... When Transgender and Gay Activist take a Cute Snap

Nigerian gay right activist Bisi Alimi and transgender Miss Sahhara were together at the launch of Bisi Alimi Foundation on Thursday August 4th in London.

Tiwa Savage look glamorous in a white outfit for her meet and greet

The Mavin Records Queenbee is currently in Houston for her #Redtour and she rocks the outfit above for her meet and greet ... She looks superb

Christians On Red Alert Over New Boko Haram Factional Leader, Al-barnawi’s Message

Renewed fear has been observed among Christians living in Muslim-dominated areas in Nigeria following the proclamation by the new Boko Haram leader, Musab Albarnawi, who has now declared war on Christians in an official message declaring the group’s new strategy.

Military authorities have said that Albarnawi was only bluffing as according to them Boko Haram has already been degraded and has no capacity to wreck havoc in any party of the country.

Actress Toyin Aimakhu shares stunning new photos

Actress Toyin Aimakhu lovely in these new photos she shared on her page.

Transgender Actor, Laverne Cox shares makeup free photo

Transgender actor Laverne Cox shared a makeup free photo of herself which she captioned: 'The other day after I took out my braids before we put them back in. I keep it natural underneath. #NaturalHair #NoFilter #NoMakeup #JustMe,'

Horrible Auto crash along Lokoja-Abuja Expressway claims 16 lives

Kogi State Governor's convoy bump into an accident scene between Gegu and Abaji on the Lokoja-Abuja Expressway Friday.

According to the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Yahaya Bello on New Media, Petra Akinti Onyegbule, the accident involved an SUV and a commercial bus which was traveling from Lagos to Kano. Both vehicles were said to have been engulfed in flames burning 16 passengers to death. 3 of the dead passengers were in the SUV while 13 were occupants of the bus.

Budget Padding Jokes ... So Hilarious

Lol! Nigerians are just too funny ...

Alert! Lagos State Government close Marine Bridge/Road in Apapa for repair work

The Lagos State Government has announced the closure of the Marine Bridge Road (Inward Ijora) preparatory to the commencement of repair works by the contractors of the Federal Ministry of Works. A statement signed by the Commissioner for Transport, Dayo Mobereola, states that the emergency and immediate closure is to also allow the Federal Ministry carryout studies to determine the state of the Bridge and effect appropriate repairs.

The state Government has put in place effective traffic management strategies that will mitigate the impact of the closure. Accordingly, the following routes can be use by commuters as alternate route. They are:

Family members brand 14 year old girl as hero for killing her father

A 14-year-old girl, Bresha Meadows, has been arrested and jailed in the Trumbull County Family Court in Ohio. Bresha is facing aggravated murder charges for killing her own father, 41 year old Jonathan Meadows, but her family says she did it to protect her mother and her family. Bresha Meadows has been accused of shooting her father with his own gun in their Warren home at 4 am on July 28.

Her mother called 911 right after the shooting took place

The girl's mother Brandi Meadows said:

Reno Omokri #Rio2016 Message to President Buhari

As shared by Reno Omokri

GEJ touch down at Lusaka International Airport

Former President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan arrives Zambia for Election duty. Leader of the African Union Elections Observation Mission (AUEOM) to Zambia, former President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan was welcomed at the Lusaka International Airport early Saturday morning by the African Union team and government officials. He is billed to soon address  an opening  press conference. 

So Sad! Pretty Youth Corper posted to Gombe State dies in a ghastly motor accident

A serving corp member named Thalma Stephen Wudiri was involved in a ghastly motor accident few kilometers to Maiduguri on Friday 5th August, 2016. Sadly, she didn't survive. We send our condolence to the family and May her soul RIP, Amen.

#RIO2016: #TeamNigeria had to wear track suits at the Opening Ceremony because their outfits were not ready

According to Sports Journalist, Colin Udoh and Alexander Wolff - a sports Illustrated Senior Writer currently covering the Olympics. The team Nigeria was forced to wear the regular track suits because our initial planned outfit (most likely designed Ankara) wasn't ready ... So much drama surrounding this Nigeria Olympic sides ... 

