A child bride poisons husband and three of his friends in Kano State Nigeria

A 14 year old child bride who was forced into marriage in Kano last week, has reportedly killed her new husband and three of his friends with rat poison.

Wasila Umaru was forced to marry to 35 year old Umaru Sani sometime last week. During the small wedding which took place in the northern Ungwar Yansoro village, at Gaya LGA near the city of Kano, the reluctant bride allegedly slipped rat poison into a rice dish that was eaten by the groom and some of his friends.

According to Kano State Police Command, ASP Musa Majiya, the groom, one Nasiru Mohammed, Alhassan Alhassan, and a woman named Indo Ibrahim died after eating the meal. 

Wasila eventually confessed to buying the poison known locally as  Shinkafa Bera at the market for N8 and putting it in the food. 

'The suspect confessed to committing the crime and said she did it because she was forced to marry a man she did not love, she resorted to taking this option. Corpses were taken to hospital for examination. Investigation is on top gear,”  Majia said.

Umaru is cooperating with police and will be charged with culpable homicide, according to Majia.

Job Scam: Police raid fake recruiting agency in Mushin Lagos state.(VIDIEO)

In Lagos State, Nigeria’s South-West region, the state police command has raided what it describes as a questionable recruitment organisation, in the Mushin area of Lagos state.

The agency claimed to have the mandate to recruit marketers for companies, through text messages, but strangely all the recipients of the messages said that they did not apply for the jobs in the first place.

The Police, acting on a tip-off raided the premises where the said group conducts its recruitment business, and in the building job interviews and oral assessments had been planned to take place. Channels Television got to know this from a text message.

Husband of Nollywood actress Laide Bakere, drags EFCC to court claims he is a victim of blackmail

Alhaji Mutairu Babatunde Oriowo, husband of Nollywood actress, Laide Bakare, has debunked the fraud and theft story against him occasioned through a declaration by the EFCC and published recently in a national daily. The businessman, who is the CEO of Primavera Construction & Engineering Ltd, added that, contrary to EFCC’s statement declaring him wanted, he is not on the run because he has not committed any offence to warrant running away from his fatherland.   

The businessman said that he was miffed by the EFCC declaration because he could not understand what the interest of EFCC was, as no court of law has indicted him for any offence and no warrant of arrest has ever been issued on him.

Nollywood actress, Laide Bakare, has also said that she is standing by her husband on the matter, believing that the EFCC publication was meant to destroy his hard-earned reputation as a philanthropist who derives joy in helping people, adding that the story was also a calculated attempt to smear her own name as a celebrity.

Woman caught trying to steal a baby from a window in Ogun State

31year old Blessing Aransiola (pictured) was caught in the early hours of this morning April 10th allegedly trying to steal a 1 year old girl, Oreoluwa Adanri, from her parents home at Ademola Coker Street, Alagbole, Ogun State, PM News reports.

Narrating what happened, Oreoluwa's mother, Mrs Adanri said Blessing gained entrance into their home around 4am by tearing their window net as they slept. She said she was woken up by the cry of her daughter in the hands of the suspect.

"She picked up the baby as she was sleeping on the bed by the window and stole N5,000 kept in a purse. She was trying to run away when my husband ran after her and caught her. I raised an alarm to draw neighbours’ attention to the incident and everybody came out to assist us,” Mrs. Adanri narrated.

Blessing was arrested and immediately taken to the Ajuwon station where she is being held for kidnapping. 

Federal Government of Nigeria, warns that Nigeria is at the risk of contacting the deadly Ebola Virus

The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, has said that Nigeria is now at risk of contacting the deadly Ebola virus which has been spreading across neighboring West African countries in recent times. The virus which first broke out in Guinea in January this year, is said to have no vaccine at the moment and has killed a total of 87 people with 137 cases reported since the outbreak. 

Ghana only recently reported a case of Ebola Virus Disease.

Security officials prevents jobless graduate from committing suicide in Akwa Ibom state

Sunday Omotayo, an unemployed graduate of Mechanical Engineering from Ekiti State University attempted to kill himself yesterday in Akwa Ibom Staate due to frustration, Punch Reports.

Omotayo who had gone to Akwa Ibom state to seek employment hoping that his services as a trained mechanical engineer would be needed having heard of the infrastructural development happening in the state, was greatly disappointed as he was not absorbed by any company in the state.

Frustrated by his inability to secure a job in the last ten years since he graduated from the university, Omotayo yesterday morning went to the Akwa Ibom State Prison Services asking prison officials to shoot him dead or put him in prison where he could rot and die. 

Wande Cole's record label ssearching for new talents

With a new album underway and numerous plans in the works, former Mavin artiste, Wande Coal is looking to expand his music outfit, Black Diamond Entertainment.

“The Kick” crooner said that the search for new talents to grace Nigeria’s entertainment industry was on. He made this known while having a quick chat on Harvest FM, Makurdi, in preparation for his performance at the Makurdi wing of Star Music Trek 2014.

So, fingers crossed, some upcoming talent’s life may soon take a 360’s turn for the better as the Black Diamond Entertainment is obviously leaving nothing to chance as it takes entertainment to the next level in 2014.

