Overland plane from Abuja crash-lands in Ilorin

An Overland plane carrying 59 passengers and 4 crew members crash landed this evening Saturday November 29th in Ilorin, Kwara state. The plane, coming from Abuja, was said to have overshot the runway after it landed.

Bomb blasts kill 200 in Kano Central Mosque

A man speaks on his hospital bed on 25th Nov, 2014 about injuries sustained following double female suicide bomb attacks in Maiduguri that killed 45

The orgy of violence in the Northern part of the country by gunmen, suspected to be Boko Haram insurgents, continued yesterday, with the killing of over 200 Muslim worshippers, who were sent to their grave by a triple blast that rocked Kano Central Mosque, where the Emir of Kano normally leads prayers.

Nkiru Sylvanus denies the reportedly collapse of Imo Film Village building

There are strong indications that the multi-milion naira Imo Film Academy which is constructed by Rochas Okorocha-led administration in Imo State, has collapsed.

The Academy,located within the premises of the Imo State College of Advanced Professional Studies, ICAPS, along Egbu Road, Owerri, allegedly collapsed less than two weeks after it was commissioned by the state government.

Olamide shines at Industry Night

Olamide

Olamide has undoubtedly carved a niche for himself in the Nigeria music industry. The crooner who gets inspired by his experience as a street-wise kid was hosted at the weekly music event ‘Industry Nite’ on the 19th of November 2014.

Is Kate Henshaw playing the female version of GEJ?

Kate

Nigerian celebs, last night stepped out in style for an evening celebrating the Creative Industry in Nigeria at the Eko hotel with President Jonathan who stormed the city of Lagos yesterday evening around 7:00pm.

Among the stars is actress, model and Nigeria's Got Talent co-host, Kate Henshaw who dressed in an all GEJ attire. Is she the female version of GEJ now? Lol!

KC - limpopo, parties with Big Brother housemates

KC and some of the housemates

Popular Nigerian musician, KC of KC Presh, Friday night partied with the housemates of the biggest reality TV show in Africa – Big Brother Africa.

The Limpopo master partied with the housemates for 30mins out of the 1 hour party which started at 8:00PM CAT.

Limpopo master, I should say, lived short of expectation as he was seen standing most of the time. Mahnn! Where are those Limpopo moves? We expected more dance steps than what you gave.

Youths kill 30 in failed Borno terrorists attack

No fewer than 30 suspected members of Boko Haram were killed  Thursday by vigilante youth, popularly called Civilian JTF, when the sect members, armed with sophisticated wehttps://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8549230452388908127#editor/target=post;postID=589254379378266591apons, attempted to lay siege to Gubio Local Government Area of Borno State.

Unconfirmed report also revealed that about five of the Civilian JTF members sustained minor injuries with no reported death during the encounter, which lasted about three hours.

Kareto, a community in Mobbar Local Government Area and home town of former governor, Mohammed Goni, was also attacked.

Policeman kills first class graduate in Kaduna

Thirty-year-old first class graduate of Economics from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Moses Murtala Aminu was shot dead by a constable with the Nigeria Police. Moses had on Sunday, left his No. 67 Ahmadu Ahidjo Street, Narayi High Cost family residence for a party in Barnawa, Kaduna State.

According to his friend and eyewitness, the police constable who was identified as Alex Okpe was beating up Aminu’s girlfriend outside the party venue when he tried to intervene. At that point, the constable got angry, reached for his jeans trousers, brought out his gun and fired, killing Aminu on the spot. The constable also shot in the air as he escaped on his motorcycle.

Today, Thanksgiving Day in US

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. Several other places around the world observe similar celebrations.

Policeman kills an Okada rider at Lekki

The incident that happened yesterday at Lekki around 12 noon was terrible.

A uniformed policeman killed an okada rider(public motorcyclist) on the ground that he was disobeying the law and order of the State as okada riding has been banned in the State for a while now.

The incident disrupted the smooth flow of traffic as commuters were trapped in traffic.

An eye witness said people ran helter-skelter for their dear lives at the time of the incident.

Sierra-Leon Ebola burial teams dump dead bodies on street

Burial workers in eastern Sierra Leone were sacked Tuesday after snatching Ebola victims from a mortuary and dumping their bodies in the street in a pay dispute.

The workers, who were on a one-day strike over non-payment of risk allowances, left at least a dozen corpses around the public hospital in the city of Kenema, once one of the epicentres of the epidemic.

“I am disappointed that they displayed the bodies because of the quest for money,” Paul Conteh, head of the National Ebola Response Centre, told reporters in the capital Freetown.

“They ignored the dignity and respect for the dead. I am not against them withholding their services but this is unacceptable.”

