08:58:00

Hours after he was named the new Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola made his first appearance at the Ministry of Works where he had a close-door session with the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Louis Edozien and other Directors so as to chart a new course for the ministry.

08:54:00

A Los Angeles-based model, 23 year old Abigail Ratchford, has put her own spin on the reality star's infamous 'break the internet' shoot for Paper magazine. Ratchford posted a photo of herself on Instagram as she was preparing to recreate the now-iconic spread from November last year, which saw Kim Kardashian try to break the internet with the pose. See the full pic after the cut...

08:52:00

Residents of Ogunfunmi Street, Akobi Crescent Surulere, Lagos on Tuesday, dragged a school teacher, Benedict Ekpenyong, a teacher in Akintan Grammar School on Akintan Street, Surulere, to the police station for allegedly locking up a female pupil in his room and attempting to rape her.
It was learnt that neighbours saw Ekpenyong take the 14-year-old pupil, who was also a pupil of Akintan Grammar School and only as Blessing to his apartment at about 12pm and heard the bolt to the door lock.

08:49:00

Seems like Rick Ross and Lira Galore are back together. She showed off her engagement ring back on her finger on her Snapchat account with Rick Ross' hand in-between her thighs and captioned it "Queen". People think he 'broke off' the engagement for a publicity stunt to increase his album sale.

08:47:00

An Ocala, Fla. man was caught on video surveillance stealing from his church collection plate as service was going on. The man was one of the church ushers and he stole $349.05 from plate. He has since been arrested and charged with stealing and now faces five years in prison. See more pics after the cut...

17:01:00

The House of Representatives says its call for censorship on social media is for telecommunications company to develop applications or softwares that will pull down all pornographic materials on Nigeria's social media. A statement from the House reads
"The House has prevailed upon the telecommunications service providers to either develop or acquire software that will block or filter-out certain images or contents that violate both moral and religious values in Nigeria.
Passing a resolution on a motion moved by Hon. Johnbull Shekarau calling for the censoring of social media, he prayed the House to urge the telecoms service providers to initiate a take-down procedure that will enable a swift removal of any pornographic materials when notified by network users. He advised that this could be done by dedicating a hotline that will receive and treat complaints.
The resolution passed on the motion by the House include:

15:53:00
After five months without ministers, President Muhammadu Buhari has finally inaugurated 36 ministers that were recently screened and cleared by the Senate.

The 36 ministers were also given their portfolios as the former governor of Lagos state Babatunde Fashola stole the show with his appointment as the new minister of power, works and housing.
The presidency had earlier confirmed that the inauguration of the ministers will be carried out on Wednesday, November 11.
From a statement released by Femi Adesina, the special adviser on media and publicity to the president, it was revealed that the ministers were allowed to invite only two guests for their inauguration.
However, just before the ministers were given portfolios, they took the oaths of office in the council chambers of the Presidential Villa.
The swearing-in ceremony lasted two hours, 30 minutes. It began promptly at 10am and ended at exactly 12.30pm.
Naij.com was at the council chambers to bring you live coverage of the exercise. Read our coverage below:

16:39:00


Former Nigerian President, General Yakabu Gowon and late Edith Ike Okongwu are the parents of Musa Jack Ngonadi Gowon, who was recently released from a prison in California after serving 25 years there.Young Musa had relocated to the US with his mum where he lived until his arrest in 1992. 

Left photo: This was the month he was arrested. ..he was 23 and right photo: This is in prison. ..he actually graduated with a degree in law while in prison..that's his half brother Richard.  Read the full story of his travail and released after the cut...

13:08:00

According to sources in the state house, the closed door meeting between former president Goodluck Jonathan and President Buhari yesterday lasted for about 5 minutes. Jonathan is said to have arrived at the state house in a black SUV at exactly 2pm, went straight to the banquet hall where he met Buhari and came out 5 minutes later. He reportedly left the state house premises at exactly 2.07pm without talking to any journalists.

