Ayo Fayose won Ekiti election: FFK

According to a tweet by former minister Femi Fani Kayode, Ayo Fayose beat incumbent governor Kayode Fayemi in the 2014 Ekiti Governorship election which held yesterday June 21st in the state.

Picture: Groom marries His Groom

This is funny and not funny at the same time. A groom marrying another groom at a wedding in the US added a long tail to his white and aqua blue wedding tuxedo to  Show that he's the bottom in the relationship. That is funny. What is not funny is that the train included kids who will grow up to see this as normal.  What do you think?

Super Eagles win first World Cup match in 16 years

Nigeria broke the jinx of a sixteen-years win-less run in the World Cup early this morning, as Peter Odemwingie fired Nigeria to the brink of qualification for the last-16 as they beat Bosnia 1-0 and knocked them out of the World Cup.

The striker slotted past Stoke City team-mate Asmir Begovic at the Arena Pantanal, although Bosnia were unfortunate not to have led eight minutes earlier when an Edin Dzeko goal was incorrectly ruled out for offside.

Video: Wole Soyinka speaks on Military ambush in Ekiti

Credits: Sahara TV

Keshi drops Azeez and Moses, starts Odemwingie, Babatunde

Stephen Keshi has made three changes to the team that will play against the Europeans in Cuiaba on Saturday night with Michael Babatunde and Joseph Yobo also starting


Nigeria have dropped Victor Moses to the bench and will start with Peter Odemwingie as part of three changes made to the squad for their game against Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Early Ekiti election result: Fayose leads in a big way

Collation of results have begun in almost all the Sixteen local governments areas of Ekiti State.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ad hoc staffs are now announcing the results of the elections at the various polling units and wards across the state.
Early results seen by Saharareporters shows that former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose of  Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is leading and may likely win the final votes, if the trend continues.
Some of the gubernatorial election results from Ekiti State are below:

WizKid collaborates with Chris Brown

Breaking the long silence following several calls from fans for new songs, multiple-award-winning pop singer, Ayo Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid has announced that his music collaboration with Chris Brown will be featured on his upcoming album.

Woman sells baby for 30k in Lagos

The Lagos State Police command has arrested a middle-aged woman for allegedly selling a two-month-old baby for N30,000.

The suspect identified as Mrs Victor according to Police sources was arrested at her residence in Sabo Ilaje area of Lagos, following a tip off.

Faces of the missing girls

Here are the faces and names of some of the school girls kidnapped on April 14th in the Chibok community in Borno state by Boko Haram men as released by ThisDay Newspaper.

UN Special Envoy for Global Education, and former UK Prime Minister, who was in Nigeria this week shares his experience. Find the article he wrote about the Chibok girls below..

"I was shown these pictures after visiting Nigeria this week. I met the leader of the community council in Chibok, the town from which the girls were abducted.

Slowly and with tears in his eyes, he flicked through a file in which he had recorded the names and photographs of the girls. Continue...

Real reason why Abacha was pardoned- Okonjo-Iweala

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday constituted an inter-ministerial committee to manage the €167 million (about N36 billion) expected to be returned to Nigeria from the government of the Principality of Liechtenstein as part of the looted funds recovered from the Abacha family

Gov Rotimi Amaechi arrested in Ondo

Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers state who was earlier yesterday held back by soldiers from entering Ekiti state for Governor Fayemi's APC rally in Ondo state tweets about his experience. He says his plane is still grounded at Akure airport.

Governor Amaechi had arrived Ondo state en-route Ado-Ekiti where he was to join his fellow APC Governor, Kayode Fayemi for the last lap of his re-election campaign today in when he was refused entry into the state. He decided to turn back to Ondo state to go board the private jet that brought him but was however arrested by security agents.

Read the statement from Rivers Government below after the cut...

Fast rising singer Cynthomania aka Ada Owerri passes on

Fast rising singer Cynthia Akudo Jonah popularly known as Cynthomania or Ada Owerri who recently released the song Ukwu Ajebutter, has passed on.

According to her management, Cynthia, who was getting ready to drop her 1st album, died June 18th after a brief illness. They didn't give any further details. She was in her 20s. May her soul rest in peace.

Pres. Jonathan appoints Bode George’s wife, Roli, as new NDLEA boss

President Jonathan has appointed Mrs. Roli Bode-George as the new Director-General of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The appointment was announced last night by Presidential Spokesperson, Reuben Abati.

Mrs Bode-George takes over from Mr Olufemi Ajayi, who is now the Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF). The appointment is with immediate effect.

