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The Department of State Security Service, DSS said yesterday that they have foiled plots by Boko Haram terrorists and kidnappers to unleash mayhem in various parts of the country during the Yuletide. The Nigeria Army said they have crushed Boko Haram but the DSS are now saying they have put a stop to the plan of Boko Haram to cause mayhem in different parts of the country in this festive period. What a contradiction in the Nigeria armed forces.

What will be of the following prophecies because many have failed in the past. The Prophecies were contained in a statement signed by his Advisor (Public Communications), Phrank Shaibu, on Friday in Abuja. The cleric said “forces” in Aso Rock were “planning to poison the current First Lady (Aisha Buhari).” According to him, the same “forces” would “alienate Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) and make attempts to remove him from office but God will humble Buhari in 2017.” “A former First Lady of Nigeria needs prayers over her health. Forces in Aso Rock are planning to poison current First Lady (Aisha Buhari). Two times, Nigeria's Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, will face removal from office. They will alienate him and they will make attempts to remove him. But God will humble Buhari in 2017″, Suleman stated. See details of the prophecies below: 1. I see terrorism on the increase 2. Federal Government of Nigeria should not relax yet on Boko Haram. It’s a deception. 3. Buhari

Hollywood actor, Eddie Murphy celebrated Christmas with his children and girlfriend Paige Butcher. It was the first Christmas for the couple’s daughter, Izzy, who they welcomed in May. Pictured are the comedian’s seven children, Bria, Myles, Shayne, Zola, and Bella, Murphy’s children with ex-wife Nicole; Christian, Murphy’s son with Tamara Hood; and Eric, the comedian’s eldest child with Paulette McNeely. The only one missing is Angel Iris, his daughter with former Spice Girl Mel B.

Entertainment, News WHILE many people are in the festive mood, warming up to bid farewell to 2016, top Yoruba actor, Yemi Fash seems to have a different impression about the Christmas celebration as it doesn’t mean anything to him. On what Christmas means to him, the actor said, “Christmas is like every other day. I don’t believe in Christmas or Yuletide. To me, every day is Christmas because there is nothing I will eat on Christmas day that I have not eaten before. Or there is no place I will take my children to that I have not taken them to before. So to me it’s all about making yourself happy whenever the opportunity arises”. On what he has been working on lately, the actor said, he has been busy honouring veterans in the movie industry. “I have been doing a lot in terms of celebrating African veterans in the movie industry through Afro- Heritage Entertainment Award that happens in Texas. And what we do is to celebrate and honour those that have spent from 20 years upwards in t

MEDICAL doctors in Rivers State have threatened to embark on strike should the state government fail to accede to their demands on the issue of poor health facilities and inadequate manpower. The doctors, who spoke under the auspices of the National Association of Government Medical and Dental Practitioners in Rivers State said they would down tools from January 9, 2017 if issues of rot in government health centres, hospitals and inadequate manpower were not addressed. Speaking with newsmen in Obia/Akpor, the Chairman of the association, Dr. Sofiri Peterside, described the proposed strike as the last option should the current administration in the state fail to look into the challenges affecting the operation of the medical service in the state. Recalling that his group had already given a 21-day ultimatum that would elapsed on January 9, 2017, Peterside warned that medical practitioners in the state would not fail to embark on strike should the government refuse to agree to their d

Health workers at the National Orthopaedic Hospital Dala, Kano on Wednesday began an indefinite strike over non payment of three months salary. The workers had earlier gone on a five-day warning strike which expired last week. An official of the health workers union who spoke under anonymity said that the action was to pressurise the Federal Government to pay them. He said, “We call on the federal government to pay our three months salary as this has brought untold hardship to our members.” Chairman of the workers union, Mr. Nasiru Lawan was not immediately available for comment, but the hospital’s spokesman, Malam Rabi’u Mohammed confirmed the development. He said that the workers had commenced an indefinite strike to protest the non payment of their three months salaries. (NAN).

Barely a week,  the Nigeria Army claimed they've crushed Boko Haram, that Boko Haram is no more in existence. But today being Thursday 29th December, the leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shakau in a new video said the Nigeria Army was lying when they said there was no more Boko Haram. Shakau said they cannot be crushed except if Allah approves it. So who should we believe. Please send your comments.

