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Marbel Mark, 31, from Edo State but married to a man from Delta State, has petitioned Edo Police Command, urging investigation into the acid bath she suffered in the hands of some persons now at large. The incident happened in October 2015, when the victim, based in Spain, with her seven year-old daughter, visited Nigeria. Trouble started when she was said to have visited a native doctor at Sakpoba Road, Benin shortly after her arrival in Nigeria. Though the relationship between the woman and the native doctor could not be ascertain, it was said that the wife of the latter became jealous of the alleged ‘close relationship’ between the Marbel and her husband and decided to fight Marbel. She accused her of having an affair with her husband but Marbel refuted the allegation vehemently, insisting that the relationship between her and the husband was purely business. But of course the wife did not believe her story and continued to protest. The wife feared Marbel may  use her connec...

The Lagos State Emergency Management Authority (LASEMA) Response Unit was launched yesterday by the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Professor Yemi Osinbajo who ably represented the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari. Also present were His Excellency Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, the Deputy Governor of Lagos State Dr Idiat Adebule, the Honourable Minister of Works, Power & Housing Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), the LASEMA General Manager Mr Michael Akindele amongst others. Eight years ago, a Command and Control Centre was launched. This Command & Control Centre hosted the 767 & 112 emergency lines and ever since then, Lagosians have been able to speak to trained agents manning the phone lines round the clock every single day of the year. The Lagos State Government is working to expand the good work of the previous administration by upgrading the Emergency Response Unit. The upgrades go beyond just ...

Wow! ‘it’s raining money’ could be one of the expressions that comes to mind when you see the kind of money that ‘rained down’ at a traditional wedding recently . The traditional wedding which reportedly held somewhere in the bride’s village in Isioziakah, Njaba local government area of Imo State, saw the couple’s family and friends spraying money like it was a competition. The young couple were overwhelmed by the support from their friends and they danced like it was going out of fashion. The couple dressed in white matching outfits, danced to traditional music while their friends threw money into the air. The bride is identified as Instagram user @nekilicious1. See more pictures from the traditional wedding below: 

  A Federal High Court in Lagos has nullified the national caretaker committee constituted by the Peoples Democratic Party during last Saturday’s convention. The convention had appointed a former governor of Kaduna State, Ahmed Makarfi, as acting chairman, while a former Senator, Ben Obi, was appointed acting national secretary. The party said the acting national officers would be in office for three months. In a ruling on Tuesday 24 May 2016 however, Justice Ibrahim Buba ordered Ali Modu Sheriff, the erstwhile chairman of the party to continue serving as the party’s chairman.

La Tomatina started on the last Wednesday of August in 1945 (29th August 1945) when some young people went to the town square to attend the Giants and Big-Head figures parade. They decided to join the parade with a musician. The group's excitement caused a person to fall from the float. The participant flew into a fit of rage and started to hit everything in his path. There was a market stall of vegetables that fell victim to what soon became a furious crowd. People started to pelt each other with tomatoes until local law enforcement ended the battle. The following year the young people deliberately repeated the fight on the last Wednesday of August, only this time they brought their own tomatoes from home. They were again dispersed by the police. The food fight became an annual event.  The festival gained popularity with more and more participants every year. In subsequent years it was banned again with threats of serious penalties.  In the year 1957, some young people ...

She looks amazing. This is what CHANGE is all about!

As shared by blogger and activist, Omojuwa

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), today, May 24, declared former deputy governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, wanted. The former senator is wanted in connection with a case of receiving and misappropriating the sum of over N700m from the Office of the National Security Adviser, between June and November, 2014. According to EFCC, Omisore has been elusive and refused to report to the Commission after invitation was extended to him on April 7, 2016 requesting him “to come and make clarification on the ongoing investigation”.  Instead of responding to the Commission’s investigation Omosore had approached the Federal Capital Territory High Court for the enforcement of his fundamental human rights. Justice Husseini Baba Yusuf consequently ordered that Omisore should only be arrested through a due and legal process. The EFCC thereafter obtained a warrant to effect the arrest of the politician.