Bode George was arrested and jailed for fraud and abuse of office when he served as chairman of the Nigeria Ports Authority, but his conviction was later upturned by the Supreme Court... Well...

Will Smith 13 yr old daughter sleeps with 15 snakes in her room

The 13-year-old daughter of actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith is reportedly so 'obsessed'
with snakes she has as many as 10 as pets.

And what's more, they sleep in her room and she even 'cuddles' with them in bed, according to
Us Weekly.

'She has 10 sleeping in her room and some aren't in cages!' an insider reveals of the slithering reptiles, whose presence causes fear in many.

Kefee’s corpse arrives Nigeria

The remains of late gospel singer, Kefee, has arrived in Nigeria, ahead of a burial which will hold this month. The body which was flown into the country on Tuesday, June 17, 2014, arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos at 4PM via a Delta Airline aircraft. The body was received by a few family members.

Spain 0 Chile 2 match report: The champions knocked out of World Cup

Spain’s World Cup is over, and an era ends. The team is now the only the fifth defending champions in history to go out in the group stage, but the first to lose their opening two games and thereby the quickest to ever go home.

They are also the first team eliminated from the 2014 tournament. That sums up the scale of the fall almost as much as the poverty of their play. Chile, as they promised before the game, have made history.

Popular Islamic leader, Arisekola Alao, is dead

The deputy head of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, AbdulAzeez Arisekola Alao, is dead.

His eldest daughter, Khadija, confirmed his death to the News Agency of Nigeria.

Mr. Arisekola Alao, an Ibadan-based Islamic leader, is noted for his philanthropy towards Islamic causes.

He was the Deputy President General of the NSCIA, and the Aare Musulumi of Yorubaland until his death.

REVEALED: Boko Haram plans to attack Abuja with petrol tankers

The Nigerian Government on Wednesday said the insurgents, suspected to be members of the Boko Haram, plan to attack the Nigerian capital, Abuja, with petrol tankers loaded with improvised explosive devices, IEDs.

Pictures: Amaka Igwe buried

Late Nollywood icon Amaka Igwe, who died April 29th, was buried on Friday, June 13th.  See more photos from the burial after the cut..

pics from Femi Otedola & daughter, DJ Cuppy’s Genevieve mag

The billionaire businessman and his DJ daughter, Cuppy, shot some beautiful photos for the June cover and editorial spread of Genevieve magazine. The pictures were taken in a private Yacht. more photos after the cut...

60-year old gives birth through IVF in Lagos

•31 years after

There is good news for women who think age is a barrier to conception.

A woman said to be 60 has just been delivered of a baby at a Lagos hospital.

For 31 years, Mrs Omolara Irurhe was globetrotting not for pleasure but in search of a child.   She was a guest in the best hospitals.

But in 2010, her journey ended in the most unlikely hospital and country when she began an Invitro Fertilization (IVF) treatment at the St. Ives Hospital in Lagos. On Monday, what began as a seed hope four years ago culminated in the delivery of a bouncing baby girl.

‘Regular intake of suya, nkwobi, others raises breast cancer risk’

A FRESH insight into why more Nigerian women are having breast cancer has emerged. Three independent studies published this week linked a high intake of red meat such as suya, kilishi, nkwobi, isi ewu, bacon, bush meat, steak, to cancer.

   The studies indicate that African women frequently have biologically less favourable subtypes of breast cancer; and they have higher number of moles on their skins, which are linked to increased breast cancer risk. 

Nigeria Defense Official Claims Terror Kingpin Among Hundreds Arrested In Abia State

A military spokesman, General Chris Olukolade, has stated that  an unnamed terror kingpin was among close to 500 passengers in buses who were arrested in Abia State. The 486 passengers, who are northerners, were arrested a few days ago in a sweep by Nigerian security officials in Abia state.
The statement, which was issued today by Major General Chris Olukolade, appeared to back away from earlier claims that the individuals arrested were members of dreaded Boko Haram sect headed to the SouthEast to foment trouble.

Explosion rips through a football viewing center in Damaturu

An explosion ripped through a football viewing centre in Damaturu, northern Nigeria, on Tuesday, residents said, as fans gathered to watch the World Cup. 

The blast at the Crossfire venue, in the Nayi-Nawa area of the state capital of Yobe, happened at about 8:00 pm (1900 GMT), just as tournament hosts Brazil kicked off against Mexico. 

