EU rejects Russia 'veto' on Ukraine

                   

                   

The EU will not accept a "veto" by Russia on the bloc's ties with former Soviet republics, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has said. Speaking at an EU meeting in Lithuania, Mr Barroso said the era of "limited sovereignty was over in Europe". The summit failed to revive an association agreement with Ukraine that was due to be its centrepiece.

Ice Prince Denied His Son Because He Was Unsure

                       

Ice Prince welcomed a baby boy last year with a

20-year old undergraduate student. Soon after

she put to bed and the news went out, Ice Prince

denied ever impregnating her, and said it to

whoever cared to listen. He has however

explained his reasons for doing that in this new

interview with showbizplus, because he now

flaunts the boy and also brought him on stage at

his just concluded FOZ concert.

You initially denied having a baby?

It was complicated back then, I didn’t really

know what was happening

Wreckage of Mozambican plane found, no survivors

                               

The Namibian Police on Saturday found the burned wreckage of a missing Mozambican Airlines plane in a remote area in the northeastern part of the country, saying none of the 33 people from several countries aboard had survived the crash. “My team on the ground have found the wreckage. No survivors. The plane is totally burned,” said Willie Bampton, a regional police coordinator in the Kavango region.

Another Male student leaks female student nude photos after Sleeping with her

          

The male student pictured below is a student of Unilorin who usually takes bedroom photos with girls and then share them with his friends...Unfortunately one of his friends then went further and posted the pictures on a social website.

This is a repetition of what happened to a Nigerian student some weeks ago which made us to advise the general public not to keep private photos on your mobile or computer system.

See photos below…

SHOCKER: Ex-Footballer Discovers All 3 Kids From 20 Years Of Marriage Are Not His

                              

                         
Former Ghanaian international footballer Nii Odartey Lamptey has revealed that he recently found out that all three children he had with his wife of almost 20 years are not his biological children. He made the shocking revelation in a radio interviewed when asked why he was divorcing his wife. “...I thought they were my children but upon a DNA test, I got to know that they are not my biological children. The issue is in court so I’m pleading, because it is a legal issue I don’t want to go through so many things, but I am 100% sure that the children are not mine after 20-years of marriage. We had five children but two passed away so we were left with only 3 and they are not mine" The former Aston Villa player told reporters

How I co-ordinated Lagos Black Sunday robbery - Godogodo

                      

LAGOS — Sunday, September 9, 2012, will remain indelible in the minds of some families in LagosState, who lost their loved ones to the brazen attack of a gang of heavily armed robbers, who laid siege to strategic points in the state, killing at least three policemen and several other citizens, while scores sustained injuries. But the arrest  of all the members of the gang that operated that day, including the notorious South-West robbery czar, Abiodun Ogunjobi, aka, Godogodo, would bring relief to relatives and friends of those killed or injured during the encounter.

Nigerian military bombs Boko Haram camps, many killed

                

Nigeria’s military has launched air strikes on Boko Haram camps in the country’s northeast killing “many” insurgents, a spokesman said Thursday of latest operation aimed at crushing the four-year Islamist uprising. The bombardment last Sunday targeted the notorious Sambisa Forest area of Borno state, which is considered an extremist fiefdom and has become a key focus of the military’s ongoing offensive. News of the assault was slow to emerge as the mobile phone network in Borno remains switched off, part of the military strategy to hamper communication between the militants.

Girl Poisons Herself After Being Accused of Stealing by Her Sister-in-Law

                     

A 17-year-old girl, who has been accused by her sister-in-law of stealing N3,000 from her handbag, died in Kubwa, FCT, on November 26, 2013, Tuesday, after taking substances suspected to be poison.

The girl was allegedly beaten and had her hair shaved with bottle before being stripped unclad by her sister-in-law at NEPA Road in Kubwa.

Man Stabs Homosexual Boss To Death

                      

A 22-year-old man, Eji Emmanuel, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for the alleged murder of a 39-year-old trader, Sylvanus Okoye. According to the police, the suspect stabbed the deceased to death at his home on Ezemegbu Drive, Okota in August. The suspect, however, explained that he killed the deceased in self-defence. He alleged that on the day of the incident, Okoye had attempted To Molest him. Explaining the events that culminated in Okoye’s death, the suspect said he was a dancer and was lured to Lagos by a friend, Chukwudi, under the guise of doing music business only for the friend to introduce him to homosexuality.

