Undergraduates rape, rob job seeker, take nude photos

.

The police in Lagos have arrested two undergraduates for allegedly raping a job-seeker, identified only as Nike, and robbing her of valuables in the Igando area of the state.

The suspects, identified as Valentine and Kusimo, allegedly took turns to rape their victim after luring her into a hotel.

Valentine, an indigene of Imo State, was said to be seeing off the 27-year-old with the hope that she would not raise the alarm when Nike suddenly called for help.

The Game slams Madonna's $10k donation as he donates $1million

  .

His actions speaks louder than words. The rapper known as The Game took to Instagram on Tuesday to reveal he had made a $1million donation from his charity to the Flint, Michigan water crisis – half of it from his own personal bank account.

While making his generous pledge, the 36-year-old called out Jimmy Fallon and Madonna for only donating $10,000 each to the crisis.

Bellerin names his toughest opponent

.

Arsenal defender Hector Bellerin has named Bayern Munich winger Douglas Costa as the toughest opponent he has faced.
The right-back faced Costa in Arsenal's 2-0 victory over Bayern in the Champions League earlier this season and identified the Brazilian as a particularly tricky customer despite the result and clean sheet.

UTME to hold between Feb and March, says JAMB

.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said yesterday it would conduct the 2016 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) between February and March.
According to a statement by its Head of Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin in Lagos, the Computer-Based Test (CBT) exam would hold in over 400 centres within and outside Nigeria.

Dasukigate: President Buhari must sideline rule of law - MURIC

 

President Muhammadu Buhari has been advised not to bow to pressure to release former public and political office holders presently being tried for corruption.

According to Naij.com, this piece of advice is coming from Muslims Rights Concern (MURIC) via a statement on Monday, January 26, 2016, where the group’s executive director Professor Ishaq Akintola stated that there has to be a limit to Nigeria’s obedience of the rule of law at this time.

Lagos Bans Parties, Social Functions in Public Schools

.

The Lagos State Government on Tuesday said it would no longer allow social functions and parties in public schools just as owners of private schools across the state have been warned to comply with rules and regulations guiding their operations.
The Deputy Governor of the State, Dr. Mrs Idiat Oluranti Adebule who disclosed this while briefing the media on the strategic focus of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s administration on education for 2016, said the Governor had directed that schools should no longer be used for social functions.
She said:

Eritrea orders men to marry two wives or be jailed

.

Eritrean men have been asked by the government to marry more than one wife or risk being jailed for life.
This is contained in a statement in Arabic by the Grand Mufti (the highest official of religious law in the country) which scanned copy surfaced on social media sites on Thursday last week.
In the statement, Eritrea called for all men in the country to marry at least two wives and the government assured the men that it would pay for the marriage ceremonies and houses.

Obama bans solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prisons

 

 "It has been linked to depression, alienation, withdrawal, a reduced ability to interact with others and the potential for violent behavior," Obama wrote in an op-ed posted Monday evening on The Washington Post's website. "Some studies indicate that it can worsen existing mental illnesses and even trigger new ones. Prisoners in solitary are more likely to commit suicide, especially juveniles and people with mental illnesses."

Obama asked the Justice Department to review the use of solitary confinement last summer, as part of the administration's increased focus on the criminal justice system. Activists have been pushing for changes to the prison system.

EFCC confiscates Dasuki, others properties

 

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has confiscated so many properties believed to belong to former National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki and some officials on trial or under investigation.
The properties were sealed at the weekend in Kaduna, The Nation reports.
 Dasuki is at the centre of the anti-graft commission’s investigation into the $2.1 billion arms deal scam.

How My Grandmother's Wrappers Brought Me Success- Harrysong

 

The Reggae blues crooner recently shared a photo of his grandmother and told the story of how her wrapper brought him success.
Mr. Song as he often calls himself, said his granny sold wrappers to pay his school fees and studio sessions. ?
?"You'll should say thank you to my grandmother. .I call her.......

Kylie Jenner steps out amid reports she 'feels super betrayed'

 

With family drama brewing, Kylie Jenner kept herself busy on Sunday with a trip to a luxury jewelry store.

The teenager is said to be 'livid' over brother Rob Kardashian's rumored new romance with Blac Chyna, who was previously engaged to Kylie's 26-year-old boyfriend, rapper Tyga.

The 18-year-old 'feels betrayed' by the bizarre twist, reports People.

