Man Stabbed To Death At Lovers House

A middle aged man whose name was given as Osayande Edoigiawerie, was allegedly stabbed to death by his lover’s son at Zabayor Street, in Benin on Monday night.

The deceased, who was alleged to have gone to his lover to take his dinner, was alleged to have been attacked with a dagger by the son of the woman.

The assailant who is now at large was said to have stabbed the man severally all over the body, leading to excessive bleeding.

The deceased’s lover was said to have raised an alarm which attracted the people in the area to the scene.

Woman Kidnapped, Raped, Murdered And Dumped In The Boot Of A Jeep In Benin

A 23-year-old woman, identified as Joy Ojolede Okoh, has been reportedly abducted, raped and murdered in Benin City by unidentified persons on Monday.

It was reliably gathered that her body was found in the boot of an SUV at Upper Mission Extension in Benin City, southern Nigeria. The SUV was said to have been snatched by the gunmen and used for the dastardly act before it was abandoned.

It was gathered that the deceased who was said to be a bread seller at Lucky Way Junction by Ramat Park, was alleged to have closed for the day’s business at about 7:30pm when she was kidnapped.

Photos Of 7 Female Senators In Nigeria’s 8th National Assembly

Senator Remi Tinubu

Only seven out of the 109 senators who will serve in the 8th National Assembly are women. Four of the female senators were elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) while three are members of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The PDP senators-elect are Stella Oduah (Anambra North), Uche Ekwunife (Anambra Central), Rose Oko (Cross River North) and Fatimat Raji-Rasaki (Ekiti Central). Those elected on APC platform are Oluremi Tinubu (Lagos Central) and Binta Garba (Adamawa North) and Monsurat Jumoke Sunmonu (Oyo Central), who is the immediate past speaker of the Oyo State House of Assembly.

Senate President Bukola Saraki Updates His Twitter Account

With his election as the senate president of the 8th national assembly, Dr Saraki has updated his twitter account to reflect his new status. See his twitter update after the jump.

Saka Shares Photo Of His Beautiful Wife With A Funny Caption

Funny actor, Hafiz Saka Oyetoro recently shared a photo of himself and his wife longside a funny caption. He shared the photo and wrote; 

BREAKING NEWS: Bukola Saraki elected Senate President

Bukola Saraki, a former governor of Kwara State, has been elected the president of the eighth Senate. 

Mr. Saraki of the All Progressives Congress, APC, defeated his party’s preferred candidate, Ahmed Lawan, to emerge the Senate president. 

US Court Rules In Favour Of Muslim Denied Job For Her Hijab

The US supreme court on Monday ruled in favor of Samantha Elauf, a Muslim woman who was denied a job at an Abercrombie & Fitch clothing store in Oklahoma because she wore a headscarf for religious reasons.

The justices decided the case, which united Christian, Muslim and Jewish and other religious organizations, with an 8-1 vote, ruling in favor of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which sued the company on behalf of Elauf.

“The EEOC applauds the Supreme Court’s decision affirming that employers may not make an applicant’s religious practice a factor in employment decisions,” said EEOC chair Jenny Yang, in a statement.

“This ruling protects the rights of workers to equal treatment in the workplace without having to sacrifice their religious beliefs or practices.”

In a statement to the Guardian, an Abercrombie & Fitch spokesperson said: “While the supreme court reversed the tenth circuit decision, it did not determine that A&F discriminated against Ms Elauf.

Motorcyclist Lures, Rapes Pupil For Six Months

The police have arrested a 38-year-old motorcyclist, Obinna Ekusaba, for allegedly raping a primary six pupil for six months in the Kirikiri area of Lagos State.

The incident happened from December, 2014, to May, 2015, on Karimu Street, Kirikiri Town.

The victim’s mother sold cigarette and alcoholic drinks in a motor park on the street.

Ekusaba, who usually parked his motorcycle at the park, was said to be one of her numerous customers.

She was said to be away on the fateful day when the suspect called the 11-year-old to bring a bottle of drink into an uncompleted building in the motor park.

It was learnt that while she took the item there, the suspect lured her with money and raped her.

He was said to have subsequently defiled the victim several times before her mother observed on May 19 that her private parts had enlarged.

Four Policemen Torture Woman Over Stolen Ipad

A trader in the Balogun Market, Lagos State, Karamat Eleha, has accused four policemen attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Lagos State Command, of torturing her for allegedly stealing an iPad.

