Photos: Pretty Ambrose Alli University graduate allegedly set ablaze by her boyfriend's brother for refusing his sexual advances

A young lady identified as Ebor Lovina died from injuries sustained after she was allegedly set ablaze by her boyfriend's elder brother for rejecting his advances.

The graduate of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, was until her painful death, a staff at the Sun-Ray Hotel and Suites in Benin City.

71 year old man cleared of murder case after spending 45 years in prison

Richard Phillips, a 71-year-old Detroit man has been released from prison after spending over 45 years in custody.  

Phillips had been wrongfully accused of being involved in a fatal shooting in 1971. A judge granted the prosecutor’s request to permanently drop the case against Phillips, whose conviction was erased last year.  

He had been free on bond since December. Wayne County prosecutor, Kym Worthy said a new investigation by her office backed his claim that he had no role in a 1971 fatal shooting. Worthy said a key witness lied at his 1972 trial.  “There’s nothing I can say to bring back 40 years of his life,” Worthy said. “The system failed him. This is a true exoneration.”  Phillips has spent more years behind bars than any wrongfully incarcerated person in the country, his lawyer Gabi Silver.  She describes Phillips an “incredibly warm, engaging person” who just wants to pick up the pieces and live a quiet life.  

Phillips told reporters that he has “never carried bitterness around, so I’m not a bitter man”, adding that one of his immediate goals was to reunite with his two children who were ages 2 and 4 when he went to prison in 1972.

Tiffany Haddish says she's banned from revealing who bit Beyonce (Video)

The much talked Beyoncé biter scandal has finally been put to rest.

Comedienne Tiffany Hadish who revealed in a recent interview with GQ, that an actress bit Beyoncé on the face, has now disclosed why she will never let the world know the identity of the culprit.

The 38-year-old Girls Trip actress went live on Instagram and revealed she had signed a Nondisclosure Agreement preventing her from giving the name. 

In her words, she said: "Look, once you sign an NDA, see if you all would've asked me this, you know, back when I did the interview...like a month and a half ago before [I could've talked about who the biter is but], you know, NDAs are real, y’all. NDAs are real so I’m not saying shit about nothing."

She also urged fans to focus on the real news, saying who bit Beyonce is not the real news.

“People should be focusing on the real issues at hand, like did you do your taxes,” she said. “’Cause taxes is due real soon. Can your children, do they know how to read and write? Have you been working with on them their reading and their writing? Like, is your house clean? That’s what we need to be focusing on. But y’all wanna know...everybody going crazy about who bit Beyoncé.”

In the video, Tiffany also went ahead to joke that it was porn star Stormy Daniels who bit Beyonce.

Watch the video below.

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DMX gets lighter sentence after his lawyer played his song in court to sway judge during sentencing

Apparently, rapper DMX got a lighter sentence after a judge heard his rap song in court.

During the rapper's recent sentencing, his attorney played the judge "Slipping" an old rap song by DMX and it is believed this helped reduce his sentencing from a possible 5 years in jail to only 365 days.

Below is how Boston 25 is reporting it:

"A judge heard a DMX rap song before adding his own lyrics to a court proceeding on Wednesday, ordering the rapper imprisoned for a year in a tax fraud case.

U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff took requests, accommodating DMX's desire to hear his autobiographical hit "Slippin'" before DMX faced the music over his admission of guilt. The judge called DMX's fraud a "brazen and blatant" crime that could not go unpunished.

The 47-year-old rapper, known to law enforcement and the courts as Earl Simmons, has been incarcerated since his bail was revoked in January. He sobbed during the proceeding as his lawyer Murray Richman recalled his nightmarish childhood...

His lawyer said DMX, who has appeared in movies such as "Last Hour" and "Romeo Must Die," has been a model prisoner. Still, prosecutors sought five years in prison for him, citing a lengthy rap sheet and drugs. But Richman said he wanted his client free to support his 15 children and pay back nearly $2.3 million in taxes that are part of a restitution order.