See Breakdown Of What Your State Received As Allocation For July (36 States)

The 36 states in July shared N145 billion from the Federation Account as their share of what the country generated as revenue from June and shared in July. The breakdown is contained in a report obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday from a source at the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation.

Pls Help! My Husband is Going Mad, He Wants to Get His Brother's Wife Pregnant

The woman shared her story on break_or_makeup where she told readers about her husband.

According to her, her husband is obsessed about helping his brother become a father by sleeping with his wife.

EFCC nabbed 3 Federal Airport Staff for Alleged N100million Fraud (PHOTO)

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on August 2, 2016 arrested a level six officer of the Accounts Department of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Christy Olabode, for an alleged fraud to the tune of N100 million.

Also arrested was her younger brother, Abdul-Shehu Obaze, a staff at the Commercial Department of FAAN in Ilorin, Kwara State, and Dominic Ojo, an IT officer at FAAN Headquarters, Lagos.

Ex Police Officer says He use Proceeds from Arm Robbery to Pay His Childrens School Fees

The police in Lagos have paraded some armed robbery suspects.

They suspects all wore mournful looks in the line-up, but no one would have readily known that three of them used to be policemen.

According to Punch Metro, Emmanuel Audu, James Momoh, Sunday Onuh and two former policemen; Sgt.Ochigbo Gabriel and Sgt. Francis Onuh hung their heads, trying their best to show remorse.

OAU Student Shares SHOCKING Story of how she was kidnapped at Ife and Dumped Inside a Jungle in Kwara

Saturday, July 23, 2016, was one day that will always give 18-year-old Praise Adelakin nightmares. That day, a journey from Ile-Ife, Osun State, to Ibadan, Oyo State, that was supposed to take her about two hours only, almost turned out to be a journey of no return.

A 300 Level Law student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Praise had gone to the school in the morning of that day to check whether her things were still intact in her hostel before resumption after some weeks of strike by lecturers in the institution.

Around 4pm, when she ensured she had put everything in place, she left for the Mayfair Motor Park in the town to board a bus going to Ibadan, where her family resides.

All things being equal, she should have been back in Ibadan by around 6pm on the same day, but by 12 midnight of the following day, she found herself in Ilorin, Kwara State.

Narrating the incident to our correspondent in Ibadan on Tuesday, she said, “We’ve been on strike for some weeks. Meanwhile, freshers had resumed three weeks before the strike, but due to the action, they were also sent back home. On July 23, I decided to go to school to check if my things were still intact and probably whether they had allocated my space (at Moremi Hall) to someone else. I got there and saw that my things had been scattered; my mattress had also been taken away with my buckets and other things, so I had to go round the rooms to gather them together. When I did that, I put them in my locker and locked them up.

“When I finished all that, I decided to return home and that was around 4pm. I had arrived in school by 11am. So I went to the Mayfair Motor Park in Ife to get a bus back to Ibadan. It’s a popular motor park in the town because it’s a public one. When I got there, there were only two passengers in the bus and the driver was hanging around somewhere. All the same, I entered the bus to wait until we had enough passengers to take off. As of 7pm, we were only nine in the 18-seater white Mazda bus. It was getting dark, so everyone started complaining. We begged the driver to take off and told him that while on the way, it was possible he would get more passengers. He agreed and we took off.”

Praise and other passengers were happy the driver heeded their pleas. Nothing in the driver’s appearance or the look of the bus suggested anything sinister. After all, they boarded the bus in a motor park, Praise thought.

The journey proceeded normally until the driver swerved off the major road. He told them it was a short-cut to Ibadan. But the path turned out to be a ‘long-cut.’

