Federal Government plans to pump in N100Bn As Recession sets in

The Federal Government plans to spend N100 billion ($312.50 mil­lion) on capital projects in the coming days as part of the 2016 budget, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said on Thursday.

This is part of measures by the coun­try to inject life into an economy facing recession.

The economy is in the middle of its worst crisis in decades, as a slump in oil reve­nues hammers public finances and the nai­ra. Gross domestic product shrank 0.36 percent in the first quarter and the central bank governor has said recession is likely.

Oh Dear! Mother dumps Her Baby at a Church due to Economy Hardship (Photo)

A mother has caused a stir in Cross River State after she abandoned her daughter at a church and ran away because of hardship. 

A mother has done the unthinkable by abandoning his little baby of a year and five months baby at the Assemblies of God church premises along Ranch road, Obudu and ran away.

According to CrossRiverWatch the woman identified as Monica dumped the baby at about 2:30 PM Thursday, last week with some clothes left at the Altar after the district Reverend of the church, Francis Agianpuye had given her N1,000 some days earlier.

Pro-APC Supporter, Feyi Fawehinmi Apologizes to Anyone He Convinced to Vote for Buhari

A well known staunch supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari among others is becoming frustrated and rethinking the roles they played in helping the president to power amid increasingly excruciating economic and political crises rocking the nation.

On Wednesday, Feyi Fawehinmi, who is popularly known for his pro-Buhari/APC stance, surprisingly expressed disappointment in the administration, and apologized to his followers for convincing them to vote for Buhari in last year's presidential election.

Unbelievable! Man Dumps His Father's Dead Body Inside a Septic Tank in Delta State

A man has shocked with his rather bizarre act after he was found out to have dumped his father's corpse in a most unlikely place. 

The man identified as Chukwuma Udenwa a 37-year-old, has been arrested by the police.

The man was arrested by the Delta State Police Command in Okpanam, Oshimili North Local Government Area, Delta State for ‎dumping his father’s corpse in a septic tank.

Hurrah! Dangote Rice Sets to Flood Nigerian Market (Photos)

Efforts to diversify the economy has started yielding results slowly but steadily all thanks to the ban on the important of rice in Nigeria. The Dangote Group owned by Nigerian billionaire, Aliko Dangote has increased investment in rice production for the teeming populace.

Lagos State 'Operation No Shanties' Kicks Off in Ikeja with Massive Demolition (Photos)

Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has ordered the demolition of all shanties in the state which serve as hideouts for criminals and miscreants as part of the measures to rid the state of criminality.

The Lagos Environmental Task Force and Health officers were spotted in the streets of the metropolitan as they kick-off the demolition of shanties in major roads and streets in various parts of the state.

REVEALED! Twitter secretly filtered abusive tweets during Obama Q&A

Sources have told BuzzFeed that Twitter employees quietly filtered tweets with abusive language for a Q&A session with President Obama, and potentially in another session with celebrity Caitlyn Jenner. A “former senior Twitter employee” says that during a May 2015 #AskPOTUS event, then-CEO Dick Costolo told employees to use an algorithm to filter out abusive tweets, and another source says that a team also manually removed messages that slipped through.

Barcelona Goalkeeper, Marc-Andre ter Stegen ruled out of Super Cup with knee injury

Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen has injured his left knee and will miss the Spanish Super Cup first leg in Sevilla, the club announced on Thursday.

Ter Stegen, 24, has been linked with Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City and he has faced competition under Luis Enrique this preseason from Claudio Bravo and Jordi Masip.

Federal Govt replies United States report on Insecurity in 20 Nigerian States

The Federal Government on Thursday debunked recent negative reports by the U.S government about the safety of citizens in at least 20 of the 36 states of the federation, Premium Times reports.

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said in Abuja when he received a delegation from the Association of Tourism Practitioners of Nigeria that contrary to recent statements by the U.S. government, every state in the country was safe.

Nigeria will breakup if Buhari finds oil in the North - FFK

Former minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode on Wednesday intensifies his advocacy for a restructuring in Nigeria, while emphasizing that he prays for President Muhammadu Buhari to find crude oil in the northern part of the country in commercial quantities

According to Fani-Kayode who strongly holds that the major barrier to ensuring peaceful resolutions on how different ethnic groups in the country co-exist is because the Southern part of Nigeria is the mainstay of its north counterpart. 

