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President Muhammadu Buhari has allegedly broken silence days after leaving the shores of Nigeria for his annual vacation, commiserating with Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung over the death of his wife, Briskila. Buhari in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja by Special Assistant to the minister on Media, Nneka Anibeze, said the president commiserated with Dalung through the telephone from London. Narrating the conversation between the president and his aide, Anibeze, said that the President prayed God to grant the soul of the departed wife of the minister eternal rest. She explained that Buhari, who expressed grieve at the death of Briskila, described the death of the minister’s wife as shocking and untimely. The media aide to the minister disclosed that the president prayed to GOD to forgive the deceased of her sins and give the family she left behind the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss. “During the conversation, the President promised to support th...

Entertainer, Dede Mabiaku on Monday walked out of an interview with Lagos Talks FM 93.1, following a comment made by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina telling him to ‘shut up’. In the video, Mabiaku refused to continue with the interview stating that Adesina’s statement was inappropriate. “Why do you want to hear me when he (Adesina) had the audacity to tell me to shut up?” he asked. He stated that Adesina had no right to use such language on him because he works Watch video by visiting the link below: https://www.facebook.com/Naijaloveinf/ Source: YNaija

Operatives of the Cross River State Police Command have arrested a 40-year-old man, Anyanime Festus, who allegedly poisoned his twin daughters in Akampka Local Government Area of Cross River, because he felt they were responsible for his parents’ death. The arrest was effected by the Divisional Police Station, Akampka, before the suspect was transferred to Police Headquarters in Calabar. The suspect allegedly gave his 11-year-old daughters a black substance, believed to be poison to drink, which led to their death on January 10 and 11. A source said: “The man told us that his daughters confessed to be witches and that he had no choice other than to kill them before they kill him. So he mixed acid with malt, took the twins to a bush path and gave them the substance to drink.” Another source, who pleaded anonymity, told Vanguard: “The twins were always wandering the streets. When brought back home by strangers, Festus usually chased them out again without food. Sometimes the...

An Ibadan Chief Magistrates’ Court on Friday remanded a 40-year-old teacher, Sampson Eyo, who allegedly raped his nine-year-old pupil. The Chief Magistrate, Mr Taiwo Oladiran, directed that the accused should be remanded at the Agodi Prisons custody pending the advice of the Oyo State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Consequently, the court did not take the plea of the accused. Eyo, a teacher in a nursery and primary school, Bashorun, Ibadan, was arraigned on a count charge. The prosecutor, Sgt. James Oriola, told the court that the accused had unlawful carnal knowledge of the pupil between September 2016 and Jan. 19, 2017. Oriola said: “Eyo, being the class teacher of the girl and also her lesson teacher, lured the girl after lesson period and had carnal knowledge of her.’’ He said that the accused committed the offence at 4:00p.m. at the school premises. Oriola said that the offence contravened Section 218 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Oyo State, 2000. Sect...

There has been a reported case of explosions at Dalori Quarters in Maiduguri, Borno state. This was disclosed in a terse text message by the Head of Information, National Emergency Management Agency NEMA in Abuja, Sani Datti. “Our Search and Rescue officers are already on their way to the scene; details later”, he said. Different news media reported there were casualties with no exact figure given yet.  The blast is yet to be traced to the Boko Haram insurgents.

Sally Yates quickly dismissed after ordering government lawyers to stop defending US president's immigration ban. US President Donald Trump has sacked the country's acting attorney general after she took the rare step of defying the White House by refusing to enforce his sweeping immigration ban. Sally Yates had early on Monday ordered Justice Department lawyers to stop defending Trump's executive order, resulting in her dismissal just hours later. "The acting Attorney General, Sally Yates, has betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States," the White House press secretary's office said in an unusually caustic statement. "Ms. Yates is an Obama Administration appointee who is weak on borders and very weak on illegal immigration." Yates had agreed to serve in an acting capacity until Senator Jeff Sessions, Trump's pick, was confirmed by the Senate. The W...

