The Executive Director/Chief Executive of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Segun Awolowo, posted the made in Nigeria SUV pictured above, manufactured by...
We are sending birthday wishes to someone very special to us and our Nation Nigeria, Professor Wole Soyinka....
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OJB has been discharged from a hospital in India after a successful kidney transplant. The ace
music producer sent out a release thanking everyone and said he will be home soon.
Dear fellow Nigerians,
Greetings from far away India! I am sure this note from me will catch you with a little
surprise. I have been reading a lot of news about me being published on Facebook, Twitter,
LinkedIn and different blogs by my good friends. I thought I must take out a quick moment
and let you know that I am officially discharged today from the hospital, after a successful
Kidney Transplantation Surgery, by God’s Grace.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all Nigerians for your prayers and good
wishes, without which all this would not have been possible. I also take this opportunity
to thank my friends, fans and family for all the love, prayers and good wishes for a Speedy
Recovery!! Be home with you soon…….
Thank you once again sincerely,
Your very own OJB Jezreel.
Nollywood Actress, Janet Atayero-Oluseye Is Dead
One of the prominent faces of Yoruba genre of Nollywood, Janet Atayero-Oluseye who
got married last year to Olalekan Oluseye has passed away.
The 32years old actress passed away on Wednesday 23th of October, 2013. She was a
member of Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts Practitioner (ANTP), Ibadan chapter was
with the Ojopagogo movie caucus in Ibadan until her death.
Before She died, she was said to have complained of pains on her foot and couldn’t walk
with it for months and subsequently her health deteriorated even though she was treated
in the hospital and some spiritual measures were taken to help her out, she was buried
in Lagos, the same day she died
During a robbery in Winter Garden, Fla., a gunman fires at a gas station clerk, and the
Sprint HTC in the clerk’s shirt pocket takes the blow.
Engineers delight in putting pens in their shirt pockets. For gas station clerks, however,
the location of your cell phone in your shirt pocket could save your life.This seemed to
be the case at a Winter Garden, Fla., Hess gas station, which was subject to a holdup.
As WFTV reports it , a man walked in, demanded the safe be opened, and brandished a
gun. Two clerks tried to open the safe, but failed. The robber took off, but not before
turning and firing at one of the clerks, when the police arrived, one of the clerks
complained of chest pain. A touch of angina? No, a bullet to his HTC.
Ahmed Bola Tinubu’s first daughter, Folashade Tinubu Ojo has been crowned the new
Iyaloja of Lagos State and the President General of the Market Men and Women of
Nigeria. The installation took place today at the palace of the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan
Akiolu. Bola Tinubu’s mum held the position before she passed away recently. Congrats
to her.
A man identified as Chinweoru Ugbo, 32, was weekend arrested by the Onueke
Divisional Police Command, Ebonyi State for allegedly butchering his uncle, Mr. Ogbuleji
Nwite, 78, with an axe.
The crime was allegedly committed at Nsokkara Community in Ezza South Local Government
Area of the state over claims that the deceased was diabolically manipulating Ugbo’s destiny.
The suspect allegedly lured his victim to a lonely farmland near a neighbouring community in
Amagu, under the guise of showing him (the victim) a piece of land he wanted to purchase.
He reportedly inflicted 27 cuts on late Mr. Nwite in the early hours of Saturday, unaware that
some people saw him.
Vanguard gathered that the suspect was caught by the villagers at Igweledoha Nsokkara
community, when he was packing his luggage to flee the community.
It was also learnt that the suspect, a trader resident at Owerri in Imo State, was said to have
returned home on Friday night with the intention of killing his uncle.
Eyewitnesses’ story
An eyewitness, Nweke Nwankwo, alleged that the act took place in a vegetable farmland.
The witness said: “I was on top of a palm tree harvesting fruits and saw both of them
conversing. I never suspected anything because they were relatives.
“But I felt cold to the spine when the boy started brutalising the old man, who recently
returned from the hospital after an eye surgery.”
Another witness, a woman who spoke on condition of anonymity, stated that she was weeding
in her farm, some distance from the scene, when she heard a cry.
She said: “I did not know that an abomination was being committed because the loud shout
was just once.
“I continued with my job until passers-by, who first sighted the dead body, raised alarm.”
It was learnt that a white T-shirt, which an eyewitness claimed the suspect wore that morning,
was brought out from his room with blood stains.
A Nigerian night club bouncer has been jailed for seven years in the UK for raping a woman in
her own home. Idreez Popoola (pictured above), who twice dodged deportation, brutally
attacked his victim on 29th December 2012, eleven months after he successful appealed his
deportation ruling.
Prosecutors said Popoola met his victim while working as an agency-employed bouncer
outside Bar So in Northampton town centre. He took her out for drinks then managed to
convince the woman to take him back to her home. It was in her home that he attacked her.
Popoola, 34, was jailed for seven years at a court in Northampton on October 18. He was also
ordered to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register for life. The court told him he would be
automatically deported back to Nigeria on his release from prison.
A group of mysterious figures caused a stir in the crowd at BayernThe police on Monday arraigned a trader, John Fadeyi, for allegedly raising false alarm
over the disappearance of his manhood in the public.
The accused, 32, who resides at Oja Street in Orile, is facing a two-count charge of assault and
raising false alarm in a Magistrates’ Court in Tinubu, Lagos.
The Police Prosecutor, Sgt. Daniel Ighodalo, told the court that the accused committed the
offence on Oct. 23, at about 1.30 p.m. at Agarawu Street on the Lagos Island.
He said that the accused claimed that the complainant, Princess Ajayi Olabode, had bodily
contact with him, adding that he immediately felt something leaving his body.
“Fadeyi alleged that when the lady hit him, he felt a shock and that when he touched his
private part; he discovered that it had disappeared.
“He raised an alarm and people immediately gathered to plead with the complainant to return
his private part,’’ he added.
Ighodalo said that the complainant claimed that she was beaten up because of the false alarm
which Fadeyi raised.
The prosecutor said that the offence contravened Sections 166 and 171 of the Criminal Law of
Lagos State, 2011.
The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The Magistrate, Mrs O. M. Ajayi, granted the accused bail in the sum of N40,000 bail with one
surety in like sum.
She later adjourned the case to Nov. 4. (NAN)
Steadily making itself a favorite among the middle-class population, Tecno continues to
strive for more, this time entering a deal with smartphone makers Blackberry.
The deal sees upcoming Tecno phones to be preloaded with Blackberry’s signature
messaging app, BBM.
According to Vice President, TECNO Group, Mr. Arif Chowdhury, this collaboration is a
unique one that will enhance the brand feasibility of both TECNO and Blackberry.
Arif, disclosed that the agreement, which was signed on 17th
An exclusive report from Goal suggests that Manchester United are set to part ways with a
number of their experienced players, as manager David Moyes looks to stamp his authority on
the struggling Reds.
The report states that Moyes will allow Rio Ferdinand , Nemanja Vidic , Patrice Evra and
Ryan Giggs to all leave Old Trafford, though the future of Welshman Giggs appears to be
more likely to end in staying at United than the other three.
Ferdinand , now 34, has been a mainstay at Manchester United since his
The Nigerian police in Bayelsa has confirmed
that an 18-year-old girl committed suicide after a gang rape by three unidentified men last
week.
One of the young girl's family members, who pleaded for anonymity, said the girl was
gangmolested last week in Amarata, Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.
“She was on an errand for her elder sister and was allegedly molested at
