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A man has been caught with a female head and hands in the Ikoga Zebbe area of Badagry, Lagos State. The man, who was nabbed and beaten up by residents of the area, is believed to have beheaded the lady for ritual purposes. According to reports, he was handed over to the police and is being detained. The incident reportedly happened on Sunday. Source: Punch News

Two brothers, Ayoku and Bidemi Agboye, who allegedly destroyed a fence valued at N50m were on Monday charged before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. Ayoku, 31, and Bidemi, 37, facing ‎a five-count bordering on conspiracy, trespass, breach of peace, malicious damage, and assault. The prosecutor, Insp. Steven Molo, told the court that the accused committed the offences with others still at large between January and February at Akodoi/Tiye in Ibeju-Lekki Local Government Area of Lagos State. Molo‎ alleged that the accused unlawfully entered a land belonging to three complainants, Patrick Okonkwo, Leonard Nwobi and Frank Anyi, and maliciously damaged…

Godwin Isenyo and Ramon Oladimeji The senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye, on Monday brushed aside the allegation that he did not graduate from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State, where he claimed to have bagged a first degree in Geography. On his Twitter handle, @dine_melaye, he urged an online medium, SaharaReporters, to go ahead and sue him and ABU, if the online medium was sure of its claims that he (Melaye) did not graduate from ABU. In a recent report, Sahara Reporters had alleged that Melaye did not graduate from ABU, adding that he allegedly bribed the head…

The Nigeria Police Force on Monday said it arrested 21 suspects over the March 8 killings and destruction of property in Ile-Ife, Osun State. Force Spokesman, Jimoh Moshood, Chief Superintendent of Police, made the disclosure in Abuja when he presented the suspects before newsmen. He named the suspects as Eluwole Akeem, Kuburat Eluwole, Ayoola Abimbola, Bello Wahab, Taiwo Fakuwajo, Ademola Ademiluyi, Peter Omisope, Adefisan Isaac, Adelekan Kehinde and Elufisan Akintoye. Others were Omisanmi Isaac, Olanrewaju Daniel, Seyi Akinyobo, Adejube Monday, Olanrewaju Adebayo, Akanbi Adeyinka, Obimankinde Samuel, Zakariyu Abdulyekini, Bamidele Elusanmi, Jimoh Sakiru and Clement Kehinde. He explained that 39 suspects…

Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The Senate has urged the President of Nigeria Football Federation, Mr. Amaju Pinnick, to make best use of his new position as an executive member of Confederation of African Football. The upper chamber of the National Assembly urged Pinnick to make positive impact while representing Nigeria in CAF. The Chairman, Senate Committee on Youths and Sports, Senator Obinna Ogba, gave the charge while fielding questions from journalists on the outcome of the CAF election, through which Mr. Ahmad Ahmad from Madagascar emerged as the new President of CAF. Ogba stressed that the outcome of the election was…

Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt THE Niger Delta Development Commission has given contractors handling its projects across the Niger Delta 30 days to return to site in order to complete the projects or face prosecution. Rising from an Inter-Ministerial meeting chaired by Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, in Abuja, the Managing Director of NDDC, Mr. Nsima Ekere, said “a list of such contractors is being compiled in all the nine NDDC states and defaulters would be prosecuted.” Ekere explained that it had become imperative to fast-track the ongoing audit of projects awarded in the region in line with government directives…

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said only one out of the 167 elections conducted under his watch had so far been nullified by the court. Yakubu disclosed this while answering questions from journalists on the credibility of INEC, at the commission’s first quarter meeting with the media on Monday in Abuja. He said that the commission was working to ensure that its actions were guided by the Electoral Act. Yakubu said that another scorecard of the commission was the level at which the validity of elections conducted under his watch was upheld in the…

{$inline_image} A new unlimited data plan from AT&T (NYSE:T) recently announced for the carrier’s GoPhone customers may have small business owners excited. But the new option comes with some serious constraints. Details Behind the GoPhone Unlimited Data Offer The unlimited data plan costs $60 per month. However, AT&T caps subscribers’ speeds at 3Mbps and a maximum of 1.5Mbps for 480p video streaming. This basically means that you won’t be able to stream HD video. Moreover, you should expect slower speeds once you exceed 22GB of data for the month. “AT&T will temporarily slow data on a line during a plan cycle…

The new president is making almost the identical mistake President Obama made during his first two years. Trump has picked a major entitlement to hang his hat on — the same major entitlement, healthcare — and shortly will discover what most CIOs know: You don’t mess with anything that touches everybody. The likely outcome will be that like Obama, Trump will lose the house in the next election, and that the Republicans will be forced out of power over the next four to eight years, all for an avoidable, repeated mistake. Source: Techy

It is now 12 years since former President Olusegun Obasanjo conceived the Brass Liquefied Natural Gas (Brass LNG) project, designed to produce 10 million metric tonnes of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) per annum. It was to be built by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Total, ConocoPhillips and Eni Group, and delivered in 2009 but […] Nigeria’s multi-billion dollar gas projects linger on Source: Business