The Poetry Of Mr Fuji, Sikiru Ayinde Barrister – A Tribute By Lagbaja

Five years have flown by since Sikiru Ayinde Barrister left us – and here we go again with another potential postponement.

Being bombarded with incredulous stories of dizzying billions and the unbelievable wickedness in high places, it is difficult to think or talk about much else.

Poorly equipped soldiers being massacred while their superiors were busy lining their pockets with funds meant for essential weapons? Extreme!

However, I was determined to will myself up from this knockdown before I’m counted out again.

Graphic Image: Two People Die After Car Falls Off Bridge along Lokoja-Abuja Road

Two people were killed and two others injured in a road accident after the vehicle they were driving in fell off Akwaita bridge on Yangoji-Abaji segment of the Lokoja-Abuja road. The corpses have been deposited at a morgue in Kogi state while those that were injured have been taken to a hospital where they are receiving medical attention. More photos after the cut...

A Nigerian Church Gives Back To Its Members This Christmas

Who says church members can't benefit from their Tithe and Offerings?

Nigerian Oil Tycoon Micheal Prest Set To Marry Kunle Tejuoso’s Wife, Bunmi…

 

It is often said that “a maiden marries to please her parents, a widow to please herself.” Bunmi, the wife of late Prince Kunle Tejuoso is set to remarry Prest, perhaps to please herself. Bunmi contradicts the African widow stereotype in more ways than could be imagined. She is not a symbol of neglect nor is she caught in a perpetual vortex of misery and lack.

Nigeria Rranked World’s 6th Largest Receiver Of Remittances At $20.8b In 2015

Nigerians in diaspora sent at least $21 billion in remittances from January to December 1, 2015, making the country the sixth largest receiver of remittances in the world, a study by the Migration of Remittance Factbook 2016 has shown.

El-Zakzaky In Our Custody – Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase

Sheikh Ibrahim El Zakzaky

The leader of the Shiite group, Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, is currently in police custody and receiving treatment for injuries suspected to be gunshot wounds sustained when soldiers stormed his residence 10 days ago killing scores of his followers.

All That Convenience Of Not Cooking At Home, However, Has A Price - Chinse Cooking Rat Meat As Chicken [Photo+Video]

This is a gentle reminder for everyone. It is to believe people in China are eating this! These deep fried thingie may look very much like chicken, but take a closer look, you will find the difference!

You will be shocked to find out these are actually RATS!

Neocolonialism? Zimbabwe Adopts Chinese Yuan As Official Legal Tender In Exchange For $40m Debt

Zimbabwe has announced that it will make the Chinese yuan legal tender after Beijing confirmed it would cancel $40m in debts.

“They (China) said they are cancelling our debts that are maturing this year and we are in the process of finalising the debt instruments and calculating the debts,” minister Patrick Chinamasa said in a statement.

Chinamasa also announced that Zimbabwe will officially make the Chinese yuan legal tender as it seeks to increase trade with Beijing.

Man Who Dresses As A Woman To Defraud Men Arrested In Lagos

Policemen attached to Lagos State Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Panti, Yaba are investigating  a 20-year-old man  identified as  Hussein Diyaya Alam from Kano State who allegedly dressed like a woman to defraud men.

alamAccording to the state commissioner of Police Fatia Owoseni, Alam had been going around with his fraudulent act but ran out of luck when one of his alleged victims, identified as Hasimu Soli, who he was said to have obtained N15,000 from under false pretence that he was going to marry him.

Subsequently, he escaped only for Soli to sight him at the CMS area of Lagos on November 15 and a quarrel ensued, leading to the police from the Lion Building Police station to arrest the two men.

President Muhammadu Buhari Presents N6.08trn 2016 Budget To National Assembly [NASS] - Read The Full Text

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has presented a total budget of N6.08 trillion for 2016 to both the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Read the full text below...

