Aggrieved Ondo PDP members carry coffins to protest emergence of Jimoh Ibrahim as party governorship candidate

The protest against the removal of Eyitayo Jegede as the candidate of the PDP at the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Ondo State took another dimension in Akure, the Ondo State capital yesterday as the PDP supporters and well wishers carried Coffins with inscriptions which read: R.I.P Barr. Jimoh Ibrahim, Ibrahim is not PDP candidate, No To O.E.A injustice, Okon Abang is a rotten Egg, Obituary of Okon Abang, No Eyitayo Jegede No election in ondo state.

Photo of the brave soldier that foiled today's suicide attack attempt at an IDP camp in Maiduguri

According to this twitter user, the soldier pictured on a motorcycle foiled the suicide attack attempt by a male suicide bomber at Bakassi IDP camp in Maiduguri, Borno state today.

Under my watch, not a single Nigerian was sent to prison because of anything they wrote or said about me- GEJ

Former President Goodluck Jonathan today spoke at the Annual Gala dinner of the Nigerian Lawyers Association in the US. In his speech, Jonathan noted that under his watch, not a single Nigerian was sent to prison because of anything they wrote or said about him. He said no matter what his critics had said about him, he ensured that there was both freedom of speech and freedom after the speech

Graphic photos: Troops foil another suicide bomb attack on Bakassi IDP camp in Maiduguri

ays after a female suicide bomber attacked the Bakassi IDP camp in Maiduguri, Borno state, a male suicide bomber attempted to attack the same IDP camp today. Thankfully, he wasn't lucky as the troops moved in quickly to neutralize the bomb on him. Read a statement from the Army spokesperson, Col S.K Usman below...

At about 9.00am this morning, troops of Operation LAFIYA DOLE deployed behind Bakassi Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp, Damboa road, Maiduguri, on security duty, intercepted and killed a male suicide bomber who had attempted to sneak through the troops’ inner parapet towards the IDP camp.

I made you a billionaire- Obasanjo tells African's richest woman, Folorunsho Alakija

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday told Mrs Folorunsho Alakija who is Africa’s richest woman, that his administration made her among the many billionaire Nigeria presently has. 

The former President who was a guest speaker at the 2016 Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Forum, said this while reacting to claims by Alakija that the Obasanjo administration frustrated her moves to explore the oil sector after getting her oil license from the lae military dictator, Sani Abacha.

According to Alakija who was also a panelist, the Obasanjo administration illegally took an oil block allocated to her company after her family had invested all its savings to strike oil in commercial quantity. Vanguard quotes her as saying

Photos: One of the survivors of 2006 ADC plane crash in Abuja which killed 96 people tells his amazing story

On October 29th, 2006, a Boeing 737 operated by ADC Airlines crashed near the Abuja airport shortly after takeoff, claiming so many lives, including that of the then Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Maccido.

The flight carrying 100 passengers and five crew members departed Lagos to Sokoto with an intermediate stop in Abuja.

Shortly after taking off from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, the plane crashed, broke up and caught fire in a corn field. 96 people died, including a woman working on the field, who was reportedly killed after being struck by debris from the crash.

 The primary cause of the crash was bad weather but the immediate cause was the pilot's refusal to acknowledge warning given to him by the control tower not to take off due to wind shear alert.

Photos: Kenyan man pours hot water on wife's private parts...without any provocation

A 30-year-old mother of two from Kianamu Village in Embu County, Kenya, is nursing serious burns on her thighs and private parts after her husband poured hot water on her.

Catherine Wakere was taken to Siakago Level Four Hospital last Wednesday, two weeks after the attack. Her upper right thigh and her private parts had started developing infections when she was taken to the hospital.

 

According to the hospital’s Nursing Officer Secinta Nyaga, the woman was only taken to hospital when a neighbour learnt of the cruel assault. Ms Wakere said her husband, Charles Njiru, 36, had without any provocation, poured boiling water on her. Around 11am on that fateful day, she was heating water for him when he suddenly grabbed a bowl, scooped the water and threw it on her thighs and private parts.

"He just scooped water that was boiling and splashed it on my thighs. He had aimed at my private parts, which were partly scalded," she said.