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Police said multiple people had been shot at a New York City hospital. The gunfire broke out at 2.50pm on Friday inside the Bronx Lebanon hospital in the Bronx borough. Police had no immediate information on whether anyone was killed.   Television images showed the hospital surrounded by police cars and fire trucks. An NYPD spokesman said: “NYPD is on scene at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital where there are reports of several people shot.

The 14-year old marriage between a couple, Osieme and his wife, Nonye (surname withheld) has crashed after the mother of four returned from a trip, discovered used condoms in her room and their 13-year old house help told her it was her husband that used it on her when she was not around.   P.M.EXPRESS reports that the incident happened at Nnewi Town where the husband sells motor spare parts at the Nkwo market in Nnewi Local Government, Anambra State but the couple are from Umuchu Town in Aguata Local Government Area in the Anambra State. The maid also told her madam that since she came to their house, she has been sharing her husband with her and was unable to get pregnant because of the condoms. She explained to her madam that since her husband has been sleeping with her, he was the person that usually packed them and probably he forgot the ones she found in their bedroom. P.M.EXPRESS gathered that Osieme used to live in Lagos and was at the Ladipo market before his business coll...

Hakeem Bello Osagie has resigned as the Chairman of Etisalat Nigeria, following restructuring plan for the telecommunications firm. The Guardian gathered from an insider that the resignation is effective immediately.   “The development also reflects Mr. Bello-Osagie’s deep commitment to protecting the interest of all stakeholders. It is now expected that Etisalat Nigeria under its new shareholding structure will navigate through its current loan repayment challenge with minimum impact,” the source added. With this development, the new board is expected to assume control of Etisalat. Regulatory agencies, including the Nigeria Communications commission (NCC), Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and other stakeholders have ensured that the best decisions are taken in the interest of the subscribers, employees and the Nigerian economy owing to a bank loan default by the telecom operator.

Originator of Olowogbogboro, Nathaniel Bassey, has taken to his Instagram page to thank God after surviving an accident. According to him, he was on his home back with friends when a car ran into them from behind. He wrote: 'Thank You Jesus! We cancel that appointment with death. Good morning,I just want to use this opportunity to thank God and share my testimony with you.On the 28th of June I was on my way home from the last halleluyah praise challenge night which took place at the glitz event centre,I was inside a car and another car ran into us just at the lekki 3rd round about (ikate) and my car somersaulted inside the roundabout. People were scared that we were dead.The only thing I remembered saying last was the Blood of Jesus.I and the driver came out alive without a single scratch.The most amazing thing is that this happened two days to my birthday. I just want to bless God because the devil failed.He is the olowogbogboro indeed and I bless his name. Olowogbogboroolowogbogb...

The All Progressives Congress says President Muhammadu Buhari is fast recovering from his illness contrary to allegations that he is on life support.   The National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, gave the assurance in Abuja while speaking with newsmen at the end of a meeting between the party`s National Working Committee (NWC) and state governors elected on the party’s platform. “We are glad to inform you that President Muhammadu Buhari is recovering in a very robust manner. “We hope he takes it easy and when he comes back, I have no doubt at all that we will have a new and active period of activities.’’ He, however, said only the president’s doctors abroad could decide when he would be fit to return to the country. Gov. Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State had recently alleged that President Buhari was on life-support in a London Hospital where he is receiving medical attention. The national chairman, however, refused to respond to the governor’s comment, saying he woul...

Simone Veil, former European Parliament President is dead.  Veil, a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, was a strong advocate for European unity and became the first directly elected president of the European Parliament in 1979. She played a very important role in the legalising abortion in France during the 1970s. She was 89 years old at the time of her death.

A suspected member of the Badoo cult group has been burnt alive in Ikorodu, Lagos state. The Badoo gang has been terrorizing Ikorodu of late, perpetrating gory killings of whole families. According to reports, the suspected cultist was apprehended around 2am at Igbo-Oluwo Estate Gate, Lowa. He was burnt to death by a mob at Jumofak Bus Stop, Ikorodu, close to Igbo-Oluwo. Residents of the community said the suspect was about to enter a compound when he was sighted by members of the community's vigilante group who pursued and apprehended him. He was naked the whole time, even before he was apprehended. Pleas to hand him over to the police fell on deaf ears of the mob who were angry over the repeated killings carried out by members of the secret cult in their community. They descended on him, beat him to a pulp and then set him on fire. Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3