Another defense lawyer, Stacey Richman, called DMX "the American dream," saying he raised himself out of the ghetto with music that was so inspirational that a former Troy homeless woman called the lawyers to say that hearing one of his songs stopped her from killing herself. The woman now is married and raising a child, Stacey Richman said.

As "Slippin'" played in the packed courtroom, DMX nodded his head slightly to the beat while some of his supporters nodded more enthusiastically.

Murray Richman got choked up as he spoke of his client, saying he felt terrorized after listening to DMX describe his childhood to a probation officer for six hours.

"I've never seen a more horrific background in my life," he said, describing physical and psychological abuse that left DMX's teeth knocked out and led him to repeated encounters with the law at an early age.

The judge said that in the court's view DMX "is a good man."

"In many ways," the judge said, "he's his own worst enemy."

EFCC re-arraigns fraudsters for cloning mobile phone of ex-custom’s boss aide

The EFCC has re-arraigned one Usman Baba Yusuf (a.k.a Usman Dakingari) and Balarabe Abdullahi for cloning the phone number of Abdulmumini Bako, a former Special Assistant to the former Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Abdullahi Dikko Inde.  

The defendants were arraigned before Justice D. Z. Senchi of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on a 4-count charge of impersonation and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N2million. The re-arraignment followed the arrest of the 1st defendant (Yusuf), who had been on the run after the EFCC granted him administrative bail in 2016.

Yusuf was however, arrested on March 24, 2018 in Kaduna after he had been declared wanted by the EFCC, on the order of the court. The charge against them read, “That you, Usman Baba Yusuf (a.k.a Usman Dakingari) and Balarabe Abdullahi sometimes in June 2015 in Abuja within the judicial division of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory held out yourselves as Assistant Comptroller of Nigerian Customs Service and in that assumed position directed one Zakari Jibrin (a Comptroller of Nigerian Customs Service) to pay the sum of N1million to account number 0049663040 in the name of Balarabe Abdullahi domiciled in Access bank Nigeria plc.”  

Yusuf pleaded guilty and entered a plea bargain deal, while the second defendant (Abdullahi) pleaded not guilty to the charge.  The court admitted Abdullahi to bail in the sum of N1million and one surety in like sum, and ordered the remand of Yusuf in the EFCC custody pending sentencing.

OMG ! She got some balls : Graphic: Young lady slashes ex-boyfriend's neck with razor blade in Delta State

The lady pictured above, who lives in Sapele, Delta State, attacked her ex-boyfriend with a razor blade and nearly decapitated him...

33-year-old Nigerian mechanic facing deportation for assaulting hotel owner in Italy

A 33-year-old Nigerian asylum seeker has been arrested for beating up an hotel owner after stealing key to one of the rooms in Taranto, Italy.

Emmanuel Omozee, said to be a mechanic reportedly forced himself into the room without pay and threatened to deal with the owner if he challenged him.

He allegedly used chain and stick to inflict grievous injury on the body of the hotel owner who was later rescued by police.

Omozee who at the time of his arrest was under the influence of a substance suspected to be drug has been charged for aggravated personal injury, private violence, aggravated threat, violation of domicile and aggravated theft.

Omozee, who is currently cooling off at a prison in Taranto is also facing deportation.

''I plan to give most of my money away before I die, my kids are getting $0.00'' Iroko TV boss, Jason Njoku says

The Iroko TV boss disclosed this on his twitter page. Jason and his wife, Mary, have three children.

Lady ends her 3 year-old relationship after she found her boyfriend telling another lady he is just passing time with her

A twitter user narrated how she read her boyfriend's chat where he was telling another girl he is just passing time with her.

''This government is completely compromised'' Tunde Bakare

Pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly and one time vice presidential candidate, Tunde Bakare, says Nigerians can shut down the government as a result of the repeated herdsmen killings. 

According to him, the recent directive by the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, that vigilante groups and weapons bearing individuals should surrender their weapons without mking reference to the herdsmen, shows that the Buhari-led administration is completely compromised.

