American security experts may hit Abuja today

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Strong indications emerged on Wednesday that security experts from the United States of America may arrive in Abuja, today (Thursday) to help in the rescue of the over 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram in Borno State.

Impeccable sources at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport told one of our correspondents that the flight document indicating that the security team would be in Nigeria today had been tendered to the NAIA authorities.

The source, who noted that the government had stepped up its fight against terrorists, stated that delegates for the World Economic Forum had been guarded around the airport by both local and foreign security officials who were mostly in mufti.

I need your help!!! Jonathan ask for Obama help on abducted girls

President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria has accepted a definite offer from US President Barrack Obama to help locate and rescue the schoolgirls abducted from Chibok in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno three weeks ago by the militant Islamist group, Boko Haram.

Suspected rapist drugs, attacks pupil inside bush

The victim
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A suspected rapist who was allegedly refused sex by a grade six pupil of Young Tajudeen Middle School, Ede, Osun State (name withheld) attacked his victim and inflicted injuries on her.

The assailant, who some claimed was a ritual killer, inflicted machete cuts on the 15-year-old girl’s head, legs and wrist.

Our correspondent gathered that the pupil was living with her grandmother in Ede, Osun State, while her mother  lived in Lagos State.

Hours After Sani Abacha’s Son Wrote Wole Soyinka An Open Letter Ayo Sogunro Replies Him

Now I also hate reading long notes, but I read this and all I could say was woah! So if you are just like me, try not to miss out on this. Take your time to read  and get some facts. In fact, it’s an interesting read. Grab your coke and pop corn and join the ‘fun’ train, lol. Mr Sogunro's reply is a must READ. #ilovelawyers.  

Dear Sadiq Abacha,

I do not know you personally, but I admire your filial bravery—however misguided— in defending your father, the late General Sani Abacha. This in itself is not a problem; it is an obligation—in this cultural construct of ours—for children to rise to the defence of their parents, no matter what infamy or perfidy the 

said parent might have dabbled in. Continue after the cut....

Nigerians PRAY!!!!!!!! Pastor Kumuyi urges.

The General Overseer, Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor Williams Kumuyi, on Sunday urged Nigerians to always resort to prayer to resolve the problems confronting them individually and as a nation.
Kumuyi gave the charge during a special programme held at the church headquarters in ..............

Jonathan appoints new heads of NTA, FRCN, others

Reuben Abati:


 In furtherance of efforts to continually strengthen his administration on all fronts, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has approved the following appointments to fill existing vacancies:

SSS quizzes Dokubo-Asari over threat of bloodshed in 2015

 

The president of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, is currently being interrogated at the headquarters of the State Security Service in Abuja.
Dokubo was invited by the SSS, following his alleged inflammatory statements in connection to the 2015

Religious Crisis Looms in Osun School

Yesterday was mystery, in the Baptist High School, Iwo, Osun State as the students wore different dresses that suited their religious inclination to school.
The students, thereby, defiled the state government uniform specification recently introduced in all public...

Rivers Police Intercepts 17 Buses Carrying 320 Suspected Boko Haram Members

The Rivers State Police Command on Sunday announced that its men had arrested 320 persons suspected to be members of the Islamist sect, Boko Haram.
The suspects were said to have been in a convoy of 17 buses when they were intercepted at about 5am on Sunday between the border of Imo and Rivers states. The arrested suspects include young women.
The convoy which reportedly originated from Jigawa State in buses belonging to a transport firm owned by

President Jonathan Queries Sanusi Over Donations

The feud between the presidency and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is far from over, as the presidency has issued a query to the latter, demanding an explanation for some of the donations the CBN has made under his watch to some universities and organisations.