Victor Moses honoured with the Nigerian Footballer of the Year award, Beats Mikel Obi

                      
Victor Moses has been honoured with the Nigerian Footballer of the Year award, at the Nigerian Sports Awards which held on Tuesday  The Super Eagles and Liverpool forward, beat off competition from Chelsea team-mate John Mikel Obi and Sunday Mba, to land the prestigious gong.

Sharia Police Destroy 240,000 Bottles of Beer in Kano

                        

Police, enforcing Islamic law in Kano, the largest city in Nigeria’s mainly Muslim north, publicly destroyed some 240,000 bottles of beer on November 27, 2013, Wednesday.  The banned booze had been confiscated from trucks coming into the city in recent weeks, said officials from the Hisbah, the patrol tasked with enforcing the strict Islamic law, known as Sharia. Aminu Daurawa, the Hisbah chief in Kano, said at the bottle-breaking ceremony he had “the ardent hope this will bring an end to the consumption of such prohibited substances”.

Anambra poll: Judge me after 2015, Jega begs Nigerians

                      
ABUJA—Perturbed by the wave of protests trailing the inconclusive governorship election in Anambra State, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, yesterday, begged Nigerians not to evaluate his integrity till after the 2015 general elections. Jega who made the call during an interaction he had with the Civil Society Election Situation Room and Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre, PLAC, in Abuja, insisted that the tainted November 16 gubernatorial poll in Anambra should not be a parameter to judge his determination to conduct free, fair and credible election in 2015.

Atiku best President Nigeria yet to have- Babangida Aliyu

                      
Book presentation on Atiku: From right, Former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, Former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Col. Abdulrahman Danbazau and Former Vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, discussing during public presentation a book title “Landmark Constitutional Law Cases in Nigeria 2004-2007 THE ATIKU ABUBAKAR CASES”, in Abuja yesterday. Photo by Gbemiga Olamikan.

ABUJA – AHEAD of 2015 Presidential election, chairman, Northern States Governors’ Forum, NSGF and governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu said yesterday that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar remains the best president Nigeria as a country was yet to have. Speaking yesterday  at the launch of the book, titled, “Landmark  Constitutional Law Cases in Nigeria 2004-2007: The Atiku Abubakar Cases”,  at Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja, Governor Aliyu who described Atiku Abubakar as one who could not be pushed aside when he was Vice President, however stressed that he had an understanding with his former boss, Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, hence any memo which did not have the backing of the former Vice President was considered dead on arrival, adding that each time he nodded  his head at Federal Executive Council, FEC meetings, the memo scaled through  and when he does anything to the contrary, the memo dies.

Army kills 40 Boko Haram suspects in Borno

                        

MAIDUGURI — Over 40 suspected Boko Haram members were killed in an offensive by the military, which raided its identified cells using air strikes and ground troops from the 7 Division, Nigerian Army, in Bita village, Damboa-Gwoza road in Borno State. Two weeks ago, no fewer than 20 suspected terrorists were reportedly killed by troops from the same Division in the area, while several others escaped during a similar raid in one of the Boko Haram hideouts as confirmed to journalists by the Division’s spokesman, Colonel Mohammed Dole.

Militants to Benin Republic govt: Release Asari-Dokubo or…

                        

A group loyal to the Niger Delta activist, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, NDPVF, has warned the authorities of Benin Republic to free the former militant leader or be ready to face its wrath. The Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, NDPVF, issued the warning, signed by its leaders, Mr. Rex Ekiugbo Anighoro in Abuja last night, follo-wing the arrest and detention of Dokubo in an unknown location since Tuesday afternoon.

More nations defy China air zone

                        

Japan and South Korea have both flown planes unannounced through China's newly-declared air defence zone, officials from both nations say.  Japanese aircraft had conducted routine "surveillance activity" over the East China Sea zone, the top government spokesman said. South Korea had also conducted a flight, its defence ministry said. China says planes transiting the zone, which covers areas claimed by Tokyo, Seoul and Taipei, must file plans.

