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Please my good people of our nation, i am sincerely calling out for justice against violence. I am hospitalized right now as i type this with the lil stamina in me; i am in serious pain and agony; in between life and death. This is my story: This morning, at about 11.50am, i boarded a siena vehicle leaving PortHarcourt for Onitsha. As we approached the first checkpoint immediately after the airport, we pulled over as the soldiers ordered us to, for the usual scrutinization. One of them, the youngest of them, by name, SULAIMAN OLAMILEKAN, began to molest me. He accused me of discussing him, where i was only having a friendly debate with the

Sugar Mummies (File photo used only for illustrative purpose) Along major streets, on pavements beside the roads, on pedestrian bridges, and on notices posted on buildings and walls around the metropolis, there is almost always a note asking you to call a particular number or visit a website should you need a “sugar mummy”. Even though initial information gathered by Saturday Tribune identified Ebute Metta and Gbagada as the major hubs for the business, residents in those areas who were contacted last week said they were not aware. “I have lived in this area (Ebute Metta) for more than twenty years now,” said Thomas Nwike who owns a fashion shop close to Alagomeji. “I know there are sugar mummies everywhere in Lagos; but

Delta state governor denies being involved in $10 million bailout scandal On Saturday, January 28, news broke that a South-South governor hid $10 million bailout fund with a mistress who in return absconded with the money. In a statement released by the state Commissioner for Information, Mr. Patrick Ukah on behalf of the government, the state government stressed that the public should disregard the report, Nigeria Bulletin reports.

Biko what is the significance of that red carpet? The flamboyant pastor shared these new photos on his Facebook page today. See more after the cut...

Following President Trump's executive order on immigration, Stephen Miller, the White House policy director revealed to officials of the State Department, Customs and Border Patrol, Department of Homeland Security and others that Trump is deeply committed to the executive order and has the support of the public. On that note, Trump administration officials are discussing the possibility of asking foreign visitors to disclose all websites and social media sites they visit, and to share the contacts in their cell phones. Refusal to comply could lead to the visitor being denied entry.

Rania Khalek, who describes herself as Independent journalist, once tweeted that she was more afraid of former US presidential candidate, Hilary Clinton than President Donald Trump. Following Trump's new decision to ban immigrants from seven Muslim countries, the co-host of UnauthorizedDis (a weekly podcast) said she feels "completely overwhelmed and powerless"

Earlier today, rapper Yung6ix expressed his frustration with Nigerian rap music with a tweet that reads,  'When I wanna listen to African rap I play Yung6ix and SA rappers wtf is going on with the Nigerian Rappers ? Wake up'. Apparently he's not alone in his line of thoughts. LIB reached out to other Nigerian rappers to comment on the issue and our first response came from a veteran in the industry, Terry Tha Rapman who says ,

E-Money's wife, Juliet Okonkwo has finally shared her thoughts on the ongoing drama between Five Star Music and Harrysong. To catch up (Read  here ). Speaking out in a post on social media, she wrote: "Never break the pot that once gave you water .Never bite the hands that once fed you. Never despise the home that once gave you shelter. Never punch holes in the umbrella that once gave you cover. Never insult the breasts that once gave pleasure. And never malign the church that once gave you fire. If , for now you

Muslims in the United States on Sunday took to the Dallas Fort Worth airport to protest Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily barring Muslims from seven countries from entering the United States. The protest was going on normally and then there was a loud call to prayer, following which a group of Muslim men converted the baggage claim area to their prayer ground.

Usman Bukar, a 41-year-old man who hails from Kano state, has slapped a taxi driver to coma in Delta state for spreading “Buhari is dead rumour”. According to Vanguard, the man was slapped into deep unconsciousness at the Temple Clinic Junction Asaba. Eye witness account said that Bukar pounced on the driver who was seen visibly happy and spreading the rumour at a newspaper stand, popularly known as “free readers association” after he had read from a blog that Buhari is dead. He was reported to have said: “The body of the President should be thrown into River-Niger for fish and other wild animals to do justice on him. He is very wicked.” At this statement, Bukar who also was part of the free readers’ association got annoyed and gave him a dirty slap that sent him to pulp. The driver was rushed to a nearby private hospital where he was being revived. However, the account said that the relatives of the taxi driver were then called. When they came, they wanted to fight the Kano man, a sit