The query, according to a Thisday source was not unconnected with Sanusi’s activities, which have

Exclusive Video and pictures: Police beat solider up and tear his cloth at Ladipo's Market

Wonders they say never ends, these are pictures and video of fighting that beak out between a mufti wear policeman and a uniform wearing Nigeria Army man at the popular Ladipo's Motor Spare parts market where a policeman not on duty is trying to arrest an okadaman and extort money from him, the Okadaman

Controversy Trails Death Of 2 Nigerian Students In Ukraine

Two Nigerian students at the Donetsk National Technical University, Ukraine, have died, after what the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sources described as circumstances bothering on alleged negligence on the part of the hospital authorities where they were admitted for treatment.
The late students, Theresa Olaoluwa Oresanya, third year Electrical Engineering  and Bede Olunna Ogbu, a Masters Degree Engineering died Friday, December 10 and Wednesday, December 18, 2013 respectively.
News of the death of the two Nigerians students was reportedly relayed to

NLC urges ASUU to double productivity

The Nigeria Labour Congress in Anambra has called on university lecturers to work harder to make up for the 25 weeks lost to their strike.
The Chairman of the congress in the state, Mr Patrick Obianyo, made the call while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria in Awka on Friday.
Obianyo described the suspended strike which lasted five months and 18 days as not only regrettable but avoidable.
He, however, commended the federal government for

Oshodi-Apapa Gridlock - Govt Gives Tanker Drivers 72 Hours to Vacate

Lagos State Government, yesterday, gave the tanker drivers who have constituted traffic nuisance on the Oshodi-Apapa expressway 72 hours to vacate the area.
The government announced that within 72 hours, precisely, Friday, December 20, 2013, it would deploy its traffic machinery to the area, particularly, between Mile 2 and Apapa, to ensure sanity and streamline the activities of tanker drivers and articulated vehicles.
The decision was made when officials of the

Deji Of Akure’s Corpse Placed On His Throne

The corpse of a popular traditional ruler in Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria, Oba Adebiyi Adesida who passed away few weeks ago has been placed on his throne.
The dead body of Afunbiowo II, Deji of Akure who was reportedly killed by some chiefs over his position was placed on his High Chair on Tuesday December 17th, 2013 as part of the tradition in Akure Kingdom.
According to tradition, this is a way to See the picture below:

Abiola’s Wife Eyes Lagos Guber Seat

 Mrs. Dupe Onitiri Abiola

One of the wives of the late business mogul and politician, Chief Moshood Abiola. Mrs. Dupe Onitiri Abiola has said she will contest for the position of Lagos State governor come 2015.

She disclose this to NAIJAH FOR REAL during a chat in Lagos, stating that her ambition was to help eradicate poverty in the state and the country as a whole. “My purpose is to eradicate poverty in the country because the prize paid by Mr. Anthony Enahoro, Beko Ransome-Kuti and others couldn’t achieve what we wanted, hence my reason to contest,“ she said.

Abia Govt. Gives Out 202 Cars To Youths

Abia State Government has given out 202 different brands of vehicles to Abia youths for the fourth phase of its Youth Empowerment Programme.

This brings to 700, the total number of vehicles so far given out by the government to the youths since the inception of the programme about a year ago.

Speaking while handing over the vehicles to beneficiaries at the

At last! ASUU Signs MoU With FG,

The lingering strike by university lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universitiesn ASUU, seem certain to end very soon, as members of the union today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with officials of the federal government of Nigeria.

The federal rescinded its decision to sack lecturers who failed to

70-year-old Farmer In Court Over Alleged Assault

A 70-year-old farmer, Tuesday, appeared before an Okitipupa Magistrate’s Court in Ondo State, over alleged assault of a woman with a cutlass.
The defendant, Festus Olagunloye, who lives at 7, Temiloluwa St., Ayeka, Okitipupa, is standing trial on a one-count charge of assault.
He pleaded not guilty

SEE What The Autopsy Reveals On Iyayi's Death!

 
A medical examination carried out on the late Prof. Festus Iyayi to determine his cause of death has shown no evidence of bullets.
A source familiar with autopsy informed SaharaReporters that though there were holes in Iyayi’s body, they could not trace the piercings to any bullet, adding that