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Afropop singer Mark David Enyiaka aka Zbyte who made waves around 2007 is set to wed his heartthrob on July 1, 2017 at St. Maria Goretti Parish Ikenegbu Owerri Imo State by 10am. According information released by the ‘Nwata Nwanyi’ crooner, the post wedding reception will be taking immediately after the wedding mass at Marvis Suites Works Layout Owerri Imo State.

Chile are into the Confederations Cup final after the semi with Portugal in Kazan was decided by Claudio Bravo's penalty shoot-out saves. Bravo saved poor spot-kicks from Ricardo Quaresma, Joao Moutinho and Nani as the much-maligned Manchester City goalkeeper proved to be the match winner. Chile were faultless from the spot as Arturo Vidal, Charles Aranguiz and Alexis Sanchez scored. The South American champions had come closest to winning the contest in open play when Vidal hit the post in the penultimate minute of extra-time and Martin Rodriguez struck the bar with the follow-up.

It seems she is in the throes of a brand new romance. And as Rihanna put on a hot and heavy display with her new beau during a Spanish vacation this week, his identity has now been revealed. The singer, 29, is dating Hassan Jameel - a Saudi businessman who is currently the deputy president and vice chairman of family business Abdul Latif Jameel, one of the biggest companies in the world.

Thirteen people in China have been sentenced to death for selling drugs as part of a public hearing watched by some 10,000 people. According to local reports, they were accused of producing and selling drugs in the city of Shanwei, southern China's Guangdong province. The trial took place on June 24. Eight of those sentenced were executed immediately after the trial. 18 people were on trial at the joint court case by Shanwei Intermediate People's Court and the Lufeng People's Court, reported The Beijing News.

A woman has been accused of killing her father-in-law by squeezing his testicles during a row about a cockfight. Police say victim Gau Kerketta dropped dead on the spot after his son's wife, Anima Kharia, lunged at him and grabbed his genitals like a vice. He had been trying to defuse a bust up between Kharia and his son Bhairaw after the pair's rooster lost a fight in India. 'The couple was probably drunk,' said police officer Ashok Kumar. 'The father-in-law tried to pacify them but the woman grabbed his testicles and squeezed them. 'The man died on the spot.'

The third most senior cardinal in the Catholic Church has been charged with historic sex offences stemming from multiple complainants. Just hours after Australian police confirmed Cardinal George Pell is facing multiple charges, the 76-year-old vowing to return to his homeland and 'clear his name.' Cardinal Pell was summonsed from Rome on Thursday after Victoria police presented the charges to his Melbourne legal team and the court. He is due before Melbourne Magistrates court on July 18. Cardinal Pell has been accused of sexually abusing and grooming boys. The allegations date back to when Pell was a priest in Ballarat, Victoria, and Archbishop of Melbourne. The charges reportedly include three sex assault charges, including one count of rape, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.

A former governor of Taraba State, Danbaba Suntai, is dead. Mr. Suntai who survived a plane crash at the Yola airport in 2012, died at home where he was undergoing rehabilitation for brain injuries arising from the plane crash.

The All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, has decried Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, leader, Nnamdi Kanu’s call on Anambra people to shun forthcoming gubernatorial poll in the state. The party, in a letter to Mr. Kanu, signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Ifeatu Obiokoye, and made available to the media in Awka on Monday, said the call was irresponsible and devoid of intellectual focus. It said that Kanu had no authority to speak for the Igbos of the South-East, although APGA acknowledged him as the leader of IPOB. It explained that Biafra’s concept was a metaphor for the demand for equity and fair play in the Nigeria state and not a separatist movement. “Nnamdi Kanu’s call for a boycott of elections in the South-East, beginning with the governorship polls scheduled for November 18, 2017 in Anambra is irresponsible and totally devoid of any focus. “You must appreciate that for different logical reasons and perception, the Biafra concept has attracted favourable commen...

The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved the inclusion of youth corps members into the National Health Insurance Scheme. To this end, the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, is to collaborate with the Scheme to improve healthcare services to serving corps members throughout their one-year mandatory service year. The Health Minister, Isaac Adewole, told State House correspondents after the FEC meeting that the inclusion was aimed at preventing unnecessary deaths among youth corps members across the country. “Council approved the memo that henceforth we will include NYSC members in the National Health Insurance Scheme across the country.

