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Petroleum Minister is currently trending on twitter as Nigerians react to the news of Pres. Buhari's announcing that he will be Nigeria's Minister of Petroleum. See more of their reactions after the cut...

These are the four friends - Zalika Miller (far left) pictured with her friends Reisha (centre left), Tasha (centre right) and Lin Mei (right), who were allegedly turned away from top London nightclub, Dstrkt on Saturday night. The women were asked to stand across the road from the club so the white manager could look at them. After which he allegedly told Reisha and Tasha that they were ‘too dark’ and ‘overweight’ to enter the club. Read previous story here Zalika Miller, 26, told The Voice: ‘Prior to us actually getting to the club, the [promoter] wanted pictures of the girls that my friend was going to bring. He basically said, if she was going to bring black girls then they’ve got to be of “a certain calibre”. She sent him pictures of me and another girl that was coming and I guess he gave his approval.’

WASHINGTON, D.C. (NEWSWATCH33) – NASA has confirmed that the Earth will experience 15 days of total darkness between November 15 and November 29, 2015. The event, according to NASA, hasn’t occurred in over 1 Million years. Astronomers from NASA have indicated that the world will remain in complete darkness starting on Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 3 a.m. and will end on Monday, November 30, 2015 at 4:15 p.m. According to officials, the ” November Black Out” event will be caused by another astronomical event between Venus and Jupiter. Charles Bolden, who was appointed to head of NASA by President Obama, issued a 1000 page document explaining the event to the White House. According to the report, on October 26, 2015, Venus and Jupiter will engage in a close parallelism, only being separated by 1 degree. Venus will pass to the southwest of Jupiter, causing Venus to shine 10 times brighter than Jupiter. The light from Venus will heat up the gases on Jupiter causing a reaction. The gase...

Following October 31st deadline for the Bank Verification Number (BVN) registration, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has warned that it will not extend the deadline for the registration exercise. The apex bank last week said 32 million Nigerians are yet to do their registration.

As speculations mount over the future of embattled Senate President Bukola Saraki, plots by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to supplant the majority All Progressives Congress (APC) and take over leadership of the senate are intensifying. The Nation had reported a few days ago the PDP was plotting a sensational take-over of the upper chamber of the National Assembly in the event that Saraki is consumed by his ongoing trial by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). The party is mobilising its members in the Senate to ensure one of its own replaces Saraki if the presidency of the senate becomes vacant. With that as a goal, it is said to be seriously considering one of the trio of former Senate President David Mark, Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu and Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, as possible candidates for the position. The Nation also learnt that the three senators are being supported by various groups within the party and the senate. The opposition part...

The former Secretary to Government of the Federation, Olu Falae, has revealed that six Fulani herdsmen kidnapped him on Monday and made him trek 30km from Ilado where he was taken, to Owo. He also said he was made to sleep in the bush for three days as the kidnappers changed their locations every four hours. President Muhammadu Buhari had on Wednesday directed the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, to ensure the rescue of the former minister. While speaking with Governor Olusegun Mimiko, who paid him a visit at his residence in Obaile, Mr. Falae said he believed the herdsmen were working for Boko Haram. The Afenifere chieftain said he was made to sleep on the bare floor throughout his stay with his captors. A family source, who said he was present when Mr. Falae explained his ordeal, said he was not certain if ransom was paid. “Baba has just narrated his ordeal to some of us. His abductors made him to trek from his farm to Owo. Baba also said he was sleeping on the ‎ground s...

The ex-footballer turned pastor said he had a manager from Senegal and his manager would take him to several native doctors in Senegal where they will cut his tongue, hands and legs and then cook it. “I spend most of my time at home meditating. All I want to do is to keep spreading the gospel. In my own little way, I have been into evangelisation visiting places like Ughelli and within the Orile community, Ajegunle and so on. God has been kind during these visits to preach the gospel to people who are yet to receive Christ. We believe He will take us global very soon,” Taribo said. It will be recalled that Super Eagles attacker, Brown Ideye came out and advised African players to stop using juju to enhance their playing prowess. “Your background experience counts. We turn to God to give us direction. I’m happy how far He has taken us. “The gospel is for the poor, rich and noble. Part of the gift God gave me is to reach out to the downtrodden. It is good if you can reach out to the dow...