Ann and Wilson Mutura who stunned many after getting married in a simple ceremony dressed in T-shirts have finally set off for their all- expenses paid honeymoon. Last week, we reported that several companies came out with lots of goodies for the couple including a first class wedding, honeymoon and many more.    Today,  January 30, 2017 , Bonfire Adventures and Events has redeemed their pledge by sponsoring the couple's honeymoon to an undisclosed four- star hotel, where they will spend five days. In a Facebook post, the company shared photos of the lovebirds boarding a Kenya Airways plane to their destination. Captioning the post, they wrote: The day is finally here for Mr & Mrs. Wanjohi (Ksh 100 wedding couple ) courtesy of BONFIRE ADVENTURES AND EVENTS they were picked up from home straight to the airport to catch their flight to a FULLY PAID 5 days 4 nights Honeymoon Flying package in 4 star hotel -Mombasa (Diani).. The excitement on their face tells

Weeks after Apostle Johnson Suleman spoke strongly against the religious crisis in Southern Kaduna, another clergyman, Chris Okafor who is the senior pastor of Mountain of Liberation and Miracle Ministries (MLMM), has come out to condemn the attacks, saying Christians are not powerless as they can fight as well. Okafor said this while preaching at his church recently. He described Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai as a "short Herod"

Over 1.2 million people in Britain have signed a petition to deny US president DonaldTrump's entry to the UK for a state dinner with the Queen, citing his divisive language and misogynistic actions during his campaign and since he became president.

There is fire on the mountain, it seems there might be some clash between herdsmen and those protecting their families. The above picture might just be signs of a crises overdue. Officers of the Nigeria Customs Service in Lagos have seized 49 boxes containing 661 pieces of Pump Action Rifles found inside a container. The items were seized this morning. Photo credit: Ifunanya Eze

Read the report from  CNN  below... Four of America's biggest tech companies warned their employees about the ban. And leaders throughout the industry, where foreign-born entrepreneurs are central to its success, condemned the decree. The executive order bans about 134 million people from entering the U.S. Google ( GOOGL , Tech30) sent out a memo to its employees urging anyone with a visa or green card from one of the banned countries -- Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen -- to cancel any travel plans.

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Sharing a photo of himself smoking weed, Music artiste Burna Boy shared this blast from his past. According to him:  "I remember back In Montessori primary School Port Harcourt, Nigeria. My teacher mr Morgan made us write down what we wanted 2 become in the future nd why, I wrote: "I want 2 be a rockstar because I love Music and I

South African President, Jacob Zuma will be replacing his finance Minister, Pravin Gordhan with Nkosazana Dlamini- Zuma, his ex-wife. Earlier we reported that the president will be endorsing his ex- wife as the next president and the first female leader in South Africa.

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode took to twitter to react to the outcry by some Nigerians about Trump's executive order banning some individuals from coming into the US. According to him: "You complain about Donald Trump's travel ban on Muslims but remain silent about the genocide of Christians in Nigeria. Shame on you!"

LAST Monday, when the 19 governors of the northern states met with their traditional rulers in Kaduna, few observers needed to guess what the agenda would be. The Boko Haram menace may be receding in memory though its wounds are still fresh and in some isolated cases still festering, but in its place, the Southern Kaduna killings have begun to occupy prime media spaces everywhere. The northern elite, for that is what they really are, whether political or traditional, met amidst much flourish to begin the task of exploring hidden and open factors disposing their states to such unrestrained and unfathomable bloodletting. They appeared to recognise that such an exploration could not be done in a day or even

Late Princess Diana was a great humanitarian and philanthropist during her time and her younger son, Prince Harry seems to be taking after her in more ways than one. Prince Harry recreated a photo his mother had taken in 1995. Recently, Prince Harry went on a tour of the Depaul Trust Hostel in Willesden, north London, as part of his project on exploring how sports can be used to help communities.

