13:06:00

The violence that started in Oshodi last week between two rival gangs (read here) continued this morning. Many vehicles were vandalized and razed as hoodlums clashed again in the early hours of today. According to twitter users, when soldiers came to intervene, they asked pedestrians to raise their hands as they walked past the area where the fight occurred. A part of the road was totally shut down with road barricades but sanity is gradually returning to the area.

12:41:00

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says he does not have a twitter or Facebook account. Obasanjo said this while addressing media reports claiming he used his twitter handle to describe Fani-Kayode as a democracy wrecker.
"Fani-Kayode is a democracy wrecker, who’s very fluent in stupidity. Give him food, and he will sing and do “shoki” dance for you.”. the handle tweeted over the weekend.
Denying he tweeted it, Obasanjo said;
"I don’t know where this comes from. I don’t have any account on either the Facebook or Twitter again. Go and block it. Let me say that, nemesis will catch up with anyone doing this. It is illegal and criminal. If I have to pass any message to the good people of Nigeria, I know how to go about it with no controversy" he said

12:38:00

Jimi Agbaje posted this on his Facebook page this morning. It's a response to Governor Fashola's comments that Agbaje's company only paid his taxes after he was publicly called out. Read below...
The Honourable Governor B.R. Fashola (SAN) has lied again and I think it's time to address his repeated blunder.
With regards to my taxes, there is no truth in this latest piece of misinformation that the Honourable Governor has been peddling. Following the repudiation of his initial allegations about Jaykay Pharmaceuticals unpaid taxes, he has lied again, giving the impression that my company has gone to pay money supposedly owed to the government.

12:37:00

Kanye West shared a kiss with his wife as he received the Visionary Award at the 2015 BET Honors, which was broadcast yesterday night after being taped last month.

For his acceptance speech, Mr West turned to a human rights activist...lol. Kanye began by saying he felt humbled for the first time in his life and then used his relationship with Kim, who is a “person not of color” to talk about race and separatism. He thanked Kim and told everyone that she wasn't in a relationship with him for his fame or fortune
“My wife has dated broke black dudes so it ain’t got nothing to do with the money.”

11:10:00

A Woman has been arrested for masturbating as she watched Fifty Shades of Grey in a cinema.
The actions of the woman, 33, upset fellow moviegoers as they watched Sam Taylor-Johnson’s film adaptation of E L James’s bestseller in the city of Sinaloa in north-western Mexico, La Verdad reported.


The aroused woman was sitting in the 12th row of the cinema and her actions
were reported to management, who called in police. The woman was arrested and handcuffed before being led out of the venue.

10:43:00

The Nigerian military released a statement today saying that during their search of Baga, Borno state following their recapture of the city, they found and arrested some terrorists dressed as women. Find the military press statement below and more photos after the cut...

10:31:00


Anti-Buhari campaigners described this pic of Buhari and Tony which appeared online as fake, claiming that the APC presidential candidate was Photoshopped close to the former British Prime Minister, that no such meeting ever took place. To find out the truth, Vanguard sent an email to Tony Blair's office, and they confirmed that Mr. Blair indeed met with Buhari in London...
"Mr. Blair had a private meeting with General Muhammadu Buhari in London. Mr. Blair hopes to visit Nigeria shortly when he will see the President. said Rianne Buter in an email response to Vanguard

10:23:00

The Nigerian military yesterday released a video showing aerial bombardment of a community in the North East believed to be in the control of Boko Haram members. In the video, people can be seen running in different directions as the Airforce continues its airstrike. See some more photos and video after the cut...

It's a screen grab from the video...

10:09:00

Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti state yesterday took some journalists to the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja to prove that the photo of APC Presidential candidate, Gen Buhari, having an interview with Kemi Fadojutimi on 'All Eyes on Africa' TV show was actually conducted in Abuja and not in London like his media aides claimed.

Fayose took the journalists round suite 881 at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel where he said the interview with Fadojutimi actually took place in. He compared the sofa, paintings, table lamp, the flower vase, the lighting points and DSTV magazine in the suite with what was published in the papers.

10:01:00

She spends her spare time in a similar way to many other ten-year-old girls - playing with Barbie dolls and making loom bands. But the key difference between Esther Okade and other children her age is that she has been accepted to study for a university maths degree - despite not going to school.

Esther, from Walsall, West Midlands, has enrolled on an Open University course months after she passed her A-levels - and wants to study for a PhD before running her own bank.

13:40:00


MTN Project Fame Season 3 Winner, Chidinma Ekile, has cleared the air about dating Flavour. 


Flavor's new video, ‘Ololufe’ shot in South Africa recently, where she was seen cuddling and kissing the afrobeats singer, led to some bashing and reacting to the backlash, Chidinma has said, in an interview with HipTv that she was not dating Flavour. 

12:49:00


Popular Nollywood actor, Hanks Anuku has debunked a forthnight's viral reports that he is H.I.V positive and intentionally infected his wife with the virus.

The popular actor has tagged the reports malicious, fallacious, hurtful and without any iota of truth.

The report alleges that Hanks, who became quite popular in the industry for his bad boy roles in the early 2000s, slept with not less than 80 women during his
6-month visit to Zambia.

10:21:00

Somalia-based terror group, Al-Shabaab has released a video online calling for attacks on shopping malls in Canada, the UK and the United States. In the propaganda video posted Saturday February 21st, the al Qaeda-linked terror group reminded the world of its September 2013 attack on Westgate mall in Kenya in which over 60 people were killed and called for similar attacks on major malls in the three Western countries. Al-Shabaab identified specific malls, but international media is not listing the malls...

09:42:00

The 2015 Academy Awards held last night in LA and Hollywood stars came out swinging. See all the photos after the cut and tell us who your best dressed it. Above: Jennifer Lopez and Lady Gaga who performed at the awards...

09:28:00

Pictures show Chisco Luxury buses allegedly burnt down by political thugs in Lagos on February 12th. Didn't even know this happened until president Jonathan said it in a recent interview;
"I was surprised last night when the owner of Chisco, the company that runs transport business between Lagos and the South East told me that 18 of his luxury buses were burnt down in Lagos by youths of a rival party because my billboard was close to his facility. Is that the kind of people that want to take over the running of this country? Is this country going to be managed by people with that kind of background" he said
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