Human rights lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, has spoken in support of Governor Ayo Fayose's call for President Muhammadu Buhari's resignation.    Speaking in an interview with Channels TV, Ozekhome said, "We have seen a situation where what Dora Akunyili famously referred to as the cabal. The cabal has consistently flown the kite of Mr President, lurking behind and in front of the corridors of power which was why they gave us a voice some few days ago, whether genuine or stimulated, that it was President Muhammadu Buhari addressing Nigerians with much profanity, in his own native language of Hausa which is not the recognized lingual franca.  ''The point they tried to make is that whether we like it or not, Mr President is hovering around here, he is right here with us. That has not given the acting president who has assumed full powers of the President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo SAN, the capacity, the ability, the space to act because he continues to look behind his shoulders...

Radio Biafra director, Nnmadi Kanu on Thursday paid a visit to Nigeria’s first Aviation Minister, Chief Mbazulike Amechi as part of his ongoing consultations. Kanu met with Amaechi, popularly known as Dara Akunwafo at his country home of Ukpor, Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State.   A video of the visit was posted online. In it Amaechi was seen praying for the IPOB leader. Kanu was overheard in the video saying nothing will happen to him in respect to his bail term. He insisted that he was not scared of court, stressing that God has been with him.

The Isiama Afaraukwu Ibeku Community in Umuahia north local government area of Abia State, hometown of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has stated that it is committed to One Nigeria.    Elder statesman from the community, Chief Geoffrey Onyemaobi said the people of Isiama Afaraukwu ibeku was not part of the agitation for sovereign state of Biafra; DAILY POST reports.  He said, ''They invaded my community, isiama Afaraukwu Ibeku yesterday, that’s on Wednesday. “There was no space in entire Isiama Afaraukwu. They invaded the community with over five hundred vehicles carrying young boys who have no idea how war looks like, walking around every place in this community. “The people of the community, including myself could not come out from our compound. They blocked our gates and roads with vehicles. I had to manage to squeeze myself out. “Coming back, it took me complete two hours from Federal medical Centre (FMC) junction, through Aba road, beca...

The Nigerian Air Force One (NAF 001) plane that took President Muhammadu Buhari to London has incurred at least N48 million since the number one citizen started receiving medical care in the United Kingdom (UK) till date.   The amount accounts for the aircraft’s parking charges for 105 days, at the rate of £1,000 (N460, 000) per night. Garba Shehu, senior media adviser to President Buhari on Thursday confirmed that the price is £1,000 charges, to disclaim allegation that £4,000 (N1.8 million) being spent on ‘Eagle One’ per day and a total of N193.2 million in the last 105 days. President Buhari is currently on the second treatment session in UK and has spent 54 days already. The first treatment session was between January 19 and March 10, which meant 51 days. On both occasions, the presidential jet remained idle on the parking lot.

The Nigerian government graduate employment scheme, N-Power, recently re-opened its portals for a fresh intake of applications from 2017 candidates. The application is expected to close on the 13th of July and millions of Nigerians have enrolled for the 300,000 slots. On Friday, N-Power rolled out a new process it said it will follow for the current recruitment. This includes: Application BVN Validation Test Device Selection Pre-selection Physical verification Selection Deployment This is to avoid some of the problems encountered during the 2016 recruitment process, N-Power said. It added that only applicants whose BVN records match their applications will move to the assessment stage.

The federal government's employment scheme N-Power, has announced a date for the commencement of assessment tests for new applicants. According to N-Power, the online test will commence from the 1st of July, 2017. Applicants will receive a text message 24 hours before their respective assessment test commences. 

Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has blamed corruption for the agitations and militancy in the country.    Magu made the remarks at the opening session of a two-day Electronic and Social Media Review and Training Conference held at the EFCC Academy in Abuja on Thursday. Magu said, “we can change the negative perception of this country. I urge you all to be committed in this fight using your various platforms. “The root cause of the hate speeches by the Arewa and Igbo youths is corruption. Some people are actually funding them. “The looters of our common wealth are the ones responsible for the woes bedevilling Nigeria. We must do everything possible to secure the unity of this country. “People who don’t deserve anything are taking everything and if there is no common consensus to halt the trend, the future of our children yet unborn will be mortgaged.’’