According to The Cable, Bakare said this when he spoke on the sidelines of “the real cost of subsidy”, an event organised by Enough is Enough, a coalition of youth advocacy groups in partnership with Facility for Oil Sector Transformation (FOSTER) yesterday March 29th.

“This is why I said this government is compromised completely. If you are making such a rule, let it be a statute of general application, let it apply to all. Nigerians to wake up, shine their eyes and put their own destinies into their hands. They should fight for themselves. There are several ways to do it. Civil unrest is one of them, protest is another. We (Nigerians) can shut this government down. We have the numbers and we will show them that we have done it before and we will do it again.” he said

Kanye West is all smiles as he spends father-son time with Saint during family trip to California Zoo (Photos)

Rapper, Kanye West was pictured all smiles as he posed with his son Saint West during a family trip to a zoo in California on Thursday.

His wife, Kim  Kardashian and their daughter, North West were also spotted at the Sandiego Zoo.

The Keeping Up with the Kardashians reality star took to her Instagram Story and Snapchat to share several photos from the zoo outing.

See more photos below.

Special Fraud Unit arrests 'fake' Benin prince who defrauded ex-lawmaker of $1.5m

Police detectives attached to the Special Fraud Unit (SFU), Milverton, Lagos State, have arrested some men, who posed as international businessmen, members of House of Representatives and members of Benin Kingdom’s royal family to defraud a former lawmaker of $1.5 million.

According to reports, Investigation of the suspects started on July 28, 2017 with a crack team of detectives going to Murtala International Airport, Lagos State, to arrest the syndicate’s leader identified as Franklin Osiemwonyi Izekor, 45, aka Prince Joshua Akenzua. It was learnt that rather than follow the policemen, Izekor resisted arrest, fought the policemen and even attempted to abduct one of the policemen in his car.  

Although the lawmaker, Eseme Eyiboh, told detectives that he was swindled of over $1.5 million, Izekor insisted that the money was just $1 million and another N47 million. A police source said: “The amount of money involved in this scam is no longer the issue. What’s important is that the principal suspect, Franklin Osiemwonyi Izekor, who was posing as a prince of Oba of Benin, admitted that he actually defrauded the victim.”

Aside Izekor, other members of the syndicate are Stephen Victor aka James Ajayi, Bolade Babatunde aka Honourable Lawal Adewunmi, Tola aka Peter Ajayi (still at large) and Alhaji Saka Jimoh (67). How the syndicate was able to zero in on the lawmaker is still nebulous, however, it was learnt that trouble started for Eyiboh after he landed a juicy contract with Exxon Mobil.

He needed some items, which were mostly overseas to execute the contract. The lawmaker was aware that there is an anti-bulk movement of money treaty, including dollars, which Nigeria is a signatory to. He was not too sure how to get the vital items from overseas, especially since he couldn’t transfer bulk dollars.  One day, he received a phone call from his colleague Honourable Lawal Adewunmi (Bolade Babatunde), who was also a member of the House of Representatives.

He didn’t know that he was speaking with a fake ‘Honourable Lawal Adewunmi.’ ‘Adewunmi’ exchanged pleasantries and soon delved into businesses. Eyiboh, thinking he was speaking with a concerned friend, spilled out his gut and his present contract. ‘Adewunmi’ then promised to link him up with some international businessmen, who were agents of a company called ‘International Foreign Exchange Monitoring Agency. Eyiboh was made to believe that it was an international money order organisation and an affiliate of American Forex Organisation with address at Plot 16, Agbara Estate, Ogun State.

Twitter Stories: Final year student dies after consuming alcohol, codeine, tramadol and marijuana

A 24-year old final year student has died after taking alcohol, codeine, tramadol and cannabis at a party.

According to Twitter user @imperatorduduosa, 'he attended a party where he ingested an unknown quantity of liquor, codeine syrup, tramadol and marijuana. He ended up with bleeding from nostrils and mouth. And intractable seizures. He died in ICU'.