She continued, “There is a university outside Ife town called Oduduwa University. A few minutes drive past it, our driver said he wanted to pass through a short-cut. He said because it was weekend, there was traffic in front. So he took us through the route. When we turned to pass through the so-called short-cut, we saw a bus in front of us and there was another bus behind us. It was a bushy path, but we were not so afraid because of the other two buses which were also taking the route. We thought it was a route which would take us to Ibadan faster.

“As we were going through the path, we got to a junction where we saw that the bus which was in front of us was already parked. The passengers had disembarked. As we got there, we were also flagged down by a group of about five men; our driver stopped and he himself ordered us to get down. Everyone was shocked and we wondered what was happening, but nobody talked. We were all just looking. The bus behind us was also stopped and all of us passengers in the three buses were up to 40. They asked us to lie face down. At that point, I became afraid as I knew something was wrong. As I lay down, I quickly sent a message on my phone to my dad, reading, ‘Dad, I am held hostage and I don’t even know where we are. I think I am in danger. Please pray for me.’ I could use my phone to send the message because when they ordered us to lie down, the men went for a meeting at a nearby bush, together with our driver. My dad called me back after a few minutes, but I couldn’t pick it. The phone rang out. When they heard that my phone rang, they came back and collected my phone and others’. After collecting our phones, they went back to their meeting.

“After a while, they returned and surprisingly, they asked the passengers in my driver’s bus to get back in. They instructed our driver to go and ‘dismiss’ us off. I was afraid. I thought ‘dismissing us’ meant ‘killing us.’ Our driver looked disappointed, so he shouted at us to get in; he was now holding a gun. Everybody kept quiet. Then he drove away inside the bush till it was really dark. When it was around 10pm, he started dropping us one by one. He would drive for about 10 minutes, drop a passenger and give him or her their phone and bag, then drive for another 10 minutes, drop another passenger, and on and on like that. He would spread the phones out and ask the person to pick their phone. It finally got to my turn and I think I was the sixth passenger to be dropped, I can’t remember full well because at that point, I had become so confused.”

When Praise got out of the bus, it was then that it dawned on her that she was in another world, in the middle of a forest and the screech of insects. By then, tt was around 11pm.

“He stopped me at a T-junction and gave me my phones, but they were already dead, so I couldn’t contact anyone. When he dropped me, he told me I was at Share (Kwara State). I didn’t know where Share was then. It was very dark, around 11pm. The village was quiet. Anywhere I turned to, it was forest all around me. I got to know later that Share was very close to Niger State. It’s a border town between Kwara and Niger states,” she said.

Suddenly, in the midst of the the forest and darkness, she heard the sound of a motorcycle coming towards her direction.

She continued, “I flagged down the rider and he stopped. I asked him, ‘I was told this is Share. Please, where is the nearest town or somewhere where I can get help from?’ The man simply said, ‘Ilorin.’ I know Ilorin quite well because my grandparents stay there, I once schooled there and my aunt still lives there. I got on the motorcycle and he took me from the jungle to Ilorin. When he dropped me, I could recognise the area and found out that the place was actually close to my aunt’s house, around Basin area.

“I asked him how much I should pay him. He just nodded his head and zoomed off. He didn’t utter a word or ask for money. Meanwhile, I was lucky my phone came up again, so I quickly called my dad that I was in Ilorin and that I was near my aunt’s place. He quickly notified my aunt that I was coming.

“I was dumbfounded. From where the motorcyclist dropped me, I trekked to my aunt’s house for some minutes and when I got to the door, around 12 am on Sunday, I knocked. She was a bit scared because she was expecting no one. She asked who was knocking. I replied, ‘It’s me, Praise.’ She retorted, ‘Which Praise?’ I said, ‘Praise Adelakin.’ She asked again, ‘Praise Adelakin from where?’ We often talk and so she recognised my voice. She then said someone should open the gate for me. She just didn’t know what to do when she saw me in the middle of the night.”

