13:36:00

An unidentified young man in Ilobu community, in
the Irepodun LGA of Osun State, was found head deep in a grave in
the early hours of Wednesday May 14th, after allegedly attempting to cut off the head of a
corpse, buried in Tonto compound in the area, Saturday Tribune reports

The
suspect’s accomplices fled in terror after seeing half his body get
stuck mysteriously in the grave. His death has generated concern among
the terrified residents of the Ilobu community.


It was gathered that the victim and his partners in crime allegedly
came to Tonto compound in the early hours of Wednesday with a plot to
exhume the corpse of an aged woman and sever her decomposed head,
allegedly for ritual purposes. Continue...

12:54:00


 According to a report by Sahara Reporters, no fewer than 70 members of Boko Haram were killed today May 16th by members of a vigilante group in the Madagali town of Adamawa state and captured seven alive who they handed over to the police.

The vigilantes reportedly acted after they were tipped off by a local food vendor that the militants were coming to get food before heading out for a major operation to raid villages in the area, usually carried out at night.

With this information, the vigilantes mobilized, laid ambush and patiently waited for the men of the sect. The men, numbering about 100, showed up later at night to pick up their meal and that was when the vigilantes attacked them, killing most and arresting the ones that survived the assault. Continue...

12:36:00

Here's a breaking news report from NTA. A rocket attack on Soye Village market in Bama LGA of Borno state has left 31 people dead and many injured. Below is how they are reporting it

The number of the dead following the rocket attack on Soye village
market near Bama which killed 29 and injured many others has risen to
31. Chairman of Bama local government area, baba Shehu Gulumba has
visited the general hospital in the area to sympathize with victims and
also made a fifty thousand naira cash donation to a boy who sustained
severe burns. Three out of the seven who were injured having died; the
remaining four are receiving treatment in Maiduguri while five have
already been discharged.

12:15:00


Ex president Obsanjo’s daughter Damilola Obasanjo,tied the knot with long time love,Tope Borishade recently.

The Traditional and white wedding took place on the May  9-10,2014 in Abeokuta,Ogun State.

Lovely bride!


12:09:00

Clarion Chukwura started this drama when she called out her colleague Ibinabo  Fiberesima in a public memo...Ibinabo had to save face so she sent a long public memo replying her..read the whole drama here

...Anyways as i was saying,Ibinabo replied and Clarion who looks like she wouldnt hurt a fly has just given Ibinabo a kick in the vjayjay...LMAO!

Clarion's reply reads

12:02:00




A British-born man suspected of masterminding Boko Haram bomb attacks in Nigeria that left around 100 people dead became radicalised during his years at a Welsh university, it has been claimed.

Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche is believed to have led a double life in the UK as an aspiring businessman while preparing to die in the name of Allah. Ogwuche, who allegedly called himself the “Lion of God” and wrote increasingly extreme posts on social media during his later years in Britain, was arrested in Sudan this week on suspicion of organising the double blast.

Experts warned that his case could signal the start of a new wave of British-Nigerian extremists travelling to fight for Boko Haram, attracted by its global notoriety following the kidnapping of more than 270 girls.

12:00:00




Shocked Reece Savva, 14, took three snaps of the Jackson tribute act as he waited in line for a signature. But when he got home and looked at the pictures he noticed the ghost of the late entertainer hovering above his impostor's head in one of the frames.

11:09:00

Caleb University, Imota, Lagos, has been shut down following students' protest yesterday which saw school properties, including four cars destroyed. The protest allegedly began after an official of the school tried to stop a Muslim student from praying in the school, which is a Christian school.



The School's VC Prof. Ayo Olukoju announced today that the school will be shut down temporarily but will re-open on June 2nd. Speaking to Punch about the decision, Prof Olukoju said;

“We have rules and regulations in the school and all the
students agreed to abide by them. These rules are in the student
handout. Before now, we have been applying appropriate sanctions against
students who default in any of these rules. We wanted to enforce one of
such sanctions on Wednesday before this crisis escalated. Please, the crisis has nothing to do with religion. It has nothing
to do with being a Christian or a Muslim. People, especially female
students even went to their worship centres on campus on Wednesday to
pray after the incident. Again, I tell you this action was carried out
by the male students alone.”
See more pics from the damage the rampaging students caused, after the cut...

11:05:00


Weeks after a ferry capsized in South Korea killing almost 300 people, another ferry has capsized with 200 passengers on board. A Bangladeshi ferry capsized today May 15th following strong winds as it sailed through the Meghna river at Rasulpur in Munshiganj district near the capital, Dhaka.

Nine bodies have so far been recovered including those of women and children, according to police, with more bodies expected to be recovered in the coming days. Some of the passengers managed to swim to the shore of the river. Rescue operation has been going on since the disaster happened.

11:03:00
 
 
According to Reuters Africa, President Jonathan will today May 16th visit Chibok Community where over 200 girls were abducted by Boko Haram men on April 14th. This would be the President's first visit to the community since the abduction happened about a month ago.

10:59:00


The Army Commander whose unit revolted yesterday May 14th in Maiduguri (read here) has been removed by the Nigerian Army from the 7th infantry division.

Spokesman of the Nigerian Army, Major General Chris Olukolade, announced the removal of Major General Ahmadu Mohammed in a statement released today.

The Commander's battalion revolted yesterday, shooting sporadically after seeing the bodies of their colleagues who had been ambushed and killed by Boko Haram in Chibok. They also complained of not getting adequate weaponry to fight Boko Haram and poor conditions. The soldiers shot at their commander during the rampage but didn't kill him.

