It has been a year and two months since the murder of four undergraduates of the University of Port Harcourt – Ugonna Ibuzor, Llyod Michael, Tekena Elkanah and Chidiaka Biringa. They were killed in Aluu, Rivers State. They were allegedly beaten to a pulp and then set ablaze by an irate mob over allegations of […]
Continue reading
Missing person: 29 year old Jaiyeola Ayobami (photos)
Friends of Ayobami Jaiyeola have reached out to the media asking that we help spread the news of their missing friend. Jaiyeola was last seen leaving her home in Oniru, Victoria Island on Friday Nov. 29th, wearing a pair of blue jeans, green polo top with her hair braided. Friends of Jaiyeola, who is 5’5, […]
Continue reading
SHOCKING: Woman Beheads Husband Of 9 Years In His Sleep Over Another Woman (PHOTO)
A woman, Zenab Agbontine, has been arrested by men of the Edo State Police Command for allegedly axing her husband to death after a quarrel. The woman was said to have used an axe to sever her husband’s head when the latter was asleep in their home at Ubiane Aviele village near Auchi in Estako […]
Continue reading
Anambra PDP chairman kidnapped
The Chairman of PDP in Anambra State, Prince Kenneth Emeakayi, was kidnapped today Monday Dec. 2nd by unknown gunmen who abducted him up as he was returning to Awka, the State capital. Prince Emeakayi was said to be returning from his village in Okija when his car was intercepted at a junction in Nri and […]
Continue reading
Boko Haram Strikes In Maiduguri, Curfew Imposed
Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, is under fresh attack by suspected Boko Haram sect insurgents. In early hours of Monday, at about 3 a.m., unidentified terrorists conducted a siege on the Composite Group Air force Base in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital. There were reports of sporadic shooting and sounds of rocket propelled launchers firing, […]
Continue reading
Chidi Ike Laid To Rest, Eeefy pays Tribute To Her Hero
It’s so sad to lose someone, and losing someone who made so much impact on the lives of many is even more sad. Pastor Chidi Ike a.k.a. Chiarman who died of a heart attack on the 26th of September has been buried on Friday 29th November at his home town Abacheke Egbema, Ohaji/Egbema LGA, Imo State. After his burial, his family […]
Continue reading
RIP: Fast & Furious actor Paul Walker dies at 40 in tragic car accident
Paul Walker — best known for his role in “The Fast and the Furious” movies — died Saturday afternoon after a single-car accident and explosion in Southern California … The accident happened in Santa Clarita — north of Los Angeles — and Paul was the passenger in the two-seater Porsche Carrera GT when the driver somehow […]
Continue reading
Infuriate: How Nigerians Are Being Discriminated in South African Prisons
The House of Representatives has come out to condemn the ill-treatment and discrimination against Nigerians living in South Africa, stressing that over 409 convicts were currently serving jail terms there. Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewam, the Chairman of the House Committee on Diaspora, disclosed this in a statement issued after the committee’s visit to two prisons in […]
Continue reading
Bedlam: Two Faint, Many Injured In Anambra Women, Police Clash
Two women fainted while several others were injured when security agents dispersed about 300 women protesting the Anambra State governorship election on Wednesday at the state office of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Awka. The women, who identified themselves as Anambra Women, called for the cancellation of the election and the discontinuation of the […]
Continue reading
“Festus Iyayi Was Shot By Policemen In Kogi’s Governor Convoy”
An anonymous tipster has confided in Sahara Reporters that Festus Iyayi, a former president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), was actually shot by policemen in the convoy of the Kogi State Governor, Captain Idris Wada, prior to the road accident in which he supposedly died last week. The source claimed that the […]
Continue reading
Popular Nigerian 90s musician dies at 36
One of Nigeria’s most popular 90s musicians Olufemi Mayomi, aka Father U Turn, is dead. The dance hall artiste who rose from poverty as an orphan to fame as a songwriter, Recording artiste and TV presenter passed on in Lagos today during a brief illness at the age of 36. May his soul rest in […]
Continue reading
Anambra guber tragedy: 4 policemen shot dead
Four policemen attached to Osun State Police Command were on Thursday shot dead by gunmen at Benin, Edo State on their way to Anambra State ahead of Saturday’s governorship election. Over 500 policemen from the Osun State Police Command drafted to Anambra for the governorship election were ambushed by gunmen suspected to be armed robbers along the busy […]
Continue reading
How ex-ASUU boss, Iyayi, died – Doctor
The Sole Administrator of Specialist Hospital in Lokoja, Kogi Sttae, Dr. Paul Amodu, has revealed how former president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and activist, Prof. Festus Iyayi, died in a road accident involving the convoy of Governor Wada Idris. The ex-union leader died at about noon on Tuesday along Banda village […]
Continue reading
100 million Nigerians live in destitution – World Bank
About 100 million Nigerians live in destitution, the World Bank has said. The World Bank Country Director for Nigeria, Marie-Francoise Marie-Nelly, said this at the bank’s Country Programme Portfolio Review in Enugu on Tuesday. She said that the bank’s ongoing commitment to Nigeria stood at $5.34bn. According to the World Bank boss, the number of […]
Continue reading
4 Dead, 87 Injured in Police, MASSOB Clash in Onitsha
No fewer than four persons were allegedly shot dead in a clash between members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB and a joint security team in Onitsha. The leader of MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike who spoke to reporters through the Director for Information, Uchenna Madu alleged that the […]
Continue reading
Collapsed Lagos Mall: Death toll rises to five
The collapsed shopping mall The Search and Rescue team at the five-storey twin-shopping mall under-construction which collapsed, Monday, at 9, Muri Okunola Street, Eti-Osa Local Government, has completed its job at the collapsed site. The rescue agencies were made up […]
Continue reading
Virgin school girl gang-raped to coma in Lagos
Police operatives in Lagos have arrested three persons and declared one other wanted for allegedly gang raping a girl to a state of coma. The young girl, simply identified as Vivian, is battling with death in a private hospital in Ikorodu area of the state. Crime Watch gathered that the 15-year-old secondary school girl had gone […]
Continue reading
16 Year Old Wife stabs husband to death
A young couple’s union has ended tragically in Ondo with the 16-year-old wife stabbing his husband to death during an argument. The murder incident, which occurred last Monday at Omolere/Mobil area of Akure threw the metropolis into shock and disbelief. The housewife and mother of two, Ebere Ogu stabbed her husband, Chinedu Patrick Ogu, 31, in the […]
Continue reading
December 6, 2013 