A mobile policeman allegedly lost his life, yesterday morning, when robbers stormed a new generation bank around Rumubekwe/Shell area junction of Port Harcourt, carting away about N30 million from a customer. Eyewitnesses said the gunmen, numbering about four, stormed the bank in a Toyota Corolla car, shooting sporadically to ward off any resistance. According to eyewitnesses, the robbers apparently trailed a customer who came with the money in a vehicle to the bank. Meanwhile, the Public Relations Officer of Rivers State Police Command, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, said the police foiled a bank robbery attempt. Omoni noted that there was a gun battle between policemen and the gang of criminals and that the policeman died in the incident. While noting that the gunmen escaped with bullet wounds, Omoni stressed that normalcy was quickly restored in the area. He pleaded with members of the public to give prompt information to the police or any other security outfit for swift respons...

The North-West zone of All Progressive Congress (APC) has condemned the issues being raised over President Muhammadu Buhari’s health and vacation, saying it was unwarranted and unpatriotic. In a communique after its meeting in Katsina on Monday and signed by its National Vice Chairman, North-West, Alhaji Inuwa Abdulkadir, the party said the issues smacked of desperation of the opposition in the country. It said that the zone had declared total support to Buhari’s administration, in its bid to move the nation forward. “The meeting emphasized the need for members of the National Assembly from the North-West to fully support the president in his effort to provide responsive leadership to Nigeria. “The meeting called on north-west zonal leadership of the party to engage members of the national assembly, ministers, and heads of government agencies to ensure that policies and programmes fall in line with the party’s manifesto.” “The meeting emphasized the need for elected and ...

Reports indicate that a woman identified as Gloria Samson, aged 34, left her hometown in Markurdi Benue State on the 28th of December 2016 to commit suicide after getting depressed by the crash of the MMM scheme around early December. It was alleged that she had lost the sum of 400,000 Naira which was borrowed from numerous sources without her husband knowledge to invest into the scheme. After saying goodbye to her two sons, she left note for her husband begging to be forgiven for her wrong doings and she then headed off to River Benue to drown herself. Her husband, Samson David was informed of the recovery of the deceased in the river on the 2nd of January 2017. Her body was eventually identified by a neighbour in the Morgue of the Federal Medical Centre in Makurdi on the 17th of January 2017. Gloria was buried on Friday 27th of January 2017 at Ankpa Ward Public Cemetery, Makurdi The news of the crash of the MMM Scheme went viral in early December and created a lot of panic...

At least six people were killed and eight people injured when gunmen stormed a mosque in Quebec, Canada. The attack, which took place at the city’s Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre, is being investigated as an act of terrorism by police, CNN reports. Witnesses said at least two gunmen wearing black shot at worshippers in the mosque. Of the eight people injured, six are in critical condition. The police also said two people have been arrested in what has been described as a terror act by Philippe Couillard, premier of Quebec province. The mosque also cautioned against spreading rumours about the attack. “Please wait for preliminary results (of the investigation) before circulating rumors,” it said on its Facebook page. “The situation is very critical. May Allah give us endurance.” The Canadian attack occurred as the temporary ban on Muslims from seven countries by neighbouring U.S. was enforced. In the U.S., thousands of people have been protesting the ban put in place by...

The US Marines have a particular mystique - often first into a hotspot, and last out - and the training recruits undergo is particularly challenging. This applies to female marines - now for the first time being used in combat roles - as well as their male counterparts. Hannah King witnessed some of them undergoing an intense, 54-hour trial known as the Crucible. "Hit 'er, Davey, harder… Hit her harder." The khaki camo-paint caking the drill instructor's face hides her crimson rage as she screeches in at a small recruit, who obediently hammers away at her opponent's head with her fists. This is one of the final events of the Crucible - a gruelling 54-hour endurance test that will ultimately determine which of these young women will become US Marines. Parris Island, hidden from the Atlantic by a tangle of sparkling rivers, looks like the perfect holiday spot. But this is where all female marines come to be trained. Or "reprogrammed", as some p...

