Introduceing 'INYE' tablet:to Compete with Ipads and other Tablets

Nigeria’s Saheed Adepoju is a young man with big dreams. He is the inventor of the Inye, a tablet computer designed for the African market.

According to the 29-year-old entrepreneur, his machine’s key selling point is its price – $350 (£225) opposed to around $700 for an iPad.

Man vomits live lizards on hospital bed

A strange incident is scaring the residents of a community near the Federal Capital Territory.

The residents of Kubwa, a community on the outskirts of Abuja, got the shock of their lives when an unusual incident involving a businessman occurred about two weeks ago.

The businessman, Edward Asuelimen, had woken up in the morning of July 16 with severe pain in his stomach.

“I woke up a few minutes after 5 am. In less than two hours, I had visited the toilet four times. Then I felt excruciating pain in my stomach. It got to a point where I could hardly prepare my children for school,” Asuelimen recounts.

Former Senator’s daughter kidnapped in Port Harcourt

The daughter of Senator Nimi Barigha-Amange, Mrs. Diepreye Dagi Darego, was yesterday kidnapped in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. She was moved to an unknown destination.

She was kidnapped around 9 am on the dualised road to the Port Harcourt International Airport, while going to receive her sister at the airport currently under reconstruction.

Nigerian army presents anti-bombing tools to churches, mosques

The Nigerian army on Thursday July 26th presented vehicle stoppers to some churches and mosques in the North. The device is designed to stop any vehicle from all angle at any speed.

The army explained that since most attacks of suicide bombers are being carried out with vehicles loaded with improvised explosive devices (IEDs), these vehicle stoppers disallow bombers from reaching their targets as it forcefully stops any vehicle that comes in contact with it at whatever speed.

The move was part of the army's corporate social responsibility in curtailing the spate of suicide bombing at worship centres in the north.

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brothers caught with decomposing body parts of brother in Festac

How do you even begin to understand this? Two brothers, Toye and Tola allegedly slaughtered their younger brother, Akunbuyi, and sold his limbs. The full report when you continue...*viewer discretion advised*

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Boko Haram kill 2 Indians, three others in Maiduguri

Two Indians and three other people were killed  Wednesday July 25th by suspected members of terrorist sect, Boko Haram. Two Indians were killed and one injured when unknown gunmen stormed an Indian owned factory located at Bayan Quarters in Maiduguri yesterday, while the other three, two policemen and a civilian, were killed in attacks on a police station and a local government office in the state same day.

Falling container crushes woman in Ogun

 

A female pedestrian was crushed on Thursday morning at Kara Bus Stop, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway by a container after it fell from a moving trailer.

The trailer was heading out of Lagos around 7am when it lost one of its tyres, making the driver to lose control of the truck momentarily.

Graphic Photo:Two men behead 7 year old boy

                The two men who beheaded a little boy Left: 30 year old Ishaya Dakulung and (right) 25 year John Yakubu

7 year old Samu Danjuma was John Yakubu's neighbour's child in Nasarawa. Yakubu was said to have lured the little boy to a forest where he beheaded him and dumped his body in a stream. Yakubu then took his head to Ishaya in Abuja who promised him N250, 000 for fresh human head. Dakulung was to give the head to someone else for ritual purposes, but fortunately the two men were accosted and arrested by men of the SSS following a tip off. They were paraded to newsmen this week in Abuja.
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FG after me for raising impeachment Motion – Gbajabiamila

Admits he was sanctioned for Professional Misconduct in the US.

The controversy generated by the impeachment motion against President Goodluck Jonathan last week took a new twist, yesterday, as a member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamilla, who presented the motion, accused the Presidency of circulating misleading reports in the media to tarnish his reputation.

However, he admitted he was punished for professional misconduct in the United States in 2003.

Nigerian Cab driver who returned lost N18m, gets award

The Nigerian Network of Women Exporters of Service (NNWES) has honoured Mr. Imeh Usua, an airport taxi driver that returned a bag belonging to a British passenger containing foreign currency worth N18 million, with service delivery award.


Although the incident took place in 2007, NNWES President Nkiru Joy Okpala said it was not too late to recognize him for his sincerity.

Sun Editor shot in the head by unknown gunmen

The Editor of Daily Sun newspaper, Steve Nwosu, was yestherday shot in the head by unknown gunmen in the Maza Maza area of Lagos as he left a bank.

Two men on a motorcyle shot him as he left a bank and was about entering his car. Fortunately the bullet only scraped his scalp. He wasn't seriously injured but had to be kept overnight in the hospital for observation.

No one can say for sure if it was a robbery attack or an assassination attempt.

P-Square's mum`s burial date fixed

The body of the mother of multiple award-winning singers, P-Square, Mrs. Josephine Okoye, 62, which is currently in a Lagos private mortuary, will be laid to rest in her husband’s house at Ifite-Dunu, Akwa Village, Anambra State on Thursday, 2 August, 2012.

Shortly before the burial, there will be a lying-in-state at her Umunachi, Umudioka Village, Anambra State and a church service at St. Gabriel Catholic Church, before the proper burial at Ifite-Dunu, which will also be the reception venue and is expected to be attended by colleagues of P-Square in the entertainment industry and some state governors amid tight security.

Late Mrs Okoye is survived by her husband, Mr. Moses Okoye and eight children namely Christopher, Henry, Jude, Lilian, Tony, Peter, Paul and Mary.

Courts overflow with divorce suits

In a divorce case, typical of many others in the state’s magistrates courts, a Grade ‘A’ Customary Court in Ojo, Lagos, yesterday, dissolved the three-year-old marriage of a petitioner who accused her husband of infidelity and cruelty.
The acting court president, Alhaji T.K. Keshinro, dissolved the marriage between the petitioner, Ramatu Abidoye and the respondent, Musiliu Abidoye, after they consented to it.
According to Keshinro: “Once the parties to a divorce suit have agreed to go their separate ways, no further evidence is required to show that the marriage has broken down irretrievably.
“The court lacks the power to force the couple to continue to live together against their wish. This marriage is hereby dissolved with effect from July 24.”
In another suit, a 44-year-old civil servant also yesterday asked a Lagos Customary Court to dissolve his marriage, accusing his wife of 10 years of always biting  him.

Shock as father disowns 10-yr-old son for roaming the street

It came as a shock for residents of Abeokuta when a father who claimed to be fed up with the erring ways of his son publicly disowned him and invited who ever was interested to come and take him away. Vanguard Metro, VM, gathered that the enraged and seemingly irrational father of the rejected child, Sodiq Wasiu, is an Abeokuta-based Tipper Lorry Driver known simply as Baba Sodiq.
Baba Sodiq was reported to have disowned and abandoned his 10-year-old son, for roaming about the streets of the town since January.