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A Lagos lawmaker, Mr Segun Olulade, says he is optimistic of a burgeoning economy early 2017 just as President Muhammadu Buhari had assured Nigerians of an end to economic contraction in the new year. Olulade, the Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Health Services, said in line with God’s plan through His various prophets, 2017 would usher in a period of economic buoyancy and new lease of life for the country. “The current economic downturn in the country no doubts is biting hard, but I believe that as we transit to the new year and with what the administration has so far put in place the country will witness a turnaround,” he told the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday. According to him, the country will move out of the current recession into economic prosperity for the good of all. Olulade (APC-Epe II) urged Nigerians to approach the new year with hope and excitement for national prosperity and new lease of life for all.

Dele Momodu, a Nigerian journalis, businessman, philanthropist, actor and motivational speaker, has released a festive message on Christmas day, where he expressed his view on the future of Nigeria and made some prophecies. 1. My prediction is that Nigeria is not going to witness any substantial change in the near future. 2. I predict with the greatest sense of responsibility that barring any major development, especially age and health reasons, President Buhari will contest the next presidential election. 3.3. If the Nigerian economy continues to nosedive along this present freefall path, Buhari is likely to face stiff opposition from within his own political party and from outside. 4. Buhari will continue to hold sway in APC and his challengers would have to find somewhere else to try their luck. Buhari would try to unleash terror on such recalcitrant fellows and whip them back into line. 5. Next, I predict the emergence of a third force. APC elements would combine with ...

It’s the holiday season and everyone is out shopping for gifts. Even if you are a successful rapper like Young Thug. So when the ‘Pick Up The Phone’ rapper was shopping in a mall in Atlanta, the last hing he expected was to be arrested. Police officers, who were patrolling the mall, however spotted the rapper who has an outstanding warrant for failing to appear in court. The officers placed Young Thug under arrest and he was taken to jail, though, the 25-year-old was later released on bail. This wouldn’t be the first time the rapper is getting into trouble at a mall. Last year, he was arrested after threatening to kill a mall security guard.

The suspect was allegedly caught red handed on December 20th, while attempting to plant charm in someone's house in Ehime Mbano, Imo State. Read the Facebook post published by C IG Iwunze: "THE MAN YOU'RE SEEING HERE NAKED IS MR GABON IYIAKA FROM UMUDIOPARA UMUNAKANU OWERRI. IN EHIME MBANO LGA.  HE WAS CAUGHT WITH CHARM TODAY AT CHIEF MARCEL NNODIM'S ( MARLEY) HOUSE WHEN HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PLANT THE CHARM AT MARLEY'S HOUSE IN THE SAME UMUDIOPARA. MR GABON USED THE KEY HIS NATIVE DOCTOR GAVE HIM TO LOCK CHIEF.MARLEY NNODIM'S HOUSE BEFORE HE WAS CAUGHT. THIS SAME GABON IYIAKA WAS CAUGHT SOMETIME LAST YEAR WHEN HE WAS NAKED AT A MANGO TREE AT UMUDIOPARA SQUARE BATHING. THIS MAN WAS CAUGHT IN CHIEF MARLEY'S HOUSE ON 14TH DECEMBER 2016, HE SAID HE WAS DOING WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT DIRECTED HIM TO DO. THE CASE WAS POSTPONED TILL DURING THE XMAS.  JUST LAST NIGHT 19TH DECEMBER 2016, THIS SAME MAN WAS CAUGHT AGAIN RED HANDED DOING THE MAIN THING, PLANTING CHA...

Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command on Thursday, December 22, foiled a robbery attempt at a new generation bank and arrested three robbers after a fierce gun duel. A Press Release signed by DSP Omoni Nnamdi, Police Public Relations Officer, says a combined team of Special Ant-Robbery Squad and policemen from Rumuolumeni Police, acting on a tip-off stormed the new generation bank and arrested the suspects, who came with gas cylinder, chisel, handsaw, for the operation. Read it below. "Efforts of the Rivers State Police Command in fighting crime and criminality in the state have again yielded positive result as today 22/12/2016 at about 0200hrs upon a distress call, that there was a robbery going on in a New Generation Bank at Eagle Cement Rumuolumeni, combined teams of the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) and the men of the Rumuolumeni Police Station led by the DPO Csp Felix Nnebue swiftly responded and mobilized to the scene, where on citing the Police the robbers o...