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Thursday, September 24, 2015 leave Nigeria for New York, USA for the 70th United Nations (UN) General Assembly where he is to address the World Leaders Summit on Violent Extremism. According to a State House press release signed by Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, President Buhari is heading to the US with a delegation made up of the Governors of Sokoto (Aminu Tambuwal), Kaduna (Nasir El Rufai) and Niger (Abubakar Sani Bello). Also on the delegation are the National Security Adviser (NSA) Babagana Monguno, the Permanent Secretaries in the Ministries of Foreign Affairs (Ambassador Danjuma Nanpon Sheni), Defence (Aliyu Isma’ila), Finance (Anastasia Mabi Daniel-Nwaobia), Health (Linus Awute), Industry, Trade and Investment. Criticism has greeted the news of Buhari’s UN delegation with Nigerians expressing concern over the President’s decision to attend the UN General Assembly with a delegation with only Northern governors, especially in the wak...

A LIB reader claims that the man, known in the area as mentally challenged and homeless, walked to this PDP banner at Ellu, Isoko North, Delta State, and started praying for PDP...

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With the drama surrounding the trial of Senate President, Bukola Saraki by the Code of Conduct has taken a new dimension as reports have emerged claiming that some senators who are not in support of his leadership of the upper chamber have been paid to impeach him as soon as the Senate resumes at the end of their six week break. According to Nigerian Pilot, about 35 senators were on Monday, September 21, 2015 paid the sum of $50,000 each as Sallah gifts ahead of the resumption of plenary next week. A senator who received the said sum was said to have disclosed that “they said the money was Sallah gift, but we know what they want. The motive is clear.” The senator further said that the cash gift “is to curry our support before we reconvene. They are not happy that Saraki wield so much influence here like when about 81 senators passed a vote of confidence on him. They want to reduce his influence on members ahead of resumption date.” The senator also disclosed that one senator from ...

Former Rivers State governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has dragged the Peoples Democratic Party in the state, its Chairman, Chief Felix Obuah, and two others to an Abuja High Court over allegations that he embezzled $757m (N80bn) belonging to the state while in office. In what appears to be a fight back by the former governor, Amaechi said in a statement he issued on Tuesday that he had also sued the state PDP and two others for alleging that he (Amaechi) operated a private foreign account where he lodged the said public funds. Although the former governor did not identify the two other persons he joined in his suit, Amaechi said the allegation had done a lot of harm to his person and reputation, and he demanded N300 billion as damages. Amaechi recalled that the state PDP on August 6, and August 21, 2015, alleged that he stole the sum of $757 million or N80 billion of Rivers money and stashed them away in an account in his name in Bancorp Bank in Minnesota, United State of America. The i...

The founder and general overseer of City of Reality Christian Centre, Apostle Nsikak Etim, has been arrested by the police for allegedly robbing a widow at her husband’s burial. Daily Independent reports that the pastor, who was not invited to the burial, sneaked into the venue of the burial at Itung Mbang, Uruan local government area. He was said to have witnessed the widow as sympathizers gave her gifts. When arrested, Apostle Etim, a native of Enen Atai in Itu local government area of Akwa Ibom state, confessed that he truly stopped by the burial although he was not invited. He went on to reveal how he patiently waited to steal a bag that had about N600, 000, two cell phones belonging to the widow and her late husband, a cheque book with an ATM pin written at the edge of the cover, an ATM card and a briefcase containing the late husband’s documents, which was handed over to the woman’s son for safe keeping. The pastor immediately used the money to buy a land in Uyo, withdrew all th...

If you are in Fort Worth, Texas, you might get a glimpse of an unusual train puttering down a road. You might have to do a double take, as you realize it’s a train filled with dogs! Eighty-year-old Eugene Bostick and his “dog train” are well known to locals. He’s been driving the tractor with eight barrels in tow for several years. It turns out the retiree built the train for the stray dogs he’s rescued with his brother over the years, after people have dumped the dogs near their property. “I started out with my tractor. I had a little trailer and I put four or five dogs in there and took them riding. Then more dogs started to show up and I said, ‘Uh-oh! That’s not enough room!’ That’s when I came up with that,” Bostick told NBCDFW explaining how the dog train came into being. Recently, Tiffany Johnson, who has seen him regularly go by her office, wanted to take a picture. “This is the coolest guy he rescues stray dogs and every morning he takes them for a train ride by our building...

