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A 35-year-old man, Haruna Ali, on Tuesday sued his father-in-law, Adamu Mai-Takaima, at a Sharia Court sitting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna, over alleged abduction of his wife. The complainant told the court that his wife, Hadiza Haruna, had left her matrimonial home for her parent’s house without his permission. He alleged that for 11 months, his wife had been living with her parent under the guise of being ill. ”I want the court to assist me in getting back my wife and I promise to take care of whatever disease she is suffering from,” he pleaded. The defendant on his part had told the court that his daughter had suffered two miscarriages within 11 months, a situation that led to her contracting Vesico Virginal Festula (VVF). “My daughter came back home due to a miscarriage she had. She spent five months with me and her husband never showed up. “I personally took her back to her matrimonial home but I later heard that her condition had deteriorated as she couldn’t control her urine,” he

A middle-aged woman on Monday night sustained severe burns all over her body following a kerosene explosion that engulfed her apartment in Awada-obosi, Anambra State. The explosion was said to have completely raised down eight rooms service quarters of the apartment, located at No. 7 Dike Ezeagu street Ugwuagba, including that of the woman. The Nation gathered that the victim, Mrs Gift Oroke, was preparing dinner at about 10pm, after pouring alleged adulterated kerosene in her stove, when the explosion occurred, leaving her with varying degrees of burns. Confirming the incident, the State PPRO, Haruna Mohammed, said the victim was taken to St. Martins hospital, Ugwuagba, Awada for medical attention. He said sample of the kerosene was obtained for analysis, adding that the case was being investigated to ascertain the circumstances surrounding the incident. Mohammed adviced members of the public to always take necessary precautions when using kerosene and other combustible subst

Following an order by the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo on the immediate overhaul of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS)  to address complaints and allegations on human rights violations against some of the personnel of the squad from members of the public in some parts of the country, the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris has announced a number of reforms in their operations. According to a statement on Tuesday, in Abuja by the Force Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood the IGP has appointed a new Commissioner of Police to oversee the affairs of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad nationwide. Idris also moved SARS from the Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigations Department (FCIID) to operate under the Department of Operations, Force Headquarters Abuja. The statement added that, “In observance of full compliance with the Presidential directives, the Federal Anti-Robbery Squad will be intelligence driven and will be restricted to the prevention and detect

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has on Tuesday announced an extension in the deadline for the Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) exercise by two weeks. With the new development, the ongoing voters registration exercise which was due to elapse on Friday, 17th August will now end on Friday, 31st August 2018. The extension is coming on the heels of calls and meetings by several groups in the country for an extension of the deadline to enable more Nigerians particpate in the 2019 elections. The electoral body also announced the registration of 23 political associations as new political parties in the country, bringing the total number of parties to 91. The new parties registered are: 1. Advanced Alliance Party (AAP) 2. Advanced Nigeria Democratic Party (ANDP) 3. African Action Congress (AAC) 4. Alliance for a United Nigeria (AUN) 5. Alliance of Social Democrats (ASD) 6. Alliance National Party (ANP) 7. Allied People’s Movement (APM) 8. Alternative Party

The national leader of the All Progressives It Congress, Bola Tinubu , on Tuesday , lambasted former President Olusegun Obasanjo over the recent letter of criticism he wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari , saying the ex -President had no right to dictate who the people should vote for in the 2019 presidential election . The former Lagos State governor , who said Obasanjo did his terms in office without being disturbed , urged him to face his poultry business in his Ota farm . Tinubu said if Obasanjo had laid a good foundation for the country when he was President , like he ( Tinubu ) did in Lagos State , Nigeria would not be in the mess that it was in . Tinubu spoke at the Lagos APC secretariat in Ogba on Tuesday during the party ’ s stakeholders ’ meeting . Present at the meeting were Governor Akinwunmi Ambode ; Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudasiru Obasa ; the Chairman of the Lagos State APC , Tunde Balogun , and other party stalwarts in Lagos . Tinubu , w

The police say a suspected kidnapper who was arrested in a botched kidnap in Owo, Ondo state, has died following “complications from a high intake of tramadol”. According to NAN, Femi Joseph, spokesman of the state police command, disclosed this in Akure on Tuesday. Joseph said the suspect died at Owo General Hospital where medical personnel had battled to revive him. The suspect was said to have been unconscious since his arrest on August 5. “The suspect died nine days after we arrested him; we thought he would be revived so that he could help us in our investigation,” he said. “Unfortunately, he died yesterday (Monday). This could be connected with the high intake of tramadol which he took. “We are using this opportunity to further educate the public, especially parents, to monitor their wards and the kind of company they keep.” The suspect and his gang had allegedly invaded Chinery Pharmacy in Owo with the intention of kidnapping the pharmacist. The pharmacist, on sighting