File photo By Charles Benoni Okine A public servant runs two accounts with two separate banks in the country. She does that not because she is super rich but she just adhere to the simple principle that, “Do not put your all your eggs in one basket.” On December 14, last year, she went to one of them to cash money and was met with a long queue in the banking hall. She was stunned because this was a bit too unusual, not because it never happens in that bank but this was just quite too much.

Seventeen police officers from Zimbabwe have been apprehended in connection with illegal gold mining activities. According to Zim Eye, eleven police officers from Inyathi and six from Nkayi were arrested on Wednesday last week and have been appearing before an internal tribunal at the Nkayi District police headquarters. A police source said the officers appeared on Monday, January 23 at the Nkayi Police Station were they allegedly charged them for failing to execute their duties, with member of the public accusing them of turning a blind eye to illegal activities.

Three suspected drug barons were arrested in Mombasa on Saturday. The three, Ibrahim Akasha, Vijayawada ‘Vicky’ Goswami - an Indian and Gulam Hussein - a Pakistani national, were nabbed at Akasha’s house in Nyali. Police claimed that they could be linked to a container suspected to be having drugs. Their lawyer Cliff Ombeta said that the officers who raided Akasha's house were after Bakatsh Akasha. "This was like an American movie,” he said.

Mr Scott Spencer, Google’s Director of  Product Management Sustainable Advertisements, said that Google blocked 1.7 billion advertisements in 2016 for violating its advertising policies. Spencer said in a statement on Saturday in Lagos that the number was double the bad ads the company took down in 2015. He said that Google achieved this because of its improved technology. ”If you spent one second taking down each of those bad ads, it’d take you more than 50 years to finish. But our technology is built to work much faster.

The Kenyan government on Thursday, January 26, 2017, passed a bill that will see beer manufacturers compensate individuals who suffer damages from alcohol. According to the Alcoholic Drinks Control Act Bill proposed by Imenti Central MP, Gideon Mwiti,  manufacturers will put between five and ten percent of the revenue they generate in insurance companies for compensation. The bill also proposes that should a doctor confirms that certain damages such as death were caused as a result of drunkenness,  the manufacturer of the said beverage must compensate the affected person's family and dependants.

France has banned restaurants from offering free soft drink refills over the risk of obesity and diabetes. The ban which was first passed in April 2015, took effect on Friday, January 27, 2017 after the government said no restaurants should offer unlimited refill of soda and other sugary drinks for free. According to NY Times, the move by France is in line with WHO recommendations, which has urged countries to impose a tax on sugary drinks to battle the increase of obesity in the World. However, a recent Eurostat survey of adult obesity put the French at 15.3%, which is just below the EU average of 15.9%.

The Nigeria Customs Service, Murtala Mohammed International Airport Command (MMIA), have intercepted and seized two Civil Models 412 EP of Bell Helicopters and 23 packages containing various accessories, with duty paid value of N9,757,135,240.86.

Electing the next new chair for the AU Commission, what type of leader is required to take the continent forward? The African Union, the 54-member states continental body, to elect a new leader this week [AP] by Hamza Mohamed Hamza Mohamed is a producer for Doha, Qatar-based Al Jazeera English, covering Sub-Saharan Africa. The African Union, the 54-member states continental body, will elect on Monday a new commission chairperson to replace outgoing leader Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, who is not seeking a second term after finishing her four-year-tenure.

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Bill Gates  and  Warren Buffett  have had immeasurable impact on the world, but what would they do if they lost everything and had to start over? Gates, who dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft in the 1970s, says that if he were to begin again, he would devote himself to either artificial intelligence, energy or biology. "The work in  artificial intelligence today  is at a really profound level," says Gates,  speaking at a Facebook live event broadcast from Columbia University and moderated by Charlie Rose . "It is going to be phenomenal, so anything connected with that I think would be an exciting lifetime career." The planet needs to find reliable, cheap and clean energy, Gates says, so "the innovations there will be profound."

A federal judge in New York has issued an emergency stay temporarily stopping the removal of individuals detained at the airports after President Trump's order banned immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. The move marks  the first successful legal challenge against the Trump administration and affects those who have arrived in the U.S. already or were in transit with valid visas.