German parties reach coalition deal

                 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives have agreed terms for a coalition with the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), officials say. The late-night deal follows talks by SPD leaders with Mrs Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and allied CSU. Mrs Merkel could be sworn in for a third term in office next month if SPD members ratify the deal. The CDU/CSU fell short of a majority in September polls, and traditional coalition partner the FDP won no seats.

Start writing your handover notes, G7, Baraje group tell Jonathan

                         

ABUJA- THE defunct Abubakar Kawu Baraje  led splinter group of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP which prior to Tuesday had in its fold, the G7 governors, asked President Goodluck Jonathan to start writing his handover notes ahead of the 2015 Presidential election. According to the group in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, joining the All Progrsssive Congress, APC, the opposition party was now the majority party in the country while it said it tagged PDP as a minority party, adding, “In the circumstances, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan must now start writing his handover notes because his ambition to maouevre the party structures so as to get a third term in office in 2015 has suddenly collapsed.

How I quit, returned to robbery in 2011 - Godogodo

                     

LAGOS — Abiodun Ogunjobi, otherwise known as Godogodo, the dreaded one-eyed robbery czar who terrorized Lagos and other South-West states, killing no less than 50 policemen while raiding several  banks, businesses and homes, for over 14 years  has revealed that he almost quit robbery in 2011.

Godogodo made this disclosure during an interview with Vanguard at the state Police Command headquarters, Ikeja, where he is currently being detained following his arrest by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, led by SP Abba Kyari, on August 1.

Swiss govt ready to assist Nigeria on alleged N1.1trn NNPC fraud

                     
Switzerland is ready to assist Nigeria in the ongoing investigations into the alleged more than 6.8 billion dollars (N1.1 trillion) fraudulent oil deals involving the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and Swiss oil trading companies. Mr. Hans-Rudolf Hodel, the country’s ambassador to Nigeria, made the pledge in Abuja yesterday.

Call for UN action on CAR 'chaos'

                         

                        

The Central African Republic (CAR) is descending into "complete chaos", the UN deputy secretary general has warned, calling for urgent action. Jan Eliasson urged the Security Council to strengthen the African Union-led force in the country, and to turn it into a UN peacekeeping operation. The CAR has been in turmoil since rebels seized power in March. France, the former colonial power, has confirmed it would contribute hundreds of extra troops to the force.

24-yr-old farmer nabbed for beheading toddler

                         

MINNA — Nemesis has caught up with a 24-year-old farmer, Danladi Abubakar, who allegedly beheaded an 11-month-old  girl for rituals. Danladi, after being arrested by the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, confessed that the deal was to fetch him N20,000. He was allegedly contracted by a man in Bida, Niger State,  who is said to be on the run.

Egypt passes law restricting protests

                    

Cairo (CNN) -- Egypt's interim president approved a new law on Sunday that restricts protests in the country. Activists and human rights groups have been fighting for years to block passage of the law, which imposes new regulations on demonstrations, requiring organizers to get government approval by registering events with authorities three days in advance. The law approved by interim President Adly Mansour allows police to use force against protesters who commit violations.

Government officials have argued that the restrictions are necessary to preserve stability and protect the rights of protesters.

Sexual assault centre treats 124 cases

                       

A total of 124 victims of sexual assault and dome-stic violence were attended to in the first five months of  operation of the Mirabel Cen-tre for Rape Victims, the first sexual violence and referral centre in Nigeria, located at the Lagos State University Tea-ching Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos.

Disclosing this, yesterday, in Lagos during the official opening of the centre, Executive Director/Managing Partner, Partnership for Justice, Mrs. Itoro Eze-Anaba, said Oshodi, Mafoluku, Ikeja, Mile 12, Ketu and Ojodu areas of Lagos, were flashpoints for assault and sexual violence because the highest number of incidents reported at the centre, were recorded at these places.

“Most of the clients we have attended to were young girls between 11 and 15.

