Aluu 4: Court Finds Three Persons Guilty

A High Court sitting in Rivers today has found three persons guilty of the murder of four students who were lynched in Aluu community in 2012.

The court presided over by Justice Nyordee also discharged and acquitted four others, who were standing trial for the 2012 murder.

According to the Judge, the prosecution failed to prove its case of murder against the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th accused persons beyond every reasonable doubt.

He, however, found the 1st to 3rd defendants guilty of murder, Punch reports.

EFCC Explains Why Twitter Handler Left

A statement from EFCC;

Olufemi Olukayode Adeyemi worked in the Public Affairs Directorate of the Commission since November 2014, where he exhibited his talent as a consummate professional.

Before moving on, he managed the twitter handle of the Commission; @officialEFCC amongst other assignments.

Adeyemi harboured personal dreams even before assuming duties at the Commission and he has now decided to fulfill those dreams.

John Kelly Sworn In As Trump's Chief Of Staff

United States President Donald Trump swore in his newly-named chief of staff John Kelly on Monday, July 31st as Trump looked to the retired Marine general for leadership after a shakeup of his top staff. 

Kelly, a retired four-star marine general, had been his Homeland Security secretary.

“We just swore in General Kelly, he will do a spectacular job, I have no doubt as chief of staff, what he has done in terms of homeland security is record shattering, if you look at the border if you look at the tremendous results we’ve had,” Trump said.

Manchester United Signs Nemanja Matic From Chelsea

Manchester United is delighted to announce the signing of Nemanja Matic from Chelsea on a three-year contract, with an option to extend for a further year.

The 28-year-old Serbian international midfielder has won a number of club and individual honours including league titles in both England and Portugal.

Jose Mourinho said: "Nemanja is a Manchester United player and a Jose Mourinho player. He represents everything we want in a footballer; loyalty, consistency, ambition, team player.

Khloe Posts Photo Of Mom Kris Jenner In Lingerie

Khloe Kardashian has no shortage of pride in her 61-year-old mother Kris Jenner, the mastermind behind the family's global notoriety.

The 33-year-old's Instagram page has played host to a mirror selfie Kris took in which she posed in a loose-knit lacy white robe over skimpy lingerie.

'Kris Jenner looking like a snack!' Khloe's crowed in the caption to the photo, adding an emoji of wide eyes before closing out: 'I see you mommy! #6KidsAndBad!'

The photo showed Kris in what appeared to be a bedroom, sunlight streaming in through blinds behind her as she arced one leg and pouted for her own camera.

I am Not Dying - Robert Mugabe

Zimbabwe's 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe, declaring "I am not dying," sought Saturday to brush aside growing concerns about his health after his wife urged him to name a successor

 Mugabe's medical trips to Singapore have become frequent in recent years, fuelling questions about his health.

His last visit was early this month for what was described as a "routine medical check-up". "There is the issue that the president is going. I am not going.

That the president is dying. I am not dying," Mugabe told thousands of supporters at a rally in his home town of Chinhoyi. His remarks came after his wife Grace urged him to name a successor in a bid to end the factionalism threatening to tear apart his ruling ZANU-PF party. "I thank God for having lived to this day. I thank God for the good life.

14 Killed In Borno Suicide Attack

Fourteen persons were killed in a suicide attack on an accommodation housing newly returned internally displaced persons in Dikwa town, Borno State.

The head of the Rapid Response Team of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency, Bello Dambatta, said a female suicide bomber, on Friday night, after detonating an explosive device on her, caused the death of 14 persons and injuries to 24 others.

Forgive Obasanjo And Move On, Bode George Tells Fayose

A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, has advised the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, to forgive former President Olusegun Obasanjo and move on.

George said this during an interview with Punch correspondent on Friday. He told Fayose that God had already fought for him by allowing him to return as governor of Ekiti eight years after his impeachment.

George said he was aware that his imprisonment for financial impropriety was “nothing but political persecution” and that was why he was later exonerated by the Supreme Court.

He, however, said he never had the intention of becoming the Chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees and therefore doubted if that was the reason for his incarceration.

FG Evacuates 1,800 Nigerians From Saudi Arabia

The Federal Government yesterday commenced the evacuation of 1,800 Nigerians illegally residing in Saudi Arabia.

Already, no fewer than 198 persons, including women and children, returned to the country aboard a Med-View Airline jet.

Officials of the National Emergency Management Agency in Kano State received the first batch of the returnees. The Consulate General of Nigeria in Jedda, Saudi Arabia, Muhammad Yahya-Sani, who led the illegal immigrants to Nigeria, told journalists at the airport that the Federal Government sponsored their return to Nigeria.

