World's Tallest Dog Dies At Home

Robbers take over Mile 2, attack Vanguard staff, motorists

THREE Vanguard Newspapers staff were, Tuesday, attacked by a gang of armed robbers, who laid siege on Mile 2 Bridge, dispossessing commuters of valuables and damaging vehicles in the process.

The incident, which happened at 8:35p.m., occurred in a traffic gridlock when the victims were going home after the close of work.

Narrating the ugly encounter with the hoodlums, who were brandishing dangerous weapons, one of the victims said: “On our way home, we were stuck in the usual traffic on Mile 2 bridge.

13-yr-old girl and 2 others injured by Kerosine explotion

In Abakaliki, a young lady, identified as Miss Ifeoma Nwofe, was yesterday reported to have lost her life following a kerosene explosion at her parent’s Azuiyiokwu, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, residence.
Nigerian new gathered that the victim, who suffered severe burns all over her body, could not receive treatment at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, where she was rushed to because of the ongoing doctors’ strike.

She later died at a private hospital due to lack of prompt medical attention.

An 18-yr-old victim of gang rape commits suicide

An 18-year-old girl, allegedly gang-raped by three boys, has committed suicide at her Amarata residence. It is a suburb of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.

The deceased, simply identified as Janet, was a native of Oduali in Abua/Odua Local Government Area of Rivers State.

She was reportedly gang-raped at gunpoint by the boys, who forced her into an uncompleted building last week, while she was on an errand for her elder sister.

Lagos Closes Mile2-Lagos-Badagry Expressway

Lagos State government has said the Badagry bound carriageway on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway will be closed to traffic between 7am and 12 noon today, to allow for construction of pedestrian bridge for the blue line rail project along the axis.

Disclosing this, Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Comrade Kayode Opeifa, said the move was part of concerted efforts to deliver the first phase of the Blue Line Rail Project, as part of the 10-lane, expansion road project of Lagos-Badagry Expressway.

NEW PROPOSAL EDITION

So Ladies Have Started Going This Far? If a lady starts 'begging' a guy to marry her, just know that age is no longer on her side. *wink*

BBA Dillish and Maria hosted by Gov Adams Oshiomhole in Benin

This is an exclusive news and it is authentic. BBA winner Dillish Matthews and her Namibian best friend who also contested in BBA Maria Nepembe (pictured above) are currently in Nigeria. They came in quietly into the country a few days ago and went straight to Benin were they were hosted by Governor Adams Oshiomhole. You will recall that while in the BBA house, Dillish used to call on Gov Oshiomhole and other Nigerian rich men like Dangote to bless her with money and change her life. Well, God changed her life by making her the winner of the 2013 Big Brother Africa competition and Governor Oshiomhole, I hear, made her richer after her courtesy visit. :-)

Catholic Nun Kills Her Baby To Coverup Her Sexual Activities In The Seminary

WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON (AP) — A woman studying to become a Catholic nun has been charged in the District of Columbia with smothering her newborn son, police said.

The woman, 26-year-old Sosefina Amoa, gave birth to the boy Oct. 10 in her room at the Little Sisters of the Poor elderly care facility, police said. Afraid the nuns would hear the newborn's cries and discover she lied about sexual activity, police say Amoa told investigators she smothered him by placing a wool garment over the child's mouth and nose and applying pressure.

Jonathan begs ASUU, PHCN workers

President  Goodluck Jonathan has pleaded with the striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call-off their four-month old industrial action. Jonathan made the plea  while commissioning the  Faculty of Engineering Complex building of  Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti yesterday. Jonathan urged ASUU members to review their industrial  action and go back to class. The president said his regime was working assiduously to meet the lecturers’ demands.

Robben Island Prison: A peep into Mandela’s cell

It was a visit that evoked emotions of many kinds. It was also a visit to one of the most popular prison facilities in the world – Robben Island Prison.

