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Niger Delta Avengers, the new militant group that has claimed responsibility for a string of attacks on oil and gas installations in the Niger Delta, continued its disruption of Nigeria’s oil production with the bombing of more crude oil pipelines Thursday. The group announced the latest attack via its Twitter handle on Thursday evening, saying it blew up “Ogboinbiri to Tebidaba and Clough Creek to Tebidaba crude oil pipelines in Bayelsa State.” “At about 2:00am today @NDAvengers blew up the Ogboinbiri to Tebidaba and Clough Creek to Tebidaba crude oil pipelines in Bayelsa State.” The Avengers added that the latest disruption is “in line with our promise to all international oil companies and indigenous oil companies that Nigeria oil production will be zero.” The group did not say which oil company is operating the pipelines. The group’s operation had become more audacious in recent weeks as it continued to cripple Nigeria’s oil production, demanding a sovereign nation of the Niger

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday failed to publish details of recovered loot and culpable individuals as he promised he would during his nationwide broadcast on May 29. Thursday’s failure made it the second time Mr. Buhari would renege on a promise he boldly made to Nigerians. Mr. Buhari had on May 14 said in London that he would personally provide specific details of all recovered stolen public funds when he addressed Nigerians on Democracy Day and his first year in office, adding that he believed that what Nigerians were being fed through the media were not detailed enough.

Fire outbreak in the Lagos  Annex of the national assembly. The cause of the inferno could not be immediately ascertain. However members of the emergency response unit and fire department are battling to put out the fire.

A cleric, Paul Morah, who claims to be a Reverend with Anglican church has been arrested by the police for allegedly defiling more than 24 male children between 12 and 16 years at Enyibichiri community in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. Morah, an indigene of Orji in Enugu State but came to Ebonyi for pastoral work was alleged to have used a diabolical handkerchief to lure some of the children, especially those who tried to resist him.

See photos of the Vice-President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, today, at the commissioning of of the oil spill clean-up project in Ogoniland. Also present at the ceremony included former Footballer Joseph Yobo, Singer Muma Gee and other government functionaries.

A suspected member of the militant group called Radio Biafra yesterday, the 31st may,2016, to send a warning to President Buhari to cancel his proposed visit to Ogoniland or consider himself dead. The Niger Delta clean-up was flagged off today by Vice President Osinbajo in Ogoniland. Mr. Buhari’s planned visit, which was expected to begin on Thursday (2 June 2016), comes as attacks on oil pipelines blamed on the new group, NDA, partially halted oil production, and forced Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell to close at least two plants. During a phone conversation with one of the hosts of UK-based Radio Biafra, the suspected militant said: ”This is Niger Delta Avenger…it has come to our notice that the Nigerian army killed our brothers who went to remember our dead heroes on 30th may in Nkpor, Anambra State, the army will hear from us, you are all monsters but you must pay.

Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command on Tuesday killed two armed robbers, who engaged a team of policemen and soldiers in a shootout on Stadium Road in the Elekahia axis of Port Harcourt. Six of the armed robbers were also arrested by the policemen and soldiers, who did not record any casualty on their part. The armed robbers were said to have trailed a bullion van from the Diamond Bank branch in Trans-Amadi with the intent of attacking the vehicle and operatives manning it. Unknown to the hoodlums, who came in a Nissan Primera and red Jetta cars, security operatives, including soldiers, noticed the strange movement and also trailed them. It was, however, at Elekahia that security operatives opened fire on them, killing two and arresting six. The incident occurred at about 1pm. “We learnt that the armed robbers were trailing the bullion van from Trans-Amadi, but unknown to them, some policemen and even soldiers were trailing the armed robbers. “The sound of gunshots around

The wedding between Engr. Utibe Oton and Precious Uzoka has got people talking since their pictures went viral online. Mr. Oton, who is the MD/CEO of You Travel Services, got married to his sweetheart last weekend in Umudimagu community in Ideato South, L.G.A, of Imo State.

In a rare case, a one-year-old boy from Delhi has developed s*x organs of a full-grown man a condition that affects one among many. The boy Akash (name changed) suffers from the rare medical disorder called precocious or early p*berty. When the toddler was just six months old, his grandparents noticed the abnormal growth. He wasn’t just taller than other babies of his age but his p3nis too was developing alarmingly. “We thought he was just a big baby but later everyone started to point out that that this growth couldn’t be normal. His p3nis had grown to that of a man’s size and we knew something was wrong,” said the boy’s mother, Shabnam Praveen. “Usually this disorder is caused due to brain or stomach tumour, but we didn’t find anything as such in blood reports. The child was lucky in a way because tumour usually increases complications and leads to cancer,” said the boy’s doctor Dr Vaishakhi Rustagi, consulting paediatric endocrinologist at the Max Super Speciality Hospital, Shalim

Just when you thought you’ve seen it all comes this shocker. A woman who was arrested had to breastfeed her child through the gates of a cell at a police station. A mother's Love has no boundries, no limitations.

These men were reportedly caught after raping an 8-year old girl selling pure water at relief market Owerri, Imo state. They were beating mercilessly and paraded unclad before being handed over to the authorities.

A young Pakistani teacher has died after being tortured and set alight by her former boss as punishment for refusing a marriage proposal from his son, relatives and police said. Maria Sadaqat, 19, was attacked in the village of Upper Dewal, outside the capital Islamabad, on Monday night, and died two days later as a result of injuries. Ms Sadaqat had recently been forced to leave her teaching job at the school, after the principal had begun harassing her when she turned down the proposal from his son, who was ‘twice her age’.

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, has revealed how a 19-year-old girl, who had been posing as Music star, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, aka Wizkid, on social media, was arrested. The young girl, who’s not even up to 20yrs old, was said to have duped many people, including students of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), before she was arrested. Among her victims were also two people living overseas. The money was over $53,000, equivalent of about N10.4 million. One of the victims was defrauded of $49,000, while she milked the second victim of $12,000. According to Owoseni, the suspect, who is a student of one of the universities in the country, was arrested after Wizkid reported the case to the police command, complaining that someone was impersonating him and collecting money for shows. The suspect opened a Facebook account in Wizkid’s name and displayed the star’s picture. She started chatting with friends on Facebook, pretending to be Wizkid. Owoseni said that und

Niger Delta militants on Wednesday blew up two additional facilities belonging to Chevron Nigeria Limited, making it the fourth time the oil major’s assets would be attacked in less than a month. Amid the recent upsurge in attacks on oil and gas installations in the area, some international oil companies and the Nigerian National Petroleum Companies have seen their facilities damaged, with the latest being Chevron. A militant group that calls itself the Niger Delta Avengers, which has claimed responsibility for most of the attacks since the beginning of the year, destroyed two vital Chevron’s Bibi oil wells, RMP 23 and RMP 24, in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State on Wednesday.

Mararaba (Nasarawa State) – A Mararaba Grade 1 Area Court on Wednesday sentenced a 23-year-old wheelbarrow pusher, Bashir Mohammed, to 12 months imprisonment for stealing three bags of bambara nuts worth N36, 000. The convict stood trial for criminal conspiracy and theft, punishable under Sections 97 and 288 of the Penal Code. The Judge, Mr Albert Maga, however, gave the convict a N5, 000 option of fine. Maga said he had no option than to sentence the convict accordingly since he had pleaded guilty to the charges.