I am honoured and privileged to present the 2016 Budget proposal. This is my first address before this joint session of the National Assembly. I have come here today, not only to address members of the National Assembly, but also to speak directly to the men and women who placed us here. 

End Time Things: Pig Trying To Hump A Goat?

Photos/Video: D'banj & Don Jazzy Perform Together In Port Harcourt

D'Banj and Don Jazzy performed their hit single Igwe at Timaya's I Concur concert which held in Port Harcourt, Rivers state yesterday December 20th. See more pictures and a video of their performance after the cut ...

Floyd Mayweather Flaunts His Wealth Yet Again - Lies On Bed Of His Money As Women Pick Up Cash Says "They go to the strip club... I bring the strip club to me"

Another day in the life of Floyd Mayweather and that means another opportunity to show everyone just how wealthy he really is.

Floyd Mayweather didn't spend much of his boxing career on his back, but the undefeated five-division world champion looks more than comfortable laying on a bed of his beloved cash.

The 38-year-old posted a picture of himself on Instagram living up to his 'Money' moniker atop a sea of dollar bills as women surrounding the pile gathered cash from underneath him.

Alongside the image, in which Mayweather lays back listening to his iPod, the 49-0 boxer claimed he had brought the strip club to him. 

Court Registrar Bags 10-Years Jail Term For Aiding Fred Ajudu To Defraud Former Chief Of Army Staff Gen. Bamaiyi Of $330,000

A Lagos High Court judge, Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo Monday sentenced a Court Registrar, Oluronke Rosolu, to 10 years imprisonment for aiding Fred Ajudua to defraud former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi (retd) of $330,000.
Justice Lawal-Akapo sentenced Rosolu to 10 years imprisonment each on the two-count charge of conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence levelled against her by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
Rosolu is standing trial over allegation that she aided Fred Ajudua to defraud General Ishaya Bamaiyi while he was in Kirikiri Prisons.

Photos: Jilted Lover Boy Attempts Suicide [Viewers discretion strongly advised]

Foolish things people do for "love"...Why should one kill himself due to a heartbreak. it just doesn't make sense. or add up. This young man landed himself in an unfortunate situation after trying to kill himself because his girlfriend told him she was leaving him. The Cameroonian who likened the heartbreak to the end of his world, decided to take his own life but seemed to have failed in the process as he washed rushed to a hospital for treatment. 

When A Muslim Brother Dress-Up As 'Santa Claus' In Sokoto Nigeria - Spotted Making Time-Out To Pray

A Muslim man in Sokoto who dressed as 'Santa Clause' was spotted observing his religious duty not minding his attire as he made out time to pray.

Miss Nigeria's Outfits At The Miss Universe 2015 Pageant Causes Outrage On Twitter

The Miss Universe finals held last night in Las Vegas Nigeria’s representative, Debbie Collins wore a fascinating outfit for her National Costumes during the Preliminary Competition. Her outfit has created a lot of buzz on Twitter, with many feeling that her National Costume was a National Embarrassment.

Disaster strikes Miss Universe: As Host Announces The WRONG Winner: Miss Colombia Is Forced To Take Off Her Crown After Just Two Minutes And Hand It To Miss Philippines

Just as Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez was blowing kisses to her adoring fans she was informed, on live television, that it was actually Miss Philippines Pia Alonzo Wartzbach who had won instead. Harvey apologised to the audience and said he had read the results wrong, holding the card with the results up to the audience so they could see Philippines had been declared the winner.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini Banned From Football Activities For 8-Years

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have been banned from all football activities for eight years and fined by the FIFA adjudicatory ethics chamber. The decision, revealed in Zurich this morning, brings a definitive end to Blatter and Platini's control of the sport. Platini will also be unable to run for FIFA presidency on February 26.

''The adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics Committee chaired by Mr Hans Joachim Eckert has banned Mr Joseph S. Blatter, President of FIFA, for eight years and Mr Michel Platini, Vice-President and member of the Executive Committee of FIFA and President of UEFA, for eight years from all football-related activities (administrative, sports or any other) on a national and international level. The bans come into force immediately.''