The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has restated its support for the founder of the Omege Fire Ministries, Johnson Suleman, after he was invited by operatives of the State Security Service, SSS. The security agency summoned the controversial cleric after a video surfaced showing him calling on his congregation to kill Fulani herdsmen so as to protect themselves. “If they are busy killing Christians and nothing is happening, we will kill them and nothing will happen,” he said. Over 200 people have been killed in clashes between Fulani herdsmen and local farming communities in Southern Kaduna. Similar violence in other states of Nigeria have also caused the death of hundreds of people. The Southern Kaduna crisis has since taken a religious dimension despite warnings to the contrary by government officials and peace envoys. Reacting to rumours that CAN would send an entourage to accompany Mr. Suleman to the office of the SSS on Monday, media aide to CAN President Olasupo Ayok...

By Dapo Akinrefon, Charles Kumolu, Johnbosco Agbakwuru & Gbenga Oke Unless the Federal Government reviews its visa policy with the United States of America, Nigerians will no longer enjoy visas to the US with two-year validity, according to an Executive Order issued on Friday by President Donald Trump. Section 9 of the Executive Order states: “The Secretary of State shall review all non-immigrant visa reciprocity agreements to ensure that they are, with respect to each visa classification, truly reciprocal insofar as practicable with respect to validity period and fees, as required by sections 221(c) and 281 of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1201(c) and 1351, and other treatment. “If a country does not treat United States nationals seeking non-immigrant visas in a reciprocal manner, the Secretary of State shall adjust the visa validity period, fee schedule, or other treatment to match the treatment of United States nationals by the foreign country, to the extent practicable.” Curre...

Briskila, the first wife of the Minister for Sports, Mr. Solomon Dalung, is dead. She died on Sunday. Solomon took to his Facebook page to announce the sad story where he also posted the picture of his late wife saying: “I AM BEREAVED: For it is appointed for man to live thereafter comes death and judgment says the Holy Bible. While in the Quran, it states that it is appointed that every soul shall test death. “My heart is heavy, I cannot continue, I lost my first wife, Mrs Briskila this morning. May her soul and the souls of faithful departed rest in the bosom of the Lord, amen. What a black Sunday.” Source: Vanguard

CNN reports that even for the legendary Roger Federer, this was -- nearly -- unbelievable. After missing the second half of last season with a knee injury, the Swiss star came back in style by winning the Australian Open Sunday and turning the tables on nemesis Rafael Nadal with a gripping 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 victory in just over 3 1/2 hours. "I don't think either one of us believed we were going to be in the finals at the Australian Open... four, five months ago, and here we stand in the finals," Federer said. But Federer was obviously much the happier. "This is beautiful, but it's still much better, the (other) trophy," Nadal said as he looked glumly at the runner-up trophy. Federer wept when losing to Nadal in the 2009 Australian Open final in five sets. This time he cried tears of joy and vowed to celebrate deep into the morning. 26-shot rally "We're going to party like rock stars," Federer said. Never in his ...

 An early-morning fire Saturday destroyed a Texas mosque that was a target of hatred several years ago and experienced a burglary just a week ago. A clerk at a convenience store spotted smoke and flames billowing from the Islamic Center of Victoria at around 2 a.m. and called the fire department. "It's sad to stand there and watch it collapse down, and the fire was so huge," Shahid Hashmi, the Islamic center's president, said. "It looks completely destroyed." Victoria Fire Marshal Tom Legler asked for help from the Texas Fire Marshal's Office and federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to determine what caused the blaze. Hashmi said authorities have told him it was too early to speculate. "None whatsoever right now," the center director said. "We don't have any lead or information as to what started the fire and what happened. So I'm sure it's going to be a few days, they told us, before they can...

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. The cash was allegedly either wired or hauled in tranches in order to beat the nation’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). In spite of the governor’s tricks, however, security agencies were able to intercept the deal between him and his mistress. It was gathered that the diversion of the looted $10 million by the mistress created an uproar that triggered the ongoing investigation of the deal between ...