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday dismissed insinuations that he was desperate to emerge as president through the 2019 presidential election. Atiku said that despite claims by his critics that he was bent on becoming president, he was qualified to contest the presidential election and that he has the right ideas to address the challenges affecting the country. The Peoples Democratic Party presidential aspirant spoke during his visit to delegates of the Edo State chapter of the PDP to solicit their support ahead of the party’s primary in September. Atiku said, “What do you expect my critics to say? And there is nothing wrong in entering the race. I can run as many times as possible. “I am fit and qualified. I still have ideas that I believe are going to put this country on the right path. So, what is wrong in running? “I am not desperate. If I were desperate, I would have taken the Presidency in 2003. “If I were desperate, I would not have stepped down for (lat

Veteran musician and activist, Charly Boy has said President Buhari has destroyed this nation beyond imagination in just 3 years.  Charly Boy said this in reaction to a video shared by a Nigerian soldier complaining about welfare and state of the nation. According to Charly Boy, ‘President Buhari has destroyed this nation beyond imagination in just 3yrs, close to 300 soldiers have been killed in about 5weeks. He is yet to even acknowledge it. Many of them have been secretly buried. More are to be buried today. The reason he was voted was because he said he could fix the problems. Today, he has not only failed to fix the problems, he has created more problems and now blames everyone but himself. He inherited insecurity issues in the North East but the matter in that region has gotten worse and he has now exported insecurity to the North West and North Central. From Herdsmen killings in Benue, Adamawa, Taraba, Plateau & Kogi to bandit’s killings in Zamfara and Sokoto, the situati

Godswill Akpabio, former senate minority leader, says he is not perturbed by the call to declare his seat vacant. Akpabio is representing Akwa Ibom north-west in the upper legislative chamber. On Sunday, the Reformed All Progressives Congress (R-APC) asked Senate President Bukola Saraki to declare Akpabio’s seat following his defection to the ruling party from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). But speaking with journalists at the national assembly on Monday, Akpabio dismissed the R-APC saying the group was not a political party. “Even as you are looking at me, do I look perturbed? I have not heard the report. Because the reason why I think that is a rumour is that there is, at the moment, no division in the APC,” he said. “The APC is one family. If you hear about R-APC that was not really a political party that was not a division, has since been consumed in what they call Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP). So, there is no division. And so, any defection from APC to

The Department of State Services (DSS) has described as untrue the allegation that a huge sum of money and weapons were found in the house of Lawal Daura, sacked director-general of the agency. In a statement issued by Tony Opuiyo, a spokesman of the agency, DSS said there is no iota of truth in the allegation that N21bn and unspecified number of permanent voters card were found in Daura’s houses in Katsina and Abuja. The spokesman for the agency said that there was no search carried out in the home of Daura by any security agency. “The attention of the Department of State Services has been drawn to the circulation of fake information and videos in which several items were said to have been recovered from the Katsina and Abuja homes of its immediate past Director General, Lawal Daura,” Opuiyo said. “These non-existent items include: N21bn cash, 400 assorted and sophisticated small arms and light weapons/rifles, and thousands of permanent voters card belonging to Niger Republic im

Governor Rochas Okorocha has inaugurated the Imo State chapter of President Muhammadu Buhari re-election campaign council in the South East geopolitical zone. Okorocha, who was represented by his Chief of Staff, Uche Nwosu, at the inauguration ceremony held in Owerri on Sunday evening, boasted that the All Progressives Congress would win all the elective seats in the state in 2019. He said that the campaign council which would be chaired by a former commissioner, Charles Amadi, with Chidi Ibe as the Director General, while Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Acho Ihim, serves as vice chairman (Okigwe zone), will coordinate the campaigns of the party in the state after the party primaries in September. Nwosu, a governorship aspirant, said, “I therefore declare you inaugurated and task you to go to the grassroots to market the ideals of our party. “This campaign council will coordinate all our campaigns after the primary elections in September. “The task of ensuring that Pres

