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SUSPECTED Fulani herdsmen have again cruelly slaughtered a 50-year-old staff of the Delta State University, DELSU, Abraka, Mr. Sunday Idama, at his cassava farmland in Ovre-Abraka community, Ethiope East Local Government Area, Delta State. Mr. Idama, a father of 14 children, married to three wives had gone to his farm, last Friday, to mount surveillance after discovering that herdsmen were allegedly constantly uprooting his cassava and feeding their cows with them. It was gathered that Idama, who went to the farm with his motorcycle encountered the herdsmen same night and challenged them. But they pounced on him with machetes, cutting him on the hand, leg, face and everywhere until he gave up the ghost. Police confirm killing Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, DSP Andrew Aniamaka, confirmed the killing of Idama when contacted by Vanguard, saying that the police evacuated the remains to Ufuoma Clinic in the area for autopsy and investigations were on by homicide dete...

MAVIN record boss, Don Jazzy, has revealed that it was not all about making money when he started his musical career.  He made the revelation during a chat with Big Brother Naija housemates when he paid a surprise courtesy visit to the Big Brother house yesterday. Responding to questions from housemates, the seasoned music producer said that he was never money conscious because all he wanted to do was make music. He stressed that he was never bothered even when he wasn't paid after doing gigs and shows. "My journey has been crazy. Since I started my musical career, I've not been in any situation that I felt like I wasn't successful; even as I was in the church playing for my church elders, I felt I was Michael Jackson doing my thing. I was comfortable doing it, I did not even know whether I would get money. When I was doing Juju music in London, it was the same thing, if you give me money today, fine, the day if you don't give me, no problem", he said. He went...

MMM NIGERIA'S MEMBERS GET PAID FOR MAVROS-2016 On a daily basis, MMM Nigeria's members get paid for their Mavro acquired in the year of 2016. As the MMM Community is recovering in Nigeria and getting stronger, the amount of payments for Mavros-2016 is growing as well. We have compiled the folder with the screenshots of GH-requests for Mavro-2016. Spread these screenshots in the social networks and WhatsApp. It is really important! https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwgoYyvREa3pSjYwSjRFV0Z3ZG8 A special limit for Mavro-2016 payments has been introduced. This limit was determined in a such way that GHs for Mavro-2016 won't create any additional burden on the Community and won't affect its sustainability. According to this limit, members get a part of their Mavros-2016 every day. Members who can request help in Mavros-2016 are selected randomly. Therefore, if you want to withdraw your Mavros-2016, check your PO regularly. Your turn may come. Besides that, MMM is devel...

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), on Wednesday expressed determination to stop importation of mobile transmitters by non-state, secessionist groups, who are using it to broadcast anti-national propaganda. The Director-General of the Commission, Malam Is'haq Modibbo-Kawu made the disclosure while briefing newsmen at the National Headquarters of the commission in Abuja.  According to him, there is national security issue involved in the importation of mobile transmitters. "There are mobile transmitters being imported by non-state, secessionist groups, who are using these transmitters to broadcast anti-national, propaganda. "This is part of their effort to de-legitimise our country and propagate hate as well as secessionist propaganda," he said. He said one of the issues facing NBC was the clash of frequencies all over country, adding that City-based FM radio stations are permitted under the terms of their licenses to install 2KW transmitters. "That way, ...

The House of Representatives urged the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to provide relief material for flood victims in Degema Local Government Area in Rivers. This was sequel to the unanimous adoption of a motion by Rep. Randolph Brown (Rivers-PDP) at the plenary on Wednesday. Moving the motion earlier, Brown said the flood caused tremendous devastation in Bile Kingdom in the area. According to him, flooding has become a re-occurring incident in the last five years, from the February to November. He said that after each flood incident, lives, properties and livestock as well as schools, hospitals, businesses and worship centres are lost. According to him, survivors are left homeless and they survive on make-shift tents, while school children remain out of school. The lawmaker noted that since the floods that occurred in the area in 2016, no organised camp facility had been provided for the internally displaced persons. He said that the victims had not had any reliable means...