Henry Boyo Industry, commerce, as well as employment opportunities, unexpectedly, flourished for the greater part of Gen. Sani Abacha’s four-year reign, despite Nigeria’s pariah status and the stupendous treasury rape by the dictator. The question, therefore, is how Abacha’s economic team sustained the erstwhile elusive enabling environment, despite the dysfunctional economy that they inherited. Fortunately, Chief Anthony Ani, an insider in that team, answered this question, in his keynote address, at ICAN’s induction ceremony on May 11, 2016. A summary by this columnist and excerpts from the former finance minister’s 19-page presentation follow hereafter. Please read on: “We are an import dependent nation, therefore the naira price of dollars, required to pay for imports, will inevitably significantly impact multiple sectors of our economy. Furthermore, despite the collapse of naira rate from $2=N1 to N199=$ since 1985, the IMF, several international banks an...

Motorists and youths blocked the Igando end of the Lagos State University-Iyana Iba Road on Monday to protest against the alleged killing of a commercial driver, identified as Muyiwa Ijaduola, by a female police corporal attached to the Igando Police Division. The protesters, who burnt tyres and planks at about 11am, blocked the road with three buses, demanding that the police should arrest the female corporal, identified only as Taiwo, and release Ijaduola’s corpse to his family members. PUNCH Metro learnt that on Sunday around 2.30pm, Taiwo and another female corporal were in front of a Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation filling station in the Igando area, checking vehicles. Our correspondent gathered that 46-year-old Ijaduola was stopped by Taiwo. It was learnt that the corporal allegedly demanded N500 from the driver who offered N300. Our correspondent was told that an altercation had ensued during which the corporal allegedly pushed the driver into a gutter. Ijaduola, a fa...

A Yaba Chief Magistrate’s Court has ordered the prison remand of a teacher of Maromipin Nursery and Primary School, a private school in Makoko, Lagos, for allegedly raping a 10-year-old pupil. The 34-year-old teacher, Tunde Mudashir, was arraigned by the police on one count of sexual assault before the presiding magistrate, Mrs. A.F. Adeeyo on Monday. Mudashir had tricked the primary 3 pupil, Sandra, to one of the deserted classrooms on a Thursday on the pretext that he wanted to give her extra coaching. It was gathered that during the purported coaching, Mudashir told the victim to spread her legs, which she did. As Sandra tried to question Mudashir’s instruction, he reportedly resorted to force, removed her pants and raped her. He was said to have covered her mouth when she wanted to cry for help. Our correspondent was told that Mudashiru warned her against divulging the act to a third party, threatening to kill her if she did. A source said trouble started when Sandra groan...

The family of Oluchi Anekwe, a 300-level student of Accounting in the University of Lagos, who was electrocuted by a live wire on the school premises, has been paid N45m as compensation. A source said that the money was paid after the Eko Electricity Distribution Company reached a non-disclosure agreement with the victim’s family. Our correspondent had reported in September 2015 that Oluchi, a first class student of UNILAG, was electrocuted at about 7pm, while returning from an evening mass with her younger sister. Oluchi had reportedly entered the Eni Njoku Hall to buy an item and was walking out of the hostel when a high-tension wire fell on her. The remains of the Igbo-Etiti, Enugu State indigene, were buried shortly after. The Federal Government also set up a panel to investigate the death. A Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, reportedly took up the case and wrote EKEDC, asking that the firm compensate the family or risk litigation. It was gathered that afte...

The Benin Traditional Council on Monday announced that the funeral rites of the late Oba of Benin Kingdom, Omo n’Oba n’Edo, Uku Akpolopkolo Erediauwa, would begin on Wednesday. The council, in a statement signed by the Secretary of the council, Mr. Frank Irabor, stated that the Emwinekhua (royal funeral rites) was a follow-up to the announcement of the demise of Oba Erediauwa by the Iyase of Benin Kingdom, Chief Sam Igbe, on April 29. It explained that the Emwinekhua would be performed by the Edaiken N’Uselu and heir apparent to the throne, His Royal Highness, Eheneden Erediauwa, who has the “sole responsibility” to do so. It noted that the ceremony, which would  last for 15 days, would begin with palace rites on May 25 and end on June 15. According to the statement, while all other burial ceremonies are prohibited, residents are advised to go about their normal business and stay away from places where traditional rites that are not open to public are performed during the ...