12 Apostles of Jesus Christ all black And Adorn Traditional Attires

Couple Say "I do" On Hospital Bed After Accident Four Days To Wedding (Photo)

No, she's not dead...just seriously injured. Miriam Gakenia,31, and her fiance James Mwangi, 27, had gone to buy wedding items but were injured in a road accident at Kiangwachi area along Nyeri-Nairobi highway on Tuesday, December 15. Their wedding was to take place at Dominion Towers Deliverance Church today, Saturday December 19. 
Gakenia suffered a right hip joint injury and a broken right arm while Mwangi's right hand was injured. He had been treated and discharged but she could neither sit nor stand. The couple exchanged their vows at Outspan hospital today, with nurses as her bridesmaids. 
"The wedding had to go on. We had prepared for six months. The devil was not going to get in the way. She would have become my wife even if she had lost her legs," Mwangi explained. 

Wife Of The Bestman Holding A Bride's Butts In The Viral Wedding Pics Speaks Out

Bauchi State Government Releases Statement On People Using Ladder To Board Aircraft In Nigeria

This picture was taken at the Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Airport in Bauchi State. According to an eyewitness, the aircraft had no air-stairs and Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO) did not provide boarding stair truck, so a ladder was used to get people off board. 

Only In Nigeria - People Using Ladder To Board Aircraft In Bauchi (PHOTOS+VIDEO)

This picture was taken at the Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Airport in Bauchi State. According to an eyewitness, the aircraft had no air-stairs and Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO) did not provide boarding stair truck, so a ladder was used to get people off board. 

Plan B.......
Posted by Rabiu Biyora on Saturday, 19 December 2015

Video: Amazing Funny Little Boy Imitating Prophet TB Joshua - Says "The Mother Was Delivered From The Spirit Of Beating Him"

Man Dies In Church During Deliverance Service In Benin Nigeria [Video+Photos]

THERE was pandemonium  Monday at Uselu quarters in Benin City as a 44 year-old man, identified as Osayande Ekhator, reportedly died during a deliverance in one of the new generation churches, Hope Ministries, also known as Holy Ghost Deliverance Centre. Vanguard gathered that the death of the man angered the youths in the area who stormed the church with dangerous weapons, destroying its properties, including musical instruments, electrical appliances and vehicles parked in the premises.

Lagos Govt. Goes After Blogger Linda Ikeji Over Tax Evasion

Information gathered reveal that the multi-millionaire blogger, Linda Ikeji is in a running battle with the Lagos Inland Revenue Service (LIRS) over an alleged tax evasion.
Linda's newly acquired house  
Linda’s newly acquired house
DSC6782It was gathered that all attempts to track down the blogger started about a month ago when the agency got information that the blogger has not been remitting necessary taxes to the state 

Ezekiel Stoddard, 11-Year-Old Boy, Ordained As Minister At Fullness Of Time Church In Maryland (VIDEO)

At a time when most kids are preoccupied playing with action figures or watching cartoons, Ezekiel Stoddard is preaching to a congregation at Fullness of Time Church in Maryland.

The enthusiastic 11-year-old became an ordained minister at his family's Pentecostal church in May, but Ezekiel has been preparing sermons since he was at least 7 or 8, ABC News reports.

Though both of his parents are pastors, the young boy said he received his own special calling to preach the word of God. 

"It doesn't matter the age that you can be licensed. It just matters ... how much word do you have and how much God has called you," Ezekiel told the Washington Post in a video profile.

(Photo)The popular Westminister Market in Apapa Lagos On Fire

The popular westminister market in Apapa Lagos is currently burning seriously..

More Photos and details later..