And one of the inmates who made the prison to attract global attention was prisoner 466/64, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. Mandela, referred to as Madiba or Tata (Father of the nation), who was later to become President of South Africa, spent 18 of his 27- year jail term in Robben Island prison. He never gave up. The bold inscription on the walls of the docking area, THE HUMAN SPIRIT CANNOT BE MENACLED, or another, THE TRIUMPH OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT, are testaments to the struggle and the never-say-die mentality of Mandela and his other freedom fighters during the anti-apartheid struggle.  Even the very voluble and rambunctious President Jacob Zuma of South Africa, as well as the immediate past president of the same country, Thabo Mbeki’s father, served various jail terms on the island.

How the deal on Oduah’s $1.6m BMW cars was sealed

More facts emerged, at the weekend, lending credence to the claim that the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) may have bought the two controversial $1.6 million (approximately N255 million)  BMW bullet proof cars for the Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, amid the parastatal’s precarious  financial situation. “There is no way NCAA could have raised that kind of money in one lump sum.

Delta magistrate’s kidnappers to die by hanging

AN Asaba High Court, yesterday, sentenced two persons to death by hanging, having found them guilty of kidnapping and robbing a female magistrate at gunpoint on Boxing Day two years ago.

The convicted persons, Saidu Haruna and Raphael Egwuba, who claimed to be phone technicians and welder at Osubi, respectively, were arraigned on a three-count charge of conspiracy to commit kidnapping, kidnapping and armed robbery on charge no A/37C/2012.

Gunmen seize Libyan Prime Minister at Tripoli hotel

Gunmen seized Prime Minister Ali Zeidan from a Tripoli hotel Thursday, amid conflicting reports over whether he was formally arrested or abducted by lawless former rebels who helped topple dictator Moamer Kadhafi.

The pre-dawn seizure of Zeidan comes five days after US commandos embarrassed and angered Libya’s government by capturing senior Al-Qaeda suspect Abu Anas al-Libi off the streets of Tripoli and whisking him away to a warship.

Shell to sell 4 more oil blocks, pipelines

Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, has announced plans to sell off its 97-kilometer, 150,000 barrels of oil per day Nembe Creek Trunk Line in the Niger Delta region.

The company, along with its joint venture partner, is also planning to sell off four more oil blocks — Oil licenses 18, 24, 25 and 29.

PDP’s founding chairman, Solomon Lar dies at 80

The Plateau State government has announced the death of the former governor of old Plateau State and founding chairman of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Solomon Daushep Lar, at the age of 80.

Lar’s death was announced by Governor Jonah Jang at the Government Lodge, Jos following a call from a member of the family from the United States where he passed on at 3.30am, yesterday.

Dangote To Chair World Economic Forum

Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has been appointed a co-chair of next year’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos-Kloster, Switzerland.

21-Year Old Precious Okeke Wins Miss Black Africa UK Pageant

Precious Okeke, a Nigerian model fought off fierce competition to win the 2013/2014 Miss Black Africa UK pageant, held at the Royal Regency Hall in east London.

Warri boys letter to President Jonathan on ASUU strike. Hilarious!!

Oga Presido,

First of all I hail ooo! I no say u no dey cary last. You be confirm warri pikin. But ur middle name Ebele means mercy and make u pity ur children settle their lecturers naa! The matter neva tire u? Suppose say ur pikin wey u born for belle follow us dey house, Sheeh you for never answer our we lecturers them? Una say make we bone kidnapping, militant things and all the bad bad things go enter school, now now na una com dey f**k up. All the things wey them lecturers don teash us for klass we don forget am finish. Last last, na una go still call us “half-baked”, “half-roasted”, abi na “half-fried”. Na una sabi.

Nigeria To Experience A Lunar Eclipse On October 19 & Solar Eclipse On November

According to International Time U.T.C, A Lunar Eclipse will occur On October 19 and a solar eclipse will occur on November 3 2013 which will be visible in some parts of the World. It will be visble in some cities in Nigeria eg.Abuja, Ilorin, Kaduna, Lagos and other cities mostly in north central and west.

Another Auto-crash, Taraba Acting Governor Escapes Death

The Acting Governor of Taraba State, Alhaji Garba Umar, Monday escaped death in an accident that involved his convoy and that of the Emir of Bauchi, in Bauchi State.
The autocrash is coming about one year after the state governor, Danbaba Suntai was involved in an aircash involving Cessna 208 5N-BMJ aircraft with six persons on board at Yola, Adamawa State.
Suntai is still recuperating from the crash which led to his being flown abroad.