The video came Thursday, less than a week after President The Nigerian Army has dismissed a new video released by Boko Haram as “mere terrorist propaganda”. Muhammadu Buhari announced the “final crushing” of Boko Haram. Mr. Buhari said in a Christmas Eve statement that the takeover of Sambisa Forest by Nigerian troops marked the country’s triumph over Boko Haram. The military has celebrated the victory in subsequent statements since then. But the leader of the sect, Abubakar Shekau, said the government “should not be telling lies to the people”. “If you indeed crushed us, how can you see me like this? How many times have you killed us in your bogus death?” he asked. “We are safe. We have not been flushed out of anywhere. And tactics and strategies cannot reveal our location except if Allah wills by his decree,” Mr. Shekau said in the 25-minute video seen by French newswire, AFP on Thursday. The Army said while effort was on going to subject the video to “further forensic analysis”

Three months ago, singer Sade Adu’ s 20 - year- old daughter , Mickailia, (Ila ) began her medical transition into a man. She has now fully transitioned and in a new Instagram post, compared photos of her during last year Christmas and this year’ s . Mickailia Adu gushed that she’ s proud of who she is now and has never been happier . Left : last Christmas Day (lol bellend) Right : this Christmas and 3 month on T . I can ’ t believe how far I have come in such a short period of time , I am proud of who I am and have never been happier . Don ’ t ever let anyone tell you who you are. Don ’ t ever let anyone tell you what you can or can not do . Be happy and love people for who they are. liveofofo .com

Less than a week after President Muhammadu Buhari announced the “final crushing” of Boko Haram , the leader of the terror group has released a new video saying the group remained alive. “We are safe. We have not been flushed out of anywhere. And tactics and strategies cannot reveal our location except if Allah wills by his decree,” Mr. Shekau said in the 25-minute video seen my French newswire, AFP on Thursday. Mr. Buhari said in a Christmas Eve statement that the takeover of Sambisa Forest by Nigerian troops marked the country’s triumph over Boko Haram. The military has celebrated the victory in subsequent statements since then. But Mr. Shekau said the government “should not be telling lies to the people”. “If you indeed crushed us, how can you see me like this? How many times have you killed us in your bogus death?” he asked. The AFP reported that it was not immediately clear when the new video was shot, but Mr. Shekau, who spoke in both Hausa and Arabic, said it was filmed on

Isaac Eranga, Benin Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki and his deputy, Philip Shaibu, yesterday played Santa Claus (Father Christmas) during a party organised for internally displaced persons (IDPs) hosted by the governor’s wife, Mrs. Betsy Obaseki. It was after Obaseki and Shaibu distributed gifts to the children they unveiled themselves. The IDPs were stunned. To the admiration and excitement of the IDPs, Obaseki and Shaibu danced with them in their Santa Claus costumes. The event afforded the children the opportunity to engage in fun-sports, such as bouncing castle, merry-go-round, coconut ride, electric train, mountain climber, giant water slide, swimming pool, giant shark attack, aeroplane rocking ride, dolly coin machine, princess castle, superman castle, children boogie bike, octopus and inflatable football. Assorted foods and drinks were available for everyone at the camp. Obaseki told the IDPs his administration would look for partners to support them because the governme

The communication giant, MTN, has paid N80 billion of the N330 billion fine imposed on it by the Nigerian government for failing to deactivate more than five million unregistered SIM cards. Nigeria’s Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, disclosed this at the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, Forum in Abuja. He said the payment was for this first year and is the first tranche of the total payment. MTN, Nigeria’s largest mobile operator, was initially fined 5.2 billion dollars (N1.04 trillion) for failing to deactivate more than five million unregistered SIM cards. The fine on the South Africa-owned company was later reduced to N330 billion. “For the first year, they paid N80 billion, after paying the initial N50 billion, and they will have to pay for three years until they will complete the N330 billion. “MTN does not have a choice, when the law was made, it said for every unregistered SIM card in use, the fine is N200, 000, the law never anticipated that one company will be in v

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has declared that Sambisa forest would serve as training ground for personnel of the Nigerian Army as from 2017. This followed the final crushing of Boko Haram terrorists in their last enclave at “Camp Zero” by troops of Operation Lafiya Dole. Camp Zero is located deep within the heart of Sambisa Forest in Borno State. The Camp fell at about 1:35p.m. on Friday, December 23. The over 200 Chibok schoolgirls were moved into the forest after their kidnap by Boko Haram members in April 2014. Buratai made the disclosure in Damasak, Borno State, while celebrating Christmas with troops of 145 Battalion after the road leading to the town was reopened by Governor Kashim Shettima, three years after closure. He said troops were already conducting a mop up operation in the forest after the last strong hold of the Boko Haram terrorists was captured. “We are also opening up roads to Sambisa and Alagarno forest. Sambisa forest is going to be one