Mikhail Svetlov | Getty ImagesMore Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin must unite to spearhead a new resolution banning nuclear war, Mikhail Gorbachev , former president of the Soviet Union, has urged. "Politicians and military leaders sound increasingly belligerent and defense doctrines more dangerous. Commentators and TV personalities are joining the bellicose chorus. It all looks as if the world is preparing for war," Gorbachev stated in an opinion piece in Time magazine on Thursday . He added that the most pressing challenge we face today is reversing the "militarization of politics."

A Bank Cashier, 26-year-old David Anibolu, was on Wednesday sentenced to four years in prison by an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for stealing N9, 308,000 from a customer’s First Bank of Nigeria (FBN) Plc account. Anibolu was arraigned on April 3, 2014 on a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing. It was revealed by the prosecuting Police Superintendent, Chidi Okoye, that on the 22nd of March 2015, Anibolu who was on annual leave came to the bank where he worked at FBN Alaba 2 branch in Ojo under

California's secretary of state has given the green light for a group to take the first step in the political process for the state to secede from the United States.

Blac Chyna and Tyga's 3 year old son, King Cairo, showing off his grills.

In this recession, an influential politician who represents a constituency in Ondo state has been busted ferrying a bag filled with bundles of Naira notes. The suspended speaker We reported earlier today that the Speaker of Ondo State House of Assembly, Princess Jumoke Akindele and her Deputy, Alhaji Fatai Oloutu, were late last night impeached by 20 out of the 26 members of the state assembly. SaharaReporters has exclusively published some shocking photos and alleged that the Ghana-must-go which was filled with cash and being ferried before it was caught and exposed, was the reason the lawmaker and her deputy was suspended.

A popular Nigerian writer and columnist has written a yet another interesting and thought-provoking piece on the controversies surrounding the president's recent vacation in London. President Buhari in London on vacation President Buhari isn’t actually the first to keep his health records to himself. But the problem is that whenever there is a vacuum of information – as in the case of Buhari’s health – pundits, rumormongers and analysts fill it up.

The beauty of Instagram is that it is a community of hot ladies with different sizes, shapes, physical endowments and looks that beat the imaginations of members. Miss Bond She is simply identified as Miss Bond without any information about her personal life. Her country is not known but the thick lady who is around 5ft4 in height is not a Nigerian.

Football legend, Leo Messi has finally decided to get married to his long-term girlfriend after the duo had two kids. Antonella Roccuzzo and Lionel Messi Leo Messi and Antonella Roccuzzo's wedding now has a date and a locations. After it became known they would get married in 2017, the details have now emerged. According to 'Primicias Ya', the couple have began work on what could be the wedding of the year. The first details have been defined and, according to the reports, the public is now aware of when and where the colourful wedding ceremony will hold.

Since the inception of Instagram as a picture and mini video platform, majority of the hot Nigerian ladies have migrated there in droves to build an alluring empire for themselves to connect with the world. Angel Young aka Hotbeybey She is simply identified as Angel Young on Instagram with sketchy details about her identity. She has garnered about 10,000 followers shortly on the social network by simply flaunting her massive and luscious boobs that are coveted by men of timber and callibre from the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria.

Despite threats to her existence, the Nigerian sex worker has held her space, from the streets of Lagos Island to a world where social media is king. Illustrative photo It’s 1943. Mary, a young girl, sits in the corner of a small, dark room in Lagos Island. She starts to think of home and better times when her madam calls out to her, loudly. It is time, again. She walks into the open area to see a white man, probably English, smile at her with tobacco stained teeth. Mary knows, but she is not sure she can do what is being asked of her, what has been asked so many times before. Her madam puts her hands in this oyinbo’s cold hands and gestures towards the room. But Mary is tired, so she pulls her hand away and shakes her head... NO.

Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg expressed concern on Friday over Trump's latest executive orders on immigration and refugees. "My great grandparents came from Germany, Austria and Poland. Priscilla's parents were refugees from China and Vietnam. The United States is a nation of immigrants, and we should be proud of that. Like many of you, I'm concerned about the impact of the recent executive orders signed by President Trump" Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post, which cited his family's immigrant background and his volunteer work with undocumented schoolchildren.