A Federal Judge in New York on Saturday night granted a stay order on President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily restricting entry to the U.S. by citizens from seven countries. The order followed a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) challenging an earlier executive order issued by President Donald Trump barring certain citizens from seven countries from entering the the U.S. The court stopped the authorities from deporting anyone with a valid visa and currently being detained or stranded at airports in the country, lawyers for the group said. According to the court order, issued by Judge Ann Donnelly, the decision will stop officials from removing individuals with approved refugee applications, holders of valid visas and people from the affected countries who have been authorised to enter, pending completion of a hearing on the matter in court. Donnelly also wrote that the lawsuit would have a “strong likelihood of success. “There is imminent da...

THE controversial super-polygamist and Islamic preacher with over 90 wives, Alhaji Mohammed Bello Masaba, is dead. He died, yesterday afternoon, after a brief illness in his Bida, Niger State  residence. He was 93 years. There had been anxiety over his health in the past three days after he disappeared from public view. Personal assistant to the nonagerian, Alhaji Mutairu Salawudeen Bello, confirmed the death in a telephone interview with our correspondent. “With gratitude to Allah (SWT), we announce the death of Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar Bello this afternoon. He was aged 93 years. He died after a brief illness. “The Janiza prayer and interment are slated for tomorrow (Sunday) by 10am.” Bello said that the late Islamic preacher fore-told his death and was prepared for it. “Baba had told us that his time was up. He told me personally during his last moment that he has completed his divine assignment and was ready to meet his creator. “He told us to remain dedic...

Suspected members of Boko Haram, yesterday, ambushed motorists  along Maiduguri- Damboa- Biu road, leading to unspecified number of people dead and injured, according to eye witnesses. The incident was said to have taken place in the morning between old Nigerian Telecommunication Mast, NITEL, a.k.a Dogon Wire in Hausa, and Bullabulin village which is now deserted with only a military base left. A  driver, Mallam Aliyu Yau, who  claimed to have escaped with his six passengers, said, “Most of the passengers killed and injured were not by Boko Haram sect, but by military escorts  who opened fire on fleeing passengers into the bush, mistaking them as escaping terrorists. “It is unfortunate that our road is not safe today (Saturday morning) as some Boko Haram terrorists laid ambush on the road. It is regrettable that during the ambush and exchange of gunfire between military escorts and the terrorists, many passengers took to their heels into the bush, and most...

After series of upset in the 2017 Australian Open Tournament, Roger Federer will battle it out with his long time arch rival, Rafael Nadal. It's going to be a war between experience and resilience. When the event started a few weeks ago, a good number of analysts would have tipped World number one Andy Murray or the vigilant Novak Djokovic. However, both were bundled out by relatively unknown players. To cut the story short, all roads lead to the final on Sunday, January 29 between the man with the highest numbers of men's singles Grand Slam...

Donald Trump is supposedly sensitive about his small hands, and now the internet is wondering if the White House altered an official photograph to make the new president’s hands look a little bigger. The mystery kicked off when Observer arts and culture writer Dana Schwartz tweeted a comparison of the Inauguration Day photo — which she said appeared in the White House during Trump’s interview earlier this week with ABC News’ David Muir. It certainly looks like the size of Trump’s hand, placed on Barack Obama’s shoulder, has been slightly scaled up. Trump 100% photoshopped his hand bigger for this picture hanging in the white house, which is the most embarassing thing I've ever seen pic.twitter.com/MGTbFfdLqp — Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) January 27, 2017 Schwartz then said she went to the original Getty Images version of the image, and compared that to the version she said was altered. That tweet appears to have been deleted.But did the White House actually alter th...

Emir of Kano, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has warned Muslim clerics in the country to stop using the mosques as a cover up to preach disunity and inciting one another that could lead to disorder and insecurity in the country. Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi who  gave the warning in his sermon after commissioning  the ultra modern mosque of the Federal University of Technology Minna, Niger state yesterday, said rather than incite people through preachings, the clerics should focus more on uniting the people of the country and preach against incessant killings of one another which he said is ungodly. The inauguration of the mosque was one of the activities to mark the 26th convocation 35th anniversary of the establishment of the university. Alhaji Sanusi who led the first prayer and also   frowned against some Muslim faithful and clerics who  hide under the  sanctity and immunity of the Holy places to set one part of the society against the other adding t...