Graphic: Grandmother burns granddaughter's hands because she ate Indomie without her permission

A grandmother has been arrested in Benin city, Edo state after she burnt her grand daughter's fingers because she ate a plate of indomie without her permission. According to eyewitnesses, the grandmother tortued her granddaughter by placing her hand on a gas stove until it got badly burnt.

A person who witnessed the incident reported the case to the Edo State Ministry of Women Affairs who alerted the police and the grandmother has been arrested. The little girl is currently receiving medical care at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital UBTH.

Filmmaker, Chika Ike Shoots a TV Commercial for Abia State Government

The TV Commercial is called Dial a Doc Direct, an Abia State Tele Health Initiative.
Below are behind the scenes photos of the commercial.

Four bankers charged with fraudulently obtaining N129 million

The Enugu Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Tuesday March 27,2018 arraigned one Nwachukwu Placidus, a former manager of First City Monument Bank Ltd, Onitsha Branch and  three former bankers with Idemili Micro Finance Bank Ltd, Nnewi namely; Ohaegbunam Chinyere,Egbosi Chiemenam and Nkeiru Okeke before Justice Ike Agu of the Anambra State High Court on a 12–count charge of stealing, conversion and obtaining ‎N129,000,000 by false pretence.

The first defendant,  Placidus allegedly diverted funds received from Idemilli Micro Finance bank meant to be placed as fixed deposit to his personal accounts.  while claiming they were severally rolled over and presented forged fixed deposit certificates to cover his tracks.

The co- defendants are alleged accomplices to the crime. All the defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges after they were read To them.

Caption this photo of Blac Chyna, 29 and her 18-year-old beau

Let's have the best caption for this photo of  Blac Chyna, 29 and her 18-year-old beau YBN Almighty Jay.

Buhari in Lagos: Documentary photographer narrates how a man was beaten because he drove past closed road

Fati Abubakar is the internationally acclaimed documentary photographer behind the series,  Bits of Borno. Read her post below: 

This morning I slept at 3am and woke at 4am and was ready at 5am to catch a flight for 7am. The driver and I were on our way when we were told roads to the airport were closed. Because President Buhari is coming to Lagos. I had been warned the previous night. We got down from the car and trekked with luggage the remaining distance. There were tons of people in suits and children going home for Easter break. It was hot. It was frustrating. As I dragged my luggage, I saw a man being beaten because he had drove pass. He was head butted and punched. I understand why people cross the seas to get to Europe. A kind elderly woman and her driver stopped to pick me and another man and his son. It is the every day Nigerians that help bandage you up when the government continues to shoot you in the foot.

Nigeria is an unfair country that does not give a damn about its people. I remember when we hovered in the air for an hour as we were about to land in Abuja because the plane could not land till Patience Jonathan’s plane did. So we just moved around in the air for an hour. What if something had happened. There was exasperation even in the pilots voice. Foreign pilots who work here, I applaud. This country will kill a thick skinned long suffering Nigerian person much less a mild mannered man from an efficient country. Now I am watching a live show telling and showing us a school feeding program and trying to say it cares.

It is safe to say Ambode or Buhari, whoever decided to shut down Lagos has lost the Lagos vote. Lagosians are livid today. And they have a right to be. How do you close the roads in a mega city.

"His mother’s only child'' - Family of Nigerian House of Reps member pay tribute to their son shot dead in the UK

The family of a man murdered in Hackney yesterday paid tribute to their son and brother, saying they are "beyond heartbroken", and urging the public to help find his killer.

Abraham Oluwatosin Dolapo Badru, aged 26, was found on Sunday, 25 March to Ferncliff Road, E8, suffering from gun shot wounds. He died at the scene. Read story here 

Read the tribute by his family below...

"We are beyond heartbroken, filled with emptiness as we put together our feelings on our greatest loss. A bright light, Abraham Oluwatosin Dolapo Badru, was put out by the hands of evil person on Sunday night. His mother’s only child, the pillar of her existence, and the first of his father's two children. He was the best son any parent could ever pray to have and a very loving and protective brother; he was humble, conscientious, respectful, kind and exuberated love and confidence.