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday approved additional N71.8 billion to augment shortfall in the 2016 budgetary allocation for payment of delayed workers salaries, Daily Trust gathered. This will enable the government pay thousands of workers who are owed November and December salaries. The amount is part of the N213 billion virement assented to by Buhari yesterday, Daily Trust has learnt. Sources had initially told Daily Trust that the president had withheld assent because the National Assembly increased the budget by N33billion, but he was persuaded to sign the virement to enable some agencies pay workers salaries before Christmas. The Minister of Finance Kemi Adeosun had explained inability of some government agencies to pay November salaries saying the shortfall is to be augmented through the virement. She told State House reporters after cabinet meeting on Wednesday that “What we did in the virement we sent to the National Assembly, which the National Assembly approved...

An unfortunate incident occurred today in Lagos after a Pepsi truck ran into roadside traders at Lanre bus-stop, Igando road. According to an eyewitness, the accident killed one -with others another.

At least 6 people were burnt beyond recognition after a gas explosion at the Louis Gas Station behind the Ghana Intentional Trade Fair Centre at Labadi in Accra.At least 12 people are in critical condition after sustaining major degrees of burns from the fire that came with the explosion.  The explosion with its attendant fire outbreak was said to have started about 6 p.m at the gas station near the Zenith University College.Properties running into several thousands of cedis were destroyef in the incident. The spokesperson of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) Prince Billy-Anaglatey on Thursday said... “The fire is blazing and we are doing everything possible to quench it. The Armed Forces fire fighters are here too and doing everything possible to ensure this fire is actually extinguished". The officers of the Ghana National Fire Service brought  three fire tenders to put the fire out but that appeared to be inadequate as the fire raged further. The personnel went for...

Nigeria has seized over 100 bags of plastic rice smuggled into the country, where prices of the staple food are rocketing ahead of the Christmas and New Year holidays.

As previously reported, David, 2, and Benita, 5, both children of Mr Uko Ima, a staff of the Nigerian Television Authority were injured in the December 1oth Reigners Church collapse in Akwa Ibom. They are currently receiving treatment at Ibom Specialist Hospital. More photos after the cut....

There was shock recently when a dead South African man, Posole Mokoena, started demanding for his missing body parts. 38-year-old Posole who was found dead and already been buried, got everyone on their toes, including his family members. According to the Daily Sun SA, the dead man keeps coming back to haunt his family members in their dreams, angrily demanding that his tongue and manhood be given back. Posole was found dead at a dam with some of his body parts missing. He was buried two months ago, but it appears his spirit cannot find peace. His granddad Mokete, 87, said his dead grandson from Marquard in the Free State appeared in his dreams, angry and demanding for his missing manhood. He said Posole went missing for a week in October and his decomposing body was found at a nearby dam. His private parts were removed and his tongue was also cut off. We had to bury him like that,”Mokete said. A herbalist, Rakauoane Mamoya said: “The granddad should order him to go to sleep....

Nino Esposito, 79, and his partner Roland Bosee, 69, were dating for 46 years. The duo were denied to marry each other but love has no boundaries and they managed to find a loophole in the law. As at the time of their romance same-sex marriage hadn’t yet been legalised in the US, Nino adopted his lover -- common practice among same-sex couples. However, the duo didn't give up on their dream to get married one day. Four years later their dream came true. A Pennsylvania Superior Court has recently ruled that the loving couple can cancel the adoption and have a wedding. Judge Susan Peikes Gantman commented on the precedent: "Pennsylvania law regarding same sex marriage changed. Same-sex couples in this Commonwealth may now exercise their fundamental right to marry." Nino and Roland said they were ‘relieved’, and are grateful for the ‘wonderful Christmas gift’.