My Uruan people have one lofty aphorism, which when directly translated says, "When you cannot catch the shark, search for crayfish, instead of leaving the ocean without a haul". The recent activity of the Akwa Ibom APC and their candidate aptly suits that saying. It is simply annoying that the APC took a case to the Election tribunal for a decision and after messing up with the case by parading witnesses that contradicted itself, it now storms the media to create a false impression that it is winning. The truth which no one can deny is that the APC in Akwa Ibom is playing on the sympathy of a few people to keep hope alive in what is unarguably a hopeless situation. Their move is comparable to the recent Frank Okon's case, where a lot of Akwa Ibom people lost billions of naira to that unholy crusade of winning party nomination with two votes and becoming the governor of Akwa Ibom State through litigation, without any visible political structure within the State. The vict...

The bodies of four women including that of a female INEC officer, Mrs Chinwe Obi, who was the electoral officer for Onitsha South Local Government Area have been found dead inside her home situated on Olisa Onyeka Crescent near the Commissioners’ quarters in Awka GRA, Anambra state yesterday September 9th. According to reports, the other thee women believed to be church members had come to commiserate with Mrs Obi whose husband who just returned from Cotonou about a week ago had died in the same house. The other three women were found dead with their bibles still in their hands. The state commissioner of police, Hosea Karma said the police was alerted after several calls made to Mrs Obi were unanswered so family members decides to check on her and on searching her house, they discovered the bodies of all the women. He ruled out murder as none of the women had any bruises on them. He said their bodies have been deposited at the state mortuary while investigations into the matter i...

Four new cases of the Ebola disease have been recorded in Serra Leone. According to reports, those infected with the disease had direct contact with a woman who died of Ebola last month in a village. This development not only poses a major setback to all efforts to end the outbreak in Sierra Leone, but also increases the likelihood of recording more infections within Serra Leone and other neighboring countries. The Head of Sierra Leone’s National Ebola Response Centre, Pallo Conteh, while speaking on the new diagnoses, accused the family members of the deceased of hiding her from health workers when she was ill and resorting to taking care of her themselves. Even after she died, they carried out their traditional practice of washing the corpse of the woman without the use proper disinfectants. “Our people are stubborn. Until they stop doing what I call the silly things we will have cases popping up here and there. I am expecting more cases,” Conteh said. “We are sure that the body w...

In the wake of recent attacks and unrest across the states of Nigeria, the NYSC board has now included in the registration procedure of NYSC members to choose at least 3 states which they would love to be deployed from which one will be finally selected for them by the board. I think the NYSC has started to become liberal and more democratic with this initiative but it will stand against the main motive for which the programme was established! The disadvantage of this development will be very disturbing; as some states will be favoured at the expense of the others. However, the corps members have restricted Geo-political zones depending on the school they graduated from!

No fewer than seven people sustained injuries after a popular hotel, the Mekaval Hotel situated in Effurun-Warri in Delta state collapsed at about 3am today September 9th. The injured were mostly indigenes of neighboring states who had come to the state in search of miracle at a popular deliverance ministry. Delta state deputy Governor Kingsley Otuaro, who visited the scene of the incident attributed the cause of the collapse to structural defect. "The state government has ordered that the hotel be closed immediately to avert further loss of lives. We are going to send engineers straight away. It is very possible that there have been some structural defect ab initio during construction works because that place seems to be a waterlogged area and maybe the proper engineering works were not done.” he said One of the victims of the incident, Adeza who is an ADC to one of the northern state First Lady, said she was in the state to seek for spiritual help for her many family troubles ...

A man in Oakland County was stabbed after he discovered his wife in bed with her own father. The 25-year-old victim came home to find his wife and his father-in-law lying naked in bed together. He woke his father-in-law up, and the two got into an argument that continued outside. The older man, Henry Allen Michael of Detroit, then allegedly stabbed his son-in-law in the back with a knife and drove away in the victim’s vehicle. The victim was taken to the hospital and treated for a non-life threatening stab wound that may have perforated his right lung. As for the victim’s wife, she said that she did not know anything had happened until her husband woke her up. She and her father had been out drinking, and she said that she passed out when they returned home. When she was questioned, she said that she had reason to believe she was sexually assaulted and was examined by hospital staff. At the time of the stabbing, Michael was staying at the victim’s house after having been released...