5 killed, houses burnt as gunmen attack Plateau community

                           
JOS — Five people were yesterday killed and several houses burnt at Kuka village in Shendam Local government Area of Plateau State when armed men attacked the village. The gunmen, said to have numbered over 100, stormed the village, which is about 300 kilometres from the state capital and shares boundary with Taraba State, after midnight.

Iran cheers deal as Israel warns

                         

An adoring crowd gathers to meet the Iranian negotiators as Emily Thomas reports Cheering crowds have welcomed home the Iranian negotiators who secured a nuclear deal with world powers, while Israel called it a "historic mistake". US President Barack Obama telephoned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seeking to reassure him of Washington's commitment to Israel. Sunday's deal in Geneva prompted a fall in oil prices on markets on Monday.

Pro-Jonathan lawmakers move to dump constitution review for confab

                         
                      Senate President, David Mark; President Jonathan and House of Reps Speaker, Tambuwal
Credit: Vanguard

ABUJA— The review of the 1999 Constitution by the House of Representatives might have been put on hold, following subtle moves by many members of the lower chambers of the National Assembly to stop further work on the matter, pending the conclusion of the national dialogue, which was recently initiated by the presidency.

Findings by Vanguard indicated that many of the lawmakers loyal to President Goodluck Jonathan were favourably disposed to the suspension of further action on the amendment of the Constitution by the leadership of the House of Representatives until the conclusion of the proposed conference.

20,000 drivers’ licences ready for collection in Lagos

                                      

Lagos – Lagos  State governor, Mr. Babatnde Fashola  has visited the drivers’ licence Facility at Ojodu to complete   his driver’s license process, directing all the agencies concerned to publicise the fact that over 20,000 licences are ready for collection across the state.

The governor went through eye and written tests with the Vehicle Inspection Service, VIS, and photo data capture with the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, at the end of which he got his temporary driver’s licence.

Lebanese arrested for defiling underage girls

                        

                         The rescued girls

AKURE — A 32-year-old Lebanese, Jack Sankary, whose hobby is to have carnal knowledge of under-aged girls in Akure, the Ondo State capital, has been nabbed by detectives. Also middle aged woman, Chinwe Chinasa, has been arrested for allegedly trafficking six young girls to Libya for prostitution.

His recruiter, Patience Godwin, is currently undergoing interrogation at the state CID. Vanguard gathered that Patience was arrested at her hideout in Odopetu area of Akure metropolis and one 14-year-old girl about to be taken to the Lebanese rescued.

Dream machine

                      

From video game to show floor - Mercedes turns the AMG Vision Gran Turismo into reality......I know Nigerians will be among the first countries to purchase this.......Do you believe this?

Nigeria president taken ill in UK

                 
                   President Jonathan was in London when he became ill


Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has been taken ill and given medical treatment while overseas, but his condition is not said to be serious. The president was in London for a business meeting, but could not attend. "The Presidency wishes to assure all Nigerians that President Jonathan's condition is nothing serious," his aide Reuben Abati said in a statement.

TRAGEDY: How Osun Monarch Was Killed, Set Ablaze In Palace

                            

Credit: KJ Blog

Chiefs and residents of Ilashe Ijesa in Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State on Thursday narrated how the monarch of the town, Oba Adesina Anibijuwon, was killed by suspected members of OPC who were said to have strangled him and left his corpse inside his residence which they set ablaze. “We were told that some gunmen who claimed to be OPC members came and wanted to see Kabiyesi but they were told that he was sleeping. 

US-Afghan clash on pact timetable

                             

                             

                             

Credit: BBC

The US has said a new post-2014 security deal with Afghanistan should be signed by the end of the year - conflicting with earlier comments from Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The US said it was neither "practical nor possible" to delay the signing. As a gathering of Afghan elders debated the pact, Mr Karzai said it would not be signed until after 2014 elections. The deal may see 15,000 foreign troops remain, although the US says it has not yet taken a decision on any presence.

'I don't trust them'

Opening the four-day grand assembly of elders - or Loya Jirga - on Thursday in Kabul, Mr Karzai urged the delegates to approve the new security deal.