Either way, she looks super glamorous in her hot outfit, more pics below:

Buffon set to retire after 2018 World Cup

 

It all stirs up when the time approaches, even man can not replace the attribute of age. Still a legend abide in our realm, we all should be grateful, that such a legend played in our own time. 

Gianluigi Buffon, the Italy legend will hang up his gloves following the tournament in Russia, bringing an illustrious career to an end

 
He said that he will retire from football following the 2018 World Cup. 

Hoodlums slaughter 23-year-old

.

Some hoodlums have invaded Iya Agan Street on Old Apapa Road in the Ebute-Meta area of Lagos State, killing a 23-year-old, identified only as Dada.

According to PUNCH Metro, the hoodlums, who wielded guns and cutlasses, asked residents not to panic while they slaughtered Dada, alias Ratio, saying they (hoodlums) did not come for innocent lives.

The 23-year-old, whose family members or address, had yet to be known, was killed around 5.30pm on Friday in the area.

Genevieve Nnaji selfie with her brother

 

Veteran Nollywood actress – Genevieve Nnaji and her brother posed for a selfie in the snow.
Winter Storm Jonas produced heavy snow in the United States on Saturday. The actress, who did not name her exact location captioned the picture:

“genevievennaji#Snowfie with bro��. #NorthEast ��”

Tenant terminate neighbour’s 7-mth pregnancy with kitchen knife

. 

A mother of two, Mrs. Oyinyechi Chinaka, is recuperating   after she was reportedly stabbed several times by her neighbour (names withheld)  in Mushin area of Lagos.
Mrs Chinaka was rushed to   the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, but she lost her seven months pregnancy.
The victim’s agony began   after she allegedly caught the neighbour   stealing   money from her purse and, not wanting the woman to expose  him  at number 11, Anjorin Street, Mushin, Lagos, the suspect was said to have stabbed Mrs. Chinaka with  a  kitchen knife severally  on her stomach ,arm and neck and   left   her to bleed to death .

My Children are Not Ready to Take After Me…Ali Baba

.

 Ace Nigerian comedian, Ali Baba, may be making a name for himself through the craft he has laid the foundation for but while others see the opportunity and business side of comedy, his kids are not interested.
They rather chose to be entertained by others than follow their father’s footstep. The comedian in a recent chat with Sun newspaper disclosed that his kids have a sense of humour but so sad that they are not interested in his line of business.

Mourinho impressed me more as a manager than Wenger-Vieira:

.

Well it depends on ones perspective, yours might differ. According to Vieira, The Frenchman says the former Chelsea boss had a bigger influence on him than the man he spent nine years with at Arsenal, having worked with him at Inter.

Patrick Vieira feels that Jose Mourinho was a bigger influence on him as a manager than Arsene Wenger.

The former midfielder spent nine years with the Gunners, winning three Premier League titles and four FA Cups, before moving to Juventus and then onto Inter where he worked briefly with Mourinho.

I have been Alfa’s sex slave for two years –Lagos housewife

.

It was like madness had come over 50-year-old Dayo Kamorudeen, a taxi driver in the Lekki area of Lagos, when he heard the most shocking secret his wife of more than 20 years had been keeping from him.

According to Kamorudeen, it appeared that a spell had been placed upon his wife when she told him on Sunday, January 17 that she was visiting Akute, a border town between Ogun and Lagos states.

Stephanie Okereke-Linus lost Dad

 

 Nollywood actress, Stephanie Okereke-Linus who put to bed few months back has just lost her father. The A-list actress who has been in America for the past five months lost her Dad a few days ago.
It was gathered that the 83-year old Chief Okereke took some medications and reacted badly.

Police kill 2 robbery suspects in Ughelli shootout

 

There was tension, yesterday, at Upper Afiesere Junction, Ughelli, as a combined team of policemen and vigilante engaged a gang of suspected armed robbers in a shootout, during which two of the bandits were killed.
 A senior police officer attached to the Ughelli ‘A’ Division, who spoke on grounds of anonymity, said that a police patrol team was drafted to the robbery scene at 1.10p.m., following a tip-off on the operations of the hoodlums.

Golden Globes-Leonardo DiCaprio takes Best Actor

  .

 Leonardo DiCaprio, who starred in the historical drama, took home Best Actor while Alejandro González Iñárritu was awarded the gong for Best Director, at the ceremony held at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.

