I want my siblings educated – Crippled beggar

                                         Ismaila

A 15-year-old beggar, Mohammed Ismaila, is a regular face around Mile 12 area of Lagos State. Those who move between Mile 12 and Ikeja on daily basis, will, at one point or another, see him crawling on his stomach begging for alms.

He told Us that despite that begging had been outlawed in the state, he took the risk of crawling on the streets pleading for alms because he wanted to send his younger ones to school.

Ismaila, who said he was the first of five children, added that he had been on the road for almost two years.

Price of gari records 50 % rise

Eket (Akwa Ibom) - The price of gari has recorded more than 50 per cent increase in Eket area of Akwa Ibom, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.

Other items that also went up in the area, survey revealed, were the prices of other foodstuffs, including rice and fish.

The survey showed that a cup of gari, which sold at N30 between February and April, now sells at N70, while the cost of six cups of the commodity has risen from N100 to N200 at various markets in Eket and its environ.

2,000 flee Borno to Niger Republic

More than 2,000 Nigerians living in border villages in Borno State have reportedly fled as a result of the ongoing military operations targeted at routing insurgents from the area under the emergency rule.

The fleeing villagers were said to have headed to the neighbouring Niger Republic.

“Most of the residents of border villages of Borno have fled to Niger. About 2,000 people from Abadan, Malam Fatori and other villages are now refugees in Difa, Niger Republic,” a top security officer told one of our correspondents on Sunday.

Wizkid beat PSquare, Flavour, others to win African Artist of the Year

                                         Wizkid

In the just concluded Ghana Music Awards, Wizkid fell giants; beating super hot artists P-Square, Iyanya, Davido, Flavour and D-Banj to win the African Artist of the Year award.
The awards took place at the La Palm Hotel in Accra.

TECNO launches new P3 smartphone in partnership with etisalat in Nigeria

One of the fastest growing mobile phone brand in Africa, TECNO has partnered with Qualcomm Incorporated, a global leader in next-generation mobile technologies and etisalat, Nigeria’s most innovative network provider, to launch the latest addition to the TECNO smartphone family, the TECNO P3 in the Nigerian market.

Jonathan secures release of Nigerian prisoners in Equatorial Guinea

Abuja – President Goodluck Jonathan has secured the release of 10 prisoners held by Equatorial Guinea for various immigration offences, a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday.

It said the release of the prisoners was the outcome of the two-day official visit of Jonathan to the country between March 21 and 22.

“The host Minister of National Security disclosed that such a gesture had never been officially extended to any illegal immigrant in

It’s amazing winning Europa League –Moses

                                                  Victor Moses

Nigeria’s Victor Moses has described in one sentence what it feels like to win a European trophy. The Chelsea attacker who was part of the celebrating party on Wednesday in Amsterdam announced via his Twitter account that it was such an amazing feeling.

He wrote, “Amazing feeling to win the Europa League absolutely buzzing!”

World Cup Qualifier: Ivory Coast snubs Drogba

                                        Drogba
ABIDJAN - Veteran striker Didier Drogba was again left out of the Ivory Coast squad when coach Sabri Lamouchi unveiled his 26 players for next month’s World Cup qualifiers against Gambia and Tanzania.

The 35-year-old Drogba led his country at the Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa this year but the team exited at the quarter-finals stage.

As a result, the former Chelsea star was axed from the squad for March’s World Cup qualifier against Gambia.

How I was kidnapped by my lover – Victim

LAGOS — A 28-year-old man, Ayodele Olaoye, who was allegedly kidnapped by a lady, Esther Phillips, he met at Pegas Club in Opebi, Lagos, has narrated his ordeal before an Ikeja High Court.

Esther was said to have conspired with six others to commit the alleged offence.

The other suspects are Patricia Nna, Kingsley Okonwa, Osita Adigwe, Uzochukwu Ezioha, Jude Sunday and Michael Olarenwaju, who are being prosecuted by the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution, DPP.

Pregnant and fearful? You risk prolonged labour

                                                   A pregnant woman

 When you visit a new mother, especially if it’s her first child, you are more than likely to be assailed with horror stories about child delivery. The average woman would tell you that childbirth is a near-death experience. This usually drives fear into listeners who, in most cases, are women.

Of course, pregnancy and childbirth are not a cakewalk, even when the expectant mother has the best team of professionals to attend to her at delivery. As pregnancy progresses, a lot of issues crop up. In most cases, the expectant mother is able to carry the baby to term without much ado; others are not so lucky, as they may develop complications during the nine-month pregnancy duration.

900 CCTVs deployed in Lagos

Over 900 closed-circuit television, CCTV, cameras have been deployed in Lagos State and already supplying video footages to relevant agencies, State Commissioner for Science and Technology, Mr. Adebiyi Mabadeje, has said.

Mabadeje, at a briefing in Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos, said that the current deployment of the CCTV by the Federal Government was not in conflict with the earlier efforts by the state government.

Disband amnesty committee, Rep urges FG

JOS—MEMBER representing Plateau South/Plateau East Constituency in the House of Representatives, Mr. Bitrus Kaze, has called on the Federal Government to disband the Kabiru Turaki-led committee on amnesty for Boko Haram as the declaration of a state of emergency in three states no longer makes the issue of amnesty tenable.

Reacting to the declaration of a state emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states in a statement in Jos, he said the issue of amnesty was no

Hawkers bribe bankers to obtain new naira notes

Despite the persistent scarcity of new naira notes, illegal currency hawkers have continued to make brisk business by openly selling new notes in different denominations on the streets and party venues.

Our correspondent gathered that the currency hawkers bribed officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria and Deposit Money Banks to obtain the new notes, which genuine bank customers cannot get.

Investigations by our correspondent revealed that

You Have Declared War - Northern Leaders Warn Jonathan

Northern elders, under the umbrella of Northern Elders Forum, NEF, have finally broke their silence on the slamming of state of emergency on three states, describing the action of President Goodluck Jonathan as an indirect declaration of war on them.
“We hereby call on the President to immediately disband the so-called Boko Haram amnesty committee, as there is no need to continue to waste public funds on a matter, whose purpose has been deliberately truncated by the very person who initiated it."

14yr old girl killed & set on fire by boyfriend because he thought she was pregnant

Shaniesha Forbes, 14, (pictured above) was killed by her 20 year old boyfriend who then burnt her body and dumped her remains on a beach just because he thought she was pregnant.
Below is how New York Post is reporting it:
The family of the 14-year-old Brooklyn girl who was allegedly killed by her boyfriend and dumped on a beach blasted him this morning for cowardly slaying her after he thought she was pregnant.
Police had arrested Christian Ferdinand, 20, in Maine on Tuesday, where he had fled after he allegedly suffocated Shaniesha Forbes, 14, and burnt her body before dumping the remains at Gerritsen Beach.