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Maiduguri, Abubakar Njodi has said the North East is far behind Southern Nigeria in educational standards. Njodi said this on Friday when he received a delegation from the Victims’ Support Fund, VSF, on a condolence visit over the January 16 suicide bomb attack in the institution. Njodi, a professor of Physical and Health Education, said studies showed that hat the region was about 150 years behind other parts of the country before Boko Haram emerged. The professor noted that it may take 500 years to measure up with the South now that Boko Haram has continued to destroy education in the region. “Education in the North is endangered,” Mr. Njodi lamented. “I have said it at different fora that prior to Boko Haram, there were some studies, some real, some speculative, that showed the north was 100 years behind the south. And that was before Boko Haram came. What it means here is that, at that time if the south should stop going to sch...

Commercial sex workers at De Love Hotel on Ilufumi Street in Ejigbo area of Lagos have fled, following the killing of their colleague by a customer, who accused her of not satisfying him for the N500 service he paid for. Vanguard gathered that a customer had singled out one of the commercial sex workers, Janet Etim, from her colleagues, Tuesday night. After agreeing on N500 fee for a short time fun, late Etim, who hailed from Oron, Akwa Ibom State, led the customer to her apartment in the hotel. Trouble, however, reportedly started when the customer, who said he was not satisfied, continued the romp in spite of Etim’s resistance. She reportedly stood up and returned the N500 to the customer, asking him to go elsewhere. A colleague narrates the incident One of the commercial sex workers, Mercy, who spoke with Vanguard, explained that “Janet had decided to withdraw when she noticed that the yeye man was on drugs and it was taking very long for him to finish the N500 serv...

A cross section of Nigerians have continued to comment on the new latest pictures of President Muhammadu Buhari, who is currently on a 10-day working leave in London, UK. The new picture, which was posted on Friday night, showed the president in a relax mood with some of his visitors, including Gov. Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun. Others in the picture are some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The picture, according to NAN, shows Buhari live in London, contrary to malicious rumours by some Nigerians in the social media that he was either dead or ‘under intensive care’. Some of the comments captured over the sudden emergence of the picture include: “Despite all attempts to debunk the rumours, the wicked mischief makers have continued to spread their falsehood about President Buhari. “Here he is, in fulfillment of their death wish under intensive care.” Mr Kingsley Nwaeze, a social commentator, condemned those spreading dangerous rumours about the president’s he...

Serena Williams is on the cusp of making Grand Slam history, 19 years after her first appearance at the Australian Open — with only her greatest rival, sister Venus, able to stop her. The 35-year-old American made her Grand Slam debut in Melbourne way back in 1998 and won the first of her major titles at the US Open a year later. She has since accumulated 22 over an astonishing career, matching Steffi Graf’s Open-era record. One more on Saturday — her seventh in Australia — and she will hold the record outright, with only Margaret Court’s all-time mark of 24 left to achieve. Williams has refused to talk about the possibility of finally surpassing the German, after intense pressure over the long-standing record took its toll at last year’s US Open, when she lost in the semi-finals. But she now has a golden chance of further cementing her place in history, and at the same time reclaiming the top world ranking that Angelique Kerber seized from her last year. “It is what it ...

For nearly half a century after his stint as Nigeria’s military leader, Murtala Muhammed remained widely regarded as a dogged corruption fighter who took fearless steps against official graft. As head of state, the army general dismissed more than 10, 000 public officials, charged many to court for malpractices, and moved against fraudulent firms. Mr. Muhammed’s administration lasted six months before his assassination, but was long enough to convince many the 37-year-old was one leader who could have aggressively treated – if not cured – Nigeria of its chronic corruption, had he lived longer. But to American diplomats, Mr. Muhammed was a strikingly different figure from the no-nonsense general many Nigerians respected. They believed he was not only an arrogant mass murderer, but just as corrupt as those he went after. And, although brilliant and daring, Mr. Muhammed was an erratic and impetuous ethnic chauvinist who lacked the unifying talent of his predecessor, Yakubu Gowo...