Nigeria Does Not Have 100m Destitute – Presidency

About 100 million Nigerians live in destitution, the World Bank has said.

 The World Bank Country Director for Nigeria, Marie-Francoise Marie-Nelly, said this at the bank’s Country Programme Portfolio Review in Enugu on Tuesday.

She said that the bank’s ongoing commitment to Nigeria stood at $5.34bn. According to the World Bank boss, the number of Nigerians living in destitution makes up 8.33 per cent of the total number of people living in destitution all over the world, which the bank plans to reduce drastically by 2030.

PHOTOS- Woman gets face mercilessly battered by her ex-boyfriend

A mother whose face had to be rebuilt after she was battered by her jealous 26 stone ex-boyfriend has insisted he is not a monster.

Helen Callaghan - who is just 4ft 10in and weighs 6 stone - was beaten and throttled by Thomas Day after he found text messages on her phone from another man.Her face was fractured in 20 places - including her cheeks, nose and eye sockets - and surgeons were forced to rely on old photographs to reconstruct it by implanting metal plates into her jaw and cheeks.

Photos: Late Sani Abacha's son Mahmud Abacha weds

Late military dictator Sani Abacha, Mahmud Abacha married his beautiful lady Hamama in Abuja yesterday. See more photos after the cut...

50 people die in Russian plane crash today

A passenger plane crashed at an airport in the Russian city of Kazan today, killing all 50 people on board, reports say.

The Boeing 737 had taken off from Moscow and was trying to land but exploded on impact at about 19:20 local time (15:20 GMT), officials said.

The Emergencies Ministry said there were 44 passengers and six crew members on the Tatarstan Airlines flight.

Spanish police arrest 25 Nigerians for sex trafficking

                               

Spanish police have arrested 25 people in a sex-trafficking ring that took women from Nigeria to work as prostitutes. The women, allegedly lured with the promise of good jobs in Europe, were first flown to Mexico or Brazil, travelling on false identity documents.

Police say from there, they are flown to Paris, and then smuggled into Spain to work in the sex trade. Five women who were victims of the sex ring were freed in the raids. Reports say police found one member of the gang performing an abortion on one of the five women.

Latest on Anambra Governorship Election: APC Demands Fresh Elections In 4 LGAs

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called for fresh elections in four local government areas of Anambra State, where either election did not hold or massive cases of malpractices were recorded in Saturday’s governorship election in the state.

APC, which made its position known in a statement yesterday in Lagos by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, also rejected the Independent National Electoral Commission’s decision to reschedule elections in only 65 polling units on Sunday, saying that will not address the massive disenfranchisement of its supporters.

18 year old Boy Kills Father With Concrete Blocks In Osun

An 18-year-old boy, Olalekan Adetoyinbo, who resides in the Irojo neighbourhood of Ilesa, Osun, on Wednesday killed his 56-year-old father, Mr Ayodele Adetoyinbo.

The incident occurred on Wednesday evening, while the boy had since been arrested by the police for interrogation.

The suspect, on returning from school, had a heated argument with his father, who had accused him of stealing some empty containers.

Husband Flees As Wife Delivers Triplets In Enugu

The joy of Mrs. Ifeoma Odo of Ebo Umuabor in Nsukka Local Government Area, Enugu State, could turn to tears after her husband absconded on hearing that she was in labour for triplets.

Odo told the News Agency of Nigeria in Nsukka on Friday that her husband, Mr. John-Patrick Odo, disappeared when he realised she would give birth to triplets.

Golden Eaglets Kelechi Iheanacho and Dele Alampasu gets invitation for the annual FIFA Ballon d'Or event.

FIFA U-17 World Cup awards winners Kelechi Iheanacho and Dele Alampasu have been  invited for  the annual FIFA Ballon d'Or event.

„On behalf of FIFA, I would like to congratulate you once again on winning the Adidas Golden Ball Award (Iheanacho); Golden Gloves (Alampasu) at this year’s FIFA’s U-17 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates for the best player of the tournament.

EFCC arrests Gov Sule Lamido’s two sons over alleged N10b fraud

According to a report by Premium Times The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested two sons of Jigawa state governor, Sule Lamido, over an alleged N10billion fraud.

Aminu and Mustapha  Lamido were arrested on Thursday in Kano and flown to Abuja on Friday morning, and are currently being interrogated at the EFCC headquarters in Abuja by a crack team of detectives.

The arrest of the governor’s sons, insiders say, is in furtherance of the investigation that commenced in December 2012 when Aminu Sule Lamido was arrested at the Mallam Aminu Kano Airport en route Cairo, Egypt for failure to declare the $50,000 he had on him. 

