Court remands trader, house wife over alleged adultery

Jos – An Upper Area Court in Jos, Plateau, has ordered a trader, Mohammed Rabiu, and a housewife, Asabe Mati, both accused of adultery, to be remanded in prison pending hearing of their bail applications.
Rabiu and Mati who reside in different parts of Jos, were charged with one-count of adultery.

Cure for HIV and AIDS is possible, says expert

Prof. Suleiman Akanmu, Head, Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), on Thursday said that through  continuous research the cure for HIV and AIDS could be achieved.

eight(8) questions you want answered about Nigeria’s missing schoolgirls – Washington Post

ABDUCTED GIRLS: VIEWS FROM ABROAD: The outrage, emotion, confusion

FROM a nationwide outcry, the outrage against

8 die in accident on Lokoja-Abuja highway

Seven persons, including a child, were killed in a road accident on the Lokoja-Abuja highway on Wednesday.

Other victims, including four women and three men, were said to be on their way to Okene from Kano.

Patience Jonathan to lead find-Chibok-girls protest

The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has promised to stage a protest match to Chibok, Borno State, if the abducted schoolgirls were not released.

Jonathan said this in Abuja after a meeting with governors’ and ministers’ wives, female senators,

Rapper Suge Knight Confirms "Tupac Is Alive!"

The rapper calls Diddy a "Bitch a**" for saying he shot Tupac because "he's not dead".

Suge Knight has just revealed he didn't not shoot rap legend Tupac Shakur despite Diddy's accusation instead; Diddy was the one who plotted to Kill the legend!

Northern, Southern delegates agree on resource control

Clement Idoko - Abuja
Thursday, May 1, 2014

AFTER days of stalemate, the northern and southern delegates on the power devolution committee of the

Police arrest seven suspected armed robbers in Lagos

Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi must resist pressure from the Nigeria Football Federation to  pick players he doesn’t need for this summer’s World Cup in Brazil, says former Nigeria midfielder Edema Fuludu.

Police arrest seven suspected armed robbers in Lagos

The police in Lagos arrested seven suspected armed robbers between April 24 and April 30.

The command's Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Thursday.

How to enjoy maximum sexual impact (II)

A wife should lovingly participate actively in caressing, kissing and fondling with her husband’s body. While doing this, she in turn becomes excited and produces fluid that helps lubricate her vagina and makes entry of the penis easy. If the wife has a dry vagina, she may either use artificial lubricant or use her tongue to

I regret not playing alongside Okocha in Eagles – Friday Ekpo

Friday Ekpo was one of the most influential players in the domestic league in the late 80s and early 90s.

The diminutive midfielder won plenty of plaudits from the fans and made headlines after each game. His skills made him one of the most-sought after players in the country and it’s no surprise that he played for some of

Barber stabs graduate to death during Chelsea/Atletico match

When on Wednesday 29-year-old Saheed Badmus went to a viewing centre on Lamina Street, Egbe, Lagos State, to watch the UEFA Champions League semi-final match between Chelsea Football Club and Atletico Madrid, little did he know that was the last match he would ever watch.

He has turned my sister into a sex slave and...

Monica Taiwo
Friday, May 2, 2014
DEAR Taiwo,

May Day tragedy: Yet another blast rocks Nyanya, Abuja, kills 30, Thursday night

Barely three weeks after a bomb blast killed over 71 persons in Nyanya, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, another explosion claimed about 30 lives on Thursday evening.

By EMMANUEL AZIKEN, POLITICAL EDITOR

Senator Iyabo Obasanjo has accused those in President Goodluck Jonathan’s inner circle of being a hindrance to the resolution of the crisis posed by the Boko Haram insurgency.

In an open letter to the Islamist sect, whose leadership she credited with “more sense,” Senator Obasanjo, however, faulted the insurgents for betraying the true essence of revolutionaries in directing their venom against the lower class.

Dr. Obasanjo in the 860-word letter particularly cringed at the abduction of hundreds of school girls from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, saying their crave for sexual gratification is no excuse for the abduction.

While noting her surprise that more armed groups have not risen against the state given the social and living conditions of the majority of the population, she wrote:

“I am moved to write about the current state of affairs in Nigeria. My first inclination was to write to the President but since all letters to him seem to elicit only open derision and even more stupidity from his inner circle, I have decided to address my letter to a group also currently causing Nigerians a lot of pain and agony that may actually have more sense than the country’s leadership.

Dear Boko Haram

“The fact that you have taken arms against the Nigerian state is no surprise. The question should be why haven’t more young people organised themselves against the state?

"Even the fact that your motto, ‘Against Western Education’ is in a way reasonable given the fact that your leader, martyred by the Nigerian state had university education and found no reasonable employment but had to resort to thuggery for politicians to survive, as the story goes.

"He, like millions of Nigerian young people and college graduates, seeing a blighted future are doing anything to survive.

"They have become opportunistic desperados, almost sub€'human as the stepping on and trampling on each other to death at the Immigration employment debacle indicates.

'Where you're wrong'

"Where I think you have gotten it wrong are in two areas, if you can pardon my giving you some unsolicited advice.

"First, your victims are becoming more and more the people you should be attracting to your side. Take the Nyanya bus massacre.