According to him, the illegal migrants voluntarily reported to the Nigerian embassy for deportation to Nigeria in compliance with a three-month evacuation notice by Saudi authorities, which will expire on July 24 (Monday).

Photo: Storey Building Collapses In Lagos, Baby Dies, Many Injured

A baby died this morning when a storey building collapsed at  Seidu Okeleji street, Meiran, Lagos.

Unfortunately, all the occupants of the house were at home due to the election restriction of movement. The incident happened  during the heavy downpour of this morning.

Officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, and others have been  on ground to rescue trapped people. The place has also been condoned off. The baby was initially rescued alive, but died shortly after due to injuries sustained.

Men Drinking Beer In Lagos Flood (Photos)

Don't know the right section to put this tho.

Some group of men in Lagos was caught on camera having fun in Lagos flood. 

Well to me "These are the real Men"

Nowhere is like lagos 

Over 1000 PDP Members, Others Defect To APC In Delta

Over one thousand persons drawn from different political parties, including the Peoples Democratic Party in ward eleven, cable point, in Oshimili South LGA, Asaba decamped to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

A former woman leader of PDP in the area, Mrs. Helen Otakpor, who led the decampees to the APC ward eleven secretariat, said they decided to dump their former party due to massive intimidation, denial of justice and recognition of members to be placed in their rightful positions.

NDLEA Destroys Illicit Drugs Worth N250m

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA said it has destroyed 24,304 kilogrammes of assorted forfeited narcotic drugs seized within the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

The exercise is sequel to two destruction orders signed by judges, Nnamdi Dimgba and A. Abdulkafarati of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court.

The exhibits with an estimated street value of N250 million were jointly set ablaze by local and international collaborators at Lungi barracks along Aso drive in Abuja.

Muhammad Abdallah, the Chairman of the agency, who described the destruction as symbolic and strategic both to the agency and drug control policies of the government stressed that seized drugs remain a threat until they are destroyed.

Court Orders Temporary Forfeiture Of Diezani’s Estate

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered a temporary forfeiture of  an estate in Banana Island area of Lagos reportedly owned by former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison Madueke.

The court also ordered the forfeiture of $37.5m alleged to have been fraudulently siphoned by her.

Arsenal's Squad Hit By Food Poisoning In China

Arsenal's squad has been hit by a bout of food poisoning in China. Per Mertesacker and Olivier Giroud were unable to take part in a 1-1 draw against Bayern Munich.

Sead Kolasinac started but was forced off in the first-half after throwing up on the pitch.
Arsenal won in a penalty shoot-out to decide the winning team but were more concerned about the lengthy casualty list.

Theo Walcott and Aaron Ramsey were also unwell but able to come on from the bench. One of the backroom staff has also been suffering from sickness.

Laurent Koscielny was absent with a back problem and assistant manager Steve Bould has been flown home after requiring surgery in Australia to cure a hernia in his neck.


'We have a virus in the camp,' said Wenger. 'The doctor thinks it is food poisoning.

Mertesacker and Giroud were sick. Kolasinac was sick. Theo Walcott and Aaron have had a little bit of food poisoning as well. I don't know what they ate.'

Senate Passes Whistleblower Protection Bill

The Senate on today passed the Whistleblower Protection Bill. The Bill, which seeks to encourage and facilitate the disclosures of improper conduct by public officers and public bodies was presented by the Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, chaired by Senator David Umaru, the member representing Niger East in the 8th National Assembly.

The Bill also seeks to ensure that persons who make disclosures and persons who may suffer reprisals in relation to such disclosures are protected under the law.

It specifies who is qualified to make disclosure of improper conduct; the procedure for making disclosures; and the protection due to the ‘whistleblowers.’


According to the newly passed Bill, a person who makes a disclosure shall not be subject to victimization by his or her employers or by fellow employees.

Baby Slowly Dies In Car After Mum Left Her For SIX HOURS To Go And Make Her Hair

A mum who left her one-year-old baby daughter in the car while she got her hair done for six hours has been charged with second degree murder.

Dijanelle Fowler, 25, also faces charges of cruelty to children and concealing a death.

Fowler, from Georgia in the USA, arrived for her hair appointment at 10.06am on June 15.

Police say there's no sign she intended to harm the baby and had put her air conditioning on in the car, leaving daughter Skylar in the back seat.

LG Polls: Lagos Extends Restriction Of Movement

The Lagos State Government today says it has extended the restriction of movement across the State on July 22, when the Local Government elections will take place. The restriction movement was first put between 8am-2pm but has now been changed to 7am-3pm.

According to the State’s Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve who issued a statement regarding the change says it is to ensure a smooth conduct of the Local Government elections and unhindered participation.

Now Wenger gets tough on wantaway Sanchez: 'We had 20 years in the Champions League. That's 17 years before he arrived and three years with him. So he can get us back in there...'

Arsene Wenger will not be swayed from a decision to insist the striker honours the final year of his current contract even if he rejects a proposed new deal on offer which is worth more than £300,000 a week. Public remarks from Sanchez about his desire to be involved in Europe's top club competition have fuelled the theory he is trying to bolt for the Emirates Stadium exit before the transfer market closes

Neymar accepts offer from PSG as they prepare to trigger his £195m release clause in what would more than DOUBLE world record transfer fee

Neymar has accepted Paris Saint-Germain's offer after the French club triggered his £195million release clause, according to reports in Brazil. Brazilian sports channel Esporte Interativo report that the Barcelona star has agreed terms with PSG ahead of a potential world record £195million deal.

Cristiano Ronaldo CONFIRMS his girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez is pregnant with his fourth child following months of speculation

Cristiano Ronaldo has confirmed girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez is pregnant with his fourth child following months of speculation.

Shocking moment luxury yacht explodes in flames in front of horrified onlookers at A-Listers' favourite beach in St Tropez

A fire has ripped through a luxury yacht moored at Plage de Pampelonne, the most famous beach in St Tropez, which attracts tycoons, financiers and celebrities to its beach clubs. The boat was seen being consumed by flames, with its top deck completely ablaze and its windows blown out by the heat. It is not known how the fire started, if anyone was hurt, and who the boat belonged to. The array of yachts moored alongside the beach, as the wealthy owners come ashore, has become a tourist attract in itself. Plage de Pampelonne is visited by some 30,000 people per day in peak season.

Hart completes West Ham medical ahead of loan switch from Man City

Manchester City will continue to pay a significant portion of Hart's £120,000-per-week salary while West Ham will have an option to sign him permanently at the end of the season.

R Kelly is accused of keeping at least six women - including one he met when she was 17 - in a 'sex-obsessed cult' where he bans them from contacting the outside world

Notorious R&B star R. Kelly has been accused of keeping a number of women in homes in Chicago and Atlanta as members of a sex-obsessed, abusive cult.

Tinubu Visits Ganduje, Endorses Him For 2nd Term

Despite the odds and internal wrangling, the national leader of the All Progressive Congress, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola, over the weekend in Kano, endorsed Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje for a second term in 2019.

During his condolence visit to Kano, yesterday, to commiserate with Ganduje and the people of Kano State over the death of Dr Yusuf Maitama Sule, the APC leader, also used the occasion to condole, with Ganduje, over the death of his younger sister, as well as Malam Yusuf Ali, an APC leader, who recently lost his younger brother.

“It is a great honour and privilege for me to be here today, It has been very tough in the last few years. I grew up in the hands of two people, who know me to my home. One of them is Dan Masanin Kano, who has just passed on. One of them is living, he is a living legend, Malam Yusuf Ali.

Teenage Girl Found Hanged In School Toilets 'After Complaining She Was Being Bullied By Classmates'

 A teenage girl was found dead in toilets at her school after complaining she was being bullied by other students, an inquest has heard.

Dagmara Przybysz's mum Ewelina said her daughter had been having trouble with one girl in particular and on several occasions overheard comments such as 'stupid Pole'.

The 16-year-old was pronounced dead after emergency crews desperately tried to revive her at Pool Academy in Pool, Cornwall at around 2.15pm on May 17 2016.

An inquest into her death heard the Polish-born teenager, who died as a result of hanging, had been having trouble with some girls at her school and had injured herself the day before she died by punching a wall after becoming angry because she said some girls were laughing at her.

Former Marathon Runner Forced To Live In Isolation After Huge Tumour Grows On His Back

Ex-marathon runner has been forced to live in isolation after suddenly growing a huge tumour on his back. Just two years ago Li Yimo was known a super-fit, a keen runner and "model blood donor".

The villager from Yulin City in southern China, said he still does not know the cause of the sudden and rapidly developing growth.

He said: "I've always been a very healthy person. I used to run marathons and I even have certificates from when I gave blood."

He was known as a "model donor" because of the numerous times he gave blood - until he started growing the huge tumour on his back. "In 2015 the tumour began to grow and it increases in size every day," he said.