Dead Man found riding Bike During His Wake Keep

The man pictured above is dead, he was a lover of bikes during his lifetime, so his family decided to hour him while dead by placing him on a bike during wake keep. ..  weird .

IF I EVER WALK INTO A FUNERAL HOME AND SEE THIS....IM OUT.!!!!
DAM IT.

Portable generators: Standby power or standby death?

Who monitors incidents of unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning in Nigeria? A review of medical records of patients receiving diagnosis of unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning shows Nigeria is in dire need of active surveillance for proper generator use. VF findings show that misplacement of portable, gasoline-powered generators, for instance, indoors, in garages, or outdoors near windows, is often responsible for fatal and non-fatal generator fumes exposures.

THE REASON BEHIND AGAGU'S PLANE CRASH

THE Ondo State Government, yesterday, clarified that it did not hire the  aircraft of Associated Airline, which crashed last Thursday in Lagos, while  conveying  the body of former Governor of the state, Dr. Olusegun Agagu, to Akure for the commencement of  the burial rites.
The state government made the clarification on a day Chief Olu Falae, whose first son, Deji, was one of the 15 persons who died in the crash, said he has submitted to the will of God who cannot be questioned.
Ondo State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Kayode Akinmade in a statement in Akure,  said  the clarification would not have been necessary at the time the state and families were still mourning those who lost their lives in the crash, but for inaccurate media reports.

The statement reads: ”It explained that its determination to give the former Governor a

DOES FRSC HAVE THE POWER TO ISSUE DRIVERS LICENCE

 With the October deadline on phasing out the old drivers licence and plate number for vehicles, agencies of government in Lagos State have found it lucrative to pounce on vehicles on the road to challenge owners or drivers of such cars to produce their driver’s licence.

The Vehicle Inspection Officers, VIO, and Nigeria Police especially have in such circumstance declared as “fake”, drivers licences issued by FRSC causing their victims to part with huge sums of money. Vanguard Conference Hall has taken up the issue of Road Traffic Management and Law Enforcement on Lagos State roads. Exercpt:

A 35 YEAR OLD MAN IN JAIL FOR RAPPING A 9 YEAR OLD GIRL

An Ibadan High Court, yesterday, remanded a 35-year-old man, Segun Majeed, in prison over alleged rape.

The prosecutor, Mrs Olumide Ojo, told the court that the defendant allegedly raped a nine-year-old girl on May 29, 2012, at the ArmyBarracksPrimary School, Iwo Road, Ibadan.

Two dead, 8 injured in Delta pipeline explosion

TWO persons were feared dead and eight others injured in an NNPC gas pipeline explosion, yesterday, at Okwokolo community, Mereje, Okpe Local Government Area of Delta State.

Officials of the Petroleum and Pipelines Marketing Company, PPMC, were battling to put out the fire ignited by the explosion as at 6.30 pm, but they disputed the claim that two persons died.

Many of the villagers fled for the fear of the unknown.

Man Steals N6.8M From ATM In Abuja After Watching Tutorial On Youtube

The Police command at Jabi District, Abuja recently caught a man in a Bank with N6.8m
The 27-year old suspect, (Name witheld), said he has learnt the process of ATM fraud through Youtube, and he bought the tools.

Lagos Plane Crash Update: List Of Passengers & Survivors

5 people out of the 27 people on board survived. See the list of passengers and those who survived below according to thenationonlineng.net. Sad!

Passengers

Feyi Agagu

Femi Akinsanya

Residents desert Kokori as soldiers search for Kelvin’s armoury, associates

No fewer than six schools and the only health centre in Kokori have been abandoned by teachers, students and medical personnel, following the siege laid to the community by soldiers.

Kokori is the home of arrested alleged kidnap kingpin, Kelvin Oniarah, in Ethiope-East Local Government Area, Delta State.

Agagu’s burial holds today

LATE AGAGU-OLUSEGUN

Late Dr. Olusegun Agagu, the immediate past governor of OndoState, will be buried today as planned after the ill fated air-crash.
Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo State, Ebenezer Alabi, said: “We just consulted with the family and have decided to go ahead with the burial.