"The people that live in Nyanya are usually the clerks, messengers and other lowly office workers that live out in relative slums compared to the rest of Abuja and take public transportation to work to receive monthly salaries they barely get by on.

"Consult any written work of successful revolutionaries be it French, Russian, Cuban or even the more recent uprooting of communism in Eastern Europe, to succeed you need the people to be on your side. Right now you are not achieving this.

"You are targeting the group you need most. This does not make for a successful revolution but you are making yourselves into nuisances to the people and in the end while the state, including its military machine may not be able to conquer you, your downfall will be alienating these potential allies, i.e. the oppressed and down-trodden.

"Secondly, the abduction of girls. It must be hard to stay in the bush as all male revolutionaries fending for yourselves with no sexual gratification.

Cuban example

"But again, reading up on past bush revolutionaries like the Cuban, for example, indicates that they were able to convince some women to go voluntarily with them into the bush.

"Somehow, revolutionary zeal does not include sexual abstinence and cooking and cleaning by yourselves.

"Reading must be hard for you since you hate education but the past is a good guide to the future and if you can’t read, you are done for in organizing or succeeding in most endeavours as most things have been done before and reading up on how it was done can only serve as good guidance.

"The parents of the girls you abducted are just trying to give their daughters a chance at having successful lives. Without an education there is very little anyone can achieve in this early 21st century.

"I know living in the bush; it must still seem like the dark ages but the truth is that even with the lack of jobs and opportunities for young people in Nigeria currently, it is still better to be educated.

"An educated university graduate who was selling food from a food cart ignited the Arab Spring which was spread by use of the internet which is hard to use if you are not educated.

"There are writings, videos and stuff you post on the internet which I haven’t seen. But think of it, you can only post and use the internet because some of you have some education.

"But in the end you have no control over the distribution of your advertising and recruiting information because as you may know, the internet is really part of the western system you despise.

Why you're succeeding

"The truth is that you have succeeded because the Nigerian state has failed to provide jobs and opportunity for its young people who you can now easily recruit. By disrupting education, you are adding to the burden of the people.

"You may say, but how about our religious issue? Let the truth be told, just as there are indigenous southern Muslims, there are indigenous northern Christians even from your epicentre in Borno State and just as you are zealous for your religion, I don’t see them giving up their religion either.

"The reasonable solution to this impasse would be for you to advocate for everyone to be able to practice their religion as they see fit with respect for each other's beliefs.

"Remember, a couple of centuries ago, all of our ancestors below the Sahara were all animists worshipping various 'gods.'

"This 'One God' - us against them situation - is a relatively recent one in our human history and you will be advised to let the originators fight it out and let your people be."

Wayne Rooney injury will not hinder World Cup selection

Wayne Rooney should be available for inclusion in Roy Hodgson's England squad despite a fresh injury worry.

The Manchester United striker has a minor groin problem and temporary boss Ryan Giggs says he is a doubt for Saturday's home game with Sunderland,

However, the BBC understands Rooney will miss the Old Trafford clash with the Premier League strugglers.

The setback comes just 10 days before Hodgson names his squad for the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil.

According to Giggs, Rooney has also been ill.

"A few of the lads have had a bug," said the Welshman.

"Wayne Rooney has, Anders Lindegaard has. Wayne has a tight groin, too. Together with the bug, it means his immune system is down so we have to watch that.

"Wayne being Wayne, he wants to play and wants to be involved. We will monitor it over the next 24 hours."

As he prepares for his second game in charge following the sacking of David Moyes, player-boss Giggs hinted that Robin van Persie could feature this weekend.

The Dutch striker has been out with a knee injury since scoring a match-winning hat-trick in United's victory over Olympiakos on 19 March.

"Robin has been back training and looks good," said Giggs. "I'm just trying to keep myself fit and try to win every game. I might not get into the team!"

Giggs also addressed continued managerial speculation around United.

He has been tipped to become the full-time successor to Moyes by some of his team-mates, but it is thought United want a more experienced man.

Talks have already taken place with Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal, who remains the leading candidate.

"Nothing has changed," said Giggs. "We will chat when the season is over. The main concentration I have is on the Sunderland game and then after that the remaining two games.

"I have a lot to think about and whether to continue playing, but my concentration is just on now.

"We will see what happens at the end of the season."

Michael Jackson’s new song to debut

Los Angeles – The first single from Michael Jackson’s posthumous album will premiere at the iHeartRadio Awards on Thursday, ahead of the record’s release later this month.
“Love Never Felt So Good’’, originally written and recorded by Jackson in 1983, is the debut single for

2nd Nyanya Bombing: Jonathan summons security chiefs

By Abiodun Alade
President Goodluck Jonathan has summoned security chiefs to a special security meeting following bomb blast at Nyanya.

250 feared dead after mudslide sweeps through Afghan village

Kabul -No fewer than 250 persons were feared dead in Afghanistan after a mudslide swept through a village in the north-east, police confirmed on Friday.

Police begin documentation of abducted girls

Maiduguri – The Commissioner of Police in Borno, Alhaji Lawan Tanko, has appealed to parents whose wards were abducted in Chibok to forward the names and photographs of the girls for documentation.