Nsukka Jailbreak | Six of the Fifteen inmates that escaped have been re-arrested

Six of the fifteen inmates that escaped during a jailbreak at the Nsukka Prison in Enugu state on Tuesday August 9th have been re-arrested. This was disclosed by the Enugu state comptroller of Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS), Isaiah Amariri who spoke with newsmen in the state today August 11th.

OMG! See what this prostitute did to client who refuse to pay for her service in public (Watch Video)

A sex worker on Monday August 8, destroyed a client's car in Nairobi after he slept with her and refused to pay. The video shows the commercial sex worker, with her pants half-way down, walked out at the parking lot and broke the man's side glass as passers-by watched. She kept ranting that the car owner would not get away without paying the romping fee.

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Canadian Police shoot dead terrorist suspect who was planning attack

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) today shot dead a suspect in an anti-terror operation in the Canadian province of Ontario, according to several media reports.

Canadian media reports say police had raided a property in Strathroy, about 225km (140 miles) south-west of Toronto and the 'terrorist suspect' named  as Aaron Driver, 24,  was arrested last year for openly supporting ISIS on social media.

Toke Makinwa says 'She haven't been this happy in years... I've got no drama

Toke Makinwa shared this lovely photo of herself on her IG page this afternoon & wrote

"When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. I haven't been this happy in years, my edges are grown, I'm losing weight, making money, feeling great. I've got no drama!

OMG! Celebrity Big Brother’s Chloe Khan strips off topless, begs boyfriend for sex (+18 Videos)

Reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother's Chloe Khan, who is also a Playboy model stripped off, danced on a pole, ran through the house naked with her fellow housemates watching, and then finally begged her boyfriend for sex after having too many drinks on Wednesday night's episode. This comes days after she was reported to have had sex in the toilet with Stephen Bear, her boyfriend in the house.

Dwayne Johnson vs Vin Diesel: Feud extends to other cast and crew members of Fast & Furious 8

Just a day after Vin Diesel confronted Dwayne Johnson in his trailer for the derogatory comments he made on social media, reportedly about him. The feud is reportedly still "not resolved," as some crew members have taken sides with The Rock, claiming that Vin is unprofessional and arrogant. 

The supposed overdue feud between both actors is reportedly causing conflict amongst cast and crew members of the movie.

Quadri Aruna attributes success to hard work

Africa’s table tennis Olympic record holder, Quadri Aruna, has attributed his success in the game to hard work and support from the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation (NTTF).

Aruna is one of the three Nigerians currently holding Olympic records at the ongoing Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil, having become the first African to reach the quarter-finals of any Olympics. 

Others are Segun Toriola who made his seventh appearance at the Rio Games and U.S.-based Chierika Ukogu, who is the first female to represent the country in Olympic water sports.

Netherlands donates €5.3m to IDPs in Nigeria

Coordinator of the Nigerian Joint Response, a humanitarian program in the North-East Nigeria, Hanna Van Schie, has disclosed that government of the Netherlands has earmarked the sum 5.3 million Euros to carter for the need of 176000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North –East. 

Van Schie told a workshop on the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs in Yola Thursday that with support from the Dutch government 4 NGOs in a consortium comprising Save the Children (lead), Oxfam Novib, Stichting Vluchteling/IRC and Tearfund implementing the Nigeria Joint Response (NJR), have supported people of Nigeria to overcome the humanitarian needs and hardships and to improve the standard of living in areas of food, security and protection in host communities and in IDPs camps. 

Photos from Wole Soyinka visit to the State House

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka pays a courtesy visit to President Muhammadu Buhari today at the villa.