The device was said to be the property of a woman in the Ajah area of the state, who was robbed in May, 2015.

The policemen, led by one Abiola (aka Abbey), had, while searching for the iPad, reportedly stormed a two-storey building in Idumagbo, Lagos Island, where Eleha lives with her mother. It was learnt that she was not at home when the search commenced.

The team searched residents’ apartments, but did not find the item.

As their mission continued, Eleha, who was said to have gone for the fellowship in the neighbourhood, arrived home and was asked about the iPad.

Residents Nab Man For Alleged Money Ritual

A man accused of engaging in money ritual has been handed over to the police by residents of Iresi Street, in the Orile-Agege area of Lagos.

The suspect, who was identified only as Mohammed, was alleged to have moved around the area on Saturday, pretending to be mentally-challenged.

A woman, Mrs. Olawumi Alani, who sells confectionery, alerted her neighbour, Mrs. Grace Ogedengbe, to his presence.

It was gathered that Mohammed initially pretended he understood only Hausa and declined response when Alani requested to know who he was looking for.

He later confided in Ogedengbe, who also speaks Hausa, that he needed human parts and was directed to the area by a friend.

Monster Fish With Teeth Falls From The Sky In Alaska

The monster fish called Artcic lampreys have been found by residents of Fairbank scattered all over the city. One was found wriggling in the parking lot of a store, three others were discovered on their lawns. However, fish experts assure that there is no danger from the fish and locals have nothing to worry about.

Commenting on the situation, Mike Taras of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said: “The answer is probably gulls. Gulls are picking them out of the Chena River with their bills and then dropping the squirming critters while in flight.

Arctic lampreys spawn in the Chena River, and live in the mud underwater as juveniles for several years, many lifelong Alaskans have never seen one of these fascinating fish up close because their body shape and feeding habits make them difficult to catch.”

Fake Doctor Practicing With Stolen Licence For 9 Years Arrested

Martins Ugwu, who stole the licence as far back as 2006, is a senior medical officer on Grade Level 13, he was said to have impersonated his friend Dr George Daniel, who hails from the same local government with him, Orukpa in Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue State. Ugwu was Daniel’s best man during the latter’s wedding that same year.

According to Nigerian watch, Ugwu, was due to be promoted to an assistant director in the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control recently, having worked in the civil service since 2006 using Daniel’s name.

He was however, recently indicted by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) for posing as  an impostor and subsequently arrested by the police last week Thursday but was released few hours later, a move that has sparked rumours that the police might have been bribed.

In a letter to the chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission, dated June 4, 2015, signed by the MDCN registrar, Dr A Ibrahim, Ugwu was described as an impostor and the case was reported to the police for further investigation and action.

Breaking : Inauguration Of 8th National Assembly Postponed

The inauguration of the 8th National Assembly has been postponed.

Details later.

Inauguration Of 8th Senate: SGF Staff, Security Clash

Crowd at the entrance of Nass

The inauguration of the Presiding officers of the 8th assembly has thrown the entire three arms zone comprising the presidency, the Supreme Court (Judiciary) and the National Assembly into serious pandemonium following the blocking of roads leading to the secretariat by the armed security personnel.

Specially, staff at the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, security personnel drafted to barricade the gate clashed with staff as the later were stopped from going into their various offices.

It was gathered from a reliable source that the sudden decision of security operatives to barricade all entrances leading to the National Assembly Complex was intended to prevent elections for the highest offices of both chamber from holding.

Although people had been accredited for the event, the security operatives asked everyone to turn back despite showing their tags at the entrances.

CBN N8bn: Accused Weeps As Children Appear In Court

One of the bankers standing trial for alleged fraudulent activities totaling N8 billion broke down in tears, yesterday, as her three children came into the courtroom of the Federal High Court to greet her.

The suspect, who had been in detention at Agodi Prisons, Ibadan, since the case instituted against them by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, began last week, cried repeatedly even after the children had left.

All the eight suspects in the first batch were led into the court in handcuffs, some minutes before 9a.m., except the woman among them. As soon as they sat down, the handcuffs were removed before the commencement of proceedings.

This came just as relatives of the suspects became hostile to journalists, especially photojournalists who tried to take photographs as they were about boarding a rickety prison bus back to the prisons.