Photos: 27-year-old Ambrose Alli University student hacked to death in Lagos by suspected cultists

A 27-year-old student of the Ambrose Alli University, Edo State was hacked to death at Obalende roundabout in Lagos.

The student identified as Emmanuel Onaghise, was reportedly ambushed by suspected cultists around 10.25p.m on Monday, 26th March 2018.

2 students found dead in Lagos after heavy rainfall

Two male students of a private secondary school were picked up dead in the flood after a heavy rain in Alagbado area of Lagos on Thursday March 29th.

According to PM news, the boys were found floating on water at Casso Bus Stop on Lagos/Abeokuta Expressway by shop owners and people waiting to board vehicles to their destinations.

Some commercial motorcycle riders carried them to a private hospital which confirmed them dead.

An eyewitness said the boys who were in their school uniforms, were discovered floating on the water.

“That was how we discovered the boys and quickly the Okada (motorcycle riders) people rushed and lifted them on their shoulders but they were lifeless because their legs and hands were just dangling. I wonder why they should go to school today which was declared work free and see how they have ended their lives just like that; it’s painful,’’ the eyewitness said

There was heavy rain in the area in the afternoon which resulted in heavy flooding.

Internet fraudsters are using my?name to scam people - Nollywood actor, Femi Adebayo cries out

Nollywood actor and producer Femi Adebayo Salami has warned his fans to stay away from fraudsters who perpetrate evil and fraudulent activities with the use of his name.  

The actor cum politician in a one minute video shared earlier today on Instagram said that it has come to his notice that many of his fans have fallen victim of the heinous crimes of these fraudsters.

“Under no circumstance will I ask my fans to pay money into any account for anything” he said.

See the video below...

Senate rejects Governor El-Rufai’s $350m World Bank loan request

On Thursday, the Nigerian Senate rejected the request of Governor Nasiru El-Rufai to secure a 35 million dollar World Bank loan for Kaduna State. The senators rejected the request on the premise that obtaining the loan may put so much pressure on the management of the state which presently has a debt burden of $232.1 million.  

The Senate took the stand after accepting the recommendations of its Committee on Local and Foreign Debt and contributions by all the three Senators from the state, who declined support to the loan request. Senator Shehu Sani, who presented the report on Kaduna State Development Policy Operation (DPO) Credit Facility from the World Bank, said although it was approved by the bank in 2016, accepting the loan would compound the financial situation of the state.  

''Don’t accept PDP’s apology'' Bola Tinubu tell Nigerians

National leader of the All Progressives Congress APC, Bola Tinubu, has asked Nigerians not to accept the apology issued by the opposition party few days ago. PDP National chairman, Uche Secondus at a Nation Building event organized by the party, said the party has in the last three years seen all the mistakes they made during their 16 years in office and will like to correct them if given the opportunity to come vack to office in 2019. Secondus appealed to Nigerians to vote the party back into power during the 2019 election.

Reacting to the apology, Bola Tinubu at the colloquium organized to mark his 66th birthday which had in attendance President Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and many others, said Nigerians should not accept the oppositions apology. Tinubu likened the party's apology to the case of a thief who is only begging because he was caught in the act.

''Dear Nigerians, do not take their apology. They lied. They falsified. They even changed figures. For 16 years, they made fake promises and gave us fake figures. And they said we should not talk about it. It is like saying after all they did wrong, do not look at me. Just steal your own. That we will not take it off the table…no matter how twisting the mind of PDP and their supporters may be, we will continue to talk about it because you wasted our resources. You did not do what you promised Nigerians, what you said you would do when you were in office. The market gave you the maximum and production was also at maximum.”

Continuing, the former Lagos state governor said 

“President Buhari has changed the economy from the wrong direction to steer the ship back before the final crash because it was necessary. We have started the journey. And the voyage is on the voyage of hope and the voyage that we are reclaiming Nigeria. We are retooling Nigeria. We are reinventing Nigeria. We are redirecting Nigeria.”