7 of Nigeria's top musicians from wealthy home

  

A lot of our top music stars are from average homes who made something of themselves with their talent, hard work, started from the bottom with nothing and are today, rich and famous.

While some came from wealth, and didn't need to struggle as much but felt a need to make something of themselves instead of relying on daddy/mummy money. Meet seven of them below...

1. Davido: His father may be a billionaire businessman, his uncle may be a former governor of Osun state, but most of us didn't know the Adeleke family until Davido burst into the scene a few years ago. Davido's father is the chairman of Keplo Pacific Energy, a company into banking, steel, power and energy. Continue...


2. Naeto C: Naeto C could have chosen to be an executive director in one of his multi-millionaire parents' companies, but instead he chose to pursue his own dreams. Naeto C is the son of former Aviation Minister and current Ambassador to Ireland, Mrs Kema Chikwe. His father is a wealthy businessman.

3. Lynxxx: Some of you may not know this, but handsome rapper Lynxxx was born into money. His father, John Edozien, was the first deputy governor of the old Bendel State, now Delta State. He is also the chairman of Mercedes Benz Automobile Services Limited, among many other companies he owns. He's also a director in several companies including Linkage Assurance Plc and Diamond Bank Plc. Lynxxx is the only son. Ladies, let me repeat that, Lynxxx is the only son. *wink*

4. DJ Cuppy: 22 year old beautiful Florence Otedola popularly known as DJ Cuppy is the daughter of billionaire businessman and CEO of Forte Oil, Femi Otedola, once said to be worth about $1.2billion. The singer and DJ Cuppy plays big in the UK social

 

5. Tillaman: Singer Tillaman's real name is Adeyemi Adetona. Sound familiar? Well, that's because his father is his HRH, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, the Alafin of Oyo State.  

6. Ozzybosco: The young music sensation, who is only 7 or 8 years old, has collaborated with MI, Flavour and a few other A-listers and you wonder how he can afford to do that? Well, it's because his parents are wealthy. His mother, Elizabeth Nonye Mojekwe, is an international business woman with various companies.

7. Waliyah: She recently burst into the entertainment scene but her family name has been around for decades. She doesn't necessarily like to tell people this except you already know, 

but the singer is one of the daughters of late MKO Abiola.

  

Man cuts off father's head, eats his neck in Ebonyi State.(Viewer discretion is warned, pictures are of graphic nature)

30 year old Nwode Chukwudi Awam, was arrested last week for beheading his father, 56 year old Michael Awam and eating his neck. The Ebonyi State Police Command, who paraded the killer on Thursday April 3rd, said the incident occurred at Egwudinagu Obegu village in Ebonyi LGA of the state.

"When the police went for him, he was waving the machete which he used to cut his father’s head and threatening to kill anybody that gets close to him. He was overpowered all the same. He ate the neck’

"He was seen eating the entire stub of the neck. So when you look at the exhibit, the head doesn’t have the neck even though he did the beheading from the base of the shoulder. You will not see the part of the body that is supposed to be the neck; he ate it up. We can say that it is not unconnected with ritual because it does appear that he may have been asked to do such a thing." The State Police Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police Chris Anyanwu, said

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Pastor impregnates mother and daughter in Delta State.

The pastor of a popular Pentecostal Church located along Nnebisi Road, Asaba, Delta State, simply identified as Pastor Sam, is currently on the run after allegedly impregnating a woman and her daughter.

The pastor, who hails from the eastern part of the state, allegedly impregnated the 45-year-old mother of three and her 14-year-old daughter under the guise of conducting prayers for them to deliver them of evil
spirits that had been battling them.

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73 year old Nollywood actress, Taiwo Ajai-Lycett claims men still ask her for sex at her age

 

Multi-award winning legendary actress Taiwo Ajai-Lycett in a recent interview with City People said despite her age, many young men still hit on her. The actress who lost her English husband 20 years ago, talked about how she's been keeping herself sexually since her husband's passing.. 

"People tell me sex is good, sex is necessary, that is true. But the truth is young people, lets say men of very young age always hit me all the time for sex. They always disturb me for sex at my age. I am 73years old, I don't know whether it seems they don't know my age or whatever it is. But it says something about life, that life goes on and that beauty and age are in the eyes of the beholder. Yeah, at 73, young men disturb me for sex and I can't understand that. They don't care or know whether I am old or not, all they want from me is sex. A 43 year old is on his knees now asking me for marriage. This shows that I am still very much alive. I could have remarried if the circumstance had been different. I also have a 53year old man who wants to marry me. When you fall in love, you fall in love. You can't command the heart to fall in love and it wouldn't be a relationship if love isn't involved. The heart wants what the heart wants. The heart does not know whether you are old or not".

Nigerian man tried forcing his way into the Buckinham Palace

On Friday April 4th, 23yr old Tosin Odunaiya (pictured right), a Nigerian living illegally in England tried to invade Buckingham Palace, seeking to see the Queen.

Tosin, who came alone, told the guards who stopped him in front of the palace, that the queen would welcome and help him as he is finding it hard to return to Nigeria. When the guards told him to step, Tosin started a shouting match with the guards, resulting in one armed soldier intervening & pointing his gun at Tosin.
Speaking to The Sun, Tosin said: 'I wanted to speak with the Queen and presumed the Royal Family would have welcomed me as their lost son." 

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