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Well, the Proprietress has justified her actions as against what many of you had thought it was. Mrs. Ify Okonkwo, Proprietress of Early Dew Montessori Primary School, Enugu, has on today (Wednesday), explained that the reported arrest of some pupils of the school who did not do their assignments and those whose uniforms were dirty, was done to instill discipline. The proprietress, who confessed to not considering the implications of her action, gave an open apology for adopting such a strategy which she vowed was targeted at improving the pupils. The innocent looking proprietress who broke down midway into the press conference noted that the pupils were asked to get into the back of the police Hilux Van where they pleaded to be of better behaviour. “I want to thank the people of Enugu State especially Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, and the Commissioner for Education Professor Uchenna Eze, for showing concern in this matter. I also want to thank the parents for their understanding. ...

Mrs. Ramota Kamorudeen , mother of Olajumoke Orisaguna , Agege bread seller turned model is ecstatic that her daughter now speaks English and is assisting the family. She told Encomium, “ I can ’ t express how happy I am that my daughter is now educated . I pray God should not stop His mercy on us . I am now reaping the fruits of my labour. I pray to God for long life , so that I can enjoy this more and more. My advice for her is that she should be humble , kind , respectful and most importantly be prayerful .

A Nigerian man resident in South Africa posted a series of video and photos from the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and other African nationals in South Africa.

Senator Ben Murray-Bruce says he wished he wasn't in government, saying being a Senator has exposed him to many facts and figures that are quite frustrating. Speaking to National Assembly correspondents in Abuja, Ben Murray-Bruce, who is the senate committee chairman on privatization expressed his frustrations at the failed privatization programme initiated by the Obasanjo-administration. "I wish I was not in government, I tell you the truth because when you are in government, you know too much and when you know too much, you get very very angry. When I was in the private sector, I didn't have the information I have today. I didn't have access to budgets of ministries and departments. Now that I have access to budgets of Ministries and departments, there is no reason for Nigeria to be broke. We are broke on purpose. We want to be broke"he said

According to instagram user, Deji Garuba, his neighbour had to install this windmill when he got tired of the epileptic power supply in their area. He wrote; "My neighbour has had enough of #PHCN wahala. The guy just installed a windmill to generate power. We haven't had #PHCN power for more than 30hrs in the last one year, the cost of running generators is neck breaking. This is what my dear country has become, electricity has become space science that the government can not easily provide or even encourage efficient private sector participation in the provision of power. God help us all!"

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe turns 93 today and on Saturday a lavish party to celebrate his birthday is expected to cost more than $2 million (1.88 million euros). This year's celebration of President Robert Mugabe's 93rd birthday takes place in Matobos southwest of Harare on Saturday. Some Zimbabweans are calling Mugabe to use the money to address the myriad of problems besetting the country while others are planning to celebrate their leader's birthday. "We regard President Mugabe's birth so highly that we take him as second only to Jesus Christ. So his birthday is something we cannot miss as Zimbabweans. We are advocating for that day to be a national holiday," said one supporter in Harare. Mugabe has been ruling Zimbabwe since 1980 when the country got its independence from Great Britain. Since then, Zimbabwe has religiously celebrated his birthday. This year, a coalition of civic organizations called "21 Days of Activism Zimbabwe" t...

A man has left many people in deep shock after he confessed to have slept with 30 virgins and sacrificed her mother for money ritulas . A man has made a shocking confession on live radio how he used juju to kill his own mother just to become wealthy . The Ghanaian man made the confession on Vision FM Ghana . He said , he was also instructed to sleep with 30 virgins every Friday if his money must continue to grow . According to Ghana Reporters, the boy who ’ s name have been withheld confessed that he killed his own mother and used her for money rituals . He said: “ I was fifty when I started sakawa (juju ), I was in introduced by my school father in secondary school at PAMASS on the Winneba road. ” He further said that for his juju to keep working, he must sleep with virgins every Friday.

South African First, a fiercely nationalist political party founded in December by budding Pretoria politician, Mario Khumalo wants foreign nationals driven out of South Africa and borders sealed to protect the country from crime‚ drugs‚ and prostitution and ensure that only locals benefit from scant economic opportunities. The 37-year-old politician said its main mandate was to do away with foreigners who threatened patriotic South Africans’ livelihoods. "Their tuckshops, hair salons and businesses are crippling our people,"  Mr Khumalo said. Khumalo is explicit about his anti-foreign sentiments‚ blaming millions of foreign nationals in South Africa for the country's social and economic problems. He calls himself a nationalist, and said he was merely voicing what most South Africans were thinking and talking about behind closed doors. “We are not xenophobic but we work in the interest of South Africans. It is about national identity and pride. There is no nationality...

By Morris on facebook: "See what Nigerian soldier did to one of my friends in umuahia Abia state. This guy is a car dealer. A man brought him a car to sale, this guy repaired the car with his money, sampled the car for buyers to come but could not sale it, after weeks he kindly returned the car to the owner ,the owner accused him of messing up the car when there is nothing like that.this man brought 4 Nigeria soldiers to turn this guy to a half dead man.Is Nigeria soldiers made to protect or kill? What a shame.share this let the whole World see it. Federal Government should call military to order" To does soldiers who did this, they should be deployed to Borno state to fight Boko Haram

Today, Azerbaijan's president, Ilham Aliyev, 55, appointed his wife Mehriban, 52, as the first Vice President of Azerbaijan, making her the person next in line in the nation's power hierarchy. The position of First Vice President is a new one and was created just last September after a constitutional referendum in September. The referendum also extended the presidential term from five to seven years. With this new position as the First Vice President, Mehriban will take over the presidency if the president is unable to perform his duties. Mehriban, who married her husband when she was 19, graduated from a medical university and has served previously as a lawmaker and headed a charity.

Pastor Paul Sanyangore said he has God's direct phone number and receives calls from him on how to help his followers. Speaking to H-metro, about a video where he was seen prophesying to a church member while on the phone during his Sunday service, he said: 'I have a direct channel, actually I have his number and I can call him when need rises. People believe that the prophet could have been on the line with someone with information on the church member, but he responded saying: 'It is possible to talk to God, why would you doubt that I got a call from him? I actually have a direct line which I can call him and get instructions on how to proceed. I got this when I was praying and I heard a voice telling me to call direct. I got instructions on the phone on what to do or say and that is what happened on Sunday. If the heavens spoke to Abraham why not us? You are of faith and people will always have doubts while others are being delivered,' he added. The man of God...

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The National Orientation Agency NOA has appealed to Nigerians to desist from referring to Nigeria as "Naija. Director General of the agency, Garba Abari, made the appeal when he spoke at a news conference in Abuja yesterday. According to him, it is becoming worrisome that some Nigerians are changing the original name of Nigeria. “We try in all our advocacy visits to insist that Nigeria must be referred to as Nigeria and not Naija. So, our schools have a role to play in this. The media itself has also got a very fundamental role to play because it is the media that helps in the propagation of this kind of misnomer. All of us, as individuals, as corporate organisations, as media, whether broadcast, print or online, must wake up to the reality. That the more we use these misnomers referring to our country, the fallout of it is that, a significant percentage of our younger ones will not even remember that Nigeria is the original name of our country. I want to appeal to all Nigeria...

Detectives at EFCC and the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation, are trying to find the owner of an account which has N8.4billion in it. The bank account has no signatories but a huge deposit made into the account has been traced to a bank which is believed to have assisted the money launderers, who own the account, to convert the cash to dollars. They think the cash may have been wired into some foreign accounts, but the government has filed an ex parte motion to place it under temporary assets forfeiture. Despite the fact that the account has no signatories, a telecommunications company has gone to court to claim the money. This account was discovered when a whistle-blower alerted the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation, to strange deposits that were being made into the ECOBANK account by some suspected government officials. Out of the several deposits made, about N8.4billion was singled out for investigation. According to The Nation, a source involve...

The Peoples Democratic Party caucus in the Senate was further depleted on Tuesday when the lawmaker representing the Anambra-South senatorial district, Senator Andy Uba, officially announced his defection from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress. Uba had written to the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, about his defection and the letter was read to lawmakers during the plenary. The PDP caucus, however, said Uba would lose his seat in the chamber since the mandate belonged to the opposition party. The Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, while making the demand on behalf of the caucus under Order 43 of the Senate Standing Rules, also called for Uba’s removal as Chairman, Senate Committee on Public Accounts. The committee, which is the only one recognised by the constitution, is traditionally occupied by the opposition. Akpabio, therefore, urged the Senate President to sack Uba from the office within 24 hours. He said, “That position belongs to the PDP and it (...

The Federal Government is currently working towards streamlining the number of agencies operating in the nation ’ s ports to only six from about eight. This is part of the decisions reached at an expanded meeting of the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council presided over by the Acting President , Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday. According to a statement by the council ’ s secretariat, the meeting approved a national action plan to be implemented across its three priority areas of entry and exit of goods ; entry and exit of people ; and government transparency and procurement over the next 60 days to deliver tangible changes for Small and Medium -scale Enterprises in Nigeria . The reforms , the statement added , would also help improve Nigeria ’ s ranking in the World Bank Doing Business Index 2018. The statement read in part, “ The reforms are to be implemented by the Enabling Business Environment Secretariat , which became operation...

Members of the House of Representatives expressed shock, on Tuesday, that the Presidential Committee on North-East Initiative budgeted N60m to cut grasses this year in communities ravaged by the Boko Haram insurgents. The information is coming when the controversies surrounding a similar contract worth over N200m, awarded by the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Babachir Lawal, has yet to be settled. The N60m in the 2017 budget of PCNI is to cover contracts to cut “shrubs, grasses and trees” along the Maiduguri-Mama Road alone.

The first gospel reality television show in African, ‘ Worship With Volla’ is set to hit the airwaves soon. The show is a brain child of a sensational gospel artiste, Kelvin Idohosa (aka Volla), who has featured famous gospel artistes in Nigeria on hit singles and album. The show which would feature 30 minutes of intense worship in music, acoustic performances and other relative acts, aiming to create a platform for self expression amongst gospel artistes is scheduled to commence with a pilot scheme in March. According to organisers, the show is inspired by the burning desire to encourage the culture of pure worship and it would not only inspire souls but also encourage worship ministers as they would finally own an avenue where their anointing would be better projected and appreciated by the world. According to the organiser, Mr Kelvin Idahosa, the first gospel reality television show would come with an exciting and clear cut concept projected to be engaging for all ages from s...

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The Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi has said that he would introduce a law prohibiting poor men from marrying more than one wife, saying there is a connection between polygamy, poverty and terrorism. He said because muslims practice polygamous marriage, most poor men end up marrying up to four wives with as many as 20 children whom they sometimes don’t train in schools hence, some of them become thugs and terrorists. The Emir gave the statement during a speech he delivered at a muslim gathering on Sunday. “Those of us in the [mainly Muslim] north have all seen the economic consequences of men who are not capable of maintaining one wife, marrying four. They end up producing 20 children, not educating them, leaving them on the streets, and they end up as thugs and terrorists.” The emir discussed different areas to be covered by the wide-ranging family law, which he said would be passed by the Kano state government. “The law will address what Islam says on marriage, it will outlaw for...

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Money transfer startup TransferWise has launched a new chatbot that enables Facebook users to move funds abroad using the social platform's Messenger service. The bot can be used to move money between the U.S., Canada, Australia and the European Union and It will also notify users via an alert when their regularly used currencies hit favorable rates. Already more than 1 million customers transfer nearly $1 billion each month with London-based TransferWise ; a startup that is valued at an estimated $1.1 billion. Facebook first launched chatbots for its Messenger app in April 2016. The bots allow users to communicate with companies in the same way they speak to their friends. They can provide everything from weather updates to personalized news updates and other services. The bots respond conversationally, and brands are increasingly using them to replace customer service agents.

This article is coming from him on how nollywood actress come on set without wearing pa*t: It ’ s so shameful and disgusting… Why is it that most female celebrities , especially Nollywood actresses who are single have developed the habit of not wearing pants to movie locations ? I can tell you of 4 different star actresses I had personally confirmed , and this is really giving me headaches because , aside the very fact that it is suspicious , its also disgusting. That’ s why most of our directors are always losing concentration when they are directing on set, the worst is that these group of actresses are fond of spreading their legs wide unnecessarily just to seduce fellow actors and directors… Their aim and motives are what I am yet to understand , that ’ s how I walked out of a shoot in Asaba when one actress was just misbehaving on set, someone said she just finished smoking marijuana , but that ’ s not my own business , I am an actor and not her doctor , but what I frown at...

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A witness in the corruption trial of Justice Adeniyi Ademola has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari gave the embattled judge N500,000 while his certificate controversy was pending before Mr. Ademola. Some persons had filed a suit challenging Mr. Buhari’s candidacy prior to the 2015 elections, alleging the president had no secondary school certificate as required by law. The witness said the money was given through Mr. Buhari’s former lawyer, Kola Awodeyin. The witness, however, said he does not consider the money a bribe. Mr. Ademola is being prosecuted by the Nigerian government for alleged corruption. He has denied the charges and requested accelerated hearing at the trial in Abuja. The federal judge is being prosecuted alongside his wife, Olubowale, and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Joe Agi. From Premium Times

OAP Daddy freeze comments on the statement made by the General overseer of Redeem Christian Church of God , Daddy Adeboye , who said he was richer than RCCG (Redeem christian church of God ) as a lecturer read what daddy freeze wrote about his Adeboye’ s Message below ; What awesome words of wisdom from our dear Daddy G.O . I would see this as a tremendous feat of achievement !When you were a lecturer sir , Nigeria was doing well as a country, producing our own Garri. Today you are richer and your church is richer , while Nigeria is poorer, the majority of your pastors and congregation are still poor and Indians have started producing our Garri!Somebody say hallelu …….y…ah !

People were jolted when news surfaced in January that things had fallen apart between Tonto Dikeh and her husband of 17 months . The first sign that something was amiss was when Tonto removed her husband’ s name , which she had hitherto flaunted with pride , from her social media account . At the time, Sunday Scoop had spoken with Tonto ’ s manager and he claimed that taking down her husband ’ s name was just a business decision for the actress as the account belonged to her brand . This was amidst reports that Churchill cheated on Tonto with his beautiful personal assistant, Rosaline Meurer , who he allegedly took on several vacation trips abroad and showered with gifts . Meanwhile, a trusted source who spoke to Punch ’ s Sunday Scoop on the condition of anonymity , revealed that the lovebirds began having trouble during the last trimester of Tonto ’ s pregnancy. The businessman and philanthropist was said to have been seen with different ladies at clubs in Lagos. Tonto was said...

Senate President Bukola Saraki announced the defection of Senator Andy Uba from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressive Congress (APC) during Tuesday's plenary. Uba said he joined the ruling party during registration of party members in the state. According to him, APC has ideology and focus which he needed to tap into to provide quality representation of his constituents. Another reason he joined the APC is because of Senator Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, APC National Auditor, Chief George Muoghalu and other personalities in the party with sound ideas and whom he looked up to in politics. The senator said he would be very effective in serving the yearnings of his people more now that he was in APC and urged other Igbo politicians to follow his footstep.

The Nigeria Customs Service today donated 36, 822 bags of rice, 7,752 Jerry cans of vegetable oil, 727 cartoons of vegetable oil, 3,003 cartoons of spaghetti and 59 bags of second hand shoes to IDP camps in Borno state. The items were handed over to the state governor, Kashim Shettima. While receiving the items, Governor Shettima said the items donated are in good conditions with some of them having expiry dates of 2018, 2019.

Tragedy struck yesterday, February 20th, as around 74 African migrants drowned after human smugglers intercepted them at sea and stole the motor of their boat at gunpoint, leaving them to their fate. Bodies of the migrants, who were trying to reach Italy, washed up on a beach in the northwestern coastal city of Zawiya, around 60km to the west of Tripoli. Initial figure put the dead at 45, however, the Libya Red Crescent, that confirmed the tragic incident says it has recovered 74 bodies from the shore. Red Crescent spokesman Mohammed al-Mistrati told Associated Press that the bodies were found Monday morning and that he expected more to appear. Flavio Di Giacomo, a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN Migration Agency, said their rubber boat departed from the western city of Sabratha on Saturday with 110 people aboard.

According to a new report by RadarOnline, rapper, Kanye West has pleaded with his wife and reality TV star Kim Kardashian West to stop undergoing plastic surgery procedures as the death of his mum, Donda West, while undergoing cosmetic procedures still lingers fresh in his memory. The report comes after Kim snap chatted this week about her visit to her plastic surgeon to remove her stretch marks gotten from pregnancy and child labour. Read the full report after below: Kim Kardashian, is still in pursuit of plastic perfection ! After the 36-year-old beauty was spotted leaving Epione Beverly Hills, her go-to aesthetic specialist, a source close to the beauty told RadarOnline.com exclusively that her rapper hubby, Kanye West, has begged her to stop before it is too late. “Kim has undergone cool sculpting because she said that she needs to look super-hot for New Year’s,” the RadarOnline source said. “Kim would totally get liposuction, but Kanye would lose it because he is very agai...

When the singer played a round of the game on The Ellen Show today, she picked Harry Styles pretty much every time. After Ellen revealed J-Lo is currently single and “too busy” for dating, she kicked off the game by asking her guest to choose between the 23-year-old One Direction star and Zac Efron. “It’s funny because I could do either,” she said. “A couple of years ago I would have said Zac Efron, but now I’m going to say Harry Styles.” As Jen continued to favour Harry over a line-up of celebrity heartthrobs including Nick Jonas , The Weeknd , Prince Harry and yep, even Brad Pitt, her decision was finally swayed when Lenny Kravitz popped up on the screen. Leonardo DiCaprio and Bruno Mars also got some love from the star, before Ellen declared that Harry was her “boyfriend”. “He’s a little bit young for me,” J-Lo said before she took the opportunity to clear up those rumours about her dating younger men. “I don’t date younger men,” Jennifer told Ellen. “It’s not like you h...

Accoridng toSahara Reporters, The Federal government has plans to further devalue the Naira. This morning the exchange rate went all time low to N520 to $1.

The United Nations International Children Emergency Fund, UNICEF, on Monday said that 1.4 million children suffering from severe malnutrition could die this year from famine in Nigeria and three other countries. The three other countries are Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen. According to UNICEF, in Yemen, where war has been raging for nearly two years, 462,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition while 450,000 children are severely malnourished in northeast Nigeria. Drought in Somalia has left 185,000 children on the brink of famine but that figure is expected to reach 270,000 in the next few months, said UNICEF. In South Sudan, over 270,000 children are malnourished and a famine has just been declared in parts of Unity State in the north of the country, where 20,000 children live. UNICEF director, Anthony Lake, appealed for quick action. “We can still save many lives,” he said. In January, a report by the Famine Early Warning System Network, FEWS NET, an agency suppor...

She is a Nollywood actress Chizzy Skivvies, she is currently on a movie set and the movie is titled "akaraoku".

Over the weekend, photos of this packaged Garri said to be imported from India surfaced online. The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it has carried out preliminary investigation into the food sample and the imported Garri samples had no NAFDAC number. Read a statement from the agency after the cut.... This is the tweet that first caught our attention on Sunday 19th February 2017. It is about a certain pack of Imported Garri with the source given as India, which was found on the shelve of a Nigerian supermarket. We knew we had work to do, and Monday 20th we did. Our actions and findings are outlined below: (Updates via @NafdacNigeria) -NAFDAC Officers visited the Supermarket in Ikoyi today -26 packets of 500mg each of the products were seized for analysis -The product has no NAFDAC number - The product is said to be from Ghana but packaged in UK -The Management of the Supermarket have been invited for further discussion in our Lagos office ...

UN aid agencies confirm that famine in South Sudan has left 100,000 people on the verge of starvation and almost 5 million people, more than 40% of the country's population, in need of urgent help. People are already dying of hunger, and another 1 million people are on the brink of famine. Years of civil war, a refugee crisis and a collapsing economy have taken their toll on South Sudan since it gained its independence in 2011. Now the UN World Food Programme and nongovernmental organizations are sounding the alarm, warning that more than a million children are suffering from acute malnutrition. "Our worst fears have been realized," said Serge Tissot, of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. "Many families have exhausted every means they have to survive." The war has disrupted farming and left people with little choice but to scavenge for food to survive. "People have been pushed to the brink, they are surviving on what they can ...

In a new statement released today, President Buhari has thanked Nigerians sending good wishes and praying for his health and well-being in mosques and churches. "The President is immensely grateful for the prayers, show of love and concern. President Buhari wishes to reassure Nigerians that there is no cause for worry. During his normal annual checkup, tests showed he needed a longer period of rest, necessitating the President staying longer than originally planned."

When 15 million plus Nigerians voted for President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 General elections, their expectation was that he would be available to serve them 24/7/365, and that those who fielded him as their candidate had done their home work to avoid what is curiously becoming the Katsina problem in Nigerian politics. Katsina! But we have now found ourselves in a situation whereby our President is now in London, for more than one month sir, ma, and we are here, and we have an acting President, who according to everybody, including the extremists and the mischievous, and the politically partisan, is beginning to try his best, with his admirers, now praying for the worst. For that reason alone, we have an emotionally, politically and spiritually divided country on our hands. Don’t mind what they tell you, and don’t deceive yourself, the Nigerian Presidency is in turmoil. It is not our wish. It is not what the voters asked for. But that is how democracy works. You cannot predic...