A police officer has been jailed for 22 months for having s*x with a rape victim several times and in a McDonald’s toilet. 33-year-old Charlotte Peters, from Luton, was based in the Sexual Offences Exploitation and Child Abuse Command in the Metropolitan Police when she had a relationship with a young female victim she’d been assigned to help. Judge Anthony Leonard at Southwark Crown Court, sentenced her after she previously pleaded guilty to misconduct in public office. Prosecuting officer, Kate Bex, said Peters was in a position of trust and should have known how to deal with the ’emotional impact’ on victims of sexual assault. The court heard that the first sexual contact which started with a kiss on February 24 at the refuge where the victim was staying developed into several sexual encounters including the final one they had in McDonald’s toilet.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned one Jamilu Yunusa before Justice Yahaya Galadanci of the Kano State High Court on a seven count charge of Conspiracy and Obtaining by False Pretense. The accused person alongside two others, Inuwa Abdu and Habibu Inuwa who are still at large allegedly connived and defrauded the complainants to the tune of N1,520,000 (One Million, Five Hundred and Twenty Thousand Naira ) by claiming that he had a contract with Dantata and Sawoe for the supply of pipes to the company. He convinced his victims by promising to share the contract profit with them. However, investigation by the EFCC revealed that the accused person never had a contract with Dantata and Sawoe. One of the charge read “that Jamilu Yunusa, Inuwa Abdu (at large) and Habibu Inuwa (at large) sometime in 2015 in Kano within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court conspired among yourselves to do an illegal act to wit: obtaining by false pretense the sum of N200,000 (T...

A 15 year old girl from Gajra village in western Nepal’s Achham district has died from smoke inhalation after she was separated from her community because she was menstruating and left to sleep in a menstruation hut in Nepal. “Chhaupadi” which is the name given to the menstruation hut, is a practice in which women are banished during menstruation in Western Nepal. During Chhaupadi, a practice that dates back hundreds of years ago, girls are kept in small huts with no doors,poor sanitation and poor ventilation and are forbidden from touching other people, livestock, fruits and plants. According to Achham district police inspector, Badri Prasad Dhakal, 10 other girls have died in the lst 9 years from the isolation and exposure to environmental factors when left in the menstruation hut while practicing Chhaupadi. “Deaths are usually caused by smoke inhalation, snake bites (and) lack of basic health care during menstruation,” Badri Prasad said. Read a 2011 United Nations report o...

The Winners list of 11th edition of the prestigious Headies Awards is finally Here . The Headies awards 2016 went down earlier tonight, and we’ve got all the winners from the award ceremony. It’s been an interesting year in music, and Nigeria generally and it’s been reflected in the award ceremony. It’s been an interesting year in music, and Nigeria generally and it’s been reflected in the award ceremony. A good number of prominent artists were absent including Olamide, MI, Adekunle Gold, Lil Kesh, Don Jazzy, Ill Bliss and a host of others. Check out all  the winners below! BEST RECORDING OF THE YEAR A non-voting category for the best single recording by an artiste or group in the year under review. EMERGENCY – D’BANJ PRAY FOR ME – DAREY FEAT. SOWETO CHOIR – (WINNER) LOVE DON’T CARE – SIMI ORENTE – ADEKUNLE GOLD SOMETHING GOOD IS HAPPENING – BRYMO PRODUCER OF THE YEAR An individual responsible...

Social media is buzzing over the ongoing Headies award but for the wrong reasons. The live coverage is of poor picture quality and it seems lots of Nigerian music stars are missing from the roll call.  Apart from the absence of Mavin records crew, YBNL chief Olamide and Patoranking, who has bagged an award already, belong among top names missing at the popular award show, which also include, Wizkid, Tiwa Savage, Don Jazzy, Davido and Tekno See tweets below...

Flavour got a special recognition Award from the HEADIES 2016. A big congratulations to him.

Wizkid has been announced as the winner 'Artist of the Year' of the 2016 HEADIES award with song "Baba Nla" , A big Congratulations to him

The HEADIES announces the winner of next rated artist 2016 in person of Mr Eazi, with a car Prize, see photo below: