A Lance Corporal of the Nigeria Armed Force was reported to be among eight persons who were apprehended by the Inspector General of Police, Special Intelligence Response Team, SIRT, for allegedly supplying arms and ammunition to robbers in Lagos.
Among those the gang allegedly supplied arms were those robbers who raided commercial banks in Lekki, Ikorodu, Festac and Agbara areas of Lagos and Ogun state, where they carted away large sums of money, recently.
According to Vanguard, the suspects were picked up at various locations in Lagos, Ogun, Oyo and Borno states, respectively, by the SIRT operatives, led by CSP Abba Kyari, and officials of the Defense Intelligence.
Six automatic pump action rifles, a pistol and some cartridges were recovered from the suspects.
Sources close to the SIRT disclosed that the army corporal who was picked up at his duty post in Maiduguri, Borno State, by men of the Defense Intelligence, is currently undergoing interrogations at the Defense Headquarters, Abuja.
The publication also gathered that a member of the gang, who was arrested recently by the SIRT operatives, confessed during, interrogations that his gang received large supplies of arms and ammunition, from the soldier, who was posted to Borno State, to fight the Boko Haram sect .
A source further disclosed, that the soldier, would conceal weapons within food items heading to Lagos from Borno and the robbers who were also involved in pipeline vandalism Pipeline at Ikorodu and Ijegemo areas of Lagos, would credit his bank account upon receiving the weapons.
She plays the character Camilla Marks in the famous TV series, Empire, which just concluded it’s second season few weeks ago, Naomi Campbell who had fans of the series in suspense as she starred in the final episode of the show, had her fans worried after she was spotted at an airport in Brazil, in a wheelchair while supporting herself with a cane.
After she was spotted and the news made turns, her rep said in a statement:
Whilst it is a private matter, it is a light foot injury which Naomi sustained before her visit to London,” her rep said. “She is out and about as usual. There is no scheduled surgery.”
But they know the Israelis are very tough as far as fighting against guerrillas and terrorists.”They are not scared of the British and the Americans, they are scared of the Israelis and told me the Israeli army is the real danger.”
An elderly dementia patient was shot dead in her care home by her one-armed husband who was staying with her over Christmas.
Rita King, 81, is said to have been gunned down in front of frail residents by her spouse Ronald, 86, who mumbled ‘she has had enough‘ before pulling the trigger.
Daily mail reports that the couple are understood to be childless and the strain of looking after his wife had taken its toll on Mr King.
One neighbour said he simply ‘could not cope‘, while another said he was ‘under great stress‘. Mrs Curtis, who has run the residential home for two years, said: ‘This morning he came towards us with the gun and the woman was shot.’
She put her arm around the man and pleaded for him to drop the weapon.
She said:
‘I put my left arm around him and put his right arm between him and the gun and said ‘please, please give me the gun’, and he let go.’
Mrs Curtis said at first she had not realized the gun was real or if anybody had been injured.
‘He came towards me with the gun, my first thought was that it wasn’t real, but then my next thought was trying to stop him hurting my residents,’ she said.
Osita Iheme, Chinedu Ikedieze, Joseph Benjamin, Shan George, Ini Edo, Patience Ozokwor amongst others are all participating in the ongoing Calabar Carnival.
Calabar Carnival festival in Nigeria, also tagged “Africa’s Biggest Street Party“, was created as part of the vision of making the Cross River State in Nigeria, the number one tourist destination for Nigerians and tourist all over the world.
The carnival which begin on every 1 December and last till 31 December has boosted the cultural mosaic of Nigeria people while entertaining the millions of spectators within and outside the State, and boosting industry for all stakeholders.
Made Men Music group artiste, Iyanya; an ambassador of Cross River state was among the Governors band at the Calabar carnival on Monday, 28th of December, 2015.
Second in command to the affairs of the country, Vice president, Prof.Yemi Osinbajo touched down Burkina Faso this morning, where he is representing President Muhammadu Buhari at the inauguration ceremony of new democratically elected president of Burkina Faso, Mr. Roch Marc Christian Kaboré.
The Vice President was welcomed by H.E Michel Kafando, the transitional President of Burkina Faso in Ouagadougou.
Among the many celebrities who were present at the 2015 edition of the annual Calabar festival which started on the 1st of December, 2015 was stunning actress, Uche Ogbodo!
The beauty stunned in her Seagulls band outfit and was joined by co-actor, John Okafor AKA Mr Ibu.
32 year old vulcaniser, Jelili Dimeji, has reportedly been remanded in prison custody after allegedly leading a 30-man gang to rob his neighbour, Oladipupo Audu, of property valued at N1,750,000.
