Meghan Markle's father 'will fly in from his retirement community in Mexico to walk her daughter down the aisle'

 

Meghan Markle’s reclusive father will walk her down the aisle, a close friend has told The Mail on Sunday.

After months of speculation about whether retired Hollywood lighting director Tom Markle will be by his daughter’s side in Windsor Castle, one of his closest confidantes last night confirmed: ‘He will.’

Northern groups’ communique on issues affecting region

The Summit of Northern Groups was held at Arewa House, Kaduna on Saturday, 24th March, 2018.
It was convened to assess the security, economic and political circumstances of the North and Northern communities in other parts of Nigeria.

Specifically, it reviewed the worrying state of insecurity “under which virtually all Northerners live”.
It also deliberated the “worsening economic fortunes” of the vast majority of Northerners and the options that are available to the North as it prepares for the next general elections.

Read full text of communique issued at the end of the meeting:

60 roads completed in Abia-Ikpeazu

Abia Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, said his administration had constructed 60 roads across the state since inauguration in 2015.
Ikpeazu stated this at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja, and said that the roads comprised rural, intra-state and inter-state routes.

INEC is this for real?

If this Voters card is for real, things could go south with the general election coming up next year. What is your take?

Last Northern male white rhino dies in Kenya

The world's last surviving male northern white rhino has died after months of poor health, his carers say.

Sudan, who was 45, lived at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. He was put to sleep on Monday after age-related complications worsened significantly.
His death leaves only two females - his daughter and granddaughter - of the subspecies alive in the world.

Finalist of Kogi State University hit by a car

A final year student of Kogi State University ended her final exam jubilation in pains. According to reports, the young lady a final year student with the Department of Sociology, Kogi State University, had her leg crushed by a fellow student.

She was jubilating with her colleagues when the sad incident happened.....

Anambra teacher calls off marriage with own sister, gives reasons

The mathematics teacher, Chiadikobi Ezeibekwe, who recently wedded his 17-year-old blood sister in Osuofia, Ekwulobia area of Aguata LGA of Anambra State, said he has been prevailed upon to call off the ‘unholy’ marriage.

Before now, he had told reporters that he was of the Sabbath sect, and that he received direct instructions from God to ‘marry’ his sister.

Acaprenuer initiative (The paradigm shifts)

Comr. Nwaozo C. Victoria  Assit. Sec Gen. Student Union Government FUTO,  host the shifts conference, as it hit Owerri on Saturday 17th March 2018 with a powerful and empirical conference to encourage, motivate and inject a tool of self actualizing, self branding in shaping the youths to scale through the huddle of reaching their goals. The event was graced by personalities from all works of life, while dignitaries in attendance were Mrs Ezejuru Eze wife of the Vice Chancellor Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Imo State, Sir Izuchukwu Obani CEO Izban Logistics, Mr Frank Nneji CEO ABC Transport company, and host of others. More pictures after the cut. 

Buhari skips order of elections in talks with Saraki, Dogara

There were indications last night that the order of the 2019 general election was not one of the issues President Muhammadu Buhari discussed with the Senate President Bukola Saraki, House of Representatives Speaker Yakubu Dogara and other leaders of the National Assembly at a meeting they held on Thursday night.

North Korea says willing to hold talks with U.S. and halt nuclear pursuit while negotiations last: South

North Korea is willing to hold talks with the United States on denuclearization and will suspend nuclear tests while those talks are under way, the South said on Tuesday after a delegation returned from the North where it met leader Kim Jong Un.

North and South Korea, still technically at war but enjoying a sharp easing in tension since the Winter Olympics in the South last month, will also hold their first summit in more than a decade next month at the border village of Panmunjom, the head of the delegation, Chung Eui-yong, told a media briefing.
"North Korea made clear its willingness to denuclearize the Korean peninsula and the fact there is no reason for it to have a nuclear programme if military threats against the North are resolved and its regime is secure," the head of the delegation, Chung Eui-yong, told a media briefing.

Tinubu’s letter divides NWC as APC caucus, NEC meet

Tension is mounting as leaders of the All Progressives Congress prepare to hold the caucus and National Executive Council meetings this week.