According to reports on PREMIUM TIMES, Heavily armed security operatives on Wednesday raided the residence of a former vice president, Namadi Sambo, in Kaduna. The operatives are believed to have come from the State Security Service, SSS, and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, ICPC. An ICPC operative in the North-West zonal office of the agency in Kaduna, confirmed the raid to our reporter. “Yes, we carried out a raid of the former Vice President Sambo’s house around 3:00pm today (Wednesday) with other agencies,” the operative said but declined to give further details because he has no official permission to speak to journalists. “You can contact our headquarters in Abuja for details,” he added. Umar Sani, the former media aide to Mr. Sambo, who also confirmed Wednesday’s raid said it was the fifth by security operatives on the house. He accused Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress of allegedly intimidating people to scare possible con...

A top investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has escaped death by the whiskers when gunmen opened fire on him in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Mr. Austin Okwor an operative in the Property Fraud Section of the EFCC Zonal office in Port Harcourt, had closed late for the day and as he left office, he was suddenly accosted by a gang of daredevil hoodlums who opened fire on him. Luckily for him, he was able to shake off his assailants but not without sustaining some bullet wounds as they kept firing at him. He was rushed to a private hospital in Port Harcourt where he is receiving treatment.

Nigerian striker,Henry Onyekuru is delighted to have signed a five year deal with English Premier League side,Everton. Onyekuru becomes the third player signed by coach Ronald Koeman after the club confirmed Ajax midfielder Davy Klaassen and Jordan Pickford this off season. A deal for Spanish star Sandro Ramirez is also in line as well for the Toffees.

A Nigerian man identified as Jefferson Uwoghiren, celebrated his young daughter's birthday today with a crocodile in Benin city, Edo.

ISIS militants have been issuing 'passports to heaven' to encourage members to carry out suicide attacks and keep control of its self-declared capital, Raqqa. Copies of the passports were discovered by Syrian Defence Forces in newly liberated neighbourhoods of the northern Syrian city, and photos of the documents were posted to social media. Brainwashed extremists believe that they will be rewarded with virgins in paradise if they die protecting the Islamic State. ISIS has handed out documents reading 'passports to heaven' to motivate fighters to carry out suicide attacks in hopes of convincing them they will be sent to 'paradise' if they do so.

A gang of Nigerian fraudsters are facing jail for for using the identities of MPs, judges and police officers during a £10million (4 Billion Naira)scam. The crew stole personal details from the Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC), to make fraudulent claims over a four-year period. Member lists were ‘stolen to order’ from CSSC and used to place orders for tax credit starter packs used in fraudulent claims over a four year period. The gang managed to get away with nearly £2,500,000 before staff at Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs spotted the ‘extraordinarily high rate’ of claims being made by civil servants. If the scam had not been stopped it could have reaped more than £10,260,525. CSSC events manager Adedamola Oyebode,30 years Old, stole membership lists and passed them on to her brothers-in-law Oluwatobe Emmanuel Odeyemi, 34, and Oluwagbenga Stephen Odeyemi, 39, who ran the fraud with Kayode Sanni, 38. Sanni, an illegal immigrant, denied being involved in the fraud and told ...

Lord Carey quit his Church of England role yesterday after a damning inquiry found he colluded with senior clergy to protect a paedophile bishop. The former Archbishop of Canterbury resigned as honorary Assistant Bishop of Oxford after he was accused of helping to ‘deliberately conceal’ evidence which helped Peter Ball escape prosecution for 22 years. Ball, the former Bishop of Lewes and Gloucester and a friend of Prince Charles, was finally jailed for 32 months in October 2015 after admitting sex offences against 18 teenagers and young men between the 1970s and 1990s.

Governor Rochas Okorocha has said that the people of Mbaise where the PDP governorship Candidate Chief Emeka Ihedioha comes from voted massively for him in 2015, but something happened along the line which didn’t allow the Correct votes of the people of the area to count again, adding that the people of the area also voted for him in 2011. Governor Okorocha spoke when leaders and notable traditional rulers from the area including a member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Raphael Nnanna Igbokwe paid him solidarity visit at the Government House Owerri on Monday, June 26, 2017, Commending Mbaise people for their enterprise. His words, “If there is one group of people that I am proud of, that are so enterprising and have made the name of this State great globally, it is the Mbaise people. In other words, Imo State can hardly be talked about without the mention of Mbaise. Mbaise people are source of pride to us and adequately play a key role to the development of the State”.