The suspect and the victim live in Isheri Osun, in the Ijegun area of Lagos. Audu and a friend were driving on Ijegun Road when Dimeji and his gang member, who are still at large, waylaid them, PUNCH reports.
They were said to have snatched Audu’s Toyota Camry, dispossessed him of gold jewellery worth about N1,450,000 and a cash sum of N300,000. The car was later recovered at a junction by policemen attached to the Rapid Response Squad.
Audu told the police that the suspect cautioned his cohorts, who wanted to kill him because they (he and Dimeji) live in the same area.
He said:
“My friend and I were going to buy a ram and foodstuffs around 5am on September 24 when we saw some men flagging down my car.
They were about 30 in number. They wanted to kill me, but Jelili (Dimeji) cautioned them and told them we were brothers in the community.
They collected my car, gold necklace, two gold rings a gold bracelet and a sum of N300,000. But the car has been recovered.”
Dimeji was arrested on October 7 by policemen from the Isheri Osun division after a robbery operation and was transferred to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Ikeja.
A locally-made gun, phones and two Automated Teller Machine cards were said to have been recovered from him.
He was subsequently arraigned on two counts of robbery by a police prosecutor, Inspector Benson Emuerhi, before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court.
Beautiful actress and producer/mother of one, Uche Jombo turned a year older yesterday and to celebrate, she shared a stunning photo of her gorgeous natural self in the morning as seen the photo below.
Destinambari Crooner, Mocheddah is set to unveil her clothing line, Mocheddah Clothing Line.
The ‘Destinambari’ singer made the announcement recently as she posted one of her products on Instagram.
‘I have been working on a Couple of projects but I can’t keep this a secret too long!! In d spirit of “Boxing Day” I have decided to share this surprise with you!!! I am wearing a look from my ready to wear clothing line launching early next year,’ she posted on Saturday.
Mocheddah has now joined other female music acts like Sasha and Yemi Alade who have their own fashion outfits.
Wait… Sincerely speaking… it’s said that “too much of everything isn’t anything“. After having one of the most searched for curves on the internet, she’s still donning a waist trainer ??? Puleassee!
Super curvy model, Amber Rose was spotted rocking a waist trainer and this has people talking cause she’s already got the hips to die for, so why the waist trainers again?
One of Nollywood’s Yoruba Finest – Dayo Amusa has every reason to Thank God for sparing her life. Especially on a a day like this – Few Days to the new year.
The actress was involved in a near-death accident in the early hours of December 28, 2015.
According to star actress, she was on her way home from an event when a fully loaded allegedly belonging to Dangote had a brake failure.
It was said that four different vehicles collided due to the unfortunate incident.
“Thank God for our lives. How can a whole Dangote trailer be on motion without a brake,” Dayo Amusa queried.
The actress shared 3 different videos from the accident scene on her instagram page to her over 180k followers.
While most people around the country were enjoying their holidays on boxing day, Saturday, 26th of December, 2015, twin brothers and their friend were shot dead by a trigger happy policeman who also killed himself.
It was also revealed the twin boys were the only children of their mother and they lost their father back in 2014.
Seventy-five-year-old Beatrice Oyesolu, the mother of the twin brothers shot dead by the policeman guarding Paulson Hotel on Anibaba Street, Ketu-Ikosi, Lagos, told Punch the promises her children made to her had been shattered.
The septuagenarian said the children ─ Taiye, a naval officer and Kehinde, an engineer ─ had concluded plans to start building her a house next month before the tragedy struck.
The twin brothers, aged 34, who hailed from Oro, Kwara State, were bachelors.
The drunken policeman, Stephen James, with Force number 217884, had opened fire on the brothers and their friend, Jeje, who was celebrating his birthday on the fateful day.
The trio had cautioned him to stop harassing customers, who reportedly declined to buy him bottles of beer.
James, said to be a drug addict and notorious for shooting sporadically, killed the twins and their friend before he shot himself dead.
It took entreaties from residents around the hotel to stop the angry mob who wanted to set the facility on fire. Sympathisers thronged a house in the community, where the twins’ mother, who lived in Mile 12, was brought to. The sympathisers rallied round her as she cried uncontrollably.
She said:
“I just came back from church yesterday when they broke the news of their death to me. The government should help me because Taiye and Kehinde were the only hope I have. I have been stripped naked because they are my clothes. Who will I turn to now?
“They promised me a lot of things next year. They wanted to start building a house on my parcel of land next month. This is the seventh month after the death of their father.”
Incredibly curvaceous media personality, Toolz Oniru was present at the Olamide Live In Concert at the Eko Hotels and Suite in Lagos last night and the outfit she donned had our tongues wagging.
Having the spotlight to her gorgeous self thanks to her amazing body, the media personality dazzled at the event in a glittery figure hugging dress looking as breathtaking as can be.
A woman slammed her local police force for making her lose her job after she was pulled over for speeding. The lady got an epic reply from the force to her post on Facebook.
Christy Carter claimed a police officer with the Owasso Police Department in Oklahoma victimized her for going 1mph over the speed limit.
She claims the officer who stopped her, insisted on keeping her there for 19 minutes, causing her to miss the start of her shift and lose her job.
So she demanded to know if the officer would help her with her rent and repayments on her car. She also gave them a one star review
They then replied her.
See below:
Interesting take on the event Christy, your claims are very serious but more alarmingly very false. “You were stopped for traveling 57mph in a 45mph zone which received you a warning.
“You failed to keep insurance on your vehicle which is cause for your vehicle to be towed. The very generous police officer allowed you time enough to contact your insurance agency by phone and update your insurance policy by phone. [This] you did and were then allowed to leave.” “So, to sum up, this officer gave you a warning for speeding, didn’t tow your car and allowed you to contact your insurance to update your policy. Was there anything else this officer could have done for you? Perhaps you meant to score our review higher?”
No one loves Kylie Jenner more than her own fans! It seems someone is loving her new Lip Kit so much, he had to get the logo tattooed on his arm.
Johnny Cyrus, took his appreciation for Jenner and her new business venture to another level and he now has Kylie’s dripping big lips inked to his arm forever!
Johnny shared a photo of his brand new tattoo on December 23 on Instagram, which is a nearly perfect replica of Kylie’s lip kit logo, complete with dripping gloss and gold teeth.
He couldn’t help but gush over his love for his new tat, posting multiple pictures of it on his Instagram.
But after receiving some backlash for his tattoo choice, Johnny quickly defended his art: “Couple things I wanna clear up…. For everyone who’s saying that the artist did a shitty job, y’all are clearly blind!!! Second, I couldn’t do the exact candy k lip kit colors cause it was too close to my skin color and I wouldnt be able to see it. F**k the haters. I don’t care what anyone says. I love my tattoo and I think its dope!”
Haha, Basketmouth has quickly taken to his Instagram to of course return fire back to where it came from.
The Comedian has replied Daddy Freeze.
Recall the OAP shaded Basketmouth’s Performance at the just concluded Olamide’s show tagged ‘OLIC 2″ with a judgemnet that the comedian’s joke was too flat for someone of his status. (READ HERE)
In an Epic Instagram rant, the comedian has given him a taste of his own buttex.
He shared an image of a deep freezer with the caption as his response’:
“Twitter: 977,800 – 46,500 = 931,300 Instagram: 558,239 – 23,000= 535,239 then Facebook: 2,820,005 – 4,616= 2,815,389 and the TOTAL: 5,213,228 Million. After solving the equation, he used a freezer to condole himself; BRIGHT!!! Why are you wasting your time? It’s not even cold enough.”
OAP – Daddy Freeze is one Celebrity who is known to speak out his mind on any shortcomings from top celebrities in Nigeria.
His latest victim is Basketmouth, who some believe had a below par performance at the Olamide Live In Concert (OLIC) last night in Lagos.
Daddy Freeze threw a jab at the comedian urging people to donate a joke to Basketmouth.
In his words, “Put a joke in the Basket, please help an old colleague resurrect his ailing career by donating a joke! His performance at OLIC2 was just too weak! N50,000 for the best joke! Let’s help him keep his dream alive.”
Nigerian football legend Kanu Nwankwo has got an adorable family and his kids are so cute, Kanu and his wife Amarachi have been married since 2004 and have two adorable children, two boys and a cute baby girl born in 2012.
The cute baby girl had her christening ceremony in 2013 in London, beautiful Pinky Amarachi Kanu Nwankwo looks so much like her mother!
His last child Pinky Amarachi Kanu was born in February 2012 and her christening ceremony was held in 2013 also.
It has been confirmed that Headies which was formerly scheduled to to hold on Wednesday, December 30, 2015 has now been moved by two days.
In a news release issued this morning, and broadcast on Hip TV, the organizers Smooth Promotions announce that the highly anticipated show will now hold on New Year’s Day Friday, January 1, 2016.
The statement does not give reasons for the push, but suggests the postponement adds another opportunity for the organizers to deliver an event many expect to be truly remarkable.
