[UPDATED] Policemen and Robbers Engage in Gun Battle on Lekki-Ikoyi Bridge

There has been an heating report from Lekki-Ikoyi Bridge that a team of policemen and a gang of armed robbers exchanged gunshots for about 30 minutes on the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge on Thursday afternoon, according The PUNCH.

An eyewitness, who called our correspondent on the telephone, said the robbers robbed a bank at Lekki phase 1 and attempted to escape through the link bridge to Ikoyi when they encountered policemen.

It was learnt that motorists abandoned their vehicles on the bridge and fled while the shooting lasted.

The eyewitness, who identified himself as Tayo, said, “Around 4.45pm, I was driving to my office in Ikoyi from Lekki but when I got a spot on the bridge, I heard sporadic gunshots. Fortunately, policemen at the tail end of the bridge inwards Ikoyi, shot back.

Vice President Namadi Sambo Explain Why They don’t want voter card readers

The Nigerian presidency has expressed concern with the use of voter card readers for the forthcoming elections, questioning its legality and efficiency, and defending an earlier position of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP on the matter.

Vice President Namadi Sambo said Thursday that while his party was not against the use of card readers, which the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, says will help curb vote fraud, it was concerned whether the decision is backed by law and about the possibility of many Nigerians being disenfranchised.

The PDP has strongly criticised the use of card reading machines for the polls, while the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, backs INEC’s plan to deploy them for what is billed to be a close poll.

Real Madrid Preisdent Florentino Perez give Ancelotti vote of confidence

Real Madrid head coach Carlo Ancelotti has been handed a vote of confidence by club president Florentino Perez.

The Italian has endured a challenging few days after a 1-0 loss to Athletic Bilbao in La Liga on Saturday was followed by a 4-3 reverse at the hands of Schalke in the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday.

Defeat to Athletic saw Real lose their place at the top of La Liga to fierce rivals Barcelona, though they were still able to progress in the Champions League courtesy of a 2-0 victory in the first leg.

Fight Against Terrorism: Nigeria Troops chase terrorists out of Bauchi forest

The Nigerian Army has yet again achieve another huge success in the fight against Boko Haram Terrorist Group as report has it that military troops chase terrorist group out of the Lame/Bura forest in Bauchi State, military sources say.

The troops also inflected huge casualties in the terrorist camp and recover weapons from them during the operation.

This was disclosed in a statement released by the Acting Director of Army Public Relations, Sani Usman on Wednesday, March 11.

The statement reads:

FFK Press Statement that Has Got Everybody Talking (MUST READ)

Gentlemen of the media,

Let me start by expressing the gratitude of our Campaign Organisation to all of you for the support you have been showing us since we started this journey. 

We invited you here today to intimate the Nigerian people, through your esteemed media organisations, about a despicable and wicked agenda that is being orchestrated by the opposition to scandalise, undermine and bring into disrepute our candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan (GCFR), his wife, the First Lady of Nigeria, Dame Patience Jonathan, our Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Allison Maduekwe and other key government functionaries and members of his administration. 

Uruguay's Diego Forlan announces international retirement

Diego Forlan, Uruguay's most-capped player retired from international football on Thursday. He announced his retirement from international football on Thursday, ending his time with Uruguay's national team as their most-capped player.

The 35-year-old forward played 112 matches for Uruguay and scored 36 goals, while he represented his country at three World Cups, winning the Golden Ball in 2010 as the best player of the tournament in South Africa.

Chrissy Teigen Goes Completely Topeless in New Photoshoot with Hubby John Legend

When two people love each other, they do everything together, that is the case of Award winning Singer John Legend and Wife Chrissy Teigen. Both of them recently had a photoshoot on Tuesday 10th March and from the picture you can see that John could hardly take his hands off his beautifully model wife Chrissy.

It was iconic photographer Bruce Weber who did the shoot on Miami beach in Florida. See More Pictures Below ...