In the morning of that Sunday, Praise’s parents came for her in Ilorin to take her back home. But up till now, she has yet to recover from the incident.

She said, “I wouldn’t know what happened to the other passengers in the two other buses. I’m still trying to get over it because I’m still scared of boarding buses right now. I used to enter any bus as long as I see people inside it, but my experience has taught me to be more conscious. I am still amazed. It was not the first time I would board a bus from the park, and it is even a public park. It wasn’t a lift.

“My parents came over to Ilorin to pick me up on Sunday to return to Ibadan. They said they immediately started praying for me when I sent them the message. They also told me they went to the police station in Ibadan and contacted another one in Ife to report the incident, but the police said they couldn’t do anything about it.

“The police said they should go to MTN office to track my phone to know where I was. MTN said they needed a police report, which the police couldn’t give because they didn’t know about the incident. Everything was complicated. They said they had to resort to prayers throughout the night. I just thank God I am still alive to tell this story. I don’t know what would have happened to the passengers in the two other buses. I will be back to school this weekend as the strike has been called off.”

Could she describe the driver, his conversation with his fellow suspected ritualists and the area they were taken to?

Praise said, “I didn’t hear their conversation because they really went far away, but they could still monitor us. They talked in low tones. I can’t really describe the area but I know it’s a few minutes’ drive after passing the Oduduwa University that he branched into the bush.

“Our driver was wearing an ankara dress that day; he has an average height and dark-complexioned. Except one old man, almost all other passengers were students. I suspect that the drivers of the other two buses too belong to the gang because they all held the meeting together.”

Praise’s father, Timothy Adelakin, who is a pastor, said when he received his daughter’s message that she was in danger that day, his heart jumped out.

He said, “I just thank God for how He acted in the situation. When she was about leaving Ife that day, she called to say she was returning home and I thought she should be home two hours later. We were attending a prayer meeting in the church; we were rounding off when her message came in that I should pray for her. She said they were held hostage and she didn’t know where they were.

“When I got her text, I told the church members what had happened. I called other pastor colleagues to pray for us. We prayed again till 11pm. Around midnight, her aunt called me and said, ‘Speak to Praise.’ The next voice I heard was hers. I was filled with joy.

“I would like the authorities to investigate this incident because it is surprising that a driver from a public park could do this. They must have been doing it before. Praise told me the passengers of their bus and the two other buses were mostly students, so I am worried what would have happened to her colleagues. I have already instructed her never to board private cars and she doesn’t do it. But with something like this happening in a public park, it is worrisome.”

Meanwhile, Saturday PUNCH learned that the Mayfair motor park closes by 4pm and vehicles no longer load passengers from the park after this time.

The Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Ife 1 Branch, Mr. Gbadegesin Asiyanbi, when visited at the park, said Praise could not have boarded the bus from inside the park at the time she got there.

Asiyanbi said activities at the park close by 4pm, after which any driver is allowed to pick passengers on the road irrespective of where they come from.

He said, “There are no kidnappers in our motor park. I have never heard of anything like that. There is no way such thing can happen, we know ourselves, our members are true drivers.

“We lower our flag by 4pm and as you can see for yourself now (around 5:30pm when Saturday PUNCH visited on Thursday), there are no vehicles on queue, so anybody who boarded a vehicle between 6pm and 7pm here and is claiming they boarded it from our park is either ignorant or telling lies.”

[The Punch]

Pastor arrested for raping member’s daughter during prayer

Detectives attached to the Delta State Police Command, Asaba, on Thursday arrested the General Overseer of a church (name withheld) for allegedly raping a seven-year-old daughter of his member.

The police spokesperson in the state, Mrs. Celestina Kalu, said the suspect’s church was along Ibusa Road, Koka, Asaba.

She said the victim was allegedly lured into the church office with the intention of praying for her.

It was in the course of prayers that she was raped.

EFCC seizes property worth N872m from ex-minister, son (Photo)

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has seized four houses worth N872 million from a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Sen. Bala Mohammed, and his son, Shamsudeen Bala.