12:44:00

A Kogalymavia passenger plane carrying 224 people has crashed in Egypt's Sinai penunsula. The airliner took off from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik this morning, and was heading for Russia, according to aviation sources, when it disappeared from radar. It's believed the plane was mainly carrying Russian tourists.
The plane was carrying 212 passengers and 7 crew members. 17 of the passengers are children.
Airbus A321 left Sharm-El-Sheikh for St. Petersburg with flight number 7K9268. It belongs to airline Metrojet and was 18.5 years old and was descending with about 6000 feet per minute just before signal was lost. The captain told ATC after departure of a technical fault and requested a route change.
Local media says a recovery team is now at the site of the crash.

12:11:00

17-year-old Jaden Smith's (son to Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith) went on yet another bizarre rant after being named for the second year in a row as one of Time’s Most Influential Teens, Jaden said;
“Being born was the most influential thing that’s ever happened to me. As far as people, what they think is influential, like I said, the thing that you can make the most of and laugh at the most is whatever would be the most influential to the pop culture of the world. When they don’t understand something, they’re afraid of it, and if they don’t understand it, they don’t accept it or like it.” he said

12:03:00


 President Obama and his wife Michelle threw a Halloween Costume party at the White House yesterday and invited little kids to have fun with them. The most adorable was the little boy in a Pope costume in his Pope mobile. He made the president laugh. Too cute! See more photos after the cut...

10:54:00

In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano yesterday, The Director-General of the Board, Dr Abba Sufi, said that Kano State Hisba Board has started preparations for the mass wedding of 2,000 widows and divorcees in the State.

Sufi said the preparations was due to the directive given by Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje.
He said:

10:53:00

According to Forbes, Michael Jackson is the top earning dead celebrity, earning an astonishing $115million this year. In his more 30 years solo career, the King of Pop made an impressive over $1.1 billion. But it seems he has proved even more lucrative since his death, making a further $999 billion since 2009.

 The impressive sum comes from two Cirque du Soleil shows, his own music and publishing revenues, and his half of the Sony/ATV publishing catalogue.

14:58:00

Sorry this is coming late. It happened last week. The billionaire businessman and presidential candidate who has been calling for a wall to be built to keep Mexicans away from the US, slammed Africans in a new interview. He allegedly said
"I hear they abuse me in their blogs but I don’t care because even the internet they are using is ours and we can decide to switch it off from this side."
Lol. This man can yarn opas sometimes! Read the full article, written by Christine Mendoza for Politica where Mallam Trump was quoted blasting Africans, after the cut...

11:50:00

Actress Genevieve Nnaji says she will get married whenever her man finds her. Genevieve said this in a recent interview with Encomium magazine. When asked when she will be getting married, Genevieve said "When he finds me". Asked if he hasn't found her yet, she said "Exactly".

Genevieve says she has been absent from the movie scene because she couldn't find any script that was worth her time..

10:10:00

Former Lagos state governor and Minister Designate, Babatunde Fashola yesterday received the Stephen J.Solarz Award in honour of his commitment to building a peaceful and vibrant society and work to improve social and economic conditions in Lagos as well as his role in preventing the Ebola outbreak from becoming a crisis in Nigeria. Fashola is pictured above receiving the award from billionaire Mo Ibrahim, the founder of Mo Ibrahim Foundation at the 20th Anniversary Award dinner of the International Crisis Group in New york, USA. See more photos after the cut...

10:09:00

See what someone is proposing in 2015. Volodimir Spilchenko, the director of Dynamo Kiev's (arguably Ukraine's biggest club) home ground, says that having black fans segregated from other supporters could prevent racism.

About four black men were reportedly attacked and racially abused last week during a home game against Chelsea in the champions league,a situation that has become the norm in that part of the world and UEFA will decide on what disciplinary sanctions to take against Dynamo on Tuesday after the shocking footage was released.
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