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A DJ hired to perform at a burial ceremony in Anambra was reportedly killed by a stray bullet from the gun of a vigilante operative. The burial ceremony for Evangelist Vitalis Ihemeje was taking place in Alaife Umuaku Uli, in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State and Lotachukwu Nwagboso, a 34-year-old father-of-four, was playing music at the event when he was allegedly killed by one Ibeanozie, who is presently at large. Nwagboso, from Ndikpo Umuaku Uli, was hit by a stray bullet when the vigilante operative put his gun on his motorcycle while trying to start the bike and the gun went off. Nwagboso died on the spot. The incident sparked outrage as youths of Ndikpo went on a rampage, destroying property and pulling down houses belonging to the suspect, as well as those of the family that organized the ceremony of their father. The elder brother of the suspect, Ifeanyi Ibeanozie, said they were friends to the bereaved family, hence their commitment to ensure the success of ...

 Monaco have announced the appointment of the former Chelsea technical director Michael Emenalo as their sporting director. The 52-year-old resigned from his post at Stamford Bridge three weeks ago and has taken on a similar role at the Ligue 1 club. Emenalo, who will work under the vice-president Vadim Vasilyev, told the Monaco website: “It’s a wonderful opportunity for me in such a high-quality project. Monaco have shown great [progress] in the past few seasons and I am convinced that the club will keep being successful. “Vadim Vasilyev convinced me to join AS Monaco and I believe this is the right choice for me after my decision to leave Chelsea.” Vasilyev said: “His know-how in [the] scouting network, as well as the technical skills he developed working in one of the most successful clubs in the world in the past few years, are the main reasons leading us to present him our ambitious challenge.”

  President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun; the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udo Udoma; and the Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, to work with state governors to ensure the payment of outstanding Paris and London Clubs refunds before the end of the year. The President gave the directive at a meeting he had with state governors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Monday. According to information posted on one of the Presidency’s twitter handles, @NGRPresident, the meeting featured discussions on the nation’s economy, workers’ welfare as well as Federal-State relations, among others. “President @MBuhari has directed the Ministers of @FinMinNigeria and Budget & National Planning and Governor @cenbank to commence negotiations with the Governors Forum to enable payment of outstanding Paris & London Club refunds, before the end of the year,” the information read. See the tweet: President @MBuhari has directed...

Media personality, Toke Makinwa who has been accused of being in a romantic relationship with billionaire Festus Fadeyi by his children has reacted. She reacted by replying to a Twitter user who said people are bashing her out of pure jealousy. She also posted the cryptic message below this morning on her IG.

Following Kaduna state's Governor,Nasir El Rufai's Joke on Twitter where he called the PDP a fraud, Some Nigerians who are not happy about the joke called him out on Social network by recreating his name. See what they made out of it below:

One of the leading media influencers on twitter, who had been supporting PDP since 2012, has dumped the party for the APC. Unlike Atiku who cross carpeted to PDP, Mr. Aye Dee, as he is known on twitter, did not say, he was just resigning from PDP, but stated he was back to his party, he helped built. Trust, PDP supporters, it has been a whole day of wailing, cursing and gnashing of teeth, since he made the announcement. However, Mr. Aye dee who seemed determined to project his new party, did not waste time in throwing tantrums with the grieving supporters of the now rival party(PDP), went ahead in series of tweets to highlight the achievements of APC under administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. This was a man, who just last week, was lambasting Buhari, APC and their supporters...In fact i still have a screen shot of a tweet, where he swore that Buhari had died in London and secretly buried there

Some police officers who were allegedly drinking and driving, caused a ghastly accident after running into a mini bus belonging to STANFORD MICROFINANCE BANK carrying passengers heading down Oron road in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State Capital . It was gathered that the drunk policemen who were driving out of Ewet Housing broke the traffic thereby running into a mini bus and left no fewer than 10 passengers injured. According to reports, it took the intervention of the speaker of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly Rt. Hon. Barr. Onofiok Luke who was returning from church service at the Full Life Christian Centre to order for the immediate treatment of the injured passengers at PREMIER MEDICAL CENTER, Edet Akpan Avenue, Uyo.

  Sound Sultan born Olanrewaju Fasasi on November 27, 1976 is a Nigerian rapper, singer-songwriter, actor, comedian and recording artist. He is regarded as one of the pacesetters of modern hip hop music in Nigeria.   Sound Sultan is the fourth child amongst six children to Fasasi Liadi Alarape (Father) and Fasasi Adeyinka Ajarat (Mother). He attended Stepping Stone Nursery and Primary (1981–1987) school before moving to Federal Government College Ogbomosho (1988–1993) to attain his secondary school education before acquiring a degree in Geography and Regional Planning from Lagos State University in 1999

A Redeemed Christian Church of God Pastor, Victor Kanayo, was murdered in Offin, Igbogbo area of Ikorodu in Lagos state today Sunday, November 26th. According to the statement released by the Lagos state police command spokesperson, Chike Oti, the command has made a couple of arrests and suspects are being questioned with a view to discover the author of the heinous crime. Oti added that the state Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, has dispatched a team of crack detectives to unravel those behind the murder; dig into the past of the victim and see if there is a correlation between his past and his fate. The issue of his past before he became a born again christian is of interest to the police because of a human skull tattoo drawn on his left arm which gives the victim away as one who may have belonged to any of the dreaded cult groups. Meanwhile investigation into case is ongoing, findings will be made public as usual by the Commissioner of police Lagos State.

   Abia state governor Dr.  Okezie Ikpeazu has released the sum of 100 million Naira for the completion of the Enyimba FC stadium. In an interview,  the chief press secretary to Abia State governor  Mr.  Eyinnaya Apollos confirmed that the money was released to the contractor on Wednesday (Nov.  22nd 2017). He said Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu's Dream is to have a stadium that will be serve not just Enyimba FC,  but the state and nation at large.   In a related development,  the contractor  handling the project Mr Ebi Egbe of MONI MICHELLE sports confirmed that he has received  the amount paid, however he said that he hopes the money completes the work, as according to him, the job has variations, but promised to return to site. It could be recalled that the Enyimba FC stadium reconstruction project started in November 2015 and has seen Enyimba FC play their league and continental matches away from about,  notably in Um...

The Kogi State government in agreement with Kogi State University school management has shut down Kogi State University school of health sciences for lack of accreditation after two years of its establishment by the past Gov Idris Wada. The school of health sciences was abandoned by this present government, two years after its establishment the present government didn’t give the required attention and funding making the university to failed in gaining accreditation from NUC. Gov Bello in Lokoja today during a courtesy visit by the medical students and along side with the school management gave full scholarship through transferred of 25 medical students to Usman Dan Fodio university, sokoto. Ebony State university and University of Ilorin for continuation of their academic exercise, giving room for a final shout down of the school of health sciences In view of this the school management was encouraged to put all necessary requirements in place that will guarantee successful accredita...

Festus Keyamo just took a dig at Atiku... he left APC because he had little chance of securing a ticket