Governor Fashola calls on GEJ to caution his wife over what He called "inciting speech"

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, playing host with the Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Prof. Chidi Odinkalu at the state house yesterday March 10th called on President GEJ to caution his wife and other associates like Asari Dokubo on some recent remarks in what he called 'inciting speech'

Meet the South Africa Elephant Who Can Sniff Bombs

Armed with a sharp sense of smell, dogs have a long history of detecting explosives for their human handlers. Trained rats sniff out land mines from old African wars. In Croatia, researchers have tried to train bees to identify TNT.

Now elephants. New research conducted in South Africa and involving the U.S. military shows they excel at identifying explosives by smell, stirring speculation about whether their extraordinary ability can save lives.

"They work it out very, very quickly," said Sean Hensman, co-owner of a game reserve where three elephants passed the smell tests by sniffing at buckets and getting a treat of marula, a tasty fruit, when they showed that they recognized samples of TNT, a common explosive, by raising a front leg.

The Story on How Oyo State Police Rescued NACCIMA boss from kidnappers

Nigeria Police Force, Oyo State Police command rescued 78yrs Chief Adebowale Omotoso, who owns Bond Chemicals and National Life Vice President of Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry Mines and Agriculture. Police command said Chief Omotoso was rescued in a remote village called Ajia in Egbeda LGA, Ibadan and also the kidnappers made a $1m demand from Omotoso's family

Punch narrate the rest of the story ... Those arrested on Monday in connection with the crime are a mother of three, Bisi Babatunde (32), who was based in Port Harcourt; Oladipupo Abayomi (23), Alabi Olufemi, who is the gang driver; Isiaka Kazeem, Ayobami Musa (23), Ajayi Olaniyi (40) and Shittu Olaide (28).

BUSTED! 15-year-old boy arrested in kidnapping caught on video (Watch Video)

When something like this happens in Nigeria we call it "Gobe", Lol. So a 15-year-old boy was arrested on Wednesday in the short-lived kidnapping of a 22-month-old toddler that was caught on surveillance video in this small farming town in eastern Washington.

The teenage boy, who lives in Sprague, was identified through the use of surveillance video, interviews and evidence collection, Lincoln County Sheriff Wade Magers said.

The boy's identity was being withheld because he is a juvenile, Magers said.

"Over the past 72 hours, deputies and detectives have worked relentlessly on this case," Magers said in a news release.

Over Happy David Luiz sorry for celebrating goal

Paris Saint-Germain defender David Luiz has apologised to his old club for celebrating after playing a key role in dumping Chelsea out of the UEFA Champions League.

The Brazil centre-back netted the 86th-minute equaliser that sent the match to extra time, before Thiago Silva cancelled out Eden Hazard's 96th-minute penalty to take the score to 3-3 on aggregate and send PSG - who saw Zlatan Ibrahimovic sent off controversially in the first half - through on away goals.

Aww So Touching! Read Final Words From Mexican Hitman before been Executed

A Mexican hitman has been executed for murdering a woman who failed to pay "tax" on her drug sales.

Manuel Vasquez, 46, was killed by lethal injection for beating and strangling 51-year-old Juanita Ybarra in San Antonio in 1998.

His sister and a friend cried as they watched his death through a window at the prison in Huntsville.

Ybarra's sister also witnessed the execution and Vasquez was pronounced dead at 6:32pm CDT, 17 minutes after he was injected.

Mourinho wants Uefa to ban Luiz if he elbowed Diego Costa

The Brazil international was named Man of the Match after Paris Saint-Germain's 2-2 draw with Chelsea but the Blues boss believes he should be in hot water

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho believes Paris Saint-Germain defender David Luiz should be suspended for the Champions League quarter-finals after appearing to elbow Diego Costa during their last-16 tie on Wednesday.

The ex-Chelsea defender fought a running battle with the Blues striker throughout the fixture, which finished 2-2 and saw PSG advance to the last eight via the away goals rule, and the pair clashed off the ball before Luiz scored a dramatic header to force extra time.

WHO says there have been No new Ebola cases in Liberia for more than two weeks #WinningTheFight

No new case of the deadly Ebola virus has been registered in Liberia since February 19, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, also hailing positive signs in Sierra Leone and Guinea.

Liberia, long the hardest-hit country in the Ebola epidemic that has killed nearly 10,000 people in west Africa, "has now gone well over two weeks without a new reported case," said Bruce Aylward, who heads WHO's Ebola response.

