16:54:00
Traumatized Nigerian migrant Lucky (Right) said he regularly witnessed many killing in Libya. The 20-year-old is one of more than 118,000 people to have made the perilous journey from Libya to Italy so far this year. Nearly 15,000 have been picked up off the coast of Libya since 28 August.
"It was a nightmare, " said Lucky. If many people knew what was going on there, they would not dare come" 

16:43:00

Singer Lady Gaga took Oscar winning actor Bradley Cooper for a spin in her vintage Bronco car in Malibu on Sunday as they both went on a shopping spree. This comes after she announced she'll co-star with him on a new movie project 'A star is born'. Lady Gaga is single but Bradley has a girlfriend. More photos after the cut.

16:32:00
Africa’s foremost scholar of Oral Literature and award-winning novelist, Prof. Isidore Okpewho, has passed on at 74.

The Distinguished Professor at State University of New York, died peacefully on Sunday, September 4th, surrounded by family members at a hospital in Binghamton, a town in Upstate New York where he had lived and taught since 1991. 
His teaching career spanned University of New York at Buffalo (1974-76), University of Ibadan (1976-90), Harvard University (1990-91), and State University of New York at Binghamton. 

15:27:00

Oluwatoyin Islamiyat Abdulkadir (pictured), emerged the best graduating student of the International University of Africa, IUA, located in Sudan recently. Oluwatoyin, an orphan, who once won the Oyo state essay writing competition on poverty eradication, had to work for a year after her secondary school education before she registered for JAMB.

She finally got admitted to the University Of Ibadan to study medicine, around the same time, she got a scholarship to study Nursing at IUA.

15:22:00
Almost seven years after EFCC handed over the N2.8billion Chelsea Hotel built by former governor of Bayelsa state, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha to the state government, the hitherto revenue-generating hotel is rotting away in Abuja. Alamieyeseigha was governor of the oil rich state form 1999-2005.

He was standing trial for corruption in 2007 and lost possession of the property and some others after a ruling by a court in a Federal High Court, Lagos. Asides the hotel, the EFCC sold other Alamieyeseigha assets in Nigeria and realised N3, 128, 230, 294.83billion; $441,000; E7, 000 and £2,000.

15:19:00
Richard Mofe-Damijo 'RMD' pictured looking good in New York. He was there to host the 2016 NEA awards, which took place yesterday Sept 4th.

14:57:00

One of the two-man robbery gang arrested by the operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of Lagos State Police Command for allegedly robbing a 81 year old lady in her apartment, has confessed that his ringleader, an herbalist, now at large, masterminded the crime.
The suspect, Segun Taiwo, was apprehended after they had successfully dispossessed the 81-year old lady of her valuable at Oduduwa Street, Itire, Lagos.

14:49:00
 
The Ogun state police command has arrested a 54 year old woman, Idowu Olupinla pictured right, for allegedly operating a prostitution cartel with teenagers aged between 14 to 19, right inside her Cherubim and Seraphim Church at Ijoko-Ota area of the state.

According to investigations by the police, the suspect harbors the young girls in the church premises and arranges for men to have sex with them for a fee.

14:31:00
The mastermind of the kidnap of three Australians working for Lafarge Cememnt Company in Cross River state, Samuel Asuquo, has been arrested by Department of State Service operatives. This was contained in a press statement released by the spokesperson of the DSS, Tony Opuiyo.

The statement adds that a gang of kidnappers that had earlier kidnapped five Igbo women and collected the sum of Thirteen Million Naira (N13m) as ransom have also been arrested. Also arrested is a Boko Haram IED specialist in Kano state. Read statement after the cut.

15:39:00
The convoy of the Lagos State governor, Mr. Akinwumi Ambode fortunately saved several motorists from being attacked by a gang of armed robbers, who struck at Long Bridge on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The incident which took place last Thursday at about 8 pm was said to have been carried out by armed robbers who were dressed as Police officers.
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