The arrested kidnap kingpin, Chukwudi Onuamadike, alias Evans, was arrested in 2006 for armed robbery where seven members of his gang died while sharing their loot in Lagos State. A police source revealed this on Sunday as investigations on Evans past activities deepened, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that Evans and his robbery gang, in 2006 attacked a commercial bank in Lagos and went somewhere around the National Arts Theatre, Iganmu, to share the loot. NAN says while sharing the loot, the robbers had a disagreement and shot one another. Seven members of the gang died instantly. “The then Divisional Police Officer of Iponri Police Station, Yahaya Bello, now a deputy commissioner of police, said there was a serious incident involving some persons who shot at one another. He said about three of them had been arrested. “One of the members of the gang arrested then was Chukwudi Onuamadike, popularly known as Evans. If you look at his ...

Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank, has been named the winner of this year’s World Food Prize . The prestigious U.S.$250,000 prize is given annually to a person who has worked to advance human development by “improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world”. Over a 31-year existence, the award has become known as the ‘Nobel Prize’ for food and agriculture. Monday’s announcement by the president of the World Food Prize, Kenneth Quinn, was made at a ceremony held at the U.S. Department of Agriculture attended by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue. Since its founding in 1986, the Prize has honoured 45 individuals for their outstanding contributions to food security around the world.

Nigerian singer and songwriter Wizkid on Sunday bagged BET Award for ‘Best International Act: Africa’ in Los Angeles, California. Wizkid topped Tekno, Mr Eazi, Davido, Stonebwoy, Aka, Nasty C, Babes Wodumo who were also nominated in the category. This won’t be the first time Star boy is bagging the award in this category, as he has gone home with the award in 2012.

No fewer than 38 universities across the country have increased their tuition fees as a result of poor funding by the Federal and State governments. The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Ibadan Chapter, Dr Deji Omole, made this known in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Monday. The statement which assessed the two years of President Muhammadu Buhari in office lamented that the current government had made Nigerians poorer. Omole said that the public education was not taken seriously because most children of the rich and those in high offices do not attend school in Nigeria.

Cristiano Ronaldo and his girlfriend of 8 months are reportedly expecting their first child together. Georgina Rodríguez, 22, is reportedly 5 months pregnant and she looked very pregnant as she and her 32 year old beau stepped out recently.

A fake pastor identified as pastor Osinachi Christopher from Abia state was humiliated and disgraced after he was allegedly caught while trying to bury a pot of charm in someone's compound at Nnobi area of Anambra state. According to the person who shared this, this is not the first time the pastor has done this.

Rescuers scoured through rocks on Saturday in a frantic search for more than 140 people feared buried after a landslide smashed through a mountain village in southwestern China. A couple and a baby were rescued and taken to hospital after more than 40 homes in the village of Xinmo, in Maoxian County of China's Sichuan Province, were swallowed by huge boulders when the side of a mountain collapsed. At least 141 people and 46 homes were buried, according to Chinese media. The landslide blocked a 1.24 mile section of a river.

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, has dismissed all his commissioners, just 24 hours after the Commissioner for Information, Austin Tam-George, resigned from the cabinet. A statement issued Saturday by the governor’s spokesperson, Simeon Nwakaudu, directed the commissioners to hand over to the permanent secretaries in their respective ministries.

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has placed a ban restricting school girls who get impregnated from going back to school. The President made this known while addressing Bagamoyo District residents during his three-day-tour of Coast Region on Thursday. Magufuli accused some of the nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), which have been urging the Tanzanian government to allow teen mothers back to school, of being used by foreign agents. “There are many things that girls, who are impregnated can do after delivery; they can join VETA (Vocational Education Training Authority centres), they can learn sewing but they can’t go back to school,” said President Magufuli.

I don't know how true this story is but it was shared on Imgur. According to the story, the Chinese woman caught her husband cheating, and before he slept on the night of the incident, she put sleeping pills in his food and when he dozed off, she took a knife and cut off his private parts. The man woke up from the immense pain and called police after realizing what had happened to him.

Senior Nigerian Lawyer Stripped of SAN Title ******

Congratulations are in order for Dr Grace Idemudia Owinje who was recently promoted to a Major in the United States Army. Dr. Grace Idemudia who is from Edo state -is a female Internal Medicine Doctor located in Fort Hood, Texas. Pastor-Ehis Idemudia who shared the good news on Facebook wrote;

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has warned that elections will be boycotted in the South East states starting with the Anambra State gubernatorial elections scheduled for November 18 if the Federal Government fails to hold referendum for the realisation of the state of Biafra. “If the Federal Government does not agree with us on a date for referendum, there will be no elections in the southeast, we are starting with Anambra come November this year. There will be no governorship election in Anambra State”, Mr. Kanu said while addressing a crowd of protesters in his father’s compound in Abia state.