Akon To Buy 50% Of African Music Download Service

Senegalese-American singer Akon has announced  he would purchase 50 per cent of African music download service Musik Bi, as the platform struggles to gain a foothold after its launch 18 months ago.

Africa's first home-grown platform for legal music downloads, Musik Bi launched in Senegal in February 2016 with a mission to promote African artists, pay them properly, and fight internet piracy.

Akon announced in Dakar yesterday that he would become the majority shareholder in the service, describing Musik Bi as "the platform of the future".

My Mother’s Washboard Stomach Puts Me To Shame- Jada Pinkett

Jada Pinkett Smith was in Atlanta recently to promote her new movie, Girls Trip, co-starring Regina Hall and Queen Latifah. She is speaking out after enduring insults from bloggers who say she looks older than her mother, Adrienne Banfield-Jones, 63.

Recent photos of her mother’s toned, washboard stomach — and the envy from social media users — prompted the 45-year-old actress to rethink her gym routine.

“I have good genes, don’t I?” she told Entertainment Tonight, after sharing images of her own impressive figure in movies like Magic Mike XXL and on magazine covers.

“Yeah, she rocks one better than me. When your own mother can put you to shame, I’m like, I don’t (know) if I gotta get back in the gym. I don’t know what I gotta do. I just told her, I said, ‘All that right there, just make sure you passing all those good genes down here’.

Sunday Laughs From Footballer Neymar

STFU! Jude Okoye Reacts To FG's Plan To Stop Music, Movies Production Abroad

Jude Okoye has reacted to Lai Mohammed's statement where he said, the Federal Government has taken steps to ensure Nigerian movies and musical videos are only shot in Nigeria and not overseas any longer.

According to Jude, FG is going out of its place and not doing what they should. He outrightly went in on them! He wrote;

'Smh. An industry they NEVER encouraged, supported or empowered is what they now want to control. Let all of you stop running to abroad when you are sick as na naija money una dey use patronize oyibo hospital dem. You people are the ones refusing to fix our health facilities so u travel out when mosquito bite una. So why tell us where to record when u can't provide uninterrupted power here in Nigeria. Sometime I wonder how we got it all wrong. Una children when dey sch for abroad na which money una dey use patronize them? Abeg stfu!'

How Senate President Saraki Blackmailed INEC Chairman With TETFUND Probe In Order To Halt Dino Melaye’s Recall

The sudden U-turn by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to halt action on efforts by voters in Kogi West to recall Senator Dino Melaye came as a result of the Senate’s decision to probe the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). After a meeting earlier today, INEC decided to freeze the recall effort, citing legal complications.

From 2007 to 2012, INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, served as TETFUND’s Executive Secretary. His time at the Fund was marked by a series of allegations of corruption against him. “It is not an accident that, once the Senate threatened to investigate TETFund, Professor Mahmood Yakubu’s INEC quickly retreated from the ongoing effort to recall Senator Dino Melaye,” a Senate source told our corresponde

My Dad’s Dancing Skills Earned Him The Nickname Jackson - Sina Rambo, Adeleke’s Son

Senator Ademola Adeleke , who is Davido’s uncle, is the father of Nigerian singer, Sina Rambo.

Shortly after his victory, the Nigerian internet space produced video footage of the senator giving some hot dance steps during his campaign and a ‘victory dance’ when he won the election.

Saturday Beats, reached out to his son, Sina Rambo, who is currently in the United States about his father’s dancing steps and he said his father has been dancing since the 80s.

He said, “When the spirit of the Lord comes upon my heart, I will dance like David danced. Ashamed? I cannot be embarrassed with the way my father danced. Look, my father will not change for anything! He’s been dancing since the 80s or why do you think they call him Jackson?”

PDP Now In The Hands Of Looters – Sheriff

Former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has said that the party has been returned to those he described as treasury looters.

He also denied media reports  that he had congratulated the Chairman of the party’s National Caretaker Committee, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, over his victory at the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

He denied having any Twitter account, where the alleged message was taken from. The Supreme Court had in its judgment, upheld the constitution of the caretaker committee and endorsed the removal of Sheriff at the party’s national convention, held in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, in May 2016.


The judgment, therefore, ended the 14-month battle for the leadership of the party, which was the country’s ruling party from 1999 to 2015. The crisis in the party led to the defection of some of its members to other parties, and during the time the leadership tussle was going on, it lost the governorship elections in Ondo and Edo states to the All Progressives Congress.

