Breaking news-ASUP calls off Strike

National Executive Council (NEC) of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has suspended their strike action which began on April 29.

News filtering in states that the strike which has kept student off school has been called off. ASUP president, Mr. Chibuzor Asumogba had yesterday revealed that the committee will meet today to check the progress of the civil action.The lecturers' decision follows the meeting they had with the federal lawmakers and ministers last week, after which they said the National Executive Committee of ASUP would meet to review the government's offer...

How Rev. Fr. Francis Chidiebele Okoye, a Catholic priest was BUTCHERED IN CHURCH

As the anniversary of the gruesome murder of Rev. Fr. Francis Chidiebele Okoye, a Catholic priest attached to St Mary's CatholicChurch, in Afikpo, Ebonyi State holds on july 31 Some of the questions in the minds of the parishioners and the general public remains who killed him and why?
Fr. Okoye was slaughtered like a sacrificial lamb in the premises of the Church on July 31, 2006. The priest, who hailed from Enugwu Ukwu, in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State and shared an apartment within the Church premises with a fellow priest, was dragged out of his bedroom by his assailants, who took him to the back of the building and slashed his throat.
A source said he was decapitated. "It was a shocking act of violence. It was a gory sight. There was no doubt that Father Chidiebele's attackers came with the intention of killing him outright. They butchered an innocent man like an animal. He was almost beheaded. This is the height of wickedness and man's inhumanity to man," one of the members of the church stated.

Patience Jonathan replies Soyinka

From The Punch

Wife of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, on Friday took on Prof. Wole Soyinka, for attributing the crisis in the Rivers House of Assembly to her.
In a statement by her spokesman, Ayo Osinlu, the President's wife said Soyinka betrayed the moral duty that is expected of him, as a respected member of the society, to carefully consider all shades of issues that informed his opinions on any matter.
Mrs. Jonathan said Soyinka had become an embarrassment to his admirers with his diatribe against her.
The statement read in part, "Unfortunately, Soyinka betrayed moral duty in his recent diatribe against Mrs. Patience Jonathan.
"Of course, this would not be the first time he would reach out against the First Lady, usuallyfrom self-righteously indignant lecterns.

Mum stabbs her eight month old baby 90 times

Eight months old Xiao Bao was stabbed 90 times in the face with scissors by his mother for biting her while she was breastfeeding him. The strange incident that has left many people shocked happened in Xuzhou, in the eastern China Jiangsu province. After the attack, the mother disappeared leaving the infant in a pool of his blood in the yard of their home. Xiao was found by his uncle who rushed him to the hospital. The baby needed more than 100 stitches. The mother, who has since been arrested, is not known to be suffering any kindof mental illness.

FG signs cease fire agreement with boko haram

The Federal Government has announced signing of ceasefire deal with Jama'atu Ahlul Sunnah Lidda'awati wal Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram.
The cease fire agreement came on the eve of the Muslim Holy month which commenced on Tuesday through out the country.
The minister of Special duties Alhaji Tanimu Turaki announced the ceasefire agreement on Radio France International Hausa services monitored in Kano Monday afternoon

Son's wedding scandal-Pastor Kumuyi offers to resign

Pastor William Kumuyi offered to resign as General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church following the controversy that trailed the wedding of his second son, John.John Kumuyi and his wife, Love had engaged in acts, which negated the church’s tradition during their wedding held in Jamaica on June 15, 2013. Love, who is a daughter of the National Overseer of Deeper Life Bible Church, Jamaica, Pastor Augustine Odih, was dressed in a fitted stylish wedding gown with transparent short sleeves. She also wore makeup, jewelry and carried a bouquet of flowers. The couple cruised in a limousine and had a huge wedding cake.

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.”

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.”

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..

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

Photo-Malaysia Police arrests 52 Nigerians,now awaiting deportation

In what has been described as a midnight raid by the Malaysia Immigration Police, over  52 Nigerians have been arrested and are now awaiting deportation.

According to various reports, the Immigration police raided houses that were occupied by Nigerians, and properties were destroyed in the process. The Nigerians who were unfortunate enough to be at home during the raid were arrested even those who weren't home had their houses ransacked and vandalised.

Photo-7 dead robbers killed by The Lagos Police Command

Graphic pictures of 7 alleged robbers killed by Lagos state police has surfaced. Police alleged that the suspects were behind the kidnap of Lagos politician Kehinde Bamigbetan, Chairman of Ejigbo Local Council Development Area in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria.

Police said the arrested suspects are 27-year old Ogbonna Emenike and 25-year old Uchenna Nwanyu. The shootout took place at the weekend.

The items recovered from the suspects include four AK 47 Rifles, twenty-Eight AK 47 Magazine fully loaded and a thousand round of live ammunition. Others are army uniforms, a Honda CRV jeep with Reg No.ABC106AE and a Nissan Pathfinder Reg No.AGL730AZ as well as local charms.

Update on Kumuyi's son's wedding

Its now an old story that the son of deeper christian life ministry General Superintendent Pastor W.F Kumuyi got married recently.The news now is the controversy generated by the wedding attire of the bride. teeming followers of the respected former university don have condemned the classy wedding, which they tagged: Un-deeper-life-stic.
A close look at the weeding pictures of the couple posted online saw the bride donned in accessories that had been anathema to the ministry.
She was clad in a transparent fitted stylish short sleeves wedding gown, eyelashes, earrings makeup and wedding flower, which had never happened in the history of the ministry. ..Guys,share your thoughts on this one by dropping your comments below

Photo-girl dies and wakes up in mortuary 2 days later

Twenty-one-year-old Adora Ugwu had plans of becoming a soldier. She also wants to secure admission into one of the country's tertiary institutions. She had put her hands on the plough of her latter dream by writing the last UMTE.

But, as she was going for the other one, she died. Two days after the lady wrote the examination, she was heading for her home state of Enugu for the recruitment into the Nigerian Army when the vehicle she was travelling had a head-on collision with a similar minibus.

The result: her death and that of 25 others who included four discharged members of batch B National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).

Photo-Generator FUME kills family of 7 in delta state

Reports said the ugly incident put fear in the community quarters which became deserted when the news of the mysterious death of the entire family members filtered out.

As it were, two of the deceased identified as Nkechi and Patience were reported to be biological daughters of the retired soldier while three other kids aged between 3 and 4 years were his grandchildren.

The two others, eyewitness said, one of who was a boyfriend to the soldier’s daughter, was said to have visited his girlfriend on the fateful day and when it was night fall, he was persuaded against his will to pass the night there.

Fake pastor impregnates six married church members

The Pastor of Faith Ministries, a church in the Matobo District of Matabeleland South, has been expelled after her impregnated six married women who were members of his church.

Pastor Derek Ngulube was shown the red card by the church's elders last month bringing to an end his reign of sexual terror. Pastor Ngulube is reported to have impregnated the six within a period of one year.

His antics were brought to light after a visiting Pastor prophesied that there was an elder within the church who is in the habit of bedding married women. After a 'witch hunt', it was established that Pastor Ngulube was the elder who had been fingered in the prophecy.