The event will now coincide with the equally hugely anticipated January 1st concert by Ali Baba. Nigerian Music Video Awards which was to hold on December 17, 2015, was also postponed indefinitely.
The Headies 2015 is hosted by Kaffy and Bovi, with performances from 2Face, Vector, Falz, Iyanya, Seyi Shay, Adekunle Gold, Olamide, Simi, Victoria Kimani, Eva Alordiah and more. The event will hold at Landmark Event Centre in Oniru, Lagos.
On 25th of December, a man and his 3 year old son was involved in a ghastly car crash on A421 near Marston, Bedfordshire, at 11.10 pm.
The accident claimed his life as he was pronounced dead at the scene after a single vehicle collision, while his 3 year old son was pronounced dead at the hospital.
The man’s wife, who was also in the vehicle, survived and is being treated at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, with serious injuries.
Investigating, Bedforshire Police Sergeant Simon Goldsmith said:
‘Any death on the road is tragic but this incident is even more poignant given the day it occurred.
Next of kin have been informed and our specialist family liaison officers are providing support to relatives.’
A young man identified as Anselm Ugwoke killed his father on Christmas Day in Enugu during a heated argument.
The deceased is identified as Paulinus Ugwuoke, 60, from Imilike Agu in Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu state.
The spokesman for the Enugu State Police Command who confirmed the incident said the police were on the culprit’s trail.
It was gathered that on December 25, at about 10pm, Anselm Ugwuoke had engaged the father with his friends in a serious exchange of words over a yet to be established issue and later resulted in the alleged hitting of the father with an object which left him unconscious and later was confirmed dead thereby throwing the community into mourning mood.
It was further gathered that having noticed what has happened,Anselm and his friends took to their heels.
A full scale investigations have commenced into the alleged incident while manhunt on Anselm and friends have been intensified Just as the Elder brother to Anselm one Sunday Ugwuoke has expressed grief and surprise over the death of their father as allegedly occasioned by his younger brother and friends.
“I’m still in shock over what has happened but i know that we will still get Anselm” Sunday said.
The body of the deceased is now deposited in a nearby hospital for post mortem examinations.
It’s 3 days before the end of 2015. Here’s a look at the 10 controversial moments of the year that got the entire Nigerian culture shaken.
Click through the pages to see the 10 most controversial moments of 2015
Seyi Shay’s outfit to meet former President Goodluck Jonathan
Singer Seyi Shay wore a short purple dress to one of the many events former President Goodluck Jonathan organized as he seek reelection earlier in the year.
Her choice of outfit received generally negative comments with most saying her intention was to seduce the president.
Talented Comedian – Akpororo & His Beautiful Wife, yesterday Comedian Akpororo & his wife, Josephine Abraham yesterday celebrated their first thanksgiving service after getting married.
He shared the above image and wrote:
My wife and i are saying a very big tank u to everyone dat came 4 our Thanksgiving service 2day. Special thanks to @sammieokposo @mikeabdul @henrisoul @chika @eben_rocks @tehilacrew and Solomon urete
Mavin Record First Lady – Tiwa Savage has been trending online for a while now for releasing her second studio album R.E.D. For free downloads and online streaming.
Her latest effort to make headline involves her wearing an outfit made from rice sack to perform at the One Lagos Fiesta holding tonight.
She captioned, “Osheee so I decided to perform today in a rice sack. do you concur YAY or NAY” ?
A teenage girl died on Boxing Day after her dad accidentally shot her in the face with a gun he thought wasn’t loaded.
Kaitlyn Pullam, 17, died two days after her family made the heartbreaking decision to switch off her life support machine on Christmas Eve.
The youngster was shot on December 20 at her home in Ohio. Butler County Sheriff Mark Dobbs told KFVS news her father thought the gun was not loaded and it went off by mistake.
Cops found Kaitlyn in her bedroom unresponsive and a what appeared to be a single gunshot wound to her face.
She didn’t have a pulse when officers arrived.
Paramedics rushed her to hospital where her heart restarted, but she remained in a coma until her family were forced into their desperate decision on December 24.
Witnesses said the black powder rifle went off and shot her through the wall.
Pastor David Stewart said:
“They [the family] just greatly appreciate everything that people have done. “They’ve have been surprised by the number of people who’ve wanted to be involved and connecting. “They’ve been overwhelmed by the amount and outpouring of generosity.”
Pastor Stewart described Kaitlyn as an intelligent girl who had dreams of working in forensics.
“She had goals, she was driven, she was going to accomplish those,” he said. “In fact, she really had already graduated, but was going to hang out for just one more semester just to walk with everybody else.”