The PDP has refused to hang the official portrait of President Muhammadu Buhari at the party’s national secretariat, Wadata House national secretariat, located at Zone 5, Abuja, despite the fact that it has removed that of former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh on Tuesday said: “We will never hang his portrait in this office, because President Buhari is not known to our party. He is not a leader of our party and therefore we will never put his portrait here. We are a political party, very partisan and therefore, we are not going to hide that," Metuh said the APC did not hang the portrait of former Pres. Jonathan in its offices while he was in office. Hence they wouldn't hang Pres Buhari's portrait because he is not a member of their party. He said: "We will never hang his portrait in this office, because President Buhari is not known to our party. He is not a leader of our party and therefore we will never ...

A Saudi man instantly divorced his wife after catching her dancing in front of the TV at their home. He told her what she did was an unforgivable. According to Emirates 24/7, the unnamed woman had waited for her husband to go out before she turned on her favourite TV music channel and started to dance in front of the TV set in her room. Her husband had warned her against watching such channels, but she went behind his back and ciphered some of them so he would not know she was watching them. The woman told the Saudi daily 'Sada' that her husband had warned her many times against watching such channels and that she must see only religious and social channels which he likes to watch. "She said that she waited for him to go out on that day, turned on her favorite channel and started to dance. As she was dancing, her husband returned home but she did not hear him coming as the music was loud. She said that when he saw her dancing, he immediately divorced her despite her ple...

JP Morgan, yesterday, announced that it will remove Nigeria from its Government Bond Index (GBI-EM) by the end of October. The bank had warned Nigeria that to stay in the index, it would have to restore liquidity to its currency market in a way that allowed foreign investors tracking the index to conduct transactions with minimal hurdles. It says Nigeria’s currency controls were making transactions too complicated. The removal will force funds to sell Nigerian bonds, triggering potentially significant capital outflows and raising borrowing costs for the government. Nigeria’s Finance Ministry, central bank and Debt Management Office said in a statement they “strongly” disagreed with the index expulsion, saying that market liquidity was improving. “While we would continue to ensure that there is liquidity and transparency in the market, we would like to note that the market for (government) bonds remains strong and active due … to diversity of the domestic investor base,” the state...

CALABAR — FOR many who thought that nothing good can come out of Niger Delta, the up-to-the-minute promotion/exhibition of products manufactured and packaged by some ingenous youths of the region at Calabar, capital of Cross River State is astonishing. Under the auspices of the Calabar Micro, Medium and Small Enterprises Summit, powered by Growth and Employment in States (GEMS4) in collaboration with Made in Nigeria (MiN) Global Consulting Services, the youths displayed items, including cooking burner (plate) that smolders with bio fuel from cocoa, melon, afang, okro and other varieties of soup packaged in ready to eat forms like noodles. There was cocoa juice without sugar or preservatives, custard, soap, accessories made from waste clothing materials among others. Over time made in Nigeria goods have been perceived as second-rate due to packaging and branding, but a lot has changed in recent times following the intervention, financially and otherwise of local and international agen...

YENAGOA – Commercial and governmental activities were Tuesday brought to a stand still as Bayelsans besieged the Samson Siasia Stadium to witness the formal declaration of Governor Seriake Dickson to run for second term in the forthcoming governorship election under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP. The occasion attracted prominent Bayelsa elders and top shot PDP members led by chairman of the PDP Governors Forum, Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State, Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Deputy Governor of Delta State Kingsley Otuaro; Abia, Chris Akomas; Ebonyi, Kelechi Igwe and Kogi, Yomi Awoniyi among others. The former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, was accompanied by his wife Dame Patience Jonathan, who received a thunderous applause when her name was mentioned. Dr. Jonathan, said though his decision to endorse the second bid of Governor Seriake Dickson has attracted some reactions through bulk SMS in circulation, is action was based on the four points conviction that the incu...

A nation is as transparent as its media. A nation is also as corrupt as its media. The more corrupt a nation's media is, the more corrupt that nation is also. In fact, the corruption of a nation is directly proportional to the corruption of its media. You can also replace the word 'media' with 'social critics' and the import of the sentence is still the same. Why am I reflecting on the media and social critics today? A few weeks ago, we were regaled with news of allegations of Babatunde Fashola's corrupt acts- the 2 boreholes that cost N139m, the untraceable construction project in Onikan that cost N1.2b, the personal website he upgraded with N78m and the several choice plots of land he hurriedly allocated at the end of his tenure which Ambode has reversed. When 'they' saw that not only will Fashola be demystified but even their own Ashiwaju may win the battle but he may never win the war, Ashiwaju released a statement to bury the case. How many people ...