Kendall Jenner shares Photos of Her debuts of Vogue Magazine US Cover

Model Kendall Jenner is the cover star for the September 2016 issue of Vogue Magazine. She shared a photo of her cover for the prestigious fashion magazine via Instagram and wrote,

UNFPA boss, Babatunde Osotimehin visits President Buhari at the State House

President Buhari today granted audience to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Executive Director and Under Secretary General of the United Nations Dr Babatunde Osotimehin at the State house Abuja. In attendance at their meeting were the Minister of Health Prof. Isaac Adewole, Minister of Finance Kemi Adeousn, Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama, Dr Demola Olajide, Chief of Staff to President Abba Kyari, Niyi Ojuolape and Chairman National Population Commission Eze Duruiheoma SAN.

SHOCKING! Trump says President Obama is the 'founder Of ISIS and Hillary Clinton, the Co-founder’

Donald Trump on Wednesday, accused President Barack Obama of founding the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group, ISIS. The Republican candidate emphasized the president's full legal name: Barack Hussein Obama, in the latest attack on the White House campaign trail.

"In many respects, you know, they honour President Obama," Trump said during a raucous campaign rally outside Fort Lauderdale, Florida. "He is the founder of ISIS."

He repeated the allegation three times.

Dangote says Nigeria Still the Number one Economy in Africa

Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man and president of Dangote Group, says Nigeria remains the number one economy in Africa.

Earlier on Wednesday, news broke that South Africa had overtaken Nigeria as Africa’s biggest economy, but Dangote remains resolute that Nigeria’s place has not yet been usurped.

Dwayne Johnson holds meeting with Vin Diesel to end Fast & Furious beef

Few days ago 'The rock' put up a post on Instagram where he slammed some of his Fast & Furious 8 male co-stars, labelling them as 'Candy Asses', but no one knew who he was referring to because he didn't mention names.

According to new reports from TMZ, the target of his wrath was co-star Vin Diesel. The former wrestler is believed to have taken aim at his fellow action star because the pair reportedly clashed several times during filming of the upcoming eighth movie after falling out over decisions made by Vin in his extra role as producer.

Donald Trump blasts CNN for reporting that the Secret Service interrogated him over 2nd Amendment comment on Hilary Clinton

Donald Trump has gone on Twitter to deny having a meeting with the United States Secret Service after CNN reported that a Secret service agent confirmed to them that they had met Donald Trump's campaign team and questioned them after his 2nd amendment comment on Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump on Tuesday afternoon at a rally appeared to suggest that Second Amendment defenders might be able to stop Clinton from appointing justices to the Supreme Court who could weaken gun rights, He said:

Comedian Basketmouth Apologizes to Former President, GEJ

Nigerian comedian, Basketmouth, has apologized to former President, Goodluck Jonathan for insulting him. In an Instagram post, the comedian refuted allegations that he campaigned for the emergence of the Buhari’s administration.

In his first post,  He wrote: “Truth of the matter is that I would have voted anyone that could speak two words of English against Ex-president Goodluck Jonathan and that’s strictly based on the amount of greed and selfishness we witnessed from members of his (Jonathan’s) administration in the 6 years that he sat on the rock.

Oh No! Sugar Daddy kills 22-year-old Girl for allegedly Dumping Him (Graphic Photos)

According to a Facebook user, who is a close friend of the 22-year-old lady, she was killed by her former lover and sponsor, for dumping him.

He took to his Facebook page to post pictures of the lady, describing how she was killed.

Five DELSU Lecturers Risk been Sacked over Sexual Harassment

A total of five lecturers of the Delta State University, DELSU, located in Abraka may be kicked out following the recommendation for sack by a disciplinary committee set up by the institution to investigate various offenses including sexual harassment of female students and financial extortion for marks.

The recommendation comes days after a lecturer of the University from the Department of Primary/ Nursery Education was caught pants down in an hotel with a student of the school.

Nobody better than Me and M.I - Jesse Jagz brags

Jesse Jagz, rapper, producer and self acclaimed “Supreme Emperor” of Jagz Nation has laid claim to the rap throne as he maintains that “no bloody musician’ comes close to him and his brother, M.I. Abaga.

The rapper while speaking with news agency, TheCable said: “Me and M.I combined, there’s no bloody musician, I don’t care who your father is, that can be better combined and artistically”.

Femi Fani-Kayode Gushes Over his Sweetheart on Social Media

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode took to his social media page to shower praise on his sweetheart ...