Lokoja yesterday struck out two motions seeking interlocutory injunction to stop the inauguration of the Governor-elect, Yahaya Bello as the governor of the state. Chairman of the Tribunal, Justice Halima Mohammed, in her ruling dismissed the motions, saying though the tribunal has Jurisdiction to entertain such prayers, but the motions were not contained in the original petitions brought by the plaintiffs involved.

Trial opened yesterday at the Federal high Court, Abuja in the money laundering charge against People’s Democratic Party (PDP) spokesman Olisa Metuh, with the prosecution calling two of its planned 18 witnesses. The first witness, Nneka Ararume, an employee of Asset and Resource Management (ARM) Company Limited, admitted collecting $2million in cash from Metuh in his house at the Prince and Princess Estate, Abuja in one day.

Senator Shehu Sani (APC, Kaduna Central Zone) has said that over $200 billion was being stashed away in the United Arab Emirates, UAE, specifically, its global financial hub, Dubai, by corrupt Nigerians. Buhari, last week in UAE, signed a “Judicial Agreements on Extradition, Transfer of Sentenced Persons, Mutual Legal Assistance on Criminal Matters, and Mutual Legal Assistance on Criminal and Commercial Matters, which includes the recovery and repatriation of stolen wealth.”

Paul Unongo, the deputy national leader of the Northern Elders Forum, calls to probe former president Goodluck Jonathan over $2.1bn arms deal. – Unongo lists facts that should make Jonathan’s punishments mild. – Jonathan’s advisers should be held liable for their actions too. Paul Unongo, the deputy national leader of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), has called on the federal government to probe former president Goodluck Jonathan over $2.1bn arms deal scandal. Former president Goodluck Jonathan 

Former   Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has described as malicious attempts by Lagos lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), to link her with the $2.1 billion arms scandal. Falana had written the International Criminal Court, ICC, asking it to investigate those allegedly involved in the arms deal, including the former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.). Former   Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Ijaw elders in Delta State, yesterday, said it was impracticable for them to hand over the former General Officer Commanding, GOC, of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, to security agencies because they neither have the power to do so nor know his (Tompolo) whereabouts currently. They also said that they do not have any information that Tompolo was involved in the three-day bombing of crude oil and gas pipelines in the state, while many see the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC’s case against him as a form of persecution.

A 56-year-old landlord, Suleiman Ahmodu, who allegedly broke into his tenant’s apartment and stole property worth N1.1 million, was docked at an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court on Lagos Island, yesterday. The landlord pleaded not guilty to a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy, unlawful damage and stealing preferred against him.

The   Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Osun Command, has arrested two suspects, who pretended to be mad, for being in possession of a decomposing human head. The suspects, Alaba Folawiyo and Mutiu Lawal, according to Mr. Wale Folarin, the state’s NSCDC Public Relations Officer, were hiding in an uncompleted building near Apomu Junction in Ikire, headquarters of Irewole LGA, when they were arrested.

An Edo State High Court in Benin on Monday sentenced a police corporal, Amadin Idahosa, to life imprisonment for killing a 22-year-old student, Ibrahim Momodu, in 2013. Idahosa had been arraigned on one count of murder. He was said to have committed the offence at about 11pm, on May 27, 2013, in Benin.

Some hoodlums have invaded Iya Agan Street on Old Apapa Road in the Ebute-Meta area of Lagos State, killing a 23-year-old, identified only as Dada. The hoodlums, who wielded guns and cutlasses, asked residents not to panic while they slaughtered Dada, alias Ratio, saying they (hoodlums) did not come for innocent lives. The 23-year-old, whose family members or address, had yet to be known, was killed around 5.30pm on Friday in the area. Viewers discretion strongly advised 

The prices of some commodities like the 100 kg and 60kg of drum specie of beans and garri on Monday recorded a slight fall at the Mile-12 Market in Lagos. This development was shown in a commodity index provided by the Novus Agro Nigeria Ltd., an agro-based company, a copy of which was received by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

In less than three months that Femi Adefila’s Rave 91.7 FM, Osogbo hit the airwaves, it is already changing the face of broadcasting in Osogbo, Osun State Capital and indeed the South-West. Rave 91.7 FM has been nominated in six different categories at this year’s Nigerian Broadcaster Merit Awards. CEO Rave 91.7 FM, Femi Adefila

The Federal Government has officially ended the payment of subsidy on kerosene. Instead of the regulated pump price of N50 per litre, the product will now sell for N83, according to the latest pricing template for House Hold Kerosene released by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency. The PPPRA is the agency of the Federal Government that fixes and regulates the prices of white products, kerosene and petrol, across the country. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu

41-year-old   Nollywood actress Ronke Oshodioke is currently in an elated mood as she celebrates her wedding anniversary with her husband and friend of 16 years, and she has shared some pictures online to this effect. The Yoruba movie star marks her seventh year wedding anniversary with her husband today January, 24, and she has described him on her Instagram account as her “friend”, “big baby” and more.