Borno vigilante group kills eight Boko Haram insurgents in Chibok

A gang of gunmen believed to be members of the Boko Haram on Monday morning, at about 3 a.m. attacked Kwarangilam Village of Chibok Local Government Area, but had their mission aborted as members of the Vigilante Group laid ambush for them

Let's focus on the missing girls- Gordon Brown

The United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown, on Monday urged the world to remember the kidnapped schoolgirls of Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State.

Boko Brown, in a message to mark the Day of the African Child at the UN headquarters in New York, also praised the youth around the world as they mobilised to demand education for all.

Jay Jay Okocha blames Keshi for Eagles woes

Super Eagles Captain, Austin Jay Jay Okocha has said Coach Stephen Keshi should be held responsible for the lame approach the team adopted in the goaless draw against Iran last night

486 Boko Haram suspects arrested in Abia State

There was heightened fear in parts of the South-East on Monday as news spread that hundreds of persons suspected to be Boko Haram members were arrested in Abia State.

The suspects, including eight women, were said to have been arrested along the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway by soldiers attached to the 144 Battalion of the Nigerian Army, Asa in the Ukwa West Local Government Area on Sunday.

Cultists hack driver, dump body on Lagos highway

The body of a man dumped at Oworonsoki had been crushed many times by vehicles on the highway. Punch reports that the body was later identified as that of 35year old Yemi, aka Topia, a resident of the area.

A resident of the area, Michael Oladipupo, told Punch that the dead man was the son of a landlord on Mabawonku Street. Oladipupo said Yemi was not killed by a hit-and-run vehicle as the situation suggested, but his body was dumped on the highway to serve as an alibi for his killers.

Michael Schumacher out of coma after 6 months, leaves hospital

Formula One legend, Michael Schumacher is no longer in a coma and has left the Grenoble hospital. 

"Michael has left the CHU Grenoble [hospital] to continue his long phase of rehabilitation. He is not in a coma anymore," his spokeswoman, Sabine Kehm, said in a statement.

Panic hits Chibok as BH threatens a comeback

There was panic in Chibok local government area of Borno state, where over 200 female students of Government Girls Secondary School were abducted by Islamic militants, Boko Haram following a letter purportedly written to the people of Chibok by the sect members informing them of their plans to attack the local government.

CAN declares ‘war’ on boko haram

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Imo has called on Christians to embark on fasting and prayers to fight terrorism spiritually.

The Chairman of CAN in Imo, Bishop Stanford Nwogu, made the call during interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Owerri on Monday.

Nigeria emerges 2nd at Mr. World competition

Mr. Nigeria 2014, 25-year-old actor and model, Emmanuel Ikubese has emerged second and was also judged the most stylish of all the contestants at the contest which took place in Riviera International Conference Centre, Torbay, UK in the competition.

Emmanuel Ikubese who was Nigeria's representative at the 2014 Mr World competition which held yesterday at the Riviera International Conference Centre, Torbay, UK emerged first runner-up in the competition See more pics after cut...

Over 50 killed in Taraba religious fight

More than 50 people have died today in a violent religious and ethnic conflict that engulfed Taraba State today. A military source who spoke to our reporter added that many more people sustained serious injuries.

#BringBackOurGirls: US military awaits approval to join search team

The US military may soon be deplored in the search of the over 200 abducted secondary school girls in Chibok, Borno state.

A US Congressional Delegation made up of Representatives Steve Stockman, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Frederica Wilson and Lois Frankel, told a news conference in Abuja on Sunday said a directive is being awaited on the issue.

VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS: Argentina 2-1 Bosnia

After cutting a not so impressive figure in the first half, Messi came to himself and scored a brilliant solo effort as his side began their World Cup campaign with a win. Watch vedio clips after the cut...

Bomb found during church service in Owerri

Policemen on the scene -Photo Credit: Onumara Onyekachi

The Police in Imo state have arrested six suspects over the discovery of two Improvised Explosive Devices in a church in Owerri, the state capital, Commissioner of Police, Abdumajid Ali, has said. 

Worshippers at the Port Harcourt Road branch of Winners Chapel were full of thanks to God for sparing their lives after the police detected the explosives and detonated them.

A worshipper, Onumara Onyekachi, told newsmen, “I was about getting ready for the second service when a friend posted this “Breaking News!!!!!! Police Anti Bomb squad has just detonated two bomb explosives planted at Winner Chapel PH road Owerri”

“I made a few calls and confirmed that it was true.”

The police believe the explosives were planted on Saturday night and timed to explode after worshippers had gathered for worship on Sunday.