Juventus have confirmed they will release right-back Dani Alves from the final year of his contract. Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola is known to be interested in the 34-year-old, whom he knows from their time together at Barcelona. Speaking to Italian media on Wednesday, Juventus chief executive Beppe Marotta said that Alves had “expressed a desire to try a new experience”.

Ghana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration is investigating the circumstances surrounding the Ghanaian passports issued to Nigerian kidnap kingpin, Chikwudubem Onwuamadike aka Evans' and his family. Ghana's Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, Charles Owiredu told Joy News Thursday that any persons found to have played a role in the issuance, would be duly dealt with according to the law.

The Nigeria Customs Service Federal Operations Unit Zone C Owerri destroyed 4118 cartons of frozen poultry with duty paid value of N83,389,500 yesterday at the Abia/Command in Owerri. Comptroller Amajam Bukar, the Controller Federal Operations Unit Zone C Owerri said the seizure of the poultry products which was transported in a 1X40ft container, was achieved through a tip off from an informant to operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service Federal Operations Unit Zone C Owerri. The Unit with the aid of partner security agencies including the National Agency for Food Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and the Nigeria Police Force, was able to secure the container and its contents and destroy it in line with government directives.

A roadside vendor was caught using his Urine to wash cucumbers he sold to unsuspecting members of the public. This shocking incident occurred in Owerri, Imo state, recently.

According to Maduka who shared the story yesterday,a man from Delta who lives in Umuahia was caught with several fetish materials and padlocked keys he used to 'lock up' the progress of some of his fellow traders. Read the story as narrated by him below... 'It's past 11pm, I started hearing some crowd noise downstairs with periodic shout of 'Aaamen' as the crowd responded with same chorus, 'Aaamen.' I picked up my phone and called someone who simply told me to come down and see for myself. It was a mob and in their midst was this young man whose images you view. He was found with so many fetish items which included 23 locked and some smashed padlocks of different sizes, daga, concoction etc.

Tho they have both kept their reunion off social media it has already become public knowledge that Tiwa and Tunji Balogun are back together again as man and wife.

Monday, June 26 and Tuesday, June 27, 2017 have been declared as work-free days by the Federal Government to celebrate the end of Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr. A statement issued on Thursday, June 22, 2017, by the Director Overseeing the Office of the Permanent Secretary (DOOPS), Dr Rufa’i Kawu Attahiru, urged all Muslim faithful and Nigerians in general to use the occasion of the celebration for sober reflection and pray for peace, unity and progress of the nation in its march to nationhood.

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has urged GCE candidates to endeavour to collect their certificates within four years of writing the examination as any delay beyond that will attract custody fee. Demianus Ojijeogu, the Head of Public Affairs Department, WAEC, Nigeria disclosed this in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja. The West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for private candidates, commonly referred to as WAEC GCE, is usually taken in November/December every year.

as P lateau United FC still maintain a 5-point lead at the top Olorunleke Ojo & Mustapha Aliko are on the heels of Suraj Ayeleso

Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia has dissolved the state executive council. The dissolution was contained in a statement signed and posted on the state government’s official website by the Permanent Secretary, Government House, Onyii Wamah, on Friday night. According to the permanent secretary, the governor retained his Chief of Staff, Sunny Nwakodo, and the Commissioner for Finance, Obinna Oriaku.

At least 16 people were killed in two suicide attacks on a community on the outskirts of Maiduguri on Sunday night, the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, said on Monday. News men reported the suicide attacks on Dalori with a witness saying at least eight corpses were recovered. The NEMA, in a statement by a spokesperson, Abdulkadir Ibrahim, said the two different attacks caused at least 16 deaths.

Former Ivory Coast team-mates of Cheick Tiote have attended his funeral service in the country's capital of Abidjan. The former Newcastle United midfielder passed away earlier this month after suffering a heart attack during a training session with his Chinese club Beijing Enterprise. Members of the Ivory Coast squad were present, including Tiote's former international colleagues Kolo Toure, Wilfried Bony and Salomon Kalou. Tiote left Newcastle in February after nearly seven years at St James' Park, during which time he made 156 appearances and scored one goal.