Senator Godswill Akpabio ( APC -Akwa Ibom ) says any move to declare his seat vacant in the Senate will prove abortive . He said though he had yet to hear about it , if his seat must be declared vacant , the seats of those who defected to the Peoples Democratic Party should also be declared vacant . Akpabio made this known in an interview with newsmen in Abuja on Monday . According to him , if the excuse of those calling for his seat to be declared vacant is that there is no rancour in PDP to warrant his defection , they should also know that there is no rancour in APC . “ Any defection from APC to PDP, we will like to declare those seats vacant . “ As you are looking at me , do I look perturbed ? I have not heard the report . “ I think that is a rumour because at the moment , there is no division in the APC . The APC is one family . “ If you hear about R -APC that was not really a political party , that was not a division . “ It has since been consumed in what they call Coal

A good woman is a blessing to her husband and family, and a bad woman can be the very termite that eats down her own home. I know that in a marriage, there is bound to be problems and disagreements, and sometimes, it’s not the woman’s fault because men also err too, however, today I’ll be looking towards the woman’s direction. There are dozens of women out there, who engage in activities that are potentially harmful to their marriages without knowing it. Sometimes, their actions are influenced by the things they hear from friends, other times it’s the larger society, or the sort of upbringing they were given as children— so they’re not really aware of the implications of their actions and what damage it could cause to their homes. Marriages have been broken for some of these mistakes, so I thought I’d talk about them, and maybe save a few more from going down the same route. Here are 7 of the common (but potentially costly) mistakes married women make. 1. FAILURE TO FULLY ACCEP

Somethings are truly better left unsaid and here are 7 times when it's OK to not be open with your partner if you don't feel like it Of course every relationship should be built on trust but there is a limit to openness and there exist things that your partner does not really need to know about. So in essence, it’s OK to cut down on openness in a relationship from 100% to somewhere in the region of 90% or so. And here’s the reason: some people really just can’t handle the truth. It does not make them a bad person or bad partners. So instead of risking something beautiful over an inconsequential detail that’ll very likely not hurt anyone, just be mum and coast with the love of your life. Somethings are truly better left unsaid and here are 7 times when it’s OK to not be open with your partner if you don’t feel like it 1. Your S*xual History For real, not many boyfriends/girlfriends want to hear the step by step narration and graphic details of how you had s*x in a bat

The Osun State Police Command has arrested three members of an armed robbery gang who specialised in snatching motorcycles ( okada ) , as well as those buying the stolen motorcycles and other stolen goods . The state Police Public Relations Officer , Mrs Folasade Odoro, who led other officers from the command to parade the suspects at the police headquarters in Osogbo on Friday, said a member of the gang, an ex -convict , Mutiu Azeez , conspired with one Muyiwa Afolabi to snatched a motorcycle from a commercial motorcyclist in Iragbiji , in the Boripe Local Government Area of Osun State last Monday. She stated that a commercial motorcyclist picked two passengers without knowing they were robbers, adding that on the way , the two robbers stopped the motorcyclist, overpowered him and tied him to a tree and took the okada from him . She said , “ The robbers were not satisfied with tying the okada rider to the tree as they killed him by smashing his skull with a stone before riding

In Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has condemned what he described as the “ pull -him -down - syndrome” among the Igbo , saying it is the only likely problem he will have if he chooses to run for the presidency . The governor expressed regrets that the Igbo do not honour their own , including their leaders , “ unlike what obtains in other parts of the country.” He added that Igbo alone cannot make or produce a president of Igbo extraction, adding that Igbo need other Nigerians to be able to have a president of Igbo origin who would also see himself as a Nigerian , first and foremost . Okorocha spoke while fielding questions from newsmen on Sunday after a press briefing at the Government House , Owerri . He stated that it would be a foolish thought for any Igbo man eyeing the presidency at any time to think that the Igbo only would make him president . He , however , contended that any Igbo man wanting or aspiring to achieve the feat of being the president one day cannot r

A pregnant woman has burnt her maid’s buttocks in a clear act of brutality. She was arrested after brutalising her housemaid with a hot knife. According to reports, the pregnant woman allegedly used hot knife to burn her maid’s bum for "wasting time" while sent on an errand. It was also alleged that this is not the first time this kind of brutal punishment is being meted out on the little girl. Report has it that due to the woman’s condition, the police are refusing to prosecute her. Read the report shared by Blessing Ibanga on Facebook; "I plead with every man and woman created by God, that if u are not ready to accept a maid as ur own child, don’t make attempt to take any into ur house. Reporting from Abia State is how a pregnant woman with three kids used hot knife on her little maid because she sent her on on errand and she wasted time on the errand. That was the second time she put knife on fire and place on the little girl's bumbum. Neighbours saw the

A Nigerian man, Maigalisa Yohanna, and his bride, Danielle Villasana, on Saturday, August 4, 2018, surprised their guests after storming their wedding reception in a tricycle in Yola, Adamawa. The duo met at the American University of Nigeria, where Danielle teaches Photography and Maigalisa is an IT expert. HML! We bring the news to you as it comes.....