10:52:00




Barely one week after former United States Secretary of States Hilary Clinton accused the Goodluck Jonathan presidency of corruption, a serving government official under President Barack Obama has declared that the Nigerian military is corrupt. Testifying before the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Alice Friend, the Pentagon’s principal director for African affairs said; “We’re now looking at a military force that’s, quite frankly, becoming afraid to even engage. The Nigerian military has the same challenges with corruption that every other institution in Nigeria does. Much of the funding that goes to the Nigerian military is skimmed off the top, if you will.”

10:39:00
PHOTOS: Topless Femen Protesters Join #BringBackOurGirls Campaign (18+ Only)
More than a month has passed since the abduction of over 200 female students from GGSS Chibok by the Muslim extremist group Boko Haram, Borno.

The abduction is now generating worldwide attention and condemnation.
The British and French governments announced Wednesday that they would send teams of experts to complement the U.S. team in Nigeria helping with the search for the girls. The Chinese government has also re-assured Nigeria of its commitment to assist in the rescue of the Chibok school girls.
Meanwhile an exhibitionist feminist protest group FEMEN joined the #BringBackOurGirls campaign. At their official Facebook page they wrote:
"BringBackOurGirls! The terrorist group Boko Haram abducted 270 girls from a school in Nigeria about 3 weeks ago. 50 Girls were able to escape, but 200 are still in the hands of the Islamist organization.
The kidnapped girls are threatened with death, forced marriage or will live as slaves. That is terror,
death and absolute patriarchal oppression in the name of religion and power.  SEE MORE PIX

10:23:00

For the last several weeks, #bringbackourgirls has been trending on Twitter as an effort to raise awareness about the kidnapping of over 200 schoolgirls from their Chibok, Nigeria, school by the Boko Haram terrorist group.
Everyone from activists to celebrities has used #bringbackourgirls, causing the hashtag to be retweeted nearly 2 million times. But earlier this week, one random woman tried to lay claim to creating it.


hashtag creator #bringbackourgirls


In interviews with CNN and ABC, Ramaa Mosley (@marystrawberry), a documentarian based out of Los Angeles, said that after hearing the story of the girls, and noticing there was no social media outcry or mentions of it, she decided to take matters into her own hands and do something about it.


By do something about it, she actually means that she took a hashtag that was being used already and claimed it as her own. Mosley “Christopher Columbus'd” #bringbackourgirls, and unfortunately the media outlets who interviewed her about the hashtag didn't do a very good job of researching how #bringbackourgirls started.

10:19:00

 A baby in the US state of Minnesota has survived an 11-storey fall from an apartment balcony, local media report.
Musa Dayib, one, has two arm fractures and is breathing with the help of a ventilator but is expected to live, after slipping through a railing.



His doctor said his youth as well as the softer ground he landed on helped contribute to his survival.
Family and friends in Minneapolis's Somali community say the family is in shock.
"When people found out he survived, no one could believe it," community activist Abdirizak Bihi told the Star-Tribune newspaper.

10:06:00


Cristiano Ronaldo‘s model girlfriend Irina Shayk joined in by posting her own #BringBackOurGirls photo to protest against the abductions of over 200 chibok girls....
The model appears topless in the photo and that wasn’t well received by some of her fans

who branded it ‘Pretty tasteless and disrespectful. No class. This is exactly the justification terrorists are probably using to prevent women from receiving western education,’ a fan wrote on Instagram where the photo was posted..............

10:04:00


Albinos in Tanzania have become targets for body-snatchers seeking
 to sell them to witch doctors
Two witch doctors in Tanzania have been arrested after a woman with albinism was hacked to death.
One of her legs and several fingers were removed in the attack on Tuesday.

Albinos have suffered widespread persecution in Tanzania, where witch doctors say magic potions made with albino body parts can bring good luck.


Such killings have declined in recent years, but this latest attack has prompted a human rights group to call for all witch doctors to be banned.
At a press conference on Wednesday, the group, Under The Same Sun said the current regulation of witch doctors was clearly not working.


The BBC's Leonard Mubali in Dar es Salaam says that currently all witch doctors have to apply for a certificate from the ministry of health and welfare to practise.
The attack occurred in the village of Gasuma, in Simiyu province - a remote rural area in the north-west of the country where there have been killings of albinos before,
The woman's left leg, two fingers from her left hand and a nail from one of her thumbs were removed.
According to Under the Same Sun, which campaigns against the discrimination of people living with albinism, the last killing of an albino in Tanzania was in February 2013.


In recent years, the government has been also been trying to address the problem, and an albino MP was appointed several years ago.

10:02:00

The police on Wednesday arraigned an applicant, Kunle Opadeyi, at an Abuja Chief Magistrates’ Court in Karu, for allegedly stealing N1m at a wedding reception.



The accused person was arraigned on two counts of criminal conspiracy and theft.
The News Agency of Nigeria  reports that the prosecutor, ASP Adams Peter, told the court that the accused had sneaked into the wedding dinner at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, pretending to be a guest.

Peter alleged that while the event was going on, the accused stole the sum from the money donated by invited guests to the couple.

He said during investigation, the accused confessed to stealing only N200,000.
He added that the offence contravened the provisions of sections 97(2) and 287 of the Penal Code.

If convicted, he faces two years in prison or with fine or both.

The accused pleaded not guilty to the charge, but told the court that he stole only N200,000....LMAO

09:29:00

There was serious riot at Caleb University, Imota Lagos this evening. Unconfirmed reports
say the riot started when a Muslim student who was saying his prayers
was disrupted by one of the porters in the male hostel ... plus other irregular enforced school rules and security misunderstandings. The students went on a rampage destroying school property. The school
according to its website is a Christian University. See more photos after the cut...
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