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Entertainment News by dblockanny just last night at the 40th edition of the Miss Nigeria pageant, held at the Eko Hotel Convention Centre in Lagos, Chioma Obiadi Stephanie representing Anambra state was crowned Miss Nigeria 2016. Source: http://www.dblockanny.com

The leadership of the House of Representatives has declared that Nigeria had no choice but to borrow money to fund the 2017 budget. Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari had on Thursday last week laid a budget size of N7.298tn before a joint session of the National Assembly for 2017. According to the Green Chamber, the government must spend money to reflate the economy and invest heavily in infrastructure to exit the recession. The Majority Leader of the House, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, gave this stand in Abuja, while speaking on the activities of the legislature in the last 12 months. But, the budget of “economic recovery and growth” came with a deficit of N2.36tn. Its projected revenue of N4.9tn is far less than the expenditure projections. To finance the deficit, Buhari had said that he would borrow N2.32tn. Out of the loan, N1.06tn will be external loan. Another N1.25tn will be sourced within Nigeria. Gbajabiamila explained that Nigeria must borrow because the country was not

The Kaduna State Government has banned any form of procession and what it calls ‘unlawful assemblies’ in a bid to control activities of members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, also known as Shi’ites. The police had earlier warned members of the Islamic sect against all form of procession in the state. However, the ban by the state government follows strident protests by the group, which culminated to its being labelled an insurgent group, an action that the sect has vehemently rejected. The state government issued a strong warning yesterday, saying that anyone who breached the ban would be dealt with in accordance with the law. The ban was contained in a statement by the governor El-Rufia’s Spokesman, Samuel Aruwan. The statement said, “No processions will be allowed for now in Kaduna State. “A meeting of heads of security agencies in the state was convened to review the security situation in the state. Based on assessments of security reports, the meeting recommended th

16 December 2016 Asia The President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte has confirmed to the BBC that he shot dead three men while mayor of Davao. He said: "I killed about three of them... I don't know how many bullets from my gun went inside their bodies. It happened and I cannot lie about it." His statement came hours after his spokesman denied that Mr Duterte had personally killed anyone. The recent controversy began on Wednesday at the president's palace. He told a group of business leaders gathered there: "In Davao I used to do it [kill] personally. Just to show to the guys [police] that if I can do it why can't you. "And I'd go around in Davao with a motorcycle, with a big bike around, and I would just patrol the streets, looking for trouble. I was really looking for a confrontation so I could kill." Mr Duterte was mayor of the southern city for two decades, during which time he earned a reputation for brutally suppressing crime, and

A customer of First Bank Nigeria Plc in Kaduna has threatened to drag the financial institution over irregularities experienced during a transaction done two weeks ago has disclosed that his lawyer is putting finishing touches to press for claims. According to the victim who preferred to be anonymous for now, he transferred money to a customer of Guarantee Trust Bank (GTB) using his First Bank  ATM card at a First Bank Cash Point in Sabon Tasha, Kaduna on December 1, 2016. “I transferred money to my brother who had urgent needs operating a GTB account from a First Bank ATM machine, using my First Bank ATM card. After doing the transaction the first time, it did not tell me that the transaction was completed, so I did it again and the same thing happened, but on both occasions, I was debited,” he said. The customer further explained that one of the transactions debited was refunded to his account later, but the other was not refunded and his brother’s account at GTB was not credited.

Nigeria’s education sector has again received much lower than the 26 percent of national budget, as recommended by the United Nations. In the 2017 budget proposals presented Wednesday by President Muhammadu Buhari, N448.01billion was allocated to education, representing about 6 percent of the N7.30 trillion budget, contrary to the recommendation by UNESCO. The global organisation recommended the budgetary benchmark to enable nations adequately cater for rising education demands. Out of the sum earmarked for the sector, N398.01billion was allocated to recurrent expenditure and the balance of N50billion allocated to capital projects. Recent allocations by the federal government to education have shown marginal yearly increases however, except for the N367.73 billion (6.01 percent) in 2016 which saw a decrease from the allocations for the preceding years. The figures include N492.34billion in 2015, N493billion in 2014 and N426.53billion in 2013. The allocations were N400.15billion in