120 Anambra State Election Observers arrested and detained

According to a press release by lawyer and activist, Mr Festus Keyamo, the Commissioner of Police in Imo State, Mohammed Katsina, ordered the arrest and detention of 120 accredited independent national electoral commission observers who are to observe the Anambra State Governorship election taking place this Saturday. Find the press release below...

We have been briefed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) of the following facts:

Boko Haram bomber gets life imprisonment for bombing Thisday and The Sun Newspapers

            

Boko Haram member, Mustapha Umar, was yesterday November 15th sentenced to life imprisonment by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja for his involvement in the April 26, 2012 bombing of SOJ Plaza in Kaduna where Thisday, The Sun and The Moment newspapers have their bureaus.

Umar was convicted on one count of terrorism for the bombing. The terrorist drove a white Honda Academy car with registration number AL 306 MKA with improvised explosives devices into the premises of SOJ plaza in April last year and detonated it, killing 3 people and injuring several others.

PHOTOS- Enugu State Governor spotted in Scotland for son's graduation Ceremony

Enugu state Governor, Sullivan Chime, was spotted in Scotland yesterday attending his second son's masters graduation from the University of Glasglow. Handsome Tochukwu Arinze Chime is Gov Chime's son with his first wife...long before he married Clara Chime. See more photo after the break......

25 year old Brazilian girl wins miss Bum Bum competition(PHOTOS)

The lady with the best booty in 2013 popularly known as Miss Bum Bum contest is quite popular in Brazil. This years contest was quite exceptional and colourful as it saw 25 year old  model Dai Macedo from the central state of Goia emerge as winner after beating 26 other contestants.

 Dai impressed judges with her 42in derrière and went home with 5,000 reais ($2,100). She will also make a lot of money in advertising contracts. 

You would expect the butt that won her the contest to be 100% natural but it's not.

"It isn't 100% natural. I had a butt lift. I always had a large backside but liposuction improved it,' Dai said.

See more pictures after the cut.....

Nigerian socialite Taiwo Jamani dies after attack by business partner

Nigerian socialite and business man Taiwo Jamani, 45, died yesterday November 13th about a month after he was attacked in Swords, Dublin by a business associate.

37year old Jooda Akanbi attacked Jamani with a baseball bat on October 10th in broad daylight on Main Street in the north Dublin town at about 12.20pm after an argument broke out between them.

Probe on Stella Oduah BMW car scam suspended indefinitely

The Senate yesterday Thursday, suspended indefinitely its decision to question the Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, at its general session, after repeatedly deferring the minister’s appearance.

Ms. Oduah will now appear before the Senate Committee on Aviation on an unnamed date, a new resolution approved by the lawmakers on Thursday said. The hearing is expected to be reported back to the senate plenary.

“The Senate accordingly resolves to rescind its earlier resolution that the minister of aviation and chief executives of the aviation parastatals to brief the senate plenary,” the motion read.

Senate president, David Mark did not give reasons for the senate's decision. Read more - Telegraphng

Akwa Ibom Governor supervises beating of opposition lawmaker?

Premium Times is reporting that Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom state supervised the beating of a lawmaker. Read below...

The Akwa Ibom state House of Assembly has descended into a serious crisis after the state governor, Godswill Akpabio, personally supervised the beating of a lawmaker he suspected to be politically opposed to him and his loyalists, Premium Times has learnt.

Mr. Akpabio, witnesses said, watched as his loyalists manhandled Onofiok Luke, chairman of the House Committee on Finance and Appropriations, who was accused of being rude to the governor after he rose in defense of another lawmaker accused of challenging a loyalist of the governor at a caucus meeting held two days earlier.

Music group 'Abba' considers reunion to celebrate waterloo anniversary

The group are said to be considering getting back together to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their classic hit Waterloo being released, with singer Agnetha Faltskog confirming the group have discussed it.

The 63-year-old told German newspaper Weit am Sonntag: "Of course it's something we're thinking about.

"There seem to be plans to do something to mark this anniversary in some way.

 "But I can't say at this point what will come of them."

NLC may drag Kogi governor to human rights commission

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on Wednesday said it may be compelled to drag the Federal and Kogi State governments before the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, if they fail to take full responsibility for the death of the former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, 

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Woman who turned down older man's offer of marriage stunned by itemized £115,000 bill for everything he's ever spent on her

Woman who turned down older man's offer of marriage stunned by itemized £115,000 bill for everything he's ever spent on her.

A woman who turned down a marriage proposal from a well-to-do suitor was shocked when he handed a bill of more than £115,000 for everything he claims to have spent on her.

Single mother Marie Lacombe, 42, from Melbourne, Australia, says she and 65-year-old Bruce Dusting were never romantically involved.