Among the relatives was a physically-challenged woman on a wheel chair, who kept praying for one Deji, one of the suspects, that the ‘good’ he had done and scores of people he had shown kindness would see him through the case.

8-year Old Boy Smuggled In A Suitcase Across Spanish Border Reunites With Mother

A boy from Ivory Coast found in a suitcase at a Spanish border crossing was reunited with his mother today Monday June 8 while his dad, arrested for trying to smuggle him in, is expected to be released.

“We are very happy. We’ll set off again with the little one and we’ll try to find his father,” Juan Isidro Fernandez Diaz, the family’s lawyer, told journalists in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave north of Morocco.

Police in Ceuta had found eight-year-old Adou Ouattara curled up and covered inside a suitcase without air vents at a border checkpoint on May 7. Since then he has been staying at a centre for under age migrants in Ceuta.

Police Arrest Masquerade; 2 Others With Human Parts

Ogunmola Adenimodo 

Two suspects, identified as Adebayo Saheed and Bello Mustapha, have been arrested by Oyo State Police Command for alleged possession of parts of human skull and hair.

The suspects were paraded along with a custodian of an Ibadan masquerade, known as Ogunmola Adenimodo, for allegedly destroying some vehicles at Ayeye area of Ibadan metropolis.

They were rounded up at Moniya in Akinyele Local Government Area of the state.

Ibadan masquerade festival had always left on its trail tears, losses, violence, bloodshed and even death in some cases.

However, the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Muhammed Katsina, insisted that the reign of terror and impunity would not continue.

Man Threatens To ‘kill’ MI Over Girlfriend

Rap royalty and Chocolate City Vice President for Music, Jude Abaga a.k.a, M.I, has disclosed that an unknown man is after his life.

He released his conversation with the young man with the phone number (09033798569) via his Twitter handle.

The young man noted that he is been hired by a woman to kill the self-proclaimed ‘Chairman’.
Some of his words are:

"M.I some people wanna kill you woman wey u don flex before. This girl I’m talkin about is presently mine, would have told you her name but that would make her vulnerable anytime…but with the way this is coming, I’m not sure u can do anything about it"

See the text and the man's picture after the jump.

Reeva’s Parents Reject Pistorius Parole

Oscar Pistorius, the South African double amputee sprinter who shot dead his girlfriend, is scheduled to be freed on parole on August 21 after serving just 10 months in jail, officials said Monday, AFP reports.

The proposed release date provoked an angry reaction from the parents of model and television presenter Reeva Steenkamp, 29, who Pistorius shot on Valentine’s Day in 2013.

Pistorius, a role model around the world after competing in the Paralympics and Olympics, claimed that he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder, firing four shots through a locked bathroom door.

“Incarceration of 10 months for taking a life is simply not enough,” her parents June and Barry Steenkamp said a statement released online.

Rate Toke Makinwa's Make-Up Free Face

Media girl, Toke Makinwa who is known for her love of sharing selfies has never shared a picture without her make up on and people have been wondering her she looks without make-up. 

Well she shares a make-up free selfie this morning and wrote: "When the light hits your weave in all the right places!!!!!! Good morning world, the radio girl is up and kicking behind. Ooooops I forgot my face, this pic will self destruct in 5,4,3,2..... " 

Check out the picture after the jump. 

Today's Newspaper Headlines : Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Good morning everyone, hope you all had a great night. Let's kick-start the day with news headlines from various national newspapers across the nation. Wish you all a wonderful day ahead.

VANGUARD

• What was agreed at the G7 summit in Germany
• Forget what you heard, Jega stays at INEC
• Assembly Leadership Impasse: Buhari Intervenes on Arrival, Summons APC Legislators
• N8bn Bad Note Fraud: Suspects' Relatives Curse 'Enemies', Pray for Easy Landing
• Game of Numbers: PDP Backs Saraki, Dogara For National Assembly Leadership
• NASS leadership showdown: PDP holds the ace
• Aregbesola dares SDP to publish his assets
• Breaking news: NASS Leadership: PDP adopts Saraki, Dogara
• Police arrest masquerade; 2 others with human parts
• NDLEA vs KASHAMU: Court quashes agency's warrant of arrest, extradition process
• I left office broke, says former Rivers deputy gov
• When Legislators Fight
• Limits Of Legislative Licence
• National Assembly Contests: The men driving the issues