5-year old Utibe became an internet sensation couple of weeks ago after singing the hit track 'IF' of Nigerian Singer, David Adeleke, popularly known as 'Davido' Utibe won Davido's hearts, and upon learning that the young boy was unable to enrol in school for lack of money, he offered to sponsor him to the highest level of education the boy might wish to attain - which he has started. He recently built house for him and his mother.   Utibe's mother is dead. Acoording to @shamrock80s who brought their plight the fore. He wrote:  Rest in peace UTIBES MUM.. U struggled to live, u where always telling me u want to start business I told u to recover first, now I got a call u are gone so soon, if life was to be sold I will buy some more years for u…I tried to battle with ur health,but my best wasn’t good enough, Who will look after utibe and the two younger sisters.. Who will live in the huz we are building for u… I just wish u slept in that huz even for a second.. My...

Premium Times online news medium has published a report stating that several southern state governments are spying on their citizens.  The states mentioned are Rivers, Delta, Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom. This is after the governments were exposed two years ago for the same act, Premium Times said.  Rotimi Amaechi, the current transport minister, was the first Nigerian politician to demand a Circle 3G’s telephone tracking technology as far back as 2010.  The then Rivers state governor reportedly invited V&V Limited to supply the gadgets for N2.3 billion but the deal failed when the relationship between both parties became strained.  Two years earlier, Amaechi picked up a similar gadget, the C4i (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence) technology deployed by an Israeli military security firm, MPD Systems. "Mr. Amaechi had described the C4i as a tool to aid federal security in combating militancy and kidnappings within the state. But it was more th...

nvestigation by  DailyTimes  has revealed that rodents, including reptiles, have taken over the Delta state Macopolo buses which have become stagnant, and currently abandoned at a premises along Okpanam Road Asaba. The abandoned buses have also being allegedly used as refuse dump site by unsuspecting residents of the areas. It was reliably gathered that the last administration spent a whopping sum of N6 billion to purchase the buses to cushion the transportation problems Deltans were facing in the face of the ban on motorcycle (Okada). Further investigation revealed that the buses have also been converted into resting abode by destitutes who retired into the seats during night fall.   A resident (who craved anonymity) told DailyTimes that: “The state government has not shown any concern to the moribund buses which suddenly the disappeared from the streets of Asaba, and others across the state. However, Delta state's Commissioner for Transport, Vincent Uduaghanin, explaine...

Nollywood actor, Gideon Okeke has revealed that he prefers older women.  The actor made the revelation via Instagram. See screenshot:  

  Nigeria's former Aviation Minister Femi Fani Kayode has attacked Imo state's Governor Rochas Okorocha over his recent comments on the Biafra agitation.  The governor had belittled the Biafra leader, saying Kanu lacks the ability and influence to lead the Igbo nation to war. (Read more about that  here ) Reacting, Fani-Kayode termed Okorocha a "diaper-wearing" toddler, saying he isn't one-tenth the man Kanu is. "Diaper-wearing @GovernorRochas says that Nnamdi Kanu is not to be taken seriously. Truth is he is not one tenth of the man that Nnamdi is," he wrote on Twitter.

Factional National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ahmed Markafi has said that he supported the idea of restructuring Nigeria.  The former Kaduna state governor added that it is wrong for anyone or leader to dismiss the clamour for a restructuring.   He stated this while speaking on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily on Friday. This is coming after the Kaduna State Governor, El-Rufai described the recent calls for a restructuring of Nigeria as political opportunism and irresponsibility. He said President Buhari’s administration has done far more in practical terms than past administrations hence describing those who are calling for it as mere opportunists.

Real Madrid Footballer, Cristiano Ronaldo has officially introduced his twins to the world.  Ronaldo posted a picture of himself holding the new additions to his family. He captioned the photo. "So happy to be able to hold the two new loves of my life." Last week Ronaldo's siter, Katia, told Portuguese TV he had welcomed a girl and a boy, called Eva and Mateo, into the world. They were born by a surrogate mother. 

The police authorities said that they have power to keep the arrested kidnapping kingpin Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, widely known as Evans, in their custody. A senior police source told DailyTrust Newspaper that some people who felt that their interest was being threatened were the ones behind the move to get the court to release Evans. A lawyer had approached a Federal High Court to challenge the continued detention of Evans, stressing that it violated Evans’ fundamental human right.  Sources at the police high command said it was Evans’ gang members yet to be arrested that sought for and got the services of the lawyer to frustrate further investigation into the case.   Recall that the Police had equally secured an order of the Federal High Court to detain Evans for at least three months. The order, a police source told newsmen, was secured last week Thursday, and it covers the retention of Evans and all his gang members so far arrested for three months. The source said this w...