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OOU NASS President dies in car crash on way back from excursion. It was 11months ago a container fell and crushed a fully loaded commuter bus containing OOU students, killing all passengers of the bus at Sagamu/Benin Expressway at Ilishan, very close to Sagamu junction. Another accident  just occured along Ile-Ife road, Osun State involving a bus conveying a number of students returning from an excursion to Idanre Hills in Akure leaving the National Association of Science Students (NASS) President, Comrade Chris dead.                                      The group picture they all took before leaving for the trip                         The bus which conveyed the president and some members was roportedly said to have run into a container when the students in bus were all asleep after going through...

OKONJO IWEALA SPEAKS ON WHY NIGERIA WILL NEVER GET OUT OF RECESSION Nigeria’s former Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has stated that growth and development cannot be achieved in any country that has loopholes in its foreign exchange rates. This statement was made at the time the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, promised that the nation’s ailing economy will be out of recession by the end of the third quarter of 2017. Speaking after the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting in Abuja on Tuesday, Emefiele said the CBN will not dictate where the much-needed foreign exchange convergence will be, but hopes the rate will head southwards rather than remain on the high side. But the former World Bank Managing Director who spoke at the launch of ‘Beating the Odds: Jumpstarting Developing Countries’, a book written by Justin Yifu Lin and Celestin Monga in Ahmedabad, India, said there was no one way to gr...

7 year-old boy burnt alive for stealing in Lagos  A 7 year-old boy was beaten and burnt alive in the Badagry area of  Lagos , for allegedly attempting to steal garri from a trader’s shop. According to reports, the boy was seen by eyewitnesses trying to break into a shop where food are sold in the early hours of Tuesday November 15, 2016. The little boy was nabbed by some men in the area, beaten and set ablaze by the mob despite pleas from the public since he did not actually commit the crime. Video was removed as a result of the nature of the graphics Some other sources and eyewitness are posting on  social media  that the boy stabbed a pregnant woman to death after unsuccessfully attempting to steal her phone. Does that mean the boy deserves jungle justice? See the screenshot below for more info:

Naira continues recovery against Dollar at parallel market, appreciates to N379/$1 The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday injected $205 million into the foreign exchange market even as the naira depreciated to N379 per dollar in the parallel market. According to Okoroafor: “The CBN again injected over $205 million in to the foreign exchange market. “A breakdown of what market watchers termed as another massive intervention indicated that the sum of $100 million was released for the wholesale segment of the market for both spots and forwards. “Also, Basic Travel Allowance (BTA) which comes under invisibles segment garnered $50 million while the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SME) segment got $55 million. I was revealed that the parallel market exchange rate rose to N379 per dollar at the close of business yesterday from N375 per dollar on Friday. He said the depreciation was caused by sudden increase in demand for dollar between Saturday and yesterday...

Wike, Amaechi at war again PORT HARCOURT – The political war between governor Nyesom Wike and the Minister of Transportation, Mr Chibuike Amaechi has gone messier as Wike accused Amaechi of allegedly floating a cult group by the name Rivers cult group to destabilize security in the state. Wike made the allegation during the Commissioning of Kpopie-Bodo Road in Gokana Local Government Area. Meantime, Amaechi in his response, denied the allegation, describing it as a ploy by Wike to divert attention from his earlier allegations against him, that he allegedly owned the 43 million dollars recovered at an Ikoyi apartment in Lagos state Wike on his part called on security operatives to investigate the group which he said had cells in all the 23 local government areas of the state. “Let me alert Nigerians. I am only informing Nigerians and security agencies of the crime against Rivers State by the… past governor. We have successfully concluded the state amnesty programme for culti...

End Time!!! The New ‘Human-Dog’, A Cross Breeding Between Humans & Dogs NOTICE:- We personally don’t believe this but after serious Google searching, It seems the Cross between Human & Dogs by the Americans is real… Read along. Scientists have created a hybrid life form called ‘Human-Dog’, a cross between humans and dogs, to entertain/cater for super-rich people who like collecting unique pets. Dr. William Bateman, 43, one of the scientists who created these human hybrids explains: “There is only so much you can buy as a person who has it all.” However, animal rights groups are up in arms, as Paul Cross, 27, activist with the Animal Defense League said, “If one my children saw these creatures, they’d be scared half to death. Imagine one of them s*cking on your toes, in a dark alley.” According to Dr Bateman, the advantage of having these Human-Dog hybrids is that, “They’re very intelligent and unique and they can also communicate, as their vocal ...