When DiCaprio, 41, was named Best Actor, he was visibly emotional as he took the stage. 'What an incredible honor,' he began. 'Wow, that meant a lot.' 

'To the other fantastic performances in this category, you guys were incredible,' he added graciously. 

Am not in APC to take anybody’s place-Nwobodo

 

 As long as the political structure Nigeria is imbued with decadence and lacks moral grounds, defection is a normalcy so to say.Well former Minister of Information and governor of the old Anambra State, Chief Jim Nwobodo, has told members of the All Progressives Congress in Enugu State not to feel threatened by his defection to the party.

Nwobodo, a former senator and presidential aspirant on the platform of his former party, the Peoples Democratic Party, said he did not come into the APC to take anybody’s place.

There were insinuations that some APC members in Enugu State were uncomfortable with Nwobodo’s admission into the party.

'Is Sean Penn interview with El Chapo an elaborate government plot to capture fugitive drug lord?

  .

 As news emerged of the peculiar series of events that led to El Chapo's capture, Twitter was ablaze with one question: Is Sean Penn a CIA spy?

The actor met with the world's most wanted drug lord in the jungle to ask him a handful of Hollywood-worthy questions such as 'do you dream?' and 'how would you define yourself?'

And then just hours after the Sinaloa cartel leader was detained by Mexican marines, the Rolling Stone published a lyrical 10,000-word account of their meeting.

Falana slams Buhari over Dasuki, Kanu’s re-arrest

 

A man i respect so much, and a true human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), said on Sunday that there was no legal justification for the re-arrest of the immediate past National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), and the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, after they were granted bails by different courts.

According to Punch, Falana in a statement said as a President who won an election on the promise to fight corruption and end impunity, President Muhammadu Buhari was duty-bound to ensure that all organs and agents of government respected the law.

Golden Globes Winners: The Complete List

 

The Golden Globes proved again last night that it has a tried-and-true formula: rewarding past big winners on the film side and embracing newbies on TV. There also was no shortage of star power on the podium, after upstarts dominated early in the evening.

Below is the complete list of winners at the 2016 Golden Globe Awards:

Russian doctor PUNCHES a patient, knocking him to the floor and killing him instantly

.

The punch attack in the southern city of Belgorod was aired repeatedly on state television and went viral on YouTube, while Russian media nicknamed the attacker 'the boxer doctor'. In the video, the strongly-built doctor in medical clothing drags the barechested male patient from the examination table, asking him 'why did you touch the nurse?' and pushes him out of the doorway.

Buhari issues fresh orders to EFCC

 

There appears to be no backing down by President Muhammadu Buhari on his resolve to make anti-corruption and accountability the  fulcrum of his administration as he issued fresh orders to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to account for funds that were stolen but recovered by the Commission.
In fact, the President also  instructed the EFCC not to be distracted by negative comments from some quarters on its operations, especially as  they affect some of those who have been named in the now infamous $2.1b arms scandal.
This is coming at a time when the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP – which has had a few of its leaders arrested and detained in Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade – and the All Progressives Congress, APC, which is the ruling party, are trading words on the propriety or otherwise of the approach of the EFCC executing the anti-graft war.

Paul Okoye Reveals What Stardom Has Deprived Him

 

As Mega super star, there are certain things they crave, but find it hard to get, especially the simplest ones. That's part of the irony of life.
One of the Psquare brothers, Paul Okoye just remembered those days he relax inside a commercial bus just like other average Nigerians.

Arsenal came from behind for FA Cup win

 

Strikes from Joel Campbell, Aaron Ramsey and Olivier Giroud gave the Gunners a comfortable victory following Jeremain Lens's opening goal in north London

Arsenal came from behind to beat Sunderland in the FA Cup third round on Saturday.

Arsene Wenger has never lost at this stage of the competition and is on track to become the most successful manager in FA Cup history - no manager has ever won it seven times - thanks to the victory over Sam Allardyce's spirited side.

We get death threats over Headies —Ayo Animashaun

..

Founder of Hip TV and executive producer of The Headies Award, Ayo Animashaun, speaks about the controversies trailing the recently-held Headies Awards

What is the secret behind your staying power in the Nigerian entertainment industry?

I would attribute it to hardwork, dedication and we thank God for giving us the grace to be successful. We have been able to produce a lot of content that captures the essence of the entertainment industry, more than any channel.

Prior to setting up the station, you must have had some set targets. Have they been met?

The initial target was met within six months but we always have to set new targets and standards. What people see............