Omotola Jalade Ekeinde Honored in Her Home State

                          

The super star actress received an Award of Excellence as a citizen of Ondo State today. Pictured above with the Paramount Ruler of Ondo Kingdom, Oba Kiladejo. Honour well deserved. Thank God she is recognised in her own town contrary to the popular adage. Congrats Omotola, Click afer cut for more pics

Golden Eaglets defender, Friday Njengo, is dead

                        

Nigeria’s football family was thrown into mourning on November 19, 2013, Tuesday, as news on the death of the former Golden Eaglets defender, Friday Njengo, spread. He had been in intensive care at the National Hospital, Abuja, for more than nine months after sustaining injuries in a ghastly road accident. Late Friday Njengo, a regular with the Manu Garba team during the qualifying series for the 2013 CAN U-17 Championship, during which the Eaglets thrashed Niger Republic, Guinea and Mali home-and-away, was involved in an accident with team-mate Adamu Abubakar while traveling from Jalingo to Calabar for the team’s first phase of final camping for the African Championship. The accident occurred on February 3, 2013. 

                                 

There should be an end to prosecutions for Troubles-related killings, Northern Ireland's attorney general has said. John Larkin said there should be no further police investigations, inquests or inquiries into any relevant killings that took place before the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. That means all deaths caused by paramilitaries, police or the Army. Mr Larkin said his proposal was not a formal amnesty, but was a logical consequence of the Agreement.

2 dead, 40 feared trapped in South Africa building collapse

                    

                      

(CNN) -- At least two people have died and up to 40 people are feared trapped after a roof collapsed at a construction site in eastern South Africa, emergency services say. The collapse occurred in the township of Tongaat, near Durban. Thirty people have been transported to the hospital with injuries ranging from moderate to critical, Crisis Medical operations director Neil Powell told CNN from the scene. Powell said the construction work had been taking place beside a shopping mall.

more pics after cut.....

You don't need court order to cancel tainted Anambra poll, APC tells INEC

                        

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused INEC of being economical with the truth by saying only the courts can order the cancellation of last Saturday’s governorship election in Anambra, in which about 1.3 million of the 1.7 million registered voters were unable to exercise their franchise.

In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party reminded INEC that it did not wait for a court order to cancel the National Assembly elections in 2011, when it was obvious that many voters across the country could not vote due to the late arrival or non-delivery of voting materials.

”In announcing the cancellation of the National Assembly election in 2011, INEC Chairman Attahiru Jega said, among others, that it was to ‘maintain the integrity of the elections and retain effective overall control of the process’,” it said.

Serial killer gets stay of execution

                    

(CNN) -- A federal court has granted a stay of execution for white supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection in Missouri. Franklin is on death row for the 1977 murder of Gerald Gordon outside a synagogue in St. Louis. He's been blamed for a total of 22 killings between 1977 and 1980 in a bid to start a race war. He is challenging Missouri's decision to use the drug pentobarbital in its lethal injection protocol, arguing it would violate the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

Returning hero Sivan Perwer divides Kurds

                         
                      Sivan Perwer's gesture with Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) has perturbed some Kurds

                        
                               Some 300 couples took part in the mass wedding in Diyarbakir

                        
                         Kurdish fans of Sivan Perwer are delighted to welcome him back home

An iconic singer's return from exile has opened up a divide among Turkey's Kurds, who may be at a crossroads in their history. There is a legend that a Kurdish peshmerga fighter, facing surgery with no anaesthetic, decided to get through the operation by singing Sivan Perwer songs. The fighter is said to have felt no pain - such is the reported effect of Sivan Perwer's music on Kurdish life (and medical science).

Obama urges no new Iran sanctions

                         
                         Obama

                         
                             Iranian students staged a protest in Qom in defence of the nuclear programme


US President Barack Obama has urged US senators to hold off from proposing more sanctions against Iran to allow time for world powers to complete a deal on Iran's nuclear programme. A White House spokesman warned that if a deal with Tehran was not agreed, Iran would continue enriching uranium.
Envoys from the P5+1 group of nations will begin a new round of negotiations with Iran in Geneva on Wednesday.