These are photos of the construction of 2nd Niger bridge that has been ongoing for sometime now. Some were in doubt about the existence of the 11.9km length bridge...well doubt no more. See the photos after the cut...

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike met with former President Jonathan at the Samson Siasia Stadium, Yenagoa during Seriake Dickson’s declaration for second term today. They also met at Jonathan's country home in Otuoke after the event at the stadium. See more photos after the cut...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum on Tuesday criticised the reported invasion of Akwa Ibom Government House by operatives of Department of State Service (DSS). The governors gave the condemnation after a meeting in the Bayelsa State Governor’s office in Yenagoa. The Chairman of the forum, Gov. Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo, who read a communiqué after the meeting, said the invasion was against the spirit and tenets of democratic norms and tradition. “We insist that the trend must stop henceforth. No democracy survives without a viable opposition in any part of the world. “And we must also remember to remind the APC that they are the real beneficiaries of the liberal democratic ethos of the PDP. “We once more advise the DSS to preoccupy itself with the task of ensuring internal security and desist from daily harassing and intimidating members of the opposition. “We implore the international community, the civil society organisations and human rights activists to call the All...

The Nigerian Immigration Service has directed former Nigerian public office holders to immediately surrender official and diplomatic passports issued to them while they were in office. The action, officials say, is based on the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari. The categories of officials affected by the directive are former governors, former ministers, former senators, former members of the House of Representatives, and former members of state Houses of Assembly. Others are former commissioners, for special advisers/special assistants, former chairmen/deputy chairmen of local government areas, all retired heads of parastatals and retired public servants. “These categories of persons are hereby informed that these passports which were previously held by them have been revoked and should return them to the Nigeria Immigration Service Headquarters Sauka Abuja with immediate effect,” the Comptroller-General of the Immigration Service, Martin Abeshi, said in a statement Monday. ...

ASABA- DELTA State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, has said that residents in the state were reluctant to pay electricity bills and sometimes get hostile with the Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC, because of epileptic power supply. Okowa stated this, Monday, when he played host to the chair of BEDC, Mr. Victor Osibodu, who led the management team to him at Government House, Asaba. The governor, who called for community sensitization on the current state of power distribution in the state, said, “There is a need for our communities to be sensitized on your activities because the various communities over the years pay bills and do not receive any power supply.” “So they need to be enlightened that you are something different than what has been perceived, we have sometimes seen communities get hostile because they believe that the services will never come after they have made payments,” He said that the current power distribution of 140megawatts to the state got was quit...

According to Dr Gordon Patzer, author of Looks: Why They Matter More Than You Ever Imagined, and one of the world’s leading authorities on physical attractiveness, a lot of what women notice in the first few minutes is appearance-based. “A substantial portion of the six features of a man are apparent, in terms of height, weight and overall physical attractiveness,” he says. And when appearances don’t make the cut, the door slams shut on further interactions. Here’s a list of things to keep that door open. 1. Physical stature Yep, you knew this already: size matters. Height and weight are right on top of the list of things women notice. “Too much or too little of either immediately classifies the man as unattractive to women, and closes the door before less physically obviously features (such as confidence) can be determined,” says Dr Patzer. Take heart though, the acceptable range is influenced by the woman’s own height and weight. 2. Appearances and attractiveness Yes, beauty i...

Popular Nollywood actor and producer, Emeka Ike, has accused Rev. Chris Okotie of Household of God Church, as the one behind the ongoing crisis in his marriage. The veteran actor in a statement revealed he’s crying out because of the “desperate desperation” of pastor Okotie to destroy his family. Recall that for a while now, the actor has been having issues with his wife, Suzanne, with the wife filing a divorce suit before a customary court in Lagos. Suzanne is seeking dissolution of her 12-year-old marriage over alleged assault from her husband. The actor claimed that pastor Okotie got his wife a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), to pursue her case, gave her N500,000 for her mother’s burial and even bought her a blackberry passport phone! In the actor’s statement, Emeka Ike said he is writing the statement to let the whole world know the “devil” behind the plot to destroy his home, after all efforts to beg his wife to drop the divorce bid failed. Read the statement below: ”I want p...