Nollywood Actor, Prince Eke Narrates Ordeal In the Hands His Abductors - Photos

Nollywood actor and husband to singer Muma Gee, Prince Eke was released from the lion’s den of kidnappers yesterday, after spending a week in their hands. Starved of food for three days, what we didn’t know was that he was kidnapped with his PA, and he was badly brutalised and almost killed in the process of trying to escape but for divine intervention.

Read below his terrible ordeal in the hands of these evil people:
“Driving to Port Harcourt with my PA, around Ubima link into Port Harcourt road from Owerri-Port road. Three guys jumped out of the bush with heavy guns, shooting directly at us driving towards them. As I tried to reverse, two came from the back with guns too. At that point I surrendered shouting ” please don’t shoot, please don’t shoot” they grabbed me and my PA straight into the bush.

Meet Adeyemo, Son of Nigerian Immigrant Whom Obama Appointed Security Adviser

President Barrack Obama of the United States on Tuesday appointed Nigeria-born Adewale Adeyemo as the deputy national security adviser (NSA) for international economics. In a statement annoucing Adeyemo’s appointment, Obama said the African-American helped the US combat global economic recession which started in 2008. “I am grateful that Caroline’s (Atkinson, former deputy NSA) work will be carried on by Adewale ‘Wally’ Adeyemo, who has served in my administration since 2009,” he said. 

Nigerian Sprinter Okagbare Beats Usain Bolt To Guinness World Record

Blessing Okagbare, beat record breaking star, Usain Bolt, to the 2016 Guinness world records feat as the athlete with the most diamond league appearances. Okagbare participated in 38 diamond league events higher than any other athlete in the world, according to the records. “Multi-discipline athlete, Blessing Okagbare from Nigeria participated at 38 Diamond league events between July 3, 2010 and September 5, 2014. Okagbare’s specialities are the 100m and 200m sprints and long jump,” the book said. 

COURTESY VISIT TO THE HON. COMMISSIONER FOR INFORMATION & STRATEGY, OTUNBA DAYO ADENEYE BY NIPR OGUN STATE CHAPTER'S

Extreme wedding photographer snaps bride dangling 350 feet off a mountain ledge, held only by her new husband!

Daredevil Jay Philbrick offers couples a truly unique wedding album by encouraging them to put their lives in each other’s hands and suspend from a sheer drop.

They test their new marriages to the limit by holding on for dear life while dangling from a rocky ledge.

In some jaw-dropping images, bride and groom Christie Sulkoski and Kevin Coleman can be seen hanging off the cliff in their full wedding outfits.

Oba Ogunwusi Ooni Of Ife Replies Critics Says - "'I won't apologise for kneeling in Church"

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has berated critics who condemned him for kneeling in church at the Paul’s Anglican Church, Ife, Osun State, during his coronation thanksgiving service.

A picture showing the monarch kneeling down during the installation thanksgiving held at St Paul’s Anglican, Ile-Ife, on Sunday, December 13th, had gone viral on internet, attracting diverse comments

Reverend Fr. Mbaka Meets President Muhammadu Buhari At The State House in Abuja

Fiery Catholic priest and the Spiritual Director of the Adora­tion Ministry in Enugu, Rev.-Father Ejike Mbaka, on Friday met behind closed-door with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Mbaka stirred controversy earlier in the year when he delivered a message that former President Goodluck Jonathan would fail in the presidential election.

EFCC Arrests Stallion Group MD Over N1.25billion Payment He Made to Dasuki, Yuguda

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested the Managing Director of Stallion Group, Harprrie Singh, over a suspicious N1.25billion payment he made into the accounts of former Minister of State for Finance, Bashir Yuguda for Former National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki, The Punch reports.

Investigations by EFCC revealed that ‎one of the companies being investigated in the arms deal scandal, Jabbama Company, a bureau de change operator, had received payment of N1.375 billion from Stallion group with a later deduction of N100 million, leaving a balance of N1.275billion.