The meetings, scheduled to hold on Monday and Tuesday, are expected to find solutions to the internal conflicts rocking the ruling party. source gathered in Abuja, on Saturday, that the contents of a letter written by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, accusing the APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, of undermining peace efforts would feature at the caucus meeting on Monday (tomorrow).

Miss Chinonso ties the knot in grand-style.

 

On the 23rd of December two love birds tied the knot, as Miss Chinonso weds her heartthrob simply known as Dr Vegas a medical doctor. The two love birds took their vows at st Andrew's Anglican Church Aladinma Owerri the Imo State Capital. It was an awesome moment.....more pictures after the cut...

Meet the 17-year-old who exposed Apple's iPhone slowdown which could cost the tech-giant BILLIONS in lawsuits

Tyler Barney, a 17-year-old high school student in Mt Juliet, Tennessee, said he made the discovery that decreased performance has to do with phones lithium-ion batteries when his iPhone 6s 'became buggy.' 

Barney said that while he waited on the new updated operating system to be released by Apple, he tried his brother's older model iPhone 6.

NAN Deputy Editor-in-Chief’s wife delivers quadruplets

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After seven years of marriage, Mr. Peter Ejiofor, a Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, was blessed with a set of quadruplets in the early hours of yesterday.

The quadruplets, all boys, who were delivered at 9.24a.m., are being nursed in incubators at Crystal Specialist Hospital, Akonwonjo, a suburb of Lagos.

12 dead in New York City Apartment fire.

Investigators in New York City searched early on Friday for the cause of a blaze that ripped through an apartment building in the Bronx and killed 12 people including four children, in the city’s deadliest fire in at least a quarter of a century.

The fire broke out a little before 7 p.m. (0000 GMT) on the first floor of a brick building and quickly spread upstairs, city Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro told a news conference with Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Senators summons Ibe Kachikwe others over fuel scarcity

The Senates have summoned the Petroleum Minister Ibe Kachikwu over the scarcity of fuel rampaging various states including the FCT. Nigerians in this festive period have seen the worse of it all. Meanwhile the DPR is doing their very best to ensure that filling stations that have do sell to people, even at the high price , While all these rages Nigerians groans in pain.....

Social Media Anxiety Disorders: What’s Going on in the Brain?

Too much of anything can be dangerous, and social media is no exception. Today many of us spend more time on internet-enabled devices than even sleeping. Due to this overindulgence in social media and the internet, we may become socially reclusive rather than inclusive. This, in turn, may lead to various physical and mental health problems.

Nowadays, around two billion residents of our planet are online. Hundreds of millions of emails and social messages are exchanged each day. Perhaps, this online over-engagement is becoming more of a problem. The amount of time we spend online and on social media is increasing each year. It is...

How did we get to this point-Ben Murray-Bruce

Senator Ben Murray-Bruce in a tweet ask Nigerians "How did we get to this point". Well he was actually hitting more on the Minimum wage of 18,000 Naira as it could not even buy a bag of rice or get a workers Automobile tank filled up on this festive period.

Some Nigerians reacted to his Tweet, some calling the senator tweeting Senator, and some calling out Nigerians to vote him and other Senators out, Here is the tweet below:

U.S boils over Nigeria's side on Jerusalem

On Dec 7 2017 President Donald Trump of the United States declared Jerusalem the Capital of Israel, saying the U.S will move its Embassy to Jerusalem, the declaration was met with violent protest in Palatine and across the Muslim Countries.

An Emergency United Nations meeting was held, 128 Countries voted against the move by the United State which Nigeria was among those against the move, leaving only 9 countries which voted in favour of the United States.

How RTD CP Midenda founded SARS in the Police

    Recently, there were public demonstrations for and against the continued existence of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, a dreaded anti crime unit of the Nigeria Police Force. The vexatious issue which took the front burner in national discourse resulted in the big question about how SARS came to be. There have been claims and counter-claims. One of the gallant officers of the force whose name kept on ringing bell over the issue is Simeon Danladi Midenda, a retired Commissioner of Police. 

Look what i found

I stared at this picture for quite a while, and took it upon myself to share it, the source caption reads : Here is the clear example of religion being blind to people. do you agree ?