Land owners and farmers displaced by the airport project in Ekiti State yesterday protested against what they called “illegal acquisition of their farmlands and unlawful destruction of economic trees and crops”. They claimed that 10 farmers, including three women, have died of shock from what they called “huge economic loss”, resulting from the destruction of their farms. Governor Ayo Fayose

An Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure yesterday sentenced to death by hanging two persons- Ita Enang and Olayemi Bamitale- for killing the former Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Prof. Albert Ilemobade. Enang and Bamitale were domestic workers (gateman and driver), killed Ilemobade on June 21, last year, and dumped his remains in an empty stall in his compound at Ijapo,Akure.

44 year old  TV personality,   Agatha Amata ,   had declared that she has no space to accommodate a man in her life. Agatha Amata the host of ‘ Inside Out With Agata ’ and the owner of   Rave TV   said this during an interview with soft-sell magazine City People Magazine. Agatha and kids

The police said in Enugu on Wednesday that they had nabbed four suspects in possession of a human skull on the Enugu-Abakaliki expressway. Briefing newsmen, the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Ekechukwu Nwodibo, said that the four men were arrested in a bus. “We arrested these four men with a human skull but after thorough investigation, we discovered that one of them, John Igwe, was the real person in possession of the skull.

Another chieftaincy line in Ibadan, the Seriki, has headed for the court to stop the Oyo State Government and the Olubadan-In-Council from installing the Balogun of Ibadan, High Chief Saliu Adetunji, as the Olubadan of Ibadan land. The Head of the acclaimed line, Chief Adebayo Oyediji, and five others yesterday filed a motion seeking an order compelling the government and the Olubadan-In-Council to instal Oyediji as the Olubadan.

Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, on Wednesday said there was nothing wrong in bringing the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, to court in handcuffs. The governor stated this in Benin when he met with the new leadership of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Edo State chapter.  He described the outcry against the handcuffing of Metuh as uncalled for, saying lesser criminals were given worse treatments in the country.

A 32-year-old man, identified simply as Mustapha, has been arrested by the Plateau State Police Command for allegedly raping his three-year-old daughter, Iqma (pseudonym). It was learnt that the incident happened on January 12 in the Katako area of the state while the victim’s mother was cooking in a makeshift kitchen within their compound. The woman had gone into the room to pick some ingredients for the dish she was preparing when she caught her husband in the act.

A truck belonging to a construction company, China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, on Tuesday reportedly crushed a 15-year-old boy, identified simply as Imisioluwa, to death at Oke-Ijeun, in the Sapon area of Abeokuta. Three other siblings of Imisioluwa ─ Ayomipo, Ayomide, and Nifemi ─ escaped death by a whisker.

A 43-year-old man, Opeyemi Adesina, who allegedly paraded himself as a consultant gynaecologist with the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, says he paid N100,000 to buy the seven forged certificates he used. Our correspondent learnt that Adesina, who hails from Ekiti State, was arrested on Tuesday by the Alakara Police Division on Alowolodu Street in the Alapere, Ketu area of Lagos State.

A 12-year-old boy, Michael Agu, has been brought to the Lagos State Government by a neighbour in the Victoria Island area of the state after five years of being allegedly tortured by her aunt, identified only as Mama Sarah. Agu told   our correspondent   that he did not want to go back to the woman because of the torture. The boy, who was brought from the Imuneze area of Anambra State to stay with the woman around 2010, was registered in a secondary school just last year. He was said not to be punctual in school due to alleged abuse.

Nollywood screen diva, Omotola Jalade-Ekehinde shares a lovely photos of herself and her adorable son, Michel Ekehinde before and after.

The world’s first public male masturbation booth was opened by a sex toy company in the middle of New York, USA.  A free masturbation booth was reportedly created after 39% of the men admitted to masturbating while at work in a recent survey. “Guy Fi booth” is just a phone booth with a chair, a laptop for relaxation and a curtain to ensure complete privacy.  It is located in Manhattan on the corner of 28th Street and 5th Avenue. 

Angry reactions have started trailing the sacking of over 3,000 workers in the 19 Imo State government parastatals, agencies and departments. Some of the establishments visited by   our correspondence   yesterday, looked like a grave-yard as some of the workers affected by the sack order were seen in groups, bemoaning their predicament.

An 18-year-old woman has been arrested after she admitted on Facebook that she had stabbed her boyfriend to death in San Bernadino, California, USA. The death of Dorian Powell, 21, came to light after his girlfriend Nakasia James,18, confessed on her social media page that she killed her lover during a drunk fight. Powell and James were reportedly dating for about nine months before the terrifying incident occured on January 11.