Ebola infected Italian doctor arrives Rome

An Italian doctor who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone arrived Tuesday in Rome, where he will receive specialist treatment, media reported.

The doctor, the first Italian to be infected with the disease, was flown into the military airport of Pratica di Mare, outside the capital.

The doctor, who reports say is a 50-year-old man, was transported in a specially sealed unit on board a military plane, TV pictures showed.

He will be hospitalised at the Lazzaro Spallanzani national institute for infectious diseases.

The Italian health ministry said he has not yet developed feverish symptoms and his general condition is good.

The doctor was working for the charity Emergency at a clinic for Ebola victims when he contracted the disease, which has killed nearly 5,500 people in its latest outbreak in west Africa.

44-year-old woman delivers quadruplet after waiting for 18 years

A 44-year old woman, Mrs Clara Dominique, who has been looking for a child for 18 years since marriage, was delivered of quadruplet last Saturday in Benin, the Edo State capital.

PDP Senators begin impeachment moves against Jonathan

Some Peoples Democratic Party’s senators on Monday started impeachment moves against President Goodluck Jonathan over what they described as the high level of impunity and corruption allegedly being condoned by his administration.

Investigations by Punch revealed that the PDP senators had started compiling impeachable offences against the President.

Assaulted Ugandan baby recovers, maid faces 15 years imprisonment for attempted murder

The Ugandan baby who was viciously assaulted by a maid in a video that went viral last week has recovered from her injuries and is back in the loving arms of her parents. (pictured above)

According to Ugandan NTV report, the house-help, 22year old Jolly Tumuhirwe faces up to 15 years in jail for attempted murder. The lady appeared at Nakawa Magistrates Court in Uganda on Nov. 20th after police concluded their investigations. The police say she was charged under the Anti-torture Act

P-Square lose father

Late Mr Okoye

Popular twin musicians, Peter and Paul Okoye, aka, P-Square have lost their father. The duo's father, Mr Okoye, died yesterday, 24th November. He was said to have fallen and died while going for his physiotherapy session having gone through a knee surgery that came out successful.

The death was unexpected to the family.

This is two years that the musicians lost their mother.

P-Square

Do Nigerian men open the car door for their women?

Today, I saw a man from afar alight from his car, walked round to the other side of the car to open the door for someone. Thinking it was his woman that he was opening the door for, I was actually pleased that at least we still had some romantic men here and that there was still hope after all for those of us who would want to have such romantic men.

From 2012: Unbelievable story, Nigerian man 28, married 71 year-old white woman

Unbelievable story! I just found this and thought I should put it here. The wedding took place in 2012. I don't know if the couple are still together but will post updates if I see any.

But wait o! Is this Naija man really in love? Na wa o!

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Popular Nollywood actor, Kenneth Okonkwo and brother vie for same political post

As the 2015 general election approaches, tension now brews in Enugu North Senatorial Zone, Enugu State between two biological brothers jostling for one political position, under the same party, to represent Nsukka/ Igbo Eze South federal constituency in the House of Representative.

FG bans phones and indecent dressing in prisons

The Federal Government, weekend, gave Nigeria Prison Service 30 days ultimatum to withdraw all telephones from inmates and prisons officials in prisons nationwide.

Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, gave this ultimatum during an interactive meeting with senior officers of the Nigerian Prisons Service in Abuja.

FG to cut petrol subsidy by half in 2015

The Federal Government has said it plans to cut subsidies on petroleum products by half next year after sharp falls in global crude prices, spurred a reversal of its 2015 budget downwards.

President Goodluck Jonathan submitted the revised budget figures to lawmakers last week, proposing to spend 458.68 billion naira ($2.59 bln) on petrol subsidy in 2015, down from 971.14 billion naira presented for 2014.

Rape Case: Nollywood actress, Stephanie Okereke clears the air, urges prosecution of brother and encourages victim for her bravery

Daniel Okereke

Actress Stephanie Okereke-Linus has reacted to the alleged rape incident involving her brother, Prince Daniel Okereke as reported by Vanguard Newspaper over the weekend.

Hear her:

Wealthy Nigerians spend N34.9 billion on maintenance of their private jets

Wealthy Nigerians are living large, with the richest among us shelling out billions of naira on private jets and their maintenance.

Interestingly, the 250 private jet owners in Nigeria splash an average of N34.9 billion annually to maintain their expensive toys. Checks revealed that aside splashing over N1.8 trillion to acquire their jets, they spend an estimated N9 billion annually as salary to their expatriate pilots and N900 million annually to the crew, while a whopping N25 billion is splashed on general maintenance annually by them.