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When a chaplain at Baptist St. Anthony’s Hospital in Amarillo, Texas, asked Raul “Tiny” Hinojosa, 33, what he wanted his final wish to be, Hinojosa told him he “wanted to marry her. I want her to be mine.” According to CNN, “her” was Yvonne Lamas, his girlfriend of 11 years, fiancée of nine. The hospital staff arranged the wedding for the couple hours before Hinojosa died. Hinojosa proposed to Lamas years before he was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. "He was determined to give me the best fairytale wedding," Lamas told CNN of wedding planning. "He tried saving up, but within that time he ended up getting diagnosed with the leukemia.” A fungal infection of his throat and lungs landed him back in the hospital in October, where he’d been ever since. When Hinojosa made his request Friday, another chaplain drove Lamas to the courthouse for a marriage license application, which the judged rushed given the circumstances, the Amarillo Globe-News reports. The hospi

Members of the famous money-doubling scheme, Mavrodi Mundial Moneybox, MMM Nigeria have been thrown into panic and great confusion, Tuesday, following the message from the ponzi scheme freezing all confirmed Mavros, otherwise known as money due for withdrawal for one month. This means, all the accounts of members who are due to be paid after having ‘provided help’ (PH) to another person since the last month have been frozen and hence, have no access to request for payment, known as ‘Get Help’ (GH) until after one month. All members woke up with the shock message displayed on the screen as soon as they logged into their accounts. Giving reasons for freezing the Mavros, the scheme said it is experiencing heavy workload and want to deal with the attacks coming from the country’s mass media. It also said it wants to prevent hitches in the coming new year hence, the freezing of the access to requesting for payments even when such person is due for payment. The message read thus: “One

This was confirmed by the state police commissioner,  Fatai Owoseni , while speaking on Tuesday, December 13, 2016, at the 10th Town Hall Meeting on Security. The meeting was organised by the Lagos State Security Trust Fund who came up with the theme,  "Optimising Security Funding in a Recession" . Owoseni's disclosure detailed all the command's activity from December 2015 to the current year. Speaking at the event, the police commissioner said,  ”Conspiracy of silence is a major challenge and religious leaders carry out most of these cases of domestic violence. ”We need our people to speak out and join in the fight against domestic and sexual violence to curb the menace.” He ended his address by restating the police commitment in ensuring the safety of law abiding citizens.

An aide to Gov. Udom Emmanuel lost his life in the process of saving the Akwa Ibom governor from the collapsed church building in Uyo. At least 27 persons or more lost their lives, while others sustained injuries when the roof and the iron beams in the building housing Reigners Bible Church, Uyo, collapsed on Saturday during a church ceremony. The church pastor, Akan Weeks, was to be 'enthroned' as a bishop in the ill-fated ceremony. Ubong Mboho, an evangelist, who was inside the collapsed building told newsmen, Sunday, that he witnessed the governor's aide sacrifice his life to save the governor. “He (the governor's aide) was standing close to the governor. I saw him push the governor away from danger when the building started falling,” said Mr. Mboho whose father, Elijah Mboho, an influential archbishop in Akwa Ibom, was scheduled to perform the 'enthronement'. Unfortunately, the governor's aide, who was later identified as Ernest Idem, couldn't g

Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki has commiserated with the Vice Chancellor, the management staff and students of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) on the death of three lecturers in the Thursday road accident in Abudu, Orhiommwon local government Area. The governor, who in his condolence statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr John Mayaki, described the number of loss of lives in the incident as `”unfortunate and mind boggling”. Regrettably, he said, “This, indeed, is an unfortunate incident in which several lives including three members of the academia have been lost in one fell swoop. “I, on behalf of the good people of Edo state, commiserates with the Vice Chancellor and management of the institution and family members of the deceased lecturers for this great lamentation. “Our heart-felt pain also go out to family members who lost their loved ones in the sad incident. “While the state government will liaise with the relevant agencies to know the actual cause of th

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has won both Rivers East and West senatorial seats in last Saturday’s rerun election. The Rivers East Senatorial candidate of the People Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. George Sekibo, defeated his rival, Chief Andrew Uchendu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to reclaim the senatorial seat, while Osinachukwu Ideozu won the Rivers West senatorial district election. Prof. Orji Onu Okumenkama, who is the Returning Officer for the Rivers East Senatorial District declared the result at Port Harcourt City Local Government Council amidst heavy security. Okumenkama said that Sekibo scored 93098 votes to win Uchendu who scored 34193 votes in the senatorial election. Ideozu was declared winner with 107,166 votes defeating Otelemaba Amachree of the All Progressives Congress, APC, who polled 48,898 votes. Earlier before the result of the Rivers East was announced there was heavy shooting by security operatives who accompanied the governor of the state, Ch