Since the outbreak began in December, 2013, 24,282 people in nine countries have been infected with the virus, and 9,976 of them have died, according to the latest figures.

36 towns now retaken from Boko Haram - National Security Spokesman

Security spokesman on Wednesday said that 36 towns had been retaken from Boko Haram since the start of a four-nation military offensive, voicing hope that the operation could lead to the group's "total defeat".

National security spokesman Mike Omeri said four towns had fallen since last Friday, including three in Borno state and Buni Yadi, in neighbouring Yobe, where the insurgents slaughtered more than 40 students in February last year before seizing it in August.

Crucial "co-operations and alliances" have led to victories over the Islamist rebels, he said, thanking neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger for cutting off "the supply lines of the terrorists".

"It is hoped that the unfolding regional cooperation will hasten the total defeat and extermination of Boko Haram in Nigeria and the sub-region," he added.

45 High Ranking PDP Members Suspended For Allegedly Working For Labaran Maku

The Nasarawa State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has suspended indefinitely, 45 members of the party, including elders and founding members, with threats to expel them for allegedly working for the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the state, Mr. Labaran Maku.

The suspension order was conveyed in a letter dated March 5 and signed by the party’s Vice Chairman for Nasarawa-North Zone, Umaru Gwamna Abdullahi.

One of the 45 suspended officers, Kassim Isa, who is the Assistant Director of Publicity for the PDP campaign team, was suspended for allegedly working for his son, who is a candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Akwanga-South as against the PDP candidate, Sunday Chuga.

"I would have cried and crawled off stage" on Madonna falling during the Grammy - Sam Smith

Remember the BRIT Award performance by Madonna and the tragedy that follow it? Yeah she actually fell why trying to take off the cape costume that she had on and now Sam Smith is saying if he was to be the one he would have ''cried and crawled off stage''

Sam also went further to say he would not be able to ''power through'' like Madonna did, when she suffered a nasty fall whilst on stage at the ceremony.

He said: ''I used to fall up the escalator on the tube all the time. I'd do what every guy does and look back as if there's something wrong with the ground.

Eleven Feared Dead in Military Helicopter Crash Off Florida Panhandle

According to gawker report, Seven marines and four soldiers from Eglin Air Force Base are feared dead after a helicopter taking part in a training exercise crashed over the water Tuesday night off the Florida Panhandle.

The training was conducted on a 20-mile strip of land owned by the military since World War II. From the ABC affiliate in Pensacola:

Robbers steal jewels worth millions in France heist

More than a dozen armed men stole millions of dollars worth of jewels from two high-security trucks on a motorway south of Paris overnight, a French police official said on Wednesday.

The robbers held up the trucks at a toll payment station in the Yonne area and drove off in four cars.

Local media said the jewels were worth $9.5m and that the gang used gas to force security transport personnel out of their vehicles.

Nobody was injured in the attack and the trucks had been found burnt out, the police official said.

About 80 Children Yet to Unite with Family Members after been freed from BH Camp cause they can't remember their Identity

Report says there are about 80 children who  are yet to be united with their family due to the fact they cannot remember their names or where they are from after been freed from Boko haram camp in Northern Cameroon by Cameroonian soldiers in November 2014.

A director at US-based National Democratic Institute, Christopher Fomunyoh, gives account and said the children range from 5-18 years of age and do not speak English, French or any local language.

Interesting Article! Group says PDP, APC has spend N4.9b on Campaign Publicity

Ok I have actually been looking forward to this type of article, because when you look at the publicity of the two major rivals in this forth coming election you can't but wonder how much they have actually spent. Although the figures mention here are alleged figure but at least it gives us an insight on what this politicians are spending on just publicity. So it said N4.9 Billion (wa ha la owa!)

Read the rest of the story from PremiumTimes ... 

A civil society organization, Centre for Social Justice, has alleged that the two main political parties in Nigeria – Peoples Democratic Party and All Progressives Congress – are violating the provisions of the Electoral Act in campaign funding.