The ex-minister is also under investigation on alleged fictitious contracts of about N1billion, allocation of 12 choice plots worth billions of naira and 37 other commercial plots of land worth about N8 billion to his suspected front named Tariq Hammoud as well as the controversial N1 trillion Abuja land swap.

More than 16 companies linked with fictitious contracts awarded by Bala had been under surveillance and their owners grilled by EFCC.

Senator Walid Jubril: PDP Not For Sale

The Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party Board of Trustees, Senator Walid Jubril, said in Abuja on Friday that the party was not for sale.

In a goodwill message to the inauguration of the party’s national convention and financial committees, Jubril said there were moves to reconcile its feuding parties and that the BoT would ensure that credible and upright people were elected.

He said: “The party is facing a very difficult time in its history and has tampered with the ideals and formations of the founding fathers.

Speaker Dogara says Padding is not an offence

Embattled Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, yesterday brushed aside calls for him to step aside following allegation by the former chairman, House Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumini Jibrin, that he (Dogara) was involved in the padding of the 2016 budget to the tune of Billions of Naira.

The Speaker, who met behind closed doors with President Muhammadu Buhari for about 30 minutes at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, played down the allegations by Jibrin claiming that he did not know what padding meant, while at the same time claiming that padding was not an offence under any law in the country.

Basketmouth sends shoutout to his daughter, Janelle as she turns 5 (Photos)

Janelle, the daughter of ace comedian Basketmouth is 5 today. Her proud parents took to social media to celebrate her... 

Basketmouth wrote:

Say What | Lady returns home to find her expensive makeup eaten by baby niece (PHOTOS)

A teen has narrated how her baby niece ate most of her expensive £39 eyeshadow palette - which is designed to look like a chocolate bar on the outside . 

Eighteen-year-old Lauren Rincon, from California, told Mirror Online how she had left her expensive Too Faced palette on her bed before popping out for an hour.

When she got back she realised her one-year-old baby niece - who had been playing with her son's toys in her bedroom - had discovered the chocolate-themed make-up.

Dbanj knows how to take some stylish photo

The star looked stylish for an event today... He was styled by Swanky Jerry.

Seyi Shay looks stunning in a white cape dress

The beautiful singer looked sexy last night ,for an event at Ikeja City mall ...

Governor Wike addresses feud with Amaechi

Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers said on Friday that he has no personal problem with his predecessor, Mr Chibuike Amaechi.

Wike disclosed this at the 12 All Nigeria Editors Conference holding in Port Harcourt.

However, Wike explained that he and the Minister of Transportation differed politically because they belonged to different parties.

Niger State Government Spends Over 3bn Naira On Roads

The Niger State government says it has spent over three billion Naira on road construction and rehabilitation in the last one year of the present administration under the leadership of Governor Abubakar Bello.

The Commissioner for Works, Mr Abdulmalik Cheche, gave the figure in an interview with Channels Television in Minna on the one year stewardship of the ministry.

Mr Cheche, who was optimistic of the government’s performance, gave the assurance that good roads would be provided for the people of the state, considering the importance of road to the economy of any society.

Aww! Handsome Nigerian Soldier Takes Selfie on battlefield against terrorist group (Photo)

This is the photo everyone has been talking about on social media.

A Nigerian soldier is seen taking a selfie obviously on the battlefield fighting Boko Haram.

Dwindling Economic | Prices of Rice, Beans, Maize Go Up in the Market

The prices of commodities like imported rice, maize , beans, palm oil, sorghum and others have continued to rise at the Mile 12 Market in Lagos. 

 

This is reflected in the commodity index update, prepared by Novus Agro Nigeria Ltd, an agro-based firm, and made available to newsmen on Friday in Lagos. 

 

According to the index, a 50kg bag of imported rice currently selling at N16,857 was sold for N14,800 last week, thus recording a whopping N2,057 increase.