A lady has been hospitalised after suffering an unfortunate mishap in Nnewi area, Anambra state. According to Christabeler Akunna, she went to visit her friend when the accident happened which saw her injure badly after falling from a building. It was revealed that the lady was chatting with her friend on the balcony of a two-storey building when she decided to rest on the rail not knowing it was not strong. Immediately she leaned on it, she fell from the building and broke her body parts including femur, patellar Jaw, teeth and ankles. She was rushed to Nnewi Teaching Hospital where she received some treatment after she recovered from consciousness The lady who lost some tooth – ate liquid food for about four months and also went for local bone setting for five months, all to no avail. Some Facebook users have reached out to the wounded lady in order to come to her aid. We bring the news to you as it comes.....

Onofiok Luke, the Speaker of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, has alleged that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Presidency offered him N2billion and the deputy governorship slot to dump the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the All Progressives Congress, APC. Luke spoke during a solidarity rally for the State Governor, Udom Emmanuel and Senator from the state, Bassey Albert in Uyo, the state capital. The Speaker noted that he would rather quit politics than defect to the APC. According to Luke, “ They said the President had sent words for me to become the deputy governor. They offered me N2bn, but I said no. If you like, offer me N10bn, mine is no . Speaking on the defection of former Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, Luke said the action was borne out of personal interest. He insisted that the defection was aimed at grabbing and sharing power. “They have no plan for us and no plans for the future of our state. It was all about them. It was only about power gra

Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) chieftain, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has said that the All Progressives Congress ( APC ) National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole’s continued call for the impeachment of Senate President Bukola Saraki was unnecessary because his party does not have the votes to remove the Senate President. Onuesoke asked Oshiomhole to do the headcount to convince himself that his party does not have the votes to do so. Onuesoke The PDP chieftain, who spoke in Abuja, said Oshiomole’s demand on Saraki to resign or be impeached was undemocratic. He described the APC Chairman as day-dreaming, stressing that, as things stand, it would be impossible for the APC to get 73 senators, in a parliament of 109, to impeach Saraki. He pointed out that the leadership of the Senate can only be decided by senators, adding that Oshiomhole as APC Chairman was totally out of place to lecture Nigerians on who must lead the upper chamber.. “I don’t know where Oshiomhole was when Governor T

APC in disarray as Buhari asks Oshimole to resign. Buhari in a telephone called Oshimole after discussion with the APC hierarchy asked Oshimoe to tender his resignation letter to save the party from total collapse. Reports quoting party insiders said the president was visibly angry with the gale of defection hitting the All Progressives Congress APC, across the country. He was said to have lashed out at the party Chairman for his inefficiency to control the situation. The president was said to be disappointed with the party chairman especially on the national assembly saga which had drawn international condemnation and disgrace to the country and his government. The final straw was the embarrassing new revelations of over 589,000 members of APC announcing the withdrawal of their membership of the party and defecting to the opposition party PDP. It is also said that the president is still contemplating withdrawing from contesting the 2019 presidential election. More details t

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has berated gospel preachers for failing to lend support to the Federal Government’s anti-corruption war by failing to preach against the scourge. Speaking at the 30th National Biennial Conference of the Students Christian Movement of Nigeria holding in Enugu, Mr Osinbajo noted that preachers were preoccupied with preaching prosperity rather than righteousness. “Very rarely do you hear our preachers talk about corruption from their pulpits. If a nation is not righteous nothing will help it,” he said. Mr Osinbajo said the problem with Nigeria was neither ethnicity nor religion but systemic corruption. He said corruption had been so entrenched in the country that if you dare challenge it, you will be in the minority. He challenged the youth to change the narrative and make the difference by checking the impunity of those that had stolen the resources of the country. “Our problem in this country is not ethnicity or religion; it is not about Christian