Such a Doll! Amber Rose Shares Crashing Position after a Tired Day

Long day 📷 cred @thatsbenji always catching Muva on fleek pic.twitter.com/WSy5uR2zB6
— Amber Rose (@DaRealAmberRose) March 11, 2015

Awww ..... She is really a doll. I like this *thumbsUp*

Bruce Jenner Transition: Who Do you Think He wants to Look like after Transition, No not Kim!

Ok it's no longer news or even gist that the Step Dad of the Kardashians Bruce Jenner is under going transition to become a woman. If you still don't get, let me break it down, I mean Bruce Jenner a man and father want to become a woman.

Now according to Hollywoodlife, Bruce Jenner is ready to fully become a woman and he has his eyes set on Khloe Kardashian‘s “natural” beauty. In fact, the Kardashian/Jenner patriarch wants to look like her when his transition is finished.

Hilarious! Fans Come For Fashion Blogger Who Try to Indict @LindaIkeji

Just a piece of advice :), before you read this post, I would advice you to listen to this track by MI titled "Bad Belle". It will help you digest the article properly, Lol. First and foremost I am making this post not to take sides (because I usually read from both persons in question here) but just to let us not throw stones to someone just because you see his or her success and many at times, you actually don't see or know the sacrifice he or she has made to attain that height you are seeing. Remember the saying that "success isn't by accident, it is actually planned for". So if someone is successful today, have you taking time to look back how he or she started rather than just hate on him or her?

Actor Johnny Depp injured in Australia while filming Pirates Of The Caribbean

You would remember him by this name "Captain Jack Sparrow" whose real name is Johnny Depp. He has been reportedly injured while filming the continuation of the movie "The Pirates of The Caribbean" in Australia.

According to UK Daily Mail, Johnny Depp has returned to Los Angeles after injuring his right hand on Australia's Gold Coast while filming the latest instalment of the Pirates of the Caribbean movie franchise.

Read The Murder Note That A 14years Wrote And They are Taking It as a Joke

At first when I read this article I was actually thinking it was just some kids written until naijahousewife drew my attentions to some facts about the note through their post. Yes this kid might just be 14yrs and you would think what can a 14yrs old do?  

But have you ever thought about what about if he or she can do it? For these kind of thought to be conceive and born in a child mind, it means there are some extent of "can do it" already ... So if you might ask me, this is not just a mere joke, is either the kid has a insanity problem or the Police better start an investigation on the matter. 

Prof Wole Soyinka condenms Use Of Vulgar Words In Campaigns, Indicts Presidency

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has condemned the crudity of words used by politicians in the ongoing electioneering campaign, describing it as an “uncultured art of political persuasion,” which he said the presidency is guilty of.

Speaking, yesterday, in Lagos at the public presentation of a book titled “Modern and Tradition Elite in the Politics of Lagos” written by Ambassador Patrick Dele Cole, Soyinka also dismissed former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s book, “My Watch”, as “three tonnes of doctored and self-serving narratives”.

What the current political actors have done is to take Nigeria to “hitherto imaginable low in the art of public persuasion which – we have a right to imagine – forms the foundation of political life.”

Family & friends of arrested Pastor in North Korea gather to pray for his freedom

Korean-Canadian religious leaders, friends and family gathered at a suburban Toronto church on Monday, March 9, to pray for a Canadian pastor who is being detained by North Korean authorities while on a humanitarian mission.

60-yr-old Hyeon Soo Lim the founder of Light Korean Presbyterian Church was last heard from on Jan. 31 after he traveled to North Korea.

Church leaders say the Canadian government has told them it is working to secure his release, Reuters reports.

Canada has had limited influence in North Korea since it suspended diplomatic ties with Pyongyang in 2010.

SURE-P sacked by President Goodluck Jonathan for attending Obasanjo's Birthday

Not sure of what to say about this yet but this is actually a talk about in the social media right now on the recent sack of SURE-P Boss, Martin Luther Agwai, the sack was made known to the public through the Presidential Spokesperson Reuben Abati just few hours ago and the reason for the sack was because the SURE-P Boss attended Ex President Obasanjo's Birthday event last week. Point to note is that both Agwai and Obasanjo where both Generals in Nigeria Army. Premium Times gives full report Below ...