EFCC Seizes Dasuki's Multi-Billion Naira Mansion In Kaduna

The former NSA Sambo Dasuki's uncompleted mansion in Kaduna has been sealed by EFCC

“With its own dedicated transformer, Dasuki’s 3 floor mansion dwarfs all the houses on MadaKiya Close, Off Sani Sami”

Emotions Run High As Rape Survivors Recount Ordeal

LAUNCH: Cross section of participants at the launch of Friends of Mirabel Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Lagos recently.

It was an evening of tears and testimonies in Lagos last week as rape survivors, mostly minors, narrated their nightmarish experiences at the hands of rapists. The occasion was the launch of Friends of Mirabel, held at The Social Place, 33 Sinari Road, Victoria Island.

Former British Prime Minister At The Nigerian Governor's Forum In Abuja -To Aid Nigerian Governors Deliver On Campaign Promises

Former British Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, on Wednesday promised to assist states’ governors in Nigeria to deliver change in areas of priority in their states. Blair made the pledge at a meeting with the governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) which ended late Wednesday night at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He said that his ‘’Tony Blair Foundation’’ was open to the cry for help from any state in need of assistance to enable it to deliver democratic dividends to its people. According to him, the foundation’s members of staff are ready to provide necessary assistance to state governments whenever required.

Gov Abiola Ajimobi Commissions New Olive Court Housing In Agodi Ibadan

This is world class. In a move to improve the housing condition in Oyo state -governor Abiola Ajimobi recently commissioned a new Olive Court at Agodi, Ibadan. The event was graced by his wife Mrs Florence Ajimobi and other functionaries. 

The New Pound Coin As Royal Mint Presses Last Batch Of Round £1 Coins

The last of the “round pound” coins are rolling off the presses this month, making way for their new-look replacement.

More than 2.2 billion circulating round £1 coins have been struck during the 32 years they have been in use. From early 2017, a new 12-sided £1 coin will be brought into circulation.

Replacing £1 notes, the round coins were first launched on 21 April 1983 – the Queen’s birthday – and pound coins dating back to that year can still be found in people’s change today.

Exclusive Footage of Mourinho Leaving Stamford Bridge

Exclusive footage of Mourinho leaving Stamford Bridge?

Mourinho SACKED! Latest News And Reaction As Chelsea Force Out Their Special One (again)

Jose Mourinho has been sensationally sacked as Chelsea manager after a 2-1 defeat by Leicester compounded his side’s miserable start to the season, leaving the club with no choice but to dismiss him, despite a possible £40m pay-out.

The Portuguese boss guided his side to the Premier League title in May, but Monday's loss was their ninth of the campaign, leaving them in 16th place, just a point above the relegation places. 

Guus Hiddink is set to be installed as the interim manager until the end of the season, and could even take charge of the Blues clash with Sunderland this weekend. 

Amazing! Irish Woman Meets Her Lookalike…Even Her Father Can’t Tell Them Apart

An Irish woman is the latest woman to discover she has a doppelganger who looks so like her her own father struggled to tell them apart.

Shannon Lonergan, 21, from County Kerry, Ireland, discovered her lookalike online on the website Twin Strangers after being contacted by Sara Nordstrom, 17, from Sweden.

The pair both share the same blonde hair and facial features which Shannon said ‘frightened’ her when she met Sara, and even her father did a double take at how similar Sara looked when they met up in Dublin.

Photo Of Dokpesi Inside VIP Cell In Kuje Prison

Former Chairman of Daar Communications Group, Raymond Dokpesi was remanded in the VIP Cell of Kuje Prison for three days over a six count charge of fraud and violations of Public Procurement Act.

Graphic Photos; Teenage Girls Found Dead In Ikorodu Area Lagos After Allegedly Being Raped

According to reports, these two ladies were founded dead at Ikorodu area in Lagos after allegedly being raped -judging from the photos shared online. Their corpses were dumped in a bush withing the area. May their souls rest in peace.