Catalonia President Charles Puigdemont addresses the regional government

The Catalonia President Charles Puigdemont addresses the regional government on the declaration of its Independence. He condemned the Spanish government on how they handled issues. Puigdemont says the declaration would be suspended urging the Spanish government that it stretches its hands for dialogue......

Dismissed Police Officer nabbed for robbery.

Following a distress call on 2nd September, 2017,  that one Paul Onyili and Engr Nnamdi Onyili ‘m’ were robbed of their cars, Range Rover sports, Reg. no Lagos: MUS 644 BB, and Hilux Jeep Reg. no: Lagos LND 685 EW, discreet investigation led to the arrest of one Kenneth Chikwe a dismissed policeman who was arrested at Awka with bullet injuries. His confession further led to the arrest of his accomplice one Uzohu livingstone  51years at Owerri and the recovery of the two robbed vehicles by the Police.

Two most wanted cult leaders killed in Imo State

Two men, said to be most wanted cult leaders and kidnappers in Imo State, were on Thursday gunned down by the operatives of the state police command.

According to Punch news, they were killed during a shootout in the Nwagbaubi forest in Assa community, in the Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area.

The slain suspected criminals were identified as Tochukwu Egbelu, aka black face; and Enyia Iwu, aka Sparo. The police said they were the leaders of the Iceland cult, which had been credited with the killing of over 20 people and the destruction of over 30 houses.

Two-headed rattlesnake found in the US

A very rare two-headed rattlesnake has been caught in the US, and is being donated to a nature centre.

The venomous snake was found this week according to American TV station KLRT and is believed to have been captured near Forrest City in Arkansas.

A Facebook post from a friend of the man who caught the snake read "It is is absolutely real! But I don't think it's a sign from God that the end times are near..."

Top commander of the Islamic State for West Africa in Nigeria

A top commander of the Islamic State for West Africa has been arrested by, giving his name as Husseini Mai-Tangaran. The Department of State Service (DSS) has announced his arrest saved the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Kano, Kaduna, Niger, Bauchi, Yobe and Borno states from being bombed between September 1 and 4 when Muslims in the country celebrated the Eid-el-Fitri Mai-Tangaran, according to the DSS, was arrested on August 31, while

Nigeria held captive by less than 60 people for the past 51 years-Pat Utomi

Professor Pat Utomi, a prominent political economist, has stated that for the past 51 years, Nigeria’s fortunes have been determined by less than 60 people, Punch reports. Source gathers that Utomi made his comments while speaking at a public lecture organized by the Evangelical Christian Union Alumni Fellowship in Lagos, on Thursday August 10.

My life is in danger-lawmaker.

A member of the Delta state House of Assembly representing Ethiope East, Chief Evance Ivwurie, is asking Nigerians to come to his aide as his life is now currently under threat. Chief Ivwurie alleged that he is being threatened for his constant campaigns against armed Fulani herdsmen in his constituency.

According to naij the lawmaker said some influential people in the northern part of Nigeria were using the country’s security agencies against him in an attempt to silence him.
According to him, “a Kaduna state-based group petitioned the minister of Interior and the National Security Adviser accusing me and the deputy speaker of Delta state House of Assembly, Mr Friday Osanebi, of alleged proclamation of genocide against the Fulani and Hausa in our constituencies.

“I SELL FRESH HUMAN SKULL FOR N1 MILLION.” Suspect

The Lagos state police command has nabbed a 45-year-old suspected ritualist with a human skull and he revealed that he sells them for N1million each.

The suspect, Identified as Lucien Tusume, was arrested at Iraye village in Sagamu area of Ogun State, following intelligence report.

Explaining the circumstance that led to Tusume’s arrest, Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Olarinde Famous-Cole, said some policemen, who disguised as buyers, contacted the suspect for a human skull.

Skyscraper goes up in flames in London, trapping hundreds

A high-rise apartment building in central London went up in flames early Wednesday morning, leaving the building on the verge of collapse, with hundreds of residents believed to be trapped inside.

Grenfell Tower, located in North Kensington, is a 27-story building home to some 120 families.

More than 200 firefighters and 40 fire engines have been deployed to battle the blaze and attempt to rescue those trapped in the building. Dozens of ambulances and emergency medical teams have also been dispatched to the scene.