Mel B 'Ordered To Pay Estranged Husband Stephen $40,000 Per month' In Spousal Support

Mel B has been ‘ordered to pay’ estranged husband Stephen Belafonte a reported £30,529 ($40,000) a month, despite 'squandering' the bulk of her multi-million pound fortune during their 10-year marriage.

A Los Angeles judge is understood to have granted film producer Belafonte’s request for emergency spousal support to cover basic amenities including food, housing and phone bills.

According to the website the order also includes a separate £106,813 ($140,000) payment for his legal fees as their acrimonious divorce proceedings continue.

The judge did however decline to slap an order on Mel B requiring her to desist from interfering in the listing and sale of the couple's $8.9million Hollywood Hills home.

Jonathan’s Son-In-Law Shot In Calabar

The son-in-law of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Prince Goodwill Edward, was on Friday shot by unknown gunmen in Calabar.

Edward was reportedly shot in his State Housing Estate residence in the Calabar Municipal axis of the Cross River State capital.

He is the Special Adviser on Youths Affairs to Governor Ben Ayade. Although the severity of injuries sustained in the attack could not be ascertained, it was learnt he is presently receiving treatment at an undisclosed medical facility in Calabar.

Edward, who is from Abi Local Government Area of the state, got married Jonathan’s daughter in a very lavish and publicised wedding in 2014.

Evans In Our Custody, Hale & Hearty- Police

The Police high command has dismissed report of alleged disappearance or death of billionaire kidnapper, Chukwuduneme Onwuamadike, alias Evans, in its custody.

It said contrary to the report, the kidnapper was not only firmly in its custody hale and hearty but also was very much assisting it in its ongoing investigation of alleged crimes he perpetrated while holding sway in his profession.

Reacting to the report following enquiry from newsmen, Weekend, in Abuja, Force Headquarters, through its spokesman, Jimoh Moshood, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP, insisted that Evans never vanished from its custody nor died as being rumoured.

But Moshood described those peddling the rumour as mischief makers who were only out to tarnish the hard earned image of the Nigerian Police not only in crime fighting but also prevention as well as investigation.

Abacha Injected Yar’Adua With Virus That Killed Him- Obasanjo

A former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, revealed on Saturday that the late dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha wanted him, the late Shehu Musa Yar’Adua and the June 12 hero, the late Moshood Abiola, dead while in prison.

He stated this at a dinner programme organised by an inter-denominational Christian organisation, Christ The Redeemer’s Friends International of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Lagos Province 39 Chapter.

The former president alleged that Yar’Adua was poisoned by Abacha’s killer squad, adding that he was to be next victim, but that he was saved by God’s divine grace.

Obasanjo said, “Two people had earlier told me Abacha promised that three of us would not come out of prison or detention alive; myself. Shehu Yar Adua and MKO Abiola. And two of them did not come out alive. So, that I came out alive, maybe God has a purpose. And therefore if the purpose is for me to serve the people and by so doing,  serve God, then so be it.

Lukaku close to potential £90m world record transfer as United confirm they've reached a transfer agreement

Manchester United have confirmed they have agreed a deal with Everton for the transfer of Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku. The 24-year-old will make the switch from Goodison Park to Old Trafford and join up with his former manager Jose Mourinho. In a short statement United confirmed: 'MUFC is delighted to announce a fee has been agreed with Everton for the transfer of Romelu Lukaku, subject to a medical & personal terms.' 

BREAKING NEWS: 'Multiple people' feared dead as 'entire family' are taken to hospital after a house fire in Bolton

A residential street in the Daubhill area of the town has been completely sealed off by police as firefighters were seen investigating the fire-damaged terrace house. Emergency services were called to the home in Rosamond Street at around 9am this morning by panicked neighbours.

Blac Chyna ‘Seeking Restraining Order' Against Rob

Blac Chyna is heading to court to get a restraining order out against Rob Kardashian. Her lawyer Lisa Bloom revealed the news on Twitter.

She said: "I represent Blac Chyna.

"I just gave Rob Kardashian notice that we'll be in court Monday seeking restraining orders against him.  "More to come."

The news comes as a source close to the couple revealed Rob is hoping to raise their seven-month-old daughter Dream by himself.

Photos: Yusuf Buhari Bags Masters Degree

Nigeria’s first son, Yusuf Buhari has a reason to celebrate again! The President's son, has just bagged a Masters Degree from a UK University. Recall that last year, Yusuf and his sister, Zahra graduated from the University of Surrey, Guildford, England. Zahra got married afterwards, but Yusuf went to further. We say big congrats to him.