Family of four crushed to death in edo

  A family of four has been crushed to death by a tanker at Egba junction along the Benin-Auchi express road.

 

Witnesses said the family consisted of the father, mother and two children.The tanker was said to have fallen on the Honda car they were travelling in and killed all the occupants.

Its content, suspected to be fuel spilled on the road and the first car that attempted to drive through the crash went up in flames killing the driver.The accident caused traffic gridlock along the express road.

 

Officials of the fire service were called to prevent spread of the fire. Edo State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Kenneth Nwaegbe said one person has been found dead. He said the fire was yet to be put out.

New World Record-Over 300 Thausand Nigerian students brush at the same time

The  pupils  set the Guinness World Record by brushing their teeth simultaneously for one minute across 326 locations in the state.The previous record of 177, 003 was set by India in 2007.

Doctors advice Mandela's family to unplug his life support machine

Doctors treating Nelson Mandela said he was in a “permanent vegetative state” and advised his family to turn off his life support machine a week ago, according to court documents obtained by AFP Thursday.

“He is in a permanent vegetative state and is assisted in breathing by a life support machine,” said the court filing dated June 26.“The Mandela family have been advised by the medical practitioners that his life support machine should be switched off.“Rather than prolonging his suffering, the Mandela family is exploring this option as a very real probability,” read a filing from the family’s lawyer, relating to a dispute over the final resting place of Mandela’s three children.Since the document was written, the government, family members and people visiting Mandela have reported his condition has improved.

Egypt gets new leader

 

 

The top judge of Egypt’s Constitutional Court, Adly Mahmud Mansour, has been sworn in as interim leader, hours after the army ousted President Mohammed Morsi and put him under house arrest.

Mr. Mansour said fresh elections were “the only way” forward, but gave no indication of when they would be held.

Mr. Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected leader, is under house arrest after what he says was a military coup.

The army said he had “failed to meet the demands of the people.”

Rivers Government comes to the aid of OJB,Approves the 15M

The Rivers state governor, Rotimi Amaechi has come to the aid of ailing music producer, Okungbowa Jezreel Babatunde aka OJB who is currently battling with kidney problem.

The governor has promised to support OJB with fifteen million naira (N15M) needed for the kidney transplant.

Head of the OJB fund raising committee , NoMoreloss confirmed it via his twitter handle. “Officials of the government reached out to us this evening, (Wednesday, June 3) promising to donate a $100,000. The presentation, they say, will be made on Friday (June 5). We are indeed grateful to the Governor and the people of Rivers State. Now we can finally have that surgical procedure.”

Gay Pastor rapes church member

THE Edo State Police Command, yesterday, paraded 26 suspected criminals including a pastor identified as Philips Ogbebor, alleged to have had carnal knowledge of a 20-year-old male member of his church (names withheld).

After the act, the pastor allegedly threatened to kill his victim if he disclosed the act to the public.
Speaking to Vanguard, Pastor Ogbebor simply said: “God will judge, go and talk to others” and kept on mumbling.

 

But his victim narrated his ordeal: “I told him I have never done this since I grew up, but he insisted. It was painful and I told him I will not allow it again. So after the second attempt, I told him I will expose the act. He then administered an oath on me, saying if I ever told any one, I will die.

Egypt Military removes President Mursi

Egypt’s military has removed the country’s first democratically elected President,  Mohamed Mursi, Wednesday night after he failed to meet demands to share power with opponents, who thronged the streets of Cairo, state-run media reported

Troops moved into key positions around the capital and surrounded a demonstration by Mursi’s supporters in a Cairo suburb as a 48-hour ultimatum from the generals expired.

 

Citing an unnamed presidential source, the state-run newspaper, Al-Ahram, reported that “the General Command of the Armed Forces told President Mursi around 7pm.  that he is no longer a president for the republic.”

Wedding Dress Palava-Kumuyi jr Suspended by the Church

John and Love Kumuyi have been suspended by the leadership deeper Life Minisry for the above wedding photo even after the couple tendered an apology letter to the church...this is the appology from the couple..
"We unreservedly and wholeheartedly state that we did not intend that our acts or omissions will, in any way, undermine the great works that God has done through the Deeper Christian Life Ministry worldwide and  more especially, through our Father in the Lord, the General Superintendent.We also use this medium to profusely and sincerely apologise to the General Superintendent for the embarrassment and heartaches our actions have caused him, more so that he had earlier declined to be at the events."

Bishop Rapes Teen in Rivers State

Chairman of All Bishops in Rivers State, Bishop Chibuike Nwabueze, who was arrested for allegedly raping a 15-year old girl, was paraded, yesterday.
The Bishop, who confessed to the crime before newsmen claimed he was hypnotised.
He said: "We have different Colleges of Bishops. I am the Chairman of Communion of Bishops in Rivers State. Well, what actually happened was a set up. It was set-up by my enemies. The man who is in-charge of where I went to minister is my enemy. He is the person that set me up.
"He invited me to his church for a programme and afer the programme, he set me up because of what we are dragging. We are dragging the chairmanship of the communion and that was why he set me up. But to my greatest surprise, on the said day and after I had prayed for her, the girl started  pulling off her clothes and  before you knew it, I had carnal knowledge of her."

Photo-Python Allegedly swallows a human being in Abuja

This python with protruding stomach was found in a remote satellite town in Abuja with residents expressing fear that it might  have swallowed a human being.meanwhile a resident also claims that the python might have swallowed hes goat cause its missing and the python was found close to were the goat was kept..

Ice Prince wins BET "Best African Award"

 

Ice Prince was announced the winner of the coveted "Best African Act" award at the BET awards 2013. He defeated 2face, R2bees and several other African artists to cling the award, Ice Prince joins 2face, Dbanj and Wizkid as the only Nigerians to have ever won the awards.big congrats to him

Serving Senator,Pius Ewherido dies of stroke

A serving senator representing Delta Central Senatorial District at the National Assembly under the platform of DPP, Pius Ewherido is dead.. Senator Ewherido died yesterday at the National Hospital in Abuja after suffering a stroke.

The late senator was the Vice chairman Senate committee on Marine Transport, and was a member of the committee on Trade and Investment. He was 50

Politics-Rivers Governor embraces President jonathan

few days after bodyguards of president Jonathan prevented Rivers State governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi from shaking hands with him at a presidential dinner last week in Abuja. Amaechi met President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan at the Port Harcourt International airport today and both embraced each other in the presence of a faction of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) led by a junior minister of Education, Nyeson Wike at the airport...more photo after cut