"My mother-in-law wants her son to throw me out his house after he impregnated his girlfriend," 29-year-old petty trader, Adegbite Aderayo, told an Agege Customary Court in Lagos on Wednesday. She said her mother-in-law had pressured her son, Shotunde Gbenga, to send her out of their matrimonial home. Aderayo, a resident of No. 7, Joseph Campbell St., Ifako-Ijaiye, Lagos, said the move began when her husband impregnated his ex-girlfriend and brought her home to live with them. "Sometimes in July 2014, my husband brought his ex-girlfriend to my mother-in-law's house for child christening. "I later discovered that the child was my husband's baby after she moved into our house with the support of my mother-in-law. "I had to move to my father-in-law's house when life became unbearable for me after my husband traveled to South Africa in December 2014,'' she said. She told the court that Gbenga impregnated another woman while in South Africa with ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will contnue as Acting President In spite of the return of President Muhammadu Buhari to the country early Friday morning. President Buhari announced this at his first meeting with his Cabinet and Service Chiefs at the First Lady's Conference Room at the Presidential Villa Abuja. According to the president who proceeded to his residence after the meeting, he needed more rest. He expressed his gratitude to Nigerians who called and also prayed for him while his medical vacation lasted in London, United Kingdom. He said that Osinbajo who has been acting in his place in the last 51 days he has been away would continue to act. Hethe President said he felt much better, saying that "whatever the case I'm still grateful to Nigerians". According to him, the cost of his treatment abroad was not lost on him even as he said he received the best of treatment. …Says needs more rest

President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to return to the country tomorrow,Friday the Presidency said on Thursday. A statement signed by the Presidential spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina stated that "President Buhari expresses appreciation to teeming Nigerians from across the country, and beyond, who had prayed fervently for him, and also sent their good wishes."

Rev. Justin Welby, Thursday, met with President Muhammadu Buhari at Abuja House, London. Buhari according to a statement signed by the Presidential spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina stated the president is expected back tomorrow, Friday, and that he expressed appreciation to Nigerians who had prayed fervently for him.

The ongoing Big Brother Naija reality TV show in South Africa has continued to gather storm. Just as it has won friends there are many foes as well, too disgusted with conduct of the housemates. The recent scene where one of the housemates, Bisola gave another housemate, TTT ( Thin Tall Tony) a blowjob (head) has not gone well with some people. One of such people is one Funmi Akinyode, who claims to be a member of Nigerian Single Mothers Association. In her letter to housemate Bisola, Akinyode expressed her disappointment with her conduct for giving a married man and father of two, Thin Tall Tony a head live on TV. Her words: Dear @iambisola, we, the association of single parent are disappointed with your act on national TV few days ago. I followed you because of your presence on social media. Anytime I go through your page whenever am tired from work or bored, I can’t help but laugh and still praise you… When I now found out that you are a single mother and doing well f...

The Borno Police Command on Friday confirmed multiple blasts ignited by suspected female suicide bombers around NNPC depot on Damboa road, Maiduguri. The spokesman of the command, Mr Victor Isuku, made the confirmation in an interview in Maiduguri. "Our men are still working at the scene of the blasts," Isuku said, and pledged to give details later. An eyewitness, Malam Abubakar Kaumi, told newsmen at the scene that the blast occurred around 3 a.m. "A woman suspected to be a suicide bomber walking alongside two girls came round the depot. "They detonated their explosives near some petrol tankers parked there, and destroyed the three vehicles. "Gladly, nobody was closed by, so, only the three bombers died," Kaumi said. An official of the National Emergency Management Agency( NEMA), Malam Abdul Ibrahim, also confirmed the report. "Three suspected suicide bombers detonated their explosives along Damboa road, Maiduguri, in the early hours of Friday, destr...

Democratic Republic of Congo’s main opposition coalition said it had named the son of its late leader Etienne Tshisekedi to succeed him, but some within the opposition rejected the choice. Felix Tshisekedi was chosen to lead the alliance of some of the country’s largest opposition parties, which was thrown into crisis by the death of his father in Brussels last month, aged 84. Tshisekedi led the bloc during negotiations in December that resulted in a deal obliging President Joseph Kabila to step down after elections that must happen this year. His death sparked clashes between supporters and security forces in the capital Kinshasa, but it also left opposition to Kabila divided, which has played into his hands. Kabila, the country’s leader since 2001, remained in power when his constitutional mandate expired on Dec. 19, sparking unrest that stoked fears of Congo sliding back into the anarchy and civil war of the turn of the century. “It’s Felix who is t...

Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has directed the International Oil Companies operating in the Niger-Delta region to relocate their headquarters to their States of operation to mitigate tension in host communities. Osinbajo, gave the directive at a Town Hall meeting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital on Thursday during continuation visit to the region to dialogue with stakeholders. The Acting President urged the Minister of State, Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu to begin the process of engaging the International Oil Companies on the way forward to actualize the directive, saying "I think it is the right thing to do". He disclosed that, the Ministry of Petroleum is also working with major oil companies on several initiatives including; working on illegal refineries to establish modular refineries to achieve the desired result. On the Federal Government amnesty programme for ex-agitators, Osinbajo re-iterated the federal government stand noting that, the Ministry of Petrolum and ...