Woman cuts off man's penis during rape The woman claimed the man had been assaulting her for several years and police had registered a case against Swami for sexual offences against a minor and rape. The woman claimed the man had been assaulting her for several years, according to Kumar, who said police had An Indian woman has cut off a man’s penis after he allegedly tried to rape her at her house in the southern state of Kerala, India on Saturday, May 20, 2017. According to the state police, the 23-year-old law student was at her residence in the state capital Thiruvananthapuram late Friday when she says she was attacked by the 54-year-old man, who had claimed to her family to be a religious guru. “She used a knife in her defense and cut off his penis,” district police chief G Sparjan Kumar said. “The man, Hari Swami, was rushed to the nearby government hospital in a serious state,” he added. The local media reported that Swami was in a stable condition after unde...

Man beheads son for money rituals in Plateau The Plateau State Police Command has arrested a man who allegedly beheaded his young son ostensibly for money rituals. According to a journalist from the state, Taskar Gizazo, who reported the story on his Facebook page, the man had visited a native doctor to prepare a money making charm and the native doctor told him that for the medicine to be effective, he must provide the head and foot of his son. On getting back home, the man allegedly took the child into a bush, where he cut off his head and foot which he hid somewhere. When he got back home, he went to the police to report that the child was missing and while the police started investigations and mounted a search for the boy, the man's wife told the police that she suspected her husband in the disappearance of their son as he was the one who went out with the child. The man was promptly arrested and on interrogation, he confessed that he had killed t...

Grieving Woman Solves the Mystery of Her Husband’s disappearance 23 Years Later Linda Iseler was living in Hell. Her husband, Richard, had vanished without a trace and the police thought that she had something to do with his sudden disappearance. Linda was left to raise her two sons by herself, on a shoestring budget, drowning in debt and uncertainty. Then one day, 23 years after he disappeared, Linda discovered information that could shed some light on what ultimately happened to her missing husband. Linda and Richard Hoagland were living happily in Indiana with their two sons, 9-year-old Matthew and six-year-old Douglas. Things were going well for the happy couple. Sure, they had their arguments over money, the kids, things like that, but it was nothing that couldn’t be solved with some talking and compromise.  B ut it seemed that all outward appearances were deceiving. Richard Hoagland was hiding something deep down inside. Something that he believed co...

Buhari takes me as a brother, treats me like a son, says Osinbajo ABUJA-In a manner that apparently portrays an affinity between them, Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has said that President Muhammadu Buhari sees him as a brother and also treats him like his son. President Buhari having a jovial conversation with Vice President Osinbajo He spoke in Katsina, the home state of President Buhari on Thursday while launching the State’s version of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise, MSMEs clinic.  Osinbajo’s latest position has overtly countered the perception in some quarters that there may not be any love lost between him and his boss following the wording of a recent letter the President wrote to the National Assembly, announcing a transfer of power to him (Osinbajo). President Buhari had on Sunday at the verge of his departure to London for a follow-up on his medicals written to the National Parliament, informing the lawmakers of his trip abroad in the fu...

Father jailed for turning daughter into his sex toy  A 51-year-old electrician,  Folorunsho Oluwaseun , has been remanded in prison custody for allegedly raping his 17-year-old daughter repeatedly, Punch reports. Oluwaseun was arraigned at the Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Lagos State for turning his own daughter into his sex machine after he separated from the teenager's mother. According to the police prosecutor,  Clifford Ogu , Oluwaseun, a resident of 40, Popoola Street, Offin in the Ikorodu area of the state, had been sleeping with his daughter since August 2016, before he was arrested. Ogu said the accused who separated from his wife since 2013, was awarded the custody of his three children including the girl. “The accused started abusing his 17-year-old daughter sexually since August last year. The girl wrote in her statement to the police that any time she refuses her father’s sexual advances, he would not give her and her s...

Ex Militant praises Buhari for release of N30b into amnesty programme OLEH—LEADERS of ex-militants in phases Two and Three of the Presidential Amnesty Programme have commended President Muhammadu Buhari for ordering the release of N30 billion for the rehabilitation and reintegration of ex-agitators.  They urged the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Brig-Gen Paul Boro (retd), to commence payment of all allowances owed ex-militants particularly seven years housing allowance and outstanding stipends from January 2017 till date. Speaking to Vanguard on behalf of his colleagues, one of the leaders, self styled ‘Gen’ Kingsley Egiriki, expressed satisfaction with the Federal Government’s decision to allocate N35 billion for the Amnesty programme. He said: “For the President to release N30 billion out of the N35 billion to the Amnesty programmes goes to show that the Federal Government has the interest of the Niger Delta region at heart.” With this, it is be...